March 25, 2014 (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.
- White House plan would end NSA collection of Americans’ phone records (Wash/ Post)
- High court to test limits of religious liberty in Obamacare case (The Hill)
- 14 dead, 176 missing in Washington landslide (USA Today)
- Mountaintops, communities permanently altered in West Virginia (Al Jazeera)
WORLD
- Russia kicked out of G-8 club (The Hill)
- India beats the odds, beats polio (CNN)
- Officials: missing plane went down in Indian Ocean (Washington Post)
- Polish See Shades Of 1939 In Russia's Crimea Grab (NPR)
- If it comes to war with Russia, does Ukraine stand a chance? (BBC The World)
- Moscow signals concern for Russians in Estonia (Reuters)
- Iranians build an American aircraft carrier, sort of (BBC The World)
- Hamas sends threatening text messages to Israelis (JPost)
- NATO says Russia has big force at Ukraine's border, worries over Transdniestria (Reuters)
- Election observers pull foreign staff out of Afghanistan after hotel attack (Reuters)
- After two hearings, Egyptian court issues death sentence verdict for 529 people (+video) (CS Monitor)
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