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Report says U.S. tax breaks aiding illegal outposts in West Bank
According to The New York Times report, lenient American tax regulations allow funds to flow to settlement outposts that are illegal under Israel law as opposed to larger settlement blocks that receive money from the Israeli government, daily Haaretz reported Tuesday. The result is that it is easier to fund outposts from the United...Obama approval among Muslims falls
President Barack Obama Confidence in U.S. President Barack Obama has drastically dropped in the Muslim world, according to surveys released by the Pew Global Attitudes project. Among the seven countries surveyed with substantial Muslim populations the poll shows that more than eight out of ten people in Egypt, Turkey and Pakistan...Biden pushes for Iraqi deal
Joe BidenJoe Biden, the U.S. vice-president, has met Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, as part of an attempt to urge political parties to set aside their differences and form a government four months after elections. The talks with Talabani on Monday follow meetings with the leaders of the two political factions that polled...Israel creates new Gaza ‘blacklist’
Israel has eased restrictions on the import of consumer goods to the Gaza Strip, relaxing its blockade on the Palestinian territory while maintaining restrictions on the entry of construction materials. In a statement on Monday, Israel said all items would be allowed into Gaza except "weapons, war material and dual-use...New Muslim woman’s magazine encourages being ‘modest and fabulous’
SINGAPORE — Flip through the pages of Aquila Asia magazine and it soon becomes apparent that the publication is different from other glossy women's magazines sold across the region. Side by side with ads for expensive handbags and luxury cars are fashion spreads featuring professional models in Muslim headscarves — and articles on...Michigan may lose 90,000 unemployment checks
LANSING — If unemployment benefits are not extended by the U.S. Congress, an estimated 90,000 Michigan resident unemployment checks may be cut off. Congress is expected to reach a decision once a replacement for the late Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia is found. Any one receiving benefits for more than 26 weeks will be...Iran admits sanctions could bite
Ali Akbar SalehiA senior Iranian official has acknowledged for the first time that sanctions against the country could slow down its nuclear program. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran's atomic energy agency, told the ISNA news agency on Wednesday that the sanctions could have some impact. "Maybe they will slow down the work...Israel preparing to occupy Lebanon
Israel troops are conducting military drills to get prepared for being deployed in Lebanon, in a move Tel Aviv says is aimed at preventing "rocket attacks by Hizbullah," Israeli sources say. Israel is conducting drills at its Elyakim training base, near Haifa, to simulate attacks on Hizbullah targets in southern Lebanon, Haaretz...First city to oppose Arizona law on record
Ann Arbor — Ann Arbor is the first city in Michigan to go on record opposing Arizona SB 1070 that is supposed to prevent illegal immigration. On July 6. the Ann Arbor City Council proposed a 9-1 resolution that attacks the bill which is expected to take effect July 29. ...Miss USA comes home to Dearborn
DETROIT — Miss USA 2010 Rima Fakih will be in Michigan celebrating her homecoming bash at the $200 million newly renovated Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, 9 p.m. Friday, July 9. On Saturday, July 10. Fakih will speak at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn beginning at 10 a.m. Dearborn Mayor John B....MSU to phase out Dubai program
EAST LANSING - Michigan State University is phasing out a 2-year-old undergraduate program in Dubai that had students there taking courses in programs such as business, building construction and engineering. MSU President Lou Anna Simon said that the program hasn’t met initial expectations and that it would add as many as 100...Tryouts being held for Chaldean Football League
West Bloomfield — Try-outs for the Chaldean Football League (CFL) are 9 a.m. Sunday, July 11. at West Bloomfield High School. Participants can't be younger than 18 years old. CFL, an American football league, has been around since 1981 and is among the most organized and competitive Chaldean sports leagues. CFL games are played every...Maronite church to hold Middle East festival
FLINT — The Our Lady of Lebanon Middle East Festival is Friday, July 9. from 5 p.m. to 12 a.m. and Saturday July 10. from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m. at Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Catholic Church in Flint. The festival will feature live music by Jad Soudah, dancing, beer tent, Arab American comedy show by Fady Asmar and Middle East...
CNN’s firing of Octavia Nasr protested
July 9th, 20100 CNN’s firing of Senior Middle East News Editor Octavia Nasr has prompted an outcry from Arab-Americans, angry about what they see as a double standard when it comes to coverage of the Middle East in the American media. Octavia Nasr Nasr’s 20-year career at CNN ended Wednesday after a tweet mourning the death of Sayyed...Poland orders Israeli Mossad extradition
An Israeli man suspected of involvement in the slaying of a Hamas operative in a Dubai hotel in January will be extradited to Germany on suspicion of forgery, a Polish court has ruled. Uri Brodsky, a suspected Mossad agent, is accused by Germany of spying and of helping to falsely obtain a German passport allegedly used in......
Genetic damage and health in Fallujah, Iraq worse than Hiroshima
Results of a population-based epidemiological study organized by Malak Hamdan and Chris Busby were published in the International Journal of Environmental Studies and Public Health (IJERPH) based in Basle, Switzerland. They show increases in cancer, leukemia and infant mortality and perturbations of the normal human population birth sex...
World loses great Islamic thinker, scholar
July 8th, 20100 In one of his Friday sermons in January, 75-year-old Grand Ayatollah Sayed Mohamed Hussein Fadlullah, who died Sunday in Beirut, spoke to his followers about "true Islam." "The true Islam," he said, "wants us to base our lives on reason and to elevate it by means of knowledge, so as to enrich it and be enriched by it." This sentence......
Obama and Netanyahu all smiles
July 8th, 20100 WASHINGTON (IPS) — Insisting that the bond between their two nations was "unbreakable," U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu emerged all smiles from their long-awaited White House meeting here Tuesday. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meet in the Oval...High demand for ACC training and job placement program
LATHRUP VILLAGE — With Michigan's economy continuing to lag behind the vast majority of other U.S. states, the need for assistance in helping locals find work remains paramount. Thankfully for unemployed citizens in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties, the Arab American and Chaldean Council (ACC) is prepared to help after receiving...Local rapper recounts immigrant experience on new CD
While rap and hip-hop have helped make a lot of people rich in the past few decades, there was a time when the music genre meant way more than money to those who produced it. Before big-money corporate interests got hold of it, rap music was a way for the disenfranchised and the oppressed to express themselves and blow off steam...Bouchard Endorsed by Michigan Police Organization
ROCHESTER HILLS - Mike Bouchard, a candidate for governor from the Michigan Republican Party, recently received an endorsement from the Michigan Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), an organization that represents over 11,500 members across the state. The endorsement comes on the heels of Bouchard’s latest endorsements from......
Community raises funds for Republican gubernatorial candidate in Dearborn
Retired Wayne County Deputy Chief Marwan Taleb (second from left), his wife Sally Taleb (to his right), and Michigan Attorney General/Gubernatorial Candidate Mike Cox (to her right) attended.PHOTO: Marc GorskiDEARBORN — Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox spoke at a fundraising dinner at Byblos Banquet Hall in Dearborn on Thursday,...Ramadan speaks in support of MLFA
"It just sad, it’s just unbelievable that we can treat people with such commitment for justice and dignity, to be put in jail for supporting the Palestinians.” These were the opening words of guest speaker Tariq Ramadan’s keynote address on Saturday June 19, at the Muslim Legal Fund of America’s first benefit dinner in......
White mice and teachers steer doctor to help people with cancer
When Ahmed Ezz was 4 years old his father, a pharmacologist involved in medication irradiation and cancer research at the universities of Alexandria, Egypt, and Chicago, used to let his son tag along to his laboratory to explore. "Of course, being a little kid you love those white lab mice," says Ezz, now a prominent radiation...Foundation, BCBSM raise funds for colitis, Crohn’s disease
DETROIT — Scores of supporters gathered at the Detroit Riverfront starting at Rivard Park on Saturday, June 26 for the "Take Steps: Be Heard for Crohn's and Colitis" walk with the goal of raising funds and awareness for the diseases. Crohn's disease is an inflammatory disease of the intestines and/or the mouth and anus with no current......