Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Local news

Provocative headline of the day is: "Israel on baby-killing spree". The death toll has risen to 1,000 Lebanese and 101 Israeli. The majority of the Lebanese casulties are children... Bizarrely though, there are no references to babies or children in the text of the article, just lots of gruesome provocative images...

Chocolates end hunger strike. A box of chocolates brought one prisoner's hunger strike to abrupt end. The hunger strike started when a police officer was not summoned to testify in a case about another officer stealing the prisoner's personal belongings. The prison director found out that the man's favourite food was chocolate, so he sent the prisoner a box of premium chocolates. Shortly thereafter the prisoner ended his three-day hunger strike.

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