ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS

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October 14, 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:

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9 issues Democrats just debated that have been ignored by Republicans (Huffington Post)

While the first two GOP debates touched on topics that included cutting taxes, restricting abortion access, illegal immigration, vaccine skepticism and Secret Service aliases …the Democratic candidates discussed topics that highlighted key differences between the parties.

Who won the CNN Democratic presidential debate? Clinton, Sanders praised for performances (International Business Times)

Soon after the five presidential hopefuls squared off Tuesday in the Democratic Party's first debate, the winners and losers emerged. Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders led the polls and had the most to lose, but pundits praised them for their consistency and confidence throughout the evening.

Race for Speaker of the House could get a lot more crowded (Wall Street Journal)

Paul Ryan’s reluctance leaves many ambitious lawmakers considering a bid.

The federal government’s irresponsibility on nuclear waste (San Diego Union-Tribune editorial)

Revive the Yucca Mountain project

Prison inmates best Harvard debate team: Does prison education work? (CS Monitor)

The winners are part of the Bard Prison Initiative, a program that provides qualified inmates with an opportunity to earn tuition-free degrees from Bard College. If similar programs lower recidivism rates and boost cost efficiency, why hasn’t more money been invested in them?

'Great Pause' Among Prosecutors As DNA Proves Fallible (NPR)

Experts say the field of forensic DNA is having a moment of truth about years of overstated claims, and it may tarnish its reputation as the "gold standard" of legal evidence.

FBI says it 'disrupted' dozens of potential militants  (Reuters)

FBI counterterrorism investigators followed "dozens and dozens" of potential militants around the United States full time during the summer and "disrupted" many of them, FBI Director James Comey told a congressional committee on Thursday.

Two alleged Hezbollah associates face U.S. arms, money laundering charges (Reuters)

Two Beirut residents have been arrested on U.S. charges that they took part in an alleged scheme to help Hezbollah launder drug money, and to funnel thousands of weapons and military parts to criminal groups in Lebanon and Iran, prosecutors in Brooklyn, New York, said on Friday.

WORLD

Thousands demonstrate in Germany against EU-US trade deal (AP)

Tens of thousands of people marched through downtown Berlin on Saturday to protest a planned trans-Atlantic free trade pact.

At least 95 die in Turkish capital bombing (CNN)

Two powerful bombs exploded at a peace rally near the main train station in Ankara on Saturday morning, killing at least 95 people and wounding 246 others in the deadliest attack in the Turkish capital in recent memory.

Wave of violence sweeping Israel is 'terrorism,' US says (JPost)

The Obama administration characterizes the recent wave of violence sweeping Israel as "terrorism," a US official told The Jerusalem Post on Friday.

U.S. Says Russian Missiles Intended For Syria Have Crashed In Iran  (NPR)

Russian cruise missiles that were fired from warships in the Caspian sea and were intended to hit Syrian targets crashed in Iran

EU gets tough on expelling migrants, talks to neighbors(Reuters)

European Union governments agreed on Thursday to step up deportations of illegal immigrants and discussed creating an EU border force among measures to cope with hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria's civil war.

What Syria’s refugees think about Israel might surprise you (JPost)

Safely in Berlin, Syrian refugees weigh in on Israel, ISIS and the western world.

Explosion at pro-Kurdish rally in Turkey caught on film (JPost)

At least 86 people were killed when twin explosions hit a rally of pro-Kurdish and leftist activists outside Ankara's main train station. 

Weekend suicide bombings in Chad, Cameroon blamed on Boko Haram (CS Monitor)

The use of girls and women in recent suicide bombings in Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, and Niger raises fears that Boko Haram is using kidnap victims to target countries that are helping combat the rebels.

Iron Dome battery deployed in Beersheba (JPost)

Move comes after terrorists in Gaza fired rocket at southern Israel on Friday.

The Iran Deal Violations Begin (JPost)

Critics didn't have to wait long for their predictions to start coming true. Iran announced a long-range missile test in violation of the restrictions on their missile program that was promised by the administration.

U.S. airdrops ammunition to Syria rebels (Reuters)

U.S. forces airdropped small arms ammunition and other supplies to Syrian Arab rebels, barely two weeks after Russia raised the stakes in the long-running civil war by intervening on the side of President Bashar al-Assad.

Blast rocks Tianjin, 2 months after fatal explosion (U-T)

Two months after massive explosions left 173 people dead or missing in a major port city in northern China, Tianijn has been rattled again by a warehouse blast.


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