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News Frank Lautenberg Remembered by Scores of Dignitaries at New York Funeral
U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, whose death has sparked a battle over his seat in the Senate, was remembered at his funeral on Wednesday as a tenacious fighter who battled tirelessly for the causes he championed. Vice President Joe Biden eulogized Lautenberg, a fellow Democrat who died on Monday at age 89, as having “both physical…
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Fast Forward Samantha Power, Sometimes Blunt, May Face Confirmation Battle for U.N. Job
President Barack Obama has selected as his nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and academic who in 2008 called Hillary Clinton – at the time a political rival of Obama – “a monster.” The White House is due to name Samantha Power to replace current ambassador Susan Rice, who…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Suggests He Will Consider Revised Arab Peace Plan
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signalled readiness on Wednesday to consider a 2002 Arab peace plan whose terms were recently softened to include possible land swaps between Israel and the Palestinians. “We are listening to every initiative – the Arab initiative has been mentioned – and we are prepared to discuss initiatives that are proposals and…
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Fast Forward Samantha Power Gets Nod as U.N. Ambassador
President Barack Obama plans to nominate Samantha Power, a former White House aide and Harvard professor, to replace Susan Rice as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the White House said on Wednesday. The move comes as Obama shifts his foreign policy team to include Rice as his national security adviser amid the resignation of…
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Fast Forward Bulgaria Backs Away From Blaming Hezbollah in Terror Aimed at Israelis
Bulgaria said on Wednesday it only had an “indication” that Lebanon’s Hezbollah might have been behind a deadly bus bombing in July and that this alone did not justify any European Union move to list it as a terrorist group. The new Socialist-led government backed away from charges by its centre-right predecessor that the Shi’ite…
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Fast Forward Chris Christie’s Controversial Special Election for Frank Lautenberg’s Seat
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday called a special election for October to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Sen. Frank Lautenberg, a decision seen as critical to the balance of power in the U.S. Congress and to Christie’s own political aspirations. Lautenberg, a liberal Democratic voice in the U.S….
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Fast Forward Palestinian Premier Works To Form New Government
Palestinian Prime Minister-designate Rami Hamdallah said on Tuesday he hoped to form his West Bank-based government this week but was committed to implementing a power-sharing deal with Gaza’s Hamas rulers. “I am a man of unity, and division is a crime against the Palestinian people and it must end. There is nothing we should differ…
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Fast Forward Syria Built Chemical Arsenal to Counter Israel
Syria, defeated by Israel in three wars and afraid its arch enemy had gained a nuclear arsenal, began in earnest to build a covert chemical weapons programme three decades ago, aided by its neighbours, allies and European chemical wholesalers. Damascus lacked the technology and scientific capacity to set up a programme on its own, but…
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