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Fast Forward Football Refs Agree To Return To Work
The National Football League (NFL) reached an agreement to end a labour dispute with its regular game officials on Wednesday, ending three weeks of questionable calls that had threatened the integrity of the sport. The eight-year deal with the NFL Referees Association (NFLRA) will allow locked-out officials to return to action for this week’s games…
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Fast Forward Madonna Calls Obama Muslim Remark ‘Ironic’
Pop star Madonna said on Tuesday she was being deliberately “ironic on stage” when she erroneously referred to President Barack Obama during her concert in the nation’s capital as a “black Muslim.” A video clip posted on YouTube by audience members at the Verizon Center in downtown Washington captured the 54-year-old singer delivering a rousing,…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Vows Strong Response to Ahmadinejad
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday promised a tough response at the United Nations to the latest verbal attacks on Israeli by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and said he was determined to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons. Before boarding a flight to New York to address the annual U.N. General Assembly, Netanyahu issued an open…
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Fast Forward Death of Gaza Boy Sparks Rare Anti-Hamas Protest
At least 500 protesters in the Gaza Strip have called for the overthrow of the ruling Islamist Hamas group in a rare demonstration triggered by the death of a three-year-old boy in a fire during a power outage. Protesters in the Bureij refugee camp, where the boy’s family live, called for Hamas to be toppled…
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Fast Forward Ahmadinejad Rants Against ‘Uncivilized Zionists’
Iran’s president said on Wednesday his country was under constant threat of military action from “uncivilized Zionists” and called for a new world order not dominated by Western powers in the service of “the devil.” In his eighth address to the U.N. General Assembly’s annual gathering of world leaders, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad painted a gloomy picture…
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Fast Forward Israel Quiet on Iran as Yom Kippur Arrives
Israeli leaders made no comment on Tuesday over the latest outburst from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, maintaining near-total silence as the country closed down for the holiest Jewish day of the year, Yom Kippur. The Day or Atonement runs from Tuesday afternoon through to dusk on Wednesday, meaning there was no comment either on U.S….
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News Senators Demand Cuba Free Alan Gross
A bipartisan group of U.S. Senators has sent a letter to Cuban President Raul Castro urging the release of an American contractor jailed in Cuba for nearly three years, saying his detention is “a major obstacle” to improving relations. The letter, signed by 44 senators, is the strongest appeal yet by members of Congress in…
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Fast Forward Obama Talks Tough at U.N.
President Barack Obama declared on Tuesday the United States will “do what we must” to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned against threatening attacks whose consequences would be devastating. Taking the podium at the United Nations six weeks before the U.S. presidential election, Obama sought to counter criticism…
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