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Undercover Detroit police car stolen
A 2015 Ford Fusion DETROIT — When your car gets stolen, you call the police. But when a police car gets stolen, who do they call? An undercover officer was confronted with that question when his unmarked car was stolen from Detroit's northwest side last night. The police are not announcing the exact location where the car was...Lebanon arrests fugitive cleric Ahmed al-Assir
AssirBEIRUT - Lebanese authorities say they have arrested a fugitive extremist cleric who was wanted on suspicion of being involved in a deadly shootout with government troops last year.Two senior security officials say Ahmed al-Assir was detained on Saturday at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport as he was trying to flee the...Study: Walking while texting slows you down
Texting while driving is clearly a bad idea, but it may be dangerously distracting while walking, too, a new study suggests. Researchers asked 30 people to navigate an obstacle course three times and found they were significantly slower while texting and walking than when completing the route without any distractions. When the...Emirates Airlines to launch longest non-stop flight
DUBAI – Dubai's Emirates Airline announced Thursday it will launch the world's "longest non-stop flight" in February the fight will travel from the bustling Gulf emirate to Panama City, lasting more than 17 hours. The carrier will fly daily to Panama's capital in a passenger flight operated by a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft, which can...Lebanon’s FPM rallies for greater representation
BEIRUT – Thousands of supporters of Lebanon's Free Patriotic Movement have descended in convoys on the capital's downtown district to protest against what they consider to be the marginalization of Christian rights in the country, as well as the extension of the terms of top army commanders. Early on Wednesday evening, cars decked...ISIS car bombs kill 135 Iraqis
BAGHDAD – A truck bombing claimed by ISIS killed at least 67 people in a Shi'a-majority area of Baghdad Thursday, in one of the deadliest single attacks in the city in months. The truck hit the Jameela market in the Iraqi capital’s crowded Sadr City neighborhood shortly after dawn, according to two local police officers. They said...Dengue rife, malaria spreading in the streets of Yemen
SANAA – Trash piling up on the streets of Yemeni towns is helping the spread of dengue fever and malaria, a charity employing local people to clear up the filth said on Wednesday, as fighting, baking heat and a lack of food and water add to their hardships. Garbage lying in the streets has contaminated soil and water and attracted...Music boosts recovery from surgery, reduces pain
Listening to music before, during and after surgery reduces patients' pain, eases anxiety and lessens the need for painkillers, British scientists said on Thursday. After reviewing evidence from around 7,000 patients, the scientists said people going for surgery should be allowed to choose the music they'd like to hear to maximize the...Riot-torn Ferguson, Missouri to remain in state of emergency
Young men demonstraiting in Ferguson on Aug. 12.ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, the site of a year of occasionally violent protests over the police killing of an unarmed black teen, remained under a state of emergency through Wednesday night.The state of emergency, which gives county police oversight of...Rise and fall of Arab revolutionary discourse
A protest at Tahrir Square during the Jan. 25 Egyptian Revolution in 2011.Strange how intellectual discussion concerning the so-called “Arab Spring” has almost entirely shifted in recent years - from one concerning freedom, justice, democracy and rights in general, into a political wrangle between various antagonist camps. The...
Community leaders discuss Iran deal with Rep. Dingell
August 13th, 20150 — On Saturday, Aug. 8, community leaders and activists met at La Pita in Dearborn to discuss the Iranian nuclear deal with Rep. Debbie Dingell (D- Dearborn). Congress is expected vote on the measure in the coming weeks. Community members encouraged Dingell to vote in favor of the deal. In the historic deal, the...
Detroit area Iraqis protest poor services in homeland
August 13th, 20150 DETROIT — Local Iraqis are expressing solidarity with demonstrators in their homeland. The wave of protests rocking Iraq over poor services and government corruption have prompted them to call for reforms. Last weekend, a group of Iraqi Americans protested for reforms in Iraq outside the old Dearborn City Hall on Michigan...
Arab Americans struggle to pass Arabic to future generations
August 13th, 20150 DEARBORN — Fewer young Arab Americans read and write Arabic as they seek to assimilate. Hala Hazimeh, principal at the Muslim American Youth Academy (MAYA), a pre-school to eighth grade Arabic and Islamic school, said Dearborn is unlike any other Arab American community, because its members tend to stick closer together . While...Crestwood superintendent owes Arabs explanation on discrimination findings
More than two years have passed since the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission made findings that the Crestwood School District (CSD) discriminated against Arab Americans in hiring and recruitment. Last year, the CSD reached a settlement agreement with the civil rights division of the Department of Justice to improve...
Arab American activists demand “home field” advantage from the Detroit News
August 13th, 20150 DETROIT — Arab American activists met with Detroit News Publisher Jon Wolman and the paper's managing editor, Gary Miles, on Tuesday, Aug. 11, demanding more positive coverage of the community. The community leaders also raised issues about a recent story in the paper headlined "FBI spy plane zeroes in on Dearborn." Civil rights......
Muslim woman denied entry into Westland Advance America
August 13th, 20150 WESTLAND – A local Muslim woman was denied entry into Advance America on Thursday, August 6, after refusing an employee’s demand that she remove her hijab. Westland resident Zeinab Zreik had intended to purchase a money order. Instead, she discovered that the payday lending company had long been implementing a discriminatory...
Second lawsuit filed against United Memorial Gardens
August 13th, 20150 PLYMOUTH — On Friday, August 7, a press conference was held at United Memorial Gardens to announce a lawsuit against the cemetery for burying a stranger’s body in a plot previously purchased by a Muslim family. United Memorial Gardens is a prominent cemetery used by many local Muslims. The cemetery includes an Islamic garden meant......
Arab American activists: Trump divisive but popular
August 13th, 20150 TrumpDEARBORN — The Iowa caucus are not until February of next year, but the presidential elections are on. Republicans had their first debate on Aug. 6, with TV personality and real estate mogul Donald Trump emerging as the unlikely leading candidate, according to public opinion polls. Trump, a businessman who never held an...
Iran’s plan for Syria and the challenges for diplomacy
August 13th, 20150 Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) talks with Lebanon's Prime Minister Tammam Salam at the Government Palace in Beirut, Aug. 11.The Iranian nuclear deal is echoing through the halls of diplomacy in the Middle East. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has visited Beirut and Damascus, introducing a road map to end...Fifty eight House members to make trip this month to Israel
Fifty eight House members — 22 Democrats and 36 Republicans — are making a trip this month to Israel, right before Congress is set to consider the controversial Iran nuclear deal. The trip is being paid for by the American Israel Education Foundation, the charitable arm of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee...Dengue rife, malaria spreading in the streets of Yemen
SANAA – Trash piling up on the streets of Yemeni towns is helping the spread of dengue fever and malaria, a charity employing local people to clear up the filth said on Wednesday, as fighting, baking heat and a lack of food and water add to their hardships.Garbage lying in the streets has contaminated soil and water and attracted......
Dearborn receives grant to fund smoke detectors for residents
August 13th, 20150 DEARBORN – Congresswoman Debbie Dingell announced Thursday that the Dearborn Fire Department will receive a $69,753 Fire Prevention & Safety grant through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program. The funding will be used to help provide and install smoke detectors for all...
Arabs and Latinos rally for relief from deportation
August 13th, 20150 DETROIT—Families of immigrants facing deportation gathered Wednesday along with immigration advocates and faith leaders to express their frustration and to call out Detroit Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field director, Rebecca Adducci.The supporters of the rally argue that Adducci is......
Famed Egyptian actor Nour el-Sherif dies
CAIRO — Famed Egyptian actor Nour el-Sherif died on Tuesday. He was 69. The Egyptian state news agency said he died after battling an unspecified long illness.El-Sherif’s big break was in the late 1960s when he played a supporting role in “The Palace of Desire,” the screen adaptation of one of the novels in a trilogy by...
Dearborn Democratic Club announces support for Iran Deal
August 12th, 20150 DEARBORN—The Dearborn Democratic Club is encouraging Michigan members of congress and the senate to support the Iran Nuclear Deal. A resolution passed unanimously in the general body of the Dearborn Democratic Club stating, “The Dearborn Democratic Club thanks the members of the Michigan Democratic......
