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UAE jails three for alleged Hezbollah links
April 5th, 20160 DUBAI — A United Arab Emirates court sentenced two Lebanese nationals and a Lebanese-Canadian citizen to six months in jail followed by expulsion for setting up a group affiliated to the Lebanese group Hezbollah, local media said on Monday.The state news agency WAM did not identify the three but said they had set up a group of...
Panama Papers probes open globally
April 5th, 20160 Authorities across the globe have opened investigations into the activities of the world's rich and powerful after a cache of leaked documents from a Panamanian law firm showed possible wrongdoing using offshore company structures.The "Panama Papers" have cast light on the financial arrangements of high profile politicians and public...
Worthy: Ethnic intimidation law is poorly written
April 4th, 20160 Worthy (top right corner) addressing The Arab American News staffDEARBORN — Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy criticized Michigan's ethnic intimidation law, saying it makes it difficult to charge and convict people of hate crimes.Worthy met with The Arab American News staff and community leaders at the newspaper's office on Monday to...Police arrest four home invasion suspects
Lawrence KellermanDEARBORN — One adult and three juveniles were arrested on April 1 in connection to a home invasion in west Dearborn. The police received a call around 7:15 a.m. about three males exiting from the window of a home near Outer Drive and Cherry Hill. The suspects ran through backyards and attempted to flee on...Tourists keep vandalizing Trump’s Hollywood Star
HOLLYWOOD – Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was installed in 2007 without much noise or fanfare. However, now the sight has become the subject of vandalism and graffiti. In the last month, numerous tourists have expressed their dismay at the reality star’s turn as a...7th grade Texas teacher placed on leave for calling Muslim student ‘terrorist’
FORT BEND COUNTY- A family in Fort Bend County is demanding that a First Colony Middle School teacher be fired after they say she called a 7th grade student a terrorist.12-year-old Waleed Abushaaban is an honor student and says he has no idea why his teacher called him a terrorist in front of his whole class on Thursday.“Were in...Breaking: Missing student found
Family and friends hold a vigil for Mossa Salleh Almasmari, April 5WARREN — Yemeni American student Saad Almasmari has been found. ...California man charged for killing gay son
A 69-year-old North Hills man suspected of killing his son outside a house where the man’s wife was found stabbed to death, was charged Friday with murder, and with a hate crime allegation that he killed his son because he was gay. Shehada Issa, 69, was charged in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Friday with willful, deliberate...CIA accidentally left explosives on school bus
VIRGINIA - The CIA left behind inert explosives in a Virginia school bus used for a canine training exercise and students were transported in it before the materials were found, officials said. The inactive explosives were discovered in the engine compartment when the Loudoun County Public Schools bus was undergoing maintenance, the...New York woman in headscarf lied about being slashed
NEW YORK - A woman in a headscarf who reported being slashed across the cheek by an attacker who called her a terrorist has admitted she lied, police said on Friday. The 20-year-old woman inflicted the wound on herself and was taken to Bellevue Hospital for care, police said. Anti-Muslim bias crimes in the United States have tripled...AIPAC letter against Palestinian statehood harms peace
If you ask members of Congress about their ideas to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they would almost unanimously suggest the two-state solution.While Israel is a UN recognized state with a viable economy, strong military and standing government, the missing part of the two-state solution is Palestine.However, more than 350...Longer night fasting tied to reduced breast cancer recurrence
For breast cancer survivors, the risk of recurrence may be tied to how many hours they fast at night, a new study suggests. Women in the study were more likely to have their breast cancer come back if they fasted overnight for less than 13 hours, researchers found. While prolonged fasting is likely harmless, the study's...World’s obese population hits 641 million, global study finds
London - More than 640 million people globally now weigh in as obese and the world has more overweight than underweight people, according to an analysis of global trends in body mass index (BMI).A startling increase in rates of obesity in the past 40 years means the number of people with a BMI of more than 30 has risen from 105 million...Alaska first graders plotted to poison classmate
ALASKA — Police in Anchorage, Alaska, said they had investigated a plot by two young school children to poison a classmate. The two first grade students had planned to sprinkle what they thought were "poison packets" into a classmate's lunch, Anchorage police said in a statement. The packets were determined to be silica, which is...
Exposing the truth is our responsibility
April 1st, 20160 A surveillance image of the Hamido restuarant, where a brawl erupted on March 21.A horrified woman dining at the Hamido restaurant in Dearborn shielded her young daughter as a brawl erupted on the evening of March 21. And yet, when The Arab American News posted the surveillance footage on its Facebook page earlier this week, many......
Community holds fundraising event for Debbie Dingell
Osama Siblani, Dibbie Dingell and Mayor Jack O'Reilly.DEARBORN — The Dingells have had an unbreakable bond with the Arab and Muslim community here in Dearborn. And that notion was displayed at U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell's (D- Dearborn) fundraising event on Wednesday, March 30 at Byblos Banquets. Titled "Arab Americans for Debbie...New York Muslim woman’s face slashed by stranger
NEW YORK - A blade-wielding wacko called a Muslim woman a “terrorist,” then sliced open her face as she left a downtown Manhattan cosmetology school, police said.The woman, 20, is a student at the Make-up Designory on Broadway near Rector St. and was leaving the building and walking toward Trinity Church at 4:50 p.m. when her......
Some local Arabs eager for a President Trump
DEARBORN — Since he announced his candidacy for president, real estate mogul Donald Trump has garnered both considerable support and extreme opposition due to his proposed polices on immigration and foreign affairs. Although most Arab and Muslim Americans and their allies heavily condemn Trump's campaign for repeatedly spewing...
Chains cater to Arabs, but locals prefer community grocers
April 1st, 20161 Fresh vegetables at Greenland Market on Miller.DEARBORN — The city's markets and grocery stores are unique in the region, if not the nation. Lined with signs adorned in Arabic, streets like Warren Avenue offer an assortment of Middle Eastern shops that captivate taste buds from near and far. Goods, spices and sweets found mainly in...Dearborn man sentenced over assault
Hamdan (L) and his lawyer sit as Kobeisi testifies.DEARBORN — A Dearborn man was sentenced to two years of probation for assaulting a former friend at a barber shop over a personal dispute. Rabih Hamdan had pleaded no contest to the incident that took place last May. He was also ordered to four days of community service and an anger...Local FBI chief: The Bureau does not target communities
Gelios with our staff.DEARBORN — At a meeting with The Arab American News staff on Monday, FBI Special Agent in Charge for the Detroit division, David Gelios, discussed civil rights and public safety concerns with the newspaper, mostly off the record. Asked on the record if there are any special surveillance or policing......
Community weighs in on growing violence at local businesses
April 1st, 20160 Dearborn Police review footage of a violent encounter at a hookah bar. DEARBORN — On Saturday, March 26, at around 1 a.m., Dearborn Police responded to gunshots being discharged at Warren Ave. and Chase Road. Those involved in the incident were reportedly leaving a local hookah bar. It marks the latest in a string...Sanders: Party leaders may ‘rethink’ after string of wins
WASHINGTON — Fresh from Democratic presidential primary wins over the weekend in three states, Bernie Sanders said on Sunday he had political momentum that could help him win the backing of Democratic power brokers in his race against Hillary Clinton. Sanders easily won nominating contests in Alaska, Washington and Hawaii on......
Fox News report on Hamtramck sparks violent comments
April 1st, 20160 A man featured in the video who complained about the growing Muslim populationHAMTRAMCK — Fox News viewers are calling for bombing Michigan Muslims.Again.The cable news channel re-aired a segment about Hamtramck's Muslim population after the Brussels bombings last week; its right wing audience responded in typical fashion.Last...War is killing starving children in Yemen
UNITED NATIONS — Hundreds of thousands of children in Yemen face life-threatening malnutrition, millions lack access to health care or clean water, and some have been drafted as soldiers in the year-old war, the United Nations Children's Fund said on Tuesday.A UNICEF report said all sides had "exponentially increased" the use of......