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What was the biggest news issue this past week -- either in your community, nationally, or globally? Talk about it and why it’s a big deal.

This past week I was working and covering Africa, so the main news issues were the volcano eruption in DRC and the coup in Mali. Both very big events, but I was amazed to realize how little people here were focused on them. With my job it is interesting how I am immersed in a world so far away just through my computer-- while all around me in my physical environment is a different story. Very strange to be focused on something so far away all week and then today, when I'm finally done with work I come back to my immediate surroundings in NYC where everything is different and people have been following other news and other stories.