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Fast Forward Alan Gross Makes Personal Appeal to President Obama In a Letter
A U.S. government contractor jailed for four years in Cuba appealed to President Barack Obama on Tuesday to take any steps necessary to secure his release. “Why am I still here? With the utmost respect, Mr. President, I fear that my government – the very government I was serving when I began this nightmare –…
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Fast Forward Israel Providing Humanitarian Aid to Syrian Civilians Near Golan Heights Border
Israel is providing humanitarian aid to Syrian civilians caught up in fighting between President Bashar al-Assad’s forces and rebels near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, its defense minister said on Tuesday. Israel has not publicly taken sides in the 2-1/2-year-old conflict in Syria, with which it is still formally at war. Scores of wounded Syrians have…
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Fast Forward Arafat Did Not Die From Poisoning, French Report Claims
Yasser Arafat was not the victim of poisoning, French forensic scientists concluded on Tuesday, countering a Swiss report on the 2004 death of the Palestinian leader that found he was probably killed with radioactive polonium. The French conclusions were immediately challenged by his widow, Suha Arafat, who has argued the death was a political assassination…
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Fast Forward German States Launch Battle To Ban Party With Nazi Ties
Germany’s 16 states launched a battle on Tuesday to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD) after the federal government failed spectacularly a decade ago to outlaw a party its critics say shows an affinity for Hitler’s Nazis. Fearing another court defeat, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government opted not to formally back the petition to the…
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Fast Forward Yair Lapid Warns Netanyahu To Take More Cautious Tone With U.S. on Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should take the heat out of his row with U.S. President Barack Obama, his top coalition partner said on Tuesday, warning that the spat over Iran was not helping Israel. “I think we have to lower the flames with the Americans,” said Finance Minister Yair Lapid, who heads the second…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Investigators Close To Naming Who Killed Arafat
A Palestinian investigator said on Tuesday he would soon name the people he believed were responsible for the death of former leader Yasser Arafat, almost a decade after he started searching for suspects. Arafat, a guerrilla leader who became the first Palestinian president, died in 2004 from a sudden illness contracted while under an Israeli…
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Fast Forward U.S. Calls for Release of Alan Gross From Cuban Jail
The United States called on Monday for the immediate release of an American contractor jailed for the past four years in Cuba, saying his continued captivity on the communist-ruled island was “gravely disappointing.” “Tomorrow, development worker Alan Gross will begin a fifth year of unjustified imprisonment in Cuba,” the U.S. State Department said in a…
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Fast Forward Dutch Killer of Anti-Nazi Resistance Fighters Dies in Jail at 92
A 92-year-old Dutch former member of a Nazi death squad who lived unpunished in Germany for decades until his conviction in 2010 died on Sunday of natural causes in a German prison, justice officials said on Monday. Heinrich Boere, once high on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s list of most wanted crime suspects, was convicted in…
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