ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS

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October 1, 2014 (San Diego's East County)-- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect 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:

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First case of confirmed Ebola in United States (CNBC)

 The United States now has one confirmed case of Ebola, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, marking the first domestic appearance of the deadly virus that has ravaged swaths of continental Africa. The as-yet unidentified patient is located in Dallas, officials say, effectively confirming a statement issued on Monday by Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas.

Judge accepts guilty plea in U.S. embassy bombing case (Reuters)

A U.S. judge on Tuesday accepted the guilty plea of an Egyptian man charged in connection with the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, 10 days after expressing concern that prosecutors had given him too lenient a deal.

Mexico Pays To Help Its Citizens Avoid Deportation From The U.S. (NPR)

Applying to the program for immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children provides a work permit and prevents deportation, but costs $465. Mexico is helping some of its citizens with that cost.

US: Immigrant families fail to report to agents (AP)

Tens of thousands of young families caught crossing the border illegally earlier this year subsequently failed to meet with federal immigration agents, as they were instructed, the Homeland Security Department has acknowledged privately. An official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement revealed that about 70 percent of immigrant families the Obama administration had released into the U.S. never showed up weeks later for follow up appointments.

Why Civilians Must Acknowledge the Individual Cost of War: War Letters Collector Andrew Carroll (Reason)

Andrew Carroll has devoted the past 16 years to collecting and preserving war correspondences throughout American history.

New documents show legal basis for NSA surveillance programs (Reuters)

Documents released by the U.S. government show it views an executive order issued in 1981 as the basis of most of the National Security Agency's surveillance activities, the American Civil Liberties Union said on Monday.

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31 people feared dead in Mt. Ontake volcano eruption (+video)   (CS Monitor)

 Japan's second-highest volcano erupted a day early Saturday, likely killing 30 people, injuring 40 others, and stranding hundreds more....  Japan ….is home to 110 active volcanoes.  One of these… is 50 km (31 miles) from Kyushu Electric Power's Sendai nuclear plant, which was approved to restart by Japan's nuclear regulator earlier in September.  The Nuclear Regulation Authority has said the chance of volcanic activity during the Sendai plant's lifespan was negligible even though five giant calderas, crater-like depressions formed by past eruptions, are also nearby.

US-led planes strike Islamic State on Syria-Turkey border (CS Monitor)

US-led coalition warplanes struck Islamic State fighters in Syria attacking a town near the Turkish border for the first time Saturday, as well as positions in the country's east, activists and a Kurdish official said....

Mexico seeks 57 missing after weekend violence (AP)

 Authorities were searching Monday for 57 students reported missing after weekend violence left at least six people dead and 25 wounded in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero.

Mexico manhunt after politician slain in Acapulco (UT San Diego)

The killing of a regional political leader at a historic hotel in this Pacific resort city had investigators looking for his assassins on Monday.

Catalonia defies Spain by calling secession vote (UT San Diego)

The president of Spain's powerful northeastern region of Catalonia on Saturday formally called an independence referendum, the latest secession push in Europe and one of the most serious challenges to the Spanish state in recent years.

Liberia: Top doctor goes under Ebola quarantine (UT San Diego)

Liberia's chief medical officer is placing herself under quarantine for 21 days after her office assistant died of Ebola.

Police clamp down as Hong Kong students protest for democracy (CNN)

Police in Hong Kong blocked more protesters from joining a pro-democracy rally outside the government headquarters as tensions rose Saturday, following more than 70 arrests of activists. Organizers said some 50,000 protesters turned out for Saturday night's rally.

Europe's stand against Islamic State is all about the home front (CS Monitor)

Europeans were solidly against intervention in the Middle East just a few months ago. Now they are lining up behind the US-led operations against the Islamic State in Iraq – in large part because they see the group as a domestic threat.

Aral Sea's Eastern Basin Has Dried Out, NASA Photos Show (NPR)

"For the first time in modern history, the eastern basin of the South Aral Sea has completely dried," NASA says, citing satellite photos from 2000 and 2014.

Mexico says 14 of 57 missing students found (UT San Diego)

Fourteen of the 57 students reported missing after weekend shootings that killed six people in the southern state of Guerrero have been located, officials said Tuesday.

Thousands of Ebola orphans 'shunned' (BBC)

At least 3,700 children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone who have lost one or both parents to Ebola this year face being shunned, the UN says.


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