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Fast Forward Obama and Netanyahu Discuss Peace Talks and Iran During Phone Call
President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone on Monday and discussed recent developments on Iran, Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, and other regional issues, the White House said on Monday. “The two leaders agreed to continue their close coordination on a range of security issues,” the White House said.
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The Schmooze Vatican Honors Lou Reed on Twitter
Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican’s 71-year-old culture minister, paid his own tribute on Monday to the late rocker Lou Reed, tweeting one of his best-known songs before clarifying he was not condoning any reference to drugs some have seen in the song. Ravasi, an Italian who is the same age as Reed was when he…
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Fast Forward Willowy Models Pose With Fish in Eilat Underwater Red Sea Photo Shoot
A gust of air ruffled her white wedding dress before Hagar Cohen dived into the Red Sea, high heels sparkling in the sun as she disappeared beneath the waves. Minutes later the 33-year-old Israeli diving instructor, moonlighting as a model, was posing on a sunken missile ship 20 m (60 feet) below the surface of…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Gaza as Prisoner Release Looms
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets at a southern Israeli coastal city on Monday and Israel’s Iron Dome interceptor shot down one while the other fell into the sea, a military spokeswoman said. Within hours, Israel’s air force bombed what a military spokesman described as two concealed rocket launchers in northern Gaza. There…
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Fast Forward Knesset Agrees To Release 26 More Prisoners for Peace Talks
Israel is to release 26 Palestinian prisoners in a second stage of a deal brokered by the United States in July that brought a resumption of peace talks. Israel said in August it would free 104 inmates in four stages as negotiations resumed after a near three-year hiatus following a dispute over Jewish settlement construction…
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Fast Forward Lou Reed, Jewish Rocker of Velvet Underground Fame, Dies at 71
Lou Reed, the pioneering songwriter and musician behind the influential rock band Velvet Underground, which fused art and music in collaboration with artist Andy Warhol, died on Sunday at the age of 71, his literary agent said. Reed, best recognized by mainstream audiences for his 1972 solo hit “Walk on the Wild Side,” died at…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Struggle Economically as Tunnels Collapse and Aid Falters
The arteries of Gaza’s economy have collapsed as Egypt demolishes the smuggling tunnels along its sandy border. Ancient stone villages in the occupied West Bank have become trapped in rural poverty, while investors and donors shy away from a zone of seemingly endless conflict. The crackdown on the Gaza Strip and stagnation in the West…
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Fast Forward Saudi Women Defy Ban on Driving
A few women filmed themselves driving in Saudi cities on Saturday, defying government warnings of arrest and prosecution to take part in a campaign against men-only road rules, activists said. But some others stayed at home, put off by phone calls from men who said they were from the Interior Ministry, reported organisers of the…
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