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Fast Forward France Plans Middle East Peace Conference for January — With or Without Israel
France will convene some 70 countries on Jan. 15 for a Middle East peace conference in Paris, its foreign minister said on Thursday, and will invite the Israeli and Palestinian leaders to meet separately at its conclusion. France has repeatedly tried to breathe new life into the peace process this year, holding a preliminary conference…
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Fast Forward Donald Trump Joins Benjamin Netanyahu Call for Veto of UN Anti-Settlement Resolution
President-elect Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Obama administration on Thursday to veto a U.N. Security Council draft resolution calling for an immediate halt to settlement building on occupied land that Palestinians want for a state. Netanyahu took to Twitter in the dead of night in Israel to make the appeal,…
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner Hopes To Sell New York Observer
President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is looking to sell his newspaper, The New York Observer, the trade newspaper Women’s Wear Daily reported on Wednesday. It was unclear how much Kushner hopes to get in a sale. Kushner bought the newspaper for $10 million in 2006, according to reports at the time. One possible suitor…
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Fast Forward Israel May Bring Aleppo Wounded to Its Hospitals for Treatment
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday that Israel was looking into the possibility of bringing wounded refugees from the Syrian city of Aleppo to Israeli hospitals for treatment. Many wounded in Syria’s civil war have been brought discreetly across the Israeli-occupied Golan frontline to Israeli hospitals for the past three years, although Israel and…
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Fast Forward Founder of Hedge Fund Tied to Sprawling New York Corruption Scheme Charged in $1B Fraud
The founder of New York-based hedge fund Platinum Partners was arrested on Monday as prosecutors unveiled an indictment charging him and six others with participating in an approximately $1 billion fraud. Mark Nordlicht, Platinum’s founding partner and chief investment officer, was taken into custody at his New Rochelle, New York, home in connection with charges…
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Fast Forward Charleston Church Killer Vows Not To Use ‘Jewish’ Psychology in Defense
Convicted murderer Dylann Roof will not ask jurors to take his mental health into consideration next month during the death penalty phase of his trial for killing nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina. In a handwritten note filed in a South Carolina federal court on Friday, Roof, an avowed white supremacist, wrote, “I will…
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Fast Forward Israeli Mining Mogul Beny Steinmetz Placed Under House Arrest in Corruption Probe
Billionaire businessman Beny Steinmetz was placed under house arrest until January 2 after being questioned by Israeli police in relation to allegations of bribery and corruption in Africa, mining company BSG Resources (BSGR) said on Monday. Earlier, Israeli authorities said they had detained a prominent businessman, who an official said was due to appear in…
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Fast Forward Sen. Chuck Schumer Calls Russian Election Hacking ‘Serious, Serious Stuff’
Sen. Charles Schumer led a chorus of Republican and Democratic senators on Sunday calling for a special bipartisan panel to investigate cyber attacks against the United States by foreign countries with a focus on Russia’s alleged efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election. Charles Schumer, who will be Senate Democratic leader in the new U.S….
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