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= = =1/29Greek Ship 'Ariana' Finally freed after 6 months of Captivity wiki-#11=

A Greek ship called 'Ariana' has finally been freed after being captured 6 months earlier by Somalian Pirates. The ransom was paid, the owner of the company did not reveal how much the ransom was but the pirate claimed they were paid $2.6 Million dollars. There were 24 Ukraine members helped captive and all were released with no harm done. They were attacked and held captive since May 2nd 2009. And they are not taking more precautions to delivery and now they are relying more on air delivery.

Its great how this crew was freed but why did it take half a year to free these men? They were just trying to make a living and then they get captured. Was it really true they were unharmed because I don't believe these sources. At least this taught the company (and Ukraine) a lesson about sending merchandise with ships, and now they have learned to use aircraft. These Somalian pirates are really getting big and earning tens of millions of dollars from piracy is wrong.

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The Ny time's title was alot more informative. It was 'Somali Pirates Release Ship and Crew After 6 Months, while Cnn's was Ship released 6 months after hijacking'. Another difference I saw was the length of Cnn's article and the coverage of Cnn's article. In Cnn they had alot more commentary from people from the company and civilians, while NyTimes had none. Another thing I've noticed was that In Nytimes they had a amount the company paid the pirates for the pirates ransom. All in all Cnn was a better article and more informative about the subject = = = = = = = = = = = = =1/22 South Africa's leader announces new AIDS policies! wiki-#10= On November 30th 2009 The South African leader Jacob Zuma announced that the government will be treating more AIDS patients and will do more testing for AIDS and HIV. South Africa has an estimated 5.7 million infected with HIV, so this is a huge problem. The Us is supporting this and giving 120$ million to AIDS Drugs. Michel Sidibe, head of U.N. AIDS programs, went to South Africa for World AIDS Day in part to show support for South Africa's new direction, saying in an interview that Zuma was "committed to making change happen." A Harvard study of the years under Mbeki, who questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, concluded that more than 300,000 premature deaths in South Africa could have been saved if there was medication for the mothers to stop the passing to the Children. This would be effective from April 2010. Zuma said all institutions were "hard at work" to ensure systems were in place by March 31.

This information is wonderful, AIDS and HIV is a bit thing in Africa so these people willing to spend money and time to give their people medication to help stop this drug from killing everyone is great. All of us know what AIDS and HIV is and we know that if we catch it, we can get medication. But these people had no hope of getting this medication before, all they probably thought about was dieing. And children being born with this virus is even worse, because they had no fault in this, it was the parents fault. So this information is great and is a turn to the greater for this country.

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Both sources had nearly the same information except that sagoodnews.co had more information about mothers and their child being born with the HIV virus. The Seattle Times had a lot more information and I thought it was a way better source than what sagoodnews offered due to the fact that it was longer, and contained more facts about the announcement rather than just stating random facts.

= = = = = = = = = = =1/15 Two Journalists freed in Somalia wiki- #9= After fifteen months of being captive, Journalists Nigel Brennan and Canadian freelance reporter Amanda Lindhout were freed. The Journalists were freed on Wednesday night and were with Police in a hotel. It is still unclear if their ransom(unconfirmed report said it was 1$million) was paid or not. In August 2008, Brennan and Lindhout were kidnapped. Brennan said (on the phone) that he was tortured during his capture. He tried to escape but it was sabotaged, and after the failed attempt he was chained up and isolated from Lindhout for 10 months. And now after 15 months, they are free.

Its really sad how they were held captive for 15 months. I thought about this and man. While I was having fun in the summer. Someone was being tortured out there and he had nothing to do, While I was here, sleeping, and having fun with my life. It really makes me feel bad about how people have to go through all of this and it makes me thankful i'm in such a safe country where stuff like this rarly happens.

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The New York times article had so much more coverage, we can see the people's comments word for word, just how they said it on the news. In the presstv article there was no commentary just facts that weren't able to be backed up. And the New York times had about the same amount of information as the second one except in the New York times, they strained the sentences to make the article longer. = = = = =12/18 - wiki #8= In South Africa, the mayors are being told to be more resourceful. This is a result of recent violent protests. The protests are for things like clean water, electricity, and jobs. President Jacob Zuma recognizes that something needs to change, and he knows this will not fix all of the problems automatically, but it will help get set on the right track. President Zuma was publicly broadcasted covering these issues before a closed meeting with mayors all across South Africa.

I think it's great that the mayors are being told to do more for the country. It's clear that the living conditions are terrible, and it's right for citizens to protest, but I do agree with what Zuma said in that violent protesting is wrong. I also think that this is a great start, even if it may seem small now.

Both articles had good, fitting quotes, and neither had very detailed background information. But I thought that The Seattle TImes article, being smaller and more condensed was better. Overall, both articles seemed to have almost identical information on the subect, and similar takes on the event itself.

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Somalia's Disastrous Event
On Thursday, in Mogadishu, a bomb was exploded at a medical graduation ceremony in Somalia killing more than 20 people, including Education Minister Abdullahi Wayel, Health Minister Qamar Aden and Higher Education Minister Ibrahim Hassan Adow. The bomb was set by a suicide male who dressed up as a female to enter the ceremony.Officials thought that the Al-Shabaab was the one who's behind the explosion but the rebel group denied the claim. The Al-Qeada was responsible and they were President Shiarif Ahmed's former supporters, whom were reported to leave the scene before the explosion. The Somalia's President is planning to retaliate to this vicious bombing, he claimed that the country's losing patience against innocent killings of its people, by gathering a navy, that's also is going to fight against the pirates in the Indiana Ocean and the Gulf of Aden. []
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The similarities in this two articles was, they both had pictures of the Somalian people helping the ones that were hurt by the explosion. Both had statistics that more than 20 people were killed but Chattahbox was more specific saying that 23 people were killed. The differences between the two articles was they were posted on different days, ChattahBox posted their article on the 4th of December and Africa News posted theirs on the 10th of December. Africa News focused more on Somalia's President perspective because the title of the article was "Somalia President: 'We Lost Patience' ", it talked more about what the President's plans were and who's the government blaming on, which was the Al-Shabaab. ChattahBox focused on the deaths, which was the ministers, and information about the person behind the attack, the Al-Qeada. Africa News had more information about the Navy's actions and how they were going to drive off the pirates.

I think that Chattah Box had valuable information regarding the scene of the explosion. It gave specific details like the number of killings instead of an estimation. I don't understand why there are so many rebel groups in this country and why the government is waiting until now to respond back. It seems like most of Mogadishu is in control by Islamists who are fighting with the government for their own believes. There should be a way for everyone to express themselves freely without the help of violence. **__
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December 4 - Wiki #6 __** __Synopsis__ Just last week, a Nigerian oil tank was hijacked near the cost of Lagos, by pirates. Named the African Prince, the tanker was thought to have carried 5,000 tonnes of refined oil, which belonged to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The tanker was intercepted by the Ghanaian navy, but the pirates were able to escape. A chef from the 29-strong crew, was found down, badly beaten. Pirate attacks have been increasing in West Africa. Nigeria is one of the largest oil producing countries, but often have problems with oil theft. __Sources__ 1. Africa News [@http://www.africanews.com/site/Ghana_returns_seized_Nigerian_oil_tanker/list_messages/28331] 2. BBC News [@http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8389284.stm] Africa News Monitoring Team. "Ghana returns seized Nigerian oil tanker." //Africa News//. Africa Interactive, 2 Dec. 2009. Web. 2 Dec. 2009. <[]>. "Ghana returns Nigeria oil tanker after pirate attack." //BBC News//. BBC News, 1 Dec. 2009. Web. 2 Dec. 2009. <[]>. __Compare & Contrast__ These articles were rather similar, although the information & statistics were in different orders. Both provide the same information about West Africa's pirate raids increasing, and have the same sentence structure for each piece of information. Both articles are also, very short. The main difference between these two articles are the beginning sentences. BBC News says that a BBC correspondent was the one who reported the ship was hijacked off of a coast near Lagos in Nigeria. He was also the person who reported the pirates got away, and that the chef had been killed. Both articles do use pictures; Africa News uses a picture of an oil freight ship, while BBC News just provides a map of Nigeria and the neighboring country Ghana, pointing out where Lagos is. One of the big differences is the title of the articles. Africa News' title was "Ghana returns seized Nigerian oil tanker" while BBC News' title was "Ghana returns Nigeria oil tanker after pirate attack". The Africa News' title makes it sound almost as if Ghana had taken and seized the Nigerian oil tanker, while the BBC news article clarifies that Ghana was actually helping Nigeria with the pirate attack. The last few sentences of both articles are worded, and placed in the exact same order. __Opinion__ I think it's great that the Ghanian navy actually helped Nigeria get their oil tanker back. It's nice to see that at least in some part of the world, there are people that can still act civilly towards each other, instead of turning the blind eye, like what happened with Sierra Leone's civil war. It's almost comical to me in a way, when I think of pirates. The stereotypical pirate would be the black hat, eyepatch, hooked hands, with the parrot, looking for treasure... right? But then in the real world, there are pirates and even though they probably don't dress like that, their "treasure" is modern day things - like oil. I just don't like that they have to steal it from another country, but what do you expect, they're pirates. The articles were both pretty well written, there was adequate information provided about the oil tanks, the pirates, and also the previous history about pirate raids. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =11/20 Egypt-Algeria World Cup anger turns violent in Cairo= = = -Topic/Event/Issue Egyptian protesters reportedly hurled firebombs at police protecting the embassy and overturned a police van. Egypt's Interior Ministry said 35 people were injured. The clashes stem from Egypt's defeat by Algeria in a World Cup qualifying match on Wednesday, securing Algeria the last African place for next year's finals. On Friday Alaa Mubarak, the son of Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak, made a rare public statement calling for a "tough stance" to be taken against Algeria. "When you insult my dignity... I will beat you on the head," the businessman, who had attended the game in Khartoum, told a TV news programme.Egypt's foreign ministry had summoned the Algerian Ambassador to hear complaints about reports of attacks on Egyptian fans in Khartoum and on Egyptian businesses in Algeria. The Egyptian ambassador in Algiers was than recalled "for consultations". Sudan has also summoned the Egyptian envoy in Khartoum, angry at Egyptian media coverage of the game's aftermath. The Egyptian government alleges 21 of its citizens were attacked after the match, but Sudan says many fewer were injured. The teams needed the play-off in a neutral country to decide on qualification after the final group match between them on Saturday saw Egypt win 2-0, meaning the two teams finished tied at the top of the group with equal points and identical goal difference. Fifa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Egypt after the Algerian team bus was pelted with stones in Cairo before the match.

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-Comparing The BBC News, Has the same information as My Joy Online.It explains that Egyption protesters reportedly hurled firebombs at police, 32 people were hurt of the clahes stems of egypt 21 citizens were attached after, both sources explain the cause of the egypt prtotesters, same inform ation and same goals, Same picture as also on both sites.The Title was plagerized

-Contrasting There are 2 diffrent sites,BBC NEWS has more information than My Joy Online.

-Opinon I think there shouldnt be an attack agianst Algeria beat Egypt 1-0 in a play-offs, it isnt right.Also the interior of the ministry were about 32 people being injured because of the clashes o f the stem of egypt of defeating algeria = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =11/13 Germany arrests top Rwanda rebels=

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 * Police in Germany have arrested two Rwandan militia leaders on suspicion of crimes committed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.** Ignace Murwanashyaka, the leader of the FDLR rebel group, and his aide Straton Musoni were held on suspicion of crimes against humanity and war crimes. FDLR leaders fled to DR Congo after the Rwanda genocide in which some 800,000 people - mostly ethnic Tutsis - died. The FDLR's presence in DR Congo has been at the heart of years of unrest. Mr Murwanaskyaka, 46, was arrested in the city of Karlsruhe, while 48 year old Mr. Musoni was held in the Stuttgart area, prosecutors of German said in a statement. The statement said that the pair were the leader and deputy leader of the FDLR,"The accused are strongly suspected, as members of the foreign terrorist organisation FDLR, of committing crimes against humanity and war crimes," it said. It added that "FDLR militias are believed to have killed several hundred civilians, raped numerous women, plundered and burned countless villages, forcing villagers from their homes and recruiting numerous children as soldiers". later, UN investigator Dino Mahtani told the BBC that the FDLR was smuggling 40 tonnes of gold a year to pay for their weapons.

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-Comparing Bbc news had more information more talking about how the leader of the FDLR rebel group, and his aide Straton Musoni were held on suspicion of crimes, in newstin they didnt have enough information, just the title that compared it. -Opinon What I think about Police in Germany have arrested two Rwandan militia leaders on suspicion of crimes committed in the east of the Demomcatricrepublic Ignace Murwanashyaka, the leader of the FDLR rebel group, and his aide Straton Musoni, has diffrent comsepcts and all of that.