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Fast Forward Germany Launches ‘Last Chance’ Hunt for Nazis
Video: Nate Lavey A “last chance” campaign to root out surviving Nazi war criminals and bring them to justice before they die will be launched next week in Germany, almost 70 years after the end of World War Two. Nazi-hunters have been encouraged by the prosecution last month in Hungary of 98-year-old Laszlo Csatary for…
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Fast Forward European Union Bars Aid to Israeli Groups With Ties to Occupied Territories
The European Union said on Tuesday it will bar financial assistance to Israeli organisations operating in the occupied territories, underlining its concern that Israeli settlement-building harms prospects for peace with the Palestinians. Guidelines adopted by the EU’s executive Commission in late June and expected to be published this week make clear that, from next year,…
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Fast Forward No Plans To Reverse Kosher Slaughter Ban, Polish Premier Says
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he had no plans to reintroduce legislation to lift a ban on the production of kosher meat, despite mounting criticism from Isreal and Jewish groups that it is harmful to Jews in Poland. Polish lawmakers last week rejected a government-backed draft law that would have allowed slaughterhouses to produce…
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Fast Forward Norway Killer Anders Breivik’s Neo-Nazi Pal Busted in France
A neo-Nazi linked to Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik was arrested in southwestern France on Tuesday after his wife bought four rifles, raising suspicions he could turn to violence, the Paris prosecutor’s office said. Kristian Vikernes, who is also a convicted murderer from Norway, had in the past received a copy of a manifesto…
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The Schmooze Liz Taylor’s ‘Cleopatra’ Headress Hits Block for $3K
A collection of late actress Elizabeth Taylor’s personal items, including jewelry, cocktail dresses and film costumes, will go under the hammer in Beverly Hills, California, Julien’s Auctions said on Tuesday. The collection, which comes from an unidentified former employee of Taylor, will first go on display in Ireland on Tuesday and will hit the auction…
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Fast Forward Both Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer Now Lead N.Y. Comeback Races
Disgraced politicians Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner are frontrunners in their comeback races, a poll released on Monday showed, with most voters more forgiving about sexual misconduct than financial corruption. “Notoriety has earned the ‘Tabloid Twins’ … good initial numbers in the polls,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute which conducted…
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Fast Forward Leonard Garment, Nixon Advisor, Dies at 89
Leonard Garment, the special counsel to U.S. President Richard Nixon at the height of the Watergate scandal, has died, the New York Times reported on Monday. He was 89. Garment’s daughter, Ann Garment, confirmed the death to the newspaper. She said he died on Saturday at his home in Manhattan. Garment, a Jewish lawyer and…
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Fast Forward Israel Slammed for Sending Migrants Back to Eritrea
Israel has launched a forced repatriation of Eritrean migrants that amounts to a grave violation of their human rights because of the risk of persecution in their reclusive homeland, an advocacy group said on Monday. Israeli authorities have been trying to curb an influx of Africans that has ignited resentment in the poorer neighbourhoods in…
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