ECM WORLD WATCH: NATIONAL AND GLOBAL NEWS

April 10, 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.

• At Fort Hood service, Obama calls for renewed attention to wars’ toll on those who served (Washington Post)
• NATO could send U.S. troops to eastern Europe (Time)
• Same-sex marriage battle escalates to force a Supreme Court ruling on constitutionality (Washington Post)
• NASA maps out plan for sending people to Mars, tossing asteroids at the moon (Huffington Post)

WORLD

• Heartbleed bug: public urged to reset all passwords (BBC)
• A rising number of children are dying from U.S. explosives littering Afghan lands (Washington Post)
• Pro-Moscow protesters seize arms, declare republic; Kiev fears invasion (Reuters)

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U.S.

At Fort Hood service, Obama calls for renewed attention to wars’ toll on those who served (Washington Post)

President Obama arrived here again Wednesday to console a mourning military community that has carried the burden of the nation’s post-Sept. 11 conflicts, marking a turn from the wars abroad to the one now looming at home.

NATO could send U.S. troops to eastern Europe (Time)

NATO troops, including Americans, could be deployed to Eastern Europe in an effort to shore up defenses in allied countries that share a border with Russia, a top U.S. military official said Wednesday.

Same-sex marriage battle escalates to force a Supreme Court ruling on constitutionality (Washington Post)

The nationwide legal battle over same-sex marriage escalates Thursday when a federal appeals court reviews the first in a string of unanimous judicial rulings that state bans on gay marriage cannot stand in the wake of last summer’s Supreme Court action.

NASA maps out plan for sending people to Mars, tossing asteroids at the moon (Huffington Post)

ASA has some projects in the works when it comes to space exploration, but they're no big deal: Just grabbing an asteroid and throwing it at the moon, sending people to Mars and laying the groundwork for permanent human settlements in the solar system.

WORLD

Heartbleed bug: public urged to reset all passwords (BBC)

Users are being told to change their passwords on sites that have tackled the bug

A rising number of children are dying from U.S. explosives littering Afghan lands (Washington Post)

As the U.S. military withdraws from Afghanistan, it is leaving behind a deadly legacy: about 800 square miles of land littered with undetonated grenades, rockets and mortar shells.

Pro-Moscow protesters seize arms, declare republic; Kiev fears invasion (Reuters)

 Pro-Moscow protesters in eastern Ukraine seized arms in one city and declared a separatist republic in another, in moves Kiev described on Monday as part of a Russian-orchestrated plan to justify an invasion to dismember the country....