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Fast Forward Gabby Giffords Returns to Scene of Tucson Rampage To Plead for Gun Laws
Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, returning to the site of the shooting rampage where she was gravely wounded, on Wednesday urged senators to “be courageous” and support background checks for all gun buyers. Standing just a few feet from where a gunman more than two years ago put a bullet through Giffords’…
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Fast Forward Career Criminal Nabbed in Hit-and-Run Crash That Killed Orthodox Jewish Family
New York police on Wednesday said they apprehended a suspected hit-and-run driver following a weekend accident that killed a young Orthodox Jewish couple whose baby was later delivered by C-section but then died. “The suspect has been apprehended,” said New York Police Detective Kelly Ort. “It’s a sweet, bitter pill to swallow,” said community leader…
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Fast Forward Rogue Syria Rebels Kidnap Golan U.N. Peacekeepers
Syrian rebels have seized a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers near the Golan Heights and say they will hold them captive until President Bashar al-Assad’s forces pull back from a rebel-held village which has seen heavy recent fighting. The capture was announced in rebel videos posted on the Internet and confirmed on Wednesday by the United…
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Fast Forward U.S. Envoy Walks Out of Nuclear Meeting After Iran Accuses Israel of Genocide
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations nuclear watchdog stormed out of an agency meeting on Wednesday in protest when Iran’s representative accused Israel of “genocide”, diplomats said Officials from Canada and Australia also left the closed-door meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) 35-nation governing board when Iran’s Ali Asghar Soltanieh made his…
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News Henrique Capriles, Venezuela Leader With Jewish Roots, Battles Chavez Legacy
Playing basketball with locals and shuttling between slums, Venezuela’s opposition leader, Henrique Capriles, exuded youth and energy in last year’s punishing presidential race. Yet he ended up exhausted, quaffing Red Bull to keep going – and ultimately devastated at his loss to Hugo Chavez. Now Capriles, 40, has to do it all again. The governor…
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Fast Forward UNICEF Accuses Israel of ‘Systematic’ Abuse of Jailed Palestinian Children
Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law, a UNICEF report said on Wednesday. The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) estimated that 700 Palestinian children aged 12 to 17, most of them boys, are arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli military, police and security agents…
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The Schmooze ‘Rhoda’ Actress Has Cancer
Actress Valerie Harper best known as wise-cracking neighbor Rhoda Morgenstern on television’s “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, People magazine reported on Wednesday. Doctors told Harper, 73, on Jan. 15 that she had as little as three months left to live after a battery of tests revealed she has…
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Fast Forward Did Prisoner X Use Australian Passport To Carry Out Mossad Hit?
Australia has no evidence that an emigrant to Israel who died in an Israeli jail in 2010, had been involved in the assassination of a Hamas arms procurer in Dubai, Foreign Minister Bob Carr said on Wednesday. Carr said Ben Zygier had worked for the Israeli government when he was arrested, but stopped short of…
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