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Fast Forward Iran Offers To Limit Uranium Enrichment
Iran would negotiate on halting higher-grade uranium enrichment if given fuel for a research reactor, senior officials said, reviving a previous offer in a possible attempt to show flexibility in stalled nuclear talks with world powers. The talks have made scant progress since resuming in April, leading to harsher Western sanctions against Iran and increasing…
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Fast Forward Al Qaeda Leader Calls for Anti-Islam Film Protests
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri said a film made in the United States mocking the Prophet Mohammad showed Washington was waging a “crusader Zionist war” against Muslims and he called for more protests outside American embassies. Like in other messages released by al Qaeda’s Yemeni and North African branches last month, Zawahiri praised last month’s…
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Fast Forward Clinton: U.S. Must Back Arab Spring Reforms
The United States must look past the violence and extremism that has erupted after the “Arab Spring” revolutions and boost support for the region’s young democracies to forge long-term security, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Friday. Clinton, seeking to reinforce the Obama administration’s Middle East policy following a wave of anti-American violence and…
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News Barbra Streisand Soars in Brooklyn Return
Blending photo montages with at times a thick accent and a singing voice still soaring at the age of 70, Barbra Streisand performed on Thursday in her first big concert where it all began – her birthplace of Brooklyn, New York. In the second show of her “Back to Brooklyn” tour, Streisand performed for nearly…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Denies Agreeing to Golan Withdrawal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied a newspaper report on Friday that said he had agreed in principle to hand back land annexed from Syria as part of secret U.S.-mediated peace talks that broke off last year. Syria has long set a complete withdrawal from the Golan Heights as a condition for making peace with…
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Fast Forward French Politician Accuses Muslims Over Croissants
A right-wing politician vying to head France’s opposition conservative party has raised a storm by suggesting Muslim youths tear pain au chocolat pastries from children’s hands during Islam’s fasting month. The controversy has inflamed old strains over secular and mainly-Catholic France’s struggle to assimilate Muslim culture. Jean-Francois Cope, who calls himself a non-practicing Jew, made…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Blames Hezbollah for Drone Incursion
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday a drone aircraft, which flew some 35 miles (55 km) into Israel before being shot down last weekend, was sent by Iranian-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah. In a statement from his office, Netanyahu said during a tour of the southern frontier with Egypt that Israel would “act with…
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Fast Forward Billionaire Defends Anti-Obama Memo to Workers
A Florida billionaire has told his employees he could be forced to lay off some of them if U.S. President Barack Obama wins a second term, calling his administration a threat to their jobs. David Siegel, the owner of Orlando-based Westgate Resorts, the largest privately held time-share company in the world, said in an email…
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