ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS

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March 10, 2016 (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.

General news

Presidential primary

WORLD

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

U.S.

Here are judges the White House is considering for the Supreme Court(Washington Post)

The White House is considering nearly a half-dozen relatively new federal judges for President Obama’s nomination to the Supreme Court, focusing on jurists with scant dis­cern­ible ideology and limited judicial records as part of a strategy to surmount fierce Republican opposition. As Obama prepares for what probably will be his last opportunity to try to shape the high court after the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the president faces an unprecedented hurdle, with the Senate’s GOP majority vowing to ignore any nominee he proposes.

American Troops Capture ISIS Leader In Iraq (NPR)

American troops captured an Iraqi they call an important operative in the terror group ISIS. But the U.S. says it has no plans to get back into the detainee-holding business. After the man is interrogated, the Americans plan to hand him over to Iraq's Kurdish government. The raid and capture augurs a new phase in the ongoing war against the Islamic State, top U.S. officials say.

The return of the DIY abortion (New York Times)

…Google searches can help us understand what’s really going on. They show a hidden demand for self-induced abortion reminiscent of the era before Roe v. Wade .This demand is concentrated in areas where it is most difficult to get an abortion, and it has closely tracked the recent state-level crackdowns on abortion.

The women take over (Slate)

In oral arguments for the Texas abortion case, the three female justices upend the Supreme Court’s balance of power.

Utah towns run by polygamous sect discriminated against nonbelievers, jury finds (Los Angeles Times)

Such civil rights trials have been used to force change in police departments of major cities, but rarely has an entire city — including the mayor’s office — been the possible subject of federal oversight and management.

U.S. bans the use of electronic cigarettes on commercial flights (Reuters)

 The U.S. Transportation Department announced on Wednesday it has banned the use of electronic cigarettes on commercial flights.

Democrats are now favored to take over the Senate, thanks to Trump and Cruz (Politics USA)

With Republicans in a state of total collapse, a new analysis shows that Democrats are now favored to win back the Senate in 2016.

Attorney General wades into Apple vs. FBI, raising fundamental questions (Christian Science Monitor)

As the US attorney general Loretta Lynch shared her thoughts Tuesday on the battle between Apple and the FBI, she spoke of some of the deeper issues at stake, the precedents that could be set as passions swirl around this single iPhone.

Future of U.S. solar threatened in nationwide fight over incentives  (Reuters)

 Two sun-drenched U.S. states have lately come to very different conclusions on a controversial solar power incentive essential to the industry's growth.

Clinton calls for sanctions on Iran after more missile tests (CNET)

U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called for sanctions against Iran after the Islamic Republic brushed off U.S. concerns and test-fired two ballistic missiles that it said were designed to be able to hit Israel.

Primary results: Bernie Sanders upsets Hillary Clinton in Michigan (CNN)

Bernie Sanders won the Michigan Democratic primary, CNN projects, in an upset that delivers a sharp blow to Hillary Clinton's hopes of quickly securing her party's nomination.

Ted Cruz can beat Donald Trump (Slate)

…Ted Cruz… is only trailing Trump by about 100 delegates, a not insurmountable margin. Though twin Trump victories in Florida and Ohio—and the 165 winner-take-all delegates that would come with them—would be devastating to the anti-Trump cause, a split decision would still leave enough space for Cruz to catch up. What it’s going to take, though, is a leap-of-faith among anti-Trump leaders that comes with the risk of ceding Trump a 1,237 majority of delegates heading into the convention.

We endorse Bernie Sanders (Arab American News)

Presidents serve for four years, but this presidential election will likely shape the future of the United States for generations to come. Your vote on Tuesday, March 8, will help draw Washington's policies on critical issues for the near and remote future — a Supreme Court nomination; the United States’ role in the Middle East; the approach to the global refugee crisis; the fate of millions of undocumented immigrants and environmental guidelines that could affect our very existence on this planet…

The Arab American News endorses Sanders.

Donald Trump, great power and greater irresponsibility(San Diego Union-Tribune)

Thursday’s harsh attacks on Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump by Mitt Romney and John McCain have no precedent in U.S. history. Never before have we seen a major party’s two previous presidential nominees renounce the current frontrunner. But history happens when great power comes with great irresponsibility, and Trump continues to pervert the word great.

Hillary Clinton's False Hopes(Jewish World Review)

….Also this past weekend, Gen. Michael Hayden, formerly director of the CIA and of the National Security Agency, stated on CNN that it is a near certainty that the Russian government and others had access to Clinton's non-secure server and all it contained.

Clinton on her private server wrote 104 classified emails (Washington Post)

Hillary Clinton wrote 104 emails that she sent using her private server while secretary of state that the government has since said contain classified information, according to a new Washington Post analysis of Clinton’s publicly released correspondence…The analysis also showed that the practice of using non-secure email systems to send sensitive information was widespread at the department and elsewhere in government.

WORLD

IS registration forms identify 22,000 jihadists (Sky News)

Thousands of documents detailing phone numbers and family contacts are handed to Sky News by a disillusioned convert to the group… the key breakthrough from the documents is the revealing of the identities of a number of previously unknown jihadis in the UK, across northern Europe, much of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as in the United States and Canada…Their whereabouts are crucial to breaking the organisation and preventing further terror attacks…The files were passed to Sky News on a memory stick stolen from the head of Islamic State's internal security police, an organisation described by insiders as the group's SS. He had been entrusted to protect the organisation's core secrets..

Amazon tribe in Peru takes hostages after oil spill (Reuters)

An indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon took at least eight public officials hostage to demand help from the central government after an oil spill polluted its lands, authorities said Monday.



Top Pakistani religious body rules women's protection law 'un-Islamic’ (Reuters)

A powerful Pakistani religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of laws with Islam on Thursday declared a new law that criminalizes violence against women to be "un-Islamic."

U.S. takes North Korean threats seriously: State Dept. (Reuters)

The U.S. State Department said on Monday the United States took North Korean threats to use nuclear weapons seriously and urged Pyongyang to halt its provocations, including testing nuclear devices and long-range rockets.

North Korea’s Kim says country has miniaturized nuclear weapons (Reuters)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said the country has miniaturized nuclear warheads to mount on ballistic missiles and ordered improvements in the power and precision of its arsenal, state media reported on Wednesday.

How the Syrian crisis came home to a small town in Canada (CNN)

Lethbridge pastor Ryan Dueck says the scale of human suffering in the Syria conflict propelled him to take action.

76 hungry Boko Haram members surrender to Nigerian army (CS Monitor)

Members of the Islamist militant group have given themselves up, citing food shortages.

OAS rights commission finds "serious crisis" in Mexico (AP)

The human rights situation Mexico is "tragic" and the problems don't just involve drug violence but also torture, impunity, excessive force and police collusion with criminals, an Organization of American States panel said Wednesday.

U.N. registered 99 sex crime allegations against its staff in 2015 (Reuters)

 There were 99 new allegations of sexual exploitation or sexual abuse against United Nations staff members across the U.N. system last year, a sharp increase from the 80 allegations in 2014, according to a new U.N. report.

NASA: Drought in 1998-2012 in Mideast worst in 900 years (AP)

A recent, 14-year dry spell in the Middle East was the worst drought in the past 900 years, according to a new NASA study released this week.

Aftershocks rock Indonesia after massive [7.8] quake, calls for calm (Reuters)

 Strong aftershocks rocked Indonesia early on Thursday after a massive undersea earthquake sparked fears of a region-wide disaster similar to the 2004 Indian Ocean quake and tsunami that killed more than 200,000 people.

 


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