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National security veterans urge Trump not to scrap Iran nuclear deal
March 30th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — A bipartisan group of more than 100 U.S. national security experts — including nearly 50 retired military officers and more than 30 former ambassadors — is urging President Trump to remain in the Iran nuclear deal as sources say it is becoming increasingly likely he will withdraw. The statement titled "Keep...
Egypt’s Sisi heads for landslide election win with low turnout
March 30th, 20180 CAIRO — President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi cruised toward a landslide election victory against no real opposition but early results showed a lower turnout than the vote that brought him to power in 2014, despite efforts to get more Egyptians to the polls. The vote this week had long been set to hand Sisi a second term after a crackdown...
Protests erupt as family buries police shooting victim Stephon Clark
March 30th, 20180 Sacramento, CA — Scores of Black Lives Matter activists protested in Sacramento on Thursday after the funeral of an unarmed black man who was shot dead by police in the latest such killing to spark street demonstrations in the United States. More than 100 protesters gathered outside the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office...
America is no melting pot; it is a mosaic
March 30th, 20180 By Sundus Mahdi Al-Ameen America was established as a land of hope and promise. In the turn of the 20th century, immigrants flocked from countries all over Europe, ready to join the great melting pot. They faced hardships, but quickly managed to immerse themselves into an ideology they called the American Dream. Decades...
U.N. Security Council condemns Houthi missile attacks on Saudi Arabia
March 30th, 20180 UNITED NATIONS — On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council condemned a barrage of missile attacks against Saudi Arabia by Yemen's Houthi group and expressed grave concern at reports of violations of an U.N. arms embargo on Houthi leaders. In a statement, the 15-member Security Council expressed alarm at a Houthi threat to...
European powers face resistance to Iran sanctions to save nuclear deal
March 30th, 20180 BRUSSELS/PARIS — France, Britain and Germany are struggling to persuade their E.U. partners to back new sanctions on Iran to preserve its nuclear deal, diplomats said, with Italy doubting whether the measures can stop the United States from pulling out in May. At a closed-door meeting of E.U. ambassadors in Brussels on Wednesday,...
Russia orders out 60 U.S. diplomats over spy poisoning affair
March 30th, 20180 MOSCOW — Russia expelled 60 U.S. diplomats on Thursday and announced it would eject scores from other countries that have joined London and Washington in censuring Moscow over the poisoning of a spy. The U.S. ambassador was also ordered to shut the consulate in St. Petersburg, in Russia's retaliation for the biggest expulsion of...
Russia: The Syrian offensive in eastern Ghouta is almost over
March 30th, 20180 BEIRUT — The massive Russian-backed Syrian military offensive in the suburbs east of Damascus is almost over, with rebels holed up in just a single town after abandoning the rest of the eastern Ghouta enclave, Moscow declared on Thursday. Russia and the rebel faction controlling Douma, the last Ghouta town still in insurgent hands,...
Lebanese cleric’s piano playing strikes wrong note for some
March 30th, 20180 BEIRUT — A Muslim cleric has been expelled from his seminary in Lebanon after a video of his piano playing, posted online, drew criticism from conservatives who felt it was undignified behavior for a man of the cloth, he said. Shi'a Muslim Sayed Hussein al-Husseini, 38, a keen pianist and amateur poet, posted the footage to...
Expanding the ‘our’ in the march for our lives
March 30th, 20180 By Mary Turfah On March 24, hundreds of thousands of Americans took to the streets of Washington D.C., New York, Detroit and elsewhere to protest gun violence—or at least part of it. The Parkland school shooting victims — around whose misfortune these protests arose— have demonstrated their readiness to use their...
Lawmakers: Gun control movement pushing Congress to act
March 30th, 20180 NEW YORK — The youth-led gun control movement that flexed its public muscle with huge weekend rallies has already nudged Congress to enact minor firearms changes, but must remain active if it hopes to win more meaningful regulations, lawmakers said on Sunday. The movement that erupted after the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory...
Federal judge denies request for early election to fill Conyers’ vacant seat
March 30th, 20180 DETROIT — The 12 Democratic candidates and every resident of the 13th Congressional District will have to wait until the August primary and November general election to fill the seat left vacant by U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit). U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith found, "no evidence supporting plaintiffs' theory that Governor...
Residents and activists speak out against DTE permit proposal
March 30th, 20180 DEARBORN — A crowd of about 75 Dearborn residents, activists and elected officials met at Edsel Ford High School on March 27 to voice their concerns to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality about a proposed permit submitted by DTE Dearborn CEP LLC. DTE is requesting a new combined heat and power plant to be constructed...
Two national gun control movements in our midst – What happens next?
March 30th, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News DETROIT — On Saturday, March 24, thousands of people — the majority of them students — filled downtown Detroit, carrying signs and chanting for tighter gun control laws at the biggest “March for Our Lives” in southeast Michigan. These individuals joined in solidarity with...
Dearborn Board of Education selects new HFC president
March 30th, 20180 DEARBORN – Russell A. Kavalhuna, an associate dean at Western Michigan University and a former federal prosecutor, has been selected to become the new president of Henry Ford College (HFC). On March 28, the Dearborn Board of Education, which overseas administration of the city’s public schools and the college, voted 6-1 after a......
U.S. gymnastics doctor’s boss at Michigan State charged with sex crime
March 29th, 20180 DETROIT ― A former Michigan State University dean, who supervised the doctor at the center of the USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal, was himself charged on Tuesday with criminal sexual conduct involving medical school students. A student at the College of Osteopathic Medicine accused William Strampel, 70, of forcible sexual contact,...
Saudi Arabia must face U.S. lawsuits over Sept. 11 attacks
March 29th, 20180 NEW YORK — A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Saudi Arabia’s bid to dismiss lawsuits claiming that it helped plan the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and should pay billions of dollars in damages to victims. U.S. District Judge George Daniels in Manhattan said the plaintiffs’ allegations “narrowly articulate a reasonable basis”......
Dearborn Board of Education chose Russell A. Kavalhuna, J.D., A.T.P. as Henry Ford College new president
March 28th, 20180 DEARBORN - Kavalhuna is currently the executive director ((duties akin to Associate Dean role), Western Michigan University, College of Aviation. The nation’s third‐largest collegiate aviation program, which operates at three locations in Michigan and Florida. Kavalhuna worked from 2009 to 2015 as an Assistant United States...Dearborn Board of Education chose Russell A. Kavalhuna, J.D., A.T.P. as Henry Ford College new president
March 28th, 20180 DEARBORN - Kavalhuna is currently the executive director ((duties akin to Associate Dean role), Western Michigan University, College of Aviation. The nation’s third‐largest collegiate aviation program, which operates at three locations in Michigan and Florida. Kavalhuna worked from 2009 to 2015 as an Assistant United States...
Destroyed by ISIS, ancient winged bull rises again in London
March 28th, 20180 LONDON — An ancient Assyrian winged bull sculpture destroyed by ISIS fighters in 2015 and subsequently recast in recycled Middle Eastern food packaging went on display in London’s Trafalgar Square on Wednesday. The work by American artist Michael Rakowitz is the latest of 11 to be commissioned to occupy the square’s fourth...
Activists rename Dutch streets to honor Ahed Tamimi
March 27th, 20180 Activists in the Netherlands changed main street names in 13 Dutch cities on 23 March, placing placards that read “Ahed Tamimi street.” MovementX and DocP, two Dutch organizations that advocate for Palestinian rights, posted the street signs in Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam, Groningen, Leeuwarden, Grijpskerk, Assen, Leiden,......
New York state will sue to block Census citizenship question
March 27th, 20180 New York state’s attorney general said on Tuesday he will lead a multistate lawsuit to try to stop the federal government from asking people whether they are citizens in the 2020 Census, arguing the move will discourage immigrants from participating. The U.S. Commerce Department, which runs the Census Bureau, announced on Monday that...
Orlando nightclub shooter’s father was FBI informant, widow’s attorney says
March 26th, 20180 ORLANDO, Fla. — A widow on trial for aiding her late husband, the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, should have a mistrial declared, defense lawyers said, arguing that prosecutors withheld access to important evidence that the shooter’s father had been an FBI informant. Seddique Mateen, father of gunman......
Barrage of missiles on Saudi Arabia ramps up Yemen war
March 26th, 20180 RIYADH/SANAA — The Houthi movement that controls northern Yemen vowed on Monday to fire more missiles into Saudi Arabia unless it stops bombing the country, after one of its missiles caused casualties in the Saudi capital for the first time. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis accused them of using Iranian-made missiles....
Syrian rebels blame each other for their defeat in eastern Ghouta
March 26th, 20180 BEIRUT - Syrian rebel factions are blaming each other for opening the way to their defeat near Damascus, underlining splits that plagued the armed uprising against President Bashar al-Assad since its earliest days. The rivalry between the factions of eastern Ghouta - Failaq al-Rahman and Jaish al-Islam - had led to the effective......
