August 21, 2013 (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 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.
- Manning gets 35 years in WikiLeaks case (AP)
- Judge: EPA may have tried to skirt disclosure law (U-T San Diego)
- Intermittent Nature of Green Power Is Challenge for Utilities (New York Times)
- NSA broke privacy rules thousands of times per year, audit finds (Washington Post)
- CIA acknowledges Area 51 in declassified documents (U-T San Diego)
WORLD
- Militants Kill 25 Egyptian Policemen In Sinai (NPR)
- Lawyer expects Egypt's Mubarak to be freed this week (Reuters)
- As Egypt lionizes police, activists worry (Reuters)
- Scores killed in 'Day of Rage' demonstrations in Egypt (Jerusalem Post)
- Smaller, transportable nuclear reactor
- American al Qaeda militant urges attacks on U.S. diplomats (Reuters)
- Egypt's military chief: Army to confront violence (UT San Diego)
- Christians confronting their own Kristalnacht-like attacks in Egypt
- In Kabul, A Juggling Act That Offers Joy For Afghan Kids
- Activists inspired by ouster of Morsi in Egypt launch campaign to overthrow Hamas in Gaza (JPost)
- Al Qaeda planning attacks on high-speed trains in Europe: newspaper (Reuters)
- Japan to issue gravest Fukushima nuclear warning in two years: agency (Reuters)
- Syria opposition says 1,300 killed in Damascus attack, chemicals used (Reuters)
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