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Fast Forward Victims of Gaza Flotilla Raid Fear Detente With Israel Will Scuttle Lawsuit
Victims of an Israeli raid that killed 10 people in 2010 on an aid flotilla fear a Turkish court is set to halt a case brought by them because of a deal to restore ties between Israel and Turkey, a lawyer representing the victims said on Monday. Relations between Israel and what was once one…
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Fast Forward Israel Reacts With Anger to UNESCO Temple Mount Vote
PARIS, Oct 13 (Reuters) – UNESCO member states have renewed a resolution criticizing Israel for restricting Muslim access to a Jerusalem holy site, a European diplomatic source said, angering Israel’s government by also referring to the area only by its Muslim names. The site is revered by Jews and Muslims alike, known to Jews as…
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Fast Forward Ken Thompson, Brooklyn Prosecutor Who Vowed Shift in Hasidic Sex Abuse Probes, Dies at 50
Ken Thompson, the first African-American to be elected district attorney of Brooklyn, has died at age 50 of complications from cancer, his office said. Thompsson trounced longtime incumbent Charles Hynes in a bitter 2013 Democratic primary part on promises to shake up his approach to child sex abuse crimes in the borough’s large ultra-Orthodox Jewish…
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Fast Forward Fed Banker Stanley Fischer Says Job Market Close to ‘Goldilocks’ Level
Friday’s jobs number was close to an ideal “Goldilocks” reading that showed the economy motoring ahead but not too fast to pose risks, Federal Reserve vice chair Stanley Fischer said on Friday. “It’s pretty close,” Fischer said. The rate of job growth “is fully consistent with keeping unemployment declining” with a fixed labor force participation…
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Fast Forward Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Colombian President — Iran Nuclear Dealmakers Rebuffed
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos won the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his efforts to end a 52-year-old war with Marxist rebels, a surpise choice after Colombians voted against the accord in a referendum. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Santos had brought one of the longest civil wars in modern history significantly closer…
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Fast Forward Mike Pence Claims Donald Trump No Longer Backs Ban on Muslims
Donald Trump has backed away from a total ban on Muslims entering the United States, vice presidential running mate Mike Pence said on Thursday, a shift from one of the Republican presidential candidate’s most provocative proposals. Trump’s call last December for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States” followed an Islamic…
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Fast Forward Professor With 8-Election Winning Streak Predicts Donald Trump Win
The forces influencing the U.S. presidential election favor Republican nominee Donald Trump to win the popular vote – but even proven prediction models face “the most difficult election by far to predict accurately,” a political forecaster with a three-decade winning streak said on Wednesday. History Professor Allan Lichtman of American University in Washington has accurately…
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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Back at Gaza After Rocket Attack on Town
Israeli aircraft attacked Palestinian militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, wounding at least one person, witnesses said, after a rocket fired from the enclave hit an Israeli border town. Israeli police said there were no casualties in the rocket strike on Sderot, but Israel has a declared policy of responding militarily to any…
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