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**News link (URL)**: [] **List three of the most important or compelling pieces of information from this story or article (in your own words):** • President Obama was in Asia, he went to China, South Korea, Japan, and Singapore. While he was there he met with the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Some of the things that they talked about was climate change, nonproliferation, Afghanistan and the global economy. •President Obama spent most of his time in China meeting with the president, prime minister and other officials. They talked a lot about the yuan, Chinese currency. The Chinese exports are cheaper and the US products that are solid in China are more epensive which puts the Chinese at a disadvantage. •Obama also talked about the issue of human rights. "We do not believe these principles are unique to America, but rather they are universal rights and that they should be available to all peoples, to all ethnic and religious minorities." Obama was quoted saying. President Hu says that both countries will have to talk more about human rights and that he agrees that the two countries should treat each other as equals.
 * Article/Story Date ** :November 19, 2009

This story is significant because China is starting to have more and more power in the world, and by Presdent Obama going and talking to China now about human rights and about their currency before they get to much power is way to make sure that they have the right ideas so that when they do become a world power it wont be a scary.
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** China's population is growing everyday and with all those people they use the different industries to support them. China has a vast amount of cities that are becoming more and more developed and more and more people are wanting to drive cars. With more people driving cars that means that there is more air pollution, which surrounding countries have to deal with.
 * How mi****ght the industrial development in China affect the rest of the developing world?**

Article/Story Date ** : October 27, 2009 **News link (URL)**: [] • In October the total number of Americans that were killed was 55 people and the previous record was 51 people and that was set in August. • Monday and Tuesday were the worst two days at War in Afghanistan because on Monday there was two helicopter crashed killing 14 Americans, the first crash killed 10 people and the second crash killed 4 people. In the first crash the troops were returning from a firefight was suspected Taliban drug traffickers. And the second crash occured because to helicopters collided over Southern Afghanistan. •A DEA officers was one of the Americans killed in the crashes and this was the first DEA person killed since this all started in 2005.
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This story is significant because it is American troops that were killed and that is that many more families who don't have a family member. Article/Story Date** : October 20, 2009 **News link (URL)**: **[] List three of the most important or compelling pieces of information from this story or article (in your own words): • One of the people running for the presidency,** **Hamid Karzai**, **was caught in fraud in the first round of votes. With that evidence being brought forward it will lower is vote share to less than 50%. He was okay with the findings and he has said that "it was a step forward for democracy."** • **When the first round of votes were counted his vote share was 55%, but after the fraud was found, the UN ordered that the ballots from 210 voting stations were to be discounted, which would put his vote shares to under 50%. With that happening it is clear that a second round of votes are needed.**
 * Why is this story significant? How do the events in this story affect the people of this region or the rest of the world?**
 * • The Afghan elections are going in to a run off which will be held on Nov. 7

Why is this story significant? How do the events in this story affect the people of this region or the rest of the world? ** Article/Story Date: **October 5, 2009** News link (URL): **[]** List three of the most important or compelling pieces of information from this story or article (in your own words): •The UN offices usually have tight security but the bomber asked a security guard to use the bathroom and they caught him on video carrying a two-foot cylinder which they think was the detonator. •They are not sure at first who committed the bombing but Islamist militants, who have been linked to al-Qauda, have "bombed foreign and security targets in the past". So they think that this group of people might have something to do with the bombing on the UN Office.**
 * This story is significant because Afghanistan is trying to develop a new form of government and knowing that fraud was committed means that it will be that much longer before there new government can be established.
 * • Five people were killed in a bombing that happened at the U.N. Office in Pakistan. Out of the five that were killed two were women and one was an Iraqi who worked in the office.

Why is this story significant? How do the events in this story affect the people of this region or the rest of the world?
 * This story is so significant because terrorist groups are now starting to get through tough security and bomb places of great power. This affects the rest of the world because now we know that these groups are getting through and that we might have to tighten security even more.

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