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Sadam “World Kid” Ali knocks out Arroyo, remains undefeated
Newark — In a fight scheduled for eight rounds at Newark, New Jersey's Prudential Center, Yemeni American and former U.S. Olympian Sadam "World Kid" Ali (9-0, 5 KOs) knocked out Lenin Arroyo (20-13-1, 4 KOs) of Costa Rica in the Welterweight Division. Ali moved well throughout the fight and staggered Arroyo in the second round with a...Suit filed on behalf of USSF travelers
DETROIT — The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) along with the National Lawyers Guild filed a complaint with the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and U.S. Department of Justice on August 13 on behalf of three U.S. Social Forum participants who were allegedly harassed at the Detroit-Windsor border on June 24 for their perceived...Dearborn Public Schools announces new assistant principals
DEARBORN — The Dearborn Public School District has announced the new assistant principal (A.P.) appointees. The board of education approved several new A.P.s during a meeting on Aug. 23. The following new A.P.s will begin work immediately for the 2010-2011 school year: • Natasya Shajira, A.P., Henry Ford Elementary School, from...Hearns withdraws from planned boxing match with Mihtar
WINDSOR — Dearborn boxer Brian Mihtar and Ronald Hearns, son of Detroit boxing legend Tommy Hearns, will no longer compete against each other in a boxing match originally scheduled for Oct. 9 at the Colosseum at Caesars Windsor Casino after Hearns pulled out this past week. Hearns' camp did not provide an official reason...Woman sues Disneyland for not allowing her to work wearing hijab
LOS ANGELES — Twenty-six-year-old Imane Boudal is suing Disneyland after the company's Grand Californian Hotel wouldn't allow her to work as a hostess while wearing a hijab. Boudal says she was told she couldn't wear the hijab because it didn't comply with Disney's look, and the only way she could wear it was if she worked...Judge suspends case for woman who hit U.S. Sen. Carl Levin in the face with a pie
BIG RAPIDS, MI — On Aug. 24, a Mecosta County district judge suspended Ahlam Mohsen's case while the FBI decides whether the 22-year-old should be charged with a federal crime. The judge lowered Mohsen's bond to 50,000. In order to be released, Mohsen must pay $5,000 in cash. Mohsen threw a pie in U.S. Sen. Carl Levin's face last week...Miss U.S.A. Rima Fakih competes in Miss Universe, falls short
LAS VEGAS — After an evening gown and swimsuit competition, 83 contestants in the Miss Universe 2010 pageant were narrowed down to 15 this week and Miss U.S.A Rima Fakih didn't make the cut. The Miss Universe 2010 contest took place at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Resort in Las Vegas on Monday, August 23. The contest's 15 finalists...MIAAHAC responds to hate crimes at annual conference
LANSING — The Michigan Alliance Against Hate Crimes annual conference is Thursday, Sep. 16 at the Ramada Lansing Hotel and Conference Center in Lansing. The conference provides a community response to hate crimes. Individuals from law enforcement agencies, victim service agencies, community organizations and educational institutions...Alleged serial stabber back in Michigan, held without bond
FLINT — Elias Abuelazam, a 33-year-old suspect accused of stabbing 14 men, most of them African Americans, in the Flint area along with four others in Virginia and Ohio, was arraigned on one charge of assault with intent to murder in Flint's 68th District Court on Thursday, August 26 according to The Detroit Free Press. Abuelazam...Clandestine Israeli PR campaign in America
WASHINGTON PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Declassified files from a Senate investigation into Israeli-funded covert public relations and lobbying activity in the United States were released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) on July 23rd, 2010. The subpoenaed documents reveal Israel's clandestine programs for...Ouster of contractors in Afghanistan throws U.S. strategy in doubt
NEW YORK – Charging that U.S. private security contractors are "mafia-like groups" being financed by U.S. taxpayers to carry out "terrorist activities" with the support of the U.S. government, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered a four-month phaseout of all private security companies in his embattled country. Asserting his...
Immigration system a broken behemoth, groups say
August 29th, 20100 WASHINGTON – One year after the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama announced that it intended to overhaul the country's heavily criticized immigration detention practices and create a "truly civil detention system," a new academic paper bolsters claims by human rights groups that real reform is still a long way off....
Palestinian patients suffer from political rivalry
August 29th, 20100 RAMALLAH — Cancer patient Ahmed Abu Fuad needs chemotherapy to survive. Muhammad Subeh needs an eye-transplant while paramedic Alaa Sarhan desperately needs surgery to remove shrapnel from his body. But these Gazans are unable to leave the area to seek the required medical treatment elsewhere, and it is not because of the Israeli...Egypt blames security for art theft
CAIRO — Egyptians are still searching for the $50m work of art that has gone missing from the Mahmoud Khalil museum. Egypt's top prosecutor has said that security lapses are to blame for the theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting from a Cairo museum. Prosecutor general Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud said on Sunday that none of the alarms and...Obama plays down plan for post-2011 Iraq troop presence
WASHINGTON – When the Barack Obama administration unveiled its plan last week for an improvised State Department-controlled army of contractors to replace all U.S. combat troops in Iraq by the end of 2011, critics associated with the U.S. command attacked the transition plan, insisting that the United States must continue to assume......
ACC chairman uses business savvy to help non-profit organization grow in difficult economic times
Civil engineer and consultant, community volunteer and member of several philanthropic organizations are not titles held by most retired grandfathers. But Abe Munfakh is different, having spent a lifetime working hard and overcoming challenges, and he doesn't plan to stop anytime soon. Determined when it comes to giving back...The credibility of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has been compromised and politicized
I have been in Lebanon for the past five weeks and not a day passes without hearing people talk about the implications of the indictment, which is scheduled for September 2010, on the basis on which the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) will convene. The intensity of the anticipatory speculation rises in all directions along the length......
The human element
EAST MEREDITH, NY — During a historical visit to Jerusalem in 1979, the late President Anwar Sadat of Egypt proclaimed that the Arab-Israeli conflict is largely psychological. Inherited notions about history and deeply felt convictions about the injustices are so strong that when an Arab American meets a Jewish American socially they...Last U.S. combat brigade leaves Iraq
... But 50,000 U.S. troops will remain in the country in an advisory capacity The last U.S. combat brigade has withdrawn from Iraq, more than seven years after the U.S.-led coalition invaded the country in a war that has claimed the lives of more than 4,000 U.S. troops. The brigade left the country in the early hours of Thursday...Israeli generals and intel officials oppose attack on Iran
WASHINGTON — Pro-Israeli journalist Jeffrey Goldberg's article in "The Atlantic" magazine was evidently aimed at showing why the Barack Obama administration should worry that it risks an attack by the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran in the coming months unless it takes a much more menacing line toward Iran's...Deported for running a red light
NEW YORK (IPS) — A government program designed to prosecute serious criminals is instead deporting people who received traffic tickets and committed other minor offenses, according to immigration rights advocacy groups. The organizations charge that 79 percent of people deported through the so-called Secure Communities program are not......
For Palestinians in West Bank, daily trips to work become major expeditions
HIRBET DEIR (IPS) — For Muhammad el-Baradiyeh, 38, the Muslim holy month of Ramadan is always a blessing. In fact, every day of the month-and-a-half prior to Ramadan has been good for Muhammad. Thanks to a permit granted by the Israeli authorities, he's been able to work inside Israel and save extra money he'll need for the holiday....
New Fordson principal ready for the challenges, rewards of “Dream Job”
August 23rd, 20100 DEARBORN — A new era will begin this fall at one of the largest high schools in the state as Fordson High School in Dearborn welcomes new principal Youssef Mosallam into the fold. New Fordson principal Youssef Mosallam, a 1994 graduate of the school, is looking forward to working with students and faculty when classes begin on......
‘U.S. to Gaza’ raising funds to send boat as part of fall flotilla
NEW YORK - While May's deadly Israeli attacks on a multinational flotilla of aid ships in international waters on activists bound for the Gaza Strip has helped spread awareness internationally about the urgent need to end the Israeli siege, many feel that there is still much work to be done to inform Americans. It is with this goal in...Anti-war protestor throws pie in Sen. Carl Levin’s face
Big Rapids, Michigan - U.S. Senator Carl Levin of Michigan was struck in the face by an apple pie thrown by Ahlam M. Mohsen, on Monday during a constituent meeting in Big Rapids, Mich. Mohsen has been identified as an anti-war protester. She was arraigned Tuesday on a felony count of stalking and misdemeanor counts of assault and is......