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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Brands Iran Leader’s Charm Offensive as ‘Fraudulent’
Israel said on Thursday a U.S. television interview in which Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged that Tehran would never develop nuclear weapons was an Iranian attempt to deceive the world. “One must not be fooled by the Iranian president’s fraudulent words,” said a statement issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office. “The Iranians are spinning…
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Fast Forward Tense Greece Mourns Rapper Slain by Neo-Nazis
The Greek government asked judges on Thursday to move against Golden Dawn, saying it had evidence the far-right party was a criminal organisation and a threat to public safety. The move comes two days after a self-proclaimed sympathiser of the party, Greece’s third-most popular, admitted stabbing to death 34-year-old Greek rapper Pavlos Fissas, who was…
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Fast Forward Saudi Morals Chief Suggests Road Open To Allowing Women To Drive
Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving is not mandated by any text in Sharia, the Islamic legal code which forms the basis for most Saudi law, the head of its morality police told Reuters on Thursday. Sheikh Abdulatif Al al-Sheikh stressed that he has no authority to change Saudi policy on women driving, but his…
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Fast Forward Iran Leader Hassan Rouhani Suggests Peace With Israel Is Goal
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in a new television interview, said his country is not seeking war and that Iran wants the Middle East to have “rule by the will of the people.” His comments came during the second part of an interview with NBC News that aired on Thursday, just days before he travels to…
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Books German Literary Critic and Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, Dies at 93
Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Germany’s best-known literary critic and a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, died on Wednesday aged 93, his publisher said. Reich-Ranicki, a Jew born in Poland in 1920, almost perished at the Nazis’ hands in World War Two but went on to become one of the leading advocates of German literature and culture during…
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Fast Forward President Hassan Rouhani Says Iran Will ‘Never Develop Nuclear Weapons’
WASHINGTON – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a television interview on Wednesday that his government would never develop nuclear weapons and that he has full authority to negotiate a nuclear deal with the West, NBC News reported. Speaking to the U.S. network at his presidential compound in Tehran, Iran’s new president also said the…
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Fast Forward Judge Rules Boy Can Be Named ‘Messiah’
A Tennessee judge on Wednesday restored a baby boy’s given first name of “Messiah,” ruling unconstitutional a lower ranking judge’s order changing it to “Martin” on the basis that “Messiah” is a title earned only by Jesus Christ. The parents of Messiah DeShawn Martin had gone before Tennessee Child Support Magistrate Lu Ann Ballew in…
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Fast Forward Neo-Nazi Golden Dawn Supporters Blamed in Stabbing of Anti-Racist Greek Rapper
Greek police searched the offices of the Golden Dawn party on Wednesday after an anti-racism rapper was stabbed to death by a man who sympathised with the far-right group. The killing touched a nerve in Greece, where an economic crisis has worsened social tensions, and rallies in several cities to mark the death turned violent….
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