<story><title>Mubarak says that he will not be leaving office</title><url>http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-10-egypt-protests</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>obiefernandez</author><text>I&apos;m glued to AlJazeera at the moment and have definitely been following the whole story with enthusiastic interest since the beginning.&lt;p&gt;BUT&lt;p&gt;Why are we discussing this topic here again? Seems completely off-topic...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>robryan</author><text>Pretty much every piece of really significant world news gets discussed here, no matter what the topic. I find that fine, as long as the bar is high enough that it&apos;s not all the time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mubarak says that he will not be leaving office</title><url>http://blogs.aljazeera.net/middle-east/2011/02/10/live-blog-feb-10-egypt-protests</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>obiefernandez</author><text>I&apos;m glued to AlJazeera at the moment and have definitely been following the whole story with enthusiastic interest since the beginning.&lt;p&gt;BUT&lt;p&gt;Why are we discussing this topic here again? Seems completely off-topic...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jeromec</author><text>You&apos;re right that according to the site&apos;s guidelines (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html&lt;/a&gt;) political stories are usually off-topic.&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they&apos;re evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, there is an exception given for &quot;interesting new phenomenon&quot;. I would say revolutions of a scale not seen in a region for thousands of years would qualify.</text></comment>