ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS

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September 9, 2015 (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:

U.S.

WORLD

Europe and Asia

Middle East

Africa

Mexico

For excerpts and links to full stories, click “read more” and scroll down.

 

U.S.

Judge upholds Arizona's 'show your papers' immigration law (Reuters)

A federal judge has upheld part of Arizona's contentious immigration law, rejecting claims that the so-called "show your papers" section of the law discriminated against Hispanics.

Ben Carson: #BlackLivesMatter misfire (USA Today)

Our righteous anger misdirected at politically convenient targets, not real culprits.

Millennials don't think much of themselves, report says. (CS Monitor)

Millennials are the most willing to describe their own generation negatively, a new Pew Research Center study found. 

Clinton aide invokes constitution to dodge probing about private e-mail (CS Monitor)

Lawyers for Clinton's former technology aide, Bryan Pagliano, said he is pleading the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying before Congress about the private email server she used while secretary of state.

Nearly 900,000 veterans are still waiting to get onto the VA backlog (CS Monitor)

The VA inspector general’s office has confirmed mismanagement of almost a million veterans’ health records. Over 300,000 vets may have died awaiting care.

Veterans Used In Secret Experiments Sue Military For Answers (NPR)

The U.S. military exposed tens of thousands of troops to chemical and biological agents before 1975. Today, those vets are seeking health care and details on what substances they were given.

The Iran Vote Explained, In 1 Infographic (NPR)

Congress has to vote soon on Iran's deal to limit its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. But it isn't business as usual on Capitol Hill: For starters, a "yes" vote actually means "no."

Second Review Says Classified Information Was in Hillary Clinton’s Email (NY Times)

M A special intelligence review of two emails that Hillary Rodham Clinton received as secretary of state on her personal account — including one about North Korea’s nuclear weapons program — has endorsed a finding by the inspector general for the intelligence agencies that the emails contained highly classified information when Mrs. Clinton received them, senior intelligence officials said.  

Oil train risks affect many U.S. schools, group says

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. schools sit along rail corridors used to carry toxic substances such as crude oil and would be at risk in the event of a derailment, an environmental group said on Tuesday as it called for a temporary halt on oil trains.  ForestEthics said its analysis of U.S. Department of Education data show nearly 15,000 schools with 5.7 million students sit inside the so-called 'blast zone', the one-mile area along railroad tracks the U.S. Department of Transportation recommends be evacuated in case of crashes. 

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Europe

Austria, Germany open borders to migrants offloaded by Hungary  (Reuters)

Austria and Germany threw open their borders on Saturday to thousands of exhausted migrants from the east, bussed to the frontier by a right-wing Hungarian government that had tried to stop them, but was overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of people.

France says taking all refugees would be victory for ISIS (JPost)

hat it would be a mistake for Europe to take in all refugees persecuted by Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, and called for a plan of action to ensure the Middle East's diversity remained despite the mounting crisis.

 Egyptian Billionaire Searches For An Island That Migrants Can Call Their Own (NPR)

An Egyptian businessman wants to buy an island from Greece or Italy to serve as home for 100,000 refugees. He plans to name it after the drowned Syrian boy, whose body washed ashore in Turkey.

How is the Arab world responding to the refugee crisis?(JPost)

Rich gulf states have not absorbed refugees from Syria and Iraq and are now facing criticism.

U.S. asks Greece to deny Russian flights to Syria Reuters)

The United States has asked Greece to deny Russia the use of its airspace for supply flights to Syria, a Greek official said on Monday, after Washington told Moscow it was deeply concerned by reports of a Russian military build up in Syria.

Queen Elizabeth II to break royalty record (CS Monitor)

On September 9, Queen Elizabeth II will become the longest-reigning British monarch in history. 

Asia

North Korea apparently building at nuclear site, IAEA says(JPost)

North Korea appears to be renovating and building facilities at its Yongbyon nuclear site, a central element of its atomic weapons program, the UN nuclear agency's head said on Monday.

Middle East

Migration from hell- Christians left behind (San Diego 6 News)

Kimbery Dvorak discusses the global refugee crisis.

Deadly storm engulfs Middle East, slows Syria air strikes (Reuters)

 A heavy sandstorm swept across parts of the Middle East on Tuesday, killing two people and hospitalizing hundreds in Lebanon and disrupting fighting and air strikes in neighboring Syria. Clouds of dust also engulfed Israel, Jordan and Cyprus where aircraft were diverted to Pathos from Larnaca airport as visibility fell to 500 meters.

Sinai blasts injure six peacekeepers, including four Americans: Pentagon (Reuters)

Six soldiers including four Americans were injured on Thursday in two blasts in northeast Sinai caused by improvised explosive devices, the Pentagon said.

Report: Iraqi woman kills ISIS commander that forced her into sex slavery (JPost)

A senior Islamic State commander was shot and killed by an Iraqi woman whom he forced into sexy slavery three months after gifting her to several men under his command, independent Iraqi satellite TV network Alsumaria News reported Monday. 

UN agency forced to cut food aid to 200,000 Syrian refugees (AP)

The cash-strapped World Food Program says it has had to drop one-third of Syrian refugees from its aid program in Mideast host countries this year, including more than 200,000 in Jordan who lost aid this month.

U.S., allies launch 25 air strikes in Iraq, eight in Syria: U.S. (Reuters)

U.S. and coalition forces launched 25 air strikes in Iraq and eight in Syria on Friday against Islamic State targets, the U.S. military said.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Reuters/worldNews/~4/aEjPaGTomRw

Turkish jets strike PKK targets after deadly militant attack (Reuters)

Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish insurgent targets overnight after the militants staged what appeared to be their deadliest attack since the collapse of a two-year-old ceasefire in July and claimed to have killed 31 government soldiers.

Africa

Village of 1,000 sealed off over Ebola (BBC)

A Sierra Leone village of nearly 1,000 people is put under quarantine after a dead woman's body tested positive for Ebola. The quarantine will last for three weeks, provided no new cases are recorded.

U.S. warns of possible attack in South Africa targeting Americans (Reuters)

The United States warned its citizens on Tuesday of a possible attack by "extremists" against U.S. facilities or interests in South Africa, a rare security alert in a stable democracy seldom associated with Islamist militancy.

South African Jewish groups: Proposal to cancel dual citizenship motivated by anti-Semitism (Jpost)

South African Jewish groups expressed outrage on Monday over reported plans by the ruling African National Congress to consider outlawing dual citizenship for South African citizens in an effort to stop them from holding Israeli citizenship and potentially serving in the IDF....

Mexico

4 more Mexican officials held in 'El Chapo' prison escape (AP)

A federal judge in Mexico has started proceedings against four officials accused of aiding the escape of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman from a maximum security prison.

 

 


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