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General Discussion => Topical Climates => Topic started by: donnap99 on April 07, 2003, 03:19:09 pm

Title: No offense, but is there ANY other news???
Post by: donnap99 on April 07, 2003, 03:19:09 pm

With all due respect, is there ANY other news in the world? Imagine what news we're not hearing because the war is overshadowing everything. Have we missed anything big?

DonnaP99

Title: Re: No offense, but is there ANY other news???
Post by: smitkit on April 07, 2003, 04:42:31 pm

I agree Donna. I'm glued to the war coverage, and recognise it's importance to the families of the service men and women involved, but what about the 1000 people who got executed in the Democratic Republic of Congo this week? What, you haven't heard about it ... enough said.

If you're interested, you can find out more here: http://allafrica.com/stories/200304070340.html

Kez

Title: Re: No offense, but is there ANY other news???
Post by: donnap99 on April 07, 2003, 05:02:18 pm

OMG! I had NOT!!!

DonnaP99

Title: Re: No offense, but is there ANY other news???
Post by: carolineg on April 08, 2003, 05:21:53 pm

I hadn't heard about that either but read an article in this morning's Metro that said because the war is dominating the world's attention at the moment a lot of human rights violations are going unnoticed, they mentioned incidents in Zimbabwe and Egypt. From the point you make I would say that this is probably true.

Caroline

Title: Re: No offense, but is there ANY other news???
Post by: radaro on April 09, 2003, 05:10:58 pm

Have you heard about the outbreak of SARS?

Title: Re: No offense, but is there ANY other news???
Post by: countrigal on April 09, 2003, 10:05:36 pm

What about Castro's newest debacle? I heard he had executed or imprisoned quite a few people for stupid reasons (read: inhuman treatment).

CountriGal
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Title: Re: No offense, but is there ANY other news???
Post by: bethalize on April 09, 2003, 11:46:55 pm

We had a budget! Let's pay more for the good things in life to finace the necessary ones. Hoorah for My Little Tony and the Care Blairs!

Bethalize
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