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1/29/10 Synopsis- On Wednesday Toyota recalled over 75,500 sport gentility vehicles do to faulty acceleration peddles. This is only a fraction of the 5.3 billion cars that have been recalled sense the start 2009. This has put stress on the Toyota company for people not trusting the company anymore due to so many recalls and are questioning " It makes Chinese consumers begin to doubt the invincibility of Toyota product quality." Although Toyota is still the top vechicle seller in the world its only fourth in China. According to JD powers and associates, "China's very important to Toyota, but they've had their problems in China --- the market's boomed here, but we're not seeing Toyota grow as fast."

Sources- CNN,. "Recall in China a big headache for Toyota." (2010): n. pag. Web. 29 Jan 2010. . BBC,. "Toyota car recall hits US, Europe and China ." (2010): n. pag. Web. 29 Jan 2010. .

Differences and Similarities- Some diffrences that the two had was that the pictures are diffrent and so are the titles of the page. But also the CNN one talks about the effect in China sales. But there were several similarities with the numbers of cars recalled and number of recalls.

What I think- I think that Toyota should take more pride in there work so they can be known as a better car manufacturer. I also think that this wont really effect the company much, they might lose a few people but that will be about it. 

12/11/09 Synopsis- The Greek ship Ariana that was hijacked over six months ago was released Thursday at about 13:30GMT. The ship was a 24 man crew of Ukrainians was said to be carrying 35,000 tons of soya. The President Viktor Yushchenko payed a ransom of an undisclosed amount of money to which the pirates said they received nearly $3m in ransom. President Viktor Yushchenko has said that a Ukrainian plane will be picking up the 24 sailors soon and that they will be returned to the country. The President also said that he would like to congratulate the entire country for the families on the successful operation to free our sailors.  Sources-  Theodorou, Christine. "Ship Released 6 Months After Hijacking." //CNN News// (December 10, 2009): n. pag. Web. 11 Dec 2009. . BBC,. "Somali Pirates Free Greek Ship With Ukrainian Crew." //BBC News// (Thursday, 10 December 2009): n. pag. Web. 11 Dec 2009. .  Differences and Similarities- Some similarities are that they both have quotes from The President Viktor Yushchenko, and that they both talk about how long they sailors were held hostage. There were a few differences that were along the lines of that one gave the cargo they were carrying and the amount of money that was given for the ransom.

What I Think- I think that its finally good that the sailors were released, but unfortanitly there had to be a monatary transaction for the lifes and cargo of the ship. im also glad that this was all resolved peacefully in the end and that nobody was physcally hurt. 

12/4/09 Synopsis- On Thursday Capt. Camara was shot and wounded in an attack on his presidential convoy. This is apparently the first time hes left the country sense hes seized power. According to reports hes not very hurt and the government has control of the situation. According to the government this was a retaliation of what happened a few months ago where 157 people were shot in the soccer stadium in protest.

Sources- BBC,. "Shot Guinea Strongman Camara ." //BBC News// (4 December 2009): n. pag. Web. 4 Dec 2009. . CCN,. "Guinea Leader Survives Attack." //CNN News// (December 3, 2009): n. pag. Web. 4 Dec 2009. .

Differences and Similarities- The similarities are that the both talk about the cause of the attack and that Capt. Camara survived the attack. The difference is that one is a lot shorter then the other and the one that is longer goes into more detail.

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">What I Think- I think that this is good that he survived the attack because if he had been killed the country of Guinea would have fallen into caos. If that had happend there would probably be a civil war and that would have ended in a bloody war.

11/27/09 Synopsis- Reports have that the first recession in South Africa since 1992 has ended this quarter. The economy grew by an annualized rate of 0.9% this quarter. The biggest reason that this happend was because of "a strong manufacturing sector was largely responsible for the return to growth." This showed a 7.6% increase this quarter due to the construction of soccer fields needed for the 2010 World Cup. The rates are supposed to continue going up for the rest of the year.

Sources- BBC News,. "South African Economy Emerges From Recession." (24 November 2009): n. pag. Web. 27 Nov 2009. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8376294.stm>. Al Jazeera,. "South Africa Moves Out of Recession." (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24): n. pag. Web. 27 Nov 2009. <http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/11/20091124111757963696.html>.

Differences and Similarities- The two articles are almost the same except the title and the picture and the placement of words. the articles both talk about how the South Africa came out of its recession for the year.

What I Think- I think that this is good that the county is coming out of its recession when most countries are still heavily in their recession. I hope that the World Cup wont be effected by the effect of the negative problems the country has been having.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> 11/20/09 Synopsis- After a disappointing loss to the country of Egypt by Algeria 1-0 and therefore being knocked out of the world cup, the fans have gone berserk by causing several riots across the country in protest of the game. the officials of the Egypt are appaled and have said that this rarely ever happens and that they are just as upset but extremly mad at the Egyption citezens for actring this way. These protests have been mostly happing in Zamalek neighbourhood, where many embassies are located. There has been many broken windows and two police cars flipped over the reports have been saying. Over all there has been 2000 demonstariors in part of this onslot agenst the countries loss.

Sources- "Football Protests Continue in Egypt ." Friday, November 20, 2009. Al Jazeera.net, Web. 20 Nov 2009. <http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/11/20091120132218441380.html>. "Egypt-Algeria World Cup Anger Turns Violent in Cairo." 20 November 2009. BBC News, Web. 20 Nov 2009. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8369983.stm>.

Differences and Similarities- Some similarities that I noticed between the two were that they both talked about what happned in Cairo. They both mentioned how they soccer game ended but not what coused the problem in the game. Then there were somne big diffrences between them, in the BBC News had a video if the riots that were going on where Al Jazeera just had a picture of people burning an Egypt flag. But for the most part thats the biggest diffrence between them.

What I Think- I think that to us Americans this will seem stupid of why they react this way over a sports game. But if you go any where else in the world soccer is a huge part of there cultre and to be out of the World Cup is heart breaking. Now I dont think that they need to be distroying stuff because they lost but i can derfintly see why these riots are happing. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">

<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">11/13/09 Synopsis- On Wednesday pirates 400 km off the coast of Seychelles took a Greek ship hostage. Of the 22 people on the boat 19 were Filipinos and the other 3 were Greek. The pirates haven't asked for a ransom amount but want there two friends that are in jail in Spain released in exchange for the Greek ship. According to the EU there has been over a hundred hijackings this year. Most have been as far as 1,000 kilometres away from the capital Mogadishu. Just the day before the EU signed an agreement "authorizing EU naval forces to hunt and detain suspected Somali pirates in waters off the Seychelles." One reason they have done this is so the small country can help set up its own anti-piracy capacities.

Sources- "Pirates Seize Greek Vessel off Seychelles." November 11, 2009. Canada.com, Web. 13 Nov 2009. <http://www.canada.com/news/Pirates+seize+Greek+vessel+Seychelles/2210294/story.html>. "Pirates Seize Greek Vessel off Seychelles." November 11, 2009. CNN.com, Web. 13 Nov 2009. <http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/11/somalia.hijacking/index.html>.

Differences and Similarities- Some similarities between the two are that they both have pictures and they both talk about the same topic. But thats basicly where they stop being the same. The two are very diffrent one talks about the hostage situation and the other talks compleatly about previous hostages and kidnappings. The two acticles arnt really simmilar at all so im not where to contiue about what else is simalar.

What I Think- I think that there has been way too many hostage situations this year and its just getting redundent and people should just stop doin this. I also think that when two acrticles report the same topic they need to be a bit more simalar on whats in them. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">

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11/6/09 Synopsis- This Article was about how the UN is trying to get countries over the past week to start enforcing military action into diamond mines so as too stop blood diamond mining, this all started talk a year ago when 200 workers were killed that the country says never happened. The Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has been causing problems because he has been boycotting the the coalition administration that has been talking about these issues. Although there have been killings the Zimbabwe government has gotten the ban lifted temporarily and this is because of the amount of revenue the country gets from these diamond mines. The human rights groups have said "claim the diamonds have been an important source of revenue for the military and for President Mugabe's Zanu-PF party" that of which has allowed the mines to stay open for now.

Sources- BBC News,. "Zimbabwe Escapes Diamond Sale Ban." Thursday, 5 November 2009. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8343710.stm>. Dugger, Celia W. . "Africa’s Diamond Trade Under Scrutiny." <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//<span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">New York Times // <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> November 3, 2009. <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/africa/04zimbabwe.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Zimbabwe%20escapes%20diamond%20sale%20ban%20&st=cse>.

Differences and Similarities- These two articles were similar in how they both talked about the blood diamond problems and how the the government needs the diamonds as a source of income to the country. The one big difference that I was able to see was that the NYT had no pictures at all like how BBC had one of the Prime Minister. I also noticed that BBC was almost half as long as NYT.

What I Think- I Think that the NYT explained the issue so much better then the BBC one did. I think that there should never be a ban on the diamond mines because diamonds are everywhere but I do think that the governments should keep track of whats happening at there mines and not allowing killing to happen. For this I think because of what a big income diamonds provide to third world countries that have access to this. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> 10/30/09 Synopsis- There were two foreign aid workers held hostage for three months in a region of Sudan called Darfur. These two aid workers were female and are working for an Irish company called GOAL. One woman said they were held by 18 armed men and were told to kneel on their knees or they would be shot. The company GOAL were requested of a $2m ransom which was never paid in the end. Al tho the terrorists gave the women up nicely they are still being charged with kidnapping and will probably be going to a jail of some sort. And according to the UN "Nearly 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Darfur, and more than 3 million displaced, the United Nations estimates."

Sources- BBC News,. "Hostage tells of mock executions." Web. 30 Oct 2009. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8313831.stm>. CNN News,. "Irish, Uganda aid workers freed in Darfur."Web. October 18, 2009. <http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/10/18/sudan.aid.workers.kidnapped/index.html>.

Differences and Similarities- The two articles may be very similar with the topic and all but <span style="color: #008000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">yet they had very different info in them, for example BBC had a picture of the two women and the CNN doesn't have a single picture in there article at all. now of course they are both using quotes from the two women and the head of GOAL but also BBC mentions the ransom request amount. But CNN tells about how many aid workers have been killed sense 2003.

What I Think- I think that both of the articles explained this well and that I'm glad the two women were released with out significant harm done to them. I will say that the terrorists that kidnapped the women are getting what they diverse for kidnapping them in the first place and for demanding a ransom that they never got thankfully. Although 2 million dollars isn't that much for two people its still more then what should have to be paid in the first place seeing the women shouldn't have been taken hostage. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">