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US kills four people in strike on boat in the Caribbean

Summary

Four people have been killed in a US military strike on a boat in the Caribbean that was allegedly "operating along established narco-trafficking routes".

This is a summary. The indicators are not. The scores were measured over this summary alone, which is less of the article than we would like and makes them less certain.

How outlets headlined it

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  • The West Australian US kills four people in strike on boat in the Caribbean plain
  • The West Australian Caribbean: US military says a strike killed four as government’s crackdown on ‘narco-terrorists’ continues plain

How this outlet filed it, and how we rewrote it

No other newsroom we read has filed on this event, so there is nothing to compare it with yet.

Also covered by The West Australian. We hold only their summary of it, not the report, so there is nothing of theirs to measure here.

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The West Australianas they published this story 3

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5 Australian outlets reported this story. These are the ones we do not read; their headlines are matched to this one automatically, so an occasional match may be a different story.

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The same event elsewhere

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