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You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: european share prices came unstuck on tuesday morning as reality returned to bite investors after two weeks of heady market gains .
euro stocks come unstuck
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: pakistani president pervez musharraf , speaking ahead of a meeting with south korean leader roh moo-hyun thursday , denounced as a smear campaign charges that islamabad helped north korea 's nuclear weapons drive .
pakistan 's musharraf denies aiding north korean nuclear drive
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: georgia 's national guard has joined the opposition in its standoff against embattled president eduard shevardnadze , a leading opposition figure told thousands of protestors in central tbilisi sunday .
georgia opposition says national guard on its side
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: citigroup on monday agreed to a takeover of wachovia bank in a deal backed by regulators and which gives the government a stake in one of the nation 's biggest banks .
citigroup to take over wachovia banking assets gives us stake
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the united states made significant strides against illegal immigration this year , arresting nearly #.# million would-be immigrants , most of them along the border with mexico , an official said .
us reports landmark progress against illegal immigration in ####
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the new european currency is set to be called the `` euro '' after france announced friday it would not oppose the name if all the other european union states agreed .
eu set to christen single currency euro
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: taiwan 's defense minister chen chao-min has flown to a defense industry conference in the united states , a military officer said monday , a rare trip which may irk rival china .
taiwan 's defense minister visits us
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: turkish foreign minister abdullah gul said friday that `` several arrests '' have been made in connection with thursday 's bomb attacks in istanbul that killed ## people and wounded hundreds more .
turkish fm confirms several arrests over istanbul attacks
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: croatia said wednesday it was unhappy at suggestions by the un chief war crimes prosecutor that its future membership of the european union should be tied to the handing over of a suspected war criminal .
croatia rejects link between eu membership and war crimes suspect
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: jordan 's king abdullah ii left for bahrain and the united arab emirates -lrb- uae -rrb- on tuesday to discuss bilateral issues , court officials said .
jordan 's king off to bahrain uae
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a cholera epidemic in guinea-bissau that erupted in may has claimed more lives , as the death toll surpassed ### people while nearly #,### people have now been infected , hospital officials said tuesday .
guinea-bissau 's cholera epidemic claims more lives
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: canadian rick gibson managed two late birdies to hold on to the lead after the second round of the philippine open at wack wack golf and country club here friday .
canada 's rick gibson holds on to philippine open lead with late birdies
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: an arbitrator ruled tuesday that center alexei yashin 's contract with the ottawa senators is valid and binding , averting a possible free agency crisis in the national hockey league .
yashin 's nhl contract binding
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: british rider neil hodgson and spaniard ruben UNK will compete for the ducati UNK team in next season 's motogp championship .
hodgson and UNK team up with ducati UNK
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: qatar has broken with regional tradition by openly criticizing its gulf arab partners , the united states and the united nations , and by dropping any pretense that ties are completely harmonious .
qatar speaks out in break with gulf tradition
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: britain 's standard chartered bank , which has a strong presence in asia , said on wednesday that it is to cut #,### of its ##,### staff worldwide next year .
standard chartered to cut ## percent of staff worldwide
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: slain french un worker bettina goislard was buried thursday in a quiet ceremony at kabul 's british cemetery , five days after her murder in southeast afghanistan by suspected taliban .
slain french un worker buried in afghanistan
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: sri lanka 's star spinner muttiah muralidaran was embroiled in a new controversy on tuesday after being called for throwing seven times on the first day of the second test against australia .
sri lanka defend muralidaran in chucking storm
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: hong kong shares fell #.## percent in morning trade on tuesday following continued losses on wall street , dealers said .
hong kong shares close #.## percent lower in morning trade
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: treasury secretary henry paulson warned us lawmakers they had to act fast after the house rejected his ###-billion-dollar bank bailout , triggering panic selling as the global financial crisis deepened .
world awaits action after us rejects bailout
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the us military said wednesday three us soldiers have been charged with premeditated murder committed in an unspecified incident in or near baghdad in march or april #### .
us military charges three soldiers with iraq murder
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: norwegian borge ousland , who traveled to the north pole last year , arrived at the south pole as part of a trek across the frozen wasteland at the bottom of the earth , naval sources said .
norwegian arrives at south pole on foot
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the french league match between marseille and auxerre has been interrupted due to incessant rain here tuesday .
marseille v auxerre match stopped due to rain
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the russian communist party won ## of the ### seats in the lower house of parliament allocated by single-mandate voting -- far more than any other party , the electoral commission announced thursday .
communists score major victory in UNK elections
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: indian pharmaceutical company ranbaxy , which has had dozens of drugs blocked by the us over safety fears , announced thursday it had signed up former new york mayor rudy giuliani as a lobbyist .
giuliani to lobby for indian company over drug ban
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: thousands of students demonstrated across france thursday against proposed tertiary education reforms that would change degree standards and the way universities are run .
thousands of french university students protest degree reforms
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: mauritanian police on wednesday used tear gas to disperse several hundred people who gathered for a protest march called by three leading opposition candidates two days ahead of a presidential election .
mauritanian police use tear gas to break up opposition protest
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the paris bourse scored a substantial gain on wednesday as the cac ## index finished the day at #,###.## points , up #.## percent by comparison with the tuesday evening close .
paris bourse up #.# percent on day
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: england were ## for two in their second innings and a lead of ### runs over new zealand when bad light ended play on the second day of the first cricket test at jade stadium here thursday .
england ## for # at the close of second day
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: hong kong share prices closed #.## percent higher wednesday on futures-linked buying of banking and property stocks but dealers said thin liquidity ahead of the us thanksgiving holiday capped gains .
hong kong shares close #.## pct higher on futures-linked buying
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: movie star robert de niro plans to invest an undisclosed sum in the construction of a new hotel in southern manhattan in the neighborhood where the world trade center 's twin towers once stood , developers said thursday .
robert de niro to invest in hotel close to where twin towers stood
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: un special representative to ex-yugoslavia yasushi akashi was due to hold talks wednesday with bosnian serb military leaders and bosnian government officials on the mounting obstacles un troops are facing in the wartorn republic .
akashi due to hold talks with serbs bosnians
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: darfur rebels on wednesday accused the sudanese government of launching heavy attacks in north darfur , the latest in a series of violence in sudan 's war-torn western region .
darfur rebels report heavy battles with government
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the head of the us central intelligence agency -lrb- cia -rrb- james woolsey arrived in egypt on friday , airport officials said .
cia chief in egypt ahead of shalikashvili visit
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the us embassy in the philippines shut down its consular section and some other offices tuesday due to the budget impasse in washington .
us consular office other offices shut down
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a palestinian activated an explosive device he was carrying near a bus here early sunday , killing himself and injuring ## israelis , district police chief arie amit said .
palestinian activates explosives killing himself injuring ##
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the third and final installment of the sci-fi matrix trilogy dominated north american box offices this weekend , raking in ## million dollars in its opening weekend , according to preliminary figures released sunday .
UNK and company dominate north american ticket sales
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the german industrial group siemens said tuesday it estimated the cost of a major restructuring plan at #.# billion euros -lrb- #.# billion dollars -rrb- .
siemens estimates restructuring charges at #.# billion euros
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the nigerian military government has challenged the competence of the international court of justice -lrb- icj -rrb- at the hague to hear a border dispute between nigeria and cameroon , its eastern neighbor .
nigeria challenges world court 's powers to hear dispute with cameroon
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: us president george w. bush made a thanksgiving visit to under fire troops in baghdad on thursday under the greatest secrecy .
bush on secret visit to iraq
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: finland 's unemployment rate was ##.# per cent in november , the ministry of labor announced wednesday .
unemployment stays high in finland
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the paris bourse suffered a small loss on tuesday as the cac ## index finished the day at #,###.## points , down #.## percent from the monday close .
paris bourse off #.## percent on day
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: three-quarters of us voters want the first debate between republican presidential candidate john mccain and his democratic rival barack obama to go ahead friday , even though mccain has asked for a delay , a poll showed .
most us voters want first presidential debate to go ahead
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: hanoi and beijing made progress in talks to resolve long-running border disputes during a visit here last month by chinese president jiang zemin even though no accord was signed , trade minister vu khoan said friday .
vietnam insists progress made in china border talks
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: taiwan shares closed down #.## percent wednesday on wall street 's overnight fall and mixed regional markets , dealers said .
taipei shares close down #.## percent
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the european commission brushed aside on friday a us diplomatic offensive against european plans for a galileo satellite navigation project to rival the us global positioning system -lrb- gps -rrb- .
eu commission dismisses us opposition to europe 's galileo rival to gps
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: of the three baltic states in line to join the european union next year , lithuania emerged in an annual eu scorecard wednesday as the leading pupil and latvia as the UNK , with estonia in the middle .
lithuania leads latvia lags in baltic eu entry preparations
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: arsenal rounded off a miserable week for leeds with a UNK masterclass that extended their unbeaten start to the season to ## games .
gunners stick the boot into leeds
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: an air malawi boeing ### hijacked friday by deportees from zambia landed in nairobi early sunday after dropping off the last of the deportees in abidjan .
hijacked plane lands in nairobi
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the european commission said wednesday it does not expect a `` decoupling '' of the eu hopes of romania and bulgaria , which both aim to join the bloc in #### .
romania bulgaria expected to join eu together
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: ecuadoran president rafael correa celebrated victory monday after winning what he said was a `` crushing victory '' in a constitutional referendum aimed at broadening his powers .
correa celebrates victory in constitutional referendum
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: at least ## people were killed in a massive rockslide that crushed dozens of homes in a cairo slum at the weekend , a security official said on thursday , with the toll expected to rise further .
cairo rockslide toll climbs to ##
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a series of explosions was heard in central baghdad tuesday evening , but the us military could not immediately say what caused them .
series of blasts in central baghdad
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: china strenuously defended its sports anti-doping policy on thursday , blaming the latest scandal involving ## chinese athletes on `` individual acts '' rather than any failure on the part of the authorities .
china defends anti-doping policy
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the franc fell sharply in initial trading on the ##th day of strikes here on wednesday .
franc falls sharply on ##th day of strikes
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: new flight rules that pack airliners flying over europe into a smaller space have the potential for causing a catastrophic accident , a german scientist says .
new european airspace rules unsafe says scientist
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a parliamentary UNK UNK said the draft report under consideration was based on an ##-point chronology of events , which showed that among other things paksas ' office leaked classified information to his main financial backer in his election campaign , who is accused of illegal arms trading with sudan .
lithuanian committee postpones adoption of report into paksas scandal
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the stockholm stock exchange plunged #.## percent in late afternoon trading monday , amid continued anxiety over the global banking sector crisis .
stockholm stock exchange plummets more than five percent
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: global direct investment outflows grew by ## percent to ### billion dollars last year , the first rise for three years and led by the united states and britain , a japanese government-affiliated agency said on thursday .
us britain lead investment outflow
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: pakistani muslims will celebrate eid al-fitr on wednesday to mark the end of the fasting month of ramadan , an official announced on state television .
pakistan to celebrate eid al-fitr on wednesday
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: british government officials met in closed session thursday to study plans for the possible evacuation of britain 's #,### un troops from bosnia .
british officials study bosnia troop withdrawal
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: former smokers are eight times more likely to develop lung cancer than non-smokers , even years after quitting , according to a study published wednesday by the british thoracic society .
former smokers still at risk for lung cancer
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: israeli army officers are to swop their french-made peugeot ###s cars for italian fiats , the defense ministry said monday .
israeli army officers to ride in UNK
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a ukrainian cargo ship sank friday off the coast of newfoundland in a heavy storm that hindered the work of rescue workers hoping to save the ## crew members on board .
ukrainian cargo ship sinks off newfoundland coast
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the european union is preparing a double-barrelled counterattack at the world trade organisation against us tariffs on steel imports , sources close to the wto said on thursday .
eu prepares double-barrelled steel counterattack at wto
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: us open champion ernie els posted seven birdies on the back nine en route to a seven-under ## on thursday , taking a three-shot lead after the first round of the world championship of golf .
blistering back nine gives els world championship lead
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: workers in london 's canary wharf financial district breathed a collective sigh of relief friday as sunshine and resurgent stocks brought their roller-coaster week to an end .
relief after roller-coaster week in london 's financial quarter
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the spanish government tuesday announced it was budgeting ## billion pesetas -lrb- ### million dollars -rrb- for renovation of the prado museum here .
spanish government to spend ### millions dollars on prado renovation
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: argentine economy minister domingo cavallo has become the butt of bitter humor here as he tries to hold the line on government spending despite a recession and a record ## percent unemployment .
argentina 's tough economy minister a butt of jokes
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a helicopter contracted to un-led peacekeepers crashed in sudan 's darfur region on monday , killing two people with two more feared dead , a un spokesman said .
at least two dead in darfur helicopter crash
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the brother of former yugoslav president slobodan milosevic denounced saturday a meeting between un war crimes prosecutor carla del ponte and a chechen rebel envoy , saying it exposed the `` terrorist logic '' of the UNK at the hague .
milosevic 's brother blasts chechen meeting with un war crimes prosecutor
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the seoul district court on saturday issued an arrest warrant for former south korean president chun doo-hwan after he had defied a prosecutor 's summons and left for his hometown , television reports said .
arrest warrant issued for chun
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: nec corp. announced tuesday plans to launch a new parallel mainframe computer in a leasing venture with toshiba corp. , and personal conference software developed with intel corp. of the united states .
nec unveils new parallel mainframe software developed with intel
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: dean holdsworth deflated newcastle 's championship cushion sunday night as wimbledon defiantly shared a dramatic six-goal extravaganza at selhurst park .
UNK in six goal thriller with wimbledon
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the french franc fell heavily against the mark in initial trading here on monday amid mounting concern over a transport strike which was spreading through the economy , market sources said .
franc falls on strike crisis
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: france on friday urged its citizens to postpone non-essential travel to turkey , following two sets of bomb attacks in less than a week at synagogues and british installations in istanbul that left a total of ## dead .
france calls on citizens to postpone travel to turkey
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: spanish police said wednesday they have smashed an african prostitution racket , arresting ## nigerians suspected of trafficking of women via morocco following swoops on three spanish cities .
spanish smash nigerian prostitution ring
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: UNK at lunch on the third day of the second test between south africa and england here saturday .
south africa v england scoreboard
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: veteran international striker masashi nakayama helped #### asian club champions jubilo iwata remain at the top of the table with a #-# win over consadole sapporo in j-league football on sunday .
iwata take lead in j-league
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: un secretary general boutros boutros-ghali is due to visit kuwait on tuesday as part of a tour of the gulf region , officials said saturday .
un secretary general to visit kuwait
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: leaders from liberia 's government and rebel groups are due to meet with a un-led committee monitoring the country 's fragile peace process after clashes in the northeast left scores dead , a un statement said monday .
un-led peace committee urges liberians to rein in fighters
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: french group lagardere said thursday that nine-month sales had fallen because of a fall in figures flowing from its stake in european aero group eads and because it had separated matra automobile accounts .
lagardere sales fall #.# percent
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: some #,### protesters are expected to take to jakarta 's streets thursday when indonesia 's parliament votes on whether to investigate its speaker akbar tanjung over corruption allegations , police said .
indonesian police brace for #,### protesters
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: australia and cambodia have bolstered efforts to combat people smuggling through an agreement designed to improve relations and boost immigration expertise , officials said monday .
australia cambodia sign people smuggling agreement
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: mao xinyu , the grandson of china 's chairman mao zedong , has released his first album of songs dedicated to the memory of his famous ancestor .
chairman mao 's grandson releases album in praise of granddad
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: with us troops fighting in iraq , communities around the united states have responded with a crush of veterans day parades and other ceremonies tuesday to honor soldiers who served in past wars and those on duty far from home , officials said .
with us troops fighting in iraq veterans day festivities boom at home
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: yasser arafat 's palestinian authority met with hamas hardliners here tuesday to try to persuade them to take part in historic self-rule elections next month .
plo tries to persuade hamas to drop election boycott
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the head of the un special commission -lrb- unscom -rrb- investigating iraq 's weapons of mass destruction said thursday his team has dredged newly imported missile guidance parts out of the tigris river .
un investigators find long-range missile guidance systems in tigris
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: france is to withdraw from service the last of its mirage nuclear bombers , at the forefront of its nuclear deterrent for more than ## years , a report said thursday .
france to withdraw nuke bombers
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: saudi arabia and italy have signed an agreement to fight terrorism , organized crime and drug trafficking , saudi officials announced here sunday .
riyadh rome agree to fight terrorism
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: australian shares closed higher friday , taking their lead from wall street with news corp continuing stronger on the back of positive results while bhp led the miners , dealers said .
australian shares close higher as news corp continues firmer
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the australian government announced friday a multi-million dollar handout to compensate aborigines for british nuclear tests conducted on their land .
aborigines accept compensation for nuclear tests
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: seventeen people were arrested in a raid on a suspected moslem extremist hideout here , as police in the southern philippines went on alert for another possible attack by moslem terrorists , officials said sunday .
seventeen arrested in raid on suspected moslem hideout
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a chinese court charged an unemployed man wednesday with `` incitement to subvert the state '' after he called for the democratization of the country on the internet , a human rights group and court official said .
chinese man charged with subversion after online call for democracy
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: south korean shares closed #.## percent higher thursday on hopes that the ongoing us financial crisis will ease , dealers said .
skorean shares close #.## percent higher
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: thirty-four legislators from war-torn north and northeastern uganda have walked out of parliament and vowed not to return until the government finds a peaceful solution to the UNK conflict in their region , one of them said on thursday .
legislators from uganda 's war-torn north boycott parliament
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a boatload of asylum-seekers who landed in an eastern indonesian island after being controversially turned back by the australian navy will be transferred to another island for immigration processing , police said monday .
indonesia to move asylum-seekers to ambon for immigration processing
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the white house unveiled a new budget plan thursday , offering deeper cuts in spending in a bid to reach agreement with the republican majority in congress on balancing the budget by #### .
white house unveils third budget
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the georgian supreme court on tuesday canceled the results of the november # parliamentary elections on grounds of fraud , a supreme court judge announced on national television .
georgian supreme court annuls november # elections
You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: chechen president dzhokhar dudayev 's eldest son was badly wounded in fighting between UNK forces loyal to his father and russian troops trying to crush the caucasus republic 's quest for independence , interfax reported tuesday .
chechen leader 's son badly wounded in fighting
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