World News
I've been waiting for a thread like this for a while, but no one has made it, so I'm making it myself.
Rules:
1. This thread is for discussing the latest news, anywhere in the world. You can still make specific threads for anything that merits its own separate discussion, but if you feel like commenting something that happened and don't think it's worth posting a new thread just for that, then this is the place to do so.
2. You may post new pieces of news and/or discuss other people's posts.
Aside from the Misc rules and General TPM rules, that's it. So, there we go.
First piece of news: former Argentinean president Néstor Kirchner has died of a heart attack. He was planning to run for president again next year, so now his party will obviously have to find another candidate as well as another head. I wonder how our current president will react, and how this will affect her political decisions for the rest of her ruling period. After all, he was not only her husband, but also the mind behind all their political schemes. Personally (and this is where my objectivity ends), I'd like to be optimistic and think this will put most of her plans on hold and he won't be able to do any damage from beyond the grave, but you never know... anything can happen in politics.
Oh. Paul the German octopus has died too. Of course, octopi don't have very long lifespans, so that wasn't as much of a surprise.
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