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Fast Forward Six Killed in Shooting Spree at Santa Monica College
A gunman dressed in black killed at least six people in a string of shootings through the seaside California town of Santa Monica on Friday before he was shot dead by police in a community college library, law authorities said. Santa Monica Police Chief Jacqueline Seabrooks said a second individual she described as a “person…
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Fast Forward Gunfire Breaks Out at Santa Monica College, Atleast Three Injured
Gunshots were fired at Santa Monica College west of Los Angeles on Friday, leaving an unspecified number of people injured, and a suspect was taken into custody, police said. Santa Monica police spokesman Richard Lewis said no further information was immediately available on the shooting. But a spokeswoman for the California Highway Patrol told Los…
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Fast Forward U.N. Says No To Russia Peacekeeping Force in Golan
The United Nations on Friday thanked Russia for offering to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights but said an agreement between Israel and Syria bars all permanent members of the Security Council from the U.N. observer mission there. President Vladimir Putin made the offer in Russia on Friday after Vienna said it would…
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Fast Forward Russia Is Prepared To Step in For Austria in Golan, Says Putin
Russia is ready to replace peacekeepers from Austria in the Golan Heights, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, after Vienna said it would recall its troops from a U.N. monitoring force due to worsening fighting in Syria. Austria, whose peacekeepers account for about 380 of the 1,000-strong U.N. force observing a four-decade-old ceasefire between Syria…
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Fast Forward Desperate To Revive Talks, Kerry Returns to Israel — Again
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is set to return to Israel and the Palestinian territories next week for his fifth visit to the region in barely two months to extend his push for a revival of peace talks, sources on both side said. A senior American official indicated in March that Washington would try…
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Fast Forward ‘Trekkie’ IRS Official In Hot Water Over $50K Mr. Spock ‘Training’ Video
A top official at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Thursday acknowledged that it was “embarrassing” how much the tax agency spent on training videos, including a Star Trek spoof, and other lavish expenses during a 2010 conference in California. Faris Fink, commissioner of the agency’s small business and self-employed division, told lawmakers the videos,…
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Fast Forward Austria Will Yank Peacekeepers From Golan Amid Syria Chaos
Austria will withdraw its peacekeepers from the U.N. monitoring force on the Golan Heights given worsening fighting between Syrian government forces and rebels, it said on Thursday. Austrians account for about 380 of the 1,000-strong U.N. force monitoring a ceasefire between Syria and Israel, and their departure will deal a serious blow to the mission….
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Fast Forward Samantha Power Poised for Big Stage at U.N.
Samantha Power, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her study of U.S. failure to prevent genocide and is seen as an advocate of an activist U.S. foreign policy, would get a bigger platform for her views as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The former journalist, Harvard University professor and White House national security staffer…
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