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January 27, 2011 (San Diego’s East County) -- ECM World Watch helps you be an informed citizen about the most important issues globally and nationally.
Top world and U.S. headlines recently include:
- What protesters in Arab nations do--and don't--have in common (CNN)
- Tunisia unrest inspires Jordan proetesters (Voice of America)
- Egypt unrest enters third day (Reuters)
- A quick guide to the riots happening around the world (Business Insider)
- Thousands march in Yemen to demand change in government (Reuters)
- Moscow bombings (BBC News)
- Path is sought for states to escape debt burdens (New York Times)
- Christians flock to south Sudan, fear future in north (National Public Radio)
- Bhutto pledges to defend minorities in Pakistan
WHAT PROTESTERS IN ARAB NATIONS DO--AND DON'T--HAVE IN COMMON
January 27, 2011 (CNN) -- Protesters who have taken to the streets in several Arab nations of North Africa are angry at their own governments, and lashing out over some specific problems in their countries. But what they're looking for -- and, in the end, what inspired them to stand up and demonstrate -- is very similar, experts on the region said Thursday.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/01/27/arab.world.protests/index.htm...
TUNISIA UNREST INSPIRES JORDAN PROTESTERS
January 26, 2011 (Voice of America)--Demonstrators in Jordan say they are preparing for more protests. Massive demonstrations inspired by unrest in Tunisia have shaken what historically has been one of the most stable nations in the Middle East and raised questions about the future role of the country's popular monarch.
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/middle-east/Tunisia-Unrest-Inspires-...
EGYPT UNREST ENTERS THIRD DAY
January 27, 2011 (Reuters) - Egyptian police fought protesters in two cities in eastern Egypt Thursday and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei headed back to the country to join demonstrators trying to oust President Hosni Mubarak.
Police fired rubber bullets, water cannon and tear gas at hundreds of demonstrators in Suez on a third day of protests calling for an end to Mubarak's 30-year-old rule. Protesters chucked rocks and petrol bombs at police lines.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70O3UW20110127
A QUICK GUIDE TO THE RIOTS HAPPENING AROUND THE WORLD
January 25, 2011 (Business Insider) -- A wave of anti-government protests is sweeping the world.
Inspired by the revolt that toppled Tunisia's dictatorial president, thousands of protestors in Egypt and Yemen took to the streets this weekend to take a stand against high food prices, chronic unemployment and government corruption. Riots also broke out in Algeria, according to the Associated Press.
http://www.businessinsider.com/your-guide-to-the-riots-happening-around-...
THOUSANDS MARCH IN YEMEN TO DEMAND CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT
January 27, 2011 (Reuters)--.Around 16,000 Yemenis demonstrated in four parts of Sanaa in the largest rally since a wave of protests rocked Yemen last week, and protesters vowed to escalate the unrest unless their demands were met.... President Ali Abdullah Saleh, a key ally of the United States in a war against a resurgent al Qaeda wing based in Yemen, has ruled this Arabian Peninsula state for over 30 years.... Yemen, in the shadow of the world's top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, is struggling with soaring unemployment and dwindling oil and water reserves. Almost half its 23 million people live on $2 a day or less, and a third suffer from chronic hunger.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70Q3Y420110127
MOSCOW BOMBINGS
January 24, 2011 (BBC News) --Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to track down and punish those behind an apparent suicide bomb attack at Moscow's Domodedovo airport killed 35 people and injured more than 100.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12272392
PATH IS SOUGHT FOR STATES TO ESCAPE DEBT BURDENS
January 20, 2011 (New York Times)--Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.
Unlike cities, the states are barred from seeking protection in federal bankruptcy court. Any effort to change that status would have to clear high constitutional hurdles because the states are considered sovereign.
But proponents say some states are so burdened that the only feasible way out may be bankruptcy, giving Illinois, for example, the opportunity to do what General Motors did with the federal government’s aid.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/21/business/economy/21bankruptcy.html?_r=...
CHRISTIANS FLOCK TO SOUTH SUDAN, FEAR FUTURE IN NORTH
January 20, 2011 (NPR)--Pronouncements by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his government about creating an Islamic state governed by Shariah law — if the ongoing referendum splits their country in two — has many among the millions of Christians living in north Sudan fearing for their future.
http://www.npr.org/2011/01/20/132930349/christians-flock-to-south-sudan-...
BHUTTO PLEDGES TO DEFEND MINORITIES IN PAKISTAN
January 10, 2011 (Reuters) -- Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chairman of Pakistan's ruling party, on Monday condemned the killing of a politician for seeking changes to blasphemy laws, and called those celebrating his death "the real blasphemers."
Bhutto, the son of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto who was assassinated in 2007, also pledged to defend the country's minorities -- increasingly under siege from powerful religious lobbies and often targets of Islamist violence.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE7096IY20110110
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