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Fast Forward Israel Prime Minister Targeted by U.S. Spying, New Edward Snowden Leak Says
The office of an Israeli prime minister was targeted by British and U.S. spies along with a senior European Union official and German government buildings, according to the latest leaked documents from Edward Snowden published on Friday. Other targets from 2008 to 2011 included foreign energy companies and aid organisations, said Britain’s Guardian and the…
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Fast Forward Vienna Philharmonic Yanks Honors to Top Nazis
The famed Vienna Philharmonic orchestra has revoked awards it made during Adolf Hitler’s rule to six leading Nazis, as it quietly responds to criticism of the way it has dealt with its past. The symbolic move, decided in October but not publicly announced, follows the Philharmonic’s publication earlier this year of details of its conduct…
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Fast Forward Jewish Oil Tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky Freed After Decade in Russia Prison
Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, left prison on Friday after a pardon from President Vladimir Putin ended a decade in jail that many saw as the fallen oil tycoon’s punishment for daring to challenge the Kremlin. Russia’s federal prison service said Khodorkovsky was heading for Germany following his release and that his mother, Marina,…
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Fast Forward Israel’s De Facto Partition of Jerusalem Creates Forgotten Arab Neighborhoods
Palestinian Sana Musa holds her 8-year old daughter Susann’s hand as they start the long trek home from school across a caged walkway through Israel’s concrete separation wall. Just a short drive from the stone streets of the world-famous Old City, this is part of Jerusalem’s fractured landscape that no tour group would dare tread,…
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Fast Forward Ben Bernanke Smooths Path for Soon-To-Be Fed Chair Janet Yellen
By ensuring the Federal Reserve begins trimming its massive bond-buying stimulus before a more hawkish contingent of voters comes on board next year, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has greased the skids politically for his successor, Janet Yellen. The U.S. central bank’s decision on Wednesday to begin to cut the pace of its monthly purchases by…
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Fast Forward Senators Split on Push for New Iran Sanctions
Despite opposition from the Obama administration, 26 U.S. senators introduced legislation on Thursday to impose new sanctions on Iran if the country breaks an interim deal under which Tehran agreed to curb its nuclear program. It will be weeks at the earliest before the bill comes to a vote in the 100-member Senate, if it…
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Fast Forward Iran Resumes Nuclear Talks With Major Powers
Iran and six world powers began expert-level talks in Geneva on Thursday to work out how to put into practice a landmark deal obliging Tehran to curb its nuclear programme in return for some relief from economic sanctions. Discussions on the details of last month’s breakthrough accord were interrupted by Tehran diplomats last week, after…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Elite Guard Tries To Defuse Violent Feud
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas’s elite guard unit surrounded parliament in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday to protect a legislator from being attacked by another senior official, witnesses said. The incident was one of the most public confrontations between senior members of the Fatah party led by Abbas in years, and may deepen…
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