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Fast Forward Two More Israelis Killed by Gaza Rockets
Two more Israelis were killed by rockets from Gaza, raising to five the Israeli death toll in the weeklong conflict, officials said. An Israeli soldier and a civilian died when rockets exploded near the Gaza frontier, police and the army said. Haaretz reported that the soldier killed earlier today in mortar attack on western Negev…
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Fast Forward Warren Rudman, Budget Hawk, Dies at 82
Former U.S. Senator Warren Rudman, a moderate New Hampshire Republican known for a budget deal that helped slash government deficits in the 1990s, died on Monday at age 82, state officials said. Rudman, who served in the Senate from 1980 to 1993, was best known for his work in the 1980s on what became known…
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Fast Forward 3 Palestinian Journalists Killed in Airstrike
Two cameramen working for al-Aqsa TV and an educational programming director for the al-Quds channel, both affiliated with Gaza’s Hamas government, were killed by Israeli air strikes on their cars on Tuesday. The cameramen were killed in their car not far from the main Shifa hospital in Gaza city. The al-Quds programme director was killed…
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Fast Forward Elusive Hamas Bombmaker Declares Win Over Israel
The shadowy commander of the Hamas armed wing in Gaza, who has topped Israel’s most-wanted list for about 20 years, told the Islamist militia on Tuesday they were winning the battle against Israeli forces and should fight on. Suspected bomb maker Mohammed Deif, 52, is held responsible by Israel for suicide bombings that killed dozens…
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Fast Forward Armsmaker Struggles To Keep Up With Iron Dome Demand
Israel sees its Iron Dome anti-rocket system as a noted success of its Gaza assault. The only problem is keeping up with demand for the interceptor missiles, their makers said on Tuesday. “We’ve been working in non-stop shifts,” said an official with Rafael Advanced Defence Systems Ltd, which developed the system. He declined to be…
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Fast Forward Clinton Promises To Work for Gaza Truce
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday and pledged to work for a truce in the Gaza Strip “in the days ahead”. As the two began late-night talks in Jerusalem, Palestinian rocket fire and Israeli air strikes continued. Netanyahu said he would prefer a “long-term” diplomatic solution but repeated…
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Fast Forward Rocket Misses Jerusalem, Lands in West Bank
A rocket was fired at Jerusalem on Tuesday, missing the holy city and landing in the near-by West Bank, police said, adding that there were no casualties or damage. Islamist militant group Hamas said it had fired the missile out of the Gaza Strip in response to continued Israeli airstrikes on the Palestinian territory. It…
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Fast Forward Anti-Semitic Radical Planned Poland Attack
Polish officials said on Tuesday they had arrested a radical nationalist who planned to detonate a vehicle loaded with four tonnes of explosives outside parliament, possibly when the president and prime minister were in the building. The suspected plot was the first of its kind to be exposed since Poland threw off Communist rule more…
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