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Fast Forward Israel and Turkey Still Haggling Over Normalizing Ties
Officials from Turkey and Israel are holding more meetings to normalize relations and two out of Ankara’s three conditions for reviving ties have been met, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Monday. Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting, Kurtulmus said lifting Israel’s embargo on the Gaza Strip was important for normalization. Israel has…
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Fast Forward Will Bernie Sanders Debate Donald Trump Ahead of California Primary?
Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders could be heading to an unconventional face-off in California, after the two presidential candidates expressed an interest in squaring off in a one-on-one debate. That would leave Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on the sidelines in another bizarre twist to an unconventional election season. Sanders, a U.S. senator from…
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Fast Forward Rights Group Shuns Israel Military Courts as ‘Whitewash’
B’Tselem, one of Israel’s leading human rights groups, said on Wednesday it would no longer refer complaints of abuse carried out by Israeli soldiers to Israeli military courts because the system was biased and set up to whitewash cases. The group, which has monitored Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and incidents of violence and…
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Fast Forward Benjamin Netanyahu Slammed by Auditor for Freebie Plane Tickets for Family
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came under criticism in an Israeli state audit on Tuesday over free air tickets that he and his family received for travel abroad when he was finance minister more than a decade ago. Netanyahu, through his lawyers, has denied any wrongdoing, and it was not immediately clear whether Israel’s attorney-general, who…
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Fast Forward Woman Praised as ‘Champ’ for Escaping Attack While Swimming in Florida ‘Shark Alley’
A woman was attacked by a shark off the Florida coast on Sunday, swimming back to shore for help with a bite in her thigh, ABC News reported. Mary Marcus, 57, was listed in stable condition at a hospital, ABC reported, citing Vero Beach police. Representatives for the Vero Beach Police Department and the hospital…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Welcomes New Pushes for Peace Talks Between Israel and Palestinians
Secretary of State John Kerry on Thursday welcomed French and Egyptian efforts to revive peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians and said he would attend an international conference in Paris on June 3 that hopes to set out a framework for fresh negotiations. U.S. efforts to broker a two-state deal collapsed in April 2014, and…
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Fast Forward ‘Brexit’ Leader Boris Johnson Slammed for Comparing European Union to Hitler
Boris Johnson, the leader of the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union, showed “political amnesia” with his “absurd” comparison between the EU and Adolf Hitler’s plan to rule the continent, the EU’s Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. The response of the European Council president to the former London mayor was among the bluntest…
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Fast Forward France Delays Mideast Peace Push That Israel Has Criticized
French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday an international conference due in late May in Paris to relaunch peace talks between Palestinians and Israelis had been postponed but would take place this summer. With U.S. efforts to broker a two-state accord in tatters and Washington focused on its November presidential election, Paris has lobbied countries…
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