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Fast Forward Israel Tells Syria’s Assad It’s Not Taking Sides in Civil War
Israel sought to persuade Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Monday that its recent air strikes around Damascus did not aim to weaken him in the face of a more than two-year-old rebellion. Officials say Israel is reluctant to take sides in Syria’s civil war for fear its actions would boost Islamists who are even more…
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Fast Forward Germany Rapt as Murder Trial of ‘Normal’-Looking Neo-Nazi Killer Begins
The surviving member of a German neo-Nazi cell went on trial on Monday for a series of racist murders that scandalised Germany and exposed the security services’ inability or reluctance to recognise far-right crime. The chance discovery of the gang, the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which had gone undetected for more than a decade, has…
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Fast Forward Israel Hits Back at Google Over ‘Palestine’ Search Engine Tag
A senior Israeli official accused Google on Monday of setting back Middle East peace hopes by putting the name “Palestine” under the banner of its search page for the Palestinian territories. (www.google.ps) Palestinians hailed Google’s move as a virtual victory on the long path to the state they seek in the West Bank, East Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward U.S. Not Warned in Advance About Israel Strike on Syria
The United States was not given any warning before air strikes in Syria against what Western and Israeli officials say were weapons headed for Hezbollah militants, a U.S. intelligence official said on Sunday. Without confirming that Israel was behind the attacks, the intelligence official said that the United States was essentially told of the air…
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Fast Forward Gabrielle Giffords Warns on Guns as She Wins JFK Profile in Courage Award
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords received the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award on Sunday, asking the U.S. Congress to act more courageously on the issue of gun control. “We all have courage inside,” Giffords, who herself survived being shot in 2011, said at the Kennedy Library in Boston. “I wish there was more…
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Fast Forward Hungary Premier Viktor Orban Fails To Take on Far Right in Speech
Prime Minister Viktor Orban strongly denounced growing anti-Semitism in Hungary on Sunday but stopped short of censuring the far-right Jobbik party his audience of world Jewish leaders most wanted him to scold. Orban told the World Jewish Congress (WJC), which is holding its four-yearly assembly in Hungary to highlight its concern about rising hostility to…
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Fast Forward Syria Says ‘All Possibilities’ Open After Israel Strike
Syrian Information Minister Omran Zoabi said on Sunday that Israeli air strikes against three targets on the outskirts of Damascus “open the door to all possibilities.” The minister’s comments at a press conference came after an emergency cabinet meeting organised to respond to what a Western source said was a new strike on Iranian missiles…
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Fast Forward Israel Hits Syria With Powerful Airstrike Near Damascus
Israeli jets bombed Syria on Sunday, rocking Damascus for hours and sending pillars of flame into the night sky in what a Western source called a new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Local people reported massive explosions and internet video showed the capital’s skyline lit by flashes; Syrian opponents of President Bashar…
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