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Poll: One in 10 Americans have taken drugs prescribed for others
WASHINGTON - One in 10 Americans admit to taking a prescription drug they have not been prescribed, and a quarter of those people have used them just to get high, according to an ongoing Reuters/Ipsos poll. While about six in ten Americans who used another person's prescriptions did so for pain relief, a fifth took them to sleep,...Two men charged in Miami with financing ‘foreign terrorist groups’
MIAMI — Two men were charged in federal court in Miami on Tuesday, Aug. 15, with providing financing and recruits to al-Qaeda and other foreign terrorist organizations fighting in Syria and Somalia.Gufran Ahmed Kauser Mohammed, a 30-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen born in India, and Mohamed Hussein Said, a 25-year-old Kenyan, were...White House highlights economic benefits of immigration reform
Washington — The White House said, on Tuesday Aug. 13, immigration reform is not only the right thing to do, it would also add significantly to the U.S. gross domestic product."Our country is stronger when everyone has a stake, everyone pays their taxes and fulfills their responsibilities, and everyone is equally invested in our...How Congress overlooked NSA spying
Complaints have been heard that members of Congress are not sufficiently informed by the Executive Branch to conduct proper oversight of secret programs, such as those National Security Agency’s collection activities that are the subject of much controversy. The complaints are misplaced.A bigger factor is the chronic attention deficit...General Dempsey warns on Syrian war, again
General Martin Dempsey is at it again. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is traveling throughout the Middle East, seemingly making it clear that he doesn’t want any part of the war in Syria. In a letter to members of Congress, Dempsey had earlier warned that all of the options open to the United States in the Syrian civil war...Israel to recruit students as undercover agents on social media
Tel Aviv - Israel is set to recruit students to work undercover in "covert units" at universities. The students will post messages on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube on the Israeli government’s behalf — without identifying themselves as government agents.The students participating in the project will be part of the public diplomacy arm...Israel defiant on settlements as peace talks open
WASHINGTON — Against the backdrop of two major announcements of Israeli settlement expansion, U.S.-brokered peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians resumed Thursday, Aug. 15, in Jerusalem.The talks are the result of an intense effort by Secretary of State John Kerry to overcome the impasse that has kept talks frozen for...
Bombs kill 34 in Baghdad, Kerry warns of destabilization
August 16th, 20130 BAGHDAD - Car bomb attacks killed at least 34 people in Baghdad on Thursday, Aug. 15Baghdad- More than 100 people were wounded in at least eight blasts, one of which was near the "Green Zone" diplomatic complex, part of a wave of bloodshed that has taken the monthly death toll in Iraq to the highest levels in five years."Iraq's streets...Annual Eid Festival collaborative effort between community organizations
DEARBORN — The annual “Eid Festival” was held on Sunday, Aug. 11. Abathar Alkudari, a festival organizer, said that close to 7,000 people attended the event, which was, once again, a success in its fourth year. The festival took place on the soccer field that is adjacent to the Henry Ford Centennial Library. Its focus...Large parts of the Middle East are now contaminated with war pollutants.
In Iraq, war debris continues to wear away and erode populated cities. Such debris includes the wreckage of tanks and armored vehicles, trucks and abandoned military ammunition, as well as the remains of bombs and bullets. Left unabated, the debris will act as dangerous toxic reservoirs; releasing harmful chemicals into the environment...What Egypt’s most powerful man learned from the U.S. military
In 2006, Professor Stephen Gerras hosted a Super Bowl party at his house for the foreign military officers who were taking his courses at the U.S. Army War College. As the Pittsburgh Steelers clobbered the Seattle Seahawks, Gerras kept one eye on a partygoer, who wasn't paying much attention to the game — Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi,...City Council to vote on Dearborn Planning Commission recommendation for garage ordinance
DEARBORN — The City’s Planning Commission sent a copy this week of a revised garage use ordinance for recommendation to city council for approval. The move comes nearly six months after deliberations, which were accompanied by a reaction and feedback from residents. On Monday, the Commission voted 8-0, with one member...Dearborn Finance Department awarded for excellence in financial reporting
DEARBORN — For the 14th year in a row, the City of Dearborn’s Finance Department has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada (GFOA).The certificate is the highest form of recognition in the area of government,...Local Pro-Morsi protesters condemn Cairo violence
DEARBORN — Hundreds of local residents gathered outside of the Henry Ford Centennial Library on Wednesday, August 14, to condemn the massacre that occurred in Cairo earlier that day, when the country's military regime, aided with snipers and bulldozers, left close to 500 protestors dead and over 1,000 injured as of Thursday....
UN calls for end to violence in Egypt, as death toll rises
August 16th, 20130 NEY YORK - Supporters of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood stormed and torched a government building in Cairo on Thursday, Aug. 15, while families tried to identify hundreds of mutilated bodies piled in a Cairo mosque a day after they were shot dead by the security forces.Egypt's health ministry says 623 people were killed and thousands......
South Beirut bombing receives wide condemnation
August 16th, 20130 BEIRUT - A powerful car bomb struck the southern Beirut stronghold of Lebanon's militant Hizbullah on Thursday, Aug. 15, killing 22 people, wounding 120 and trapping many others inside damaged buildings, witnesses and emergency officials said.The blast, which comes a month after another car bomb wounded more than 50 people in the same...Nasrallah: We will confront Israeli incursions
BEIRUT - Israel’s recent failed operation in Labbouna, South Lebanon raises a number of questions as to what the commando force was planning to do before it fell into Hizbullah’s ambush.Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Wednesday, Aug. 14, his party was responsible for the ambush that wounded four Israeli soldiers, who...Syria rebels fight each other in Raqa
BEIRUT - A jihadist group has expelled rebel Free Syrian Army fighters from their positions in the northern city of Raqa, a watchdog reported on Wednesday, Aug.14. "Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) have taken control of the positions of the Ahfad al-Rasul brigade in Raqa," the Syrian Observatory for...
Family and friends honor Helen Thomas legacy at memorial service
August 16th, 20130 TROY — Family and friends of Helen Thomas gathered at the St. George Orthodox Church here Thursday, where the legendary White House Correspondent was remembered at a memorial service in her honor.The public knew Thomas as a tough and courageous journalist, but family members of the icon shared stories about who she was outside of the......
‘Sexual Jihad’ and the ‘Syrian revolution’
Damascus — It took her a long time to take the decision to talk and when she did, she would only meet in a public place.She was an ordinary Damascene, dressed in a long coat and a scarf that completely covered her hair. Light skinned and brown eyed, there was nothing outstanding about her – nothing outstanding until she told her...Adjusting to the new Iranian reality
As Hassan Rouhani was inaugurated Iran’s new president last weekend, there was self-referential optimism in Western policy circles about what his accession might portend. A substantial quorum in these circles sees Rouhani as perhaps someone with whom the West — to recall Margaret Thatcher’s 1984 assessment of rising Soviet leader......
The Arab turmoil: Where do we stand?
Seasons come and go, yet Arab countries remain in ongoing turmoil. They called it an ‘Arab Spring,’ but even if that ‘spring’ had ever existed in the shape and form that the media portrayed it to be, it never really lasted. It has now morphed into something far more complex.But it is not an ‘Islamic winter’ either; a...
Primary election a victory for local communities, despite low turn-out
August 9th, 20130 DEARBORN — Despite lower turnouts across the board, the Primary elections ended on a positive note for the Arab and Muslim American communities in Dearborn and Hamtramck.Attracting the majority of the attention in Dearborn was the city council race, which saw three first-time Arab American city council candidates advance to the......