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Fast Forward Obama To Hit Iran Hard at U.N.
President Barack Obama will warn Iran on Tuesday that the United States will “do what we must” to prevent it acquiring a nuclear weapon, and appeal to world leaders for a united front against further attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Muslim countries. Preparing to take the podium at the United Nations six weeks before…
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Fast Forward Ahmadinejad Says Israel Has No Mideast ‘Roots’
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad on Monday disregarded a U.N. warning to avoid incendiary rhetoric and declared ahead of the annual General Assembly session that Israel has no roots in the Middle East and would be “eliminated.” In remarks to reporters in New York, he also said he does not take seriously the threat that Israel…
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News The Great Date (and Peach) War of Gaza
The Hamas government has barred much of Gaza’s fruit imports from Israel, citing a need to cultivate local Palestinian agriculture and for “resistance” against the Jewish state. The ban is opposed by Gazan produce traders who fear a squeeze on supplies and price hikes in the poor coastal enclave, which has a largely black market…
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News Bill Clinton Says ‘No Idea’ If Hillary Will Run
If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton harbors ambitions to run for president, she is keeping them under tight wraps. “I have no earthly idea what she’ll decide to do,” her husband, former President Bill Clinton, said on CBS television’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday. Although Hillary Clinton went down to defeat to President Barack Obama…
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Fast Forward Hamas Leader in Exile Quits: Sources
Hamas’s leader in exile, Khaled Meshaal, is tired of policy challenges from the Islamist group’s Gaza-based leadership and is not seeking re-election in a vote now underway, political and diplomatic sources said on Sunday. Over the past five months, Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, has been quietly holding a leadership ballot…
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Fast Forward Iran Threatens Pre-Emptive Strike on Israel
Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike on Israel if it was sure the Jewish state were preparing to attack it, a senior commander of its elite Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Sunday. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, a brigadier general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, made the comments to Iran’s state-run Arabic language Al-Alam…
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Fast Forward France Bans Protests Over Anti-Islam Cartoon
France banned protests on Friday against cartoons published by a satirical weekly denigrating Islam’s Prophet Mohammad as part of a security clamp-down while prayers took place across the Muslim world. The country’s Muslim population, drawn largely from ex-colonies in North and West Africa, shrugged off the controversy as imams in mosques denounced the pictures but…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldier and 3 Militants Killed in Skirmish
Three armed militants crossed into Israel from Egypt on Friday, killing an Israeli soldier before themselves coming under fire and dying, the army said. It was at least the fourth cross-border attack in just over a year, underscoring deep Israeli concerns about the security situation in the Sinai peninsula since the ousting of Egypt’s former…
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