ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL & GLOBAL NEWS HEADLINES

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January 24, 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:

 

 

 

  • Suicide bomber kills dozens in Moscow airport attack (USA Today)
  • Path is sought for states to escape debt burdens (New York Times)
  • Christians flock to south Sudan, fear future in north (NPR)
  • Bhutto pledges to defend minorities in Pakistan (Reuters)


SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS DOZENS IN MOSCOW AIRPORT ATTACK

January 24, 2011 (USA Today) -- Russia's government vowed to track down the terrorists behind a bombing of a crowded international airport Monday that killed 35 people and wounded nearly 200 others.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2011-01-24-russia-bombing_N.htm?loc=i...

 

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.

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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