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Fast Forward Nelson Mandela ‘Comfortable’ After New Health Scare
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is comfortable and able to breathe without problems as he continues to respond to treatment in hospital for a recurrence of pneumonia, President Jacob Zuma’s office said on Saturday. After the 94-year-old anti-apartheid legend spent a third night in hospital, the presidency cited doctors as saying they had drained…
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Fast Forward Nelson Mandela Is Making Progress and in Good Spirits, Says South Africa
South African former President Nelson Mandela is in good spirits and making progress, doctors said on Friday, after the 94-year-old anti-apartheid hero was taken to hospital for the third time in four months for a lung infection. The medical report was a relief to South Africans who had been anxiously praying and waiting for an…
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Fast Forward Israel Could Withstand Syrian Chemical Weapons Says Israeli General
Israel could withstand any attack involving Syrian chemical weapons, an Israeli general said on Friday, adding it was improbable that Damascus would order such a strike. The fate of Syria’s reputed chemical arsenal is a focus of international concern. Israel has threatened to go to war to prevent Islamist militants or Hezbollah guerrillas in neighbouring…
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Fast Forward Cyprus Court Jails Hezbollah Man for Plotting To Attack Israelis
A Cyprus court sentenced a member of Lebanon’s Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah movement to four years in jail on Thursday on charges of plotting to attack Israeli interests on the island. In a case bearing similarities to a deadly bus bombing in Bulgaria targeting Israelis last year, the Cypriot court convicted Hossam Taleb Yaccoub on five…
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Fast Forward Newtown Gunman Adam Lanza Fired 154 Times in Sandy Hook School Rampage
The gunman who killed 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school fired 154 rounds in less than 5 minutes, selecting high capacity magazines from a home arsenal stocked with swords, knives and a cache of guns, officials said. Investigators also found a newspaper clipping about a mass shooting in the home that…
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Fast Forward Newtown Gunman Adam Lanza Had Arsenal and NRA Certificate
The man who attacked a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school in December had a large arsenal of weapons including additional guns, swords and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, according to court papers released on Thursday. The pale yellow two-story suburban Colonial house where the gunman, Adam Lanza, lived with his mother was stocked with weapons before…
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Fast Forward Boris Berezovsky Inquest ‘Can’t Rule Out’ Murder of Fallen Tycoon
Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who died in a mansion near London in unexplained circumstances last weekend, was found lying on the floor of the bathroom with a “ligature around his neck”, an inquest into his death heard on Thursday. Police have said there was no sign of a struggle and that the 67-year-old’s death was…
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Fast Forward Inquest Set in Hanging Death of Fallen Jewish Tycoon Boris Berezovsky
Britain opens a judicial inquiry into the death of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky on Thursday to establish how he died in the locked bathroom of his vast mansion near London. Berezovsky, who survived years of intrigue, power struggles and assassination attempts in Russia, was found dead on Saturday in his home in Ascot, a town…
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