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Detroit gas station owners receiving repeated tickets for same offense
September 12th, 20140 More than 65 concerned Detroit gas station owners attended the meeting.DEARBORN — Detroit gas station owner Phid Onwuzurike is still working on clearing the 14 tickets he received from Detroit police officers last August concerning licensing issues. Onwuzurike said officers came into his station one day and issued six tickets...
New faces vie for school board seats in crowded election
September 12th, 20140 DEARBORN — Three seats on Dearborn's seven-trustee Board of Education will be contested in the Nov. 4 election. With no incumbents on the ballot, 11 new faces are vying for a place on the board.The candidates include college teachers, activists, parents and one former trustee. The race in Dearborn is overcrowded, compared to nearby...Dearborn man arrested for larceny
Majid Amin Abdofara.Dearborn police responded after several alerted neighbors reported seeing Abdofara steal two center caps from a Cadillac Escalade parked on Jonathan. Abdofara was taken into custody after hiding the center caps in some nearby bushes. At the time he was arrested, Abdofara was also wanted on a felony...
Activists call for political solidarity between Arab and African Americans
September 12th, 20140 Organizers William Copeland and Dawud Walid at a Gaza solidarity protest in Detroit, July 13.DETROIT — "Our struggle is theirs and their struggle is ours," said Hatem Abudayyeh, the executive director of the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network (AAAN), to emphasize the need for solidarity between Arab and African Americans.He...
Hookah lounges in Dearborn: Which are legal and which are not
September 12th, 20140 Mangos, on Warren Ave., is a state classified legal hookah bar. DEARBORN – The Arab American News has obtained a list of hookah businesses in Dearborn and Dearborn Heights which have received an exemption from the state to allow patrons to consume food in their facilities, under strict guidelines. Those businesses include Cigaro...
Incoming Asian companies to boost Detroit’s Economy – Is Detroit Ready?
September 12th, 20140 Asian Companies of Metro Detroit.The momentum around Detroit’s slow-but-steady comeback has attracted throngs of new residents to the city’s downtown core and reinvestment from several firms. But while big real estate deals and large-scale moves grab headlines, smaller business owners are still taking a wait-and-see approach,...
YABA celebrates 45th anniversary, awards 13 scholarships
September 12th, 20140 DEARBORN — On Saturday, Sept. 6, The Yemen American Benevolent Association (YABA) celebrated the 45th anniversary at a dinner at the Bin Jbail Cultural Center. Community leaders, politicians, activists and elected officials attended the event. YABA distributed scholarships to 13 students at the end of the evening.Siham Awada...Ted Cruz gets booed off stage at Middle East Christian event
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was booed off the stage at an event hosted by a Christian organization in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday night.The conservative firebrand delivered the keynote address at an event hosted by In Defense of Christians (IDC), an organization that raises awareness of persecuted Christian and minority communities in...New York man pleads guilty to trying to join al Qaeda
NEW YORK — A New York man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to attempting to join the militant group al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, considered to be one of the most active wings of the network, prosecutors said.Marcos Alonso Zea, 26, was arrested last October at his Long Island home in a joint investigation by local and federal...U.S. to alert retailers to bomb materials to counter home-grown threat
WASHINGTON — The government plans to give U.S. retailers a list of materials that can be used in explosives and ask them to look out for suspicious behavior as a way to combat domestic terrorism, the homeland security secretary said on Wednesday.On the eve of the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Jeh Johnson said the...
Obama’s anti- “Islamic State” strategy met with skepticism
September 12th, 20140 WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s new strategy to "degrade, and ultimately destroy" the Islamic State is being met with widespread skepticism among both hawks and doves, as well as regional specialists.While Congress is expected to acquiesce, if not formally authorize, the plans he outlined in his nationally televised...Obama, victims’ families pause to remember those lost on 9/11
NEW YORK — Politicians, dignitaries and victims' relatives gathered in New York City, at the Pentagon and in rural Pennsylvania on Thursday to remember the nearly 3,000 people killed in al Qaeda's attack on the United States 13 years ago on Sept. 11.President Obama spoke at the Pentagon during a private ceremony for relatives of the...
On the 13th anniversary of 9/11, we are less safe
September 12th, 20140 On Sept. 11, 2001, more than 3,000 innocent people lost their lives when terrorists struck the United States. On the eve of Sept. 11, 2014, 13 years and two wars later, the president addressed the nation about combating yet another growing terrorist threat, one already targeting our citizens abroad and planning to reach our...Losing the plot: Israel’s premier to face new Gaza reality
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war-turned-genocide in Gaza has backfired badly - his strategy has helped resurrect Hamas, the very movement he tried desperately to crush.Aside from being a major military setback, Israel’s war on Gaza has also disoriented the policies of Netanyahu like never before. Since the...
Council, mayor respond to ‘Terrorist Watch’ list
September 12th, 20140 DEARBORN — At its Sept. 9 meeting, the Dearborn City Council got around to addressing the classified government documents which alleged that Dearborn has the second highest number of "known or suspected terrorists" in the country and which were leaked by The Intercept last month.The documents caused controversy with the charge that......
Analysts: Libya’s fate difficult to predict
September 12th, 20140 An Islamist fighter from the Fajr Libya (Libyan Dawn) coalition flashes the V sign for victory at the entrance of Tripoli international airport on August 24.As Libya slides deeper into political and military chaos, uncertainty reigns and analysts say it’s difficult to anticipate how things will unfold.Some say Libya needs regional or...
10 Arab states sign communique supporting U.S. intervention against “Islamic State”
September 12th, 20140 RIYADH — The United States signed up Arab allies on Thursday to a "coordinated military campaign" against "Islamic State" fighters, a major step in building regional support for President Obama's plan to strike both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi frontier.After talks in Saudi Arabia's summer capital Jeddah, Secretary of State John Kerry......
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes
A trail of blood is seen in the courtyard of a UN School in the northern Beit Hanun district of the Gaza Strip on July 24.GAZA — Human Rights Watch accused Israel of committing war crimes by attacking three U.N.-run schools in the Gaza Strip in fighting in July and August, killing Palestinian civilians who had sheltered there.The New...Lebanon to set up two Syrian refugee camps
BEIRUT — Lebanon has decided to set up two camps for Syrian refugees for the first time along its border with war-torn Syria, Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas said on Thursday, Sept. 11.The move comes despite longstanding reservations among many in Lebanon over establishing camps, for fear they will encourage Syrians to stay...U.N. peacekeepers freed in Golan Heights; 28 rebel leaders killed in Idlib
Fijian U.N. peacekeepers released by al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front in Syria on Thursday, gesture from inside a vehicle as they arrive in Israeli-held territory on the Golan heights, Sept. 11.DAMASCUS — Dozens of Fijian U.N. peacekeepers, released by al Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front in Syria, arrived in Israeli-held territory on...Yemen reaches deal with Houthi group
A protester sprays water at a Houthi anti-government protest during hot weather.SANAA — Yemen's president has offered to appoint a new prime minister within 48 hours, under a fresh accord with Houthi Shi'a rebels in return for ending their protests, a source close to the presidency said Thursday, Sept. 11.There was no immediate......
Dozens join hunger strike for release of Egypt political prisoners
Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah (R) arrives with his wife and child to the public prosecutor's office in Cairo, March 26, 2013.CAIRO — Dozens of Egyptians have begun a hunger strike to demand the release of activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, a symbol of the 2011 uprising, and others they say are being unfairly detained in an effort to crush...Number of Americans paying student loans soars
BOSTON — The rising cost of higher education is dogging Americans into retirement, with people aged 65 and older still carrying some $18.2 billion in unpaid student loans, according to a federal report released on Wednesday.While the Government Accountability Office report noted that relatively few U.S. households headed by......
Voices of sectarianism should be silenced
The Arab World is facing serious threats of further fragmentation. Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, as we know them, might no longer exist as unified states. The "Islamic State" is gaining a greater foothold in the Levant and enforcing a criminal order of literally slaughtering its foes. Meanwhile, Israel continues to "appropriate" (read: steal)...Iraqi parliament approves new government headed by Haider al-Abadi
BAGHDAD — Iraq's parliament approved a new government headed by Haider al-Abadi as prime minister on Monday night, in a bid to rescue Iraq from collapse, with sectarianism and Arab-Kurdish tensions on the rise.Abadi, a Shi'a Islamist, included members of Iraq's Shi'ite majority and its Kurdish and Sunni minorities in his cabinet as he......
