Yasser Arafat Murdered?

One of the biggest news this week on international webpages is about the speculations around the death of Yasser Arafat.

“ In the wake of an independent Swiss report that found Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had "unexpected high activity" of polonium in his remains, his widow says there's no doubt that he was murdered with the radioactive element.

"The findings confirm what we always [believed] and what the Swiss lab always [believed]," Suha Arafat told ABC News in a phone interview. "It's a very sad day; it's a political crime."

The Swiss report released Wednesday followed findings last year that showed abnormal levels of polonium in several of Arafat's personal effects. Last November, his body was exhumed from its mausoleum in the West Bank city of Ramallah and tissue samples were taken. They were distributed to separate Swiss, Russian and French teams.

"When you ask [the Swiss scientists] the question directly, they will tell you, 'Of course it's a murder,'" Suha Arafat said. "There's no other explanation.”

You can find the news in both Abc-news and Aljazeera English, and they are the main headlines in the internet pages. They were therefore very easy to find, because they have the biggest headlines of all the news at the page, and are very visible.

The two channels focus on different sides of the case. The Abc-news focuses mostly on his wife, and that she believes that it was a murder. You can see that it is an article that focuses more on the gossip around the event, and the feeling of the wife. The Al Jazeera focuses on the facts behind, and what they have found that can indicate that it was a murder. This article is much longer than the other, because they give us a persistent presentation of the background, and what happened the night he died. The language is also much more professional, scientific and formal. The vocabulary is in addition more difficult, and includes academic words. Both the newspapers portray the case as very important, and as one of the biggest news on the channel this day.

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