On 12 Sep 2006, the Big-8 Management Board decided by consensus to create
the moderated newsgroup talk.current-events. The group was created on 25
Sep 2006, with the newgroup message isc.org>.
For more information on the proposal and history, please refer to the
archives:

ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/talk/talk.current-events

For your newsgroups file:
talk.current-events Major news events of worldwide interest. (Moderated)

CHARTER:

talk.current-events is a lightly-moderated newsgroup to discuss the world
events of the day. Discussion should not be restricted to that which
is currently being discussed in the news media; instead, journalism by the
users of the group is encouraged. Discussion is also not restricted to
events in the United States, or any other specific country.

Copyright violations (especially reprints of news articles) are explicitly
banned; repeat offenders will be blacklisted from the group. Instead,
users are encouraged to just offer URLs, or short excerpts from the articles.