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Fast Forward Hamas Reaches Out to Rival Abbas After Being Cut Off From Egypt
Hamas, its Gaza Strip stronghold cut off by the new military-backed government in Egypt, called upon rival Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday to end their six-year schism and form a unity government. Abbas’s secular, U.S.-backed Fatah faction lost a 2006 ballot to Islamist Hamas. They sat in an uneasy alliance until a civil war…
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Fast Forward Thousands of Morsi Supporters Protest in Cities Across Egypt
Thousands of supporters of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi protested across Egypt on Friday, shouting slogans against army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who ousted him on July 3. One person was wounded by gunfire when taking part in a pro-Mursi march of a few thousand in Fayoum, south of Cairo, state news agency MENA…
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Fast Forward Madoff Employees Were ‘Puppets’ of Enigmatic Employer, Lawyers Say
Lawyers for five former employees of Bernard Madoff said on Thursday their clients were mere puppets under the spell of what one called an enigmatic “broker-dealer rockstar” and “pathological liar.” The former staffers are on trial accused of creating false records and transactions at Bernard Madoff Securities LLC until its implosion in 2008. Investors lost…
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Fast Forward Family of Nazi Demands Return of His Body From Italian Authorities
The family of Nazi war criminal Erich Priebke demanded the return of his body on Thursday after his funeral was disrupted by protesters and his coffin taken away by Italian authorities. The former SS officer died last week, aged 100 in Rome, where he spent the end of his life under house arrest for commanding…
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Fast Forward Cory Booker Wins New Jersey Senate Seat in Special Election
Democrat Cory Booker, the charismatic mayor of Newark, was the unofficial winner of a New Jersey special election on Wednesday, handily defeating a conservative Republican to fill the state’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. Booker, who had been heavily favored in polls, defeated conservative Republican Steve Lonegan, a former small-town mayor, according to tallies published online…
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Fast Forward Jewish Settlement Construction Up by 70% This Year, Says Peace Now Report
Housing starts in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank are up by 70 percent this year, the anti-settlement Peace Now group said on Thursday, despite reports Israel has been quietly delaying new construction. The figure related to the first six months of 2013 – before Israeli-Palestinian peace talks resumed in July – and was…
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Fast Forward Abbas Invites Pope To Visit ‘Holy Land’
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday invited Pope Francis to visit the Holy Land, matching a standing invitation from Israel. The pontiff, who has made many appeals for peace in the Middle East since his election in March, has already accepted an invitation from Israeli president Shimon Peres, and is widely expected to make the…
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Fast Forward Turkey Deliberately Revealed Israeli Spy Ring in Iran
JERUSALEM, Oct 17 (Reuters) – Turkey deliberately blew the cover of an Israeli spy ring working inside Iran in early 2012 and dealt a significant blow to Israeli intelligence gathering, according to a report in the Washington Post on Thursday. Officials in Ankara, speaking on condition they not be named, described the article as part…
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