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un nuclear inspectors head to north korean reactor site | Generate a short summary: u.n. inspectors headed to north korea 's key nuclear reactor thursday for the first time since #### to discuss the country 's plans to shut the plutonium-producing facility under an international accord . | giga |
uruguay suffers one of worst droughts in history | Generate a short summary: the uruguayan agriculture - livestock sector , one of the engines of the south american country 's economy , is facing one of the worst droughts in history , an official report said monday . | giga |
yasser arafat denounces israel | Generate a short summary: palestinian leader yasser arafat on thursday accused israel of escalating military operations against the palestinians , calling it part of a plan to force his people to `` kneel down . | giga |
##ers burton signs with italian team | Generate a short summary: philadelphia ##ers unrestricted free agent willie burton signed a one-year contract with ambrosiano milano of the italian league , his agent said monday . | giga |
merck and danish partner lundbeck say test results dash insomnia drug development | Generate a short summary: merck & co. and its danish partner , pharmaceutical company h. lundbeck a\/s , are putting to rest development of an insomnia drug that was in the final human testing stage after studies found safety problems , including hallucinations . | giga |
fia wants ban on tobacco advertising pushed | Generate a short summary: the governing body of world motor sport is taking the european union to court in an attempt to have a ban on tobacco advertising pushed back by more than a year . | giga |
ukrainian villager kills neighbors for suspected witchcraft | Generate a short summary: a ##-year-old ukrainian villager murdered a neighbor family whom he suspected of witchcraft and then killed himself , a newspaper reported tuesday . | giga |
chief nuclear inspector calls for u.n. compromise on benchmarks offers to go to baghdad | Generate a short summary: the chief u.n. nuclear inspector urged security council members on thursday to compromise on disarmament `` benchmarks '' for iraq to meet , with staggered deadlines and no ultimatum for war . | giga |
australian shares close up #.# percent | Generate a short summary: australian shares closed up #.# percent friday as investors shrugged off losses on wall street and went bargain hunting in the banking and resource sectors , brokers said . | giga |
for women new hopes for romance | Generate a short summary: some women who need to take antidepressant medications find themselves forced to make a difficult choice : treat their depression or enjoy a satisfying sex life . | giga |
belarus takes biathlon women 's #.# km sprint at universiade | Generate a short summary: belarussia olga nazarova won th biathlon #.# km sprint for women held at centro di sci UNK in UNK di UNK on tuesday at the tarvisio universiade . | giga |
tempers flare in spring training | Generate a short summary: the beanball brawls have started _ and it 's only spring training . | giga |
world oil prices firm as markets eye opec | Generate a short summary: oil prices rebounded friday as the market tossed between worries over opec production cuts and the international energy agency 's unexpectedly sharp reduction in global demand forecasts . | giga |
sparks fly as world cup journalists plane UNK | Generate a short summary: a plane carrying journalists to a world cup match made an emergency landing near johannesburg sunday , sending sparks flying as its belly flopped along the tarmac , an airport spokesman said . | giga |
#### election spending was only $ #.# billion says veteran analyst | Generate a short summary: local , state and federal political campaigning for the #### elections cost a record $ #.# billion , says an authoritative book released tuesday . | giga |
chinese president accepts credentials from four ambassadors | Generate a short summary: chinese president jiang zemin accepted credentials presented by new ambassadors of the four countries to china . | giga |
no jobs growth yet despite economic recovery eu figures show | Generate a short summary: the unemployment rate in the ##-nation euro zone was unchanged in august at # percent despite stronger economic growth , data released tuesday show . | giga |
south africa name squad for world cup qualifier and friendly | Generate a short summary: south africa announced wednesday a ##-man squad for the world cup qualifier in burkina faso on september # and the friendly against germany in bremen four days later . | giga |
carlsberg on buying spree to expand in asia | Generate a short summary: danish brewery giant carlsberg is on a buying spree in asia , especially china and india , as part of an aggressive move to expand in the world 's fastest growing region , a report said wednesday . | giga |
weld emerges as major romney backer | Generate a short summary: former massachusetts governor william f. weld has emerged as a major backer of mitt romney , despite a long friendship with rudolph w. giuliani , the former new york city mayor who is a potential romney rival in the race for the #### republican presidential nomination . | giga |
indonesian govt seizes soeharto 's foundation asset | Generate a short summary: following the seizure of a villa belonging to indonesian former president soeharto in west java province , prosecutors of the country 's attorney general office -lrb- ago -rrb- impounded again an office building owned by tax-free charity foundation linked to soeharto . | giga |
former philippine president retreats petition for surgical operation abroad | Generate a short summary: former philippine president joseph estrada ordered his lawyers to withdraw his petition at the country 's anti-graft court sandiganbayan to undergo knee surgery in the united states until his application for the visa is settled , a local newspaper reported wednesday . | giga |
sundance sweetheart ferrera returns to indie fest | Generate a short summary: america ferrera came to the sundance film festival eight years ago as an unknown with only one professional acting gig behind her . | giga |
bomb discovered near khomeini 's shrine | Generate a short summary: a bomb was discovered tuesday near the shrine of the founder of the islamic republic , ayatollah ruhollah khomeini , the official iranian news agency irna said . | giga |
europe basks in UNK of single currency launch | Generate a short summary: the european press on wednesday proclaimed the launch of the euro a smash success , describing enthusiasm for the new banknotes as `` UNK '' a day after they became legal tender in ## of the continent 's countries . | giga |
central america agrees to raise coffee price | Generate a short summary: five central american countries agreed friday in guatemala city to support a plan of retention for coffee exports beginning october # , in a bid to recover the prices in the world market . | giga |
eads elated after winning mega u.s. defense contract | Generate a short summary: the ##-billion u.s. dollar tanker contract that europe 's defense manufacturer eads won in the united states friday is a `` great source of pride '' and a vote of confidence in the company 's `` strategy , '' eads chief executive louis gallois said saturday . | giga |
pay-as-you-go cell phone options for europe | Generate a short summary: q : we will be in europe this summer and would like a pay-as-you-go cell phone that will work in england and other countries . | giga |
new zealand shares close #.## percent lower | Generate a short summary: new zealand share prices closed #.## percent lower friday , dragged drown by sharp falls on the australian market , dealers said . | giga |
int l kung fu masters to compete in hong kong | Generate a short summary: more than ## kung fu -lrb- martial arts -rrb- masters will compete in hong kong next month at the international kung fu masters performance and championship . | giga |
blair 's son makes the grade for oxford | Generate a short summary: british prime minister tony blair 's son nicholas made the grade in his final school exams and will follow in his father 's footsteps to famed oxford university , blair 's office announced thursday . | giga |
ecb says it 's still confident about long-term economic outlook | Generate a short summary: the european central bank said thursday it is still confident that the economic slowdown across the continent will be short-lived , despite the fallout from last week 's terrorist attacks on the united states . | giga |
police chief wants to keep national guard longer on patrol in new jersey | Generate a short summary: new orleans ' police superintendent is seeking to extend the national guard 's street patrols through the end of the summer as a violent crime wave hampers the city 's efforts to recover from hurricane katrina . | giga |
seven crushed to death in nigeria 's road accident | Generate a short summary: a speeding trailer ran into a bus on a road in north-central nigeria , killing seven and injuring several others , the official news agency of nigeria reported saturday . | giga |
russian agriculture officials after banning american chicken want | Generate a short summary: the russian veterinary service wants to inspect u.s. poultry plants that export to russia , this country 's chief veterinary inspector said tuesday , amid tense negotiations over a ban on american chicken that has clouded relations . | giga |
china 's guangzhou to bid for #### asian games | Generate a short summary: china 's southern metropolis of guangzhou plans to bid for the #### asian games with the approval from the central government , local UNK reported monday . | giga |
cardinal john o'connor too sick to attend st. patrick 's day mass parade | Generate a short summary: for ## years every march ## , cardinal john o'connor reigned on the cathedral steps , blessing children and greeting thousands of st. patrick 's day parade marchers . | giga |
peres criticizes syria would have gotten all the golan years ago | Generate a short summary: foreign minister shimon peres said monday that syria could have gotten back all of the golan heights if it had made peace with israel when egypt did ## years ago . | giga |
gold opens lower in hong kong | Generate a short summary: gold opened at u.s. dlrs ###.## an ounce on friday in hong kong , down dlrs #.## from thursday 's close of dlrs ###.## . | giga |
student group plans campaign against alcohol-related deaths | Generate a short summary: alcohol-related deaths among teenagers fell by as much as # percent in the past year , according to a student activist group committed to combating underage drinking and driving . | giga |
jordanian king condoles earthquake victims in morocco | Generate a short summary: jordanian king abdullah ii tuesday sent a cable of condolences to moroccan king mohammad vi to express his deep sorrow over the loss of lives in an earthquake which hit northeastern morocco earlier in the day , the official petra news agency reported . | giga |
east china grain producers report harvest | Generate a short summary: shandong province , one of the major grain producers in china , has reported a record harvest this year . | giga |
kohl 's party rejects dual nationality for foreigners | Generate a short summary: german chancellor helmut kohl 's conservative christian democratic union -lrb- cdu -rrb- party today voted against allowing foreigners living in germany to acquire dual nationality . | giga |
spain moves to ease abortion law | Generate a short summary: the spanish government approved a plan friday to ease restrictions on abortion and allow the procedure on demand up to ## weeks of pregnancy , pressing ahead with a sweeping social reform agenda that has irked conservatives and the catholic church . | giga |
pioneer brain researcher paul maclean ## dies | Generate a short summary: his conception of the `` UNK brain '' has since been dismissed by most neuroscientists as being overly simplistic , but his ideas laid the foundation for much of the brain research that was to follow and played a major role in popularizing the subject for a lay audience . | giga |
rockin all over the world the top ten for astronauts | Generate a short summary: astronauts aboard the international space station -lrb- iss -rrb- are to get an unusual treat -- an mp# player loaded with a playlist of songs specially chosen for people in orbit . | giga |
## chinese immigrants held in ukraine amid sars fears | Generate a short summary: a total of ## illegal chinese immigrants who sneaked into the ukraine from russia have been arrested in kiev and have been quarantined amid fears they could be carrying sars , the interior ministry said . | giga |
cubans still waiting for castro | Generate a short summary: the speculation was that he would be here , that fidel castro was ready to leave his hospital bed after ## months of convalesce and that he would come to inaugurate a revamped soviet-era oil refinery he has been saying for years is key to cuba 's energy future . | giga |
french gendarme kills colleague children himself | Generate a short summary: a french gendarme shot a superior officer dead in a paris suburb friday before killing his own two children and finally turning the gun on himself , police said . | giga |
st. jude hospital halts gene studies | Generate a short summary: st. jude children 's research hospital has shut down two gene therapy experiments after an internal review raised concerns that cells being injected into children with cancer might be contaminated with hiv or with the hepatitis c virus . | giga |
election official predicts high turnout in june | Generate a short summary: a russian election official predicted monday that as high as ## percent of the electorate will take part in june 's presidential election . | giga |
peking man dated more accurately | Generate a short summary: chinese scholars have derived a more exact dating of peking man and other early hominids by a new method known as electronic spin resonance , an internationally recognized high-tech method for archeological dating . | giga |
nalbandian puts argentina ahead in davis cup quarterfinals ; france leads russia | Generate a short summary: david nalbandian helped argentina earn two points and a #-# lead over australia on saturday in the davis cup quarterfinals , and france won its doubles match to lead russia #-# . | giga |
soldiers fire on family s car in mexico killing # | Generate a short summary: soldiers opened fire on a family 's car at a military checkpoint in northern mexico , killing a ##-year-old boy and his father , authorities and relatives said monday . | giga |
guyanese president discharged from hospital | Generate a short summary: guyana 's president was discharged from a georgetown hospital after a three-day stay for treatment of a heart condition , government officials said . | giga |
subfreezing weather batters europe causing deaths | Generate a short summary: snowstorms and subfreezing temperatures have battered europe , killing ## people in poland alone and wreaking havoc on air , train and car travelers from the nordics to italy on the last weekend before christmas . | giga |
red wings # canucks # tie | Generate a short summary: slava kozlov 's goal with #.# seconds left in regulation gave the detroit red wings a #-# tie tuesday night with the vancouver canucks . | giga |
murray declared clinically dead | Generate a short summary: doctors told the family of scottish boxer james murray on saturday night that their son is `` clinically dead '' , his manager alex morrison announced . | giga |
israel tunisia near to diplomatic relations | Generate a short summary: israel and tunisia are close to establishing diplomatic relations , their tourism ministers announced on wednesday . | giga |
party 's work methods should continue official says | Generate a short summary: the three important styles of work of the communist party of china : integrating theory with practice , forging close links with the masses , and practising criticism and self-criticism are a tradition cultivated by the cpc during a long period of struggle and must be continued , said a cpc top official . | giga |
russia 's putin accuses big business of exploiting regional loopholes | Generate a short summary: russian president vladimir putin on tuesday criticized big business for using regional loopholes for its financial gain at the expense of the state , in a clear swipe at the embattled oil giant yukos . | giga |
u.s. jobless claims down ##,### to ###,### last week | Generate a short summary: fewer american workers applied for state unemployment benefits last week , labor department figures showed today , as total new claims fell to the lowest level in eight weeks . | giga |
eleven killed ## injured in egyptian road accident | Generate a short summary: eleven people were killed and ## injured when a speeding bus lost control and plunged off a highway bridge in the egyptian capital of cairo , police said tuesday . | giga |
blackout compensation plan announced in canada 's ontario | Generate a short summary: the government of canada 's ontario province has announced a compensation program for those affected by the recent massive blackout that struck the province and the northeastern part of the united states earlier this month , it is reported thursday . | giga |
british prime minister gordon brown rules out calling early election | Generate a short summary: prime minister gordon brown ruled out calling an early election , putting an end to weeks of fevered speculation that he would soon seek a stronger mandate from the electorate . | giga |
three czech winter olympians injured in a car crash | Generate a short summary: three czech biathletes were injured in an accident early wednesday when the car they were traveling in collided head-on with another car on an icy road in the northern part of the country , ctk news agency reported . | giga |
emotional brazil mourns peacekeepers killed in haiti | Generate a short summary: president luiz inacio lula da silva on thursday led an emotional ceremony with full military honors for ## brazilian peacekeepers who died in last week 's earthquake in haiti . | giga |
earthquake rattles el salvador | Generate a short summary: an earthquake rattled el salvador on tuesday morning , sending tremors through a nation still recovering from a january temblor that killed hundreds . | giga |
# missing divers rescued after a night floating over australia s great barrier reef | Generate a short summary: two missing scuba divers from the united states and britain were rescued after spending a night floating in the ocean over australia 's great barrier reef . | giga |
powell tours UNK city in jordan | Generate a short summary: u.s. secretary of state colin powell did something unusual saturday : he took a few hours off . | giga |
and u.s. efforts to freeze them and info | Generate a short summary: president clinton vowed saturday that the united states would use `` all the tools at our disposal '' to fight the terrorist network of osama bin laden , as the administration outlined efforts to squeeze him financially following the u.s. cruise-missile strikes thursday in afghanistan and sudan . | giga |
australian government launches new counterterrorism center | Generate a short summary: seeking to thwart terror attacks on australians at home and overseas , the government on friday launched a new intelligence unit to assess threats to the nation and its citizens . | giga |
army recruiter to serve jail time for sex offense | Generate a short summary: a ##-year-old military recruiter who pleaded guilty to offering to help a ##-year-old girl get into the u.s. army in exchange for oral sex was sentenced to a year in jail . | giga |
comics convention gets the world s first look at terminator salvation footage | Generate a short summary: `` terminator salvation '' wo n't hit theaters until next summer , but thousands of fans got an early look at a portion of the film saturday . | giga |
## killed ## injured in road accident on egyptian highway | Generate a short summary: fourteen people were killed and ## others injured at dawn wednesday when a bus and a truck collided head-on on a road southwest of the egyptian capital cairo , official mena news agency reported . | giga |
a match is set to heal chess split but not in paris | Generate a short summary: a schism in the chess world that opened in #### in london is to be healed this month in a poor and barren russian republic on the caspian sea . | giga |
ang lee s lust caution wins venice film fest s top golden lion award | Generate a short summary: taiwan-born ang lee 's erotic spy thriller `` lust , caution '' won the venice film festival 's top golden lion award on saturday , two years after he captured the same prize here with `` brokeback mountain . | giga |
mandela in excellent condition says doctor | Generate a short summary: president nelson mandela finished today 's medical tests at johannesburg 's park lane clinic early and has been back at work , his doctor said here today . | giga |
french minister refuses to ban paedophile book | Generate a short summary: france 's interior minister nicolas sarkozy on friday rejected a plea from two children 's rights groups who wanted him to censor a recently-published novel -- `` rose UNK '' or `` pink sweet '' -- which features a paedophile murderer . | giga |
falun gong believers stage protest | Generate a short summary: because of his belief in falun gong , zhaohui lu said he lost his government job in china and faces jail when he returns . | giga |
hundreds of british muslims march to protest war on terror | Generate a short summary: hundreds of protesters marched through london saturday , accusing government and police of victimizing muslims as part of the war on terrorism . | giga |
hk press hails sar 's external affairs functions | Generate a short summary: two of hong kong 's major newspapers published commentaries today , hailing the hong kong special administrative region -lrb- hksar -rrb- government 's being authorized by the central people 's government to handle certain external affairs on its own . | giga |
UNK striker coly to leave lens | Generate a short summary: lens coach joel muller has decided to let go want-away senegal striker ferdinand coly , the northern french first division club said on thursday . | giga |
maverick rightwinger announces presidential candidacy | Generate a short summary: maverick anti-european rightwinger philippe de villiers on sunday announced he will stand in french presidential elections to replace socialist head of state francois mitterrand this spring . | giga |
toyota raises stake in fuji heavy ; daihatsu signs oem deal with fuji | Generate a short summary: toyota motor corp. will spend us$ ### million to raise its stake in fuji heavy industries to ##.# percent , and the two japanese automakers will expand their tie-up and develop a sports car together , the companies said thursday . | giga |
ira dissident group claims responsibility for | Generate a short summary: a splinter UNK guerrilla group on sunday claimed responsibility for a mortar attack on a police station in a northern ireland village late on saturday night . | giga |
freed us reporter roxana saberi in vienna | Generate a short summary: us-born reporter roxana saberi flew into vienna from tehran on friday , only days after her release from an iranian prison where she had been jailed on allegations of spying for the united states . | giga |
bush names carlos gutierrez new us commerce secretary | Generate a short summary: us president george w. bush on monday nominated carlos gutierrez , the cuban-born head of kellogg co. , as commerce secretary and the first member of an expected new economic team . | giga |
in escalation israel kills # militants in airstrikes palestinian rocket kills woman | Generate a short summary: israeli-palestinian violence escalated dangerously monday when israel killed five militants in airstrikes and indicated that hamas political leaders could be their next target , and a rocket fired from gaza killed an israeli woman , inviting a harsh israeli response . | giga |
mexican press hails olympic victory in china | Generate a short summary: mexico city , aug. ## -lrb- xinhua -rrb- &#####; - the dailies of mexico city praised on monday the perfect organization of the ##th olympic games of beijing and they hailed the absolute victory of china over the united sates on gold medals . | giga |
tv presenter UNK green dies | Generate a short summary: hughie green , credited with introducing british television viewers to the joys of the game show and audience participation , died on saturday from cancer , hospital officials said . | giga |
france 's prime minister vows that those committing anti-semitic acts will be punished | Generate a short summary: france 's prime minister pledged that anyone involved in anti-semitic acts will be caught and punished _ a promise made on the ##th anniversary of the france 's roundup of jews sent to nazi death camps . | giga |
pilot UNK die in plane crash at thai air show | Generate a short summary: an air force pilot and a ##-year-old boy died saturday in eastern thailand when their light plane crashed in front of hundreds of terrified children at an air show , police and air force officers said . | giga |
oil prices dip on sagging consumer confidence | Generate a short summary: oil prices fell slightly tuesday on a stronger dollar and waning consumer confidence in the united states , the world 's largest energy consumer . | giga |
cnooc 's ceo defends ##.# billion dollar bid for us unocal | Generate a short summary: the chairman of china national offshore oil corporation -lrb- cnooc -rrb- fu chengyu wednesday defended his company 's ##.#-billion-dollar bid for us oil major unocal in the face of growing us concerns over the deal 's possible impact on us energy security . | giga |
united states UNK sri lanka 's tamil rebels as terrorists rebels regret | Generate a short summary: the united states has UNK the tamil tigers as a terrorist organization , the u.s. embassy said friday , despite an ongoing peace process between the sri lankan government and the rebels . | giga |
virginia teen dies during traffic stop | Generate a short summary: a handcuffed virginia teen-ager drowned early saturday after he fled from a virginia state police cruiser during a traffic stop and plunged more than ## feet off a bridge into the UNK river , state police said . | giga |
a-rod launches yankees to brink of world series | Generate a short summary: alex rodriguez homered in the third straight game of his outstanding postseason and cc sabathia allowed just five hits over eight resilient innings on short rest as the new york yankees beat the los angeles angels ##-# tuesday to take a #-# lead in the american league championship series . | giga |
little support left for federal crop controls | Generate a short summary: in april #### , president clinton signed the republicans ' `` freedom to farm '' bill , ending production controls on wheat , corn , cotton , soybeans and rice . | giga |
saudis on hunger strike to demand judiciary reform | Generate a short summary: a group of saudi activists have begun the kingdom 's first public hunger strike to demand judiciary reform and draw attention to the detention without trial of ## political reformists . | giga |