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Israel and Saudi Arabia’s priorities in Syria
Current developments both inside and outside of Syria have shown that the primary sponsors of the extremist-dominated insurgency – namely, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Israel and Turkey – aren’t quite ready to throw in the towel.One may be forgiven for thinking the Obama administration...Southfield Mayor Brenda Lawrence announces candidacy for 14th Congressional District
SOUTHFIELD — Mayor Brenda Lawrence recently announced her candidacy for the 14th Congressional District, which stretches from Pontiac to southwest Detroit. Lawrence.In 2001, Lawrence became both the first female and African-American mayor of Southfield. She has served as mayor for more than a decade. In 2012, she unsuccessfulyy ran for...
Dearborn residents can order trees through city program
February 21st, 20140 DEARBORN – Dearborn residents can now order affordable trees to be planted on the easement in front of their homes. The city encourages the planting of trees as a way to keep neighborhoods attractive, reduce energy consumption and support a healthier environment. The annual spring tree-planting program is open to Dearborn...
Attorney Ali Hammoud named co-chair of BRIDGES
February 21st, 20140 DEARBORN — On Wednesday, Feb. 12 Attorney and Arab American Political Action Committee Vice President Ali Hammoud was named co-chair of Building Respect in Diverse Groups to Enhance Sensitivity (BRIDGES). Dr. Yahya Basha of BASHA Diagnostics was named co-chair-elect of the group. On the day of the announcement, 13 steering...18-year-old high school senior in need of kidney donor
DEARBORN — Zeinab Atwi, 18, is in need of a kidney donor. The Dearborn resident and Edsel Ford High School senior has been on dialysis for 10 years. Atwi has type B blood. A suitable donor may have type B or O blood. If you are interested in becoming a donor, or to reach out to the family, call Saeed Atwi at 313.209.2688. ...Selfless love turns off brain’s reward area, researchers say
While general feelings of love activate the same reward areas of the brain as cocaine, selfless love shuts that area down, CBS News reported."When we truly, selflessly wish for the well-being of others, we're not getting that same rush of excitement that comes with, say, a tweet from our romantic love interest, because it's not about...Loneliness, social isolation increase death risk in seniors
CHICAGO — Feeling extreme loneliness and socially isolated can increase an older person's chances of premature death by 14 percent, U.S. researchers say.John Cacioppo, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago, and colleagues said the impact of loneliness on premature death was nearly as strong as the impact of...Study: Effects of bullying accumulate over the years
BOSTON — The negative physical and mental effects tied to bullying among children and teens may accumulate throughout the years, according to a new study.Researchers found that teens who had been bullied in the past and those currently being bullied tended to have a lower quality of life, compared to those who were bullied less or not...Iran, Britain resume diplomatic relations
Britain and Iran on Thursday, Feb. 20, officially resumed diplomatic relations which were severed by London after students stormed its Tehran embassy in November 2011."The UK has agreed with Iran that from today bilateral relations will be conducted directly through non-resident charge d'affaires and officials," a Foreign Office...
Death of Dearborn man ruled a suicide by police and Wayne County Medical Examiner
February 21st, 20140 DEARBORN — Dearborn Police and the Wayne County Medical Examiner have ruled that the recent death of Shady Bazzi was a suicide. Family members of Bazzi, who was found dead at his home here Feb. 7 of a gunshot wound to the right temple of his head, are refuting the findings, and say he accidentally shot himself. Before the...
Even orphans are victims of terrorism in Lebanon
February 21st, 20140 Children at al-Majad Center in a state of shock and sorrow after the twin suicide bombings in South Beirut, Wednesday, Feb. 19. BEIRUT — The twin suicide bombings Wednesday in Bir Hassan, south of Beirut, were rightfully described as "an attack on the Islamic orphanage." In fact, the two blasts shook the neighborhood containing...Law corner: A government office’s decision is not the final word on your rights
Anyone who has run into a difficult government employee understands how frustrating it can be trying to accomplish seemingly simple tasks. For example, it should be no problem to walk into a city’s building department and obtain a permit to erect a fence around your property if you live in a city that generally allows fences....MDOT announces plans to repair about 1,300 lights by end of summer
SOUTHFIELD — An investigation by WXYZ-TV into broken highway lights in southeastern Michigan has prompted the Michigan Department of Transportation to announce a sweeping effort to repair approximately 1,300 lights by the end of the summer."We're going to spend four million dollars to address this problem in the next 6 months,” MDOT...
World powers and Iran make ‘good start’ towards nuclear accord
February 21st, 20140 VIENNA — Six world powers and Iran made a "good start" in talks in Vienna towards reaching a final settlement in the decade-old stand-off over Tehran's nuclear program, although they conceded that their plan to get a deal in the coming months was very ambitious.By late July, Western governments hope to hammer out an accord that would...Egypt adjourns Al Jazeera journalists’ trial
CAIRO- The trial of three Al Jazeera English journalists in Egypt has been adjourned until March 5 after they appeared in court in Cairo, on Thursday, Feb. 20, and pleaded not guilty to all charges against them.Mohamed Fahmy, Peter Greste and Baher Mohammed are accused of joining, or aiding and abetting a terrorist......
AIPAC’s lost invincibility
The defeat of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s ill-advised push for new sanctions on Iran in the midst of successful negotiations is nothing short of historic. The powerful and hawkish pro-Israeli lobby’s defeats are rare and seldom public. But in the last year, it has suffered three major public setbacks, of which the...
Will Tunisia be a model for political reform in the Arab world?
February 14th, 20140 The sociopolitical context for political reform in the Arab world is immensely challenging. As a result, few Arab countries have an easy way to democracy. But miraculously, Tunisia has already shown the start of a genuine Arab awakening.This homogeneous North African Arab country was the first to mobilize public dissent peacefully, to......
Syria talks approaching “failure,”mediator seeks U.S. and Russian help
GENEVA - Warning that "failure" was staring him in the face, the Syria peace talks mediator said on Thursday, Feb. 13, that the United States and Russia had promised renewed support to keep rival Syrian allies talking.U.N. diplomat Lakhdar Brahimi met senior diplomats from Washington and Moscow in Geneva, hoping the co-sponsors of the...Algerian military plane crashes into mountain, 77 killed
ALGIERS - A military transport plane carrying members of the Algerian armed forces and their relatives crashed into a mountain on Tuesday, Feb. 11, killing 77 people, the worst air disaster in the North African country in a decade.State television showed footage of the wreckage of the plane near the village of Ouled Gacem in eastern...Qatar seeks to improve tarnished image over migrant workers treatment
DOHA - Qatar revealed on Tuesday, Feb. 11, a set of guidelines aimed at protecting the rights of thousands of expatriate workers employed on construction projects, as the emirate prepares to host the 2022 football World Cup. The gas-rich Gulf state, which is under mounting criticism from rights groups over the conditions of migrants...Fifteen pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia hotel fire
MEDINA, Saudi Arabia - Fifteen people died and around 130 were injured when a fire broke out in a hotel packed with Muslim pilgrims in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina on Saturday, Feb. 8, the state news agency said.All 15 were Egyptians and the blaze was started by an electrical short circuit, according to a separate report on Egypt's......
Lebanese army seizes top al-Qaeda-linked militant
A car found with explosives is being taken away in the Corniche al-Mazraa neighborhood as the Lebanese army investigates the scene. PHOTO: Marwan Tahtah/Al-AkhbarBEIRUT - Lebanon's army arrested on Wednesday, Feb. 12, a senior al- Qaeda-linked militant described by officials as a "mastermind of car bombs" targeting mostly...Judge sets November trial for accused Boston bomber
BOSTON - A judge on Wednesday, February 12, ordered the accused Boston Marathon bomber to face trial in November, denying his attorneys the extra time they had sought to prepare his defense on charges involving the largest mass-casualty attack on U.S. soil since 9/11. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, a native of Russia's restive......
CIA ordered to destroy photos of Osama bin Laden’s corpse
WASHINGTON - Less than two weeks after the 2011 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, a top Pentagon official ordered all photos of bin Laden's corpse be destroyed or turned over to the CIA, according to a newly released document.In an e-mail dated May 13, 2011, Adm. William McRaven, the U.S. Special Operations commander, wrote: "One...U.S. Justice Department to expand rights of same-sex couples
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder plans widespread changes within the U.S. Justice Department to benefit same-sex married couples, such as recognizing a legal right for them not to testify against each other in civil and criminal cases.The changes, being unveiled by Holder in a speech on Saturday in New York, are designed to keep......