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Fast Forward John Kerry Grimly Warns Israel of Palestinian Unrest and Isolation If Peace Talks Fail
Secretary of State John Kerry warned Israel on Thursday that it could face a third Palestinian uprising and deepening international isolation if American-brokered peace negotiations failed. Both Israel and the Palestinians have given grim assessments of the lack of progress in their talks, which the United States helped revive last July after a three-year hiatus….
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Fast Forward Janet Yellen’s Harshest Critic Admits She’ll Be Confirmed as Federal Reserve Chair
Federal Reserve Vice Chair Janet Yellen will likely secure sufficient votes to be confirmed as the next head of the central bank, according to one of her harshest critics in the Senate who sits on the banking panel that will vet her for the job. David Vitter, the Louisiana Republican who voted against her nomination…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu Slams Possible Iran Nuclear Deal as ‘Historic’ Mistake
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers was taking shape in talks in Geneva, and adopting it would be a “mistake of historic proportions”. “Israel understands that there are proposals on the table in Geneva today that would ease the pressure on Iran for concessions that…
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Fast Forward Jewish Leaders and U.S. Condemn Hungary for Statue of Nazi Ally Miklos Horthy
The United States on Thursday strongly condemned a far-right party for unveiling a statue of wartime leader Miklos Horthy, who allied Hungary with Nazi Germany, an event which stoked concerns about a wave of anti-Semitism in the country. The Jobbik party unveiled the statue on Sunday in Budapest. “Those who organised and participated in the…
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Fast Forward Supreme Court Grapples With Prayer Case — and All Hell Breaks Loose on Bench
When the U.S. Supreme Court talks about religion, all hell breaks loose. A dispute over an upstate New York town’s prayer before council meetings produced an unusually testy oral-argument session on Wednesday that recalled the decades of difficulty Supreme Court justices have had drawing the line between church and state. Court decisions involving freedom of…
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Fast Forward Nazi War Criminal Erich Priebke Buried in Anonymous Italy Prison Grave
Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke was secretly buried in an anonymous grave in a cemetery inside the walls of an Italian prison complex, an Italian newspaper reported on Thursday. La Repubblica said the coffin of the man convicted of one of Italy’s worst wartime atrocities was taken from a military airport and buried on the…
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Fast Forward Israel Insists It Didn’t Poison Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat
Israel said on Thursday it did not poison Yasser Arafat, making the denial after the Palestinian leader’s widow said Swiss forensic tests had proven he died from radioactive polonium poisoning in 2004. “We never made a decision to harm him physically,” Energy Minister Silvan Shalom, who in 2004 served as foreign minister and as a…
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Fast Forward Stop-and-Frisk Judge Shira Scheindlin Asks To Return to Case
A U.S. judge on Wednesday asked an appeals court to reinstate her to a closely watched case regarding the constitutionality of the New York Police Department’s “stop-and-frisk” tactic, saying she was unfairly removed from it a week ago. In a highly unusual request, U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of…
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