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Detroit Police Chief James Craig: School threats are going to stop
March 23rd, 20180 DETROIT — On Thursday, Police Chief James Craig held a news conference regarding the recent string of threats made against schools in the city. Schools across the country have been plagued by a rash of threats since the Feb. 14 massacre that killed 17 high school students and faculty in Parkland, Florida. Since the shooting in...
League of Women Voters visits Dearborn high schools, encourages students’ participation
March 23rd, 20180 By Farah Harb The Arab American News DEARBORN — As part of its high school voter registration project, the League of Women Voters of Dearborn/ Dearborn Heights visited Dearborn and Fordson High Schools the week of March 19-22. The nonpartisan political organization aims to bring awareness of the importance of informed and...
Michigan’s Congressional races: Who’s running (Part III)
March 23rd, 20180 The following is the continued list of Metro Detroit candidates running for congressional seats in the Aug. 7 and Nov. 6 elections. 13TH DISTRICT (open) Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers (D-Detroit), who was first elected to Congress in 1964, stepped down in December, following sexual harassment allegations. At press time, 12 Democratic...
Suspect’s family says Canton gas station shooting was self-defense
March 23rd, 20180 CANTON — Police are investigating if a shooting at a gas station in Canton was self defense. The shooting, which happened Tuesday afternoon at a Valero gas station near Ikea at Haggerty and Ford Road, sent one man to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the cheek. Police told Fox 2 Detroit it was more than a graze, but wouldn't...
Bitcoin + online chain referral = illegal scheme
March 23rd, 20181 By Amy Hebert Ever get a chain letter in the mail or online? Then you know the drill; you send money to a person at the top of the list, then take their name off and add yours to the bottom before sending the letter to more people. If the letters keep going, you're supposed to make money as your name moves up the list. In fact, most...
Saudi Arabia opens its airspace for flights to Israel, ending 70-year-old ban
March 22nd, 20180 TEL AVIV - Saudi Arabia opened its airspace for the first time to a commercial flight to Israel with the inauguration on Thursday of an Air India route between New Delhi and Tel Aviv. Air India 139 landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport after a flight of over 7-1/2 hours, marking a diplomatic shift for Riyadh that Israel says was...
Canadian man faces extra charge in Michigan airport stabbing
March 22nd, 20180 FLINT — A federal grand jury has indicted a Canadian man accused of stabbing a police officer at a Michigan airport last year on an additional terrorism charge stemming from the attack, federal prosecutors said on Wednesday. Amor Ftouhi, 50, is accused of “committing an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries” by...
Mattis tells Saudi Crown Prince: Urgent need to find end to Yemen’s war
March 22nd, 20180 WASHINGTON - Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Thursday there was an urgent need to find a political solution to Yemen’s war, as he voiced hope for a U.N. special envoy’s peace efforts and firmly backed Riyadh. A Saudi-led coalition intervened in neighboring Yemen in 2015 against Houthis...
Study: The more devout Muslims and Jews are, the more united, except on Jerusalem
March 22nd, 20180 NEW YORK – Muslim-Jewish relations are thought to be in conflict. However a study shows that followers of both faiths are more closely aligned with one another, expect on the issue of Jerusalem. The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding (FFEU) released a study that provides a national benchmark measuring opinions and behaviors of...
Hezbollah leader says Lebanon public finances threaten disaster
March 21st, 20180 BEIRUT — The leader of Lebanon’s powerful Hezbollah group, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, said on Wednesday that the deeply indebted country faced disaster if it continued on the same financial path. Iran-backed Hezbollah is part of Lebanon’s coalition government and wields extensive influence in Lebanese politics. Nasrallah was...
Texas bombing suspect blows self up
March 21st, 20180 PFLUGERVILLE, Texas — An unemployed 23-year-old man suspected of a three-week bombing campaign in Texas that killed two people and injured five others before blowing himself up on the side of a highway was identified by local media on Wednesday. The suspect was identified as Mark Anthony Conditt of Pflugerville, Texas, according to...
Iran, Yemen in focus as Trump and Saudi prince meet at White House
March 20th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. ― President Trump and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will discuss tensions with Iran and a Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen which has come under criticism in Congress when they meet on Tuesday. Their talks at the White House are part of the first visit by the prince to the United States since...
Several shot at Maryland high school, conditions unclear
March 20th, 20180 GREAT MILLS, Md. — Several people were shot at a Maryland high school on Tuesday, local news media reported, and school officials confirmed the campus was on lockdown and the incident had been “contained.” Multiple people were shot and their condition was not yet clear, ABC News reported, citing the St. Mary’s County...
Bush’s war destabilized the Middle East, any Trump war would destabilize the entire world
March 16th, 20180 By Melvin A. Goodman As we approach the fifteenth anniversary of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq, which we are still paying for in so many ways, it is important to remember the misuse of intelligence that provided a false justification for war. It is particularly important to do so at this time because President Donald Trump has...
Top oxymorphone dispenser in 2017 summarily suspended
March 16th, 20180 DETROIT — The Dept. of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) served orders summarily suspending the controlled substance license of Super Mart Pharmacy in Detroit and the pharmacist license of Mohammad Mehmood Ashraf, according to a press release. “Administrative complaints” were also served against Super Mart Pharmacy and......
Dearborn Public Schools set to change high school boundaries
March 16th, 20180 DEARBORN — A standing-room-only crowd attended the March 12 Dearborn Public School Board meeting at which the board voted unanimously in favor of boundary changes for Dearborn, Fordson and Edsel Ford High Schools. "All new ninth graders who live within the Unis boundaries will attend Fordson High School," according to the meeting's...
Hundreds of Letters to ICE: Save Rranxburgaj Family
March 16th, 20180 DETROIT – An Albanian American family currently in sanctuary in a Detroit church gathered supporters who will hold a press conference on Friday March 16 at the Rosa Parks federal building. The supporters will deliver more than 600 letters to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office on Jefferson. Ded Rranxburgaj, an......
Three men charged with Minnesota mosque bombing
March 16th, 20180 MINNEAPOLIS — Three men from a rural Illinois community were arrested on Tuesday and charged in the 2017 bombing of a mosque outside Minneapolis and the attempted bombing of an Illinois abortion clinic, U.S. prosecutors said. Michael Mcwhorter, 29, Joe Morris, 22, and Michael B. Hari, 47, were accused of carrying out a pipe bomb...
April is arts month in Dearborn
March 16th, 20180 DEARBORN — Galleries, artists and cultural events across the city will be celebrated throughout April, according to a press release from the Dearborn Community Fund. The month will begin with a “Gallery Rally” week April 2-7. Galleries in that event include the Padzieski Gallery (Ford Community & Performing Arts Center);...
School safety bill passes House, no action on gun control
March 16th, 20180 WASHINGTON, D.C. — The House of Representatives approved spending more money on metal detectors, locks and other school security measures on Wednesday, but took no steps to tighten gun control laws a month after a Florida high school shooting that killed 17 people. While students marched nationwide for change on one of America’s...
Local public health effort aims to de-stigmatize sexual health
March 16th, 20180 By Maliha Ahmed DEARBORN — There is a need for culturally-competent and accurate information on sexual health and healthy relationships in the Arab and Muslim communities. The preventative nature of this education can have long-lasting impact on individuals, their health-seeking practices and overall population health. However, if......
French judge issues arrest warrant for daughter of Saudi king
PARIS — A French judge has issued an international arrest warrant for the daughter of Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz in relation to an attack by her bodyguard against a worker in her Parisian flat, a source close to the investigation said. Princess Hassa bint Salman is the sister of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and is...
Sisi calls for big turnout in upcoming Egyptian presidential election
March 16th, 20180 CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Thursday his government had fulfilled its promises during his first term and called on Egyptians to vote in large numbers in an election where he is seeking a second term in office. The former army chief is widely expected to win by a huge margin in the March 26-28 vote, since......
Houthis and Saudi Arabia in secret talks to end war in Yemen
March 16th, 20180 RIYADH/SANAA — Saudi Arabia and its adversaries in Yemen's armed Houthi movement are holding secret talks to try to end a three-year-old war that has unleashed the world's worst humanitarian crisis, diplomats and Yemeni political sources said. A Saudi-led coalition is fighting to counter the influence of Riyadh's arch-foe Iran, an...
Interview with Sheikh Naim Qassem: We don’t expect Israel to launch war against Lebanon, but Hezbollah is ready for one
March 16th, 20180 BEIRUT — Lebanon's powerful Hezbollah does not expect its arch foe Israel to launch a war for now in Lebanon but is prepared for one, the deputy leader of the group told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. As the war in Syria enters its eighth year, Sheikh Naim Qassem also said there was no end in sight to the conflict which would......
