June 18, 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:
NATIONAL
- Sources: Benghazi terror suspect captured without a single shot fired (CNN)
- Federal court rules cellphone tracking data protected under Fourth Amendment (CS Monitor)
- US missile defense system unreliable in tests (Sacramento Bee)
- For The Win(e): U.S. Passes France As World's Top Wine Consumer
- Pew Poll: More Americans Are Political Purists (NPR)
- Two prominent Mormon activists threatened with excommunication (Reuters)
- Stay-At-Home Dads On The Rise, And Many Of Them Are Poor (NPR)
- Tornado obliterates Nebraska town, killing one and injuring 16 (Reuters)
INTERNATIONAL
Iraq
- Militants Reportedly Overrun Tikrit, As 500,000 Flee Mosul (NPR)
- Iraq's implosion could redraw Middle East boundaries (Reuters)
- In One Map, The Dramatic Rise Of ISIS In Iraq And Syria (NPR)
- ISIL gets rich in attack on Iraq's cities (Marketplace)
- Pentagon moves USS Mesa Verde nearer Iraq. What can it do? (CS Monitor)
- Al Qaeda Splinter Grabs U.S. Humvees, Sends Them to Syria (Reason)
Other countries
- Saudi Arabia jails 33 for up to 30 years on terrorism charges(Reuters)
- More than two dozen dead as Taliban assault Pakistan's main airport (Reuters)
- After Ukraine, U.S. trains more special forces in eastern Europe (Reuters)
- Yeshiva Students Missing, Suspected Kidnapped by Terrorists (Israel National News)
- US Quietly Releases More Military Prisoners in Afghanistan (Israel National News)
- Russia Sent Tanks to Separatists in Ukraine, U.S. Says (NY Times)
- Russia cuts off gas to Ukraine as Kiev orders border secured (Reuters)
- Russian jet tangles with US spy plane over Pacific (CS Monitor)
- Nigeria rejects swap of Boko Haram prisoners for schoolgirls: UK Minister (Reuters)
- Unrest Breaks Out In Vietnam Over Island Dispute With China (NPR)
- Myanmar’s Persecuted Minority (NY Times)
- Are English schools being taken over by Islamic extremists? (CS Monitor)
- What negative interest rates mean for the Eurozone (Marketplace)
- Wall Of Ice Surrounding Fukushima Will Contain Radioactive Water (NPR)
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