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October 20, 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.
- · US drops plans to keep troops in Iraq (San Diego Union-Tribune)
- · Romney beating Obama in a fight for Wall Street cash (New York Times)
- · Uganda welcomes U.S. troops to hunt rebel leaders (Capital FM News)
- · Obama to challenge China on Trade(Reuters)
- · Bank Transfer Day’ Protest Attracts Massive Facebook Following, As Well As “Bank Trolls” (Talking Points)
WORLD
- · Ghadafi killed in hometown; Libya eyes future (Reuters)
- · Israeli-Hamas agreement to trade prisoners may reshape politics in region (New York Times)
- · Dozens of Yemeni women injured in protest (UPI)
- · Living buildings could absorb city carbon emissions (CNN)
- · Sectarian rifts erupt again in Saudi Arabia (Jerusalem Post)
- · Why did Egypt’s Army violently suppress Christian protesters? (Christian Science Monitor)
- · Clashes spark outrage among Egypt’s Christians (NPR)
- · Egypt intercepts Libyan surface-to-air-missles in Sinai (Jerusalem Post)
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U.S.
US drops plans to keep troops in Iraq (San Diego Union-Tribune)
October 15, 2011 -- The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned. The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more than eight years of U.S. involvement in the Iraq war, despite ongoing concerns about its security forces and the potential for instability.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/oct/15/apnewsbreak-us-drops-plans-to-keep-troops-in-iraq/?ap
Romney beating Obama in a fight for Wall Street cash (New York Times)
October 16, 2011-- It is no secret that the relationship between President Obama and Wall Street has chilled. A striking measure of that is the latest campaign finance reports.
Mitt Romney has raised far more money than Mr. Obama this year from the firms that have been among Wall Street’s top sources of donations for the two candidates.
Uganda welcomes U.S. troops to hunt rebel leaders (Capital FM News)
October 16, 2011 - Uganda and its neighbours hailed Saturday a US offer to send combat troops to help battle a brutal regional rebel force whose leaders are international war-crimes fugitives.
“We welcome this gesture — it has been well overdue,” said Uganda’s acting foreign minister Henry Okello Oryem.
US President Barack Obama said Friday that 100 troops would help Uganda track down Lord’s Resistance Army rebel chief Joseph Kony and other senior LRA leaders, but warned they would not lead the fighting themselves.
http://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2011/10/uganda-welcomes-us-troops-to-hunt-rebel-leaders/
Obama to challenge China on Trade(Reuters)
October 13, 2011--The Obama administration, under fire for not taking a harder line on China over its currency, appears set to move against the Asia export powerhouse on other fronts as next year's U.S. elections approach
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/13/us-usa-china-trade-idUSTRE79C72820111013
Bank Transfer Day’ Protest Attracts Massive Facebook Following, As Well As “Bank Trolls” (Talking Points)
October 15, 2011-- Remember, remember…to close your bank account and transfer your funds into a credit union on the fifth of November?
That's what more than 32,000 people on Facebook have pledged to do as a form of protest against the much-reviled debit card fees that some of the nation's largest banks are testing or planning on introducing.
WORLD
Ghadafi Killed in hometown; Libya now eyes future (Reuters)
October 20, 2011 -- Muammar Gaddafi was killed by Libyans he once scorned as "rats", succumbing to wounds, some seemingly inflicted after his capture by fighters who overran his last redoubt on Thursday in his hometown of Sirte.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/us-libya-idUSTRE79F1FK20111020
Israeli-Hamas agreemente to trade prisoners may reshape politics in region (New York Times)
October 12, 2011 — The prisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel that is expected to begin next week could reshape regional relationships, strengthening Egypt, Hamas and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel while posing an acute challenge to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
Dozens of Yemeni women injured in protest (UPI)
Occtober 10, 2011 -- Dozens of Yemeni women were injured after gangs attacked a rally to celebrate Tawakkol Karman, the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2011/10/10/Dozens-of-Yemeni-women-injured-in-protest/UPI-57051318269906/
Living buildings could absorb city carbon emissions (CNN)
October 14, 2011 (CNN)-- What if buildings had lungs that could absorb carbon emissions from the city and convert them into something useful? What if they had skin that could control their temperature without the need for radiators or air-conditioning? What if buildings could come "alive?"
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/14/tech/innovation/living-buildings-carbon/?hpt=hp_c1
Sectarian rifts erupt again in Saudi Arabia (Jerusalem Post)
October 9, 2011 -- Rioting in Saudi Arabia’s strategic Eastern Province that left 14 injured this week should serve as a warning that the monetary benefits the kingdom has showered on its citizens may be insufficient to ensure political quiet from its restive Shi'ite minority, analysts said. The riots erupted late on Monday in Al-Wamiyah city in the eastern governorate.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=241016
Why did Egypt’s Army violently suppress Christian protesters? (Christian Science Monitor)
October 10, 2011 -- Egypt's Army fired Sunday on thousands of Christian protesters demonstrating against a recent church burning, leaving at least 24 people dead. Some say the Army is provoking sectarian violence as a pretext for staying in power.
Clashes spark outrage among Egypt’s Christians (NPR)
October 10, 2011 --Several hundred Christians pelted police with rocks outside a Cairo hospital Monday, in fresh clashes the day after 24 people died in riots that grew out of a Christian protest against a church attack. "These events have taken us back several steps," Prime Minister Essam Sharaf said.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/10/141208072/clashes-spark-outrage-among-egypts-christians?ft=1&f=1004
Egypt intercepts Libyan surface-to-air-missles in Sinai (Jerusalem Post)
October 14, 2011 -- Egypt security officers said they intercepted surface-to-air missiles smuggled from Libya through the Sinai peninsula, the Washington Post reported, a day after Egypt reportedly flew fighter jets over certain areas of Sinai without requisite permission from Israel.
According to the Washington Post report, an Egyptian source said that Palestinians in Gaza had likely struck a deal over the weapons with contacts in Libya.
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=241731&R=R3
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