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 * __Wiki #8__ **
 *  On Saturday, January 30, China stopped planned military exchanges with the United States and claimed it would punish companies involved in Washington’s plan to sell weapons worth $6.4 billion to Taiwan, the territory Beijing says is its own. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei stated that it endangers China’s national security and “harms China’s peaceful reunification efforts.” However, the U.S. State Department claims the arm sales to Taiwan is a way to guarantee security and stability across the Taiwan Strait and boost Taiwan’s confidence. But the association’s spokesman said “The plan will send a wrong signal to the Taiwan side and will fuel rampant sentiment of the island’s ‘independence’ forces. It will also become barricades in the relationships between China and Taiwan,” and a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington claimed that in order to “avoid damaging bilateral relations and cooperation between the two sides,” his government wants the U.S. side to fix the wrong action.  **
 *  A similarity between the two articles was in their titles. CNN wrote “China Suspends U.S. military visits after Taiwan arms deal” and BusinessWeek had “China Suspends U.S. military ties on Taiwan Arms Sale.” They also included quotes from He Yafei, the Vice Foreign Minister, and State Department spokesman Phillip J. Crowley. Both articles talked about the arms sale too, which included 60 Black Hawk helicopters worth $3.1 billion, 114 advanced Patriot air defense missiles, Osprey mine-hunting ships, and dozens of advanced communications systems. The articles also stated that the deal did not grant Taiwan’s request to buy Lockheed F-16 fighters.  **
 *  One of the major differences between the two articles was that BusinessWeek’s was a lot longer and separated its articles into different sections, such as “Wrong Signal”, “Administration Defends Sale” and “Government to Government.” CNN put in a photo of a Black Hawk helicopter, a helicopter the United States is going to sell, though, while BusinessWeek didn’t include any pictures. It also had information about Taiwan unrelated to the deal, for example, “the government in Taiwan began as the remnant of the government that ruled over mainland China until a Communist insurrection proved victorious in 1949.”  **
 *  The importance of the BusinessWeeks’s article being longer than CNN’s is that it has more information and is more detailed, so readers would understand what is happening better and would know that BusinessWeek could be a reliable source. The information about Taiwan the CNN put in is important because it says that they have background information on Taiwan and they know what they are talking about and gives the reader more on why this is happening. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> I think that if the U.S. wants to sanction Iran, then they should correct their wrong actions like China told them to because they really need China’s cooperation to sanction Iran. But otherwise, I think that the U.S. should be able to sell weapons to Taiwan because China got to sell weapons to countries like Zimbabwe and Sudan even though they violated human rights and worked with Iran.

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Jolie asks Obama to do more for Sudanese People ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Arial Unicode MS';"> Angelina Jolie, an actress and humanitarian, called for President Obama’s administration to do more to establish peace in Sudan and for the critical situation in the Darfur region. She wrote an editorial for Newsweek magazine on Thursday stating that Obama’s administration has not yet proclaimed any serious actions to bring Sudanese leaders such as Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to justice. Jolie was concerned that the administration did not hold a clear strategy to better the lives of the Sudanese people and although she believed that Obama and his policy advisor Scott Gration would try their hardest to bring peace to the Darfur region, she questioned their ways and gave the administration suggestions. Jolie is also a U.N. goodwill ambassador and the co-chair of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. She and Brad Pitt, who have six children, formed the foundation I 2006 and have used it to fund researches and donate to many different humanitarian causes.

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__Digitalspy:__ http://www.digitalspy.com/showbiz/news/a191210/jolie-pressures-obama-to-act-on-darfur.html

__Similarities:__ the CNN and digitalspy articles both consisted of many quotes from Angelina Jolie, including “I believe President Obama and his special envoy Scott Gration will do their best to bring peace to the region. Their policy, though, raises a number of questions. How is the Obama administration’s approach to Sudan an evolution of justice? In addition, when the administration says it intends to work to ‘improve the lives of the people of Darfur,’ I would like to know what that means, besides the obvious point that their lives could hardly get worse” and “I also hope we will act sooner and more powerfully to prevent future atrocities.”

__Differences:__ A difference between the two articles was that they had different headlines. Digitalspy’s title, “Jolie pressures Obama to act on Darfur,” was focused on the people of the Darfur region while the other articles was general, saying “the Sudanese people.” The article from digitalspy was also shorter than CNN’s, so it gave less imformation and mainly had quotes. CNN’s included more facts about mass atrocities.

__Opinion:__ I think it’s good that Angelina Jolie wants to help the Sudanese and promote humanitarian causes throughout the world. She has good ambitions and other actors and actresses are just now beginning to do what she has done. But Obama has a lot to do and the United States is in an economic crisis right no, so I don’t think we would be able to help a lot until we are strong financially and start to secure our financial stability. Otherwise, we’d lose a lot and wouldn’t be able to help others in the future.

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 * Sudanese girl lashed for wearing "indecent" skirt**

The sixteen-year-old Christian, Silva Kashif, was heading toward the local markent in a south Khartoum neighborhood when she was arrested and taken to court by a policeman for wearing a knee-length skirt. She was convicted of violating a law against public indecency and received 50 lashes in the courtroom. Human rights lawyer Azhari al-Haj said a legal team plans to sue the authorities and the judge. The authorites had ignored that Kashif was a minor and Christian and gave her the maximum sentence. The Islamic law does not apply to non-Muslims and the semi-autonomous south such as south Sudanese Christians living in the capital. "The whole thing from her arrest to her flogging didn't take an hour and a half," al-Haj said. Kashif was the latest person in Sudan to be targeted on charges of violating a law against public indecency.

__Deccan Herald:__ []

__CBS News:__ [] __Similarities:__ One of the similarities between the articles was that they had the same title: Sudanese teen flogged for wearing “indecent” skirt. The articles included the exact same information on Lubna Hussein as well. They said, “Kashif’s ordeal follows the high profile case of Lubna Hussein, a female journalist who was sentenced to 40 lashes for wearing trousers deemed indecent. Hussein’s sentence was reduced to a fine, and she is now lobbying to change the morality laws.”

__Differences:__ The articles of Deccan Herald and CBS News differed in length. The article from CBS was about twice as long as Deccan Herald’s, so it had a lot more information. The article had more information about other ways women dress the 20-year civil war between the Muslim north and the Christian and animist south, other cases of flogging women for wearing indecent clothes. CBS’s articles also contained more quotes, including some from Silva Kashif.

__Opinion:__ I don’t think that people should be hit just for wearing something like this. The Islamic law should be changed because laws are supposed to respect freedom of expression and human rights. The judge and police also should have noticed that Kashif was Christian, so the indecency law didn’t apply to her.

**__Wiki #5__**


 * Nigeria President 'has heart problem'**

Umaru Yar'Adua, the president of Nigeria has pericarditis, an inflammation of the lining surrounding the heart that can restrict normal beating, and flew to Saudi Arabia on Monday for medical treatment. Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan, from Nigeria's southern Niger Delta region, would replace Yar'Adua if he stepped down or died. But Yar'Adua is responding well to treatment. He has also had a chronic kidney condition for at least ten years, and has travelled to Saudi Arabia for treatment in the past. His continued medical problems pose problems for Nigeria's constitution and raises questions of whether he will be well enough to stand in the 2011 elections.

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__Stoebroek News:__ []

__Similarities__: One of the similarities between the two articles is that they both contain quotes from presidential spokesman Olusegun Adeniyi, although the quotes were different. Both also explained about pericarditis. Stabroek news said that pericarditis usually lasts one to three weeks, but is treatable, and 20 percent of pericarditis patients have a recurrence within months. The titles of the articles were also similar because both said that the Nigerian president had a heart problem. BBC's was "Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua 'has heart problem' and Stoebroek news had "Nigeria president suffering from heart ailment."

__Differences__: A difference between the two articles is that BBC included a photo of the president and a timeline of his life and the article was longer than Stoebroek news'. BBC also talked more about pericarditis, its treatment and problems that could occur while Stoebroek news talked more about the government. Another difference was that Stoebroek news told us about former president Olusegun Obasanjo and how he used his influence in the People's Democratic Party to ensure Yar'Adua won the ticket.

I didn't know the president had a heart problem. But he is responding well to the treatment he is getting, so hopefully he will be able to perform his official duties and make the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca like he wanted to.