MLive.comMan set to be deported to Iraq doesn't even speak Arabic, family saysMLive.comHe can't speak Arabic, the primary language in Iraq, and his family also believes the Virgin Mary tattooed on his arm will get him murdered by Muslim extre [Read story...]
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Lions likely to take interest in All Blacks-Samoa test
Author: THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThu, 2017-06-15 03:00ID: 1497532284776227300ROTORUA, New Zealand: New Zealand’s Pacific Challenge rugby test with Samoa on Friday will be important viewing for the British and Irish Lions eight days out from their series [Read story...]
Curry, Durant committed to keeping Golden State on top
Author: THE ASSOCIATED PRESSWed, 2017-06-14 03:00ID: 1497528265575791400OAKLAND, California: Stephen Curry will likely go from being the NBA’s biggest bargain to signing the richest contract in the league at more than $200 million. And he looks for [Read story...]
Royals down San Francisco 7-2 to complete two-game sweep
Author: THE ASSOCIATED PRESSThu, 2017-06-15 03:00ID: 1497528265535791300SAN FRANCISCO: Mike Moustakas hit his 18th home run leading off the second inning, Jorge Bonifacio and Lorenzo Cain followed with back-to-back shots in the third and the Kansas C [Read story...]
Local rookie leads Queen’s Cup as Hend struggles
Author: AGENCE FRANCE PRESSEThu, 2017-06-15 15:04ID: 1497535121386549000BANGKOK: Local rookie Chanat Sakulpolphaisan shared the lead with three others after the first day at the Queen’s Cup in Thailand on Thursday as title defender Scott Hend stumb [Read story...]
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Kids born through fertility treatment show normal mental development
Despite concerns that children born through Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) may develop differently from other kids, a U.K. study finds they have normal mental skills until at least age 11. In fact, at ages 3 and 5 years, kids born as a resu [Read story...]
Journalism, history and war: Sit, type and bleed
The typical newsroom set-up, where journalists chase after news headlines dictated by some centralized news gathering agency — often based in some Western capital — does not suffice any more. In the case of the Middle East, the news narrative has [Read story...]
Van rams Muslim worshipers in London
http://www.arabamericannews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/londonfootage.mp4 LONDON ― A van plowed into worshipers near a London mosque in the early hours of Monday, injuring 10 people, two of them seriously, in what Prime Minister Theresa May sai [Read story...]
‘Sinful’ Zumba — aerobic exercise to music — banned in Iran
Author: ARAB NEWSID: 1497919179985675400Tue, 2017-06-20 03:00JEDDAH: Iranian clerics have outlawed Zumba, a mode of exercise that involves dance and aerobic movements performed to energetic music.According to a report in The New York Times, Iranians [Read story...]
KSA: 3 Iran Revolutionary Guards captured from boat carrying explosives
Author: ARAB NEWSID: 1497919180015676000Tue, 2017-06-20 05:00JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia said on Monday that it had captured three Iranian Revolutionary Guards aboard an explosives-laden boat going toward an oil platform in the Arabian Gulf.The Internationa [Read story...]
US defusing Syria tensions with livid Russia
Author: JOYCE KARAMID: 1497919180005675700Tue, 2017-06-20 07:00 WASHINGTON/BEIRUT: Russia on Monday warned it would track US-led coalition aircraft in Syria as potential “targets” and halted an incident-prevention hotline with Washington after US [Read story...]
Minnesota man sentenced to 39 years in prison for hate crime
DINKYTOWN-Anthony Sawina, the Minnesota man who shot at a group of Somali-American men in a car on their way to prayers in Dinkytown in June of 2016 Sawina’s hate crime, wounding two, earned him a sentencing of nearly 4o years in prison on Mond [Read story...]
Top Republican among wounded as gunman fires on U.S. lawmakers
A gunman opened fire on Wednesday on Republican U.S. lawmakers practicing near Washington for a charity baseball game, wounding senior Republican leader Steve Scalise and several others before being fatally shot by police. The shooter fired repeatedl [Read story...]
