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Fast Forward Kenya’s President Declares Victory Over Gunmen in Nairobi Mall Siege
NAIROBI – As Kenya began three days of mourning on Wednesday for at least 67 people killed in the siege of a Nairobi mall, it was unclear how many more hostages may have died with the Somali Islamist attackers buried in the rubble. Declaring final victory over the al Qaeda-linked gunmen from al Shabaab who…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Dismisses Iranian President Rouhani’s UN Speech as ‘Hypocrisy’
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s U.N. address was “cynical” and Tehran was stalling for time in order to develop nuclear arms. “It was a cynical speech full of hypocrisy,” Netanyahu said in a statement after Rouhani addressed the annual gathering of world leaders at the…
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Fast Forward Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Insists on Right to Enrich Uranium
WASHINGTON — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani pledged to prove that his country’s nuclear program is peaceful but insisted on Iran’s right to enrich uranium. Rouhani, elected this summer and speaking Tuesday for the first time as president to the U.N. General Assembly, said the Iranian ethos and Muslim precepts demanded that “we remove all concerns…
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Fast Forward Apple’s New iOS 7 System Leaves Jerusalem Without A Country — Again
JERUSALEM — Apple’s new iOS 7 operating system, like its predecessor, lists Jerusalem without a country. Jerusalem is one of only three cities to be listed in the World Clock without a country, The Blaze reported this week. The others are Vatican City and Taipei. The Blaze showed a screenshot of the World Clock in…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Won’t Meet Iran’s Hassan Rouhani
A potential encounter at the United Nations between U.S. President Barack Obama and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani failed to take place on Tuesday as the Iranians indicated it was too complicated, senior Obama administration officials said. “There will be no meeting,” one official said. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told reporters that…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Pushes Mideast Peace and Bid To Block Nuclear Iran at U.N. Speech
President Obama in an address to the United Nations said the U.S. focus in the Middle East will be keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and advancing Israeli-Palestinian peace. The two issues “have been a major source of instability for far too long,” Obama said Monday at the world body’s General Assembly in New…
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Fast Forward British Board Backs Prof in Spat With ‘Zionist’ Student Over 62 Grade
An English review board has rejected bias complaints by an Israeli student against the University of Warwick but recommended the university apologize for being “insufficiently flexible.” “The complaint is partly justified,” the Office of the Independent Adjudicator, England’s body for reviewing student complaints, wrote in its recommendation last month on how to handle the 2012…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Pleads for Jewish Support in Talks
In a meeting with Jewish leaders, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said he was more hopeful now for peace than he was in the mid-2000s. “If you ask me this question during the intifada, I didn’t have an answer,” Abbas said Monday, referring to the 2000-05 second intifada and having posed a rhetorical question about…
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