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Fast Forward 3 Women Accuse Harvey Weinstein Of Rape In New Yorker Expose
The New Yorker reported on Tuesday that 13 women have claimed that movie producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted them, including three who told the magazine they had been raped. In the article, a spokeswoman for Weinstein denied the claims. Reuters was unable to independently confirm any of the claims. Weinstein and several of…
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Fast Forward Israel Says Hezbollah Controls Lebanon’s Military
Israel said on Tuesday that the Hezbollah guerrilla group, its most potent enemy in neighboring Lebanon, had gained control over that country’s U.S.-sponsored conventional military, signaling both would be in Israeli gunsights in any future war. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s remarks were a hard tack from more measured recent Israeli estimates that the Lebanese army…
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Fast Forward Economist Wins Nobel For ‘Nudge’ Theory — Vows To Spend Prize ‘Irrationally’
American economist Richard Thaler won the 2017 Nobel Economics Prize for his contributions in the field of behavioral economics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. “In total, Richard Thaler’s contributions have built a bridge between the economic and psychological analyzes of individual decision-making,” the award-giving body said on announcing the 9 million…
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Fast Forward Women March Through Desert For Israeli-Palestinian Peace
JORDAN RIVER, West Bank (Reuters) – Thousands of Israeli and Palestinian women trekked through a biblical desert landscape on Sunday, converging on the shores of the Jordan River in a march for peace. The women, many of them dressed in white, descended through the arid hills leading to the river, where they erected a “peace…
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Fast Forward Weinstein Goes On Indefinite Leave; Dems Give His Donations To Charity
Harvey Weinstein is taking an indefinite leave from the Weinstein Company, the film production company said on Friday, adding it will conduct an internal investigation into the New York Times’ report of sexual harassment allegations against one of the most powerful men in Hollywood. The Weinstein Company board of representatives said in a statement that…
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Fast Forward Russian-Jewish Businessmen Sue After Being Named In Spy’s ‘Trump Dossier’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The special counsel investigating whether Russia tried to sway the 2016 U.S. election has taken over FBI inquiries into a former British spy’s dossier of allegations of Russian financial and personal links to President Trump’s campaign and associates, sources familiar with the inquiry told Reuters. A report compiled by former MI6 officer…
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Fast Forward Trump: I Won’t Move U.S. Embassy To Jerusalem Until I Give Peace Talks ‘A Shot’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Trump said in an interview broadcast on Saturday that he wanted to give a shot at achieving peace between Israel and the Palestinians before moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. In June Trump signed a temporary order to keep the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, despite a campaign…
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Fast Forward Trump ‘Not Surprised’ By Allegations Against Harvey Weinstein
President Donald Trump, whose presidential campaign was jolted a year ago by the release of a recording in which he boasted about groping women, said on Saturday he was not surprised by sexual harassment allegations against media mogul Harvey Weinstein. The Oscar-winning movie producer said he was taking a leave of absence from his company…
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