ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS

October 31, 2018 (San Diego’s East County) --- East County Magazine's World Watch helps you be an informed citizen on important issues globally and nationally. As part of our commitment to reflect all voices and views, we include links to a  variety of news sources representing a broad spectrum of political, religious, and social views. Top world and U.S. headlines include:

U.S.

• Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Follows Nationwide Spike In Anti-Semitism (Huffington Post)
• Shrugging off blame, Trump reverts to divisive rhetoric after shooting (Los Angeles Times)
• Trump shut down programs to counter violent rhetoric (GovExec)
• A Holocaust survivor was booked to speak in Pittsburgh. A massacre wouldn’t stop her. (Washington Post)
• Trump says he's eyeing an executive order to end citizenship for children born to noncitizens in U.S. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
• A Personal Testimony Of The Migrant Caravan (Washington Post)
• Trump says he may send 15,000 troops to U.S.-Mexico border (Washington Post)

WORLD

• Iranian spy service suspected of assassination plot in Denmark: security chief (Reuters)
•  U.S. charges Chinese intelligence officers for jet engine data hack  (Reuters)
• Hamas fires 30 rockets at Israel's south, IDF strikes 80 targets in Gaza (JPos)
• IDF: Islamic Jihad Rockets were directed from Iran, Syria (JPost)

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U.S.

Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Follows Nationwide Spike In Anti-Semitism (Huffington Post)

More swastikas desecrate Jewish cemeteries and frighten Jewish students. And now 11 people have been massacred.

Shrugging off blame, Trump reverts to divisive rhetoric after shooting (Los Angeles Times)

 President Trump, rather than taking on the traditional task of unifying the nation after a deadly shooting rampage, reverted to his usual rhetoric Monday morning, attacking the media as “the true Enemy of the People” and stirring up fear of immigrants.

Trump shut down programs to counter violent rhetoric (GovExec)

Set aside the question of whether President Donald Trump’s rhetorical flirtations with white nationalism enabled Saturday’s mass shooting in Pittsburgh. What’s undeniable is that his administration has hobbled the infrastructure designed to prevent such murders.

A Holocaust survivor was booked to speak in Pittsburgh. A massacre wouldn’t stop her. (Washington Post)

Magda Brown, 91, of Skokie, Ill., traveled to Pittsburgh hours after the synagogue shooting for a scheduled speech about her experiences in the Holocaust. “Now the world needs to hear the message even more,” she said.

Trump says he's eyeing an executive order to end citizenship for children born to noncitizens in U.S. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

President Trump, who has been campaigning intensely on immigration ahead of next week’s congressional elections, said in a television interview that he is “in the process” of preparing an executive order to end the right to citizenship for children born in the United States to parents who are here illegally… Most legal scholars have said that eliminating birthright citizenship would require a constitutional amendment. Even those who have argued that Congress could act without changing the Constitution haven’t said a president could do so by fiat.

A Personal Testimony Of The Migrant Caravan (Washington Post)

Putting a face behind those who risk it all in exchange for a new life

Trump says he may send 15,000 troops to U.S.-Mexico border (Washington Post)

The president said that he is considering a significant increase to the number of military personnel along the border, two days after he unveiled plans to send 5,200 troops there.

WORLD

Iranian spy service suspected of assassination plot in Denmark: security chief (Reuters)

 Denmark said on Tuesday it suspected an Iranian government intelligence service had tried to carry out a plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab opposition figure on its soil. / The alleged plot, which Denmark’s foreign minister said he believed the Iranian government was behind, prompted the Nordic country to call for fresh European Union-wide sanctions against the Islamic Republic.

U.S. charges Chinese intelligence officers for jet engine data hack  (Reuters)

 Chinese intelligence officers conspired with hackers and company insiders to break into private companies’ computer systems and steal information on a turbo fan engine used in commercial jetliners, according to a U.S. indictment unsealed on Tuesday.

Hamas fires 30 rockets at Israel's south, IDF strikes 80 targets in Gaza (JPos)

 Thirty Hamas rockets were fired on Israel and 10 were intercepted by the Iron Dome system, IDF Spokesperson reported.  Two rockets fell in the Gaza Strip and 18 landed in open areas

IDF: Islamic Jihad Rockets were directed from Iran, Syria (JPost)

Some 16,000 protesters participated in Friday’s March of Return protests, in which four Palestinians were killed by IDF sniper fire and 85 were injured, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported. Protesters burned tires and threw explosive devices, hand grenades and Molotov cocktails at IDF soldiers. The IDF responded with protest dispersal methods.