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Detroit water shutoffs resumed Tuesday
August 29th, 20140 DETROIT — City water shutoffs resumed Tuesday, the same day a moratorium issued by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) ended. This week the Detroit Water Brigade requested that the city permanently extend the moratorium, which was initially given to allow residents more time to make payment arrangements. The Detroit...
Rasmea Odeh attorneys file motion to dismiss charge
August 29th, 20140 DETROIT – Attorneys representing Chicago’s Palestinian American community organizer, Rasmea Odeh, have filed a motion and brief in Detroit’s U.S. District Court to dismiss the indictment against her. The defense attorneys are saying the charges are the product of an illegal investigation targeting Palestine solidarity...
Oxford University Press publishes new Oxford Arabic Dictionary
August 29th, 20140 New modern standard Arabic dictionary features over 130,000 words and phrases, 200,000 translations, 70,000 real example phrases On Thursday Aug. 28 Oxford University Press will celebrate the print and digital publication of the Oxford Arabic Dictionary. Produced by an international team of expert translators and advisors...
FEMA leads damage assessment in Metro Detroit after flood
August 29th, 20140 Sandy Jasmund, a spokeswoman for the FEMA regional office in Chicago, said the agency relies on local officials to show its representatives the most hard-hit areas to assess the damage without going to all the affected homes. FEMA will submit its damage assessment to state officials upon its completion. Then, the governor makes a...American released by Syrian militants thanks Qatar, U.S. officials
CAMBRIDGE Mass. — A U.S. writer freed this week after being held captive for two years by Syrian insurgents on Wednesday thanked those who had worked for his release and said he was emotionally overwhelmed by his welcome home.Peter Theo Curtis, who was held by Nusra Front, al Qaeda's official wing in Syria, said he had no idea that...U.S. government sues Minneapolis suburb for rejecting Islamic center
Minneapolis — The U.S. government sued a small Minneapolis suburb on Wednesday, accusing it of religious discrimination after local leaders denied a Muslim group the right to open a center in the municipality.The Justice Department filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis against St. Anthony Village, where council...U.S. judge signals he may order more Abu Ghraib photos released
NEW YORK — A federal judge signaled on Wednesday he may order the U.S. government to release as many as 2,000 photographs depicting the alleged harsh treatment of detainees in U.S. custody at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and other sites.U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein in New York ruled the U.S. Department of Defense had failed...
Ferguson opened the door to a discussion of Black equality
August 29th, 20140 Suddenly the nation is talking about black equality.It took Molotov cocktails in Ferguson, Mo., to forcefully penetrate our slumbering racial consciousness. Ferguson has become a metaphor for race relations in the 21st century; a signifier for the convergence of poverty, segregation, police brutality and federal and civic neglect. Most...U.S. mother pleads to “Islamic State” leader for her son’s release
Shirley Sotloff, the mother of American journalist Steven Sotloff.BOSTON — The mother of an American journalist held captive by militant group "Islamic State" released a video on Wednesday appealing directly to the group's leader for his release."I am sending this message to you, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Quraishi al-Hussaini, the...9-year-old girl accidentally kills Arizona shooting instructor
Shooting instructor Charles Vacca stands next to a 9-year-old girl at the Last Stop shooting range in White Hills, Arizona near the Nevada border, on August 25.TUCSON Ariz. — A 9-year-old girl accidentally shot and killed her shooting instructor at an Arizona range with an Israeli-made Uzi submachine gun when the weapon's strong...The influence of the Saudi lobby in Washington
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia speaks with President Obama.Usually one speaks comically of the Arab lobby in Washington, D.C.. Since the oil boom in the 1970s, various Arab-American businesspeople and crooks traveled to the Middle East offering their services to Gulf regimes and promising—in return for large sums of money—to launch...The real threat from the “Islamic State” is to Muslims, not the west
"I was like any other regular Canadian. I watched hockey, I went to the cottage in the summertime, I loved to fish, I wanted to go hunting… I was a regular person," said Abu Muslim in the last video he recorded before his death. And then came his pitch: "Everyone can contribute something to the Islamic State, as it is obligatory on...The federal government should help flood victims
"Unusual", "phenomenal", "unprecedented" and "extraordinary"— Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly, Jr. used these words to describe the flood that devastated Metro Detroit on Aug. 11. However, thousands of flood-stricken Michiganders feel like they were left to face this stunning disaster on their own. The state and municipalities have...
Militants sieze 43 Golan Heights peacekeeper
August 29th, 20140 DAMASCUS — Militants fighting the Syrian army have detained 43 U.N. peacekeepers in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and trapped another 81 in the region, and the world body is working to secure their release, the United Nations said on Thursday.The affected peacekeepers are from the Philippines and Fiji, U.N. spokesman Stephane...Iraqi Christians taking action to protect vulnerable minorities their homeland
Over the last few months, the Chaldean community has held several rallies in metro Detroit hoping to raise awareness on the plight of Iraqi Christians. The community is also working closely together to protect the future of religious minorities in Iraq. This month the Adopt-A-Refugee charitable group, in collaboration with......
Saudi Arabia beheads three for murder
RIYADH — Saudi authorities beheaded three citizens, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, after they were convicted of murder in separate cases, the Interior Ministry announced, bringing the number of executions in the kingdom to 41 this year.Nawaf al-Mutairi was executed in the western city of Medina for the machine-gun killing of fellow Saudi Adel...Libya’s old parliament elects new prime minister as chaos spreads
Smoke is seen rising from the Brigade Qaqaa headquarters. TRIPOLI — The Libyan parliament that was replaced in an election in June reconvened on Monday and chose an Islamist-backed deputy as the new prime minister, leaving the chaotic country with two rival leaders and assemblies, each backed by armed factions.As political unrest...Dearborn Board of Education approves appointments of Arab Americans to administrative positions
DEARBORN — Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston announced the appointment of Shannon Peterson to executive director for secondary education, per board approval on Aug. 25. Peterson is currently principal at Bryant Middle School, formerly assistant principal at Bryant, and a teacher at Lowrey Middle School and...Dearborn Board of Education approves appointments of Arab Americans to administrative positions
DEARBORN — Dearborn Public Schools Superintendent Brian Whiston announced the appointment of Shannon Peterson to executive director for secondary education, per board approval on Aug. 25. Peterson is currently principal at Bryant Middle School, formerly assistant principal at Bryant, and a teacher at Lowrey Middle School and......
Two Americans die fighting for “Islamic State” in Syria
Douglas McAuthur McCain.DAMASCUS — On Wednesday, a day after news broke that Douglas McAuthur McCain, a 33-year-old man reared in Minnesota, died fighting for the "Islamic State," a coalition of Syrian opposition groups announced that its forces had killed another American in battle.The second American was identified Abdirahmaan...Egypt queries Morsi over documents “leaked” to Al Jazeera
Ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is seen behind bars during his trial at a court in Cairo May 8.CAIRO — Egypt is investigating jailed ex-president Mohamed Morsi in connection with documents that judicial investigators say were leaked to the Qatar-based Al Jazeera satellite news channel, security sources said on......
Dental Office Shooting in Dearborn
DEARBORN — On Aug. 28 at approximately 9:10 a.m. Dearborn Police officers responded to a report of gunshots fired at the Advanced Dental Clinic located at 14639 Ford Road in Dearborn. The suspect, a 73 year old male Dearborn resident, was quickly taken into custody by responding officers. It was determined that the suspect entered...Time to strengthen the United Nations
Sometimes, amid the heated political debate about what should done by the U.S. government in world affairs, a proposal cuts through the TV babble of the supposed experts with a clear, useful suggestion.That proposal came on August 17, when Pope Francis told journalists how he thought the world should cope with the challenge posed by......
