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Fast Forward Iran Floats ‘Breakthrough’ Nuclear Plan at Talks With Big Powers
Iran said it presented “logical” proposals in talks with six world powers on Tuesday aimed at achieving a breakthrough in a decade-old standoff over its disputed nuclear programme that has heightened the risk of a new Middle East war. Tehran launched negotiations in earnest with the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany, reflecting…
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Fast Forward United States Could Ease Sanctions Quickly if Iran Acts on Nuclear Promises
GENEVA, Oct 14 (Reuters) – The United States held out the prospect of quick sanctions relief for Iran on Monday if Tehran moves swiftly to allay concerns about its nuclear programme, although both countries said any deal would be complex and take time. Six world powers – the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and…
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Fast Forward Nobel Economics Winner Robert Shiller Says Global Real Estate Prices ‘Bubbly’
One of three American economists who won the 2013 economics Nobel prize on Monday for research into market prices and asset bubbles expressed alarm at the rapid rise in global housing prices. Robert Shiller, who shared the 8 million Swedish crown ($1.25 million) prize with fellow laureates Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen, said the…
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Fast Forward Real Estate Expert Robert Shiller Shares Nobel Prize for Economics
hree American scientists won the 2013 economics Nobel prize on Monday for research that has improved the forecasting of long term asset prices, a hot topic since the collapse of the U.S. housing market bubble prompted a global financial meltdown. “There is no way to predict the price of stocks and bonds over the next…
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Fast Forward Gabby Giffords Eyes Curbs at N.Y. Gun Show
Former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was in New York on Sunday to tour her first gun show since being shot in the head to review new measures that require background checks for buyers. Giffords and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly, who describe themselves as supporters of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which…
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Fast Forward Rome Mayor Seeks To Block Funeral for Nazi War Criminal Erich Priebke
Civil and church authorities have moved to prevent a funeral in Rome for Erich Priebke, a Nazi war criminal convicted of one of Italy’s worst wartime massacres, who died last week at the age of 100. Priebke, who never apologised for his role in the killing of 335 civilians in the Ardeatine Caves near Rome…
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Fast Forward Orthodox Women’s Advocate Says ‘Desperation’ Spurs Divorce Extort Scheme
Blu Greenberg, founder of the national Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance, blamed a scheme in which rabbis forced recalicitrant husbands to give religious divorces on wives’ ‘desperation.’ She said such schemes were a response to a problem known as “get abuse,” in which husbands demand a larger share of the couple’s communal property to approve of…
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The Schmooze Lea Michele Sings Goodbye to Cory on ‘Glee’
LOS ANGELES, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Television musical comedy series “Glee” bid farewell on Thursday to Finn Hudson, the hunky, kind-hearted jock played by the late Cory Monteith, offering up songs, remembrances and plenty of tears while sidestepping the question of how his character died. Fans had waited to see how the Fox television show…
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