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In this task, a passage will be given and the goal is to generate a question about temporal relations based on that passage. A temporal relation describes the relation between two things with respect to time e.g., something happens/starts/terminates/... immediately/shortly/usually/... before/after/during/... something else.
Your question should include an event, or ask about an event, and should not be a yes/no question.
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Passage: This would leave South Africa and Japan to battle for the privilege of staging the sport's seventh world championship. Local newspaper The Star said on Thursday that Japan was seen as "the national likeliest to take the event from us."
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What event has already finished?

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Passage: In handing down the appeal court's decision, Judge Henry Litton said "it is quite clear" that the charge against the defendant was "unsustainable under the law." Stuchiner's application for the court to pay legal costs was rejected.
answer:
What event has already finished?

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Passage: Two Italians working for International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) were released unharmed on Tuesday midnight shortly after their kidnapping in Gaza earlier in the day, Palestinian security officials said. The officials said that the kidnappers had run away after they dropped the two hostages, a male and a female, near a police station in central Gaza Strip.
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What event has already finished?