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http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/12/06/zimbabwe.main/index.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7770169.stm

The UK Prime Minister, Gordan Brown has called the cholera crisis in Zimbabwe an international emergency. He said it is now an international crissis verses a nationtional crisis because its a disease and diseases cross boarders. He is calling on President Robert Mugabe of the African nation to do something. Brown believes that the governement in zimbabwe is broken and that something needs to be done. The outbreak has killed more than 600 people in Zimbabwe and continues to spread. Cholera is a bonewater disease. The UN blammed poor water and sanitation supply and a collapsed health system. Those that have been affected by the disease are fleeing to other countries to seek medical attention because they can't get any in zimbabwe, and doing this is just spreading the disease further.

The CNN article gives a lot of information about how the spreading is occuring and how they are trying to prevent it from spreading further. There is a lot of background information on the government in zimbabwe and how it needs to change to help fix this problem.
The BCC news focuses on the fact that zimbabwe needs new leadership and that the spread of cholera is a perfect example of things that are going wrong there and need to be fixed.

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They are still looking for the final gunman involved in the shootings in Mumbai, India that occurred this week. The death toll is now up to 160 and 327 injured. The attacks ocurred in 9 different locations and Indian officials suggest that the terrorists came from pakistan. Among those killed were Indian police and military, a rabbi, an American father and teen daughter, and a British yacht magnate. The gunmen were in their twenties and were said to cleary be trained somewhere. Witnesses say that the shooters shot with no remorse, shooting at Taj Mahal Hotel guest. Bodies of several hostages were found.
The article on cnn has many details filling you in on the information about all of the attacks, incase a reader hadn't heard about the attacks the occurred in mumbai. They talk a lot about the different foreigners who were killed and talk a little about the two americans that got killed. They also released their names and said they were there for a meditations. The UK article doesn't mentions the americans but instead focuses on the fact that even thought british identification was found on two of the suspects that non of them were infact british.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/28/india.attacks/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/3533837/Mumbai-attack-Government-has-no-evidence-of-British-involvement.html

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Afghan forces and their allies killed 17 militants including Mullah Asad, who was a senior taliban opperator. An ISAF spokesperson said that the death of Asad would have a significant effect on the Talibans ability to operate. He was said to be a mid-level taliban commander. During this operation four civilians were killed. They also discovered and distroyed small weapon caches.

The aritlce focused on how important it was that Mullah Asad was killed, they mentioned that civilians were killed but the story was how much of an impact the death of Asad will have on the Talibans ability to perform.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/11/23/afghanistan.deaths.insurgents/index.html

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California wild fires are always a problem. But one of three of a large fires that are burning right now seems to be human caused. The fire has destroyed 210 homes in Santa Barbara, Ca. They are looking for the publics help to identify anything that could have caused the fire around November 13th. The fire has burned 1,940 acres of land. The winds are not helping, and causing the fires to spread quickly. The fire has burned through many homes including homes where celebrities live such a Oprah. Together the three fires have burned over 20,000 acres and have displaced over 10,000 people from their homes. Gov. Arnold Swartzenager has declared a state of emergency.

The CNN article focuses more on the real people who are being affected by these fires. They get accounts from people who have lost their homes and from firefighters. They focus on the efforts being made to find what started this fire. While the TMZ article is all based around the celebrities and what they have lost. It gives the basic background information but doesn't mention really much more except which celebrities have lost their homes to the fire.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/16/california.fires/index.html

http://www.tmz.com/2007/10/21/several-celebs-call-malibu-area-home/

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Hurriunce Paloma hit cuba this week and destroyed hundreds of homes. The storm was a category 4 and had winds of up to 145 mph. The article on NBC had stories from a few people who surivived the storm. They also touched on all the the damage caused by the storm. About a third of the article was about past storms that had hit the area and compairing them to this storm. About a third was a personal story about someone who lost everything in the storm. There were a lot of quotes that made you feel sympathetic towards those that lost things.

The article in the star tribune was much shotter and consise. It focuses on the basic information and has a couple quotes but it doesnt get into an indepth personal story like the NBC article does.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27561036/

http://www.startribune.com/nation/34166979.html

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Syria is accussing the US of attacking on sunday. They said that four US helicopters flew into syrias territory and attacked them. They said they flew out of iraqi territory and flew into syria and struck a farm.

The article gives the backrgound information and thats about it. There isn't a lot of news on the attack. There are quotes from a number of officials saying nothing can be confirmed.

The CNN article didn't have much news but the english version of Al Jazeera had much more information. The quotes they used and the way they worded things made it seem like the american are awful people and deliberatle hurt eight suvillions.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/26/syria.iraq/index.html?iref=mpstoryview#cnnSTCVideo

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/10/20081026182232891957.html

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Early on Sunday an unidentified submarine was spotted between Kyushu and Shikoku islands. Submarines are required to surface and show their flags when in territorial waters however this submarine did not surface and moved out of radar range. They still have not figured out where the submarine came from and they are still investigating it.

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