ECM WORLD WATCH: GLOBAL AND NATIONAL NEWS

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November 2, 2011 (San Diego's East County)--ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflecting all voices and views, we include links to a wide variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views.  

 

Top world and U.S. headlines include:

 

U.S.

  • Obama plan moves to ease mortgages, student loans (International Business Times)
  • Victims of improper foreclosure practices can submit claims (Los Angeles Times)
  • New Obama administration programs help veterans find jobs (Voice of America)
  • Farming helps refugees put down roots (Voice of America)
  • Millions without power after northeast snow storm (CNN)
  • Herman Cain sexual harassment claims dog campaign (ABC)
  • Bank of America cancels debit card fee (BBC)


WORLD

  • World reaches 7 billion (Reuters video)
  • Occupy London protesters celebrate after winning eviction battle (Guardian)
  • Somalia’s agony tests limits of aid (New York Times)
  • Wikileaks Assange loses extradition appeal (BBC)
  • Suicide bomber kills 3, wounds 20 in SE Turkey (Jerusalem Post)

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U.S.

 

Obama plan moves to ease mortgages, student loans (International Business Times)

October 24, 2011 -- President Barack Obama this week will announce a series of actions to help the economy that will not require congressional approval, including an initiative to make it easier for homeowners to refinance their mortgages, a White House official tells Reuters.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/236221/20111024/obama-plans-moves-to-ease-mortgages-student-loans.htm


Victims of improper foreclosure practices can submit claims (Los Angeles Times)

November 2, 2011 -- Aggrieved homeowners ensnared by a foreclosure system riddled with misconduct and error are set to get their first shot at winning some cash back from the banks.

Under orders from federal regulators, 14 mortgage servicers on Tuesday began mailing out 4.3 million letters to potential victims of wrongful foreclosure practices. The letters will invite borrowers to submit their cases for a free review by independent consultants that are funded by the lenders but vetted by regulators.

http://www.latimes.com/business/realestate/la-fi-foreclosure-errors-20111102,0,487669.story


New Obama administration programs help veterans find jobs (Voice of America)

October 25, 2011 -- The Obama administration says it is launching several programs to help military veterans find work as the U.S. president tries to show he is serious about creating jobs during a campaign-style tour of Western states.

The White House said Tuesday it wants community health centers to hire 8,000 military medics over the next three years and will ask the centers to start reporting on the number of veterans that they employ. It says federal agencies also will try to connect veterans to health clinics' job openings.

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/New-Obama-Administration-Programs-Help-Military-Veterans-Find-Jobs-132534833.html


Farming helps refugees put down roots (Voice of America)

November 2, 2011 -- For refugees, starting over in a new country can feel like landing on a new planet. It’s difficult enough to understand daily life, much less face the challenges of finding a job.

In America’s Pacific Northwest, a program to ease the refugee resettlement experience is helping people put down new roots, literally, through agriculture.

 

http://www.voanews.com/english/news/usa/Farming-Helps-Refugees-Put-Down-Roots--133068498.html


Millions without power after northeast snow storm (CNN)

October 30, 2011 -- Airline passengers left stranded by a freak snowstorm that pounded the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states were waiting to get to their destinations Sunday, many after spending a restless night on cots or airport floors.

 

"Whatever kind of system they had, it completely and utterly broke down," said passenger Fatimah Dahandari, who spent a night in Hartford, Connecticut's Bradley International Airport while trying to get to New York. "It looks like a refugee camp in here."

 

http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/30/us/east-coast-storm/index.html?hpt=hp_t1


Herman Cain sexual harassment claims dog campaign (ABC video)

 

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/herman-cain-sexual-harassment-claims-dog-campaign-14863848?tab=9482931&section=2808950&playlist=2808979


Bank of America cancels debit card fee (BBC)

November 1, 2011 -- The bank announced it was abandoning its fee plan amid growing anger around the move and consumer calls to take banking business elsewhere.

A company spokeswoman declined to comment on account closure figures.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15548225


WORLD

 

World reaches 7 billion (Reuters video)

http://www.reuters.com/video/2011/10/28/the-world-reaches-7-billion?videoId=223988621&videoChannel=117760


Occupy London protesters celebrate after winning eviction battle (Guardian)

November 1, 2011 -- Shortly after 1.30pm a member of the Occupy London camp's liaison committee with St Paul's cathedral took the microphone at the camp's daily assembly to confirm the news that had already spread via text message, Twitter and old-fashioned word of mouth.

 

The committee had met the Chapter of St Paul's, the church's governing body at 11am, she explained: "We were informed that they will no longer be proceeding with legal action against us." The crowd of several hundred people gathered in front of the cathedral's grand front steps erupted in cheers.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/01/occupy-london-protesters-eviction-battle?newsfeed=true


Somalia’s agony tests limits of aid (New York Times)

November 1, 2011 -- Benadir Hospital is a chunky block of a building in downtown Mogadishu, built in the 1970s by the Chinese. It has cracked windows, ceiling fans that don’t turn and long, ghostly hallways that stink of human excrement and diesel fuel — all that the nurses have to wash the floors. Each morning, legions of starving people trudge in, the victims of Somalia’s spreading famine. Many have journeyed from hundreds of miles away. They spent every last dollar and every last calorie to make it here, and when they arrive, they simply collapse on the floor. Benadir’s few doctors and nurses are all volunteers and all exhausted, and many wear tattered, bloodied smocks. The minute I walked in, I had a bad feeling I would find what I was looking for.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/giving/some-aid-trickles-into-somalia-surrounded-by-death-and-disease.html?_r=3&hp


Wikileaks Assange loses extradition appeal (BBC)

November 2, 2011 -- Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has failed in his appeal against extradition from the UK to Sweden over allegations of rape and sexual assault.

Two judges at the High Court in London decided that a previous ruling in favour of extradition must be upheld.

Swedish authorities want him to answer accusations of raping one woman and sexually molesting and coercing another in Stockholm last year.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15549985


Suicide bomber kills 3, wounds 20 in SE Turkey (Jerusalem Post)

October 29, 2011 -- A female suicide bomber in southeast Turkey killed three people and wounded around 20 in Bingol, a town in the mainly Kurdish region on Saturday, police said.

The blast occurred at a tea house close to the office of the ruling AK Party in the town's main street at around 1.20 p.m. (1020 GMT), Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin said.

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=243602&R=R3

 

 

                 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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