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Fast Forward Israel Top Court Rules Against Wall Route
Israel’s highest court has urged defence officials to reroute a barrier planned for construction on ancient farmland at a West Bank Palestinian village. Israeli judges have ordered changes in Israel’s barrier through occupied land before, but the latest decision followed a rare appeal involving support from an Israeli government environmental agency for a Palestinian challenge….
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Fast Forward Polish Film Stirs Debate on Shoah Complicity
A film about a Polish village whose residents help massacre their Jewish neighbours in World War Two has forced Poles to confront one of the most troubling episodes of their past. Most historians take the view that during the war the vast majority of Christian Poles were victims of the Nazi aggression that killed millions…
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The Schmooze Tavi Gevinson Adds Author to Resume
Tavi Gevinson has accomplished more in her 16 years than most people double her age. The style blogger, writer and darling of the fashion set launched a fashion blog from her suburban Chicago home before she turned 12. Two years later it was getting 50,000 hits a day and she was a fixture in the…
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Fast Forward Avigdor Lieberman Faces Corruption Charge
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman will be indicted for fraud and breach of trust, charges that may lead him to resign, but the Justice Ministry dropped more serious corruption allegations in a nearly 12-year-old case. The announcement comes just weeks before a Jan. 22 election in which the right-wing party of Lieberman and Prime Minister…
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Fast Forward Sales Soar for Gaza ‘Rocket’ Perfume
Sales of a citrus-scented perfume marketed in Gaza have soared since it was named in honour of the rockets that Palestinians shot at Israel during a war last month, the manufacturer said. “M-75” perfume, which comes in men’s and women’s fragrances, is named for the missiles Hamas Islamist militants shot at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem…
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Fast Forward Etan Patz Suspect Denies Notorious SoHo Killing
A New Jersey man suspected of the 1979 killing of 6-year-old Etan Patz pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to murder and kidnapping charges, six months after police said he confessed to a chilling crime that has long haunted New Yorkers. Pedro Hernandez, 51, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, said during police questioning in May that…
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Fast Forward In Final Speech, Lieberman Trumpets Bipartisanship
Former Democrat Joe Lieberman used his last speech on the U.S. Senate floor on Wednesday to call for bipartisanship and get in a last dig over the controversial result of the 2000 election, when he was the Democratic vice presidential nominee. Lieberman, 70, announced in January 2011 that he would retire when his fourth term…
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Fast Forward Confessed Killer of Etan Patz Back in Court
The man who confessed to killing Etan Patz – the 6-year-old boy who vanished from his New York neighborhood three decades ago – was due in court on Wednesday and expected to enter a plea in the child’s murder. Pedro Hernandez, 51, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, admitted in May he lured the boy and…
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