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Fast Forward Dzokhar Tsarnaev’s College Buddies Face Backpack-Dump Charges in Bombing
Three new suspects were taken into custody in the investigation of last month’s deadly Boston Marathon bombing and will face charges of interfering with the probe, not planning or carrying out the attack, police and a U.S. law enforcement source said on Wednesday. Two of the suspects were university classmates of 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who…
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Fast Forward Frustrated Palestinian Youth Seek New Outlets To Push Change
Far from the children who beg for change from idling cars and the teenagers who hurl rocks at armed Israeli troops, a different spectacle of Palestinian youth is playing out in the ballroom of a luxury Ramallah hotel. Young contestants are gathered for a taping of “The President”, a game show that aims to select…
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Fast Forward Could Gorgeous Mystery Woman Shed Light on Cold War Sex Scandal?
She has dark eyes, full lips and short hair in one of the favourite styles of London in the “swinging 60s” but who is she? And could she help shed light on the infamous Profumo scandal, the heady tale of espionage, sex and politics that held Britain spellbound in the early 1960s and helped bring…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Calls Arab Shift on Land-for-Peace Deal ‘Big Step Forward’
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday the Arab League’s acknowledgment that Israelis and Palestinians may have to swap land in any peace deal was “a very big step forward.” Arab states appeared to soften their 2002 peace plan on Monday when Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, said…
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Fast Forward Jerry Seinfeld Shares Webby Honors With Obama Reelection Campaign and Justin Bieber
Campaigns for pop stars Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga joined comedian Jerry Seinfeld and the team behind President Barack Obama’s 2012 social media election strategy on Tuesday in winning Webby Awards, the annual honors for excellence on the Internet. R&B singer Frank Ocean, fake news website, The Onion, and humor website Funny or Die also…
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Fast Forward Israel Happy With Arab Softening of Land-for-Peace Proposal
Israel responded favourably on Tuesday to an apparent softening by Arab states of their 2002 peace plan after a top Qatari official raised the possibility of land swaps in setting borders between the Jewish state and an independent Palestine. The original Arab League proposal offered full recognition of Israel but only if it gave up…
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Fast Forward Arab States Soften Stand on Possible Israel Land-for-Peace Deal
Arab states appeared to soften their 2002 peace plan on Monday when a top Qatari official said Israel and the Palestinians could trade land rather than conform exactly to their 1967 borders. Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, Qatar’s prime minister and foreign minister, made the comment after he and a group of Arab officials met…
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Fast Forward Harvey Fierstein’s ‘Kinky Boots’ Grabs 13 Tony Nominations
The musical “Kinky Boots,” with the score by pop star Cyndi Lauper, on Tuesday earned 13 nominations for the Tony Awards, leading the field for Broadway’s highest honor and closely followed by British import “Matilda,” which received 12. Both shows were nominated for best musical, along with “Bring It On: The Musical” and “A Christmas…
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