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Fast Forward South African ‘Terror’ Twins Eyed American and Jewish Targets
South African identical twins arrested over the weekend were planning attacks on the U.S. Embassy in the capital Pretoria as well as on one or more buildings owned by Jews, police said on Monday. Four South Africans, including the two brothers, faced charges related to Islamic State-inspired terrorism in court on Monday, the spokesman for…
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Fast Forward Sidney Schanberg, ‘Killing Fields’ Journalist, Dies at 82
Sydney Schanberg, a former correspondent whose Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the fall of Cambodia to the Khmer Rouge inspired the movie “The Killing Fields,” died on Saturday at age 82, the New York Times and Newsday reported. Schanberg, who worked for both newspapers in his career, gained international prominence for his reporting on the atrocities…
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Fast Forward Philistines Were More Sophisticated Than Given Credit For, Say Archaeologists
ASHKELON, Israel, July 10 (Reuters) – Philistines were no “philistines,” say archaeologists who unearthed a 3,000-year-old cemetery in which members of the biblical nation were buried along with jewelry and perfumed oil. Little was known about the Philistines prior to the recent excavation in the Israeli port city of Ashkelon. The famed arch enemies of…
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Fast Forward 92-Year-Old Nazi Death Squad Member Wins Deportation Reprieve
A 92-year-old man who has confessed to being a former member of a Nazi death squad won a court victory on Thursday against Canada, boosting his chances of staying in the country that has been trying to revoke his citizenship for two decades. The Supreme Court declined to hear the government’s appeal of a lower…
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Fast Forward How Israel Succeeds in Watering Down Criticism From Major Powers
Ahead of the release last week of a report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the Quartet of Middle East mediators, the word from diplomats was that it would be hard-hitting, especially on Israel and its settlement building. The United States, the European Union and the United Nations were fed up with Israel’s consistent violation of…
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Fast Forward El Al Flight From New York Lands Safely After Bomb Threat
An El Al Boeing 747 flight from New York landed at its Tel Aviv destination on Tuesday after a bomb threat led France and Switzerland to send warplanes to escort the Israeli airliner over their territory. No emergency was declared at Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion airport, where the El Al jet touched down, a Reuters TV…
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Fast Forward Israel Hits Syrian Army After Shells Hit Golan Heights
Israel attacked Syrian army targets after errant fire from fighting in Syria’s civil war struck the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, the military said on Monday. A spokeswoman said two targets belonging to the Syrian military were hit overnight after the fire damaged Israel’s security fence on the Golan, territory captured from Syria in a 1967 war….
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Fast Forward Israel Is ‘Steadily Eroding’ Chance of Two-State Solution: UN
A two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is slipping away, the U.N. special coordinator for Middle East peace warned on Sunday, after both sides shrugged off criticism by international mediators. A report released on Friday by the so-called Quartet – United States, European Union, United Nations and Russia – called on Israel to stop its…
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