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Fast Forward Michael Bloomberg Hails Urban ‘Golden Age’ in Swan Song Speech
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, in his final major policy speech before leaving office at year’s end, on Wednesday warned that a budding U.S. urban revival is threatened by mushrooming public pension and health-care costs. Bloomberg, addressing the Economic Club of New York just two weeks before his three terms in office are due to…
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Fast Forward 1 Million Gaza Palestinians Will Need Food Aid
Almost a million people are expected to need food aid in the Gaza Strip next year, a U.N. agency said on Wednesday as it appealed for $95 million from donors. About 813,000 Palestinian refugees currently receive food aid from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), but the organisation expects a 10-20 percent rise…
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Fast Forward Mark Zuckerberg Faces Lawsuit Over $16B Facebook IPO Fiasco
A federal judge said Facebook Inc, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and dozens of banks must face a lawsuit accusing the social media company of misleading investors about its financial health before its $16 billion initial public offering last year. In a decision made public on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan said investors…
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Fast Forward Israeli Woman Appeals Order to Circumcise Son
An Israeli woman appealed to the Supreme Court on Wednesday against a rabbinical ruling that ordered her to circumcise her one-year-old son, the Justice Ministry said, in the first case of its kind. There is no law in Israel making circumcision obligatory for Jews, but a rabbinical court that was presiding over the woman’s divorce…
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Fast Forward Richard Wagner Protestor Clashes With Organizer of Jerusalem Symposium
A man stormed the stage at a Jerusalem symposium on composer Richard Wagner and hurled insults at the audience in a protest over the German maestro’s associations with the Nazis. Ushers at Tuesday’s event struggled to restrain the strongly built protester, a man in his late 30s who gave his name as Ran Carmi. Ignoring…
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Fast Forward Family of Murdered Teenager Urge U.S. Court To Reject Israeli Attempt To Silence Witness
Lawyers for the family of an American teenager killed in a 2006 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv urged a U.S. court on Tuesday to reject an attempt by Israel to muzzle a witness in an anti-terrorism case, court documents showed. The lawsuit revolves around allegations that Bank of China knowingly allowed Palestinian militants to use…
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Fast Forward Israel Fears Other American University Groups Will Join Academic Boycott
Israel dismissed as “radical leftist” a group of American scholars that has decided to boycott it but worries that other academic forums in the United States could take similar action, the deputy Israeli foreign minister said on Tuesday. The American Studies Association (ASA) on Sunday became the largest U.S. academic group to back an anti-Israel…
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Fast Forward African Migrants Abandon Israeli Detention Center in Protest of New Law
More than 100 African migrants have abandoned an “open” Israeli detention centre to try to march on Jerusalem in protest at a law allowing authorities to keep them in custody indefinitely, activists said on Monday. Israel views most of the more than 50,000 Sudanese and Eritrean migrants who have crossed its border on foot from…
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