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You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the leader of britain 's main opposition party has attacked gordon brown 's economic record , just days after the embattled premier sought to reassure voters he was the best choice in troubled times .

opposition slams britain 's brown over financial crisis

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: share prices closed marginally lower on the tokyo stock exchange friday as investors adjusted positions ahead of the weekend in the absence of fresh incentives .

tokyo shares finish lower in light trading

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: northwest airlines shareholders on thursday voted overwhelmingly for a planned merger with delta air lines , which would create one of the world 's biggest global carriers .

northwest shareholders ok merger with delta air lines

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: french deputies on sunday threw out a plan which would have obliged everyone living in france to undergo an aids test by the end of #### .

french mps reject compulsory aids test proposal

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a hundred french tourists refused to get back on board an onur air plane that had returned to istanbul just after take-off because of a safety scare , travel group marmara said tuesday .

french tourists refuse to board turkish plane

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: shin UNK of south korea was elected monday as the new director for the western pacific region of the world health organisation , the un body announced .

south korean shin elected who regional director

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: shares in australia 's biggest investment bank , macquarie group , plunged ## percent thursday on fears the global credit crunch could hurt its ability to refinance debt , dealers said .

australia 's macquarie bank shares plunge ## percent

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: president sam nujoma and his ruling south west african people 's organisation -lrb- swapo -rrb- on saturday swept namibia 's first post - independence elections , but the opposition leader cried foul .

president nujoma wins landslide victory in namibia

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: thousands of poles campaigning for the return of property seized under communist rule are considering taking their case to the united nations , their spokesman said wednesday .

thousands of poles face further wait for property

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: chinese shares ended flat on friday , scratching out a #.## percent gain as electricity companies were buoyed by hopes the government would raise power prices soon , dealers said .

chinese shares end #.## percent higher

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the chinese company at the center of a major health scare said thursday its baby milk powder had been contaminated , as reports spread of infants being hospitalised with kidney stones .

health scare in china over infant milk powder

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: hong kong stock prices fell by #.## percent in sluggish trading on thursday because of concern that another us interest rate increase was on the way , brokers said .

hong kong stock prices slump on worries over us interest rate increases

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: european markets were fighting back wednesday in hugely volatile trade , picking up from asia as investors digested the unprecedented bailout of us insurance giant aig and the likely rescue of britain 's hbos bank .

volatile equities stage fightback as hbos confirms takeover talks

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: former un chief kofi annan , who brokered an end to kenya 's worst political crisis , on friday defended a controversial report on the disputed #### polls and urged all to follow its recommendations .

afptv advisory for friday

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: nato has called on germany to take part in combat missions over UNK , german foreign minister klaus kinkel said thursday .

nato calls on germany to join combat missions over bosnia

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the us federal reserve announced a ### billion-dollar liquidity line to fight the racing fires of global financial crisis thursday and said it was ready to do more .

federal reserve announces ###-bln-dlr cash flood to fight crisis

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: world oil prices were mixed in asia friday in a market focussed on global financial turmoil after us officials met to discuss a plan for addressing bad assets at the root of a world credit crisis , analysts said .

oil trades mixed in asia

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: fifty years after guinea broke free from colonial ruler france declaring it would rather be poor and free than rich and enslaved the west african nation languishes at the bottom of the un development index despite vast mineral wealth .

poverty-stricken guinea celebrates ## years of independence

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: work is set to begin next year on an annexe to the louvre museum in the gritty post-industrial north of france , after the project was hit by a string of delays , officials said wednesday .

work to begin next year on louvre UNK

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: an irish author has been commissioned to write a new instalment of `` the hitchhiker 's guide to the galaxy '' , the cult science fiction comedy which became a worldwide hit , publishers said wednesday .

UNK panic new outing for hitchhiker 's guide to the galaxy

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a car caught fire friday as it was being loaded onto a shuttle train in the channel tunnel at the folkestone terminal on the english side , UNK owner eurotunnel said .

car catches fire during loading onto chunnel shuttle

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: armenia and azerbaijan have reached a partial accord on the disputed enclave of nagorno-karabakh , which they have bitterly fought over for six years , the swedish presidency of the minsk group mediating the conflict said here saturday .

armenia azerbaijan reach partial accord on enclave

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: france will host a meeting of senior european officials to prepare a global summit on `` a new international financial system '' , president nicolas sarkozy said monday .

sarkozy calls meeting on new world financial system

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the european central bank announced on monday a special ##-day loan to provide eurozone banks with more cash in a bid to balance conditions on extremely tense interbank money markets .

ecb announces special ##-day cash loans

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the world trade organisation -lrb- wto -rrb- , which is to succeed the gatt , is to be set up as planned from january # , representatives from ### countries decided here thursday , officials said .

world trade organisation to be launched on january # gatt decides

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: philippine share prices closed #.# percent higher on friday after a rally on wall street , bucking a trend in asia as most markets were down , dealers said .

philippine shares close #.# percent higher

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: south africa 's controversial health minister manto tshabalala-msimang was stripped of her post on thursday but was granted a new cabinet position , the country 's new president kgalema motlanthe announced .

south africa 's controversial health minister reshuffled

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: british prime minister gordon brown on sunday condemned the suicide bombing in islamabad and pledged that britain would do whatever it could to help pakistan combat terrorism .

british pm condemns pakistan bombing pledges support

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: bad weather forced representatives of the five-nation contact group on bosnia to call off a planned visit to sarajevo thursday , the united nations protection force said .

contact group calls off sarajevo visit

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: fourteen people filed a complaint against hissene habre in senegal , which has been authorised -- but has yet to start -- to try the former chadian dictator for war crimes , their lawyers said tuesday .

## file complaint against chadian ex-dictator habre in senegal

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: plo leader yasser arafat will briefly visit finland on sunday and will have talks with finnish president and prime minister , the finnish foreign ministry said here thursday .

plo leader arafat to finland

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: top democrats senator harry reid and speaker nancy pelosi told president george w. bush tuesday they were confident that congress would soon pass a revived wall street rescue plan .

top democrats confident about new bailout bill

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: german chancellor helmut kohl warned eastern european countries in a speech to the european parliament wednesday , against building up `` false hopes '' about joining the european union .

kohl warns eastern european countries about building up false hopes

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: former us president jimmy carter announced tuesday he had secured serb agreement for a countrywide truce beginning friday , permitting talks to open on an overall cessation of hostilities .

carter wins ceasefire agreement

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: satellite broadcaster espn international has appointed modi enterprise to distribute its sports programs in india , espn said thursday .

espn signs modi as exclusive sports program distributor in india

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the us federal reserve announced an unprecedented rescue loan tuesday of up to ## billion dollars to save teetering insurance giant american international group from bankruptcy amid fears of a catastrophic effect on financial markets .

fed confirms ## bln rescue loan for aig

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the french senate banned businesses from contributing to electoral campaigns in an overnight vote wednesday on a bill on political funding .

french senate outlaws commercial funding of electoral campaigns

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: world equities slumped for a second day running on tuesday as anxious investors waited to see if us insurance giant aig would suffer the same fate as bankrupt us investment bank lehman brothers .

global shares tumble for second day

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: five immigrants died and two others were critically injured thursday in a shooting near the southern italian city of naples , the ansa news agency said , adding that the incident was believed to be linked to drugs trafficking .

afp americas news agenda for sept ##

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: japan 's economic aid to developing countries is expected to grow less than four percent in fiscal #### , a newspaper said sunday .

aid overseas expected to grow less than four percent

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: security forces have broken up a new armed fundamentalist group and killed two more militants , interior minister hassan al-alfi said wednesday .

two fundamentalists killed new group broken up

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a van in the motorcade accompanying president bill clinton into the white house grounds was damaged sunday when a metal security post popped out of the ground without warning as the vehicle drove over it .

van in clinton motorcade damaged

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: us insurance giant aig and four of its former senior executives agreed to pay ### million dollars to settle claims stemming from charges of fraud , the investors ' law firm said thursday .

aig four ex-executives settle lawsuit for ### mln dlrs

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the rand was slightly higher against the dollar here thursday , opening at #.#### \/ ## to the greenback from its previous close of #.#### \/ #.#### .

rand slightly up against dollar

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: share prices rallied monday on the tokyo stock exchange , led by futures-linked buying as investors were encouraged by the dollar 's advance above ### yen .

tokyo stocks rally on dollar 's rise

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: pakistan television broadcast a video sunday of the marriott hotel bombing , showing that the attacker rammed the gates with his truck and then blew himself up minutes before the main blast .

video shows two explosions in pakistan attack

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the us state department on monday condemned what it called the `` senseless attack '' in northern lebanon that security officials say killed four lebanese soldiers .

us condemns senseless bombing in lebanon

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: european union foreign policy chief javier solana expressed confidence tuesday that russia would respect a peace plan calling for its forces to pull back from deep inside georgia .

eu 's solana optimistic on georgia peace plan compliance

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: democrat barack obama friday said his `` panicked '' white house rival john mccain was flailing at a time of financial crisis and said a government rescue for wall street must shield regular americans too .

obama rips into panicked mccain as wall st crisis mounts

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: moslem countries were urged sunday to help chechnya in a comment in a daily paper which said they had a duty to give the breakaway republic financial and moral support .

moslem countries urged to help chechens

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: oil prices dropped further on thursday on falling demand for crude in the united states , the world 's biggest consumer of energy , amid a global economic slowdown .

oil prices extend losses

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: stuart law repaid skipper mark taylor 's faith with a dashing century in australia 's massive total of ### for three against zimbabwe in the one-day cricket international here thursday .

law repays skipper taylor 's faith with century

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: south australia will target runaway sheffield shield leaders queensland after blitzing reigning champions new south wales by ### runs here monday .

south australia humiliate shield champions nsw

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: swedish industrial production rose by #.# percent in october compared to september , the swedish central bureau of statistics -lrb- scb -rrb- announced wednesday .

swedish industrial production up #.# percent in october

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: taiwan share prices closed down #.## percent tuesday after us lawmakers rejected a massive bailout plan for the troubled us financial sector , dealers said .

taiwan shares drop #.## percent

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: detailed plans were being made in kenya 's indian ocean resort of mombasa friday to receive passengers and crew from the burned-out italian cruise liner achille lauro .

mombasa prepares for shipwreck survivors

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: john mccain is in a tough bind as the crisis on wall street gives barack obama an opening in their white house race to flay the republican 's economic philosophy as literally bankrupt .

mccain 's fundamental struggle as crisis grips us economy

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: taiwan share prices closed #.## percent higher friday as bargain hunting helped the market recoup early losses amid economic concerns , dealers said .

taipei shares close up #.## percent

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: iraq 's artists give proof of their resilience despite the ongoing conflict in an exhibition that opened in london this week .

london exhibition shows iraqi artists persevering

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the federal reserve stared down pressure from markets and held its base lending rate at #.# percent tuesday , suggesting the economy can muddle through the current turmoil without an immediate rate cut .

fed stands firm holds rates in face of market turmoil

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: myanmar 's junta on tuesday freed ##-year-old journalist and activist win tin , the longest-serving political prisoner in the military-ruled nation , an afp correspondent witnessed .

myanmar frees longest-serving political prisoner

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a human rights group expressed concern tuesday about the welfare of algerian activist UNK UNK , who has been threatened and intimidated after giving interviews to foreign journalists .

rights group concerned over algerian activist

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: several hundred people believed missing after a landslide engulfed a chinese town are likely dead , state press said thursday , citing a senior official , as the official toll rose to ### .

hopes fade for several hundred missing in china landslide

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the european union adopted the UNK agreements under the so-called uruguay round of gatt talks here on thursday , diplomats said .

eu adopts gatt round

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: royal dutch shell has formally signed a gas joint venture with an iraqi state - owned company estimated to be worth four billion dollars , a top government oil official said on tuesday .

shell iraq seal # billion dollar gas deal

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the head of the world trade organization said wednesday that protectionism is no solution to the global financial crisis and called yet again for a deal on the wto 's moribund doha round to spur growth .

wto chief says protectionism no solution to financial crisis

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: us president george w. bush will host president hamid karzai of afghanistan september ## for talks on the war amid tensions with pakistan over cross-border violence , the white house said friday .

bush to welcome karzai september ##

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: banking giant hsbc is to cut #,### jobs worldwide because of the volatile global financial environment , a spokesman said friday .

hsbc to cut #,### jobs worldwide

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: egyptian president hosni mubarak held talks here thursday with president hafez al-assad ahead of a new us peace shuttle in the region , syrian officials said .

mubarak assad hold talks

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: jacques chirac , france 's only declared candidate for next year 's presidential election , said monday he was `` optimistic and determined '' after potential rival jacques delors said he would not run .

chirac optimistic after delors presidential pullout

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the french justice minister on saturday called for the upper house of parliament to lift the immunity of socialist senator claude UNK who is under investigation for fraud , senate sources said .

justice minister calls for lifting of senator 's immunity

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: polish prime minister donald tusk insisted wednesday that warsaw would complete its preparations for adopting the euro by #### , saying the timetable was realistic .

polish pm says #### target for euro preparations is realistic

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a mini-bus collided with a truck killing ## people and seriously injuring nine others in southwestern iran in one of the country 's worst road accidents , a newspaper reported monday .

crash kills ## injures nine

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: president george w. bush declared an emergency in texas and state authorities began ordering evacuations as deadly hurricane ike , which strengthened wednesday to a powerful category two storm , churned in the gulf of mexico toward the us state .

texas girds for the worst as deadly ike closes in

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the aids virus is god 's punishment for those who infringe his laws , moslem prayer leaders told worshippers at united arab emirates -lrb- uae -rrb- mosques friday .

aids is god 's punishment prayer leaders say

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: nine ingush were killed saturday in a shoot-out with russian troops passing through for an imminent intervention in the neighbouring rebel republic of chechnya , a russian lawmaker said .

nine killed in shoot-out next door to chechnya

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: international police efforts aimed at the colombian cali drug cartel , nabbed ## people , nine tonnes of cocaine and ## million dollars in cash , the drug enforcement agency announced friday .

international drug operation nabs ## people nine tonnes of coke

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: russian prime minister vladimir putin on friday rejected the prospect of a new cold war with the west and said russia wanted further integration into the world economy .

putin rejects cold war backs economic integration

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: chinese share prices closed #.## percent lower thursday on a rollercoaster day where the turmoil in global markets sent banks and insurers plunging before speculators swooped in , dealers said .

chinese shares close #.## pct lower after rollercoaster day

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: us secretary of state warren christopher declared wednesday after wrapping up his seventh middle east shuttle this year that the peace process was progressing .

christopher sees progress in peace process

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a #,###-year-old `` iceman '' who was found on an alpine glacier three years ago has the lungs of a heavy smoker , an austrian scientist said thursday .

iceman has UNK lungs

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: ceremonies began thursday at new york 's grand zero , also due to be visited by white house rivals barack obama and john mccain on the seventh anniversary of the #\/## attacks .

ground zero ceremony starts in new york

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: thailand 's supreme court on tuesday issued another arrest warrant for ousted prime minister thaksin shinawatra for his approval of a controversial loan to military-ruled myanmar .

new arrest warrant issued for thaksin over myanmar loan

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: us secretary of state warren christopher left israel on thursday after reporting progress in the middle east peace process following his seventh shuttle to the region this year .

christopher leaves israel reporting progress with syria

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: bank of china said it had ###.# million dollars of exposure to lehman brothers as more chinese banks revealed on thursday how much the collapsed us titan could cost them .

bank of china has ### million dollars exposure to lehman

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: residents of the UNK town of datu UNK in the southern philippine province of maguindanao have targetted homosexuals , blaming them for bringing down two tornadoes on the town last month , newspapers said here sunday .

townspeople threaten homosexuals for allegedly bringing tornadoes

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a us jeep manufacturer is to start assembly in pakistan next year , a us diplomat said here on thursday .

us company to set up jeep assembly plant in pakistan

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: south korea will set up its first carbon trading company to help regulate greenhouse gas emissions , officials said wednesday .

skorea to set up first carbon trading company

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: paolo berlusconi , brother of caretaker prime minister silvio berlusconi , was given a seven-month suspended jail sentence thursday for illicit political party financing , judicial officials said .

seven-month suspended sentence handed to paolo berlusconi

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: rival cypriot leaders began negotiations thursday on the thorny issues that have kept the mediterranean island divided for ## years , in what is seen as the best chance of peace for years despite their entrenched differences .

cyprus rivals begin key phase of peace talks

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: police captured a gunman who took about ## students hostage wednesday in a basement lecture center at the state university of new york campus here , police said .

gunman takes hostages at university

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: western australia on thursday ended the career of controversial former test wicketkeeper tim UNK because of his continual threats to retire .

UNK 's departure signals new crisis for western australia

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: despite a valiant ## from martin crowe , new zealand slumped to a disappointing ### all out against pakistan in their mandela trophy one-day international here tuesday .

crowe 's ## not enough to prevent new zealand slump

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: asia 's wheat stockpiles are set to grow this year as major exporter australia , along with china and india , forecast larger crops , raising the prospect of lower prices for the golden grain , analysts say .

australia leads asia 's wheat bowl recovery

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a swedish high school was evacuated and all its students sent home following threats thursday , two days after ## people died in a school massacre in finland , police said .

swedish school evacuated after threat

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a us government promise to rescue wall street from its debt crisis and global central bank intervention spurred a mass market rally on friday though questions remained about big name banks .

debt rescue efforts spark global markets rally

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: the european central bank made a second one-day loan of more than ## billion dollars -lrb- ##.# billion euros -rrb- on tuesday after an initial auction of ## billion sparked strong demand among eurozone banks .

ecb makes second one-day dollar auction

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: north korea on thursday accused the united states of flying `` more than ### '' spy-plane missions over its territory in november , the official north korean news agency , kcna , said in a report monitored here .

pyongyang accuses the united states of over ### acts of espionage

You are an expert at summarizing long articles. Proceed to summarize the following text: a planned texas execution was put on hold wednesday but not because the judge and prosecutor in the convicted killer 's trial were in a sexual relationship at the time , authorities said .

us execution on hold but not due to judge-prosecutor affair