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Fast Forward Germany’s Merkel Assures Israel of Backing
German Chancellor Angela Merkel reassured Israel of her country’s support on Saturday, two days after Berlin disappointed the Jewish state by abstaining in a U.N. vote on the Palestinians’ status. Germany, which will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and many of his ministers next week, abstained in Thursday’s vote in the U.N. General Assembly…
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Fast Forward Judge Refuses To Pull Anti-Islam Film From Net
An actress who said she was duped into appearing in an anti-Islam film that stoked violent protests against the United States across the Muslim world lost on Friday her second legal bid to force the video off YouTube. Denying a request by actress Cindy Lee Garcia for a court order requiring the popular online video…
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Fast Forward Stevie Wonder Explains IDF Snub: ‘I’m Against War’
Veteran singer and United Nations Messenger of Peace Stevie Wonder has canceled a planned performance for the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces after several organizations asked him not to perform. The soul singer, 62, was scheduled to sing at a Dec. 6 fundraising gala in Los Angeles hosted by the Friends of the Israel…
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News Fido Did His Business! Dogwalkers Go Digital
Customers of a dog-walking company in New York City need no longer wonder whether or not their pet stopped for a bathroom break while out for its daily stroll – they now receive a text message each time their dog does the deed. Swifto, which walks dogs in the city’s boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn,…
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Fast Forward Poland Tries to Calm Dispute Over Kosher Animal Slaughter
Poland is to draft new laws so that it does not have to stop slaughterhouses from producing kosher meat, a prospect that has angered the Jewish community in the country where Nazi Germany massacred millions of Jews during World War Two. The constitutional court ruled this week that kosher slaughter methods, which involve killing livestock…
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Fast Forward Tennis Referee Cleared in Hubby’s Coffee Mug Slay
A Los Angeles judge dismissed murder charges on Friday against a 70-year-old tennis lineswoman who was accused of beating her husband to death with a coffee mug, and arrested in August as she prepared to officiate at the U.S. Open. The dismissal was granted following a request from prosecutors who said they were unable to…
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Fast Forward Strauss-Kahn Agrees To Pay Maid $6M
Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has reached a preliminary agreement with the hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault last year to settle a civil lawsuit she brought against him, sources familiar with the case said. While a source in New York cautioned that the agreement could still fall apart, influential French daily Le…
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Fast Forward Israel Will Expand Settlements Over UN Palestine Vote
Israel plans to build thousands of new homes for its settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, an Israeli official said on Friday, defying a U.N. vote that implicitly recognised Palestinian statehood there. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative government had authorised the construction of 3,000…
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