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israeli army forces storm northern w. bank | Generate a short summary: israeli army forces , backed by tanks and armor personnel carriers , stormed on tuesday morning the northern west bank town of jenin , palestinian residents and security sources reported . | giga |
world champion xie makes early exit to china open badminton | Generate a short summary: world champion xie xingfang bade an early farewell in the second round of the china open badminton championships here on thursday . | giga |
monsanto #q net income sags on weak roundup sales | Generate a short summary: monsanto co. , the world 's biggest seed maker , said wednesday its fiscal third-quarter net income dropped ## percent as customers continue to shun its roundup weedkiller in favor of cheaper generic versions . | giga |
human rights group condemns police threat to chinese dissident | Generate a short summary: human rights watch\/asia has condemned death threats by beijing police to wang dan after the dissident filed a suit against them , saying the action demonstrated china 's disregard for the rule of law . | giga |
fashion pledges to keep fighting back | Generate a short summary: after first reaching into its pockets , the fashion industry is now literally taking the clothes off its back to aid in relief efforts for the victims of terrorism in america . | giga |
lampard terry out of england qualifiers | Generate a short summary: frank lampard and john terry will be out of england 's euro #### qualifiers against bulgaria and switzerland next month due to injury . | giga |
khartoum accuses rebels of ceasefire violation | Generate a short summary: khartoum accused south sudanese rebels late sunday of violating a six - month ceasefire by intercepting and attacking the government army 's mobile administrative units in the south of the country . | giga |
britain says attacks in iraq have no implications for power transfer | Generate a short summary: the british government said wednesday that the latest suicide bomb attacks in iraq that have killed more than ## people within ## hours would have no implications for the timetable to hand over power to the iraqi people . | giga |
new zealand stocks drift down | Generate a short summary: new zealand share prices closed #.## percent lower thursday on light profit taking after record numbers earlier in the week , dealers said . | giga |
eu ignores northwest atlantic fish deal ; will set its own quota | Generate a short summary: the european union , taking a dispute with canada a step further , said tuesday it will ignore a halibut fishing deal in the atlantic saying its share was too small . | giga |
government maoists agree to postpone nepal election ; but political deadlock remains | Generate a short summary: nepal 's ruling parties reluctantly agreed friday to maoist demands to postpone upcoming elections , ending one political crisis in the himalayan nation but still leaving the two sides deadlocked over a series of issues . | giga |
torres goals gives liverpool #-# win over chelsea | Generate a short summary: fernando torres scored two late goals to give liverpool a #-# victory over ##-man chelsea on sunday that kept the reds firmly in the race for the premier league title . | giga |
nepalese journalists rally for press freedom | Generate a short summary: more than ### placard-carrying nepalese and foreign press representatives staged a rally in kathmandu saturday demanding fully-fledged freedom of the press in nepal . | giga |
shanghai upgrades school safety following spate of attacks fires | Generate a short summary: alarms will be installed in shanghai schools , and students and teachers will undergo first aid training following a series of accidents , slashings and hostage-taking incidents in schools across china , official newspapers said wednesday . | giga |
incoming eads chairman urges calm and discretion in leadership debate | Generate a short summary: the incoming german co-chairman of the european aeronautic defense and space company , thomas enders , urged his french co-chief noel forgeard wednesday to remain `` calm '' and `` discreet '' in his campaigning for the current dual leadership system at eads to be abolished . | giga |
poland 's foreign minister to fly to kiev for two-day visit | Generate a short summary: poland 's foreign minister was flying to kiev on monday for a two-day visit , with talks expected to touch on ukraine 's recent gas dispute with russia . | giga |
filipino veterans bill advances in us senate despite controversy over benefits | Generate a short summary: legislation to provide millions of dollars in new pension benefits to filipino veterans of world war ii cleared a major senate hurdle tuesday . | giga |
airline easyjet fined in french labor dispute | Generate a short summary: a french court on friday ordered low-cost airline easyjet plc to pay -lrb- euro -rrb- #.## million -lrb- us$ #.# million -rrb- in damages and fines for employing airport workers in france on british contracts , instead of costlier french ones . | giga |
ramos asks for special powers to modernize the bureaucracy | Generate a short summary: president fidel ramos on friday reiterated his call to congress for special powers to modernize the country 's massive bureaucracy , saying this was needed for the country 's economy to grow . | giga |
repairing europe 's flat tire industry | Generate a short summary: from the very beginning , roughly a century ago , branding has been as much a part of a tire as its tread . | giga |
eu gives zambia ## mln euros on road rehabilitation | Generate a short summary: the european union -lrb- eu -rrb- will spend ## million euros on rehabilitation works of UNK border road in zambia 's eastern province , a government official has said . | giga |
leading economic indicators are barely higher as economy grows at a crawl | Generate a short summary: a private business group says its index of leading economic indicators inched higher for the second month in another sign that higher fuel and food prices , tighter credit and a depressed housing market are stifling the u.s. economy . | giga |
hearst passes UNK torch to comcast | Generate a short summary: with comcast taking over full ownership of new england cable news thursday , the regional ##-hour news network will , for the first time in ## years , have a general manager without a news journalism background . | giga |
polish pm wins confidence vote | Generate a short summary: polish prime minister leszek miller , fighting for his political life just five days after poles voted yes in a referendum to join the european union , won a confidence vote in parliament on friday . | giga |
indian software firm tata consultancy to go public after being run as a family business | Generate a short summary: india 's oldest and largest software exporter , tata consultancy services , which has been run for decades as a family business , will open up this week , offering one of the biggest share floats in the history of the country 's stock market . | giga |
norway to host haiti political parties ahead of vote | Generate a short summary: representatives from haiti 's political parties will gather in norway in august to lay the ground for elections scheduled for next year in the poverty-stricken country , ministerial sources said here . | giga |
honduras micheletti ready to resume talks with ousted zelaya | Generate a short summary: honduras ' post-coup leader roberto micheletti said here thursday that he was willing to resume talks with ousted president manuel zelaya after a planned meeting between them failed to be held in costa rica . | giga |
ferraris dominate first practice in bahrain | Generate a short summary: ferraris dominated the first practice friday for the bahrain grand prix , with kimi raikkonen and felipe massa setting the best times by a huge margin over their mclaren challengers . | giga |
african troops march in paris bastille day parade | Generate a short summary: african soldiers from countries in france 's former colonial empire marched in the annual bastille day military parade in paris on wednesday . | giga |
israel gets ## combat aircraft from us | Generate a short summary: israel will have received ## surplus f-## fighter planes from the united states by the end of the month , the air force says . | giga |
norway resumes effort to salvage sri lanka peace process | Generate a short summary: norwegians envoys began talks sunday with sri lanka 's new government to salvage the stalled process aimed at ending the island 's ethnic conflict which has claimed more than ##,### lives , officials said . | giga |
south and north koreans to meet at tumen river confab in beijing | Generate a short summary: south and north korean officials will sit down together at a five - nation meeting in beijing starting monday , despite a bitter row over a north korean submarine incursion . | giga |
bulldozer smugglers nabbed in greece | Generate a short summary: athens police have seized more than ## trucks and arrested nine people involved in an international ring that stole vehicles and bulldozers in western europe and sold them on in greece , police said tuesday . | giga |
ramirez hits leadoff homer setting stage for marlins to beat phillies #-# | Generate a short summary: hanley ramirez led off the game with one of florida 's three home runs off philadelphia starter brett myers , and the marlins went on to beat the national league east-leading phillies #-# on tuesday . | giga |
hlasek first casualty of new zealand open | Generate a short summary: fourth seed jakob hlasek was the first big casualty of the new zealand open men 's tennis on monday . | giga |
finland to introduce natural food during eu presidency | Generate a short summary: finland will introduce its cuisine , especially natural food , during finland 's eu presidency in the second half of this year , the finnish government said in a statement on wednesday . | giga |
new zealand pulls out of u.n. anti-racism conference | Generate a short summary: new zealand foreign minister murray mccully announced on monday that new zealand will not attend a united nations conference against racism being held in geneva this week . | giga |
us hopes chechen peace will hold despite lebed 's exit | Generate a short summary: the united states voiced hope thursday that a peace accord for chechnya will hold despite the sacking of national security chief alexander lebed who brokered the agreement . | giga |
police open investigation into olmert s role in bank privatization | Generate a short summary: israeli police are to open a criminal investigation tuesday into israeli prime minister ehud olmert 's role in the privatization of an israeli bank , the justice ministry said in a statement . | giga |
when bad weather is good business | Generate a short summary: for ravi nathan , the weather is not kindling for small talk . | giga |
ruins of ancient manor unearthed in italy | Generate a short summary: italian archaeologists excavated the ruins of a large-scale ancient manor in the suburb of lucca in central italy . | giga |
russia lives up hopes of individual titles | Generate a short summary: the error-prone russian gymnasts still lived up their hopes of winning individual titles after their teams failed to gain the top honor of the team events at the current gymnastics world championships here . | giga |
archaeologists excavate ancient tomb in central china | Generate a short summary: chinese archaeologists found rare pottery and copper vessels in a tomb of a high-ranking official of the warring states period -lrb- ###-### b.c. -rrb- in central china , an official report said friday . | giga |
oil prices continue rise above us$ ## a barrel on increased refinery production | Generate a short summary: oil prices rose friday as asian traders reacted to signs that u.s. refineries have begun to increase production and other positive market signs . | giga |
hewitt agassi to play fewer tournaments | Generate a short summary: the world 's best two tennis players , lleyton hewitt and andre agassi , have indicated they will play fewer tournaments in a bid to prolong their careers and maintain peak fitness . | giga |
kaio handed third straight loss at new year sumo | Generate a short summary: tosanoumi upset kaio at the new year grand sumo tournament on wednesday , dashing any hope the ozeki wrestler had for promotion to sumo 's highest rank . | giga |
farc release video of two hostages in colombia | Generate a short summary: leftist colombian guerrillas on monday released videos of a police officer and a soldier who are among a group of ## hostages held deep in the jungle . | giga |
pathway genomics launches public dna testing | Generate a short summary: a young us start-up brimming with medical research veterans brings genetic testing to the masses on wednesday with an affordable , comprehensive dna service for the public . | giga |
canada 's thomson corp. | Generate a short summary: the thomson corp. , a canadian company whose media empire includes the globe and mail in toronto and american banker , said wednesday that it would acquire a medical data provider for $ ### million in cash . | giga |
depleted lyon begins title bid without several stars | Generate a short summary: lyon begins its quest for a fourth straight french first division title without the nucleus of its championship-winning team . | giga |
dollar rises vs europe currencies on u.s. | Generate a short summary: the dollar rose against european currencies as optimism that korea may avert financial collapse sparked a rally in u.s. stocks . | giga |
connecticut 's season comes to an abrupt end | Generate a short summary: the hopes for connecticut 's first trip to the final four came to a strange , sudden and painful halt friday night . | giga |
mccain takes a break while obama heads to denver | Generate a short summary: john mccain will keep a light campaign schedule for the next few days , but the republican nominee-in-waiting has no intention of conceding democratic national convention week to his rival , barack obama . | giga |
u.s. passenger plane makes successful emergency landing | Generate a short summary: a midwest airlines jetliner with ## people aboard landed safely at logan airport in boston late tuesday , u.s. media reported . | giga |
it business asked to protect children online | Generate a short summary: leading internet and high technology companies should take their responsibility for ensuring childrens ' safety online , children 's organizations from ## countries made the call on monday in bangkok . | giga |
uefa opens up champions league to more smaller teams moves final to a saturday | Generate a short summary: uefa is opening up the champions league to more clubs from smaller countries and moving the annual showcase final to a saturday . | giga |
white house threatens greenhouse gas bill veto | Generate a short summary: the white house tuesday cited the specter of the gulf oil spill as it threatened a presidential veto of a republican bid to block the government 's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions . | giga |
s. korea lodges complaint to imf for lowering growth prediction | Generate a short summary: south korean government has lodged a formal complaint with the international monetary fund -lrb- imf -rrb- for the lowering of its growth predictions for south korea this year , south korean yonhap news agency quoted a source at the ministry of finance and economy as saying on thursday . | giga |
gore asks court not to interfere | Generate a short summary: al gore 's legal team is asking the u.s. supreme court to avoid interfering in florida 's presidential recount dispute , saying the issue `` does not belong in federal court . | giga |
kabila orders mobutu loyalists to hand over arms | Generate a short summary: laurent kabila , who has declared himself zairean president after his anti-government troops seized capital kinshasa , today ordered UNK of the government troops to hand over arms in designated assembly camps . | giga |
washington times editor solomon resigns | Generate a short summary: john solomon , the executive editor of the washington times , has resigned , the newspaper said friday . | giga |
philippines to use marcos funds to pay off debts | Generate a short summary: the philippines plans to pay ### million dollars in maturing short-term debts using part of the nearly ### million dollars late dictator ferdinand marcos stashed away in swiss banks , an official said thursday . | giga |
major and blair visit survivors of the dunblane massacre | Generate a short summary: british prime minister john major and the leader of the opposition tony blair arrived together in stirling on friday to visit the survivors of the dunblane massacre , in which ## school children and their teacher were murdered by a lone gunman . | giga |
oil slides to near $ ## amid europe china jitters | Generate a short summary: oil prices tumbled to near $ ## a barrel friday in asia as investors shifted from commodities to the dollar amid renewed fears about a debt crisis in europe and slowing growth in china . | giga |
bank card society for gansu | Generate a short summary: computers and modern technology have revolutionised banking and financial services in northwest china 's gansu province . | giga |
hershey to close canadian factory drop ### workers | Generate a short summary: hershey is closing its last canadian factory , laying off ### workers and moving part of the production to the united states and mexico . | giga |
crude prices rise near us$ ## ahead of bush and saudi prince meeting | Generate a short summary: crude futures rose monday ahead of a meeting between u.s. president george w. bush and saudi crown prince abdullah to discuss solutions to the current high oil prices . | giga |
zambian soccer referees continue boycott | Generate a short summary: the boycott by the referees officiating the lower division league have entered its third week because of the failure of the football association of zambia -lrb- faz -rrb- to pay them allowances . | giga |
dow ends down ###.## ; new nasdaq high | Generate a short summary: blue-chip stocks fell steeply today amid worries that rising interest rates will ultimately cut into corporate earnings , while signs of strong growth from leading technology companies boosted the nasdaq further into record territory . | giga |
abdullah says too late for diplomatic solution to iraq crisis | Generate a short summary: jordan 's king abdullah ii said on sunday it was too late to find a diplomatic solution to the crisis between the us and iraq over baghdad 's alleged development of weapons of mass destruction . | giga |
s. dakota governor moves to help protect sacred american indian mountain from the roar of bikes | Generate a short summary: for centuries , members of the lakota , cheyenne and other american indian tribes have been climbing bear butte to fast and hold religious ceremonies . | giga |
record cocaine haul reported in vanuatu | Generate a short summary: police in the pacific nation of vanuatu have found ### kilograms -lrb- ### pounds -rrb- of cocaine on a beach in the biggest such haul in the pacific nation 's history , the daily post newspaper reported . | giga |
london s heathrow terminal # closed after suspect package found | Generate a short summary: heathrow airport 's terminal # was closed sunday night after a `` suspect package '' was found , airport authorities said . | giga |
palestinians divided on response to attacks | Generate a short summary: palestinians from street level to the upper echelons of society are struggling both physically and politically to cope with a sudden , dramatic change in the dynamics of their fight against israel brought about by the terrorist attack this week on the united states . | giga |
south african soccer team wary of niger | Generate a short summary: south africa 's national football team , bafana bafana , will be wary of their opponents niger in their african nations cup #### qualifier on saturday at the mbombela stadium , nelspruit , in south africa 's mpumalanga province . | giga |
s korean posed as mourner to steal #,### pairs of shoes | Generate a short summary: a south korean who stole #,### pairs of expensive shoes from funeral homes while posing as a mourner has been arrested , police in seoul said thursday . | giga |
sri lanka lacks trained housemaids for overseas | Generate a short summary: there are at least #,### job opportunities in singapore for trained housemaids , but it is difficult to find qualified applicants in sri lanka , chairman of the bureau of foreign employment kapil UNK said today . | giga |
hangzhou bans smoking in public places | Generate a short summary: hangzhou , the capital of zhejiang province in east china , has become the fifth chinese city banning smoking in public places , following shanghai , wuhan , shenyang and chongqing . | giga |
ottawa to investigate canadian deported to india denied consular access | Generate a short summary: the canadian government said friday it will investigate what happened to a canadian woman , who was pulled aside at chicago 's o'hare airport and deported to india after us officials accused her of obtaining a false passport . | giga |
hundreds missing in aftermath of philippines typhoon ; ## ferry survivors reach shore | Generate a short summary: philippine officials refused to give up hope of rescuing some of the ### people missing after a ferry capsized during typhoon fengshen , even as the UNK seas hampered efforts to get inside the vessel monday . | giga |
nikkei drops #.## percent | Generate a short summary: japan 's benchmark nikkei ### stock index falls ###.## points , or #.## percent , to ##,###.## points monday morning as traders remained jittery over the course of the markets . | giga |
wind is given #nd look as energy needs grow | Generate a short summary: miles of mountain ridges hugging the state 's western border could hold the key to virginia 's search for alternative energy sources . | giga |
german group preussag reports ## percent sales rise for # months | Generate a short summary: diversified german group preussag rolled up sales of ##.## billion marks -lrb- ##.# billion dollars -rrb- for the first nine months of its ####\/## financial year , up ##.# percent from the same period of the previous one , the group announced on monday . | giga |
house prepares campaign finance debate | Generate a short summary: with the house preparing to debate campaign finance legislation this week , the bill 's critics are offering an alternative that would continue to allow unions , corporations and individuals to donate to political parties . | giga |
french tv to show ## hours of bombay | Generate a short summary: french television channel tv # on saturday began filming a ##-hour documentary on bombay to capture the diversity of the metropolis that is home to glamour , finance and massive slums . | giga |
congress agrees with white house on spending cuts | Generate a short summary: the white house and republican leaders in congress agreed on wednesday to an across-the-board spending cut to the long-overdue federal budget , and then , after grappling all day over how to make that cut , shook hands on it thursday morning and made a deal . | giga |
small plane crashes in eastern venezuela | Generate a short summary: a cessna small plane carrying three people crashed monday afternoon in the eastern venezuelan province of anzoategui , the civil defense department said monday . | giga |
key developments in the war against iraq | Generate a short summary: dozens of anti-war protesters on saturday shattered windows on police buses parked on a road to block them from marching through seoul to protest the u.s.-led war in iraq . | giga |
taiwan says mauritius cancels visas under pressure from china | Generate a short summary: under pressure from china , mauritius has canceled visas for ## reporters and city councilors accompanying the mayor of taiwan 's capital to a conference , the official central news agency said tuesday . | giga |
UNK undergoes knee operation | Generate a short summary: ac milan 's former italian international defender alessandro costacurta underwent an operation on his damaged knee ligaments in the belgian city of antwerp on thursday , the serie a italian club said on thursday . | giga |
australian shares in for bumpy week | Generate a short summary: australian share prices will likely see continued volatility in the week ahead as investors remain largely on the sidelines following heavy losses on wall street , dealers said . | giga |
hke###### indian congress breakaway group holds rally in delhi | Generate a short summary: narain dutt UNK , president of the breakaway group of the indian ruling congress-i , today called on his party workers to prepare for early parliamentary elections . | giga |
marlins sign kotsay berg | Generate a short summary: the florida marlins agreed thursday to one-year contracts with outfielder mark kotsay and infielder dave berg , who had been due to exchange numbers with the team in salary arbitration . | giga |
royal family of cambodia supports china 's quake-relief works | Generate a short summary: a deputy of the royal family of cambodia on tuesday presented ##,### u.s. dollars and two letters of sympathy to the chinese embassy to express the family 's support for china to carry out relief works in the earthquake - affected areas . | giga |
china promises private business equal treatment with state firms | Generate a short summary: china 's leaders are promising to create a level playing field for private businesses by granting them the same `` preferential treatment '' given to state firms and repealing restrictive laws , state media said tuesday . | giga |
a week after summit raging violence could sink bush 's mideast peace effort | Generate a short summary: a week after u.s. president george w. bush launched an international mideast peace initiative with pomp and proclamations at a summit in jordan , the plan seems to be coming catastrophically undone . | giga |
gop senator may switch parties | Generate a short summary: republican sen. james jeffords of vermont , a moderate in a party of conservatives , considered a party switch wednesday that would shift power in the ##-## senate , handing control to the democrats and crimping president bush 's ability to pass his agenda . | giga |
famous mayor under fire in virginia | Generate a short summary: when l. douglas wilder left the virginia executive mansion in #### after serving as the country 's first elected black governor , talk of a possible run for the white house floated briefly in national political circles . | giga |
rice says no v-e day on horizon in iraq | Generate a short summary: even assuming iraq forms a national government , there will be no sudden stop to violence such as the v-e day that formally marked the end of world war ii in europe , secretary of state condoleezza rice said wednesday . | giga |
london share prices higher at midday | Generate a short summary: share prices on the london stock exchange were higher at midday thursday . | giga |