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Fast Forward Joe Biden Tells AIPAC That Obama Is Not ‘Bluffing’ on Iran Nuclear Threat
Vice President Joe Biden told America’s biggest pro-Israel lobbying organization on Monday that President Barack Obama is “not bluffing” about the United States’ determination to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. “The president of the United States cannot and does not bluff. President Barack Obama is not bluffing,” he told the American Israel Public…
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Fast Forward ‘Miracle’ Orthodox Jewish Baby Dies After Parents Killed on Way to Hospital
The ‘miracle’ has turned to more tragedy. A newborn baby who was delivered by emergency C-section after his parents were killed in a car accident on their way to the hospital has died, a New York police spokesman said. The baby boy died from injuries overnight at New York’s Bellevue Hospital, the spokesman said. His…
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Fast Forward Critics Slam ‘Revolting’ Plan for Divided West Bank Bus Systems
Israel launched two Palestinians-only bus lines in the occupied West Bank on Monday, a step an Israeli rights group described as racist and which the Transport Ministry called an improvement in service. The left-wing Haaretz daily reported the ministry opened the lines, to be used by Palestinian labourers travelling between the West Bank and Israel,…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Says Nuclear Talks Have Given Iran Time To Build Arsenal
Renewed international efforts to negotiate curbs on Iran’s disputed nuclear programme have backfired by giving it more time to work on building a bomb, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. His remarks on the inconclusive Feb. 26-27 meeting between Iran and six world powers signalled impatience by Israel, which has threatened to launch…
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Fast Forward Overflow Funeral Mourns Expectant Couple Killed in Crash on Way to Hospital
Orthodox Jews overflowed a New York synagogue and poured onto the streets on Sunday to mourn the death of a young couple killed in a car accident on their way to the hospital to have their first baby, who survived after delivery by C-section. Meanwhile police continued their intensive search for a hit-and-run driver and…
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Fast Forward Cops Hunt for Hit-Run Driver Who Killed Expectant Orthodox Parents
Police began an intensive search on Sunday for a suspected hit-and-run driver and a passenger who fled an accident on Saturday that killed a young couple on the way to the hospital to have their first baby, who survived. Investigators launched what a police spokeswoman called “full-on search” for the male driver and female passenger…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu In Tight Spot Over Orthodox Draft Exemption
A surprise alliance between far-right and centrist Israeli political stars who reject privileges for ultra-orthodox Jews is frustrating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to form a new government. More than a month after Israel’s election, Netanyahu is still without a new coalition, his hopes of enlisting traditionally loyal ultra-Orthodox cabinet partners challenged by a pact…
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Fast Forward Sheldon Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp Under Investigation for Corruption
Las Vegas Sands Corp said it “likely” violated the federal Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which outlaws the bribery of foreign officials, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday. The filing marks the first disclosure by the casino operator, controlled by founder and billionaire Republican donor Sheldon Adelson, that it was under investigation….
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