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Fast Forward Obscure German Holocaust Archive Has Trove of ‘Lists’ of Jewish Victims of Nazis
George Jaunzemis was three and a half years old when, in the chaotic weeks at the end of World War Two, he was separated from his mother as she fled with him from Germany to Belgium. He grew up in New Zealand with no memory of his early years, unaware the Latvian woman who had…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Gaza After Rockets Hit Town
Israel launched an air strike on the Palestinian Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attack since an eight-day war in November, Hamas, the Islamist movement that controls the territory, and Israel’s military said. “Occupation planes bombarded an open area in northern Gaza, there were no wounded,” a statement from the Hamas Interior Ministry said….
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Fast Forward Shells From Syria Land in Israeli-Occupied Golan
A mortar shell fired on Tuesday during fighting between Syrian forces and rebels landed in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israeli military sources said. It was unclear if the shell, which landed near an Israeli settlement and caused no injuries, was fired deliberately at territory held by Israel or was a stray, the sources said. The…
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Fast Forward N.Y. Mayoral Hopeful Malcolm Smith Ensnared in Complex Bribe Plot
A high-ranking Democratic New York State senator was arrested on Tuesday and charged with trying to buy a place on the Republican ticket in the city’s next mayoral race, an effort that prosecutors said was part of a wide-ranging bribery scandal and reflected pervasive corruption in New York politics. Five other politicians, all Republicans, were…
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Fast Forward Israel Battles Protests Over Palestinian’s Death
Israeli prison guards fired tear gas to quell disturbances by Palestinian inmates on Tuesday after a prisoner serving a life sentence over an attempt to bomb an Israeli cafe died of cancer. Maysara Abu Hamdeya’s death threatened to raise tensions in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where Palestinians, who view jailed brethren as heroes in a…
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Fast Forward David Miliband Quits Soccer Team Board After It Hired ‘Fascist’ Italian Manager
The former British foreign secretary has resigned from the board of a soccer team after it hired an Italian manager who boasted of his fascist sympathies — and once made a Nazi salute during a match. David Miliband stepped down from Sunderland’s board because of remarks that Paolo Di Canio made to Italian news agency…
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Fast Forward Toughest-in-Nation Gun Laws Passed by Lawmakers in Connecticut
Legislative leaders in Connecticut, where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at an elememtary school in December, said on Monday they had agreed some of the toughest gun regulations in the nation and expected to adopt them this week. The proposal, which is expected to pass both Democratic-controlled houses of the state legislature…
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Fast Forward Hamas Reelects Pragmatist Khaled Meshaal as Leader
The Islamist Palestinian Hamas group re-elected the relatively pragmatic Khaled Meshaal as its leader on Tuesday, despite past criticism of him by hardliners in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. A diplomat in the region said Egypt and Qatar had lobbied strongly on behalf of a reluctant Meshaal before the vote in Cairo by about 60 Hamas…
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