{"text": "WSJ891030-0149 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0149. \n Trustcorp Inc. to Change Name \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n TTCO SOCI \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nBANKS (BNK) \n TOLEDO, Ohio  \n\n   Trustcorp Inc. will become Society Bank amp Trust when its merger is completed with Society Corp. of Cleveland, the bank said. \n\n   Society Corp., which is also a bank, agreed in June to buy Trustcorp for 12.4 million shares of stock with a market value of about $450 million. \nThe transaction is expected to close around year end.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 75, "end_char": 83, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 379, "end_char": 383, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t14"}, {"text": "around year end", "start_char": 515, "end_char": 530, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-12", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t14"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0551.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0010\n\nMADRID, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nLeading goal scorers of Spanish first division soccer league\n\n\n\n\nFollowing are the leading goal scorers of the Spanish first division soccer league after Sunday's games:\n\n10 Ronaldinho (Barcelona)\n\n9 Diego Milito (Real Zaragoza)\n\nFrederic Kanoute (Sevilla)\n\n8 Ruud van Nistelrooy (Real Madrid)\n\n5 Fernando Morientes (Valencia)\n\nDavid Villa (Valencia)\n\nFernando Baiano (Celta Vigo)\n\nEidur Gudjohnsen (Barcelona)\n\nNikola Zigic (Racing Santander)\n\n4 Florent Sinama Pongolle (Recreativo Huelva)\n\nJavi Guerrero (Recreativo Huelva)\n\nNene (Celta Vigo)\n\nFrancisco Yeste (Athletic Bilbao)\n\nFernando Torres (Atletico Madrid)\n\nSamuel Eto'o (Barcelona)\n\nDiego Forlan (Villarreal)\n\nRaul Tamudo (Espanyol)", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0010.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "ea980120.1830.0071 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n Good evening from the central park in downtown Havana. We are here this week to witness the rendezvous that Fidel Castro and the Pope  are having with history. \n\n We are here because what happens on this island will also have an impact on the United States. Everything that happens in Cuba gets America's attention. \n\n Incidentally, we just show up  to do the broadcast, and Cubans want  to know what we 're going  to tell Americans, in many cases, what their relatives in the United States  are going  to hear. \n\n Well, this is the eve of the Pope's visit to one of the last bastions of Communism anywhere in the world, and it  is  already causing enormous expectations.\n\n In Revolution Square, they put up a giant cross today. And right across from the Cuban revolutionary icon Che Guevara, they now have a giant portrait of Jesus. Above it in Spanish, Jesus, in you we believe. \n\n Not all Cubans believe, but Castro  has invited everyone  to welcome the man who has been one of Communism's most effective adversaries, and that's why there is suspense.\n\n Everyone appears  to believe that somehow Cuba  is going  to change. Castro  has said officially that it's okay to be enthusiastic. And so, people are increasingly enthusiastic by the day- \n\n [[NS]]\n\n Today, Cuban television, which clings to the Communist Party line, actually began  to promote its papal coverage.\n\n Today, hundreds of people from the US began  to arrive, including some Cuban Americans who left here when Castro came  to power and  are returning to Havana for the first time. The Pope's visit is important, but they  are  also coming home.\n\n This is quite an extraordinary story unfolding here. We'll come back to Havana later in the broadcast.\n\n But now we 're going  to go back to New York, where Diane Sawyer has the rest of the news. Diane?", "time_expressions": [{"text": "980120", "start_char": 2, "end_char": 8, "tid": "t51", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 106, "end_char": 115, "tid": "t53", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-W04", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t51"}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 761, "end_char": 766, "tid": "t59", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-20", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t51"}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 837, "end_char": 840, "tid": "t56", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t51"}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 1297, "end_char": 1302, "tid": "t68", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-20", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t51"}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 1413, "end_char": 1418, "tid": "t57", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-20", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t51"}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1765, "end_char": 1768, "tid": "t58", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t51"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "ea980120.1830.0071.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0406\n\nWARSAW, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAt least 8 Polish miners killed\n\n\n\n\nAt least eight Polish miners were killed in a methane gas explosion in a coal mine in southern Poland on Tuesday evening.\n\nThe explosion took place at 1,030 meters underground in the Halemba coal mine in Ruda Slaska, and eight miners managed to flee while 23 others were trapped.\n\nGrzegorz Pawlaszek, chairman of the Weglowa company in charge of the mine, told the PAP news agency that eight Polish miners had been found dead.\n\nPolish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has already visited the spot to oversee the rescue work.\n\nThe Weglowa company spokesman, Zbiegniew Madej, said the search and rescue was very difficult. Furthermore, as the ventilation facilities were destroyed, the miners still buried underground were in a very dangerous situation. However, the rescuers would never give up their efforts.\n\nAccording to reports, it is the largest mine accident in Poland this year, adding the number of miners killed this year to 28.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday evening", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 967, "end_char": 976, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1013, "end_char": 1022, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0406.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0201\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. stocks open mixed\n\n\n\n\nU.S. stocks opened mixed on Wednesday ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, as U.S. initial weekly jobless claims rose 12,000 to 321,000.\n\nIn the opening trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 5.61, to 12,315.98. The Standard  Poor's 500 index gained 0.53 to 1,403.34, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 7.82 to 2,462.66.\n\nInitial claims for state unemployment benefits rose to their highest level since late October, climbing by 12,000 to 321,000, the Labor Department said on Wednesday.\n\nCrude oil prices fell below 60 dollars on Wednesday as concern over supply eased.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thanksgiving holiday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late October", "start_char": 499, "end_char": 511, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 573, "end_char": 582, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 627, "end_char": 636, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0201.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0612\n\nTOKYO, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapan's Hitachi wins rolling mill order from China\n\n\n\n\nJapan's Hitachi Ltd. has won a 16 billion yen (126.5 million dollar) order from a Chinese company to supply a rolling mill near Shanghai, a company spokesman said Tuesday.\n\nHitachi got the order from Baoshan Iron Corp. jointly with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., Marubeni Corp. and Mitsubishi Corp.\n\nThe mill aims to meet rising demand for cold rolled sheet steel in China for use in consumer electronics, automobiles and other products, the spokesman said.\n\nFinancing for the mill will be managed by the Export-Import Bank of Japan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 278, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0612.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0315\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUN underlines potential of rainwater in boosting agriculture in Africa\n\n\n\n\nThe United Nations on Monday underscored the importance of rainwater in revitalizing agricultural production in developing countries.\n\nIn a report released at the ongoing UN Climate Change Conference, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Agroforestry Center said rainwater harvesting as a buffer against climate-linked extreme weather has been almost invisible in water planning with countries relying almost exclusively on rivers and underground supplies.\n\nThe report said rainwater harvesting also held important potential to assist managers of protected areas with the technologies that had been tested to help wild animals in places like Nairobi and Tsavo National Parks in Kenya during drought.\n\nThe study said many communities and countries suffering or facing water shortages as a result of climate change could dramatically boost supplies by collecting and storing rain falling freely from clouds. Kenya, which has a population of over 30 million, has enough rainfall to supply the needs of its current population for six to seven times, said the report.\n\n\"Ethiopia, where just over a fifth of the population are covered by domestic water supply and an estimated 46 percent of the population suffer hunger, has a potential rainwater harvest equivalent to the population needs of over 520 million people,\" it said.\n\nThe UNEP and the World Agroforestry Center urged the governments and donors to invest more widely in low-cost technologies to deploy and maintain rainwater in Africa.\n\n\"Unlike big dams which collect and store water over large areas, small-scale rainwater harvesting projects lose less water to evaporation because rain is collected locally and can be stored in a variety of ways,\" the report said.\n\nThe report's overall conclusion is that Africa does not lack water. Rainfall contribution, it said, is more than adequate to meet the needs of current population for several times.\n\n\"In the popular mind, Africa is seen as a dry continent. But overall, it actually has more water resources per capita than Europe. However, much of Africa's rain comes in burst and is rapidly swept away or is never collected,\" Dennis Garrity, director general of the World Agroforestry Center, said.\n\nCurrently, 14 out of Africa's 53 countries are categorized as water-stressed or water-scarce.\n\nA water-stressed country has water availability of less than 1, 700 cubic meters per capita every year and a water scarce one less than 1,000 cubic meters.\n\nIt is estimated that the number of countries in Africa in this situation could double by 2025 to be about half of all.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 1148, "end_char": 1155, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 2537, "end_char": 2547, "tid": "t3", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0315.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0090\n\nANKARA, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTurkey faces Italy test in Bergamo\n\n\n\n\nTurkey will be seeking its first win in history against world champion Italy at a friendly in Bergamo Wednesday night, Turkish Daily News reported.\n\nThe game will be played in honor of Giacinto Facchetti, former skipper of the Italian national team, who died in September.\n\nIn the past 12 matches against the Azzurri, three of them with B teams, Turkey has lost nine and drawn three, scoring seven goals and conceding 22.\n\nTheir last clash was a friendly in Pescara four years ago, where midfielder Emre Belozoglu and striker Christian Vieri scored one each in a 1-1 draw.\n\nTurkey coach Fatih Terim knows all about Italian soccer, having spent time in charge of Serie A clubs AC Milan and Fiorentina.\n\nTerim has called up veteran striker Hakan Sukur to the squad, despite speculation after his last appearance that he would retire.\n\nNewcastle United's Belozoglu, who still has one official match ban to serve, is also expected to play. Schalke 04 midfielder Hamit Altintop suffered a minor injury in his team's 4-0 win over Mainz on Sunday and whether he can play will be known today.\n\nAnkaragucu goalkeeper Serkan Kirintili received his first call-up to the national squad.\n\nTurkey has not conceded a single goal in its last four matches against opponents incomparable with Italy. Wednesday's match will be a tough test for Terim and his players ahead of the Euro 2008 qualifiers against Greece and Norway in March 2007.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 357, "end_char": 366, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 561, "end_char": 575, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1128, "end_char": 1134, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1173, "end_char": 1178, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last", "start_char": 1316, "end_char": 1320, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1377, "end_char": 1386, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2007", "start_char": 1505, "end_char": 1515, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0090.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891101-0039 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0039. \n Business Brief -- Coast Savings Financial Inc.:\n@  Thrift Company Posts Loss;\n@  Restructuring Program Cited \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CSA \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   Coast Savings Financial Inc. reported a third-quarter loss, citing a previously announced capital restructuring program. \n\n   The Los Angeles thrift holding company said it had a loss of $92.2 million, or $6.98 a share, for the quarter ended Sept. 30. \nCoast earned $10.2 million, or 67 cents a share, in the year-ago quarter. \nThe year-ago results  have  been restated  to comply with government regulations. \n\n   The restructuring program  is designed  to increase the company's tangible capital ratio. \nIt includes removing $242 million in good will from the books, issuing $150 million in preferred stock and commencing an exchange offer for $52 million in convertible bonds. \n\n   During the third quarter, the company charged about $46 million against earnings in reducing goodwill, added $20 million to its general loan loss reserves and established a $30 million reserve for its high-yield bond portfolio. \nThe company said its junk-bond portfolio after these moves  had  been reduced to less than 1% of assets.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89 ", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t29", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 270, "tid": "t31", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t29"}, {"text": "the quarter", "start_char": 441, "end_char": 452, "tid": "t48", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t31"}, {"text": "Sept. 30", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 467, "tid": "t32", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t29"}, {"text": "the year-ago quarter", "start_char": 522, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t49", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t31"}, {"text": "year-ago", "start_char": 549, "end_char": 557, "tid": "t51", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t49"}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 909, "end_char": 926, "tid": "t52", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t31"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0325.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0239\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina set up information security certification center\n\n\n\n\nChina launched an information security certification center in Beijing on Friday.\n\n\"A national standard on security products will take effect following the establishment of the center and some products will be subject to compulsory certification,\" said Qu Weizhi, deputy director of the Information Office under the State Council.\n\nInformation security has become a serious problem in China with the rapid growth of the information industry. Crimes through the Internet, computer viruses and junk mail has threatened security.\n\n\"Some departments have set up systems on evaluation, licensing or purchase of security products but a unified national system is required to avoid repetition,\" said Qu.\n\nApart from certification of security products, the center would also conduct talents training and technology research and development on information security.\n\nChina boasts the world second largest population of netizens behind the United States, exceeding 123 million last July.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last July", "start_char": 1083, "end_char": 1092, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0239.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0384\n\nDOHA, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nPalestinian PM admits Hamas holding out for key cabinet posts\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian premier Ismail Haniya warned Saturday against drawing a line under talks on forming a new government acceptable to Western donors but admitted his Hamas movement was holding out for key cabinet posts.\n\n\"We affirm that the door of dialogue remains open. But if some want to close it, they will have to take responsibility for the repercussions,\" Haniya told reporters in the Qatari capital.\n\nHis remarks came a day after Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said that talks on forming a national unity government embracing both his secular Fatah faction and Haniya's Islamist movement were officially dead.\n\nHaniya, who came to Qatar from Egypt on his first trip abroad since Hamas took power in March, identified the allocation of key cabinet posts as the chief obstacle in the talks with Fatah.\n\n\"The largest parliamentary bloc is supposed to have a presence in important ministerial portfolios. That's the bone of contention,\" he said.\n\n\"There is talk of giving (major posts) to independents, which contradicts parliamentary norms,\" said Haniya, whose Islamist militant group formed the government after winning parliamentary elections in January.\n\nThe European Union, Israel and the United States have imposed a crippling aid freeze on the Palestinian Authority since Hamas took power, citing the movement's continued refusal to renounce the armed struggle or recognize past peace deals with Israel.\n\nHaniya said he did not object to Hamas government members meeting Israeli counterparts to discuss day-to-day affairs.\n\n\"But recognizing the legitimacy of occupation? No,\" he said.\n\nAbbas is now considering a range of options including holding a referendum or fresh parliamentary and presidential elections, aide Yasser Abed Rabbo said.\n\nBut Haniya said he was not party to the president's deliberations.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 820, "end_char": 825, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1266, "end_char": 1273, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1719, "end_char": 1722, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0384.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0364\n\nROME, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nItaly rejects proposed EU budget\n\n\n\n\nThe Italian government on Tuesday rejected the budget for the enlarged European Union presented by the bloc's British presidency.\n\n\"The Italian government has a negative opinion on the entire proposal,\" Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini told the Italian Senate.\n\nPrime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, informed late Monday by his British counterpart Tony Blair of the broad outlines of the proposal, had \"reserved his judgement.\"\n\nBut Italian diplomats said the initial response had been negative.\n\nProposed spending reductions would \"derail the process of integrating the 10 new member states and raise the Italian contribution.\"\n\nIn the run-up to a December 15-16 summit in Brussels, the British EU presidency is proposing seven to eight percent less in funding for the mainly ex-communist states that joined the bloc in May 2004.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 106, "end_char": 113, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 15-16", "start_char": 725, "end_char": 739, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2004", "start_char": 897, "end_char": 905, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0364.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0283\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS business inventories rise 0.5 percent in September\n\n\n\n\nInventories held by US businesses on shelves and backlots increased by 0.5 percent in September, marking the largest gain in eight months, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.\n\nData released by the department showed that business sales in September totaled 1,021.6 billion dollars, up 0.6 percent from the previous month and up 7.8 percent from the same month last year.\n\nBusiness inventories in September were estimated at an end-of- month level of 1,282.1 billion dollars, up 0.5 percent from the previous month and up 4.3 percent from the same month last year.\n\nThe 0.5 percent gain in September's inventories was down slightly from an advance of 0.7 percent in the previous month.\n\nData also showed that the total business inventories-to-sales ratio based on seasonally adjusted data at the end of September was 1.25.\n\nEconomists see rising inventories either as a sign of confidence in future demand or as a result of an unexpected decline in sales.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight months", "start_char": 243, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 290, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 373, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 485, "end_char": 494, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 521, "end_char": 530, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 687, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 714, "end_char": 723, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous month", "start_char": 790, "end_char": 808, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 927, "end_char": 936, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0283.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0524\n\nASTANA, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nby Sebastian Smith\n\n\n\n\nOil-rich Kazakhstan's veteran President Nursultan Nazarbayev has scored a landslide re-election to a new seven year term, officials said Monday, sparking claims of fraud from the opposition.\n\nNazarbayev, 65, won 91.01 percent of ballots cast in Sunday's poll in the giant Central Asian country, according to preliminary results, said Central Election Commission chairman Onalsyn Zhumabekov in the capital Astana.\n\n\"He won. Congratulations to the candidate.\"\n\nNazarbayev, whose 16-year rule has transformed this former Soviet backwater into an emerging world oil power, was due to hold a rally with supporters in Astana.\n\nInternational observers were also due to deliver their verdict on the conduct of the election.\n\nAccording to officials, leading challenger Zharmakhan Tuyakbai secured just 6.64 percent. Former labour minister Alikhan Baimenov got 1.65 percent, Yerasyl Abilkasymov of the People's Communist Party 0.38 percent, and Mels Yeleusizov of the environmentalist Tabigat movement 0.32 percent.\n\nBut the former Soviet apparatchik's crushing victory was marred by opposition claims of cheating.\n\n\"I can only regret that Nazarbayev wasn't given 120 or 150 percent,\" Aidos Sarimov, a spokesman for Tuyakbai, told AFP after the official announcement.\n\nEarlier, Sarimov vowed legal challenges to what he said had been \"multiple violations of the law,\" including falsification of voter lists. He also said that the official turnout of about 77 percent was inflated.\n\nTuyakbai has warned previously that Kazakhstan faces dictatorship under Nazarbayev. However, the opposition has so far indicated that it will abide by a law banning street demonstrations in the immediate aftermath of the election.\n\nIn his furious reaction, Communist candidate Abilkasymov said: \"It's nonsense. ... This is what happens when people vote on command.\"\n\nA Nazarbayev victory had long been predicted, though not always by such a wide margin. Independent analysts say the one-time steel worker, who rose through Communist Party ranks to head Soviet Kazakhstan in 1989, enjoys solid support.\n\nUnder his rule, Kazakhstan has become the most prosperous and stable part of Central Asia, largely thanks to billions of dollars of foreign investment in the country's Caspian Sea oil fields. Kazakhstan is set to become a top-10 world oil producer within a decade.\n\nBut the republic, which is roughly the size of western Europe or India and was once part of Genghis Khan's empire, has never held an election judged free and fair by Western observers.\n\nEven before the election, the opposition complained that media bias and pressure from the authorities had made a fair campaign impossible.\n\nNazarbayev, who went in sub-zero temperatures to vote at a theatre in Astana, said: \"These elections will be more democratic than ever before.\"\n\nAbout 1,600 observers monitored the election, including some 465 from the influential Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which was due to issue its report on the conduct of voting later Monday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "seven year", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P7Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 211, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 313, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 2114, "end_char": 2118, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a decade", "start_char": 2398, "end_char": 2406, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 3091, "end_char": 3097, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0524.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0183\n\nGAZA, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPalestinians demonstrate in support of prisoners\n\n\n\n\nDozens of Palestinians demonstrated on Wednesday in front of headquarters of the International Committee for Red Cross (ICRC) in Gaza to express solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli detention camp of Ofer.\n\n\"We demonstrated today to support all the prisoners jailed in Israeli detentions and stop practices against prisoners,\" Hisham Abdel Razeq, chief of prisoners affairs of the Palestinian National Authority, said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Prisoners' Committee for National and Islamic Powers said in a statement that the committee condemned Israeli assaults and called on the international committee to press Israel to stop its practices against prisoners.\n\nIt was reported that Israeli guards in Ofer prison attacked Palestinian prisoners on Monday and Tuesday, firing tear gas and beating them by club and wounding some 20 prisoners.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 343, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 858, "end_char": 864, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 869, "end_char": 876, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0183.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0292\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd Ld-Writethru: Rumsfeld resigns, to be succeeded by ex-CIA director\n\n\n\n\nU.S. President George W. Bush announced Wednesday that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was stepping down, and would be replaced by former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director Robert Gates.\n\nBush made the announcement one day after Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in the legislative elections and was just one seat short of capturing control of the Senate.\n\nRumsfeld, 74, has been under intense pressure from both Democrats and Republicans to resign over his handling of the increasingly Iraq war, which has been in its fourth year and already claimed nearly 3,000 U.S. soldiers.\n\nJust one week ago, Bush said he wanted Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to stay in office during the rest of his presidency.\n\nRumsfeld, the oldest to serve as defense secretary as well as the youngest defense chief when he was appointed by former President Gerald Ford in 1975, has been a target of criticism over the conduct of the Iraq war and the treatment of detainees in U.S. military custody.\n\nAt the White House press conference, Bush acknowledged that the administration's handling of the Iraq war played a major role in giving the Democrats control over the House.\n\nThe elections to a large extent was a national referendum on President George W. Bush and the war in Iraq, The New York Times reported, citing exit polls.\n\nSixty percent of voters leaving the polls said they opposed the war in Iraq, and 40 percent said their vote was a vote against Bush, the report said.\n\nGates, who was born in September 1943, served in the CIA and the National Security Council for 26 years. He served as CIA director during 1991 and 1993, and later as president of Texas A University.\n\nGates first joined the CIA in 1966 and served in the intelligence community for more than a quarter century, under six presidents. His nomination must be approved by the Senate.\n\nBush said he met with Gates on Sunday to discuss the appointment, even before the election was held. \"He is a steady, solid leader who can help make the necessary adjustments in our approach to meet our current challenges,\" he said.\n\nGates also served in the bipartisan panel Iraq Study Group, headed by former secretary of state James A. 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{"text": "WSJ891101-0048 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0048. \n Business Brief -- First Security Corp.:\n@  Tentative Accord Formed\n@  To Buy Deseret Bancorp. \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n FSCO \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   First Security Corp. said it tentatively agreed  to acquire Deseret Bancorp. for stock valued at about $18 million. \n\n   Terms call for First Security  to issue about 0.55 share of its stock for each Deseret share held, or a total of about 550,000 First Security shares. \nIt has about 12.3 million shares outstanding. \n\n   Deseret, with about $100 million in assets, is the parent of the Deseret Bank, which has six offices and headquarters at Pleasant Grove, Utah. \nThe purchase price is equal to about 1.65 times Deseret's roughly $10.7 million book value, or assets less liabilities. \n\n   Salt Lake City-based First Security, with $5.4 billion in assets, said the agreement is subject to shareholder and regulatory approval, and that it hopes  to complete the transaction early next year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89", "start_char": 139, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 1006, "end_char": 1021, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t14"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0316.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0187\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTrilateral Commission to launch first regional conference in China\n\n\n\n\nThe Trilateral Commission Pacific Asia Group Beijing Regional Conference is to run from Nov. 25 to 27, the first time the commission launched such a regional conference in China.\n\nAround 50 guests including officials, scholars and entrepreneurs from North America, European Union countries and Asian-Pacific countries will attend the conference.\n\nTopics to be discussed include \"Common Regional Challenges and Joint Responses\", \"Road map for east Asia community building.\"\n\nThe topic \"The Rise of China and Its Global Implications\" tops the agenda.\n\n\"The commission members want to discuss China's growth directly with Chinese elites from every field,\" Qin said.\n\n\"The rise of China attracts global attention. That's why the commission decided to hold a regional conference in China for the first time, \" said Dr. Qin Yaqing, vice president of the China National Association for International Studies.\n\n\"The Beijing regional conference is to serve as a platform for China to show its peaceful progress,\" Qin said, adding that it is also an opportunity to make the country's peaceful rise known to the international community.\n\nThe Trilateral Commission was formed in 1973 by private citizens of Japan, European Union countries, United States and Canada to foster closer cooperation among these core democratic industrialized areas of the world and to share leadership responsibilities in the wider international system.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 25", "start_char": 216, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1973", "start_char": 1295, "end_char": 1299, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1973", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0187.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0079\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBomb hoaxes greet Eid el-Fitr in south Thailand\n\n\n\n\nSuspected insurgents has placed suspicious packages in eight different locations in three districts of southern Spongkhla province bordering the predominantly Muslim southernmost border provinces.\n\nThe incidents coincided with the beginning of Eid-al-Fitr which marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting -- known locally as Hari Raya -- from Thursday through Saturday.\n\nPolice demolitions experts rushed to the sites only to discover that all the so-called \"bombs\" in Chana, Thepha and Saba Yoi districts of the province contained cattle manure and sand.\n\nThe investigators said they thought the bomb hoaxes were the work of militants who wished to create further disturbance on the Muslim holiday, according to local newspaper reports on Thursday.\n\nThe bomb hoaxes occurred less than 12 hours after a number of bomb incidents in Narathiwat province Wednesday night.\n\nPolice defused seven bombs in the provincial capital but another five bombs went off, downing 10 high-voltage power poles in Narathiwat city. The attacks caused power blackout in many areas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Ramadan", "start_char": 387, "end_char": 394, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 476, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 485, "end_char": 493, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 865, "end_char": 873, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "less than 12 hours", "start_char": 901, "end_char": 919, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT12H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 976, "end_char": 991, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0079.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0756\n\nLEGASPI, Philippines, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(GRAPHIC+PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nThe first foreign aid flights of food and medicines arrived Tuesday in the eastern Philippines, where officials said devastating mudslides have left more than 1,080 people dead or missing.\n\nAt first light two C-130 transport aircraft from Indonesia touched down in Legaspi City where disaster relief operations are being coordinated, carrying more than 12 tonnes of food and medicine.\n\nThe devastating torrents of mud and volcanic ash triggered by typhoon rains swallowed entire villages near Mount Mayon volcano last Thursday.\n\nSurvivors desperately picked through the thick deposit trying to find loved ones, but rescuers said the search was hopeless.\n\n\"The search for life is over,\" said Daniel Fernandez, of the Spanish search and rescue team BUSF, after a sweep of the area around the village of Maipon, near the volcano, using dogs.\n\n\"There are no more survivors here.\"\n\nBut typhoon Durian, now downgraded to a tropic storm, continued its deadly passage overnight, lashing the coast of southern Vietnam where officials said at least 12 people had died and more were missing.\n\nIn the Philippines, civil defence officials confirmed 450 dead around Mayon volcano in the Bicol region, southeast of Manila, and another 636 missing, for a total of 1,086.\n\nPhilippine President Gloria Arroyo was expected later in the day to inspect relief efforts and meet with survivors.\n\nNational Disaster Coordinating Centre executive officer Glenn Rabonza said more than 1.14 million people had been affected by the disaster.\n\nRabonza said damage to property is estimated at more than 274 million pesos (5.48 million dollasr).\n\nThe coordinating centre's chief of operations Agnes Palacio told AFP: \"What we need now are medicines, temporary shelters like tents and food.\n\n\"We also need water containers and purifiers because we do not have sources of clean water.\"\n\nShe said teams had been sent into the region to check for any outbreaks of diseases.\"But so far, we have had no reports of outbreaks.\"\n\nTeams from the health department were making their way to villages to help deal with the dead.\n\nMany unclaimed bodies have been buried in shallow graves but many more are still lying unrecovered.\n\nOfficials said that more than 1,500 villages in 100 municipalities and nine cities across the Bicol region were affected by the typhoon and mudslides.\n\nThey said 72 evacuation centres had been set up to care for the survivors.\n\nFor those who lived through the disaster, there was heartaches as they dug for the bodies of family members.\n\nIn Maipon, Aljabar Mammah wept as he clawed through the grey soil where his home once stood, vainly hoping to find the bodies of his wife and baby son.\n\n\"Nobody had time to react. My wife and son were snatched from my arms and were gone in an instant,\" he told AFP.\n\nRescuers say they have not detected any life, six days after the tragedy.\n\nMore foreign aid is due to arrive. Malaysia has promised a C-130 plane with 20 tonnes of supplies, aid has come in from Japan and more is expected during the day from Singapore.\n\nMoney donated by other nations has been sent either to the Red Cross or to relief organisations to buy tents which are being ferried to Legaspi.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 149, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Thursday", "start_char": 602, "end_char": 615, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 986, "end_char": 989, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 1402, "end_char": 1409, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six days", "start_char": 2926, "end_char": 2934, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0756.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0511\n\nLONDON, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with closing levels ///\n\n\n\n\nEurope's main stock markets were mixed but generally stronger Wednesday, though London trades were weighed down by losses in mining issues and a cautious start to trading on Wall Street, dealers said.\n\nLondon's FTSE 100 index of leading shares slipped by 0.09 percent to 6,198.60 points, while in Frankfurt the DAX 30 added 0.51 percent to 6,586.91 and the Paris CAC 40 rose 0.54 percent to 5,514.42 points.\n\nThe DJ Euro Stoxx 50 index of eurozone blue chip shares increased 0.44 percent to 4,118.54 points.\n\nThe euro stood at 1.3183 dollars.\n\nIn New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had risen by 0.20 percent to 12,495.91 points as European markets closed, while the Nasdaq Composite was up by 0.42 percent at 2,439.72.\n\nThe broad Standard and Poor's 500 index showed a gain of 0.20 percent to 1,428.42.\n\nTokyo's benchmark Nikkei-225 gained 1.40 percent to close at 17,011.04 points earlier in the day -- the first time it has finished above the symbolic 17,000 points level since May 9.\n\nHong Kong's key Hang Seng index closed 1.45 percent higher at 19,240.12 points after Thai authorities scaled back capital controls, easing worries of financial instability in the region, dealers said.\n\nThai stocks had suffered their biggest losses in more than 30 years on Tuesday, shedding 15 percent as panicking investors fled the market after the central bank imposed draconian measures in an effort to halt the rise of Thailand's currency, the baht.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Stock Exchange of Thailand -- where foreign investors account for about 40 percent of the market -- regained 11.16 percent to 691.55 points.\n\nIn London, the mining sector was hit by falling prices for copper, silver and gold.\n\nAntofagasta shares lost 2.21 percent to 508 pence, Lonmin was off by 1.61 percent at 2,988 and Rio Tinto shed 1.01 percent to 2,735.\n\nOil group Shell was also down on the day, losing 1.10 percent to 1,795 pence.\n\nIn Paris, the aerospace sector was in focus after Singapore Airlines said it would buy nine more double-decker A380 aircraft from European aircraft maker Airbus.\n\nThe share price of Airbus parent group EADS gained 4.08 percent to 25.24 euros.\n\nIn Amsterdam, the AEX index gained 0.44 percent to 495.59 points, the Swiss SMI edged 0.09 percent higher to 8,770.78, in Milan the SP/Mib added 0.22 percent to 41,315 points, in Madrid the Ibex-35 rose by 0.18 percent to 14,201.7 and in Brussels the Bel-20 closed 0.13 percent higher at 4,345.29.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "0.42 percent at 2,439.72", "start_char": 801, "end_char": 825, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 9", "start_char": 1088, "end_char": 1093, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1369, "end_char": 1376, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1555, "end_char": 1564, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1.61", "start_char": 1866, "end_char": 1870, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2,988", "start_char": 1882, "end_char": 1887, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0511.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0171\n\nPARIS, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nJudges to interview French PM over dirty tricks scandal\n\n\n\n\nFrench judges probing the so-called Clearstream dirty tricks scandal will quiz Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin -- accused of using the affair to damage his political rival, Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy -- solely as a witness, aides to Villepin said Saturday.\n\nThe status of \"simple witness\" being accorded to the prime minister means that he is not being treated as a suspect in the case centring on bogus allegations of illegal accounts held at a Luxembourg clearing-bank.\n\nVillepin's office said the go-ahead for the two judges heading the inquiry to interview him would be given at the next cabinet meeting.\n\nThe judges had said in November that \"an interview does indeed appear useful for elucidating the truth and will take place at the moment we judge to be opportune.\"\n\nVillepin's aides repeated that the prime minister welcomed the chance to speak to judges Jean-Marie d'Huy and Henri Pons to give his side of events.\n\nIt will only be the second time in history that a serving prime minister gives testimony in a judicial investigation. Socialist Lionel Jospin was quizzed some 15 years ago over illegal funding for his party.\n\nThe Clearstream affair erupted in April and for a time appeared to threaten Villepin's future as prime minister.\n\nHe has vehemently denied that as foreign minister in early 2004 he ordered a secret probe into claims that Sarkozy was on a list of names of alleged account-holders at Clearstream.\n\nD'Huy and Pons have already questioned as witnesses Villepin's predecessor as prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, and current Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 369, "end_char": 377, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 755, "end_char": 763, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "some 15 years ago", "start_char": 1201, "end_char": 1218, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02T15:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 1290, "end_char": 1295, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2004", "start_char": 1423, "end_char": 1433, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0171.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0054\n\nHANOI, Nov. 11 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese state councilor says steering committee to boost China-Vietnam ties\n\n\n\n\nChinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan said here on Saturday that the newly-established steering committee on cooperation will further promote the long-term good- neighborly relations between China and Vietnam.\n\n\"The development of Sino-Vietnamese ties have progressed in recent years with exchanges and cooperation being expanded and deepened in an all-round and comprehensive way,\" Tang told the first meeting of the China-Vietnam steering committee on cooperation.\n\nChina is willing to make joint efforts with the Vietnamese side to implement the consensus reached between leaders of the Communist Party of China and the Vietnamese Communist Party as well as leaders of the two countries, he added.\n\nVietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem, who co-chaired the meeting with Tang, said his country hopes to boost the Vietnam-China friendly cooperation through the creation of the joint committee.\n\nThe committee, which is designed to coordinate China-Vietnam cooperation in various fields and address major issues in their cooperation, will meet once a year in the two countries alternatively.\n\nAt the meeting, the two side also discussed the preparations of the upcoming visit to Vietnam by Chinese President Hu Jintao and believed his visit will surely have far-reaching impact on the relations between the two parties and two countries.\n\nHu, who is scheduled to pay a state visit to Vietnam on Nov. 15- 17, will also attend an informal meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders to be held in Hanoi on Nov. 18-19.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 405, "end_char": 417, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 1214, "end_char": 1220, "tid": "t3", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov.", "start_char": 1560, "end_char": 1564, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18-19", "start_char": 1682, "end_char": 1692, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0054.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0246\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua international news advisory -- Nov. 28\n\n\n\n\nThe following major international news stories from the North America region are scheduled to be covered or pursued by Xinhua News Agency on Monday.\n\n-- US President George W. Bush is expected to deliver remarks on Border Security and Immigration Reform on Monday afternoon.\n\n-- Canada's Parliament is to vote Monday evening on a motion of non-confidence against Liberal government.\n\n-- The United Nations Security Council is to discuss the situation in Burundi on Monday and is expected to extend the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the country.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday afternoon", "start_char": 365, "end_char": 381, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-21TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday evening", "start_char": 418, "end_char": 432, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 573, "end_char": 579, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0246.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0381\n\nSANTIAGO, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nremarks\n\n\n\n\nChile's President Michelle Bachelet directed the military Wednesday to punish a grandson of Augusto Pinochet for remarks the army captain made at the ex-dictator's funeral extolling the 1973 military coup.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0381.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0422\n\nPARIS, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nIMF to lower growth forecast for 2007: chief economist\n\n\n\n\nThe International Monetary Fund is to lower its growth estimate for 2007 from its current prediction of 4.9 percent, IMF chief economist John Lipsky said here Tuesday.\n\n\"We will be reducing that somewhat,\" Lipsky told reporters, adding that the IMF nonetheless continued \"to anticipate a favorable environment for growth.\"\n\nHe said he saw \"no obvious reason to be concerned\" by the recent plunge in the dollar against the euro, a trend that has prompted fears that the euro's appreciation could cut into eurozone exports and dampen growth.\n\nAsked about the European Central Bank's interest rate policy, he replied: \"We think a policy of moderate tightening remains appropriate.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 191, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0422.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0569\n\nWASHINGTON, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nChina diverted US equipment to military plant: White House\n\n\n\n\nA state-owned Chinese company diverted US equipment intended for civilian purposes to a weapons plant but has returned the materiel on US orders, the White House said Wednesday.\n\nSpokesman Michael McCurry said the United States discovered that the machines were moved to an \"unapproved\" location by the Chinese, after the New York Times reported the equipment was sent to a missile and fighter jet plant.\n\nHe declined to elaborate, citing an ongoing investigation, but said \"the machines in question are now under the supervision of the original customer -- they're back at a McDonnell Douglas facility.\"\n\nA year-long investigation using satellite photos suggested that in 1994 CATIC, a state-owned corporation, diverted McDonnell Douglas Corp. equipment designed to build civilian jetliners to a military complex of the Nanchang Aircraft Co, according to the Times.\n\nPentagon officials earlier feared that the equipment, which includes giant tools used to shape and bend large aircraft parts, could be used for military purposes.\n\nUS officials believe that the Chinese intended to use the equipment for military purposes all along. The matter is under criminal investigation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 625, "end_char": 628, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 798, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0569.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0696\n\nNANTES, France, Dec 12 , 2006, 2006\n\nNantes make Barthez an offer\n\n\n\n\nFabien Barthez, last seen on a football pitch keeping goal for France in the World Cup final in Berlin in July, has reportedly been offered a contract with French side Nantes.\n\nBarthez, out of contract with Marseille since the end of last season, is wanted by Nantes to replace Serb keeper Vladamir Stojkovic, who is keen to leave.\n\nAccording to France Inter radio Barthez' lawyers will study the deal which is for an initial six months with an option of a two year extension, on Wednesday.\n\nNantes manager Georges Eo revealed at the start of the week that he had been in contact with the 1998 World Cup winner.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 199, "end_char": 203, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of last season", "start_char": 316, "end_char": 338, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "an initial six months", "start_char": 508, "end_char": 529, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two year", "start_char": 550, "end_char": 558, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 573, "end_char": 582, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the week", "start_char": 636, "end_char": 644, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0696.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0025\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina to unveil a list of more aids to Africa during Beijing Summit\n\n\n\n\nChina will announce a package of major assistance, investment, trade and other key cooperation projects with Africa during the upcoming Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), scheduled for Nov. 4-5, said Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Wei Jianguo here on Thursday.\n\nConsidering the wishes of African friends, the Chinese government has decided to offer more cooperation projects to Africa to deepen mutual benefit and cooperation and realize common development, Wei said at the Senior Officials Meeting of FOCAC, which was closed here on Thursday.\n\nChina has put forward a series of measures including debt relief, exemption of tariff and personnel training to promote the cooperation between China and Africa, said Wei, also Chinese side secretary general of the summit's organizing committee.\n\nForty eight African countries that have diplomatic relations with China are to participate in the two-day summit focusing on \" friendship, peace, cooperation and development\".\n\nFOCAC is a mechanism for collective dialogue and cooperation jointly established by China and Africa to cope with new challenges and facilitate common development.\n\nSince the FOCAC was established in 2000, economic and trade cooperation between China and Africa has entered a new era, with comprehensive, rapid and stable development.\n\nTrade volume rocketed to 39.7 billion U.S. dollars in 2005 after breaking the mark of 10 billion dollars in 2000.\n\nIn addition, China has forgiven debts of 10.9 billion yuan (1. 38 billion U.S. dollars) by 31 heavily indebted poor countries and least developed countries in Africa and extended zero-tariff treatment to some imports from Africa.\n\nChina has helped establish nearly 900 projects in Africa and train some 14,600 personnel in various fields.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4-5", "start_char": 343, "end_char": 351, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 409, "end_char": 417, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 692, "end_char": 700, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1327, "end_char": 1331, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1517, "end_char": 1521, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1571, "end_char": 1575, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0025.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0299\n\nNICOSIA, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS, Iraq, Iran, Libya attend sanctions conference by Elie Austa\n\n\n\n\nOfficials from the United States, Iraq, Iran and Libya attended a forum which opened here Monday on the effects of UN and US sanctions on the oil market and world economy.\n\n\"Even if there is no premeditated policy to harm these countries for their anti-Israeli stance, this is the way things are perceived in the region,\" World Energy Council president Hisham el-Khatib said in his opening speech.\n\nIraq, Iran and Libya are all oil-producing, Moslem, anti-Israeli countries with strong centralized governments, he said, while the United States is Israel's main ally.\n\nHowever, the former US assistant secretary of state for the Near East Robert Pelletreau said Washington \"bears no ill will toward the peoples of Iran, Iraq and Libya and would like in the long run to see normal relations develop with each of these states.\"\n\nPelletreau said Washington adopted, unilaterally or with the United Nations, sanctions to prevent countries from acting \"in a way detrimental to US interests and disruptive of regional and even global security and stability.\"\n\nThe former official, who left his post in March, said the partial lifting of sanctions on Iraq under the UN oil-for-food deal beginning in December was not, as Baghdad claimed, the first step toward completely lifting the embargo.\n\nRather it eased international pressure on Washington, especially from Europe, over the suffering of the Iraqi people, which is the fault of the Iraqi government, he said.\n\nUS policy toward Iraq is based on the assumption that \"Baghdad has given up none of its ambitions to be the dominant power in the Gulf,\" Pelletreau added.\n\n\"Without Security Council sanctions and US leadership in maintaining them, President Saddam Hussein would be rearming, rebuilding and modernizing his armed forces and developing their nuclear, biological and chemical capabilities as rapidly as possible.\"\n\nInternational sanctions were imposed on Iraq after it invaded Kuwait in August 1990, and the United Nations has stipulated that Iraq must get rid of its weapons of mass destruction before the sanctions are lifted.\n\nPelletreau also said that if Iran is behind a bomb attack in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, that killed 19 US servicemen in June, Washington \"will respond strongly including, possibly, demanding the imposition of United Nations sanctions.\"\n\nPelletreau said that in Iran and in the US Congress, Europe's approach to Tehran was seen as dictated by \"commercial interest.\"\n\nWashington's adoption of sanctions against countries such as Iran, Iraq or Libya in spite of economic losses to US companies \"reflects the strong current of morality present in US political decisions,\" he said.\n\nEdward Morse of the Energy Intelligence Group research institute said \"the use of ... economic instruments of foreign policy by the United States has, not accidentally, mushroomed as the Cold War came to an end and as the United States became increasingly the singular fulcrum of international politics.\"\n\nThe United States \"can 'get away with' using them for a long time\" because of \"the current structure of international society, which, for better or worse, is highly US-centric,\" Morse said.\n\nThe three-day forum, sponsored by IBC Gulf Conferences, is headed by Iraq's ambassador to UNESCO, Abdel Amir al-Anbari, and included an oil ministry official.\n\nIran's position will be presented by an official from its chamber of commerce and Libya's by an advisor to the Libyan central bank.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 213, "end_char": 219, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1218, "end_char": 1223, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 1315, "end_char": 1323, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1990", "start_char": 2064, "end_char": 2075, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2322, "end_char": 2326, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0299.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0071\n\nTOKYO, Dec 3 , 2005\n\nJapanese governor to try and stop US nuclear ship deployment\n\n\n\n\nThe governor of a prefecture hosting the largest US Navy base in Japan said Saturday he would continue to seek to stop the deployment of a nuclear-powered ship there in 2008 as announced by Washington.\n\n\"It doesn't mean that we have exhausted all possibilities\" of stopping the deployment of a nuclear-powered ship at Yokosuka, Kanagawa governor Shigefumi Matsuzawa said in a statement.\n\nThe US Navy announced Friday in Washington that the USS George Washington would replace the USS Kitty Hawk in 2008 as its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier based in Japan.\n\nJapan, a close US ally, announced in October it had agreed to host a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at the port from 2008 prompting protests in the only nation to have suffered nuclear attack.\n\nMore than 210,000 people died when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed by US forces in 1945.\n\n\"I'll continue urging the Japanese and US governments to solve the noise problem caused by carrier-based aircraft as soon as possible and to try my best to see that a conventional carrier is deployed here,\" Matsuzawa said.\n\nJapanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso, currently visiting Washington, is scheduled to meet US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld on Saturday and to discuss the realignment of US forces in Japan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 282, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 519, "end_char": 525, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 607, "end_char": 611, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 719, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1945", "start_char": 970, "end_char": 974, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1945", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1332, "end_char": 1340, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0071.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0142\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese\n\n\n\n\nBy sportswriters Wang Jimin, Xiao Chunfei\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinese American Michael Chang, the youngest Grand Slam champion in ATP history, is sportscasting the yearend Masters Cup in Shanghai.\n\nThe tennis genius, who was acquainted with Chinese when he was called Zhang Depei, came as sportscaster at the Shanghai Sports Channel.\n\nChang, 34, claimed the French Open title in 1989 when he was just 17 years and three months old and became the first American male to win the Roland Garros since Tony Trabert in 1955.\n\nHe was remembered as his thrilling five-set win for the title over Stefan Edberg and his round of 16 win over former Number one Ivan Lendl, in which he served underhanded at one point after cramping but won 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 in a 4-hour, 37-minute match.\n\n\"With the schedule the way that it is now on the ATP Tour, it plays a very, very important role as for as being healthy for the top players. That's one of the things that has really been very good for you, to be able to go out, play tennis, and be healthy. How is it you find to be able to balance time to work hard, taking time to rest and relax?\" Chang asked world number one Roger Federer after the opening match as an average journalist.\n\nThe year of 2002 was his swan song when Chang retired partly due to the health problems after Compiling a disappointing 7-18 match record and it was first time he's ever had a losing record and not won 10 matches in a season since he turned pro in 1987.\n\n\"Federer is obviously among the great players. He demonstrated his prowess under pressure while Nalbandian lost his confidence as early as in the second set. And he ran out of his stream in the opening set, which led to the fast collapse in the remaining sets. And I think what was in Nalbandian's mind during the third set is to have a bath as soon as possible!\" Chang commented in Chinese, which was not his strong point in the past.\n\nOn Sunday, top seed Federer rallied from one set down to destroy Argentine nemesis David Nalbandian 3-6, 6-1, 6-1 in a blockbuster opening match of the 2006 circuit finale.\n\nAs for the question Chang threw to Federer, the Swiss tycoon replied:\"I always used to played 25 to 30 tournaments in the past few years. Now I only play around 20 tournaments.\"\n\n\"I always take a lot of good care, you know, with my coach, with my condition trainer. We always sit down together and think what is the best plan.\n\n\"I always try to enter a minimum of tournaments, and I hate pulling out.\"\n\nAlthough playing in the different era, Chang has played Federer five times in career with the Swiss wrapping off four wins.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 12", "start_char": 124, "end_char": 131, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 461, "end_char": 465, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "17 years and three months", "start_char": 483, "end_char": 508, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1955", "start_char": 595, "end_char": 599, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1955", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 902, "end_char": 905, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "The year of 2002", "start_char": 1307, "end_char": 1323, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1987", "start_char": 1555, "end_char": 1559, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2002, "end_char": 2008, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past few years", "start_char": 2291, "end_char": 2309, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 2311, "end_char": 2314, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0142.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0206\n\nKHARTOUM, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nin Darfur\n\n\n\n\nSudanese President Omer al-Bashir reiterated on Sunday his country's refusal of deploying an international peacekeeping force to be sent by the United Nations in the western Sudanese region of Darfur.\n\nThe Sudanese president reiterated the position during a meeting with French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy, who arrived in Khartoum on the same day on a two-day official visit in Sudan.\n\nSudanese Minister of State for Foreign Affairs al-Wasila al- Samani told reporters following the meeting that al-Bashir urged the world society to help reinforce the 7800-strong African Union troops which are undertaking the peacekeeping mission in Darfur.\n\nThe Sudanese president also stressed his country's full respect for the security and sovereignty of Chad and the Central African, denying the accusation that Khartoum was baking rebels of the two countries to launch cross-border attacks from Sudan, al-Samani said.\n\nAl-Samani disclosed that the French foreign minister expressed his \"complete understanding\" for Sudan's position of refusing the deployment of international peacekeeper in Darfur, and his keenness to mediate between Sudan and Chad and the Central Africa.\n\n\"Sudan and France agree that the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) must be completed by bringing in those refusing to accept the agreement until now, and President al-Bashir thanked France for its efforts to help look for a comprehensive settlement for the conflict in Darfur,\" al-Samani added.\n\nThe Sudanese government signed the DPA with a main rebel faction in the Nigerian capital Abuja on May 5. But some other rebel movements have refused to sign the agreement, claiming that it did not meet all their demands.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 120, "end_char": 126, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same day", "start_char": 417, "end_char": 429, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1389, "end_char": 1392, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 5", "start_char": 1638, "end_char": 1643, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0206.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0378\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS Jaafari, Baathists, Qaeda warning ///\n\n\n\n\nIraqi violence shadowed special early polling Monday ahead of a general election for a full-term parliament which many hope will stabilize the country and allow US troops to leave.\n\nThe vote is expected to restore full sovereignty to Iraq nearly three years after the invasion, with officials desperately hoping to draw Sunni Arabs back into the political process and undermine support for a crippling insurgency.\n\nBefore 15.5 million voters cast their ballots on Thursday, 300,000 Iraqi hospital patients, detainees and members of the security forces voted for the 275 deputies who are to serve four-year terms.\n\nIn an atmosphere of jubilation, Iraqi security forces punched the air and made V for victory signs as they queued outside polling stations in the capital.\n\nDetainees in orange jumpsuits crossed their ballot papers in jails in the southern city of Samawa as electoral officials went from bed to bed with transparent ballot boxes in a Baghdad hospital, attending to patients too weak to walk.\n\nSecurity measures, similar to those enforced at two earlier polls this year, will be imposed to limit bloodshed and bombings during Thursday's main event.\n\nBut violence flared in the capital before the clampdown took full effect, killing at least seven people and wounding at least 30.\n\nTwo US soldiers also died in separate attacks south of Baghdad and in the volatile western Sunni province of Al-Anbar.\n\nCalling for a peaceful ballot, Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari vigorously defended his 10-month record in government at a Baghdad news conference.\n\n\"Praise be to God, Iraq is today stronger after overcoming so many obstacles,\" said the devout Shiite.\n\nRivals have accused him of presiding over a weak administration that has failed to quell violence and Jaafari could lose the top cabinet job in the political wrangling after the election.\n\nBut the dominant Shiite United Iraqi Alliance that includes Jaafari's Dawa Party put on a show of force by staging a rally that drew thousands in eastern Baghdad.\n\nRed and green Shiite banners waved in Sadr City as militants chanted slogans in support of the UIA, which includes the Dawa Party, the powerful Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution and followers of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.\n\nAcross the country, airports and borders will shut from Wednesday, a five-day holiday imposed, curfews extended and weapons carrying banned.\n\nSuch strict security measures are intended to prevent the kind of suicide bombings that have become so commonplace in Iraq.\n\nAl-Qaeda's branch in Iraq and four other extremist groups warned people not to vote in a statement posted on the Internet.\n\n\"What is known as the political process is nothing but a devilish plot,\" said a statement signed by the Al-Taifa Mansura Army.\n\nThe election for a 275-member parliament follows a lightning Anglo-US drive to oust Saddam in April 2003, two transitional governments and the adoption of a constitution in October.\n\nElectoral officials will allow some candidates with suspected links to Saddam's former party to stand, but warned they could still be disqualified.\n\nThe committee responsible, however, for purging the state of Saddam loyalists called on voters not to elect roughly 130 Baathist candidates standing in the election among a total 7,000.\n\nThe body urged electors to reject such candidates \"in the name of the victims of the mass graves and out of loyalty for the blood of the martyrs.\"\n\nWhen the dust settles, the Iraqi parliament will set out to define a new direction for a country wracked by intercommunal tensions.\n\nStrengthening democracy through credible elections is a cornerstone of US policy in the Middle East, which Washington hopes will foster the ultimate exit strategy from Iraq, an increasingly unpopular military campaign.\n\nBut success of the poll hinges on turnout among the fallen Sunni Arab elite that boycotted the January 30 election for a transitional parliament, Iraq's first free vote in half a century.\n\nOn Monday, Sunni Sheikh Khalaf al-Alyani, a leader of the Iraqi National Dialogue, pressed Iraqi insurgents to observe a five-day truce so that the crucial vote could take place peacefully.\n\nThe 228 political entities which have presented candidates number double the 111 groups that contested the January poll.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly three years", "start_char": 345, "end_char": 363, "tid": "t2", "type": 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0262\n\nTAIPEI, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTaiwan not to alter pig export policy\n\n\n\n\nTaiwan will not change its pig-rearing policy despite the outbreak last month of foot-and-mouth disease, estimated to have slowed the country's economic growth rate by 0.5 percent this year.\n\n\"Don't randomly change a policy whenever a problem occurs,\" Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui said at the end of a regular meeting of the decision-making Central Standing Committee.\n\n\"Changes to policy should be made only after they are carefully studied by scholars and experts ... Only so doing will government policies become more healthy,\" added Lee, who is also the ruling Kuomintang party's chairman.\n\nThere have been widespread calls for a thorough government review of pig raising following the island's worst pig disease in 80 years.\n\nEconomics Minister Wang Chih-kang said the plague, which was threatening the jobs of 700,000 workers, is estimated to have dragged economic growth by 0.5 percentage points from a previously forecast 6.3 percent for this year.\n\nThe government has banned exports of 105 categories of fresh and processed meat products, inflicting huge losses on the 1.6 billion US dollar a year industry.\n\nTotal losses to the pork industry and related businesses could reach an estimated 270 billion Taiwan dollars (almost 10 billion US).\n\nLee said it was not right for Taiwan to pull out of the overseas market only because of the pig epidemic, or it would be hard for the local pig-raisers to take back the market share they lost to competitors.\n\nLee, who received a doctorate degree in agroeconomy from Cornell University of the United States, took pride in Taiwan's rice-growing and pig-raising techniques which he said were \"first class in the world.\"\n\nLee, Vice President Lien Chan and other ranking government officials ate pig knuckles and pork at a press promotion campaign on the heels of the KMT meeting.\n\nThey urged the public to consume pork, saying the pork available on the market was not tainted.\n\nMeanwhile, 30 parliamentarians on Wednesday endorsed a bi-partisan resolution demanding two top agricultural officials step down to shoulder responsibility for the agricultural disaster.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "80 years", "start_char": 819, "end_char": 827, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P80Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1045, "end_char": 1054, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 1199, "end_char": 1205, "tid": "t5", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2059, "end_char": 2068, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0262.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0390\n\nPHNOM PENH, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCambodian PM's visit to China fruitful: FM\n\n\n\n\nCambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen 's visit to China from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2 was fruitful and would promote the friendly cooperative ties between China and ASEAN ( Association of Southeast Asia Nations), especially those between China and Cambodia, according to a local media's report on Friday.\n\nHor Namhong, Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, told local reporters at a press conference at the Phnom Penh International Airport on Thursday after the prime minister's return.\n\nDuring the summit held in Naning, Guangxi, to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the dialogue ties between China and ASEAN, Hun Sen proposed to build cooperative partnership between both sides, which would greatly promote the friendly cooperation between China and ASEAN, especially that between China and Cambodia.\n\nSuch cooperation would bring benefits to Cambodia's social and economic developments and help the kingdom narrow its difference with other member countries of ASEAN, he said.\n\nIn a joint declaration of the summit, Hor said, Hun Sen provided some complementary opinion for China to accomplish the Singapore-Kunming Railway as soon as possible, so as to supplement the current rail lines connecting Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia.\n\nIn addition, the prime minister asked China to offer loans for Cambodian to construct a railway leading to Vietnam, thus enabling the kingdom to transport more commodities to China via Vietnam, he added.\n\nHun Sen returned to Phnom Penh on Thursday afternoon. During his trip to China, he also visited Shandong Province in order to tap experience of economic development.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 29", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 169, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 2", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 391, "end_char": 397, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 594, "end_char": 602, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday afternoon", "start_char": 1659, "end_char": 1677, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0390.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0114\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina, Bulgaria to strengthen military ties\n\n\n\n\nChina is ready to join hands with Bulgaria to bring their military relationship to a new high, Liang Guanglie, chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), said here Wednesday.\n\nLiang made the remarks in his talks with his Bulgarian counterpart Nikola Kolev.\n\nChina has always taken a positive attitude to developing China-Bulgaria military relations, Liang said.\n\nHe said Bulgaria was among the first batch of countries to forge diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. Since then bilateral relations have kept advancing and there have been frequent mutual high-level visits and friendly exchanges.\n\nKolev said that Bulgaria and China have enjoyed a tradition of friendly exchanges, and the armed forces of Bulgaria hope to further promote the friendly and cooperative relationship with the Chinese PLA.\n\nXiong Guangkai, deputy chief of general staff of the PLA, also attended the talks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 296, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0114.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0004\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 20 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: Opposing \"Taiwan Independence\" in interest of China, US: Hu\n\n\n\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao said here Sunday that it is in the common interest of both China and the United State to oppose and contain \"Taiwan Independence\", and to safeguard stability across the Taiwan Straits.\n\n\"The Chinese government and people have been committed to safeguarding peace across the Taiwan Straits, and will make the utmost efforts with the utmost sincerity to achieve the country's peaceful reunification, but we will never tolerate 'Taiwan Independence',\" Hu told the press after his talks with visiting US President George W. Bush.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0004.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0244\n\nPARIS, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n1st lead:  Fatah primaries in Gaza Strip suspended\n\n\n\n\nEds: Updates with details\n\nGAZA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Fatah primaries in the Gaza Strip were suspended due to riots and violations, a poll official announced on Monday.\n\nIbrahim Abu Najja, chief of the highest committee of Fatah primary elections, announced the suspension following severe violations occurred at several polling stations across the Gaza Strip on Monday.\n\n\"These violations made the continuation of the whole process impossible,\" Abu al-Najja told reporters after a meeting of the committee.\n\nPalestinian militants stormed several polling stations in the cities of Deer al-Balah, Khan Younis and Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip, and ordered voters to go away.\n\nDozens of Fatah members burned tires and voters lists after failing to find their names in the lists.\n\nEarlier, Palestinian sources said that the committee decided to postponed Fatah primaries in the central Gaza Strip following riots at the ballot stations in this region.\n\nThe ongoing primaries are to choose candidates of the dominant Fatah movement to stand in the legislative elections set for Jan. 25, 2006.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 28", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 270, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 472, "end_char": 478, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 25, 2006", "start_char": 1183, "end_char": 1196, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0244.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0235\n\nLONDON, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n53 birds die of avian flu in Britain\n\n\n\n\nFifty-three birds have died at a British quarantine center hit by an outbreak of avian flu, according to a report released on Tuesday by the British Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.\n\nThe report said that within the species documented as coming from Taiwan, only the Mesias were infected with H5N1, adding that 53 out of 101 birds had died. It went on to say that the H5N1 virus was only transmitted between the Mesias,\n\nThere is no evidence of transmission to other species in the facility including the sentinel birds.\n\nAnnouncing the publication of the report, Chief Veterinary Officer Debby Reynolds said, \"This report contains significant epidemiological findings and helps to further our understanding of highly pathogenic avian influenza.\n\n\"In particular the apparent lack of transmission of H5N1 between species in the facility will be of interest to the international community.\"\n\nIn a written Parliamentary statement, Environment Secretary Margaret Beckett said, \"This report will be fed into the independent review of avian quarantine procedures I announced on October 31 led by Professor Nigel Dimmock and to Essex County Council, who are conducting an investigation into events at the quarantine facility.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 223, "end_char": 230, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 31", "start_char": 1191, "end_char": 1201, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0235.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "nyt_20130321_sarcozy\n\n2013-03-21\n\nFrance: Sarkozy Faces Investigation\n\n\n\nFormer President Nicolas Sarkozy was informed Thursday that he would face a formal investigation into whether he abused the frailty of Liliane Bettencourt, 90, the heiress to the L'Oreal fortune and France's richest woman, to get funds for his 2007 presidential campaign. Mr. Sarkozy has denied accepting illegal campaign funds from Ms. Bettencourt, either personally or through his party treasurer at the time, Eric Woerth, as alleged by her former butler. Mr. Sarkozy's lawyer, Thierry Herzog, called the judge's decision, which indicates that the judge believes that Mr. Sarkozy probably committed a crime, \"incoherent\" and \"unjust.\" The lawyer said he would appeal. The ruling does not necessarily mean that Mr. Sarkozy, who lost his re-election bid last May and with it his presidential immunity from prosecution, will stand trial.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "2013-03-21", "start_char": 22, "end_char": 32, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 119, "end_char": 127, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 317, "end_char": 321, "tid": "t1000", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last May", "start_char": 827, "end_char": 835, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "nyt_20130321_sarkozy.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0215\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nEthnic minorities to grow bio-fuel in fragile southwest China hills\n\n\n\n\nCommunities living in the arid mountains bordering Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan provinces may soon be benefiting from the seeds of a locally grown tree.\n\nA four-year project aimed at alleviating poverty in southwest China has been jointly established by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Chinese government.\n\nThe 8.58 million-U.S.-dollar project was launched on Tuesday in Beijing, aiming to use green technologies to reduce poverty and improve fragile ecosystems.\n\nThe \"Green Poverty Reduction in China\" project targets ethnic minority communities in ecologically fragile and remote regions.\n\nThe project aims to create a market for the oil-rich seeds of the Jatropha Curcas L tree, which grows wild in the mountainous regions of western China. Traditionally used as a hedge and to prevent desertification, its cultivation would hopefully lead to more fertile land in an area where soil erosion and aridity hinder agriculture and the ecosystem.\n\nThe project will also develop production of Jarrah Dayun, a raw material for traditional medicine, in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and provide small wind turbines to poor herdsmen in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.\n\nKnowledge gained through the pilot projects will be disseminated for its proposed extension across the country.\n\nThis initiative is jointly established by the UNDP, the Ministry of Science and Technology and the China International Center For Economic and Technical Exchanges of the Ministry of Commerce.\n\n\"Fostering the potential of green industries and energy sources in remote mountain areas and deserts is an important vehicle which can generate income and employment opportunities, while protecting the environment,\" said Alessandra Tisot, UNDP Senior Deputy Resident Representative in China.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 512, "end_char": 519, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0215.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0019\n\nHARBIN, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: Death toll rises to 68 in NE China coal mine blast\n\n\n\n\nAs of 2:00 p.m. Monday, the death toll rose to 68 in Sunday's coal mine blast in northeastern Heilongjiang Province, said sources with the National Bureau of Production Safety Supervision and Administration.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 141, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0019.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0138\n\nLAO CAI PROVINCE, Vietnam, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nVietnam-China e-trading floor launched\n\n\n\n\nAn electronic trading floor, which offers on-line transaction tools and trade- related data to enterprises, especially those in Vietnam and China, was launched here Wednesday.\n\nThe establishment of the e-trading floor will facilitate trade and investment in Vietnam and China, especially their border localities, helping the construction of e-commerce systems in northern Lao Cai province, said Nguyen Ngoc Kim, vice chairman of the provincial People's Committee at the launching ceremony.\n\nOver 300 Vietnamese and Chinese have registered to participate in the floor which is written in Vietnamese, Chinese and English. The floor allows users to conduct on-line transactions, and access information about trade and investment in Vietnam, China and many other countries.\n\nVietnam's import and export turnovers with China via the Lao Cai international border gate are estimated at 400 million US dollars this year, up more than 33.3 percent against last year, Kim said.\n\nEconomic and trade relations between the two countries have gained encouraging results in recent years with China having become Vietnam's biggest trading partner, and Chinese statistics show the two-way trade reached 6.74 billion dollars in 2004, an all time high.\n\nIn early 2004, the leaders of Vietnam and China set the target of posting two-way trade at 5 billion dollars in 2005 and 10 billion dollars in 2010.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 50, "end_char": 63, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "300", "start_char": 613, "end_char": 616, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "300", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1019, "end_char": 1028, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1064, "end_char": 1073, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1176, "end_char": 1188, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1327, "end_char": 1331, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2004", "start_char": 1355, "end_char": 1365, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1464, "end_char": 1468, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1495, "end_char": 1499, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0138.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0015\n\nLONDON, Dec 12 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nPrince William, second in line to the British throne, finishes his training as an officer at Sandhurst military academy this week, and Britain is abuzz with talk about when he will finally ask to marry his pretty girlfriend Kate Middleton.\n\nHappy news from the royal household has been rare these last few years. The last birth dates back to November 2003 when Queen Elizabeth II's youngest son Prince Edward had a daughter, Lady Louise.\n\nAnd there was a marriage in 2005, that of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, but it was more about normalizing a longterm relationship that had caused scandal in the past.\n\nSince then the media and souvenir merchants have become restless: Will 2007 be the year of Prince William and the return to glamor?\n\nOn Saturday, the Daily Mail raised the possibility of an engagement party during the Christmas holidays, when the royal family will gather in Sandringham, eastern England.\n\nThe official announcement will then come in the spring, according to the daily which said Kate was invited to dinner on December 24 in Sandringham, an uprecedented event for a royal girlfriend, as well as join William and his family for Christmas Day services.\n\nBuckingham Palace neither confirmed nor denied the report, citing a completely private event.\n\nAt 24, William, the elder son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, has for three years been dating Kate Middleton, a pretty brunette of the same age whom he met while he was studying geography and she art history at St Andrews University in Scotland.\n\nThey shared the same apartment with other students and quickly became inseparable. Signs increasingly point to marriage, even if the couple do nothing to confirm it.\n\nTheir first public appearance together happened on the ski slopes of the Swiss resort at Klosters in April 2004. There was then the first meeting with the queen in her Scottish castle at Balmoral.\n\nThe first public kiss was in the spring this year, also at Klosters. And for several months, Kate has been taking riding lessons, a virtual requirement for anyone who might want to enter a royal household passionate about horses.\n\nIn anticipation of a hypothetical engagement, the tabloid press has given Kate little breathing room, showing her in a bikini during a vacation with William in Ibiza, shopping in London, and during a night out at a club with the prince's double.\n\nNothing escapes them, including the first job she landed in late November.\n\nKate Middleton now buys accessories for Jigsaw, a British clothing chain whose owners are friends of her parents, themselves owners of an Internet company.\n\nAnd with impatience growing about their plans, some firms are taking no risks.\n\nThe Woolworth department store chain recently negotiated contracts for 20 souvenir items showing the smiling faces of the prince and his beauty: cups, china ware, and even computer mouses.\n\nAll that must be added to them is a wedding date.\n\nOther firms have take the precaution to register Internet sites, such as willandkate.co.uk, willandkate.com, williamandkate.net.\n\nHowever, neither of the two has said anything until now.\n\nWhen identical rumors were making the rounds last year, Prince William clearly discouraged them. \"I don't want to get married until I am at least 28 or maybe 30,\" William said.\n\nFor Ingrid Seward, a specialist on the British monarchy, a wedding is not particularly pressing.\n\n\"I can't see them getting married soon because William isn't settled in his life yet,\" Seward said.\n\nAfter Sandhurst, he must continuing serving in the armed forces for around another three years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", 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{"text": "WSJ891030-0159 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0159. \n Dow Jones Extends\n@  Tender Offer for Rest\n@  Of Telerate to Nov. 6 \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n DJ TLR \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nMEDIA, PUBLISHING, BROADCASTING, ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING (MED) \n NEW YORK  \n\n   Dow Jones amp Co. extended its tender offer of $18 a share, or about $576 million, for the 33% of Telerate Inc. that it does n't already own until 5 p.m. EST, Nov. 6. \n\n   The offer, which Telerate's two independent directors have rejected as inadequate, previously had been scheduled to expire at midnight Friday. \nDow Jones said it extended the offer to allow shareholders time to review a supplement to the Dow Jones tender offer circular that it mailed last Friday. \n\n   The supplement contains various information that has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission since Dow Jones launched the offer on Sept. 26, but it does n't change the terms and conditions of the offer except to extend its expiration date. \n\n   In Delaware Chancery Court litigation, Telerate has criticized Dow Jones for not disclosing that Telerate's management expects the company's revenue to increase by 20% annually, while Dow Jones based its projections of Telerate's performance on a 12% revenue growth forecast. \nIn the tender offer supplement, Dow Jones discloses the different growth forecasts but says it views the 20% growth rate \"as a hoped-for goal\" of Telerate's management \"and not as a realistic basis on which to project the company's likely future performance.\" \n\n   Telerate shares fell 50 cents on Friday to close at $20 each in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. \nDow Jones shares also fell 50 cents to close at $36.125 in Big Board composite trading. \n\n   Dow Jones has said it believes the $18-a-share price is fair to Telerate's minority shareholders. \nLate last week, representatives of Dow Jones and Telerate began negotiations about the terms of the offer, but those talks did n't result in any changes in the offer. \n\n   Telerate provides information about financial markets through an electronic network. \nDow Jones, which owns 67% of Telerate, publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's magazine, community newspapers and operates financial news services and computer data bases.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t86", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5 p.m. EST, Nov. 6", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 445, "tid": "t87", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-11-06T17", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t86"}, {"text": "midnight Friday", "start_char": 578, "end_char": 593, "tid": "t90", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-10-27T24", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t86"}, {"text": "last Friday", "start_char": 737, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t91", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t86"}, {"text": "Sept. 26", "start_char": 901, "end_char": 909, "tid": "t94", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t86"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1590, "end_char": 1596, "tid": "t98", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t86"}, {"text": "Late last week", "start_char": 1857, "end_char": 1871, "tid": "t102", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-WXX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t86"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0542.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0106\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS soldier killed in northern Iraq\n\n\n\n\nA US soldier was killed and two others wounded in a vehicle accident, while patrolling an area in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, the US military said on Friday.\n\n\"One Soldier was killed and two Soldiers were injured in a vehicular accident while performing a combat logistical patrol north of Tall Afar at about 8:25 am (0525 GMT) Nov. 17,\" the military said in a statement.\n\nThe name of the soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, it added.\n\nThe death toll has brought to more than 2,080 the number of US military personnel who have died in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003, according to media tally.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 259, "end_char": 265, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 17", "start_char": 437, "end_char": 444, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 705, "end_char": 715, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0106.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0449\n\nMOGADISHU, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - RESENDING to fix typo in 1st paragraph ///\n\n\n\n\nSomali government forces backed by Ethiopian troops, tanks and aircraft rolled into the capital Mogadishu Thursday after Islamist leaders retreated but vowed to launch a guerrilla campaign.\n\n\"We are already inside Mogadishu in some areas,\" Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi told reporters in Afgoye township, about 20 kilometres (13 miles) west of the coastal city, where he had been sounding out local chiefs.\n\n\"We are starting to establish the security in Mogadishu. Everyone who has guns or armed militia will have to surrender them to the government,\" he said.\n\n\"I am neither a warlord nor an Islamist, I just want to do my duty.\"\n\nThere were no independent assessments of casualties but Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi claimed up to 3,000 dead on the side of the Islamic Courts Union, and that the number of wounded could number up to 5,000.\n\nThe Islamists claimed hundreds of government troops had died. AFP correspondents saw huge numbers of bodies at battlefields in central and southern Somalia.\n\nThe entry into the capital came nine days after Ethiopian forces had defied pressure from other African nations by openly putting their air power and heavy artillery behind Somalia's government, which had been left in control of just one town -- Baidoa -- after an Islamist onslaught earlier this year.\n\nThe Islamists, who had seized Mogadishu and most of Somalia from US-backed warlords, are perceived as a direct threat by Addis Ababa and are accused by Washington of having links with al-Qaeda.\n\nWashington, for its part, steered clear Thursday of condemning Ethiopia for its involvement, saying Meles's government had legitimate security concerns.\n\n\"I saw government troops in north Mogadishu. They have fully entered the town. People were cheering and shouting 'Welcome our government',\" said local resident Nur Dirie.\n\n\"I am telling you that I also saw Ethiopian forces enter, (they) are now in (Mogadishu district) Suuqaholaha,\" Dirie added. Another witness counted around 50 Ethiopian armoured vehicles.\n\nAs Islamist forces retreated from Mogadishu, pro-government fighters took control of its international airport, sea port and presidential palace, but Gedi and his government halted outside the city for consultations with religious, clan and civil society leaders before moving any further.\n\nDeputy prime minister Mohamed Hussein Aidid, one of several powerful Mogadishu warlords uprooted when Islamic Courts Union took control of the capital in June, said the government would enter the city of about a million people on Friday.\n\n\"It is a day of reconciliation and victory (and) a day of the return of law and order,\" Aidid said.\n\nHis optimism was not unanimously shared in the city, however, where many fear renewed lawlessness after a relatively quiet six months under strict Islamist rule.\n\n\"We have been living peacefully for the last six months, but I think hell has broken loose and killing will be back,\" said resident Hashim Jeele Hassan.\n\nThe Islamists, meanwhile, acknowledged retreating but vowed to launch a guerrilla war against the Western-backed government.\n\nSheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, head of the executive committee of the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia (SICS), told Al-Jazeera television that \"we have withdrawn our forces (from Mogadishu) and there are no Islamic Court forces.\"\n\n\"It is the Somali people who are resisting,\" he added. \"We did not leave the capital to chaos. We left it to avert heavy bombing because Ethiopian forces are practicing genocide against the Somali people.\"\n\nAs government and Ethiopian troops entered the city, many Islamist fighters swapped their uniforms for civilian clothing and removed their turbans.\n\n\"Islamic forces turning into local militias,\" said Shadiyo Gure Ali, a businesswoman forced to close her shop.\n\nSomalia disintegrated into lawlessness after the 1991 ouster of a dictator, when it was carved up among warlords and has since lacked a central government and defied all international bids to restore functioning institutions of state.\n\nMeles said his forces would pull out \"hopefully in the next few days, maybe in the next few weeks, but definitely not months... While we are there, we will help them try to stabilize Mogadishu. We will not let Mogadishu burn.\"\n\nIn Washington, the United States called for a resumption of power-sharing negotiations between Somalia's rival factions, saying that a stable government could not be achieved through violence.\n\n\"We remain concerned about the situation there,\" State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said. \"You're going to have to have that government established on the basis of discussions and dialogue.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 220, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nine days", "start_char": 1156, "end_char": 1165, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1416, "end_char": 1425, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1663, "end_char": 1671, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2582, "end_char": 2586, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2658, "end_char": 2664, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "relatively quiet six months", "start_char": 2874, "end_char": 2901, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last six months", "start_char": 2967, "end_char": 2986, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 3958, "end_char": 3962, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next few weeks", "start_char": 4224, "end_char": 4242, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0449.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0328\n\nDOHA, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's judo star confident over Asian Games\n\n\n\n\nTong Wen, one of China's top judo players, Tuesday expressed her confidence over the upcoming Doha Asian Games.\n\nTong, who just arrived here with her teammates, looked relaxed with a big smile on her face. She said she did not know that her major rival, Japan's Olympic judo gold medalist Maki Tsukada has quit from the Games.\n\nTsukada withdrew from the 15th Asiad due to a calf injury, and was replaced by 20-year-old Mai Tateyama.\n\nTong said she doesn't know of Tateyama, saying that she will play her own way in the competition.\n\nJapanese officials allegedly said Japan would sweep all women's judo gold medals in the Doha Games.\n\n\"The match results will not be decided by what they (Japanese officials) said,\" Tong said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0328.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0018\n\nTOKYO, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS, UPDATES rates, Asian currencies  ///\n\n\n\n\nThe dollar slipped against the yen in Asian trade Tuesday as the market waited for the Bank of Japan chief's remarks later in the day on interest rates, dealers said.\n\nThey said participants also wanted to see a batch of US economic indicators this week to glean clues on whether the US Federal Reserve will keep interest rates on hold or cut them in early 2007.\n\nThe dollar slipped to 117.96 yen in Tokyo morning trade from 118.06 in New York late Monday.\n\nThe euro was quoted at 1.3086 dollars, down from 1.3097 and fell to 154.36 yen from 154.74.\n\nMeanwhile, the Thai baht fell to 35.67 against the dollar Tuesday afternoon from 35.22 on Monday after the Bank of Thailand on Monday made a major intervention to curb the soaring currency.\n\nThe market largely ignored the Bank of Japan's announcement of keeping the benchmark rate of borrowing at a super-low 0.25 percent. The market had widely expected the decision after mixed economic data.\n\nDealers said the market's interest has now shifted to Governor Toshihiko Fukui's remarks later in the day for signals on when the bank will next hike ultra-low interest rates.\n\n\"Players were concerned about a swift advance in the dollar against the yen,\" said Saturo Ogasawara, strategist at Credit Suisse First Boston.\n\n\"Players also refrained from buying the dollar ahead of the Bank of Japan's policy board meeting and Fukui's presser afterward,\" Ogasawara said.\n\nThe market is waiting for US producer price or factory gate data see if inflationary pressures remain, which would ease concern of a US rate cut early next year, dealers said.\n\nThe dollar pared back gains slightly overnight after the Commerce Department reported that the US balance of payments deficit worsened in the third quarter amid rising costs for oil and a jump in Chinese imports, dealers said.\n\nBut overall, it had little impact on the 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0002\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, details ///\n\n\n\n\nAustralia, which opposes capital punishment, said Saturday it respected Iraq's decision to execute former dictator Saddam Hussein, calling it a \"significant moment\" for the war-torn country.\n\n\"No matter what one might think about the death penalty, and the government of Iraq is aware of the Australian government's position on capital punishment, we must also respect the right of sovereign states to pass judgement relating to crimes committed against their people, within their jurisdictions,\" Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in a statement.\n\n\"He has been brought to justice, following a process of fair trial and appeal, something he denied to countless thousands of victims of his regime.\"\n\nAustralia contributed troops to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, which led to the ouster of Saddam. It still has about 1,300 troops involved in operations in the area.\n\nDowner said it was a credit to the people of Iraq that Saddam has been granted a fair trial for crimes against humanity involving the execution in 1982 of 148 Shiite men and boys in the village of Dujail.\n\n\"The people of Iraq now know that their brutal dictator will never come back to lead them,\" the foreign minister said.\n\n\"While many will continue to grieve over their personal loss under his rule, his death marks an important step in consigning his tyrannical regime to the judgement of history and pursuing a process of reconciliation now and in the future.\"\n\nThe Australian government, along with its coalition allies, would continue to \"support the struggle of the vast majority of Iraq's people to preserve and build upon the progress which has been achieved, where even the cruellest of dictators can be tried and brought to justice\", said Downer.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 859, "end_char": 863, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1195, "end_char": 1198, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1511, "end_char": 1514, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0002.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0643\n\nORLANDO, Florida, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nBaseball announces inaugural Civil Rights tribute game\n\n\n\n\nMajor League Baseball Monday announced it will hold its inaugural Civil Rights Game on March 31 as a tribute to one of the most significant eras of social change in US history.\n\nThe game will feature the World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals and the Cleveland Indians.\n\nIt will take place in Memphis - where civil rights leader Martin Luther King jnr was assassinated in 1968 - and will be played at AutoZone Park, home of the Class AAA Memphis Redbirds.\n\n\"This game is designed to commemorate the Civil Rights Movement, one of the most critical and important eras of our social history,\" commissioner Bud Selig said in a statement.\n\n\"I am proud of the role that Major League Baseball played in the movement, beginning with Jackie Robinson's entry into the big leagues on April 15, 1947, and very pleased that we have this opportunity to honor the movement and those who made it happen.\"\n\nMajor League Baseball also announced that donations will be made to several charities, including the National Civil Rights Museum and the Jackie Robinson fund, and that filmmaker Spike Lee is creating a documentary showcasing the connection between the Civil Rights Movement and baseball.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 148, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 31", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-03-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 15, 1947", "start_char": 896, "end_char": 910, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1947-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0643.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0062\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEarthquake hits northern Iran\n\n\n\n\nNorthern Iran was hit by a moderate earthquake on Tuesday, but there were no reports on possible casualties or damage so far.\n\nLocal TV said that the earthquake, measuring 5 on the Richter scale, took place in Agh Ghala, a small town in Golestan province of Northern Iran, which is near the Caspian Sea.\n\nAn earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 shook southern Iran on Sunday, killing 10 people and injuring 70.\n\nEarthquakes usually happen in Iran because the country is situated in some of the world's most active seismic fault lines. Statistics showed that on average, there is at least one slight earthquake every day in Iran.\n\nOn Dec. 26, 2003, a quake measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale hit southeastern city Bam, killing nearly 262,000 people.\n\nOn Feb. 22, 2004, another quake measuring 6.4 left more than 600 dead and 1400 injured on the outskirt of Zarand, a town 250 km northwest of Bam.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 140, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 456, "end_char": 462, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every day", "start_char": 698, "end_char": 707, "tid": "t3", "type": "SET", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 26, 2003", "start_char": 721, "end_char": 734, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Feb. 22, 2004", "start_char": 841, "end_char": 854, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-02-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0062.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0227\n\nHELSINKI, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFinnish government finalizes energy strategy\n\n\n\n\nThe Finnish government finalized Thursday the working-out of an energy and climate strategy in which it promises to invest in the fields of renewable energy sources, energy conservation, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThis strategy, to be given as a report to Parliament, aims to meet international requirements for restricting greenhouse gas emissions in Finland during the Kyoto commitment period of 2008- 2012.\n\nThe target set in the strategy is that the total consumption of renewable energy would increase by at least one quarter by 2015, and by at least 40 per cent by the year 2025. Renewable energy could then account for nearly one third of primary energy consumption, as against 23 per cent in 2003.\n\nIn particular, the strategy emphasizes the increased utilization of wood chips made from logging waste, as well as field biomass, recycled fuels and biogas. The target is at least to triple their share of primary energy, from about two per cent in 2004 to over six per cent within the next 15-20 years.\n\nThe government emphasizes that indigenous energy sources, renewable energy sources and biofuels, play an important role in the security of energy supply. The goal is that the total consumption of indigenous energy sources will rise by at least one quarter during the next 10-15 years.\n\nThe Ministry of Trade and Industry has launched an investigation on how the role of peat could be secured against imported fuels in the generation of electricity in condensing power plants.\n\nIn Finland, important results have already been achieved in increasing the efficiency of energy use.\n\nThe government will intensify these efforts by introducing new energy conservation measures. The goal is to reach an additional reduction of five per cent in energy consumption by the year 2015. The long-term goal in energy conservation is to halt the growth of total primary energy consumption and to bring about a falling trend.\n\nIn the strategy, the government promises to invest in renewable energy sources, save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nIn addition, by utilizing the Kyoto mechanisms, Finland will acquire emission units allowed by the Kyoto Protocol.\n\nThrough the actions outlined in the strategy and through flexible mechanisms, such as emissions trading within the EU, Finland will meet the obligations set and approved for it.\n\nWithout these measures, Finland's greenhouse gas emissions would exceed the target set by the Kyoto Protocol by about 15 per cent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 140, "end_char": 148, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "at least one quarter", "start_char": 631, "end_char": 651, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2015", "start_char": 655, "end_char": 659, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2015", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year 2025", "start_char": 692, "end_char": 705, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2025", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 821, "end_char": 825, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1076, "end_char": 1080, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 15-20 years", "start_char": 1109, "end_char": 1129, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "at least one quarter", "start_char": 1367, "end_char": 1387, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 10-15 years", "start_char": 1395, "end_char": 1415, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year 2015", "start_char": 1891, "end_char": 1904, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2015", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0227.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0379\n\nHOUSTON, Texas, Dec 16 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS ISS to slug, UPDATES ///\n\n\n\n\nSpace shuttle Discovery astronauts began a space walk Saturday to finish rewiring the International Space Station, a delicate and complex task that has dominated the 12-day mission.\n\nAstronauts Robert Curbeam and Sunita Williams started their maneuvers at 1925 GMT, 15 minutes ahead of schedule, outside the ISS, NASA said.\n\nDuring this third and final scheduled excursion, expected to last roughly six hours, the two were to complete work begun in the prior space walk Thursday and take a close look at a stuck ISS solar array.\n\nThe power supply for part of the station was turned off to protect the astronauts as they carry out the delicate procedures.\n\n\"The primary goal ... is to finish the rewiring of the space station and getting the active thermo system up and running,\" said Kirk Shireman, deputy ISS program manager, told reporters late Friday.\n\nBut he said the space walkers would be asked to \"go out and take a look at the solar array for us.\"\n\nNational Aeronautics and Space Administration officials decided to abandon, at least for the moment, attempts to unblock the stuck array and may require a fourth space walk to fold it away.\n\nSpace shuttle Discovery and ISS astronauts on Wednesday only managed to fold the stubborn array half-way by remote control, and NASA engineers on Friday tried to determine why it remained stuck after repeated attempts at activation.\n\nAt one point, NASA engineers in Houston asked German astronaut Thomas Reiter to exercise vigorously for 30 seconds on the ISS's training machine, hoping his vibrations would cause the panels of the stubborn array to fold all the way.\n\nReiter, who after a five-month stay on the ISS will be replaced by Discovery astronaut Williams, tried several times to shake the array into action.\n\n\"I'm very sorry to hear that,\" said Reiter when told by the Mission Control Center in Houston, Texas, that all his efforts came to naught.\n\n\"We'll give you a silver medal for that,\" a NASA controller replied.\n\nThe solar array was stuck in a half-folded position, and while it needs to be fully retracted before it can be moved to another location on the ISS, its current position has allowed a new solar array to unfold and rotate properly.\n\nISS commander Mike Lopez-Alegria told reporters from the station that \"a fourth EVA is one of the options still on the table,\" referring to extravehicular activity, NASA language for space walk.\n\nDiscovery astronauts on Tuesday and Thursday went on two space walks to attach a two-tonne truss segment and to rewire the ISS for the new, power-supplying solar array delivered in September by the shuttle Atlantis.\n\nDespite the stuck solar array -- it has supplied electricity to the ISS for six years -- astronauts late Wednesday were able to activate the newer array so it could turn its photovoltaic cells to follow the sun.\n\nOnce it is fully installed and operational, it will double the ISS's electrical output. The station, when completed, will have a total of four solar arrays providing it with electricity.\n\nThe Discovery mission is part of 14 shuttle flights NASA has planned over the next four years to finish the ISS by 2010, when the shuttle fleet, down to three vehicles, is to be retired.\n\nDiscovery and its seven-member crew blasted off last Saturday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in the first nighttime liftoff in four years.\n\nReiter is to return with Discovery in a landing scheduled next Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 576, "end_char": 584, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 953, "end_char": 959, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1300, "end_char": 1309, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1400, "end_char": 1406, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "30 seconds", "start_char": 1592, "end_char": 1602, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT30S", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2535, "end_char": 2542, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2547, "end_char": 2555, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 2692, "end_char": 2701, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six years", "start_char": 2804, "end_char": 2813, "tid": "t14", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next four years", "start_char": 3203, "end_char": 3222, "tid": "t16", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 3244, "end_char": 3248, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Saturday", "start_char": 3365, "end_char": 3378, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years", "start_char": 3443, "end_char": 3453, "tid": "t19", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next Thursday", "start_char": 3514, "end_char": 3527, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0379.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0338\n\nANKARA, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTurkey condemns killing of Lebanese industry minister\n\n\n\n\nTurkish Foreign Ministry on Tuesday strongly condemned killing of Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel.\n\n\"We strongly condemn this attack which aims to deteriorate peace and stability in Lebanon. We believe Lebanese government and people will not allow such attacks to deteriorate the efforts of national consensus in the country,\" the ministry said in a statement.\n\nThe ministry also offered condolences to the family of Gemayel as well as Lebanese people.\n\n\"We hope perpetrators of this attack will be found soon. Turkey is ready to provide every type of support for settlement of peace and stability in Lebanon,\" the ministry added.\n\nGemayel was killed by a gunshot on his head Tuesday afternoon when his convoy was attacked by unknown gunmen in Jedeide, about 15 km northeast from Lebanese capital of Beirut.\n\nThe 34-year-old Gemayel was also a Christian leader in Lebanon and son of former president Amin Gemayel.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 149, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday afternoon", "start_char": 800, "end_char": 817, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0338.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0230\n\nCRAWFORD, Texas, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nBush pays tribute to Ford\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush paid tribute Saturday to former president Gerald Ford, praising him for guiding the United States through a \"crisis of confidence\" spurred by political scandal and the end of the Vietnam War.\n\n\"He was there for the Nation when we needed him most,\" Bush said in his weekly radio address from his Texas ranch, where he was to ring in the New Year with First Lady Laura Bush.\n\n\"On behalf of all Americans, Laura and I send our prayers and condolences to Mrs Ford and the entire Ford family,\" said Bush, who was to return to Washington Monday to take part in formal memorial ceremonies.\n\nFord, a Republican president from August 1974 to January 1977, was best known for leading the United States out of the turbulent era after Richard Nixon stepped down in disgrace in 1974 under the Watergate scandal.\n\nFord, whose popularity sank when he pardoned Nixon, died late Tuesday aged 93.\n\n\"Providence gave us Gerald Ford's steady hand and calm leadership during a time of great division and turmoil. He guided America through a crisis of confidence, and helped our Nation mend its wounds by restoring faith in our system of government.\n\n\"As we say goodbye to the year 2006, we bid farewell to one of the finest public servants America has ever known. We give thanks for the gift of his remarkable life, for the caring man who touched so many lives, and the wise President who helped heal our Nation,\" the president said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 132, "end_char": 140, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "weekly", "start_char": 384, "end_char": 390, "tid": "t2", "type": "SET", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 651, "end_char": 657, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1974", "start_char": 737, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1977", "start_char": 752, "end_char": 764, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1977-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 884, "end_char": 888, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 981, "end_char": 988, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year 2006", "start_char": 1269, "end_char": 1282, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0230.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0155\n\nHARBIN, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd LD-Writethru: Colliery blast in northeast China kills 15\n\n\n\n\nFifteen of the 18 miners are found dead as their bodies have been recovered by 9:38 p.m. Saturday following a colliery gas blast in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, according to local sources.\n\nTwo of the 18 were rescued and rescuers are searching for the one still missing.\n\nThe blast took place at 1:50 p.m. Saturday when 32 miners were working in the shaft of the Yuanhua Coal Mine in Jixi City. Fourteen managed to escape.\n\nNone of the survivors are in critical condition, though some are injured, according to local sources.\n\nThe accident was believed to be caused by gas discharge in the shaft. At 10 a.m. a power failure occurred. When the power is on at about 1 p.m., workers discharged the accumulating gas in a way of violating work regulations.\n\nFurther investigation into the cause is underway.\n\nThe Yuanhua Coal Mine is privately-owned with an annual production capacity of 30,000 tons.\n\nJixi is an important coal producing city in China. A gas blast happened there on June 20, 2002 and killed 124 people. The city also saw a gas blast on Sept. 30 this year, when 13 miners were killed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1:50", "start_char": 429, "end_char": 433, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 439, "end_char": 447, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 20, 2002", "start_char": 1111, "end_char": 1124, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002-06-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 30 this year", "start_char": 1181, "end_char": 1199, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0155.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0352\n\nWARSAW, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPolish, Latvian leaders meet\n\n\n\n\nPolish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski met here Thursday with his Latvian counterpart Aigars Kalvitis and said after the meeting that it was a meeting of two prime ministers from friendly countries.\n\nPoland and Sweden are the first countries the Latvian prime minister decided to visit after last week's parliamentary elections in Latvia.\n\n\"This was a short meeting but I am deeply convinced that together we can achieve a lot,\" the PAP news agency quoted Kaczynski as saying.\n\nKaczynski told reporters the talk also focused on energy security, EU relations with Russia and bilateral relations and added that the meeting with Kalvitis was very important both in respect to Polish-Latvian relations and broadly, in the European dimension.\n\nKalvitis said that the meeting in Warsaw is the beginning of a \"further dialogue which is certainly necessary.\" He believed that possibilities exist in forging good cooperation between Latvia and Poland as well as other European countries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 139, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 383, "end_char": 392, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0352.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0294\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st Lead: exiled Hamas leader arrives in Cairo on unexpected visit\n\n\n\n\nThe exiled leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Khaled Meshaal arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Wednesday night on a surprise visit, Egpty's official MENA news agency reported.\n\nMeshaal and his accompanying delegation would hold talks with senior Egyptian officials on the latest developments in the Palestinian territories, means to revive the stalled peace process and the forming of a Palestinian unity government, MENA said in a short dispatch, without giving more details.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 273, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0294.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0468\n\nHAMBURG, Germany, Dec 11 , 2005\n\nby Phil Seery\n\n\n\n\nWith talk of a financial crisis burdening them German club Hertha Berlin could do without any more bad news, but they got it this weekend with a player dispute.\n\nCroat defender Niko Kovac and Brazilian midfielder Marcelinho -- two of the club's leading players -- tore into one another after Saturday's 2-1 defeat at SV Hamburg in which Marcelinho was red-carded.\n\nWith just eight minutes gone Hamburg stormed into a two-goal lead through a Dick van Burik own goal and a Mehdi Mahdivikia penalty while Berlin's Brazilian playmaker Marcelinho was booked for complaining.\n\nMarcelinho was then sent off after 52 minutes for a scuffle with Hamburg's Benjamin Lauth and Croatian international Kovac could not contain his rage.\n\n\"His lack of discipline can not be excused,\" fumed Kovac. \"He gave the team too much to do. He just complained and that is not on because we could have got something from this match with 11 men.\"\n\nHertha manager Falko Gotz admitted he would speak with Marcelinho about his conduct but the Brazilian star hit back at the criticism from Kovac.\n\n\"When I have a good game and we win because of me I do not hear a thing from Niko,\" Marcelinho. \"He needs to chill out. I do not need to apologise when I have an off-day.\"\n\nThe 30-year-old Marcelinho, contracted at Hertha until June 2007, was voted German Player of the Year last season after scoring 18 goals from midfield and the media dubbed Hertha 'FC Marcelinho'.\n\nBut while his talent is not in doubt his Latin temper can often irk team-mates and last season he had a similar verbal exhange of words with club captain Arne Friedrich.\n\nMarcelinho later apologised for the incident but said he would not accept a punishment from the club this time around.\n\n\"I would not accept a fine because I am not an undisciplined player and have only been sent off twice for Hertha,\" Marcelinho said.\n\nHertha stay fifth despite the defeat in Hamburg but are ten points points adrift of Werder Bremen who occupy the third and final Champions League spot.\n\nWith debts estimated at 35.6 million euros (42 million dollars) Hertha could do with the financial windfall that accompanies the Champions League but it looks like they need to repair team spirit first.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2005", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this weekend", "start_char": 199, "end_char": 211, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "52 minutes", "start_char": 680, "end_char": 690, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT52M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2007", "start_char": 1368, "end_char": 1377, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the Year last season", "start_char": 1406, "end_char": 1426, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last season", "start_char": 1593, "end_char": 1604, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0468.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0273\n\nDOHA, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - CHANGES bronze medal winner ///\n\n\n\n\nLi Du of China won the women's 10m Air Rifle individual title at the Asian Games with a combined qualification and final tally of 501.4 points here on Saturday\n\nZhao Yinghui of China came second and team-mate Wu Liuxi was third, but the bronze was awarded to fourth-placed Olga Dovgun of Kazakhstan because Asian Games shooting rules stipulate that only two athletes from one country can win medals in one event.\n\nChina won all six gold medals on offer on the opening day of competition at the Lusail ranges.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the opening day", "start_char": 553, "end_char": 568, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0273.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0338\n\nMECCA, Saudi Arabia, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nLarge fire strikes pilgrim camp near Mecca, thousands evacuated\n\n\n\n\nA large fire broke out Tuesday in a camp for Moslem pilgrims at Mina in Saudi Arabia, burning thousands of tents and forcing a massive evacuation, witnesses and officials said.\n\nSeveral pilgrims and Saudi civil defense workers were wounded in the blaze, which covered a 25 square kilometer (10 square mile) area, according to witnesses, but there was no official confirmation of the injuries.\n\n\"Because of the strong winds, the fire spread north of Mina,\" the director of Saudi civil defense, General Mohammed ibn Ali al-Sahili, told the official SPA news agency.\n\nThe fire, sparked by a gas bottle used for cooking, began at 11:45 a.m. (0845 GMT) Tuesday about five kilometers (three miles) north of Mecca, the home of Islam's holiest shrines, witnesses said.\n\nThe blaze was still buring more than five hours later, despite the efforts of civil defense workers backed by helicopters, witnesses said.\n\nThe region was closed off by Saudi authorities, and thousands of pilgrims were evacuated to a region outside Mina, where 10,000 tents had to be set up in haste.\n\nTents occupied by Iranian pilgrims were also burned in the fire, Iran's official news agency IRNA reported in Tehran.\n\nAbout two million Moslem pilgrims have gathered at Mina to attend the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina. The pilgrimage climaxes on nearby Mount Arafat on Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "11:45 a.m.", "start_char": 761, "end_char": 771, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 783, "end_char": 790, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five hours", "start_char": 934, "end_char": 944, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT5H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1482, "end_char": 1491, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0338.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0114\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 20 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina reports 2 new bird flu outbreaks in Inner Mongolia, Hubei\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinses Ministry of Agriculture Sunday confirmed bird flu outbreaks in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and central China's Hubei Province.\n\nIt noted in a statement that a total of 176 chickens, ducks and geese died Tuesday in the banner (or county) of Morin Dawa in Inner Mongolia before they were confirmed by a state avian flu lab as H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic bird flu cases.\n\nSeparately, the same kind of bird flu killed 3,500 geese Wednesday at a development zone in Shishou City of Hubei Province.\n\nThe Ministry of Agriculture has sent a team of experts to help contain the disease, and local veterinary departments have culled the poultry near the affected area, the statement said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 362, "end_char": 369, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 588, "end_char": 597, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0114.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0119\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nOver 2,000 Indonesian fishermen deported from Australia\n\n\n\n\nAustralian authorities have deported more than 2,000 Indonesian fishermen for illegal trespassing till November this year, an Indonesian official said Monday.\n\nThe fishermen were flown back to East Nusa Tenggara province after undergoing legal proceedings in Australia on charges of illegal fishing and border crossing, said Frans Salem, head of the provincial office for social affairs in East Nusa Tenggara.\n\n\"This figure is fantastic compared with the previous years,\" he was quoted by the national Antara news agency as saying.\n\nThe fishermen mostly came from the eastern parts of Indonesia, including East Nusa Tenggara, Papua, Sulawesi and Maluku, he said.\n\n\"Our fishermen use compass to navigate their vessels, but they have little knowledge about Indonesia-Australia marine borders and can be easily seized by the patrols of the Australian Navy,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November this year", "start_char": 220, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous years", "start_char": 568, "end_char": 586, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0119.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0121\n\nNANNING, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese premier urges Guangxi to expand cooperation with ASEAN\n\n\n\n\nChinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south China to expand cooperation with the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), develop economy and improve people's living standard.\n\nThe premier made the remarks during a recent two-day inspection tour of Guangxi ahead of the opening of the China-ASEAN Business and Investment summit, which kicked off here on Tuesday.\n\nDuring the inspection tour, Wen visited Liangmianzhen Co. Ltd, a name brand toothpaste producer, Liuzhou Tech Machinery Co. Ltd and Wuling Motors Co. Ltd in Liuzhou, Guangxi's largest industrial city, and held talks with enterprise officials and workers.\n\nHe urged these companies to explore development potential, grasp opportunities and step up development of industries with unique advantages by taking the region's rich natural resources.\n\nHe also visited two villages and inquired about farmers rice production, revenues, medical care and the implementation of seeds and farm tool subsidies, stressing that the construction of new socialist countryside should respect farmers will.\n\nThe input in rural areas should be increased and efforts should focus on developing roads, water, electricity, telecommunications and other infrastructure facilities so as to lay a foundation for rural development and improving farmers life, he noted.\n\nAs for the serious drought problem complained by villagers, Wen called on governments at various levels to build an irrigation system and improve water conservancy facilities in a bid to upgrade drought-fighting ability.\n\nGuangxi, with a population of over 46 million, is home to more than 15 million Zhuang minority people.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 516, "end_char": 523, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0121.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980213.1380 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/13/1998 15:44:00 \n\nw2227 Cx1f wstm-\nr i Cx13  Cx11  BC-PuertoRico-HostageKil     02-13 0243\n\n\n BC-Puerto Rico-Hostage Killed,0246 \n\nPolice discover dismembered body of man kidnapped Wednesday\n\nUR By HILARIO DE LEON QC\nUR Associated Press Writer QC\n\n\nCAGUAS, Puerto Rico (AP) _ Kidnappers kept their promise to kill\na store owner they took hostage and police found the man's\ndismembered and decapitated body Friday wrapped in plastic garbage\nbags.\nPolice confirmed Friday that the body found along a highway in\nthis municipality 15 miles south of San Juan belonged to Jorge\nHernandez, 49.\nHernandez  was kidnapped from his small, neighborhood store in\nthe town of Trujillo Alto at 10 p.m. Wednesday, police said. His\nkidnappers demanded a ransom of dlrs 1 million, but negotiations\nbroke off at noon Thursday.\nPolice gave no details about the negotiations with the\nkidnappers for the return of Hernandez.\nThe store owner's body  was found with the arms and head cut off\nand the parts stuffed in separate garbage bags. A passerby called\npolice  to report the body alongside the road.\nPuerto Rico Police Superintendent Pedro Toledo urged people who\nmight  be targeted by kidnappers to be alert.\n``There has been an increase in Puerto Rico in this kind of\nthing and some of these bands of kidnappers  are made up of\nforeigners,'' Toledo said.\nWhile some Latin American countries such as Mexico and Colombia\n have suffered from a rash of kidnappings in recent years, the crime\nhas not been common in this U.S. commonwealth.\n\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-Puerto Rico-Hostage Killed; CT:i;\n(REG:CRB;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-02-13-98 1544EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "02/13/1998 15:44:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t30", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-13T15:44:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 442, "end_char": 448, "tid": "t33", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 499, "end_char": 505, "tid": "t39", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "10 p.m. Wednesday", "start_char": 715, "end_char": 732, "tid": "t35", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-11T22:00", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "noon Thursday", "start_char": 829, "end_char": 842, "tid": "t36", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-12T12:00", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1483, "end_char": 1495, "tid": "t37", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980213.1380.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "APW19980227.0476 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/27/1998 08:02:00 \n\nw2381 Cx1f wstm-\nu i Cx13  Cx11  BC-WorldCourt-Lockerbie 5thLd   02-27 0169\n\n\n BC-World Court-Lockerbie, 5th Ld \n\nWorld Court declares jurisdiction in Lockerbie dispute\n\nUR Eds: RECASTS lead to clarify; ADDS detail of U.S. and British\nobjections in 3rd graf. QL\nUR AP Photo staffing QL\nUR By MIKE CORDER QC\nUR Associated Press Writer QC\n\n\nTHE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) _ The World Court Friday rejected\nU.S. and British objections to a Libyan World Court case that  has blocked the trial of two Libyans suspected of blowing up a Pan Am\njumbo jet over Scotland in 1988.\nLibya, which brought the case to the United Nations' highest\njudicial body in its dispute with the United States and Britain,\nhailed the ruling and said it would press anew for a trial in a\nthird neutral country.\nBoth U.S. and British officials filed objections to the court's\njurisdiction in 1995, claiming Security Council resolutions imposed\non Lybia  to force the suspects' extradition overruled a 1971\nConvention which gives Libya the right  to try the men.\nThe decision, 3rd graf pvs.\n\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-World Court-Lockerbie, 5th Ld; CT:i;\n(REG:EURO;)\n(REG:BRIT;)\n(REG:SCAN;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-02-27-98 0802EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "02/27/1998 08:02:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t19", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-27T08:02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 439, "end_char": 445, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t19"}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 615, "end_char": 619, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 914, "end_char": 918, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1971", "start_char": 1023, "end_char": 1027, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "1971", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980227.0476.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0004\n\nLONDON, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nBlair aides investigated for obstructing probe: report\n\n\n\n\nAides of British Prime Minister Tony Blair and officials of his governing Labour Party are under investigation for obstructing the \"cash-for-honours\" probe, The Times reported in its Monday edition.\n\nThe report comes after Blair last Thursday became the first serving prime minister to have been questioned as part of a criminal inquiry in what critics said was an embarrassment to the British leader.\n\nAccording to the newspaper, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has told police that they should look into the fact that some e-mails and documents have not yet been handed over, while others have apparently disappeared.\n\n\"There is more than a suspicion that evidence has not been handed over, people have colluded and the police are not being helped,\" an unidentified prosecution source told the newspaper.\n\n\"What these people should remember is that they are not dealing with a parliamentary inquiry; this is a criminal investigation and anyone failing to co-operate is participating in a criminal offence,\" the source said.\n\nAccording to The Times, the possibility of charges of perverting the course of justice was discussed by CPS lawyers after they met with the police. The charge carries a maximum life sentence.\n\nMeanwhile, the Financial Times reported that Lord Michael Levy -- Blair's Middle East envoy and Labour's main fundraiser, dubbed \"Lord Cashpoint\" -- was understood to be the focus of the police investigation into the issue.\n\nThe business daily reported that detectives may soon interview Levy for a third time.\n\nPolice are investigating claims that seats in the House of Lords, the unelected upper house of parliament, were offered in return for financial help to political parties, including Labour since it became the party of government in 1997, in breach of the 1925 Honours (Prevention of Abuse) Act.\n\nThey are also considering whether there was any breach of the Political Parties Elections and Referendums Act 2000 which requires donations and non-commercial loans to parties to be publicly declared.\n\nCritics of the government also pointed out, according to The Guardian, that it seemed to be contradicting previous statements in its response to the investigation -- Blair said earlier that he nominated four Labour Party donors for \"expressly party peerages, given for party service\".\n\nTheir citation documents, however, which were printed in the Independent on Sunday, make no mention of their links to the party, and instead speak of their business and other experience.\n\nJohn Yates, the Metropolitan Police officer leading the investigation into allegations of \"cash for honours\", said last month that detectives had conducted 90 interviews.\n\nOf these, 35 were linked to the governing Labour Party, 29 to the main opposition Conservatives and four to the Liberal Democrats, Britain's third biggest party.\n\nA further 22 were non-party interviews.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 294, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 345, "end_char": 353, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 1878, "end_char": 1882, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2506, "end_char": 2512, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 2733, "end_char": 2743, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0004.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0311\n\nANKARA, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIsraeli FM begins Turkey visit\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Foreign Minister David Levy arrived here Tuesday for cooperation talks with Turkish leaders, including a meeting with Islamist Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, who opposes close ties with the Jewish state.\n\nThis is the first high-level political visit between the two states since Erbakan and Israel's hardline Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to power in their respective countries last year.\n\nTurkey and Israel, whose relations remained dormant during decades of the Arab-Israeli conflict, boosted their ties to a strategic level last year.\n\nThey signed two major pacts on military and defense industry cooperation despite condemnation by radical states such as Iran, Syria and Iraq.\n\nBut the boost in military relations could not be matched in political ties, as Erbakan has still not responded to an invitation by Netanyahu to visit Israel.\n\nLevy said in interviews with Turkish newspapers last week that his visit would be aimed at cementing political cooperation.\n\nDiplomats here said Erbakan accepted Levy's request for a meeting at the last minute.\n\nA 630 million dollar agreement under which Israeli Aircraft Industries will upgrade Turkey's aging fleet of 54 F-4E Phantom aircraft took effect last November, the largest-scale defense industry deal between the two countries.\n\nIn Turkey, Levy will also meet President Suleymen Demirel, Foreign Minister Tansu Ciller, Chief of the General Staff Ismail Hakki Karadayi and business circles.\n\nThe Turkish parliament last Friday approved a free trade agreement signed last year.\n\nWith the agreement, the two countries hope to bolster their trade relations, which currently register an annual two-way volume of nearly 500 million dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 137, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 486, "end_char": 495, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 635, "end_char": 644, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 997, "end_char": 1006, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last minute", "start_char": 1143, "end_char": 1158, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07T23:59", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last November", "start_char": 1306, "end_char": 1319, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1579, "end_char": 1585, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1625, "end_char": 1634, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1720, "end_char": 1729, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0311.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0116\n\nZAMBOANGA, Philippines, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFour children injured in grenade attack in southern Philippines\n\n\n\n\nFour children were injured when a suspected Moslem rebel lobbed a grenade at their home in a town north of here, the Philippine military said Wednesday.\n\nThe four children, aged three, six, seven and 17, suffered shrapnel wounds in the bodies after an unidentified man aboard a motorcycle threw the grenade at their home in the town of Sirawai late Tuesday, the military report said.\n\nIntelligence sources said the attack was a retaliatory move by rebels of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) who had suffered heavy casualties in last week's fighting between their troops and the military in Sirawai.\n\n\"This could be the start of their retaliatory attacks,\" said a military official who asked not to be named.\n\nLast week's clashes, which left 30 rebels and four soldiers dead, came amid an impasse in ceasefire talks between the two sides, which failed to agree on the disposition of its forces around a rebel camp in the town of Buldon east of here.\n\nThe MILF is a splinter of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which last year signed a peace treaty with the government to end a 24-year guerrilla campaign aimed at setting up a separate Moslem state in the country's south.\n\nThe MILF, which had refused to join the negotiations, was left out in the political settlement. Manila hopes to forge a similar accord with the MILF to establish development projects in the once war-torn southern Philippines.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 47, "end_char": 62, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 280, "end_char": 289, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 487, "end_char": 494, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 674, "end_char": 683, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 855, "end_char": 864, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1171, "end_char": 1180, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0116.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0058\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSrichaphan confirms participation in Doha Asian Games\n\n\n\n\nThailand's medal hopes at the 15th Doha Asian Games have been boosted as their tennis number one Paradorn Srichaphan has confirmed his intention to compete in the December 1-15 Asian sports jamboree, as the Doha Asian Games official website revealed on Sunday.\n\nWith an exhausting schedule and wrist problems, there had been doubts whether Srichaphan would be able to defend the men's singles title he won four years ago in Busan, South Korea.\n\nBut following an excellent run of form in recent months at ATP tour, the 27-year-old China Open semifinalist will take to the courts at the tennis in Doha.\n\nAlthough now not officially recognized as Asia's top player, according the ATP rankings, which places South Korea's Lee Hyung Taik at number 49, four places above Srichaphan, the Thai is still likely to start as favourite.\n\nHe won both two previous meetings against Lee, whom he defeated to win the title of the men's singles at Busan Games in 2002.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 1-15", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 369, "end_char": 375, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 522, "end_char": 536, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent months", "start_char": 603, "end_char": 616, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 727, "end_char": 730, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1062, "end_char": 1066, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0058.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0575\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details, background ///\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush will make a rare address to the nation from his Oval Office at 9:00 pm Sunday (0200 GMT Monday) to discuss the way forward in Iraq, his spokesman said Friday.\n\n\"The Iraqi people just concluded a historic election and we're now entering a critical period for our mission in Iraq, and the president will talk about what we've accomplished and where we're headed,\" said Scott McClellan.\n\nThe last time Bush made an address to the nation from the Oval Office was in March 2003 to announce the beginning of the US-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, the spokesman said.\n\nThe remarks, which were expected to run 20 minutes or less, were to cap a public relations offensive that saw Bush give four speeches touting progress on the political, economic and security fronts.\n\nThe rhetorical onslaught came after deadly violence in Iraq fueled Bush's sharp drop in the polls this year, though they have recently edged up from what had been their lowest levels since he took office in January 2001.\n\nOn another front, the US president was to take the unusual step of delivering his weekly Saturday radio address live, as part of an effort to pressure lawmakers into renewing the controversial Patriot Act package of anti-terrorism measures.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 585, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2001", "start_char": 1097, "end_char": 1109, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0575.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0291\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nShip hijackings threaten food aid for drought-stricken Somalis, UN agency warns\n\n\n\n\nA recent spate of ship hijackings off the coast of Somalia is restricting delivery of urgently needed food aid, posing a serious threat to the health of 640,000 people in the drought-stricken and war-torn south of the Horn of Africa country, the World Food Program (WFP) warned Thursday.\n\n\"The worsening humanitarian situation in southern Somalia is of deep concern to us and to our UN and NGO partners, especially with insecurity on the high seas hampering relief efforts,\" WFP Country Director Zlatan Milisic said. \"We may have to step up our deliveries of food aid, which will be extremely difficult under present circumstances.\"\n\nThe southern Somali coastline is one of the most dangerous in the world. In recent months, WFP's operations have been sabotaged by the hijackings of two vessels carrying relief food. Ship owners are now demanding armed escorts to travel in these waters.\n\n\"Given the insecurity off the coast, we are exploring alternative transport routes, including overland from Kenya and via Djibouti, to reach those in desperate need of food assistance. But these other routes raise similar logistical and security challenges,\" Milisic said.\n\nWFP is also concerned about the lack of access for UN relief flights to several airstrips in the south of Somalia, which has been torn by factional fighting and lacking a functioning central government for the past 14 years.\n\nMalnutrition rates in southern Somalia are unacceptably high, reaching 20 percent in some areas. Drought is a major threat to Somalis living away from rivers in Lower and Middle Juba and Gedo, where poor and patchy rainfall during the second rainy season in October and November are compounding an already desperate situation after the first rains failed earlier in the year.\n\nDespite the hijackings, WFP's operations have continued, with 1, 555 metric tons of food reaching nearly 150,000 people in Jilib and Buale districts in the past two weeks, and a further 830 tons set to be distributed to 78,000 beneficiaries in Sakow district.\n\nWFP still requires 11,000 tons of food aid contributions from donors to provide sufficient assistance to those severely affected by food shortages throughout the country until mid-2006.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 425, "end_char": 433, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent months", "start_char": 857, "end_char": 870, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 14 years", "start_char": 1516, "end_char": 1533, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P14Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1794, "end_char": 1801, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1902, "end_char": 1910, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two weeks", "start_char": 2065, "end_char": 2083, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "mid-2006", "start_char": 2350, "end_char": 2358, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0291.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0017\n\nNEW DELHI, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBULLETIN Gujral sworn in as Indian PM\n\n\n\n\nInder Kumar Gujral was sworn in as India's 12th prime minister here Monday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0017.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0289\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambian gov't warns against abusers of fertilizer support program\n\n\n\n\nZambian government Friday warned of stern action against farmers or organizations found guilty of abusing the fertilizer support program.\n\nAgriculture and Cooperatives Deputy Minister Daniel Kayenga said here that the government would not entertain abuse of the program.\n\nSpeaking at the national launch of the 60 percent subsidy support program, Kayenga said that misapplication of the program would defeat the government's effort to improve household and national food security in the country.\n\nThe government has targeted 1.5 million farmers to benefit from the program for 2006/2007 farming season countrywide, he said.\n\nKayenga called upon the private sector to assist the government in the provision of finances to the farmers as the government alone could not manage to meet the financial requirements of the farmers.\n\nEarlier, Kapiri Mposhi District Commissioner Jeston mulando appealed to the government to increase the number of farming inputs for the district.\n\nMulando said that the 432,000 bag of fertilizer meant for the district is inadequate to cater for the growing number of farmers in the area.\n\nZambian government has allocated 198 billion kwacha (about 51 million U.S. dollars) for the implementation of the 2006/2007 fertilizer support program.\n\nThe government provides subsidized fertilizer for the small scale farmers since 2002 to encourage agriculture production.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1474, "end_char": 1478, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0289.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0097 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0097. \n Hudson's Bay Gives\n@  Terms of Rights Offer\n@  To Raise $337 Million \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n T.HBC \n BUYBACKS, REDEMPTIONS, SWAP OFFERS (BBK) \n TORONTO  \n\n   Hudson's Bay Co. announced terms of a previously proposed rights issue that is expected to raise about 396 million Canadian dollars (US$337 million) net of expenses. \n\n   Proceeds of the offering will be used to redeem C$264 million of preferred shares and to reduce short-term debt, the company said. \n\n   Canada's largest department store operator said the rights offering will entitle holders of its ordinary shares, except residents in the U.S. and Britain, to subscribe for two additional shares for every five shares held at a price of C$31.25 a share. \nThe record date is Nov. 9. \n\n   The company has about 31 million ordinary shares outstanding. \nOn the Toronto Stock Exchange, Hudson's Bay shares closed at C$35, up 12.5 cents. \n\n   Hudson's Bay said that Woodbridge Co., which currently holds about 77% of the ordinary shares, will subscribe for all the shares to which it is entitled and for any shares that are n't otherwise taken up. \nWoodbridge is a holding company owned by Toronto's Thomson family. \n\n   Hudson's Bay said it will redeem 9.5 million Series H preferred shares on Oct. 31 at a price of C$27.75 each. \nThe move was approved at a special shareholders' meeting yesterday. \n\n   Gary Lukassen, chief financial officer, said redemption of the preferred shares, originally issued at C$25 each, will eliminate dividend payments of C$17.9 million annually.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t49", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 9", "start_char": 795, "end_char": 801, "tid": "t50", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-09", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t49"}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1003, "end_char": 1012, "tid": "t51", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t49"}, {"text": "Oct. 31", "start_char": 1310, "end_char": 1317, "tid": "t52", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t49"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 1404, "end_char": 1413, "tid": "t53", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t49"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0798.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0116\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nThai, Laotian PMs break ground at Nam Thuen II site\n\n\n\n\nThai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Lao counterpart Bounnhang Vorachit Sunday jointly laid a founding stone to start construction of a controversial Nam Thuen II hydropower project, according to local media The Nation.\n\nThe ceremony took place at the construction site of the powerhouse at Gnoumalat district of Laos's central Khammouane Province. Some 300 officials from both countries and international financiers and investors attended the event.\n\nDuring his weekly radio address on Saturday, Thaksin said that Thailand would buy electricity totaling 924 megawatts generated from this dam project annually upon its completion.\n\nHe said that Thailand needs to depend more on hydropower and coal and less on natural gas in generating electricity, he said.\n\nNatural gas will be used in domestic transportation system, and, if possible, the country will stop using oil in power generation in the future.\n\nThe Nam Theun II hydropower project site is located in Khammouane and Bolikhamxay provinces in central Laos, about 250 kilometers southeast of the country's capital -- Vientiane.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "weekly", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 592, "tid": "t2", "type": "SET", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 610, "end_char": 618, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1015, "end_char": 1025, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0116.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0266\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 13 , 2005, 2005\n\nRAG wants all or nothing of Degussa, chairman says\n\n\n\n\nRAG, the German energy and mining group, wants to increase its stake in specialty chemicals maker Degussa to 100 percent or it will sell its current majority, RAG chairman Werner Mueller said in a newspaper interview released on Tuesday.\n\n\"Either we take it over fully or we'll sell our stake completely,\" Mueller told the daily Die Welt in a pre-release of an interview to be published on Wednesday.\n\nRAG currently holds a stake of 50.1 percent in Degussa, with further 43 percent owned by energy giant E.ON.\n\nBut E.ON wants to sell its stake and is currently negotiating with RAG over a billion-euro (dollar) deal.\n\n\"The only thing that is certain is that E.ON wants to sell. How they will do so or whether we're the buyer has not yet been decided,\" Mueller said.\n\nAsked whether RAG was in a position to finance such a deal, Mueller replied: \"We're not going to commit some sort of financial 'harakiri'. We can do this deal if we want to.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 339, "end_char": 346, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 500, "end_char": 509, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 516, "end_char": 525, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0266.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0037\n\nBUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAPEC seeking to help resolve trade impasse\n\n\n\n\nA draft statement being discussed by senior officials from APEC members warned on Sunday that global trade talks could collapse if the current impasse over agricultural subsidies and other issues were not resolved.\n\nThe statement said the 21-member Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum was concerned that \"the current impasse in the negotiations may lead to a potential failure\" of the Hong Kong ministerial meeting scheduled for next month.\n\n\"We all agree that the Hong Kong ministerial (meeting) will be a critical step in achieving this goal\" of reducing subsidies and other barriers to free trade, said the statement, whose final wording may be changed.\n\nThe APEC summit on Friday and Saturday will bring together APEC leaders, including Chinese President Hu Jintao, US President George W. Bush, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and Russion President Vladimir Putin.\n\nThe statement said that while the initial expectations of the Hong Kong meeting may not be achieved, \"we should nonetheless not compromise the level of ambition for the whole round\" launched in Doha, Qatar, in 2001.\n\nThe trade dispute centers on agricultural subsidies which protect European farmers from outside competition. The European Union has rejected demands by the United States, Australia and some other APEC members to impose greater cuts in the subsidies.\n\nThe APEC statement urged all WTO members to \"make further, meaningful contributions to move the negotiations forward.\" It said, \"Doing this will require economically and politically difficult decisions by all WTO members.\"\n\nMany pin hopes on the APEC summit to pave the way for the Hong Kong ministerial round. \"The summit would add momentum to finalize a trade deal in Hong Kong by giving leaders around the world a chance to reaffirm the pledge to make substantial progress in global trade talks,\" South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon said earlier.\n\nExpectations were shrinking and hopes plummeting after negotiations last week in Geneva and London failed to end the stand-off.\n\nParticipants at the APEC senior official meeting were working hard to come up with a statement for their leaders to sign off. The statement was expected to support the WTO, thus breathing new life into the staggering trade talks.\n\n\"What is needed at this moment is a strong message from leaders to keep spirits up,\" said one participant, who refused identification.\n\nSome participants, however, were worried about the Hong Kong meeting becoming a repeat of the previous ministerial gathering in Cancun, Mexico, in 2003, which broke down in acrimony and paralyzed the WTO for months.\n\n\"APEC would like to change this message of crisis into a message of hope,\" said Kim Jong-hoon, South Korea's senior APEC official.\n\nAPEC, with seven of the world's 13 largest economies, constitutes 60 percent of the global economy and almost half of world trade.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 203, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 548, "end_char": 558, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 796, "end_char": 802, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1246, "end_char": 1250, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 2129, "end_char": 2138, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 2704, "end_char": 2708, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0037.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0301\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nunexpected visit\n\n\n\n\nThe exiled leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Khaled Meshaal arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Wednesday night on a surprise visit, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.\n\nMeshaal and his accompanying delegation would hold talks with senior Egyptian officials on the latest developments in the Palestinian territories, means to revive the stalled peace process and the forming of a Palestinian unity government, MENA said in a short dispatch, without giving more details.\n\nThe prisoners' swap deal was reportedly also among the top agenda of Meshaal visit to Egypt.\n\nHowever, contacts with the Egyptian foreign ministry failed to confirm the report.\n\nBut Hamas spokesman in Damascus confirmed the visit at midnight Wednesday, saying Meshaal has arrived Cairo.\n\nReports on Meshaal's visit to Egypt were abundant since late October.\n\nOn Oct. 29, a senior Egyptian official told Xinhua that Meshaal would visit Egypt soon, but failed to give an exact date.\n\nThe official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said at that time that Meshaal, now in exile in Syria, would visit Cairo in four or five days.\n\nAlso on Oct. 29, Egyptian Presidential Spokesman Suleiman Awwad said Egypt had invited Meshaal for a visit to broker negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel on a prisoner swap deal and help major Palestinian political factions to set up a unity government.\n\nBut Meshaal didn't come to Egypt in the end. Instead, he sent a delegation, which was led by Hamas representative in Syria Imad al- Alami, to Cairo on Oct. 31.\n\nEgyptians have been aggressively playing a mediating role between Hamas and Fatah led by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, both of which have been at loggerheads with each other over a series of political issues in the last several months.\n\nThe rift between Hamas and Fatah was deepened after Hamas defeated Fatah in legislative elections in January and thus given mandate to form the current government.\n\nHowever, the fledging Hamas government was cornered shortly after it came to power due to the West's suspension of direct aid to the government, which was unable to pay its almost 160,000 civil servants.\n\nDespite the deep financial crisis facing the government, Hamas still adhere to its rejection to international demands of recognizing Israel, honoring signed peace deals with Israel.\n\nIn order to walk out of the dual crises of economic and political, Palestinian factions, mainly Fatah and Hamas, have been dedicated to efforts to form a new Palestinian unity government to be accepted by international community.\n\nEgyptian officials have also been actively coordinating a prisoners' swap deal, which involved Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped and has been held hostage by Palestinian militants in Gaza since June.\n\nThe captors of Gilad Shalit call for releasing about 1,700 prisoners out of more than 10,000 detainees who are staying in Israeli custodies. They insist women, children and old prisoners be among those set to release under the swap.\n\nEgypt, the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel, maintains good relations with both Israel and the Palestinians, and has long been playing a mediating role between the Palestinians and Israel.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 833, "end_char": 842, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late October", "start_char": 935, "end_char": 947, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 29", "start_char": 953, "end_char": 960, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four or five", "start_char": 1199, "end_char": 1211, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 29", "start_char": 1227, "end_char": 1234, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 31", "start_char": 1637, "end_char": 1644, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last several months", "start_char": 1865, "end_char": 1888, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1992, "end_char": 1999, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2883, "end_char": 2887, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0301.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0140\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGermany's Merkel condemns Gemayel murder\n\n\n\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday condemned the murder of Lebanese Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel, saying it was \"a cowardly act.\n\n\"We want to see an independent Lebanon and forceful efforts to end violence,\" she told the German Bundestag parliament.\n\nThe German Chancellor extended her condolences in a telephone call to Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Tuesday, pledging to continue support for the reconstruction of the Middle East country.\n\nGemayel, a member of the anti-Syrian faction in the Lebanese government, was shot dead on Tuesday by a gunshot to the head when his convoy was attacked on a street in Jedeide, about 15 km northeast of Beirut.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 145, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 477, "end_char": 484, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 657, "end_char": 664, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0140.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0116\n\nDOHA, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFire breaks out in Doha primary school\n\n\n\n\nA group of girl students preparing for the Doha Asian Games opening ceremony had to be evacuated when a fire broke out at the Al Bayan primary school on Thursday. No casualties were reported.\n\nQatar's leading English daily The Peninsula reported that fire was caused by an electrical short circuit while some renovation work was being carried out in the sports hall of the school.\n\nThe hall was being prepared to train the students for the Asian Games opening ceremony. It was badly damaged in the fire.\n\nSchool principal Hissa Abdullah was quoted as saying that all the students were safely evacuated from the building.\n\nThe Asian Games is slated to open on Dec. 1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 250, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1", "start_char": 756, "end_char": 762, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0116.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0534\n\nDALLAS, Texas, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nCowboy's Owens fined for spitting on Hall\n\n\n\n\nDallas Cowboys' temperamental wide receiver Terrell Owens was fined 35,000 dollars Monday by the NFL for spitting in the face of Atlanta's DeAngelo Hall in Saturday's 38-28 win.\n\nThe fine by new commissioner Roger Goodell is more than double the 17,000 dollars fine levied by former commissioner Paul Tagliabue against Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor for spitting in the face of Tampa Bay running back Michael Pittman in a playoff game last season.\n\nTaylor was ejected from the game for unsportsmanlike conduct.\n\nOwens spit on Hall after Dallas' sixth play from scrimmage, but it was not seen by the officials.\n\nEarlier in the series, Hall used his forearms to shove Owens. Then after tight end Jason Witten caught a pass, Owens spit on Hall before heading back to the huddle.\n\n\"I got frustrated and I apologize for that (spitting),\" Owens said. \"It was a situation where he (Hall) kept bugging me and getting in my face.\"\n\nSaid Hall, \"I lost all respect for the guy. You don't spit in another grown man's face.\"\n\nOwens later beat Hall for a seven-yard touchdown late in the first quarter and a 51-yard score midway through the second quarter. He has 77 catches for 1,040 yards and 11 touchdowns this season.\n\nOwens played just seven games with the Philadelphia Eagles last season before the club banished him for conduct detrimental to the team. He publicly criticized numerous members of the organization - including star quarterback Donovan McNabb.\n\nSigned to a three-year, 25 million dollar contract in the offseason by the Cowboys, Owens created quite a stir when he was admitted to a Dallas hospital on September 26 for what was classified by police as an \"accidental overdose\" of prescription painkillers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last season", "start_char": 548, "end_char": 559, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter", "start_char": 1183, "end_char": 1200, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter", "start_char": 1236, "end_char": 1254, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this season", "start_char": 1308, "end_char": 1319, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 26", "start_char": 1721, "end_char": 1733, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0534.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0176\n\nSINGAPORE, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSingapore blue chips end 0.8 percent higher\n\n\n\n\nSingapore blue-chip share prices closed 0.8 percent higher Tuesday as market sentiment improved following a mild overnight rally by US stocks, dealers said.\n\nThe Straits Times Industrials index of leading shares on the Stock Exchange of Singapore rose 16.57 points to 2,104.71.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0176.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0351\n\nPHNOM PENH, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCambodia ranks second in mine clearing in world\n\n\n\n\nCambodia ranked second in the world's 84 countries in clearing land mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO according to the latest annual Landmine Monitor Report from the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.\n\nWith 32 square kilometers of land cleared of mines and UXO in 2004, Cambodia ranks second in the world when it comes to clearing land from the lethal explosives, The Cambodia Daily quoted the report as saying on Friday.\n\nDenise Coghlan, research officer from Cambodian Campaign to Ban Landmines, said that although more could be done to rid Cambodia of mines, being second out of 84 affected countries was a good sign.\n\nAccording to the report released on Wednesday, 154 countries including Cambodia have now signed the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty banning stockpiling, producing and transferring landmines.\n\nAs a signatory, Cambodia is bound to clear all of its land of mines and UXO by 2010, Coghlan said.\n\nMine Action and Injury Prevention Coordinator for Handicap International Christian Provoost said that clearing Cambodia of mines in the near future is not a realistic goals.\n\n\"If they want to clear everything it will take 150 years more,\" he said.\n\nKem Sophoan, director of the government's Cambodian Mine Action Center, said that the highest priority in de-mining was to clear the heavily mined areas along the Thai-Cambodian border.\n\nThe Cambodian Mine/UXO Information System's latest report shows that mines or UXO injured or killed 36 in October, bringing the total number of dead or injured so far in 2005 to 775.\n\nCambodia is one of the world's most-heavily mined counties with an estimated four to six million of the hidden killers buried in its soil during the country's nearly three decades of civil conflicts.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 383, "end_char": 387, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 533, "end_char": 539, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 777, "end_char": 786, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1001, "end_char": 1005, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the near future", "start_char": 1154, "end_char": 1169, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1564, "end_char": 1571, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1628, "end_char": 1632, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly three decades", "start_char": 1801, "end_char": 1821, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0351.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0411\n\nANKARA, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Sinan Fisek\n\n\n\n\nA spectacular gesture of peace to Muslims and an apparent change of heart about letting a Muslim country into the European Union turned Benedict XVI's visit to Turkey into a major event, many analysts agreed, but some took it all with a grain of salt.\n\nJust 11 weeks after he outraged Muslims by appearing to equate Islam with violence, the pope made a stunning conciliatory gesture Thursday, assuming an attitude of Muslim prayer while facing Mecca in Istanbul's Blue Mosque.\n\nThe moment was \"even more meaningful than an apology\" for the remarks made in September in Ravensburg, Germany, said the mufti of Istanbul, Mustafa Cagrici, who was the pope's guide during the mosque visit.\n\n\"It is a great gesture of peace,\" commented Dalil Boubakeur, a moderate French Muslim leader and rector of the Paris Mosque. \"One can only see in it a profound indication of the fraternal ties between Islam and christianity.\"\n\n\"It is an act of great symbolic and theological -- even historic -- significance,\" he said.\n\nThe pope's words and gestures about Muslims \"turned the page on the sorry episode of Ravensburg,\" agreed Algerian academic and thinker Mustapha Cherif, who had a private audience with the pope on November 11.\n\n\"We have turned a fresh page in relations between Islam and Christianity,\" Cherif said.\n\nBut Turkish researcher and religion expert Aytunc Altindal, scoffed at reports that the pope had \"prayed\" at the Blue Mosque.\n\n\"Like everything in the pope's trip, it was very well orchestrated,\" he said. \"He adopted the prayer stance that all early Christians did until the year 325, the same as the Jews, with hands crossed across the waist.\"\n\nIn any case, he pointed out, the pope did not cross his hands the way Muslims do, right hand clasping left wrist with fingers joined, but \"with three fingers spread, in the sign of the Trinity.\"\n\nEven before the controversy over his remarks on Islam, Benedict XVI had earned the sobriquet of the \"anti-Turkish pope\" for having said, while still Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, that allowing overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey into the EU would be \"a grave error ... against the tide of history.\"\n\nHe made a what was widely perceived as a stunning U-turn moments after arriving in Ankara Tuesday, saying he backed the candidacy in remarks to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who reported the conversation to journalists.\n\nMost analysts were pleased, but cautious.\n\n\"If Benedict XVI maintains his support for Turkey's EU membership after he leaves Turkey, it would be an historic turning point,\" commented Cengiz Aktar, an Istanbul academic and a specialist on the EU.\n\n\"Turkish diplomats have been trying for decades to get a (positive) word from the Vatican, but no avail,\" he said. \"Considering the weight of the Pope's words on Christian-Democratic parties and public opinion in Europe, this is revolutionary.\"\n\n\"I noted with great satisfaction that he changed his stance on Turkey's EU membership,\" said Fouad Alaoui, a radical Muslim leader from France. \"I hope this progress is not simply a requirement of his position, but a personal conviction as well.\"\n\n\"He said extremely friendly things about Turkey,\" Boubakeur said. \"It is a country all Muslims hold dear because we remember that Turkey controlled the destiny of Islam and of Muslims during the Ottoman Empire.\"\n\nThe only sour note again came from Altindal.\n\n\"The Prime Minister (Erdogan) misled us\" when he said the pope favors Turkey's EU membership, Altindal said.\n\n\"In fact, there was no change. He does not want to see Turkey in the first circle of the EU,\" the researcher said.\n\n\"There was only one reason for the pope's visit,\" he said, \"and that was to proclaim the Ecumenic nature of the Orthodox church and take it under the wing of the Vatican. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0264\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPakistani PM to leave for New York to attend UN meeting\n\n\n\n\nPakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz will leave for New York on Tuesday to attend the meeting of High Level Panel of Secretary General of United Nations working to improve the UN system, state-run APP reported on Monday.\n\nAziz who is among the three cochairs will attend the meeting of UN High Level Panel to develop concrete and comprehensive analysis and finalize recommendations to strengthen the UN operation system in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance and environment.\n\nThe Panel has 15 members with prime ministers of Pakistan, Norway and Mozambique as cochairs nominated by the Secretary General of the United Nations.\n\nThe cochairs represent the donor community (Norway), middle income developing country (Pakistan) and least development country (Mozambique).\n\nThe Panel commenced its work in April 2006 and is expected to finalize its report and recommendations during the visit of Prime Minister Aziz to New York and then the recommendations will be presented to the Secretary General.\n\nThe Prime Minister during his stay in New York will also meet American investors besides addressing the Pakistani community.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 332, "end_char": 338, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2006", "start_char": 936, "end_char": 946, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0264.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0487\n\nCHARLOTTE,  North Carolina, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nBryant's 58 not enough to lift Lakers over Bobcats\n\n\n\n\nKobe Bryant poured in a season-high 58 points, but it wasn't enough to stop the Charlotte Bobcats from pouncing for a triple-overtime victory over his Lakers on Friday.\n\nCharlotte's Emeka Okafor was able to dominate the paint, and Matt Carroll scored a career-high 27 points off the bench as Charlotte ultimatedly downed the Lakers 133-124 in a National Basketball Association contest.\n\nOkafor had 22 points and a franchise-record 25 rebounds for the Bobcats, who picked up a victory in the first triple-overtime game in club history in front of the largest crowd ever to see a game in Charlotte.\n\nBryant shot 22-of-45 from the field and 10-of-12 from the line to record the second-highest scoring performance in the NBA this season. Washington guard Gilbert Arenas scored 60 points against the Lakers on December 17.\n\nHowever, in the third extra session, Bryant committed one of the cardinal sins of defense.\n\nWith his team trailing by two points with 1:14 left, he fouled reserve Derek Anderson, who was attempting a 3-pointer.\n\nAnderson nailed all three foul shots to make it 129-124, and Los Angeles was unable to get any closer.\n\nOn the ensuing possession, Bryant fouled out of the game, committing a charge on a wild drive to the basket but leaving with the third-highest scoring game of his career.\n\nLast season, Bryant scored a franchise-record 81 points against Toronto and 62 points in a game against Dallas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 51, "end_char": 64, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 17", "start_char": 932, "end_char": 943, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third extra session", "start_char": 958, "end_char": 981, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last season", "start_char": 1434, "end_char": 1445, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0487.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0429\n\nBUDAPEST, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with mass, burial ///\n\n\n\n\nHungary observed a day of national mourning on Saturday for the funeral of Ferenc Puskas, one of the greatest footballers of all time who led the \"Mighty Magyars\" to world dominance in the 1950s and Real Madrid to a string of titles in the 1960s.\n\nPuskas, who died after a long battle with Alzheimer's on November 17 aged 79, was the inspiration of Hungary's \"Golden Team,\" which won Olympic gold in 1952 and was runner-up to Germany in the 1954 World Cup.\n\nOne of the game's best-ever strikers, Puskas scored a remarkable 83 goals in 84 international matches for Hungary from 1945 to 1956.\n\n\"How many times his fearsome left foot drove defenders crazy and led his team to victory. A nation and the entire world grieves,\" Jeno Buzanszky, one of only two surviving members of the \"Golden Team\", told a memorial service at the national stadium.\n\nFIFA president Joseph Blatter, former French great Michel Platini, German icon Franz Beckenbauer and retired Real Madrid aces Raymond Kopa and Francisco Gento, who were Puskas' teammates, were also in attendance.\n\nBut only a few thousand Hungarian fans showed up, leaving many disappointed that people could not fill the stadium, renamed after Puskas in 2002, to its capacity as in the glory years of Hungarian football.\n\n\"There is hardly anyone here, this indifference makes me so sad. This is an embarrassment and it makes me want to cry,\" said a choked-up mourner, Janos Szalai.\n\nThe \"Golden Team\" signalled its dominance in 1953 with a stunning 6-3 thrashing of England at Wembley, becoming the first overseas team to beat the English side on their home turf. Puskas scored twice in that match.\n\nAfter his defection to Spain in the wake of the failed 1956 Hungarian uprising against Soviet domination, Puskas joined Real Madrid where he was a cornerstone of the club which won three European Cup titles and seven league championships during his decade there from 1958 to 1967.\n\n\"Ferenc left an indelible mark as a player and as a person. Thank you Hungary, thank you Pancho,\" Ramon Calderon, Real Madrid's President, said in a tribute at Puskas stadium, using the legend's Spanish nickname.\n\nFollowing the memorial service, a procession, with a six-horse carriage drawing Puskas' casket, went through the city to Saint Stephen's Basilica, where the legendary player was buried.\n\nThe procession stopped for a military salute at Heroes' Square, in honor of the \"Galloping Major,\" so called because of his military rank while playing for his Hungarian club Kispest.\n\nBorn in 1927 in Budapest, Puskas was only 15 when he started playing for Kispest, later renamed Honved, or Army, in 1949.\n\nFrom 1927 to 1956, Puskas scored 358 goals in 349 matches.\n\nHe was posthumously promoted to brigadier-general.\n\n\"All over the world, the first thing that comes to people's minds about Hungarians is Puskas. Everyone says his name with a smile and with joy,\" Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom said at a mass before Puskas was laid to rest inside the basilica.\n\nBesides his stellar career as a player, Puskas was also an accomplished coach, directing Greek club Panathinaikos to league crowns twice and to a European Cup final in the 1970-71 season.\n\nIn the 1970s and 80s, Puskas coached nearly a dozen teams from North and South America, Europe, Africa and even Australia.\n\nAmong the teams he directed from the bench were Chilean club Colo-Colo, Greek side AEK Athens, Egyptian side Al-Masri and Panhellenic Melbourne in Australia.\n\nPuskas settled in Hungary after the fall of communism and briefly held the job of caretaker coach of the national squad in 1993.\n\nThis is the first time since the country's transition to democracy that a day of mourning has been declared for the funeral of a sports star, in homage to the legend who became the \"best-known Hungarian in the world.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1950s", "start_char": 284, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "195", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1960s", "start_char": 335, "end_char": 344, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "196", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 17", "start_char": 404, "end_char": 415, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1952", "start_char": 499, "end_char": 503, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1952", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1954", "start_char": 536, "end_char": 544, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1954", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "84", "start_char": 634, "end_char": 636, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1945", "start_char": 676, "end_char": 680, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1945", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1297, "end_char": 1301, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the glory years", "start_char": 1325, "end_char": 1340, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1953", "start_char": 1571, "end_char": 1575, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1953", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "decade", "start_char": 1992, "end_char": 1998, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1927", "start_char": 2619, "end_char": 2623, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1927", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1949", "start_char": 2727, "end_char": 2731, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1949", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1927", "start_char": 2739, "end_char": 2743, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "1927", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "349", "start_char": 2780, "end_char": 2783, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "349", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1970-71 season", "start_char": 3261, "end_char": 3279, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1970", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1970s", "start_char": 3285, "end_char": 3294, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "197", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 3688, "end_char": 3692, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0429.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051209.0109\n\nLEIPZIG, Germany, Dec 9 , 2005\n\nIran coach backs Portuguese for semi-finals\n\n\n\n\nIran coach Branko Ivankovic believes Group D rivals and Euro 2004 runners-up Portugal can make the World Cup semi-finals.\n\n\"Our group contains very good teams,\" said the Croatian.\n\n\"The favourite is clearly Portugal, they will be in the semi-finals.\n\n\"Mexico are a good side, I was very impressed by them at the Confederations Cup. Angola are a new team to me. They have a lot of enthusiasm and a game which is difficult to understand.\n\n\"I am proud of my team, we have worked hard recently. Our problem will be in adapting to the different styles - European, African and Latin-American. I hope our players will learn how to respond to the different problems.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2005", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 584, "end_char": 592, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051209.0109.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0167\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nOfficial urges Chinese, Japanese statesmen to boost bilateral ties\n\n\n\n\nPolitical figures in China and Japan should make more efforts to turn China-Japan relationship to the track of healthy and stable development, Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan said here Wednesday.\n\nTang made the remarks when meeting with a delegation of young parliamentary members of Japan's Komei Party, led by Ueda Osamu, director of the International Bureau of the party.\n\nTang spoke highly of the Komei Party's long-term efforts to promoting China-Japan friendly cooperation, and briefed the guests on China's stance on current bilateral relations.\n\nAt present, political figures of both countries should more firmly abide by the principle of taking history as a mirror and facing toward the future, and properly handle historical issues with a right attitude, in an effort to push forward China-Japan relationship and return it to the track of healthy and stable development, Tang said.\n\nTang expressed the hope that young political figures of the Komei Party carry forward the tradition of friendship, actively make pragmatic exchanges and cooperation in various fields, and contribute more to the improvement and development of China-Japan relations.\n\nUeda Osamu said the Komei Party always upholds the strong desire to promote Japan-China friendship, noting that the Komei Party will continue its efforts to further push forward the friendly ties between the two sides.\n\nUeda Osamu paid the China visit at the invitation of the China-Japan Friendship Association.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 318, "end_char": 327, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 835, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0167.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0416\n\nANKARA, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nRegensburg stead Ravensburg. Here is a corrected repetition ///\n\n\n\n\nA spectacular gesture of peace to Muslims and an apparent change of heart about letting a Muslim country into the European Union turned Benedict XVI's visit to Turkey into a major event, many analysts agreed, but some took it all with a grain of salt.\n\nJust 11 weeks after he outraged Muslims by appearing to equate Islam with violence, the pope made a stunning conciliatory gesture Thursday, assuming an attitude of Muslim prayer while facing Mecca in Istanbul's Blue Mosque.\n\nThe moment was \"even more meaningful than an apology\" for the remarks made in September in Regensburg, Germany, said the mufti of Istanbul, Mustafa Cagrici, who was the pope's guide during the mosque visit.\n\n\"It is a great gesture of peace,\" commented Dalil Boubakeur, a moderate French Muslim leader and rector of the Paris Mosque. \"One can only see in it a profound indication of the fraternal ties between Islam and christianity.\"\n\n\"It is an act of great symbolic and theological -- even historic -- significance,\" he said.\n\nThe pope's words and gestures about Muslims \"turned the page on the sorry episode of Regensburg,\" agreed Algerian academic and thinker Mustapha Cherif, who had a private audience with the pope on November 11.\n\n\"We have turned a fresh page in relations between Islam and Christianity,\" Cherif said.\n\nBut Turkish researcher and religion expert Aytunc Altindal, scoffed at reports that the pope had \"prayed\" at the Blue Mosque.\n\n\"Like everything in the pope's trip, it was very well orchestrated,\" he said. \"He adopted the prayer stance that all early Christians did until the year 325, the same as the Jews, with hands crossed across the waist.\"\n\nIn any case, he pointed out, the pope did not cross his hands the way Muslims do, right hand clasping left wrist with fingers joined, but \"with three fingers spread, in the sign of the Trinity.\"\n\nEven before the controversy over his remarks on Islam, Benedict XVI had earned the sobriquet of the \"anti-Turkish pope\" for having said, while still Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, that allowing overwhelmingly Muslim Turkey into the EU would be \"a grave error ... against the tide of history.\"\n\nHe made a what was widely perceived as a stunning U-turn moments after arriving in Ankara Tuesday, saying he backed the candidacy in remarks to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who reported the conversation to journalists.\n\nMost analysts were pleased, but cautious.\n\n\"If Benedict XVI maintains his support for Turkey's EU membership after he leaves Turkey, it would be an historic turning point,\" commented Cengiz Aktar, an Istanbul academic and a specialist on the EU.\n\n\"Turkish diplomats have been trying for decades to get a (positive) word from the Vatican, but no avail,\" he said. \"Considering the weight of the Pope's words on Christian-Democratic parties and public opinion in Europe, this is revolutionary.\"\n\n\"I noted with great satisfaction that he changed his stance on Turkey's EU membership,\" said Fouad Alaoui, a radical Muslim leader from France. \"I hope this progress is not simply a requirement of his position, but a personal conviction as well.\"\n\n\"He said extremely friendly things about Turkey,\" Boubakeur said. \"It is a country all Muslims hold dear because we remember that Turkey controlled the destiny of Islam and of Muslims during the Ottoman Empire.\"\n\nThe only sour note again came from Altindal.\n\n\"The Prime Minister (Erdogan) misled us\" when he said the pope favors Turkey's EU membership, Altindal said.\n\n\"In fact, there was no change. He does not want to see Turkey in the first circle of the EU,\" the researcher said.\n\n\"There was only one reason for the pope's visit,\" he said, \"and that was to proclaim the Ecumenic nature of the Orthodox church and take it under the wing of the Vatican. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0135\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPakistan's delegation leaves for dialog with India\n\n\n\n\nAn eight-member delegation headed by Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Riaz Mohammad Khan left for New Delhi on Monday to resume secretary-level dialogue with India after months of suspension.\n\nIndia had suspended talks with Pakistan following the deadly train blasts in the Indian commercial center of Mumbai, which had killed more than 180 people and injured some 400.\n\nIndia has alleged that Pakistan-based militant group Lashkar-e- Tayyeba had carried out the blasts with the help of Pakistan's intelligence agency.\n\nPakistan had denied the charges and said it would offer assistance in the investigation process and said that it would take action if India provided proofs.\n\nThe two-day talks to begin on Tuesday will formally mark the resumption of the stalled composite dialogue, considered an integral part of the ongoing Indo-Pakistan peace process.\n\nPresident Pervez Musharraf and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who met in the Cuban capital of Havana, had directed their foreign secretaries to resume dialogue.\n\nOfficial sources said that the two sides would discuss mechanism on how to jointly deal with the issue of terrorism.\n\nThey will also review progress of talks held between senior officials of the two countries on varieties of key issues including the issue of Jammu and Kashmir.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 818, "end_char": 825, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0135.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0235\n\nTEHRAN, April 7 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMajor petrochemical complex opens in Iran\n\n\n\n\nPresident Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani inaugurated Iran's largest and most modern petrochemical complex in the northestern city of Tabriz on Monday, official sources said.\n\nThe new project in East Azerbaijan province will make Iran the second largest producer of petrochemicals in the Middle East after Saudi Arabia, with an estimated annual output of 13 million tonnes, state radio said.\n\nThe new complex has an annual capacity of 311,000 tonnes worth around 300 million dollars, its director Abbas Sedghi told Iran's official news agency IRNA.\n\n\"Given the high quality of its products, we expect to export up to 150 million dollars in petrochemicals,\" he said without elaborating.\n\nSedghi said Iran had received technical assistance for the complex from France, Italy and Germany and that 750 million dollars in foreign loans had been obtained to finance the project.\n\nParliament has authorized the government to secure up to 2.8 billion dollars in foreign financing to develop the petrochemical sector during the current Iranian year, which started on March 21.\n\nThe assembly on Tuesday imposed a ceiling of 16.7 billion dollars for hard currency spending this year.\n\nIran expects to earn around 18 billion dollars in oil receipts this year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 7 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the current Iranian year", "start_char": 1111, "end_char": 1135, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 21", "start_char": 1154, "end_char": 1162, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1181, "end_char": 1188, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1258, "end_char": 1267, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1333, "end_char": 1342, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0235.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0073\n\nKAMPALA, Nov. 1 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTop Ugandan army officer warns retired officers against dividing army\n\n\n\n\nThe newly-appointed Chief of Defense Forces of Uganda has warned retired officers against sowing seeds of divisionism in the army.\n\nGeneral Aronda Nyakairima was quoted by local press on Tuesday as saying that there are some retired army officers who have turned against the Commander in Chief of the Ugandan armed Forces, President Yoweri Museveni and were trying to spread propaganda to disunite the army.\n\n\"Some officers, when they retire, turn against the commander in chief but we are in full force. Our response will be terrible for those trying to interfere with the army and dividing us. They stand warned. I am telling politicians that they should not attempt to sow seeds of disunity in the Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF),\" Nyakairima.\n\nTwo retired army officers, Col. Kiiza Besigye and Maj. Gen. Mugisha Muntu have been critical of President Museveni and the UPDF.\n\nThe two officers belong to one of the major opposition parties in Uganda, the Forum for Democratic Change.\n\n\"We have seen governments which have spent only one year, 68 days or even two months in power. The UPDF is determined to defend the country from such and also defend a government which is clearly steering the country into development and stability,\" said Nyakairima.\n\nNyakairima's statement comes after President Museveni promoted and retired some of the UPDF officers on October 24.\n\nUganda is currently going through a political transition period which will see it hold its first ever multiparty general elections in March next year after over 20 years of political parties being in abeyance.\n\nIn this transition period some politicians have been critical of the UPDF.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 317, "end_char": 324, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one year, 68 days or even two months", "start_char": 1169, "end_char": 1205, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 24", "start_char": 1493, "end_char": 1503, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March next year", "start_char": 1640, "end_char": 1655, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "over 20 years", "start_char": 1662, "end_char": 1675, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0073.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0194\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambia gets loan from African Development Fund\n\n\n\n\n\"In Zambia, there is a close correlation between infant mortality and access to potable water and sanitation services. Health statistics in Zambia indicate that diarrhea and other water- related diseases are ranked among the top common causes of outpatient care for all age groups because of poor hygiene and sanitation. During the first phase of the program (2006-2010), 2.1 million will be provided access to safe water and 2.3 million people to improved sanitation services,\" ADF, the soft loan arm of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said in a statement.\n\nSince AfDB started working in Zambia in 1971, it has financed 11 operations in water supply and sanitation sector with a combined worth of 137.6 million dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1971", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 716, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1971", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0194.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0390\n\nATHENS, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAnarchists torch banks in Athens\n\n\n\n\nA series of firebomb attacks targeting banks in Athens occurred Wednesday overnight, days before the 33rd anniversary of the Polytechnic students' uprising in 1973.\n\nThe first firebomb attack, which targeted a National Bank branch in the Peristeri district, damaged an ATM and the bank's entrance. A few minutes later, the entrance of another National Bank branch in Paleo Faliro was also wrecked by fire.\n\nIn Holargos district, a firebomb caused minor damage to a third National Bank branch.\n\nExtensive damages were also reported following a firebomb raid against an Emporiki Bank branch in downtown Athens.\n\nThe 1973 uprising was an event marred by violence of self-styled anarchist and anti-state youths and activists.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "days", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1973", "start_char": 252, "end_char": 256, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1973", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "A few minutes", "start_char": 391, "end_char": 404, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0390.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0235\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSino-Japanese joint TV documentary to mark Sun Yat-sen anniversary\n\n\n\n\nChina Central Television is to broadcast a Sino-Japanese jointly produced documentary on the years of Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen in Japan to mark 140 years since his birth.\n\nThe fourth channel of CCTV (China Central Television) will broadcast the 50-minute documentary, entitled \"Kyushu -- Following Sun Yat-sen's Path\" on Saturday afternoon and night, a CCTV spokesperson said.\n\nThe documentary, shot by CCTV, the Soong Ching Ling Foundation, and tourism agency of Kyushu, Japan, over a year, will trace Sun's activities in Japan where he stayed for a total of nine years between 1895 and 1924.\n\nSun was active in the cities of Tokyo, Nagasaki, Kobe and Yokohama, where his experiences are thought to have shaped his ideas of revolution.\n\nHe led the historic revolution of 1911 that overthrew the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), ending China's autocratic monarchical system that had been in place for more than 2,000 years.\n\nSun died in Beijing on March 12, 1925. His body was temporarily kept in the then Central Park, which was renamed Zhongshan (Sun Yat-sen) Park in 1928.\n\nSun is a national hero in both Taiwan and the Chinese mainland. Roads and parks named \"Zhongshan\" are seen all over China. His trademark tunic suit, which bears his name, was once part of a national dress code for the country's leaders and people.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the years", "start_char": 216, "end_char": 225, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday afternoon and night", "start_char": 457, "end_char": 485, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 620, "end_char": 626, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nine years", "start_char": 696, "end_char": 706, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1895", "start_char": 715, "end_char": 719, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1895", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1924", "start_char": 724, "end_char": 728, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1924", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 2,000 years", "start_char": 1030, "end_char": 1051, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 12, 1925", "start_char": 1077, "end_char": 1091, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1925-03-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1928", "start_char": 1199, "end_char": 1203, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1928", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0235.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0157\n\nSRINAGAR, India, April 7 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTwo Moslem militants killed after Kashmir grenade attack\n\n\n\n\nIndian border guards shot dead two Moslem militants here Monday after a failed grenade attack on a police officer, officials said.\n\nThree other militants were arrested after the shootout with the Border Security Force (BSF).\n\nThe initial attack occured in a busy street in a residential area near Islamia College, a BSF spokesman said.\n\nA group of militants threw a grenade and opened fire at the car of deputy superintendent of police Mohammed Shafi Pattro. He escaped unhurt.\n\nDozens of BSF personnel, who are deployed on Srinagar's streets, rushed to the site and cordoned off several houses from where the militants were firing.\n\n\"A prolonged gunbattle followed,\" an officer said. \"We shot dead two militants. Our men later recovered four AK-47 rifles and a universal machine gun.\n\n\"We are still looking for other militants.\"\n\nMoslem militants are fighting for Kashmnir's independence from India. Around 20,000 people have died in the campaign since 1989.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 7 , 1997", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 186, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 1077, "end_char": 1081, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0157.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0247\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina, Singapore vow to strengthen personnel training cooperation\n\n\n\n\nChina and Singapore should further strengthen cooperation and exchanges on personnel training, said He Guoqiang, head of the Organization Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.\n\n\"Such cooperation and exchanges are of great significance to promoting mutual understanding between officials of both sides and the development of bilateral friendly relations,\" He said.\n\nHe made the remark in a meeting with Tan Tee How, permanent secretary of the Ministry of National Development of Singapore, who headed a Singaporean delegation of training course for permanent secretaries.\n\nHe said the visit by the Singaporean guests was an important part of China-Singapore cooperation on personnel training and he hoped the two sides continue to strengthen exchanges to promote the sustainable, healthy and steady development of bilateral relations.\n\nHe added that Singapore has a lot of experience that China can learn from in personnel training.\n\nHe also briefed Tan on the recent Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee and China's economic and social development and opening up.\n\nTan said the visit to China was part of the training program of his delegation and the reason for this visit is that he hoped his delegation members to see the significant and fast development in China.\n\nHe said the two countries have conducted good cooperation in many fields, among which personnel is a very important one and the Singaporean side hoped to keep regular exchanges with the Chinese side in this field.\n\nThe delegation will also visit Tianjin, a port city neighboring Beijing, and Hubei Province in central China.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0164\n\nDURBAN, South Africa, Dec 29 , 2006, 2006\n\nIndia set to make 354 to win\n\n\n\n\nIndia were set a target of 354 to win when South Africa declared their second innings at 265 for eight on the fourth day of the second Test at Kingsmead Friday.\n\nShaun Pollock made a stroke-filled 63 not out as South Africa pushed for quick runs after lunch. Shanthakumuran Sreesanth was India's most successful bowler with four for 79.\n\nThere were 48 overs due to be bowled on the fourth day.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 29 , 2006", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 58, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth day", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 219, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 252, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "79", "start_char": 432, "end_char": 434, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1979", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth day", "start_char": 477, "end_char": 491, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0164.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0080\n\nDOHA, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Dave James\n\n\n\n\nDouble world champion Nicol David is eyeing revenge over Hong Kong's Rebecca Chiu as she attempts to reclaim the Asian Games squash crown she lost in such miserable circumstances four years ago.\n\nThe Malaysian won the title as a 15-year-old in Bangkok in 1998 but crashed to a demoralising defeat in Busan in 2002 when the weight of expectation proved too much.\n\nNow, with another world title under her belt and with her place at the top of the world rankings confirmed by having twice as many points as her closest rival, the 23-year-old insists she is ready to take back her Asian crown.\n\n\"The Asian Games is very important to me, in a different way from the World Open,\" said David who saw off Australia's three-times Commonwealth Games gold medallist Natalie Grinham to retain her world title in Belfast last month.\n\nDavid, who is seeded to face Chiu again in the final here, defeated the Hong Kong girl to win the gold at the Bangkok Games in 1998.\n\n\"At the Asian Games, you are part of your country's whole team of athletes from a number of different sports. There's been a huge build-up to the Games and winning something like this is a whole different feeling,\" said the woman from Penang.\n\nDavid is in a rich vein of form with her win in Belfast stretching her unbeaten international run to 33 matches.\n\nAfter a bye in the first round, she is expected to go on to face Hong Kong's Christina Mak in the semi-finals, before the anticipated final clash with Chiu.\n\nVictory here will also see her bank account boosted by a 25,000-dollar bonus from the Malaysian National Sports Council. Her first world title in 2005 earned her 56,000 dollars\n\nIn the men's event, David's compatriot Mohd Azlan Iskandar is the top seed.\n\nHis only previous performance in the Games was a semi-final finish four years ago.\n\nAzlan Iskander is seeded to meet compatriot and defending champion On Beng Hee, the defending champion, in the final.\n\nThe pair will face stiff competition, however, from Pakistan's Mansoor Zaman and Aamir Atlas Khan, and Indian duo Ritwik Bhattacharya and the Saurav Ghosal.\n\nAzlan Iskander, the world number 14, is the highest ranked player in Asia but recent form has not been encouraging.\n\nHe lost to qualifier Alister Walker of England at the Hong Kong Open and then was beaten by unseeded Pakistani Aamir Atlas Khan in the first round of the Pakistan Open on the eve of the Games.\n\nThe Malaysian said he will be under pressure when the tournament starts on Sunday.\n\n\"Losing twice to players ranked well below me was a setback,\" said the Malaysian.\n\n\"I need to brush up on my technique and tactics quickly to live up to my billing as the number one player in Asia,\" said Azlan who was a bronze medallist in Busan.\n\nDefending champion Ong Beng Hee, who beat Mansoor Zaman four years ago, believes the Pakistanis, once the kings of the sport, will again pose a threat.\n\n\"They will definitely try to stop me and Iskander from reaching the final,\" said Beng Hee.\n\n\"It will be really nice to have all-Malaysian finals in both the men's and women's events.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 246, "end_char": 260, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 322, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 376, "end_char": 380, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 430, "end_char": 433, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 875, "end_char": 885, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 1015, "end_char": 1019, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1684, "end_char": 1688, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 1860, "end_char": 1874, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2540, "end_char": 2546, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 2853, "end_char": 2867, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0080.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0085\n\nKATHMANDU, Nepal, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nNepal to recruit ex-Gurkhas for initial arms monitoring\n\n\n\n\nNepal's government and Maoist rebels have agreed for former Gurkha soldiers to monitor a ceasefire in the Himalayan nation until the arrival of a full United Nations team, officials said Friday.\n\n\"The meeting between the government, the UN and the Maoists on Thursday evening agreed to deploy ex-Gurkha soldiers to begin the registration and verification of arms and armies,\" Maoist negotiator Dinanath Sharma told AFP.\n\n\"The retired soldiers will be assisting in the arms management until the full UN monitoring mission arrives in Nepal,\" said Sharma.\n\nUnder a peace deal agreed last month that ended a decade of civil war, the government agreed to let the Maoists enter parliament and government in return for placing their arms and fighters in camps under UN supervision.\n\nBut UN monitors are not slated to start arriving in Nepal before next month, and will not immediately have the capacity to cover all the rebel camps.\n\nGurkha soldiers -- from special regiments of Nepali soldiers in the Indian and British armies -- have a long history of UN peacekeeping missions.\n\nSharma said that a total of 111 ex-Gurkha servicemen who have retired from the British and Indian armies in the past three years would be recruited.\n\nEarlier this week Ian Martin, the UN chief's personal representative to the peace process, said that formation of a Gurkha interim task force would make it possible for the early start of the arms and armies verification process while UN monitoring strength was built up.\n\nMartin said that an initial party of 35 UN monitors would arrive by mid-January 2007.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 309, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 381, "end_char": 397, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 702, "end_char": 712, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 963, "end_char": 973, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three years", "start_char": 1304, "end_char": 1324, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this week", "start_char": 1346, "end_char": 1363, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0085.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0397\n\nLOS ANGELES, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nSchwarzenegger leaves hospital after surgery on broken leg\n\n\n\n\nCalifornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger was released from the hospital here Saturday, following successful surgery on his right leg to fix a broken bone.\n\nThe Hollywood action-hero-turned-politician fractured his right femur on December 23 while skiing in Sun Valley, Idaho, and underwent a 90-minute operation on December 26 to knit the broken bones back together.\n\n\"His femur is beginning to mend nicely and I expect him to have a full and speedy recovery from this injury,\" Doctor Kevin Ehrhart, Schwarzenegger's orthopedic surgeon, said in a statement Saturday.\n\nHe added that fractures of that kind usually take about eight weeks to completely heal.\n\nSchwarzenegger said in a statement that he felt \"fantastic to return home today as my family prepares to celebrate the New Year together.\"\n\nHe said he was looking forward to beginning 2007 with his formal inauguration, his State of the State Address, and the presentation of a state budget proposal.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 206, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 23", "start_char": 350, "end_char": 361, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 26", "start_char": 436, "end_char": 447, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight weeks", "start_char": 745, "end_char": 756, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 852, "end_char": 857, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0397.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0180\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 31 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - REFILING correcting name typo in para five ///\n\n\n\n\nRussia edged closer Sunday to cutting gas supplies to neighbouring Belarus as talks in Moscow on a price dispute entered their final hours, prompting fears of energy disruptions in western Europe.\n\nSupplier Gazprom's spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said on national television that marathon negotiations over the weekend had so far failed. \"We have not been able to agree, but Gazprom is doing everything so that a contract can be signed on gas delivery for 2007.\"\n\nBut he added later that while the talks were continuing they were \"difficult and tense\".\n\n\"In addition, the Belarussians have started linking to the gas problem questions of relations between Belarus and Russia that have nothing to do with gas,\" he said, without giving details.\n\nKupriyanov said that without an accord on a new five-year contract Gazprom would move towards cutting off supplies to Belarus from 0700 GMT Monday.\n\nThe Russian gas giant wants to boost its prices from the current 45 dollars per 1,000 cubic metres to 105 dollars, about a third of which would be paid in shares in Belarus's pipeline network.\n\nKupriyanov's latest pessimistic remarks came despite the presence in Moscow Sunday of Belarus's first deputy prime minister Vladimir Semashko \"to take part in the negotiations,\" according to his spokesman in Minsk.\n\nGazprom had previously said that without Semashko no deal was possible.\n\nIf Gazprom cuts supplies -- as it did briefly in a similar price dispute with Ukraine last January -- many of Belarus's 10 million people may start the New Year in chilly conditions, while the country's industrial base will suffer a major blow.\n\nThere are also concerns in the European Union that the row will impact on Russian imports, 20 percent of which transit through Belarus, meeting about five percent of EU natural gas needs.\n\nLate Saturday Semashko announced that the two sides had agreed to a price of 100 dollars per 1,000 cubic metres for 2007 and that the price for 2008-2010 was all that remained to be finalised.\n\nBut Gazprom immediately poured cold water on the claim, saying it reflected Semashko's \"point of view,\" not an agreement, and warned of a \"critical scenario.\"\n\nGazprom, a state-owned giant that produces a third of the world's gas, has mounted a tough campaign to end Soviet-era subsidies to neighbouring countries, as well as expand ownership of infrastructure and other energy businesses throughout Europe.\n\nThe company says it wants to put pricing on a market basis. Critics, including many in western Europe, fear the Kremlin seeks to use Gazprom as a tool to reimpose part of its dominance lost at the time of the 1991 Soviet collapse.\n\nBelarus, which lies sandwiched between Russia and the European Union, is in a loose economic and political partnership with Russia and has always argued that gas import prices should be similar to those paid within Russia.\n\nBut Kupriyanov on Sunday said this would not be possible, noting that the price demanded was lower than that now being paid by several other ex-Soviet republics, including Armenia, another ally of Russia.\n\n\"We take into account the relations that there are between our countries, but all the same Belarus is an independent, sovereign country, and not a region of Russia, and so the prices should be different,\" Kupriyanov said.\n\nBelarus insists that unless a deal is reached on its own domestic imports, then transit of Russian gas across Belarus to western Europe will also be threatened. This could potentially result in shortfalls for EU members including Germany, Lithuania and Poland.\n\nGazprom accuses Belarus of preparing to siphon off gas intended for western Europe and says it will closely monitor the line.\n\nThe growing threat of an energy war between Russia and Belarus could spell difficulties for Lukashenko, an autocratic ruler who runs a Soviet-style economy largely based on Russian subsidies, analysts say.\n\nWestern governments gave strong diplomatic backing to Ukraine's pro-Western president, Viktor Yushchenko, during the gas row at the start of 2006, but Lukashenko is a political pariah in Europe and the United States.\n\nThe EU has limited itself to calling on the two parties to reach a deal that does not threaten European supplies, while the authorities in France and Germany say they are not worried by the prospect of shortages.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 31 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 141, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 420, "end_char": 431, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 997, "end_char": 1003, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last January", "start_char": 1575, "end_char": 1587, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 2040, "end_char": 2044, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 3001, "end_char": 3007, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 3092, "end_char": 3095, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 4149, "end_char": 4153, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0180.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0008\n\nBOSTON, Massachusetts, Dec 11 , 2005\n\nImproving Kwan still not 100 percent as US Olympic trials loom\n\n\n\n\nAmerican figure skating star Michelle Kwan said here Saturday she is improving from a hip injury and is confident she can be at full strength for next month's US Olympic trials.\n\nNine-time US champion Kwan, here to compete in a fan-judged event lacking the pressure of the Grand Prix season she has missed, was forced to withdraw from several events and missed two weeks of training.\n\n\"I'm not at 100 percent but I'm getting better,\" Kwan said. \"It will be nice to see where I'm at, even if it's not the best.\"\n\nKwan said it would be a \"good month\" before she is back at full strength, cutting it close to be prepared for the qualifying meet for February's Torino Winter Olympics, the first obstacle in her long quest for Olympic gold.\n\nThat US skating showdown is January 9-14 at St. Louis, Missouri. It would be only the second event in which she has competed in an event with the new judging system adopted by the International Skating Union.\n\n\"This (injury) just brings up another challenge and the new system is a big enough challenge,\" she said. \"I would rather have that as my main focus.\"\n\nKwan, 25, settled for a silver medal at the 1998 Nagano Games and fell to bronze at the Salt Lake City Olympics in 2002.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2005", "start_char": 46, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 181, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "season", "start_char": 412, "end_char": 418, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 489, "end_char": 498, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 774, "end_char": 782, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 9-14", "start_char": 893, "end_char": 905, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1341, "end_char": 1345, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0008.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0366\n\nPRAGUE, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIllegal immigrant network busted in Slovakia\n\n\n\n\nSlovak police destroyed a network for illegal immigration during an operation on Tuesday, reports from the Slovak capital of Bratislava said Wednesday.\n\nAbout 240 police officers participated in the operation to break the network suspected of bringing illegal immigrants into neighboring Austria and the Czech Republic, said Slovak Interior Minister Vladimir Palko.\n\nHe added that 28 suspects have been accused of running the network, whose members pocketed around 150,000 US dollars in total from their \"clients\" from Asian countries.\n\nLast year, more than 8,340 illegal immigrants were detained and 272 of their escorts were arrested in Slovakia.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 246, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 642, "end_char": 651, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0366.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0348\n\nYOKOHAMA, Japan, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nClub World Cup result: Barcelona 4 Club America 0\n\n\n\n\nResult from the FIFA Club World Cup football tournament on Thursday:\n\nSemi-final\n\nBarcelona (ESP) 4 (Gudjohnsen 11, Marquez 30, Ronaldinho 65, Deco 85) Club America (MEX) 0\n\nTeams\n\nBarcelona: Victor Valdes, Motta (Xavi 61), Rafael Marquez, Carlos Puyol (capt), Eidur Gudjohnsen (Ezquerro 66), Ludovic Giuly (Belletti 74), Ronaldinho, Gianluca Zambrotta, Giovanni van Bronckhorst, Deco, Andres Iniesta\n\nClub America\n\nGuillermo Ochoa, Jose Antonio Castro, Oscar Rojas, Duilio Davino (capt), Claudio Lopez (Matias Vuoso 74), Salvador Cabanas (Cuauhtemoc Blanco 45), Fabiano Pereira (Raul Alvin Mendoza 74), Ricardo Rojas, German Villa, Alejandro Arguello, Nelson Cuevas\n\nYellow cards: Claudio Lopez, Fabiano Pereira\n\nReferee: Oscar Ruiz (COL)\n\nAssistant referees: Wilson Berrio (COL), Rafael Yanez (VEN)\n\nFourth official: Jerome Damon (RSA)\n\nAttendance: 62,316", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0348.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0309\n\nKINSHASA, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapanese begin evacuating from Kinshasa\n\n\n\n\nSix Japanese left Kinshasa Sunday as part of an evacuation called for by the Japanese embassy, embassy charge d'affaire Seromi Okamoto said.\n\nThe six, five women and a child, left by ferry across the Zaire river to the Congolese capital Brazzaville. The women were all married to Zaireans.\n\nOkamoto said the embassy had called for the evacuation since Japan did not have troops in the region to rescue its nationals in case of emergency.\n\nThe situation is increasingly tense as rebels have said they will be in Kinshasa before June and the government has been cracking down on opposition protests in the capital.\n\nIt was apparently the first time in the Zairean crisis that an embassy has urged all its nationals to leave the country.\n\nA Chinese woman Catherine Chan evacuated with the Japanese told reporters: \"Yeah, we're afraid. We're frightened. We don't know what will happen.\n\n\"The situation really is deteriorating every day,\" she said.\n\nThere were a total of 39 Japanese in Zaire, not counting the five embassy staff in Kinshasa, when the embassy on April 4 urged all Japanese to leave who did not have business in Zaire, Okamoto said.\n\nBut three days ago Japanese were advised to leave the country, without any conditions being attached.\n\nEleven Japanese -- including two children -- are still in Zaire and have refused to leave. Okamoto said there were two Japanese Catholic nuns in Kinshasa and four Catholic nuns elsewhere in Zaire.\n\nFive diplomats, all male, also remain.\n\nUS ambassador Daniel Simposon said there was no heightened readiness at the US embassy for an evacuation.\n\nBelgium, Britain, France and the United States have troops in the neighboring Congolese capital of Brazzaville, ready to evacuate their nationals if necessary.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 13 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 127, "end_char": 133, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 627, "end_char": 631, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every day", "start_char": 1022, "end_char": 1031, "tid": "t3", "type": "SET", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 4", "start_char": 1158, "end_char": 1165, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days ago", "start_char": 1249, "end_char": 1263, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0309.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0185\n\nANKARA, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nThree Turkish aid workers injured in fire in Pakistan\n\n\n\n\nThree Turkish engineers, who came to Pakistan to aid earthquake victims, were injured in a fire that broke out in their tent on Tuesday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.\n\nThe report said the three were injured when their heating equipment suddenly caught flame, which set their tent on fire in the northwestern town Balakot which was largely flattened by the 7, 9-magnitude quake on Oct. 8.\n\nTurkish Prime Ministry Emergency Management Directorate was quoted by Anatolia as saying that a military airplane would leave for Pakistan later on Tuesday and bring the three wounded engineers to Ankara for medical treatment at the Gulhane Military Hospital.\n\nA powerful earthquake hit northern Pakistan on Oct. 8, killing more than 73,000 people and leaving three million homeless in the country.\n\nTurkey is among the first batch of countries to offer aid to the quake-stricken Pakistan and has pledged to donate 150 million US dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 249, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 8", "start_char": 513, "end_char": 519, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 670, "end_char": 677, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 8", "start_char": 830, "end_char": 836, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0185.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0444\n\nCAIRO, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nEgypt detains 10 suspected French Islamists\n\n\n\n\nEgyptian security services have been holding 10 suspected French Islamists for the past 10 days, security sources said Friday.\n\nEight were picked up in Medinet Nasr, a northeastern suburb of the capital, and the other two in the second city of Alexandria, French diplomatic sources confirmed.\n\nThere was no immediate word on the basis of the suspects' arrest beyond their alleged involvement in militant Islam.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 10 days", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0444.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0475\n\nMANILA, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTropical storm Durian threatens to enter Philippines\n\n\n\n\nTropical storm Durian has entered the Philippines' area of responsibility and is threatening to reach Metro Manila by Friday, local weather bureau PAGASA said Tuesday.\n\nAs of 10:00 a.m. local time (02:00 GMT), Durian was spotted 870 kilometers east of Samar, central Philippines, with maximum sustained winds of 95 kilometers per hour (kph) near the eye, and gusts of up to 120 kph, said PAGASA.\n\nThe storm is moving in the west direction with a speed of 26 kph, it said.\n\nThe storm is expected to reach 350 kilometers east of Samar by Wednesday morning and the vicinity of the east-central province of Catanduanes by Thursday morning. It is expected to reach the vicinity of Metro Manila by Friday morning.\n\nTyphoon Xangsane hit Metro Manila and southern Luzon two months ago, killing at least 200 and destroying billions of pesos of properties and infrastructures. Another typhoon, Cimaron, hit the northern part of the country one month ago, killing a dozen people.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 279, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 649, "end_char": 666, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 731, "end_char": 747, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 805, "end_char": 819, "tid": "t5", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months ago", "start_char": 875, "end_char": 889, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one month ago", "start_char": 1043, "end_char": 1056, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0475.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0367\n\nPARIS, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTension mounts in troubled Paris suburbs\n\n\n\n\nThe violence which has plagued the Paris suburbs since Thursday spread to several other departments ringing the French capital overnight, with many cars set ablaze, French authorities said Wednesday.\n\nAccording to Paris police officials, many cars have been set ablaze in cities of the five satellite departments ringing Paris overnight. Throughout the Seine-Saint-Denis area, some 60 vehicles have been torched.\n\nIn Sevran and Aulnay-sous-Bois, young people threw rocks at police besides setting cars on fire, while police fired flaring shots in return on Tuesday, officials said.\n\nPolice have also reported sporadic incidents involving \"very mobile\" groups of youths in Val-d'Oise to the north of the capital, Seine-et-Marne to the southeast, and Hauts-de-Seine and Yvelines to the northeast.\n\nMore than 150 fires have been reported overnight, most of which were caused by burning cars and garbage cans, according to the police.\n\nMany Parisians believe the troubles were triggered by the deaths of two teenagers in Clichy-sous-Bois on Thursday. The boys were electrocuted in a power substation where they hid to escape police officers who they thought were chasing them. A third boy was injured but survived.\n\nUnrest followed as hundreds of angry young people took to the streets, setting garbage cans and cars ablaze and clashing with police. They also organized large-scale demonstrations in the following days against the police and the authority.\n\nClichy-sous-Bois is in the suburbs that ring France's big cities and home to immigrants often from Muslim North Africa. Its soaring unemployment and alleged discrimination against these immigrants have aroused great dissatisfaction.\n\nLocal people are blaming the tension on the police's rough ways in pursuing suspects and dealing with the unrest, saying they smack of racial discrimination.\n\nOn Sunday night, a tear gas grenade believed by the locals to be thrown by police landed in the Clichy-sous-Bois mosque, arousing more anger and resulting in arrests.\n\nIn a bid to end the rioting, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin met Tuesday night with the parents of the three boys and ordered a thorough investigation into the matter, while calling on people to stay calm.\n\nInterior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy went to Clichy-sous-Bois on Tuesday to discuss a solution to the current unrest.\n\nDespite these efforts, violence continued in other cities in the province and other suburb provinces around Paris.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 656, "end_char": 663, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1136, "end_char": 1144, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the following days", "start_char": 1495, "end_char": 1513, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday night", "start_char": 1949, "end_char": 1961, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-30TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday night", "start_char": 2184, "end_char": 2197, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2388, "end_char": 2395, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0367.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0689\n\nSYDNEY, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAustralia's Westpac in 1.4 billion dollar merger with regional bank\n\n\n\n\nAustralia's Westpac Banking Corp. Thursday announced a billion dollar bid to merge with the regional Bank of Melbourne Ltd (BML).\n\n\"This announcement is a significant milestone in our aim of being the best in Australia and New Zealand,\" Westpac managing director Robert Joss said.\n\nWestpac has valued the Victorian state banking group at 1.435 billion Australian dollars (1.13 billion US) and launched a 9.75 dollars a share bid.\n\n\"This merger reinforces our regional approach and takes the bank well down a path where we now have a critical share in each of our major customers,\" Joss said.\n\nAnalysts said the Westpac bid was fully priced and pitched about 2.6 times net tangible assets, reflecting the value of BML to Westpac.\n\n\"Bank of Melbourne is a very attractive asset; it's a very, very efficiently run bank with a very strong local franchise.\" Shaw Stockbroking's Anusha Srinivasan said.\n\n\"As far as Westpac is concerned it strengthens them in Victoria where they've been the weakest of the four (major Australian banks).\"\n\nUnder the merger, BML and the Victorian retail operations of Westpac would be combined. The merged operation would trade in Victoria under the BML name.\n\nThe Westpac brand would continue in the large corporate, commercial and institutional markets.\n\nThe merger proposal is subject to necessary regulatory consents and BML shareholder approval.\n\nBML chairman Chris Stewart will join the Westpac board while Westpac managing director Robert Joss and another senior Westpac executive will join the BML board.\n\n\"The directors of the Bank of Melbourne believe the merger proposal is very attractive and recognises the strong position that the Bank of Melbourne has achieved in the Victorian market,\" Stewart said.\n\nUntil the merger is approved both BML and Westpac will trade as usual.\n\nStewart admitted there would be bank closures and job loses arising from the merger.\n\n\"There are 360 branches between Westpac and Bank of Melbourne in Victoria and we may end up with two hundred and something,\" he said.\n\nTreasurer Peter Costello, meanwhile, said the government would not approve any bank mergers before the government announced its response to an inquiry into Australia's financial system.\n\nHe said he would have to personally approve any bank mergers, and the Westpac/BML deal would not receive any priority.\n\n\"No priority will be given to applications which seek to anticipate that announcement,\" Costello told reporters.\n\nAnalysts say the (Wallis) inquiry is expected to recommend ways to enhance competition and improve regulation.\n\nIt has examined whether the government should retain its policy which keeps Australia's six largest finanical institutions -- four major banks and two major insurance houses -- separate from each other.\n\nThe report was expected to be with Cabinet next week, Costello said.\n\nBML shareholders are expected to vote on the merger proposal in June.\n\nAnalysts said shareholders were certain to embrace the offer with the only hurdle being approval from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.\n\nBML shares surged 95 cents, or 9.9 percent, in early trade to an all- time high of 9.75 dollars following news of the bid.\n\nWestpac shares fell 7.3 cents, or 1.0 percent, to 6.80 dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 159, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 647, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 2941, "end_char": 2950, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 3032, "end_char": 3036, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0689.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0053\n\nLONDON, Dec 21 , 2005\n\nEuropean stocks rise at open: FTSE 100 up 0.34 percent\n\n\n\n\nEuropean stock markets climbed in opening deals on Wednesday, with London's FTSE 100 index up 0.34 percent at 5,566.8 points.\n\nFrankfurt's DAX 30 index rose 0.2 percent to 5,367.8 points and in Paris the CAC 40 gained 0.12 percent to 4,709.1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0053.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0239\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese ambassador says Shrine-visiting hurts Sino-Japanese ties\n\n\n\n\nChinese Ambassador to Japan Wang Yi said Thursday that the issue featuring the visit to the Yasukuni Shrine is the major stumbling block to the development of Sino- Japanese relationship.\n\nWang said at a press conference that China always abides by the policy of good-neighborliness and friendship with Japan.\n\nChinese leaders have made it clear that they hoped, based on the three joint political documents, the two countries will coexist peacefully, be friends from generation to generation and conduct mutually-beneficial cooperation for common development, Wang added.\n\nBut it is regrettable that the view on history issues featuring the visit to the Yasukuni Shrine is still preventing healthy development of bilateral relations.\n\nWang noted that the core of the Yasukuni Shrine issue is that the facility enshrines Japan's Class-A war criminals who masterminded and commanded Japan's aggressive war.\n\nThe shrine, however, still sticks to the point that the war launched by Japan in Asia was for self-defense and that the Pacific War was for countering offensives from foreign countries including the United States. The shrine also challenges the legitimacy of the ruling made by the International Military Tribunal of the Far East by claiming the war criminals were innocent, he said.\n\nHow to deal with the issues concerning the Class-A war criminals is not only Japan's internal affair, but also is related to the political foundation for the resumption of Sino-Japanese relations, to the purpose of Japan's post-war reconstruction and the international order established after World War II, Wang said.\n\nAt the same time, the issue not only concerns China and Japan, but also involves other Asian countries plagued by Japan's aggressive war as well as the international community at large, Wang said.\n\nThe ambassador pointed out the Chinese people are tolerant. The Chinese government released Japanese war prisoners jailed in China and waived the claim for damages.\n\nChina has no objection to visits to the shrine by ordinary Japanese people to hold memorial ceremonies for their deceased relatives. Yet, if Japanese leaders pay homage to the shrine honoring the war criminals, they will greatly hurt the feeling of the Chinese people and damage the political foundation of the two countries' diplomatic relations, the ambassador said. Their practice is obviously unacceptable to the Chinese side, he added.\n\nHe said China has opposed the visits by Japanese leaders since it came to light in 1985 that the shrine honors Class-A war criminals.\n\nIn 1986, the then Japanese chief cabinet secretary, on behalf of the Japanese government, made an official statement, saying that Japan's prime minister would give up the practice due to comprehensive considerations, Wang said, adding that on history issues, Japan should keep moving forward rather than retreating from its stance made nearly 20 years ago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 165, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1985", "start_char": 2624, "end_char": 2628, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1986", "start_char": 2679, "end_char": 2683, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1986", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly 20 years ago", "start_char": 3012, "end_char": 3031, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0239.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970406.0138\n\nTOKYO, April 6 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS defense chief flying into storm over US military in Okinawa by Shigemi Sato\n\n\n\n\nUS Defense Secretary William Cohen flies into Tokyo on Monday straight into a political storm over a government move to force landowners in Okinawa to continue leasing land to US forces.\n\nProtests over the government bill, introduced Friday after the government won the support of the main opposition party, continued Sunday with some 2,500 people braving heavy rain to march in the capital.\n\nOrganisers of the rally, which included civic group members, anti-war landowners and other campaigners, said in a statement that they could not \"forgive this outrageous act,\" by the government.\n\nThey marched through a nearby shopping district, carrying banners saying \"We don't allow US occupation\" and \"Abolish US bases\".\n\nThe demonstration followed a rally on Saturday by about 3,000 people in the Okinawan capital of Naha in the southern part of the Japanese archipelago.\n\nThe rallies are part of continuing moves to force the US forces off Okinawa where locals have grown increasingly resentful claiming that the use of their land by the military prevents the island from developing economically.\n\nFeelings were raised to boiling point following the rape of a 12-year- old school girl by three US servicemen in 1995.\n\nBut Cohen and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto are expected to commit themselves to strong military ties to cope with fears of instability in East Asia, particularly on the Korean peninsula.\n\nDuring a three-day stop here, Cohen will be assured by Hashimoto that the bill will pass allowing US forces to continue running 12 facilities in Okinawa on land owned by 3,000 people who have refused to renew leases which expire on May 14.\n\n\"From the standpoint of ordinary people, it may seem cruel,\" Hashimoto commented on the decision to extend the leases which he said was necessary to uphold Japan-US defence links. \"But it is a question concerning the faith of politicians.\"\n\nThe bill has been opposed by the Social Democratic Party which holds a swing vote in parliament and usually supports the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.\n\nThe party has instead called for a reduction of US troops in Okinawa.\n\nThe demand has been flatly rejected by the US administration, which vows to maintain some 100,000 troops in the Asia-Pacific region due to uncertainty on the Korean peninsula.\n\nAround 27,000 of the 47,000 US troops in Japan are based in Okinawa, which accounts for only 0.6 percent of Japan's land area, but accommodates three-quarters of US military facilities in the country.\n\nHashimoto had hoped to enact the bill before leaving for the United States on April 24 for talks with US President Bill Clinton. The premier said it was \"not an appropriate time\" to talk about a troops reduction.\n\nWhen Clinton visited Tokyo a year ago, the two leaders agreed to study the expansion of defence cooperation into \"areas surrounding Japan\" while they endorsed plans to cut back by 20 percent land used by US forces in Okinawa.\n\nHashimoto's legislative gamble over Okinawa has shaken Japan's political landscape and could lead to a possible realignment among parties.\n\nOn Thursday, Ichiro Ozawa, who heads the main opposition New Frontier Party (NFP), promised to support the bill in parliament. Hashimoto's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and the NFP have a combined 385 votes in the 500-seat lower house.\n\nOzawa, a former LDP strongman, bolted from the scandal-tainted conservative party, helping to end its 38-year grip on power in 1993.\n\nLDP secretary general Koichi Kato said Saturday the LDP would stay aligned with the SDP and the centrist New Party Sakigake in parliament \"while seeking to discuss each individual policy with different parties.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, Cohen will fly on to South Korea where he will meet with the commander of the 35,000 US troops there and top Korean leaders to discuss developments in the Stalinist North Korea, hit by worsening food shortages.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 6 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 369, "end_char": 375, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 453, "end_char": 459, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 890, "end_char": 898, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1343, "end_char": 1347, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 14", "start_char": 1783, "end_char": 1789, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 24", "start_char": 2716, "end_char": 2724, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 2879, "end_char": 2889, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 3222, "end_char": 3230, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 3591, "end_char": 3595, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 3637, "end_char": 3645, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 3814, "end_char": 3823, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970406.0138.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0458\n\nNEW YORK, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nChina Energy begins trading on American Stock Exchange\n\n\n\n\nShares of China Energy Resources Corporation, which has a majority stake in a Chinese joint venture company, began trading on the American Stock Exchange here Monday.\n\nChina Energy, a holding company based in the British Virgin Islands, owns 80 percent of Mishan Hua Xing Coke Limited, a foreign equity joint venture operating in China.\n\nA local Chinese government entity controls the remaining 20 percent in the joint venture, which began operations in October 1995.\n\nChina Energy Resources opend at six dollars on 100 shares early Monday, followed by 4,900 shares at the same price.\n\nThe American Stock Exchange, the second largest US market after the New York Stock Exchange, specializes in small to medium-sized companies, notably in the oil and gas sector.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 1995", "start_char": 569, "end_char": 581, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 648, "end_char": 654, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0458.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0011\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNepal to host regional psychiatrists meeting\n\n\n\n\nPsychiatrists of South Asian countries will meet in Nepal on Nov. 17-19 to share knowledge and information about mental health problems in South Asian region.\n\nKapil Dev Upadhyaya, chairman of the Psychiatrists Association of Nepal, said on Friday that participants of the 2nd international conference of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Psychiatrists Federation will get to learn more about ways to cope with challenges.\n\n\"Thousands of people have been affected due to the conflict and many more are suffering from mental health problems. The conference will help us understand the problems and will find ways to solve them,\" Upadhyaya was quoted as saying by Nepal's leading news media group's website, thehimalayantimes.com.\n\nThe meeting, with the theme of \"Social, Conflict and mental health challenges to Psychiatrists\", is organized by the World Psychiatrists Association, the Nepali Department of Psychiatrists and Mental Health, and Psychiatrists Association of Nepal\n\nAccording to Upadhyaya, around 300 participants from Pakistan, India, Nepal and other SAARC countries will take part in the conference.\n\nAccording to a survey, 2-3 percent of the world populations suffer from severe mental disorder.\n\nThe first SAARC psychiatrists meeting was held in Agra, India last year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 17-19", "start_char": 168, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 348, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1408, "end_char": 1417, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0011.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0394\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nwestern Nepal\n\n\n\n\nAt least six people were killed and nearly 36 others were injured when three passenger buses collided in mid-western Nepal on Tuesday, local police office said Wednesday.\n\nThe accident took place at around 5:30 p.m. local time (1145GMT) at Orahi khola of Royal Bardiya National Park in Bardiya district, some 700 km west of Kathmandu, local police office said in a statement.\n\nA passenger bus traveling from Dhangadhi to Nepalgunj collided with another bus that was on its way to Dhangadhi from Kathmandu. A third bus that was heading to Mahendranagar from Kathmandu also collided with the two buses, the statement noted.\n\nThe injured people have been taken to Kohalpur and Nepalgunj for treatment, the statement added.\n\nThe cause of the accident could not be immediately known. Details are still awaited.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 203, "end_char": 210, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 237, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "around 5:30 p.m. local time", "start_char": 276, "end_char": 303, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0394.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0081\n\nROME, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nItalian factory prices up 0.8 percent in February\n\n\n\n\nItalian factory prices edged up 0.8 percent in February from 12 months earlier, the Italian statistics institute Istat said Wednesday.\n\nWholesale prises rose by only 0.5 percent from February 1996, confirming a downward trend in the country's inflation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February from 12 months earlier", "start_char": 153, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 239, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 1996", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0081.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0035\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambia's electoral system has loopholes:  observers\n\n\n\n\nThere are a lot of loopholes in the electoral system in Zambia, an international independent review team has said, Times of Zambia reported on Thursday.\n\nTeam that was tasked by the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to conduct a review of the last elections held on September 28 this year urged Zambian government to seal the loopholes in the next elections.\n\nGroup leader Ron Gould said here on Wednesday that both the government and ECZ would abide by the recommendations that would reflect in their report to be handed to ECZ in two weeks time.\n\n\"This is the last group we are meeting today, we have already met politicians, and government officials, police and civil society, and all the meetings are confidential to help come up with a lot of information,\" he said.\n\nThe team collected other reports from both local and international observers, according to Gould.\n\nHe said any country holding elections must respect the local monitors because they are always on the ground and reflect what more transparent than international monitors who only observed the counting.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 255, "end_char": 263, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 28 this year", "start_char": 381, "end_char": 403, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 511, "end_char": 520, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks time", "start_char": 647, "end_char": 661, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 703, "end_char": 708, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0035.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0340\n\nHAVANA, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUN resolution calls on US to repeal economic embargo on Cuba\n\n\n\n\nCuban media interrupted their normal program on Tuesday to show a live vote in the United Nations General Assembly, which called on the United States to unconditionally lift the economic embargo against Cuba.\n\nSome 182 countries voted for the document which urged the United States to end the 44-year-old commercial and economic embargo on Cuba, while only four countries voted against it and one abstained.\n\nThe blockade was costly both to the United States as well as Cuba, Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said, referring to a recent study by the University of Alabama which said repealing the blockade can generate 100,000 new jobs and 6 million US dollars for the US economy.\n\n\"Silence cannot fool all the people all the time,\" the foreign minister criticized the United States for not taking part in the vote by citing Abraham Lincoln's words, one of America's most famous presidents.\n\nThe economic embargo on Cuba prevents it from receiving financial aid from the World Bank and the InterAmerican Development Bank, which respectively offer loans of 4.4 billion dollars and 4.5 billion dollars each year.\n\nThe Cuban government said the blockade has cost Cuba 80 billion dollars since the United States imposed it on the Caribbean country more than 40 years ago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 168, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each year", "start_char": 1229, "end_char": 1238, "tid": "t2", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 40 years ago", "start_char": 1373, "end_char": 1395, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0340.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0204\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGerman parliament extends mandate for \"Enduring Freedom\" troops\n\n\n\n\nThe German parliament Friday voted to extend the mandate of about 300 troops serving in the U.S.-led anti-terror \"Operation Enduring Freedom.\"\n\nThe Bundestag, parliament's lower chamber, achieved the one- year extension after 436 deputies voted for, 101 against and 26 abstained. As many as 300 German naval troops are stationed in the Horn of Africa under the mandate.\n\nLast month, the parliament extended the deployment of around 2, 800 German soldiers in Afghanistan serving in the 31,000 NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).\n\nON the same day, the German Defense Ministry confirmed that members of Germany's elite Kommando Spezialkraefte (KFK) are operating in Afghanistan under ISAF command.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last month", "start_char": 495, "end_char": 505, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same day", "start_char": 677, "end_char": 689, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0204.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0137\n\nTOKYO, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nJapanese share prices extend gains\n\n\n\n\nJapanese share prices closed up 0.31 percent Wednesday, extending gains after Wall Street's overnight post-Christmas rebound, dealers said.\n\nThey said share prices continued to be supported by the strong dollar, which boosts Japanese exporters, and by growing expectations that the central bank will not hike interest rates soon.\n\nThe Tokyo Stock Exchange's benchmark Nikkei-225 gained 53.96 points at 17,223.15. The broader TOPIX index of all first-section companies rose 4.50 points or 0.27 percent to 1,676.95.\n\nGaining shares beat decliners 983 to 598, with 130 stocks flat.\n\nVolume rose to 1.66 billion shares from 1.72 billion shares Tuesday.\n\nUS stocks rebounded overnight on a sharp drop in oil prices, bringing more holiday cheer to the Tokyo market.\n\nHideyuki Suzuki, strategist at SBI Securities, said that the market tone remained bullish despite the thin trade at the end of the year with many foreign investors absent.\n\n\"Looking at the details, shares which have increased too rapidly were weighed down as investors locked in profits,\" Suzuki said. \"But the blue-chip shares were bullish, leading overall share prices higher.\"\n\nHiroaki Hiwada, a strategist at Toyo Securities, said the weakening of the yen against the dollar had supported market expectations about the earnings of exporters.\n\nHe said automakers helped drive the market, while steelmakers, a key factor in gains Tuesday, were hit by profit-taking.\n\nToyota Motor was up 150 yen or 1.9 percent at 7,920 after it confirmed its chief had held talks with struggling US giant Ford amid speculation of a tie-up.\n\nOther auto shares were also higher. Isuzu rose 23 yen or 4.3 percent to 557, Mazda climbed 21 yen or 2.6 percent to 818, Honda Motor advanced 50 yen or 1.1 percent to 4,630 and Yamaha Motor was up 50 yen or 1.4 percent at 3,720.\n\nSteel makers shed on profit-taking. JFE Holdings lost 140 yen or 2.3 percent at 6,090, Sumitomo Metal Industries fell 13 yen or 2.5 percent to 510 and Kobe Steel shed 11 yen or 2.7 percent to 399.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 730, "end_char": 737, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1483, "end_char": 1490, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "7,920", "start_char": 1566, "end_char": 1571, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "3,720", "start_char": 1899, "end_char": 1904, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0137.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0179\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBird flu vaccine supply can meet demand in major areas, ministry\n\n\n\n\nChina's Ministry of Agriculture said here on Monday that the country now produces more than 100 million doses of bird flu vaccine every day, which can meet the demand in major areas for epidemic prevention and control.\n\nA press release on the ministry's website says the ministry has enhanced the research, manufacture and quality supervision of bird flu vaccine to guarantee supply.\n\nChina has the capacity of producing 16 billion doses of bird flu vaccine a year, which can meet the national demand in general, but as the local demand increased recently, some places have reported short supply.\n\nThe ministry said it will help accelerate production of the vaccine and expand production capacity. After using new technology, the production cycle has been shortened to 34 days from previous 44 days.\n\nUnder the arrangement of the ministry, two more factories have joined in the production of vaccines for water fowls.\n\nThe ministry also gave full support to the Harbin Veterinary Institute, which is now researching and developing new types of vaccine of high efficiency.\n\nIt is said that such research work is going smoothly, and the new-type vaccine is expected to put into use at the end of this year.\n\nThe ministry also enhanced crackdown upon counterfeit vaccines and issued 8.2 million fake-proof labels for this purpose.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 584, "end_char": 590, "tid": "t4", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "previous 44", "start_char": 908, "end_char": 919, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1126, "end_char": 1129, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of this year", "start_char": 1309, "end_char": 1329, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0179.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0161\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBeijing unveils 2008 Olympic mascots (updated)\n\n\n\n\nBeijing unveiled a set of five doll mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games Friday evening, exactly 1,000 days before the event's opening ceremony.\n\nThe long-anticipated mascots, which embody the natural characteristics of four of China's popular animals -- the Fish, the Panda, the Tibetan Antelope, the Swallow -- and the Olympic Flame, were presented at a grand televised ceremony inside the Workers' Gymnasium.\n\nIt is the first time more than three images share Summer Olympic mascot duty.\n\nThe 2000 Sydney Games featured three animal mascots -- Olly the Kookaburra, Syd the Platypus and Millie the Spiny Anteater.\n\n\"We decided to produce five mascots instead of one, because we think no single figure can embody China's profound and diversified culture,\" said Han Meilin, chief of the mascot designers' group.\n\nEach of the Beijing Olympic mascots has a rhyming two-syllable name -- a traditional way of expressing affection for children in China. Beibei is the Fish, Jingjing is the Panda, Huanhuan is the Olympic Flame, Yingying is the Tibetan Antelope and Nini is the Swallow.\n\nWhen these names are put together -- Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni -- they say \"Welcome to Beijing\".\n\nThe five elements of nature -- the sea, forest, fire, earth and sky -- can be found in their origins and headpieces, all stylistically rendered in ways that represent the deep traditional influences of Chinese folk art and ornamentation.\n\nEach of the mascots also symbolizes a different blessing -- prosperity, happiness, passion, health and good luck.\n\nThe unveiling of the Beijing Olympic mascots also ended a year-long race of hundreds of candidates.\n\nSince the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) launched a worldwide solicitation in August last year, competition was hot as a handful of areas were vying to have their local symbols picked.\n\nThe country's western Qinghai province was pushing the endangered Tibetan antelope. Fujian province presented the South China tiger. Gansu favored the mythical dragon and Jiangsu promoted the legendary Monkey King.\n\nDozens of artists and designers were called to cut the initial list of mascot entrants from 662 to 56 and finally to six, with the final choice selected by the BOCOG. The International Olympic Committee approved the choice in August.\n\nThe first mascot to appear at an Olympic Games was in the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France. But Schuss the skier was not official. The first official mascot was Waldi the Dachshund, who appeared at the Munich Summer Games in 1972.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday evening, exactly 1,000 days", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August last year", "start_char": 1848, "end_char": 1864, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 2398, "end_char": 2404, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1968 Winter", "start_char": 2465, "end_char": 2476, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1968", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1972", "start_char": 2637, "end_char": 2641, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1972", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0161.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0293\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 1 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS shares edge down over Fed rate hike\n\n\n\n\nUS shares edged down Tuesday while the Federal Reserve hiked US interest rates to their highest level in more than four years.\n\nThe US Federal Open Market Committee decided Tuesday to boost the federal funds rate by another one quarter percentage point to expected 4 percent, the highest level since 2001.\n\nThis was the 12th consecutive action that the central bank had taken to tighten credit since last June.\n\nThe Fed said that \"the cumulative rise in energy and other costs have the potential to add to inflation pressures; however, core inflation has been relatively low in recent months and longer- term inflation expectations remain contained.\"\n\nCrude edged up but still remained below 60 dollars a barrel amid concerns that warmer-than-normal weather in the United States and Europe may cut heating oil consumption. New York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, added nine cents to close at 59.85 dollars a barrel.\n\nIn company news, Dell, the world's biggest personal-computer maker, reported third-quarter sales of 13.9 billion dollars, which trailed the company's prediction of 14.1 billion dollars to 14.5 billion dollars. Sales also missed Dell's forecast in the second quarter. Dell slumped 2.64 dollars to 29.24 dollars.\n\nViacom Inc., the media conglomerate that owns MTV, CBS and the Paramount movie studio, reported third-quarter earnings of 45 cents a share, compared with a loss of 28 cents a year earlier. Excluding some costs, profit was 47 cents a share, topping the 45- cent average estimate in a Thomson Financial survey of analysts. Its stock rose 56 cents to 31.61 dollars.\n\nThe blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 33.30, or 0.32 percent, to 10,406.77.\n\nBroader stock indicators also dropped. The Standard  Poor's 500 index fell 4.25, or 0.35 percent, to 1,202.76, while the Nasdaq composite index was dragged down by Dell, slipping 6.25, or 0.29 percent, to 2,114.05.\n\nDecliners outnumbered advancers by more than 8 to 7 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume was 1.79 billion, down from 1.90 billion at the same time Monday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 121, "end_char": 128, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than four years", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 225, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 273, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "another one quarter", "start_char": 316, "end_char": 335, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 400, "end_char": 404, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last June", "start_char": 500, "end_char": 509, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent months", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 691, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 983, "end_char": 991, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 1124, "end_char": 1137, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter", "start_char": 1294, "end_char": 1312, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 1455, "end_char": 1468, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 1532, "end_char": 1546, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2181, "end_char": 2187, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0293.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0231\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nJohannesburg stock ends negative\n\n\n\n\nThe Johannesburg Security Exchange finished in negative territory for the second successive day on Tuesday, weighed down by a relatively strong rand and soft world markets.\n\nTraders said fresh long-term highs by both gold and platinum were countered by the rand while the market also witnessed some profit-taking.\n\nThe JSE also showed no reaction to gross domestic product data released on Tuesday morning which, although good, was much in line with expectations.\n\nThe all share and industrial indices ended down 0.97 percent and 0.95 percent respectively. The resources index was off 1.37 percent and the gold mining index was 1.90 percent weaker, with the platinum mining index 2.18 percent lower.\n\nThe financial and banking indices were down 0.33 percent and 0. 54 percent respectively.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second successive day", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 205, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday morning", "start_char": 489, "end_char": 504, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0231.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0158\n\nHANOI, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nVietnam issues anti-corruption law\n\n\n\n\nThe National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam approved the anti-corruption law at its working session on Monday, Vietnam News Agency reported.\n\nUnder the law, a central steering committee on anti-corruption led by Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai will be set up. The government will take responsibility of annually informing the NA about its work on the issues.\n\nThe law also regulates that media agencies and reporters have the rights of asking relevant organizations to provide documents relating to corruption. In the cases that the organizations are unable to response, they have to give reasons in the form of documents.\n\nThe law developed from an ordinance on the issue is an important legal document for Vietnam's fight against corruption, NA Chairman Nguyen Van An, said, adding that the government, especially Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, the NA, and the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, need to vigorously act to help the law implemented effectively.\n\nLast weekend, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung reaffirmed Vietnam's determination to combat corruption. The government has instructed relevant agencies to effectively increase management over land-related issues and the use of public prosperity, the two domains which have involved in most corruption cases, and accelerated restructuring state-owned enterprises, he said.\n\nThe 8th session of the 11th National Assembly, which kicked off on Oct. 18, is scheduled to conclude on Nov. 30. During the session, it plans to pass 14 bills, including those on intellectual property, electronic transactions, housing, anti- corruption, tender, and amendment and complement to some articles in the law on value-added tax and the law on luxury tax.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 191, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last weekend", "start_char": 1086, "end_char": 1098, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 18", "start_char": 1531, "end_char": 1538, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 30", "start_char": 1568, "end_char": 1575, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0158.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0095\n\nPRETORIA, April 5 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nZaire peace talks open in Pretoria\n\n\n\n\nThe first face-to-face peace talks between Zaire's warring parties officially opened here Saturday, chaired by the United Nations and South Africa, UN envoy Mohamed Sahnoun said.\n\nSahnoun told journalists and diplomats at the state Union Buildings here that Zaire's government delegation, led by Foreign Minister Kamanda wa Kamanda and special envoy Honore Ngbanda Nzambo, made opening speeches along with the rebels, led by Bizimana Karaha.\n\nSouth African Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad was present at the ceremony, which is the first face-to-face meeting between the two sides since rebels led by Laurent-Desire Kabila launched an insurgency aimed at toppling long-time Zairean ruler President Mobutu Sese Seko.\n\nSahnoun is also the representative of the Organisation of African Unity.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 5 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0095.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0134\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSome 20,000 tons of copper to be auctioned to ease domestic supply\n\n\n\n\nThe State Reserves Bureau under the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is going to auction 20,000 tons of copper reserves in a bid to ease tight supply in domestic market, China Daily reported on Thursday.\n\nThe auction will be held on Nov. 16 and the sign-up date for the auction will close on Nov. 14, the paper said, quoting a notice posted on the website of the NDRC, a State Council department responsible for the macro-regulation of the national economy.\n\nThe bureau's move confirmed long-circulating speculation in the market that it would sell copper reserves to bring down the runaway copper price.\n\nThe high copper prices, spurred by the large demand, have jumped from 1,779 US dollars per ton in 2003 to 3,328 dollars per ton in the first half of this year.\n\nIndustry analysts estimate the bureau has about 200,000 tons of copper stockpiles, the exact figure is treated as a State secret in China.\n\nThe soaring copper prices, which has increased profit margin in the copper smelting industry, has led the government to fear the making of an investment bubble, prompting the NDRC to announce last month that the government will soon introduce a slew of measures to rein in the investment in the copper smelting industry.\n\nAnalysts, however, said the bureau's latest move will be effective in the short term, but not in the long-term if the demand remains robust in the domestic market.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 339, "end_char": 347, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 16", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 385, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 14", "start_char": 437, "end_char": 444, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 849, "end_char": 853, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first half of this year", "start_char": 882, "end_char": 909, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1244, "end_char": 1254, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0134.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0289\n\nDOHA, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAsiad soccer draws\n\n\n\n\nFollowing are the men's and women's soccer draws at the Asian Games:\n\nMen's draw:\n\nFirst round (qualification)\n\nGroup A: Jordan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Macao of China\n\nGroup B: Singapore, Syria, Indonesia and Iraq\n\nSecond round:\n\nGroup A: Qatar, UAE, Uzbekistan and Winner A\n\nGroup B: South Korea, Bahrain, Vietnam and Bangladesh\n\nGroup C: Thailand, Kuwait, Yemen and Palestine\n\nGroup D: Iran, India, Hong Kong of China and Maldives\n\nGroup E: China, Oman, Malaysia and Winner B\n\nGroup F: Japan, DPR Korea and Pakistan\n\n(Note: 22 qualify directly into Round 2. The eight remaining teams, who did not participate in the last Asian Games, are divided into two groups of four, and play in Round 1. The winner of each group joins the 22 in Round 2.)\n\nWomen's draw:\n\nGroup A: China, Japan, Maldives and Jordan\n\nGroup B: DPR Korea, South Korea, Thailand, Chinese Taipei and Vietnam", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Round 2", "start_char": 632, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0289.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0683\n\nSACRAMENTO, California, Dec 15 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nComplete with proud smiles and self-conscious glances, Vladimir and Zynaida Chernenko's seventeen children were introduced to the world on Thursday.\n\nCradled delicately in Vladimir Chernenko's thick arms was his baby, David, whose birth on December 7 gave the Ukrainian-American family the largest brood in the United States, according to the Russian language newspaper The Speaker.\n\n\"When we got married back in the Ukraine, for six month we had no children and thought we wouldn't have any kids at all,\" Vladimir told reporters at a celebration in Bethany Slavic Missionary Church in Sacramento.\n\n\"I never thought I would have such a family.\"\n\nVladimir said he was serving in the Ukrainian army when his wife wrote in a letter that she was pregnant.\n\n\"I said how could this happen, me in the army and she is at home pregnant?\" he recalled with a laugh. \"I was young then and didn't take into account we had lived together a while.\"\n\nThe family emigrated and settled in California seven years ago, the couple said. Vladimir is a security and maintenance worker for a charter school and the family lives in a seven-room house in Sacramento.\n\n\"It's a lot of work, and we all get tired, and it's difficult from financial point of view,\" Zynaida Chernenko conceded when asked if having such a large family was difficult.\n\n\"But, we overcome the fear by looking forward to our children with love.\"\n\nThe children, the eldest of which is 22, share duties and responsibilities, with the older ones filling in for their parents at times, the mother said.\n\n\"It takes a great deal of work to raise all of the children, on each level,\" Vladimir said. \"Education and upbringing plays a large role, but the most important thing is love and a big heart.\"\n\nIt also helps to have a 15-seat mini-van and a huge dinner table, the family confided.\n\n\"I talk to my friends, and they are worried their family has only one child or two,\" said 18-year-old Dimitry Chernenko. \"They go home to nothing. I come home from school and I'm never bored. You always have something to do.\"\n\nPart of that is by parental design, the mother explained, because she and her husband make certain the children keep busy with school, chores or other tasks.\n\n\"Our goal is to raise the children so when they grow up they will not be afraid of anything in life,\" Zynaida said. \"I think if every family approaches it that way, we will have a very healthy society.\"\n\nThe siblings do not squabble about portion sizes, television channels or other matters because their dad has driven home the importance of putting aside selfishness in order to survive as a family, 17-year-old Anatoliy said.\n\n\"We sit all together, put out the food and eat like a regular family,\" said 16-year-old Lyudmila \"Sometimes we wait for each other to finish, and then feed the little kids.\"\n\nThe father and mother said it was difficult to estimate how much they spend weekly on food, because the money goes out as quickly as it comes in.\n\n\"It's impossible to say how many diapers we've changed, because back in the Ukraine we didn't have those things,\" Vladimir said. \"We used other means.\"\n\nThe huge family group appeared to be thrilled by the presence of reporters and the notion of being on the television news.\n\nTwo-year-old Timofey, however, napped in a sister's lap as the family fielded questions and posed for pictures.\n\n\"It's cool to be called the biggest family in America.\"\n\nThe couple expressed thanks for the support they have received from Russian and American business people, along with their church.\n\nWhen asked whether David would be her last baby, Zynaida replied: \"I can't say.\"\n\n\"I am grateful for all my children, my wonderful husband, my friends. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0102\n\nSHANGHAI, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nShanghainese develop taste for expensive imported fruits\n\n\n\n\nShanghai's residents have developed a taste for expensive imported fruits, some as exotic as the thorny durian from Malaysia, a newspaper reported Thursday.\n\nThe Shanghai Youth Daily said that despite their high prices, imported fruits have made their way into the homes ordinary families, which buy them as gifts or just because they like the taste of the exotic.\n\nUntil several years ago, Shanghai's market was closed to imported fruits but now shoppers can buy durians for 60 yuan (7.2 dollars) a kilogram (2.2 pounds), Thai lychees for 68 yuan a kilogram and Sunkist oranges for 12 yuan a kilogram.\n\nSome Shanghai parents buy only imported fruits for their only child while tourists from the provinces consider imported fruits as something special to bring home from Shanghai, the report said.\n\nWholesalers can mark up the price of imported fruits 100 percent and retailers add another 20 to 50 percent, while the products face duties of 50 percent and value added tax of 13 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 264, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several years ago", "start_char": 489, "end_char": 506, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 560, "end_char": 563, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0102.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0240\n\nATHENS, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGreek stocks close slightly higher\n\n\n\n\nSmall gains were the order of the day on Friday at the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), traders here said.\n\nThe composite index rose 0.65 percent to end at 3,509.20 points. The turnover was modest at 214.5 million euros (252.7 million US dollars).\n\nThe FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks rose 0.59 percent, the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index and the FTSE/ASE SmallCap 80 index jumped slightly 0.27 percent and 0.21 percent higher respectively.\n\nBroadly, advancers led decliners by 135 to 131 with another 59 issues unchanged.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 142, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "135", "start_char": 584, "end_char": 587, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "135", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0240.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0580\n\nLONDON, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nTests confirm polonium 210 in body of Russia ex-spy's contact\n\n\n\n\nMario Scaramella, an Italian contact of dead former Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, was admitted to hospital on Friday after tests detected radioactive polonium 210 in his body, a University College Hospital spokesman said.\n\n\"Tests have detected polonium 210 in Mr Scaramella's body but at a considerably lower level than Mr Litvinenko,\" the spokesman added.\n\n\"He is currently well and shows no symptoms of radiation poisoning. He is receiving further tests over the weekend.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 240, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 585, "end_char": 596, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0580.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0151\n\nCHENNAI, India, Dec 10 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nJamie Dwyer scored two goals as Olympic gold medallists Australia opened their Champions Trophy campaign with a fluent 4-1 win over revamped Germany here on Saturday.\n\nDwyer, whose sudden-death goal against the Netherlands in Athens last year gave Australia their first Olympic title, began the gold rush by flicking in a pass from the right in the 15th minute.\n\nNathan Eglington broke through the middle in the 31st minute and scooped past German goalkeeper Ulrich Bubolz to help Australia go into half-time 2-0 ahead.\n\nDwyer, the International Hockey Federation's reigning player of the year, made it 3-0 two minutes after the resumption when he deflected in a penalty corner hit by Luke Doerner.\n\nWorld Cup champions Germany, who are rebuilding after eight top players retired at the end of the Athens Olympics, could not contain the rampaging Aussies.\n\nAustralia earned a penalty stroke in the 40th minute when Dwyer was stick-checked inside the circle and Brent Livermore coolly pushed home to make it 4-0.\n\nThe young Germans were rewarded for a late assault on the Australian defence when Christopher Zeller scored a consolation goal for his side.\n\n\"It's nice to return to the Champions Trophy with a win,\" said Australian coach Barry Dancer, whose side missed last year's event in Lahore, Pakistan due to security concerns.\n\n\"This is just the start we needed because every point earned will count in the tournament,\" Dancer said.\n\n\"As Olympic champions we are one of the favoured sides to win the title and we are focused on that goal.\"\n\nGerman coach Bernhard Peters conceded the Aussies were too good.\n\n\"Ours is a young team without much experience in world hockey so this was a good learning experience for all,\" he said. \"What we have learned here will help us in the remaining games.\"\n\nDefending champions Spain take on hosts India and the Netherlands clash with Pakistan in the remaining matches of the opening day in the elite six-nation event.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 15th minute", "start_char": 418, "end_char": 433, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 31st minute", "start_char": 481, "end_char": 496, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 40th minute", "start_char": 967, "end_char": 982, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1340, "end_char": 1349, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0151.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0132\n\nDOHA, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nDraws for women's table tennis team event of Asian Games\n\n\n\n\nFollowing are the draws for the women 's table tennis team event of the 15th Asian Games here released on Saturday:\n\nGroup A: DPR Korea, Uzbekistan, India\n\nGroup B: China, Hong Kong of China, Vietnam, Kuwait\n\nGroup C: Japan, South Korea, Lebanon, Mongolia\n\nGroup D: Singapore, Thailand, Macau of China, Tajikistan\n\nNote: Top two finishers advance to the next stage. The women's team event of the Doha Asiad is slated from November 29 to December 3.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 229, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 29", "start_char": 537, "end_char": 548, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 3", "start_char": 552, "end_char": 562, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0132.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0683\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nMicrosoft, HP target business market with 300-mln-dollar alliance\n\n\n\n\nMicrosoft and Hewlett-Packard said on Wednesday they would jointly invest 300 million dollars in a three-year partnership to become the go-to source for business computer systems.\n\nMicrosoft software expertise would be combined with HP hardware savvy to tailor networks to meet individual company needs from e-mail and voice mail to video conferencing and infrastructure, executives said at a news briefing.\n\n\"It's a perfect time to go to market as one single stack of the best combination of hardware and software available today,\" said HP senior vice president John McCain. \"It is a great opportunity.\"\n\nMicrosoft chief operating officer Kevin Turner said the partnership was aimed at winning a major share of the business network market, which is predicted to exceed 50 billion dollars in 2007.\n\n\"We are very excited about this partnership and where we can take it,\" Turner said. \"It is about driving hardware sales and services for HP and selling more Microsoft technology.\"\n\nThe partnership was an extension of a decades-old relationship between Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft and California-based HP, according to the executives.\n\n\"This builds on 20 years of successful partnering by the companies,\" said HP executive vice president Ann Livermore. \"Our sales forces are ready. We could begin tomorrow.\"\n\nThe alliance announced on Wednesday made HP the first \"global partner\" in a Microsoft People-Ready Business program that was described as being focused on giving people technology tools needed to excel at their jobs.\n\n\"We ought to be able to cover almost the whole world between the resources we have and what Microsoft has,\" Livermore said.\n\n\"In some cases the solution might be a simple server and some software, and in others more complex software. The power is we can come at this from many different standpoints.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 176, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 654, "end_char": 659, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 921, "end_char": 925, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20 years", "start_char": 1287, "end_char": 1295, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "tomorrow", "start_char": 1432, "end_char": 1440, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1470, "end_char": 1479, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0683.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0113\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nColombo stocks close up\n\n\n\n\nShare prices on the Colombo Stock Exchange closed up Wednesday with the key Colombo All Share Price Index rising 9.25 points to close at 2525.72 points.\n\nOn the other hand, the highly capitalized Milanka Price Index gained 17.24 points to close at 3337.81 points.\n\nA total turnover of 319 million rupee (3.19 million US dollars) was recorded during the day with a volume of 8.8 million shares being traded.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 137, "end_char": 146, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 433, "end_char": 440, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0113.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0349\n\nBAGHDAD, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIraq issues fresh call for lifting of UN sanctions\n\n\n\n\nIraq appealed again to the UN Security Council Wednesday to lift the sanctions against it, on the eve of a visit here by the head of the UN Special Commission on disarming the country (UNSCOM).\n\nForeign Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf said in a message to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan: \"The embargo was imposed and is kept in place to serve US policy goals, not any legal consideration.\n\n\"And it goes against international law and the UN charter,\" the message said, according to Baghdad newspapers.\n\n\"Maintaining the sanctions became a policy of vengeance by the known parties to wipe out an entire people and deprive them of their right to life,\" the message said.\n\nUNSCOM chief Rolf Ekeus was expected to arrive in Baghdad Thursday. He visits the Iraqi capital on routine missions every two months to monitor the progress of UN inspections and to question the Iraqis on missing arms data.\n\nOn March 3 Ekeus accused Iraq of continuing to hide biological weapons and said that doubts about Baghdad's destruction of its medium-range missiles remain.\n\nUnder the UN resolutions imposed on Iraq at the end of the 1991 Gulf war, the UNSCOM inspectors must verify that Baghdad has destroyed all its weapons of mass destruction before the international embargo against it can be lifted.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 838, "end_char": 846, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months", "start_char": 902, "end_char": 912, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 3", "start_char": 1008, "end_char": 1015, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0349.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0192\n\nWARSAW, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAt least 8 killed, 15 missing in Polish mine explosion\n\n\n\n\nAt least eight coal miners were killed, 15 others missing, when a methane gas explosion took place in a coal mine in southern Poland on Tuesday evening, officials said on Wednesday.\n\nThe explosion was the largest mine accident in Poland this year, increasing the number of miners killed in 2006 in the country to 28, according to reports.\n\nRescue teams had recovered six bodies from the scene of the explosion  1,030 meters underground in the Halemba coal mine in the southern Polish city of Ruda Slaska, said Zbiegniew Madej, a spokesman for the Weglowa company, which operates the mine.\n\nAnother two bodies had been located but could not be reached because of the high concentration of methane gas, he said.\n\nThe fate of the other 15 was unknown. Locator devices carried by the missing miners emitted no signals, said Madej.\n\nAs the ventilation facilities had been destroyed, the miners who remained buried underground were in a very dangerous situation, he said.\n\nA small reconnaissance team sent deep into the mine on Wednesday to locate the missing miners had to withdraw temporarily because of high gas levels.\n\n\"The rescue managing staff decided that it cannot expose the health and the life of the rescuers to danger,\" he said.\n\n\"This is probably the most difficult and dangerous rescue action in Poland in many years,\" Dominik Kolorz, a miners' trade union official, said on TVN24.\n\nHowever, the rescuers would never give up their efforts, said Madej.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday evening", "start_char": 251, "end_char": 266, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 295, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 352, "end_char": 361, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 405, "end_char": 409, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1137, "end_char": 1146, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "many years", "start_char": 1430, "end_char": 1440, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0192.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0475\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nsubsidiaries\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinese government is encouraging foreign banks to incorporate locally and set up subsidiaries to minimize risks for Chinese customers, a senior official said here Thursday.\n\nChina-registered subsidiaries will be corporate entities, said Song Dahan, deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Office of the State Council at a press conference here.\n\nIf a foreign bank continued to run its Chinese operation as branches operated from overseas, the range of services it could offer customers would be limited, he said.\n\nSong said linking the range of services a foreign bank can offer to its corporate status would help safeguard the interests of Chinese customers.\n\nAccording to international practice, when liquidity risks occur, domestic customers are given priority in withdrawing funds. Chinese individuals who deposit money in branches operated from overseas could find their assets at risk if the parent bank experienced a crisis.\n\nIn a globalized world, financial risks can be passed from one country to another. But China-registered corporate entities, which are supervised by Chinese banking authorities, will take measures to minimize risk and ensure domestic financial stability, he said.\n\nSong said the policy favoring Chinese corporate status complied with WTO rules, which allow its members to adopt measures of prudence when opening up the banking sector.\n\nPrudent measures include policies that protect customers' interests, prevent risks to the bank and safeguard the stability of financial markets.\n\nAs of December 11, China will accept applications from foreign banks who wish to convert their branches into a locally incorporated bank.\n\n\"The Chinese government will do everything it can to facilitate the conversion process, which will take one to three months,\" said Wang Zhaoxing, assistant chairman of the Chinese Banking Regulatory Commission at the press conference.\n\nWang said he is confident the government departments involved -- the judicial department, the industrial and commercial administration, and the banking regulatory commission -- will work together in an efficient and well-coordinated manner.\n\nThe length of the conversion period also depended on the preparation work carried out by the foreign-funded banks, he said.\n\nWang said locally incorporated bank will not be regarded as new institutions. The date on which the foreign bank established its first branch in China will be regarded as the beginning of its period of operation.\n\nHe gave the example of a foreign bank that has been operating in China for five years. This bank can convert its branches into a locally incorporated bank after December 11, but this will not affect its period of operation which will still be deemed to be five years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 250, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 11", "start_char": 1601, "end_char": 1612, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 1845, "end_char": 1857, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 2626, "end_char": 2636, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 11", "start_char": 2712, "end_char": 2723, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0475.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0144\n\nATHENS, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGreek proposal to aid smaller firms endorsed by OECD: minister\n\n\n\n\nThe Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) adopted a Greek proposal to aid small and medium-sized enterprises, Greek Development Minister Dimitris Sioufas said on Monday.\n\nUnder the government proposal, a mechanism would be created to provide an information and cooperation link that would allow smaller firms to learn about access to global markets from multinationals, Sioufas said.\n\nSioufas made the remarks at the opening of a three-day conference in Athens sponsored by the OECD, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Development Ministry.\n\n\"Although small and medium-sized enterprises are less well equipped to make use of opportunities on an international level in comparison with large firms, they have tremendous potential. It has been estimated that if they employ all their resources for exports, they will achieve the same exports volume as large companies,\" he noted.\n\n\"But an outward-looking approach is required to ensure their competitiveness and viability. That is why the Greek government proposed the mechanism, which has been accepted by the OECD's deputy general secretary,\" the minister said.\n\nThe conference aims to identify cost effective mechanisms to remove barriers to market-access, and promote internationalization of the enterprises.\n\nBest-practice support programs put in place by governments, at both national and local levels to assist in dealing with the impediments, will be reviewed.\n\nThe conference is part of the OECD Bologna Process on small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurship policies. The Athens meeting follows an OECD ministerial conference in June 2004 in Istanbul, where ministers adopted a declaration pledging cooperative action in reducing barriers to access. The declaration also invited the OECD, working with countries and international organizations, to identify ways in which barriers could be lifted.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 313, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2004", "start_char": 1757, "end_char": 1766, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0144.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0014 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0014. \n Xerox Will Lay Off 300\n@  At Personal Insurance Unit \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n XRX \n\n   Xerox Corp.  has told employees in its Crum amp Forster personal insurance operations that it  is laying off about 300 people, or 25% of the staff. \n\n   A spokeswoman for Crum amp Forster said employees  were told early this week that numerous staff functions for the personal insurance lines  were going  to  be centralized as a cost-cutting move. \n\n   She said the move would result in a after-tax charge of less than $4 million to be spread over the next three quarters. \nBy comparison, for the first nine months, Xerox earned $492 million, or $4.55 a share, on revenue of $12.97 billion. \n\n   Earnings at Xerox's financial-services operations actually rose slightly, but that was largely because capital gains at Crum amp Forster offset Hurricane Hugo payments and the reserves set up  to cover future payments. \n\n   Property/casualty insurance has been a tough business in recent quarters, as pricing has been cutthroat and natural disasters such as Hurricane Hugo and the California earthquake  have resulted in huge payments.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 98, "end_char": 106, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early this week", "start_char": 358, "end_char": 373, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-W44", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t19"}, {"text": "the next three quarters", "start_char": 593, "end_char": 616, "tid": "t23", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 638, "end_char": 659, "tid": "t24", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent quarters", "start_char": 1022, "end_char": 1037, "tid": "t25", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0176.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0308\n\nLONDON, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nBritain hails Gibraltar backing for greater autonomy\n\n\n\n\nBritain welcomed Friday a vote to support a new constitution for Gibraltar, modernizing ties between the British dependent territory and London and allowing greater local autonomy.\n\n\"I warmly welcome the people of Gibraltar's decision to accept the draft Gibraltar constitution,\" said Europe Minister Geoff Hoon, after the referendum on the \"Rock\" on Thursday.\n\n\"I look forward to working with the government of Gibraltar in the new, more modern and mature UK-Gibraltar relationship that it entails,\" he added in a statement.\n\nThe electorate of the tiny outcrop on Spain's south coast, population just 27,000, were called to back a greater degree of self-determination after seven years of negotiations aimed at modernizing ties between Gibraltar and Britain.\n\nA clear majority, 60.2 percent, of voters backed the question: \"In exercise of your right to self-determination, do you approve and accept the proposed new Constitution for Gibraltar?\"\n\nHowever, turnout was modest at around 60 percent -- 28 percentage points less than in a 2002 referendum where residents overwhelmingly rejected a proposal that Spain and Britain should share sovereignty over Gibraltar.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 125, "end_char": 131, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 467, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "seven years", "start_char": 783, "end_char": 794, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P7Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0308.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0203\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. mourns death of former Turkish PM\n\n\n\n\nThe United States expressed sadness on Monday over the death of five-time Turkish prime minister Bulent Ecevit who died over the weekend at the age of 81.\n\n\"We were saddened to learn of the death of former prime minister Bulent Ecevit,\" State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said at a briefing.\n\n\"His commitment to Turkey's secular democratic institutions was something that we very much respected and, I think, was respected throughout the world,\" Casey said.\n\nEcevit, whose final term in office ended in 2002, was once a strong U.S. ally.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the age of 81", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 614, "end_char": 618, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0203.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0111\n\nSEOUL, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - INSERTS president's quote ///\n\n\n\n\nA South Korean broadcaster has admitted using coercion to obtain information critical of cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk and suspended airing a report alleging his breakthrough stem cell research was fabricated.\n\nSeoul-based MBC issued a statement late Sunday admitting its investigative reporting team had violated journalistic ethics in reporting on Hwang for the weekly program PD Network.\n\nThe world-renowned researcher was forced to step down from his official posts and offer an apology on November 24, two days after the network broadcast allegations of ethical lapses in his research.\n\nA second installment of the program, making more explosive claims concerning the validity of Hwang's research, was scheduled to air Tuesday.\n\n\"We have decided to suspend a plan to air a follow-up program about Hwang's research,\" a spokesman for MBC, South Korea's second largest TV network told AFP Monday. He said top executives were discussing when to air the program or whether to scrap it.\n\nPresident Roh Moo-Hyun, who has closely followed the unfolding controversy, said the matter should now be laid to rest as he pledged continued government support for Hwang's research.\n\n\"I hope the issue of verifying the authenticity of professor Hwang's research results should be settled here,\" Roh told a meeting with senior advisors. \"I expect it to be verified naturally by Hwang's follow-up research.\n\n\"The government will continue without fail to give support for Hwang's team to conduct its stem cell research,\" Roh added.\n\nMBC became a target of national anger when it broadcast an initial report attacking Hwang, a national hero, two weeks ago.\n\nThe criticism of MBC continued after Hwang admitted the charges were true -- that some of the eggs used in his experiments had been paid for and that others had been obtained from members of his own research team.\n\nInternational ethical standards frown on egg donations by researchers, especially junior staff who may be vulnerable to pressure.\n\nMBC says it obtained information concerning the origin of the eggs from some of Hwang's own researchers.\n\nIt said that, based on interviews with them, it was going to broadcast a second report that would be far more damaging to Hwang's reputation, as it would claim he had faked landmark research findings earlier this year.\n\nHowever on Sunday MBC was forced into an apology after two of Hwang's researchers told Seoul-based cable news television YTN the MBC team had misled them and used coercion to force them to give information unfavorable to Hwang.\n\n\"MBC sincerely apologize to the people,\" MBC said in the statement. \"MBC will insist that those involved in the violations of the journalistic code of ethics take responsibility.\"\n\nThe two researchers deny MBC's contention that they said Hwang's research had been faked.\n\n\"I never made such a statement,\" one of the researchers, Kim Seon-Jeong, the source for the MBC report, said in the YTN interview.\n\nHe said he clearly told MBC that the allegations against Hwang concerning falsified research results were \"not true.\"\n\nHwang's team said in its study published in May in the periodical Science that it had produced patient-specific stem cells from cloned human embryos.\n\nTo do this, a patient's somatic cell is planted into a human egg, the nucleus of which has been removed. The DNA of the stem cells produced by the experiment would genetically match the patient's cells.\n\nHowever, MBC staff said they obtained samples of stem cells from Hwang's team and had them tested independently. Later MBC said the tests were not conclusive but showed there may be problems with Hwang's findings.\n\nAccording to media reports, of 45 samples tested, only one was found to be readable, and it did not match the original donor cell.\n\nMBC asked Hwang's team to conduct a new test to verify the results but the researchers dismissed MBC's findings and refused, according to media reports.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Sunday", "start_char": 336, "end_char": 347, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 24", "start_char": 584, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days", "start_char": 597, "end_char": 605, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 814, "end_char": 821, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 981, "end_char": 987, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 1716, "end_char": 1729, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 2384, "end_char": 2401, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2415, "end_char": 2421, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 3200, "end_char": 3203, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0111.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0006\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, April 1 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMalaysian share market falls 1.1 percent at midday\n\n\n\n\nMalaysian share prices dipped 1.1 percent by midday Tuesday, with the market barometer falling below the 1,200 support level for the first time in three months following credit curbs and the Dow's fall.\n\n\"The overnight fall on Wall Street was a double whammy for the market, which was already reeling from the central bank's curbs on bank lendings,\" said Victor Wan, analyst at South Johore Securities.\n\nWan said investors were selling banking and property stocks in anticipation of lower earnings.\n\nThe Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share weighted composite index tumbled 13.68 points to 1,189.42 at the close of the morning session, after touching a low of 1,183.17.\n\nThe central Bank Negara Tuesday imposed new lending limits on shares and luxury properties to thwart excessive market speculation and quell soaring property prices.\n\nBank lending to the property sector was limited to 20 percent of all loans, excluding residential units costing 60,000 US dollars and below, infrastructure facilities and industrial buildings.\n\nRules for lending against stocks and unit trusts were also redefined.\n\nTrading volume in the morning session was 162.178 million shares worth 1.175 billion ringgit (470 million dollars).\n\nFalling stocks outnumbered those rising 401 to 187, with 142 unchanged and 131 untraded.\n\nTop bank, Maybank, led the fall in banking stocks with a 75 sen lost to 27.50 ringgit, Public Bank was flat at 3.56 ringgit while Arab- Malaysian Merchant Bank declined 70 sen to 19.90 ringgit.\n\nBoth national powerhouse Tenaga Nasional and gaming giant Genting eased 10 sen each to 12.00 ringgit and 16.70 ringgit respectively.\n\nTelekom Malaysia shed 20 sen to 19.10 ringgit.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 1 , 1997", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 273, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0006.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0364\n\nBRUSSELS, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBelgian paratrooper arrested for alleged sadism in Somalia\n\n\n\n\nBelgian gendarmes have arrested a third paratrooper accused of sadism against Somali people during a multinational operation in the war-torn country in 1993, judicial officials said.\n\nThe officer, named as First Sergeant-Major Rudy, was arrested Thursday after allegedly being recognised in a photograph published in the press last week, which showed a Belgian soldier urinating on a wounded Somali.\n\nHe had commanded a mortar team at Tielen in Somalia.\n\nThe officer was brought back from mission in the Congolese capital Brazzaville and is due to appear before the Brussels Court Martial, which has already charged two other soldiers with sadism.\n\nOne of them, accused of badly treating children, has been locked up.\n\nAmong other allegations made by former paratroopers was a claim that a young Somali caught stealing food died when he was put in a crate for two days.\n\nBelgian Defence Minister Jean-Pol Poncelet has promised to cashier those responsible and dissolve their whole military unit should the alleged brutality prove to consist of more than isolated incidents.\n\nThe soldiers were part of a failed UN-sponsored mission called Operation Restore Hope, which had sought to bring peace and protect food deliveries in Somalia, wracked by clan fighting and starvation.\n\nForeign troops eventually pulled out without an end to the conflict and after bloody battles with Somali movements.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 365, "end_char": 373, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 446, "end_char": 455, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two", "start_char": 979, "end_char": 982, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0364.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0138\n\nPHNOM PENH, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSix Cambodians drown after their floating house capsizes\n\n\n\n\nSix local people, including four children, drowned after their floating house capsized as the cable that tied it to a tree on the bank of Bassac River became broken, a police officer told Xinhua by phone on Tuesday.\n\n\"The cable was too old and the house roof was made from heavy clay. So, it forced the floating house to turn upside down,\" said En Savuth, deputy police chief of Sa-ang District, Kandal Province, some 25 kilometers south of the capital city.\n\nAs the tragedy happened on Tuesday, the two adults, 35 and 65 years old, and the four minors, 2, 7, 10 and 12 years old were having lunch, he said.\n\n\"When the floating house collapsed, the river had high currents and people could not survive in them,\" he added.\n\nHowever, in the family of seven, one boy survived by jumping to the bank before the house collapsed, he said.\n\nThe house was built on a platform supported by 10 oil barrels. The only stabilizing force was a rope that tied it to the tree on the bank.\n\nThe capsized house floated some 300 meters away from the original place, creating panic for other floating house residents on the river, said Savuth.\n\nSome riverside Cambodians tend to live in floating houses in order to easily fish and enjoy convenience of sanitation. Such a lifestyle can also help them save money for constructing house on land and escape the taxation and population management of the government.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 328, "end_char": 335, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 608, "end_char": 615, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "65 years", "start_char": 640, "end_char": 648, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P65Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10", "start_char": 681, "end_char": 683, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0138.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0315\n\nLONDON, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBarcelona and Arsenal into final 16 while Man Utd future uncertain\n\n\n\n\nBarcelona and Arsenal progressed to the knockout stages of the Champions League with group wins on Wednesday while Manchester United's future hangs in the balance after they lost to Lille 1-0.\n\nSamuel Eto'o grabbed a hat-trick as Barca hammered Panathinaikos 5-0, Mark van Bommel and Lionel Messi also getting on the scoresheet.\n\nThe game of the night was in Bremen where Werder beat 10-man Udinese 4-3. Miroslav Klose, Frank Baumann and Johan Micoud scored for the hosts while an Antonio di Natale pair and a Christian Schulz own goal replied.\n\nTo rub salt into their wounds Udinese had Giampiero Pinzi dismissed for a second bookable offence.\n\nArsenal secured their place in the last 16 with a convincing 3-0 victory at home to Sparta Prague in Group B.\n\nFrench striker Thierry Henry opened the scoring before Robin van Persie came off the bench to bag a late brace.\n\nAjax broke FC Thun hearts with a 4-2 victory thanks to late, late goals from Nigel de Jong and Nourdin Boukhari.\n\nWesley Sneijder and Yannis Anastasiou twice put the visitors in front but Mauro Lustrinelli and Adriano Spadoto had replied for the home side.\n\nJuventus went above Bayern Munich in Group A with a 2-1 victory in Italy.\n\nDavid Trezeguet scored for Juve either side of a Sebastian Deisler leveller, while Juve striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic was sent off towards the end.\n\nClub Brugge stayed in the hunt for qualification with an impressive 3-2 win over point-less Rapid Vienna.\n\nMarek Kincl put the Austrians ahead in the first minute but Javier Portillo, Bosko Balaban and Gert Verheyen bagged before a Marcin Adamski consolation.\n\nManchester United's miserable recent form continued with a lacklustre 1-0 away defeat at Lille in Group D.\n\nFormer Spurs schemer Milenko Acimovic notched the only goal of the game seven minutes before half-time.\n\nSpanish side Villarreal went top of a tight group after their 1-0 victory over Portuguese outfit Benfica.\n\nIt was a goal eight minutes from time that earned them three crucial points, Marcos Senna firing home for Manuel Pellegrini's team.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 225, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 16", "start_char": 803, "end_char": 814, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02T16:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first minute", "start_char": 1621, "end_char": 1637, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0315.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0081\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nMofaz defection gives further poll boost to Sharon\n\n\n\n\nThe defection of Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz from the right-wing Likud to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Kadima gave the Israeli premier's new party a further boost in the polls Monday.\n\nThe latest survey published by the Yediot Aharonot daily found that Kadima is on course to win 41 of the 120 Knesset seats in the March 28 election, 20 more than its nearest rival, the centre-left Labour party.\n\nLikud, which won 38 seats at the last election, is set to see its representation tumble to just 11, one ahead of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party, the survey found.\n\nKadima's projected number of seats has gone up two since the last such survey on December 9, indicating that Mofaz's defection has had an immediate bounce effect.\n\nIn contrast, the seats projection for both Labour and Likud has dropped by two.\n\nMofaz announced on Sunday that he had decided to pull out of the campaign to succeed Sharon as leader of Likud, which he said was veering towards right-wing extremism, and would instead link up with the premier's new centrist party.\n\nThe survey of 500 people was conducted by the Tel Aviv-based Dahaf institute and has a 4.4 percent margin of error.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 28", "start_char": 421, "end_char": 429, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 9", "start_char": 747, "end_char": 757, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 930, "end_char": 936, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0081.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0034\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBeijing starts construction on Olympic media village\n\n\n\n\nBeijing Olympic organizers Friday started construction on the media village for the 2008 Games.\n\nThe media village, situated to the northeast of the Olympic Green and the Olympic Forest Park in the north of the city, will be within ten minutes drive from the Main Press Center and major Olympic competition venues, according to the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG).\n\nThe media village will provide up to 6,000 rooms to accredited media during the Games.\n\nThe whole project is due for completion at the beginning of 2008.\n\nIn line with the themes of \"Green Olympics\", \"Hi-tech Olympics\" and \"People's Olympics\", new technologies and green concepts are incorporated into the design and construction work of the media village, such as the utilization of geothermal energy and solar energy, green construction materials and a rain water-recycling system.\n\nAside from the new media village that just broke ground, two existing accommodation facilities have also been selected as media villages and will provide additional 2,500 rooms.\n\nMoreover, 46 hotels in Beijing have been so far assigned as media hotels, making around 15,000 hotel rooms available for the accredited media.\n\nQuick access to the Main Press Centre and major competition venues is one of the priorities for the organizers in the selection of media accommodation facilities.\n\nAround 21,000 accredited media from all over the world are expected to come to Beijing to cover the 2008 Games.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "ten minutes", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the beginning of 2008", "start_char": 643, "end_char": 664, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0034.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891031-0040 \n = 891031 \n 891031-0040. \n Business Brief -- Dataproducts Inc.:\n@  Lawsuit Is Filed to Block\n@  DPC's Hostile Tender Offer \n 10/31/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n DPC \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nCOMPUTERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CPR) \n\n   Dataproducts Inc. said it filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court to block a tender offer by DPC Acquisition Partners, alleging that the hostile offer violates a standstill agreement between the two concerns. \n\n   DPC, an investor group led by New York-based Crescott Investment Associates, had itself filed a suit in state court in Los Angeles seeking to nullify the agreement. \nEarlier this year, Dataproducts had rejected a $15 a share offer from DPC, saying it was n't adequately financed. \nDPC last week launched a new, $10-a-share offer for the Woodland Hills, Calif.-based computer printer maker. \n\n   DPC said it could n't comment on the suit.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/31/89 ", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t34", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this year", "start_char": 658, "end_char": 675, "tid": "t39", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t34"}, {"text": "last week ", "start_char": 777, "end_char": 787, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-24", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t34"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0471.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0216\n\nBUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBush to arrive in South Korea Nov. 16: US official\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush will arrive in South Korea Wednesday, one day before his planned bilateral summit with his South Korean counterpart Roh Moo- hyun, a US Embassy official said Sunday.\n\nRoh and Bush have agreed to meet in the country's southeastern city of Gyeongju on Nov. 17, ahead of the Nov. 18-19 leaders' meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said. The forum opened in Busan on Saturday.\n\nThe US president is to arrive at Gimhae International Airport, the gateway to this host city of the 13th APEC forum, according to the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.\n\nBush is among the 21 Asia-Pacific Rim leaders expected to attend the APEC leaders' meeting.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday, one day", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 309, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 17", "start_char": 401, "end_char": 408, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18-19", "start_char": 423, "end_char": 433, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 574, "end_char": 582, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0216.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0025\n\nDAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nICTR probe report sent to UN headquarters\n\n\n\n\nThe fate of an International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) official is now in the hands of those at the United Nations headquarters as his case was sent to New York already.\n\nLocal media quoted the Arusha-based UN court as saying that the report by a probe team on Roland Amoussouga having allegedly violated ICTR's conditions of appointment by assisting his friend to get a job in the UN court.\n\nThe probe team has been verifying the authenticity of recruitment electronic mails between the ICTR spokesperson and his French friend.\n\nThe registrar of the UN court, Adama Dieng, told the press that the report had been sent to New York.\n\nThe ICTR court, set up in 1994 in northern Tanzania that became operational in 1997, has its administrative matters taken care of in the UN headquarters.\n\nThe probe was prompted by leaked e-mail communication between Amoussouga and the candidate for a post of the head of the defense counsel management section.\n\nThe ICTR spokesperson not only allegedly tipped off the French lawyer about the qualifications needed for filling up the post and also allegedly informed his friend of the support to his candidature by other high-ranking officials at the tribunal.\n\nThe ICTR, whose mandate ends in 2008, has so far brought to trial 25 people while 26 others are currently on trial, with another 17 waiting to be taken to court.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 777, "end_char": 781, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 830, "end_char": 834, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1345, "end_char": 1349, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0025.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0259\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nWorld urged to help Cote D'Ivoire clean up toxic waste\n\n\n\n\nThe United Nations on Friday has urged the world to mobilize financial assistance to pay for the clean up and rehabilitation of contaminated sites in Cote D'Ivoire as a result of fresh reports that the final costs of a dumping incident in August could reach into the millions of dollars.\n\nThe UN Environment Program (UNEP) Executive Director Steiner said in a statement issued in Nairobi that he had been informed by the Ivorian authorities that following initial emergency assistance, the country was now having to use its own public funds to pay a private company for the retrieval, shipment and processing of the toxic waste in France.\n\n\"Irrespective of who will or who will not be held liable for this incident, it is the people of one of the world's poorest countries who have already paid dearly for this irresponsible act of hazardous waste dumping, who are now being forced to actually pay the bill for removal and clean up operations,\" said Steiner.\n\nThe costs of this operation allied to the medium and long-term rehabilitation of affected sites could approach 30 million US dollars according to the Ivorian authorities.\n\nSteiner said urgent assistance to meet Cote D'Ivoire costs was in the spotlight but emphasized that this was by no means a unique case.\n\nHe warned that cases like this could escalate unless existing international regulations on toxic wastes, including those under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL), are properly enforced and gaps between various treaties closed.\n\n\"We must assist Cote D'Ivoire now, but it cannot end there. We must enforce existing laws in both OECD and developing countries alongside building the capacity for customs authorities and local waste management at ports and elsewhere to minimize the chances of such an incident occurring in the future,\" said Steiner.\n\n\"It would seem reasonable and sensible to considerably boost the resources of the emergency fund so that the international community can have a specific and well-funded response to hazardous waste dumping incidents that are occurring in Africa and other developing countries far too often,\" UNEP chief added.\n\nHe was speaking on the eve of an international meeting of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, which begins in Nairobi next week.\n\nThe central theme of the meeting is the issue of electronic waste or e-waste as a result of the massive growth in the international traffic of obsolete products like computers and mobile phones.\n\nBut the issue of illegal shipments of hazardous materials to vulnerable countries by unscrupulous operators is also likely to be high on delegates' minds as a result of the Cote D'Ivoire case in which a ship sailing from Europe dumped wastes in the West African country.\n\nDelegates from across the world are arriving in Nairobi for the next week's five-day-long Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention, which was set up to deal with the issue of hazardous waste shipments.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 138, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 355, "end_char": 361, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 618, "end_char": 621, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 981, "end_char": 984, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1950, "end_char": 1960, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 2473, "end_char": 2482, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next week", "start_char": 3013, "end_char": 3026, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0259.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0090\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambia's sugar output up\n\n\n\n\nZambia's sugar output up\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- Zambia's sugar output in the first half production year ending Sept. 30, 2006 increased by 3,000 tons compared with the same period of last year, according to Zambia Sugar Plc.\n\nThe sugar production is expected to exceed 250,000 tons this year, Zambia Daily Mail reported on Wednesday.\n\nSecretary of the company Lovemore Sievu said the company registered revenue amounting to 307. 4 billion kwacha (about 78.82 million U.S. dollars) in the first half of the year compared with 270.1 billion kwacha (about 69.26 million dollars) in the same period of last year.\n\nThe combination of cost and productivity improvements resulted in a slight improvement on operating margins, he said.\n\nExports and revenues have benefited from an additional EU quota allocations and also improved regional market prices, Sievu said.\n\nThe maintenance of operating margins and exchange rate will remain significant to the final profitability of the company for this year, the secretary added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 118, "end_char": 124, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "year", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 30, 2006", "start_char": 200, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 371, "end_char": 380, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 412, "end_char": 421, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first half of the year", "start_char": 573, "end_char": 599, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 687, "end_char": 696, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1074, "end_char": 1083, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0090.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0169\n\nMANILA, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd Ld-Writethru: 5 US marines accused of raping Filipino woman at Subic Bay\n\n\n\n\nFive US marines have been accused of gang raping a 22-year-old Filipino woman at the former US navy base of Subic Bay earlier this week, throwing shadow over the annual joint military exercises between the United States and the Philippines held under a visiting force agreement.\n\nThe five US marines were prevented from boarding their amphibious warship, USS Essex, to leave the Philippines on Thursday after a Filipino woman accused them of gang raping her in a van in Olongapo City near Subic Bay on Nov. 1, the All Saints' Day which is an important Catholic festival here for mourning the dead.\n\nThe US marines, who were from the US military bases in Okinawa, Japan, were later turned over to the US embassy here by the Philippine authorities, according to Philippine officials in charge of supervising the just-concluded military exercises named \"Talon Vision\" held at the Subic Bay, in which 4,500 US marines and navy sailors participated.\n\nPhilippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo said in a statement that he has asked the US Embassy to make sure that the accused soldiers do not leave the country and that they be made available to Philippine police and judicial authorities.\n\n\"I am deeply concerned by this report and I have instructed the VFACOM (Visiting Forces Agreement Committee) to fully assist the victim of this crime and to support all efforts by our authorities to investigate, prosecute and try this case,\" said Romulo.\n\n\"The perpetrators of this heinous crime shall be brought to justice,\" he added.\n\nThe VFACOM is a US-Philippine joint institution charged with supervising the annual US-Philippine military exercises being held under a mutual defense agreement and a visiting forces agreement.\n\nThe acting US embassy charge d'affaires Paul Jones said the five US marines are under the responsibility of the embassy but assured they will be made accessible to local authorities.\n\n\"They are under American responsibility. I conveyed how seriously the US takes this accusation. We have an important agreement we make them available to Philippine investigators,\" he told local media.\n\nBut he said the US authorities are conducting separate probes into the case and justice will be done if the Americans are found guilty.\n\n\"While the charges are very serious, they are innocent unless proven guilty. If they are proven guilty, we obviously find this an outrageous crime,\" he said.\n\nIn a separate statement, the US embassy said the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) , signed in 1998 between the Philippine and US governments to allow US troops return to the Philippines after they pulled out in 1993, provides the mechanism for US and Philippine authorities to work together to determine the facts of the case and to ensure that accused individuals are available to both Filipino and US investigators.\n\nThe Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) said the alleged victim was invited by the Americans to go with them in a rented van after they met in a video-OK bar, where people drink and sing. A few hours later, the woman was seen dumped unconscious on a road from the van.\n\nUnder the VFA, US troops who take part in joint exercises in the Philippines are provided with special legal protection for actions taken as part of the war games but are given less protection for crimes committed while on leave.\n\nUS troops pulled out of the Subic Bay and Clark airfield military bases in 1993 after the Philippine Senate voted to take back the bases built during US rule in the Philippines from the beginning of 20th century until World War II.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 271, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 530, "end_char": 538, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 638, "end_char": 644, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 2630, "end_char": 2634, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 2747, "end_char": 2751, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "A few hours", "start_char": 3147, "end_char": 3158, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT1H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "leave", "start_char": 3452, "end_char": 3457, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 3535, "end_char": 3539, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the beginning of 20th century", "start_char": 3642, "end_char": 3671, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0169.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0581\n\nFRANKFURT, Germany, April 19 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFilm-maker Kusturica plans gypsy comedy set in Serbia\n\n\n\n\nYugoslav film-maker Emir Kusturica is to start work at the end of next month on a comedy with a gypsy background set in Serbia, he said here Friday.\n\nThe film, entitled \"Black Cat, White Cat,\" will cover the joyful attitude to death in the gypsy community, Kusturica said. It will recount the efforts of an old man's many relatives to restore him to life after he has died.\n\nKusturica has twice won the Golden Palm at the Cannes film festival, in 1985 for \"When Father was away on Business,\" and in 1995 for the controversial \"Underground,\" accused by critics of being too pro-Serb.\n\nIn between, he was voted best director at Cannes for an earlier gypsy film, \"Time of the Gypsies.\"\n\nKusturica is currently making a short film on support for AIDS sufferers in Frankfurt. It is to be shown in two different versions, for cinema and for television.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 19 , 1997", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 58, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of next month", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 271, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0581.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0344\n\nMADRID, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSpain to give 2.3 mln dlrs to Americas Cup promotors\n\n\n\n\nThe Spanish government will give two million euros (around 2.3 million US dollars) to the organizers of the Americas Cup, the sailing event hosted by the Spanish city of Valencia in 2007, local media said on Thursday.\n\nThe plan was approved on Thursday in a ceremony attended by Jordi Sevilla, Spain's minister of public affairs, and Ricard Perez Casado, Americas Cup president.\n\nThe money will be used to launch an international publicity campaign promoting Valencia and the Americas Cup. Casado and Sevilla approved the marketing plan drawn up by the Americas Cup coordination committee at the same time as approving the deal.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 321, "end_char": 329, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 357, "end_char": 365, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0344.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0168\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBeijing's water supply suffers worsening pollution: report\n\n\n\n\nWater from the Guanting reservoir, Beijing's fourth largest source of drinking water source, is not fit for human consumption or even irrigation, according to a report from the city's environment watchdog.\n\nAt level five on the water pollution index water is only suitable for irrigation. At below level five, water from the Guanting reservoir is not fit for growing agricultural produce.\n\nWith 21 reservoirs, the city of 16 million faces grave water supply problems as the Zhaitang, Taoyukou, Niantan and Daning reservoirs have all dried up, said the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau in its first monthly report on water quality.\n\nMiyun, Huairou and Yanqinggucheng reservoirs, the capital's other major drinking water sources, are still providing clean, potable water, said the report which is posted on the bureau's Web site.\n\nWater quality levels between one and three are considered potable.\n\nThe report also said nearly half of Beijing's sightseeing lakes and ponds are so polluted their water also can't even be used to irrigate the park landscape that surrounds them.\n\nThe report said water quality in seven of Beijing lakes, such as the Winter Palace Lake and Taoranting Lake, is below level five. Only four lakes could be used to supply drinking water, while water from the other lakes is only fit for industrial use.\n\nThe watchdog has earlier blamed too much untreated waste water, industrial effluent and agricultural pollution for the deteriorating water qualities in the lakes.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0168.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0626\n\nLONDON, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Steve Griffiths\n\n\n\n\nChelsea striker Didier Drogba admitted he has a soft spot for the League Cup after dumping Newcastle out of the competition in the quarter-finals.\n\nDrogba scored with a superb free-kick just 11 minutes from full-time at St James' Park on Wednesday to seal a 1-0 win that kept Chelsea's bid to win all four major trophies on course.\n\nThe Ivory Coast star, who had also hit the winner against Newcastle in the Premiership last week, knows all about League Cup glory after scoring in Chelsea's 2005 final win over Liverpool.\n\nThat victory was Drogba's first taste of success in English football and, with Chelsea through to the last four, he is determined to savour the winning feeling again.\n\n\"Everyone knows how important this competition is to me because it was my first trophy in England and I scored in the final,\" Drogba said.\n\n\"The team want to win every game because we want to be champions again and to win this trophy.\"\n\nDrogba has been suffering from a thigh injury recently but he came on for the lacklustre Andriy Shevchenko with 17 minutes left and made an instant impact.\n\nNicky Butt fouled Arjen Robben and Drogba stepped up to curl the free-kick past Shay Given for his 17th goal this season.\n\nHe is in the form of his life after grabbing the decisive goal in each of Chelsea's last three matches, but he put that impressive run down to the hard work of his team-mates.\n\n\"Sometimes you have a good period like this,\" Drogba said. \"But if I score it is because everyone is doing a good job and maybe their defence is tired. Sheva, Salomon Kalou and Arjen all did well.\n\n\"I am giving my best and I think everyone is happy with me not just because I am scoring goals but also because I am working for the team.\n\n\"It is difficult to come on as a substitute because the pace is very high in the English game.\n\n\"Frank Lampard came on and made a difference as well and so did Michael Ballack. It's very important to have a strong bench for different competitions.\"\n\nNewcastle were unlucky not to take the lead in the first half when Obafemi Martins' long-range shot cannoned off the crossbar and onto the goal-line.\n\nThe assistant referee ruled the ball had not crossed the line and Drogba came on to make Glenn Roeder's side pay for failing to turn their possession into goals.\n\nRoeder said: \"We were doing more than holding them in the first half and had some good chances. I thought the boys were fantastic.\"\n\nChelsea were joined in the last four by Tottenham after Jermain Defoe's extra-time winner earned a 1-0 win against Southend at White Hart Lane.\n\nSouthend goalkeeper Darryl Flahavan produced a string of fine saves to take the tie into an additional 30 minutes.\n\nBut England striker Defoe pounced from close range as he just beat the offside trap to tap-in Mido's cross in the 115th minute.\n\nLeague Two Wycombe had shocked struggling Premiership side Charlton on Tuesday as Jermaine Easter's goal clinched a 1-0 win at The Valley.\n\nLiverpool will play Arsenal in the last quarter-final on January 9 after their match on Tuesday was postponed due to heavy fog.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 313, "end_char": 322, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 495, "end_char": 504, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last four", "start_char": 696, "end_char": 709, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this season", "start_char": 1269, "end_char": 1280, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last four", "start_char": 2518, "end_char": 2531, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "an additional 30 minutes", "start_char": 2729, "end_char": 2753, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 115th minute", "start_char": 2866, "end_char": 2882, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT115M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2956, "end_char": 2963, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 9", "start_char": 3082, "end_char": 3091, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 3113, "end_char": 3120, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0626.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0221\n\nTOKYO, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapan's Tomen buys 19 percent of Koppert\n\n\n\n\nJapan's Tomen Corp. said Thursday it had bought a 19 percent stake in Koppert Biological Systems BV, a Dutch company that breeds benign insects to protect vegetables against insect pests.\n\nThe Japanese trading house has been a sales agent in Japan for the world's biggest breeder of benign insects since 1992 and sold for two years a type of bee that kills insects that thrive on tomatoes and strawberries.\n\nTomen said its capital tie-up with the Rotterdam-based Koppert would help breed and market types of benign insects peculiar to Japan.\n\nIt plans to sell 12 other types of insects to farmers for use in greenhouses.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 122, "end_char": 130, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 401, "end_char": 405, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years", "start_char": 419, "end_char": 428, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0221.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0096\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nTurkmen opposition plans return from exile: report\n\n\n\n\nTurkmenistan's exiled opposition is preparing a return to the Central Asian country following the death Thursday of President Saparmurat Niyazov, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported, citing a leader in exile.\n\n\"We will definitely fly there in two or three days,\" Nurmukhammed Khanamov, head of the exiled Republican Party, was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying.\n\n\"An opposition coalition government must be formed,\" he also said, adding that the three main opposition parties abroad were preparing to unite so that \"there will not be anarchy and conflict in the country.\"\n\n\"The most important thing is to do this all by the law,\" he said.\n\nNiyazov died earlier Thursday of a heart attack, according to an official statement. During his 20-year rule he allowed no political opposition.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 219, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two or three days", "start_char": 359, "end_char": 376, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 775, "end_char": 783, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0096.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0287\n\nBEIRUT, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nThousands of mourners marched on Tuesday behind the coffin of a young Shiite Muslim killed during mass opposition rallies, chanting for the fall of the Lebanese government.\n\n\"Death to (Prime Minister Fuad) Siniora,\" chanted the crowd, marching on a main road leading to the Rawdat Ash-Shahidain (maryrs') cemetery in Beirut's Shiite southern suburbs.\n\nAhmad Mahmud, 20, was killed during street fights which erupted on Sunday in several Sunni Muslim-majority neighbourhoods near where the opposition has been holding mass protests since Friday to demand the government's resignation.\n\n\"The blood of the Shiites is boiling,\" shouted other angry mourners, raising the green flags of the Shiite movement Amal.\n\nThe incidents have prompted officials to call for calm amid fears of a descent into sectarian violence in a country still reeling from the 1975-1990 civil war.\n\nAt the funeral ceremony, Sheikh Abdel Amir Qabalan, interim president of the Higher Shiite Council, appealed for calm and unity amid the deep political division in the country.\n\n\"We present the martyr as a sacrifice for Lebanon's national unity,\" he said.\n\n\"It is forbidden for Shiites to kill Sunnis, for Sunnis to kill Shiites, for Christians to kill Muslims and vice-versa,\" said Qabalan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 100, "end_char": 107, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 486, "end_char": 492, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 604, "end_char": 610, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0287.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0047\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua Middle East news advisory -- Nov. 13\n\n\n\n\nThe following are some of major Mideast news stories due to be covered or pursued by Xinhua News Agency on Monday.\n\n-- Monitoring the development on Iran's nuclear file as Tehran plans to install 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment.\n\n-- Monitoring progress on the formation of a national unity government as Fatah has accepted a candidate nominated by the Hamas movement as the new prime minister.\n\n-- Keep watching the latest Lebanese political crisis after six ministers resigned from the cabinet.\n\n-- Monitoring the situation in Iraq as Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki on Sunday called for a major reshuffle in the cabinet.\n\n-- Keep watching situation in the Palestinian territories as Arab foreign ministers called for a peace conference to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.\n\n-- The 4th High-level Group Meeting of Alliance of Civilizations Initiative will be held in Turkish largest city Istanbul with the participation of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan as well as other senior officials.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 682, "end_char": 688, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "4th", "start_char": 902, "end_char": 905, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "4", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0047.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0103\n\nKIGALI, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMore than 70 arrested in northern Rwanda: Radio Rwanda\n\n\n\n\nMore than 70 people have been arrested and a number of guns found by the Rwandan security forces in the Ruhengeri region of northern Rwanda, Radio Rwanda said.\n\nThirty-seven people were arrested in the district of Ndusu, where two guns and 10 grenades were found, the radio said late Sunday. It did not say when the arrests took place.\n\nThirty-nine people were arrested in the neighbouring district of Nyamureta, where security forces found four guns, the radio said. It said that the local population had assisted the security forces.\n\nThe security forces appeared to be treating the men as members of the former Rwandan Hutu, or Interhamwe, and former Rwandan army (FAR).\n\nAccused of taking part in the worst massacres in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which killed at least 500,000 people, mostly minority Tutsis, the former militia and army soldiers are believed by authorities to be carrying out attacks in northern and western Rwanda.\n\nA large number of former militia members and ex-FAR soldiers returned to Rwanda at the end of last year from Zaire, among hundreds of thousands of returning refugees.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Sunday", "start_char": 392, "end_char": 403, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 841, "end_char": 845, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of last year", "start_char": 1134, "end_char": 1154, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0103.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0152 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0152. \n Chandler Insurance Earnings \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CHANF \n GRAND CAYMAN, Cayman Islands  \n\n   Chandler Insurance Co. said it expects to report third-quarter net income jumped 97% to $2.8 million, or 51 cents a share. \n\n   In the year-earlier quarter, the automobile and trucking insurer had earnings of $1.4 million, or 48 cents a share on a restated basis, on revenue of $16.5 million. \nIn an interview, W. Brent LeGere, chairman and chief executive officer, said he expects revenue in the latest quarter to total about $28 million. \nThe earnings-per-share figures reflect a 25% stock dividend in June 1989. \n\n   Mr. LeGere attributed the earnings increase to growth in the company's longhaul trucking insurance lines and the ability to keep premium rates firm.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 73, "end_char": 81, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 202, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t21"}, {"text": "the year-earlier quarter", "start_char": 284, "end_char": 308, "tid": "t60", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t22"}, {"text": "the latest quarter", "start_char": 546, "end_char": 564, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t21"}, {"text": "June 1989", "start_char": 657, "end_char": 666, "tid": "t31", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0907.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0659\n\nTOKYO, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nModerate quake shakes central Japan\n\n\n\n\nA moderate earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale shook Tokyo and surrounding areas Friday but no casualties or damage had been reported, the meteorological agency said.\n\nThe epicentre of the quake, which ocurred at 8:30 a.m. (2330 GMT Thursday), was in the northern part of Ibaraki prefecture, some 100 kilometres (62 miles) from Tokyo.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "8:30 a.m.", "start_char": 316, "end_char": 325, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 336, "end_char": 344, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0659.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0423\n\nLIMA, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPeru's army, president mourn dead soldiers\n\n\n\n\nPeru's army on Thursday honored the two soldiers who died in the raid to free 72 hostages from the Japanese ambassador's residence in an emotional ceremony before laying the bodies to rest.\n\nColonel Juan Valer Sandoval and Capitan Raul Jimenez died Tuesday in the bold attack on the mansion that freed 71 of the hostages.\n\nOne hostage, a judge, died of a heart attack after being shot and all 14 of the Tupac Amaru rebel commando inside the residence were slain.\n\nFujimori's son, Kenji wept as his father praised the two soldier's valor in facing a \"cruel and fanatical enemy.\"\n\n\"What a great honor for a Peruvian soldier\" to die in battle \"but that does not impede us from crying\" for the losses, Fujimori said.\n\nValer was in charge of Kenji Fujimori's personal safety during his vacations from university in Boston, Massachusetts. Kenji arrived in Lima late Wednesday.\n\nArmed forces chief Nicolas Hermoza also wept as he remembered the fallen soldiers.\n\nThe president's son kissed the flag-drapped coffin of his protector and friend and placed a plaque on the casket.\n\nValer, 38, received gunshot wounds from rebel fire as he tried to protect Foreign Minister Francisco Tudela, one of the hostages, from the bullets. He is survived by his wife Luz Collado Escuza and two children.\n\nCollado sobbed as she was handed the red and white Peruvian flag that had covered her husband's coffin as her two small children looked on sadly.\n\nJimienez, 27, was shot in the neck as he tried to usher other hostages out of the residence.\n\nValer and Jiminez were promoted post-humously to the ranks of colonel and captain, respectively.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 348, "end_char": 355, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Wednesday", "start_char": 954, "end_char": 968, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0423.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0365\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS commentary ///\n\n\n\n\nThe US economy grew at a 2.0 percent rate in the third quarter, the government reported Thursday in a slight downward revision of gross domestic product.\n\nThe Commerce Department, in its final revision of growth in the July-September quarter, notched down its earlier estimate of a 2.2 percent annualized pace.\n\nWall Street analysts had on average expected no revision from the 2.2 percent figure.\n\nIn any case, the growth was the slowest since the final quarter in 2005 and a deceleration from the 2.6 percent pace in the second quarter.\n\nThe revision came from a slight downward adjustment in the estimate of consumer spending growth in the quarter to 2.8 percent instead of 2.9 percent.\n\nThe department said the slowdown in consumer spending was driven by better data on medical care spending, which was revised lower, and by a steeper slump in real estate spending.\n\nThat offset slight upward revisions to durable goods spending.\n\nThe latest revision left unchanged the picture of an economy that has shifted to a slower growth pace, held back by slumping real estate but still underpinned by consumer and business spending.\n\nSpending on residential property plunged 18.7 percent, revised from an earlier estimate of an 18 percent drop, the steepest drop since 1991.\n\n\"The downward revision in the third-quarter GDP data was almost entirely due to the recession in housing,\" said Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at Global Insight. \"The spillover effects to other parts of the economy continue to be limited.\"\n\nBusiness investment grew 10 percent, unrevised from the last estimate.\n\nAn inflation index linked to GDP showed a 2.4 percent increase in prices, and was unrevised after a four percent jump in the second quarter.\n\nCore prices excluding food and energy were up 2.2 percent, slightly ahead of the Federal Reserve's unofficial target but suggesting that the central bank's view of easing inflationary pressures is correct.\n\nThe Fed, which halted a string of rate increases in August, has indicated it may lift interest rates further if inflation kicks back up, but most economists see the next move as a rate cut to help stimulate flagging growth.\n\nRobert Brusca at FAO Economics said the GDP report also lowered the estimate for US productivity.\n\n\"GDP is old news, but what stings in this report is the marginal lowering of already weak productivity growth that will result from weaker GDP,\" he said.\n\n\"Weak productivity growth is bad news, and even weaker growth is worse news -- even if it is a marginal revision. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0139\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st Ld: China set to issue regulations on organ transplants\n\n\n\n\nChina will issue its regulations on human organ transplants \"soon\", said an official of the Ministry of Health (MOH).\n\n\"The draft of the regulations has been submitted to the State Council for amendment,\" said Wang Jianrong, vice director of the MOH regulations department as quoted in Monday's Guangming Daily.\n\nUnder the new regulations, a new organization will be in charge of registering and allocating donated organs, and evaluating the quality of the organ transplant surgery.\n\nOnly the top-tier hospitals - usually located in provincial capitals - will be allowed to perform organ transplants once they have been approved by the MOH. It remains to be seen whether exceptions will be made in emergency cases.\n\nCurrently, China has no clear laws on human organ transplants. This has resulted in transplants being carried out by unqualified doctors with substandard medical equipment, leading to the death of some patients. It is also widely claimed that hospitals are preoccupied with the quantity of organ transplants rather than the quality.\n\n\"The MOH will strictly control the number of hospitals licensed to perform organ transplants and supervise the quality of the surgery,\" said Wang Jianrong.\n\nMinistry of Health statistics indicate that China performed 34,726 organ transplants from 2000 to 2004, and at the end of 2004, 599 medical institutions did liver, kidney, heart and lung transplants.\n\nThough organ transplants have been performed in China for 40 years, the absence of laws concerning organ transplants and irregular organ transplant practices in some medical institutions have hindered the promotion of organ transplants in the country, Huang Jiefu, Vice Minister of Health, told a conference on the management of organ transplants held in Guangzhou recently.\n\nMeanwhile, China is still suffering a serious shortage of human organ donations.\n\n\"About 1.5 million people in China need transplants each year, but only around 10,000 operations can be carried out due to organ shortages,\"\n\n\"Social customs are a big reason,\" Huang said, explaining that many Chinese are unwilling to donate organs because of traditional rituals and beliefs. Furthermore, education of the public about donation is lacking, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 407, "end_char": 413, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1418, "end_char": 1422, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2004", "start_char": 1439, "end_char": 1454, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "40 years", "start_char": 1587, "end_char": 1595, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P40Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 1894, "end_char": 1902, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each year", "start_char": 2039, "end_char": 2048, "tid": "t7", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0139.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0713\n\nTOKYO, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Daniel Rook\n\n\n\n\nBusiness confidence among Japan's major manufacturers probably hit a new two-year high in the three months to December, smoothing the way for another interest rate rise, analysts said.\n\nThe Bank of Japan's closely watched Tankan survey out Friday is expected to show that sentiment among big manufacturers rose to 25 in December from 24 in September, the third quarter of improvement, according to consensus forecasts.\n\nBut market views are still divided on whether such a modest pick-up would lead the central bank to raise interest rates from 0.25 percent as soon as next week, with some analysts predicting a move early next year instead.\n\n\"We expect manufacturers' sentiment to remain steady in the face of rising uncertainty in the external environment,\" underpinned by solid profits and a weaker yen, predicted Morgan Stanley economist Takehiro Sato, who expected a bigger than average rise in the headline index to 26.\n\n\"For non-manufacturers, we expect to see some sense of stagnation in light of slackening demand on poor summer weather and the like,\" he added.\n\nAverage market expectations are for the index for major non-manufacturers to dip to 19 in December from 20 in October.\n\nThe previous Tankan report, which surveys almost 10,000 firms, showed Japanese executives growing more upbeat, with sentiment among big manufacturers jumping to 24 in September from 21 in June.\n\nThe figure was the strongest since the 13-year high of 26 seen in September 2004. A positive reading means that confident firms outweigh pessimistic ones.\n\nBut in October, the major manufacturers remained cautious about the outlook further ahead, forecasting a drop in the index back down to 21 by December.\n\nSome analysts believed that another upbeat Tankan might be enough to persuade the Bank of Japan to hike its key rate again at 0.5 percent next week.\n\nBut others say the central bank is more likely to hold off until early next year, to ensure the Japanese economic recovery does not grind to a halt if the US economy slows sharply.\n\nRecent sluggish data -- including a smaller-than-expected rise in machinery orders in October and a sharp downgrade to third-quarter growth, to an annualized 0.8 percent -- have dampened expectations of a rate rise next week.\n\nIn addition inflation remains subdued, with core consumer prices up just 0.1 percent in October from a year earlier.\n\nThe BoJ, which holds its next policy meeting on December 18-19, has kept its 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{"text": "WSJ891102-0041 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0041. \n Business Brief -- Primerica Corp.:\n@  A.L. Williams Corp. Merges\n@  Into Firm on Holders' Vote \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n PA \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   A.L. Williams Corp.  was merged into Primerica Corp., New York, after a special meeting of Williams shareholders cleared the transaction, the companies said. \n\n   Primerica, which  had owned nearly 70% of Williams,  will pay about 16.7 million shares, currently valued at almost $472 million, for the rest of Williams. \nThe financial-services company  will pay 0.82 share for each Williams share. \n\n   Williams shares, which were  to  be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange after the close of composite trading yesterday, closed at $23.25, off 12.5 cents. \nPrimerica closed at $28.25, down 50 cents. \n\n   Williams, Duluth, Ga., is an insurance and financial-services holding company. \nIts subsidiaries' services  are marketed by closely held A.L. Williams amp Associates. \nPrimerica, as expected, also acquired certain assets of the agency and assumed certain of its liabilities. \nTerms were n't disclosed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 140, "end_char": 148, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 482, "end_char": 491, "tid": "t25", "type": "TIME", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t20"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 747, "end_char": 756, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t20"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0150.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0213\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nASEAN air forces to increase cooperation in parts procurement\n\n\n\n\nThe air force chiefs of ASEAN ( Association of Southeast Asian Nations) member countries have agreed to increase cooperation in the procurement of spare parts for both transport and fighter planes.\n\nThe agreement was reached at the two-day third ASEAN Air Chiefs ' Conference (AACC) concluded here Wednesday.\n\nIndonesia had so far cooperated with several other ASEAN member countries in procurement of spare parts for Hercules transport and Hawk fighter planes, Indonesian Air Force Chief of Staff Marshal Herman Prayitno said on Wednesday.\n\n\"Most ASEAN member countries have Hercules transport and Hawk fighter planes. So if we have a spare part problem we can ask for help from Malaysia or Singapore,\" he said on the sidelines of Indo Defense Expo and Forum 2006.\n\nUnder the spare parts cooperation, Indonesia could \"borrow\" parts from its ASEAN neighbors. The parts would be returned after Indonesia had obtained replacements from producing countries like the United States in the case of Hercules parts.\n\nIndonesia had so far cooperated with Singapore in parts supply for Hawk fighters and \"we will consider doing it with the Philippines and other countries,\" he said.\n\nBesides discussing parts procurement, the third AACC also dwelt on terrorism and security stability in the region and the handling of natural disasters.\n\nOn anti-terrorism cooperation, the ASEAN air force chiefs agreed to conduct exchange of information and joint patrols and to increase cooperation in training and education.\n\nIndonesia has held joint exercises with other ASEAN member countries such as Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore, he said.\n\nThe AACC was attended by the air force chiefs of staff of Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.\n\nThe first AACC was held in Thailand in 2004 and the second in Malaysia in 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 421, "end_char": 430, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 653, "end_char": 662, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1938, "end_char": 1942, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1973, "end_char": 1977, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0213.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0155\n\nAMMAN, Nov. 18 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nJordanian FM, Russian envoy discuss Palestinian issue\n\n\n\n\nJordanian Foreign Minister Abdul Ilah al-Khatib held talks on Saturday with visiting Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Sultanov, stressing the importance of supporting efforts to settle the Palestinian issue, the official Petra news agency reported.\n\nAl-Khatib urged the International Quartet on the Middle East, which groups the United Nations, the United States, Russia and the European Union, to make more efforts to achieve a just and lasting peace in the region.\n\nHe expressed his appreciation for the expected visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Jordan next February.\n\nDuring the meeting, Sultanov talked about Putin's initiative to hold an international conference to settle the Palestinian issue.\n\nAl-Khatib said Jordan had a positive view on the initiative and an initiative announced by France, Spain and Italy.\n\n\"Such initiatives reflect the world's interest in the situation in the region and the willingness of the international community to contribute to finding a just and comprehensive solution for the Palestinian cause,\" said al-Khatib.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next February", "start_char": 689, "end_char": 702, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0155.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0189\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAnniversary of late non-communist party leader marked\n\n\n\n\nA workshop was held at the Great Hall of the People, in central Beijing, on Friday, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of late non-communist party leader Sun Xiaocun.\n\nSun was vice chairman of the CPPCC National Committee and chairman of the Central Committee of the China National Democratic Construction Association, one of China's eight non-communist parties. He was also a renowned rural economist.\n\nLiu Yandong, vice chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), called Sun an \"outstanding patriot\" and a \"revolutionary intellectual who walked from the old society into New China.\"\n\nIn her speech, Liu, who is also director of the United Front Department of the CPC Central Committee, praised Sun's contribution to the undertakings of the United Front and multiparty cooperation under CPC's leadership.\n\nJia Qinglin, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, attended the meeting.\n\nOther speakers were Zhang Rongming, Wan Guoquan, Cheng Shi'e as well as Sun's granddaughter Sun Yangsheng, and Sun Qimeng,. Also present were He Luli, Huang Mengfu, Wang Guangying, and Sun Fuling.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 191, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0189.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0584\n\nTOKYO, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS defense secretary gets assurance that US bases law will be passed\n\n\n\n\nUS Defense Secretary William Cohen won assurances from his Japanese counterpart that a special law extending the US military presence in Okinawa would be pass in time for a US-Japan summit in two weeks, a US spokesman said Tuesday.\n\nCohen, on the first stop of a five-day visit to Japan and Korea, planned to visit US troops at two nearby bases before further meetings later Tuesday with members of the Japanese parliament and Foreign Minister Yukishiko Ikeda.\n\nIn an opening round of talks late Monday with Japanese Defense Agency director Fumio Kyuma, Cohen reaffirmed Washington's determination to maintain US troops levels in the Asia-Pacific region at 100,000, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said.\n\nAmid protests over the US military presence, landowners in Okinawa have refused to renew leases on US facilities when they expire in May, prompting Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto to seek passage of a law to override the landowners.\n\n\"They believe that this will pass and this will be done by the time Prime Minister Hashimoto meets President Clinton,\" Bacon said.\n\nCohen and Kyuma's talks covered a wide range of issues, including the situation in North Korea and work to update 1978 defense guidelines that would spell out Japan's role in supporting US forces in a crisis in Korea or elsewhere.\n\n\"They agreed that the defense guidelines are a serious issue for both sides that we hope to complete to them in September by time of the defense and foreign ministers two-plus-two meeting in Washington in late September,\" Bacon said.\n\n\"The Japanese hoped to give an interim progress report sometime in May on where we stand,\" Bacon said.\n\nCohen also raised US interest in involving Japan in developing theater missile defenses, but Bacon said the issue was not a focus of Monday's talks.\n\nThe US defense secretary was traveling to the US air base at Yakota and the US navy base at Yokosuka to visit some of the 47,000 US troops in Japan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 317, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 348, "end_char": 355, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 500, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 621, "end_char": 627, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 964, "end_char": 967, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1542, "end_char": 1551, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late September", "start_char": 1635, "end_char": 1649, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1732, "end_char": 1735, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1902, "end_char": 1908, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0584.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061208.0018\n\nMANAMA, Dec 7 , 2006, 2006\n\nIsrael provoked nuclear race in Gulf: Saudi\n\n\n\n\nIsrael's reputed nuclear arms arsenal has provoked an atomic weapons race in the Middle East, a senior Saudi official said Friday in apparent reference to Iran.\n\n\"The fact that Israel has nuclear arms constitutes the most dangerous strategic threat for the security of the Gulf in the short and medium terms,\" said the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz.\n\n\"This has led certain countries in the region to take part in the contest for nuclear arms, as we are now seeing,\" he said in a speech to a Gulf security conference in Manama, without naming Iran.\n\nThe West suspects the Islamic republic is seeking to develop nuclear weapons, a charge denied by Tehran.\n\nThe Jewish state is widely considered to be the Middle East's sole nuclear armed power, but has never confirmed or denied the suspicions, and continues to campaign against arch-foe Iran's nuclear programme.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 7 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 222, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061208.0018.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0242\n\nLONDON, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS case sent to central criminal court ///\n\n\n\n\nAn aide to the British commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan was sent Wednesday for trial at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to \"the enemy\" -- believed to be Iran, officials said.\n\nCorporal Daniel James, an interpreter to Lieutenant General David Richards, has been charged under the Official Secrets Act with \"prejudicing the safety of the state.\"\n\nThe 44-year-old, who first appeared before magistrates last week, was back in court on Wednesday -- and judge Timothy Workman set a date of January 12 for a preliminary hearing at the Old Bailey, England's central criminal court.\n\nThe charge alleges that on November 2 this year, he \"communicated to another person information calculated to be, or that might be, or intended to be directly or indirectly useful to the enemy.\"\n\nJames' boss Richards is head of NATO's more than 30,000-strong International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.\n\nJames, who lives in the southern English resort town of Brighton, is of Iranian descent and speaks fluent Pashtun, one of the main languages in Afghanistan, according to The Daily Telegraph newspaper.\n\nAt last Wednesday's initial case the judge ordered reporters out for much of the proceedings because of possible prejudice to national security, and remanded him in custody over the Christmas break.\n\nAccording to The Guardian newspaper, the court ruled that there was a substantial risk of further \"communications\" between James and \"a foreign power\", and he might be \"extracted\" from British jurisdiction if granted bail.\n\nThe court case comes as British-led forces struggle against fiercer than expected Taliban insurgents in the south of Afghanistan, invaded by US-led forces following the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States.\n\nThe charges also come amid heightening tension between the West and Iran over the Islamic republic's nuclear plans.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 531, "end_char": 540, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 563, "end_char": 572, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 12", "start_char": 616, "end_char": 626, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 2 this year", "start_char": 734, "end_char": 754, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Wednesday", "start_char": 1228, "end_char": 1242, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 11, 2001", "start_char": 1818, "end_char": 1836, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001-09-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0242.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0228\n\nSTOCKHOLM, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSweden to set up new government crisis center\n\n\n\n\nThe Swedish government has announced it is organizing a new alarm center to help it react to crises like the Asian tsunami, in which more than 500 Swedes died, Radio Sweden reported on Wednesday.\n\nThe government is under pressure from critics who say it responded too slowly for the thousands of Swedish vacationers who were in the region just under a year ago.\n\nThe crisis center is to watch for events around the world 24 hours a day, analyzing crises and advising the government on what kind of action is needed, the report said.\n\nThe government announcement came just before a commission is due to make its report on Sweden's reaction to the tsunami. It is expected to be highly critical.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 294, "end_char": 303, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 469, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 hours a day", "start_char": 530, "end_char": 544, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0228.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0092\n\nMOGADISHU, Dec 23 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS, UPDATES throughout ///\n\n\n\n\nSomali Islamists claimed to have captured a frontline position from Ethiopian-backed government forces Saturday as the embattled Somali prime minister warned that foreign \"terrorists\" had joined the ranks of the Islamic forces.\n\nPrime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said 4,000 \"foreign fighters\" had taken advantage of the conflict to infiltrate the country, which has been lawless since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.\n\n\"Four thousand foreign fighters have participated in recent fighting around Dinsoor district and some of them have been killed,\" Gedi told a press conference in Baidoa, about 250 kilometres (155 miles) northwest of the Islamist-controlled capital Mogadishu.\n\n\"This shows how terrorists are gaining ground in Somalia, so we are calling the international community to be aware of (what is happening in) Somalia,\" he added.\n\nIslamists meanwhile renewed calls for Muslims around the world to offer support for the \"holy war\", and claimed to have captured a key frontline position at Idale, some 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of the government headquarters in Baidoa.\n\n\"Our Islamic fighters have taken control of Idale and are heading to other parts where Tigray (Ethiopian) invaders are now based,\" Islamic movement information chief Abdurahim Ali Muddey told AFP.\n\n\"By the will of Allah, we will liberate our people and country from the Ethiopian invaders,\" he said.\n\nInformation Minister Ali Jama did not confirm the seizure, but told AFP \"fighting is raging in Idale.\" Witnesses said the rivals were shelling each other with mortars, rockets and machine-gun fire, causing heavy casualties.\n\nWith no sign of let-up in the fighting, the Islamist leadership called on all Muslims around the world to join in the clashes that threaten to engulf the entire Horn of Africa region.\n\n\"This country is open for the Islamic fighters all over the world to join the holy war,\" said Islamist security chief Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad Indo'adhe.\n\n\"Grave results will be witnessed if the international community maintains ignoring deteriorating situation in Somalia,\" said Indo'adhe, whose movement has been accused of ties with Al-Qaeda.\n\nThe fresh violence drew calls for restraint from the international community, with the United Nations and African Union regional grouping urging an immediate end to the fighting.\n\nEthiopia is supporting Somalia's weakened government against the Islamist forces, which control Mogadishu and much of the rest of the war-ravaged Horn of Africa nation.\n\nFighting erupted early Wednesday, hours after the expiry of an Islamist-imposed ultimatum for Ethiopia to withdraw the thousands of troops the Islamists say Addis Ababa has deployed in the country.\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said the fighting had left \"dozens\" dead.\n\nFor its part the government says its Ethiopian-backed forces have killed more than 500 Islamist fighters since Wednesday, while the Islamists spoke of slaying at least 70 enemy combatants.\n\nMuddey said Islamist forces were pushing back the Ethiopian-backed troops.\n\n\"This war is between Somalia and Tigray invaders. The forces have been pressed and they are losing in the battlefields,\" he added.\n\n\"The invaders have been repelled, we have a lot of their bodies here and are going to show the media, we have their ID cards, pictures with their wives, and equipment,\" he said.\n\nThe fighting on twin fronts has forced thousands of residents to flee.\n\n\"People are really scared because both sides are using heavy artillery shells and other weapons,\" Haji Hassan Dhubow, a resident of Goof Gaduud village southwest of Baidoa, told AFP.\n\n\"I have seen many people fleeing with their children,\" he said.\n\nWitnesses said Ethiopian tanks faced off with Islamic fighters in Daynunay, a flashpoint garrison town about 30 kilometres to the east of Baidoa, but there was no direct confrontation.\n\nThe fighting and war of words have come despite a statement by European Commissioner Louis Michel on Wednesday that he had secured the commitment of both sides to observe a truce and resume peace talks.\n\nArab League-mediated talks in Khartoum collapsed in November when Islamists refused to negotiate until Ethiopia withdrew its troops. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0231\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nIndia lose openers cheaply after delayed start\n\n\n\n\nIndia lost both their opening batsmen cheaply when the first Test against South Africa got off to a late start at the Wanderers Stadium Friday.\n\nIndia were 19 for two at lunch after Wasim Jaffer and Virender Sehwag fell within the space of six balls.\n\nJaffer was leg before wicket to Makhaya Ntini for nine when he padded up to a ball just outside his off stump which was slanting in.\n\nSehwag was caught behind off Shaun Pollock in the next over when he was squared up by a lifting delivery. The normally dashing Sehwag scored only four runs off 26 balls.\n\nIndian captain Rahul Dravid, recovered from a finger injury, took a painful blow in the ribs from Pollock. He had yet to score at lunch, while Sachin Tendulkar was on four.\n\nThe morning's play was restricted to an hour. The start was delayed by 90 minutes because of damp patches on the pitch.\n\nThe Gauteng Cricket Board said the damp patches were caused by wet hessian placed on the pitch overnight because groundsman Chris Scott was concerned that the surface was too dry and that it might break up on the fourth and fifth days.\n\n\"After removing the covers this morning, there was a lot more moisture on the wicket than anticipated,\" he said.\n\nDespite the late start, the pitch looked good for batting on a hot, cloudless day and although there was grass cover it had a brown tinge.\n\nIndia opted to leave off-spinner Harbhajan Singh out of their final eleven, leaving leg-spinner Anil Kumble as the only specialist slow bowler. South Africa fielded an all-seam attack.\n\nDale Steyn took the new ball for South Africa but although he bowled fast he did not make the batsmen play enough and he was replaced after three overs by Pollock, who immediately struck a good line and length.\n\nNtini bowled a fiery spell of six overs before Steyn came on again in the over before lunch.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 245, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "90 minutes", "start_char": 911, "end_char": 921, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT90M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0231.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0045 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0045. \n Delta Air Net Rose\n@  By 33% to Record\n@  In Fiscal 1st Period\n@  ----\n@  By Bridget O'Brian\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n DAL AWAL \n EARNINGS (ERN)\nAIRLINES (AIR) \n\n   Delta Air Lines earnings soared 33% to a record in the fiscal first quarter, bucking the industry trend toward declining profits. \n\n   The Atlanta-based airline, the third largest in the U.S., attributed the increase to higher passenger traffic, new international routes and reduced service by rival Eastern Airlines, which is in bankruptcy proceedings in the wake of a strike that began last spring. \n\n   For the quarter ended Sept. 30, Delta posted net income of $133.1 million, or $2.53 a share, up from $100 million, or $2.03 a share, a year earlier. \n\n   Revenue rose 15% to $2.17 billion from $1.89 billion. \nDuring the quarter, Delta issued 2.5 million shares of common stock to Swissair, and 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0230\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDomestic news item from Xinhua -- Nov. 29\n\n\n\n\nThe following are domestic news items released by Xinhua on Tuesday:\n\nMarket exchange rates -- Nov. 29\n\nHighlights of major Beijing-based newspapers -- Nov. 29\n\nXinhua domestic news advisory -- Nov. 29\n\nVictims' families compensated following north China colliery flood\n\nHong Kong stocks open lower -- Nov. 29\n\nDeath toll rises to 138 in northeast China coal mine blast\n\nSchools in Harbin to resume classes\n\nBus overturn leaves three dead, 15 injured in SW China\n\nStocks in Hong Kong end lower at midday\n\nChina confirms two more bird flu outbreaks in Xinjiang, Hunan\n\nSenior legislator meets ROK guests\n\nAir quality of major Chinese cities -- Nov. 29\n\nHarry Potter's \"Goblet\" conjures up 66.56 million yuan in China\n\nChina, US to hold second strategic dialogue in Washington\n\nUN chief to visit China in December\n\nShanghai stock index down -- Nov. 29\n\nShenzhen stock index down -- Nov. 29\n\nHushen index down -- Nov. 29\n\nMost rescued miners in NE. coal mine blast suffer from mixed gas poisoning\n\nHK stocks finish lower -- Nov. 29\n\nBoat collision leaves three dead, one missing in E. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0112\n\nLONDON, Dec 17 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS press, quotes, background ///\n\n\n\n\nBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair defended his EU budget deal Saturday that will slash billions of euros from Britain's rebate, saying failure would have caused \"immense damage\" to its national interest.\n\nFacing a press savaging for renouncing some of the annual cashback in order to strike a deal, he insisted there was no other choice.\n\n\"It's in the British interests to stay firmly anchored within the EU, and we've done so successfully during this presidency,\" he told BBC radio just a few hours after sealing an accord hammered out overnight.\n\nThe compromise deal over the 2007-2013 budget followed two days of intense summit diplomacy under Britain's EU presidency, ending a bitter deadlock over the bloc's spending plans.\n\nBritain will effectively give up 10.5 billion euros (12.6 billion dollars) of its long-cherished budget rebate over that period, after an earlier lower proposal was angrily dismissed as inadequate by its EU partners.\n\nFailure to reach a deal \"would have done immense damages to the country's national interest,\" Blair said. \"We would have wrecked our entire relationship with these new Europe countries and with the new German government.\"\n\nThe rebate, famously negotiated by Margaret Thatcher in 1984 when Britain was struggling economically, is tied to EU spending and rises every year. In 2004 it came to more than five billion euros.\n\nEven after foregoing 10.5 billion euros, the deal would still see Britain's net rebate -- the money it gets back from the bloc -- rise overall during the financial period.\n\n\"The rebate rises, it doesn't diminish,\" Blair said, adding: \"Most of the large countries are losing far more than Britain. We have for the first time parity with France.\"\n\nBlair said the agreement opened the way to a review in 2008 or 2009 of the way the European Union spends its money, claiming \"it will then allow us to do changes and to prepare for further reforms.\"\n\n\"I am a reformer,\" he added. \"There's actually a need now for a different type of Europe\" and to get rid of \"a CAP (common agricultural policy) which is completely out of date.\"\n\n\"We face the possibility of a fundamental reform the next few years,\" Blair argued.\n\nThat was not how the traditionally eurosceptic British press saw it.\n\n\"Blair's surrender,\" lashed the right-wing Daily Mail.\n\n\"He gives Europe YOUR cash and is getting NOTHING back,\" raged the tabloid Sun, Britain's biggest-selling daily, claiming the deal would cost \"an extra 100 pounds for every UK man, woman and child.\"\n\nThe conservative Daily Telegraph said Blair \"caved in because the EU could not afford another failure\" after the acrimonious collapse of an earlier June summit and the rejection by French and Dutch voters of an EU constitution.\n\n\"After all the tough talk, surrender was the only option left,\" it wrote.\n\nStill, The Times, also conservative, detected a silver lining in declaring that Blair had achieved a deal many had thought beyond him and had managed to bring new German Chancellor Angela Merkel closer to his view.\n\nBlair also drew warm praise from a host of other EU leaders for hammering out the deal, some praising his political courage and readiness to compromise at the last minute.\n\nThe prime minister insisted Britain's six-month presidency, which ends on December 31, had achieved some solid results.\n\n\"We've begun negotiations with Turkey and Croatia, a huge step forward,\" he told BBC radio, \"we've produced a budget, we've got a whole series of changes agreed, often in challenging circumstances.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 159, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this presidency", "start_char": 544, "end_char": 559, "tid": "t2", "type": "SET", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days", "start_char": 701, "end_char": 709, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "that period", "start_char": 943, "end_char": 954, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1984", "start_char": 1324, "end_char": 1328, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 1404, "end_char": 1414, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1419, "end_char": 1423, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the financial period", "start_char": 1616, "end_char": 1636, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1867, "end_char": 1871, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next few years", "start_char": 2240, "end_char": 2258, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2750, "end_char": 2754, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last minute", "start_char": 3277, "end_char": 3292, "tid": "t15", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-12-16T23:59", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 31", "start_char": 3369, "end_char": 3380, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0112.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0037\n\nSEOUL, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSenior South Korean politicians summoned over Hanbo scandal\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korean prosecutors Friday summoned two senior opposition politicians for questioning over a massive graft scandal enveloping the Hanbo business group, prompting charges of a political conspiracy.\n\nThe Prosecutor General's Office called in Kim Sang-Hyon of the main opposition National Congress for New Politics and Kim Yong-Hwan of the second opposition United Liberal Democratic Party.\n\nProsecutors also summoned a ruling New Korea Party presidential hopeful, Kim Deok-Ryong, who said he would respond to the summons around this weekend.\n\nThe three were the first to be questioned among 33 politicians, including 20 incumbent lawmakers, who allegedly received money from Chung Tae-Soo, founder of the failed Hanbo conglomerate.\n\nHanbo, the country's 14th largest conglomerate, collapsed in January under debts of 5.8 billion dollars, prompting charges of high-level corruption. Eleven people, including four lawmakers, have been arrested and jailed.\n\nThe summoning of politicians came after prosecutors pledged a new probe into politicians whose names have surfaced in the course investigations into the massive loans-for-kickbacks scandal engulfing Hanbo.\n\nThe prosecution had said that aside from the arrested four, they had no plans to investigate other politicians who allegedly took customary \"rice cake expenditures.\"\n\nRice cake expenditures are cash gifts of anywhere between tens of dollars and tens of thousand dollars, which are offered with no clear strings attatched.\n\nThe prosecution's reversal in policy triggered charges of political conspiracy from both the ruling and opposition camps.\n\nSecond opposition party leader Kim Jong-Pil accused the investigation of being \"a ploy to protect (South Korean President Kim Young-Sam's second son) Kim Hyun-Chul.\"\n\nKim Hyun-Chul, 39, is to face parliamentary questioning on April 25 on allegations that he was at the centre of the Hanbo scandal and other charges of corruption and influence peddling.\n\nThe Christian-run Kookmin Daily said the government might be sending a warning signal to politicians in the run up to the parliamentary questioning of the president's son.\n\nKim Deok-Ryong, the ruling party presidential hopeful summoned by the prosecution, said he had fallen victim to a conspiracy by rival factions within the ruling camp ahead of the presidential election in December.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 148, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this weekend", "start_char": 648, "end_char": 660, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 914, "end_char": 921, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 25", "start_char": 1954, "end_char": 1962, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 2459, "end_char": 2467, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0037.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0219\n\nLIMA, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPeru's Fujimori basks in glory of hostage rescue; Japanese PM to visit by Oscar Zamalloa\n\n\n\n\nGovernments around the world praised President Alberto Fujimori for ending an 18-week hostage standoff with a spectacular attack that left 17 people dead but freed 71 prominent captives.\n\nPeruvian troops stormed the Japanese ambassador's residence Tuesday in a surprise operation that killed one hostage, two members of the security forces and all 14 hostage-takers.\n\nFujimori celebrated his spectacular victory over the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) rebels by dining late Tuesday with top officials at a restaurant in the posh neighborhood of San Isidro, the same neighborhood where the hostage crisis evolved.\n\n\"Peru will never cave in to blackmail by subversive elements,\" Fujimori told a crowd in central Lima after the crisis ended.\n\nIn Tokyo, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto said Wednesday during talks with Peru's ambassador to Japan that he hoped to visit Fujimori soon.\n\n\"Once things are settled and when President Fujimori has the time, I want to visit Lima and give my thanks to him directly,\" he was quoted as saying.\n\nJapanese Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda was scheduled to leave for Lima late Wednesday, officials said.\n\nSouth Korean President Kim Young-Sam and Philippine President Fidel Ramos and both congratulated Fujimori on a job well done.\n\nThe Peruvian Congress late Tuesday praised the military intervention, calling it a \"glorious page\" in Peruvian history, and naming Supreme Court justice Carlos Giusti, who died of a heart attack after he was shot during the rescue operation, a \"civil hero.\"\n\nBolivian Ambassador Jorge Gumucio, one of the freed hostages, said that troops assaulted the building when the captors were playing a football match in the residence reception hall.\n\n\"An explosion underneath the reception hall, where a tunnel had been dug, killed most of the terrorists (and) I saw five or six of them collapse,\" Gumucio said.\n\nOfficials said 140 crack troops entered the residence compound through an underground tunnel whose construction was cited by the rebels as the reason for an abrupt suspension of negotiations on March 6.\n\nThe sunny afternoon calm in the posh neighborhood was shattered by the sound of automatic gunfire and a series of explosions that left a thick, black pall over the compound.\n\nRoughly 40 minutes after the operation began, jubiliant soldiers appeared on the rooftop of the residence, flashing the 'V' victory sign.\n\nThen Fujimori -- who ordered the operation even though his brother Pedro was among the hostages -- arrived to tour the residence and embraced the freed hostages.\n\nTwenty-four Japanese nationals, including Ambassador Morihisa Aoki, were set free.\n\nSome two dozen people, mostly hostages, were slightly hurt in the operation. Two others were seriously injured but expected to recover.\n\nThe hostage crisis began last December 17 when the guerrillas entered the compound during a gala reception attended by numerous dignitaries.\n\nThey initially seized some 700 hostages, but soon released all but 72 men.\n\nThe rebels demanded the release of some 400 imprisoned comrades.\n\nFujimori and top government ministers met the negotiators who have been trying to broker an agreement between the government and the rebels late Tuesday to inform them of the reasons behind his approval of the attack.\n\nThe mediators -- Ayacucho Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani, Canadian Ambassador Anthony Vincent, and International Red Cross representative Michel Mining -- withdrew without talking to reporters.\n\nAt midnight, while the bodies of the MRTA guerrillas remained in the residence, residents from the working-class Lima neighborhood of San Juan de Miraflores reported seeing a red flag in support of the guerrillas on a nearby hill.\n\nCallers who claimed to speak for the MRTA telephoned several news organizations to warn of retaliation.\n\nSoon after the rescue, Hashimoto thanked Fujimori, but noted: \"I regret to say that the Peruvian government did not notify us before they stormed the residence.\"\n\nIn the Philippines, Ramos told reporters he has sent a letter to Fujimori expressing Manila's support for his decision to use force in freeing the hostages.\n\n\"The Philippines stands very firm against the scourge of terrorism in all its forms,\" Ramos said.\n\nKim sent a congratulatory message to Fujimori for wrapping up the incident \"at a minimal cost of human life.\"\n\n\"I pay my deep respect for patience and courage shown in the course of addressing the four-month-long hostage case,\" Kim said in a written statement.\n\nOne South Korean national and one ethnic Korean were among the original group of hostages, and were soon released.\n\nNot all foreigners were happy, however. In Guatemala, some 60 pro-MRTA students threw rocks at the Peruvian embassy and spray-painted anti- Fujimori slogans on nearby walls.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 393, "end_char": 400, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Tuesday", "start_char": 625, "end_char": 637, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 944, "end_char": 953, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Wednesday", "start_char": 1262, "end_char": 1276, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1449, "end_char": 1456, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 6", "start_char": 2220, "end_char": 2227, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Roughly 40 minutes", "start_char": 2405, "end_char": 2423, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last December 17", "start_char": 2953, "end_char": 2969, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 3357, "end_char": 3364, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0219.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0018 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0018. \n Business Brief -- First of America Bank Corp.:\n@  Midwest Financial Group\n@  Acquired for $250 Million \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n FABK \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nBANKS (BNK) \n\n   First of America Bank Corp. said it completed its acquisition of Midwest Financial Group Inc. for about $250 million. \nFirst of America, which now has 45 banks and $12.5 billion in assets, announced an agreement to acquire the Peoria, Ill., bank holding company in January. \n\n   Midwest Financial has $2.3 billion in assets and eight banks. \nThe Midwest Financial subsidiary banks will continue to operate under their current names until early 1990, when each will adopt the First of America name. \n\n   Kalamazoo, Mich.-based First of America said it will eliminate the 13 management positions of the former Midwest Financial parent company. \nFirst of America said some of the managers will take other jobs with First of America. \nBut it said that severance payments to those executives not staying with the company will reduce First of America's operating results for 1989 by $3 million to $4 million, or 15 cents to 20 cents a share.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 395, "end_char": 398, "tid": "t41", "type": "TIME", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 517, "end_char": 524, "tid": "t67", "type": "TIME", "value": "1990-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "early 1990", "start_char": 690, "end_char": 700, "tid": "t75", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0172.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0211\n\nGENEVA, April 4 , 1997, (AFP)\n\n1996 set grim record for executions: Amnesty\n\n\n\n\nLast year set a new record for capital punishment with more than 7,000 death sentences being passed and more than 4,000 carried out, 3,500 of them in China, Amnesty International said Friday.\n\nThe human rights organisation welcomed a move by the UN Human Rights Commission which called Thursday on countries which still have the death penalty to limit executions.\n\nThe resolution condemning capital punishment was adopted despite opposition from a number of countries, including China, Japan and the United States.\n\nPassed by 27 votes to 11, it also called on countries still practising state-sponsored execution to spare adolescents under 18 and pregnant women.\n\nAmnesty underlined that in countries where the death penalty is most frequently applied, executions often followed unfair trials with convictions often based on confessions obtained by force from prisoners denied legal access.\n\nAt least 4,272 prisoners were executed in 39 countries last year, while a further 7,017 people were sentenced to death in 76 countries, Amnesty said.\n\nThe figures -- which only represent part of the true number of death sentences and executions -- mark an increase of 30 percent on 1995, when 3,276 prisoners were executed and 4,165 sentenced to death.\n\nThis great leap forward is largely attributed to an anti-crime campaign launched in China last April. Amnesty recorded 3,500 executions in China, most victims being hastily dispatched at the conclusion of dubious trials.\n\nIn Ukraine 169 prisoners were executed, at least 140 in Russia, and more than 110 in Iran.\n\nThe above four countries between them account for 92 percent of all executions in the world last year.\n\nUnconfirmed statistics attribute 123 executions to Turkmenistan, and Iraq is also believed to have implemented numerous death sentences.\n\nIn the United States, at least 3,150 prisoners were on death row in September 1996, with 45 death sentences being passed in the course of the year.\n\nHowever, despite the increase in executions, Amnesty noted a growing tendency for countries to abolish capital punishment.\n\nBelgium was the latest country to do so, bringing to 58 the number of countries that have totally renounced the punishment.\n\nA futher 15 countries have abolished the death penalty except for extraordinary crimes, and 27 countries with the penalty still in their legislation have suspended all executions for 10 years.\n\nMore than half the world's nations have now either abolished or no longer practice the death penalty, Amnesty said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 4 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 103, "end_char": 112, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 287, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 389, "end_char": 397, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1050, "end_char": 1059, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1277, "end_char": 1281, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last April", "start_char": 1439, "end_char": 1449, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1755, "end_char": 1764, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 1996", "start_char": 1973, "end_char": 1987, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 2043, "end_char": 2051, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 years", "start_char": 2486, "end_char": 2494, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0211.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0295\n\nSTOCKHOLM, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDenmark to increase troops in Afghanistan\n\n\n\n\nThe Danish government plans to meet a NATO request to increase its number of troops in Afghanistan, Ritzau news bureau reported on Tuesday.\n\nThe additional soldiers have been requested to help patrol the southern Hemland Province, an area that has been described as \" unsafe and complex\", and would more than double the Danish contribution to NATO's Afghanistan contingent, sources closed to the government revealed to Ritzau.\n\nDefense Minister Soeren Gade confirmed the possibility that troops would be sent, but kept further details under wraps.\n\n\"The government has received a request from NATO, which we are willing to meet. Now we are discussing the matter with the other parties in parliament,\" Gade said. \"Any troops we send would be under British command, but how many we send is still not decided.\"\n\nThe government, according to Ritzau's source, proposes sending as many as 190 additional soldiers, increasing the total number of Danish forces in Afghanistan to 360.\n\nBoth the government's supporters and the opposition said they supported sending more troops.\n\n\"We would even support sending more troops than the government proposes,\" said Per Kaalund, defense issues spokesman for the opposition Social Democrats.\n\nDenmark's 173 soldiers currently stationed in Afghanistan are primarily responsible for coordinating cargo flights, and for air traffic control at Kabul's main airport.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 243, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 734, "end_char": 737, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1354, "end_char": 1363, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0295.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0137\n\nKHOST, Afghanistan, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\n///\n\n\n\n\nNine Taliban rebels and an Afghan soldier were killed and 14 insurgents were captured in fresh fighting across insurgency-hit Afghanistan, officials said Monday.\n\nA major firefight broke out early Monday after nearly 200 militants crossed the border from Pakistan and attacked a border checkpost in the eastern Afghan province of Khost, police said.\n\nFive Taliban fighters and an Afghan militia soldier died in the hour-long exchange of fire, provincial police official Gul Dad said, adding that four Afghan nationals were arrested.\n\nPakistani militants \"were also with them fighting our troops,\" Dad told AFP, citing documents found on the bodies of the dead rebels. \"It was a heavy battle.\"\n\nSelf-confessed Taliban spokesman Mohammad Hanif claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of the ousted Islamists but said only one rebel was killed.\n\nThe fighting took place days after Afghan President Hamid Karzai publicly accused the Pakistani government for the first time of supporting Taliban rebels. Islamabad denies the claims.\n\nMeanwhile, four Taliban insurgents were killed in a separate clash late Sunday in the southern province of Kandahar which also left three US-led coalition soldiers injured, the US military said in a statement.\n\nThe raid supported by warplanes \"seized an enemy weapons cache containing mines and explosives\" near Kandahar city, the birthplace of the Taliban and a continuing focus for the insurgency.\n\nAlso on Monday, coalition troops backed by Afghan army soldiers detained 10 \"suspected terrorists\" including an Al-Qaeda-linked militant in the eastern province of Kunar, another troubled region on the Pakistani border.\n\n\"The operation resulted in the capture of a known transporter of weapons and explosives who is linked to foreign fighter movements in the region,\" the coalition said in a statement.\n\nThe man, whose name and nationality were not disclosed, was also responsible for facilitating suicide bombings which have increased in Afghanistan in recent months, the statement said.\n\n\"Credible information led the combined force to believe the transporter and his associates were at the compound,\" which the rebels shared with women and children, it said, adding that there were no civilian casualties in the raid.\n\nSome 4,000 people, many of them militants but also troops and civilians, have died in Taliban-led violence this year alone, making it Afghanistan's bloodiest year since the movement was toppled by US-led forces in 2001.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 226, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Sunday", "start_char": 1176, "end_char": 1187, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1518, "end_char": 1524, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent months", "start_char": 2064, "end_char": 2077, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 2439, "end_char": 2448, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 2546, "end_char": 2550, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0137.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0162\n\nMOGADISHU, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nplanes ///\n\n\n\n\nA powerful Islamic movement on Saturday seized control of a key Somali township, pushing the Horn of Africa nation closer to an all-out war, officials said.\n\nAs the international community scrambled to avoid fresh clashes, Islamic forces said they had taken control of Dinsoor, about 270 kilometres (170 miles) west of the capital Mogadishu, after pro-government militia pulled out.\n\n\"We are telling you that Dinsoor is under the control of the Islamic courts,\" said Sheikh Abdurahim Ali Muddey, the spokesman for the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia (SICS).\n\n\"We will take military steps if any force violates the area,\" he added, referring to transitional government based in Baidoa, about 110 kilometres (69) miles north.\n\nLocal Islamic officials said plans were underway to impose Islamic law in the township.\n\n\"Mogadishu has sent delegates here. They are telling people that Islamic courts are preparing to take control of the whole region and implement Islamic Sharia law,\" Osmail Adan Kerrow, a local Islamic commander told AFP from the region's trading post.\n\nSomali government officials protested the advance, saying the Islamists were seeking to provoke new unrest in the country that has been wracked by unrest since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991 and is currently reeling from devastating floods.\n\n\"This is provocation, we are still in the stage of calling them to stop\" lawmaker Madobe Nunow said.\n\nThe seizure, which violates a previous truce and mutual recognition pact between the SICS and the government, comes days after Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi secured parliamentary approval for his plans to fight the Islamists.\n\nAddis Ababa denies deploying thousands of troops across the border but acknowledges sending military advisers and trainers to assist the internationally backed but largely powerless Somali government.\n\nMainly Christian Ethiopia has watched with growing concern the rise on its southeastern border of the Islamists, who seized Mogadishu in June and now control most of southern and central Somalia.\n\nWith a large ethnic Somali population, Ethiopia fears radicalization of its sizable Muslim minority by the Islamists, some of whom are accused of links to Al-Qaeda, who have imposed strict Sharia law in areas they control.\n\nSomali watchers have warned that an all-out war in Somalia would suck in Addis Ababa's chief rival, Eritrea, also accused of supporting the Islamists, thereby pushing war in a regional conflict.\n\nThe new development comes as the UN Security Council mulled a United States proposal to lift the 1992 arms embargo to enable African nations send in peacekeepers to protect the government.\n\nAnd as the UN and aid groups delivered relief to nearly a million people hit by floods, the Islamists warned the world body from neither deploying any Ethiopian planes or sending any Ethiopians to work in Somalia.\n\n\"We cannot endure our enemies using humanitarian assistant to spy, if the UN agencies try to use Ethiopian planes, including helicopters to drop food in the flood-hit areas, we will bring them down,\" said Sheikh Mukhta Robow, the deputy defence chief for the Islamists.\n\n\"We know that every Ethiopian national is a spy. So, we will not tolerate Ethiopian planes flying over our territories,\" he added.\n\nAsked why the Islamists were restricting the UN operations, he said: \"They drop food today, and tomorrow they drop bombs after they have carried out surveillance over all areas where we are based.\"\n\nThe floods have killed at least 120 people and displaced around 300,000 since unusually heavy rains started to pound the country in October.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 100, "end_char": 108, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1342, "end_char": 1346, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2074, "end_char": 2078, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2083, "end_char": 2086, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 3447, "end_char": 3452, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "tomorrow", "start_char": 3458, "end_char": 3466, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 3693, "end_char": 3700, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0162.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0259\n\nLONDON, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBritain-warning-scene sched London's bustling streets emptied after IRA bomb alerts\n\n\n\n\nThe normally bustling streets of Monday morning London ground to a virtual standstill as a series of IRA pre-election bomb alerts turned downtown briefly into a ghost town.\n\nAn eerie silence fell over the city centre.\n\nUsually packed Trafalgar Square was empty but for its thousands of pigeons.\n\nStranded office workers waited patiently behind security barriers after bomb scares stopped them from cutting across the central tourist magnet to get to work.\n\n\"It's one of the hazards of living in London really, isn't it?\" said 29-year-old bank manager Justin Hare. \"I'm quite immune to it.\"\n\nThe scene was repeated across London after police sealed off streets around six of the core area's key rail and underground stations.\n\nMichael Foot, 83-year-old former Labour leader, was among the thousands delayed at Paddington station, and made his frustration clear.\n\n\"The Irish republicans have a good cause, but this sort of thing brings it into disrepute,\" he said.\n\nPostal worker John Kehoe was furious.\n\n\"I was born in London but both my parents were born in Ireland,\" he said. \"They are both dead now but they detested what the IRA are doing. It gives hard-working Irish people in Britain a bad name.\"\n\nAnne Sparrow, a public relations officer stuck outside King's Cross station, said: \"I guess it will get worse before the (May 1) election. I don't think the people behind this are going to get public opinion on their side -- they certainly won't get mine.\"\n\nMeanwhile at Gatwick Airport south of the city -- one of the four London airports hit -- staff were scampering to find a vacant hangar to shelter some 8,000 disembarking passengers suddenly without means to get back to London.\n\nGatwick duty manager Mike Cook said many passengers were trapped on the tarmac, unable to leave the dozens of planes which had landed since the terminals were closed for bomb searches at around 06h30 GMT.\n\nSome flights were still landing, others were being diverted but no flights were taking off, said Cook.\n\nPolice were warning against unnecessary travel and advising walking or cycling where possible.\n\n\"Basically, west London and central London are closed,\" said Royal Automobile Club spokesman Peter Brill.\n\n\"This is some of the worst traffic chaos that we have seen in London for many years, if ever.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday morning", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1239, "end_char": 1242, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 1467, "end_char": 1472, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "many years", "start_char": 2417, "end_char": 2427, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0259.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0177\n\nBARCELONA, SPAIN, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNews Analysis: Euromed summit reflects difficulties to bridge gap\n\n\n\n\nMarked by the absence of most Arabic leaders, the Euromed summit, which concluded on Monday with a watered-down \"code of conduct\" on terrorism and a vague action plan on immigration and reform, reflected the profound difficulties in bridging the gap between the two rims of the Mediterranean, said an Arabic observer.\n\nAll but two leaders of the Mediterranean-rim partners -- Turkey and the Palestinian Authority -- joined the summit, which aimed to re-launch the so-called Barcelona Process set up to strengthen cooperation on peace, security, economic development and social cohesion between both shores of the Mediterranean sea.\n\nOn defining terrorism, Arab nations insisted on noting the differences between terrorism and the right to resist occupation, while Israel and several EU countries wanted an explicit statement that terrorism could never be justified by any cause.\n\nThe summit ended without going beyond pledges to implement in full all United Nations Security Council resolutions addressing the issue of terrorism, while ensuring respect for the Charter of the United Nations and international law.\n\nFor British Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, the statement was \"as strong as you could possibly have on a unified determination to fight terrorism in all its forms.\"\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero also qualified the code of conduct as \"energetic and unprecedented.\"\n\nBut another comment from Zapatero, inadvertently picked up by closed-door session microphones, and widely cited by the press, said the contrary -- \"A text must be agreed, come what may.\"\n\nOn the issue of migration, a five-year program was agreed to reduce illegal immigration and crack down on human traffickers while \"promoting legal immigration opportunities.\"\n\nThe European Commission hoped the summit defined a \"shared vision\" to give \"fresh impetus\" to the issue. However, the North-African countries complained that they did not have sufficient tools to enhance border control and demanded more financial compensation for cooperation on combating illegal immigration.\n\nCritics also pointed out that the disputes on terrorism and immigration overshadowed other pressing issues, such as economic cooperation and development, which was of greater importance for the Arabic states.\n\n\"There is a deep-seated divergence of views: the Southern states are asking for more aid whereas the north wants to link that to further advances in democracy and good-government,\" said the Barcelona-based Spanish daily Vanguardia in an editorial.\n\nThe Muslim leaders were not keen to hear European lectures on democratic reform and the need for elections, an Arabic diplomat told Xinhua reporter.\n\nThe summit's lack of concessions for Arabic leaders suggested that Europe, long seen as a greater ally to the Muslim world than the pro-Israel United States, might be losing some of its influence, warned the diplomat.\n\nFor European analysts, the Europeans were lacking the instrument of economic diplomacy.\n\nWithout agreement on the EU financial perspective for 2007-2013, French President Jacques Chirac could only confirm that the funds destined for the region \"would not decrease\" under the next financial framework.\n\nA new 1.5-billion-euro (about 1.8 billion US dollars) financing facility from the European Investment Bank, intended for the private sector in the South Mediterranean, was the only \"new\" money put on the table in Barcelona.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 55, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007-2013", "start_char": 3228, "end_char": 3237, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0177.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0270\n\nLONDON, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBritish soldiers acquitted of killing Iraqi teenager\n\n\n\n\nSeven British soldiers accused of beating an Iraqi teenager to death with rifle butts were acquitted on Thursday.\n\nAccording to the Sky news, a court martial judge ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict the soldiers.\n\nThe men had faced murder and violent disorder charges following the death of 18-year-old Nadhem Abdullah, in May 2003. But all the soldiers, members of The 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, denied the allegations.\n\nAbdullah died in an attack on a group of Iraqi civilians in al- Ferkah, 60 miles north of Basra. The attack was said to have taken place three weeks after formal hostilities in Iraq had ceased.\n\nJudge Advocate General Jeff Blackett called some of the evidence \"too inherently weak\" and directed a military panel in Colchester, Essex, to clear the defendants.\n\n\"The judge made clear that, on the basis of the evidence presented, very serious allegations had been made and that it was perfectly proper to take the matter to trial,\" British Ministry of Defense said in a statement.\n\n\"Our soldiers are not above the law. It is right that allegations of this nature must be followed up and the evidence tested in full. This process is now complete and those soldiers still in the Army will now return to Regimental duty,\" said the statement.\n\nThe cleared soldiers are Corporal Scott Evans, 32, Private Billy Nerney, 24, Samuel May, 25, Morne Vosloo, 26, Daniel Harding, 25, Roberto Di-Gregorio and Scott Jackson, 26.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 216, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2003", "start_char": 449, "end_char": 457, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three weeks", "start_char": 696, "end_char": 707, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1344, "end_char": 1347, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0270.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0231\n\nADDIS ABABA, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nWritethru: Ethiopian parliament authorizes \"all necessary\" steps against Somalia's UIC\n\n\n\n\nEthiopia's parliament on Thursday adopted a resolution authorizing Prime Minister Meles Zenawi-led government to take \"all necessary\" steps against the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) in neighboring Somalia.\n\n\"Parliament hereby authorizes the government to take all necessary and legal steps to stave off a declaration of holy war and invasion by the Union of Islamic Courts against the country,\" said the resolution.\n\n\"The parliament believes there is a clear and present danger to our country,\" it said. However, it stressed parliament would prefer dialogue and peace.\n\nThe resolution also accused the UIC of \"training, sheltering and arming Ethiopian groups that are trying to overthrow the government.\"\n\nThe resolution was adopted by a 311 to 99 vote with 16 abstentions.\n\nMeles told foreign journalists on Saturday that his country would not wait for foreign approval to attack the UIC in Somalia.\n\n\"We respect their views but because it is our country which is being attacked, naturally we do not seek any light -- green, red, amber -- from anyone to protect ourselves,\" he said.\n\nThe UIC has seized Somalia's capital of Mogadishu controlled most of southern and central Somalia.\n\nSomalia has been without a functioning central authority since the 1991 ousting of strongman Mohamed Siad Barre and the two-year- old transitional government has been unable to assert control.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 961, "end_char": 969, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1404, "end_char": 1408, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0231.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0220\n\nNEW DELHI, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNew Indian coalition likely to review block on foreign airlines: experts\n\n\n\n\nIndia's new coalition government is likely to review a block on foreign airlines investing in domestic carriers, experts predicted Tuesday.\n\nThey also called for largescale investment in the industry, saying the policies carried out under the last government were out of date and anti-competition.\n\nIndia's United Front coalition government was voted out of power Friday after the Congress (I) party withdrew parliamentary support.\n\nThe two former partners, however, are trying to form a new administration following the resignation of outgoing prime minister H.D. Deve Gowda as Front leader.\n\nPrabir Das, an aviation expert for the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), blamed Aviation Minister C.M. Ibrahim for the block on overseas expertise and investment.\n\n\"Ibrahim's decisions were not a policy ... They were just event-based statements which would have to have a re-look.\n\n\"They never went through legislation in parliament and hence they are not law.\"\n\nHe added there should be a review \"if India is serious in upgrading its aviation industry through resource mobilisation and foreign participation.\"\n\nIbrahim banned foreign airlines from holding equity in local carriers on April 4, five days after the coalition government lost its parliamentary majority.\n\nHe gave foreign airlines six months to withdraw investments from local carriers but allowed overseas investors outside the aviation sector to hold up to 40 percent in domestic airlines.\n\nThe guidelines, approved by Deve Gowda's cabinet, killed off a 708 -million-dollar plan by Singapore Airlines and India's Tata group to set up a new airline after more than two years of wrangling.\n\nIndia's former civil aviation secretary, S.S. Sidhu, said: \"The new government, in whichever form it comes, will take a look at the decisions.\"\n\nAn executive from the Foundation for Aviation and Sustainable Tourism said: \"Instead of fishing in troubled waters, a new government should think of pragmatic policies to turn the industry into a vibrant sector.\"\n\nIbrahim has argued that investment by foreign airlines would lead to the destruction of the state-run India Airlines domestic carrier and Air India, the country's flagship airline. He allowed, however, 100 percent foreign equity in domestic airports.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 498, "end_char": 504, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 4", "start_char": 1319, "end_char": 1326, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five days", "start_char": 1328, "end_char": 1337, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 1428, "end_char": 1438, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than two years", "start_char": 1753, "end_char": 1772, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0220.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0227\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nJapanese NGO vehicle in Afghanistan fired by shots\n\n\n\n\nA vehicle of a Japanese nongovernmental organization was fired by shots in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, Kyodo News reported Thursday.\n\nAccording to the Japanese Embassy, the vehicle, belonging to Peace Winds Japan, was shot by three bullets from at least four men riding on two motorbikes when it was driving in Sar-i-Pul Province, but two local staffs in the vehicle were fortunately unhurt.\n\nEmbassy officials said Taliban remnants or al-Qaida fighters were behind the incident and called for caution.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 239, "end_char": 247, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0227.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0090\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIraq condemns Jordan's suicide bombings\n\n\n\n\nIraq condemned on Thursday the three suicide bombing attacks on three hotels in the Jordanian capital of Amman last night which killed at least 57 people and injured hundreds.\n\n\"The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemns the terrorist blasts that took place in three hotels in Jordan,\" the ministry said in a statement.\n\nThe ministry called on the international community \"to make every possible effort to uproot terrorism and save humanity from the most evil plague.\"\n\nThe statement stressed Iraq's readiness to actively cooperate with the Jordanian government to relieve the two countries from terrorism.\n\nIraqi president Jalal Talabani also condemned the bombings.\n\n\"Those explosions are another proof that terrorism has become an international plague that should be strongly confronted and defeated by Arab countries and the international community,\" said Talabani in a statement released by his office.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 119, "end_char": 127, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last night", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 222, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-09TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0090.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0155\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st LD: Chinese courts ordered to restrict use of death penalty\n\n\n\n\nIn China's latest move to control the use of the death penalty, the chief justice urged courts to exercise extreme caution when sentencing people to death, saying that every judgement must stand the test of time.\n\n\"In cases where the judge has legal leeway to decide whether to order death, he should always choose not to do so,\" said Xiao Yang, President of China's Supreme People's Court.\n\nXiao said a bullet to the back of head should be reserved for only an \"extremely small number\" of serious offenders.\n\nIf a convict surrenders to the police or helps them solve crimes the judge should generally not pass a sentence of death, the chief justice said.\n\nOn Thursday, Jiang Xingchang, vice president of the Supreme People's Court, again, stressed that all appeals against death sentences should be processed in open trials and local courts must video-tape the appeals for record keeping.\n\nHe also called for increased security during trails that may end with death sentences to ensure the safety of judges, lawyers, and other people involved.\n\nLate last month, China's top legislature passed an amendment to the organic law on courts, stipulating that all death penalties handed out by provincial courts must be reviewed and ratified by the Supreme People's Court (SPC).\n\nThe Supreme People's Court has expanded criminal tribunals and a death penalty review team to deal with the change of statutes.\n\nA series of cases involving people wrongly convicted and executed for crimes they did not commit were recently exposed in the media.\n\n\"Judges should be very cautious, as if walking on thin ice, when it comes to the death penalty. They should ensure the facts and the evidence are all clear and the verdict is issued in accordance with law,\" said Xiao.\n\nThe chief justice also ruled out the possibility of abolishing the death penalty as a number of legal experts and human rights groups have urged.\n\n\"The conditions are not yet ripe for China to ban the death penalty. It is still a necessary means to ensure the safety of the state and protect the people,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 784, "end_char": 792, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Late last month", "start_char": 1170, "end_char": 1185, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0155.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0552\n\nBANGKOK, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nBangkok's Motor Expo, often overlooked as the smaller of Thailand's two auto shows, has won unusual attention this year as carmakers pin to it their hopes of a last-minute jolt to a year of lagging sales.\n\nThis year is set to be the first year of falling auto sales since the 1997 financial crisis blew apart the market.\n\nAs of October, sales were down four percent over the same period last year and the industry doesn't expect them to leave negative territory by the year-end.\n\nBut that hasn't stopped them from hoping that the Motor Expo will be the catalyst that helps them shake off pressure from a year of high oil prices, rising interest rates, widespread flooding and intense political turmoil.\n\n\"The Motor Expo will give a significant boost to car sales for the rest of the year. This is high season and people are in the mood for spending,\" said Wit Sittivaekin, marketing director of BMW group in Thailand.\n\n\"A lot of uncertainties have influenced the market, especially oil prices and political uncertainties. The situation has improved gradually,\" he told AFP.\n\n\"Even so, consumers still have purchasing power and are ready to spend money for the right product and financial offers,\" he added.\n\nCarmakers are offering aggressive promotions and unveiling new models for 2007 to draw customers to the Expo, which opened on November 30 and runs through December 11.\n\nLast year, 15,000 cars were sold at the auto show, which attracted 1.6 million visitors, according to organiser Inter-Media Consultant Co.\n\nBut the show was not expected to do well enough to turnaround a disappointing 2006 after a series of record-setting years.\n\nIn October, the month after the coup that ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinwatra, sales plummeted by 10.5 percent from one year earlier, according to figures complied by Toyota Motor Thailand.\n\nThe Automotive Industry Club said sales overall were expected to sink for the year.\n\n\"It would be the first negative growth year-on-year in car sales since the sector recovered from the crisis with double-digit increases every year,\" said the club's spokesman Suraphong Phaisithpattanaphong.\n\nDomestic sales this year are expected to fall short of the record 703,000 units sold in 2005 with commercial vehicles suffering the most, Suraphong said.\n\nManufacturers have also revised down their production target by 450,000 units for 2006 to 1.2 million units, he added.\n\nLast year total production stood at 1.1 million units.\n\n\"Despite the auto show, volume for 2006 still cannot catch up with those of last year, after sales were sluggish for many months,\" Suraphong told AFP.\n\nAnalysts said slow domestic consumption has put Thailand's economic growth among the slowest in east Asia since 2005, pushing car sales down.\n\n\"Even though consumer confidence improved after the coup, other negative factors have remained, mainly the oil prices,\" said Sakkarin Nigamsilpa, an auto analyst at Kasikorn Research Center.\n\n\"With improving confidence and an expected decrease in interest rates, we expect domestic car sales will begin growing again early next year,\" he told AFP.\n\nDespite the weak domestic demand, Thailand's auto exports have continued to surge. Automakers expect to finish the year with exports up 30 percent from 2005, topping 500,000 units for the first time.\n\nSuraphong said manufacturers are still confident that the sector could achieve another milestone in 2010 with production volume of 1.8 million units.\n\nBut Kasikorn's Sakkarin said Thailand has to find other niches to reach the target as its core pick-up truck segment, which accounts for two thirds of local production, is getting saturated.\n\nThailand is now the world's largest producer of pickups, surpassing the United States.\n\nThe Board of Investment earlier this month announced standards for producing fuel-efficient cars that would receive yet-undefined incentives from the government for local production.\n\nThailand wants to convince automakers to begin producing cars that would meet stringent Euro 4 emission standards and consume less than five liters of petrol per 100 kilometers (62 miles).\n\nShortly after the announcement, Japan's Mazda Corp and Ford Motor 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0042\n\nHANOI, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd Ld Writethru: Russia, US sign agreement on WTO deal in Vietnam\n\n\n\n\nRussia and the United States Sunday signed a bilateral agreement on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the sidelines of the ongoing Asia- Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in Hanoi.\n\nThe agreement was signed by U.S. Trade Representative Susan Schwab and Russian Minister of Trade and Economic Development German Gref.\n\nDescribing the agreement as an important milestone in Russia's bid to join the WTO, Schwab said the document signed will be presented to Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush, who were here attending the APEC leaders' meeting.\n\n\"I'm pleased that we have concluded this important agreement with Russia's WTO accession negotiations. This is a strong and far- reaching agreement that meets the high standards of President Bush 's market-opening trade agenda and moves Russia closer to full integration into the global, rules-based trading system,\" Schwab said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0042.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0277\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUN envoy to attend regional ministerial meeting in Somalia\n\n\n\n\nA top UN envoy for Somalia is traveling to Somalia on Tuesday for a regional ministerial meeting this week in Jowhar, the provisional capital of Somalia, officials said here Monday.\n\nA statement from the UN Political Office of Somalia (UNPOS) said the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Somalia (SRSG) Francois Lonseny Fall will attend the first Ministerial Meeting of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Council of Ministers which begins on Tuesday.\n\n\"No part of the international community has greater responsibility towards Somalia than IGAD. The Somali national reconciliation process and the transitional federal institutions are very much IGAD's babies,\" said Fall.\n\nThis week's initiative is in line with the UN Security Council' s request urging IGAD, the African Union, the League of Arab States, European Union and concerned member states, to leverage their influence to ensure that Somalia's transitional federal institutions reconcile their differences peacefully.\n\nThe Somali transitional federal institutions moved to Somalia in 2004 from Kenya, where they were created after a reconciliation conference, but the administration has been divided over where the seat of government should be situated.\n\nPresident Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and his supporters pitched camp in Jowhar, 90 km north of the capital, Mogadishu.\n\nOther lawmaker, led by parliamentary speaker Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, went to Mogadishu -- a city largely destroyed during nearly 15 years of civil strife.\n\nTwo weeks ago, Somali parliamentarians based in Mogadishu resolved to hold talks with the rest of the government in a bid to bridge differences that have paralyzed the new administration.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 226, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 294, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 596, "end_char": 603, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This week", "start_char": 827, "end_char": 836, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1197, "end_char": 1201, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly 15 years", "start_char": 1608, "end_char": 1623, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Two weeks ago", "start_char": 1642, "end_char": 1655, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0277.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0289\n\nTIRANA, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nForce vanguard arrives in Albania\n\n\n\n\nA 24-strong advance party of the multinational force for Albania has arrived in the capital Tirana to scout installations where the force could be billetted, officials said Wednesday.\n\nThe mission includes 13 Italians, despite political uncertainty in Rome over whether Italy's leadership of the force will get the required backing of parliament in a vote which was to be held later Wednesday.\n\nThe advance team arrived in Tirana late Tuesday.\n\nThe experts Wednesday began assessing the suitability of barracks and other centres which are to be used to house the 6,000-strong multinational force.\n\nThe Albanian authorities are proposing that the force headquarters be in a military school in Tirana, one of the military experts said.\n\nIntensive renovation work has been carried out in recent weeks in government-controlled towns to restore military installations ransacked during riots sparked by the collapse of phoney investment schemes.\n\nThe force will have to cope with widespread lawlessness, with large areas of the country, particularly in the south, controlled by armed gangs.\n\nApart from the Italians, the advance contingent is made up of three French, three Greeks, two Danes, two Spaniards and a Romanian.\n\nEight European countries have pledged troops for the force, the first contingents of which are due to land in the port of Durres within days.\n\nOne hundred and twenty men of the French contingent left Toulon on the Mediterranean coast overnight on the troop transport vessel Champlain, the French military press service SIRPA said Wednesday.\n\nAnother 350 men will embark Thursday and 600 others on Tuesday.\n\nThe troops are expected to arrive in Durres two or three days later.\n\nThe French contingent has been tasked with making Durres port and the Durres-Tirana road safe.\n\nIn a related development, Albanian Defense Minister Shaqir Vukaj said the multinational force would not face a civil-war situation in Albania.\n\n\"The only existing threat comes from criminal armed gangs which under the prevailing conditions unfortunately organize rapidly, while the Albanian people, from north to south, will welcome the multinational force,\" said Vukaj after talks with his Greek counterpart Akis Tsohatzopoulos in Athens.\n\nVukaj said that Greek would help in rebuilding the Albanian armed forces.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 264, "end_char": 273, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "later Wednesday", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 483, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Tuesday", "start_char": 521, "end_char": 533, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 548, "end_char": 557, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent weeks", "start_char": 876, "end_char": 888, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1639, "end_char": 1648, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1679, "end_char": 1687, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1706, "end_char": 1713, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two or three days", "start_char": 1760, "end_char": 1777, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0289.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0548\n\nMANILA, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJose Luis Yulo elected as Philippine Stock Exchange president (new series)\n\n\n\n\nJose Luis Yulo, who runs a state trading firm, has been elected the new president of the Philippine Stock Exchange, the bourse announced Tuesday.\n\nThe choice of Yulo, a non-broker and president of the Philippine International Trading Corp. (PITC), would ensure that the bourse \"continues to maintain and improve its high standards of efficiency and integrity,\" a bourse statement said.\n\nThe PITC is the government's trading arm with the socialist bloc which includes Iraq, Libya, North Korea and several other countries.\n\nYulo replaces Vitaliano Nanagas, who resigned after a few months on the job when some owner-brokers resisted his effort at reforms.\n\nYulo, who turned the PITC from near bankruptcy in 1990 to profitability in 1996, was a former president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He was educated at the University of the Philippines, Stanford Advance Management College and the Colegio de San Juan de Letran.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "few months", "start_char": 708, "end_char": 718, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 837, "end_char": 841, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 862, "end_char": 866, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0548.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0238\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAfghanistan is Netherlands' most disastrous overseas mission: newspaper\n\n\n\n\nThe mission in Afghanistan is becoming the most accident-prone and expensive deployment ever for the Dutch defense ministry, the De Volkskrant daily reported Friday.\n\nAlthough Dutch troops in Afghanistan never exchanged fire with al-Qaeda or Taliban fighters, the Dutch air force lost some 80 million euro worth of equipment in the past year, a record for Dutch missions abroad, the paper said.\n\nThe Dutch air force confirmed that a second Chinook helicopter was written off after making an emergency landing in mountains north of Kabul on Monday, according to the paper, one of the biggest dailies in the Netherlands.\n\nThe 25-million-euro aircraft, en route to Dutch commandos in Kandahar, was forced to land for reasons not yet clear. Three of the 17 soldiers on board were wounded.\n\nIn July, a Chinook crashed near Kandahar. The Dutch defense ministry has ruled out the possibility that the aircraft was shot down by Taliban or al-Qaeda fighters.\n\nThe air force suffered its heaviest loss in August last year when a mis-communication resulted in the crash of a 30-million- euro Apache combat helicopter north of Kabul.\n\n\"It is never nice to lose so much equipment that is so crucial and scarce,\" an air force spokesperson was quoted as saying, adding that \"luckily there have not been any wounded or dead so far.\"\n\nAs the Dutch mission in Afghanistan continues its dangerous operations, the air force risks losing more of its remaining 11 Chinooks, the paper said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past year", "start_char": 461, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 673, "end_char": 679, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 922, "end_char": 926, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August last year", "start_char": 1128, "end_char": 1144, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2004-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0238.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0394\n\nWASHINGTON, April 1 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nHeaven's Gate lives on in cyberspace by Francis Curta\n\n\n\n\nHeaven's Gate Internet sites will exist in cyberspace for months because, shortly before committing mass suicide, cult members paid access providers to maintain them.\n\nThe sites, updated just one week before Heaven's Gate's 39 members killed themselves in a mansion outside San Diego, California, outlines the group's belief that aliens aboard a spaceship would give them new life.\n\nEd Deppe, head of access provider Spacestar Communications, said his company received several telephone calls from the group shortly before the suicides seeking to make sure that Spacestar had gotten the maintenance payments.\n\nTo make absolutely sure, Heaven's Gate had made two payments to Spacestar dated March 21. When Spacestar asked how it should reimburse the group for its overpayment, a member of the cult reportedly said that it was impossible.\n\n\"You can't contact us anymore in California. We're going to be moving,\" Deppe recalled a cult member telling him.\n\nThe site was briefly shut down on Thursday -- the day after police discovered the bodies -- after some 900,000 callers jammed the Internet, Deppe said.\n\nThe Heaven's Gate site is now open again and will remain accessible for four months, Deppe said. The cost of maintaining a site ranges from 50 to 100 dollars per month.\n\nThe cult created an identical site with another access provider in an apparent bid to guarantee that it would leave behind a cyberspace presence.\n\nMeanwhile, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was analyzing the contents of computers at the cult's compound in Rancho Santa Fe. That analysis could take up to six weeks.\n\nAmong the other items the cult left behind is a 223-page script about itself that could become a movie soon.\n\n\"It's a script that needs a lot of massaging because it's very raw material. But it's a Hollywood natural at this point if there ever was one,\" Alex Papas, a producer with rights to the script, told The New York Times.\n\nSeveral members of the cult who rented an Arizona house from Papas in 1995 wrote the script in hopes that Papas could help them tell their story and expand their membership.\n\nTitled \"Beyond Human,\" the script \"threw in a lot about UFOs and space aliens and earthlings evolving from their 'containers' to a 'higher level,'\" Papas said.\n\nSuicide is not mentioned in the script, he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 1 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one week", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 21", "start_char": 805, "end_char": 813, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1102, "end_char": 1110, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1247, "end_char": 1250, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four months", "start_char": 1293, "end_char": 1304, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six weeks", "start_char": 1699, "end_char": 1708, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 2111, "end_char": 2115, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0394.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0027\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nChina tries to calm fears over power in Asia\n\n\n\n\nChina's foreign minister on Saturday tried to soothe international worries over its rising dominance in the East Asian region, assuring that Beijing will stay on a path of peaceful development.\n\n\"China, a developing country, will keep to its peaceful influence. China is insisting on a path of peaceful development,\" Li Zhaoxing told reporters.\n\n\"We will not be threatening or replacing anyone,\" he said. \"We'll help as much as possible to establish a harmonious world. In that way, everyone is happy.\"\n\nHis remarks came on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting next week, which will be followed by the inaugural East Asia summit.\n\nThe summit in the Malaysian capital brings together the 10 members of ASEAN as well as China, Japan, South Korea, and India, Australia, New Zealand.\n\nThe inclusion of Australia, New Zealand and India was the result of concern raised by Singapore, Japan and Indonesia over possible Chinese dominance in the absence of the United States.\n\nLi dismissed fears that China was harbouring ambitions to be dominant in the region, replacing the traditionally more powerful influence of the United States and Japan.\n\n\"We have lots of issues at home. We are focusing... on improving the living of the 1.3 billion Chinese people,\" Li said.\n\nHe reiterated Beijing's stance that the country needed a peaceful international environment for its development.\n\n\"We want to see peace across the world so we can focus our energy on developing our economy,\" he said. \"Second, we want to make friends. Only through making friends, our reforms may be able to progress smoothly.\"\n\nWashington, though unsure about the value of the forum that does not have set objectives, is concerned over its direction in the region as China's influence grows, US diplomats in Asia and officials in Washington have said.\n\nThe United States has also been concerned over China's rising military might and economic clout in Asia, where Washington is linked by defense alliances with Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines and Thailand.\n\nBut analysts say some unpopular policies of the United States and Japan are also a reason why their influence in the region has diminished.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 137, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 700, "end_char": 709, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0027.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0613\n\nSYDNEY, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDrama at sea on US aircraft carrier Independence\n\n\n\n\nA crew member of the US aircraft carrier Independence had to be airlifted to a Sydney hospital after he was hit by a fighter plane attempting a night landing on the ship.\n\nThe incident late Wednesday left the man with fractured legs and arms, an ambulance spokesman here said.\n\n\"He sustained fractured legs and arms and was airlifted to Sydney airport by an Independence helicopter,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe spokesman said few details were available but he understood an FA-18 Hornet aircraft approaching the Independence's landing deck overshot the runway and hit the man.\n\nThe aircraft carrier left Sydney Harbour Tuesday after a six-day rest and recreation visit.\n\nIt was in Australia to participate in Operation Tandem Thrust, a joint Australian/US military exercise involving 28,000 troops in far north Queensland state which ended last week.\n\nAfter hitting the man the damaged aircraft was forced to fly 120 nautical miles on one engine, escorted by another FA-18 and a Viking tanker plane, to make an emergency landing at the Williamtown RAAF Base near Newcastle, about 150 kilometres (93 miles) north of Sydney, an official there said.\n\nWing Commander Lou Lapuma said the Hornet's undercarriage collapsed as it made an emergency landing but the pilot was unhurt.\n\n\"He was off the coast relatively near an F-18 base when he lost his engine and undercarriege; we were also preparing for night manoeuvres, so all the emergency crews were here (in Williamtown) anyway.\n\n\"We're in contact with the Independence and trying to figure out what they want to do with their plane and their pilot,\" Lapuma said.\n\nThe Independence, commissioned in 1959, is the US Navy's oldest active ship.\n\nIt served in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the liberation of Grenada in 1983, the Gulf War in 1990 and last year's tensions between Taiwan and China.\n\nMore than 5,000 sailors and marines live aboard.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 296, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 723, "end_char": 730, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 944, "end_char": 953, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1959", "start_char": 1750, "end_char": 1754, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1959", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1983", "start_char": 1867, "end_char": 1871, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1983", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 1889, "end_char": 1893, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1898, "end_char": 1907, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0613.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0125\n\nGAZA, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nHamas threats to attack U.S. targets in the Middle East\n\n\n\n\nThe Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)\n\non Tuesday urged, for the first time, to attack American targets and interests in the Middle East.\n\nThe threat came in a statement released by al-Qassam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas, following the death of 19 Palestinians in Israeli artillery shelling in northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun in the day.\n\n\"America provides political and logistical cover for the crimes\n\ncommitted by the Zionist occupation and it must be blamed on Beit Hanoun massacres prior to the occupation,\" said the statement.\n\nIt called on Arab and Muslims to \"teach the American enemy unmerciful lessons they will not forget.\"\n\nIn the past, Hamas, which now leads the government, has said that their battle was only with Israel and their borders are inside Israel and the Palestinian territories.\n\nIn the meantime, al-Qassam brigades also vowed to respond to the killings in Beit Hanoun.\n\nWednesday's strikes came after 24 hours of the Israeli withdrawal from the town. Over the past week, more than 63 Palestinians have been killed so far in Israeli incursion in Beit Hanoun.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 791, "end_char": 794, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1026, "end_char": 1035, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 hours", "start_char": 1057, "end_char": 1065, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT24H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past week", "start_char": 1112, "end_char": 1125, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0125.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0526\n\nWASHINGTON, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAlbright, Dalai Lama favor good Sino-US relations\n\n\n\n\nUS Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Dalai Lama agree on the importance of strong US-China relations, the State Department said Thursday after the two held talks here.\n\nDuring the meeting, Albright also \"reiterated the administration's support for the preservation of Tibetan religion and culture,\" State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said.\n\nShe also reaffirmed that Washington wished a \"dialogue between the Chinese government and the Dalai Lama or his representatives to resolve differences,\" he said.\n\nDuring a State Department visit that lasted slightly more than an hour, the Dalai Lama also met with John Shattuck, assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor, and with the Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad.\n\nCommittee members \"expressed their deep commitment to ending religious persecution in Tibet, including incidents of torture and the arbitrary arrest of Tibetan nuns and monks, as well as the destruction of religious sites and restrictions on religious expression, education and worship,\" Burns said.\n\nEarlier Thursday, Beijing voiced \"great indignation\" at a meeting between US President Bill Clinton and the Dalai Lama.\n\nThe Dalai Lama met officially Wednesday with US Vice President Al Gore, and the president joined the talks \"in progress,\" a strategy aimed to minimize offense to China.\n\nDuring the meeting, Clinton assured the spiritual leader he was concerned about protecting Tibet and called for direct talks between the exiled Himalayan god-king and Beijing, a White House spokesman said.\n\nChina on Thursday said such talks were not out of the question.\n\n\"The door to dialogue has long been open, but there is one condition ... the Dalai Lama must cease his separatist activities,\" Foreign Ministry spokesman Cui Tiankai told reporters in Beijing.\n\nChina seized control of Tibet in 1951, and the Dalai Lama fled into exile eight years later following an abortive uprising against Chinese rule.\n\nThe government-in-exile he has since headed in India is not recognized by any country, but the spiritual leader's campaign for Tibetan self- determination has won him international acclaim. The Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1989.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 252, "end_char": 260, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier Thursday", "start_char": 1182, "end_char": 1198, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1333, "end_char": 1342, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1689, "end_char": 1697, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1951", "start_char": 1972, "end_char": 1976, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1951", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight years", "start_char": 2013, "end_char": 2024, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 2331, "end_char": 2335, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0526.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0155\n\nATHENS, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNATO military drill begins in Greece\n\n\n\n\nA military exercise started in northern Greece on Monday, which was part of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Deployable Corps-Greece headquarters training program.\n\nThe drill, code-named Gordian Knot '06, under NATO auspices, includes the partial deployment of the Headquarters in northern Greece and will run through Nov. 15, the ANA news agency reported.\n\nThe program includes the movement of Greek and Allied forces on land, sea and air with the use of appropriate means and vehicles.\n\nHeavy artillery shooting will take place on Nov. 15, according to military sources.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 15", "start_char": 425, "end_char": 432, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 15", "start_char": 640, "end_char": 647, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0155.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0531\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nBundesbank sees German economy growing by 2.75 pct in 2006\n\n\n\n\nThe Bundesbank expects the German economy to grow by around 2.75 percent this year, thereby providing \"substantial impulses\" for the 12-country eurozone as a whole, the German central bank's president Axel Weber said on Wednesday.\n\nThe German economy, the biggest in the single currency region, \"has developed very positively this year,\" Weber said in a speech prepared for delivery at an economic forum in Hamburg.\n\nA copy of the speech was made available by the Bundesbank in Frankfurt.\n\nAfter expanding by 0.8 percent and 1.1 percent respectively in the first two quarters of this year, area-wide gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.8 percent in the third quarter.\n\n\"The economic uptrend continued at a rapid pace in the third quarter,\" Weber said.\n\nThe annual growth rate for the whole of 2006 \"should therefore stand at around two-and-three-quarter percent, well above potential. That means Germany is providing substantial impulses for the euro area,\" the German central bank chief said.\n\nExports and domestic demand were contributing to growth.\n\n\"Nevertheless, there is still no sign of a deep recovery in consumption, even if there have been improvements on this front recently. In the traditional retail sector, developments are still weak,\" Weber said.\n\nLooking ahead to next year, Weber said he was projecting the current upturn to weaken \"but not break down altogether.\"\n\n\"The fundamental trend will remain intact, even if the rise in value-added tax (VAT) on January 1 will have a substantial braking effect on the economy,\" he said.\n\nThe German government has decided to raise VAT or sales tax by three full percentage points to 19 percent from next month, the biggest-ever single VAT rise.\n\nTurning to the state of Germany's public finances, Weber said that given the country's strong economic performance, the public deficit was to set to fall back within EU limits for the first time since 2002 this year.\n\nUnder the European Stability and Growth Pact, eurozone countries are not allowed to run up public deficits in excess of 3.0 percent of GDP.\n\nHowever, Germany, the pact's main architect, has been in breach of the 3.0-percent rule every year since 2002.\n\nWeber said the Bundebank was pencilling in a deficit ratio of \"around two percent this year.\"\n\nAnd given the tax measures due to come into effect from 2007, the deficit ratio would likely fall further next year, Weber continued.\n\nHowever, Germany should not rest on its laurels, \"there is still room for further substantial consolidation,\" Weber said.\n\n\"A deficit ratio of less than 3.0 percent is just an interim goal. And much of what has been achieved is cyclical,\" he said. \"The medium term goal is to achieve a balanced budget. Additional consolidation must follow in economically good times.\"\n\nWeber warned against excessive euphoria.\n\n\"The current favourable economic developments and the related increase in tax revenues must not be interpreted as an indication of improved growth perspectives in the long term,\" he said.\n\nMore structural reforms would have to be implemented to improve the low potential growth rate of the German economy and reduce unemployment on a lasting basis, Weber argued.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 191, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 338, "end_char": 347, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "positively this year", "start_char": 433, "end_char": 453, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first two quarters of this year", "start_char": 671, "end_char": 706, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 770, "end_char": 787, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 841, "end_char": 858, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 1298, "end_char": 1306, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1402, "end_char": 1411, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1", "start_char": 1593, "end_char": 1602, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 1780, "end_char": 1790, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002 this year", "start_char": 2028, "end_char": 2042, "tid": "t14", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 2274, "end_char": 2284, "tid": "t15", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 2291, "end_char": 2295, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 2380, "end_char": 2389, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 2449, "end_char": 2453, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 2499, "end_char": 2508, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0531.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0269\n\nLONDON, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - Adds Jol quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nArsene Wenger paid tribute to his side's character after Arsenal bounced back from two defeats to beat local rivals Tottenham 3-0 on Saturday despite the absence of injured skipper Thierry Henry.\n\n\"We played with spirit, character, determination and good organisation against a good Tottenham team,\" Wenger said.\n\nArsenal had lost successive Premiership matches to Bolton and Fulham and Wenger admitted: \"We were under a lot of mental pressure but the team responded well.\n\n\"They are inspired by their ambition and they were disappointed by our last two results. We realised that, as a team, we have to give more.\"\n\nDespite his satisfaction with the performance, Wenger admitted that Arsenal had enjoyed the rub of the green at the Emirates Stadium, with Steed Malbranque missing an early chance to put Tottenham ahead and two of the three goals coming from disputed penalties.\n\nEmmanuel Adebayaor put Arsenal ahead and stand-in captain Gilberto Silva coolly converted both spot-kicks to leave the home side as comfortable winners.\n\n\"The two penalties looked to be penalties to me but it happens that you don't get them in some games,\" Wenger said.\n\n\"And there was a turning point at 0-0 when Malbranque had a good chance but didn't take it and we didn't concede early on set points as we have done recently.\n\n\"But you have to work hard on your luck and that is what we did today.\"\n\nCzech midfielder Tomas Rosicky limped off ten minutes after the break and will miss Wednesday's trip to Porto for a Champions League encounter from which Arsenal must take a point to secure their passage to the knockout stages.\n\n\"We gave a lot physically in this match but we needed a lift and we have four days to recover before Porto.\"\n\nSilva also hailed the win as a welcome tonic for the Gunners ahead of the Porto match and next Sunday's trip to Chelsea in the Premiership.\n\n\"We knew today it was all about winning the game,\" the Brazilian said. \"But we got the result and we played our best as well, so it is very pleasing.\n\n\"Before this game we knew a victory would mean a lot for us because of the important games ahead. When you win a tough match like this, it gives you a lot of confidence. We have done the job today, now we have to continue to do the job against Porto and Chelsea.\"\n\nTottenham boss Martin Jol insisted Arsenal's controversial penalties were not to blame for the defeat and admitted his side had missed a chance to capitalise on Arsenal's recent woes.\n\nJol told reporters: \"You can talk about the decisions and they probably did cost us goals, but I would be embarrassed to talk about them too much. We did not lose because of them.\n\n\"We saw that Thierry Henry was not playing and we knew Arsenal had lost recent games. We sensed this was an opportunity, so we are disappointed.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 220, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "0-0", "start_char": 1271, "end_char": 1274, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "ten minutes", "start_char": 1512, "end_char": 1523, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1554, "end_char": 1563, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1904, "end_char": 1910, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1959, "end_char": 1964, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 2292, "end_char": 2297, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0269.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0552\n\nDHAKA, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBangladesh Supreme Court stays order to compensate opposition leaders\n\n\n\n\nThe Bangladesh Supreme Court Tuesday temporarily stayed a High Court order requiring the government to compensate four opposition leaders who had been detained illegally, court officials said.\n\nJudge Latifur Rahman Chowdhury issued the stay following a petition filed by the government a day after the High Court ordered the release of the four Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders.\n\nThe court, in an unprecedented move, also ordered the government to pay 100,000 taka (2,325 dollars) to each BNP leader as compensation.\n\nThe Supreme Court will hear the government petition against the compensation order in six weeks.\n\nThree of the leaders - Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, Abdul Mannan and Mirza Abbas - were freed hours after the court order on Monday but the fourth, Goeswar Roy, was still being detained as he is also wanted on other matters.\n\nAll four were arrested on March 20 under the Special Powers Act of 1974 for \"subversive activities\" following a series of disruptions in the power distribution system blamed on \"sabotage\" by the government.\n\nThe Act allows detention without specific charges for 120 days, but those arrested can file writ petitions to the High Court against the detention.\n\nPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed was criticised for using the hated act to detain the four, but on Monday she reiterated the charges at a rally of her ruling Awami League party.\n\nShe also referred to a report of the London-based Amnesty International, saying the BNP under former premier Khaleda Zia arrested more than 8,500 people, including journalists, in 1995 alone.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six weeks", "start_char": 740, "end_char": 749, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 877, "end_char": 883, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 20", "start_char": 1004, "end_char": 1012, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "120 days", "start_char": 1240, "end_char": 1248, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P120D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1436, "end_char": 1442, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1696, "end_char": 1700, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0552.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0398\n\nLONDON, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSudanese leader defies UN sanctions to fly out of Libya\n\n\n\n\nSudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir left Libya by air Sunday in defiance of UN sanctions against Tripoli, after holding talks with Libyan leader Moammer Kadhafi and government officials from Uganda, Libyan television said in a report monitored here.\n\nThe television showed Al-Bashir boarding a plane at the airport in the coastal town of Sirte. Under UN sanctions, flights in and out of Libya are prohibited.\n\nBefore leaving, Al-Bashir issued a statement, saying he and Kadhafi had discussed how Arabs should overcome their differences and resist attempts to weaken their unity.\n\n\"He stressed, furthermore, that the Arab nation, given its resources and potential, was a superpower which could, once united, impose its will and face up to its enemy,\" the television said in the report monitored by the BBC.\n\nGeneral Al-Bashir also met members of a Ugandan delegation led by Foreign Minister Eriya Kategaya to discuss a dispute in which each country has accused the other of providing support for rebels operating in the border region.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0398.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0239\n\nALATAW PASS, Xinjiang, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ntogether\n\n\n\n\nAs technicians of Sinopec finished their last welding work in Alataw Pass Monday, the oil pipeline linking China and Kazakhstan joined ends after 18 months unremitting efforts.\n\nThis marked a perfect accomplishment of the first period of the 1000-km oil pipeline project. The joining serves as a firm foundation for the eventual overall completion of this project soon.\n\nThe first transnational oil project between China and Kazakhstan is jointly built by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and its Kazakh counterpart.\n\nIn the first period of the project, 700 million US dollars was invested to build a 813-millimeter pipeline with an oil transfusion capacity of 20 million tons yearly.\n\nMore than 200 officials and delegates from the CNPC, the Kazakhstan National Petroleum and Natural Gas Company, the Sino-Kazakh Oil Pipeline Co. Ltd and the local government attended a joining ceremony.\n\nKairgeldy Kabyldin, vice president of Kazakhstan National Petroleum and Natural Gas Company, said the oil pipeline butt joint is a good example of close cooperation between the two nations.\n\nThe construction of the transnational oil pipeline signifies that the energy cooperation between China and Kazakhstan has stepped into a new phase, said Yin Juntai, deputy general-manager of China Petroleum Exploration and Development Company.\n\nHe said currently the CNPC has 53 projects in 21 countries, including three exploration projects, four oilfields and two pipeline projects in Kazakhstan. Apart from that, in August, the CNPC successfully purchased the PetroKazakhstan.\n\nThe oil pipeline project will also greatly promote the economic growth of Xinjiang, said Ma Ao, an official with the autonomous region's Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture of Bortala.\n\nThe Altaw Pass, where the oil pipeline joins, will become a hub of railway, road and pipeline transportation in the near future and this will also mean a great many commercial opportunities, said the official.\n\nThe Chinese and Kazakh governments signed an agreement in June, 2003, on studying the feasibility of the joint investment in a transnational oil pipeline. In May, 2004, a framework agreement was signed on overall cooperation in the fields of oil and gas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 46, "end_char": 60, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "after 18 months", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 239, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first period", "start_char": 616, "end_char": 632, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 1595, "end_char": 1601, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the near future", "start_char": 1951, "end_char": 1966, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June, 2003", "start_char": 2108, "end_char": 2118, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May, 2004", "start_char": 2208, "end_char": 2217, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0239.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0299\n\nHARARE, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZimbabwe to buy more ambulances to facilitate health service\n\n\n\n\nThe Zimbabwean government will next month buy 75 more ambulances to alleviate the shortage of transport in hospitals and clinics throughout the country, the official The Herald reported on Monday.\n\nAt a workshop for parliamentarians on reproductive health here, Secretary for Health and Child Welfare Edward Mabiza said the fleet would be imported from South Africa at 16 million rand (2.24 million U.S. dollars).\n\nThe move by the government, Mabiza said, was aimed at improving the quality of health care in the country. He added that the government has also embarked on a program to refurbish the old ambulance fleet.\n\nOperations at most clinics and district hospitals were being adversely affected by shortages of ambulances because some of the vehicles were old while others had broken down.\n\nMany hospitals around the country experience serious shortages of ambulances and the worst affected are rural districts and rural health centers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 310, "end_char": 316, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0299.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0526\n\nTHE HAGUE, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNetherlands halting efforts to save Fokker\n\n\n\n\nThe Netherlands indicated Wednesday it was definitively halting efforts to save bankrupt aviation group Fokker, following the recent withdrawal of the main industrial support for a Fokker relaunch plan.\n\nOn April 4, Dutch industrial group Stork said it could not accept the \"last chance\" scenario presented to it for rescuing the group, thus condemning the plan to failure.\n\nIn a letter Wednesday to the Chamber of Deputies, economic affairs minister Hans Wijers said he has reached the \"bitter conclusion\" that there were \"no further prospects\" for restoring the Fokker activities.\n\nHence the state is no longer willing to invest, even though it is still prepared to provide technical support for further efforts by Belgian investor Andre Deleye, who said Saturday that he still had some hope of finding some parties to take over Fokker.\n\nWijers praised the substantial efforts made by Deleye Investment Group, regretting that no industrial companies or groups had wanted to join in the initiative.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 130, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 4", "start_char": 311, "end_char": 318, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 491, "end_char": 500, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 861, "end_char": 869, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0526.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0375\n\nATHENS, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRehhagel continues to reign in Greece\n\n\n\n\nGerman coach for Greece's National Football team Otto Rehhagel on Monday announced to continue as the Greek national team's head coach for another two years.\n\nThe announcement ends speculation that the veteran coach would leave the Euro 2004 champions for another national or Bundesliga side following Greece's failure to qualify for the World Cup 2006 competition in Germany.\n\nDuring a joint press conference with the Greek Football Federation, he expressed that the devoted players and passionate Greek fans are behind his decision to stay on.\n\n\"Never before in my career have the fans and players wanted me to stay on after a team of mine was eliminated,\" said the coach, who was passionately called as King Otto by his followers in Greece.\n\n\"We talked a great deal to the players, and all of the team members asked me to stay,\" he added.\n\nHe also expressed his volition to reward his fans and the Greek public.\n\n\"We owe the European championship to the players, and I need to give something back to them; to stay on and continue,\" said Rehhagel, adding that the team's target is now Euro 2008.\n\nA poll, taken hours after his side failing to qualify for World Cup 2006, showed 88 percent of Greeks were in favor of him staying on.\n\n\"The renewal of our cooperation is something all of Greece has been waiting for,\" said Greek Football Federation president Vassilis Gagatsis.\n\n\"We want Otto Rehhagel. We made an early offer because we believe he will once again lead us where all Greeks hope to go.\"\n\nAccording to reports, Rehhagel's contract will be worth roughly 800,000 euros a year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "another two years", "start_char": 237, "end_char": 254, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-14T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now Euro 2008", "start_char": 1181, "end_char": 1194, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0375.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0143\n\nGAZA, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ncenters\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian sources said on Monday that Fatah primaries in central Gaza Strip were postponed following riots occurred at ballot centers.\n\nAll ballot centers in Deer Al-Balah district and some of centers in al-Bureig and al-Maghazi districts were shut down due to the riots.\n\nWitnesses said a number of gunmen stormed one of ballot stations in Deer al-Balah and ordered all voters and people inside to go away, and the militants claimed that their names are not listed in voting lists and they can not vote.\n\nOne Fatah official said such an act proves that holding primaries in central Gaza Strip districts is meaningless.\n\nThe primaries started in main Gaza Strip areas Monday morning. The poll in the southern city of Rafah will be held on Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 94, "end_char": 100, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday morning", "start_char": 736, "end_char": 750, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 807, "end_char": 816, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0143.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0276\n\nANKARA, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nItaly supports Turkey's EU membership\n\n\n\n\nItalian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi said on Tuesday that Italy strongly supported Turkey's entry into the European Union (EU).\n\n\"We find Turkey's membership of the EU very beneficial,\" Ciampi, who arrived in the Turkish capital Ankara on Monday for a state visit, told a joint news conference with Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer after their meeting.\n\nHe noted that his visit to Turkey was aimed at strengthening political, economic and cultural relations between the two NATO members.\n\nItaly is the second biggest trade partner of Turkey with bilateral trade volume reaching 11.5 billion US dollars last year.\n\nCiampi said that Turkey is on the most important energy transfer routes and that opening of Baku-Ceyhan oil pipeline is the proof of it.\n\nCiampi said that Turkish-Italian cooperation will gain a new momentum with Turkey's getting closer to the EU.\n\nTurkey started entry talks with the 25-member EU in October which is expected to last for a decade.\n\nHe pointed out that Turkey and Italy supported development of relations between Western world and Islamic world to prevent conditions which will cause a possible clash among civilizations.\n\n\"President Ciampi has arrived in Turkey with a large delegation of businessmen. This shows that Italy shares the same will as Turkey to enhance bilateral economic relations,\" said Sezer.\n\nHe noted, \"during the meeting we also stressed the determination to further improve our cooperation in culture, tourism, defense and education areas. Turkey and Italy have also a beneficial cooperation in international institutions especially in NATO.\"\n\nCiampi also met with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 339, "end_char": 345, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 706, "end_char": 715, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1019, "end_char": 1026, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a decade", "start_char": 1057, "end_char": 1065, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0276.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0596\n\nANNAPOLIS, Maryland, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS \"regrets\" Chinese defeat of human rights resolution (hold for expected release around 2345 GMT)\n\n\n\n\nUS Secretary of State Madeleine Albright regretted Tuesday a decision by the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva to kill a US-backed motion criticizing China's human rights record.\n\nBut in a broad speech at the US Naval Academy here, Albright defended the Clinton administration's decision three years ago to separate criticism of Beijing's human rights record from renewal of its US trade privileges.\n\n\"Earlier today, the UN Human Rights Commission decided not to consider a resolution we had co-sponsored that would have urged China to improve its human rights practices. We regret that decision,\" Albright said.\n\n\"We congratulate the government of Denmark for sponsoring that resolution and the others who co-sponsored it,\" she said.\n\nThe United States believes \"that human rights are a legitimate subject for discussion among nations. On this, we differ with China,\" Albright said.\n\n\"But we also differ with those who believe that the way to improve human rights conditions in China would be to deny that country the trading status we accord to most others.\"\n\nEconomic openness and political liberalization, she said, \"reinforce each other.\"\n\nChina's reputation was further tarnished this year as a result of allegations that it sought to illegally channel campaign money last year to the coffers of congressional candidates.\n\nRenewal of most favored nation trade status for China is virtually certain, although this latest scandal makes it less certain, analysts say.\n\nThe Human Rights Commission passed a China-backed \"non-action\" motion in Geneva on Tuesday, allowing Beijing to evade a Danish-backed censure motion on its human rights record scheduled for debate later in the day.\n\nThis effectively kills a Danish motion criticizing Chinese human rights violations that had been supported by the United States, the Netherlands and others.\n\nIt was the seventh time that western countries had presented a motion on China's human rights record to the UN Human Rights Commission. This year, however, they were sharply divided on the issue.\n\nPrevious attempts to censure China have been defeated by the \"non- action\" ploy on every occasion except in 1995. No rights motion against China has succeeded since Beijing's bloody crackdown on student protests in Beijing in 1989.\n\n(attention embargo)", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years ago", "start_char": 461, "end_char": 476, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 583, "end_char": 588, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1359, "end_char": 1368, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1447, "end_char": 1456, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1728, "end_char": 1735, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 2155, "end_char": 2164, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 2324, "end_char": 2328, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 2442, "end_char": 2446, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0596.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0334\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with polls closing ///\n\n\n\n\nIraqis polls closed Thursday following a landmark poll to choose a government many hope will restore stability to a nation wracked by violence and sectarian feuding since the fall of Saddam Hussein.\n\nDespite a massive security lockdown, three men died in attacks north of Baghdad while mortar strikes in the capital, including one in the fortified Green Zone claimed by an Al-Qaeda-linked group, wounded four civilians and a US marine.\n\n\"The most important thing is for Iraqis to express themselves with ballots, not blasts,\" Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said.\n\nReacting to one blast in Baghdad, Shiite voter Safia Mohammed said: \"This is our day of victory, they will not drive us back to our homes, this is the end of terrorism.\"\n\nVoters went to the polls in large numbers, including Sunni Arabs who had snubbed an election in January.\n\n\"Turnout was very strong in all regions, even in Fallujah,\" a Sunni city in the western Al-Anbar province, senior electoral commission member Hussein al-Hindawi told AFP, without giving details.\n\nStrict security measures brought Iraq to a halt as 15.5 million Iraqis were called to vote for a four-year, 275-member parliament, with top candidates pledging to restore stability and pave the way for an exit of foreign troops.\n\n\"It's a national celebration for all Iraqis,\" declared President Jalal Talabani, the country's first Kurdish head of state.\n\nUS President George W. Bush said Iraqi democracy would serve as a \"model\" for the Middle East, while US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and three US senators symbolically dipped their fingers in ink used to identify Iraqi voters.\n\nThe vote, the third this year, marks a new start following the US-led invasion in March 2003 to oust Saddam, two transitional governments and the adoption of a constitution in October.\n\nIraqis poured into the streets and walked to polling stations because of a vehicle ban aimed at curbing car bomb attacks.\n\nIn the capital and in Fallujah, disabled men in wheelchairs and on crutches joined neighbours to cast their ballots, with many demanding stability and the restoration of public services such as electricity and water.\n\nIn the holy city of Najaf, as well as the main southern city of Basra, residents did not wait to celebrate victory for the dominant religious Shiite group, the United Iraqi Alliance.\n\nA total of 7,655 candidates and 307 political entities, nearly triple the number that stood in January, competed for office.\n\nA rare glitch was reported in Fallujah, where some polling stations ran out of ballots following a higher-than-expected turnout.\n\n\"The participation of the people so far is very good, it was unexpected,\" city council president Sheikh Kamal Shakur said.\n\nVice President Adel Abdel Mehdi, tipped by many as the next prime minister, had forecast earlier that \"the next parliament will represent all Iraqis.\"\n\nMinisters praised a security plan designed to thwart suicide attacks that killed almost 40 people during January's election, Iraq's first free vote in half a century.\n\nThe leading secular Shiite candidate, former prime minister Iyad Allawi, complained however that his supporters had been attacked and killed during the campaign.\n\nTop British general Nick Houghton told the BBC that the election gave London \"growing confidence\" that a transition of security powers, allowing foreign troops to leave Iraq, would begin in the first half of 2006.\n\nIn Rome, Defense Minister Antonio Martino announced that Italy would withdraw an additional 300 soldiers from Iraq in January.\n\nAround 2,154 US soldiers have been killed since the 2003 invasion, which Bush admitted Wednesday had been based on wrong intelligence. Bush has estimated that 30,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed.\n\nAdjourned for the election, Saddam's trial on charges of crimes against humanity threatened to exacerbate already high ethnic tensions in the country.\n\nFollowing purported Al-Qaeda threats to \"ruin the 'democratic' wedding\", virtually all Iraq's 190,000 police and army were mobilized, with US-led troops providing perimeter security for voting stations.\n\nCivilians were banned from carrying weapons and driving to polling stations that opened at 7:00 am (0400 GMT) and closed at 5:00 pm.\n\nShiites and Kurds who dominated the transitional administration expected a full-term parliament to cement their grip on power after decades of oppression.\n\nThe Sunni minority was keen to prevent a government dominated by religious Shiites and a break-up of Iraq into autonomous Kurdish and Shiite zones.\n\nThe new parliament's first task will be to appoint a president and two vice presidents. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0049\n\nGAZA, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTV\n\n\n\n\nFive Palestinians were killed in a fresh Israeli air raid against the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Dubai- based satellite channel Al-Arabiya reported.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0049.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0292\n\nMANILA, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPhilippine shopping mall developer expects 20 percent net profit rise\n\n\n\n\nPhilippine shopping mall giant SM Prime Holdings Inc. said Wednesday it expects net profit to rise 20 percent year-on-year in 1997 to to 2.4 billion pesos (92 million dollars).\n\nSpeaking after the company's annual stockholders' meeting, SM Prime vice-president Joseph Sio said the profit would be generated from an increase in leasable space in the company's huge shopping malls.\n\nSM Prime president Henry Sy cited the expansion of existing malls and reconfiguring of the space in the malls and said this would continue during 1997.\n\nThe opening of two new malls in the latter half of the year would boost their company's total leasable space by 20 percent, he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 187, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 655, "end_char": 659, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the latter half of the year", "start_char": 694, "end_char": 721, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0292.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0287\n\nBELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUN, NATO play down threat of paramilitary groups in Kosovo\n\n\n\n\nUN and NATO officials said on Wednesday that paramilitary groups could not undermine the security situation in Kosovo as the UN-administered province is to open future status talks, said reports reaching here from Pristina.\n\nSpokesman of the UN mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Neeraj Singh said that the threatening statement issued by the self-styled Army for Kosovo Independence would be a daily occurrence during the forthcoming status talks, the official Tanjug news agency reported.\n\nRegardless of threats and other forms of pressure, the Kosovo status will not be decided in the streets or on the Internet, Singh said.\n\nUN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday appointed former Finnish president Martti Ahtisaari as UN envoy for Kosovo status talks, paving the way for the talks to be opened by the year's end.\n\nHowever, the talks have been overshadowed by the fears that extremists could use violence to protest the outcome for the ethnically-divided province.\n\nKosovo's Albanian majority demands for an independent state, while its Serb minority and Belgrade officials want the province remains part of Serbia.\n\nNATO-led peacekeeping force (KFOR) spokesman Pio Sabetta rejected any possibility that paramilitary groups might endanger security in Kosovo.\n\nHe told the press in Pristina that KFOR, UNMIK and Kosovo Police Service were investigating uniformed persons who have been observed in the province recently.\n\nLast week KFOR held an exercise to demonstrate NATO troops' ability to deal quickly with potential violence or other security threats in the province.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 52, "end_char": 65, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 801, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year's end", "start_char": 936, "end_char": 950, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 1547, "end_char": 1555, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 1558, "end_char": 1567, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0287.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0097\n\nDOHA, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Dave James\n\n\n\n\nSome goalkeepers study videos, others look for clues in the eyes of their opponents.\n\nBut when North Korea goalkeeper Jon Myong Hui faces down a penalty, she dreams of a short, chubby, bespectacled dictator with his finger on the nuclear button.\n\nJon's secret of the shootout is to think of North Korean leader Kim Jung Il.\n\n\"I thought of our Great Leader and I knew with his encouragement and trust in us we would get the victory,\" said the 20-year-old who saved two Japanese spotkicks in a 4-2 shootout win which gave North Korea a second successive Asian Games women's football gold.\n\n\"I looked to the skies of Pyongyang and drew inspiration from him. I only wish he could have been here in person. I hope that our Great Leader Kim Jung Il gets the news of this victory and that he is happy.\"\n\nThe defending champions, Asia's highest-ranked team, enjoyed the better chances throughout a dour final and held their nerve at the end.\n\nNorth Korea scored all of their penalties with Ri Kum Suk, Ri Un Gyong, Ho Sun Hui and Jong Pok Sim finding the target while Jon kept out Kozue Ando and Homare Sawa.\n\nDespite the victory, North Korean coach Kim Kwang Min was disappointed.\n\n\"Although we are similar physically we are better players,\" said Kim.\n\n\"I told them to be aggressive from the start and we should have won in 90 minutes.\"\n\nKim has big plans for his team but admits that in his hermit, Stalinist homeland, finding information on other sides in the world is not easy.\n\n\"Our initial goal was to be the best in Asia and after that we aim to be the best in the world,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not quite sure of the standard of football in Europe or the Americas. Once we learn this we will work out a plan to beat them.\"\n\nJapan coach Hiroshi Ohashi took responsibility for the defeat which left the Japanese still searching for a first Asian Games gold medal.\n\n\"I feel responsible for not creating a team which was able to win the match in 90 or 120 minutes,\" he said.\n\nJapan goalkeeper Miho Fukumoto made a series of good saves to keep her side in the match while Eriko Arakawa set-up Japan's best opportunity in the 72nd minute.\n\nThe afro-haired striker skipped inside two defenders, drew the goalkeeper and released the ball into the path of Shinobu Ohno who missed from six yards.\n\nOhno had the ball in the net in extra time but her smart volley was controversially ruled out for offside.\n\nChina grabbed the bronze medal with a 2-0 win against South Korea thanks to two goals from Wang Kun.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "90 minutes", "start_char": 1385, "end_char": 1395, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT90M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "90", "start_char": 2002, "end_char": 2004, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 72nd minute", "start_char": 2176, "end_char": 2191, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0097.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0395\n\nYALA, Thailand, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS one more death ///\n\n\n\n\nSuspected separatist insurgents shot dead four men and injured three, including a policeman, on Thursday in Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south, police said.\n\nA 25-year-old Buddhist trader was gunned down at his mobile stall in Narathiwat, one of three insurgency-torn provinces bordering Malaysia, police said, adding that the victim's nephew was also wounded.\n\nWhen police rushed to the scene, militants using a mobile phone detonated a bomb near the stall, injuring one policeman, they said.\n\nAlso in Narathiwat, a 46-year-old Muslim man, a former village chief, was shot dead by militants.\n\nIn neighboring Yala province, six gunmen burst into a local government office earlier in the day and opened fire, killing two Buddhist engineers and seriously injuring a woman.\n\nDeadly attacks have surged in the three southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat in the past month, despite moves by Thailand's post-coup government to forge peace in the region.\n\nThe junta chief and coup leader General Sonthi Boonyaratglin was in Pattani Thursday to meet local army commanders, but an army spokesman said the one-day trip was not related to the deteriorating situation in the region.\n\nThe area was an independent sultanate until it was annexed by mainly Buddhist Thailand in 1902. Separatist violence has erupted periodically ever since, with the latest unrest killing more than 1,700 people since January 2004.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 789, "end_char": 796, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past month", "start_char": 972, "end_char": 986, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1144, "end_char": 1152, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1902", "start_char": 1381, "end_char": 1385, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1902", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2004", "start_char": 1504, "end_char": 1516, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0395.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0682\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nGeorgian PM eyes Russia, meets Rice\n\n\n\n\nGeorgia's Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli met US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday, seeking US support in his country's diplomatic showdown with Russia.\n\nKicking off a four-day stay in Washington, which includes talks Tuesday with Vice President Dick Cheney, Nogaideli also met national security advisor Stephen Hadley and US Trade Representative Susan Schwab.\n\nAs he left the State Department after meeting Rice, Nogaideli called on Russia to join in a bid to end the diplomatic spat set off when Georgia arrested four Russian soldiers in September and accused them of spying.\n\n\"The most important issue in relations with Russia for us today is the resolution of territorial conflicts,\" said Nogaideli.\n\n\"We think instead of blaming each other ... we need to move ahead with peace plan implementation in the region and we have discused this with Secretary Rice,\" he said.\n\nTerry Davidson, a State Department spokesman, said Rice and her visitor discussed a full range of regional security issues, including the Georgian dispute with breakaway regions Abkhazia and South Ossetia.\n\nRice also touched on Georgia's relations with Russia and energy resources in the region, Davidson said.\n\nThe United States has strongly backed the Georgian leadership of President Mikheil Saakashvili, who hopes to take his country into the NATO military alliance.\n\nGeorgia freed the military officers in October, but the United States has been urging Moscow to lift a sweeping raft of sanctions and for both sides to lower rhetoric.\n\nRussia vehemently opposes Georgia's bid to join NATO and accuses Georgia of planning military action against Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which are supported by Moscow.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 325, "end_char": 332, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 647, "end_char": 656, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 744, "end_char": 749, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1492, "end_char": 1499, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0682.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0136\n\nNAIROBI, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUNHCR reports 150 cholera cases among Zairean refugees\n\n\n\n\nAbout 150 cases of cholera have been registered among tens of thousands of ailing Rwandan refugees waiting to be repatriated from eastern Zaire, the UN refugee agency said Monday.\n\nUN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) spokesman Paul Stromberg said at least five refugees had died of the disease but that it should not hinder the repatriation process.\n\nAlthough the 150 others were suspected cases for the moment, humanitarian organisations believed they were likely to be cholera. Three positive cases were confirmed last week.\n\nA total of 60 to 100 refugees die every day from disease and malnutrition as they wait for repatriation from their makeshift camps south of Kisangani, the rebel-held city in northeast Zaire.\n\n\"Since last week, measures have been taken to isolate and treat suspected cases of cholera, which is endemic in the region. Medicines, soap, have been supplied in sufficient quantities. I don't think it will spread,\" Stromberg added by telephone from Kigali.\n\nHe said it was not thought to be a virulent form of the disease, and that the repatriation process should go ahead as planned.\n\nCholera, dysentery and malaria are among the many health perils facing approximately 80,000 Rwandan Hutu refugees around the rebel-held city.\n\nThe emaciated and ill refugees fled from advancing rebels who now control eastern Zaire. The refugees have had no access to relief food or medical care for most of the six months of the rebellion.\n\nThe rebels, who captured Kisangani on March 15, gave a green light 10 days ago for UN agencies to set up an air-bridge to repatriate the Rwandans.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 636, "end_char": 645, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every day", "start_char": 682, "end_char": 691, "tid": "t3", "type": "SET", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 847, "end_char": 856, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1433, "end_char": 1436, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 1539, "end_char": 1549, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 15", "start_char": 1607, "end_char": 1615, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 days ago", "start_char": 1636, "end_char": 1647, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0136.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0013\n\nHARBIN, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPublic petition halts government wild boar cull in NE China\n\n\n\n\nOfficials in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province have suspended a proposed cull of wild boar, after about 10,000 local people signed a petition against the plan.\n\nWild boar have been propagating rapidly under government-backed protection schemes, but invasions by the animals of villagers' homes have been reported in 20 counties and districts in Heilongjiang.\n\nThe authorities in the cities of Mudanjiang and Jixi, which have borne the brunt of the damage, had approved a cull of 50 wild boar until the end of December to be supervised and carried out by local forestry officials in designated areas.\n\nForestry authorities also promised that no individual hunters would be allowed to take part.\n\nDays after the announcement, 10,000 local residents led by wildlife enthusiasts signed a petition against the cull.\n\nMembers of a wildlife organization in Harbin Institute of Technology voiced concern that the cull could run out of the government's control.\n\nAs wild boar population more than doubled from 30,000 in 2000 to 70,000 in 2005, the province reported 50 cases of attacks on villagers and damage to crops.\n\nChina's law on wild animal protection prohibits the hunting of animals under state protection. However, villagers have complained that they have tried every possible method to drive the wild boar away from communities without success.\n\nTao Jin, a wildlife protection official with the Forestry Bureau, argued that the law allowed government-approved culls when scientific arguments proved the population of certain animals should be checked. But the government decided to suspend the cull in the face of strong public opposition.\n\nThe public debate on the conflict between wildlife protection and farmers' livelihoods is still going on here. Wildlife experts have suggested farmers dig moats to protect crops against attacks and the relocation villagers living in deep mountains.\n\nTao said the government's limited forestry protection funding could not cover the costs of further protection measures. Limiting the wild boar population and developing the controlled breeding of domesticated wild boars might be a solution.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of December", "start_char": 623, "end_char": 642, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1136, "end_char": 1140, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1154, "end_char": 1158, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0013.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0008\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHong Kong stocks finish lower at midday -- Nov. 2\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong stocks went down 16.3 points, or 0.11 percent, to finish the morning session at 14,555. 96 on Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 216, "end_char": 225, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0008.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0318\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMubarak fears Saddam's execution to fuel violence in Iraq\n\n\n\n\nEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak said on Wednesday that he feared the recent death verdict against ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and its execution would fuel sectarian and ethnic violence in Iraq.\n\nMubarak made the remarks in statements to editors-in-chief of the Egyptian national newspapers and the Middle East News Agency ( MENA) on his way back home Wednesday from his three-nation tour.\n\nThe trial of Saddam and six of his aides on charges of genocide against Kurds resumed in Baghdad on Wednesday after Saddam and two of his senior aides were sentenced to death on Sunday in a separate trial of Dujail case, in which 148 people were executed in the aftermath crackdown on the town following a failed assassination attempt against Saddam in 1982.\n\nOn the situation in Iraq, Mubarak said that Egypt is making efforts to protect interests of the Iraqi people, stop bloodshed and support the Iraqi national unity.\n\nMubarak returned to Cairo on Wednesday after visits to Russia, China and Kazakhstan. While in Beijing he attended the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation Summit which is seen as an important conference to promote China and Africa to construct new strategic partnership and strengthen cooperation between China and Africa.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 478, "end_char": 487, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 617, "end_char": 626, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 695, "end_char": 701, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1982", "start_char": 870, "end_char": 874, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1982", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1070, "end_char": 1079, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "While", "start_char": 1126, "end_char": 1131, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0318.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0117 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0117. \n Law:\n@  U.S. Threats to Seize Fees\n@  Scare Lawyers From Cases\n@  ----\n@  By Laurie P. Cohen\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CRZYQ \n LAW AND LEGAL AFFAIRS (LAW)\nBANKRUPTCIES (BCY) \n JUSTICE DEPARTMENT (JUS)\nSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION (SEC) \n\n   The government is sharpening its newest weapon against white-collar defendants: the power to prevent them from paying their legal bills. \nAnd defense lawyers are warning that they wo n't stick around if they do n't get paid. \n\n   The issue has come to a boil in Newark, N.J., where federal prosecutors have warned lawyers for Eddie Antar that if the founder and former chairman of Crazy Eddie Inc. is indicted, the government may move to seize the money that Mr. Antar is using to pay legal fees. \n\n   The warning by the U.S. attorney's office follows two decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court last June. \nIn those cases, the high court ruled that federal law gives prosecutors broad authority to seize assets of people accused of racketeering and drug-related crimes, including fees paid to lawyers before an indictment. \n\n   If the government succeeds in seizing Mr. Antar's assets, he could be left without top-flight legal representation, because his attorneys are likely to quit, according to individuals familiar with the case. \nA seizure also would make the case the largest -- and one of the first -- in which lawyers' fees have been confiscated in a prosecution unrelated to drugs. \n\n   \"The people who suffer in the short run are defendants, but the people who suffer in the long run are all of the people, because there wo n't be a vigorous private bar to defend the Bill of Rights,\" says Gerald Lefcourt, a criminal defense attorney who says he has turned down a number of cases to avoid possible fee seizures. \n\n   Mr. Antar is being investigated by a federal grand jury in Newark, where prosecutors have told him that they may soon seek an indictment on racketeering and securities fraud charges. \nUnder the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law, or RICO, the government has the authority to seek to freeze or seize a defendant's assets before trial. \n\n   According to individuals familiar with Mr. Antar's case, prosecutors issued their warning this week after one of Mr. Antar's attorneys asked whether legal fees might be subject to seizure. \nIn a letter, prosecutors told Mr. Antar's lawyers that because of the recent Supreme Court rulings, they could expect that any fees collected from Mr. Antar may be seized. \nProsecutors have told Mr. Antar's attorneys that they believe Mr. Antar's allegedly ill-gotten gains are so great that any money he has used to pay attorneys derives from illegal activities. \nTherefore, they said, the money can be taken from the lawyers even after they are paid. \n\n   Justin Feldman and Jack Arseneault, attorneys for Mr. Antar, both declined to comment on the matter. \n\n   In Newark, U.S. Attorney Samuel A. Alito said, \"I do n't think there's any legal reason to limit forfeiture of attorney's fees to drug cases.\" \nMr. Alito said his office \"just responded to an attorney's question about whether we would go after attorney's fees, and that is different from actually doing it, although we reserve that right.\" \n\n   Mr. Antar was charged last month in a civil suit filed in federal court in Newark by the Securities and Exchange Commission. \nIn that suit, the SEC accused Mr. Antar of engaging in a \"massive financial fraud\" to overstate the earnings of Crazy Eddie, Edison, N.J., over a three-year period. \nThrough his lawyers, Mr. Antar has denied allegations in the SEC suit and in civil suits previously filed by shareholders against Mr. Antar and others. \n\n   The SEC has alleged that Mr. Antar aimed to pump up the company's stock price through false financial statements in order to sell his stake and reap huge profits. \nMr. Antar, the SEC said, made more than $60 million from the sale of his shares between 1985 and 1987. \n\n   The Justice Department has emphasized that the government's fee-forfeiture power is to be used sparingly. \nAccording to department policy, prosecutors must make a strong showing that lawyers' fees came from assets tainted by illegal profits before any attempts at seizure are made. \n\n   Still, criminal defense lawyers worry that defendants are being deprived of their Sixth Amendment right to counsel and a fair trial if the government can seize lawyers' fees. \nThey also worry that if the government applies asset-forfeiture laws broadly, the best defense lawyers will be unwilling to take criminal cases unless they are assured of being paid.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 191, "tid": "t232", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last June", "start_char": 940, "end_char": 949, "tid": "t233", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t232"}, {"text": "soon", "start_char": 1987, "end_char": 1991, "tid": "t234", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t232"}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 2319, "end_char": 2328, "tid": "t235", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-WXX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t232"}, {"text": "recent", "start_char": 2489, "end_char": 2495, "tid": "t236", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t232"}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 3350, "end_char": 3360, "tid": "t237", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t232"}, {"text": "a three-year period", "start_char": 3598, "end_char": 3617, "tid": "t238", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1985", "start_char": 4029, "end_char": 4033, "tid": "t240", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1987", "start_char": 4038, "end_char": 4042, "tid": "t241", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0778.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "bbc_20130322_1353\n\n2013-03-22\n\nIsrael PM apologies for Gaza flotilla deaths\n\n\n\nIsrael's prime minister has apologised to Turkey for \"any errors that could have led to loss of life\" during the 2010 commando raid on an aid flotilla that tried to breach the Gaza blockade.\n\nBenjamin Netanyahu also agreed with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to compensate the families of the nine activists who were killed.\n\nMr Netanyahu had previously only expressed regret for the deaths.\n\nThe deal was brokered by US President Barack Obama during a visit to Israel.\n\nMr Erdogan's office said he had accepted the apology, \"in the name of the Turkish people\".\n\nIn the past, he has always given two conditions for restoring bilateral relations with Israel - an apology and compensation for victims' families.\n\nNine people were killed on board the Turkish aid ship, Mavi Marmara, when it was boarded by Israeli commandos while trying to transport aid supplies to Gaza in May 2010 in spite of an Israeli naval blockade.\n\nThe Israeli government admitted mistakes were made in intelligence-gathering and planning, but insisted its commandos used lethal force because activists had attacked them.\n\nThe activists said the troops had opened fire as soon as they boarded the vessel, which was in international waters at the time.\n\nThe incident provoked an international outcry and led to a major deterioration in relations between Turkey and Israel.\n\nBefore departing for Jordan on Friday afternoon, Mr Obama revealed that Mr Netanyahu and Mr Erdogan had just spoken by telephone.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "2013-03-22", "start_char": 19, "end_char": 29, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 659, "end_char": 667, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2010", "start_char": 964, "end_char": 972, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "at the time", "start_char": 1303, "end_char": 1314, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday afternoon", "start_char": 1468, "end_char": 1484, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2013-03-22TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "bbc_20130322_1353.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0129\n\nTOKYO, April 1 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapan's top 15 corporate collapses\n\n\n\n\nA list of the top 15 collapses in Japanese corporate history after three finance companies applied Tuesday to be wound up, with combined debt of 1,800 billion yen (14.6 billion dollars).\n\nCrown Leasing KK applied to be wound up at the Tokyo District Court with two other Nippon Credit Bank Ltd (NCB). affiliates, Nippon Total Finance KK and Nippon Credit Finance KK.\n\nDate    Company        Liabilities    Business\n\n(billion yen)\n\n1. April 1997 Crown Leasing      1,060.00    finance\n\n2. Oct 1996  Nichiei Finance     1,000.00    credit guarantee\n\n3. Nov 1996  Sueno Kosan        600.00    real estate\n\n4. Nov 1993  Muramoto Kensetsu     590.00    construction\n\n5. Aug 1985  Sanko Kisen        520.00    shipping\n\n6. Oct 1994  Nippon Mortgage      518.49    finance\n\n7. April 1997 Nippon Total Finance    510.00    finance\n\n8. March 1995 Osaka Sogo Shinyo     437.00    finance\n\n9. Aug 1991  Megumikawa         410.00    restaurant\n10. Nov 1995  Hyogin Factors       369.20    factoring\n\n11. June 1996 Shin Kyoto Shimpan     348.88    consumer credit\n\n12. Oct 1987  Shinwa Kanko Kaihatsu   309.00    real estate\n\n13. Oct 1995  Tokyo Mortgage Acceptance 300.00    finance\n\n14. April 1997 Nippon Credit Finance   300.00    finance\n\n15. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0618\n\nLONDON, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nConservative support dips in new polls\n\n\n\n\nSupport for the ruling Conservative Party fell in fresh opinion polls to be published, one week ahead of Britain's general election, with three new polls giving the opposition Labour Party as easy winners.\n\nA survey by the polling group MORI for Thursday's Times newspaper showed support for the opposition Labour Party down one to 48 percent, the Conservatives down five to 27 percent and the Liberal Democrats up four to 17 percent. It gave Labour a 21-point lead.\n\nEarlier Wednesday two polls by Gallup -- the first for Channel 4 News and the second for Thursday's Daily Telegraph -- put Labour's lead at 19 percent and 20 percent.\n\nBoth Channel 4 and the Daily Telegraph put Labour on 50 percent of voting intentions.\n\nThe figures suggested that a poll by the group ICM and published by the left-of-centre Guardian newspaper Wednesday, which claimed Labour's lead had fallen to just five percent, could have been a rogue result.\n\nIronically neither Labour nor Tory officials believe the gap between the two parties is as wide as the Gallup and MORI polls suggest, although Labour also feel it is not as slim as five percent.\n\nBoth parties would prefer a closer race, the Conservatives to engender hope they could still win, Labour to ensure their supporters turn out to vote.\n\nThe Channel 4 poll, which was carried out between Friday and Wednesday, also suggested that up to half the electorate had not firmly decided which way they would vote.\n\nThe interviews which formed the basis for the MORI figures were carried out on Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one week", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 343, "end_char": 351, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier Wednesday two", "start_char": 565, "end_char": 586, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 654, "end_char": 662, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 935, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1428, "end_char": 1434, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1439, "end_char": 1448, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1626, "end_char": 1633, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0618.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0555\n\nZAGREB, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nCroatian polls a success for ruling party, Eastern Slavonia by Tessa Fras\n\n\n\n\nThe ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) appeared set to keep its majority in the upper house of parliament, according to figures broadcast by television Monday, while polling closed in the troubled Eastern Slavonia region.\n\nWith almost all votes in after Sunday's elections, the television said that the ruling party was expected to win 41 seats of the 63 up for election in the 68-seat House of Counties.\n\nHowever polling stations in Eastern Slavonia closed a day late after Sunday's chaos where incomplete voter registration lists and missing ballot papers led the UN to allow a second day's voting.\n\nThe vote in the region is being seen as a key step in restoring Zagreb's control in a region that separatist Serbs captured in bitter fighting in 1991.\n\nLocal Serb leader Vojislav Stanimirovic, who hinted on Sunday the Serbs might not recognise the polls, said he was pleased at the efforts made by the UN to ensure the vote was fair.\n\n\"Yesterday, there were many reasons for calling for the elections to be annulled but many things have been done to correct these irregularities and for this reason we can say that these elections have been democratic,\" he said.\n\nPeople were allowed to vote with just a Croatian identity card while those who had yet to receive such cards were allowed to pick them up during Monday.\n\nUS ambassador Peter Galbraith said that the elections in Eastern Slavonia had been fair.\n\n\"Nobody is going to say that these were perfect elections but they were fair ... All the people from the region had a chance to cast their vote,\" he told a press conference, estimating the turnout at around 85 percent.\n\nThe ambassador is one of the architects of a November 1995 accord between Zagreb and the rebel Serbs under which Eastern Slavonia is being returned to Croatian control.\n\nThe local, regional and upper house elections are a key step in that process. They are being organised by the UN mission in the region, whose mandate is due to end on July 15.\n\nUN chief Jacques Klein said he expected turnout in Eastern Slavonia of up to 90 percent.\n\nHe said he was \"confident that the elections will be able to be certified as being full, fair and honest,\" and cited \"the calm atmosphere, and the fact that the polls were open until the last voter.\" Final certification could take four or five days, a spokesman for Klein said.\n\nIn the rest of Croatia, where voting ended Sunday, results were pouring in from the 21 regions which will each send three members to the 68 seat upper house. The five other deputies are appointed by President Franjo Tudjman. Two of these are to be Serb candidates.\n\nCroatian television said that the Croatian Peasants' Party (HSS) would get nine seats, the Croatian Social and Liberal Party (HSLS) seven, the Social Democratic Party (SDP) four and the Istrian Democratic Party (IDS) two.\n\nPreliminary unofficial results Monday afternoon, with much of the vote counted, Tudjman's HDZ to be the leading party in 19 regions, including one where it was in a coalition with other parties.\n\nTudjman, quoted by Croatian radio, said he expected an HDZ victory. However, given the proportional electoral system, the effect on the seats in the upper house was not immediately clear.\n\nIn Zagreb, opposition parties won a slim majority on the 50 seat city council, a key battleground with the ruling party, according to preliminary results announced in the afternoon.\n\nThe local electoral commission said the HDZ would have 24 seats, the opposition Social Democratic Party 14, the opposition Croatian Social and Liberal Party (HSLS) nine and the Croatian Peasants' Party three.\n\nAfter elections in 1995, the opposition parties controlled the city council, but a crisis ensued when Tudjman four times rejected their choice of mayor, before dissolving the council in April, drawing international criticism.\n\nCroatia is due to go to the polls within months for presidential elections in which Tudjman, 74, is a favourite to win a third term.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 611, "end_char": 617, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 884, "end_char": 888, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 946, "end_char": 952, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Yesterday", "start_char": 1075, "end_char": 1084, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1448, "end_char": 1454, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1995", "start_char": 1812, "end_char": 1825, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 15", "start_char": 2104, "end_char": 2111, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last voter", "start_char": 2387, "end_char": 2401, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five days", "start_char": 2443, "end_char": 2452, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2526, "end_char": 2532, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday afternoon", "start_char": 3003, "end_char": 3019, "tid": "t15", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-07TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the afternoon", "start_char": 3524, "end_char": 3537, "tid": "t16", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 3769, "end_char": 3773, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 3936, "end_char": 3941, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0555.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0304\n\nHARARE, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUN agencies demand probe into situations of Victoria Falls\n\n\n\n\nUN agencies have asked the World Heritage Committee (WHC) to investigate whether Victoria Falls should remain on the World Heritage list following revelations that Zambia has approved the construction of 500 chalets in the rainforest, local newspapers said on Monday.\n\nAccording to regulations of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Conservation Union, the construction of the chalets would negatively impact on the natural state of the rainforest, The Herald said.\n\nAfter a three-day consultative meeting with the Zambian and Zimbabwean officials, the deputy director of the World Heritage Center in Paris Kishore Rao said the joint consultative meetings were meant to improve conservation programs on both sides of the rainforest.\n\nHe said his delegation was looking at various aspects that included tourism regulations and infrastructural development within the rainforest.\n\nHe said some of the infrastructural developments were a threat to the site. \"We are here to assess the state of the site in terms of the rules and regulations governing the world heritage sites. The regulations are meant to improve the state of conservation and there are specific regulations that we want to see being implemented,\" he added.\n\n\"Some infrastructural developments are a threat to the site and we are making assessments on the both sides of the site,\" he said.\n\nRao said the results on whether or not to de-list the site as a World Heritage Site would only be known after a WHC meeting in June next year.\n\nRao was, however, reluctant to comment on the variance between Livingstone and Victoria Falls in terms of meeting the requirements of WHC. \"We are now leaving for Lusaka where we intend to meet government officials there as some of the decisions might be political. So it will be premature if I am to say anything concerning the delisting of the site,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday, the commission visited a refuse dumpsite at the Helipad, and on the Zambian side they visited the proposed site of the 500 chalets.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 379, "end_char": 385, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June next year", "start_char": 1647, "end_char": 1661, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2030, "end_char": 2039, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0304.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0086\n\nHONG KONG, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nChina in the driving seat as Rolls-Royce expands in Asia\n\n\n\n\nChina has overtaken Japan as luxury car maker Rolls-Royce's largest Asian market, the legendary marque's chairman and chief executive Ian Robertson revealed Thursday.\n\nThe fast-emerging economic giant last year saw sales of the super-luxury Rolls-Royce Phantom soar 60 percent to 70 units.\n\n\"That sort of growth is unique it's very special -- usually 5 percent either way means the difference between a great year and a not so great year in other markets,\" said Robertson, in Hong Kong for the unveiling of the Peninsula Hotel's new fleet of 14 Phantoms.\n\nThe United States remains the company's biggest market, with the majority of sales there made in Los Angeles, where the brand has three dealerships.\n\nBritain is the second largest market, with China now third.\n\nSuch is the pace of growth amongst Chinese buyers that the company is to expand its four dealerships in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to seven with addition next year of offices in Hangzhou, Shenzgen and Chengdu.\n\nRolls Royce launched the Phantom in 2003, its first model since the former British company was acquired by German auto manufacturer BMW in 1998.\n\nThe company hopes to sell 600 of the made-to-measure cars in 2006, setting a 16-year production record, and will launch its long-awaited, yet-to-be-named convertible version in January 2007.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 273, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 317, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 871, "end_char": 874, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1146, "end_char": 1150, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 1249, "end_char": 1253, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 1317, "end_char": 1321, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2007", "start_char": 1433, "end_char": 1445, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0086.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0092\n\nRAMALLAH, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n(Recast) Thai government to lift martial law in 41 provinces including Bangkok\n\n\n\n\n(In third paragraph, \" Interior Minister Boonrawd Somtas\" should be \"Defense Minister Boonrawd Somtas\")\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Thai government has decided to lift martial law, imposed shortly after the Sept. 19 coup, in some parts of the country, including the capital Bangkok, media reports said.\n\n\"The cabinet has approved the recommendation by the Council for National Security (CNS) to lift martial law in some parts of the country,\" Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont was quoted by the English-laguage Bangkok Post website as saying on Tuesday after a cabinet meeting.\n\nSurayud, however, did not specify in which provinces martial law will be removed or when the decision would take effect. Defense Minister Boonrawd Somtas would later provide the list of provinces, Surayud said.\n\n\"Martial law will be lifted in 41 provinces and remain in (the other) 35 provinces, due to both domestic and foreign security concerns, as well as concerns about drug smuggling and illegal immigration,\" Boonrawd later told reporters.\n\nAccording to Boonrawd, martial law will remain in provinces along the borders and some areas in the interior of the country, including northern and northeastern provinces Khon Kaen, Buri Ram and Chiang Mai, which were considered the strongholds of ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai Party.\n\nWhereas martial law will be revoked in Bangkok and its suburbs, Boonrawd said the government decided to life the martial law in Bangkok for the sake of the country's image and the government was certain that it would be able to control the situation in case of protests and demonstrations.\n\nUnder pressure from international arena to lift the martial law since the coup, the military-led CNS on Monday officially sent its proposal to the interim government it installed in regard to lifting martial law in 40 provinces of the country, exclusive of Bangkok.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 28", "start_char": 255, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 19", "start_char": 354, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 696, "end_char": 703, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1891, "end_char": 1897, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0092.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0036\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nShanghai stock index down -- Nov. 3\n\n\n\n\nThe Composite Stock Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange closed at 1,095.27 points on Thursday, down 9.52 points from the previous close.\n\nA Share Index: 1,151.42 points, down 10.06 points;\n\nB Share Index: 60.13 points, down 0.22 points;\n\nTotal Turnover: 7,510,890,000 yuan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0036.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0083\n\nPARIS, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nSpiritual leader of Chechnya's Arab fighters killed: Internet\n\n\n\n\nA Saudi man who is the purported spiritual leader of Arab fighters in Russia's rebel republic of Chechnya has been killed in fighting, an Internet statement said Saturday.\n\n\"Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Saif al-Jaber al-Buaynayn al-Tamimi, also known as Abu Omar al-Saif, the spiritual guide of the mujahedeen (holy fighters) in Chechnya, was martyred during a fight with the Russians, the enemies of God,\" said the statement, whose authenticity could not be independently verified.\n\nSheikh Omar, described as the \"judicial chief in the Shura (consultative) council\" of the mujahedeen, left Saudi Arabia 10 years ago to fight in Chechnya, it said.\n\nThe native of Qassim province, north of Riyadh, had issued numerous fatwas (religious edicts) calling for jihad (holy war) and is the author of several video and audio messages including on the war in Iraq.\n\nIn April 2004, another Saudi Abdul Aziz al-Ghamdi, also known as Abu Walid, who was considered by Russian intelligence as the chief of Arab fighters, was killed in Chechnya.\n\nGhamdi succeeded Arab warlord \"Khattab,\" who was also Saudi-born, after he was killed two years ago.\n\nSaudi Arabia's hardline Wahhabite brand of Islam has a strong following among Chechen rebels fighting Russian authority in the Caucasus republic since 1994.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 273, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 years ago", "start_char": 719, "end_char": 731, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2004", "start_char": 975, "end_char": 985, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years ago", "start_char": 1233, "end_char": 1246, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 1400, "end_char": 1404, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0083.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0286\n\nRAMALLAH, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIsrael tries to blow up situations in the region: PNA official\n\n\n\n\nThe spokesman of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Nabil Abu Rudeineh accused Israel on Tuesday evening for trying to blowup the situations in the region.\n\nAbu Rudeineh's accusation came in response to earlier statements made by Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lieutenant Dan Halutz who said that Israel will continue its targeted killing against Islamic Jihad militants in the Gaza Strip.\n\nAbu Rudeineh told reporters in the West Bank city of Ramallah that the PNA will never allow any attempt that aim at hindering holding the parliament elections set for Jan. 25, 2006.\n\nHe added that \"the PNA will not allow any side to destroy its efforts that are spent preparing for the coming parliament elections.\"\n\nAbu Rudeineh, meanwhile, demanded the Israeli government to stop its policies represented by incursions, assassinations and arrests against the Palestinian citizens.\n\nHe also demanded the Israeli government to offer help for the PNA in guaranteeing positive atmospheres for the hold of fair Palestinian elections.\n\nHalutz made the statements earlier in the day while briefing the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Israeli Knesset ( parliament) on the security situations in the region.\n\nHe said that the policy of targeted killing against Palestinian militants has proven to be extremely effective in restricting Palestinian militants' terror activities.\n\nTargeting the Islamic Jihad members will continue in the Gaza Strip even after the Israeli army had pulled out from the strip, he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday evening", "start_char": 219, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 25, 2006", "start_char": 695, "end_char": 708, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0286.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0460\n\nGAZA CITY, Dec 17 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with new clash ///\n\n\n\n\nPolitical tension gripped the Palestinian territories Sunday after president Mahmud Abbas called for early elections, dramatically raising the stakes in a long-running power struggle with the ruling Hamas party.\n\nThe move set off fears that the standoff between Hamas -- the Islamist movement that swept parliamentary elections at the start of this year -- and the president's own Fatah faction could ignite into full-blown civil war.\n\nA member of the presidential guard was killed and several people injured in what a security official described as an attempt Sunday by Hamas members to storm a presidential guard training camp.\n\nA Palestinian boy was shot dead and at least 18 others wounded late Saturday as thousands of armed loyalists of the two rivals, some of them masked, took to the streets of Gaza after Hamas denounced Abbas's move as tantamount to a coup.\n\n\"We are going to organize many demonstrations to prove to the president that we have the majority and that his call for elections is unacceptable,\" senior Hamas official Ahmed Yussef told AFP.\n\nAbbas said elections were the way to resolve the seething tensions with Hamas, which have paralyzed the Palestinian administration and added to the woes of a people suffering from a Western aid freeze.\n\n\"We are living through difficult and miserable times,\" he said.\n\n\"To break the vicious circle and prevent our lives from deteriorating further and our cause from eroding, I have decided to call early presidential and legislative elections. Let the people have their say and decide.\"\n\nNo date was set, but a senior aide to Abbas said the polls would take place \"between now and three months\".\n\nBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair, who touched down Saturday in Cairo as part of a Middle East tour, welcomed Abbas's call and urged the international community to rally behind the president.\n\nThe United States said it hoped that elections would help quell violence, while Israel -- which views Hamas as a terrorist organisation that refuses to recognize the Jewish state -- said it supported the moderate president.\n\nAbbas left the door open to forming a government of national unity, composed of technocrats, thus avoiding what would be the third election in the Palestinian territories since the Palestinian Authority was formed in 1994.\n\nHamas responded angrily, saying that Abbas's move represented \"a coup d'etat against the will of the Palestinian people\".\n\n\"Today what we have heard from Abu Mazen is a call, which if God willing we will try to avoid, for a civil war,\" Yussef said earlier Saturday.\n\nComplicating the crisis is the fact that Palestinian basic law does not address the issue of early elections. The current parliament, elected in January, normally would remain in place until the end of 2010.\n\nAbbas's declaration followed a week of rising tensions and violence between his Fatah party and Hamas, and followed the collapse of months of tortuous talks on forming a national unity government.\n\nOn Friday, Hamas accused Fatah loyalists of targeting Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya after his convoy came under fire in southern Gaza, killing his bodyguard and injuring one of his sons.\n\nA Palestinian security official told AFP that Hamas members tried to storm Sunday morning a training camp in southern Gaza for the presidential guard, triggering an intense exchange of automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenade fire in which one camp guard was killed.\n\nHamas officials were not immediately available for comment.\n\nThe Fatah-Hamas talks failed over the Islamists' refusal to bend to Western demands that it renounce violence, recognize Israel and accept past peace deals, and over allocation of key ministerial posts.\n\nLike Israel, the West considers Hamas a terrorist organization. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0258\n\nHARARE, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFormer Malaysian PM says world safety deteriorating\n\n\n\n\nVisiting former Malaysian prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, said on Tuesday world safety has worsened judging by the increasing number of bombings and terrorist cases across the globe.\n\nMohamad said this in an interview with reporters soon after meeting Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at State House.\n\n\"The world is still not safe today, in fact it is getting worse. For example, travelers are no longer safe because of terrorism while in different places such as America, bombings continue to occur.\"\n\nHe condemned the unipolar world now existing in world politics, saying it was an unfortunate phenomenon that other countries in the world could not tackle.\n\n\"It's a bad thing that is happening but unfortunately we can not opt for the other side,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile he described Zimbabwe as a rich nation with great potential for development.\n\nHe also spoke out in support of the government's land reform program that has seen thousands of landless blacks being given land.\n\n\"Zimbabwe is now independent and the whites should know that what they had during the colonial period, they cannot have now,\" he said.\n\nHe will leave Zimbabwe on Wednesday after a three-day official visit for Lesotho to attend the Southern African International Dialogue (SAID), a forum established to discuss various issues affecting the region and the way forward.\n\nMahathir retired as the Malaysian prime minister in October, 2003 after 22 years at the helm and was replaced by Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.\n\nSince retirement, he has spent most of his time traveling and delivering speeches.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 186, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 446, "end_char": 451, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 650, "end_char": 653, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1214, "end_char": 1217, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1256, "end_char": 1265, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October, 2003", "start_char": 1514, "end_char": 1527, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "22 years", "start_char": 1534, "end_char": 1542, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P22Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0258.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0125\n\nKUWAIT CITY, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, comments by UAE minister ///\n\n\n\n\nOPEC members look set to maintain their production quota but have yet to agree on renewing an offer of extra capacity, the cartel's chief said on Saturday ahead of a one-day meeting in Kuwait.\n\nThe Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries has a production quota of 28 million barrels per day (bpd), but in September the 11-nation group created a standby two-million bpd allocation to offset hurricane disruption to US output.\n\nSheikh Ahmad Fahd al-Sabah, Kuwait's energy minister and also current OPEC president, said he and fellow ministers would discuss the matter at the meeting on Monday.\n\nAsked by reporters whether there was a consensus on the 28-million-bpd quota, he said: \"I believe that we will continue with our production level.\"\n\nAs for the offer of extra capacity, Sheikh Ahmad said: \"From the beginning there are different opinions. For that I cannot decide now, we will have to discuss it in the meetings.\"\n\nTurning to the crucial issue of demand for energy in the second quarter, which typically wanes in line with a warmer climate in the industrialised northern hemisphere, the OPEC chief indicated that now was not the time to make a decision on how to counter such a slump.\n\nInstead, ministers may meet again next month or in early February.\n\n\"In our experience always in the second quarter there is a decrease in demand and I think for that reason some of my colleagues have already made their comments about their worries for the second quarter,\" said Shiekh Ahmad.\n\n\"May be we can have a meeting at the end of January, beginning of February to monitor the market for the second quarter.\"\n\nKuwait is hosting the 138th OPEC conference at a hotel in Kuwait City amid tight security.\n\nIt is only the second time the oil-rich country has played host to the cartel. The last such meeting here was in 1966.\n\nFirst to arrive Friday was Algerian Energy Minister Chakib Khelil who voiced support for maintaining the status quo, including the extra capacity pledge.\n\n\"The position of Algeria is to continue with the two million barrels per day, we have to work for a stable market,\" Khelil said.\n\n\"We should be able to constantly supply so that the economic growth in the world should be maintained,\" he added.\n\nUnited Arab Emirates Energy Minister Mohammad bin Dhaen al-Hamli said in Abu Dhabi on Saturday before leaving for Kuwait that OPEC was likely to extend the standby allocation for another period of three months, the official WAM news agency reported.\n\nThe majority of ministers -- including OPEC heavyweights Ali al-Nuaimi, oil minister for Saudi Arabia, and Kazem Vaziri-Hamaneh, interim oil minister for Iran -- are not expected in Kuwait until Sunday.\n\nOn Friday, Sheikh Ahmad said the meeting was unlikely to decide on the optimal price 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0431\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRussian FM warns against discussing energy security without Russia\n\n\n\n\nDiscussing energy security without Russia would be unproductive, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.\n\n\"I don't think that attempts to discuss energy security in any format without Russia could be productive and could promote energy security,\" Lavrov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying in comments on NATO's debate on the issue at a summit in Riga, Latvia.\n\n\"Energy security is a subject that concerns everybody,\" and the interests of all key players -- suppliers, consumers and transit countries -- should be taken into account, he said.\n\nRussia supplies about 25 percent of the gas and oil consumed in the European Union (EU), which is keen to formulate new principles of energy cooperation with Moscow.\n\nEU leaders want Moscow to commit to the Energy Charter, a document that regulates transit and investment in the energy sector and allows for greater market competition from foreign companies. Russia, however, has so far refused to ratify the charter.\n\nEnergy security should be regulated by long-term agreements that would stabilize both supply and demand, Lavrov said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 239, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0431.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0014 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0014. \n Dividend News:\n@  Avon Rent-a-Car amp Truck Corp. \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n AVON \n DIVIDENDS (DIV) \n\n   AVON RENT-A-CAR amp TRUCK Corp. said it declared a dividend of one warrant for each three shares of common stock. \nCurrently, Avon, based in Santa Monica, Calif., has 3.3 million common shares outstanding. \nAbout 1.1 million Class C warrants were issued, the company said. \nEach of the Class C warrants will enable the holders to purchase one share of common stock at $5.50. \nThe warrants may be exercised until 90 days after their issue date. \nAvon also said it will issue an additional 243,677 of the Class C warrants to holders of its Class A, Class B and unclassified warrants. \nIssuance of those warrants will be at the rate of one-third warrant for each warrant exercised.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 95, "end_char": 103, "tid": "t30", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "90 days", "start_char": 572, "end_char": 579, "tid": "t31", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P90D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_1042.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0264\n\nROME, April 4 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nItaly weclomes Albanian refugees with mixed feelings by Anne-Marie Chapelan\n\n\n\n\nWhile Italy prepares to lead a multinational force to Albania, it has given a mixed welcome to the influx of refugees who have fled across the Adriatic from the stricken Balkan nation.\n\nSince March 13, around 13,000 Albanians have arrived in Italy by boat to rejoin their 64,000 compatriots there, according to officials.\n\nThe Albanian immigrant community is second only in size in Italy to the Moroccan community, estimated to number some 119,000.\n\nAlbania has been gripped by instability since anti-government protests over the collapse of bogus investment schemes turned into armed rebellion as insurgents took control of a string of towns in the south.\n\nAmid the anarchy, and given that Albania was already Europe's poorest country, many people are desperate to escape, anywhere and anyhow.\n\nA bid by one group to sail across to Italy ended in tragedy last week, when their tug boat collided with an Italian naval ship. Four people were drowned and scores more reported missing, presumed dead.\n\nThe influx of refugees, who have been put up in 40 reception centres, has sparked protests.\n\nThe mayors of some cities, particularly the more affluent ones in the north, have refused to host refugees. The separatist Northern League has already warned that they will bring disease to the region.\n\n\"The delinquents should be thrown back into the sea,\" complained Irene Pivetti, the former speaker of the lower house of parliament.\n\nThe tug boat drama \"proved me right,\" she insisted. \"These women and children were taken hostage by unscrupulous criminals. The refugees must return home.\"\n\nRoberto Rambaldi, a top official with the Catholic humanitarian agency Caritas, said: \"There is a hidden racism in Italy, an underlined xenophobia.\"\n\nMany of the immigrants were considered \"liars or burglers,\" he said, even though they often did work that Italians did not want, such as labouring in fields or looking after the elderly.\n\n\"Albania is a violent country which has been a fulcrum of oil and arms trafficking (toward the former Yugoslavia),\" he added, \"where it was easy to make money.\"\n\nBut the main problem was the link between organised crime in Albania and Greece and the Italian Mafia, especially in prostitution and child exploitation.\n\n\"How can a country of 57 million people, the fifth economy in the world, be afraid of thousands of refugees?\" asked Luigi Manconi, spokesman of the Green party.\n\nLeft-wing and anti-racist organisations plan to hold a rally Sunday in the souther port of Brindisi in a show of solidarity with the refugees.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 4 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 13", "start_char": 323, "end_char": 331, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 987, "end_char": 996, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2595, "end_char": 2601, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0264.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0198\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with deaths ///\n\n\n\n\nIraqi Red Crescent aid workers suspended work in war-torn Baghdad on Monday after two dozen of their colleagues fell victim to the latest mass kidnap to shock a city plagued by sectarian violence.\n\nAt least 14 Iraqis were killed in a string of bombings and shootings as new US Defence Secretary Robert Gates prepared to take office in Washington amid deepening US divisions about how to handle the worsening crisis in Iraq.\n\n\"Only in Baghdad have we stopped, to make more pressure to free those who have been kidnapped,\" the Iraqi Red Crescent's secretary general Mazen Abdallah told AFP one day after the abductions.\n\n\"We are the only organisation working in all Iraq. We don't want to stop,\" he added, emphasising that the closure applied only to the Red Crescent's health and relief workers in the capital.\n\nIn addition to the main branch targeted in the kidnapping, the Iraqi Red Crescent has closed another 40 subsidiary offices in Baghdad, affecting more than 600 staff, a large proportion of them security guards, Abdallah said.\n\nThirteen of the 30 men snatched in Sunday's brazen raid by gunmen dressed in police uniforms have been released, including three guards from the nearby Dutch embassy and 10 Red Crescent guards and drivers, Abdallah added.\n\nBut 17 people, including relief and health workers -- a mixed group of Shiite and Sunni staff -- are still missing following the second mass abduction to terrorise Baghdad in less than a week.\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross, part of the same movement, has called for the immediate and unconditional release of the hostages, and condemned the kidnapping as a breach of international humanitarian law.\n\nFully aware of the ugly sectarian tensions threatening to rip Iraq apart, Abdallah said he ordered his staff not to reveal their family names while at work, in order not to disclose their religious or ethnic background.\n\nWith US experts and politicians increasingly anxious over how to manage the chaos in Iraq, where around 129,000 US troops are clashing with insurgents and training local forces to take over, a new defence secretary was to take office.\n\nGates, a former Central Intelligence Agency director, will be sworn in at the Pentagon just three days after his predecessor Donald Rumsfeld, blamed for the current mess in Iraq, was given a full honours send-off.\n\nHis arrival precedes the announcement of a new policy on Iraq set to be unveiled by US President George W. Bush early next year -- a new strategy that Gates is likely to be involved in shaping.\n\nOptions under consideration reportedly include boosting the number of US soldiers by between 20,000 and 50,000 to secure Baghdad, forging an alliance between moderate Iraqi Shiites and Sunnis at the expense of radicals on both sides, or even throwing the US lot in with the majority Shiites.\n\nBush has effectively dismissed a report by the Iraq Study Group, a bipartisan panel of foreign policy luminaries, which recommended wrapping up US combat operations in the country by early 2008.\n\nMeanwhile, the violence continues unchecked. In Baghdad, five people were killed and 19 wounded when a car bomb exploded in a bustling marketplace in the mixed Shiite-Sunni neighbourhood of Saidiyah, a security source said.\n\nA national electricity employee, a police colonel and a university guard were also killed in separate attacks, security sources said.\n\nFive more civilians were killed in the Baquba area, north of Baghdad, with one attack targeting mourners accompanying bodies to the Shiite religious south for burial, police and medical sources said.\n\nIn the northern city of Mosul, unidentified gunmen ambushed and shot dead Khayreddin al-Dabbagh, a member of the municipal council, police said.\n\nThe US military also announced that two more troops were killed in action, bringing the number of US fatalities in Iraq since the 2003 invasion to 2,946, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1165, "end_char": 1171, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "less than a week", "start_char": 1528, "end_char": 1544, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days", "start_char": 2318, "end_char": 2328, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 2553, "end_char": 2568, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20,000", "start_char": 2729, "end_char": 2735, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "50,000", "start_char": 2740, "end_char": 2746, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2008", "start_char": 3112, "end_char": 3122, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0198.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0292\n\nLONDON, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nLegend Best's hour are numbered, says doctor\n\n\n\n\nFootball legend George Best faces no chance of recovery and his final hours are numbered as his deteriorating condition was irreversible, his personal doctor said on Thursday.\n\nBest, 59, could not recover from the internal bleeding that developed last night, Professor Roger Williams said.\n\nJust before 1300 GMT, he said the former Northern Ireland international would not survive another 24 hours.\n\nFamily and friends have visited Best in London's Cromwell Hospital, where he has been treated for a lung infection.\n\nLater on Thursday, Professor Williams added there had been \"no change, just deterioration\" in Best's condition.\n\nWhen Best's closest family arrived at the west London hospital, they asked the gathered media not to film or photograph them as they went in.\n\nBest has been in hospital for eight weeks, after initially suffering flu-like symptoms, but deteriorated with a lung infection on Friday.\n\nProfessor Williams said: \"Mr. Best is coming to the end of the long road of his ill health.\n\n\"The situation is that medically the intensive care team and everybody concerned have managed to cope with pretty well all of the complications except the one that has happened again during the night - this bleeding.\n\n\"Although [the blood] has been replaced, it has now affected the lungs and other parts, and there is really no return from that situation.\n\n\"It is just not possible to recover from that.\"\n\nHe added: \"He is still having standard medical care and treatment but I have to tell you that his hours are numbered now and it's all very upsetting.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 279, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last night", "start_char": 352, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 631, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight weeks", "start_char": 908, "end_char": 919, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1008, "end_char": 1014, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the night", "start_char": 1300, "end_char": 1309, "tid": "t8", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "affected", "start_char": 1380, "end_char": 1388, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1634, "end_char": 1637, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0292.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0083\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDollar stays at lower 119 yen level in Tokyo\n\n\n\n\nThe US dollar inched up to the lower 119 yen level Friday in Tokyo, as market players sold the yen following the announcement by the Bank of Japan that it is maintaining its super-loose monetary policy.\n\nAt 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at 119.22-24 yen, up from Thursday's 5 p.m. quotes of 118.76-86 yen in New York and 118.98- 119.00 yen in Tokyo.\n\nIt moved between 118.70 yen and 119.29 yen during the day, trading most frequently at 118.90 yen.\n\nThe euro was quoted at 1.1712-1714 dollars and 139.63-67 yen against Thursday's 5 p.m. quotes of 1.1743-1753 dollars and 139.59- 69 yen in New York and 1.1654-1656 dollars and 138.66-70 yen in Tokyo.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 367, "end_char": 375, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 505, "end_char": 512, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 623, "end_char": 631, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0083.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0145\n\nKANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec 17 , 2006, 2006\n\n30 Taliban rebels killed in NATO Afghan raid\n\n\n\n\nA NATO-led airstrike in southern Afghanistan this week killed up to 30 Taliban fighters including two commanders, the governor of the troubled Kandahar province said Sunday.\n\nWarplanes from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) bombed a compound serving as a Taliban command post in the Panjwayi district of the volatile Kandahar province on Wednesday.\n\nThe alliance at the time did not provide information on casualties, saying that toll was being assessed.\n\n\"According to intelligence reports, we've killed 30 Taliban including some of their commanders,\" Kandahar governor Asadullah Khalid told a news conference on Sunday, four days after the raid.\n\nHe said Taliban regional commanders Mullah Abdul Wali and Mullah Sher Jan, and low-ranking rebel commander Mullah Abdul Nafi, were among those killed in the air raid.\n\nHundreds of ISAF troops backed by Afghan security forces this week launched a major operation in Panjwayi, a known Taliban stronghold where in mid-September troops fought a major battle with insurgents.\n\nMore than 1,000 militants were killed in the earlier operation named \"Medusa\".\n\nISAF on Friday dropped leaflets on insurgent positions warning them to leave the area before troops force them to quit.\n\nThe governor, citing security reasons, did not provide details on the latest operation, named \"Baaz Tsuka\".\n\nDespite being forced out from power five years ago, remnants of the Taliban are still active and have been carrying out fierce attacks.\n\nSome 4,000 people, including 1,000 civilians, have died in Taliban-led violence this year, the bloodiest since the toppling of their regime in late 2001.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2006", "start_char": 46, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 480, "end_char": 489, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday, four days", "start_char": 756, "end_char": 773, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1016, "end_char": 1025, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1251, "end_char": 1257, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years ago", "start_char": 1509, "end_char": 1523, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1690, "end_char": 1699, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2001", "start_char": 1753, "end_char": 1762, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0145.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0068\n\nGAZA, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPNA insists on release of all Palestinian prisoners\n\n\n\n\nA senior Palestinian official said on Saturday that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) will not reach any agreement with Israel before release of all Palestinian prisoners.\n\nMinister of Prisoners' Affairs Sufian Abu Zayda told the Voice of Palestine that the PNA insists on releasing all the Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails without any discrimination.\n\nAbu Zayda made the remarks after visiting ill Palestinian prisoners in Al-Ramla and Beer Sheva detentions, where some of them received medical treatment.\n\n\"The prisoners' health condition needs an immediate interference of international human rights institutions and medical teams,\" he said.\n\nHe accused the Israeli prison authorities of negligence toward ill prisoners.\n\nThere are reportedly more than 8,000 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails.\n\nIsrael claims that it will never release those \"with blood on their hands,\" referring to Palestinians who were involved in attacks on Israeli targets.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0068.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0038\n\nDAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTanzania ready for Anoca Games\n\n\n\n\nTanzania has confirmed participation in the forthcoming Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (Anoca) Zone Five U-20 Games.\n\nTanzania has thus joined Burundi, Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda in the Games to be held in Nairobi of Kenya between Dec. 1 and 5.\n\nThe Anoca Games will feature four sports of track and field, boxing, cycling and basketball.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1", "start_char": 391, "end_char": 397, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0038.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0068\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNepal\n\n\n\n\nFour people were killed and 15 injured in a road accident in central Nepal on Sunday, local police office said.\n\nThe accident occurred when a passenger bus bound for Narayangarh from Pokhara skidded off the road and fell into Trishuli river on the Mugling-Narayangarh road section of Chitwan district, some 200 km west of Kathmandu, local police office said in a statement.\n\nThe mishap occurred when the bus tried to overtake a mini truck, the police noted.\n\nThe injured are undergoing treatment at the Mahendra Adarsha Hospital and College of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital in Bharatpur, the police said, adding, the condition of three is serious.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0068.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0268\n\nSRINAGAR, India, April 7 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFour Moslem militants killed after Kashmir grenade attack\n\n\n\n\nIndian border guards shot dead four Moslem guerrillas here Monday following a failed grenade attack on a police officer, officials said.\n\nTwo other militants were arrested after the shootout with the Border Security Force (BSF). A BSF spokesman had earlier said three men had been detained.\n\nThe initial attack occured in a busy street in a residential area near Islamia College, the spokesman said.\n\nA group of militants threw a grenade and opened fire at the car of deputy superintendent of police Mohammed Shafi Pattro. He escaped unhurt.\n\nDozens of BSF personnel, who are deployed on Srinagar's streets, rushed to the site and cordoned off several houses from where the militants were firing.\n\nA prolonged gunbattle followed in which four militants died. A BSF officer said: \"Our men recovered four AK-47 rifles and a universal machine gun (from the place).\"\n\nIt was the bloodiest gunbattle in downtown Srinagar since a pro-India Moslem party took office in Kashmir in October, ending almost seven years of federal rule in the Himalayan state.\n\nMoslem militants are fighting for Kashmnir's independence from India. Around 20,000 people have died in the campaign since 1989.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 7 , 1997", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1097, "end_char": 1104, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "seven years", "start_char": 1120, "end_char": 1131, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P7Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 1296, "end_char": 1300, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0268.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0493\n\nJAKARTA, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndonesian opposition complains of bias in campaign coverage\n\n\n\n\nIndonesia's main opposition party has complained about unfair media coverage just two days into the official campaigning period, claiming that a state-owned television station was biased.\n\nThe Moslem-led United Development Party (PPP) has strongly protested \"the discriminatory attitude\" of the state-owned television channel Televisi Republik Indonesia (TVRI) in reporting the campaign, which started Sunday.\n\nIn a press statement received here late Sunday, PPP Secretary General Tosari Wijaya protested the fact that TVRI did not report his party's successful campaign in North Sumatra while other private television channels did.\n\nThe Media Indonesia daily Monday also reported that in Solo, Central Java, a local journalist was mobbed by supporters of the ruling Golkar party after he failed to display the party's finger sign. His motorcycle was damaged in the encounter, the daily said.\n\nIndonesia on Monday entered the second day of its 27-day election campaign with the country's three government-recognised political parties drumming up support in separate islands.\n\nGolkar members are scheduled to address rallies on Sumatra and Bali island, the Lesser Sunda islands and in East Timor, a party schedule show.\n\nGolkar Chairman Harmoko, who is also information minister, is scheduled to address a rally in Aceh and North Sumatra while several other cabinet ministers are also on the list of party speakers for the day.\n\nExecutives of the PPP, without party chairman Ismail Hasan Metareum who will rest for the day after campaigning in North Sumatra Sunday, will address the population in Sulawesi and Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo island.\n\nThe third and last state-recognized party, the rift-plagued Indonesian Democracy Party (PDI), is due to campaign in Java, the Moluccas and Irian Jaya, the election campaign rooster show.\n\nThe party's campaign will not involve popular former PDI chairwoman Megawati Sukarnoputri which was deposed in mid-term by a state-backed rebel congress in June and replaced by Suryadi.\n\nThe PDI headquarters here could not say where chairman Suryadi would campaign in Java on Monday or what the plan was for the capital.\n\nSuryadi has remained unpopular among the PDI masses and has faced frequent opposition rallies during his visits to PDI branches nationwide, especially in Java.\n\nMegawati, daughter of founding president Sukarno, said this week that she would not take part in the election campaign but urged supporters to monitor the elections closely.\n\nIndonesia's 124 million eligible voters will elect candidates to 425 seats in parliament in the May 29 polls, choosing from among the country's three official political parties -- Golkar, PPP and PDI. Campaigning ends on May 23.\n\nSuharto's Golkar has had landslide victories in the past five elections since 1971, and is expected to do the same this year. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0387\n\nBERLIN, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nMubarak due for Berlin talks after 'signs of hope' in Mideast\n\n\n\n\nEgyptian President Hosni Hubarak will hold talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel here on December 10 to discuss \"signs of hope\" for peace in the Middle East, the German government said on Friday.\n\n\"The German government has an interest to protect, nurture and support the growth of the small but fragile plant which seems to be developing,\" the government's chief spokesman Thomas Steg said.\n\nHe listed the positive signs as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's conciliatory speech to mark the anniversary of the death of Israel's first premier, David Ben Gurion, and moves to encourage Hamas to exchange prisoners with Israel.\n\n\"You could say there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon,\" Steg said.\n\nGerman Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier started a Middle East tour on Thursday.\n\nMubarak's visit is part of a flurry of diplomacy as Germany prepares to take over the presidency of the European Union and the Group of Eight most industrialised nations on January 1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 10", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 222, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 310, "end_char": 316, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 900, "end_char": 908, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1", "start_char": 1084, "end_char": 1093, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0387.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0252\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n11 killed, 17 injured in Sri Lanka road accident\n\n\n\n\nAt least 11 people were killed and 17 others were injured in a serious motor accident Saturday in Sri Lanka's northwestern province, police said Sunday.\n\nA van and a bus collided head on Saturday night at Gokarella, 112 kms from the capital, the police said.\n\nThe passengers in the van were returning to the central province village of Kandalama when it was hit by the bus which was heading towards Colombo, the police added.\n\nThe bus driver told the police that he was unable to control the bus while negotiating a bend.\n\nThe injured were admitted to hospitals at Kurunegala, Dambulla and Galewela, while at least 2 of the critically injured were transported to the National Hospital in the capital.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 255, "end_char": 261, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday night", "start_char": 297, "end_char": 311, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-18TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0252.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0211\n\nSEOUL, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nS. Korea to pay all its late allotted charges to international agencies\n\n\n\n\nThe South Korean government announced on Thursday that it will pay all its late allotted charges to affiliated international agencies by next year, one year earlier than was originally planned.\n\nSouth Korea plans to pay 116 million U.S. dollars that it owes in share expenses in agencies such as the United Nations, the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, by 2007, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.\n\nThe South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said the South Korean government made the decision apparently for the upcoming inauguration of former South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon to the post of U.N. Secretary-general on Jan. 1 2007.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 277, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one year", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 287, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 552, "end_char": 556, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 1 2007", "start_char": 829, "end_char": 840, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0211.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0132\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEU audit watchdog gives qualified approval to EU accounts\n\n\n\n\nThe European Union (EU)'s top financial watchdog has given a qualified approval of the EU accounts for 2004, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) said in a report Tuesday.\n\nSpeaking at the European Parliament plenary session in Strasbourg, France, ECA President Hubert Weber said that the court was unable to sign off the EU accounts for the 11th consecutive year, according to a press release on the EU's website.\n\nBut Weber added that compared with the previous year, the quality of the accounts had improved, with nearly one-third of EU spending ratified by the ECA, a jump from 6 percent in 2003.\n\nHowever, Weber said that for a variety of spending accounts, notably agricultural spending, the court was not in a position to approve.\n\n\"The supervisory and control systems are not yet implemented and operating effectively and payments are still affected by errors,\" he told European legislators.\n\nBut he stressed that this did not mean that fraud was rife throughout the EU.\n\n\"The court's opinion on these matters cannot be interpreted as all transactions of the 2004 payment budget being affected by error as an indication of fraud,\" he said.\n\nAgricultural spending was particularly error-strewn, Weber said, although the European Commission (EC) and national governments had improved their controls compared to the previous year.\n\nHe said that new control measures covering 59 percent of farm payments had had a positive impact \"where properly applied,\" while checks covering 37 percent of the agricultural payments not covered by these new measures \"did not provide reasonable assurance that they comply with legislation.\"\n\nWeber was particularly critical of the national authorities, who account for 80 percent of budget payments, saying \"the improvement in systems and controls at the level of the commission has not been reflected in those within the member states.\"\n\nWhen urging national authorities to work more closely with the commission to identify areas for improvement, Weber suggested, for example, the scope of current checking procedures be extended to include the legality and regularity of expenditure.\n\nReacting to the ECA report, the European Commission said in a statement that it broadly agreed with the ECA conclusions.\n\nThe EC Vice-President Siim Kallas, who is responsible for relations with the Court of Auditors, said the report was \"fair and balanced,\" adding that it had taken note of the improvements in the implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy and the commission's management systems.\n\nHe admitted that there was still a lot to do and called for more cooperation from national and regional governments in improving budget spending.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 223, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 290, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 11th consecutive year", "start_char": 458, "end_char": 483, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous year", "start_char": 571, "end_char": 588, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 715, "end_char": 719, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous year", "start_char": 1437, "end_char": 1454, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0132.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0207\n\nLHASA,  Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTibet gains 200-mln-yuan non-governmental relief fund\n\n\n\n\nThe Tibet Development Foundation in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous region has raised nearly 200 million yuan (24.7 million US dollars) and launched 640 supporting projects with no strings attached, according to sources of the foundation.\n\nThe supporting projects launched by the foundation cover many fields, like culture, education, medical care and ecological protection.\n\nThe Brightness Project, for instance, has helped 20,000 cataract sufferers regain eyesight since it was launched in 1993. The relief money provided by the project for medical care has amounted to 80 million yuan (9.9 million US dollars) so far.\n\nSunshine Program, another aid project launched by the foundation this June, has installed solar-energy stoves for 191 rural households. It has also offered other equipment powered by solar energy for free.\n\nThe foundation was initiated in 1987 by the tenth Panchen Lama and Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. Its principle is to assist the local government to further improve Tibetan residents' living standards.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 609, "end_char": 613, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this June", "start_char": 804, "end_char": 813, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1987", "start_char": 978, "end_char": 982, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0207.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0007\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAgro-product collection center benefits farmers in central Nepal\n\n\n\n\nFarmers of Eastern Chitwan in central Nepal, who were affected by the lack of buyers and relevant market of the green vegetables they produce in their own land, have been able to increase annual income after having set up an Agro-production Collection Center in the district.\n\nThe selling and storing of vegetables in the highly equipped collection center has benefited at least 6,000 farmers of six Village Development Committee (VDCs) of this area, Chairman of the center, a non-government organization, Chudamani Bartaula told reporters on Wednesday.\n\nThrough this collection center, a total of 2.9 million kg of vegetables worth about 42.9 million Nepali rupees (612,857 US dollars) was sold last year, which has been considerably contributing in the economic development or the rural area, Bartaula said.\n\nAccording to Bartaula, the local cooperative organizations have also been providing loans so as to make the business more effective and to enhance the living conditions of the farmers.\n\nUp to now, the center has invested a total of 196,000 rupees (2, 800 dollars) as a loan to the farmers and has also been providing technical assistance in order to expand vegetable production through 228 shareholders.\n\nNow, the commercial vegetable production is on 2,000 hectares of land in the VDCs, and the farmers of this area are becoming self-reliant gradually after the establishment of the center two years ago, Bartaula added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 671, "end_char": 680, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 824, "end_char": 833, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1131, "end_char": 1134, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years ago", "start_char": 1530, "end_char": 1543, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0007.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0134\n\nHARBIN, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUNDP helps train personnel for China's underdeveloped regions\n\n\n\n\nMore than 1,000 Chinese public servants and professionals are travel to Europe by the end of the year to study methods to modernize China's underdeveloped northeastern and western regions.\n\nChina's Ministry of Personnel and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Monday jointly launched the three-year training program.\n\nPublic servants and professionals from the northeast and west will go to Britain and Italy before the end of the year to study laws and regulations on personnel resources and experiences in developing modern agriculture and manufacturing in the two countries.\n\nThe UNDP provided one million U.S. dollars for the program which has a total investment of 2.5 million U.S. dollars, according to sources with the government of Daqing, a city of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, where the launch ceremony was held.\n\nThis is the second time that the two sides have cooperated in training personnel for China's underdeveloped areas.\n\nMore than 1,200 public servants and professionals from 12 provinces and autonomous regions of west China participated in training programs and were sent abroad from 2002 to 2004 to study environmental protection, energy efficiency, and the prevention and treatment of desertification.\n\nThe Chinese government initiated the strategy to develop its vast western regions in 2000, targeting 12 underdeveloped areas, to narrow the gap with the fast-growing east.\n\nMajor tasks include improving infrastructure, ecological and environmental protection, and healthcare, and promoting education.\n\nThe central government also launched a strategy to rejuvenate its northeast industrial bases in 2003. The strategy is aimed at developing new and essential growth areas of the national economy.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 397, "end_char": 403, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 553, "end_char": 572, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1460, "end_char": 1464, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1773, "end_char": 1777, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0134.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0212\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEU upgrades diplomatic level in Sri Lanka\n\n\n\n\nThe European Union (EU) has upgraded its representation level in Sri Lanka to maintain good relations between EU and the Indian Ocean island country, Sri Lanka's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Thursday in a press release.\n\nEU's delegation is now a fully-fledged diplomatic mission with an accredited Head of Delegation of ambassadorial rank based in Colombo, said the press release.\n\nWith the upgrading, the staff of the EU delegation will be doubled and all operational decisions will be managed locally in Colombo by the expanded team.\n\nEU is a major development partner of Sri Lanka with over 150 million euros in aid to tsunami relief and reconstruction, and over 70 million euros in conventional development expenditure.\n\nEU offers Sri Lanka its most concessional trading status, which assures the country of maximum access for its exports to EU and had made EU one of Sri Lanka's most important trading partners.\n\nEU's new Head of Delegation, Julian Wilson, presented credentials to Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga on Monday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 297, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 349, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1139, "end_char": 1145, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0212.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0186\n\nMELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFactbox of women's all-around world champion Chellsie Memmel\n\n\n\n\nFollowing is the factbox of American Chellsie Memmel, who won women's all-around at the 38th gyamnastics world championships here on Friday:\n\nChellsie Memmel, the United States\n\nPlace of birth: West Allis, WI, the United States\n\nDate of birth: Junuary 23, 1988\n\nHeight: 154 cm\n\nWeight: 50 kg\n\nClub: M Gymnastics in the United States\n\nCoach: Andrew Memmel, her father, and Laurie Glazer\n\nIdol: her parents\n\nA steady performer, she helped the American team win its first world team title in 2003 and was a co-champion on uneven bars that year.\n\nShe missed the 2004 National Championships and Olympic trials due to a broken foot. She still made the Olympic travelling squad as an alternate but did not compete at the event.\n\nShe was named the 2003 TOPS Co-Athlete of the Year with Carly Patterson.\n\nShe is the oldest of three daughters to Andrew, a collegiate all-American gymnast at Wisconsin, and Jeanelle, an all-American at Centenary. Her parents own the M Gymnastics club, where her younger sister Mara is also a competitive gymnast. Another sister, Skyler is also a gymnast.\n\nHer ambitions is to coach gymnastics in the future.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 624, "end_char": 628, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "that year", "start_char": 666, "end_char": 675, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1254, "end_char": 1264, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0186.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0216\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. stocks open higher\n\n\n\n\nU.S. stocks opened higher on Tuesday as investors were waiting for election results.\n\nIn the opening trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.84 to 12,107.39. The Standard  Poor's 500 index rose 0.08 to 1,379.86, and the Nasdaq composite index climbed 0.64 to 2,366.59.\n\nCrude oil prices rose slightly in electronic trade Tuesday amid supply concern of Nigeria.\n\nOutput of 55,000 barrels per day of oil was cut in Nigeria when armed protesters forced the closure of a flow stationbelonging to the Italian oil company Agip in the the oil-rich Niger Delta.\n\nNigeria is the largest African oil producer or the sixth largest oil exporter in the world with a daily crude output of 2.6 million barrels.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 415, "end_char": 422, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0216.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0272\n\nNEW DELHI, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndian industry chiefs hail interest rate cut, new lending rules\n\n\n\n\nDelighted Indian industry chiefs Wednesday predicted the newly- announced cut in interest rates and relaxation of lending rules would spark growth as businesses revived expansion plans.\n\nA.S. Kasliwal, president of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, was responding after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Tuesday announced a one-percent interest rate cut to 11 percent in its monetary policy for the six months to September.\n\nIt also relaxed rules on bank lending to companies.\n\n\"The policy will give the banking sector freedom and flexibility to meet credit requirements of the productive sector,\" he said.\n\nConfederation of Indian Industry (CII) president Shekhar Dutta also welcomed the RBI's new policy, saying it would \"broaden and deepen the financial and capital market reforms.\n\n\"The policy reflects the continuation and direction of economic reforms and the measures announced will propel the pace and momentum of growth.\n\n\"The reduction of lending rate by one percent will reduce the cost of borrowing and help reduce project costs,\" the CII chief added.\n\nThe Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry said the RBI policy \"will give a boost to the capital market.\"\n\nAll-India Association of Industries president Vijay Kalantri added: \"Freedom to banks to assess potential borrowers ... will benefit the commercial sector.\"\n\nThe RBI allowed banks more independence in giving credit and permitted them to extend loans to firms against their shares.\n\nCommercial banks are expected to match the RBI's rate cut by reducing their prime lending and term deposit rates.\n\nA national forum of banking executives, however, went againsts the trend by warning Wednesday the relaxed rules could lead to more bad loans being made.\n\nAll India Bank Officers Confederation secretary R.C. Agarwal added the RBI had restricted freedom of domestic banks following a multi- billion-dollar securities scandal in 1992.\n\nNine Indian and foreign banks were held responsible for artifically jacking up share prices with borrowed funds.\n\nThe RBI said Tuesday the aim of its policy was to \"maintain a monetary expansion of 15 to 15.5 percent with the expectation of bringing down the interest rate to a reasonable level.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 159, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 454, "end_char": 461, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the six months", "start_char": 545, "end_char": 559, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1809, "end_char": 1818, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 2051, "end_char": 2055, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2185, "end_char": 2192, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0272.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0018\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNepali people benefit from solar electrification\n\n\n\n\nSome 300 homes involving 2,000 people of Katunje-2 village in Nepali Dhading district have benefited from Solar Electrification Project (SEP).\n\nWith the total cost of 16 million Nepali rupees ( 228,571 US dollars ), the project was executed by Central Electronics Limited (CEL), a public undertaking of the Indian government in partnership with Nepali Alternative Energy Promotion Center, a semi-governmental organization, a press statement of Embassy of India reaching here said Tuesday.\n\nThe project involves the provision of a solar panel, a maintenance free battery and a home lighting system of 75 watts, as well as planning, implementation and maintenance.\n\nSo far, India has executed 10 solar electrification projects worth 160.7 million ruppes (2.29 million dollars) in various districts in Nepal.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 592, "end_char": 599, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0018.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0382\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMetro train kills one, injures another in Washington area\n\n\n\n\nA Metro train struck two employees working on the track near the U.S. capital, Washington, D.C., on Thursday, killing one and critically injuring another, officials said.\n\nThe workers, both men, were walking the tracks doing routine inspections when the accident took place in the morning.\n\nThey were hit by an empty four-car train from Huntington to the Alexandria rail yard, which was near the Eisenhower Station, in Alexandria, Virginia, Metro spokeswoman Cathy Asato said.\n\nA section of the Yellow Line was shut down following the accident, and shuttle buses were used to transport passengers in several stations. Officials said the accident was under investigation.\n\nThursday's fatality was the 14th for the Metrorail system in its 30-year history and the third serious one involving Metro trains and its workers, media reports said.\n\nAlso on Thursday, two freight trains derailed in North Baltimore, a small town in Ohio. One of the trains derailed, sending wreckage into another train nearby knocking some of its cars off the track.\n\nIt was not known immediately how many people were injured in the accident and what caused the first train to derail, reports said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 222, "end_char": 230, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning", "start_char": 399, "end_char": 410, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 802, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 970, "end_char": 978, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0382.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0234\n\nLUANDA, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nWFP halves rations for hungry Mozambicans\n\n\n\n\nA funding shortfall of over 70 percent has forced the World Food Programme (WFP) to halve its rations to hungry Mozambicans, ahead of the critical \"lean season\" between harvests, when food stocks generally run out, said a report reaching here from the Mozambican capital of Maputo on Friday.\n\nThe report said the food aid agency urgently requires 10 million U.S. dollars to feed 460,000 people till next March when another harvest is due.\n\nThe WFP currently assists 292,000 vulnerable people, but a 77 percent shortfall in funding has deprived hundreds of thousands of people of half the ration of cereals and corn-soya blend they have been using to fight starvation.\n\n\"We are very concerned, because we are not talking about small numbers: some 240,000 people have no food security; half of those people are living in arid areas where they can not farm; they have nothing, \" said Paulo Zacula, director of Mozambique's National Disaster agency.\n\nThe director said, \"we are about to enter a period of emergencies with possible cyclones and floods. We should have stockpiles of food in case of emergencies,\"\n\nKarin Manente, WFP acting country director in Mozambique, said, \"By this time, we have usually pre-positioned food stocks in areas that become inaccessible during such emergencies.\"\n\nShe added that due to the huge shortfall, some WFP-supported activities might have to be discontinued or suspended this month unless new donations were received, according to the report.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 386, "end_char": 392, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next March", "start_char": 501, "end_char": 511, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1508, "end_char": 1518, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0234.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0243\n\nKATHMANDU, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS, UPDATES with talks starting ///\n\n\n\n\nNepal's government and Maoist leaders began fresh talks Wednesday aimed at hammering out an interim constitution that could result in the suspension of the monarchy.\n\nOfficials said the two sides, who signed a landmark peace deal last month to end a decade of civil war, were still at odds over who should be the Himalayan nation's new head of state -- with the Maoists hoping to end the reign of embattled King Gyanendra.\n\n\"The leaders will try to sort out the differences on some crucial issues, including who to be the head of the state in the interim period,\" Ramesh Lekhak, a government negotiator and Minister for Labour, told AFP.\n\nKing Gyanendra was stripped of most of his powers in May, after massive protests forced him to end direct rule.\n\nTechnically, he is still the head of state -- albeit with no power over the army and no political role.\n\nSome members of the multi-party interim government are arguing the job should be left empty until scheduled elections next year for a constitutional assembly that will decide once and for all whether the 238-year-old monarchy should stay or go.\n\nBut the fiercely-republican Maoists want to see Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala -- the respected octogenarian architect of the peace deal -- or left-wing parliament speaker Subash Nemwang named as interim head of state, a move that would complicate the king's chances of a comeback next year.\n\nEither way, the king looks set to temporarily lose his job.\n\nMaoist negotiating team leader Krishna Bahadur Mahara told AFP that a further sticking point was the slow process of \"arms management\" -- implementing an agreement for the rebels to be confined to camps with their weapons and placed under United Nations supervision.\n\nThe UN has an initial batch of 35 monitors slated to arrive within the next few weeks, but is still some way off being able to monitor the tens of thousands of fighters the rebels claim they have.\n\nThe prime minister has warned the process, which will involve the rebels entering government and parliament, may not be able to move forward as long as rebels and their weapons roam free.\n\nAt least 12,500 people were killed during the rebel \"people's war\" that officially ended with the signing of a peace accord. The former insurgents, however, still control large tracts of the countryside.\n\nDespite the hiccups, the Maoists insisted that the peace process as a whole was still firmly on track and an agreement likely.\n\n\"We are hopeful Wednesday's meeting will finalise the issue and give the final shape of the interim constitution,\" Mahara said.\n\nThe political parties in government and rebels are one-time foes who formed a loose alliance in late 2005.\n\nTogether they spearheaded mass protests in April that forced Gyanendra to abandon 14 months of absolute rule. He said he had seized direct power to crush the Maoist rebellion.\n\nAfter the king reinstated parliament, it promptly stripped him of most of his powers, and his future will be definitively decided in constituent assembly polls due to be held before June 2007.\n\nAlthough tainted by allegations of abuse of power, he is still revered by many in the deeply conservative kingdom as a Hindu deity.\n\nMeanwhile, Gyanendra and Queen Komal reportedly headed south for the winter to escape the cold, following pressure on them to keep a low profile after the peace deal.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 168, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 342, "end_char": 352, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the interim period", "start_char": 655, "end_char": 673, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 804, "end_char": 807, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1087, "end_char": 1096, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1502, "end_char": 1511, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next few weeks", "start_char": 1910, "end_char": 1928, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2579, "end_char": 2588, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2005", "start_char": 2788, "end_char": 2797, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 2843, "end_char": 2848, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2007", "start_char": 3159, "end_char": 3168, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the winter", "start_char": 3369, "end_char": 3379, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-WI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0243.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0249\n\nXI'AN, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBuddha Finger Sarira to be enshrined in ROK for one month\n\n\n\n\nAbout 1,000 Buddhists held a religious ceremony on Thursday in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, to see off the holy Buddha Finger Sarira, which is heading for the Republic of Korea (ROK) for one month of enshrinement there.\n\nThe ceremony was chaired by Master Monk Yi Cheng, president of the Buddhist Association of China, and Master Monk Sheng Hui, who is in charge of the escort, at Famen Temple of Xi'an, one of the four sacred places in Chinese Buddhism.\n\nThe Buddhists, from both China and the ROK, saluted the images of Buddha and chanted aloud sutras from Buddhist classics at the ceremony.\n\nThe Buddha Finger Sarira, or the finger bone relic of Buddhism founder Sakyamuni, is regarded as China's state treasure. It is going to the ROK at the invitation of the ROK Buddhist Association.\n\nThis is an important event in the 1,600-year history of friendly relations between the two countries, said Master Monk Sheng Hui.\n\nThe enshrinement of the Buddha Finger Sarira in the ROK could bring the ROK people happiness, improve social morality and boost friendship between the two countries, said Hui Cong, head of the inviting Buddhist delegation from the ROK.\n\nThe Buddha Finger Sarira will stay in the ROK from Nov. 11 to Dec. 20.\n\nSince it was unearthed from a secret chamber at the Famen Temple in 1987 after being buried underground for nearly 1,000 years, the Buddha Finger Sarira has been sent to Thailand and China's Taiwan Province and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region for enshrinement. The three activities, arranged respectively in 1994, 2002 and 2004, attracted millions of Buddhist believers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 168, "end_char": 176, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one month", "start_char": 329, "end_char": 338, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 11", "start_char": 1352, "end_char": 1359, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 20", "start_char": 1363, "end_char": 1370, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1987", "start_char": 1441, "end_char": 1445, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly 1,000 years", "start_char": 1481, "end_char": 1499, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 1689, "end_char": 1693, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1695, "end_char": 1699, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1704, "end_char": 1708, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0249.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0323\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCairo to host annual international film festival from Nov. 28\n\n\n\n\nThe annual 30th Cairo International Film Festival will be held from Nov. 28 to Dec. 8, with some 19 films from 16 countries to be shown.\n\nChinese film \"The Road\", directed by Zhang Jiarui, will be among the films for competition. Three Egyptian films and two Mexican films will also be shown at the festival.\n\nAccording to a press release by the organizer, there will be a five-member international jury led by Egyptian director and writer Daoud Abdel Sayed during the festival.\n\nThe film festival will be held with a series of form and content reforms as the festival's logo being changed from \"The Pyramid\" to \"The Pharaonic Life Key\" while the prizes also being changed to \"the Golden Life Key\", \"the Silver Life Key\" and \"the Bronze Life Key\".\n\nAnother remarkable change of this year's film festival was the guest of honor, not a sole country, but a whole continent -- the Latin America.\n\nIn recent years, France, Italy and China were honored at the festival for their outstanding contributions to the Seventh Art ( the art of cinema) during the past century.\n\nFurthermore, this year's film festival will hold a conference on anti-piracy, during which the current practices of film piracy, ways to reduce its harmful impact on investors and consumers, and the economic growth process will be discussed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 28", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 8", "start_char": 199, "end_char": 205, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the festival", "start_char": 585, "end_char": 597, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 898, "end_char": 907, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1016, "end_char": 1028, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1198, "end_char": 1207, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0323.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0180\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBeijing gets new fuel cell cars for Olympic fleet\n\n\n\n\nBeijing Public Transportation Corp. got here Wednesday three brand new fuel cell passenger cars from world leading automaker Daimler-Chrysler.\n\nThe three new cars, prototypes of the green vehicle fleet serving the Beijing Olympics, will be used in Beijing's hi-tech zone, or Zhongguancun Area, for public transportation in an 8.19-km route.\n\nThe experimental commercial use of the fuel cell cars is the first of its kind in any developing country.\n\nThe Beijing Public Transportation Corporation has prepared all facilities for hydrogen refilling, which is vital for fuel cell cars, data collection systems, training for drivers and service management.\n\nThe Global Environment Fund and the United Nations Development Program supported the experimental project for promoting free-emission fuel cell cars in China, which will host the 2008 summer Olympics and the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.\n\nThe three cars were shown at the Fourth International Clean Vehicle Technology Conference and Exhibition.\n\nAt the inaugural for the exhibition, Ma Songde, vice-minister of Science and Technology, said that the development of energy-saving vehicles is one task for build an energy-saving society and an environment-friendly economy.\n\nAs the world's most populous country and a developing one, Ma said, China should cultivate an auto industry oriented for saving energy and protecting the environment.\n\nFuel cells transfer hydrogen to electric power, which produces no pollution. Many big auto companies in the world invest much into the research and development of such environment-friendly vehicles.\n\nAn industrial policy guideline issued by the government in 2004 supported the development of vehicles using clean energies.\n\nMa said Chinese companies need to combine their own innovative capacity with the latest technologies licensed by multinational auto makers to shape the cutting-edge in the industry.\n\nAt present, Chinese auto makers have already developed more than 100 kinds of hybrid cars and fuel cell cars, many of which were shown at the Beijing exhibition.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008 summer", "start_char": 943, "end_char": 954, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1762, "end_char": 1766, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0180.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0433\n\nBEIJING, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nURGENT  Six-nation talks on NKorea's nukes start\n\n\n\n\nSix-nation talks aimed at convincing North Korea to give up its nuclear program began here Monday, a South Korean official said, just over two months after the reclusive nation conducted its first atomic test.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 203, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months", "start_char": 245, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0433.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "bbc_20130322_332\n\n2013-03-22\n\nBP to buy back $8bn in shares after Russian sale\n\n\n\nOil giant BP has said it will buy back $8bn of shares, returning to shareholders the money they had put into a complicated Russian venture.\n\nIt said it \"expected to return to BP shareholders an amount equivalent to the value of the company's original investment in TNK-BP\".\n\nBP agreed to sell back its 50% stake in TNK-BP to Russia's Rosneft in October in return for $17.1bn in cash and shares.\n\nIt invested in TNK-BP in 2003.\n\nBP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said: \"We expect our stake in Rosneft will generate long-term value for BP and its shareholders. But this buyback programme should also allow our shareholders to see benefits in the near-term from the value we have realised by reshaping our Russian business.\"\n\nBP expects the share buyback programme could take between 12 and 18 months to complete.\n\n\"In 2003 BP invested around $8bn in cash, shares and assets in the formation of TNK-BP,\" the oil giant said. \"Over the following decade BP received a total of $19bn in dividends from the joint venture.\"\n\nAlthough BP's involvement in the Russian joint venture has been lucrative, relations with its partners have often been fraught with disagreement. In 2011, the AAR consortium attempted to block a drilling joint venture in the Arctic between BP and Rosneft through the courts and the plan was eventually dropped.\n\nAs well as internal wrangles, BP employees at TNK-BP have fallen foul of Russian authorities.\n\nWhile serving as head of TNK-BP, Bob Dudley - now the head of BP as a whole - had his office bugged and raided by the police and met with onerous back-tax demands, legal action and visa problems.\n\nHe eventually fled the country in 2008.\n\nBut the tie-up with Rosneft will keep BP in Russia, allowing it to continue to explore and exploit the country's vast energy resources, including in the Arctic region. And Rosneft benefits from BP's expertise in exploring in difficult and potentially hazardous conditions.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "2013-03-22", "start_char": 18, "end_char": 28, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 434, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 503, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12", "start_char": 862, "end_char": 864, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "18 months", "start_char": 869, "end_char": 878, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 897, "end_char": 901, "tid": "t1000", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the following decade", "start_char": 1008, "end_char": 1028, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1DE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2011", "start_char": 1246, "end_char": 1250, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2011", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1550, "end_char": 1553, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1735, "end_char": 1739, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "bbc_20130322_332.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0261\n\nHANOI, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTrans-national drug trafficking ring uncovered in Vietnam\n\n\n\n\nVietnamese police have uncovered a trans-national drug trafficking ring alleged to have trafficked 1, 000 heroin cakes, each weighing 0.35 kilograms, into the country from neighboring Cambodia since 2002, Vietnam News Agency reported Thursday.\n\nHeroin was brought into Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City via southern Kien Giang province's Ha Tien town, which borders Cambodia, before heading to Quang Ninh province and other northern localities, the report quoted the police as saying.\n\nLate last month, local police arrested Kong Hung, a Cambodian, in Ha Tien town, with five heroin cakes. The man, who was a member of the ring, admitted that he has so far this year transported 194 heroin cakes across the border.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 316, "end_char": 320, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 351, "end_char": 359, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Late last month", "start_char": 596, "end_char": 611, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 767, "end_char": 776, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0261.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0469\n\nLONDON, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nNearly one in four Britons fat: official\n\n\n\n\nBritish adults have got fatter in the last 10 years with almost one in four now officially obese, according to official statistics released Friday.\n\nIn men, obesity rates almost doubled in 10 years, from 13.2 percent in 1993 to 23.6 percent in 2004, a study by the Health and Social Care Information Centre found.\n\nFor women, the increase was slightly lower, growing from 16.4 percent to 23.8 percent.\n\nBut findings that children's body mass index -- a measure of weight in relation to height -- continued to grow again raised fears that they will be larger than their parents and put an additional burden on health services.\n\nDespite the research's gloomy picture, the number of people doing 30 minutes of moderate physical exercise at least five times a week increased in the period, from 32 to 35 percent of men and 21 to 24 percent of women.\n\nThere was also a rise in the number of people eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables each day.\n\nMore people kicked the smoking habit with the study showing a six percent fall in the number of male smokers from 28 percent to 22 percent.\n\nWomen in Britain now smoke more than men with the research showing a three-percent dip in female smokers between 1993 and 2004 to 23 percent.\n\nThe research involved about 8,000 adults and 2,000 children aged two to 15.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last 10 years", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 142, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 years", "start_char": 280, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 311, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 335, "end_char": 339, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 845, "end_char": 851, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1207, "end_char": 1210, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 1303, "end_char": 1307, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1312, "end_char": 1316, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0469.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0166\n\nORDUBAD, Azerbaijan, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nAzerbaijan to meet Gazprom over gas price hike\n\n\n\n\nAzerbaijani officials are to hold talks Friday with Russian gas giant Gazprom over an increase in Russian gas export prices, the head of Azerbaijan's state oil company said Thursday.\n\n\"Talks between Azerbaijani government representatives and Gazprom on the issues of the price and volume of delivery of gas will begin in Moscow tomorrow,\" Rovnag Abdullayev, head of Azerbaijan's state oil company SOCAR said.\n\nRussia's state gas monopoly Gazprom wants to increase the price for gas sold to Azerbaijan from 110 dollars per 1,000 cubic meters to 230 dollars as part of a series of price hikes for former Soviet republics.\n\nIt also wants to more that halve its annual deliveries of some four billion cubic meters to Azerbaijan, potentially creating a shortage of the fuel in the Caspian state, which has major oil and gas reserves of its own, but suffers from poor infrastructure.\n\n\"Azerbaijani consumers will not be left without gas,\" Abdullayev told journalists during a visit to Azerbaijan's Nakhchivan region.\n\nAzerbaijan has reacted to Gazprom's demands by threatening to cut exports of its own oil through Russian territory, in a move that would deprive Russia of lucrative transit fees.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "tomorrow", "start_char": 444, "end_char": 452, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0166.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0336\n\nKARACHI, Dec 15 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nKamran Akmal smashed his second successive one-day century to help Pakistan hand England a crushing 165-run defeat in the third day-night limited overs international here on Thursday.\n\nAkmal followed his 102 in the second match with a brilliant 109 and all-rounder Abdul Razzaq hit an unbeaten 22-ball 51 as England conceded their highest-ever one-day total of 353-6 in 50 overs.\n\nEngland never looked remotely in the hunt and lost wickets at regular intervals. They were dismissed for 188 in 42 overs, with supersub Ian Bell topscoring with 37 not out.\n\nPakistan lead the five-match series 2-1.\n\nThe result equalled England's previous worst one-day defeat of 165 suffered against the West Indies at St. Vincent in the 1993-94 series.\n\nThe tourists lost opener Matthew Prior (two) to a run out in the seventh over when fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar picked up Marcus Trescothick's drive and threw the stumps down at the non-striker's end.\n\nRana Naved-ul-Hasan then removed Trescothick (22) and Vikram Solanki (nought) in his fourth over to leave England struggling on 40-3.\n\nIt became 4-79 when Mohammad Sami trapped Andrew Strauss leg before for 23. Allrounder Andrew Flintoff hit seven boundaries in his 36 before he was bowled by supersub Yasir Arafat.\n\nLeg-spinner Shahid Afridi and Shoaib Malik then shared five wickets between them to wrap up the innings on a day totally dominated by Pakistan.\n\nEarlier, Akmal had added 104 for the third wicket with Mohammad Yousuf (68) after Trescothick surprisingly put them in on a pitch full of runs.\n\nThe 22-year-old, whose century helped Pakistan win Monday's second match at Lahore by seven wickets, laid the cornerstone for a big Pakistan total by giving them a flying start of 74 with Salman Butt (29).\n\nAkmal, who survived a caught and bowled chance off Paul Collingwood, struck 12 boundaries off 111 balls to notch up his third one-day hundred before holing out at long-on with a tired shot off the bowling of Collingwood.\n\nHis fall brought in popular all-rounder Shahid Afridi, who delighted the packed 33,000 crowd with a rapid-fire 14-ball 31 studded with three fours and two sixes.\n\nAfridi, who returned after serving a one-Test and two one-day games ban for scruffing the pitch in the second Test last month, was finally run out in a mix-up with Yousuf.\n\nYousuf suffered the same fate five overs later after hitting seven boundaries during his 65-ball knock. But his fall opened the way for a late- order flurry as Pakistan notched up 109 off the last ten overs.\n\nRazzaq hit five fours and three sixes during his brisk knock of 22 balls, while Inzamam smacked four boundaries and a six as the pair added 78 off just 39 balls to scuttle a hapless England attack.\n\nPlunkett was the best of England's bowlers, taking two wickets for 61 off seven overs. James Anderson was hit for 72 off his ten and Steve Harmison 62 off his eight.\n\nEngland brought Vikram Solanki in for big-hitting Kevin Pietersen who returned home after suffering back and ribcage problems.\n\nThe match was played under tight security with over 3,000 policemen and paramilitary troops cordoning off the ground. England, who refused to play a Test here, had sought extra security in the violence-prone city.\n\nThe previous highest total conceded by England in all one-day internationals was 326-8 made by India at Lord's in 2002.\n\nThe fourth match will be played at Rawalpindi on Monday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "23", "start_char": 1208, "end_char": 1210, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1923", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1659, "end_char": 1665, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 2315, "end_char": 2325, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 3405, "end_char": 3409, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 3461, "end_char": 3467, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0336.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0651\n\nTOKYO, April 17 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapan's trade surplus down 26.8 percent in March\n\n\n\n\nJapan's trade surplus in March was down 26.8 percent from a year earlier at 818.3 billion yen (6.49 billion dollars) but up from 686.7 billion yen in February, the finance ministry said Thursday.\n\nExports were up 10.5 percent at 4.54 billion yen while imports were up 24.4 percent at 3.72 billion yen, it said.\n\nFor the fiscal year ending in March, the trade surplus narrowed 29.6 percent to 6,421 billion yen.\n\nA ministry official said the decline in Japan's trade surplus was \"slowing\", apparently referring to the impact of the weaker yen.\n\nTokyo Research Institute economist Toshio Sumitani said the March surplus was below his forecast for a trade imbalance of one trillion yen.\n\n\"Imports were stronger than expected ... Crude oil prices have fallen recently, so I did not expect strong imports,\" he said, citing \"extraordinary factors\" for the increase.\n\nSumitani also noted that exports to the United States remained high and this was expected to continue boosting the surplus in the coming months.\n\n\"The pace of the movement in the trade surplus year on year is slowing, because of slowing exports to the Asian and European markets,\" he said.\n\nIn March alone, Japan's surplus with the United States, its biggest trading partner, surged 11.2 percent to 380 billion yen with exports up 14.3 percent at 1,260 billion yen and imports up 15.7 percent at 880 billion yen.\n\nThe surplus with Asia shrank 17.9 percent to 635 billion yen, with exports up 7.6 percent at 1,922 billion yen and imports increasing 27.0 percent to 1,287 billion yen.\n\nWith the European Union, the trade surplus narrowed 39.2 percent to 131 billion yen. Exports to the EU countries rose 2.5 percent to 676 billion yen with imports down 22.8 percent at 545 billion yen.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 17 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 136, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t2", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 264, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 292, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fiscal year", "start_char": 422, "end_char": 437, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 448, "end_char": 453, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 710, "end_char": 715, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "coming months", "start_char": 1097, "end_char": 1110, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1261, "end_char": 1266, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0651.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0328\n\nNAIROBI, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nInflation soars in Kenya\n\n\n\n\nKenya's three-month annualised inflation rose to 35.6 percent in March from 14.7 percent in February as a result of food shortages caused by widespread drought earlier this year, the Central Bank said Wednesday.\n\nThe overall month-on-month inflation also rose to 15.6 percent in March from 11.9 percent in February, with the average annual inflation increasing to 10.7 from 9.9 percent during the same period.\n\n\"The surge in the overall inflation during the first quarter of the year was traced to the severe decline in agricultural output following the drought\", the bank's monthly economic review for April says.\n\nThe food price index increased by 43 percent during the year to March 1997, compared to the earlier increase of 17 percent during the same period last year.\n\nThe Kenyan shilling gained against major currencies in March when it was trading at 54.90 to the dollar compared with 54.93 in February.\n\nThe overall balance of payments in the year up to February 1997 was a surplus of 504 million dollars compared with a deficit of 102 million dollars in the year to February 1996.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 149, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 176, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 261, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 363, "end_char": 368, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 398, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period", "start_char": 477, "end_char": 492, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter of the year", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 567, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 687, "end_char": 692, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 752, "end_char": 760, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 1997", "start_char": 764, "end_char": 774, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period last year", "start_char": 830, "end_char": 855, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 913, "end_char": 918, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 985, "end_char": 993, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year up to February 1997", "start_char": 1031, "end_char": 1059, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year to February 1996", "start_char": 1147, "end_char": 1172, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0328.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0187\n\nKAMPALA, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina joins force with Uganda in fighting malaria\n\n\n\n\nA three-day anti-malaria training program opened here on Monday as part of China's efforts to join force with Uganda to fight malaria.\n\n\"Malaria has serious implications on all aspects of our lives, at individual, family, community level and at national level. We can not afford to keep silent and live with it,\" said Stephen Malinga, Uganda's minister of health, who opened the training program in Kampala on Monday.\n\nHe also hailed the Chinese government for financing the course, saying it is an indication of the growing cordial relation between the two countries.\n\n\"There are a lot of technologies in China, in medicine, which the world is freshly discovering. It is the challenge for participants in this short course to utilize this opportunity to learn from Chinese experts,\" Malinga said.\n\nMinistry of Health statistics indicate that malaria kills over 80,000 Ugandans per year, mostly pregnant women and children, and still ranks as the number one killer in the east African country.\n\nHe Shijing, the charge d'affairs of the Chinese embassy in Kampala, said the Chinese government is fulfilling its pledge of donating anti-malaria medicine and carrying out anti-malaria training programs in Uganda.\n\n\"The Chinese experts are here, ready and willing to work hard together with their Ugandan colleagues to reduce the influence of malaria, to share experience and to improve Ugandan people's health through direct contribution of anti-malaria medicine and treatment expertise,\" he added.\n\nIn recent months, various Chinese anti-malaria drugs have been introduced on the Ugandan market as the Ugandan government embarked on various measures, including the indoor spraying of the DDT, to combat the disease spread by female anopheles mosquitoes.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 168, "end_char": 174, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 521, "end_char": 527, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent months", "start_char": 1610, "end_char": 1623, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0187.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0037\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAlien plant species threatens ecosystem of Zambia's Victoria Falls\n\n\n\n\nEcosystem of Zambia's Victoria Falls is under serious threat from an invasive alien species (IAS) of weed called Lantana Camara, a conservationist has warned.\n\nThe situation was very serious as the weed was killing off natural vegetation, Geoffrey Howard, eastern Africa regional program coordinator of International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) was quoted by Saturday's The Post as saying.\n\nLantana is regarded as one of the worst weeds because of its invasiveness, its potential to spread and its subsequent economic and environmental impact, according to Howard.\n\nThe weed is a serious threat to biodiversity in several World Heritage-listed areas and poses a problem in gardens because it can cross-pollinate with weed varieties to create new, more resilient forms, he added.\n\nHoward said if left unattended to, the weed could become the dominant vegetation in the Victoria Falls area and that the other plant species were in danger of becoming extinct.\n\nHe said his organization was working with the governments of Zambia and Zimbabwe to come up with the best way to tackle the weed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 497, "end_char": 505, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0037.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0110\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 17 , 2005\n\ncharges ///\n\n\n\n\nPolitical leaders in Iraq and abroad focused Saturday on a government for the war-torn nation while a high-profile secular candidate charged that an electoral commission had failed in its mission.\n\nThe Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq cautioned that ballots from Thursday's legislative poll were still being counted and official results would not be available before the end of the year.\n\nUnofficial estimates, however, suggested polarized results similar to those from elections in January, and Adnan al-Dulaimi of the Iraqi National Concord Front, a list strongly supported by Sunni Arabs, said he was ready to join a coalition.\n\nBut former planning minister Mehdi al-Hafez told media in Baghdad: \"The results that have been announced are incorrect and are meant to influence public opinion.\"\n\nHe spoke after reports of a sweeping victory for the main religious Shiite coalition, the United Iraqi Alliance (UIA), in nine southern provinces.\n\n\"There were many violations in several provinces and there is widespread concern among the electorate, who feel state bodies and the electoral commission failed in their task,\" Hafez said.\n\nHafez who ran for office alongside former prime minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shiite, pressed for an official investigation to remove all doubts about the poll's credibility.\n\nDulaimi in contrast appeared to accept the commission's work, and said: \"We will work towards finding a strong coalition in the national assembly that can protect the rights of Iraqis.\"\n\nThe current government, an alliance of Kurds and religious Shiites, took months to form and has been accused of sidelining the country's disaffected Sunni Arab minority.\n\nPrime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari has said that if the UIA lost, which is unlikely, he would work with whoever won \"even if they are not qualified.\"\n\nJaafari met Saturday with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiites, in all likelihood to discuss the political future of the country.\n\nThe religious Shiite UIA, according to estimates from commission sources and party officials, appeared to have swept the largely Shiite south, while a Kurdish alliance had a purportedly commanding lead in the north.\n\nAn international mission said Friday that the Iraqi election has generally met international standards, and hailed the organisers for meeting a \"difficult challenge.\"\n\nIraqi Shiites and Sunni Arabs staged rallies throughout Iraq on Saturday to champion their legislative candidates as the country emerged from a three-day security lockdown.\n\nFacing anemic poll numbers at home over his Iraq policy, US President George W. Bush has trumpeted the election as a victory for the Iraqi people and US policy in Iraq and is hoping a strong government will quickly coalesce.\n\nThe new 275-member parliament is to appoint a president and two vice presidents. The presidential council will then have 15 days to name a prime minister, who has 30 days to form a cabinet with parliamentary approval.\n\nA spokesman for Bush said he has contacted the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates and asked them to help Iraq establish a new government.\n\nUS ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, and General George Casey, the commander of coalition forces in Iraq, said in a statement: \"The newly elected leaders should come together quickly and build bridges for national unity.\"\n\nThe UN Security Council also called for \"the rapid formation of a representative government\" and stressed \"the importance of inclusiveness, dialogue and national unity as Iraq's political development moves forward.\"\n\nWhile few deaths occurred during the vote, ongoing instability in Iraq was underlined by a mortar attack Friday that killed four children playing football and an Iraqi soldier near the western town of Haditha.\n\nDulaimi told reporters Saturday that insurgents had agreed not to attack polling stations and thanked them for holding to their promise.\n\nIn an interview Friday, Bush admitted that the elections would not solve the problem of the insurgency in Iraq, and that violence would likely continue.\n\nMeanwhile, the Iraqi Central Investigating Court issued an arrest warrant for Mullah Halgurd al-Khabir, accused of masterminding the August 23 bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad that killed 22 people, among other attacks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 108, "end_char": 116, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 342, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 438, "end_char": 457, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 554, "end_char": 561, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1900, "end_char": 1908, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2300, "end_char": 2306, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 2502, "end_char": 2510, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 days", "start_char": 2959, "end_char": 2966, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "30 days", "start_char": 3001, "end_char": 3008, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P30D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 3779, "end_char": 3785, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 3908, "end_char": 3916, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 4039, "end_char": 4045, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 23", "start_char": 4310, "end_char": 4319, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0110.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0279\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\noperations\n\n\n\n\nThe European Union (EU) and Canada signed an agreement on Thursday, facilitating Canada's participation in EU crisis management operations.\n\nThe agreement was signed by EU's foreign and security policy chief Javier Solana and Canadian ambassador Jeremy Kinsman in the margins of an EU-Canada leaders' video-conference.\n\nUntil now, Canada's participation in EU-led crisis management operations has been on ad hoc basis.\n\nCanada has participated or is currently involved in several EU- led operations in Bosnia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 399, "end_char": 402, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0279.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0376\n\nLIMA, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nURGENT  45 killed in Peruvian bus accident\n\n\n\n\nA passenger bus drove off a cliff in a remote part of southeastern Peru on Tuesday, killing at least 45 people and injuring two others, local police said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0376.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0668\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Dec 12 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS ///\n\n\n\n\nThe UN Security Council on Tuesday capped a special debate on growing Middle East turmoil by reaffirming its commitment to the vision of Israel and an independent Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security.\n\n\"The Security Council reaffirms its profound attachment to the vision of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security,\" said a statement read by Qatar's Deputy Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassim al-Thani.\n\nQatar, which holds the council's rotating presidency for this month, scheduled the debate amid growing concern about the deteriorating situation across the Middle East, with conflicts raging in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon and Iraq.\n\nThe 15-member council emphasized that \"there can be no military solution to the problems of the region and that negotiation is the only viable way to bring peace and prosperity to peoples throughout the Middle East.\"\n\nIt welcomed last month's Gaza truce agreement reached by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and cautioned that \"action by the international community cannot be a substitute for determined measures by the parties themselves.\"\n\nIt again called on the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority to accept the three pinciples set by the Middle East Quartet -- The European Union, the United States, Russia and the United Nations -- as a basis for resuming peace talks with Israel.\n\nBut the Islamist Hamas movement, which controls the Palestinian government since its historic win in the January polls, has so far refused the three principles -- renounce violence, agree to abide by past peace deals or recognise Israel -- even implicitly.\n\nOpening the debate, outgoing UN chief Kofi Annan pleaded for \"a new and urgent push for peace\" between Israelis and Palestinians.\n\nHe reiterated that the Roadmap, the blueprint for peace drawn up by the Quartet, remained \"the reference point around which any effort to re-energize a political effort on the Israeli-Palestnian track should be centered.\"\n\nBut US deputy ambassador to the UN Alejandro Wolff warned that \"the ultimate responsibility for progress toward peace rests with the parties, and with their fulfillment of the parallel obligations they have agreed to undertake in accordance with the Roadmap.\"\n\n\"The role of the international community, therefore ... must be to help create the environment that will enable the parties to come together to resolve their differences,\" he added.\n\nIn his last report on the Middle East released Monday, Annan also stressed the need to find \"new ways of protecting Palestinian and Israeli civilians\" from violence, and to establish clear parameters for settling final status issues such as the fate of Jerusalem and the return of Palestinian refugees.\n\nCommenting on Annan's ideas, China's UN envoy Wang Guangya said that \"they deserve serious consideration\" by the Security Council.\n\nSlamming the council for its passivity in tackling the issue, the Chinese ambassador said that the powerful body \"should transform itself as soon as possible from 'firefighter' to 'problem shooter,' come up with innovative ideas and take an active and pragmatic approach\" to help solve the Israeli-Arab conflict.\n\nBritain's UN Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry again urged Israel \"to freeze all settlement activity, including the 'natural growth' of existing settlements, and to dismantle all outposts built since 2001 in line with the provisions of the Roadmap.\"\n\nAnd he pressed the Palestinian Authority to make every effort \"to prevent terrorism.\"\n\nIsrael's UN deputy representative Daniel Carmon, for his part, stressed that \"direct negotiations ... is the only way forward.\"\n\n\"Israelis, Lebanese, and Palestinians all deserve better ... 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0083\n\nNEW DELHI, April 20 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nGujral vows to improve India's ties with Pakistan\n\n\n\n\nUnited Front coalition leader Inder Kumar Gujral on Sunday said he would improve India's relations with Pakistan after forming his new government.\n\nGujral said the alliance government would follow an independent foreign policy and added he would also try and improve relations between India and its other neighbours.\n\nThe new United Front leader, who has served as India's foreign minister under three governments and who is expected to be named prime minister later Sunday, promised normal ties with arch-rival Pakistan.\n\n\"This area will be given considerable importance by the new government,\" he said.\n\nGujral said he has evolved a \"five-point doctrine\" to improve India's foreign relations in the region and said the subject would be a \"priority area\".\n\nThe former diplomat said India's ties with Europe, the United States, China and Russia \"would get the equal attention of the United Front government.\"\n\nAs foreign minister in his predecessor H.D. Deve Gowda's government, Gujral helped end a three-year freeze on official talks between India and Pakistan last month.\n\nHe also eased travel restrictions for Pakistanis visiting India before holding talks with Pakistani foreign minister Gohar Ayub Khan in April.\n\nThat, ironically, was due to pave the way for a meeting between the prime ministers of the two countries at a regional summit next month in the Maldives. Now Gujral looks set to represent India there himself.\n\nIndia and Pakistan have fought three wars since independence from British colonial rule in 1947.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 20 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 169, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1173, "end_char": 1183, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 1322, "end_char": 1327, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 1456, "end_char": 1466, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 1484, "end_char": 1487, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1947", "start_char": 1631, "end_char": 1635, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1947", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0083.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0201\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nHong Kong chief to visit Guizhou Province next week\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Donald Tsang will lead a delegation, comprising officials and local business leaders, to visit southwestern Guizhou on Nov. 21, a government spokesman said Wednesday.\n\nThe three-day tour aims to promote economic and trade cooperation between Hong Kong and the Pan-Pearl River Delta region, which groups Hong Kong, Macao, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.\n\nThe tour will be Tsang's third visit to the Pan-Pearl River region since he assumed the office of HKSAR Chief Executive in 2005. He will lead another business delegation to Jiangxi early next year, according to the government spokesman.\n\nDuring the trip, Tsang will visit local enterprises and tourism-related infrastructure. He will also take part in the Hong Kong-Guizhou Business Co-operation Symposium and the Hong Kong-Guizhou Tourism Seminar.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 21", "start_char": 298, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 335, "end_char": 344, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 705, "end_char": 709, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 763, "end_char": 778, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0201.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0089\n\nTAIYUAN, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nDeath toll in north China colliery gas blast rises to 41\n\n\n\n\nThe death toll from a colliery blast in north China last week has risen to 41 with six others still missing, local government sources said on Wednesday.\n\nRescuers found another body Wednesday morning in the Jiaojiazhai Colliery in Xinzhou, a city in the central northern area of Shanxi Province, according to a provincial coal mine work safety conference held on Wednesday.\n\nA gas explosion occurred at 11:45 a.m. on Nov. 5. at the Jiaojiazhai Colliery, when 393 miners were working in the pit. Three hundred and forty-six escaped after the blast.\n\nSearch and rescue efforts are continuing though rescuers believe the six missing miners have little chance of survival, given the high density of toxic gas and serious cave-ins following the blast.\n\nAlso on Wednesday, one miner was confirmed dead following a colliery flood that trapped eight in northeast China's Liaoning Province.\n\nThe accident, in which one miner is still missing and six were injured, occurred Tuesday at the privately-owned Dahenan Colliery in Huazi Township in Dengta, a city about 50 kilometers south of provincial capital Shenyang.\n\nSurging demand for winter coal has spurred production but also caused a string of deadly accidents.\n\nIn the coal-rich Shanxi Province, two recent colliery accidents, including the Jiaojiazhai Colliery blast, have killed at least 67 people.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 300, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 481, "end_char": 490, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "11:45 a.m.", "start_char": 521, "end_char": 531, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 5.", "start_char": 535, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15T05:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 874, "end_char": 883, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1082, "end_char": 1089, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0089.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0411\n\nDIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES toll ///\n\n\n\n\nFour people, among them a woman and her two children, were crushed to death after an explosion caused by a defective heating system razed a five-storey building housing families of the Turkish military here early Monday, officials said.\n\nEight people were pulled injured from the wreckage of the building in the center of Diyarbakir, the largest city in Turkey's predominantly Kurdish southeast.\n\nFour others remained trapped under the rubble, land forces commander General Ilker Basbug, who flew in from Ankara to inspect the rescue efforts, told reporters.\n\nTwo of them were said to have responded to rescuers.\n\nPolice detained the man who repaired the heating system on Sunday evening for questioning, the Anatolia news agency reported.\n\nAt least two children were among the rescued, Anatolia said. Security officials said none of the injuries were life threatening.\n\nThe army set up a security perimeter as dozens of rescuers from civil defense and military teams frantically digged the debris for more survivors and ambulances stood by.\n\nDiyarbakir is home to a major military garrison comprising thousands of troops.\n\nThe destroyed building in the city center was part of a complex of two five-storey billets comprising of about a dozen apartments.\n\nTurkey maintains a strong military presence in the southeast, where it has been fighting a Kurdish insurgency for self-rule for the past 22 years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Monday", "start_char": 304, "end_char": 316, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday evening", "start_char": 770, "end_char": 784, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-17TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 22 years", "start_char": 1481, "end_char": 1498, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P22Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0411.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0127 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0127. \n Mutual Funds:\n@  Investors Yank Billions From Junk Funds\n@  ----\n@  By Michael Siconolfi\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n TROW \n MUTUAL AND MONEY-MARKET FUNDS (FND)\nBOND MARKET NEWS (BON) \n NEW YORK  \n\n   Billions of investors' dollars are pouring out of the nation's junk-bond mutual funds, undermining a pillar of support in the already reeling junk market. \n\n   Last week alone, an eye-popping $1.6 billion flowed out of the junk funds, or nearly 5% of their total assets, according to estimates by Dalbar Financial Services Inc., a Boston research firm. \n\n   In the past two months the nation's 88 junk funds have lost a total of about $6 billion -- more than 15% of assets -- through sales or transfers of junk-fund shares, Dalbar says. \nIt made the estimates based on data collected from more than a dozen big junk funds. \n\n   Interviews with three major fund groups -- Fidelity Investments, Vanguard Group Inc. and T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. -- confirm the trend. \nTheir junk funds combined have had net outflows totaling nearly $500 million, or about 13% of their junk fund assets, in the past two months. \n\n   Some fund managers say negative publicity has exacerbated investors' concern about recent declines in junk-bond prices. \n\"People have been seeing headline after headline after headline and saying: `I ca n't take it anymore -- I'm getting out,'\" says Kurt Brouwer of Brouwer amp Janachowski, a San Francisco investment adviser. \n\n   The withdrawals could spell trouble for the $200 billion junk market. \nIf the heavy outflows continue, fund managers will face increasing pressure to sell off some of their junk to pay departing investors in the weeks ahead. \nSuch selling could erode prices of high-yield junk bonds, already weakened by a rash of corporate credit problems. \n\n   Mutual fund groups have n't lost control of much of the outgoing money, says Louis Harvey, Dalbar's president. \nMutual fund officials say that investors have transferred most of it into their money market accounts, and to a lesser extent, government-bond funds. \nSo the impact on the $950 billion mutual fund industry as a whole probably will be slight. \n\n   But tremors are likely in the junk-bond market, which has helped to finance the takeover boom of recent years. \nMutual funds are the among the largest holders of junk, accounting for more than a quarter of the entire high-yield, high-risk market. \nThe 88 mutual funds investing solely in junk bonds hold assets of about $32 billion. \nOther funds hold a smattering of junk bonds, too. \n\n   The $1.5 billion Fidelity High Income Fund has had a net outflow of about $150 million in the past two months. \nAbout $60 million streamed out last week alone, double the level of the week following last month's Campeau Corp. credit squeeze. \nAbout 98% of the outflow was transferred to other Fidelity funds, says Neal Litvack, a Fidelity vice president, marketing, with most going into money market funds. \n\n   \"You get a news item, it hits, you have strong redemptions that day and for two days following -- then go back to normal,\" says Mr. Litvack. \nThe fund, with a cash cushion of more than 10%, has \" met all the redemptions without having to sell one thing,\" Mr. Litvack says. \nHe adds: \"Our fund has had {positive} net sales every month for the last three years -- until this month.\" \n\n   Vanguard's $1 billion High Yield Bond Portfolio has seen $161 million flow out since early September; $14 million of that seeped out Friday Oct. 13 alone. \nStill, two-thirds of the outflow has been steered into other Vanguard portfolios, says Brian Mattes, a vice president. \nThe fund now holds a cash position of about 15%. \n\n   At the $932 million T. Rowe Price High Yield Fund, investors yanked out about $182 million in the past two months. \nThose withdrawals, most of which were transferred to other T. Rowe Price funds, followed little change in the fund's sales picture this year through August. \n\"The last two months have been the whole ball game,\" says Steven Norwitz, a vice president. \n\n   Junk-fund holders have barely broken even this year, as fat interest payments barely managed to offset declining prices. \nThrough Oct. 19, high-yield funds had an average 0.85% total return (the price change plus dividends on fund shares), according to Lipper Analytical Services Inc. That's even less than the 4.35% total return of the Merrill Lynch High-Yield Index. \n\n   Fidelity's junk fund has fallen 2.08% this year through Oct. 19, Lipper says; the Vanguard fund rose 1.84%; and the T. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0147\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMalaysia stock market stays firm with CI hitting new high\n\n\n\n\nThe Malaysia stock market closed broadly higher Thursday on strong foreign buying in blue chips, pushing the Composite Index (CI) over the 1,080-level.\n\nAt the closing, the 100-quality stock CI surged 16.06 points to 1,080.66, its best level since 1997. It opened higher by 1.25 points to 1,065.85 and reached an intraday high of 1,086.37.\n\nThe Second Board Index went up one point to 91.56, the Industrial Index gained 27.10 points to 2,215.67 and the Mesdaq Index advanced 0.17 of a point to 118.12.\n\nGainers led losers 594 to 264 while 298 counters traded unchanged.\n\nVolume increased to 1.58 billion shares valued at 2.77 billion ringgit (748.65 million U.S. dollars) from 977.02 million shares worth 1.70 billion ringgit (459.46 million U.S. dollars) on Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 372, "end_char": 376, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 883, "end_char": 892, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0147.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0058\n\nHANOI, April 19 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSingaporean office project agreed in Ho Chi Minh City\n\n\n\n\nA Singaporean firm has signed a deal to build a 10 million-dollar office complex in Ho Chi Minh City, a report said Saturday.\n\nYuan Cheny Singapore is to take a 70 percent stake in the joint venture project with the Transport Services 3 company, under Vietnam's Ministry of Transport, holding the balance, the Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper said.\n\nThe project is to build a 19-storey office block in central Ho Chi Minh City, due for completion in 1999.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 19 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 235, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 553, "end_char": 557, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0058.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0071\n\nMOGADISHU, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT At least 17 killed in Mogadishu clashes\n\n\n\n\nAt least 17 militiamen and civilians were killed and 26 other people wounded during heavy factional fighting which erupted in the Somali capital overnight, medical sources and witnesses said Monday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0071.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0485\n\nLONDON, April 10 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBritish mercenary boss tells of ordeal in Papua New Guinea\n\n\n\n\nBritish mercenary boss Tim Spicer, freed in Papua New Guinea on the eve of his trial for illegal firearms possession, told Thursday how he was threatened with a gun to his head and beaten up after being captured there.\n\nSpicer, who arrived back in Britain late Wednesday, said he narrowly missed death on a number of occasions after being captured by local defence forces who staged a civil and military revolt after his mercenary band were discovered.\n\nThe former British soldier told a news conference in London that he was beaten up, intimidated and threatened with death by rebels in the local army before being dramatically released on Tuesday.\n\nHe condemned Papua New Guinea Defence Force Brigadier General Jerry Singirok, and accused him of betrayal.\n\nSpicer, 44, said he and his 65 mercenaries were recruited for 24 million pounds (39 million dollars) by the government of the South Sea nation to help overthrow a nine-year rebellion on the copper-rich island of Bougainville.\n\nHe was arrested three weeks ago, was mistreated for six days and then placed under house arrest until charges against him were dropped, he told assembled reporters.\n\nHis military consultancy company Sandline International had only been paid half the agreed fee, he said, and was negotiating for the rest of the money and for the return of equipment, including helicopters.\n\nThe company was cooperating fully with the Commission of Inquiry set up to investigate the government's hiring of Spicer's Sandline International mercenary group, he added.\n\n\"We have acted both legally and constitutionally at the behest of both the government and military,\" Spicer said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 10 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Wednesday", "start_char": 373, "end_char": 387, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 758, "end_char": 765, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three weeks ago", "start_char": 1119, "end_char": 1134, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six days", "start_char": 1155, "end_char": 1163, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0485.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061224.0140\n\nASHGABAT, Dec 24 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS Boucher quotes on energy ///\n\n\n\n\nThe United States sees opportunities for expanded cooperation in Central Asia and wants a peaceful transition of power in Turkmenistan following the death of the country's president, a senior US official said here Sunday.\n\n\"There are many opportunities in this region for cooperation,\" US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher told reporters here after holding talks with officials in Ashgabat.\n\nThose opportunities include closer work with nearby Afghanistan and other countries in the region as well as \"cooperation with those of us who are further away,\" Boucher said.\n\nHe called on the new government in Turkmenistan to \"take advantage of these opportunities for the benefit of the people of Turkmenistan\" and reiterated calls from Washington and other world capitals for stability in the energy-rich country.\n\n\"We're certainly hoping for a peaceful and stable transition\" of power in Ashgabat following the death Thursday from a heart attack of Saparmurat Niyazov, the country's iron-fisted ruler for more than two decades, who died leaving no successor and no clear system in place for choosing one.\n\nThe United States, Russia and China are among major world powers that are anxious to consolidate strong relations with the authorities in Turkmenistan which has the fifth largest known natural gas reserves and is a key link in energy supplies to Europe.\n\nWestern energy firms are eager to expand strategic energy routes between sources of supply in Central Asia and the Caspian region and markets in western -- routes that bypass Russia, a giant sitting between these two ends of the energy flow.\n\nAsked about different possible pipeline routes from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan, Azerbaijan and Russia, Boucher said: \"Those will be decisions that the government will have to make.\"\n\nBoucher was then asked in particular about a proposal to build a pipeline that would bypass Russia, stretching from Turkmenistan across the Caspian Sea to Azerbaijan and on to Western markets.\n\n\"This is a project of interest to us and of interest to people in the region... as with any project, if it has a commercial foundation and it can be done in the region, we'd like to see it done,\" Boucher said.\n\nSpeculation about US designs in Central Asia is running high in Moscow and other capitals closer to Central Asia, and Boucher said he met with journalists in Ashgabat \"so you all have the real story as opposed to what's being written about\".\n\nEarlier Sunday, Boucher attended funeral ceremonies in Ashgabat, where Niyazov's body lay in state in one of the presidential palaces he had built. The CEO of Russia's state gas monopoly Gazprom, Alexei Miller, was also there.\n\nScores of foreign dignitaries and tens of thousands of local mourners filed through the palace and past Niyazov's open casket, which was then transported to his birthplace in the village of Kipchak outside Ashgabat where he was enterred in a family mausoleum.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 24 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 318, "end_char": 324, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1065, "end_char": 1073, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than two decades", "start_char": 1153, "end_char": 1174, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2597, "end_char": 2603, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061224.0140.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0072\n\nSYDNEY, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAustralian stocks down 0.5 percent\n\n\n\n\nAustralian share prices slipped 0.5 percent Friday in the face of falling base metal prices and lingering concerns over an inflation report due out in the United States, brokers said.\n\nThe Australian Stock Exchange's main indicator, the all ordinaries index, fell 12.4 points to 2,380.5.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 137, "end_char": 143, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0072.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0021 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0021. \n Business Brief -- Consolidated Freightways Inc.:\n@  Third-Quarter Net Fell 77%\n@  On Emery's Expected Loss \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CNF \n EARNINGS (ERN)\nTRANSPORTATION, TRUCK AND SHIP LINES, RAILROADS (TRA) \n\n   Consolidated Freightways Inc. reported a 77% drop in third-quarter net income, citing expected losses in its Emery Worldwide shipping business. \n\n   The Menlo Park, Calif., company said net was $7.4 million, or 22 cents a share, down from $32.3 million, or 86 cents a share, a year ago. \nRevenue totaled $1.01 billion, a 43% increase from $704.4 million, reflecting the company's acquisition of Emery earlier this year. \n\n   Profit also suffered because of \"intense\" discounting in its long-haul trucking business, the company said. \n\n   Analysts had expected Consolidated to post a slim profit, and the company's stock was down only 25 cents to $30.25 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday. \n\"They have to continue to tighten their belts,\" said Craig Kloner, an analyst at Goldman, Sachs amp Co.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 322, "end_char": 335, "tid": "t25", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t24"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 544, "end_char": 554, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t25"}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 670, "end_char": 687, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t24"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 967, "end_char": 976, "tid": "t36", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-25", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t24"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_1035.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0535\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 12 , 2005, 2005\n\n'Brokeback Mountain' sweeps film critics awards\n\n\n\n\nTaiwanese director Ang Lee's gay cowboy movie \"Brokeback Mountain\" swept the New York Film Critics Circle on Monday, increasing the Oscar buzz surrounding the recent release.\n\nThe film was voted best picture of 2005, while Lee took the best director prize and Heath Ledger was named best actor.\n\nThe best actress award went to Reese Witherspoon for her portrayal of the wife of Johnny Cash in the biopic of the legendary singer's life, \"Walk The Line.\"\n\nBased on a short story by novelist Annie Proulx, \"Brokeback Mountain\" chronicles the gay romance between cowboys -- played by Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal -- who meet while working on a ranch in 1963.\n\nThe film has emerged as the critics' Oscar favourite with the Los Angeles Film Critics Association voting it best picture at the weekend, with another best director nod for Lee.\n\nThe movie is sure to feature when nominations are announced Tuesday for the Golden Globes, which are seen as a potential bellwether for films which could dominate the Academy Awards.\n\nThe National Board of Review of Motion Pictures named \"Good Night and Good Luck\" its best film of the year, but also gave \"Brokeback Mountain\" a nod by naming Lee best director.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 215, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1963", "start_char": 753, "end_char": 757, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1963", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 885, "end_char": 896, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 999, "end_char": 1006, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1221, "end_char": 1229, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0535.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0153\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: Iran vows to keep enrichment at home\n\n\n\n\nIran's nuclear chief Gholamreza Aghazadeh said on Saturday that Iran would not move uranium enrichment to other countries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0153.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0350\n\nLUANDA, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAngolan women's handball beats Congo-Brazzaville\n\n\n\n\nThe Angolan women's national handball team, called \"Angola 30 years\", Thursday defeated Congo-Brazzaville 28-25 in their opener of the international tournament in Cabinda, Angolan North province, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the national independence.\n\nThe Angolan women dominated the match by running ahead with a 7-0 scroing spree in the first 10 minutes, ending the first half 18-11 thanks to their superiority and maturity.\n\nIn the second half, Angola's Romanian coach made tactic changes to test the defensive skills of the hosts, who managed to hold on their advantages for eventual victory.\n\nThe tournament features Angola (A and B), Congo Brazaville and Ivory Coast.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first 10 minutes", "start_char": 454, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second half", "start_char": 550, "end_char": 565, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0350.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0071\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChechen prime minister hospitalized after Moscow car crash\n\n\n\n\nChechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov has been admitted to a hospital in Moscow after being injured seriously in a car accident here, NTV television reported Friday.\n\n\"He is in the emergency care unit at the moment. His condition is stable,\" the Russian NTV television said.\n\nAbramov's hospitalization came just days before a regional election in Chechnya, where he is the second most senior official of the restive southern Russian republic.\n\nThe accident occurred Thursday evening when the car, in which Abramov was riding on his way to the airport for a flight to Chechnya, collided with a KAMAZ truck, NTV reported.\n\nA spokesman for the Chechen administration in Moscow, Ziyad Sabsabi, ruled out the possibility of an assassination attempt on Abramov, the Interfax news agency reported.\n\nAbramov, who was appointed prime minister of the Russian republic in March 2004, survived a roadside bomb in July 2004, but one of his bodyguards was killed during the attack.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 277, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "hospitalization", "start_char": 405, "end_char": 420, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "days", "start_char": 431, "end_char": 435, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 585, "end_char": 601, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2004", "start_char": 980, "end_char": 990, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 2004", "start_char": 1020, "end_char": 1029, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0071.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0294\n\nLOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. busiest ports to get mobile radiation detectors\n\n\n\n\nLos Angeles and Long Beach ports will use mobile radiation detectors to check containers for nuclear materials as trucks leave the harbor, authorities confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe federal government will provide the radiation detectors to the ports so as to enable them to prevent terrorist attacks, law enforcement officials said.\n\nThe devices, which will check cargo containers on ships, trucks and trains, are part of a group of 24 portable scanners that will be delivered by January.\n\nThe monitors will supplement 85 stationary radiation detectors that have been used at 14 port terminals since June 2005. The devices scan shipping containers for nuclear materials as trucks leave the harbor.\n\nIn addition, customs officers use small hand-held detectors on the docks and wharves to check cargo as it is unloaded from ships.\n\nBy early next year, the additional scanners will allow customs to scan 100 percent of containers that leave the ports by truck and train. The devices also can be moved outside the harbor to help other law enforcement agencies.\n\n\"The technology we have deployed enhances our critical mission of preventing terrorists or others from attempting to smuggle weapons of mass destruction through U.S. borders,\" Customs and Border Protection Commissioner W. Ralph Basham told the Los Angeles Times.\n\nBut critics say the devices have difficulty reading the low levels of radioactivity emitted by nuclear weapons; and they cannot detect radioactive materials if they are well shielded.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 281, "end_char": 287, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 593, "end_char": 600, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2005", "start_char": 713, "end_char": 722, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 946, "end_char": 961, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0294.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0152\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMinistry\n\n\n\n\nChina's efforts to contain rabies seem not to have taken effect yet as the number of people killed by the disease climbed slightly to 326 in October, China's Health Ministry reported here Friday.\n\nRabies accounted for 46 percent of all fatalities caused by infectious diseases reported on the Chinese mainland in October, according to the ministry.\n\nIn September rabies caused 318 deaths. The country has recorded 2,254 rabies cases in the first nine months of the year, an increase of 29.69 percent over the same period last year.\n\nThe disease emerged as the top public health priority four months ago after it caused the deaths of three people in southwest China's Yunnan Province and local authorities in Yunnan and Shandong provinces sought to curb the risk through mass killings of dogs.\n\nCampaigns to clamp down on stray dog were also launched in many other places including Beijing.\n\nThe Health Ministry has launched a program to conduct regular monitoring of rabies across the country to collect evidence and use it as a basis for drafting regulations that can effectively control rabies.\n\nRabies was followed by tuberculosis, AIDS, hepatitis B and infant tetanus on the list of the most deadly infectious diseases in China.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 264, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 383, "end_char": 390, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 423, "end_char": 432, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 506, "end_char": 527, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 531, "end_char": 539, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 591, "end_char": 600, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four months ago", "start_char": 657, "end_char": 672, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0152.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0143\n\nHANOI, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAPEC meetings provide golden chance for local businesses: official\n\n\n\n\nThe APEC-2006 Economic Leaders' Week on Nov. 12-19 will provide a golden opportunity for Vietnamese businesses to promote their products, a Vietnamese business leader told local media prior to the event.\n\n\"As the host of the APEC Year 2006, our enterprises must take full advantage of the golden opportunities brought about by leaders and enterprises of APEC member economies in 2006 and the following years,\" Vietnam News Agency quoted Hoang Van Dung, Deputy Chairman of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( VCCI), as saying on Sunday.\n\nDung, who is also President of the APEC Business Advisory Council (ABAC)-2006, also said that the question is what the Vietnamese business circles should do to capitalize on the opportunity.\n\nThe Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economic leaders' week will include a CEO Summit, an ABAC conference, an APEC investment forum and a trade and investment promotion forum called Doing Business with Vietnam, which have drawn hundreds of business executives from 21 member economies, in addition to the APEC economic leaders' meeting.\n\nAt the meetings, Dung said, \"We will propose that APEC economic leaders work together for the establishment of a free trade zone among APEC members as soon as possible.\"\n\nA development policy for small and medium-sized businesses, which provides assistance in capital and personnel training, simplifies administrative procedures and helps improve businesses' competitive edge by reducing input costs will also be proposed at the meetings, said Dung.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 12-19", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 176, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "APEC Year 2006", "start_char": 351, "end_char": 365, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 505, "end_char": 509, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the following years", "start_char": 514, "end_char": 533, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 665, "end_char": 671, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "week", "start_char": 929, "end_char": 933, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0143.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0123\n\nTOKYO, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nToyota makes early retreat from Indy-car\n\n\n\n\nToyota said Friday it had withdrawn from the Indy Racing League (IRL), one year earlier than initially planned.\n\nToyota had planned to pull out of the US-based open wheel racing series after the 2006 season but decided to advance the withdrawal by one year with a Toyota engine-powered team switching to another company.\n\nThe pullout follows General Motors' decision last November to withdraw Chevrolet from the IRL after the 2005 season and leaves Honda as the lone enginemaker in the series next season.\n\nHonda and Toyota withdrew from IRL's rival, Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART), in 2002. It now runs as Champ-car and has only Cosworth engines.\n\nToyota's 2003 IRL debut brought immediate success as Scott Dixon of New Zealand won the first race in Miami and captured the season crown while Toyota-powered Brazilian Gil de Ferran won the Indianapolis 500.\n\nChevy did not win an IRL race or pole in 2004, leaving Toyota in an uphill battle with Honda which has outspent its rivals in development.\n\nHonda-powered cars won 14 of 16 races last year with Toyota racers taking only the first and last races of the season.\n\nToyota-powered cars have won twice this season, American Sam Hornish in March and his Penske Racing teammate Castroneves last Saturday at Richmond, Virginia. But Penske's cars have been the only competitive Toyotas in 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 102, "end_char": 108, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one year", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 169, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006 season", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one year", "start_char": 338, "end_char": 346, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last November", "start_char": 457, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005 season", "start_char": 516, "end_char": 527, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next season", "start_char": 583, "end_char": 594, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 683, "end_char": 687, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 692, "end_char": 695, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 997, "end_char": 1001, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1134, "end_char": 1143, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1288, "end_char": 1293, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Saturday", "start_char": 1337, "end_char": 1350, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1434, "end_char": 1438, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0123.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0035\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS ambassador defends forces' presence in Japan\n\n\n\n\nUS Ambassador to Japan Thomas Schieffer said Wednesday the presence of American troops in Japan ensures the safety of its ally.\n\n\"In the last 60 years Japan has been at peace, and the world has been spared another World War. The large part of the reason for that success lies in the presence of US troops here in Japan,\" he told a press conference, saying the troops' presence had helped Japan in building itself into the No. 2 economy in the world.\n\nWhile defending the US military realignment in the country and responding to long-standing Japanese grievances about burdens as host, he played down the US role in influencing Japan's foreign policy in handling relations with Asian neighbors.\n\nHe said Japan and the United States acting together will create \"powerful force for good in Asia and the world.\"\n\n\"I think if we increase the capability of US forces, we increase the security in Japan,\" Schieffer said.\n\nJapan and the United States agreed recently on an interim security report which enables smoother military cooperation between them.\n\nThe agreement are being fiercely opposed by governments and communities in regions hosting US forces.\n\nSchieffer reminded the Japanese who complain about the burden that it is the United States that has \"born a heavy burden\" in the alliance.\n\nHe said the United States, in real dollars, are spending 10 time as much as Japan on defense.\n\nWhen asked about the US role in influencing Japan's foreign policy in Asia, Schieffer said Washington has no \"direct role\" in these affairs and is not the \"final arbitrary\" in the dispute between Japan and its Asian neighbors.\n\nJapan's political relations with China and South Korea are on the rocks because of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's repeated visits to the war criminal-honoring Yasukuni Shrine as well as other history-related issues.\n\nAfter his meeting with US President George W. Bush on Nov. 16, Koizumi said if Japan keeps close relationship with the United States, its ties with Asian countries will go better.\n\nAs for the US attitude toward tuning Japan's Self-Defense Forces into an army stated by a constitutional revision, Schieffer said it rests with Japan's own decision.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 60 years", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 257, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P60Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 16", "start_char": 1996, "end_char": 2003, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0035.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0090\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 19 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n1st Ld: US president arrives in Beijing\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush arrived here Saturday evening for a three-day visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao.\n\nBush's presidential plane Air Force One landed at Beijing's Capital Airport.\n\nThis is Bush's third China trip as US president since 2001 and also his first China visit in his second term of office.\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao are to meet with President Bush, and they will discuss a wide range of issues.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday evening", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 373, "end_char": 377, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0090.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0160\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFormer Malaysian PM Mahathir recuperating well\n\n\n\n\nFormer Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who was admitted to hospital for mild heart attack, has been recuperating well Friday.\n\nMahathir is currently in stable condition at the Coronary Care Unit and is expected to be transferred to a normal ward in one or two days' time, the National Heart Institute (NHI) said Friday.\n\nHe went through a routine blood, x-ray and echocardiography tests Friday morning, the NHI said in a statement.\n\nThe former prime minister and his family members also expressed their gratitude to all Malaysians and foreign friends who had sent their best wishes and prayers for Mahathir's speedy recovery, said the statement.\n\nThough Mahathir was advised to rest, he has already started receiving visitors Friday.\n\nMahathir, who will turn 81 next month, was rushed to the NHI early Thursday morning after complaining of chest pains. The institute later said he suffered from a mild myocardial infarction.\n\nThe former leader had a coronary artery bypass surgery in 1989, and in 1999 he undergo full treatment for a lung infection.\n\nMahathir had been Malaysian prime minister for 22 years before he retired on Oct. 31, 2003.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one or two days", "start_char": 373, "end_char": 388, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 436, "end_char": 442, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 511, "end_char": 525, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 850, "end_char": 856, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 942, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 1108, "end_char": 1112, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1121, "end_char": 1125, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "22 years", "start_char": 1222, "end_char": 1230, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P22Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 31, 2003", "start_char": 1252, "end_char": 1265, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0160.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0007\n\nBEIJING, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBeijing reins in arbitrary fees to attract foreign investment\n\n\n\n\nChina's capital city has introduced a \"card\" system to protect foreign investors from officials' arbitrary illegal fees, mayor Lu Yucheng was quoted as saying Thursday.\n\nThe cards, issued to foreign-funded enterprises, identify a limited list of officially-sacntioned fees and give firms the right to refuse to pay any charge not cited, he said.\n\nOnly three bodies in the city -- the municipal government, the municipal bureau of finance and the municipal bureau of price -- are authorised to establish new fees, the report said.\n\nInvestors in China have long complained of cost overruns caused by local officials' legion unpredictable fees.\n\nThough government policy has sought to attract investment, the practices of corrupt individual administrators and departments often undermine the effort.\n\nThree centres have been set up in the city to receive foreign investors' complaints, Lu said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 287, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0007.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0327\n\nAMMAN, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nKing Hussein grants refuge to HAMAS official jailed in US by Randa Habib\n\n\n\n\nJordan's King Hussein has decided to grant refuge to Mussa Abu Marzuk, political leader of the Palestinian militant group HAMAS, after convincing Washington to free him, officials announced Wednesday.\n\nThe Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS), a fierce opponent of the Oslo accords with Israel for limited Palestinian autonomy, immediately welcomed the king's intervention.\n\n\"King Hussein wants this gesture to defuse a crisis sparked by the situation of Mr. Abu Marzuk whom Israel asked the United States to extradite,\" a senior Jordanian official told AFP.\n\nThe official, asking not to be named, said Jordan's decision to take in Abu Marzuk set a precedent since the Palestinian is the holder of a Yemeni passport and not Jordanian.\n\n\"The personal efforts of the king and his credibility within the US administration have been fruitful. The HAMAS official will soon be released by Washington and will be able to come to Jordan,\" he said.\n\nInformation Minister Samir Motaweh later told the official news agency Petra that Abu Marzuk would come to Jordan \"without any commitment\" on his part. The decision was part of the kingdom's efforts to help the peace process, he said.\n\nAbu Marzuk, who has lived in the United States since 1982, was arrested on arrival in New York by immigration authorities in July 1995, and Israel demanded his extradition to face terrorism charges.\n\nBut in January he called off an appeal against extradition and asked to be handed over to the Jewish state, catching Israeli officials off guard as they feared damage to the peace process if he was returned.\n\nIsrael itself withdrew the extradition request on April 6, clearing the way for Abu Marzuk to be returned to either Jordan or Egypt, the only two Arab states to have peace treaties with Israel.\n\nThe Jordanian official said King Hussein raised the issue during a Washington visit in early April. \"The king proposed this alternative to the United States and Israel ... and he was able to convince them.\"\n\nLast week, a HAMAS delegation met here with Jordan's Prime Minister Abdel Salam Majali.\n\nThe HAMAS representative in Amman, Mohammad Nazzal, said Wednesday that his organisation \"welcomes the Jordanian decision to take in Mr. Mussa Abu Marzuk.\" It was \"highly appreciated by HAMAS and the entire Palestinian people.\"\n\nThe organisation is \"in contact with all the parties to organize the arrival in Jordan\" of Abu Marzuk, he told AFP, without giving a date.\n\nAbu Marzuk has denied any link to anti-Israeli bomb attacks by HAMAS, saying he works only on the organisation's extensive fundraising and social activities.\n\nHAMAS does not have an office here, but some of its officials have Jordanian nationality and live in the kingdom.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 320, "end_char": 329, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1982", "start_char": 1359, "end_char": 1363, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1982", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1995", "start_char": 1431, "end_char": 1440, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1513, "end_char": 1520, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 6", "start_char": 1765, "end_char": 1772, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early April", "start_char": 1997, "end_char": 2008, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 2118, "end_char": 2127, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2264, "end_char": 2273, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0327.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0219\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAgency says 170,000 World Cup tickets still available\n\n\n\n\nAbout 170,000 hospitality tickets from an original contingent of 346,950 are available, the International Sports and Entertainment AG (iSe) announced on Thursday.\n\nThe prices of the tickets for the games next year in Germany are between 633 and 15,000 euros.\n\n\"We are confident to be sold out at the World Cup,\" iSe Managing Director George Tayler told a press conference in the southern German city of Munich.\n\nThe company expects huge demand for tickets once the World Cup draw has taken place in Leipzig on December 9, Tayler was quoted by the German news agency DPA.\n\nRegular tickets cost between 35 for the cheapest group and 600 euros for the most expensive final game. However, hospitality tickets start at 633.\n\nThose who want to see the final in Berlin must buy a package including games in other cities.\n\n\"Our price is below that of France in 1998,\" Tayler said.\n\nThe iSe paid the world soccer body FIFA 180 million euros for the hospitality tickets license and may gain an estimated 700 million euros if all the tickets were sold out.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 267, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 318, "end_char": 327, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "633", "start_char": 351, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "633", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 9", "start_char": 624, "end_char": 634, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "35", "start_char": 715, "end_char": 717, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1935", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 967, "end_char": 971, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0219.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0423\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nDefense chief says Russia unable to influence NATO enlargement\n\n\n\n\nRussia is unable to influence the process of NATO enlargement, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said on Tuesday.\n\nIvanov's remarks came as leaders from 26 NATO member countries were meeting in Riga, Latvia, for a summit focused on its mission in Afghanistan and its future role. U.S. President George W. Bush said on Tuesday the transatlantic military alliance's door remains open to European countries.\n\n\"We can take a critical posture and say we disapprove of this or that country's admission to NATO, but I believe it would be very wrong,\" Ivanov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as telling students at St. Petersburg State University.\n\n\"Each country is free to decide what bloc it should be a member of,\" Ivanov said. \"We have no intention of joining NATO,\" he added.\n\nNATO has recognized Albania, Croatia and Macedonia as formal aspirant countries. Georgia and Ukraine also have intentions to join, but are in an earlier stage of the process. The three Baltic states -- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -- joined the alliance in 2004.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 225, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 438, "end_char": 445, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1159, "end_char": 1163, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0423.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980308.0201 \n NEWS STORY \n 03/08/1998 06:26:00\n\nw2106 Cx1f wstm-\nr i Cx13  Cx11  BC-Turkey-Yugoslavia-Kos     03-08 0243\n\n\n BC-Turkey-Yugoslavia-Kosovo,0242 \n\nEthnic Albanians in Turkey protest Serb attacks in Kosovo\n\nUR AP Photos IST101-102 QL\n\n\nISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) _ Some 1,500 ethnic Albanians marched\nSunday in downtown Istanbul, burning Serbian flags to protest the\nkillings of ethnic Albanians by Serb police in southern Serb Kosovo\nprovince.\nThe police barred the crowd from reaching the Yugoslavian\nconsulate in downtown Istanbul, but allowed them to demonstrate on\nnearby streets.\n``Stop the bloodshed in Kosovo,'' the protesters chanted.\nMeanwhile in the capital, Ankara, a few hundred ethnic Albanians\nlaid a black wreath at the gate of Yugoslavian embassy.\nEthnic Albanians comprise 90 percent of the population in\nKosovo, but Serbs maintain control through a large military and\npolice presence. Serbian police say they are trying to eliminate\nthe pro-independence Kosovo Liberation Army and restore order.\nAt least 51 people were reported killed in clashes between Serb\npolice and ethnic Albanians in the troubled region in recent days.\nTurkey, worried about civil war in Kosovo spilling to the whole\nBalkans, urged all Balkan states to sign a joint declaration that\nthe Kosovo crisis be solved peacefully and without any change of\nborders.\nTurks feel they have special ties to the whole region, which\nthey ruled for hundreds of years during the Ottoman Empire. They\nalso share Islam with the ethnic Albanians.\n\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-Turkey-Yugoslavia-Kosovo; CT:i;\n(REG:EURO;)\n(REG:BRIT;)\n(REG:SCAN;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(REG:MEST;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-03-08-98 0626EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "03/08/1998 06:26:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t63", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-03-08T06:26:00", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 312, "end_char": 318, "tid": "t68", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-08", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t63"}, {"text": "Meanwhile", "start_char": 655, "end_char": 664, "tid": "t69", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t68"}, {"text": "recent days", "start_char": 1144, "end_char": 1155, "tid": "t71", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t68"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980308.0201.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0179\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGlaxoSmithKline to set up new R plant in Singapore\n\n\n\n\nGlaxoSmithKline (GSK), a world famous pharmaceutical company, is building a new research and development (R) plant in Singapore with an investment of 115 million Singapore dollars (about 68 million US dollars).\n\nAccording to Channel NewsAsia report on Friday, the plant, which is expected to begin operation in the third quarter of 2007, will develop techniques for drug production and produce drugs for clinical trials.\n\nPlanning to employ some 40 scientists, the plant is said to be \"GSK's first investment in upstream manufacturing process development in Singapore.\"\n\nAs one of the largest pharmaceutical investors in Singapore, GSK has put more than one billion Singapore dollars (about 589 million US dollars) in fixed assets in the city state and plans to further expand its operations here, including establishing more drug discovery centers.\n\nHeadquartered in Britain and with operations based in the United States, GSK runs seven such drug discovery centers in the world with one located in Singapore.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 365, "end_char": 371, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter of 2007", "start_char": 424, "end_char": 449, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0179.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0058\n\nSAITAMA, Japan, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nResults of men's volleyball World Championship\n\n\n\n\nFollowing are the results from the first round matches of 2006 men's volleyball World Championships which held here on Tuesday:\n\nGroup A in Saitama:\n\nEgypt lost to China, 2-3 (25-22, 25-22, 30-32, 20-25, 16-18);\n\nPuerto Rico vs Poland;\n\nJapan vs Argentina;\n\nGroup B in Fukuoka:\n\nCuba bt Greece, 3-2 (25-19, 20-25, 25-22, 21-25, 15-12);\n\nAustralia vs Brazil;\n\nGermany vs France;\n\nGroup C in Nagano:\n\nIran lost to Bulgaria, 0-3 (19-25, 18-25, 23-25);\n\nCzech Republic vs Venezuela;\n\nItaly vs United States;\n\nGroup D in Sendai:\n\nTunisia lost to Canada, 2-3 (15-25, 29-27, 25-21, 21-25, 13-15);\n\nSerbia Montenegro vs South Korea;\n\nRussia vs Kazakhstan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25-22, 25-22, 30-32, 20-25, 16-18", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 324, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25-19, 20-25, 25-22, 21-25, 15-12", "start_char": 415, "end_char": 448, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "19-25, 18-25, 23-25", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 561, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15-25, 29-27, 25-21, 21-25, 13-15", "start_char": 669, "end_char": 702, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0058.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0459\n\nBERLIN, April 18 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPrison sentences demanded over \"Wall deaths\"\n\n\n\n\nThe prosecution in the trial of former East German military officials held responsible for the deaths of people killed trying to flee to the West called Friday for the court to impose prison sentences.\n\nA sentence of four years was demanded for the former deputy defence minister Joachim Goldbach, with lesser sentences for three other generals.\n\nThe four are accused of complicity in murder and attempted murder over defence ministry \"shoot-to-kill\" orders given to guards on the Berlin Wall and the installation of automatic firing apparatus along the inter-German border.\n\nSuch installations were not for the military defence of the East German state but directed entirely against the population, the prosecutor said.\n\nFive former border guard officers meanwhile went on trial in Berlin Friday accused of installing particularly deadly fragmentation mines along the frontier with West Germany. Nine people were killed and numerous others wounded by these mines, the court heard.\n\nMore than seven years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the number of people killed in all trying to escape from East Germany is not known exactly, but according to a specialist body there were more than 860 who died in this way.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 18 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years", "start_char": 320, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 893, "end_char": 899, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "More than seven years", "start_char": 1086, "end_char": 1107, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P7Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0459.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0043\n\nGAZA, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nmusical odyssey\n\n\n\n\nChina Exclusive: Glory in mind, Chinese monks restart a Buddhist musical odyssey\n\nBy Chen Siwu, Gui Juan\n\nKAIFENG, Henan, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- To Buddhist Master Longjiang, listening to popular music is an act that infringes upon his faith. Even the great names in classic music are as strange as the world's remotest corner.\n\n\"Beethoven?\" he shook his head and gazed reporter with a blank face as if reporter were from another planet. \"Mozart?\" he again shook his head.\n\n\"I've never heard about them before,\" the 80-year-old Buddhist master replied while sitting in a room surrounded by drums at the Grand Xiangguo Temple, a noted Buddhist monastery in Kaifeng, an ancient city along the mud-clogged Yellow River in central China.\n\nWhen it comes to Buddhist music, however, Master Longjiang was recognized without question as one of the most skillful monks at the monastery that was once known for its band and religious melodies.\n\nFirst built in 555 AD, the temple, whose current name means the Monastery of Great Assistance to State, has its prestige and influence reach the peak during the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and became the intercourse arena for poets, artists, musicians, and the commons and nobles because of its close connection with the royal family and its outstanding music.\n\nThough such devotion and tradition in the temple survived numerous wars, floods and dynasties replacement, the temple's splendor was dilapidated and fell to its bottom in 1927 when warlord Feng Yuxiang, then ruler of Henan Province, ordered his soldiers to expel the monks and turn the site into a market. It became a Buddhist monastery in 1992 again.\n\nTo revive Buddhism and reclaim the temple's glory in music, the abbot Great Master Xinguang selected 22 full-time musician monks, mostly young monks older than 15, to reorganize a Buddhist musical band in 2002.\n\n\"As part of Buddhist culture,\" said Master Yuanjie, the band's deputy head, \"Buddhist music has its broadness and profoundness, it contains sacred chanting and instrumental music.\"\n\n\"Our temple has a great past in Buddhist music and we just need to pick up the lost part of it,\" he said, \"Master Longjiang is our treasure.\"\n\nLongjiang is currently the only monk in the band who knows how to play certain musical instruments and read the musical staff.\n\nThe instrument Yuanjie mentioned was called \"bili\", a 20-cm long flute-like tin tube with seven holes. Other instruments used by the band members include wooden fish, tambourine, flute, horn and a Yamaha electronic organ.\n\n\"You need some energy to play the 'bili',\" said Longjiang, \"you can't make a sound if you are not strong enough.\"\n\nLongjiang once bet Yuanjie, 26, a lunch that Yuanjie couldn't blow the flute-like instrument. And he won.\n\n\"It is all a result of hard practice,\" said the 80-year-old master. He said he heard Buddhist music for the first time when he was 12 and decided to convert to the religion.\n\nGeneration difference is evident within the Buddhist band. For example, Longjiang can only read the staff while those young monks only know about the numbered musical scores.\n\nThe Nike sock wearing by some young monks and their interest in computer installed with Microsoft's Windows system also reflect their connection to the outside world.\n\n\"Compared with our generation, few young people now can endure the hardship during training,\" Longjiang said. \"If you don't give things, you can't get things.\"\n\nTo train those young musician monks, the temple has invested 2 million yuan (about 125,000 US dollars) during the past three years to buy instruments and invited professional musicians to instruct the band.\n\n\"To keep its life, Buddhist music must keep its youth,\" Master Yuanjie said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 14", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 203, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1927", "start_char": 1544, "end_char": 1548, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1927", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1713, "end_char": 1717, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1931, "end_char": 1935, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 3403, "end_char": 3406, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three years", "start_char": 3626, "end_char": 3646, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0043.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0326\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nADB to help Sri Lanka reconstruct highway network\n\n\n\n\nThe Sri Lankan government has decided to reconstruct highway network in the country with the financial assistance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Daily News reported on Saturday.\n\nWith an estimated cost of 208 million US dollars, the project, which aims at rehabilitating a number of grade A and B roads in western, central and eastern provinces, will receive the assistance from the ADB, Highways Ministry Secretary S. Amarasekere was quoted as saying.\n\n\"The ADB will provide 150 million dollars of the estimated cost of the project including the expenses regarding land acquisition. This is the first time that a donor has agreed to provide funds for land acquisition,\" he said.\n\nAmong the highways to be reconstructed under the project are the Puttalam-Anuradhapura, Udakanda-Mahiyanganaya, Nuwara Eliya- Badulla and the Hatton-Nuwara Eliya highways.\n\nThe Sri Lankan government and the ADB finalized negotiations on the implementation of the project on Wednesday, Amarasekere said.\n\n\"We are hopeful that the reconstruction could be commenced early next year,\" he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 284, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1071, "end_char": 1080, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 1160, "end_char": 1175, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0326.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0386\n\nKOMPONG SPEU, Cambodia, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCambodia destroys more surface-to-air missiles\n\n\n\n\nCambodia destroyed two C-125M (SA-3) surface-to-air missiles on Friday aimed to prevent them from falling into the hands of terrorists.\n\nMeas Sophea, deputy commander-in-chief of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) and commander of the army, presided over the destruction ceremony. Some diplomats also attended the ceremony.\n\nMeas Sophea said the destruction was ordered by Prime Minister Hun Sen in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of international terrorists\n\nThe 36 surface-to-air missiles were discovered recently at a military base. The Defense Ministry started destroying them at the RCAF Armor Center in Kompong Speu province on Oct. 25, and all have been destroyed by Friday.\n\nThe surface-to-air missiles developed by the former Soviet Union are fired from fixed-position launchers to destroy aircraft, cruise missiles and assault helicopters flying at low and medium altitude. Cambodia imported the missiles in 1980.\n\n\"We don't need to keep them because we are now at peace,\" Chao Pirun, director of the ministry's technical and materials department, said earlier.\n\nLast year, RCAF destroyed all 233 of its shoulder-fired surface- to-air missiles with assistance from the US government.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 47, "end_char": 61, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 187, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 25", "start_char": 780, "end_char": 787, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 820, "end_char": 826, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980", "start_char": 1064, "end_char": 1068, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1114, "end_char": 1117, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 1219, "end_char": 1228, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0386.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0092\n\nMOSCOW, April 1 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFormer Russian army chief under corruption probe\n\n\n\n\nRussian prosecutors have opened a corruption probe against a former commander-in-chief of the army, the Interfax agency reported Tuesday.\n\nThey want to know how General Vladimir Semionov built himself a lavish villa on the outskirts of Moscow, the agency said, quoting the prosecutors.\n\nThe general was sacked in December at the request of Defence Minister Igor Rodionov for \"activities incompatible with his office and bringing the honour and dignity of the military into disrepute\".\n\nSemionov is suspected of \"abuse of power.\" Semionov, who had been army chief since 1991, refuted the allegations against him.\n\nRodionov said last month that a number of other Russian armed forces generals were likely to be dismissed soon for corruption, without naming any of them.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 1 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 242, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 419, "end_char": 427, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 675, "end_char": 679, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 733, "end_char": 743, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0092.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0033 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0033. \n Reupke Quits Post\n@  As General Manager\n@  Of Reuters Holdings \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n RTRSY WNEWS \n LONDON  \n\n   Reuters Holdings PLC said Michael Reupke resigned as general manager  to pursue unspecified interests, a move the news organization termed an \"amicable separation.\" \n\n   Mr. Reupke, 52 years old and a 27-year Reuters veteran, had been the information-services company's general manager for only six months. \nHis appointment to that post, which has senior administrative, staff and policy responsibilities, followed a several-year tenure as Reuters's editor in chief. \nNo successor  was named, and Mr. Reupke's duties will be split among three other senior Reuters executives, the company said. \n\n   In a telephone interview, Mr. Reupke said his departure was for \"personal reasons,\" which he declined  to specify. \n\"There is no business reason for my departure,\" nor any disagreement over policy, he added. \nHe also rejected reports that his departure stemmed from disappointment the general manager's post had n't  also led to a board directorship at the London-based news organization. \n\n   Mr. Reupke was one of three executives on Reuters's eight-person executive committee who did n't  also serve on the company's board of directors. \n\"If I  were choosing the people of tomorrow, I would  have chosen the people who are now on the board,\" he said. \n\n   A Reuters spokesman said the departure reflects \"no change in strategy or profits.\" \nMark Shepperd, an analyst at UBS Phillips amp Drew in London, said, \"I suspect (the departure) will be fairly irrelevant for the company. \nI would  be very surprised if his departure signals any change in strategy or change in profit expectations.\" \nOn London's Stock Exchange, Reuters shares rose five pence to 913 pence ($14.43). \nIn the U.S. over-the-counter market, American depositary shares for Reuters, each representing three shares in the London market, closed unchanged at $43.875. \n\n   The senior of the three executives who  will assume Mr. Reupke's duties is Nigel Judah, 58, finance director and a Reuters board director. \nPeter Holland, 45, deputy general manager, becomes director of corporate affairs. \nAnd Patrick Mannix, 46, international technical manager, becomes director of group quality programs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 108, "end_char": 116, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "27-year", "start_char": 373, "end_char": 380, "tid": "t42", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P27Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 477, "tid": "t43", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several-year", "start_char": 589, "end_char": 601, "tid": "t44", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1397, "end_char": 1400, "tid": "t46", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t40"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0158.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0021\n\nHANOI, Nov. 1 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHu says Sino-Vietnamese friendship enters new stage\n\n\n\n\nThe traditional friendship between China and Vietnam has entered a new stage of all-round friendly cooperation, Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Tuesday.\n\nHu made the comment in a speech at the National Assembly of Vietnam on Tuesday. The Chinese president, also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), arrived here earlier Monday for a three-day official goodwill visit.\n\n\"China and Vietnam linked by mountains and rivers share common ideals and have related culture and interests. The peoples of the two countries had profound feelings for each other in history, \" Hu said\n\nMutual respect, understanding, support, trust and cooperation remain the driving force of the development of the Sino-Vietnamese ties and the friendship between the two peoples, he said.\n\nWith concerted efforts made by the peoples for generations, the Sino-Vietnamese traditional friendship has entered a new stage of overall friendly cooperation, the president said.\n\nHu said the development is manifested in the guidelines set by the two countries' leaders for long-term stability, orientation toward future, good-neighborliness and friendship and all-round cooperation.\n\n\"It is indicated by the common call of the two sides to be good neighbors, friends, comrades and partners for ever, \" Hu said.\n\nHe added the development is also displayed by the in-depth exchanges about governing experiences between the two countries, and the CPC and the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), and by the two nations' friendly exchanges and cooperation for mutual benefits in various fields.\n\n\"China has turned into Vietnam's largest trade partner. The two countries' trade volume is expected to reach the goal of 10 billion US dollars before 2010, \" Hu said.\n\nThe two sides have carried out close coordination and cooperation within multilateral frameworks like the United Nations, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation and Asia-Europe Meeting, Hu said.\n\nHe noted, \"The Sino-Vietnamese friendly cooperation has brought real benefits for the two countries and their people.\".\n\nHu added he talked with Nong Duc Manh, general secretary of the CPV Central Committee, and Vietnamese President Tran Duc Luong on Monday afternoon.\n\n\"Leaders of both sides agree it is in the basic interests of China and Vietnam and their people to promote friendly mutual trust, cooperation for mutual benefits and common development between the two countries and the CPC and the CPV, \" Hu said.\n\nThe leaders vowed to adopt more effective measures to intensify bilateral exchanges and cooperation in the fields like politics, economy, foreign affairs, defense, culture and education. Exchanges on governing experience, and socialist theory and practice will also be boosted.\n\n\"China is ready to work with Vietnam to continue exploration in building socialism and make continuous efforts for new prospects of bilateral all-round friendly relations and cooperation and for a harmonious world of lasting peace and common prosperity, \" Hu said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 265, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 339, "end_char": 346, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 479, "end_char": 485, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1860, "end_char": 1864, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday afternoon", "start_char": 2324, "end_char": 2340, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-10-31TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0021.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0144\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nClimate change threatens pastoral communities: Oxfam\n\n\n\n\nInternational relief agency Oxfam warned Thursday that unchecked climate change could deal a crippling blow to a way of life that has existed for centuries because more frequent and intense droughts are threatening the livelihoods of pastoral communities.\n\nIn a statement issued here Thursday, Oxfam appealed to the delegates attending the ongoing United Nations conference on climate change to save the lives of pastoral communities such as the Turkana of northern Kenya.\n\n\"Governments meeting at the UN climate change conference in Nairobi only have to look to a few hundred miles north to see how climate change is having an immediate and devastating effect on people's lives,\" said Antonio Hill, senior policy adviser of Oxfam.\n\n\"Under threat is the way of life of pastoral communities. People such as the Turkana are on the front line of the injustice of man-made climate change. They are least responsible for climate change but are amongst the worst affected,\" said Hill.\n\nOxfam called on governments at the UN climate change conference to significantly increase funds to help the poorest and most vulnerable adapt to climate change and to agree on an accelerated timetable for binding commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nThe latest report from the Kenyan meteorological office, released at the Nairobi climate change conference, shows that the northern regions have seen a steady decline in mean annual rainfall over the last 50 years.\n\nPastoral communities, which rely heavily on natural resources and their livestock, have over centuries developed a way of life that has coped with the vagaries of the climate, even severe droughts.\n\nHowever Oxfam says more frequent extreme weather means it is more difficult for them to recover after each incidence of drought.\n\nAccording to the Kenyan government, pastoral communities have suffered most due to recent climate extremes in the country.\n\nThe east African nation is used to extreme weather patterns but they are becoming more frequent and intense. The 1999 to 2000 drought was the worst in living memory and was followed by a severe drought in 2004 to 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "centuries", "start_char": 259, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXC", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 397, "end_char": 405, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 50 years", "start_char": 1551, "end_char": 1568, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 2229, "end_char": 2233, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0144.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0024\n\nHANOI, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nVietnam likely to launch remote sensing satellite in late 2007\n\n\n\n\nVietnam could have its first remote sensing satellite in late 2007 or early 2008, if the government approved the space industry development strategy and a project on launching it in the next few months, an official said Tuesday.\n\nVietnam plans to launch a small remote sensing satellite to provide aerial images mainly used to better manage natural resources and transport systems, prevent natural disasters and forest fires, put forth weather forecasts, and draw maps, local newspaper Youth on Tuesday quoted Tran Cong Due, deputy director of the Science and Technology Department under the Ministry of Science and Technology, as saying.\n\nThe production and launch of a small satellite weighing 10-100 kg costs some 6 million US dollars, while those of a bigger satellite weighing 100-500 kg up to 20-40 million dollars, Due stated, noting that some foreign companies want to cooperate with Vietnam on the issue.\n\nA small remote sensing satellite will be put on a pole-to-pole orbit at a distance of 300-1,500 km from the Earth, he said.\n\nNow, Vietnam has to annually spend millions of US dollars buying aerial images from foreign countries, he said.\n\nRecently, the Vietnamese government decided to invest 2,885 billion Vietnamese dong (nearly 182.6 million dollars) in manufacturing and launching a medium-sized communication satellite, which will span its coverage over Vietnam, other Southeast Asian countries, Japan, the Korean peninsula, part of China, eastern Oceanean and the South China Sea.\n\nVietnam plans to put its first communication satellite named Vinasat into operation in the second quarter of 2008. It will open a tender for Vinasat production and relevant activities with bidders coming from the United States, France, Japan and Russia in the coming time.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2007 or early 2008", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next few months", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 322, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 341, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 616, "end_char": 623, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter of 2008", "start_char": 1710, "end_char": 1736, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0024.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0247\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nnation\n\n\n\n\nThe work safety committee under the State Council, China's cabinet, on Thursday urged relevant authorities to take urgent actions to curb the spate of accidents that have rocked China in recent weeks.\n\nThe committee said in a circular that thorough investigations must be carried out to find the causes of the accidents. It said that those people guilty of corruption and neglect of duty must be held to account.\n\nInvestigations must be finished into at least some of the major accidents and the results must be made public, the circular says.\n\nChina has seen a spate of major accidents in the last few weeks.\n\nOn October 28, 13 workers were killed in northwest China's Xinjiang region when the oil tank they were painting exploded.\n\nOn Nov. 5, a gas explosion in the Jiaojiazhai colliery in Datong city of north China's Shanxi Province killed 47 miners.\n\nOn Nov. 12, 34 miners were killed in Nanshan colliery of Lingshi County, also in Shanxi, when a fire broke out in the pit.\n\nFigures from the State Administration of Work Safety show that China recorded 532,101 accidents between January and October, killing 92,437 people.\n\nThe committee called for solid measures to be taken to improve safety measures in vulnerable industries.\n\nIt said, with immediate effect, that authorities must stop approving new collieries with a capacity of less than 300,000 tons a year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 139, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent weeks", "start_char": 255, "end_char": 267, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last few weeks", "start_char": 658, "end_char": 676, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 28", "start_char": 682, "end_char": 692, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 5", "start_char": 805, "end_char": 811, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 12", "start_char": 927, "end_char": 934, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1152, "end_char": 1159, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1164, "end_char": 1171, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 1429, "end_char": 1435, "tid": "t9", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0156\n\nMELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nJapanese Tomita wins men's all-around\n\n\n\n\nJapanese veteran Hiroyuki Tomita won the men's all-around title after a lop-sided competition at the Gymnastics World Championships here on Thursday.\n\nThe 2003 world championships bronze medallist posted a highest 56.698 points after all the six rotations.\n\nHis compatriot Hisashi Mizutori ended up a far second in 55.349 to complete a Japanese one-two on the scoreboard.\n\nThe bronze medal went to Denis Selariu of Belarus in 55.112. And Spaniard Rafael Martinez, third in qualification, just missed his first-ever podium finish in a world championships by 0.264 behind.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 252, "end_char": 260, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "55.349", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 433, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "55.112", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 544, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0156.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0318\n\nMADRID, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSouness warns of Chelsea backlash\n\n\n\n\nLONDON, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) - Newcastle United manager Graeme Souness has warned his players that Chelsea would recover from the previous loss in the English premier league to become a \"dangerous animal\".\n\nChelsea are still leading the Premier League table despite their 1-0 loss to Manchester United following a Champions League defeat by Real Betis.\n\n\"Chelsea lost the last game they played and for me when this happens to any team it makes them a dangerous animal,\" Souness told reporters on Friday.\n\n\"We are playing against a team that is successful and used to winning, a team that has had a bit of criticism of late and all those things make them dangerous,\"added the manager, whose side will visit Chelsea on Saturday.\n\nNewcastle will be without skipper Alan Shearer following a hernia operation, leaving striker Michael Owen to spearhead the Newcastle attack.\n\n\"What we are hoping for is that they have a hangover of some sort and we are resilient and one of our special players can do something on the day,\" said Souness.\n\nFollowing a poor start in the season, Newcastle stand 10th on the league table, 13 points behind Chelsea.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 19", "start_char": 102, "end_char": 109, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 592, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 807, "end_char": 815, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0318.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0124 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0124. \n Dividend News:\n@  Goody Products Inc. \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n GOOD \n DIVIDENDS (DIV) \n\n   GOODY PRODUCTS Inc. cut its quarterly dividend to five cents a share from 11.5 cents a share. \nThe reduced dividend is payable Jan. 2 to stock of record Dec. 15. \nThe Kearny, N.J.-based maker of hair accessories and other cosmetic products said it cut the dividend due to its third-quarter loss of $992,000, or 15 cents a share. \nIn the year-ago quarter, the company reported net income of $1.9 million, or 29 cents a share. \nThe company also adopted an anti-takeover plan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 83, "end_char": 91, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 2", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-01-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t8"}, {"text": "Dec. 15", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 308, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-12-15", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t8"}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 424, "end_char": 437, "tid": "t26", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t8"}, {"text": "the year-ago quarter", "start_char": 481, "end_char": 501, "tid": "t134", "type": "TIME", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t8"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0068.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0276\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFour U.S. military newspapers to ask for Rumsfeld's resignation\n\n\n\n\nFour U.S. military newspapers will publish an editorial on Monday, asking President George W. Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.\n\nThe editorial, posted on the Website of the Army Times on Saturday, said Rumsfeld \"has lost credibility with the uniformed leadership, with the troops, with Congress and with the public at large.\"\n\n\"His strategy has failed, and his ability to lead is compromised. And although the blame for our failures in Iraq rests with the secretary, it will be the troops who bear its brunt,\" it said.\n\nThe article, first reported by CNN, said Bush, Vice President Cheney and Rumsfeld have made \"one rosy reassurance after another, \" such as \"mission accomplished,\" the insurgency is \"in its last throes,\" and \"back off.\"\n\nAmerican military leaders generally \"toed the line,\" but a few retired generals eventually spoke out from the safety of the sidelines. \"Now, however, a new chorus of criticism is beginning to resonate. Active-duty military leaders are starting to voice misgivings about the war's planning, execution and dimming prospects for success,\" said the editorial.\n\nThe article said the call for Rumsfeld's resignation at this moment \"is not about the midterm elections.\"\n\nThe editorial would appear Monday in the four weekly publications - Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times and the Marine Corps Times - that serve the four main branches of the U.S. military, CNN reported.\n\nThe timing of the editorial's publishing was not prompted by the Nov. 7 midterm elections, but was inspired by Bush's statement this week that he wanted Rumsfeld and Cheney in their posts through the end of his term, Robert Hodierne, the senior managing editor for Army Times Publications, the papers' parent company, was quoted as saying.\n\nArmy Times Publications was owned by the Gannett Company, publisher of USA Today and many local U.S. newspapers, according to the CNN report.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 328, "end_char": 336, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1372, "end_char": 1378, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 7", "start_char": 1618, "end_char": 1624, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1681, "end_char": 1690, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0276.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0421\n\nHANOI, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n3.6 pct of Vietnam population have diabetes\n\n\n\n\nMore than three million Vietnamese people, or over 3.6 percent of the country's population, suffer from diabetes, according to local newspaper Pioneer on Thursday.\n\nMillions of other local people face the risk of contracting the disease, the paper quoted reports at a seminar held by the Vietnam Diabetes and Endocrine Association as saying on Wednesday.\n\nThe situation results from low awareness of local people on the disease, weak grassroots health networks, and changes in residents' lifestyle such as unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and obesity, said the reports.\n\nVietnam is focusing on raising public awareness about the danger of diabetes and ways of preventing it such as using appropriate diet, increasing physical activities and reducing weight, and improving diabetes diagnosis and treatment systems nationwide.\n\nThe country currently has one hospital, five centers and five hospital faculties specializing in endocrinology, said the report.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 264, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 446, "end_char": 455, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 943, "end_char": 952, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0421.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0207\n\nMOSCOW, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIMF pledges support for Russia\n\n\n\n\nThe IMF is to continue providing financial support to Russia despite disappointment with the country's economic performance in 1996, IMF director general Michel Camdessus said here on Wednesday.\n\nSupporting Russia financially \"is our raison d'etre (reason for existing) -- we must do it and it will be done,\" Camdessus told students at the State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) here.\n\nBut he also warned that failure to improve tax collection might open the way to anarchy or dicatorship.\n\nAnd the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said that no decision had yet been taken on the release of three pending monthly instalments of a 10-billion-dollar loan to Russia, spread over three years.\n\n\"If the decision had already been made I would already have left,\" he said. He was due to leave late Thursday.\n\nThe January-March instalments are worth about one billion dollars. Last year the IMF delayed several instalments because the government had fallen far behind its targets for tax collection.\n\nCamdessus arrived here Monday to finalise discussions with the government on its 1997 reform programme.\n\nHe held talks with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and newly- appointed first deputy prime ministers Anatoly Chubais and Boris Nemtsov, whom President Boris Yeltsin brought into the cabinet to give new impetus to Russia's sluggish economic reforms.\n\nCamdessus said he was convinced that the new government had the necessary determination to tackle the main problems bedevilling Russia, especially inadequate tax collection, the delayed resumption of economic growth and corruption.\n\n\"I talk of determination because I know these people, I know of their personal determination to do it.\"\n\n\"At times (Russia's) progress has been so slow that the support of the IMF has been interpreted by some as reflecting a kind of political complacency, or sheer misjudgement from the IMF. It is time to show that this pessimism is misplaced,\" he said.\n\nHe warned that if the government failed to solve the problem of tax collection, it \"risks encouraging anarchy or dictatorship, or both.\"\n\nLast year the government managed to collect only about 60 percent of projected tax revenue.\n\nThe new government has announced that it will target monopolies over natural resources, such as United Energy Systems (UES) and Gazprom, in its drive to boost tax revenue.\n\nThe monopolies owe the government billions of dollars in taxes, but argue that in turn their customers, including government ministries, are heavily indebted to them.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 215, "end_char": 219, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 790, "end_char": 801, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Thursday", "start_char": 900, "end_char": 913, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 983, "end_char": 992, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1130, "end_char": 1136, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 2192, "end_char": 2201, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0207.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0353\n\nABBOTABAD, Pakistan, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details ///\n\n\n\n\nMore than 200 Chinese troops headed to Pakistan's mountainous northern region on Monday at the start of the first ever joint military exercise held here by the two allies.\n\nThe People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers and their Pakistani counterparts raised flags and played their national anthems at a special ceremony in the hill station of Abbotabad, an AFP photographer said.\n\nTwo guns boomed to herald the start of the exercise and paragliders showered fresh rose petals over the parade ground, before soldiers took part in a folk dancing display.\n\nThe Chinese contingent flew in to the garrison city of Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad on Sunday to take part in the 10-day exercise dubbed \"Friendship 2006\".\n\nPLA Major General Liu Minjiang said at the ceremony that the exercises would foster \"a joint strategy and tactics to fight terrorism.\" Pakistani Major General Mohsin Kamal said the manoeuvres would strengthen cooperation.\n\nThe exercise comes around two weeks after Chinese President Hu Jintao pledged to take strategic ties with Pakistan to a \"new level\" during his first ever visit to the South Asian country.\n\n\"This is the first time that a PLA contingent has arrived in Pakistan\" on an exercise, a senior Pakistani military official said, adding that Pakistani troops visited China for joint exercises in 2004.\n\n\"The exercise is a display of the mutual commitment and resolve to fight terrorism, besides bolstering time-tested friendship between the two countries,\" the official said on condition of anonymity.\n\nAfter the ceremony in Abbotabad the soldiers were due to head to the mountains further north for the exercises, the official said.\n\nBeijing remains Islamabad's largest arms supplier and the two are jointly developing the JF-17 Thunder fighter jet. China is also providing major industrial and economic assistance.\n\nIslamabad meanwhile is helping Beijing deal with the perceived threat of Muslim separatists in China's western Xinjiang region, which borders Kazakhstan and Pakistan.\n\nIn late 2003 Pakistan said it had killed Hasan Mahsum, identified by China as its \"top terrorist\", in a raid in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal region.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 747, "end_char": 753, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "around two weeks", "start_char": 1059, "end_char": 1075, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1425, "end_char": 1429, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0353.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0391\n\nSANTIAGO, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - INCORPORATES Chile-politics-health-Pinochet ///\n\n\n\n\nChile's former strongman Augusto Pinochet was reported to be gravely ill Sunday, after a massive heart attack.\n\n\"His fate is in the hands of God and his doctors,\" said the former dictator's youngest son, Marco Antonio Pinochet Hiriart.\n\nJuan Ignacio Vergara, a doctor treating the retired general, said Pinochet's life is \"in danger.\"\n\nA family spokesman, Guillermo Garin, said Sunday that a Catholic priest had given Pinochet the last rites administered when a gravely ill person is in imminent danger of death, adding that Pinochet remains conscious and in stable condition.\n\nPinochet, 91, was brought to Santiago Military Hospital shortly after 2:00 am (0600 GMT) on Sunday, and immediately underwent angioplasty -- a procedure desiged to widen a narrowed or obstructed blood vessel.\n\nThe elderly ex-dictator, who has been under house arrest off and on for the past few years, was again placed under house arrest last week by a judge investigating the disappearance of two of the thousands of people who went missing under his regime.\n\nPinochet ruled Chile for 17 years after seizing power in a 1973 military coup. Accused of fraud and human rights abuses during his 1973-1990 regime, Pinochet was first ordered under house arrest in late October on other charges only to be released on parole a few days later in deference to his advanced age and ill health.\n\nThe latest arrest warrant by judge Victor Montiglio is linked to the disappearance of two security guards of socialist president Salvador Allende, who committed suicide during the September 1973 military coup.\n\nThe guards disappeared during the notorious \"Caravan of Death,\" an effort by a band of Chilean soldiers to purge the country of regime opponents shortly after the coup, killing 75 people.\n\nMontiglio's arrest warrant was issued two days after Pinochet's 91st birthday celebrations, at which his wife read a message saying that the former dictator held \"no grudge against anyone,\" despite all the \"persecutions and injustices\" against him.\n\nDuring his birthday celebration, the ailing ex-dictator sat in a wheelchair outside his home, managed a faint smile and lifted his hand to wave to scores of followers gathered outside his house in La Dahesa, one of Santiago's poshest neighborhoods.\n\n\"I will gladly withstand all the humiliation, persecution and injustices my family and I have suffered in the name of peace and harmony, which should reign among Chileans,\" said the message.\n\nBut Pinochet was unapologetic for toppling the elected Socialist government of Salvador Allende, saying that thanks to the courage and decisiveness of the armed forces, \"Chile avoided the totalitarian threat and found true democracy, which we re-established, and which all our countrymen enjoy.\"\n\nDozens of Pinochet's men are behind bars in Chile for killing and torturing some 3,000 persons, by official count, under his rule\n\nBut Pinochet has yet to face trial for any crime. His lawyers have so far persuaded the Supreme Court in each case that the retired general was unable to defend himself because he suffered a \"mild dementia,\" the only condition available to him that Chilean courts accept to avoid trial.\n\nLast month, Pinochet was charged with alleged crimes at Villa Grimaldi, a secret jail where Michelle Bachelet, now president of Chile, was once tortured, along with her mother, for a month in 1975.\n\nPinochet has also been charged in connection with Operation Colombo, an international effort to murder 119 regime opponents and spirit the bodies to other South American countries ruled by military regimes in July 1975.\n\nHis eldest daughter, Lucia Pinochet Hiriart, 67, said on November 16 that Pinochet \"feels the pain\" of victims under his regime, but was not ready to ask for their pardon publicly.\n\nShe and her mother are not allowed to leave Chile because of investigations of a hundred bank accounts that members of the Pinochet family opened in 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0016\n\nHANOI, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAPEC meetings seek to unlock stalled WTO negotiations\n\n\n\n\nWorld Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations will continue to be of great importance for the APEC meetings which start here on Sunday as the APEC member economies seek to find a way forward, Vietnam's deputy foreign minister said Sunday morning.\n\nSpeaking at the beginning of the two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Concluding Senior Official's Meeting (CSOM), which is to be followed by the APEC Joint Ministerial Meeting on Nov. 15-16 and APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting on Nov. 18-19, Le Cong Phung, also chair of the CSOM, said APEC can lead the way for all members of the WTO to reignite negotiations and conclude the Doha Development Agenda next year.\n\nDuring the CSOM, senior officials from member economies will discuss the adoption of APEC Model Measures for Free Trade Agreements and guidelines to secure supply chains against counterfeit and pirated goods to unlock the stalled WTO negotiations.\n\n\"APEC members provide an accurate gauge of global economic views and ideas, so if APEC can identify a way forward this path will most likely be suitable to the broader WTO membership,\" he said, adding that representatives of APEC member economies based in Geneva have been working on a solution and senior officials will be updated on this progress.\n\nPhung said APEC senior officials will also consider the adoption of model measures that can be used by member economies in the negotiation of Free Trade Agreements and Regional Trade Arrangements (FTAs/RTAs).\n\n\"There are more than 20 FTAs and RTAs in force in the APEC region and more under negotiation,\" he noted.\n\nPhung said the member economies are working to ensure that a \" spaghetti bowl\" effect of having so many differing agreements does not undermine regional business environment and unduly increase transaction costs. \"APEC model measures will increase transparency of new FTAs and RTAs and will be of particular benefit to member economies while negotiating their FTAs/RTAs.\"\n\nMinisters of the member economies will also consider model measures that cover areas such as rules of origin, transparency, cooperation and others in the 18th APEC Joint Ministerial Meeting slated for Nov. 15-16.\n\nAdvancing multilateral trade and high quality FTAs/RTAs are important components of one of the main objectives for the 18th meeting and the 14th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting slated for Nov. 18-19 in Hanoi: the release of the Hanoi Action Plan which provides the detail required to implement last year's Busan roadmap to achieve the APEC Bogor goals.\n\n\"The plan will have core components that include support for the multilateral trading system, strengthening of Individual Action Plans and Collective Action plans (CAPs/IAPs), high quality FTAs/RTAs, and strengthening of business activities in the region and capacity building,\" Phung said.\n\nFor business to thrive in the region, APEC members have an obligation to ensure the business environment is conducive to growth, he said, noting that the Hanoi Action Plan will provide clear direction on a range of areas that include trade facilitation, private sector development, the digital economy and intellectual property rights, investment facilitation, transparency and anti-corruption, secure trade, structural reform and pathfinder initiatives.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 239, "end_char": 245, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday morning", "start_char": 342, "end_char": 356, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05TMO", "temporal_function": false, 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0208\n\nVIENNA, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nbackground ///\n\n\n\n\nWorld demand for oil will increase 1.9 percent in 2006, to 84.9 million barrels a day, OPEC said in a December report released in Vienna on Friday.\n\nThe forecast is a \"slight increase\" over its outlook issued in November, due to stronger-than-expected predictions for world economic growth next year, OPEC said.\n\nOil demand will increase in all major regions, with China accounting for more than one fifth of the increase of 1.6 million bpd.\n\nFor this year, the oil cartel lowered its estimate for demand to 83.3 million bpd, which represents an increase of 1.5 percent compared with demand in 2004.\n\nThis forecast was in line with estimates by the International Energy Agency, which had said in its monthly report published on Tuesday that oil demand would grow by 1.4 percent this year.\n\nHowever, the IEA said that it expected oil demand to grow by 2.2 percent next year to 85.2 million bpd, higher than the forecast by OPEC.\n\nOn Monday, the 11 members of OPEC had met in Kuwait City and decided to leave their production levels unchanged at 30 million bpd, declaring themselves happy with current market conditions and vowing to take action in the event of a fall in prices during winter.\n\nOPEC members are currently benefiting from high prices of oil, but are also producing at near full-capacity with output at levels unseen for 25 years.\n\nOn Friday, oil prices fell amid forecasts of warmer-than-expected weather in the United States, the world's largest consumer of energy.\n\nNew York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in January, slipped 29 cents to 59.70 dollars per barrel in electronic trading.\n\nIn London, the price of Brent North Sea crude for February delivery shed 36 cents to 59.04 dollars per barrel. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0133\n\nKABUL, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNews analysis: Abuse of detainees creates chance for Taliban\n\n\n\n\nThe ongoing reported abuse of detainees by US military in Afghanistan would facilitate Taliban- linked militants to exploit the situation for their own propaganda to mobilize local support, local observers said Sunday.\n\nAt least two suspected Afghan terrorists have died at the US military detention center in Bagram, 50 km north of capital city, the headquarters of over 20,000 strong US-led coalition forces in the post-Taliban nation.\n\nIn addition to the reported activity of detainees' maltreatment at the US holding facilities, the US military, according to media reports, has burned the bodies of Taliban militias, which are forbidden in Islam, the ruling religion in Afghanistan and the region.\n\nA footage broadcast by SBS, an Australian television network last month indicated the US troops burned two corpses of Taliban fighters in a village in southern Kandahar province, the former stronghold of Taliban, and taunt other militias. The act sparked outrage in the conservative Afghanistan.\n\nAfghan leaders including President Hamid Karzai strongly denounced the act and called for investigation into the subject.\n\n\"Abusing detainees' rights, or torturing prisoners, would bring opposing effect and definitely facilitate Taliban and terrorism to exploit the situation for their own propaganda in order to mobilize local support,\" renown political observer Qasim Akhgar maintained.\n\nHe noted that Afghans did not expect human rights violation from the US military in Afghanistan as they had helped Afghans to get rid of the Taliban and terrorists' clutches.\n\n\"Violating human rights and torturing people is the emblem of Taliban and terrorists, but not the emblem of soldiers of US army,\" Akhgar pointed out.\n\nThe US military, he said, had come here to root out the Taliban and terrorism.\n\n\"The trend, if goes unchecked, would also affect Afghan law enforcing personnel to follow the same policy in tackling law breakers,\" the analyst opined referring to the training by US instructors to Afghan law enforcing agencies particularly the police.\n\nPiling complaints over the reported detainees abuse forced the US military to initiate a thorough investigation early last year, and the outcome of the probe, carried out by General Jacoby has yet to be made public.\n\nSome 400 suspected Taliban and al-Qaida Afghans reportedly have been languishing in the 23 holding facilities run by the US military in Afghanistan.\n\n\"Tactic of highhandedness and torture of prisoners adopted by the US military would cause distrust between Afghan people and government and finally benefit Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists to boost their ranks,\" eminent journalist Syed Najibullah Hashimi observed.\n\nTaliban's recent violent attacks, Hashimi went on to say, was the counter productive result of the treatment applied by US military to poor Afghan detainees at the detention centers.\n\nUsually the US army denies the reported detainees abuse in Afghanistan. It has refused the Afghan rights to visit the holding facilities by saying the International Committee of Red Cross ( ICRC) regularly visits the detention centers.\n\nThe US military has denied that its soldiers committed any crimes by burning two bodies of Taliban fighters in Kandahar last month.\n\n\"Our investigation found there was no intent to desecrate the remains, but only to dispose of them for hygienic reasons,\" operational commander of the US forces General Jason Kamiya told newsmen in Kandahar city on Saturday.\n\nHowever, he added that disciplinary action would be taken against four soldiers involved in the case.\n\n\"Continued violation of human rights by US military in Afghanistan would change the minds of Afghans in favor of Taliban as they did not expect rights violation from the US military when they respect them as their liberators,\" Hashimi added.\n\nThe reported rights violation by the US servicemen is also a matter of concern among the official circles in the Afghan government.\n\n\"Burning human body or maltreating prisoners is an offence, and the offenders should be punished,\" deputy speaker of Presidential Palace Siamak Herawi told Xinhua.\n\n\"US troops present in Afghanistan should respect Afghan culture and those who violate the culture should be punished, and this is the stance of the government of Afghanistan,\" Herawi emphasized.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 331, "end_char": 337, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 884, "end_char": 894, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early last year", "start_char": 2284, "end_char": 2299, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 3345, "end_char": 3355, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 3573, "end_char": 3581, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0133.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0205\n\nNANCHANG, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nareas\n\n\n\n\nMore than 10,000 soldiers have been mobilized and at least one million yuan (about 123,000 US dollars) will be allocated in the disaster relief in central China's quake-hit areas, said the sources with the provincial governments of Jiangxi and Hubei on Monday.\n\nThe Jiangxi provincial government said it was launching its emergency plan shortly after the quake struck and mobilized more than 10,000 soldiers and militia members to help restore the normal order of life and production in Jiujiang.\n\nAs of Monday evening, the rescuers have found and saved more than 200 people who were trapped in the collapsed buildings.\n\nMeanwhile, more than 50,000 people who were affected by the disaster have been relocated by the local government.\n\nIn the nearby Hubei Province, which was also partially hit by the earthquake, the provincial government decides to allocate at least one million yuan (about 123,000 US dollars) to give free medical treatment to people who were injured in the quake.\n\nThe provincial government held a special conference on Monday to strengthen the disaster relief work, adding that an earthquake prevention and disaster relief responsibility system will immediately take effect in Hubei.\n\nThe majority of the schools in the quake-hit areas resumed class Monday, which unanimously gave the students lessons concerning earthquake and the survival skills.\n\nTo further monitor the Jiujiang earthquake, the China Seismological Bureau organized a panel composed of more than 50 seismologists, to head toward the two provinces.\n\nThe experts will carry out field inspections and set up 11 seismographs in both Jiangxi and Hubei for earthquake prevention and study.\n\nAn earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, on Saturday, leaving at least 14 dead.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 321, "end_char": 327, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday evening", "start_char": 572, "end_char": 586, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-21TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1109, "end_char": 1115, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1340, "end_char": 1346, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1843, "end_char": 1851, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0205.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0395\n\nDUBAI, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nURGENT  Al-Qaeda offers US troops safe passage out of Iraq\n\n\n\n\nThe head of an Al-Qaeda-dominated organization in Iraq offered to give US troops a month to pull out free of attack in an audiotape posted on the internet Friday and demanded an answer within two weeks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0395.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0078\n\nHANOI, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAPEC Business Advisory Council convenes meeting\n\n\n\n\nThe APEC Business Advisory Council ( ABAC) opened its three-day meeting in Vietnam's capital Hanoi Tuesday afternoon to discuss trade and investment liberalization, finance, capacity building and other related issues.\n\nAttended by 196 delegates and chaired by Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) Vice Chairman Hoang Van Dung, the meeting has \"Driving forward a prosperous and harmonized APEC community\" as its theme in 2006.\n\nAddressing the opening plenary session, Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet said ABAC has made great contribution to speeding up trade and investment facilitation and liberalization, and strengthening cooperation among economies in the region.\n\nHe called on the APEC member economies to strengthen cooperation in such fields as improving business environment, more effectively tapping natural resources, encouraging technology transfer, and coping with the regional aging population with decreasing number of people in the working age.\n\nFounded by APEC economic leaders in November 1995 to provide important business advice to the leaders, ABAC comprises of up to three representatives from the private economic sector of each of 21 APEC member economies.\n\nABAC has had three meetings previously in 2006 in Singapore, Canada and the Philippines respectively, all under the chairmanship of VCCI.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday afternoon", "start_char": 206, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1995", "start_char": 1121, "end_char": 1134, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 1347, "end_char": 1351, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0078.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0338\n\nROME, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nInternational health ministers commit cooperation against bird flu\n\n\n\n\nHealth ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized countries and Mexico on Friday signed an agreement here on reinforcing cooperation against the threat of bird flu and to keep it from spreading to human beings.\n\nThe ministers, as well as representatives of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union (EU) health commissioners also agreed to boost the capacity of producing pandemic flu vaccines.\n\nThe agreement called for coordination between national preventive plans and recognizes the need to build greater stockpiles of vaccines and anti-flu medicines.\n\nThey also decided to set up a store of three million doses of anti-flu vaccines to be used at the sign of any outbreak of the human variation of avian flu in the eight countries.\n\nBesides, a website for global health security will be created, which will release all scientific data related to the H5N1 virus and other pertinent information.\n\nAccording to the agreement, the eight countries will work together to prepare for the Beijing Donor Conference in January 2006, and Germany will host a workshop in June 2006 for information sharing on comparative approaches to develop vaccines.\n\nOn a proposal from Italy, the world's richest countries have agreed to support the developing countries to help them deal with any possible pandemic.\n\nBird flu has ravaged poultry farms across Southeast Asia since 2003, and at least 64 people have been dead from the virus there thus far. On Friday, Vietnam reported that they found outbreaks of the deadly strain in three more provinces.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2006", "start_char": 1166, "end_char": 1178, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2006", "start_char": 1216, "end_char": 1225, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1512, "end_char": 1516, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1590, "end_char": 1596, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0338.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0211\n\nLONDON, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nClassy Arsenal beat Liverpool 3-0 in English Premiership\n\n\n\n\nArsenal put on a scintillating performance to thrash Liverpool 3-0 at home on Sunday and keep in touch with the Premiership pace-setters.\n\nMathieu Flamini put Arsenal ahead from close range five minutes before the end of an evenly contested first half.\n\nBut Arsenal moved into top gear after the interval, Kolo Toure racing on to Robin van Persie's clever pass to slide home a cool finish after 56 minutes.\n\nWilliam Gallas was then left completely unmarked to head in Van Persie's corner to seal the win with 10 minutes left.\n\nLiverpool's title hopes were slim before kick-off but they are now surely non-existent as they remain without an away win in the Premiership this season.\n\nArsenal goalkeeper Jens Lehmann had a throat infection, which allowed Manuel Almunia to make a rare start.\n\nLiverpool boss Rafael Benitez persisted with Steven Gerrard in a right-wing role, despite the absence of injured Momo Sissoko, so Bolo Zenden played in central midfield alongside Xabi Alonso.\n\nIt was to prove a questionable decision, with Gerrard very much a peripheral figure as Arsenal ran out comfortable winners.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "56 minutes", "start_char": 512, "end_char": 522, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT56M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0211.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "CNN19980222.1130.0084 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n CNN headline news, I'm Sachi Koto.\n Diplomacy appears  to  be making headway in resolving the united nation's\n standoff with Iraq.\n A UN spokesman says UN secretary general Kofi Annan is on the verge of\n a breakthrough, but added it's not done yet.\n Annan wrapped up a three hour meeting with Iraqi president Saddam Hussein\n in Baghdad today.\n He's expected  to meet with Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz later\n this afternoon. One major sticking point has been Iraq's proposal  to open it's presidential sites for no more than sixty days.\n The UN security council insists any deal must allow UN inspectors unrestricted access to all suspected weapons sites.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980222", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three hour", "start_char": 311, "end_char": 321, "tid": "t122", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT3H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 383, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-22", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t16"}, {"text": "later\n this afternoon", "start_char": 453, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t64", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-22TAF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t16"}, {"text": "no more than sixty days", "start_char": 563, "end_char": 586, "tid": "t70", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P60D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "CNN19980222.1130.0084.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0549\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nThai top female weightlifter \"half confident\" for Doha Asiad gold\n\n\n\n\nThailand's World champion and Athens Olympics weightlifting gold medallist Pawina Thongsuk, who is recuperating from a knee injury, said her chances of helping Thailand break a 40-year gold-medal drought in the sport at Asiad were 50-50.\n\nPawina was among the 139 athletes, including shooters, sepaktakraw players and weightlifters, travelling to Doha, Qatar for the 15th Asian Games Wednesday.\n\nThe 27-year-old Thai is a gold-medal hopeful in Doha. Chaiya Sukjinda was the last Thai weightlifter to win an Asiad gold in the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok. Since then, no Thai lifter has made it that far, according to Thursday's Bangkok-based English daily The Nation.\n\nFour years ago in Busan, South Korea, Thai weightlifters returned with three silver medals, including one from Pawina in the women's 69kg category.\n\n\"It's hard to say that the gold medal is a lock. I have picked up this knee injury during training and it has hampered my preparations,\" Pawina was quoted by The Nation as saying on Wednesday.\n\n\"The team doctor says I must spray the pain-killer on the competition day, on December 4,\" she said.\n\nPawina admitted that the Chinese team would be hard to beat. She cited Ouyang Xiaofang, who captured three gold medals for the 63kg category at the recent World Championships in the Dominican Republic and is expected to contest the 63kg category at the Doha Asiad, will come out as a strong competitor.\n\n\"I have to be judicious in calling the weights and put pressure on the Chinese team. I must say that it will be very difficult to break my world records in snatch and Olympic total events.\"\n\nPawina, who landed the Best Female Athlete of the Year 2005 honour from the International Weightlifting Federation, has won in all the major competitions. Only the Asian Games gold is missing from her cupboard.\n\nIt was still a mystery as regards which category the Thai top female weighlifter, the first woman in a century to break world records in three different categories -- 63kg, 69kg and 75kg, would choose to contest in Doha.\n\nThe news of Pawina suffering an injury during training early this week was a big blow to her domestic fans, who have held high expectation for her winning a gold in Doha.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 511, "end_char": 520, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 743, "end_char": 751, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Four years ago", "start_char": 795, "end_char": 809, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1126, "end_char": 1135, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 4", "start_char": 1216, "end_char": 1226, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early this week", "start_char": 2224, "end_char": 2239, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0549.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0408\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAfrican reporters expecting more \"China voices\"\n\n\n\n\nStepping on the turf of Beijing is exciting for Axmed Saggar. Like many of his country folks, the reporter of Puntland TV from Somali had only sciolistic knowledge of China, mostly from the roads and hospitals built with assistance from Chinese expatriates.\n\n\"Somalians don't know much about China. We have very limited access to information of the modern country, \" said Saggar who came to Beijing to cover a historical summit to be attended by President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed of Somali.\n\nLeaders of more than 40 African countries have been invited to participate in the Beijing Summit of Forum on Sino-Africa Cooperation scheduled for Nov. 4-5, which is described as the grandest diplomatic event in China since 1950s.\n\nRecalling a photo show featuring Chairman Mao Zedong staged in Somali while he was young, Saggar said in the eyes of most Somalians, \"China has always been a friend.\"\n\nThe relationship between China and Africa is time-cemented. Six hundred years ago, famous mariner Zheng He (1371-1435) of the Ming Dynasty led the then largest fleet in the world and made voyages to Africa. He brought there tea, chinaware, silk and technology, and took back spice and local specialties. Not an inch of land was ever occupied.\n\n\"Zheng He and Jackie Chan (a contemporary Hong Kong movie star) are both quite well-known in Somali,\" said Saggar.\n\nOver the past 50 years, China has offered economic aid to 53 African countries and canceled 10.9 billion yuan (1.36 billion U.S. dollars) worth of debt. By the end of 2005, China had over 800 enterprises in Africa, involving a total investment of 6 billion dollars, official data revealed.\n\n\"Somalians and Chinese expatriates have got along well. A raft of infrastructure facilities including roads and hospitals were built with aid from China,\" said Saggar.\n\nHe hoped President Yusuf's visit to Beijing would \"bring more trips between Somali and China\".\n\n\"Somalians would like to have more cooperation and exchanges with the Chinese in a variety of sectors, especially education, science, technology and economy,\" he said.\n\nAs so much is going on in the world's fourth largest economy, Saggar said Somalians were not only interested in China's history but also appealed by its robust development.\n\nSaggar's view was shared by many African reporters. Kato Jacob from President Press of Uganda said, \"We wish to hear more voices from China, especially stories about China told by the Chinese.\"\n\nNearly 300 African reporters were expected to cover the two- day summit highlighting \"friendship, peace, cooperation and development\".", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4-5", "start_char": 745, "end_char": 753, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1950s", "start_char": 822, "end_char": 827, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "195", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Six hundred years ago", "start_char": 1058, "end_char": 1079, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1406", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 50 years", "start_char": 1463, "end_char": 1480, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2005", "start_char": 1614, "end_char": 1629, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0408.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0247\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nZambian police gun down four suspected plunderers\n\n\n\n\nZambian police Monday morning shot dead four suspects after an exchange of gun fire in the capital city of Lusaka. Among the dead are two locals, one Congolese and one Tanzanian.\n\nLusaka police commanding officer Chendela Musonda told Xinhua that police were tipped off about the four who were trailing a businessman from a bank with large sum of money.\n\nHe said the police successfully pined down the men who were driving a Toyota Corolla sedan near a shopping center and exchanged fire with them. Three were shot dead on the spot and the other one escaped with a taxi but was outpaced and gunned down.\n\nNo policemen were killed or injured in the incident, said Musonda.\n\nMusonda also said the police recovered a pistol and a rifle used by the bandits together with identification cards which indicated that two are foreigners.\n\nHe further said the bandits were suspected to be related with another robbery which occurred last month.\n\nThe peaceful southern African country saw mushrooming robbery cases recently with most criminals armed with fire arms. Rumors say some of the criminals are from neighboring countries.\n\nLast Thursday, a Chinese businessman, Chen Xingtao, who was on his way home after closing his store was trailed and robbed of seven million kwacha (about 1,800 US dollars) by a group of armed bandits who were also driving a Corolla car.\n\nThe Zambian police stepped up fight with robberies accordingly and Musonda said about 50 suspected criminals of robbery were arrested in the last two months.\n\nHe further said criminals who rob with guns, no matter if they have killed victims or not, would be \"sentenced to death\" according to Zambian laws.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday morning", "start_char": 125, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1033, "end_char": 1043, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last Thursday", "start_char": 1231, "end_char": 1244, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last two months", "start_char": 1606, "end_char": 1625, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0516\n\nISLAMABAD, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPakistan leaders voice grief over Mecca fire\n\n\n\n\nPakistani leaders on Tuesday expressed their sorrow over the loss of lives in a fire that destroyed the camps of Moslem pilgrims near Mecca in Saudi Arabia.\n\nPresident Farooq Ahmed Leghari said in a statement he was \"deeply anguished\" by the tragic incident, in which 30 Pakistani pilgrims died, according to reports the country's consulate in Jeddah.\n\nPrime Minister Nawaz Sharif, sympathising with the families of Pakistani and victims of other nationalities, said he was shocked to learn of the tragedy.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 127, "end_char": 134, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0516.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051209.0133\n\nMADRID, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nPut faith in me or we could sink, says new Real coach\n\n\n\n\nNew Real Madrid coach Juan Ramon Lopez Caro told his star-studded squad Friday they must put their trust in him as he takes the helm for the first time in La Liga since succeeding sacked Wanderley Lucemburgo in Malaga on Sunday.\n\n\"If the players do not have confidence in me the ship could sink,\" said Caro as he looked forward to his first test since taking the reins as Real's fifth coach in the last two and a half years.\n\nThe Champions League loss to Olympiakos in midweek was academic for his first match of any description in charge with qualification for the last 16 assured but Caro said that with six points to make up on leaders Barcelona everyone has to pull hard in the same direction.\n\n\"I am surprised, happy and proud as the players are working exceptionally well,\" Caro said of his players, adding that \"hard work on a daily basis is the recipe for success.\n\n\"I have told them there is no doubt they are the best team in the world and that, given time, work and unity we will be a great team.\"\n\nCaro had Thursday called on Real's fans to get behind the team is they seek to shrug off the mediocre form which saw Luxemburgo shown the door after less than 12 months in one of the hottest seats in the game.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 176, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 325, "end_char": 331, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "daily", "start_char": 938, "end_char": 943, "tid": "t5", "type": "SET", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1123, "end_char": 1131, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "less than 12 months", "start_char": 1263, "end_char": 1282, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051209.0133.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0058\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nDollar falls to lower 117 yen level in Tokyo\n\n\n\n\nThe U.S. dollar fell to the lower 117 yen level Wednesday in Tokyo as investors reduced their dollar holdings ahead of holidays in Japan and the United States.\n\nAt 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at 117.46-49 yen against Tuesday's 5 p.m. quotes of 117.87-97 yen in New York and 118.12-14 yen in Tokyo.\n\nIt moved between 117.38 yen and 117.94 yen during the day, trading most frequently at 117.85 yen.\n\nThe euro was quoted at 1.2866-2869 dollars and 151.15-19 yen compared with Tuesday's 5 p.m. quotes of 1.2839-2849 dollars and 151.39-49 yen in New York and 1.2825-2827 dollars and 151.49-53 yen in Tokyo.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 323, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 455, "end_char": 462, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 579, "end_char": 586, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0058.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0170\n\nKHARTOUM, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSudanese FM vows to wipe out Ugandan rebels from southern soil\n\n\n\n\nSouthern Sudan's autonomous government vowed on Saturday that it would try all means to wipe out Ugandan rebel forces, the Lord Resistance Army (LRA), from the soil.\n\nSudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol made the statement at a press conference here, while talking about a recent visit to Washington by Salva Kiir Mayardit, Sudanese First-Vice President and President of the autonomous government in the south.\n\nAkol noted that Kiir had discussed the LRA issue with the US administration and the two sides were identical on the issue.\n\nThe US administration did not show any proposals on the matter of the LRA, but it insisted that the problem should be solved quickly and the existence of the Ugandan rebels in the Sudanese lands is undesired as it is a foreign force that functions on the Sudanese territories and would bring damage to the country, said Akol.\n\nAkol, meanwhile, pointed out that Kiir's US visit succeeded to convince the US administration to promise an exclusive decision to lift its economic sanctions it imposed on Sudan.\n\nThe US should deal only with the Sudanese national government and the sanctions imposed on Sudan could not be divided, he stressed.\n\nOn western Sudan's Darfur issue, Akol revealed that the Sudanese government delegation would head for the Nigerian capital Abuja on Nov. 20 to resume the peace talks with Darfur rebel groups, renewing the government's vows to shore up the crisis.\n\nHe said the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) led by Kiir and its main ruling partner in the national government, the National Congress, as well as other political parties would endeavor to crystallize the government's unified view for the next round of Abuja peace talks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 20", "start_char": 1431, "end_char": 1438, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0170.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891101-0102 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0102. \n Dividend News:\n@  Unifirst Corp. \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n UNF \n DIVIDENDS (DIV)\nEARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   UNIFIRST Corp. declared a 2-for-1 stock split. \nThe Wilmington, Mass., garment service company also boosted its quarterly dividend 20% to three cents a share adjusted for the split. \nThe dividend had been five cents a share. \nThe split and quarterly dividend will be payable Jan. 3 to stock of record Nov. 16, the company said. \nThe split  will raise the number of shares outstanding to about 10.2 million. \nSeparately, UniFirst reported that net income rose 21% to $3 million, or 29 cents a share adjusted for the split, for the fourth quarter ended Aug. 26. \nA year earlier UniFirst earned $2.4 million, or 24 cents a share adjusted for the split. \nSales rose to $52.4 million from $50.1 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89", "start_char": 78, "end_char": 86, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 3", "start_char": 432, "end_char": 438, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-01-03", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "Nov. 16", "start_char": 458, "end_char": 465, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-16", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "the fourth quarter", "start_char": 683, "end_char": 701, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t19"}, {"text": "Aug. 26", "start_char": 708, "end_char": 715, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-08-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "A year earlier", "start_char": 718, "end_char": 732, "tid": "t2096", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0263.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0311\n\nGAZA, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFresh airstrikes on northern Gaza kill four militants\n\n\n\n\nFour Palestinian militants were killed and five others wounded on Thursday night in two separate airstrikes carried out by Israeli army aircraft in northern Gaza Strip, medics and eyewitnesses reported.\n\nEyewitnesses said that an Israeli reconnaissance drone fired one missile at a group of Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) militants east of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip, killing one militant and wounded three others.\n\nHalf an hour later, another drone missile was fired at another group of militants in the same area, killing three Palestinian militants and wounded two others, they added.\n\nThe latest deaths brought the total number of the Palestinians killed on Thursday to at least nine.\n\nEarlier on Thursday evening, a senior female security officer was killed in the town of Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza Strip by Israeli soldiers' gunfire, said Palestinian security sources.\n\nMes'eda Hweihi, 40, an officer in the secret intelligence and also a Fatah movement activist, was shot dead as she was trying to help militants who were surrounded by Israeli soldiers into one of the mosques in the town.\n\nOn Thursday morning, four Palestinians were killed, three were shot dead by Israeli army snipers, and one 75-year-old man died of fear due to a severe heart attack, said Palestinian medics.\n\nThe Israeli army forces stormed early on Wednesday morning the town of Beit Hanoun in a large-scale military operation, the Israeli army had called \"the clouds of autumn\".\n\nPalestinian security sources said that the Israeli army forces backed by dozens of tanks, bulldozers and armored vehicles covered by helicopters and fighting drones had occupied the whole town.\n\nPalestinian medics said that seven Palestinians were killed on Wednesday, most of them were militants, adding that the death toll since the beginning of the operation hit to 15 killed and more than 100 wounded.\n\nResident said the Israeli army imposed a curfew on the whole town and ordered every male aged between 16 and 45 to gather into one of the schools in the town.\n\nThey added that many of them were interrogated and beaten by the soldiers, while at least 100 people were arrested. \"The school turned into a detention camp,\" said the residents.\n\nThe Israeli army said the aim of the operation into northern Gaza Strip is aiming at reining on Palestinian militant groups who are firing homemade rockets round the clock on Israeli communities in southern Israel.\n\nDifferent militant groups claimed responsibility on Thursday afternoon for launching several homemade rockets at Israel. Three Israelis were injured earlier Thursday by the shrapnel of a homemade rocket fired from Gaza.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 795, "end_char": 803, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 834, "end_char": 850, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-10-26TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 1237, "end_char": 1253, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-26TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 1466, "end_char": 1483, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1856, "end_char": 1865, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "16", "start_char": 2107, "end_char": 2109, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1916", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday afternoon", "start_char": 2613, "end_char": 2631, "tid": "t9", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-10-26TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2718, "end_char": 2726, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0311.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0081\n\nDOHA, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nChina and Japan went head to head Saturday in the Asian Games pool with the Japanese taking an early edge in the hunt for six opening day gold medals.\n\nMaki Mita of Japan set the trend in the women's 200m freestyle with the fastest qualifying time of 2:00.44 ahead of Pan Jiaying of China, the Olympic relay silver medallist.\n\nChina's defending champion Yang Yu held off Lee Ji-Eun of South Korea in her heat to win in 2:02.75sec and tipped herself to retain her title.\n\n\"In tonight's final I will try to better my time from the morning,\" she said. \"My biggest rival is myself.\"\n\nYang collected three gold medals in the Aian Games four years ago and qualified with the third fastest time of 2:02.75, ahead of Japan's Norie Urae, who claimed a place in the final on her 20th birthday.\n\nIn the women's 100m butterfy, Zhou Yafei of China won her head-to-head in the heats with Japan's Ayako Doi and both go forward to the evening's final along with Yuko Nakanishi, who came second to Tao Li of Singapore in a tactical first heat.\n\nNakanishi, the Olympic bronze medallist over 200m, is the butterfly racer Chinese swimmers fear most, but she said she needs to swim faster to conquer here.\n\n\"I was surpised that my qualifying time was so slow,\" she said.\n\nRising star Wang Qun, only 13, claimed her heat with ease in the 50m breastroke and will be up against team-mate Ji Liping, the Asian champion, in the final.\n\nJi was the only Chinese to post the fastest qualifying time and goes into the final ahead of Japan's Asami Kitagawa and Yoshimi Miwa, who said that the team's goal was to put an end to Chinese dominance in the swimming pool.\n\nChina won 20 swimming titles to Japan's 11 in the last Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, four years ago, with the women taking 13 to only three for the Japanese women.\n\n\"The aim of the Japanese team is to beat China,\" said Miwa.\n\nIn men's events Japan domminated qualifying with Hidemasa Sano posting the fastest time in the 400m individual medley.\n\nIn the 200m butterfly Japan's top two, Ryuichi Shinata and Takeshita Matsuda led qualifying ahead of Wu Peng and Chen Yin of China.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2:02.75sec", "start_char": 484, "end_char": 494, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 696, "end_char": 710, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20th birthday", "start_char": 834, "end_char": 847, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the final", "start_char": 1463, "end_char": 1472, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 1791, "end_char": 1805, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0081.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0701\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nIt's that time of year again. Jostling throngs of bargain-hunting shoppers, office parties and the age-old debate over holiday exhibits and use of the \"C word\" -- that is, Christmas.\n\nFrom flaps over children singing Christmas carols to a row about Christmas trees at an airport or a traditional nativity play scrapped in favor of reggae-style carols, the Christian world is awash with examples of political correctness this season.\n\nEven Pope Benedict XVI has waded into the controversy, speaking out in support of Christmas creches threatened with banishment from public view in predominantly Catholic Italy.\n\nIn Britain, the popular press is spreading plenty of Christmas jeer against politically correct do good-ers who, they say, are spoiling the fun for everyone.\n\nOne school has banned Christmas cards in class, a court has restricted the number of lights one homeowner can have on his property and a school is offering halal turkey and chicken for its Christmas meal following pressure from many Muslim parents.\n\nIn the United States, where nativity scenes and displays with religious themes in public places are pretty much a thing of the past, what critics call \"the war on Christmas\" has subsided this year although several incidents have made headlines.\n\nOne involved the removal of 14 plastic Christmas trees at Seattle-Tacoma airport, in the western state of Washington, following a complaint from a local rabbi who said the holiday decorations should include a menorah to mark Hanukkah.\n\nThe airport restored the trees after the rabbi said he would not file a threatened lawsuit and a public outcry.\n\nAnother incident concerned a high school choir ordered to abruptly stop singing Christmas carols at a holiday ice skating show featuring Olympic medalist Sasha Cohen, out of concern she would be offended because she is half Jewish.\n\nOfficials at the rink in California approached the Rubidoux High School Madrigals just as they launched into \"God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman\" and requested the troupe immediately stop singing. Cohen later said she was stunned by the flap and never made a request to silence the singers.\n\nNewspapers have also carried stories about children at a school being told not to use the word Christmas when writing to US troops in Iraq; the American Civil Liberties Union filing suit over some Tennessee school children singing \"Away in a Manger\" and \"Joy to the World\" at a Christmas event; attempts to change Christmas school vacations into winter breaks; and an overzealous employee at a retirement home clipping the wings of an angel on a Christmas tree so as to remove any religious connotations.\n\nMajor stores meanwhile appear in a quandary over proper etiquette.\n\nThe world's largest retailer Wal-Mart last year required its employees to say \"happy holidays\", fearing the traditional \"Merry Christmas\" might offend customers.\n\nThis year, following criticism by some Christian groups that called for boycotts, it has reversed course and is going with Christmas in a big 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0160\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina Enterprises Index closes higher -- Nov. 7\n\n\n\n\nHang Seng China Enterprises Index went up 37.94 points, or 0.49 percent, to close at 7,753.67 on Tuesday.\n\nThe index, initiated in August 1994 and readjusted on Sept. 11, 2006, tracks the overall performance of 37 Chinese mainland state-owned enterprises listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.\n\nHang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index went down 34.08 points, or 1.11 percent, to close at 3,049.14.\n\nThe index tracks the performance of 31 locally listed companies with a significant equity interest held by entities in the Chinese mainland.\n\nHang Seng Mainland Composite Index went down 10.06 points, or 0.37 percent, to close at 2,732.35.\n\nIntroduced on Oct. 3, 2001 and readjusted on Sept. 11, 2006, Hang Seng Mainland Composite Index gauges the performance of 103 Hong Kong-listed companies with principal places of business in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1994", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 11, 2006", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 3, 2001", "start_char": 771, "end_char": 783, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001-10-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 11, 2006", "start_char": 802, "end_char": 816, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0160.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0060\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. to continue assistance to Nepal after guerrilla joins gov't: official\n\n\n\n\nThe United States (U.S.) Thursday said that it will be continuing its assistance to Nepal even after the guerrilla joins the interim government.\n\nU.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard A. Boucher, who arrived in Kathmandu Wednesday on a three-day visit, made the assurance during a meeting with Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and Speaker of the House of Representatives Subash Chandra Nemwang.\n\nThe senior U.S. official made the comments in a bid to quell all misapprehensions regarding the continuation of U.S. assistance after the guerrillas -- which the U.S. had previously terrorist- tagged -- join the Nepal government.\n\nMaking a brief statement to media persons after the meeting with Koirala, Boucher said, \"The U.S. is ready to continue its assistance to Nepal for the welfare of the Nepali people.\"\n\nThe senior U.S. official discussed the on-going peace process and the overall Nepalese political situation besides issues of U.S. assistance with Koirala.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 399, "end_char": 408, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0060.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0153\n\nNEW DELHI, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndia's reform budget faces fresh crisis by Jay Shankar\n\n\n\n\nIndia's tax-cutting reform budget faced fresh trouble Sunday when a communist partner in the ousted coalition challenged the caretaker government's right to pass it in parliament.\n\nThe Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) said the United Front, which was voted out Friday and holds office in a caretaker capacity, had no constitutional authority to pass the budget for the year to March 1998.\n\n\"Once the government is ousted, then its budget proposals become defunct,\" said Ashok Mitra, a senior CPI-M member.\n\n\"President Shankar Dayal Sharma should ask the government to instead approve a vote-on-account.\n\n\"This is my party's view,\" he added.\n\nA vote-on-account is a constitutional alternative to a fully-fledged budget and will help parliament to approve the government's expenditure.\n\nIndian officials said on Saturday parliament would ratify the budget later this month despite the dramatic fall of the country's coalition government.\n\nThey said major political parties had agreed to set aside their differences and pass the budget during a special three-day parliamentary session beginning April 21. India's financial year begins April 1.\n\nBut Mitra insisted a vote-on-account was the only solution.\n\n\"The caretaker government cannot oppose or amend the budget proposals,\" said Mitra, a former finance minister in the communist- ruled state of West Bengal.\n\nThe CPI-M is a key constituent of the centre-left United Front and has been a constant critic of New Delhi's free-market economic reforms.\n\nFinance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram's widely-acclaimed pro-reform budget, unveiled in parliament on February 28, slashed taxes and promised to reduce the fiscal deficit.\n\nThe personal tax rate was slashed from 40 to 30 percent, to the cheers of the rich, while corporate tax for domestic firms was reduced from 40 to 35 percent.\n\nChidambaram's proposals delighted Indian stock markets, with the barometer 30-share index on the Bombay Stock Exchange shooting up 6.3 percent on the same day.\n\nThe index has been on a rollercoaster ride since March 30 when the Congress (I) party withdrew support for the government, sparking the chain of events which culminated with the fall of Deve Gowda's United Front coalition Friday.\n\nDeve Gowda has been asked by the president to continue as caretaker prime minister until further notice.\n\nThe speaker of the Indian lower house of parliament has warned the country would be plunged into a financial crisis if the budget was not passed before the deadline of May 14.\n\nUnder Indian law, the budget has to be ratified in parliament within 75 days of being unveiled. If that does not happen, the provisions of the previous budget remain in force.\n\nMeanwhile, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, Indian People's Party) said it would form a three-member panel to suggest amendments to Chidambaram's tax proposals in the budget.\n\n\"We cannot support the budget blindly,\" BJP treasurer V.P. Goel said.\n\nA BJP ideologue, Jay Dubashi, said: \"The panel will meet next week to thrash out an agenda to suggest changes in the finance bill. And we will ask the caretaker government to comply.\n\n\"We will not mind being voted down on these suggestions. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0274\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTrans-Asia rail link completed by 2015: ASEAN official\n\n\n\n\nThe proposed Trans-Asia Rail Link will be completed by 2015, Malaysian Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy said Monday.\n\nAlso known as Singapore-Kunming Rail Link (SKRL), the rail link will start from Singapore and run through countries such as Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos before ending at Kunming in China.\n\n\"For the missing link between Poipet and Sisophon (Cambodia), the construction of the railway will start early next year, using the rail tracks donated by Malaysia while the ADB (Asian Development Bank) would be financing the construction work,\" Chan told reporters after officiating the 28th ASEAN Railways CEO's conference here.\n\nChan said once construction of the missing link is completed, it will enable the movement of trains from Singapore to Phnom Penh (Cambodia).\n\nIn addition, Cambodia will also start its rail rehabilitation project on its existing rail system, partially funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), said Chan.\n\nMeanwhile, Royal Railways of Cambodia Director-General Sokhom Pheakavanmony said construction of the rail link between Poipet and Sisophon is expected to be completed by the end of next year or early 2008.\n\nFor the 225-kilometer missing link between Phnom Penh and Loc Ninh, a border town between Cambodia and Vietnam, Pheakavanmony said a feasibility study on the missing link, funded and conducted by China, has been completed.\n\nConstruction of the missing rail link is expected to start next year with the completion by 2010, Pheakavanmony was quoted by the Bernama news agency as saying.\n\nVietnam Railways Deputy Director-General Nguyen Dat Tuong said Vietnam and Cambodia are currently working to finalize the connecting rail point near Loc Ninh.\n\nOnce the two countries have decided on the exact connecting point, Vietnam will immediately start construction of the 145- kilometer missing link between Loc Ninh and Ho Chi Minh City, said Tuong\n\nTuong added there was already an existing rail link connecting Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi and China in the north, through two connecting points.\n\nThe three-day conference has attracted nearly 200 delegates and observers, comprising mostly high-ranking railway officials from seven ASEAN countries.\n\nASEAN groups Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 561, "end_char": 576, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year or early 2008", "start_char": 1276, "end_char": 1299, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1585, "end_char": 1594, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1618, "end_char": 1622, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0274.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0105\n\nGENEVA, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCredit Suisse reports good third-quarter results\n\n\n\n\nSwitzerland's second largest bank, Credit Suisse, reported on Wednesday a better-than-expected rise in its third-quarter figures, with net profit up 42 percent to 1.9 billion Swiss francs (1.48 billion US dollars).\n\nBusiness for both its investment and its private bank sectors had boomed due to continued strong growth and confidence in global financial markets, according to Credit Suisse.\n\nThe surprisingly good result follows a drop in net profits in the second quarter to 919 million Swiss francs (716 million dollars).\n\n\"Our group benefited from increased levels of client activity and the active market environment,\" said Credit Suisse CEO, Oswald Grubel, commenting on the third quarter results.\n\nLike its larger rival, UBS, Credit Suisse has large private banks and substantial investment banking operations, with retail banking limited to Switzerland.\n\nCredit Suisse, which is based in Zurich, Switzerland, and has total assets under management of 1.405 trillion Swiss francs (1.1 trillion dollars), is active in about 50 countries and employs more than 60,000 people, with 26,000 of them in Switzerland.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 215, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter", "start_char": 563, "end_char": 581, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 785, "end_char": 802, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0105.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0148\n\nLONDON, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nBritish retail sales rise in November\n\n\n\n\nBritish retail sales rose by 0.3 percent in November compared with the previous month, official data showed on Thursday.\n\nRetail sales were 3.2 percent higher than in November 2005, the Office for National Statistics said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 138, "end_char": 146, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous month", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 2005", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0148.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0439\n\nBARCELONA, Spain, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSpanish \"Romeo\" sentenced to 16 years in jail for killing fiancee\n\n\n\n\nA 23-year-old Spaniard was sentenced on Tuesday to 16 years in prison for killing his fiancee in a plot he tried to pass off as a \"remake\" of the tragic ending of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette.\n\nJose Maria Gomez Lopez, nicknamed Romeo of Terrassa since the killing in 1996, tried to pass off as a suicide the killing of his fiancee Gema Aguda, 17, who at the time was threatening to leave him.\n\nGomez Lopez sent the woman's parents a letter on February, 6, 1996, imitating her writing and announcing that the couple planned to commit suicide.\n\nThe following night he suffocated Aguda with a pillow and then called police to alert them to a double suicide after scattering some pills on the floor and feigning a deep sleep.\n\nThe plot, however, did not fool investigators.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 405, "end_char": 409, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February, 6, 1996", "start_char": 581, "end_char": 598, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "The following night", "start_char": 681, "end_char": 700, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0439.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0004\n\nMADRID, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMexican defender Marquez becomes Spanish citizen\n\n\n\n\nMexican defender Rafael Marquez, who plays for Spanish league soccer team Barcelona, became a Spanish citizen on Friday, with a public ceremony where he swore an oath to Spain's constitution, and freed a place on his team for another player from outside the European Union.\n\nMarquez joined Barcelona in 2003, leaving French league team Monaco. He took the oath, which is the last part of the Spanish nationalization process, first thing in the morning in Gava, the Barcelona neighborhood where he lives.\n\nWith Marquez's nationalization Barcelona now has only two officially foreign players - Cameroon's Samuel Eto'o and Brazil's Ronaldo de Assis, better known as Ronaldinho.\n\nIf the club decided to make use of the winter transfer market, it will now have a much larger choice of players.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 222, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 412, "end_char": 416, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning", "start_char": 549, "end_char": 560, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 655, "end_char": 658, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 856, "end_char": 859, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0004.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0188 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0188. \n Pacific First Financial Corp. \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n PFFS T.RYL \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nSAVINGS AND LOANS, THRIFTS, CREDIT UNIONS (SAL) \n SEATTLE  \n\n   Pacific First Financial Corp. said shareholders approved its acquisition by Royal Trustco Ltd. of Toronto for $27 a share, or $212 million. \n\n   The thrift holding company said it expects  to obtain regulatory approval and complete the transaction by year-end.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 75, "end_char": 83, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "year-end", "start_char": 483, "end_char": 491, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-12-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t9"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0006.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0284\n\nAMMAN, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nURGENT  Olmert on surprise visit to Jordan\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert paid a surprise visit to Jordan Tuesday for talks with King Abdullah II on ways of reactivating peace talks with the Palestinians, the royal court said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 165, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0284.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0190\n\nNEW DELHI, Dec 26 , 2006, 2006\n\nIndian widow's head shaved for stealing bananas\n\n\n\n\nAn impoverished widow in eastern India had her head forcibly shaved after a wealthy farmer accused her of stealing his bananas, a report said Tuesday.\n\nDesri Devi was allegedly caught stealing bananas from a field in Balua-Basant village in poverty-ridden Bihar state last week, the Press Trust of India reported,\n\nVillage officials fined her 2,500 rupees (56 dollars) but when she could not pay they summoned a barber who shaved her head, the news agency said.\n\n\"Some people wanted me to be stripped and then paraded on the streets, but others stopped them from doing that. Still, I was paraded in the lanes of the village for no fault of mine,\" Devi said in a complaint lodged with police.\n\nDistrict magistrate Lallan Singh said the woman, who was a beggar, had \"sleepwalked\" to the field where the nightwatchman caught her taking bananas, according to the news agency.\n\nEarlier this week, the Times of India reported that a landowner in the same state had chopped off the fingers of a 10-year-old girl's right hand to punish her for stealing spinach leaves to eat.\n\nDespite India's fast-growing economy, hunger remains a major problem in the country. Some 42 percent of Biharis live under India's official poverty line compared with a nationwide average of 26 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 26 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 256, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 375, "end_char": 384, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this week", "start_char": 980, "end_char": 997, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W52", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0190.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0065\n\nYANGON, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nRed Cross to reopen offices in military-run Myanmar\n\n\n\n\nThe Red Cross will reopen its field offices in Myanmar after the country's military-run government agreed to reconsider an earlier decision to close them, an official said Friday.\n\n\"The government wants to reconsider the decision and we are waiting for more details from authorities,\" said Thierry Ribaux, the deputy head of the Red Cross in Yangon. He declined to give further details.\n\nThe agreement came from a meeting last week between junta officials and the representative of the Red Cross in Myanmar, Ribaux said.\n\nThe aid agency also sought the junta's permission to resume its prison visits during the meeting, but military officials rejected the appeal, he said. The prison visits have been suspended since late 2005.\n\nThe United Nations estimates there are some 1,100 political prisoners in Myanmar, which has been ruled by the military since 1962.\n\nThey include democracy icon and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, 61, who has been under house arrest for most of the past 17 years in Yangon.\n\nIn October, the military regime ordered the Red Cross to close the five offices in Mandalay, Mawlamyine, Hpa-an, Taunggyi and Kyaing Tong.\n\nApart from central Mandalay, the remaining four areas were located along the Thai-Myanmar border.\n\nBetween 1999 and late 2005, the Red Cross made 453 visits to prisons and labor camps across Myanmar, one of the world's poorest and most isolated nations and with a dismal human rights record.\n\nThe Red Cross said it had 332 staff in Myanmar, including 54 expatriates, last year. But due to the ongoing obstacles, their numbers have since dwindled to 220 including 20 expatriates.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 280, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 530, "end_char": 539, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2005", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 834, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1962", "start_char": 962, "end_char": 966, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1962", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "past 17 years", "start_char": 1092, "end_char": 1105, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P17Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1121, "end_char": 1128, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999 and late 2005", "start_char": 1365, "end_char": 1383, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1625, "end_char": 1634, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0065.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0265\n\nRAMALLAH, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSao Tome wants strengthened ties with Angola\n\n\n\n\nLUANDA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) - Sao Tome and Principe's Prime Minister Maria do Carmo Silveira said Monday here at the start of a three-day visit to Luanda that the Archipelago wanted strengthened ties with Angola, above all in its emerging oil sector.\n\nAfter a meeting with Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Silveira said that \"We would like this visit to represent a qualitative step in re-enforcing our cooperative relations, giving them a strategic orientation and concentrating them in areas considered priorities by the two countries.\"\n\nNoting that Angola had \"a long experience\" in the oil sector, Silveira said Luanda's aid in this area was of \"extreme importance \" to its Gulf of Guinea archipelago.\n\nSilveira said she had also discussed Sao Tome's 20 million US dollars debt to Angola with dos Santos, adding that she had asked the president to view the case in the framework of her government' s hopes of getting a debt pardon from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund early next year.\n\n\"We asked (dos Santos) for our debt to Angola to be analyzed in this context,\" Silveira said, noting that the issue would be dealt with in an upcoming meeting of the two countries' bilateral commission.\n\nLater Monday, delegations led by Silveira and her Angolan counterpart, Fernando Dias dos Santos, are scheduled to begin discussions on business cooperation and air and sea links, among other matters, officials said.\n\nEarlier this year, Sao Tome invited Angola, Brazil and Portugal to join it in setting up a four-way consortium for oil exploration in its territorial waters and in the Joint Development Zone shared with Nigeria.\n\nWhile Sao Tome's three partners responded positively to that idea, there has been no recent word of any concrete move towards creating a consortium.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 28", "start_char": 115, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 202, "end_char": 208, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 1101, "end_char": 1116, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1329, "end_char": 1335, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this year", "start_char": 1540, "end_char": 1557, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0265.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0392\n\nDAKAR, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBuilding collapses in Senegal, killing two\n\n\n\n\nA four-storey building under construction in the Senegalese capital Dakar collapsed, killing two workers and injuring three others, hospital sources said Wednesday.\n\nTuesday's accident came just a week after two old buildings tumbled down in Dakar and the northern town of Saint-Louis, killing two other people.\n\nTechnicians at the ministry of planning said that the building had collapsed on Tuesday because workers had failed to observe construction regulations.\n\nAfter the previous accidents, the local press blamed greedy proprietors for erecting buildings with the sole aim of cutting costs at the expense of safety.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 263, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 266, "end_char": 273, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 301, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 493, "end_char": 500, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0392.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0003\n\nMOSCOW, April 5 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNemtsov orders auctioning of Russian officials' cars\n\n\n\n\nFirst Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov has ordered the auctioning off of Western-made cars used by Russian government officials, ITAR- TASS news agency reported.\n\nOn Friday, Nemtsov instructed Economics Minister Yakov Urinson to draft regulations on selling the cars at auction. He said that the bidding is to be open and covered by the media.\n\nUrinson, who is a deputy prime minister, will also deliver by April 10 guidelines for Russian auto manufactures to submit bids on providing cars for officials.\n\nThe order falls in line with a plan forwarded two weeks ago by Nemtsov after he was appointed by President Boris Yeltsin.\n\nOn April 1, Yeltsin signed a decree which stops allocations from the federal budget for the buying or leasing of foreign-made cars for government officials.\n\nWhile the move has enjoyed popular support, Russian press reports say that the plan could backfire as taxpayers are likely to end up paying out more than ever because the only vehicles wanted by top officials will be those customized to their tastes.\n\nThe main Russian car, popularly known as the Volga, costs just a third of the price of even a relatively modest German Audi to manufacture.\n\nAdd extras, however, such as a foreign air-conditioning system and so on and the car could cost up to 57,000 dollars compared to 22,000 to 28,000 for the typical models favoured by the government.\n\nPress reports also say that Russian-made cars will cost more to maintain because their quality is significantly lower than those made in the West.\n\nNemtsov, though, has said that the opposite is true and that the exploitation of Russian vehicles is actually lower as they use less fuel and have lower maintenance costs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 5 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 10", "start_char": 520, "end_char": 528, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 665, "end_char": 678, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1", "start_char": 745, "end_char": 752, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0003.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0021\n\nSINGAPORE, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNoon rubber prices\n\n\n\n\nWednesday's noon rubber prices in Singapore cents per kilo provided by the Singapore Commodity Exchange:\n\nBuyers   Sellers\n\nInt 2 RSS May        169.00    170.00 Nominal (N)\n\nInt 3 RSS May        169.00    170.00 N\nInt 4 RSS May        163.75    164.75 N\nInt 5 RSS May        160.00    161.00 N\nNo. 1 Air Dried Sheet    189.00    191.00 N\n\nInt 1X Thin Pale Crepe    234.50    238.50 N\n\nInt 1 Thin Pale Crepe    228.50    232.50 N\n\nInt 2 Thin Pale Crepe    220.50    222.50 N\n\nInt 3 Thin Pale Crepe    215.50    217.50 N\n\nInt 2 Thin Brown Crepe    132.00    134.00 N\n\nInt 3 Thin Brown Crepe    130.00    132.00 N\n\nInt 4 Thin Brown Crepe    128.00    130.00 N\n\nSSR/SMR 20 May        163.00    165.00 N\n\nJune       164.00    166.00 N SSR 50   May 161.00    163.00 N\nJune       162.00    164.00 N", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 79, "end_char": 88, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May        169.00    170.00 N", "start_char": 264, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Int 4 RSS May        163.75    164.75 N", "start_char": 294, "end_char": 333, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Int 5 RSS May        160.00    161.00 N", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 373, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09T05:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "No. 1", "start_char": 374, "end_char": 379, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June       164.00    166.00 N SSR 50   May 161.00    163.00 N", "start_char": 780, "end_char": 841, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June       162.00    164.00 N", "start_char": 842, "end_char": 871, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0021.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0023 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0023. \n Business Brief -- Esselte AB:\n@  Bid to Buy Remaining 22%\n@  Of Unit Is Made by Firm \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n S.ESL ESB \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nEARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   Esselte AB, the Stockholm office supplies company, as expected, proposed to acquire the 22% it doesn't own of its U.S. unit, Esselte Business Systems Inc. \n\n   The price in the proposal is $43.50 for each of the 4.9 million shares the parent doesn't own, or $213.2 million. \n\n   In New York Stock Exchange composite trading, Esselte closed yesterday at $43.50 a share, up $1. \n\n   A committee of outside directors for the Garden City, N.Y., unit is evaluating the proposal; the parent asked it to respond by Oct. 31. \nThe unit said it can provide no assurance a transaction will occur. \n\n   Esselte AB sold the minority stake five years ago in a $40 million international share offering. \nThe unit, which is the holding company for Esselte's non-Swedish units, accounted for 58% of sales and 71% of operating profit last year. \n\n   Separately, Esselte Business Systems reported third-quarter net income fell 5.9% to $9.5 million, or 46 cents a share, from $10.1 million, or 49 cents a share, in the year-ago period. \nSales rose 2.9% to $329.2 million from $320 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 130, "end_char": 138, "tid": "t30", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 582, "end_char": 591, "tid": "t78", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-25", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "Oct. 31", "start_char": 750, "end_char": 757, "tid": "t91", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "five years ago", "start_char": 868, "end_char": 882, "tid": "t140", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1058, "end_char": 1067, "tid": "t148", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 1120, "end_char": 1133, "tid": "t162", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "the year-ago period", "start_char": 1237, "end_char": 1256, "tid": "t167", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_1033.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0110\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhau)\n\nChina supports development of energy efficient autos: vice-premier\n\n\n\n\nChina will adopt encouraging policies to promote the development, research and consumption of energy efficient and environment-friendly vehicles, said Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan, of the State Council, here Friday.\n\n\"China highly stresses the development of such vehicles,\" said Zeng when visiting an ongoing exhibition of international clear auto technologies in Beijing.\n\nChina must make adequate efforts to develop such vehicles given that China is currently in the process of build a society which hails energy saving and environment friendly practices, he said.\n\nChina encourages its auto industry to carry out international cooperation and introduce advanced technologies from other countries and regions, said Zeng, who looked quite happy when model operations of China's self-developed electricity-powered and mix-powered auto is already under way.\n\n\"The government supports Chinese enterprises to increase investment to develop core and critical technologies, foster home-grown brand names and enhance independent innovation capabilities,\" he said.\n\nThanks to the rapid growth of its auto industry in recent years, China has become the third largest auto sale country and fourth auto producer of the world.\n\nTo date, Chinese auto makers have developed more than 100 types of gas-fuelled vehicles, which has been promoted in 19 Chinese cities and prefectures.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 332, "end_char": 338, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1235, "end_char": 1247, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0110.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0300\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambian president highly speaks of China-Africa summit\n\n\n\n\nZambian President Levy Mwanawasa said the just ended Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held on Nov. 4-5 is highly beneficial to the economic success and development of Zambia.\n\nMwanawasa told a news briefing Tuesday at Beijing Hotel that his country will benefit from the summit through the financial resources China has pledged to pour into Africa, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation reported.\n\nMwanawasa hailed the government of China for initiating an aid package to enhance Africa's economic development. Under the package, china has written off a substantial amount of Zambia's debt.\n\nMwanawasa said the Tanzania-Zambia railway debt to china has automatically fallen off as a result of the Chinese gesture.\n\nHe said Zambia as a highly indebted poor country is also eligible to benefit from the 5 billion U.S. dollars in preferential loans and credits to Africa which china will provide.\n\nThe president said that China's continued support to Zambia is a true reflection of the warm existing relationship between the two countries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4-5", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 239, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 344, "end_char": 351, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0300.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0271\n\nBRUSSELS, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, background ///\n\n\n\n\nBritain was to present new proposals Friday aimed at breaking the EU's budget deadlock, a spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said, reporting \"progress\" in talks at a crunch Brussels summit.\n\n\"At some stage this afternoon we will put down a negotiating box,\" said spokesman Tom Kelly, using EU-speak for a package of complex proposals seeking to resolve differences over the 2007-13 budget.\n\n\"There has been progress this morning,\" he said, with Blair reporting back to a lunchtime session of all 25 EU leaders on the progress made in a series of bilateral talks during the morning.\n\nMore bilateral talks were likely after the round-table session, he added, after which the new proposals -- the third in two weeks -- will be put to the member states.\n\nLuxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn also sounded an upbeat note. \"I feel, everyone feels in the building that the English ... are taking steps in the right direction, but they need to be concrete,\" he said.\n\nThe budget, worth nearly 850 billion euros (1.01 trillion dollars), is vital to releasing much-needed funds to the relatively poorer ex-communist states from central and eastern Europe which joined the bloc last year.\n\nHolding up a deal, however, are two issues: Britain's refusal to part with its budget rebate, secured by Margaret Thatcher in 1984, and French resistance to reforming farm subsidies which eat up 42 percent of EU spending.\n\nBlair, chairing the final summit of Britain's turn at the EU presidency, huddled with several fellow leaders earlier Friday, following up on a working dinner the night before where blunt talking was on the menu.\n\nHis final meeting before lunch Friday saw him with French President Jacques Chirac, who wants the rebate to go, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose nation is the biggest contributor to EU coffers.\n\n\"The important thing this morning was that serious efforts are being made all around to try and find a way forward,\" the prime minister's spokesman told reporters.\n\n\"That doesn't guarantee success, but it underlines that people are serious about trying to get a deal at this summit.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this afternoon", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning", "start_char": 666, "end_char": 677, "tid": "t5", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 800, "end_char": 809, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1270, "end_char": 1279, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1984", "start_char": 1408, "end_char": 1412, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1622, "end_char": 1628, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1749, "end_char": 1755, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this morning", "start_char": 1944, "end_char": 1956, "tid": "t11", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0271.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0116\n\nWARSAW, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPoland announces national mourning for mine blast victims\n\n\n\n\nPolish President Lech Kaczynski announced three days of national mourning for the victims in a mine blast in southern Poland, the official PAP news agency reported on Thursday.\n\nThe mourning period, starting on Thursday, came after all 23 miners trapped in the Halemba coal mine in the southern Polish city of Ruda Slaskain were confirmed dead, the report said.\n\nThe accident occurred on Tuesday night when a methane gas explosion 1,030 meters underground shook the Halemba coal mine. There were 31 miners working in the area at that time, and eight of them managed to escape.\n\nThe mine accident is the country's deadliest so far this year, bringing the number of miners killed in 2006 in Poland to 43.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 329, "end_char": 337, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday night", "start_char": 506, "end_char": 519, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 748, "end_char": 757, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 799, "end_char": 803, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0116.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0001\n\nSAN DIEGO, California, Dec 10 , 2006, 2006\n\nRecord-setting Tomlinson propels Chargers into NFL playoffs\n\n\n\n\nLaDainian Tomlinson seized the National Football League single-season record for touchdowns on Sunday as the San Diego Chargers captured the AFC West division crown.\n\nTomlinson rushed for three touchdowns to take his total for the season to 29, eclipsing the record of 28 set by Seattle's Shaun Alexander last year.\n\nThe Chargers downed the Denver Broncos 48-20 to win the division for the second time in three years, improving to 11-2. That's the best record in the AFC, one game ahead of Indianapolis for home field advantage throughout the playoffs.\n\nThe Colts lost for the second week in a row, wasting another chance to clinch the AFC South title as they fell 44-17 to Jacksonville.\n\nRookie Maurice Jones-Drew rushed for a season-high 166 yards and two touchdowns and scored on a 93-yard kickoff return for the Jaguars, who rushed for a franchise record 375 yards against their division rivals.\n\n\"Not much to say except they dominated us from start to finish,\" said Colts quarterback Peyton Manning, who completed 25-of-50 passes. \"We just need a win to get back on track.\"\n\nThe New England Patriots also failed in their bid to clinch the AFC East, suffering their first shut-out since 2003 at the hands of Miami.\n\nJason Taylor and Yeremiah Bell led a defensive assault on Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, while Joey Harrington and Sammy Morris managed the Dolphins' offense to a 21-0 victory in a battle of division rivals.\n\nBrady, a two-time Super Bowl MVP, endured a nightmare game, completing 12-of-25 passes for only 78 yards. He was sacked five times and lost one of his two fumbles.\n\nIn contrast, the Chargers continued a dream run on Sunday with their seventh win in a row.\n\n\"It is extra meaningful, because not only do you break the record, but you clinch the division and clinch a playoff spot and then you take over the No. 1 seed in the AFC,\" said Tomlinson, who has 26 touchdowns rushing and three receiving.\n\n\"So many things happened today that are special for this football team.\"\n\nTomlinson broke Alexander's record in dramatic style, rushing for two of his scores in a 47-second span late in the fourth quarter.\n\nTomlinson had pulled within one of the record when he scored on a seven-yard run with 23 seconds left in the second quarter to help the Chargers build a 28-3 lead.\n\nTomlinson, who finished with 103 yards on 28 carries, scored on a six-yard run to tie Alexander's record with 3:57 left in the fourth quarter.\n\nIt appeared Tomlinson would have to wait another week to break the mark. But on Denver's ensuing possession, linebacker Shawne Merriman stripped the ball from rookie quarterback Jay Cutler and the Chargers recovered at the Denver 7 yard line.\n\nTomlinson then took a handoff from Philip Rivers and raced around the left side for a seven-yard touchdown.\n\nThe loss was the fourth in a row for the Broncos, who slipped one game behind Jacksonville and Cincinnati in the AFC wild-card race.\n\nThe Bengals stayed in the postseason mix with a 27-10 victory over lowly Oakland.\n\nBaltimore moved a step closer to the AFC North title with a 20-10 victory over Kansas City.\n\nNFC East leaders Dallas were thrashed 42-17 by NFC South leaders New Orleans.\n\nSaints quarterback Drew Brees dismantled the Cowboys, matching a career high with five touchdowns and completing 26-of-38 passes for 384 yards. His huge night gave him a league-high 4,033 passing yards for the season.\n\nThe Saints improved to 9-4 and have a two-game lead in the NFC South over Atlanta, who beat the lackluster Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17-6.\n\nElsewhere in the NFC East, both the New York Giants and Philadelphia improved to 7-6, the Giants with a 27-13 victory over Carolina and Philadelphia with a 21-19 victory over Washington.\n\nFor the Eagles the game was the first of a tough three-game road trip against division rivals.\n\nIn other games, Arizona surprised Seattle 27-21, Buffalo beat the New York Jets 31-13, Minnesota downed Detroit 30-20, Tennessee topped Houston 26-20 in overtime, and Green Bay beat San Francisco 30-19.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2006", "start_char": 46, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 226, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the season", "start_char": 358, "end_char": 368, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 436, "end_char": 445, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 536, "end_char": 547, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second week", "start_char": 704, "end_char": 719, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1322, "end_char": 1326, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1777, "end_char": 1783, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 2083, "end_char": 2088, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth quarter", "start_char": 2244, "end_char": 2262, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q4", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter", "start_char": 2370, "end_char": 2388, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "28", "start_char": 2472, "end_char": 2474, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1928", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth quarter", "start_char": 2553, "end_char": 2571, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q4", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "another week", "start_char": 2615, "end_char": 2627, "tid": "t15", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the season", "start_char": 3522, "end_char": 3532, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0001.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0379\n\nLONDON, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nFormer Russian spy Litvinenko's book attracting high Internet bids\n\n\n\n\nSale of the 2002 book co-written by the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko who died of suspected radioactive poisoning are selling on the Internet at up to 30 times their orginal price.\n\nTwo copies of \"Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within\" are currently available on the British online book store Amazon for 189 pounds (280 euros, 374 dollars) for a new version and nearly 237 for a second-hand edition.\n\nThe book's publisher SPI Books, a small US outfit that specialises in works on politics, terrorism and military affairs, if offering it on its Internet site at 13.95 dollars (seven pounds, 10.39 euros) plus postage.\n\nOn the online auction site eBay, a copy signed by Litvinenko in 2005 was put up for sale five days ago and has three days left for bids. On Saturday afternoon, 16 bids had been submitted and had reached 100 pounds.\n\n\"Dear Diane. Thank you for the help and support!\" the former Russian secret service agent signed.\n\nThe book, co-written by the US-based Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky, argues that the Federal Security Services (FSB) -- a successor to the KGB -- co-ordinated a series of blasts in Moscow and other Russian cities in 1999.\n\nThe explosions, which took place over a two-month period, are thought to have killed more than 300 people.\n\nRussian authorities blamed Chechen separatists and allegedly used the blasts as an excuse for a renewed offensive against the breakaway former Soviet republic.\n\nThe book also claims that the Russian secret services organised a number of assassinations and kidnappings.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 814, "end_char": 818, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five days ago", "start_char": 839, "end_char": 852, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday afternoon", "start_char": 890, "end_char": 908, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1285, "end_char": 1289, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0379.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0310\n\nLONDON, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFerguson to splash out at Premiership in January\n\n\n\n\nManchester United boss Alex Ferguson has claimed that he will be beefing up his squad in January as Premiership is becoming a \"numbers game\".\n\nFerguson wants United to build on the 1-0 win against Chelsea at Old Trafford which revived their title ambitions.\n\nHe said: \"What I will be looking to do is increase the squad in January. It's actually numbers we're lacking.\n\n\"But you have to dismiss the possibility of getting players from clubs who think they can win the Champions League.\"\n\nFerguson added: \"That narrows down your options but we're playing the numbers game right now.\n\n\"I'm happy with the quality we have but we're relying too much on our younger players at a time when we're missing the experience of Roy Keane, Gary Neville and Gabriel Heinze.\"\n\nUnited have been linked with Real Madrid's Thomas Gravesen and Bayern Munich's Michael Ballack, but both clubs are still contesting the Champions League.\n\nIn a previous January transfer window Ferguson signed Louis Saha from Fulham, because he needed to avoid players who were still involved in the Champions League.\n\nIt could be that he will now look to complete a similar deal for a player already operating in the Premiership, but not involved in Europe.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 431, "end_char": 438, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 685, "end_char": 688, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1213, "end_char": 1216, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0310.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0046\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nflu\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinese mainland said Wednesday it has kept up and will go on with its information exchange and communication with Taiwan on bird flu pandemic.\n\n\"So far this year, the mainland-based Cross-Strait Agricultural Exchange Association has briefed relevant groups in Taiwan on the situation of bird flu epidemic 15 times,\" said Li Weiyi, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, at a routine press conference.\n\nMeanwhile, the relevant parties of the mainland side have worked in coordination with the Secretariat of the World Health Organization (WHO) to invite two experts from Taiwan to an international conference on bird flu held by the WHO in Geneva on Oct. 7, said Li.\n\nThe relevant parties in the Chinese mainland and Taiwan will continue with such exchanges and cooperation, Li said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 91, "end_char": 100, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 222, "end_char": 231, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 7", "start_char": 742, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0046.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0268\n\nDOHA, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nJapan win Asiad soft tennis gold\n\n\n\n\nJapan won the Asian Games men's team soft tennis gold medal here on Sunday beating Taiwan 2-1.\n\nSouth Korea beat Mongolia 2-0 to win bronze.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0268.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0042\n\nHONG KONG, Dec 13 , 2005\n\nURGENT  WTO meeting opens\n\n\n\n\nThe World Trade Organisation's 149 members officially opened talks here Tuesday aimed at reducing tariffs and other barriers to global commerce.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0042.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0030\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina, Romania pledge to strengthen cooperation in various fields\n\n\n\n\nChinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan and visiting Romanian Foreign Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu said here Monday that the two countries will jointly carry forward the all-round friendly and cooperative partnership.\n\nDuring his meeting with Ungureanu, Tang noted that the China-Romania relations have been growing \"smoothly\" ever since the two countries were tied diplomatically 56 years ago, adding that they have established \"stronger\" mutual understanding and trust with expanding cooperation in various fields.\n\nTang also expressed appreciation on Romania for its consistent adherence to the one-China policy and its support to the great cause of reunifying the country.\n\nUngureanu said that Romania gives top priority to developing ties with China and is willing to strengthen cooperation of mutual benefit with China in all fields.\n\nHe also reiterated that his country will continue to adhere to the one-China policy.\n\nUngureanu arrived in China on Saturday at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 242, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "diplomatically 56 years ago", "start_char": 493, "end_char": 520, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1084, "end_char": 1092, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0030.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0253\n\nKINSHASA, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMobutu aide blasts US for suggesting the game is up\n\n\n\n\nA top aide to President Mobutu Sese Seko hit out Friday at US suggestions that the embattled Zairean leader's rule was all but over.\n\nHonore Ngbanda Nzambo blasted Washington for trying to apply pressure on the crumbling Kinshasa regime and singled out for particular criticism comments by top US envoy George Moose which suggested that Mobutu's regime \"was a thing of the past.\"\n\n\"What right has Mr Moose got to speak out in this way,\" Ngbanda told AFP by telephone from Johannesburg, where he is leading a Mobutu delegation in fledgling peace talks with rebel negotiators.\n\n\"This is no method respecting democracy which America is advocating,\" he said, accusing Washington of \"recommending democracy and then using anti-democratic methods to get rid of someone.\"\n\n\"It's not up to foreign capitals to make decisions in place of Zaireans,\" Ngbanda said.\n\nThe United States has led calls for the ailing Mobutu to give way to democratic rule after decades of dictatorship and six months of civil war which has seen rebel forces seize almost half of the vast central African country.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 1086, "end_char": 1096, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0253.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0212\n\nGENEVA, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\n60 adults abducted in eastern Zaire, along with child refugees\n\n\n\n\nArmed soldiers abducted 60 adults along with around 50 hospitalized Rwandan refugee children from a village in eastern Zaire, a UN refugee agency spokeswoman said here Tuesday.\n\nThe adults were relatives and individuals caring for the children, who were suffering from malnutrition and other serious illnesses, spokeswoman Pamela O'Toole said.\n\nThe victims were reportedly seized early Saturday from a hospital in Lwiro, 30 kilometres (around 19 miles) north of Bikavu in South Kivu province by around 20 soldiers who fired into the air before the kidnapping, warning residents to stay indoors.\n\n\"These people have not been seen since and there have been reports that they may have been killed,\" O'Toole said.\n\nHospital staff in Lwiro said they recognized among the troops the chief of a rebel Alliance unit in Katana, UNICEF spokesman Patrick McCormick reported Monday, citing a communications officer in Kinshasa. Katana is north of Lwiro.\n\n\"We condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms,\" O'Toole said.\n\n\"We have already raised this issue with local authorities and have been assured there will be an investigation,\" she said.\n\nSeparately, she said the discovery of some 20 Rwandan refugee corpses at Biaro camp, which was emptied last week of its roughly 30,000 inhabitants, were the latest in a series of human rights abuses in alliance held territory in eastern Zaire.\n\nSome of the bodies, as well as some of the wounded, bore signs of machete attacks, she said.\n\nUp to 10,000 famished refugees have wandered back to the camp, 40 kilometres south of Kisangani, according to the UNHCR.\n\nRebel Alliance leader Laurent Kabila has given humanitarian agencies on the ground a 60-day ultimatum to repatriate all refugees from eastern Zaire, after which he would complete the task himself.\n\n\"While we appreciate the promise of (Kabila) to help us locate and repatriate the refugees, we are receiving increasingly shocking reports of refugees both in the area around Kisangani and elsewhere.\"\n\n\"These killings must stop and an urgent investigation must be launched,\" she said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Saturday", "start_char": 501, "end_char": 515, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 984, "end_char": 990, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1364, "end_char": 1373, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0212.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0175\n\nANKARA, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n19 members of outlawed Kurdish rebel group arrested in Istanbul\n\n\n\n\nTurkish security forces arrested 19 members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), including one woman, in four separate operations in Istanbul, the largest city of Turkey, an official press release said on Thursday.\n\nThe press release issued by the Istanbul Police's Anti-Terror Department said an operation was carried out in Istanbul after the police received information on illegal weapon possession and selling.\n\nIn cooperation with the Intelligence Department, Anti-Terror units arrested two PKK members charged with illegal marketing of hand guns.\n\nPolice officers seized 34 hand guns, 53 cartridges and 150 bullets in homes and offices of the two PKK members.\n\nIn a separate operation on Nov. 14, Istanbul police arrested one PKK member with five electrical fuses.\n\nIn another operation on Nov. 16, Istanbul police arrested four PKK Members and found two Iraqi made hand guns.\n\nIn addition, in an illegal demonstration at Istanbul's Kucukcekmece district, police forces arrested 12 PKK members who carried five Molotov cocktails.\n\nTurkey has been fighting against a resurging violence as the PKK intensified landmine and remote-controlled bombing attacks in the country over the past few months.\n\nAt least 200 Turkish soldiers have been reportedly killed in clashes with PKK members this year.\n\nMore than 37,000 people have been killed since the rebel group took up arms against the government for an independent Kurdish state in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey in 1984.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 338, "end_char": 346, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 14", "start_char": 827, "end_char": 834, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 16", "start_char": 929, "end_char": 936, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past few months", "start_char": 1314, "end_char": 1333, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1422, "end_char": 1431, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1984", "start_char": 1610, "end_char": 1614, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0175.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0638\n\nLIMA, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT Japanese ambassador among freed hostages\n\n\n\n\nJapanese Ambassador Morihisa Aoki was among the hostages freed Tuesday when Peruvian troops stormed his official residence where he an 71 others had been held hostage for 18 weeks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 174, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "18 weeks", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0638.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0557\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS on Bush remarks ///\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush on Thursday hailed Iraq's historic parliamentary elections as \"a major step forward\" in building a democracy in the war-torn country and bringing US troops home.\n\n\"Millions of people voted. And I haven't seen all the tabulations of the vote, but we're certain that the turnout was significant and that the violence was down,\" he said as he met with Iraqis who cast absentee ballots.\n\n\"This is a major step forward in achieving our objective, which is having a democratic Iraq, a country able to sustain itself and defend itself, a country that will be an ally in the war on terror, and a country which will send such a powerful example to others in the region, whether they live in Iran or Syria,\" he said.\n\nBush has said that successful elections and training Iraqi security forces will allow him to call home some of the roughly 160,000 US soldiers in Iraq -- though he has rejected calls to set a deadline for a complete withdrawal.\n\n\"They've expressed concern about listening to the commentary that we'll leave before the job is done. They don't have to worry,\" he said. \"The United States will stay with them and complete this job.\"\n\nThe Iraq war, in which more than 2,140 US troops have been killed, has badly hit the Republican president's popularity. Opposition Democrats are stepping up calls for a timetable for a military withdrawal.\n\nEarlier, White House spokesman Scott McClellan also gave an upbeat assessment of the election.\n\n\"The reports that we've received I think indicate that the turnout is high throughout Iraq, that any violence appears to be relatively low,\" said McClellan.\n\n\"The Iraqi people are showing the world that all people of all backgrounds want to be able to choose their own leaders and live in freedom,\" he said.\n\nAn Iraqi official, Hussein al-Hindawi, said in Baghdad that turnout \"was very strong in all regions,\" even in some areas where violence has been at its worst since the March 2003 invasion to oust Saddam.\n\nMore than 15.5 million Iraqis were called to the polls Thursday to elect the 275 MPs who will sit in the parliament and elect the president.\n\nAhead of the vote Bush has given four key speeches in a bid to convince the US public that he has a strategy for Iraq and that conditions in the war torn country are improving.\n\nHe has insisted that he was right to order the March 2003 invasion and that a hurried withdrawal would be \"a recipe for disaster\".\n\nBut in a speech on Wednesday, Bush also took responsibility for ordering the invasion based on intelligence that \"turned out to be wrong\" about Saddam's weapons capability.\n\n\"As president, I'm responsible for the decision to go into Iraq -- and I'm also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities. And we're doing just that,\" he said.\n\nBush's campaign appears to have halted his popularity slide.\n\nAccording to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday, Bush's approval ratings have improved by a percentage point in the last month to 39 percent. Fifty-five percent still disapprove of his record.\n\nThe poll said 60 percent of Americans want a gradual reduction in the 160,000 US troops currently in Iraq -- four percentage points from last month.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 125, "end_char": 133, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 2041, "end_char": 2051, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2133, "end_char": 2141, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 2445, "end_char": 2455, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2549, "end_char": 2558, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 3021, "end_char": 3030, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last month", "start_char": 3095, "end_char": 3109, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 3314, "end_char": 3324, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0557.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0039\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nShanghai stock index mixed -- Nov. 25\n\n\n\n\nThe Composite Stock Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange closed at 1,114.92 points on Friday, up 1.54 points from the previous close.\n\nA Share Index: 1,172.00 points, up 1.73 points;\n\nB Share Index: 61.53 points, down 0.48 points;\n\nTotal Turnover: 10,753,010,000 yuan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 191, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0039.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0248\n\nGENEVA, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nLumumba justifies foreign aid to Zaire rebels\n\n\n\n\nFrancois Lumumba, the son of the late hero of Zairean independence, on Thursday said there was nothing wrong with foreign help to rebels seeking to oust President Mobutu Sese Seko.\n\nThe son of Patrice Lumumba, the prime minister who was murdered in February 1961, less than a year after independence, added in Geneva that he planned to go to Goma in eastern Zaire for a meeting with rebel leader Laurent Kabila.\n\nKabila's rebel alliance, in which Zairean Tutsis hold key posts, benefits from diplomatic support and facilities to ship in arms through Uganda, Sudan and Rwanda, Lumumba told the press.\n\n\"We don't have any complexes if people give us certain facilities to finish off the Mobutu regime,\" he said. Mobutu has ruled Zaire for more than 31 years and was deeply implicated in events surrounding Lumumba's death and a foiled secession bid by the mineral-rich province of Katanga (now Shaba), which is once again in rebel hands.\n\nLumumba, 45, was passing through Geneva after visiting Washington for talks with State Department officials and some 30 black American congressmen. He had lived in exile in Switzerland between 1975 and 1980.\n\nThe son of Patrice Lumumba, whose murder sparked outrage in much of Africa, now lives in the Zairean capital Kinshasa and plans to return there after going to Goma on the eastern border with Rwanda.\n\nHe heads the Lumumba National Congolese Movement (MNCL), which is not part of the rebel alliance, but is prepared to work with it for the overthrow of Mobutu and to take part in a transitional government.\n\nLumumba said his party would put up a candidate in presidential elections that should follow the toppling of Mobutu, but the choice of candidate had not yet been made.\n\nHe claimed that the MNCL had many supporters, some of whom were taking part in the armed uprising. He ruled out a transition government including the current head of state, saying \"Forget Mobutu.\"\n\nHis father called for help from the Soviet Union following the Katanga secession bid in 1960. Arrested by then Colonel Mobutu in December, he died two months later, allegedly in an attempt to escape.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 1961", "start_char": 353, "end_char": 366, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1961-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 31 years", "start_char": 841, "end_char": 859, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P31Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1975", "start_char": 1234, "end_char": 1238, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1975", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980", "start_char": 1243, "end_char": 1247, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1326, "end_char": 1329, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1960", "start_char": 2111, "end_char": 2115, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1960", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 2152, "end_char": 2160, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months", "start_char": 2170, "end_char": 2180, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0248.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0763\n\nTOKYO, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTokyo stocks open lower\n\n\n\n\nShare prices opened lower on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Wednesday, with the Nikkei stock average falling 34.70 points or 0.2 percent to 17,987.00 in the first five minutes of trading.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 137, "end_char": 146, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first five minutes", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT5M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0763.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0116\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 11 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFormer Malaysian PM Mahathir wants complete rest for weeks\n\n\n\n\nFormer Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who is being treated at the National Heart Institute (NHI), said Saturday he plans to take a complete rest for several weeks.\n\nMahathir said that out of health considerations, he will stay away from the UMNO General Assembly slated for next week, though he accepted invitation and had originally planned to attend the meeting.\n\nUMNO, formally known as the United Malays National Organization, is the largest political party in Malaysia. UMNO President takes over as prime minister in the government.\n\n\"I want to rest...not making any statement...hope the (UMNO) assembly runs smoothly,\" Mahathir said in an interview with the Bernama news agency and Radio Television Malaysia (RTM).\n\nThe former prime minister, who was wearing a short-sleeved shirt and long pants, appeared in high spirit during the 20-minute interview.\n\nMahathir said it was fortunate that he had sought immediate treatment as soon as he had the mild heart attack, and this had enabled doctors to dilute the blood clot in his coronary artery.\n\nMahathir, who will turn 81 next month, was rushed to the NHI early Thursday morning after complaining of chest pains. Friday night, he was transferred from the Coronary Care Unit to a normal ward.\n\nBefore this, the former leader had a very busy schedule abroad, which brought him to several countries.\n\nMahathir had a coronary artery bypass surgery in 1989, and in 1999 he underwent full treatment for a lung infection.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several weeks", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 411, "end_char": 420, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 1254, "end_char": 1270, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday night", "start_char": 1305, "end_char": 1317, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 1539, "end_char": 1543, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1552, "end_char": 1556, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0116.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061225.0221\n\nCAIRO, Dec 25 , 2006, 2006\n\nEgypt Brotherhood members accused of money laundering\n\n\n\n\nSix members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt were charged on Monday with money laundering and remanded for two weeks days, a security source said.\n\nIt was the first time such a charge has been levelled against members of the Brotherhood, which is officially banned but tolerated. The six were arrested in various areas of Cairo on Sunday.\n\nThe same source also said that 107 students who were among 140 Brotherhood members arrested on December 14 after a demonstration at Al-Azhar university had their detention orders extended by 15 days.\n\nDespite being officially banned, Muslim Brotherhood MPs form the largest opposition bloc in parliament after winning 88 of the 454 seats by running as independents in 2005 legislative elections.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 25 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks days", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 442, "end_char": 448, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 14", "start_char": 546, "end_char": 557, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15", "start_char": 642, "end_char": 644, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061225.0221.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0065\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFPDA professional forum kicks off in Singapore\n\n\n\n\nThe Five Power Defense Arrangements (FPDA) Professional Forum kicked off here Tuesday, according to a statement by Singapore's Defense Ministry.\n\nThe theme of this year's forum is \"Military Operations Other Than War\". Issues such as military participation in humanitarian missions and training for peace support operations will be discussed at the forum, the statement said.\n\nMore than 70 senior officials responsible for joint operations, training and doctrines from the FPDA countries of Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom, took part in the three-day forum.\n\nThe statement said that the biennial forum, which was first held in 1997, is a platform of providing the opportunity for senior officers to interact and exchange professional views, as well as promoting a culture of cross learning in the FPDA to enhance inter-operability among the members armed forces.\n\nSingapore's Chief of Defense Force Lieutenant-General Ng Yat Chung delivered the keynote address at the forum, but no details were released.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 278, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 771, "end_char": 775, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0065.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0049\n\nTOKYO, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nside\n\n\n\n\nFIFA president Sepp Blatter has called for every club to employ at least six players eligible for the national team in the country they ply their trade to curb the invasion of foreigners.\n\nBlatter, in Tokyo for the World Club Championships, said a taskforce was looking at \"the national identity of clubs\" with many now a cosmopolitan mix of several nationalities, shutting out local players.\n\n\"National identity is very important but the regulations of the club competitions are not made so far by FIFA but by the national associations and it is up to them and their leagues to limit the entry of foreign players,\" he said.\n\nBlatter acknowledged that rules in the European Union allowed for the free circulation of workers among the EU's 25-member nations but said there was a sensible solution.\n\n\"What the solution is is that there should be a minimum, and this is FIFA's idea, we should have at least six players eligible for the national team of a the country in which they play,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"This is the system FIFA thinks is right.\n\n\"In many clubs there are now only a maximum or one or two players, like Bayern Munich or even Liverpool. This situation is not good for football.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 370, "end_char": 373, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0049.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0058\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Dec 4 , 2005\n\nMbeki to join Obasanjo, Tandja on Ivory Coast mission\n\n\n\n\nSouth African President Thabo Mbeki will travel to Ivory Coast on Monday, joining Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and Mamadou Tanjda of Niger in a bid to end the deadlock over the choice of a prime minister for the troubled west African nation.\n\n\"They are expected to assist the Cote d'Ivorians find a common candidate for the post of prime minister,\" said a foreign ministry statement released on Sunday.\n\nThe UN Security Council last week expressed deep concern over the failure of Ivory Coast's feuding parties to agree on a new prime minister who would have full powers to run an interim government and organise a presidential election by October 31, 2006.\n\nObasanjo, who chairs the African Union, Mbeki and Tandja sought to break the deadlock over the choice of a prime minister during talks in Abidjan two weeks ago but the parties rejected their candidates.\n\nA former French colony, Ivory Coast has been divided since fighting broke out in 2002, pitting President Laurent Gbagbo's government against rebels who control the north of the country.\n\nMbeki, who has been named by the African Union to act as special mediator in the conflict, discussed the situation in Ivory Coast in talks with French President Jacques Chirac, on the sidelines of a Africa-France summit held at the weekend in Bamako.\n\nFollowing Mbeki's scheduled one-day visit to Abidjan, Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will take part in a meeting on Tuesday of an international working group overseeing the peace process in Ivory Coast.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 512, "end_char": 518, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 545, "end_char": 554, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 31, 2006", "start_char": 757, "end_char": 773, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 922, "end_char": 935, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1061, "end_char": 1065, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 1395, "end_char": 1406, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1544, "end_char": 1551, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0058.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0182\n\nISTANBUL, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nPope Benedict XVI on Friday wrapped up a momentous visit to Turkey by celebrating mass at an Istanbul cathedral and making a final appeal for freedom of religion.\n\nDuring his trip, he reached out to Muslims and Orthodox Christians, while at the same time standing firm on key issues such as papal authority and Europe's Christian roots.\n\nComing a mere 10 weeks after the leader of the world's 1.1 billion Catholics outraged Muslims by appearing to equate Islam with violence, the four-day trip -- Pope Benedict's first to a Muslim country -- turned into a fence-mending mission.\n\nAdding drama to diplomacy, the 79-year-old pope made a stunning conciliatory gesture on Thursday when he assumed an attitude of Muslim prayer while facing Mecca in Istanbul's Blue Mosque.\n\nThe moment was \"even more meaningful than an apology\" for the remarks in September, said the mufti of Istanbul, Mustafa Cagrici, who was the pope's guide during the mosque visit.\n\nThe two men, clad in long white robes, stood motionless for about two minutes, their hands crossed on their stomachs in a classic Muslim prayer attitude known as \"the posture of tranquility.\"\n\n\"It was something beautiful, a gesture on his part,\" Cagrici told the Turkish daily Sabah.\n\nIn entering the mosque, Pope Benedict became only the second Roman Catholic pope to do so since the groundbreaking visit of his predecessor John Paul II to the Omeyyades Mosque in Damascus in 2001.\n\nThe visit saw unprecedented security measures -- even tighter than those laid on for US President George W. Bush in 2004 -- with large swaths of Istanbul closed down as the routes taken by the pope's motorcade were kept secret.\n\nEven before the controversy over his remarks on Islam, Pope Benedict faced an uphill struggle to win over the Turks, having been considered the \"anti-Turkish pope\" for opposing Ankara's bid to join the European Union.\n\nTurkey in the EU, he had said while still Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, would be \"a grave error ... against the tide of history.\"\n\nHe dealt with this by making a stunning U-turn on the issue moments after descending from his plane on his arrival in Ankara on Tuesday, offering his support for the troubled candidacy in remarks to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nBut he added two provisos on Thursday, saying respect for religious freedom must be a criterion for entry into the EU and calling on the bloc to ensure that its members respect the rights of their religious minorities.\n\nIt was a clear reference to complaints by the Orthodox Patriarchate of restrictions imposed on it by Turkey, including the closure of a theological seminary and the confiscation of a number of properties from Christian foundations.\n\nPope Benedict also returned to a familiar position when he called for a renewal of \"Europe's awareness of its Christian roots, traditions and values.\"\n\nThe main purpose of the long-planned trip and a priority of Pope Benedict's papacy -- seeking reconciliation between the Western and Eastern rites of Christianity -- was symbolized by a Saint Andrew's Day mass on Thursday.\n\nSaint Andrew is the Orthodox Church's patron saint who was a disciple of Jesus and the brother of Saint Peter, considered the first Catholic pope.\n\nAfter meetings with Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of some 150 million Orthodox faithful, the pope described as a \"scandal to the world\" the schism between the feuding Christian branches dating back nearly a millennium.\n\nBut he remained steadfast on a major point of disagreement -- papal authority -- when he stressed the Vatican's \"universal\" role.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 90, "end_char": 96, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "mere 10 weeks", "start_char": 416, "end_char": 429, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-01T10:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 737, "end_char": 745, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 911, "end_char": 920, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two minutes", "start_char": 1084, "end_char": 1095, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1495, "end_char": 1499, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1618, "end_char": 1622, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2206, "end_char": 2213, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2344, "end_char": 2352, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 3133, "end_char": 3141, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0182.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0208\n\nBAGHDAD, April 27 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIraq celebrates after flouting no-fly zones\n\n\n\n\nIraq celebrated Sunday after safely flying home Moslem pilgrims in defiance of US-enforced air exclusion zones over the north and south of the country without any retaliation from Washington.\n\n\"Helicopters carrying sick and elderly pilgrims arrived Sunday morning in Baghdad, Anbar (in western Iraq), Salahuddin (in the north), and Basra and Zikar (in the south),\" the official news agency INA said.\n\nIt did not say how many helicopters or passengers were involved.\n\nThe helicopters picked up the pilgrims in the southern region of Jodaidat Arar, three kilometres (two miles) from the Saudi border and inside a southern \"no-fly\" zone.\n\nThe flight to Salahuddin, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq, also violates a northern exclusion zone set up shortly after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Iraqi Kurds from air attack by Baghdad.\n\n\"Prayers were held in Arar and official celebrations were staged in the provinces attended by political officials,\" INA said.\n\nBaghdad last week sent nine helicopters to the south to wait for the Iraqis returning from the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.\n\nIraq said the helicopters were sent to ferry home dozens of elderly and sick pilgrims, in defiance of Washington which imposed the exclusion zone in the south together with London and Paris in 1992 to protect Shiite Moslems.\n\nOn Friday Iraq began to take the pilgrims home, violating the northern air exclusion zone by flying to Mosul.\n\nThe United States said the southern flights were a \"technical\" violation and that it would not take military action in retaliation.\n\nBut the US Defense Department on Thursday accused Baghdad of seeking to exploit the annual pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites, known as the hajj, for political ends.\n\n\"I think they're trying to hide behind religion or to manipulate the hajj pilgrimage for political reasons,\" said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. \"We're not going to play that game.\"\n\nBaghdad, which in September said it would no longer recognize no-fly zones, has hailed the flights as a victory.\n\n\"Iraq has for years rejected these imaginary lines and announced in its official communiques that it does not recognize the zones because they are not in UN Security Council resolutions,\" an official spokesman told AFP on Friday.\n\nOn April 9, Iraq also flouted the UN sanctions in force since its August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and flew more than 100 Iraqis to Saudi Arabia for the start of the pilgrimage.\n\nIraq insisted that the flight was \"purely humanitarian\" and so not a violation of the embargo, a position which China, Egypt, France and Russia supported in the UN Security Council.\n\nThe United States failed in its efforts to secure UN condemnation of Iraq for the flight to Saudi Arabia.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 27 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday morning", "start_char": 352, "end_char": 366, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1068, "end_char": 1077, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1386, "end_char": 1390, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1422, "end_char": 1428, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1696, "end_char": 1704, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 2035, "end_char": 2044, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2353, "end_char": 2359, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 9", "start_char": 2365, "end_char": 2372, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1990", "start_char": 2428, "end_char": 2439, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0208.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0224\n\nLONDON, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nquotes ///\n\n\n\n\nOil prices climbed on Monday as forecasts for further cold weather in the US northeast offset a decision by OPEC to maintain its output quota, analysts said.\n\nTraders were meanwhile keeping an eye on the enormous fire at a fuel depot north of London, which holds some five percent of Britain's fuel stocks.\n\nNew York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in January, rose 47 cents to 59.86 dollars per barrel in electronic trading.\n\nIn London, the price of Brent North Sea crude for January delivery gained 48 cents to 57.79 dollars per barrel.\n\n\"Crude futures were higher on forecasts for colder weather in the US northeast, the world's largest heating oil market, this week,\" analysts at the Sucden brokerage firm said.\n\n\"However gains were limited by the OPEC decision to keep oil output unchanged at a 25 year-high.\"\n\nThe Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, meeting in Kuwait, maintained its production quota at 28.0 million barrels per day (bpd) and decided not to renew its offer for emergency extra output of 2.0 million bpd.\n\nHowever the cartel was ready to cut production at a new meeting at the end of January if demand falls too much, Libya's Energy Secretary Fathi Hamed bin Shatwan and his Qatari counterpart said.\n\n\"Now the market is focused on the likely outcome of the next meeting early next year where many have already suggested that OPEC will cut production to cope with swelling supplies as the weather warms up again,\" Sucden analysts said.\n\nWorld oil prices rose to the highest levels for more than a month last week as cold weather descended on the US northeast, increasing the likelihood of higher fuel demand for the energy-hungry region.\n\nCrude futures on Friday breached 61 dollars per barrel in New York and almost 60 dollars in London, levels not reached since November 4.\n\nWith weather conditions continuing cold in the US northeast, 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0297\n\nHARARE, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAlgeria to extend strong ties with Zimbabwe\n\n\n\n\nThe Algerian government is committed to establish strong and diverse ties with Zimbabwe to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries, a diplomat said on Thursday.\n\nBusiness community in Zimbabwe should utilize the full potential of business opportunities offered by the excellent political, diplomatic and historic relations that exist between the two countries, urged Algerian ambassador to Zimbabwe Ali Mokrani when speaking at a celebration in Harare to mark the 52 anniversary of the Algerian revolution which ended 132 years of French colonization.\n\nIn the spirit of cooperation between Zimbabwe and Algeria, the two countries drafted agreements in all economic areas to facilitate increased business activity and trade between the two countries.\n\nAlgeria also extended solidarity with Zimbabwe through the provision of scholarships, food aid and medical donations.\n\nAt continental level, ambassador Mokrani said his country believed that Africans should pool their resources together to tackle head on the challenges resulting from globalization and enhance trade rather than aid.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the Zimbabwean government at the occasion, Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Obert Matshalaga said it was imperative to conclude negotiations on trade and convene the joint commission.\n\nHe spoke of the need to broaden and deepen bilateral relations in the economic, technical and cultural areas and at continental and global levels through the African union, the non-aligned movement and the UN.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "132 years", "start_char": 639, "end_char": 648, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P132Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0297.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0193\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ncooperation\n\n\n\n\nIn 2006, China and Russia have made \"historic breakthroughs\" in investment and cooperation in the petroleum industry, Zhou Jiping, deputy general manager of the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), said in Beijing on Thursday.\n\nSo far this year, the two countries have signed a series of agreements on setting up two joint venture companies involving oil and gas exploitation and the construction of a pipeline transporting Russian crude oil to the Chinese border, according to the CNPC official.\n\nLeaders of Chinese and Russian oil companies attending the on-going third meeting for promoting investment in China and Russia were optimistic about the prospects of the two countries' cooperation in the oil sector.\n\nZhou said that Sino-Russian cooperation in the oil industry will help stabilize both the regional and global oil markets.\n\nSergei Bogdanchikov, president of Russian oil giant Rosneft, said China is a stable and rapidly-growing market for Russian oil. He pledged to go all out to promote cooperation in oil industry.\n\nAccording to official figures, Russia is the world's largest gas exporter and second largest oil exporter, while China is the third largest oil importer in the world.\n\nIn the first nine months of the year, Russia's oil output was 358 million tons while China's was 140 million tons.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 75, "end_char": 79, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 297, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 324, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 1283, "end_char": 1304, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1308, "end_char": 1316, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0193.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "ABC19980120.1830.0957 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n For his part, Fidel Castro is the ultimate political survivor. People have predicted his demise so many times, and the US has tried to hasten it on\n several occasions. Time and again, he endures. He has outlasted and\n sometimes outsmarted eight American presidents.\n Fidel Castro invited John Paul to come for a reason. This is clearly an\n opportunity for Cuba to look good internationally.\n\n\n The entire world will see images of the Pope in Cuba. They'll see images\n of\n the Pope with Fidel Castro. It will give the rest of the world the view\n that Cuba is like any other nation, something the US has, of course,\n tried to persuade the world that it is not .\n\n\n For nearly forty years, the United States has said categorically it would not tolerate totalitarian rule in its own backyard. It is the US economic\n and political embargo which has kept Cuba in a box.\n\n\n The main positive for Castro to invite the Pope is international, to be\n able\n to say to the rest of the world, this government is not  as closed, as\n intolerant, uh as totalitarian as some make it out to be.\n\n\n One of the scenarios widely advanced before the visit is that through the\n Pope, Cuba, still led by Castro, can begin a more productive relationship\n with the world. That will, in turn, bring pressure on Washington to change.\n\n\n Those observers looking for a battle between uncompromising representatives\n and very different ideologies will, in all likelihood, be disappointed.\n\n\n Castro has said that you can be a Communist and still be a\n Christian. He says he and the Pope both want to end the exploitation of\n man by man. The question is who will Cubans believe?\n\n\n The main negative is the risk that the Pope's visit will persuade a great\n many more Cubans to break loose of the Cuban government. If so, then the\n Pope's visit would really open up a new chapter in the government's\n relations with its own society. For the Cuban government, that is the\n risk.\n\n\n At the end of the broadcast this evening, one more trip around Havana to see\n what it's been like since the last time. And in just a moment Diane Sawyer will have some other news.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980120", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t93", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly forty years", "start_char": 709, "end_char": 727, "tid": "t94", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P40Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "ABC19980120.1830.0957.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0438\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nBush \"proud\" of Lebanese PM Siniora\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush said Wednesday he was proud of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, praising his tenacity in resisting \"enormous pressure\" from Syria and Hezbollah.\n\nBush digressed from a critique of Damascus and Iran during a year-end news conference to pour special praise on Siniora, who is struggling to shore up his government in the grip of a political crisis.\n\n\"Let me step back: I'm proud of Prime Minister Siniora,\" Bush said.\n\n\"He has shown tenacity, toughness in the face of enormous pressure from Syria as well as Hezbollah, which is funded by Iran,\" Bush said.\n\nThe United States has staunchly supported the Siniora government, though ties were frayed earlier this year by the US refusal to condemn Israel for its tactics in the war in Lebanon against Hezbollah.\n\nIn an interview with AFP last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice voiced deep concern that Syria and Iran were moving to topple the Lebanese government.\n\nThe Hezbollah-led Lebanese opposition has stepped up its campaign against Siniora's cabinet, calling for early parliamentary elections under a new electoral law.\n\nPreviously, the opposition had merely demanded the cabinet make way for a government of national unity.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 138, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 774, "end_char": 791, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 911, "end_char": 920, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0438.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0025\n\nDUBAI, Dec 31 , 2006, 2006\n\nAl-Qaeda leader urges Palestinians to turn against Abbas\n\n\n\n\nOsama bin Laden's top deputy urged Palestinians to turn against Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas and his secular Fatah party, in a audio message posted on the Internet on Sunday.\n\nThe recording, whose authenticity could not be independently confirmed, congratulated Muslims on the start of the Eid al-Adha feast of sacrifice. In it Ayman al-Zawahiri also implicitly criticised the Palestinian ruling Islamic movement Hamas for taking part in the political process.\n\n\"The Palestine-selling secularist traitors cannot possibly be your brothers, so neither confer on them legitimacy... nor participate with them in their Sharia-rejecting assemblies, nor sign with them the documents which throw away Palestine,\" said the Al-Qaeda second-in-command.\n\n\"How is it possible for Mahmud Abbas to be a brother of ours?\" Zawahiri questioned, accusing him of complicity with the Israelis and Americans.\n\nOn December 20 Zawahiri slammed Hamas for recognising Abbas and running in elections last January. Hamas scored a shock victory over Fatah and took power in March, but its government has since been boycotted by Israel and the West.\n\nIn Sunday's audio message, which does not specifically mention Hamas, Zawahiri said that victory in Iraq and Afghanistan was \"not achieved by parliamentary elections... Rather, it was achieved with blood, martyrdom-seeking...\"\n\nThe Egypt-born Zawahiri is regarded as the ideological powerhouse behind Al-Qaeda, and carries a 25-million-dollar US bounty for information leading to his arrest or death.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 31 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 20", "start_char": 1009, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last January", "start_char": 1091, "end_char": 1103, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1163, "end_char": 1168, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1242, "end_char": 1248, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0025.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0411\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: WB projects drastic rise in China's current account surplus\n\n\n\n\nThe World Bank predicted on Tuesday that China's current account will post a surplus of 223 billion U.S. dollars this year, a drastic rise from last year's 160 billion U.S. dollars.\n\nThe figure is expected to take up 8.5 percent of China's gross domestic product, said the Washington-based group in its latest mid-year update on East Asia.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 273, "end_char": 282, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0411.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0206\n\nLEEDS, England, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nLeeds admit breaking Football League law\n\n\n\n\nEnglish Championship strugglers Leeds on Saturday admitted they broke Football League regulations by fielding six loan players in last month's defeat at Burnley.\n\nLeeds boss Dennis Wise selected Graham Stack, Matt Heath, Ugo Ehiogu, Tresor Kandol and Geoff Horsfield for the 2-1 defeat at Turf Moor on November 28, while Tony Warner was an unused substitute.\n\nThe Football League rulebook says that only five players on loan from other clubs can be named in a team's squad for any match.\n\nA statement on Leeds's website said: \"We can confirm that the club broke Football League regulations at Burnley.\n\n\"We will co-operate fully with the Football League on this matter and explain the extenuating circumstances.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 28", "start_char": 406, "end_char": 417, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0206.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0407\n\nBEIRUT, Dec 13 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with US call ///\n\n\n\n\nLebanon grappled with fresh political turmoil Tuesday as it mourned the killing of prominent anti-Syrian journalist and MP Gibran Tueni, while the United States ratcheted up the pressure on Damascus.\n\nOn the eve of his funeral emotions ran high in downtown Beirut as hundreds of people massed outside the glass tower housing Tueni's top-selling An-Nahar newspaper for the second night running to pay tribute to their hero.\n\n\"Tueni is alive in us,\" shouted the mostly young crowds after calls by the ruling anti-Syrian majority in parliament urging them to mobilise for a national funeral on Wednesday for the 48-year-old press magnate.\n\nThe coalition, a cross-section of Muslim and Christian politicians, called for an emergency parliament session to debate the future of pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud after blaming former powerbroker Damascus for Tueni's killing.\n\n\"We urge parliament to hold an emergency session to discuss the dangerous situation generated by the police state that prevails at the highest level, namely the head of state,\" they said in a statement.\n\nThey accused Lahoud's backers in Damascus, who pressed for a three-year extension of his mandate in September 2004, for the new bloodshed.\n\n\"By assassinating Gibran Tueni, the Syrian regime ... has renewed its war on Lebanon.\"\n\nTueni was killed in a massive car bomb blast Monday just a day after his return from France where he had been spending time for fear of an attempt on his life, and 302 days after the assassination of former billionaire prime minister Rafiq Hariri.\n\nThe United States, which has joined world condemnation of the murder, on Tuesday urged the United Nations to turn the heat on Damascus.\n\n\"We believe it's important, when the Security Council discusses this report, that they continue to keep the pressure, and increase the pressure, on Syria,\" White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters.\n\nThe UN Security Council was set to examine the second report in two months released by German magistrate Detlev Mehlis on the Hariri murder, after investigators heard testimony from five senior Syrian officials.\n\nThe latest report said there was fresh evidence further implicating senior Syrian and Lebanese officers in the Beirut bomb blast that killed Hariri.\n\nThe government also faced political divisions after five ministers from Shiite groups loyal to Damascus refused to join a vote calling for an international probe into the wave of bombings and assassinations.\n\nPrime Minister Fuad Siniora struggled to form his 24-member cabinet in July -- the first elected government since Syria pulled its last troops from Lebanon in April under intense domestic and international pressure.\n\nIt includes ministers from the Shiite movements Amal and Hezbollah -- a fundamentalist group with its own guerrillas that Washington regards as a terrorist organization -- that wield large grassroot support across Lebanon.\n\nTheir support for the government is necessary to maintain the fragile coalition and has prompted calls from anti-Syrian politicians on Amal and Hezbollah ministers to reconsider their decision for the sake of Lebanese unity.\n\nBut pro-Hezbollah Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh already put the decision into action by failing to show up at his office Tuesday and cancelling a meeting with a top UN official.\n\nTueni was instrumental in the campaign to end 30 years of Syrian political and military domination of Lebanon and has been hailed as a \"martyr\" of the country's fragile regained independence.\n\nThousands of tearful and defiant mourners filed into St Nicholas Church in the Christian neighborhood of Ashrafiyeh to offer their condolences to Tueni's father, Ghassan, a respected former cabinet minister and veteran diplomat, and his widow.\n\n\"There is no doubt that Syria is behind all the crimes committed in Lebanon (over the past year) to impose anew its domination over the country,\" said 22-year-old law student Nayla Anid.\n\nIsraeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz, meanwhile, warned that Syria could try to stir up tension on the Lebanon-Israel border to divert attention from the Hariri probe.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 133, "end_char": 140, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 687, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 2004", "start_char": 1261, "end_char": 1275, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0456\n\nHONG KONG, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nOverseas Hong Kong people need not rush home before handover: China\n\n\n\n\nChina has told Hong Kong people living abroad with foreign passports they need not race home before the transfer of power on July 1 to retain permanent residency in the territory.\n\nA spokesman for China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office said emigrants who have taken foreign nationality would be able to retain their permanent residency if they return to the territory within 18 months of the handover.\n\nThose who reside in, or return to, the territory before July 1 would also be granted right of abode, the spokesman said in a statement released through the official Xinhua news agency late Sunday.\n\nThe Chinese government hoped that the future government of the Special Administrative Region (SAR), as Hong Kong will be known under Chinese rule, would work out detailed regulations \"as soon as possible\", the spokesman said.\n\nChina has been seeking Britain's opinion on the subject, he added.\n\nThe question of right of abode has been on the agenda of the Sino- British Joint Liaison Group for some time. But last month a meeting of the body, a joint forum to discuss Hong Kong's transitional matters, failed to reach agreement on the subject.\n\nThe statement followed similar comments by Wang Fengchao, deputy director of China's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, during a visit to Hong Kong on April 4.\n\nDuring a visit to Hong Kong, Wang attempted to answer questions about the thorny issue of nationality.\n\nWang said these \"back-flow immigrants\" would enjoy right of abode \"no matter when they return to Hong Kong.\"\n\nThat would be the case as long as these people do not declare that they are foreign nationals to the Hong Kong immigration department, he added.\n\nChina does not accept the concept of dual nationality for its nationals, but has said Hong Kong Chinese who hold foreign passports may retain them for use merely as travel documents.\n\nForeigners who had been previously living in Hong Kong could assert their right of abode, provided they do so within a \"set time limit\" after the handover, Wang said. The time limit would be set by the future SAR government, he said.\n\nThere were fears that Hong Kong people currently working or studying abroad would have to rush back before the July 1 handover or risk losing their right of abode.\n\nThis highly prized status allows them to live and work in Hong Kong without a work permit.\n\nWang warned, however, that China refused to recognise foreign passports held by Hongkongers who had not declared foreign citizenship.\n\nMillions of Hongkongers have foreign passports, many of them acquired secretly to provide the holder with an escape route if the handover goes wrong.\n\nWang said that such passports could not be used for gaining consular protection if the holder ran foul of the law in Hong Kong or mainland China.\n\nThese rules also apply to local residents who hold British passports, he added.\n\nAround half of Hong Kong's 6.4 million population have British National Overseas passports, which can be used for visa-free travel but specifically refuse the holder the right of abode in Britain.\n\nAnother 50,000 heads of household and their families were granted full British passports under a nationality scheme designed as a safety net for key Hong Kong professionals, introduced after China's 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Tiananmen Square.\n\nEven those with the full British passports will not be considered British by Chinese authorities, Wang said.\n\nWang stressed that, in China's eyes, Hong Kong residents cannot declare \"a change of nationality\" by holding any British passport, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 260, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "18 months", "start_char": 508, "end_char": 517, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1", "start_char": 592, "end_char": 598, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-07-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Sunday", "start_char": 720, "end_char": 731, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1143, "end_char": 1153, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 4", "start_char": 1431, "end_char": 1438, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1", "start_char": 2331, "end_char": 2337, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-07-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0456.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0299\n\nBELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSerbia registers 6.1 percent GDP growth in first half 2005\n\n\n\n\nSerbia registered a 6.1-percent growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the first half of 2005 against the same period last year, a government official said on Thursday.\n\nThe GDP growth was primarily a result of a major growth of retail trade and wholesale, mobile telephony and the financial sector, said Andra Milojic, assistant director of the Serbian Statistics Bureau.\n\nIn 2004, Serbia's GDP rose 9.3 percent in fixed prices ( starting year 2002) to 1300 billion dinars (26.5 billion US dollars).\n\nIn fixed prices, GDP represents a sum of gross added values at the sectoral level within the classification of activities calculated in fixed prices, plus taxes and minus product subsidies in fixed prices.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 52, "end_char": 66, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first half of 2005", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 240, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 524, "end_char": 528, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "year 2002", "start_char": 587, "end_char": 596, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0299.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0218\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. stocks open lower\n\n\n\n\nU.S. stocks opened lower on Wednesday as America's midterm election results became known.\n\nIn the opening trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 15.80, to 12,140.97. The Standard  Poor's 500 index lost 0.34 to 1,382.50, and the Nasdaq composite index fell 11.96 to 2,363.92.\n\nCrude oil prices rose slightly on Wednesday amid supply concerns in Nigeria, the largest African oil producer.\n\nWhile the Democrats won control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years in Tuesday's mid-term legislative elections, the Senate race is still too close to call.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 112, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 406, "end_char": 415, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12 years", "start_char": 570, "end_char": 578, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 582, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0218.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0017 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0017. \n Business Brief -- Amdahl Corp.:\n@  Computer Firm's Earnings\n@  Fell 37% in Third Quarter \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n AMH \n EARNINGS (ERN)\nCOMPUTERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CPR) \n\n   Amdahl Corp., a maker of mainframe computers, reported a sharp decline in net income for its third quarter, citing pricecutting by competitors and adverse effects from a strong U.S. dollar. \n\n   Net income fell 37% to $32.9 million, or 30 cents a share, from $52.2 million, or 48 cents a share, in the year-ago period. \nRevenue rose 15% to $534.3 million from $464.7 million. \n\n   Amdahl's results were somewhat worse than expected. \nJay Stevens, an analyst with Dean Witter Reynolds, said he expected the Sunnyvale, Calif., company to earn 35 cents a share for the quarter and said the firm's weaker profit was partly the result of increased competition from International Business Machines Corp., Amdahl's principal competitor for mainframe sales.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 134, "end_char": 142, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third quarter", "start_char": 333, "end_char": 346, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t15"}, {"text": "the year-ago period", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 557, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}, {"text": "the quarter", "start_char": 802, "end_char": 813, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_1039.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0291\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS acknowledges key al Qaeda member's escape from Afghani prison\n\n\n\n\nThe US military on Wednesday acknowledged that a top al Qaeda member escaped from a US detention facility in Afghanistan in the late summer.\n\nOmar al-Faruq, one of the top aides of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, were among four captives ran away from the US prison in Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan in July, Jean Offutt, a US military spokeswoman at Fort Bliss, Texas, confirmed.\n\nHis escape has been kept in secret by the US military until Tuesday when military prosecutors said they were unable to bring al-Farouq to a trial of a prisoner abuse case in Afghanistan at Fort Bliss as a witness.\n\nOffutt said the US military have beefed up security at Bagram since the escape, but gave no explanation for why the US military had been hiding the information for so long.\n\nOmar al-Farouq, a Kuwaiti national, was believed to be a senior lieutenant of Osama bin Laden and a top global operative for al Qaeda.\n\nIn 1998, he was sent to Southeast Asia by Osama bin Laden to expand al Qaeda's operations in the region and has been implicated in several bomb attacks in Indonesia.\n\nHe was captured in Indonesia in 2002 and turned over to US authorities.\n\nThe Bagram prison detains hundreds of terror suspects since US forces overthrew the Taliban regime in late 2001, including several senior al Qaeda members.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the late summer", "start_char": 252, "end_char": 267, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 432, "end_char": 436, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 571, "end_char": 578, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 1039, "end_char": 1043, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1235, "end_char": 1239, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2001", "start_char": 1378, "end_char": 1387, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0291.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0225\n\nCAIRO, Dec 23 , 2006, 2006\n\nEgypt reports two new human cases of bird flu\n\n\n\n\nTwo Egyptians were taken to hospital Saturday after testing positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the central Nile delta region, the health ministry said.\n\nThe latest cases brings to 17 the total number of Egyptians infected, including seven who were killed by the virus.\n\nThe two Egyptians from the village of Hanut in the Gharbiya governorate contracted the disease after coming into contact with infected ducks they had been rearing in their homes, according to a ministry statement carried by the official MENA agency.\n\nAll the birds in the house and in neighbouring homes were slaughtered and the area disinfected, MENA said.\n\nEgypt -- the Arab world's most populous state -- is on a major route for migratory birds and has seen the third highest number of H5N1 cases after Indonesia and China according to Dr David Nabarro, the UN official charged with battling bird flu.\n\nThe H5N1 strain of bird flu was first diagnosed in birds in Egypt in February, and the first case in humans was announced on March 18.\n\nIn its most aggressive form, the H5N1 strain has killed 154 people worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 23 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 18", "start_char": 1118, "end_char": 1126, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0225.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0285\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPakistan's airports on \"high vigilance\" for terror threat\n\n\n\n\nPakistan has placed two airports in southwest Balochistan province on red alert and the remaining 34 airports on the state of high vigilance following intelligence reports about threats of terrorist attacks, the local newspaper Dawn reported on Monday.\n\nThe red alert put on the airports in the provincial capital Quetta and Gwadar indicates a high risk of terror attacks, a security source said.\n\nThe alert was raised to \"red\" after last week's terrorist attack on an army training camp in Dargai which left 42 soldiers dead, sending a wave of panic throughout the country.\n\nA senior official of the Airport Security Force (ASF) said the \"high vigilance\" level was between the levels of \"red and high alert\".\n\nBecause of the state of \"high vigilance\", all passes have been canceled and security checks have been strengthened at all airports, including the Islamabad International Airport.\n\nVehicles entering the airport's premises are being screened by security personnel and passengers and other people are being closely watched.\n\nThe high alert was announced by the federal government following reports that five terrorists considered to be accomplices of the Dargai suicide bomber, were out to strike \" somewhere in the country.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 372, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 555, "end_char": 564, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0285.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0426\n\nGAZA CITY, Dec 17 , 2006, 2006\n\nURGENT  Clashes between Hamas and Fatah members in Gaza\n\n\n\n\nSupporters of the Palestinian ruling party Hamas clashed Sunday in the Gaza Strip with members of the presidential guard loyal to Fatah-backed president Mahmud Abbas, witnesses and security officials said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0426.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0108\n\nTOKYO, April 5 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFalse fire alarm at Japan's troubled nuclear plant\n\n\n\n\nA false fire alarm went off at a state-run nuclear fuel reprocessing plant northeast of Tokyo Saturday, nearly four weeks after it leaked radioactive substances following a fire and explosion.\n\nThe alarm sounded at about noon at a facility for mixing nuclear waste with asphalt at the plant in Tokai Mura, about 115 kilometres (70 miles) from Tokyo, the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. (Donen) said.\n\nNo smoke or fire was detected as Donen officials checked the facility. There were no signs of a fire on video recordings by surveillance cameras nor was there a rise in the temperature or abnormal radioactive emission.\n\nThe cause of the false alarm was being investigated, the officials said.\n\nOn March 11, a total of 37 workers were exposed to low-level radiation following the fire and blast at the facility, in what was labeled Japan's worst nuclear accident in terms of people affected.\n\nAt the facility, liquid nuclear waste is immobilized by dehydration and mixed with asphalt. The treated substance is then packed into drums.\n\nA press report said the reprocessing plant would remain shut until at least 2001 as Donen needs time to incorporate new reprocessing technology for radioactive waste, the Kyodo news agency said.\n\nThe long-term closure of the facility deals a heavy blow to Donen because reprocessing spent nuclear fuel is a major source of income for the state-run company.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 5 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly four weeks", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 11", "start_char": 822, "end_char": 830, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0108.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0267\n\nLONDON, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nEverton seek action against Mourinho over Johnson diving 'smear'\n\n\n\n\nEverton have decided to file a formal complaint to the Football Association over what they regard as a defamatory attack on striker Andy Johnson by Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho.\n\nThe Merseyside club have already indicated that they are considering legal action over Mourinho's criticism of Johnson's alleged diving, which he made after Chelsea's 3-2 win at Goodison Park on Sunday.\n\nMourinho was enraged by an incident in which Johnson jumped over Chelsea goalkeeper Hilario as they both went for the ball and tumbled after landing.\n\n\"He's dangerous for the opponents because you cannot trust him,\" Mourinho said of Johnson.\n\nThat infuriated Everton manager David Moyes, who argued that his forward had been taking evasive action to ensure he did not clatter into the goalkeeper.\n\nEverton had called on Mourinho to retract his remarks but the lack of a response from Stamford Bridge prompted them to make things official with spokesman Ian Ross confirming: \"We will now make a formal complaint to the FA over Jose Mourinho's remarks regarding Andrew Johnson.\"\n\nEverton's move means the FA will have to review Mourinho's post-match interviews and decide whether he has a disciplinary case to answer.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 493, "end_char": 499, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1085, "end_char": 1088, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0267.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0133\n\nDOHA, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nChina's Xu Kun wins men's 50m Pistol gold\n\n\n\n\nXu Kun of China won the Asian Games men's 50m Pistol individual gold medal here on Tuesday even as team-mate and world number two Tan Zongliang struggled to finish fifth.\n\nRashid Yunusmetov of Kazakhstan took the silver and Kim Jong Su of North Korea the bronze at the Lusail ranges.\n\nChina had also won the team event in the same competition earlier on Tuesday and now have 14 gold medals from the 20 shooting events contested so far.\n\nTan's hopes of winning a third gold medal in Doha after securing the 10m Air Pistol team and individual titles evaporated after he shot poorly in the second round.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 449, "end_char": 456, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 461, "end_char": 464, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0133.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0512\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Marius Schattner\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will seek to bolster European support for Israel during a trip to Berlin and Rome this week amid fears here that the United States, its main ally, may soon shift course in the Middle East.\n\nOlmert will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Tuesday and his Italian counterpart Romano Prodi the following day in Rome.\n\nIt is Olmert's first visit to the two countries since taking office last May. Following his meeting with Prodi, Olmert is to be received at the Vatican by Pope Benedict XVI.\n\nIsrael is ready to recognize a \"European role\" in reviving the peace process -- dormant for six years since the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada -- provided Europe continues to boycott the Hamas-led Palestinian government, Olmert spokeswoman Miri Eisin told AFP.\n\n\"Germany, Italy and Europe in general have a role to play to advance the peace process,\" Eisin said. \"But there cannot be any recognition of the Hamas government as long as this movement does not recognize Israel and does not give up its mission to destroy it.\"\n\nThe so-called Middle East Quartet -- composed of the EU, United States, Russia and the United Nations -- has demanded that Hamas renounce violence, recognize Israel and agree to abide by past peace deals, before resuming direct aid to the Palestinian government.\n\nAnother senior Israel official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Olmert would ask Berlin and Rome \"to stand against trivial peace initiatives,\" a veiled reference to a recent proposal by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero.\n\nThat initiative, which was not well received by Israel, called for an immediate suspension of violence between Israel and the Palestinians, a prisoner exchange and an international peace conference.\n\nEisin said Olmert will ask the European heavyweights to back economic sanctions against Iran if the Islamic republic continues its nuclear program, which Tehran says is for civilian purposes but which the West fears is a cover for atomic weapons ambitions.\n\nIsrael, widely considered the Middle East's sole if undeclared nuclear power, considers Iran its arch-foe because of repeated statements by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Jewish state should be wiped off the map.\n\nItaly is due to take over in February the leadership of the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, which was beefed up after the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in July and August.\n\nAs part of the UN force, German navy ships have been patrolling the Lebanese coast to prevent any arms smuggling into the country.\n\nOlmert's trip comes on the heels of an influential US report that urged Washington to boost its efforts to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict, saying it was key to achieving American goals in the region, including Iraq.\n\nOlmert has rejected the link, but the report has raised fears that the Jewish state's main and most powerful ally could change direction in the Middle East as a result.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 373, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last May", "start_char": 511, "end_char": 519, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six years", "start_char": 710, "end_char": 719, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 2378, "end_char": 2386, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 2516, "end_char": 2520, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 2525, "end_char": 2531, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0512.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0086\n\nHONG KONG, Dec 4 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nUBS Hong Kong Open champion Colin Montgomerie did his best to console a tearful James Kingston on Sunday after the South African threw away a one-shot lead on the last hole.\n\n\"I must say that everyone's heart goes out to James Kingston there,\" said the eight-time European Order of Merit winner, who carded rounds of of 69, 66, 66 and 70 to win by a shot after Kingston's double-bogey on 18.\n\n\"That should have been a play-off at worst to be honest and then we would have had more drama coming down that last hole.\n\n\"We all feel for him. Every golfer who plays the game feels for someone who doubles the last to lose. It has happened before and unfortunately it will happen again but on this occasion I am glad that I managed to take the spoils after that.\"\n\n'Monty' birdied four, 10 and 14 but bogeyed 11 to be one shot back from Kingston, who was 10 under par and leading by a shot until the final hole.\n\nIt was Kingston's second meltdown in as many years on the same hole after he bogeyed the last in 2004 to finish joint second behind Miguel Angel Jimenez.\n\n\"It's amazing, five minutes afterwards he put his arm around me and said well done. He must have been nervous on the last hole -- it's a very difficult hole, a very difficult drive and I think that's what hurt him,\" said Montgomerie.\n\nMontgomerie said he thought Kingston already had it won -- but he was delighted to have avoided a play-off.\n\n\"He bogeyed 16 but had par on 17 so I was expecting to lose. I was expecting to congratulate the winner when he came in,\" said the Scot, 42.\n\n\"My play-off record is terrible so I was glad we didn't have one. I've been in nine play-offs and I think I've only won one -- against Ernie Els in Sun City, so I hardly got out alive!\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 165, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "69, 66", "start_char": 387, "end_char": 393, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "66", "start_char": 395, "end_char": 397, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1966", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10", "start_char": 848, "end_char": 850, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "14", "start_char": 855, "end_char": 857, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1914", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1071, "end_char": 1075, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0086.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0073\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n5th LD Writethru: Iranian military plane crashes, 36 killed: TV\n\n\n\n\nAn Iranian military aircraft Antonov- 74 crashed at Tehran's airport early Monday, killing 36 people including 30 members of the Revolutionary Guards, state television\n\nreported.\n\nSome 30 Revolutionary Guards members and six crews on board were killed, and another two had survived and were immediately hospitalized, a statement by the force was quoted as saying and corrected previous casualty number.\n\nEarlier, the television had said the number of victims was 38.\n\nHowever, Gen. Eskandar Moemeni, a deputy police chief, told reporters that the death toll had increased to 39 after three wounded people died in the hospital.\n\nDue to the chaos of statistic among different units, it's not immediately clear which number was correct.\n\nThe Antonov-74 plane, belonging to the Revolutionary Guards, crashed shortly after taking off from Mehrabad airport, said the television.\n\nThe plane was heading toward Shiraz in the south of Iran when the disaster took place, it said.\n\nAccording to a detailed report from local Fars news agency, Reza Jafarzadeh, the spokesman for the Iranian civil aviation organization, said the plane \"crash at the end of runway at 7:30 local time (0400 GMT).\"\n\nFrom the latest report of the official IRNA news agency, a Revolutionary Guards source said the plane caught fire in one of its engines immediately after leaving the runway.\n\nThe television report said some high-ranking officers of the Revolutionary Guards were among the dead, but the IRNA, citing the\n\nRevolutionary Guards source, said the plane carried no military commander.\n\nFor the recent years, Iran has witnessed a high rate of air crashes due to lack of spare parts and inadequate maintenance of aircraft.\n\nAn Iranian C-130 aircraft, bound for the Gulf seaport city of Bandar Abbas, crashed on Dec. 6, 2005, in a residential area and hit a 10-story apartment block, killing 108 people.\n\nOn Jan. 9, a small Falcon jet of the Revolutionary Guards crashed in Iran's northwestern border province of West Azarbaijan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Monday", "start_char": 193, "end_char": 205, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the recent years", "start_char": 1691, "end_char": 1707, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 6, 2005", "start_char": 1910, "end_char": 1922, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 9", "start_char": 2006, "end_char": 2012, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0073.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0321\n\nLOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nLos Angeles investors bid on major U.S. media group\n\n\n\n\nTwo Los Angeles investors submitted a bid Wednesday to buy one of the largest media groups in the United States, which publishes major newspapers like the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and New York's Newsday.\n\nAffiliates of Billionaire Eli Broad and prominent investor Ron Burkle's companies \"have submitted a competitive bid for acquisition of the entire Tribune company\", the Los Angeles Times reported at its website, quoting a source familiar with the offer.\n\nHow much the two businessmen would be willing to pay for the Chicago-based media company and the details about their offer remained unclear, but they have said for months that they wanted a local group to take control of the Los Angeles Times, according to the newspaper.\n\nThe offer came a day after it was reported that the Times' editor Dean Baquet would leave his post because of a long-standing dispute with the paper's Chicago parent company over proposed staff reductions.\n\nMeanwhile, famous Hollywood entertainment mogul David Geffen has also expressed interest in acquiring the Los Angeles Times. Geffen was not known to have submitted an offer so far.\n\nAll three of the potential buyers have said in the past that the Los Angeles Times would benefit from their stewardship because they would be willing to accept lower profits and invest in news coverage.\n\nTribune executives earlier said they preferred to keep the Times as part of their media conglomerate, which includes 10 other daily newspapers and 25 television stations across the company.\n\nHowever, the company last week opened itself to bids on individual newspapers after it received a series of low bids from several private equity firms for the company.\n\nLocal groups and individuals have expressed interest in acquiring Tribune papers after the company announced in late September that it would seek a sale or breakup of the company.\n\nThe company faces many of the challenges confronting the traditional media industry, as the circulation of newspapers has been on the decline and advertisers have been shifting their spending to the Internet.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1667, "end_char": 1676, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late September", "start_char": 1927, "end_char": 1941, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0321.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0078\n\nSEOUL, April 7 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDaewoo goes global with new models and stronger research team by Judy Lee\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korea's Daewoo Motors Co. said Monday it would beef up its presence in the world market with three new passenger car models this year and more in the future to help it overcome domestic blues.\n\n\"Daewoo's strengthening globalization drive is in line with a worsening slump in the local market,\" said a Daewoo spokesman, Kim Hyung-Soo.\n\nThe country's third largest auto maker said in a statement Daewoo would double its research team, which now has 5,400 people worldwide, by 2000 to better cope with rapid changes in consumer demand.\n\nThe company runs auto design and technology centers in Britain and Germany.\n\n\"Starting in western Europe, three new models would penetrate into 60 countries worldwide from June,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe three new entrants into the global market are Leganza with a 2,000-cc engine, Nubira with 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0222\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGM's third quarter loss reduces to 91 million dollars\n\n\n\n\nGeneral Motors Corp. said on Tuesday that it had made losses of 91 million U.S. dollars in the July-to-September quarter, 24 million dollars less than previously estimated.\n\nOn October 25, the world's biggest automaker reported a loss of 115 million dollars for the third quarter.\n\n\"The reduction in net loss is attributable to additional loan sales that had not been previously reported\" by its financing arm General Motors Acceptance Corp., the automaker said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.\n\nThe automaker's third quarter loss amounted to 16 cents a share, compared with a loss of 1.66 billion dollars, or 2.94 dollars a share, in the same quarter last year.\n\nFor the third quarter, General Motors' revenues totaled 48.89 billion dollars, compared with 47.18 billion dollars a year ago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the July-to-September quarter", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 25", "start_char": 294, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 379, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third quarter", "start_char": 658, "end_char": 671, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same quarter last year", "start_char": 781, "end_char": 807, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 814, "end_char": 831, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 925, "end_char": 935, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0222.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0010\n\nSINGAPORE, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapan's Nomura to lead manage one billion dollar fund raising effort\n\n\n\n\nMIF Asia Ltd., the financing arm of Japanese trading giant Marubeni Corp., has mandated Nomura Singapore Ltd. to lead-manage its one- billion-US-dollar fund raising program here.\n\nThe program allows MIF Asia to issue fixed and floating notes of different maturities -- with different coupon rates -- up to a total of one billion dollars, according to a statement from MIF Asia received here Wednesday.\n\nMIF Asia has received in-principle approval to list the notes issued under the program on the Stock Exchange of Singapore. Subscribers to the notes are expected to be investors, mainly financial institutions and fund managers, from Asia.\n\nThe statement said MIF Asia, incorporated in Singapore in 1995 and registered in Hong Kong as an overseas company in the same year, would use the funds raised for its non-Singapore-dollar-denominated financial activities.\n\nMarubeni set up MIF Asia as part of its global financial network to integrate the four major financial markets of Japan, the United States, Europe and Asia.\n\nMIF Asia provides financial services to Marubeni's subsidiaries and affiliates in Asia and conducts investment-related activities such as portfolio investments in Asian money and capital markets.\n\nApart from Nomura Singapore, there are 14 other dealers for the note program.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 521, "end_char": 530, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 830, "end_char": 834, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same year", "start_char": 889, "end_char": 902, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0010.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0116 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0116. \n International:\n@  Polly Peck of U.K.\n@  To Buy 51% Stake\n@  In Japanese Firm\n@  ----\n@  By Urban C. Lehner\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n J.SNE \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nHOME ELECTRONICS, FURNISHINGS, APPLIANCES (HMF) \n TOKYO  \n\n   Polly Peck International Inc.'s agreement to acquire 51% of Sansui Electric Co. proves that foreign companies can acquire Japanese companies -- if the alternative for the Japanese company is extinction. \n\n   Polly Peck, a fast-growing British conglomerate, will pay 15.6 billion yen ($110 million) for 39 million new shares of Sansui, a well-known maker of high-fidelity audio equipment that failed to adjust to changing market conditions. \nJapanese government officials, eager to rebut foreign criticism of Japanese investments overseas , hailed the transaction as proof foreigners can make similar investments in Japan. \nPolly Peck's chairman, Asil Nadir, echoed the official Japanese view of the accord, which was announced Friday. \n\n   \"The myths that Japan is not open to concerns from outside has, I think, been demolished at a stroke,\" Mr. Nadir said. \n\n   But analysts say Sansui is a special case. \nIt expects to post a loss of 6.4 billion yen for the year ending tomorrow and its liabilities currently exceed its assets by about 13.8 billion yen. \n\"If you find sound, healthy companies in Japan, they are not  for sale,\" said George Watanabe, a management-consultant at Tokyo-based Asia Advisory Services Inc. \n\n   Statistics on acquisitions by foreigners vary in detail, because unlike Sansui, which is listed on the Tokyo and Osaka stock exchanges, most of the Japanese companies acquired by foreigners are privately held. \nBut by all accounts foreign companies have bought only a relative handful of Japanese companies this year, while Japanese companies have acquired hundreds of foreign companies. \n\n   Nor do analysts expect the Sansui deal to touch off a fresh wave of foreign purchases. \nIf the strong yen and the high stock prices of Japanese companies were n't  deterrents enough, webs of cross-shareholdings between friendly Japanese companies and fiercely independent Japanese corporate attitudes repel most would-be acquirers. \n\n   Usually when a Japanese company is ready to sell, it has few alternatives remaining, and the grim demeanors of Sansui's directors at a joint news conference here left little doubt that this was not  the company's finest hour. \nSansui was once one of Japan's premier makers of expensive, high-quality stereo gear for audiophiles. \n\n   But in recent years, the market has moved toward less expensive \"mini-component\" sets, miniaturized amplifiers and receivers and software players that could be stacked on top of each other. \n\n   Some of Sansui's fellow audio-specialty companies, such as Aiwa Co. and Pioneer Electric Corp., responded to the challenge by quickly bringing out mini-component products of their own, by moving heavily into the booming compact disk businesses or by diversifying into other consumer-electronics fields, including laser disks or portable cassette players. \nSansui was late into the mini-component business and failed to branch into other new businesses. \n\n   As the yen soared in recent years, Sansui's deepening financial problems became a vicious circle. \nWhile competitors moved production offshore in response to the sagging competitiveness of Japanese factories, Sansui lacked the money to build new plants in Southeast Asia. \n\"Our company has not been able to cope very effectively with\" changes in the marketplace, said Ryosuke Ito, Sansui's president. \n\n   But even a Japanese company that looks like a dog may turn out to be a good investment for a foreign concern, some management consultants maintain. \n\n   Yoshihisa Murasawa, a management consultant for Booz-Allen amp Hamilton (Japan) Inc., said his firm will likely be recommending acquisitions of Japanese companies more often to foreign clients in the future. \n\"Attitudes {toward being acquired} are still negative, but they're becoming more positive,\" Mr. Murasawa said. \n\"In some industries, like pharmaceuticals, acquisitions make sense.\" \n\n   Whether Polly Peck's acquisition makes sense remains to be seen, but at the news conference, Mr. Nadir brimmed with self-confidence that he can turn Sansui around. \nSansui, he said, is a perfect fit for Polly Peck's electronics operations, which make televisions, videocassette recorders, microwaves and other products on an \"original equipment maker\" basis for sale under other companies' brand names. \n\n   He said Polly Peck will greatly expand Sansui's product line, using Sansui's engineers to design the new products, and will move Sansui's production of most products other than sophisticated audio gear offshore into Polly Peck's own factories. \n\n   \"Whatever capital it (Sansui) needs so it can compete and become a totally global entity capable of competing with the best in the world, that capital will be 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0025\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nspokesman\n\n\n\n\nIran will give \"destructive\" response if its nuclear program is attacked by Israel, a Foreign Ministry spokesman vowed here Sunday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0025.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0093\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 19 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd Ld: US president arrives in Beijing\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush arrived here Saturday evening for a three-day visit to China at the invitation of Chinese President Hu Jintao.\n\nBush's presidential plane Air Force One touched down around 18: 40 at Beijing's Capital Airport, where the US president was greeted by Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Zhou Wenzhong and US Ambassador to China Clark T. Randt.\n\nAlso arriving aboard the presidential plane were Bush's wife Laura Bush, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and US National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.\n\nTwo young Chinese women presented bouquets to Bush and his wife at the airport.\n\nThis is Bush's third China trip as US president since 2001 and also his first China visit in his second term of presidency. He will stay for nearly 40 hours here. Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao are to meet with President Bush, and they will discuss a wide range of issues.\n\n\"The two sides will have an in-depth exchange of views on China-US relations and major regional and international issues,\" said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao Thursday.\n\n\"We expect that Bush's visit will increase consensus, step up mutual trust, expand exchanges and cooperation and promote Sino-US constructive and cooperative relations in the 21st century in an all-round way,\" Liu told a regular news briefing.\n\nBush described Sino-US relationship as a complex and important one. While the two countries have got increasing trade and dialogue and cooperation, there is still work to be done on intellectual property rights, currency and market access, said Bush in a round-table interview with Asian reporters at the White House prior to his Asian tour.\n\nBut Bush acknowledged that the United States and China \"do have good cooperation\" on trade, and can also work together in the war on terror, on advancing the Doha Round multilateral trade talks and in the areas of energy and fighting avian flu.\n\nChina is the third leg of Bush's four-nation Asian tour. He visited Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) and attended the Nov. 18-19 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Busan of the ROK. He will also visit Mongolia after his China tour.\n\nBush attended the APEC economic leaders' meeting in Shanghai in October, 2001, and paid a two-day working visit to China in February 2002.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday evening", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 809, "end_char": 813, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "second term of presidency", "start_char": 852, "end_char": 877, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly 40 hours here", "start_char": 896, "end_char": 916, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1225, "end_char": 1233, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 21st century", "start_char": 1407, "end_char": 1423, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18-19", "start_char": 2193, "end_char": 2203, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 2387, "end_char": 2394, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2002", "start_char": 2447, "end_char": 2460, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0093.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0552\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with market close ///\n\n\n\n\nWall Street's main stock indexes pushed to new highs Friday for a second straight day after a tame report on consumer inflation boosted hopes for lower interest rates in 2007.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 28.76 points (0.23 percent) to 12,444.52, its second consecutive all-time record close, after hitting an intraday high of 12,486.30.\n\nThe tech-heavy Nasdaq composite index advanced 3.35 points (0.14 percent) to 2,457.20 a day after closing at its highest level since February 2001.\n\nThe Standard and Poor's 500 broad-market index edged up 1.60 points (0.11 percent) to 1,427.09, a fresh six-year high.\n\nMarkets opened stronger and pared their gains late in the session as investors locked in gains at the conclusion of a strong week.\n\nAhead of the opening, the Labor Department reported that its consumer price index (CPI) was flat in November, including the \"core\" index that excludes food and energy, despite expectations of a 0.2 percent increase in both figures.\n\nAnalysts said this eases pressure on the Federal Reserve to increase interest rates and could mean a lowering of rates in the coming months.\n\n\"Today's data certainly reinforce our view that the next move from the Fed will be to ease, and we are sticking with our timeframe for a cut at the tail end of the first quarter of 2007,\" said Marc Levesque, chief economics strategist at TD Securities.\n\n\"The economy has slowed, and it now looks as inflation pressures are cooling down -- a trend that is also starting to materialize in the data on wages and unit labor costs.\"\n\nA separate report showed US industrial production rising a better-than-expected 0.2 percent.\n\nThe latest reports were part of a string of positive economic surprises, suggesting inflation is easing but growth is holding up.\n\n\"The economy is doing very well, much better than anybody thought. The consumer is still strong and inflation is moving in the right direction,\" said Marc Pado at Cantor Fitzgerald.\n\nPado said the market was also helped by \"window dressing\" in which portfolio managers buy top-performing stocks before the end of the quarter to show they are holding them at the close.\n\n\"People needed to buy,\" he said.\n\nAlso helping sentiment was a rise in other global markets, especially in Asia, after the Tankan survey of Japanese business sentiment rose to a two-year high.\n\nAmong the gainers on Wall Street, Adobe Systems leapt 2.00 dollars, or 4.9 percent, to 42.81 dollars after the software group reported a 16 percent increase in net profits.\n\nGeneral Electric, the conglomerate often seen as a bellwether of the economy, advanced 1.15 dollars to 37.36.\n\nHome Depot fell eight cents to 39.89 after the home improvement retailer announced a share buyback program.\n\nElsewhere, computer maker Dell lost 34 cents to 26.53 after announcing a further delay of its third-quarter results due to a regulatory inquiry.\n\nBonds fell, giving back early gains. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond rose to 4.597 percent from 4.595 percent Thursday, while that on the 30-year bond increased to 4.718 percent against 4.716 percent. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0146\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBryan twins win battle over former world No. l pair\n\n\n\n\nReigning world number one Bob and Mike Bryan recovered from their lacklustre tournament opener in their Tuesday's Red Group match at Tennis Masters Cup, crashing former top-ranked pair Mark Knowles and Daniel Nestor 6-4, 6-4.\n\nEarlier in the day, fifth-seeded Leander Paes of India and Nedad Zimonjic from Serbia and Montenegro claimed their second win in Shanghai, defeating seventh-seeded Australian duo Wayne Arthurs and Paul Hanley 7-6(3), 7-6 (6) in two hours.\n\nThe Bryan twins, two-time defending champions here at the year-ending event of men's professional tennis, took just one hour, 16 minutes and 39 seconds to reannounce their dominance on doubles court and lowered the fourth seeds Knowles and Nestor's hope of making semifinals through the round-robin.\n\nIn Sunday's play, both of the pairs have lost their first match in full sets. And according to the competition system made special at this year's Masters, eight elite pairs were devided into Red and Gold Groups with the top two paired finishers qualify for the semis.\n\nKnowles and Nestor have come to Shanghai on a wave of success, winning back to back titles in Vienna and Madrid Masters and going on to reach the final at the Paris Masters just over a week ago.\n\nUnstoppable winning streak of the Bahamian and Canadian pairing, however, was thus snapped by the Bryan brothers, who are the US Open champions and have appeared in 11 tournament finals this year alone.\n\nEn route to their comeback victory, the Bryans declined to give any chances to their aged opponents, taking the second round-robin match on 8 aces.\n\nThe twin duo from the United States, looking to become the first team to win three straight doubles titles at the season-end champions since Peter Fleming and John McEnroe won the title in seven straight years from 1978-84.\n\nAlso they are the second team in 50 years to reach the final in all four Grand Slams. The other pair who set the record are Paes and Indian Mahesh Bhupathi in 1999.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 225, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two hours", "start_char": 569, "end_char": 578, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT2H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 885, "end_char": 891, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1016, "end_char": 1025, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week ago", "start_char": 1334, "end_char": 1344, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1533, "end_char": 1542, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "50 years", "start_char": 1958, "end_char": 1966, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 2084, "end_char": 2088, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0146.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0360\n\nLONDON, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - EMBARGOED, RELEASABLE Tuesday at 0001 ///\n\n\n\n\nBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair has failed to influence United States President George W Bush's foreign policy, a top foreign affairs think-tank said Tuesday.\n\nA briefing paper from Chatham House also said that the \"terrible mistake\" of the 2003 Iraq invasion, led by the United States but strongly backed by Britain, would resonate long after Blair leaves office next year.\n\n\"The root failure of Tony Blair's foreign policy has been its inability to influence the Bush administration in any significant way despite the sacrifice -- military, political and financial -- that the United Kingdom has made,\" said the paper, penned by outgoing director Victor Bulmer-Thomas.\n\nHe added that Iraq was a foreign policy \"watershed\" which, like the 1956 Suez crisis, would alter the relationship with the United States for many years to come.\n\n\"The post 9/11 decision to invade Iraq was a terrible mistake and the current debacle will have policy repercussions for many years to come,\" the paper added.\n\nBlair stands accused by the report of over-estimating the extent of his influence in Washington.\n\n\"The bilateral relationship with the United States may be 'special' to Britain, but the US has never described it as more than 'close',\" it said.\n\nWhile Bush's announcement that the United States would accept a two-state solution in the Middle East was \"seized upon\" by those close to Blair, the report says, there is \"no evidence\" that this was linked to British pressure.\n\nIt adds that, while Blair's political capital in Washington was not as great as he thought, there were questions about whether he used what influence he had to greatest advantage.\n\n\"Anecdotal evidence also suggests that the prime minister did not make full use of the opportunities that were presented to him,\" the paper says.\n\nBlair had \"learnt the hard way\" that \"loyalty in international politics counts for very little\", it added.\n\nOn Iraq, Bulmer-Thomas said it was a \"terrible mistake\" to rely on arguing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction to justify the war.\n\nHis paper added that the \"jury is still out\" on whether Blair knew such claims were \"overblown or even fabricated\".\n\nBlair's successor will have to develop closer relations with Europe and will not be able to offer \"unconditional support\" for US foreign policy, the paper said.\n\nThe US is also likely to urge Britain to develop closer relations with Europe in future, it adds.\n\n\"What US governments want is a European Union that can make a real contribution to the international political and security agenda, and any European government with the diplomatic skills to deliver EU support will be hugely appreciated,\" it says.\n\nResponding to the paper, Blair's Downing Street office pointed to progress in foreign policy fields such as tackling poverty in Africa and climate change which it highlights.\n\n\"International relations are not a matter of quid pro quo,\" a spokeswoman said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 485, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "many years", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 936, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "many years", "start_char": 1068, "end_char": 1078, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "future", "start_char": 2524, "end_char": 2530, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0360.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0052\n\nMANILA, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAuthorities suspend operations at Philippines' second oldest bank\n\n\n\n\nThe Central Bank of the Philippines declared a supsension of operations at Monte de Piedad bank from Wednesday to allow the country's second oldest bank to be rehabilitated.\n\nCentral Bank deputy governor Alberto Reyes said that the decision was aimed at preventing a run on the bank following heavy withdrawals over the past two days.\n\n\"It's not a closure. The temporary stoppage in the operation of the bank is in fact a best alternative,\" Reyes told journalists.\n\nMonte de Piedad, formerly controlled by the Roman Catholic church, ran into financial trouble after thousands of borrowers from a 1.8 -billion-peso (69-million-dollar) fund for small transport operators failed to repay their loans.\n\nThe fund was part of the church's \"pro-poor\" programs.\n\nThe archdiocese of Manila sold a controlling stake of the bank, founded in 1882, to ethnic Chinese businessman Vicente Tan in 1995.\n\nAccording to bank officials, Monte de Piedad needs about 3.1 billion pesos (119 million dollars) in fresh capital.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 225, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two", "start_char": 440, "end_char": 452, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1882", "start_char": 954, "end_char": 958, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1882", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1005, "end_char": 1009, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0052.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0408\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNine killed in Thailand's restive deep South\n\n\n\n\nNine people were killed and nine others injured in a violent militant attack in Thailand's southern Narathiwat province early Wednesday.\n\nA group of suspected Muslim separatists raided two houses in the province's Rangae district at one O'clock Wednesday morning. They shot into houses with M-70 rifles, killing nine villagers and injuring nine others, local police said.\n\nAt least two villagers were believed to be followers of the militants. They lobbied other villagers that it is the Thai authorities who had launched the attack.\n\nA large numbers villagers from the district and nearby areas have congregated on the road, blocking police and the army from entering inside.\n\nFearing clashes with local people, the security force were still waiting for instructions from the army commander.\n\nMore than 1,000 people have died since January last year in near-daily attacks in the strip near the Malaysian border. Authorities and experts blame the attacks on a web of Islamic separatists, local corruption and organized crime.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 232, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "O'clock Wednesday morning", "start_char": 343, "end_char": 368, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January last year", "start_char": 939, "end_char": 956, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0408.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0345\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEU welcomes new TV rights plan from English Premier League\n\n\n\n\nThe European Union (EU) on Thursday welcomed new commitments from the English Premier League regarding the sale of its match broadcast rights.\n\nThe EU's executive body, the European Commission, said it has received \"improved commitments\" from the Premier League which makes it possible to finally resolve the three-year-long dispute by spring next year.\n\nThe league pledges that from 2007 onwards live TV broadcast rights of its matches will \"be sold in six balanced packages with no one bidder being allowed to buy all six packages,\" the commission said in a statement.\n\nPackages will be sold to the highest stand-alone bidder for each package, and bids other than simple stand-alone bids will be disregarded, it said.\n\nThe deal will break BSkyB's exclusive ownership of live TV rights for England's top class football games, which the company has enjoyed for 13 years.\n\nThe commission will select a trustee to monitor the auction, who will then report to the commission whether all rules have been followed.\n\nThe commission will now prepare a draft decision making the Premier League's revised commitments legally binding. This will be sent to the competition authorities of the EU member states for consultation before the commission issues a final decision by the first quarter of 2006.\n\n\"I am pleased to bring this long running case closer to a satisfactory outcome,\" European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said in a statement.\n\n\"The commitments offered by the Premier League should ensure that the media rights are sold in a fair and transparent manner and give British football fans greater choice and better value,\" she said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 464, "end_char": 473, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "13 years", "start_char": 982, "end_char": 990, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P13Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1152, "end_char": 1155, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter of 2006", "start_char": 1385, "end_char": 1410, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0345.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0310\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\naccident\n\n\n\n\nChina's Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday urged police to learn from a fatal bus crash in northeast China and launch safety inspections of schoolbuses.\n\nEight children were killed when a bus carrying 50 students veered off a bridge and plunged into a frozen river last Tuesday in Zhoujia township of Shuangcheng City, Heilongjiang Province. Thirty-nine others were injured.\n\nIn a circular issued by the ministry, local police bureaus were required to launch immediate examinations of all vehicles and drivers involved in school transport.\n\nAll vehicles and drivers must be registered with the local education authorities, and those with potential safety risks must be removed from service immediately, according to the circular.\n\nVehicles in service must bear identical signs, and overloading, excessive speeding and drink-driving or driving with fatigue will incur penalties.\n\nProvincial and city-level police bureaus must dispatch inspection teams led by officials in public security and transportation departments.\n\nNegligence in inspections would be punished, said the circular.\n\nAccording to previous reports, the driver involved in the accident has been arrested, and an official with the local traffic police has been sacked and accused of negligence for ignoring public complaints about illegal operation of buses.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 109, "end_char": 116, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Tuesday", "start_char": 339, "end_char": 351, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0310.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0088\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSingapore shares end sharply higher\n\n\n\n\nThe shares prices in Singapore closed sharply higher on Tuesday with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) rising 31.5 points to end at 2802.9 points.\n\nThe overall volume stood at 1.3292 billion shares worth 1.2262 billion Singapore dollars (about 788.5 million U.S. dollars).\n\nGainers led losers by 380 to 227 with another 730 unchanged.\n\nOn Monday, the STI fell 41.8 points to end at 2771.4 points.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Times", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 444, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0088.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0065\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nrevaluation\n\n\n\n\nChina's banks will be exposed to greater credit risk against the backdrop of the yuan's accelerating appreciation, said Li Lihui, president of the Bank of China (BOC).\n\nHe said credit risks were increasing due to the revaluation which would raise export costs and dampen competitiveness in the international market, resulting in the failure of enterprises with low profitability.\n\n\"Enterprises may fail to repay loans if they go bankrupt,\" said Li.\n\nThe value of the yuan against the U.S. dollar hit a new high Thursday, with the central parity rate at 7.8697 yuan to the dollar, breaking the 7.87 mark.\n\nLi said most of the commercial banks in China had strengthened credit risk management. The analysis showed the country's enterprises would grow sustainably despite greater exposure to foreign exchange risks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 583, "end_char": 591, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0065.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0121\n\nGAZA, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAbbas, Hamas agree on new PM candidate: sources\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has accepted a candidate nominated by the Hamas movement to lead a national unity government, the Islamic Online website reported on Sunday, quoting well-informed sources.\n\nThe nominee was Mohammed Shbair, former president of the Islamic University in Gaza, who is close to Hamas but not a member.\n\nThe website did not elaborate on the sources, but said they were close to Abbas.\n\nThe report also quoted Nezzar Rayan, a senior Hamas official in Gaza, as saying that the ruling Hamas movement had agreed with Abbas on a new prime minister.\n\nBut Rayan did not clarify who would be the new one.\n\nMeanwhile, Hamas spokesman Ismail Radwan told reporters that his movement had nominated a prime minister candidate close to Hamas and confirmed that Abbas has accepted the candidate.\n\nShbair, 60, was famous for his academic activities and had been the president of the Hamas-dominated Islamic University for 13 years.\n\nAbbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haneya have been engaged in talks for months to form a unity government to replace incumbent Hamas-led one to end the current political and economic crises in the Palestinian territories.\n\nAfter a general agreement to form a unity government, a committee tasked with outlining the government held its first meeting on Sunday. Senior members of both Hamas and Fatah were present at the meeting.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "13 years", "start_char": 1043, "end_char": 1051, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P13Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1404, "end_char": 1410, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0121.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0155\n\nDOHA, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korean teenager Park Tae-Hwan took aim at a second Asian Games gold medal here Tuesday in the men's 400m freestyle, setting up a final clash with his biggest rival Zhang Lin of China.\n\nNineteen-year-old Zhang, who lost to Park in the 50m freestyle two days ago, was the fastest qualifier for the final and is out for revenge against the 17-year-old sensation from Seoul.\n\n\"There is not much between us. I have beaten him before,\" said Zhang, who will also face his rival again on Thursday in the 1,500m freestyle.\n\nChina-Japan clashes will dominate the eight finals Tuesday with China's coach Zhang Yadong eyeing at least four titles.\n\nIn the women's breaststroke Ji Liping, the 50m winner three days ago, is hoping once again to best Japanese challenger Asami Kitajima over 100 metres. Another Chinese medal hope is 13-year-old Wang Qun, who took bronze over one lap.\n\nWang is being groomed for the 2008 Beijing Olympics as the new Luo Xuejuan, the 22-year-old 100m breaststroke Olympic champion who was left out of the Asian Games squad.\n\nIn the men's backstroke Japan's 23-year-old Junichi Miyashita was the fastest qualifier but will be up against China's favourite Ouyang Kunpeng in the final.\n\nIn the men's 50m butterfly Japan and China go head to head again with Asian record holder Zhou Jiawei staking a claim for gold with the fastest time in the heats from teammate Wang Dong and Ryo Takayasu from Japan.\n\nChina's Pang Jiayang is looking for her third gold in the women's 50m freestyle after her 200m freestyle and 4x400m relay victories.\n\nPang, 21, the Olympic relay silver medallist, is up against compatriot Xu Yanwei, who shared the 100m relay gold and won an individual silver in the 100m butterfly.\n\nIn the relays, Japan look stronger in the men's 4x100 metre freestyle but China's women have the edge going into the 4x200 freestyle.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days ago", "start_char": 319, "end_char": 331, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 551, "end_char": 559, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 637, "end_char": 644, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days ago", "start_char": 761, "end_char": 775, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 4x200", "start_char": 1900, "end_char": 1909, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0155.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0401\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ntrade, economic cooperation zones in Africa\n\n\n\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao said here Saturday that China will establish three to five trade and economic cooperation zones in Africa in the next three years.\n\nHu made the remarks while addressing the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) .\n\nPresident Hu, 41 heads of state or government and senior officials of 48 African countries that have diplomatic ties with China, including Prime Minister of Ethiopia which co-chairs FOCAC, Alpha Oumar Konare, chairman of the Commission of the African Union (AU) and representatives from regional and international organizations, attended the landmark gathering highlighting \" friendship, peace, cooperation and development.\"\n\nPrior to the opening ceremony, a grand welcoming ceremony was held at the Great Hall of the People.\n\nThe summit has been widely acclaimed as the most important and largest meeting between Chinese and African leaders since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.\n\nAt the two-day summit, China and African countries will review the development of China-Africa relationship and blueprint the future cooperation.\n\nFOCAC is a mechanism for collective dialogue and cooperation jointly established by China and Africa to cope with new challenges and facilitate common development.\n\nSince the FOCAC launch in 2000, three ministerial conferences have been held in Beijing and Addis Ababa, with an action plan discussed and passed, laying out cooperation programs between China and Africa from 2007 to 2009 under the FOCAC framework.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next three years", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 261, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1949", "start_char": 1094, "end_char": 1098, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1949", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1439, "end_char": 1443, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0401.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0007\n\nMANILA, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Karl Wilson\n\n\n\n\nThe Philippines is naturally prone to disasters but rising poverty and climate change are making the problem steadily worse, analysts said.\n\nDespite repeated disasters, many people are too poor to leave dangerous areas, they say.\n\nSome 30,000 people fled the Mayon volcano when it started rumbling in August only to return when the activity subsided. But this week, typhoon-triggered mudslides swept hundreds of these people to their deaths.\n\nRoger-Mark De Souza of the Washington-based Population Reference Bureau said the danger from natural disasters here has risen markedly in recent years.\n\n\"The risk to human life from natural disasters in the Philippines has increased dramatically over the past generation,\" he said in a recent report.\n\n\"From 1971 to 2000, natural disasters killed 34,000 people but from 1990 to 2000, natural disasters killed or disrupted the lives of 35 million people.\"\n\nEach year an average of 20 tropical storms sweep in from the Pacific, hammering the central or northern islands of the country.\n\nSitting on the eadge of the \"Pacific Ring of Fire,\" the Southeast Asian archipelago nation is also vulnerable to earthquakes, at least six a day, and volcanic erruptions from its 18 active volcanoes.\n\nIt all makes for a deadly mix making the Philippines one of the most disaster-prone countries on earth, according to the International Red Cross.\n\nIn a country where more than 50 percent of the population are living on less than two dollars a day, the human cost of such disasters is enormous.\n\nSenator Richard Gordon, who also heads the Philippine Red Cross, said that unless the cycle of poverty is tackled \"these disasters will just go on repeating themselves.\"\n\nFor all the stark images from the devastation wrought by typhoon Durian, the scenes were troublingly familiar.\n\nIn the eastern island of Leyte earlier this year, 1,800 were killed when a mudslide caused by heavy rains obliterated the farming community of Guinsaugon.\n\nThe International Red Cross has estimated that some 5.9 million Filipinos were killed or injured as a result of natural or man-made calamities in the 10 years to 2001.\n\nIn its 2005 Disaster report the IRC said the impact of natural disasters \"aggravate pre-existing poverty, creating a downward spiral of vulnerability, arresting development.\"\n\nLeoncio Amadore, one of the Philippines' foremost meteorologists, believes that climate change is also contributing to the severity of the typhoons now hitting the Philippines.\n\n\"The combination of strong typhoons, excessive rain and landslides has caused a great deal of death and destruction in the Philippines.\n\n\"If we do not act urgently, climate change will further intensify the severity of extreme weather events,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 371, "end_char": 377, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 425, "end_char": 434, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 651, "end_char": 663, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1971", "start_char": 821, "end_char": 825, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1971", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "to 2000,", "start_char": 888, "end_char": 896, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "less than two dollars a day", "start_char": 1518, "end_char": 1545, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 1908, "end_char": 1925, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 10 years to 2001", "start_char": 2179, "end_char": 2199, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2526, "end_char": 2529, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0007.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0122\n\nGAZA, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGaza to get electricity supply from Egypt: company\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian and Egyptian officials will sign a final deal to provide Gaza Strip with Egyptian electricity instead of some Israeli power, a Gaza power company announced on Saturday.\n\nThe Gaza Electricity Distribution Company (GEDC) made the announcement in a statement issued by its general director Sulaiman Abu Samhadana.\n\nAccording to the deal, a switching station would be built in southern Gaza Strip border town of Rafah to receive 150 megawatt of Egyptian power as the first phase, said the statement.\n\nThe first phase costs about 22 million U.S. dollars, said the statement, adding the four-phase project would provide Gaza with 800 megawatt when it is completed. It would be built completely in one year if Israel did not put obstacles.\n\nThe proposed Gaza switching plant would be connected with an Egyptian station in al-Ariesh city with 60 km-long cables. Fixing the cables will cost about 100 millions of Egyptian Pound (17.39 million dollars).\n\nOn June 28, three days after Palestinian militants kidnapped an Israeli soldier, Israeli F-16 warplanes have shelled the only power plant in Gaza that produced almost 45 percent of Gaza electricity, leaving the poor strip powerless for three months until Egyptians have recently re-operated the Gaza station.\n\nThrough 10 cables, Israel provides Gaza with the remaining electricity.\n\nAbu Samhadana said the project will cover the shortage of power in Gaza for decades.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 280, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "800", "start_char": 745, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "800", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one year", "start_char": 812, "end_char": 820, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 28, three days", "start_char": 1069, "end_char": 1088, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-25T28:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 1302, "end_char": 1314, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0122.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0196\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 1 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nKenya's flag carrier boosts domestic flights\n\n\n\n\nKenya's flag carrier Kenya Airways has announced it will introduce larger aircraft daily from Nairobi to the port city of Mombasa except Thursdays and Sundays from next week.\n\nThe airline said in a statement here Tuesday that it had put measures in place to cater for the capacity demand on its domestic operations to bolster domestic tourism.\n\nKenya Airways Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications Michael Okwiri said that passengers would from Nov. 7 fly aboard the larger Boeing 767, which has 216 seats compared to the regular 737 that has 116 seats on the early morning flights, an 86 percent increase in capacity on these key early flights.\n\nOkwiri said the new development has been occasioned by numerous conferences in Mombasa which he said would develop domestic travel.\n\n\"The local tourism scene has seen phenomenal growth in the last couple of months and we want to support this route,\" he said.\n\nThe increase in the number of international visitors to Kenya has spurred a greater interest in the tourism sector with the airports registering the highest number of traffic in the last five years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursdays and Sundays from next week", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 278, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 318, "end_char": 325, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 7", "start_char": 558, "end_char": 564, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last couple of months", "start_char": 948, "end_char": 973, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-01T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last five years", "start_char": 1198, "end_char": 1217, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0196.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "CNN19980126.1600.1104 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n Major job cuts at AT and T.\n The long distance giant slashing up  to eighteen thousand jobs, freezing executive\n salaries and shaking up management.\n The changes are part of a one point six\n billion dollar cost cutting initiative  to revitalize its position in the telecommunications business.\n Earlier AT and T also announced an eighteen percent drop in profits for the fourth quarter.\n The company's sales force applauded the shake up.\n\n\n It's not something we're not used to in the industry.\n But I think right now, for AT and T and the people here, it's fairly intense as you might w- well imagine.\n\n\n I mean look at the stock.\n You know, since he's been here the stock skyrocketed so,\n Yeah I think he's doing the right thing.\n\n\n I think it's a good thing that they 're  finally going  to  be downsizing you know some management because there is a whole lot of waste.\n\n\n Good news for AT and T today.\n I think it's excellent for the company.\n\n\n But investors  are approaching the changes with caution shares of AT and T down nearly four at sixty-one and a half.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980126", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t31", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth quarter", "start_char": 409, "end_char": 427, "tid": "t32", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t31"}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 556, "end_char": 559, "tid": "t34", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t31"}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 941, "end_char": 946, "tid": "t33", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t31"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "CNN19980126.1600.1104.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0022 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0022. \n Jim Pattison to Seek\n@  Control of Innopac \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n T.INA \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nEARNINGS (ERN) \n VANCOUVER, British Columbia  \n\n   Jim Pattison Industries Ltd., one of a group of closely held companies owned by entrepreneur James Pattison, said it \"intends to seek control\" of 30%-owned Innopac Inc., a Toronto packaging concern. \n\n   Jim Pattison Industries, a holding company with annual sales of about C$1.9 billion, largely from car dealerships and grocery stores, did n't elaborate on the statement, and a company official declined further comment. \n\n   The company said it currently holds about 4.2 million of Innopac's 13.8 million common shares outstanding, which have an aggregate market value of about 137.8 million Canadian dollars (US$117.3 million). \n\n   Separately, Innopac reported a fourth-quarter loss of about C$2.6 million, or 18 Canadian cents a share, reflecting inventory write-downs. \nThe results made net income for the year ended Aug. 31 C$2.7 million, or 20 Canadian cents a share, down from C$9.7 million, or 70 Canadian cents a share last year. \nRevenue was C$291.6 million, up from C$252 million in 1988. \n\n   Martin Fabi, Innopac's president and chief executive, said Innopac viewed Mr. Pattison's decision to seek control as a \"very positive\" move. \n\"I'm happy that he feels positively about our company,\" he said. \nMr. Fabi wouldn't say directly whether Mr. Pattison has disclosed potential terms for his planned bid for control. \n\n   Among other things, Innopac is involved in recycling polystyrene foam products that are often used by fast food chains, such as McDonald's Corp., for food packaging. \nA joint venture involving units of Innopac and Mobil Corp. earlier this year opened the first U.S. polystyrene recycling plant, in Leominster, Mass.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 88, "end_char": 96, "tid": "t41", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 675, "end_char": 684, "tid": "t42", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "fourth-quarter", "start_char": 895, "end_char": 909, "tid": "t44", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1036, "end_char": 1044, "tid": "t49", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 31", "start_char": 1051, "end_char": 1058, "tid": "t50", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-08-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1158, "end_char": 1167, "tid": "t52", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 1224, "end_char": 1228, "tid": "t58", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 1789, "end_char": 1806, "tid": "t69", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0674.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0069\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nreport\n\n\n\n\nThe former chief executive of Deutsche Boerse, Werner Seifert, is to publish a book attacking the hedge fund investors who forced him to quit as head of the German stock exchange in May, the Financial Times reported on Monday.\n\nHowever, senior Deutsche Boerse figures believe that the book, to be published under the title \"Invasion of the Locusts\", could contravene the terms of Seifert's 10-million-euro (12-million-dollar) pay-off, possibly triggering legal action against him, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a spectacular boardroom coup in May, hedge funds, including London-based TCI, ousted Seifert over his plans for the Frankfurt stock exchange to take over the London Stock Exchange.\n\nIn the book, to be subtitled \"Intrigues, Power Battles and Market Manipulation\", Seifert offers a chronological narrative of the LSE bid battle, as well as a broader critical analysis directed against the growing power of such investors and the consequences for companies, FT said, quoting sources involved in the project.\n\nThe \"locusts\" of the title refers to the term the former head of the Social Democrat SPD party, Franz Muentefering, used for such investors, who bought up companies in Germany stripped them of their assets and then moved on.\n\nThe newspaper said Seifert believed the scope of the book falls outside the gagging order that Deutsche Boerse tried to impose on him in exchange for his pay-off.\n\nBut FT quoted a company director as saying the book was a \"scandal\" and that the stock exchange operator would seek to prevent or at least delay publication.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 596, "end_char": 599, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0069.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0174\n\nHELSINKI, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRussia, EU make breakthrough on terms of Siberian overflights\n\n\n\n\nRussia and the European Union on Friday made a breakthrough in resolving a 20-year dispute over the fees Moscow charges foreign airlines for permission to fly over Siberia.\n\nEuropean carriers pay more than 330 million euros (about 400 million U.S. dollars) annually in Siberian over-flight charges.\n\nAt the ongoing EU-Russia summit in Helsinki, Russia agreed to totally phase out the charges by the end of 2013, a year earlier than previous agreed.\n\n\"(The deal) opens a wide range of opportunities for strengthening EU-Russia relations, in particular in the transport field,\" said EU Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot.\n\n\"The agreement will significantly improve the competitive situation of our European airlines and ease their operations between Europe and the growing markets in Asia,\" he said.\n\nAn agreement on the matter is to be signed on the sidelines of the EU-Russia summit on Friday.\n\nThe EU has long lobbied Russia to put an end to the charges imposed on European airlines on all flights to Asia, which must fly over Siberia.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2013", "start_char": 519, "end_char": 534, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier than previous agreed", "start_char": 536, "end_char": 571, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1013, "end_char": 1019, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0174.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0366\n\nBUDAPEST, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHungarian film wins Dutch grand prix\n\n\n\n\nA Hungarian film won the grand prix of the 27th Noordeljik Film Festival in the Netherlands, local media reported Thursday.\n\n\"Porcelain Doll,\" directed by Peter Gardos, is based on three short stories, focusing on death, resurrection and vulnerability in the history of the 20th century.\n\nAdapted from Star Farm, a book of short stories by Hungarian writer Ervin Lazar, the three distinct fairy tales of \"Porcelain Doll\" concern the supernatural occurrences that arise when a community of Hungarian farmers is visited by the forces of state power.\n\nThe film had its world premiere at the Moscow Film Festival in June, and was given the Russian film critics' award. It has also received the Gene Moskowitz Award of foreign critics.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 213, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20th century", "start_char": 373, "end_char": 385, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 711, "end_char": 715, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0366.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0278\n\nDAMASCUS, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSyrian PM condemns Amman hotel attacks\n\n\n\n\nSyrian Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Ottri on Thursday sent a cable of condolences to his Jordanian counterpart Adnan Badran, condemning the terrorist acts that rocked three hotels in Amman Wednesday night.\n\nOttri denounced this \"heinous crime\" that claimed life of innocent persons and targeted security and stability in that country and condemned those who stand behind such \"ugly acts\", the official SANA news agency reported.\n\n\"Syria expresses solidarity with the brotherly Jordan in facing the machine of blind terrorism,\" Ottri said, extending his sincerest condolences to the victims' families and wishing the wounded quick recovery.\n\nMeanwhile, Speaker of Syria's People's Assembly (Parliament) Mahmoud al-Abrash sent a condolence cable to his Jordanian counterpart, condemning the bombings.\n\nAt least 57 people were killed and more than 110 others wounded in the blasts that struck the Grand Hyatt, the Radisson SAS and the Days Inn hotels in downtown Amman.\n\nThe al-Qaida terror group in Iraq claimed responsibility on Thursday for the three suicide bombings in an internet statement, but the authenticity of the statement could not be verified.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 290, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1129, "end_char": 1137, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0278.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0114\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nThai bourse up 0.58 points\n\n\n\n\nThe Stock Exchange of Thailand ( SET) index on Thursday moved up 0.58 points to close at 669.76 points.\n\nSome 1.36 billion shares worth 8.45 billion baht (201.19 million US dollars) changed hands.\n\nSET index lost 5.07 points to close at 669.18 points on Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 143, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 342, "end_char": 351, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0114.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0177\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCabinet approves draft of regulations on foreign-funded banks\n\n\n\n\nChina's State Council held an executive meeting Wednesday, to examine and approve in principle the draft of the regulations on the administration of foreign-funded banks.\n\nThe formulation of the regulations is aimed to meet the requirements of China's opening to the outside world and economic growth as well as to strengthen and improve the supervision and administration over foreign-funded banks and for the stable operation of the whole banking industry in the country, according to the meeting.\n\nThe meeting, which was chaired by Premier Wen Jiabao, also studied the issue of readjusting and regrouping state-owned companies.\n\nThe participants agreed that the country has made major breakthroughs in reforming the managerial system of state-owned enterprises. They called the readjustment and regrouping of state-owned firms \"a major task for the country's economic reform.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0177.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0009\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNon-performing loans volume could rebound, official of CBRC\n\n\n\n\nThe non-performing loan volume in China's banking industry could rebound despite its recent decline, says a senior official with the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC).\n\nJiang Dingzhi, vice-chairman of the China's banking industry watchdog, told the 10th Annual CEO Forum sponsored by Business Weekly that reforms of commercial banks should be deepened to establish a mature corporate governing structure.\n\nThe volume of non-performing loans was still large and under greater pressure of rebounding, said Jiang.\n\nAccording to CBRC statistics, by the end of September, non-performing loans in major commercial banks were 1.2 trillion yuan (150 billion U.S. dollars), 46.9 billion yuan less than the beginning of this year.\n\nThe non-performing loan ratio had dropped by 1.3 percentage points from the beginning of this year to 7.6 percent.\n\nJiang said that although there was surplus of capital fluidity as a whole, financing demand in some industries still exceeded supply.\n\nHe suggested that financing innovation in China's banking industry should be accelerated.\n\nThe CBRC would approve commercial banks with good pricing and risk controls to manage new credit products, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of September", "start_char": 674, "end_char": 694, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 839, "end_char": 848, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 940, "end_char": 949, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0009.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0013\n\nBUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAPEC ministers stress anti-corruption, transparency standards\n\n\n\n\nAPEC ministers said here Wednesday that APEC's goal of economic prosperity could not be achieved unless corruption, both in the domestic economies and in international business transactions, was effectively addressed and those individuals guilty of corruption were denied a safe haven.\n\nIn a joint statement issued on the conclusion of the two-day 17th APEC Ministerial Meeting Wednesday, ministers from the 21 member economies of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) said corruption is one of the largest barriers to APEC's road to free trade, further economic development and greater prosperity.\n\nThey reaffirmed that they would continue to look for avenues to effectively address this important issue within APEC and in other fora.\n\nThey commended the APEC Anti-Corruption and Transparency (ACT) Task Force for beginning its important work.\n\nThe ministers stressed the importance of capacity building programs and encouraged member economies to develop and submit capacity building projects in support of APEC works in transparency as well as in anti-corruption.\n\nThe APEC Budget Management Committee (BMC) has approved 85 projects designed to strengthen the infrastructure and capacity of developing areas of the regional economy, worth 5.5 million US dollars in 2005, and a further 2.2 million dollars will be available for projects later in 2006, a committee official announced here Monday.\n\nThe APEC ministers encouraged all member economies to take all appropriate steps toward effective ratification and implementation of relevant conventions. They urged all member economies to submit brief annual progress reports to the ACT Task Force on their APEC anti-corruption commitments, including a more concrete roadmap for accelerating the implementation and tracking progress.\n\nThe minister pledged to intensify regional cooperation to deny a safe haven to officials and individuals guilty of corruption, and encouraged greater cooperation in the areas of mutual legal assistance, extradition, asset recovery, and forfeiture of the proceeds of corruption.\n\nThey agreed to continue APEC's collective efforts to promote good governance, integrity, and transparency.\n\nThe ministers reiterated the importance of fulfilling the APEC Transparency Standards and the area-specific Transparency Standards.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 159, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 512, "end_char": 521, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1405, "end_char": 1409, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 1485, "end_char": 1489, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1527, "end_char": 1533, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0013.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0392\n\nPORT-AU-PRINCE, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nHaitian parliament boosts police firepower\n\n\n\n\nThe Haitian Chamber of Deputies has authorized some units of the national police to carry light weapons in addition to their sidearms, parliamentary sources said Wednesday.\n\nThe move is a reaction to rising violence, especially in Haiti's urban areas. Eight policemen have been gunned down in recent weeks.\n\nThe parliamentary list of authorized weapons includes submachine guns and assault rifles. Until now, police have carried only Smith and Wesson .38-caliber handguns.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 270, "end_char": 279, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent weeks", "start_char": 401, "end_char": 413, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 512, "end_char": 515, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0392.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0370\n\nMONTEVIDEO, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUN to establish logistics support base in Valencia, Spain\n\n\n\n\nThe United Nations will create a logistics support base in Valencia, Spain, for peacekeeping missions, Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said on Friday.\n\n\"At the new base, the United Nations will carry out logistical support activities such as electronic communication with peacekeeping missions on the ground,\" as well as do information technology and communications work, Zapatero told a press conference.\n\nSpain would invest about 12 million euros (14,4 million U.S. dollars) to develop the project, which will create nearly 300 direct jobs, Zapatero said, after meeting with outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday.\n\nZapatero said in a briefing that he was satisfied and proud about the creation of such logistics center which, he said, will have enormous consequences for the area around Valencia, and which shows his government's full commitment to the UN and to world peace.\n\nThe decision to create the support base for peace missions must be approved in the next few weeks by the UN General Assembly.\n\nThe Spanish prime minister was among the leaders attending the 16th Ibero-American Summit, which opened on Friday in Uruguay, a gathering of Spain, Portugal and their former colonies across the Americas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 284, "end_char": 290, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 762, "end_char": 768, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next few weeks", "start_char": 1112, "end_char": 1130, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1267, "end_char": 1273, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0370.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0343\n\nDOHA, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nIndia won the Asian Games women's field hockey bronze medal with a 1-0 win over South Korea at the Al-Rayyan stadium here on Wednesday.\n\nMamta Kharb scored the winner in the 16th minute by deflecting in a penalty corner as India avenged the 3-2 defeat by the Koreans in the seven-nation preliminary league.\n\nSouth Korea, beaten by China in the final in Busan four years ago, were thwarted in the second half by the Indian defence, especially goalkeeper Dipika Gongala and full-back Subhadra Pradhan.\n\nThe Indian girls made up for the disappointing display by their male counterparts who will return from the Asian Games without a medal for the first time.\n\nIndia must now wait for the outcome of the China-Japan gold medal clash later on Wednesday to know if they have earned a direct entry into the 2008 Beijing Olympics along with the finalists.\n\nAccording to the new qualification rules of the International Hockey Federation, India will go through if Japan wins the final.\n\nIf Olympic hosts China win, the additional spot will be given to a team from the Oceania region.\n\nMeanwhile, Malaysia finished fifth with a 5-0 rout of Taiwan. Siti Othman scored two goals and Nurairah Khushaini, Chitra Arumugam and Nadia Rahman one each.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 191, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 16th minute", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 425, "end_char": 439, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second half", "start_char": 458, "end_char": 473, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 804, "end_char": 813, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0343.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0260\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBaghdad\n\n\n\n\nA suicide car bombing attack killed four US soldiers south of Baghdad on Monday, the US military said in a statement.\n\n\"Four Task Force Baghdad soldiers were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked their checkpoint (Monday) along a road south of Baghdad,\" said the statement, adding the incident is under investigation.\n\nNames of the soldiers also were withheld pending notification of their families, said the statement.\n\nThe Task Force Baghdad is responsible for security in the capital Baghdad and the surrounding area.\n\nThe death toll has brought to over 2,050 the number of US military personnel who have died in Iraq since the US-led invation in March 2003, according to media reports.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 722, "end_char": 732, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0260.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0036\n\nTOKYO, April 10 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapan's machinery orders up 9.9 percent in February\n\n\n\n\nJapan's private sector machinery orders in February rose 9.9 percent from a year earlier, after growing 14.8 percent in the previous month, the Economic Planning Agency said Thursday.\n\nCompared with the previous month, the February orders dropped 1.6 percent, the agency said.\n\nThe data, excluding shipbuilding and power generation orders which tend to fluctuate widely, are considered leading indicators of corporate capital spending.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 10 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous month", "start_char": 229, "end_char": 247, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous month", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0036.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0321\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGatlin, Felix capture Jesse Owens awards\n\n\n\n\nWorld 200-meter champions Justin Gatlin and Allyson Felix were named winners of the 2005 Jesse Owens Award by USA Track and Field in Indianapolis on Monday.\n\nGatlin, who swept both 100m and 200m in the World Outdoor Athletics Championships in Helsinki, captured the award for the second year in a row.\n\n\"To win this award again is simply amazing,\" said Gatlin who won the 100m in 9.88 seconds, winning by .17 of a second in the largest margin in World Championships history.\n\nGatlin thus matched Maurice Greene from 1999 as the only men to complete a 100-200 world sprint title sweep.\n\nFelix, 19, won every race she entered and claimed her first world title in the 200m in 22.16 seconds, beating a field that included Olympic champion Veronica Campbell.\n\n\"I'm humbled to be chosen for this recognition,\" Felix said.\n\nFelix, the only teen to claim a world sprint crown, also won the US outdoor title in a world-leading 22.13 seconds. She had the three fastest times in the world this year at 200m and five of the top seven.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 260, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second year", "start_char": 381, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "9.88 seconds", "start_char": 485, "end_char": 497, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT9.88S", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 621, "end_char": 625, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "22.16 seconds", "start_char": 778, "end_char": 791, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-28T16:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "world-leading 22.13 seconds", "start_char": 1009, "end_char": 1036, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-28T22:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1083, "end_char": 1092, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0321.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0046\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesia denies pursuing security pact with Australia\n\n\n\n\nIndonesia Friday dismissed a report that it would sign a security pact with Australia during the bilateral meeting scheduled Monday on the resort island of Lombok.\n\n\"The security cooperation agreement that we are about to sign ( with Australia ) is not a security pact,\" Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda said at a news conference at his office here.\n\nThe security cooperation framework covers mutual respect of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the two countries, he said.\n\n\"In the security agreement, Australia puts its firm stance over the sovereignty of all Indonesian territories, including Papua, in a written statement,\" the minister said.\n\nThe draft of the agreement also covers bilateral cooperation in a wide range of security areas, including the fight against terrorism, smuggling and trafficking in people; aviation safety; natural disaster emergency response and nuclear energy.\n\nThe draft agreement is different from the security pact both countries signed in 1995, in which both countries agreed to help each other in case of attacks by another country, said Wirajuda.\n\nThe 1995 security pact was revoked in 1999, when Indonesia- Australia ties fell to the lowest due to the presence of Australian forces in East Timor, once one of Indonesian provinces that seceded from the Jakarta rule that year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 126, "end_char": 132, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 247, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1101, "end_char": 1105, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1250, "end_char": 1254, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "that year", "start_char": 1430, "end_char": 1439, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0046.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0271\n\nAMMAN, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: King Abdullah says Jordan won't be blackmailed\n\n\n\n\nJordan's King Abdullah II said in a televised speech Thursday evening that his kingdom will not be \" blackmailed\" by terrorism after three deadly bombings ripped through three hotels in downtown Amman Wednesday night.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0271.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0193\n\nNANNING, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPirate CD maker and smuggler sentenced to life in south China\n\n\n\n\nA pirate CD maker and smuggler was sentenced to jail for life by an intermediate people's court in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region on Thursday.\n\nThe court also ordered that 4 million yuan (500,000 U.S. dollars) of Lin Yuehua's personal property be confiscated.\n\nLin was the boss of a CD piracy and smuggling operation, the largest one which has been so far uncovered in China. His eleven accomplices were also given jail sentences ranging from two to fifteen years.\n\nThe twelve were convicted of intellectual property rights violation and smuggling.\n\nThe court said Lin and his men bought five advanced CD production lines worth more than ten million U.S. dollars and established a company abroad in 2002, mass producing pirate DVDs and VCDs.\n\nThe gang then smuggled the pirated audio and video products into the Chinese mainland.\n\nFrom Dec. 2002 to May 2005, Lin's company smuggled into China over 30 million discs worth 188 million yuan (about 23.5 million U.S. dollars), the court said in its verdict.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "fifteen years", "start_char": 589, "end_char": 602, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 838, "end_char": 842, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 2002", "start_char": 975, "end_char": 984, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2005", "start_char": 988, "end_char": 996, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0193.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0113\n\nTEHRAN, Dec 14 , 2005\n\n-politics-nuclear, ADDS EU reax ///\n\n\n\n\nIran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad launched a fresh attack against Israel on Wednesday, dismissing the Holocaust as a \"myth\" and saying the Jewish state should be moved as far away as Alaska.\n\nAnd with just a week to go before scheduled talks with the European Union -- which is seeking guarantees Tehran will not acquire atomic weapons -- the outspoken president vowed he would not compromise \"one iota\" on its nuclear programme.\n\n\"They have invented a myth that Jews were massacred and place this above God, religions and the prophets,\" the controversial right-winger declared in a speech carried live on state television.\n\n\"If somebody in their country questions God, nobody says anything, but if somebody denies the myth of the massacre of Jews, the Zionist loudspeakers and the governments in the pay of Zionism will start to scream,\" he said.\n\n\"Our proposal is this: give a piece of your land in Europe, the United States, Canada or Alaska so they (the Jews) can create their own state.\"\n\nHis comments drew swift condemnation from the European Union and Iran's arch-enemy Israel.\n\nAhmadinejad, a hardcore Islamic revolutionary who won a shock election victory in June, has already sparked international outrage over a string of anti-Israeli outbursts.\n\nIn October he said Israel \"must be wiped off the map\", and last week said Israel was a \"tumour\" that should be moved to Germany or Austria -- comments that were also condemned by the United Nations Security Council.\n\nBut his latest comments remove any doubt that he also backs revisionist historians -- often branded in the West as neo-Nazis -- who maintain Nazi Germany's systematic slaughter of an estimated six million Jews between 1933 and 1945 never took place.\n\n\"Why, under the pretext of this massacre, have you come to the heart of Palestine and the Islamic world ..., why have you created an artificial Zionist regime?\" he said.\n\nIn a sharp response, Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Mark Regev told AFP that Ahmadinejad's comments reflected a \"perverse vision of the world held by this regime and underline the danger should such an extremist regime have a nuclear capacity in the future.\"\n\n\"We hope these extremist comments by the Iranian president will make the international community open its eyes,\" he said.\n\nIsrael has consistently called for international action to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, with its chief of staff Dan Halutz claiming on Tuesday that Tehran would have all the necessary knowledge to build a warhead within three months.\n\nThe EU also condemned Ahmadinejad's remarks.\n\n\"The comments are wholly unacceptable and we condemn them unreservedly. They have no place in civilised political debate,\" said Britain's Minister for Europe Douglas Alexander, whose country currently holds the EU presidency.\n\nThe EU big-three -- Britain, France and Germany -- are expected to meet Iranian officials on December 21 in a bid to kick-start stalled diplomacy over Tehran's nuclear drive.\n\nBut Ahmadinejad spelled out that Iran was not ready to give in to demands to limit its work on the nuclear fuel cycle -- a process the regime insists is only directed to making electricity but which can also be extended to make weapons.\n\n\"Be certain that we will not back away one iota from our legitimate nuclear rights,\" said Ahmadinejad, who was speaking to thousands of people in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan.\n\n\"We have experienced your attitude and we will no longer be duped by your lying propoganda.\"\n\nThe EU, backed by the United States, is now pinning its hopes for a compromise under which Iran's enrichment work would be carried out in Russia, although this has also been rejected by Tehran.\n\nThe UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, has still not ruled -- after an almost three-year investigation -- on whether Iran's nuclear programme is peaceful.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 304, "end_char": 310, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1266, "end_char": 1270, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1359, "end_char": 1366, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1415, "end_char": 1424, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1933", "start_char": 1791, "end_char": 1795, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1933", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1945", "start_char": 1800, "end_char": 1804, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1945", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2533, "end_char": 2540, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 2618, "end_char": 2630, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 21", "start_char": 2999, "end_char": 3010, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 3650, "end_char": 3653, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0113.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0150\n\nYINING, URUMQI, Nov. 30 , 2006  (Xinhua)\n\nActivity centers help Uygur children face up to AIDS\n\n\n\n\nBefore stepping on to the stage, 10-year-old Amina (not her real name) looks back at her singing teacher. Reassured, the Uygur girl strides toward the center of the stage.\n\nNervously, the third grader began singing before the audience of 1,000, including her fellow students. It is a traditional Uygur ballad to thank parents, but the girl changes the lyrics, thanking her grandparents.\n\nShe was raised at her grandparents' home from the age of nine months. Her father was a drug addict who contracted HIV and her mother divorced him and remarried, leaving the child with her grandparents.\n\n\"I'll never forget you, my grandparents,\" she sings in Uygur, the language of the largest ethnic group in northwest China's underdeveloped Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.\n\nThe performance of song, dance and drama is put on by children from Yining city's Kardun town, an area plagued by drugs and a rising number of HIV cases, to mark the 19th World AIDS Day on Dec. 1.\n\nThere are 800 people reported to be living with HIV in the town, including more than 100 under the age of 18, local government statistics show.\n\nThe city is the only area recording a rise in HIV cases in the region, an overwhelmingly Muslim region with an estimated 60,000 infections, one-tenth of China's AIDS cases.\n\nLike Amina, the performers are from a community-based children's activity center supported by Save the Children, a UK-based non-governmental organization for child welfare.\n\nThe center, a single-storey white brick house, is a few minutes walk from many homes. For Amina, it is a place where she can find friends to play with, draw, watch movies, and forget her sadness.\n\nTo protect children from HIV/AIDS, the center teaches them about drug taking, AIDS and how to treat people living with HIV without prejudice.\n\nOther activities like group discussions and art sessions teach the children about the dangers of drugs and the risks AIDS.\n\nAmong scores of paintings hanging on the wall, there is one drawn by Amina: a needle under a big red cross that symbolizes the little girl's wish to eliminate drugs.\n\nAdults are also invited to join the activities. A non-discriminatory environment is crucial to people tested HIV positive and their families. Adults' attitudes play a key role in the process as they influence others, particularly their kids.\n\n\"These activities give children infected with the HIV virus or living with HIV positive families comfort and hope,\" said Zhao Qi, a health official of Save the Children's China program.\n\nShe recalled a 10-year-old boy who refused to go to school when he learned his mother had contracted HIV last year. He cried, locked himself in his room and refused to talk with her.\n\nHe was later called to take part in a center-supported research program to interview vulnerable children, including children with one or both parents HIV positive.\n\n\"I learned that my mother was uncomfortable and regretful and I had added to her pain,\" the boy wrote in his interview record. After that, he talked with his mother and asked for her forgiveness.\n\nIn a dozen provinces around the country, Save the Children has set up more than 40 children's activity centers to create a protective and developmental environment for children, a concept welcomed by local governments.\n\nFor China, home to an estimated number of 650,000 people living with the HIV virus, \"a small percentage point rise in the spread of HIV would translate into alarming infection figures\", says Zhao. \"Teaching children to be aware of AIDS is critical.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nine months", "start_char": 567, "end_char": 578, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1", "start_char": 1076, "end_char": 1082, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "HIV last year", "start_char": 2740, "end_char": 2753, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0150.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0486\n\nCLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec 4 , 2005\n\nIndians reportedly sign veteran hurler Byrd\n\n\n\n\nThe Cleveland Indians, in search of a replacement for Kevin Millwood, have agreed to terms with veteran righthanded pitcher Paul Byrd on a two-year deal, ESPN reported on its website on Sunday.\n\nThe deal is worth 14.25 million dollars, ESPN reported, and Byrd, who turned 35 on Saturday, can receive up to 22 million dollars if the Indians exercise their club option for the 2008 season.\n\nOriginally a fourth-round pick of Cleveland in 1991, Byrd is coming off a productive season for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, during which he went 12-11 with a 3.74 ERA in 31 starts for the American League West champions.\n\nByrd, who has made a career out of changing speeds and arm angles, struck out 102 in 204 1/3 innings but walked just 28.\n\nHe effectively is stepping into the hole in the Indians' rotation vacated by Millwood, who went 9-11 with a league-best 2.86 ERA last season but is expected to leave via free agency.\n\nIn parts of 10 major league seasons with five different teams, Byrd has a career record of 72-64 with a 4.23 ERA. A former All-Star, Byrd's best season came with Kansas City in 2002, when he went 17-11 with a 3.90 ERA.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2005", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 380, "end_char": 388, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 2008 season", "start_char": 473, "end_char": 488, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last season", "start_char": 970, "end_char": 981, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "4.23 ERA", "start_char": 1129, "end_char": 1137, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04T23:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1202, "end_char": 1206, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "3.90 ERA", "start_char": 1234, "end_char": 1242, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0486.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0143\n\nANKARA, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nOIC economic standing committee to meet in Istanbul\n\n\n\n\nThe 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) will be held in Turkey's largest city of Istanbul on Nov. 21-24, local media reported on Monday.\n\nProjects and issues regarding the improvement of economic and commercial cooperation among OIC member states will be debated during the meeting, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.\n\nMoreover, second round of the trade negotiations within the context of Framework Agreement Trade Preferential System (TPSOIC) will take place during the meeting, it added.\n\nMinisters of economy from OIC member states as well as observer countries are expected to participate in the meeting, which will be under the chairmanship of Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer.\n\nCOMCEC is one of the three standing committees established by the Third Islamic Summit Conference held in Mecca and Taif in 1981.\n\nThe committee, which was under the presidency of Turkey since 1984, is mainly responsible for the development and coordination of multilateral economic and commercial cooperation between the member states.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 21-24", "start_char": 309, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 345, "end_char": 351, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1981", "start_char": 1043, "end_char": 1047, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1981", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1984", "start_char": 1112, "end_char": 1116, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0143.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0106\n\nBUCHAREST, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: A MiG-21 crashes in Romania\n\n\n\n\nA MiG-21 fighter jet crashed in western Romania's Arad county on Wednesday.\n\nThe accident occurred at about 13:00 local time (GMT 11:00), according to a local Reality TV report. More", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0106.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0197\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nchildren trampled to death\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinese government will tighten safety provisions in elementary and secondary schools after six children were trampled to death at a school in east China.\n\nLocal education departments should conduct thorough inspections of corridors and stairways and check school buildings, canteens, dormitories and bathrooms, Education Minister Zhou Ji said Monday at a teleconference on the school administration.\n\nSix middle school students, five boys and a girl aged 12 and 13, died and 39 were injured in east China's Jiangxi Province on Saturday evening.\n\n\"The root of the accident lies in the school's faulty management,\" Zhou said. \"The accident has taught us a hard lesson, and exposed serious safety risks in schools.\"\n\nThe ministry would evaluate the work of school principals, who played a key role in safety and had ultimate responsibility for safety administration, Zhou said.\n\nMeanwhile, Vice Minister of Health Jiang Zuojun told the meeting that school hygiene standards were \"alarming\".\n\n\"More than 70 percent of public health incidents occur in schools and more than 80 percent involve the spread of infections diseases,\" Jiang said.\n\nSanitary conditions at most schools in rural China were bad, and threatened food and drinking water safety. \"Food poisoning and diseases caused by unsanitary water occur frequently,\" Jiang said.\n\nLast month, 18 children fell ill after eating lunch in a kindergarten in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and earlier in October 56 children between three and six years old fell ill after eating at a nursery school in southern China's Jiangxi province.\n\nPrincipals who failed to meet the standards of their posts would be demoted and those whose dereliction of duty or misconduct caused accidents will be seriously punished, Zhou Ji said.\n\nThe local government of Jiujiang City, where the tragedy occurred, appears to be holding the school responsible for the incident. The school principal has been detained by the local authorities.\n\nEarlier this month, a primary school principal in southwest China was sacked over a food poisoning incident in late September that affected 92 pupils, including 23 who were hospitalized.\n\nSchools should hold high qualifications in selecting principals and teachers, State Councilor Chen Zhili said.\n\nJiang called for more communication and coordination between health and education departments to strengthen disease prevention and outbreak monitoring in schools.\n\nAccording to the Education Ministry, China has more than 450,000 elementary and secondary schools with more than 210 million students and over 120,000 kindergartens with 22 million children.\n\nZhou also called for immediate measures to eliminate safety risks involving food poisoning, student fights and other mass incidents.\n\nChen urged more investment in schools in rural areas to improve their infrastructure and raising the professional ethics of teachers.\n\nCreating a safe and harmonious campus for students should be the major task of schools so that the young Chinese can develop healthily and in an all-round way, Chen said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 436, "end_char": 442, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "13", "start_char": 555, "end_char": 557, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1913", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday evening", "start_char": 620, "end_char": 636, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-18TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last month", "start_char": 1426, "end_char": 1436, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 56", "start_char": 1565, "end_char": 1575, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six years", "start_char": 1603, "end_char": 1612, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this month", "start_char": 2080, "end_char": 2098, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late September", "start_char": 2191, "end_char": 2205, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0197.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0017\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 17 , 2006, 2006\n\nThree US servicemen killed in Iraq\n\n\n\n\nThree US soldiers have been killed in Iraq by a roadside bomb while on a routine patrol, the US military announced Sunday.\n\nThe three soldiers died and a fourth was wounded when the bomb exploded near one of their vehicles north of Baghdad on Saturday, the army said.\n\nThe latest deaths bring the number of US fatalities in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 2,944 according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures. In December alone, at least 61 have died.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 335, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 431, "end_char": 441, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 516, "end_char": 524, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0017.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0071\n\nBEIRUT, Dec 31 , 2006, 2006\n\nFrance reaffirms support for Lebanon govt\n\n\n\n\nFrench Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie on Sunday stressed Paris's support for the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora during a visit to the crisis-wracked nation.\n\n\"I have come to reaffirm France's support for the legitimate government of Lebanon,\" she told reporters after meeting her Lebanese counterpart Elias Murr.\n\nAlliot-Marie also stressed Paris's backing for the Beirut government to \"exercise its sovereignty completely\", and that the Lebanese army play \"a role across all its territory\".\n\nLebanon is undergoing a political crisis with opposition led by Shiite movement Hezbollah seeking to bring down Siniora's government and install a government of national unity.\n\nThe French minister, who arrived in Beirut on Saturday for a 48-hour visit, was also to meet Siniora before heading to south Lebanon for New Year's Eve with the French contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).\n\nThe French UNIFIL troops are stationed 20 kilometres (12 miles) east of the port city of Tyre, at Deir Kifa.\n\nWith a 1,600-strong force of \"blue helmets\", France is the second largest contributor to UNIFIL, beefed up after the UN-brokered truce between Lebanon and Hezbollah took effect on August 14.\n\nFrance will transfer command of the 11,000-strong force to Italy, the main contributor with 2,300 soldiers, in the coming weeks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 31 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 842, "end_char": 850, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "New Year", "start_char": 933, "end_char": 941, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 14", "start_char": 1323, "end_char": 1332, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the coming weeks", "start_char": 1446, "end_char": 1462, "tid": "t6", "type": "SET", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0071.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0141 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0141. \n Du Pont Posts\n@  19% Profit Rise\n@  For 3rd Quarter\n@  ----\n@  By Richard Koenig\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n DD VO \n EARNINGS (ERN)\nCHEMICALS, PLASTICS (CHM)\nDIVIDENDS (DIV) \n\n   Du Pont Co. reported that third-quarter profit grew a robust 19% from a year ago on the strength of the company's operations in various chemicals and fibers, and in petroleum. \n\n   Du Pont also raised its quarterly dividend to $1.20 a share from $1.05, a change that will increase the annualized payout to shareholders by some $140 million. \n\n   Du Pont, unlike companies hurt badly by sharp price declines for basic chemicals and plastics, is benefiting from its broad range of businesses. \nThe profit gain was made despite a weakening in the housing market, for which the company is a supplier, and a strengthening in the dollar, which lowers the value of overseas earnings when they are translated into dollars. \n\n   The Wilmington, Del., company reported net of $547 million, or $2.36 a share, which was in line with Wall Street estimates. \nIn the year-earlier period, the company earned $461 million, or $1.91 a share. \nSales in the latest quarter were $8.59 billion, up 9.4% from $7.85 billion. \n\n   The dividend increase was Du Pont's second this year, an affirmation of statements by top executives that they intend to increase rewards to shareholders. \n\"We have n't benefited the shareholder as much as we need to,\" said Edgar Woolard Jr., Du Pont's chairman and chief executive officer, in an interview several months before he entered his current position in April. \n\n   The largest beneficiary will be Seagram Co., which owns about 23% of Du Pont. \nA spokesman for Seagram, the Montreal wine and spirits concern controlled by the Bronfman family, said the company will post additional pretax profit of about $33 million a year because of the additional Du Pont dividends. \n\n   Du Pont also announced plans for a 3-for-1 stock split, although the initial higher dividend will be paid on pre-split shares. \nDu Pont's stock rose $2.50 a share to close at $117.375 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday. \nSeagram closed at $84.75, up 12.5 cents a share in Big Board trading. \n\n   Leading the gains for Du Pont in the latest quarter was its industrial products segment, where profit soared to $155 million from $99 million a year earlier. \nThe company benefited from continued strong demand and higher selling prices for titanium dioxide, a white pigment used in paints, paper and plastics. \n\n   James Fallon, a New Providence, N.J., marketing consultant to the chemicals industry, says Du Pont still holds an edge in making the pigment because the company was \"first in with the technology\" to lower costs. \nHe said Du Pont holds about 23% of the world-wide market, the largest single share, at a time when growing uses for the pigment have kept it in tight supply, although others are now adding low-cost production capacity. \n\n   Profit climbed to $98 million from $71 million in the petroleum segment, as Du Pont's Conoco Inc. oil company was helped by crude oil prices higher than a year ago and by higher natural gas prices and volume. \n\n   In the diversifed businesses segment, which includes herbicides, profit grew to $64 million from $27 million. \nA spokesman said herbicide use in some areas of the U.S. was delayed earlier in the year by heavy rains, thus increasing sales in the third quarter. \n\n   In the fibers segment, profit rose to $180 million from $155 million, a gain Du Pont attributed to higher demand in the U.S. for most textile products. \n\n   Two segments posted lower earnings for the quarter. \nProfit from coal fell to $41 million from $58 million, partly because of a miners' strike. \nAnd profit from polymers dropped to $107 million from $122 million amid what Du Pont called lower demand and 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0011\n\nJAKARTA, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS another quake ///\n\n\n\n\nTwo moderate earthquakes struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties, geologists said.\n\nAn earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit at 10:54 am (0254 GMT). It was centred 130 kilometres (80 miles) west of Kendari, the capital of Southeast Sulawesi province, and some 33 kilometres underground, the meteorological office said.\n\nThe tremor was felt in the town of Kolaka, 36 kilometres southeast of the epicentre.\n\nAn earlier earthquake of 5.6 on the Richter scale hit at 6:56 am and was centred 210 kilometres north-northeast of Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province.\n\nThe tremor was felt in Manado and on the nearby Sangihe islands. It came after another undersea earthquake Tuesday off the coast of Taiwan set off a brief tsunami alert. The quake left two people dead in Taiwan.\n\nThe Indonesian archipelago sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire where continental plates meet, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.\n\nIndonesia was the nation worst hit by the earthquake-triggered Asian tsunami in December 2004, which killed some 168,000 people in Aceh province.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 852, "end_char": 859, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2004", "start_char": 1178, "end_char": 1191, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0011.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0017\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHong Kong stocks finish higher at midday -- Nov. 23\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong stocks rose 138.60 points, or 0.93 percent, to finish the morning session at 15,024.25 on Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday.", "start_char": 215, "end_char": 225, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0017.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0055 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0055. \n Business Brief -- Oshkosh Truck Corp.:\n@  Firm Says Net Fell Sharply\n@  In Its Fiscal Fourth Quarter \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n OTRKB \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   Oshkosh Truck Corp., Oshkosh, Wis., estimated earnings for its fourth quarter ended Sept. 30 fell 50% to 75% below the year-earlier $4.5 million, or 51 cents a share. \n\n   The truck maker said the significant drop in net income  will result in lower earnings for the fiscal year. \nIn fiscal 1988, the company earned $17.3 million, or $1.92 a share, on revenue of $352.9 million. \n\n   Oshkosh Truck attributed the downturn in its earnings to higher start-up costs of its new chassis division, a softer motor-home market and higher administrative costs of compliance with government contractor regulations. \n\n   The company said it is in the process of phasing out John Deere, its current source of production for midsized motor home chassis. \nIn anticipation of the start-up of its new factory, the company said a larger-than-normal chassis supply  has  been built  to carry it through the transition period.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t2022", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "fourth quarter", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t2027", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t2022"}, {"text": "Sept. 30", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 303, "tid": "t2023", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t2022"}, {"text": "the fiscal year", "start_char": 474, "end_char": 489, "tid": "t2024", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t2022"}, {"text": "fiscal 1988", "start_char": 495, "end_char": 506, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0136.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0092\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRussian prime minister ends China visit\n\n\n\n\nRussian Prime Minister Mikhail Yefimovich Fradkov left Beijing on Friday afternoon, ending his official visit to China.\n\nDuring his stay in Beijing, Fradkov and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao held the 10th Sino-Russian Prime Ministers' Meeting.\n\nAt the invitation of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, Fradkov paid an official visit to China November 3-4.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday afternoon", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-10-28TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0092.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0381\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nWADA makes changes for 2007\n\n\n\n\nAlcohol is allowed for billiards players and chess mavens can use beta-blockers, but substances that work the same as masking agents are forbidden in 2007.\n\nThose are among the changes adopted by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) in changes to its 2007 prohibition list summarized in a release by the US Anti-Doping Agency here Tuesday.\n\nWhile the cue-stick crew can drink all they like and the check mates can keep their cool, WADA extended its reach by adding a term to masking agent that outlaws \"other substances with similar biological effect\".\n\nThat means that if a substance serves the same masking purpose as a banned substance, it also is banned even if not on the banned list.\n\nMost sport supporters would need a medical dictionary to figure out the bulk of the changes such as salbutamol, salmeterol, terbutaline and formoterol being allowed by inhalation with a theraputic use filing.\n\nSeveral stimulants were added to the 2007 ban list including benzylpiperazine, 4-phenylpiracetam (carphedon) and tuaminoheptane.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 422, "end_char": 429, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0381.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0308\n\nMONROVIA, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Johnson-Sirleaf set to be Africa's first female president\n\n\n\n\nHarvard-trained Iron Lady Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf appeared to be Africa's first elected female president as results from 90.8 percent of the polling stations on Thursday gave her a commanding advantage over football great George Weah in Liberia's post-war presidential runoff.\n\nThe 66-year-old grandmother and former finance minister had 59. 1 percent of the votes while the 39-year-old former FIFA player of the year had 40.9 percent, Frances Johnson-Morris, chairwoman of the National Elections Commission, told a news conference.\n\nVoter turnout was 59.8 percent from 2,719 of the 3,070 polling stations across the war-torn west African country, she said.\n\n\"We are elated that the Liberian people have placed their trust in us, but we will not make any official statement until the final results are announced,\" Morris Dukuley, spokesman for the Harvard- trained economist told Xinhua.\n\n\"We are waiting for the final results and from there, we will tell you what next,\" Dukuley said.\n\nThe camp of Weah, who rose from the slumps by dropping out of high school to take up a football career and became a millionaire, was not available for comments now, but Weah himself claimed on Wednesday that the election was marred by fraud and accused Johnson-Morris of bias against him.\n\nAt a news conference, he claimed that more than 35 pre-marked ballot papers intended to be stuffed in ballot boxes in favor of his challenger, were intercepted by his supporter as evidence to prove his claims.\n\nJohnson-Morris said that the electoral body had received a formal complaint from Weah and investigation into fraud allegation of Tuesday's runoff got underway. \"Hearings have been held today into the case filed by George Weah and the CDC (his party) and ruling is now being prepared by our legal department,\" she said.\n\nThe 28-member multinational delegation jointly organized by National Democratic Institute and the Carter Center released its preliminary report on Thursday on the runoff, the first since the end of the country's 14-year civil war in 2003.\n\n\"Overall, election day was calm and peaceful with few reported incidents of violence,\" they said. \"Liberians across the country expressed to observers their strong desire for peace and reconciliation, and their commitment to the democratic process as the means of choosing their leaders.\"\n\nThey recommended that the electoral body \"ensure that all election disputes are handled expeditiously upon submission of complaints, and in an impartial manner.\" \"Rulings should be announced as quickly as possible, with immediate redress and effective remedies provided as appropriate,\" they noted.\n\nMeanwhile, both parties should \"continue to instruct their party members and supporters to do the same and to refrain from violence. Both parties should refrain from inflammatory rhetoric or premature celebrations.\"\n\nAnalysts fear the worst that angry supporters of Weah, mostly youth, might turn to violence over the fraud allegations if he lost to Liberia's foremost female politician. Weah and Johnson- Sirleaf obtained 28.3 percent and 19.8 percent respectively in the first round.\n\nLiberia, founded in 1847 by freed American slaves, experienced a bloody civil war from 1989 to 2003 in which an estimated 250,000 people, about eight percent of its population, died and about one million made refugees.\n\nThe issues the winner will have to contend with are reconciliation among Liberians and reconstruction of basic social services such as schools, health care facilities, roads, safe drinking water, electricity as well as reintegrating thousands of ex-combatants and the creation of job opportunities.\n\nIlliteracy rate in the west African state stands at about 85 percent and unemployment is put at 80 percent. The country also owes an external debt around 3 billion US dollars.\n\nAnd the election is seen as the last hope of the war-torn country, blessed with diamond, gold, timber, iron ore and rubber as well as fertile soil, for a brighter future provided the outcome is accepted by all Liberians.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 536, "end_char": 544, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1274, "end_char": 1277, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1307, "end_char": 1316, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1744, "end_char": 1751, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1800, "end_char": 1805, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1879, "end_char": 1882, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2082, "end_char": 2090, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 2168, "end_char": 2172, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1847", "start_char": 3272, "end_char": 3276, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1847", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 3339, "end_char": 3343, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0308.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0385\n\nLONDON, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, details ///\n\n\n\n\nAn inquiry into illegal payments in English football is to target 17 transfers that need further investigation, Former Metropolitan Police commissioner Lord Stevens confirmed Wednesday.\n\nLord Stevens, who was investigating a total of 362 transfers, did not give details of the questionable deals as he delivered his \"observations and recommendations\" into alleged so-called bungs after a nine-month inquiry on Wednesday.\n\nBut he revealed that certain elements had been passed on to the police.\n\nLord Stevens revealed that \"eight major agents\" had not co-operated but he refused to identify the people involved.\n\nAs a result, his Quest team have been asked to look into a specific number of deals which took place between January 1 2004 and January 31 2006, under a new mandate.\n\n\"This is no witch hunt. This is no whitewash,\" Lord Stevens told a news conference.\n\n\"The reason why we are not naming names is the inquiry is ongoing. I know you would like us to name and shame but I can't do it at the present stage.\n\n\"The game, in relation to the majority of what we have seen, is clean but the accounting processes and monitoring of the clubs is in a mess.\"\n\nLord Stevens stressed all of his 38 recommendations must be adopted to safeguard the integrity of the game.\n\nThese include the creation of a body to handle the audit of transfers rather than the Football Association (FA).\n\n\"Every one of these recommendations must be implemented as they are essential to the future and reputation of this game,\" he said.\n\n\"Failure to do so will result in the game remaining under attack and its remaining members subject to allegations and innuendo.\n\n\"The FA and the compliance unit does not have the credibility of the public or the clubs,\" Lord Stevens said.\n\n\"The proposed regulation and compliance unit must be established with expertise and independence to take on this work.\n\n\"Part of the FA's problems has been the lack of forensic investigators and accountants. The work must be preventative.\"\n\nLord Stevens criticised the lack of assistance he had received from some agents during the course of his team's investigation.\n\n\"Agents failure to respond has resulted in delays to this inquiry,\" he said.\n\n\"We will be providing the Premier League with a number of incidences where mandated processes have not been followed.\n\n\"The frequency of these instances show the clubs neither anticipate nor are concerned by the strictures imposed by the FA.\n\n\"It is my view this further erodes the reputation of the game and those involved in it.\n\n\"Such scant disregard for the rules and regulations of this great game is unacceptable.\"\n\nLord Stevens called on cooperation from the FA and world football's governing body FIFA.\n\n\"It is very important indeed we have the co-operation of FIFA,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a changing time for football and it is about time. The health of the game depends on it.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 277, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 503, "end_char": 512, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1 2004", "start_char": 814, "end_char": 828, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 31 2006", "start_char": 833, "end_char": 848, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the present stage", "start_char": 1088, "end_char": 1105, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0385.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0005\n\nJAKARTA, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFresh political clashes break out in Java\n\n\n\n\nFresh violence between supporters of rival political parties erupted in four separate towns in Java province at the weekend injuring at least 20 people, party officials and reports said Monday.\n\nIn Solo, PPP supporters clashed with security members on Saturday, leaving at least 20 people injured while in nearby Klaten, a Golkar convoy was pelted by stones by pro-PPP villagers on Sunday, the Media Indonesia daily said.\n\nIn Temanggung district, southeast of Pekalongan, a convoy of PPP supporters clashed with members of two youth groups affiliated with the ruling Golkar party on Sunday, another PPP official there said.\n\nIn Pekalongan a town on the province's coast rocked by political violence since March, a mob damaged a government office in the early hours of Sunday but there were no casualties, an official of the Moslem-led United Development Party (PPP) said.\n\n\"It is the people, our supporters, not PPP members, who attacked the district assistant's office,\" the deputy chairman of the Pekalongan PPP chapter Nursianto (Eds: one name) said by telephone.\n\nHundreds of people, mostly riding motorcycles, attacked the office, 11 kilometres (7 miles) west of Pekalongan in the early hours, pelting it with stones, breaking window panes and doors, the Jayakarta daily said.\n\nThe daily said the mob had been part of a larger one which had toured the town in vehicles, yelling pro-PPP slogans, after attending a prayer session late on Saturday.\n\n\"There have been reports of arrests but I have not been able to confirm them,\" Nursianto.\n\nThe Pekalongan police declined comment saying the situation was \"under control\" and \"calm.\"\n\nIn a separate incident, a rowdy convoy of PPP supporters returning from a party meeting in Ambarawa in the Semarang district was pelted with stones in the Kaloran sub-district of neighbouring Temanggung on Sunday.\n\nTemanggung PPP chapter spokesman Parjiono (Eds: one name), said the attack was by members of two youth groups affiliated to Golkar.\n\nPPP supporters on motorcycles toured the area around Solo on Saturday clashing with security members after they attempted to break through a security barricade in town.\n\nViolence has swept several Java towns in the past month, much of it connected to rivalry between the PPP and President Suharto's Golkar party, ahead of the general elections on May 29 with campaigning due to start on April 27.\n\nIndonesia's three official political parties -- Golkar, the PPP and the Indonesian Democracy Party (PDI) -- are contesting the May 29 parliamentary election.\n\nGolkar has been widely criticised for using government facilities and officials to gain support in general elections.\n\nThe country's six million civil servants are ordered to vote for Golkar, with pressure also applied on their wives, husbands and children to vote for the ruling party.", 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0466\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nThailand wins more gold in Fespic Games\n\n\n\n\nThailand's Pichet Krungget Monday shattered American Matt Parry's world record of 14.78 seconds in the men's 100-meters wheelchair event at the 9th Far East  South Pacific Games for the Disabled (FESPIC) in Kuala Lumpur.\n\nThe 2004 Athens Paralympic gold medallist's record of 14.76 seconds erased the old mark the American set at the 1998 Paralympic Games in Atlanta.\n\nThe silver medal went to China's Yu Shiran, while the bronze was won by Hong Suk-man of South Korea.\n\nThe 31-year-old Pichet is the second Thai to brake a record at the FESPIC Games following Prawat Wahorum's mark of 10'40\"48 for the men's 5,000-meters wheelchair event on Sunday.\n\nThe wheelchair-bound Pichet now must honor his promise to organize an open-air movie show.\n\n\"Before I came here I made a wish that I will host an outdoor movie show for one night. I guess I have to keep my promise when I get back home, but I still have more events to complete,\" said Pichet, who will also contest four more events -- the men's 200m, 400m, 4x100m and 4x400m.\n\n\"I tried to go out there pressure free. Breaking the world record is an extra,\" said the 2005 Asean Para Games champion.\n\nEarlier in the event, Thailand's Peth Rungsri won two more gold medals from athletics and broke two Games records. He won the men' s wheelchair 200m in 33.52 seconds, bettering Japan's Yasunari Yaezawa's record of 36.88, and also clocked 19.25 seconds in the 100m wheelchair event to break the old mark of 19.62 seconds set by Yasunari.\n\nThailand won three more gold medals through Suphachai Koysab in the men's wheelchair 100m event, Jirawat Meesuk in the men's 200m wheelchair and Jakkit Punthong in the men's long jump.\n\nThailand collected another five gold medals from the swimming event and one gold medal each in the weightlifting, judo and tennis.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 128, "end_char": 134, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 743, "end_char": 749, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 780, "end_char": 783, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one night", "start_char": 921, "end_char": 930, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-28TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "33.52 seconds", "start_char": 1402, "end_char": 1415, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT33.52S", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0466.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0150\n\nJINAN, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. replaces Japan as E. China province's No.2 trade partner\n\n\n\n\nThe United States has become the second largest trade partner of east China's Shandong Province, replacing Japan, a geographically close and long-time partner of the coastal province, according to local customs.\n\nTrade between Shandong Province and U.S. reached 9.72 billion US dollars by the end of October this year, with a year-on-year rise of 40.7 percent, statistics from Qingdao Customs show.\n\nFrom January to October, Shandong's foreign trade amounted to 62.44 billion US dollars, up 27.8 percent compared to the same period during the previous year, exceeding the whole year's trade volume in 2004.\n\nThe import volume topped 24.89 billion dollars and the exports reached 37.55 billion, rising 21.2 percent and 32.6 percent respectively.\n\nThe Republic of Korea remained Shandong's largest trade partner with a trade volume of 12.82 billion dollar, a quarter of Shandong's total in January-October period, Japan slipped to the No.3 partner.\n\nExport of machinery, electronics, textiles and farm products saw robust growth, rising 56.1 percent, 12.4 percent and 21 percent respectively in October.\n\nForeign-invested enterprises, as a province's major engine in export and import, contributed more than half of Shandong's total trade volume, while private firms saw their foreign trade rising 72.3 percent from a year earlier.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October this year", "start_char": 421, "end_char": 438, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 526, "end_char": 533, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 537, "end_char": 544, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous year", "start_char": 660, "end_char": 677, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 722, "end_char": 726, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January-October period", "start_char": 1009, "end_char": 1031, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1214, "end_char": 1221, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 1435, "end_char": 1449, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0150.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0512\n\nANKARA, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTurkey releases leaders of pro-Kurdish party\n\n\n\n\nA Turkish state security court Monday ordered the release of 13 leaders of the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party (Hadep) who have been in jail since last June, a party official said.\n\n\"Party leader Murat Bozlak and 12 other party administrators were released at the end of today's hearing,\" Hadep official and former MP Sirri Sakik told AFP.\n\n\"This is a delayed but positive step towards internal peace and we are happy about this,\" Sakik said.\n\nBozlak and the other party leaders were arrested at the end of a party congress here on June 23 last year, which became the scene of the desecration of the Turkish flag by a Kurdish youth.\n\nThe trial of the Kurdish youth, who is still under arrest, and the released Hadep leaders will continue in May, Sakik said.\n\n\"But the release of the party officials might be an indication that they will be acquitted,\" he added.\n\nTelevision footage showing the huge Turkish flag being thrown onto the floor by the masked youth at last year's Hadep congress caused public outrage.\n\nThe Ankara state security prosecutor has demanded capital punishment for the youth, Faysal Akcan, who has confessed to the incident.\n\nThe prosecutor has also sought 22-year prison sentences for Bozlak and 23 other Hadep officials on charges of \"setting up an armed gang.\"\n\nBozlak said at the previous hearing last Friday that he and the other party leaders were not responsible for the flag's desecration, adding Hadep \"denounces such actions.\"\n\n\"It is now becoming clear that accusations against the Hadep officials are baseless,\" Sakik said.\n\nHadep failed to enter parliament in Turkey's general elections in December 1995 as it received about 4.5 percent of the national vote, well short of the required 10 percent threshold.\n\nDuring the election campaign, Hadep had said it supported the rights of the Kurds, but that it was not a separatist group.\n\nThe party grew out of the defunct pro-Kurdish Democracy Party, which was banned three years ago on the grounds of cooperation with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).\n\nThe PKK has been waging a separatist war in southeastern Turkey since 1984 and more than 23,000 people have been killed in violence in the region since then.\n\nFour former Democracy Party deputies were sentenced in 1995 to 15 years in prison for collaboration with the PKK. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0057\n\nJAKARTA, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\nIndonesia says aid workers have priority for Internet use\n\n\n\n\nIndonesia's head telecommunications official Thursday called on people to limit Internet use to give priority to aid workers in disaster areas.\n\nIndonesia and many other countries in the region have had little or no Internet access since a quake off Taiwan on Tuesday damaged underwater fibre-optic cables.\n\n\"I call for everyone to cut down international bandwidth usage and give the chance to the ones needing it most,\" post and telecommunications director general Gatot Dewobroto said on ElShinta radio.\n\n\"There are many NGOs in disaster areas such as in Aceh who are depending so much on the Internet for their communications. They are the ones feeling the most impact,\" Dewobroto said.\n\nAid workers have been rushing supplies to help the hundreds of thousands of people displaced by floods in northern Sumatra.\n\nIndonesian Internet service providers (ISPs) were meanwhile working to bypass the damaged cables by using a satellite connection.\n\nBut regulations which prohibit use of foreign satellites in Indonesia unless reciprocal rights are granted could be a problem, said Sylvia Sumarlin, head of the Indonesian Internet Service Providers' Association.\n\n\"It would be wise if the government could permit the providers to gain the rights to use other satellites, in addition to their existing rights to use existing satellites,\" she told The Jakarta Post.\n\nIndonesian ISPs mostly use Hong Kong-based satellites, she said.\n\n\"This is an emergency, if the government fails to do so and sticks to the existing regulation, it will only worsen the situation as it will take at least a month for a multilateral agreement on foreign satellites to be reached,\" she said.\n\nSumarlin told the Post her association was still calculating the potential damage caused by the service disruption.\n\nIndonesia has a relatively low rate of Internet access, with an estimated 16 million users out of a population of 220 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 375, "end_char": 382, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0057.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0010\n\nHARBIN, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ncontamination\n\n\n\n\nWater supply will be stopped for four days as of Tuesday evening in this capital city of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province due to possible river contamination caused by a recent chemical plant explosion, the local government announced.\n\nThe unexpected stoppage of water supply has sparked a dashing purchase of drinking water in the city of 3 million people, and bottled water, various beverages and even boxed milk were sold out by Tuesday morning in some supermarkets and food stores.\n\nThe municipal government of Harbin said in two separate statements on Monday and Tuesday that the city's water supply system will be shut down for about four days as of 8 p.m. Tuesday, for fears that a chemical plant blast on November 13 may have caused a leakage of poisonous substances into the Songhua River, which supplies water to Harbin.\n\nThe blast took place at noon in a workshop of the No. 101 Chemical Plant of Jilin Petrochemical Company based in Jilin City, Jilin Province that borders Heilongjiang, leaving five dead, one missing and more than 60 others injured.\n\nThe plant is only a few hundred meters away from the river.\n\nEnvironment monitoring bureaus said no abnormal signs have been detected in the Harbin section of the river, which flows through the central part of the city, but conceded that there was the possibility of contamination in the future from the upper reaches.\n\nHarbin is located at the middle reaches of the 1,840-km river, which originates in Jilin.\n\nThe Harbin authority has ordered all bathhouses and car-wash facilities to stop operations during the four days and instructed the city's administration of industry and commerce, price bureau and police to strengthen surveillance over the market and maintain social order.\n\nIt also advised urban residents, enterprises and government organizations to get well prepared for the water cutoff.\n\nAnxious 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0128\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAsia-Pacific regional seminar on water management held in Singapore\n\n\n\n\nAn Asia-Pacific regional seminar on sustainable water management, organized by the Germany- Singapore Environmental Technology Agency (GSETA), opened here on Monday.\n\nWith the participation of some 70 experts and government officials from Germany, Singapore and 15 other economies in the region, the three-day meeting focuses on the latest developments, technological advances, best practices and upcoming challenges faced in sustainable water and waste water management.\n\n\"The need to implement sound environmental and water policies is a key priority for all countries, especially since the world population continues to grow rapidly and natural resources become more limited,\" Singapore Minister for the Environment and Water Resources Yaacob Ibrahim said at the opening ceremony.\n\nHe added that long-term integrated water management and planning, technology, as well as getting the public engaged in water conservation, are important factors in ensuring sustainable use of water around the world.\n\nEstablished in 1991 by the governments of Germany and Singapore, the GSETA has organized 16 regional activities relating to various environmental issues with the aim of transferring environmental know-how and expertise into the Asia-Pacific region.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 295, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1148, "end_char": 1152, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0128.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0189\n\nPARIS, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nRough diamond\n\n\n\n\nTati, the distinctly downmarket Paris department store, took an audacious step upwards Wednesday by opening a jewellery shop in the French capital's top gems district.\n\nThe chain store, whose distinctive pink and blue logo is synonymous with cheap and cheerful, opened its latest boutique just round the corner from Place Vendome, mecca for diamond and gold trinkets for the super-rich.\n\nTati's offerings start at a modest 20 francs (3 dollars) for a gold- plated heart, while its top-of-the-range solitaire ring should just about reach into neighbouring shops' price league at 30,000 francs.\n\n\"You have to go fishing where the other fishermen are; it's a sign there are fish to be had,\" said manager Laurent Fargeon, whose company snapped up the swank address when an airline moved out.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0189.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0499\n\nMOSTAR, Bosnia-Hercegovina, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nItalian SFOR colonel found dead in suspected suicide\n\n\n\n\nAn Italian colonel serving with the NATO-led Stabilisation Force (SFOR) in Bosnia was found dead Wednesday morning at an SFOR base in this southern city, a spokesman said.\n\nColonel Roberto Petrucci, 57, was shot with a bullet fired from his own gun, SFOR spokesman Mike Fabbro told AFP, adding that suicide was suspected.\n\nPetrucci had served with the Italian army's artillery school at Bracciano near Rome and arrived in Bosnia in late January, Fabbro said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 51, "end_char": 66, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 228, "end_char": 245, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late January", "start_char": 563, "end_char": 575, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0499.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0142\n\nHARBIN, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSaturday\n\n\n\n\nThe front of the pollution slick on northeast China's Songhua River is expected to arrive at Jiamusi city, downstream from Harbin, which just passed a four-day water crisis, on Saturday, local environment authorities said Tuesday.\n\nThe 80-km-long toxic spill resulted from a blast at an upstream Jilin Petrochemical Company chemical plant under the China National Petroleum Corp on Nov. 13 in Jilin, Jilin Province.\n\nExperts estimated that around 100 tons of pollutants containing benzene flew into the Songhua River, which supplies the most water to Harbin, capital of neighboring Heilongjiang Province.\n\nJiamusi, the second largest city with a population of more than 2 million in Heilongjiang, relies on groundwater 50 to 70 meters deep for drinking water.\n\nThe city has started an emergency plan to monitor the water quality of the Songhua River.\n\nHarbin, a city of 3.8 million people, was forced to shut down its water supply system from the early morning last Wednesday to 6 p.m. of last Sunday.\n\nBy Tuesday, the water supply in most parts of the city had become normal and met drinking standards.\n\nBenzene is a clear, colorless, highly refractive flammable liquid derived from petroleum and used in or to manufacture a wide variety of chemical products, including detergents, insecticides, and motor fuels.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 246, "end_char": 254, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 298, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 13", "start_char": 451, "end_char": 458, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the early morning last Wednesday", "start_char": 1012, "end_char": 1044, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Sunday", "start_char": 1058, "end_char": 1069, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1075, "end_char": 1082, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0142.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0422\n\nWASHINGTON, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS Navy petty officer accused of rape in Japan\n\n\n\n\nA US Navy petty officer has been taken into custody by US military authorities in Japan after a local Japanese woman charged he raped and assaulted her, US television reported Wednesday.\n\nFox News said the woman allegedly was assaulted at the enlisted quarters for US navy personnel in Yokosuka, Japan.\n\nThe victim was taken to an army hospital where she was treated for a broken collarbone, cuts and abrasions, the report said, citing US military officials.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 284, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0422.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0103\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNepali gov't, UNHCR conduct Bhutanese refugees census\n\n\n\n\nThe United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Nepali government began conducting census of the approximately 106,000 Bhutanese refugees in eastern Nepal on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to the UN refugee agency, the joint government-UN census started earlier Wednesday at 10:00 local time (0415 GMT) from the Beldagi-1 camp in Illam district.\n\nThe census will be collecting all relevant details from refugees living in the seven camps in Jhapa and Morang districts.\n\nAccording to a statement from the UNHCR, the census team was made up of UNHCR-trained persons who will conduct the interviews in close co-operation and collaboration with the officials of the Nepali government to both count and update basic bio-data and profile of the refugees.\n\nThe refugee agency's newly developed progress software will be used to log an accurate record of the number of refugees and to collect other related information.\n\nPreviously, UNHCR representative in Nepal, Abraham Abraham, said that a reliable census data would help the Nepal government and UNHCR to provide better protection, security and support to the refugees on the basis of improved documentation on \"who is who \" and \"who is where\" to be able to respond to individual needs.\n\nSome 106,000 Bhutanese refugees have been living in seven camps in eastern Nepal for the last 16 years.\n\nAs many as 15 rounds of bilateral talks held between the two governments have failed to yield any results so far.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 386, "end_char": 395, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10:00", "start_char": 399, "end_char": 404, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 16 years", "start_char": 1443, "end_char": 1460, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P16Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0103.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0067 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0067. \n Who's News:\n@  Citadel Names Walbrecher\n@  As Chief Executive Officer \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CDL WNEWS \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n GLENDALE, Calif.  \n\n   William C. Walbrecher Jr., an executive at San Francisco-based 1st Nationwide Bank, was named president and chief executive officer of Citadel Holding Corp. and its principal operating unit, Fidelity Federal Bank. \n\n   The appointment takes effect Nov. 13. \nHe succeeds James A. Taylor, who stepped down as chairman, president and chief executive in March for health reasons. \nEdward L. Kane succeeded Mr. Taylor as chairman. \n\n   Separately, Citadel posted a third-quarter net loss of $2.3 million, or 68 cents a share, versus net income of $5.3 million, or $1.61 a share, a year earlier. \n\n   The latest results include some unusual write-downs, which had an after-tax impact of $4.9 million. \nThose included costs associated with the potential Valley Federal Savings and Loan Association acquisition, which was terminated on Sept. 27, 1989. \nIn addition, operating results were hit by an increase in loan and real estate loss reserves. \n\n   In American Stock Exchange composite trading, Citadel shares closed yesterday at $45.75, down 25 cents.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 115, "end_char": 123, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 13", "start_char": 452, "end_char": 459, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-13", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t21"}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 554, "end_char": 559, "tid": "t27", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-03", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t21"}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 664, "end_char": 677, "tid": "t29", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t21"}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 778, "end_char": 792, "tid": "t31", "type": "TIME", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t29"}, {"text": "Sept. 27, 1989", "start_char": 1032, "end_char": 1046, "tid": "t36", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 1216, "end_char": 1225, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t21"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0124.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0119\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st LD: White mice to test food for 2008 Beijing Olympics\n\n\n\n\nWhite mice will be used to test the safety of food prepared for 2008 Olympic Games athletes, say Beijing officials.\n\nMilk, alcohol, salad, rice, oil, salt and seasonings will be tested by white mice 24 hours before being used in cooking or served to athletes, said Zhao Xinsheng with the Beijing Municipal Health Inspection Bureau.\n\nHe told a meeting that mice would develop adverse reactions to poisoning within 17 hours, quicker than test methods like bacterial cultures.\n\nMost food for athletes would be Western style, complemented by Chinese dishes, said Zhen Xiaozhen, from the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games medical team, at the meeting on Olympics hygiene safety.\n\nZhao said all the food would be securely stored, and all food arriving at the Olympic restaurants would be recorded by control headquarters.\n\nMoreover, food deliveries would be vetted by public security personnel and quarantine departments and transported by special vehicles and staff.\n\nThe vehicles would be equipped with global positioning systems and food packages would be secured during transport, said an official with the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau.\n\nFood storage areas would be fitted with alarms, video cameras and fire controls, and kitchens guarded around the clock.\n\nStarting this month, health inspectors would receive training in Western food management and inspection techniques, said Liang Jin with the inspection bureau.\n\nTo ensure food safety, experts also suggested eliminating some foods from the menu for Olympic athletes to avoid doping problems.\n\nYang Shumin of the China Doping Control Center said that Olympic restaurants should not serve food such as animal livers because they might contain traces of drugs or additives consumed by the animal.\n\nNowadays lots of fowl and livestock are fed with additives that contain blacklisted hormones, he said, noting that athletes who accidentally ate this kind of food might test positive in anti-doping urine tests.\n\nThe organizing committee should set strict standards for food suppliers regarding feed for fowls and livestock, banning them from using any additives which could cause doping problems, Yang told a meeting on Olympic food safety in July.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 hours", "start_char": 318, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT24H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "17 hours", "start_char": 532, "end_char": 540, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT17H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1413, "end_char": 1423, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 2340, "end_char": 2344, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0119.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0339\n\nMEXICO  CITY, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGuatemala fire death toll rises to 18\n\n\n\n\nThe death toll in the fire that raged through Guatemala's largest open-air market on Monday has risen to 18, according to reports reaching here.\n\nThe fire broke out in an area of illegal fireworks stands in the El Granero Market, set up temporarily near a section of the permanent market shops, fire department spokesman Ricardo Lemus was quoted as saying.\n\nWitnesses said the fire was touched off by a burning cigarette, but officials said the cause of the blaze was still under investigation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0339.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0275\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 11 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nForeign capital encouraged to go west\n\n\n\n\nChina plans to encourage about 10,000 foreign companies and eastern-based businesses to go west in the next three years, a Ministry of Commerce official said.\n\nLi Zhiqun, director of the ministry's foreign investment management department said the ministry would take measures to push forward the go-west campaign.\n\nThe government would give strong support to development zones in central and west China as well as infrastructure construction, Li told a recent forum in Beijing.\n\nHe said the government hopes foreign investors to pour more funds into the high-tech, energy-saving and environmental protection sectors. Modern agriculture and services are also on the list.\n\nMultinational corporations are also encouraged to set up regional headquarters, research and development centers as well as training centers in west China.\n\nChina has been the largest recipient of foreign direct investment among the developing countries for 15 straight years.\n\nGovernment statistics show that some 90 percent of the foreign investment enterprises are located in east China, which worsens the unbalanced development between the west and the east, analysts say.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next three years", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 straight years", "start_char": 1030, "end_char": 1047, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0275.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0252\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S., Colombia sign trade promotion agreement\n\n\n\n\nThe United States and Colombia signed a trade promotion agreement Wednesday, eliminating tariffs and other barriers to trade in goods and services between the two countries.\n\nStill, the agreement, signed at InterAmerican Development Bank in Washington by Deputy U.S. Trade Representative John Veroneau and Colombian Commerce Minister Jorge Humberto Botero, will require a final approval by the U.S. Congress.\n\n\"The agreement will deepen and strengthen our trade ties by providing new opportunities for U.S. businesses, manufacturers, farmers and ranchers to export their goods and services to one of Latin America's most robust economies,\" said Veroneau in a statement.\n\n\"For Colombia, this agreement will provide permanent access to the U.S. market, which will aid in sustaining real growth, creating more jobs, and attracting new investment,\" Veroneau said.\n\nColombia is currently the 31st largest U.S. goods trading partner. In 2005, U.S. goods exports to Colombia totaled nearly 5. 5 billion dollars. Two-way goods trade between the two countries during 2005 amounted to 14.3 billion dollars, according to the statement.\n\nThe statement said that many products from Colombia already enter the U.S. market duty-free under the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) which expires on Dec. 31, 2006. This new agreement helps Colombia to expand its current access and lock in duty-free treatment for Colombian products.\n\nBuilding on ATPA, the agreement will ensure that U.S. products exported to Colombia likewise benefit from duty-free treatment, the statement said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 176, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1041, "end_char": 1045, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1168, "end_char": 1172, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 31, 2006", "start_char": 1390, "end_char": 1403, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0252.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0167\n\nLONDON, April 20 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBritish press whacks Tories harder than Labour\n\n\n\n\nBritain's newspapers -- tabloid and quality alike -- have already cast their vote in the May 1 elections, ganging up on Prime Minister John Major's Tory party and backing Labour party leader Tony Blair.\n\nAccording to CMS Precis, a media monitoring company, an analysis of favourable, unfavourable and neutral articles published on each of the two main parties over the last three weeks reveals harsher treatment for the government than the opposition.\n\nUnlike its predecessors, Blair's \"New Labour\" party has won wide print support while the Conservatives have seen their traditional backers walk away.\n\nThe bastions of left-wing journalism, The Guardian and The Mirror, now have The Sun in their pro-Blair camp. The Times hesitates, The Daily Express vacillates and the pin-striped businessman's staid companion, The Financial Times, seems on the point of making Blair the star of its pink pages.\n\nWhile the Tories still retain a number of \"friendly\" newspapers, such as The Daily Telegraph, their image and their elections messages are generally taking a cruel beating in the 14 million newspapers Britain sells every day.\n\nPerhaps the hardest blow was the loss of the once ferociously Conservative Sun newspaper, with a circulation of four million, the world's biggest-selling paper.\n\nOwned by Rupert Murdoch, the Australian-born US media magnate, the paper trumpeted on page one its switch to Blair, who Murdoch sees as a keen advocate of the policies espoused by former Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher.\n\nOn Friday's front page of The Times, another paper in Murdoch's stable, the officially Conservative stance seemed overlooked when the story started \"The government's European policy was in confusion last night...\"\n\nIn fact, the desire of many of the pro-Tory papers to see a more anti- European position from the government has resulted in much attention on splits in Major's party.\n\n\"Battle for Britain\" was how The Daily Mail headlined a story on the divisions, urging Eurosceptics to come forward and stand up to Major.\n\nBlair was ready to capitalise on the issue, with a recent contribution -- in The Sun -- titled: \"My Love for the pound by Tony Blair - Sun Exclusive!\"\n\nIn an April 16 editorial, the paper said: \"We don't want our laws, our taxes and our interest rates imposed on us by unelected foreigners... If Labour can acknowledge that fact, they will govern from a position of even greater strength.\"\n\nIt is in that leftward step by Conservative papers and the move to the right by Tony Blair that many observers see a waltz that is going to carry both partners right up to the polling date.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 20 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 199, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last three weeks", "start_char": 470, "end_char": 490, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 776, "end_char": 779, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every day", "start_char": 1219, "end_char": 1228, "tid": "t4", "type": "SET", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1623, "end_char": 1629, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last night", "start_char": 1819, "end_char": 1829, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 16", "start_char": 2302, "end_char": 2310, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0167.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0009\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesian Merapi volcano calms down after spewing hot clouds\n\n\n\n\nMt. Merapi in Indonesia's Java island calmed down Tuesday morning after spewing hot clouds up to three kilometers down from its peak Monday night.\n\nThe local government in Sleman district had called on people living on the volcano's slope to increase their awareness for possible more hot clouds and floods of cold lava.\n\n\"Merapi is still in the status of alert, and we are still monitoring its development,\" Sleman district head Ibnu Subiyanto was quoted by the national Antara news agency as saying.\n\nIn April, thousands of people living in the slopes of the mountain, located in the border area between Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces, were evacuated as it spewed volcanic materials and hot clouds up to six kilometers away from its peak.\n\nTwo were killed in the last eruption.\n\nIndonesia sits astride the \"Ring of Fire,\" a series of volcanoes and fault lines stretching from the Western Hemisphere through Japan and Southeast Asia to New Zealand.\n\nIt has more active volcanoes than any other nation.\n\nThe eruption of Mt. Merapi in 1994, killed 60 people. About 1, 300 people were killed when it erupted in 1930.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday morning", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 629, "end_char": 634, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 1164, "end_char": 1168, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1930", "start_char": 1239, "end_char": 1243, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1930", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0009.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0497\n\nWASHINGTON, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDalai Lama brings hopeful message on Tibet before White House meeting (pictures) (ADDS details)\n\n\n\n\nTibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, opened an international gathering of legislators here Wednesday with a hopeful message about the future of his Himalayan homeland.\n\nChina, whose invasion of Tibet caused the Dalai Lama to flee to India in the 1950s, \"is changing,\" he told a rapt audience overflowing a US congressional chamber.\n\n\"A growing number of Chinese show concern, in some cases a spirit of solidarity\" with Tibetans, he said, opening a World Parliamentarians Convention on Tibet that drew delegates from 27 countries. \"There is real hope.\"\n\nSpeaking without notes and in English for 30 minutes, the Buddhist monk cut a smiling saffron-and-burgundy figure in a room usually dominated by pinstripes.\n\nHe was to meet later in the day with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore at the White House, which will surely draw consternation from Beijing.\n\nOrganizers said he would seek greater US support for the six million Tibetans now living under what Western governments and human rights groups describe as increasingly heavy-handed and abusive Chinese rule.\n\nChina's official media reserve their most colorful insults for Taiwan leaders and the Dalai Lama alike, routinely accusing both of \"trying to split the (Chinese) motherland.\"\n\nDuring the Dalai Lama's recent six-day visit to Taiwan, one official Chinese newspaper accused the Buddhist monk and the Taiwan authorities of conniving together to divide China.\n\nOn Wednesday, the Dalai Lama indicated that he would likely open an office in Taiwan, which China views as a renegade province, within a month: \"It is finalized,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"I feel indirectly that I'm helping the Chinese government,\" the 61 -year-old cleric said. \"Stability under a weapon isn't genuine stability -- genuine stability comes from satisfaction.\"\n\nChina would likely dispute both those assertions, and a newsletter from the Chinese embassy here left little doubt this week that it wants to thwart international support for 1989 Nobel laureate and his followers.\n\nAn eight-page embassy document described substantial economic advances in Tibet under Chinese rule and attacked the Dalai Lama's own human rights record, saying \"the laws the Dalai Lama used in Tibet were the cruelest in the world.\"\n\nThe conference this week is hosted by the International Campaign for Tibet and Tibet's parliament in exile.\n\nThe Dalai Lama was also expected to meet with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. He earlier held private talks with members of Congress.\n\nChina's People's Liberation Army invaded Tibet in 1951. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0079\n\nAMMAN, Dec 23 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS Abbas spokesman  ///\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian president Mahmud Abbas has indefinitely postponed a visit to Jordan that had been scheduled for Sunday, Palestinian ambassador Atallah Khairy told AFP.\n\n\"President Abbas is determined to attend the Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem in accordance with the tradition set by the late Yasser Arafat,\" Khairy said Saturday.\n\nAbbas's spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told reporters in Ramallah that the Palestinian president planned to travel to Jordan on Monday.\n\nAbbas had been due to hold talks with King Abdullah II after deadly clashes in the Gaza Strip between his secular Fatah faction and the ruling Islamist movement Hamas following his call last weekend for early elections.\n\nAbdullah hosted Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during the latter's surprise visit to Jordan last week.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 23 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 201, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 416, "end_char": 424, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 552, "end_char": 558, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last weekend", "start_char": 747, "end_char": 759, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 878, "end_char": 887, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0079.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0180\n\nANKARA, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBoat carrying immigrants sinks in Aegean\n\n\n\n\nA boat carrying 25 people to Europe sank in the Aegean Sea near Izmir province in western Turkey on Sunday morning, local Cihan News Agency reported.\n\nThe boat was reportedly carrying 25 illegal immigrants, fourteen of them were rescued by the Turkish Coast Guard while three others, who managed to swim ashore, were seized in the Ulamis quarter of Izmir, according to the report.\n\nThe Turkish Coast Guard could not find the missing eight immigrants and the search for them continues, the report said.\n\nthose captured illegal immigrants from Somalia and Palestine were transferred to the Foreigners Office of the Izmir Security Authority to await deportation, added the report.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday morning", "start_char": 201, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0180.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0329\n\nGENEVA, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDenmark, allies brace for human rights clash with China by Jacques Boyer\n\n\n\n\nDenmark will fight to the last to muster maximum support for its draft resolution condemning human rights violations in China despite threats from Beijing, diplomats said here Wednesday.\n\nThe Danish delegation will present a draft resolution before the UN Human Rights Commission on Thursday and the 53 member countries will vote on the text next Tuesday.\n\nDenmark had been expected to present its resolution on Wednesday, but diplomats said it was waiting until the last minute in the hope of winning as much support as possible.\n\n\"We are seeking to get as many co-sponsors as possible. There is no reason to present it today,\" one diplomat said. The deadline for proposing the resolution is 1600 GMT Thursday.\n\nDenmark stepped in Saturday and announced it would put forward the motion critical of China after the European Union failed to agree on a joint position for the annual human rights debate.\n\nThe EU has previously sponsored a critical resolution on China each year since the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing in 1989, but France this year blocked a common EU stance.\n\nParis was supported by Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece, drawing fire for putting trade considerations first.\n\nWhile enthusiastically praising France and its allies, China warned Tuesday that any country supporting the resolution would harm its relations with the Asian giant.\n\n\"Supporting this resolution will not be beneficial to any nation's ties with China,\" foreign ministry spokesman Shen Guofang said.\n\nBut Danish Foreign Minister Niels Helveg Petersen said Tuesday that Denmark would not be swayed by Chinese warnings of retaliation, nor by Beijing's sudden announcement that it would sign the UN convention on economic, social and cultural rights before the end of the year.\n\nPetersen added that the divisions in Europe on the subject, which he said were the first in seven years with regard to China, constituted \"a serious setback for the European Union's common foreign policy.\"\n\nAt least 11 EU members as well as the United States and several other countries have already decided to co-sponsor the draft resolution, but diplomats said the resolution had little chance of being adopted.\n\nThey said no Asian country was expected to back the text after the defection of Japan, and African and South American countries are also expected to hold back.\n\nAll previous resolutions have been defeated as a result of intense lobbying by Beijing, which presents the debate as a clash between North and South.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0357\n\nJERUSALEM, April 18 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nState prosecutor reaches decision on Netanyahu\n\n\n\n\nIsrael's state prosecutor Edna Arbel said Friday she has already decided on whether to press corruption charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a botched appointment of attorney general.\n\nArbel told public radio that her decision, due to be announced on Sunday night, had been \"very difficult to take.\" The grounds for the decision will be drafted and passed on to new attorney general Eliakim Rubinstein for approval.\n\n\"The prosecutor's office has enough proof to reach a conclusion and we do not need any more investigation,\" the 53-year-old state prosecutor said in a separate radio interview.\n\n\"The differences between the first version of the affair as presented on Israeli television and the conclusions of the police inquiry will be clear. The media pressure made the inquiry more difficult,\" she said.\n\nThe conclusions \"will speak for themselves,\" said Arbel, while Rubinstein said he agreed.\n\nShe said earlier the same day that there were \"different opinions, but no real divergences\" in her office on police recommendations that Netanyahu be indicted for fraud and breach of trust.\n\nPolice announced Wednesday they had recommended the charges against Netanyahu over the short-lived appointment in January of Likud activist Roni Bar-On as attorney general.\n\nInternal Security Minister Avigdor Kahalani said investigators also recommended legal action against Justice Minister Tzahi Hanegbi, Netanyahu's chief of staff Avigdor Lieberman and the head of the Shas party, Arieh Deri.\n\nPolice suspect Deri of \"attempted blackmail\" by conditioning his support in a key government vote over the peace process with the Palestinians on Bar-0n's appointment.\n\nIn exchange for his support, Bar-On was slated to lift fraud and bribery charges facing the Shas leader. Rubinstein was named in Bar- On's place in February.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 18 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday night", "start_char": 377, "end_char": 389, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1233, "end_char": 1242, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1330, "end_char": 1337, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1930, "end_char": 1938, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0357.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0079\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua Middle East news advisory -- Nov. 8\n\n\n\n\nThe following are some of major Mideast news stories due to be covered or pursued by Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday.\n\n-- Monitoring the security situation in Iraq after a genocide trial of ousted President Saddam Hussein resumed.\n\n-- Monitoring the Palestinian-Israeli conflict after an Israeli tank shell killed 18 Palestinians.\n\n-- Monitoring the latest developments of Iran's nuclear file.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0079.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0161\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nforeign-funded banks before Dec. 11\n\n\n\n\nChina will allow foreign-funded banks to conduct Renminbi business for Chinese citizens before Dec. 11 in line with its commitments to the World Trade Organization, said Song Dahan, deputy director of the Legislative Affairs Office of China's State Council, on Thursday.\n\nThe government would also remove regional restrictions and other limits on foreign-funded banks, giving them the same treatment as Chinese banks, said Song at a press conference on China's new regulations on foreign-funded banks.\n\nAccording to the regulations issued Wednesday, Chinese branches of foreign banks remain banned from engaging in Renminbi services with Chinese citizens unless an individual, with the approval of the banking regulatory body, makes a fixed deposit of a minimum one million yuan (127,000 U.S. dollars).\n\nThe government will encourage and guide foreign banks to transform their branches into or set up incorporated banks registered in China, which will enjoy the benefits of the country's banking sector, said Song.\n\nHe said that the banks would be supervised by the Chinese banking authorities to minimize risks and ensure domestic financial stability.\n\nForeign banks with Chinese corporate status can issue Renminbi credit cards, said Wang Zhaoxing, assistant chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC).\n\nHe also encouraged foreign financial institutions with good credit to buy shares of Chinese commercial banks.\n\n\"The opening of China's banking sector is comprehensive and all directional,\" said Wang.\n\nSince joining the World Trade Organization in 2001, the country has seen the number of foreign-funded banks growing and their business scope expanding, said Song.\n\nChina has fully opened its foreign exchange business to foreign-funded banks and allowed 111 foreign financial institutions to offer Renminbi services for Chinese and foreign enterprises in 25 cities.\n\nThe CBRC data show the assets of foreign-funded banks in China totaled 105.1 billion U.S. dollars in September, accounting for 1.9 percent of all banking institutions in the country.\n\nSince 2001, China has taken a series of measures to gradually open its financial markets, including the introduction of the QFII (qualified foreign institutional investors) scheme in 2003 to allow foreign institutional investors such as UBS, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup Global Markets Limited to engage in the securities sector on the Chinese mainland.\n\nIn order to cope with competition from foreign banks, the country has initiated reforms of its state-owned banks which had high non-performing loan ratios.\n\nThree of its four largest state-owned commercial banks are now listed on the stock market.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 11", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 199, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 358, "end_char": 366, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 636, "end_char": 645, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1666, "end_char": 1670, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 2087, "end_char": 2096, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 2176, "end_char": 2180, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 2353, "end_char": 2357, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0161.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0627\n\nROME, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nMorricone says Oscar is 'nice surprise'\n\n\n\n\nItalian composer Ennio Morricone, who is to receive an honorary Oscar in February, on Thursday said the award was \"a nice surprise\" which made him happy.\n\nMorricone is the man behind the memorable music used in 1960s spaghetti westerns such as \"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly\" and classic movies such as \"Cinema Paradiso\" and has composed more than 300 scores in a career spanning 45 years.\n\nThe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Wednesday he will be presented with the award at the 2007 Oscars in Hollywood on February 25.\n\n\"I am stunned but happy because the Oscar is coming my way while I am still fully active in my profession,\" the 78-year old said.\n\n\"In my life, I've never sought the centre stage. I have never asked a director to be allowed to work with him and I've never asked anybody to promote me, especially not in America. The Oscar is a nice surprise. I had stopped thinking about it,\" said Morricone, who is to conduct a Christmas concert in Milan on Saturday.\n\nMorricone made a name for himself by composing the music for Sergio Leone's spaghetti western \"For a Fistful of Dollars\". He went on to write the scores of classics such as \"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,\", \"Once upon a Time in America\" and \"Cinema Paradiso\".", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "45 years", "start_char": 475, "end_char": 483, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P45Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 551, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 25", "start_char": 623, "end_char": 634, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-02-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 1049, "end_char": 1058, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1079, "end_char": 1087, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0627.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0127\n\nCHANGCHUN, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNE China province earmarks emergency funds against bird flu\n\n\n\n\nNortheast China's Jilin Province has decided to invest 10 million yuan (about 1.2 million US dollars) in bird flu prevention and control, said a senior local official Sunday.\n\nThe province set up the fund to better ensure the success of prevention, supervision and emergency operations related to the bird flu, said Li Bin, deputy governor of the province, which borders the bird flu-afflicted Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Liaoning Province.\n\nIn addition, local governments at different levels will also appropriate relevant funds ranging from 200,000 yuan (24,691 US dollars) to 500,000 yuan (61,728 US dollars) for the campaign, Li said.\n\n\"We must try our best to prevent the outbreak of the highly pathogenic bird flu in Jilin,\" said the vice governor, urging the local governments at all levels to take effective measures to keep the disease out of the province.\n\nSince the outbreak of bird flu among birds in its neighbouring regions, Jilin has taken a series of measures, including poultry vaccination and monitoring, to prevent outbreak of the bird flu as well as human infection of the virus.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 295, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0127.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ_20130321_1145\n\nMarch 21, 2013\n\nThe Terminal Cancer Patient Who Won a Marathon\n\n\n\n\nIn competitions against the clock, some athletes display an ability to seize control. Think of the Clark-Kent-to-Superman routines that John Elway and Michael Jordan often pulled in the final seconds.\n\nBut Iram Leon stands on the sidelines of his own race against time. Lodged in his brain is an untreatable and inoperable cancerous tumor that statistics suggest will kill him before he is 40, eight years from now. Medical science is advancing at a rate that doesn't preclude the development of a treatment, but it's not clear if it will come in time.\n\n\"No one knows what technology will be available in five years,\" said Allan Friedman, Duke University Hospital neurosurgeon in chief, who in 2011 removed as much of Leon's brain tumor as possible.\n\nThe torment of enduring that wait can paste a cancer patient to the couch, a surrender heavily associated with deadlier outcomes. Some seek escape in their careers, but that is no longer an option for Leon, who early this year was forced to step down as a juvenile probation officer in Travis County, Texas, a position he had held for almost seven years. His thinking is no longer clear, said Leon, adding, \"I was making too many mistakes on the stand.\"\n\nBut Leon can still run. Two years after his brain-cancer diagnosis, he recently ran a sub-five-minute mile for the first time since high school. What has startled the medical community even more is what Leon did this month in Beaumont, Texas. He won the Gusher Marathon, finishing in 3:07:35. That was one second slower than his personal record in the 26.2-mile event, set days before he underwent brain surgery in early 2011.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "March 21, 2013", "start_char": 19, "end_char": 33, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight years", "start_char": 480, "end_char": 491, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 497, "end_char": 500, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 691, "end_char": 701, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2011", "start_char": 780, "end_char": 784, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2011", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early this year", "start_char": 1048, "end_char": 1063, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "almost seven years", "start_char": 1172, "end_char": 1190, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P7Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Two years", "start_char": 1316, "end_char": 1325, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1504, "end_char": 1514, "tid": "t104", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "3:07:35", "start_char": 1576, "end_char": 1583, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT3H7M35S", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "days", "start_char": 1665, "end_char": 1669, "tid": "t102", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2011", "start_char": 1707, "end_char": 1717, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2011", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "WSJ_20130321_1145.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0143\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPower blackout enters fourth night in western Germany\n\n\n\n\nThousands of people in western Germany spent their fourth night without electricity after this week's record snowfall damaged power lines throughout the region, authorities said on Tuesday.\n\nAs many as 35,000 people in the towns of Steinfurt and Borghorst had their power cut again after a pylon toppled, bringing others down with it. The region is expected to have its electricity supply switched back on next Tuesday.\n\nSome 20,000 residents of Ochtrup will receive power from portable generators. Most farms in the area are being powered in this way. The blackout in the town has lasted four days, since the pylons along a three km stretch fell down under the weight of ice on Friday, German news agency DPA said.\n\nPower had been restored to 200,000 people over the weekend in North Rhine-Westphalia, said the most populous state's Interior Ministry.\n\nThe weight of thick ice and snow, rarely seen in more than 100 years, damaged about 50 electric poles on Friday, throwing much of the region around the city of Muenster into darkness.\n\nPolice said that treacherous road conditions had caused 2,000 accidents leaving some 140 people injured and a damage bill which is expected to cost millions.\n\nPower companies blamed the extreme weather conditions for the blackouts, rejecting any responsibility for the damage.\n\nThe government is likely to summon executives of electricity companies and civil-defense experts to explain the matter.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next Tuesday", "start_char": 520, "end_char": 532, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four days", "start_char": 703, "end_char": 712, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 793, "end_char": 799, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 878, "end_char": 889, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 100 years", "start_char": 1017, "end_char": 1036, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P100Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1073, "end_char": 1079, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0143.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0109\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 19 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFederer makes Masters final with perfect win over Gaudio (updated)\n\n\n\n\nTop seed Roger Federer made an easy through to Sunday's final of the ATP tennis Masters Cup as the Swiss crushed Argentina's Gaston Gaudio here on Saturday without losing a game.\n\nIt's the first time back to the 1970s that a year-ending match of world tennis ending up in less than an hour and with a score of 6-0, 6-0.\n\nFederer, holding a 4-0 record against Gaudio and having won his last 13 matches against Argentine opponents before Saturday's match, won on 5 aces, 22 winners and 9 out of 11 net points against 16 unforced errors in the semifinal match less than 50 minutes.\n\nGaudio, seeded 7th on a rank of ninth in the world for the 4.45 million US dollars season-ending event, cracked just 3 winners throughout the match while making 9 double-faults and 22 unforced errors.\n\nCommitting 4 double-faults in a game, Gaudio was broken by the world number one Federer in as early as the second game and his first serve into the match, which set the tune of the match.\n\nBefore Saturday's match against Gaudio, the two-time defending champion Federer had kept in low as he was pulled into deciders in his Red Group opener against 12th-ranked David Nalbandian on Sunday and was even forced tiebreaker when facing the world No. 7 Ivan Ljubicic on Tuesday.\n\nBut all the embarrassments could not be found on the in Saturday's semis. He proved himself without any weaknesses, especially his backhand which was suspected to be his weaker side and again prolonged his near-perfect record at the Tennis Masters Cup.\n\nFederer has built upon an imposing 16-1 record at the Masters Cup, with his only loss came to Lleyton Hewitt in the Shanghai 2002 semifinals.\n\nIt seemed a task impossible for anybody, not just the 26-year-old Gaudio, to win over Federer who has been beaten by no man since June.\n\nWith Saturday's victory, Federer reached his third consecutive Tennis Masters Cup final and extended his winning streak to 35 matches, the fifth-longest winning streak in the Open Era and a span that takes in five titles including two grand slam titles.\n\nAnd the Shanghai match was the first in six weeks for the superlative Swiss, who has already clinched the world No. 1 year-end ranking for the second year in succession. He last competed in Bangkok, winning his 11th title of the season on October 2.\n\nAfter American veteran Andre Agassi and second seed Rafael Nadal pulled out due to injuries on Monday, Federer, who overcame the effects of the ankle ligament injury scare, has been left the only top-five player in the elite field.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 176, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 276, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 565, "end_char": 573, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5 aces", "start_char": 590, "end_char": 596, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the semifinal match less than 50 minutes", "start_char": 666, "end_char": 706, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1107, "end_char": 1115, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1291, "end_char": 1297, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1374, "end_char": 1381, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1440, "end_char": 1448, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1911, "end_char": 1915, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1923, "end_char": 1931, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six weeks", "start_char": 2213, "end_char": 2222, "tid": "t18", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second year", "start_char": 2312, "end_char": 2327, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2", "start_char": 2412, "end_char": 2421, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2519, "end_char": 2525, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0109.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051202.0108\n\nCHENNAI, India, Dec 3 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nIncessant rain and thundershowers wiped out the morning session of the second day's play in the first cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka on Saturday.\n\nWith the Chepauk outfield waterlogged and little chance of the sun breaking through to dry the ground, there was unlikely to be any play on the second day after the first day was washed out.\n\nUmpires Daryl Harper and Mark Benson may call off play during the scheduled lunch break at 11:30 am (0600 GMT) if the weather does not improve.\n\nCyclone Baaz, which was hovering in the Bay of Bengal, weakened into a depression late on Friday but brought rain through the night to leave this southern metropolis drenched.\n\nBad weather has already deprived Chennai of its last three international matches.\n\nIndia's one-day internationals against New Zealand in 2003 and South Africa last fortnight were abandoned without a ball being bowled.\n\nThe second Test against Australia in October last year was drawn after the final day's play was washed out with India on the doorstep of victory.\n\nLocal cricket officials, fearing another rain-affected match, chose to sell only daily tickets for the Sri Lanka Test.\n\nThe three-Test series is Sri Lanka's first on Indian soil in eight years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 226, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second day", "start_char": 369, "end_char": 383, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 656, "end_char": 662, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the night", "start_char": 688, "end_char": 697, "tid": "t5", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-03TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last", "start_char": 791, "end_char": 795, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 880, "end_char": 884, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last fortnight", "start_char": 902, "end_char": 916, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October last year", "start_char": 999, "end_char": 1016, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight years", "start_char": 1290, "end_char": 1301, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051202.0108.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0377\n\nMADRID, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSpanish coast guards arrest 36 illegal immigrants off Spanish coast\n\n\n\n\nThe Spanish coast guards on Wednesday arrested 36 illegal immigrants, including three women and two minors, on a boat off the coast of Granada in southeast Spain, local media reported.\n\nOne of the children was suffering from severe hypothermia and was taken to hospital in Granadan town Motril. The rest of the detainees were taken to a police reception center in Motril, where they would receive humanitarian aid from the Red Cross Organization.\n\nThe coast guards have arrested 2,669 undocumented immigrants off the coast of Granada so far this year. In November alone, the coast guards have already detained 201 immigrants, the majority of whom came from Africa to seek a better life in Spain.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 669, "end_char": 678, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 683, "end_char": 691, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0377.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0132\n\nGAZA, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIsraeli forces fire heavy artillery at targets in northern Gaza\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli army forces fired heavy artillery at targets in the northern Gaza Strip late Tuesday, Palestinian security sources said Wednesday.\n\nThe sources said that the Israeli troops shelled at least 15 artillery barrages into an open area in northern Gaza, but no casualties or damage were reported.\n\nIsrael Radio confirmed that the artillery shelling came in response to an anti-tank missile launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel.\n\nMeanwhile, Israeli army troops arrested some 9 Palestinians throughout the West Bank areas in a predawn arrest campaign, most of the arrested were members of the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas).\n\nPalestinian sources said that Israeli army jeeps stormed the city of Ramallah and arrested three Hamas members in the city and nearby al-Bereeh.\n\nIsraeli jeeps also incurred into the city of Hebron and arrested three other Hamas members in the Karma village in southern Hebron and the Israeli soldiers seized computer sets and mobile phones from the detainees' houses, eyewitnesses said.\n\nSome ten Israeli armored vehicles also stormed the village of Allar in Tulkarem and seized the house of a wanted Islamic Jihad member Mohammed Amer, witnesses said, adding the soldiers arrested Amer's 20-years-old sister and took her to unknown place.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 250, "end_char": 259, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0132.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0474\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nIraq Shiite leader opposes US troop pullout\n\n\n\n\nThe leader of Iraq's largest Shiite party urged senior US officials Monday not to withdraw US troops from his country but to transfer more military authority to the government in Baghdad.\n\nAbdel Aziz al-Hakim, head of the pro-Iranian Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), told reporters he had \"frank and transparent\" talks with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the future US role in Iraq.\n\nIraq's government \"asked for American forces to remain in Iraq while transferring more authority to Iraqi officials and forces to enable them to deal with terrorism,\" he said.\n\nHakim also heads the Iranian-backed United Iraqi Alliance, a conservative Shiite coalition which is the largest bloc in Iraq's parliament, but he insisted he was carrying no message from the Iranians for Washington.\n\nThe cleric was due to meet later Monday with President George W. Bush as the US leader mulls a major shift in US policy on Iraq.\n\nBush and Rice met last week in Jordan with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who also demanded that his government take over greater responsibility for the country's security some three-and-a-half years after US forces toppled Saddam Hussein.\n\nSince his Republican party lost control of Congress in elections last month that were dominated by voter unhappiness over the war in Iraq, Bush has been under intense pressure to unveil a plan for gradually reducing the US military role there.\n\nHe is due to receive on Wednesday a much-awaited report from the congressionally-mandated Iraq Study Group, which is expected to call for a withdrawal of almost all US combat troops from Iraq by early 2008, while leaving some soldiers behind for training and support of Iraqi forces.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 944, "end_char": 950, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1059, "end_char": 1068, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "some three-and-a-half years", "start_char": 1219, "end_char": 1246, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1353, "end_char": 1363, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1557, "end_char": 1566, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0474.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0275\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: U.S. defense secretary steps down, Bush says\n\n\n\n\nU.S. President George W. Bush said Wednesday that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was stepping down, one day after Democrats won control of the House of Representatives in the midterm elections.\n\nBush made the announcement during a press conference at the White House.\n\nFormer CIA Director Robert Gates would succeed Rumsfeld, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 219, "end_char": 226, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0275.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0090 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0090. \n Dividend News:\n@  CMS Energy Corp. \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CMS \n DIVIDENDS (DIV)\nEARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   CMS ENERGY Corp. said management would recommend to its board today that its common stock dividend be reinstated at a \"modest level\" later this year. \nThe Dearborn, Mich., energy company stopped paying a dividend in the third quarter of 1984 because of troubles at its Midland nuclear plant. \nIn addition, CMS reported third-quarter net of $68.2 million, or 83 cents a share, up from $66.8 million, or 81 cents a share, a year ago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 80, "end_char": 88, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 226, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "later this year", "start_char": 292, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t77", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "the third quarter of 1984", "start_char": 375, "end_char": 400, "tid": "t69", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 478, "end_char": 491, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 579, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t15"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0805.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0162\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTickets for 2006 Masters to sell 40% off to this year's buyers\n\n\n\n\nTennis fans that purchased tickets for this week's Tennis Masters Cup will be given the option to buy tickets for the 2006 event at a discounted rate, said Wednesday the organizers.\n\nIt's announced in a statement released by the organizing committee that the price will be 40% off on tickets for next year's championship at the Qi Zhong Stadium, which was carried out as a compensation for fans after big names withdrew from the ATP year-ending tournament.\n\nThe organizers also confirmed that ticket prices in 2006 will remain the same as 2005.\n\nReplacement tickets will only be in the same section of the stadium as the original ticket. Tennis fans are advised to retain their ticket stubs as proof of purchase. Any application for a discounted ticket without the ticket stub will not be honored.\n\nWang Liqun, deputy director for the event jointly held by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the world governing body, and the ATP, had promised Tuesday that tennis fans will be compensated for the withdrawals and absentees of tennis masters.\n\n\"Fans who have already bought tickets for this tournament will be able to enjoy a discount next year in the Tennis Masters Cup with no price raising,\" said Wang.\n\nBy the same token, the ATP has also promised that in the next three to six months, some of the top-notch or first-class tennis players will come to Shanghai to meet fans and endorsers.\n\nThe Masters Cup, which is always at risk of absenteeism as it comes at the end of the season, has been without five of the world's leading six players after only the second day.\n\nWorld No. 2 Rafael Nadal Monday announced his pulling out with a left foot injury before his Masters debut even started, and minutes later Andre Agassi further long line of withdrawals at the ATP season-ending event, blaming a bad ankle sprain sustained playing racquetball.\n\nThe loss, having severely diminished the tournament's status as the showcase for the finest talent in the men's game, had seen third-ranked Andy Roddick pulling out before the tournament with a back problem and Australian Open winner Marat Safin with a knee injury.\n\nLleyton Hewitt, ranked fourth, remained in Sydney with his wife, actress Rebecca Cartwright, who is expecting the couple's first child within two weeks.\n\nTop-ranked Roger Federer was left the only top-five player in the elite field, but the two-time defending champion might not go the distance with a sore right ankle.\n\n\"We certainly feel regret, and the regret actually comes from not only the fans, but the organizing committee and also the ATP,\" said another deputy director of the tournament Qin Weichang Tuesday evening.\n\nAs an immediate action from the organizers for apologizing to fans, Nadal went on court Monday night between matches and to the media center to say sorry for his withdrawal. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0009\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUN worried about hindrance of earthquake relief by winter weather\n\n\n\n\nThe onset of winter conditions in the earthquake areas of Pakistan has severely hampered the relief operations of the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations, resulting in the grounding of some helicopters and the cancellation of some road deliveries.\n\n\"This development shows why it is very important for us to do more and quickly too as we keep the focus on the relief phase,\" said the UN's chief of Emergency Operations, Andrew MacLeod, here on Tuesday. \"It also shows why Operation Winter Race still remains so important.\"\n\nOperation Winter Race has been designed to provide urgently needed shelter to thousands of people between 5,000 and 7,000 feet of altitude before the onset of winter, according to the UN. It has so far resulted in the construction of more than 19,000 shelter units by the military and another 40,000 by the humanitarian community and Pakistan civil society.\n\n\"Even as winter threatens people's health and safety, the race is not lost - it is just more difficult. We need ongoing and additional support in the next few days so we could reach as many of the remaining vulnerable people as possible,\" the UN Emergency Operations chief said.\n\nSince the earthquake struck on Oct. 8, the UN and its partners in the NGO and humanitarian community have been racing against time to provide food, shelter, clothing and medicine to the estimated 3.5 million affected people.\n\nBut rain and snow in some parts of the earthquake zone coupled with significant drops in temperature have made the relief operations particularly difficult and increased the numbers seeking medical assistance for weather related ailments. Some roads have been closed completely and others have been declared unsafe.\n\n\"Even as sufficient pledges have been made for recovery and reconstruction, relief is still less than 50 percent funded. And now, and winter and nature are reminding us: 'Concentrate on relief in order to save lives, reconstruct later.'\" Andrew MacLeod stressed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 589, "end_char": 596, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5,000", "start_char": 775, "end_char": 780, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "winter", "start_char": 828, "end_char": 834, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-WI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 8", "start_char": 1339, "end_char": 1345, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0009.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0168 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0168. \n Two Rival Bidders\n@  Extend Offers\n@  To Buy Connaught\n@  ----\n@  By Suzanne McGee\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CSESF F.INM Z.CIG CHIR EUROP RHPOY CANDA \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nMEDICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (MTC) \n TORONTO  \n\n   Two rival bidders for Connaught BioSciences extended their offers to acquire the Toronto-based vaccine manufacturer Friday. \n\n   Institut Merieux S.A., which offered 942 million Canadian dollars (US$801.2 million), or C$37 a share for Connaught, said it would extend its bid, due to expire last Thursday, to Nov. 6. \n\n   A C$30-a-share bid by Ciba-Geigy Ltd., a pharmaceutical company based in Basel, Switzerland, and California-based Chiron Corp., a bioresearch concern, was extended to Nov. 16. \nIt had been due to expire Friday evening. \n\n   Merieux previously said it would ensure its bid remained open pending a final decision by Canadian regulators on whether to approve the takeover. \nMerieux, a vaccine and bioresearch firm based in Lyon, France, is controlled 50.1% by state-owned Rhone Poulenc S.A. \n\n   The Canadian government previously said Merieux's bid did n't offer enough \"net benefit\" to Canada to be approved, and gave Merieux an until mid-November to submit additional information. \n\n   Merieux officials said last week that they are \"highly confident\" the offer will be approved once it submits details of its proposed investments to federal regulators. \n\n   Both offers are conditional on regulatory approvals and enough shares being tendered to give the bidders a majority of Connaught's shares outstanding. \n\n   Institut Merieux, which already holds a 12.5% stake in Connaught, said that at the close of business Thursday, 5,745,188 shares of Connaught and C$44.3 million face amount of debentures, convertible into 1,826,596 common shares, had been tendered to its offer. \nAt the close of business Thursday, Ciba-Geigy and Chiron said 11,580 common shares had been tendered to their offer. \nAt last report, Connaught had 21.8 million shares outstanding. \n\n   Separately, the Ontario Supreme Court said it will postpone indefinitely a ruling on the lawsuit launched by the University of Toronto against Connaught in connection with the Merieux bid. \n\n   In a statement prepared by lawyers for the university and Connaught, the parties said they agreed that as a result of reaching a C415 million research accord, \"It is unnecessary that there be a judgment on the merits {of the case} at this time.\" \n\n   Lawyers for the two sides weren't immediately available for comment. \n\n   The university had sought an injunction blocking Connaught's board from recommending or supporting an offer for the company by Merieux.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t101", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 460, "end_char": 466, "tid": "t102", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t101"}, {"text": "last Thursday", "start_char": 634, "end_char": 647, "tid": "t103", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t101"}, {"text": "Nov. 6", "start_char": 652, "end_char": 658, "tid": "t104", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t101"}, {"text": "Nov. 16", "start_char": 832, "end_char": 839, "tid": "t107", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-16", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t101"}, {"text": "Friday evening", "start_char": 868, "end_char": 882, "tid": "t112", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-10-27TEV", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t101"}, {"text": "mid-November", "start_char": 1299, "end_char": 1311, "tid": "t122", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t101"}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1374, "end_char": 1383, "tid": "t124", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-WXX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t101"}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1781, "end_char": 1789, "tid": "t127", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t101"}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1967, "end_char": 1975, "tid": "t128", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t101"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0533.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0441\n\nSEOUL, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT Kim Jong-Il promotes 123 generals, monitors say\n\n\n\n\nNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has promoted 123 new generals in a move seen here as one of the final steps to pave the way for his formal assumption of power this year, monitors here said Monday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0441.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0175\n\nCHANGSHA, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nStarting line-up of China against Iraq at Asian Cup qualifiers\n\n\n\n\nFollowing is the line-up of China national football team against Iraq at an Asian Cup qualifier here on Wednesday:\n\nGoalkeeper: Li Leilei\n\nDefenders: Sun Xiang, Xu Yunlong, Zhang Yaokun, Cao Yang\n\nMidfielders: Zheng Zhi, Wang Dong, Du Zhenyu, Zhao Junzhe\n\nForwards: Li Jinyu, Han Peng", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 229, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0175.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0161\n\nNEW DELHI, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndia to deploy troops in Bihar after leader's indictment: daily\n\n\n\n\nIndia will send paramilitary troops to Bihar state because of fears of a backlash to the possible prosecution of its chief minister, The Statesman newspaper said Tuesday.\n\nThe daily quoting home ministry sources said the troops would be deployed in the eastern state because of worries that political turmoil could lead to violence in Bihar.\n\nAn Indian government spokesman, however, denied that federal forces were being sent to Bihar.\n\nThe state government has been pressing the Indian government for police assistance \"to deal with leftwing extremists operating in certain parts of Bihar,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe official said New Delhi had sent police reinforcements more than a week ago to Bihar. \"It has got nothing to do with the current situation,\" he claimed.\n\nThe Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Sunday said it would prosecute state Chief Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav in a multi-million- dollar financial scandal.\n\nYadav, who is also the president of the largest party in India's ruling coalition, has refused to quit his post and has warned his supporters would \"take the issue to the streets.\"\n\nIndia's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People's Party) and other rivals of Yadav have called a general shutdown on May 3 in Bihar to demand his ouster.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 295, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "daily", "start_char": 302, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week ago", "start_char": 809, "end_char": 819, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 3", "start_char": 1371, "end_char": 1376, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0161.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0089\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nIsrael PM orders resumption of Gaza strikes\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the army Wednesday to resume strikes on militants in Gaza after a rocket attack wounded two Israeli teenagers despite a month-long truce, his office said.\n\nAfter meeting with his security officials, Olmert ordered the defense establishment \"to act locally against Qassam rocket launching cells,\" said the statement, referring to the homemade rockets fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza.\n\n\"At the same time Israel will continue to respect the ceasefire and work with the Palestinian Authority in order ... for them... to take immediate steps to stop the Qassam fire,\" it said.\n\nThe statement seemed to indicate that Israel would not launch a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, but carry out air strikes against rocket launching cells, as called for by Defense Minister Amir Peretz.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0089.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0072\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDollar steady in Tokyo despite strong Japanese GDP\n\n\n\n\nThe US dollar dipped against the yen Friday in Tokyo, but its losses were slight considering a Japanese government report saying the country's economy grew more than expected in the July-September period.\n\nAt 5 p.m. (0800 GMT), the dollar traded at 117.81-83 yen, compared with Thursday's 5 p.m. quotes of 118.15-25 yen in New York and 117.64-66 yen in Tokyo.\n\nThe dollar moved between 117.65 yen and 118.19 yen during the day, most frequently trading at 117.75 yen.\n\nThe euro was quoted at 1.1700-1702 dollar and 137.84-88 yen, against Thursday's 5 p.m. quotes of 1.1682-1692 dollar and 138.08- 18 yen in New York and 1.1767-1769 dollar and 138.43-47 yen in Tokyo.\n\nThe dollar weakened slightly against the yen after the report showed early in the morning that Japan's economy grew at an annualized rate of 1.7 percent in the third quarter, beating a consensus market forecast of 1.1 percent.\n\nBut dealers said yen buying seen in response to the GDP data was not more than position-squaring following overnight solid gains for the dollar.\n\nDealers believe demand for the dollar is highly likely to persist as the currency has attracted bargain hunters even with few fresh buying incentives.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the July-September period", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 313, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 388, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 647, "end_char": 655, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning", "start_char": 855, "end_char": 866, "tid": "t9", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 933, "end_char": 950, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0072.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0195\n\nCHANGSHA, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nagainst bird flu\n\n\n\n\nExperts of the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday that public awareness of the deadly bird flu virus is crucial.\n\n\"Public education and awareness is very important,\" Dr. Julie Hall, WHO's epidemic alert and response coordinator in China told Xinhua in Changsha, capital of central China's Hunan province, after they concluded an investigation into three pneumonia cases.\n\nThe public should be aware of the symptoms and be able to report quickly so that infections can be reduced and the areas can be disinfected if a bird flu outbreak occurs, she said.\n\nHowever, experts said the subtype H5 of avian influenza virus is still a rare disease in humans. \"It takes considerable effort for this virus to jump from animals to humans, requiring very close contact with infected live animals. Man cannot catch the disease from well-cooked poultry,\" said Dr. Hall.\n\nA joint expert team of WHO and China's Ministry of Health (MOH) arrived in Hunan on Monday to probe three suspicious pneumonia cases.\n\n\"This has been a very constructive, very positive visit,\" she said. \"We believe the authorities here have worked tremendously hard to detect these cases.\"\n\nChina's Ministry of Health confirmed two human bird flu cases in the country Wednesday. The two confirmed cases involve a nine-year-old boy in Xiangtan County of Hunan and a 24-year-old woman farmer in Zongyang County of Anhui Province. The boy's sister died of pneumonia-like symptoms last month and was suspected to have contracted bird flu.\n\nRoy Wadia, WHO spokesman in Beijing, said it is not surprising to see confirmed human cases reported in China, which indicates the importance and urgency of fighting the highly pathogenic virus.\n\nChina is facing a tremendous challenge in controlling the disease in animals as well as strenghtening the early detection for any possible human cases, said Dr. Hall.\n\nKey areas for strenghening include raising public awareness, trying to reduce panic, and encouraging people to report and seek health care if they have contact with sick poultry, the expert said.\n\nWHO will help with the revision of a national guidline for prevention and control of the disease. \"Seeing the experiences in Hunan and Anhui province, we believe there is a very good foundation here in China for early response and early detection of cases,\" Dr. Hall said.\n\nShe said WHO will continue to assist China in curbing the epidemic in the future.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1031, "end_char": 1037, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1315, "end_char": 1324, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1524, "end_char": 1534, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 2488, "end_char": 2498, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0195.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0228\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ngovernments\n\n\n\n\nEnvironmental law enforcement has hit obstacles in parts of China and certain local government officials have been half-hearted in dealing with pollution, said a Chinese environmental official on Tuesday.\n\nSome large state-owned companies and listed companies ignored environmental rules and local governments disregarded initiatives to rectify their performance, said Lu Xinyuan, chief of the environmental supervision bureau of the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).\n\nLu cited a case in Liupanshui city, in southwest China's Guizhou Province, where a vice mayor was held responsible for making false environmental reports to inspectors from State Council departments.\n\nOn Sept. 22, the vice mayor told the inspection team \"there are no coal chemical companies in the city\", when more than 30 coke chemical or other chemical companies were operating in Liupanshui.\n\nLu said the vice mayor broke the Law on Civil Servants which forbids public servants from making false reports.\n\nEnvironmental problems were also striking industrial parks. Most of the 20 industrial parks inspected had failed to carry out environmental assessments before construction.\n\nCentral departments would send more inspectors this month to investigate local environmental protection, but Lu declined to identify the areas to be investigated.\n\nMajor industrial pollutants climbed in the first nine months compared with the same period last year, driven by fast economic growth and high emissions of sulfur dioxide, figures from the SEPA showed.\n\nTwelve billion tons of wastewater was discharged in the first nine months, up 2.4 percent from the same period last year, while sulfur dioxide emissions were up 4.2 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 22", "start_char": 766, "end_char": 774, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1293, "end_char": 1303, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 1449, "end_char": 1470, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1501, "end_char": 1510, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 1664, "end_char": 1685, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1723, "end_char": 1732, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0228.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0016\n\nRANGOON, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAuthorities maintain security in run-up to Burmese new years\n\n\n\n\nBurma's military authorities maintained extra security in the capital Wednesday ahead of Burmese new year festivities, when huge crowds will hit the streets just after widespread communal unrest.\n\nGovernment offices are building makeshift platforms, known as \"pandals,\" by streets to stage entertainment and to throw water at passers-by during the new year festival from April 13 to April 17.\n\nBut some key ministries have begun to dismantle platforms outside their offices that had already been assembled, indicating concern about crowd control during the normally rowdy public festival, witnesses said.\n\nTanks were stationed near the mayor's office, one of the three main pandals where senior officials and diplomats are welcomed to mingle, be blessed with water and view the performers and floats in various contests.\n\nUnrest broke out in the central city of Mandalay last month, when Buddhist monks attacked Moslem properties that left a dozen mosques destroyed.\n\nSome 150 monks have been disrobed, and 10 members of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) have been detained in connection with the attacks, a Mandalay resident told AFP.\n\nAmong those detained was Htin Gyaw, one of the NLD candidates elected in 1990 to a parliament never convened by the junta because the opposition party would have held over 80 percent of the seats.\n\nAnalysts say the military government has been targeting prominent NLD members recently in a wave of arrests under various charges.\n\nOnly sporadic incidents have been reported in Rangoon recently, but more than 100 monks were picked up for questioning last month after a flurry of stonings and vandalism aimed at mosques and Moslem houses.\n\nFirst degree security alerts were said to have been imposed in Rangoon, Mandalay, Sittwe and two other cities.\n\nCommittees of senior monks, Islamic elders and government authorities have been formed to head off further troubles, officials said.\n\nBut tensions remained among the country's 400,000 monks, as grievances against the authorities, believed to have been behind the attacks have yet to be resolved, analysts said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 13", "start_char": 490, "end_char": 498, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 17", "start_char": 502, "end_char": 510, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 990, "end_char": 1000, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 1350, "end_char": 1354, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 1661, "end_char": 1669, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1726, "end_char": 1736, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0016.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ900813-0157\n\n\n900813-0157.\n\n\n   Iraqi Chief Links\n   Kuwait Pullout\n   To Israeli Move\n   ---\n   U.S. Rejects the Initiative,\n   Aimed at Rallying Arabs,\n   And Readies Blockade\n   ----\n   By Gerald F. Seib and Walter S. Mossberg\n   Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal\n\n\n08/13/90\n\n\nWALL STREET JOURNAL (J), PAGE A3\n\n\n   MDEST FORGN\n\n\nMONETARY NEWS, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, TRADE (MON)\nPETROLEUM (PET)\nFOOD PRODUCTS (FOD)\n\n\nEXECUTIVE (EXE)\nSTATE DEPARTMENT (STD)\nDEFENSE DEPARTMENT (DEF)\n\n\n   WASHINGTON -- Iraq's Saddam Hussein, his options for ending the Persian Gulf crisis growing increasingly unpleasant, assumed the role of embattled Arab hero in offering his first rough proposal for a negotiated end to the confrontation.\n   The Iraqi leader, in an \"initiative\" designed as much to rally Arab public opinion as to launch meaningful negotiations, announced yesterday that he will withdraw his troops from Kuwait only if Israel withdraws from the West Bank and Syria from Lebanon. He apparently hopes to lure support from Arabs who have spurned him so far by suggesting that Iraq will use its occupation of Kuwait as a lever to solve the Arab world's most frustrating problem, the 23-year Israeli occupation of land claimed by Palestinians.\n\n\n   Even as Saddam Hussein was searching for a ploy to ease his isolation, though, the international pressure against him clicked up another notch. The White House yesterday disclosed that Kuwait's ousted government has formally asked the U.S. to enforce the total trade embargo the United Nations has imposed on Iraq, allowing the U.S. and other nations to immediately begin stopping ships carrying Iraqi goods.\n   Secretary of State James Baker, speaking on ABC News' \"This Week,\" said the Kuwaiti request gives the U.S. and other countries \"a legal basis for stopping the export of oil and that sort of thing.\" The U.S. maintains that under the U.N. charter, the Kuwaiti request triggers steps for the collective enforcement of international sanctions.\n   Mr. Baker declined to use the word blockade, but said that\n\"interdiction\" of Iraqi shipments would begin \" almost instantly.\" In a statement, the White House said it would do \"whatever is necessary\" to ensure compliance with the sanctions.\n   Other Bush administration officials said that the international naval force in the area -- consisting of American, British, French, Canadian, Soviet, German and Australian ships -- may be used both to stop oil exports from leaving Iraq and Kuwait and to stop shipments of food and\nother goods from going in. President Bush implied as much yesterday when reporters asked whether the interdiction would apply to food. The president responded, \"Everything, everything.\" While shying away from actually using the word \"blockade,\" Mr. Bush acknowledged that the U.S. and others were trying to block shipping to Iraq. \"No point getting into all these semantics,\" he said. \"The main thing is to stop the oil from coming out of there.\"\n   The naval interdiction force is part of an overall American strategy that officials say is designed to leave the Iraqi leader with only the stark choice of backing out of Kuwait or launching new attacks to change his situation.\nThough they insist they are n't trying to lure Saddam Hussein into an attack, officials hope that if he strikes again, the U.S. and its allies will have such an impressive force in place in Saudi Arabia that they will be able to crush him in\nretaliation.\n   Iraq's first option, of course, may be simply to  sit tight and hope it can endure a trade embargo longer than the West can live without Iraqi and Kuwaiti oil. Speaking on the ABC program, Abdul Amir al-Anbari, Iraq's ambassador to the U.N., asserted that an embargo on Iraq could plunge the U.S. into a \"depression\" and the rest of the world into an economic \"crisis.\"\n   Iraq clearly is trying to woo back more Arab support in case the conflict drags on, hoping that its neighbors eventually will help it survive a prolonged war of economic attrition with the West. So Saddam Hussein on Friday tried to scare other Arab leaders into supporting him by calling on\nArabs to rise up in a holy war against leaders who invited American and other Western soldiers into Saudi Arabia to protect the oil-rich kingdom.\n   Then yesterday, he tried to entice Arab leaders with his proposal for a diplomatic solution linking his occupation of Kuwait with Israel's occupation of the West Bank. The proposal also called for replacing American and other Western troops in Saudi Arabia with Arab forces. The Bush administration immediately said it \"categorically \" rejects the proposals. And President Bush yesterday, asked whether he was at least glad Iraq is discussing negotiations, replied: \"I do n't see anything to be pleasing in there at all.\"\n   American strategists are  calculating  , though, that the trade sanctions -- enforced by an effective though perhaps undeclared naval blockade -- will hold tightly enough to convince Iraq that it will lose in the long run by simply standing pat.\n   At that point, rather than go through the humiliation of backing out of Kuwait, the Iraqis might well conclude that they need to lash out in some way to shake things up. In that event, Saddam Hussein appears to  have three choices.\n   The first would be to  launch the much-feared direct invasion of Saudi Arabia, hoping to seize some Saudi oil fields and improve his bargaining position. But that option is growing less and less likely as thousands of American, British, Egyptian, Syrian and Moroccan forces assemble in and around Saudi Arabia to protect the kingdom. The Saudis even have in their possession 48 Kuwaiti jet fighters, virtually the entire Kuwaiti air force, which managed to escape the Iraqi invasion, Saudi officials said. The Saudi \"window of vulnerability . . . is closing very fast,\" Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to Washington, said over the weekend.\n   The second possibility would be to  start a fight with Israel, in hopes that all Arabs would have to move behind Iraq in a fight against their common Israeli enemy. In such an event, Saddam Hussein also might calculate, the Saudis would be under pressure to kick out U.S. troops because of America's close ties with Israel.\n   Iraq could start hostilities with Israel either through a direct attack or by attacking Jordan. Israel has publicly declared that it will respond to an Iraqi attack on Jordan because it wo n't allow Iraq's dangerous army to take control of Jordan's long border with Israel.\n   Iraq's third attack option would be to  start an undeclared war on the U.S. and other Western nations through terrorism.\nTwo Middle East terrorists with records of successful attacks against Western targets, Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas, have ties to Baghdad. And even terrorist groups that opposed Iraq in its war with Iran show signs of swinging behind Saddam Hussein now that he is in a confrontation with the U.S.    And Iraq still has thousands of Americans and other Westerners under its control in Iraq and Kuwait. They are n't being allowed to leave and could become hostages.\n   If Iraq chooses a simple war of nerves and economic attrition, the Bush administration knows a long stalemate could try the patience of the American public and the West in general, and could open the possibility that moderate Arabs -- even including Saudi Arabia -- might drop out of the effort against Iraq and accept some deal from Saddam Hussein.\n   But U.S. officials have sized up Saddam Hussein as a man who, despite some recklessness, will back down if he must.\n\"This is a guy who is impulsive, and therefore capable of big miscalculations,\" says one senior administration official involved in managing the crisis. The official  adds , though,\nthat \"at the same time, we think he is someone who is capable of rational judgments when it comes to power. And when he finds something is unprofitable, then one can see certain accommodations.\"\n   Thus, administration aides will be trying to calculate whether Saddam Hussein's proposed diplomatic formula for getting out of Kuwait represents the first sign he is searching for a way out or simply is a public relations stunt.\n   There are disagreements among experts about how much pressure will be needed to make Saddam Hussein decide he's up against the wall and whether simple economic pressure will ever be enough. The biggest worry is that if he decides he needs a way out of his predicament but does n't see a face-saving method, he could lash out in dangerous and unpredictable ways.\n   U.S. officials claim they already see signs Saddam Hussein is getting nervous. In the first days after President Bush announced the dispatching of U.S. troops, they note, the Iraqi leader made several nationwide addresses indirectly -- having them read by a television announcer. \"That shows he's nervous about pinpointing his location, either because he's afraid we'll find him, or that internal enemies will,\" says one U.S. official.\n   The unpredictability of Iraq's leader is a principal reason the U.S. is going to such great lengths to build a mammoth force in and around Saudi Arabia. Pentagon officials say the goal is to put 40,000 troops in the region by the end of the month. But the administration is n't putting any upper limit on how high the force could go after that, calculating that it would be a mistake to underestimate and an advantage to keep Saddam Hussein guessing. U.S. commanders in charge of planning for Middle East crises have indicated in the past that they were capable of deploying as many as 300,000\ntroops.\n   And the U.S. is taking similar steps to ensure that its naval force is adequate to carry out a blockade of Iraq and support a war if necessary. Over the weekend, Pentagon officials confirmed reports that a fourth U.S. aircraft carrier -- the John F. Kennedy -- and its powerful group of support ships could head for the Middle East within a few days. Three other carriers and their escort vessels already are stationed within striking distance of Iraq or are steaming toward the area.\n   But unless the military situation changes drastically, military officials say, the most likely plan will be for the Kennedy to eventually replace the carrier Dwight D. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051202.0102\n\nBEIJING, Dec 3 , 2005\n\nCoal mine blast kills 16 in southwest China\n\n\n\n\nA coal mine blast has killed 16 miners in southwestern China, the latest disaster to strike the country's notoriously dangerous mining industry, state media said Saturday.\n\nThe gas explosion took place early Friday morning at the Zhonghe Coal Mine in Shuicheng county, Liupanshui city, Guizhou province, while 31 miners were working in the shaft, the China News Service website reported.\n\nIn another mine accident, 42 workers remained trapped in a flooded coal shaft in central China's Henan province, the state-run Xinhua news agency said Saturday.\n\nThe news came as the death toll from last Sunday's explosion at the Dongfeng coal mine near Qitaihe in the northeastern Heilongjiang province rose to 169.\n\nChina's mines, many of them illegal, are considered the most dangerous in the world, especially in recent years, with demand for raw materials escalating to help fuel China's rapid economic growth.\n\nOnly last month, 16 miners were killed in a gas explosion at the Shagou colliery, also in Liupanshui city.\n\nMore than 6,000 miners died in accidents in China last year, according to previously released government figures. Independent estimates say the real figure could be as high as 20,000.\n\nVictims' relatives often accuse management of having little regard for safety standards and of systematically exploiting workers for quick profits.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 264, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 302, "end_char": 316, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 634, "end_char": 642, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Sunday", "start_char": 682, "end_char": 693, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 900, "end_char": 912, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1005, "end_char": 1015, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1158, "end_char": 1167, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051202.0102.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0321\n\nLIMA, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n14 countries, UN to watch Bolivia's elections\n\n\n\n\nObservers from 14 countries and the United Nations will watch the upcoming general elections in Bolivia, Foreign Minister Armando Loaiza said Wednesday in a statement.\n\nSome 140 observers from \"friendly nations,\" including members of the Organization of American States (OAS) and from the United Nations (UN) would watch the Dec. 18 elections at Bolivia's polling stations, said the statement.\n\nThe OAS mission, headed by Horacio Serpa, Colombia's former presidential candidate, has already arrived in La Pas, the administrative capital of Bolivia, it said.\n\nThe voters are also expected to elect regional governors and decide if there should be a citizens' assembly to decide on a new political reform package in the poorest country in South America.\n\nThe elections are a result of a parliament decision made in July following growing civil unrest and political opposition which caused the resignation of then-President Carlos Mesa and the temporary appointment of Eduardo Rodriguez in June.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 246, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 18", "start_char": 429, "end_char": 436, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 917, "end_char": 921, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1091, "end_char": 1095, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0321.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0075\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHK stocks close lower -- Nov. 30\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong stocks went down 91.62 points, or 0.61 percent, to close at 14,937.14 on Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0075.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0195\n\nSEOUL, April 20 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nVIP welcome hints at top NKorean defector's future in the South\n\n\n\n\nThe red carpet welcome accorded to North Koreas's top defecter Hwang Jang-Yop on his arrival in the South Sunday provides hints about how he will spend the months to come, analysts said here.\n\nUnlike most defector arrivals, which routinely degenerate into fights between TV cameramen and security officers for access to the dazed, ill-dressed North Koreans, Hwang, the North's top ideologue, could have been a foreign minister.\n\nDressed in an impeccable three-piece dark suit, he waved elder- statesmanlike from the top of the red-carpeted stairs drawn up to his Air Philippines flight, after Philippine military officials had disembarked.\n\nThe greying 74-year-old author of the North's failed Juche (self- reliance) ideology was then escorted with bows to the VIP lounge of the military airport, presented with bouquets of flowers, and offered the microphone.\n\nWith whirring TV cameras sending his message live nationwide, he soberly thanked his hosts for helping him in his \"quest\" -- a mission to seek peace between the North and the South.\n\nThe few questions shouted by a tightly-controlled journalists' pool, were quickly silenced by security men, but only after the dapperly- dressed Hwang had told them he considered himself a seeker of peace, not a defector.\n\nThen, speech over, instead of being bundled into a bus -- the usual fate of defectors -- Hwang entered a sleek black limousine to ride in convoy with motorcycle outriders to an unknown destination.\n\nAn ambulance followed.\n\nYonhap News Agency said Hwang was expected to be invited to meet with South Korean President Kim Young-Sam at the presidential Blue House, but gave no date, details and no sources for its report.\n\nSecurity sources said that under the agreement hammered out with China where he defected on February 12, Hwang would remain incommunicado, probably for a month or more, in a safehouse somewhere in Seoul.\n\nSecurity was a top priority, they said, an obvious reference to attempts by armed North Korean agents' attempts to recapture Hwang in Beijing, and to sometimes lethal attacks by agents here against defectors in the South.\n\nHwang's bullet-proof vest showed as he climbed into his limousine.\n\nReports, repeatedly denied by the top intelligence Agency for National Security Planning (NSPA), that Hwang was carrying \"a list\" of North Korean agents in the South ratchetted up concerns for his safety.\n\nThe NSPA and foreign ministry officials have said Hwang has so far devoted the 67 days since his defection -- a month in Beijing and another month in a secret hideout in the Philippines -- to writing, reading, walking and worrying about his family.\n\nHe slept a scant four hours a night, ate frugal meals and no breakfast, and -- fluent in Russian and Japanese -- kept up with the news and preferred to read children's fairy stories before sleeping, they said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 20 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "months", "start_char": 277, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 12", "start_char": 1901, "end_char": 1912, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 1961, "end_char": 1968, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "67 days", "start_char": 2590, "end_char": 2597, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "P67D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0195.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0132\n\nMANILA, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAsian megacities to increase from nine to 20 by 2025\n\n\n\n\nThe number of Asian cities with populations of more than 10 million, or \"megacities,\" is projected to increase from nine to 20 by 2025 as the region continues to face the spectre of urban migration, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Monday.\n\nThe continent's urban population is forecast to double from the current 1.1 billion to 2.5 billion by 2025, by which time Asia will be home to half of the world's people, the Manila-based bank said in its annual report released here.\n\nSuch growth is expected to lead to more pollution, traffic jams, water shortages, increased crime and the proliferation of slum areas, ADB said, and urged proper management of megacities to avert an urban catastrophe.\n\nMegacities would need up to 40 billion dollars annually over the next decade \"to provide services at levels sufficient to sustain productivity, and achieve improvements in the quality of life.\"\n\nA large proportion of these funds would go to improvements in transport and communication, energy, and water supply and sanitation, the bank said.\n\nTo raise this amount, \"traditional ways of financing capital costs and recovering current costs will have to be supplemented\" by funding from the private sector, increased property tax collection and access by local government to the capital markets.\n\n\"Although funding may not be sufficient at present, it is crucial for megacities to anticipate the needs of infrastructure and service provision now,\" it said.\n\nBeijing, Bombay, Calcutta, Jakarta, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Tianjin and Tokyo have been classified by the bank as megacities.\n\nEleven more are candidates for megacity status in the next 28 years -- Bangalore, Bangkok, Dhaka, Hyderabad, Karachi, Lahore, Madras, Manila, New Delhi, Shenyang and Rangoon, the bank said.\n\n\"Of the total projected 20 megacities, half will have populations of 20 million or more and 10 will be in South Asia,\" the bank said.\n\n\"While megacities can be expected to dominate the economic transformation of Asia, the quality of life for their residents will be very much related to the quality of their management,\" ADB added, endorsing moves to privatize services such as water and sewerage systems.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 348, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2025", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 463, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2025", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next decade", "start_char": 872, "end_char": 887, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1551, "end_char": 1554, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 28 years", "start_char": 1744, "end_char": 1761, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P28Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0132.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0112\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 26 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. soldier killed north of Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nOne U.S. soldier has been killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Diyala province north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Sunday.\n\n\"A Task Force Lightning Soldier assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, was killed and two others were wounded when an improvised explosive device detonated near their vehicle while they were conducting operations in Diyala Province Saturday, \" the military said in a statement.\n\nEarlier in the day, the military said that two more U.S. marines died from wounds sustained due to \"enemy action\" in separate incidents in Iraq's volatile Anbar province on Saturday.\n\nSince the U.S.-led war in Iraq broke out in March 2003, about 2, 875 U.S. soldiers have been killed in the war-torn country, according to media count.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 259, "end_char": 265, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 740, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 795, "end_char": 805, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0112.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0137\n\nTOKYO, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapan suffers first post-war failure in life insurance sector by Shingo Ito\n\n\n\n\nJapan's Finance Ministry ordered the troubled Nissan Mutual Life Insurance Co. Friday to suspend most of its operations, marking the first insolvency of a Japanese life insurer since World War II.\n\nFinance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka said the order followed a report from the company outlining difficulties in restructuring its business following huge losses suffered during the \"bubble\" economy of the late 1980s.\n\nWith accumulated losses of about 200 billion yen (1.6 billion dollars), the company itself decided on the action at a board meeting Friday morning.\n\n\"Our action to order the suspension followed its decision, and the decision was made at its own discretion,\" the finance minister said.\n\nMitsuzuka said the ministry would take step \"to protect policy holders\" and was preparing measures to assume control of the company's assets.\n\nAmong the measures, the ministry is arranging to transfer contracts to other insurance companies to prevent a credit crisis.\n\n\"The order of suspension is to ensure the credibility of the industry and to dispel policy-holder concerns,\" Mitsuzuka told a news conference.\n\nAsked about the possibility of similar cases, Mitsuzuka said: \"We expect this case to be the first and last in the insurance industry.\"\n\nNissan Mutual president Hiroshi Yonemoto said the net loss in the 12 months to last March was estimated at 52.5 billion yen, the company's first net loss ever. He added that unrealised losses totalled about 100 billion yen on securities holdings and a further 43.6 billion yen on properties and loans.\n\n\"We had thought we could handle the situation through restructuring efforts, but the situation did not allow us to,\" Yonemoto said.\n\nNissan Mutual is Japan's 19th-largest life insurer with 5,000 employees and close ties with Nissan Motor Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd.\n\nYonemoto said he would seek continued support from Nissan after transferring existing contracts to other life insurers.\n\n\"We have explored a variety of options including a merger but under current legislation, this was the only option we could choose,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement, Mitsuzuka said the suspension followed difficulties stemming from the sale of high-yielding pension policies and a subsequent downturn in share prices, causing a deterioration in returns.\n\nTo protect policy-holders, Mitsuzuka appointed the Japan Life Insurance Association to control and manage its assets and liabilities.\n\nThe suspension of business covers the handling of policy cancellations, entering into new contracts and lending to policy- holders. But Mitsuzuka said the company would be allowed to keep making payments to policy-holders and continue other operations to ensure payouts are met when they fall due.\n\nMitsuzuka also said he would ask associated industries and a policy holders' protection fund set up by the insurance sector last year to help clean up the mess. The protection fund is supposed to disburse up to 200 billion yen in assistance to the life insurance industry.\n\n\"There is unlikely to be a similar case to Nissan Mutual Life,\" Mitsuzuka said, noting that other Japanese life insurance companies have been able to restructure their business activities despite difficult conditions.\n\nMakoto Fukuda, head of the finance ministry's insurance department, said Nissan Mutual Life's accumuluated losses were about 200 billion yen, exacerbated by recent declines in share prices. As a result, he said, unrealised gains on securities holdings at the end of March were zero.\n\nSpeaking a separate news conference, Fukuda said heavy selling of high-yielding pension funds caused an \"abnormal situation\" in the company's financial condition. \"This product has no problem but it is a problem with the way it was sold by the company,\" he said.\n\nFukuda also said that the company's mutual ownership probably prevented it from boosting equity to deal with its difficulties.\n\nWhile the life insurance association has the authority to work out the bail-out scheme, he said Hitachi and Nissan Motor might participate.\n\n\"We cannot say that the Hitachi-Nissan group is entirely irrelevant, as they have been sending managers to Nissan Life,\" Fukuda said.\n\nFukuda said his ministry had \"no immediate plan to inject public funds to bail out Nissan Life\" but added that it planned to protect employees and launch an investigation into the present financial condition of Nissan Life.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 1980s", "start_char": 535, "end_char": 545, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 680, "end_char": 694, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 12 months", "start_char": 1446, "end_char": 1459, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nissan", "start_char": 1999, "end_char": 2005, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2974, "end_char": 2983, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of March", "start_char": 3598, "end_char": 3614, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0137.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0148\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIsraeli president says coming elections a true referendum\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli President Moshe Katsav said on Saturday that the upcoming general elections due in March will be a true referendum on Israel's political path.\n\n\"This time, it is the true referendum,\" Katsav said in an interview with Israel Radio. \"We must reach a decision in the debate that has been going on for 38 years since the Six-Day War.\"\n\n\"The parties must present the voters with clear, responsible positions on all the issues that are on the balance, including the state's permanent borders,\" Katsav added.\n\nMeanwhile, Vice Premier Shimon Peres on Saturday confirmed reports that he was approached by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new party, and said he would decide whether to join it in the coming days.\n\n\"The only thing before my eyes is the country's interest, and the chances to bring about peace,\" Peres told Israel Radio. \" There are no personal considerations in my decision.\"\n\nThe 82-year-old politician said he would make a final decision on the matter in the coming days.\n\nSharon officially asked Katsav to dissolve parliament on Monday. After quitting the center-right Likud party he co-founded decades ago, Sharon announced the formation of a new centrist party named Kadima (Forward).\n\nPresident Katsav has issued a decree to call a snap election, scheduled for March 28, which is widely expected to reshape Israel 's political landscape.\n\nProspects of reviving long-stalled peace talks with the Palestinians, economy and social welfare are to be in the heart of the March ballot, said analysts.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "38 years", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 435, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P38Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 672, "end_char": 680, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "coming", "start_char": 1094, "end_char": 1100, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1165, "end_char": 1171, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "decades ago", "start_char": 1231, "end_char": 1242, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 28", "start_char": 1400, "end_char": 1408, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1605, "end_char": 1610, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0148.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0111\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nHong Kong stocks close higher -- Nov. 29\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong stocks went up 141.40 points, or 0.76 percent, to close at 18,780.93 on Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0111.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0079 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0079. \n Di Giorgio Corp. Seeks\n@  To Sell Certain Units \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n DIG \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n SAN FRANCISCO  \n\n   Di Giorgio Corp. said it's continuing talks with potential buyers of certain units, but has reached no agreement on any deals. \n\n   Di Giorgio, a food wholesaler and building products maker, is seeking alternatives to an unsolicited $32-a-share tender offer of DIG Acquisition Corp., a unit of Rose Partners Limited Partnership. \nDIG is the vehicle being used to pursue to acquisition. \n\n   Robert Mellor, Di Giorgio's executive vice president, said the company stands to reap more money through the sale of individual units to others than by accepting DIG's offer.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 93, "end_char": 101, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0815.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0023\n\nMELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nG20 meeting notes world economy remains positive\n\n\n\n\nGroup 20 (G20) finance ministers and central bank governors finished their 8th meeting here Sunday, noting the outlook of the world economy remains positive, while the global economic growth is expected to slow slightly from the rapid pace of the past few years.\n\nAttendants at the two-day meeting, under the theme of \"Building and Sustaining Prosperity,\" discussed world economic conditions, energy security, demographic change, climate change and International Monetary Fund and the World Bank's reforms.\n\nSince above average growth in the global economy has seen spare capacity decline, which has increased the risks to inflation, countries need to continue the normalization of monetary policy, they said in a final communique issued on Sunday.\n\nOn energy security, the attendants said global demand for energy and minerals commodities is set to increase significantly over the coming decades driven by a strong world economy, rising incomes, and ongoing industrialization and urbanization in many economies.\n\n\"We agreed that enhancing global trade by strengthening markets, and ensuring sustainability by promoting investment and encouraging efficiency, are the best ways to deliver lasting resource security,\" they said in the communique.\n\nMeanwhile, police numbers doubled at barricades around the meeting venue in case of a possible fresh attack by the protesters Sunday.\n\nOn Saturday, 2,000-3,000 protesters held demonstrations against the meeting and clashed with police.\n\nA number of police officers were injured and one of them was taken to hospital with a suspected broken wrist.\n\nThe Group 20 is an informal forum which first met in December 1999 following the Asian financial crisis. The group members represent around 85 percent of global gross domestic product, 80 percent of world trade and two-thirds of the world's population.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 215, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past few years", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 384, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 864, "end_char": 870, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1495, "end_char": 1501, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1507, "end_char": 1515, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 1999", "start_char": 1770, "end_char": 1783, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0023.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0198\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNalbandian beats Ljubicic to reach semis at Masters\n\n\n\n\nArgentina's David Nalbandian breezed past unformed Ivan Ljubicic for a second berth to the semifinals of the season-ending ATP tennis Masters Cup, beating the Croatian 6-2, 6-2 here on Thursday.\n\nThe sluggish Ljubicic, who failed to show any of his tennis as that in latest matches, returned the serve from Nalbandian out of rebound to end up his misery in just one hour and seven minutes.\n\nCommitting 7 unforced errors besides 11 forced ones, the Croatian was down 5-0 shortly into the match.\n\nWith the victory, the 23-year-old Nalbandian, who converted five out of total six break points into winners on Thursday, joined world number one Roger Federer and top Russian Nikolay Davydenko to qualify for the semis at the 4.45 million US dollars event.\n\nLjubicic, who enjoyed his best season by winning two ATP titles in eight finals and broke into top ten for first time, cracked five aces throughout the match but failed to hold his nerve against the steady-handed Nalbandian.\n\nThe 26-year-old sensation of the late-season, who hardly upset the superlative Swiss Federer in his Red Group opener on Sunday, had earned a place in Shanghai thanks to his autumn efforts, including the indoor title win over the past month in Metz and Vienna as well as the final encounters in both the Masters Series Madrid and Paris two week ago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one hour", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 484, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT1H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 720, "end_char": 728, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1212, "end_char": 1218, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past month", "start_char": 1317, "end_char": 1331, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two week ago", "start_char": 1427, "end_char": 1439, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0198.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0091\n\nNEW DELHI, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS trade chief pushes for balance in farm talks\n\n\n\n\nUS Trade Representative Rob Portman Saturday said India must help in solving the standoff in farm talks to conclude the current round of global trade negotiations, Indo-Asian News Service reported.\n\n\"Unless we solve this problem of agriculture and non- agriculture market access, it would not be possible to move this round including a reduction in industrial tariff,\" Portman told a meeting with Indian industry here.\n\n\"But unless the European Union comes out with a proposal to reduce its tariff, it would be difficult to move ahead in the round,\" he told members of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).\n\nPortman, on a two-day visit to India, said New Delhi must reduce agriculture tariff for greater market access to developed countries like the United States, even while admitting that unless European Union cuts subsidies, the talks will remain inconclusive.\n\nHis visit came ahead of a crucial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Hong Kong next month and in the backdrop of the deadlock in negotiations at Geneva and London last week to conclude the Doha round of global trade talks.\n\nIndian Commerce Minister Kamal Nath said the India and the United States had agreed to double bilateral trade to 40 billion US dollars by 2008.\n\nIndia currently exports merchandise worth 14 billion US dollars to the United States and imports goods worth 7 billion US dollars.\n\nIn the 30-minute talks, discussions also veered around the upcoming Ministerial of the WTO in Hong Kong to conclude the next round of trade talks that have so far been deadlocked over rigid positions of developing and developed countries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 1100, "end_char": 1110, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1184, "end_char": 1193, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1383, "end_char": 1387, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1396, "end_char": 1405, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0091.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0047 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0047. \n Travelers Profit Rose\n@  11% in Third Quarter\n@  Despite Hugo Claims \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n TIC \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n HARTFORD, Conn.  \n\n   Travelers Corp.'s third-quarter net income rose 11%, even though claims stemming from Hurricane Hugo reduced results $40 million. \n\n   Net advanced to $94.2 million, or 89 cents a share, from $85 million, or 83 cents a share, including net realized investment gains of $31 million, up from $10 million a year ago. \nBut revenue declined to $3 billion from $3.2 billion. \n\n   Travelers estimated that the California earthquake last month will result in a fourth-quarter pre-tax charge of less than $10 million. \n\n   The insurer's earnings from commercial property/casualty lines fell 59% in the latest quarter, while it lost $7.2 million in its personal property/casualty business, compared with earnings of $6.1 million a year ago. \n\n   Travelers's employee benefits group, which includes its group health insurance operations, posted earnings of $24 million, compared with a loss of $3 million last year. \n\n   In the first nine months, net was $306 million, compared with a loss of $195 million in the 1988 period. \nThe year-ago results included a $415 million charge in the 1988 second quarter for underperforming real estate and mortgage loans.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 214, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t27"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 498, "end_char": 508, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 621, "end_char": 631, "tid": "t47", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t27"}, {"text": "fourth-quarter", "start_char": 649, "end_char": 663, "tid": "t48", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t27"}, {"text": "the latest quarter", "start_char": 785, "end_char": 803, "tid": "t52", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 915, "end_char": 925, "tid": "t51", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1090, "end_char": 1099, "tid": "t56", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 1109, "end_char": 1130, "tid": "t58", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1988 period", "start_char": 1194, "end_char": 1209, "tid": "t59", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "year-ago", "start_char": 1216, "end_char": 1224, "tid": "t60", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t62"}, {"text": "the 1988 second quarter", "start_char": 1267, "end_char": 1290, "tid": "t62", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q2", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0144.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0341\n\nATHENS, Dec 11 , 2005\n\ncharges\n\n\n\n\nCoastguard officials at the main Greek port of Piraeus have arrested the Bulgarian second engineer of a British-flagged tanker sought on manslaughter charges, the Greek merchant marine ministry said Sunday.\n\nVladimir Bankov, 39, will be taken to a prosecutor in the northern city of Salonika under a local warrant issued in 2000, a ministry source told AFP.\n\nBankov, a second engineer on board the British-flagged Zim Shenzhen, is accused of premeditated manslaughter, the source said.\n\nThe ministry did not provide any further details on the crime case.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 263, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 382, "end_char": 386, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0341.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0308\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPostal charge increases approved by Chinese government\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinese government has approved price rises by the State Post Bureau for mail and postcard deliveries.\n\nThe State Development and Reform Commission (SDRC) and the State Post Bureau announced the price hikes from Nov. 15.\n\nChina's law on pricing requires government departments to hold hearings on price hikes for any public services, but the postal prices would not be subject to a hearing, said an SDRC official.\n\nThe cost of posting a postcard rose from 0.6 yuan (0.08 U.S. dollars) to 0.8 yuan, while the local rate for a letter rose from 0.6 yuan to 0.8 yuan per 20 grams for the first 100 grams and 1.2 yuan for each additional 100 grams.\n\nFor ordinary domestic letters, the price rose from 0.8 yuan to 1.2 yuan per 20 grams for the first 100 grams. Charges for each additional 100 grams remain two yuan.\n\nFigures provided by the SDRC show the per capita cost of the increase is 0.33 yuan per year, so a hearing would have been unreasonable, the official said.\n\nThe increase is aimed at alleviating the service's financial problems and paving the way for its transformation into a state-owned enterprise, an SDRC spokesperson had said earlier.\n\nPostal charges were last raised in 1998.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 15", "start_char": 332, "end_char": 339, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 1305, "end_char": 1309, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0308.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0286\n\nSKOPJE, Dec 17 , 2005\n\nto EU members ///\n\n\n\n\nMacedonian leaders cracked open the champagne Saturday to celebrate a decision by European Union leaders to bring their country closer to membership of the bloc, describing the move as recognition for recent reforms.\n\n\"This is a big day for us, we received recognition for everything we have done in the recent past,\" Prime Minister Vlado Buckovski told the state-owned Mia news agency after winning a green light to open accession negotiations with Brussels.\n\n\"The path is paved now and we know that we have real friends (in the EU) that value all our efforts. I congratulate all citizens of Macedonia for such a great success,\" Buckovski said.\n\nIn a separate address to the nation, President Branko Crvenkovski said the decision to give Macedonia candidate status \"also brings a huge obligation to continue with even more devotion along the same road towards the goal.\"\n\n\"Macedonia has strength, knowledge, the will and determination to achieve its strategic goal,\" Crvenkovski said.\n\nFulfiling a promise given publicly a while ago, the EU's representative in Skopje, Erwan Fouere invited Buckovski, Crvenkovski and other Macedonian top officials into a popular cafe in downtown Skopje and toasted them with Irish whiskey.\n\nAt the celebration Buckovski gave bouquets of red roses to Foreign Minister Ilinka Mitreva and Deputy Prime Minister in charge of European integration Radmila Secerinska, saying the two women were the most responsible for the success.\n\nThe Macedonian government met in extraordinary session to define an \"action plan\" of further steps necessary ahead of the beginning of talks on membership, although EU leaders did not set a date for negotiations to start.\n\nAhead of the session, Buckovski opened a large bottle of champagne to celebrate the decision with members of his cabinet.\n\n\"Today we got a visa for our European path. Macedonia finally leaves the Balkan road paved with cobblestones and joins a highway that leads to Europe,\" Buckovski said.\n\n\"The European Union showed it believed in Macedonia's story. Today it is clear that Europe needs Macedonia,\" he added.\n\nAgron Buxhaku, a top official of the ethnic Albanian Democratic Union of Integration, party allied in the ruling coalition with Crvenkovski's social democrats, said Macedonia had made a significant breakthrough.\n\n\"This is a very important step for the country that should mobilize all of us to fully achieve democratic standards and economic reforms,\" Buxhaku said.\n\nLeader of the strongest Macedonian opposition party VMRO-DPMNE, Nikola Gruevski, welcomed the decision, but called the government to increase efforts \"for the good of all citizens.\"\n\nThe news from Brussels had been long awaited in Skopje. Following overnight special programs waiting for the announcement, electronic media on Saturday devoted their news programs to reports and reactions.\n\n\"I have been dreaming of this moment for almost 15 years,\" since Macedonia gained independence in 1991, Ljupka Nikolovska, a 45-year old teacher, jubilantly said.\n\nFew thousand people defied heavy snow and gathered Saturday evening in Skopje's main square to join celebration and listened some of Macedonia's most popular music stars.\n\nThe joyful street party ended in fireworks, but the celebration was expected to continue in restaurants and cafes that were exceptionally allowed to work overnight instead of having to close by midnight as usual.\n\nMacedonians were also given an opportunity over the weekend to make telephone calls to any EU country at price of a local call -- telecommunication companies' contribution to the national-wide celebration.\n\nThe tiny ex-Yugoslav republic has been praised for its concerted effort to implement reforms following the end of the ethnic Albanian uprising in 2001 which threatened to spiral into all-out civil war.\n\nThe embassy of the United States in Skopje welcomed the EU leaders' decision in a statement.\n\n\"The European Council decision sends a positive message not only to Macedonia, but to all countries of the western Balkans, thereby enhancing regional stability,\" the US embassy said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent past", "start_char": 372, "end_char": 383, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 548, "end_char": 551, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a while ago", "start_char": 1090, "end_char": 1101, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 1877, "end_char": 1882, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 2106, "end_char": 2111, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 2858, "end_char": 2866, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "almost 15 years", "start_char": 2963, "end_char": 2978, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 3020, "end_char": 3024, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday evening", "start_char": 3137, "end_char": 3153, "tid": "t13", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 3520, "end_char": 3531, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0286.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0438\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNepal to host Himalaya tourism meeting in December\n\n\n\n\nThe Nepali secretary for culture, tourism and civil aviation Madhav Prasad Ghimire has kicked off preparations for the forthcoming Himalaya Tourism Conference 2006 on December 11-12 in Kathmandu.\n\nOrganized by the Nepal Mountaineering Association in collaboration with the Nepal Tourism Board, International Center for Integrated Mountain Development, World Wildlife Fund, Nepal and Himalaya Environmental Trust, the international event will coincide with the celebration of the golden jubilee of the first ascent of Mt. Manaslu and Mt. Lhotse, a leading newspaper, The Himalayan Times, reported on Tuesday.\n\nAccording to Ghimire, with the peace process in place, it was important to inform the international community that Nepal was a safe destination to travel.\n\nOutlining the main objectives of the conference, he told reporters on Monday that it was firstly to revive and promote mountain tourism in the country and secondly, to discuss ways to reduce the negative impact of tourism on the environment and preserve the mountain culture.\n\nThe third main objective was to extend the benefits of tourism which was confined to urban areas to seep down to rural areas as well.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 11-12", "start_char": 281, "end_char": 295, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 713, "end_char": 720, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 949, "end_char": 955, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0438.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0408\n\nCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nNASA waves off first Florida shuttle landing try\n\n\n\n\nNASA opted not to bring down the space shuttle Discovery on a first Florida landing attempt Friday due to bad weather conditions, the space agency announced.\n\nThe US space agency left open the possibility that after another 90 minutes conditions will have changed to allow a descent to Florida's Kennedy Space Center.\n\nIf not, the shuttle can still possibly land at one of two other sites Friday: Edwards Air Force Base in California and the White Sands test facility in New Mexico.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 48, "end_char": 61, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 214, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "another 90 minutes", "start_char": 338, "end_char": 356, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 511, "end_char": 517, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0408.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0218\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS may cut three brigades in Iraq early next year: report\n\n\n\n\nThe US Defense Department tentatively plans to reduce the number of US forces in Iraq in early 2006 by as many as three combat brigades, but will keep at least one brigade \"on call\" in Kuwait in case more troops are needed quickly, several senior military officers said.\n\nThe Pentagon made the tentative plan based on the assumption that there would not be any major surprises in Iraq, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.\n\nPentagon authorities have set a series of \"decision points\" during 2006 to consider further force cuts that, under a \"moderately optimistic\" scenario, would drop the total number of troops from more than 150,000 now to fewer than 100,000, including 10 combat brigades, by the end of the year, the officers were quoted as saying.\n\nMilitary commanders continued to favor a gradual, phased reduction, saying that too rapid a departure would sacrifice strategic gains made over the past 30 months and provide a propaganda windfall to insurgents, the report said.\n\nThe current number of US forces in Iraq represented an increase of more than 15,000 troops over a base level this year of about 138,000, including 17 combat brigades. The equivalent of another brigade's worth of combat power was added this fall to bolster security for the Oct. 15 constitutional referendum and the coming Dec. 15 vote on a new national government.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2006", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 537, "end_char": 546, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 821, "end_char": 840, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 30 months", "start_char": 1023, "end_char": 1041, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P30M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 1113, "end_char": 1120, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1218, "end_char": 1227, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this fall", "start_char": 1344, "end_char": 1353, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-FA", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 15", "start_char": 1382, "end_char": 1389, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 15", "start_char": 1431, "end_char": 1438, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0218.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0474\n\nNICOSIA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCypriots need more information on euro: EU commissioner\n\n\n\n\nEU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Joaquin Almunia on Wednesday called on the Cypriot government to make the people well informed and prepared before they adopt the euro.\n\n\"There is some demand for more information about the euro, about the consequences of joining the euro,\" Almunia told reporters upon his arrival.\n\nHe said that his trip was a good opportunity to establish agreements between all the sectors involved to avoid that the introduction of the euro will create problems in price.\n\nHe also said that the Cypriot economy is \"doing quite well regarding growth.\"\n\n\"Regarding micro-economic figures, I think that the situation is positive and the evolution that we analyzing and monitoring is going to the right direction,\" he said.\n\nAlmunia arrived in Cyprus for a conference on changeover of the euro. Cyprus is planning to enter the euro zone in 2008.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 191, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 986, "end_char": 990, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0474.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0333\n\nVIENNA, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIAEA report demands Iran do more to clarify nulcear plans\n\n\n\n\nChief of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Mohamed ElBaradei presented a report on Friday, saying the Iranian government has improved its cooperation with the IAEA on its nuclear issue but still needs to do more to clarify its nuclear plans.\n\nThe report, presented to the 35 members of the IAEA governing board in Vienna, said Iran is still denying access to sensitive sites and information of its nuclear plans, officials close to the UN watchdog said.\n\n\"Iran's full transparency is indispensable and overdue,\" the report said.\n\nThe IAEA has been given nuclear documents that Iran got from people linked to the black market set up by Abdul Kadir Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb, it said.\n\nThe report urged Iran to provide more information and documentation related to the procurement of dual use equipment and allow visits to locations linked to sites such as Lavizan, which was closed before IAEA inspectors could go there.\n\nThe United States accuses Iran of developing nuclear weapons secretly, a charge rejected by Tehran as politically motivated.\n\nThe European Union has rejected a Russian proposal for talks with Iran in Moscow due to Teheran's resumption of uranium conversion in its Isfahan plant.\n\nThe governing board of the IAEA is to meet on Nov. 24 in Vienna for renewed discussions of Iran's nuclear policies, including whether the case should be brought before the UN Security Council.\n\nIran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said earlier that he assumed ElBaradei would deliver a \"rational and clear report\" on Iran because the IAEA was \"taking positive steps\" recently on the Iranian nuclear issue.\n\nHowever, Larijani warned that Iran would \"resort to other means \"if the EU \"wants to waste opportunities\" by prompting a resolution against Iran at the IAEA meeting.\n\nIran resumed uranium conversion activities, a preparatory step for uranium enrichment, in early August, a move that scuttled nuclear negotiations with the EU which started after Tehran suspended all activities related to uranium enrichment in November 2004.\n\nIn response, the IAEA in late September urged Tehran to re-suspend all enrichment-related activities in a EU-drafted resolution, saying Iran's refusal will risk a referral of its case to the UN Security Council.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 213, "end_char": 219, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 24", "start_char": 1395, "end_char": 1402, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early August", "start_char": 2021, "end_char": 2033, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 2004", "start_char": 2174, "end_char": 2187, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late September", "start_char": 2215, "end_char": 2229, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0333.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0018\n\nDAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAfrican trade ministers to meet in Tanzania\n\n\n\n\nTrade ministers from over 50 African countries are scheduled to meet in Arusha of northern Tanzania next week to prepare for the coming World Trade Organization (WTO) convention.\n\nAccording to reports reaching here from Arusha on Friday, the ministerial meeting will be held on next Wednesday when participants are expected to work out a common stand for the sixth WTO ministerial meeting to be held in Hong Kong of China in mid- December this year.\n\nThe Arusha meeting will be organized by the African Union, the WTO and the Netherlands-based Common Fund for Commodity.\n\nHigh on the agenda of the Arusha ministerial meeting will be issues concerning commodities which are the backbone of the economy of the majority of sub-Saharan African countries.\n\nWTO Director-General Pascal Lamy and Chairman of the Common Fund for Commodity Ali Mchumo will attend the Arusha ministerial meeting which will be opened by Tanzanian President Benjamin William Mkapa.\n\nThe forthcoming Hong Kong round of the WTO ministerial meeting is expected to settle the issues that will shape the final accord of the Doha Development Agenda.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 341, "end_char": 347, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next Wednesday", "start_char": 389, "end_char": 403, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December this year", "start_char": 541, "end_char": 559, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0018.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0387\n\nROME, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nright-to-die campaigner\n\n\n\n\nThe Italian Catholic Church on Friday said right-to-die campaigner Piergiorgio Welby cannot have a religious funeral because his assisted death was against Church teaching, Italian television reported.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 109, "end_char": 115, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0387.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0685\n\nHAMBURG, Germany, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nCSKA look to slip past hapless Hamburg\n\n\n\n\nGoal-shy CSKA Moscow's Champions League fate is out of their hands as they head into Wednesday's group G match against SV Hamburg.\n\nCSKA, who have scored just two goals in their five games, are two points behind Arsenal and FC Porto, who defeated them 2-0 in their last match, and the 2005 UEFA Cup champions must defeat German side Hamburg to have any chance of reaching the last 16.\n\nIf CSKA win and there is a winner in the Arsenal and Porto match the Russians will progress but a draw in the other match in Portugal will see them eliminated.\n\nFor 1983 European champions Hamburg pride is at stake after five straight defeats in Europe's flagship competition.\n\nHamburg are in this competition for the first time since 2001 after finishing third in the Bundesliga last season but it has been an immediately forgettable campaign.\n\nAlong with Levski Sofia, the Germans, second from bottom of the Bundesliga, are the only team yet to register a point in this season's Champions League.\n\n\"We know it has been a disappointing season but all we can do is try to make things better from now on,\" said Hamburg coach Thomas Doll.\n\n\"My future has been talked about for the past few weeks so I do not think I need to add anything else.\"\n\nIf Hamburg, who have won just once in 15 league matches, fail to get even a draw against CSKA they will become only the seventh team in Champions League history to end up without a point in the group stage.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 16", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 487, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05T16:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 829, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past few weeks", "start_char": 1265, "end_char": 1283, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15", "start_char": 1371, "end_char": 1373, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1915", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0685.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0395\n\nRIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPresident\n\n\n\n\nVisiting Portugal's President Anibal Cavaco Silva said on Tuesday that the excellent Portugal-Brazil relations will continue through the second administration of Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.\n\nCavoco Silva said the two countries' entrepreneurs are in very close contact and mutual investments have been growing.\n\n\"Entrepreneurs from Brazil see Portugal not only as a 10-million-inhabitant country, but also a country that takes part in the European Union (EU), which has over 500 million consumers with high purchasing power,\" he said.\n\nCavaco Silva made the remarks in Brazilian city Sao Paulo after he attended the 16th Ibero-American Summit in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo.\n\nHe noted that the relations between the EU and the South American Common Market (Mercosur) was one of the most frequently raised topics at the summit, and he had promised to try to unblock the free trade agreement between the two groups when Portugal takes over EU Presidency in the second half of 2007.\n\n\"We count on Brazil because it can help overcome difficulties that exist in the relationship between Mercosur and Europe,\" Cavaco Silva added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Oct. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-10-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 142, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second half of 2007", "start_char": 1057, "end_char": 1080, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0395.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0436\n\nBONN, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBonn \"verifying\" Tehran ambassador rebuff\n\n\n\n\nThe German foreign ministry on Wednesday said it would not make a statement before \"verifying\" Iran's decision not to allow the German and Danish ambassadors to return to Tehran.\n\n\"It is too early for a reaction,\" said ministry spokesman Horst Freitag. \"We are trying to clear up the situation.\"\n\nHe would not say whether German authorities had contacted Tehran to discuss the matter.\n\nThe ambassadors, plus counterparts from other EU countries, were withdrawn after a German court ruled that senior Iranian officials were involved in the 1992 murder of four Iranian Kurds in a Berlin restaurant.\n\nIran earlier said it was halting all dialogue with the European Union. It also ruled out the early return of German and Danish ambassadors in retaliation for the EU's latest measures against the Islamic republic.\n\nThe foreign ministry announced in a statement that it would break off \"all talks on human rights, terrorism and arms control.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg banned ministerial visits to or from Iran over Tehran's alleged involvement in the 1992 killings.\n\nIn Paris, foreign ministry spokesman Jacques Rummelhardt said EU governments were holding discussion on how to react to Iran's decision.\n\nHe said that in principle the ambassadors should \"return normally to their posts.\"\n\n\"If they are being labelled persona non grata, that is something else,\" he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 138, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 637, "end_char": 641, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1041, "end_char": 1048, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0436.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0207\n\nLONDON, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nManchester United beat Portsmouth to move atop in Premiership\n\n\n\n\nManchester United moved atop of the English Premiership with three points clear on Saturday after they beat Portsmouth 3-0 at the Old Trafford.\n\nChelsea, however, can pull level on points with them at the top of the table provided that they beat Tottenham at White Hart Lane on Sunday.\n\nThanks to a brace from inspired Dirk Kuyt, the resurgent Liverpool chalked up their fourth successive win after comfortably overcoming Reading 2-0 at Anfield, while Darren Bent scored his seventh goal of the season to give Charlton a 1-0 home win over Manchester City.\n\nWatford secured their first win of the season as they capitalised on some woeful defensive lapse from Middlesbrough to score a 2-0 home win.\n\nLouis Saha opened the scoring from the penalty spot after only three minutes to set the tone of the thrashing which celebrated Sir Alex Ferguson's 20 years as manager in style.\n\nCristiano Ronaldo then scored a superb free-kick, while David James denied Gary Neville three times in the match.\n\nNiko Kranjcar missed a great chance for Pompey before Nemanja Vidic headed his first goal at Old Trafford.\n\nFerguson celebrates two decades at the helm on Monday - and must be extremely satisfied with the calibre and form of his current crop of players.\n\nWigan scored their third consecutive win on when they beat hosts Bolton 1-0 thanks to Lee McCulloch's goal.\n\nA dour first half saw few chances and little entertainment, but the second period was much more worthy of a derby.\n\nAnd with 11 minutes left, McCulloch fired home with his right foot from 18 yards after a clever Wigan build-up.\n\nClaus Jensen's deflected second-half strike awarded Fulham a 1-0 victory over visiting Everton.\n\nThe sole goal of the Premiership game came in the 65th minute when Jensen's angled shot from 20 yards flew off Tim Cahill and beyond Everton keeper Tim Howard.\n\nIt completed the transformation of a game Everton had completely dominated for the first half.\n\nIn a later game, Danny Webber scored Sheffield United's first Premiership away goal of the season as the Blades leapfrogged Newcastle and out of the bottom three.\n\nThe precious goal arrived in the 68th minute as Webber stooped to head home Nick Montgomery's cross to inflict the Magpies' third home League defeat.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 399, "end_char": 405, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three minutes", "start_char": 883, "end_char": 896, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20 years", "start_char": 967, "end_char": 975, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1268, "end_char": 1274, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 1342, "end_char": 1349, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first half", "start_char": 2043, "end_char": 2057, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0207.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0030\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS reax from opposition, Iraqi expats ///\n\n\n\n\nAustralia, which opposes capital punishment, said Saturday it respected Iraq's decision to execute former dictator Saddam Hussein, calling it a \"significant moment\" for the war-torn country.\n\n\"No matter what one might think about the death penalty, and the government of Iraq is aware of the Australian government's position on capital punishment, we must also respect the right of sovereign states to pass judgement relating to crimes committed against their people, within their jurisdictions,\" Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said in a statement.\n\n\"He has been brought to justice, following a process of fair trial and appeal, something he denied to countless thousands of victims of his regime.\"\n\nAustralia contributed troops to the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, which led to the ouster of Saddam. It still has about 1,300 troops involved in operations in the area.\n\nDowner said it was a credit to the people of Iraq that Saddam has been granted a fair trial for crimes against humanity involving the execution in 1982 of 148 Shiite men and boys in the village of Dujail.\n\n\"The people of Iraq now know that their brutal dictator will never come back to lead them,\" the foreign minister said.\n\n\"While many will continue to grieve over their personal loss under his rule, his death marks an important step in consigning his tyrannical regime to the judgement of history and pursuing a process of reconciliation now and in the future.\"\n\nThe Australian government, along with its coalition allies, would continue to \"support the struggle of the vast majority of Iraq's people to preserve and build upon the progress which has been achieved, where even the cruellest of dictators can be tried and brought to justice\", said Downer.\n\nBut the leader of the opposition Labor party, Kevin Rudd, called the government's support for Saddam's execution hypocritical, given it regularly seeks clemency for Australian nationals facing the death penalty overseas.\n\n\"It is not possible in our view to be selective in the application of this policy,\" Rudd said in a statement.\n\nMeanwhile, Sydney resident Issam Abdulla, who fled Iraq more than 20 years ago, said he had \"no feeling at all\" about the former dictator's death, saying it had come too late to remedy his homeland's spiralling violence.\n\n\"It's not making me happy but it's making me feel sorry why all this has happened,\" said the 55-year-old.\n\n\"The damage is done.\"\n\nHowever other Iraqis living in Australia, some of whom said they had lost family during Saddam's reign, welcomed the news, making plans to celebrate late into the night in the Sydney suburb of Auburn.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 878, "end_char": 882, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1214, "end_char": 1217, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1530, "end_char": 1533, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20 years ago", "start_char": 2247, "end_char": 2259, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1986", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0030.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0200\n\nVIENNA, Dec 23 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quote ///\n\n\n\n\nThe United Nations nuclear watchdog agency will press ahead with its investigation of Iran's nuclear program, IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said after the UN Security Council imposed sanctions on Tehran.\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency \"will implement the relevant parts of the UNSC (UN Security Council) resolution that relates to its work,\" Elbaradei said in a statement posted on the IAEA's web site.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 23 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0200.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0116\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 4 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURE) =\n\n\n\n\nThe trial of Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein resumes on Monday with mounting pressure for the process to accelerate after two earlier adjournments limited court time to just two brief sessions.\n\nOfficials close to the court are hoping that this time a full four days of hearings is possible before the court adjourns again in time for Iraq's parliamentary elections on December 15.\n\nSeveral witnesses are set to appear in the trial of Saddam and seven of his deputies for the massacre of 148 people from the Shiite village of Dujail in 1982, for which all the accused could face the death penalty.\n\nWith the trial yet to hit its stride, no witness has yet given testimony in person in the court. Amid fears over their security, tribunal sources say some witnesses could appear masked or hidden to protect their anonymity.\n\nSaddam's lawyers, who now include former US attorney general Ramsey Clark and former Qatari justice minister Najib al-Nuaimi are looking to force further delays in a bid to give the defense more time to prepare its case.\n\nThey hope to schedule a court briefing \"to discuss key issues in the case like the legality of court, independence of court and the impartiality of judges,\" said Clark.\n\nThe whole process, which is closely watched around the world and was called the \"Trial of the Century\" by one Iraqi paper, has had a slow beginning with a brief opening session on October 19, followed by a 40 day delay and then a two hour session on November 28, and then a week-long adjournment.\n\nThe trial has been plagued by a range of problems since its inception, including minor ones like intermittent sound in the first session and a broken elevator in the second session, to the more serious issues of security.\n\nBetween the first two sessions, police announced they discovered a plot to assassinate the court's top investigative judge, while two of the defense lawyers were assassinated.\n\nThe latest delay came after Taha Yassin Ramadan, a close associate of Saddam and his former vice president, refused to use the lawyer the court appointed after his advocate was shot dead.\n\nThe trial takes place in an unfinished palace once used as the headquarters for Saddam's Baath party inside the Green Zone and amid very heavy security. Attendees receive full body X-rays and are not allowed to bring their own paper and pens.\n\nThe previous session was dominated by Saddam Hussein's complaint to the judge that his American guards had taken away his pen and paper. When the judge said he would tell them to return it, Saddam exploded into a nationalist speech.\n\n\"Don't tell them, order them. You are an Iraqi, you have sovereignty, they are in your country, they are foreigners, they are invaders,\" said Saddam.\n\nBut the chief judge, Rizkar Mohammed Amin, a Kurd, has largely taken these outbursts in his stride.\n\nAside from Saddam and Ramadan, the defendants include Barzan al-Tikriti, Saddam's half brother and head of intelligence at the time of the massacre, and Awad Ahmed al-Bandar, head judge of the revolutionary court.\n\nThere are also four little known Baath officials who worked in Dujail at the time of the massacre, which took place after an assassination attempt against Saddam's convoy. All have pleaded not guilty.\n\nAs the defense complains they have not had enough time to prepare for the case, there is growing frustration among Iraqis, especially among Shiites and Kurds who suffered the most under Saddam, at the constant delays.\n\nBoth Iraqi and US officials have accused the defence team of playing for time in a bid to derail the landmark trial, but the judges are under strong international pressure to ensure that Saddam enjoys the justice he is accused of denying his compatriots for so long.\n\nIn the last session, the court was shown testimony from wheelchair-bound Waddah Ismail al-Sheikh, a former intelligence official, who implicated Barzan in the Dujail massacre. The official died after the recording was made.\n\nIraqi officials have said they chose to start with the Dujail case because it is relatively straightforward and well documented.\n\nBut critics charge the case was chosen because it lacked the potential of the other cases for stirring up political controversy for Washington which backed Saddam's regime through the 1980s.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 126, "end_char": 132, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "full four days", "start_char": 322, "end_char": 336, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-12-04T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 15", "start_char": 439, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1982", "start_char": 606, "end_char": 610, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1982", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 19", "start_char": 1465, "end_char": 1475, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 28", "start_char": 1535, "end_char": 1546, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first two sessions", "start_char": 1814, "end_char": 1836, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1980s", "start_char": 4341, "end_char": 4350, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "198", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0116.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0088\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nwith S. China in marine fishery\n\n\n\n\nHAIKOU, Nov. 7(Xinhua)-- Seychellois President James Alix Michel showed great interest in cooperation with south China's Hainan Province in marine fishery after visiting the Hainan Provincial Fisheries Research Institute on Tuesday.\n\nLi Xiangmin, director of the research institute briefed the president on the development of the fishery industry of Hainan, expressing his hope to cooperate with Seychelles in fishery.\n\nMichel said Seychelles is an island country, and has lots of similarities with Hainan in natural resources.\n\nThere is a big potential for cooperation between the two sides, especially in fishery, he said.\n\nHe expressed his hope for further exchanges and cooperation between the two sides in the future, so as to benefit from each other.\n\nMichel visited the aquatic products breeding base and showed great interest in its sea-water breeding and cultivation.\n\nHainan's marine fishery boasts professional experts, advanced technologies and successful experience, said Michel, expressing his confidence in future cooperation in sea water breeding and cultivation.\n\nThe president also visited the permanent site of the Boao Forum for Asia.\n\nJames Alix Michel on Monday arrived at Haikou, capital city of south China's Hainan Province, and started a 3-day visit to Hainan.\n\nMichel kicked off his state visit to China on Nov. 1 and attended the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held from Nov. 4 to 5.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov.", "start_char": 100, "end_char": 104, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 316, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 803, "end_char": 813, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1269, "end_char": 1275, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 1426, "end_char": 1432, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4", "start_char": 1516, "end_char": 1522, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0088.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0227\n\nLONDON, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBritish troops to continue to stay in Iraq: FM\n\n\n\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said on Thursday that British troops would continue to stay in Iraq as long as they are required.\n\nSpeaking at the Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank in London, Beckett said \"the situation in Iraq is one which is dangerous and volatile.\"\n\n\"We are at a critical juncture which the fate of that country hangs in the balance. There is the very real risk of even greater instability and bloodshed than we have already seen,\" she said.\n\nBritish troops would \"stay as long as that government asks us to do so.\" she said, adding that \"we will leave when they are confident that they can take the role of security in the country on their own shoulders.\"\n\nBeckett warned against any \"precipitate\" moves to withdraw British troops from Iraq.\n\n\"I ask those who are calling for more precipitate action to consider the consequences of such action,\" she said.\n\n\"We would be leaving the Iraqi government without the means to prevent a further escalation in the violence, without the tools to enforce the rule of law and without the authority to prevent their country from turning into a base for terrorism,\" she said. \"We must not let that happen.\"\n\nCurrently, Britain has some 7,200 troops deployed in southern Iraq, most in the southern Basra area and about 800 in Maysan province. Since 2003, the number of British troops killed in Iraq has increased to 121.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1443, "end_char": 1447, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0227.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0151\n\nKABUL, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPakistani foreign minister to visit Afghanistan next month\n\n\n\n\nPakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Mahmood Kasuri would pay an official visit to Afghan capital Kabul early next month, Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta said Tuesday.\n\n\"His Excellency Mr. Kasuri is going to visit Kabul from 7th to 9th December,\" Spanta told newsmen here.\n\nThe agenda of his talks with Afghan officials would cover holding the peace Jirga or grand assembly, and boosting bilateral cooperation in all fields including the war on terror, he added.\n\nPresident Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharaf reached an agreement in front of U.S. President Bush to hold a grand assembly of the elders and chieftains of the two neighboring countries in order to find a viable solution to militancy.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next month", "start_char": 222, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 297, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "7th to 9th December", "start_char": 363, "end_char": 382, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0151.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0302\n\nADDIS ABABA, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEthiopian parliament votes for independent commission to look into recent riots\n\n\n\n\nEthiopia's House of People's Representatives on Monday ruled that recent riots in the capital Addis Ababa and some other cities in the country should be looked into by an independent inquiry commission.\n\nThe lower house of parliament settled on the establishment of an independent inquiry commission with majority vote after thorough discussions on a report presented to it by federal police commissioner Workineh Gebeyehu.\n\nThe police report said the recent riotings were \"well-organized \" by the largest opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) .\n\nThe ruling came during the parliament's first extraordinary session with 334 votes for, one vote against and 72 abstentions.\n\nAccording to the ruling, the commission to be established will look into the cause of the riotings as well as into whether the measures taken by security forces were excessive.\n\nThe commission will also take up the task of determining the casualties and property damage incurred, said the ruling.\n\nDuring the street violence two weeks ago, in which police clashed with CUD supporters, at least 46 people died. Between Friday and Saturday police released 4,138 people, but many were still in custody.\n\nThe violence began Nov. 1 amid protests over a disputed May 15 parliamentary elections.\n\nCUD has been boycotting the lower House of People's Representatives (HPR), saying it wants a solution to the contested results of the parliamentary elections.\n\nThe final election results indicate that the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Party (EPRDF), which has ruled the country for the past 14 years, has won 327 seats of the 547- seat HPR, enough to form the federal government.\n\nCUD and another opposition party, the United Ethiopian Democratic Force (UEDF), were in second and third places with 109 and 52 seats respectively.\n\nThe two opposition parties accuse the ruling party of massive electoral fraud.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 193, "end_char": 199, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 1156, "end_char": 1169, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1249, "end_char": 1255, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 1351, "end_char": 1357, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 14 years", "start_char": 1724, "end_char": 1741, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P14Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "109", "start_char": 1940, "end_char": 1943, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "109", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0302.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0260\n\nATHENS, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGreek stocks close lower\n\n\n\n\nGreek stocks eased slightly on Wednesday as investors took profits after the Athens Stock Exchange hit new five-year highs on Tuesday, traders here said.\n\nThe composite index fell 0.38 percent to end at 3,491.56 points with turnover a heavy 238.7 million euros (281.4 million US dollars).\n\nThe FTSE/ASE 20 index for blue chip and heavy traded stocks eased 0.43 percent, while the FTSE/ASE MID 40 index and the FTSE/ ASE SmallCap 80 index fell 0.05 percent and 0.06 percent respectively.\n\nBroadly, decliners led advancers by 176 to 91 with another 66 issues unchanged.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 116, "end_char": 125, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "176", "start_char": 609, "end_char": 612, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "176", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0260.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0312\n\nLONDON, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nXavier B sample tests positive for steroid\n\n\n\n\nMiddlesbrough defender Abel Xavier has again tested positive for a banned substance in the B sample of his original test, a UEFA spokesman said on Tuesday.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"The B sample has confirmed the original findings.\"\n\nThe 32-year-old, who was tested after Boro's UEFA Cup game at Xanthi, is set to face a Uefa hearing on 17 November and could be banned for a year.\n\nXavier has denied any wrongdoing and said last month: \"I am convinced there is a harmless explanation.\"\n\nAnd the Portuguese star has been suspended from all competitions while an investigation takes place.\n\nReports have suggested the banned substance found in Xavier's test was the anabolic steroid dianabol. UEFA guidelines recommend a ban of 12 months for a first doping offence.\n\nIf Xavier is found guilty of taking a performance-enhancing drug he would be the first Premiership player to do so, although others have been found guilty of using recreational drugs.\n\nThey include former Chelsea players Adrian Mutu and Mark Bosnich, who tested positive for cocaine, and Lee Bowyer and Chris Armstrong, who tested positive for cannabis.\n\nCurrent Tottenham midfielder Edgar Davids was banned for four months in 2001 for taking the steroid nandrolone when he was a Juventus player.\n\nMiddlesbrough manager Steve McClaren, who signed former Everton and Liverpool defender Xavier as a short-term replacement for Michael Reiziger in the summer, is supporting the player.\n\n\"He is protesting his innocence vehemently at the moment,\" said McClaren, who has said Xavier is elsewhere in Europe preparing for his UEFA hearing.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 256, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "17 November", "start_char": 435, "end_char": 446, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 471, "end_char": 477, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 522, "end_char": 532, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12 months", "start_char": 824, "end_char": 833, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four months", "start_char": 1275, "end_char": 1286, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1290, "end_char": 1294, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "summer", "start_char": 1511, "end_char": 1517, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0312.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0554\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nquotes ///\n\n\n\n\nThe United States expressed outrage Monday at the murder of an anti-Syrian newspaper chief in Lebanon and called it an \"act of terrorism\" aimed at perpetuating Damascus' dominance of its neighbor.\n\nWashington said the car bomb that killed Gibran Tueni highlighted the need to enforce UN demands that Syria stop interfering in Lebanon and cooperate in the probe of February's killing of former Lebanese premier Rafiq Hariri.\n\nSecretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a statement she was \"outraged\" by the assassination of Tueni, which she called \"a vicious act of terror against a Lebanese patriot and a voice of freedom.\"\n\n\"Together we in the international community will confront and defeat those who seek to terrorize and subjugate a proud, independent Lebanon,\" Rice said.   \"Syrian interference in Lebanon continues, and it must end completely,\" Rice added.\n\nUS officials said it was too early to pin the powerful bomb that killed Tueni, a newly elected member of parliament, and three other people in a Beirut suburb directly on Syria.\n\nBut they expressed little doubt about the motive.\n\n\"I think that his murder is another act of terrorism aimed at trying to subjugate Lebanon to Syrian domination,\" White House spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters accompanying President George W. Bush to Philadelphia.\n\n\"It's clear this savage attack is clearly intended to intimidate those in Lebanon who would courageously and openly speak their minds,\" McClellan said. \"It's also a violent and direct assault on freedom of press in Lebanon.\n\n\"The attack is a reminder that all of us in the international community must continue to insist on enforcing the Security Council resolutions aimed at ending Syria's interference in Lebanon once and for all.\"\n\nThe bombing followed the handover of a report by UN chief investigator Detlev Mehlis to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on his probe into the murder of Hariri, an attack blamed on Syria.\n\nThe State Department would not say whether the United States supported a call by the Lebanese government for a similar UN inquiry into the Tueni killing as well as the murders of other Syrian opponents in Lebanon.\n\n\"We will certainly look at that idea, work with the people of Lebanon, the government of Lebanon and all those who want to see accountability for this crime and for past crimes,\" said deputy spokesman Adam Ereli.\n\nHe said Rice discussed the Tueni killing Monday by phone with Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy of France, which has helped Washington spearhead the move to end Syrian influence in Lebanon.\n\n\"The secretary and Douste-Blazy discussed the importance of accountability for this crime (and) continued support for the Mehlis investigation,\" Ereli told reporters at the State Department.\n\n\"We will continue to work with the French and others, and the Lebanese, in order to make sure that not only do we know what happened to Mr. Tueni, but that we all act effectively to preserve Lebanese sovereignty and independence.\"\n\nBut US officials said they were still discussing whether to expand the scope of the Mehlis probe to include the other killings, perhaps set up a new body or come up with some other solution.\n\n\"The modalities of that are going to be a point of discussion with us, with the Lebanese, with the Security Council,\" Ereli said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 101, "end_char": 107, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 429, "end_char": 437, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0554.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0455\n\nLUANDA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMediator in Angola's Cabinda calls for adhesion to peace process\n\n\n\n\nThe President of the Cabinda Forum for Dialogue (FCD), Antnio Bento Bembe has called for the adhesion to the peace process underway in the region.\n\nAccording to Angola Press Agency ANGOP on Wednesday, the FCD president appealed for the contribution of people with good faith for the consolidation of peace in the heroic province.\n\n\"The time is for reconciliation; let us forget the past,\" he said.\n\nHe considered positive the first phase of implementing the Memorandum of Peace, defending with the fact that 95 percent of the troops have already been stationed.\n\nCabinda, which produces 60 percent of Angola's oil, is a sliver of land sandwiched between the Republic of Congo and the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nAn armed conflict for secession led by the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda (FLEC) has occurred in the territory since Angola's independence in 1975. In 2004, FLEC, the Church and others set up the FCD to enter into dialogue with the Angolan central government for peace in Cabinda.\n\nThe Angolan government and FCD signed the memorandum of understanding for peace on August 1 this year.\n\nBembe said that at the moment his board is working for the closing of the first phase, which will end with the integration of FLEC soldiers in the Angolan Armed Forces and in the National Police.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 324, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1975", "start_char": 1002, "end_char": 1006, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1975", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1011, "end_char": 1015, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1 this year", "start_char": 1225, "end_char": 1243, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0455.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0088\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nThe court trying former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Tuesday called a 10-minute break to sort out a technical problem over how a woman witness could best testify without her voice being identified.\n\nThe woman sat in court behind a green curtain and began to give her testimony relayed with her voice disguised for security reasons, but defence lawyers protested and charged that her testimony was incomprehensible.\n\nJudge Rizkar Mohammed Amin then ruled that the audio feed to journalists in the tribunal's press box be cut, allowing a woman -- identified only as witness A -- to speak without her voice being identified.\n\n\"Cut the audio to the outside and let the witness speak with her normal voice,\" said Amin.\n\nJournalists following the court hearing are sat behind a glass window, but Amin then ordered a 10-minute break to decide how best the woman could speak.\n\n\"Everyone has to hear,\" Amin said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 142, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0088.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0147\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRoadside bomb kills two Iraqi soldiers north of Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nA roadside bomb hit an Iraqi army patrol north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing two soldiers, a local source told Xinhua.\n\n\"The explosion occurred in Baiji, around 200 km north of Baghdad. Another seven Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the blast,\" the source from the US-Iraqi Joint Coordination Center in Tikrit said.\n\nInsurgents frequently target US and Iraqi military patrols with car bombs and roadside bombs in a bid to topple the US-backed government formed in April.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 186, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 581, "end_char": 586, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0147.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0153\n\nMOSCOW, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nRussian Chechnya negotiator calls for calm, attacks Kulikov\n\n\n\n\nRussia's top negotiator in Chechnya, Ivan Rybkin, opened new peace talks Wednesday despite a series of bombings and criticised Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov for his attack on the Chechen separatist leadership.\n\nRybkin, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, said Kulikov's comments on Monday's bombing of a railway station in Pyatigorsk, southern Russia, were an attempt to disrupt the eight-month peace process.\n\n\"However many stars they have on their shoulders, people should not choke on their own ambitions. ... Those who fight organised crime should not break up the peace process and make political statements,\" Rybkin said on arrival in the Chechen capital Grozny, Interfax reported.\n\nOn Tuesday, Kulikov announced that two Chechen women had been arrested for the bombing in Pyatigorsk, which killed two people and hospitalised 15, and declared that the bombing showed the Chechen government was not in charge.\n\nThe women have been transferred to prison in Moscow, Russian news agencies said.\n\nThe Chechen government denied any involvement in the bombing, accusing the Russian security forces of carrying it out to disrupt negotiations, which began at the end of the 21-month war last August.\n\nRybkin was met at Grozny airport by the chief Chechen negotiator, first deputy prime minister Movladi Udugov, the head of the Chechen YUNKO oil company, and other officials, ITAR-TASS said.\n\nInterfax reported earlier that Rybkin would meet with President Aslan Maskhadov.\n\nBoris Berezovsky, deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council, accompanied Rybkin.\n\nMeanwhile President Boris Yeltsin, on holiday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, met with Kulikov.\n\nThe Chechens, who declared independence in 1991, drove out Russian troops in the war, which killed tens of thousands of people and left the tiny republic in ruins.\n\nMoscow continues to insist Chechnya is part of Russia and talks on future relations and economic aid for Chechnya have bogged down over the last few months. Throughout the war, Kulikov was one of the key backers of a military solution.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 191, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 415, "end_char": 421, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 832, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last August", "start_char": 1317, "end_char": 1328, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1835, "end_char": 1839, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last few months", "start_char": 2093, "end_char": 2112, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0153.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0574\n\nVATICAN CITY, April 19 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTwo Chinese scientists to join Vatican academy\n\n\n\n\nPope John Paul II on Friday appointed two Chinese scientists -- one from Taiwan, the other from the mainland -- to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.\n\nThe two are Chin Ningyang, 74, from Hefei in China, the 1957 Nobel Physics Prize winner and son of a mathematics professor at Beijing university.\n\nChin emigrated to the United States in 1945, but resumed contacts with China in 1972.\n\nSince 1986 he has taught both in the United States and in Hong Kong. He is also a member of China's Academy of Sciences.\n\nTe-Tzu Chang, 70, graduated in the United States and is well-known among scientists for his genetical research which revolutionized rice production in Third World countries.\n\nHe was born in Shanghai but lives in Taiwan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 19 , 1997", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 132, "end_char": 138, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1945", "start_char": 449, "end_char": 453, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1945", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1972", "start_char": 490, "end_char": 494, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1972", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1986", "start_char": 503, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1986", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0574.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0206\n\nDOHA, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nChina's Li Yan wins Asiad cycling points gold\n\n\n\n\nChina's Li Yan won the Asian Games women's cycling points gold medal on Thursday.\n\nSouth Korea's Lee Min Hye took silver with Nontasin Chanpeng of Thailand winning bronze.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0206.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891101-0099 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0099. \n Letters to the Editor:\n@  Innovators Overlooked \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n MUTUAL AND MONEY-MARKET FUNDS (FND) \n\n   I was pleased to note that your Oct. 23 Centennial Journal item recognized the money-fund concept as one of the significant events of the past century. \nActually, about two years ago, the Journal listed the creation of the money fund as one of the 10 most significant events in the world of finance in the 20th century. \nBut the Reserve Fund, America's first money fund, was not named, nor were the creators of the money-fund concept, Harry Brown and myself. \nWe innovated telephone redemptions, daily dividends, total elimination of share certificates and the constant $1 pershare pricing, all of which were painfully thought out and not the result of some inadvertence on the part of the SEC. \n\n   BRUCE R. BENT \n\n\n   President \n\n   The Reserve Fund \n\n   New York", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89", "start_char": 93, "end_char": 101, "tid": "t34", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 23", "start_char": 203, "end_char": 210, "tid": "t42", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-23", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t34"}, {"text": "about two years ago", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 353, "tid": "t39", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 20th century", "start_char": 473, "end_char": 489, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "19XX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0266.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0308\n\nSANTIAGO, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChile rejoins CAN after 30 years\n\n\n\n\nChile on Friday rejoined the Andean Community of Nations (CAN) some 30 years after its 1976 exit, although it still remains an associate rather than a full member at the moment.\n\nChile's foreign minister, Alejandro Foxley, said his country will work hard for regional integration.\n\nThe foreign ministers of the CAN nations, Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru and Colombia, agreed on Chile's reentry into the group, at the sidelines of the third foreign ministers' meeting of the Community of South American Nations in Chile's capital Santiago.\n\nA CAN committee will decide in 180 days exactly how Chile will take part in the Andean Integration System's bodies and institutions.\n\nChile was a founder member of CAN but left it in 1976 following a squabble over foreign investment law provisions.\n\nVenezuela left CAN at the beginning of this year in order to be qualified as a full member of the trading block, Common Market of the South (Mercosur). All CAN members, including Chile, are associate members of Mercosur.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 104, "end_char": 110, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "some 30 years", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "180 days", "start_char": 659, "end_char": 667, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P180D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1976", "start_char": 811, "end_char": 815, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1976", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the beginning of this year", "start_char": 900, "end_char": 926, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0308.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0263\n\nMAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDemonstrations at Summit of Americas turns violent\n\n\n\n\nDemonstrations against US President George W. Bush turned violent in the southern Argentine city of Mar Del Plata on Friday when protesters threw rocks at the police and smashed windows of buildings.\n\nThe demonstrators, chanting slogans such as \"Bush, gets out of Argentina,\" \"Bush is a fascist,\" set fire on a shop and burned a US flag. Throngs of police fired tear gas at the demonstrators.\n\nXinhua correspondent saw that a policeman was hit by rocks and was put on an ambulance.\n\nThe clash took place only several blocks away from the hotel where the Summit of the Americas is held.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 49, "end_char": 62, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 245, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0263.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0333\n\nHARARE, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCzech to explore Zimbabwean tourism market: diplomat\n\n\n\n\nCzech Ambassador to Zimbabwe Vaclav Jilek said on Tuesday that he would meet Zimbabwe's tourism authorities to find ways of exploring untapped opportunities that exist between the two countries.\n\nJilek said he would help Zimbabwe's travel agencies build strong ties with their Czech counterparts, setting the stage for mutual cooperation.\n\nHe said Zimbabwe boasts a number of attractive sites such as the mighty Victoria Falls and the Great Zimbabwe, which had the potential to attract thousands of visitors from Czech every year. \"The recently held International Travel Expo in Harare was an eye- opener and I have since been talking to different players on how best we can cooperate,\" he said.\n\nCzechs, like their European counterparts in the United Kingdom and France, are high spenders and usually travel in small groups and stay longer, he said, but owing to poor marketing strategies, the country has continued to register low arrivals from the Eastern European country.\n\nZimbabwe has, since the land reform program in 2000, experienced a decline in tourist arrivals mainly from its traditional markets in Europe and America because of negative media coverage that portrayed the southern African country as an unsafe tourist destination.\n\nThis prompted the government to adopt a Look East policy, which has of late paid dividends while efforts are also underway to revive the traditional markets.\n\nAccording to statistics from the Zimbabwe Tourism Authority ( ZTA), the country has already recorded an increase in arrivals in the first nine months this year, totaling 1.6 million, compared with about 1.5 million last year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 632, "end_char": 642, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1138, "end_char": 1142, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months this year", "start_char": 1645, "end_char": 1676, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14T09:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1732, "end_char": 1741, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0333.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0015 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0015. \n Marketing Brief -- Sony Corp.:\n@  Japanese Concern Completes\n@  Offer for Columbia Pictures \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n SNE KPE GPEC WCI TL \n RECREATION, ENTERTAINMENT, TOYS, MOVIES, PHOTOGRAPHY, SPORTS (REC)\nTENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nMEDIA, PUBLISHING, BROADCASTING, ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING (MED) \n\n   Sony Corp. completed its tender offer for Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc., with Columbia shareholders tendering 99.3% of all common shares outstanding by the Tuesday deadline. \n\n   Sony Columbia Acquisition Corp., formed for the Columbia deal, will formally take ownership of the movie studio later this month, a spokesman said. \nSony is paying $27 a share, or $3.55 billion, cash and is assuming $1.4 billion of long-term debt. \n\n   Still unresolved is Sony's effort to hire producers Jon Peters and Peter Guber to run the studio. \nSony's planned acquisition of Guber/Peters Entertainment Co. for $200 million is scheduled to close Monday. \nGuber/Peters has been locked in litigation with Warner Communications Inc. in an attempt to get out of an exclusive production contract with Warner. \nBoth sides are in talks to settle the dispute.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 137, "end_char": 145, "tid": "t32", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 535, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t38", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t32"}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 676, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t34", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t32"}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1010, "end_char": 1016, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t32"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0175.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0110\n\nPHNOM PENH, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCambodian Prince Ranariddh turns to head minor party\n\n\n\n\nPrince Norodom Ranariddh, the recently ousted president of Cambodia's co-ruling Funcinpec Party, here Thursday gave up his efforts to establish a new party, and turned to preside the rarely-known Khmer Front Party in anticipation of the upcoming communal and general elections.\n\n\"I must merge with other party to compete in the communal election in April 2007 and the general election in 2008, because the Interior Ministry has delayed my proposal to establish a new party,\" he told reporters at its headquarters.\n\n\"They raised the so-called technical points to delay the registration of my party. There is no technical reason, but political reason,\" he added.\n\nIn response, Sak Sitha, political party expert at the Interior Ministry told Xinhua by phone that he would not explain about this case and he had not seen the prince's requests yet.\n\nAdditionally, Khiev Sopheak, spokesman of the Interior Ministry, told Xinhua that he could not understand the prince's choice.\n\nThe old party should be dissolved if it merged with another party, he added.\n\nMeanwhile, Suth Dina, former president of Khmer Front Party, told reporters that he and other party members were very happy to hand over the party to Ranariddh.\n\n\"We all approved of handing over this party to him in order to strengthen the royalist regime in Cambodia,\" he said, adding that the Khmer Front Party revised its by-law and changed its name to the Norodom Ranariddh Party on Thursday.\n\nRanariddh, son of former king Sihanouk who inaugurated Funcinpec, said that people would vote for him because they knew him when he President of Funcinpec.\n\n\"I am now the opposition party,\" he said, adding that the Sam Rainsy Party and Funcinpec currently shared the power with the ruling Cambodian People's Party headed by Prime Minister Hun Sen.\n\n\"I am strong at the grass root level,\" he said.\n\nThe Norodom Ranariddh Party would care about freedom of expression, democracy, defense of royalist regime and territory, free multi-party system as well as respect for Cambodian Constitution, he said.\n\nRanariddh was expelled from Funicipec on Oct. 18 by his brother in-law Keo Puth Rasmey, Former Cambodian Ambassador to Germany, because he spent too much time abroad to care about the party and could not cooperate with Hun Sen.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 219, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2007", "start_char": 466, "end_char": 476, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 505, "end_char": 509, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1555, "end_char": 1563, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 18", "start_char": 2207, "end_char": 2214, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0110.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0789\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on Russia Monday to cooperate fully with investigations into the mysterious radioactive poisoning of a former spy and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\n\"We've been very clear with the Russia government that all of these issues need to be investigated and investigated thoroughly,\" Rice told AFP in an exclusive interview.\n\n\"We think total cooperation on this is necessary,\" she said.\n\nThe former spy, Alexander Litvinenko, died last month in London after being contaminated with the radioactive substance polonium-210.\n\nInvestigations have since found traces of the substance in locations around London that were visited by Litvinenko after he met with two Russian contacts.\n\nGerman police subsequently found traces of the polonium in Hamburg, where one of the contacts, Dmitry Kovtun, stopped on his way from Moscow to London for the meeting.\n\nHamburg prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation against Kovtun for apparently bringing the radioactive substance into the country from Russia and said they considered him \"more a perpetrator than a victim.\"\n\nLitvinenko's widow said at the weekend she was convinced he was killed by a Russian \"hit squad\" because of his criticism of Putin and Russia's handling of the war in Chechnya.\n\nRussia has strongly denied any role in Litvinenko's murder.\n\n\"Everybody ought to try to get to the bottom of it, because it has dimensions which are quite troubling given there are traces of (polonium) showing up in lots of different places,\" Rice said.\n\nRice, who first entered government as a policy expert on the Soviet Union in the 1980s, has in the past voiced concern about anti-democratic developments in Putin's Russia, including a string of politically motivated murders and the growing power of the Kremlin and its allies over the media and economy.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 128, "end_char": 134, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 557, "end_char": 567, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "weekend", "start_char": 1222, "end_char": 1229, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W49-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1980s", "start_char": 1700, "end_char": 1709, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "198", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 1718, "end_char": 1726, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0789.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0341\n\nSANTIAGO, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChile reaffirms sovereignty over disputed sea territories\n\n\n\n\nChile reiterated Thursday it will continue exercising sovereignty and jurisdiction over a disputed area in the Pacific Ocean, defying a recent bill approved by Peru's Congress that seeks to redraw maritime borders between the two countries.\n\n\"I've just handed over to the Peruvian Ambassador to Chile a diplomatic note of our country,\" said Chilean Foreign Minister Ignacio Walker ahead of a cabinet meeting.\n\nThe note reiterated \"what already is known to all, in the sense that we will strictly abide by international law, exercising sovereignty and jurisdiction over what is Chilean territory,\" said the minister.\n\nEarlier Thursday, the Peruvian Congress approved a bill that claims sovereignty over a sea area covering 35,000 square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean along the South American coastline, which currently belongs to Chile.\n\nFrom 1879 to 1883, Chile fought the War of Pacific against Peru and Bolivia, winning Bolivia's only sea outlet Antofagasta.\n\nAccording to the Chilean government, Chile's border with Peru was already resolved in the 1952 and 1954 treaties. But Peru claimed that it never signed any maritime demarcation pact with Chile. Relations between the two countries have been strained recently due to the sea border dispute.\n\nOn Wednesday, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos reaffirmed that \"Chile will continue claiming sovereignty over its maritime territory.\"\n\nFollowing the decision by the Peruvian Congress on Thursday, security has been tightened around the premises of the Peruvian Embassy in Santiago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier Thursday", "start_char": 736, "end_char": 752, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 929, "end_char": 938, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1879", "start_char": 963, "end_char": 967, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1879", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1952", "start_char": 1173, "end_char": 1177, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1952", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1376, "end_char": 1385, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1559, "end_char": 1567, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0341.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0158\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPassengers via Xiamen-Jinmen line to top 500,000 in 2005\n\n\n\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 14(Xinhua)-- Passengers via the shipping line from Xiamen, a coastal city of Fujian Province that sees Taiwan across the sea, to Jinmen, will top 500,000 in 2005.\n\nAccording to statistics of the Port of Xiamen, in the first ten months of 2005, passengers via this line reached 438,113 person-times, up 32.4 percent year-on-year.\n\nOn Jan. 2, 2001, the passenger shipping line between Xiamen and Jinmen opened to direct passenger traffic between the two sides of Taiwan strait.\n\nDuring these years, this line has become a golden traffic line, which facilitates people going across the strait, according to Zhou Qinghai, chief of the Administration Department of the Xiamen Municipal Port Authorities.\n\nStatistics show that passenger throughput grew from 20,835 in 2001 to 406,883 person-times in 2004, a jump of almost twenty times.\n\nZhou said this line became more popular when the annual cross-Strait mechanical and electronic products trade fair held in April and when Lien Chan, then chairman of Taiwan's Kuomintang party and James Soong, chairman of the People First Party visited the mainland in the first half of this year.\n\nJuly witnessed a record-breaking passenger throughput of 50,813 person-times for a single month.\n\nAt present there are 12 voyages a day on the line, and the Port of Xiamen has an annual capacity of transporting one million people.\n\nEver since April 1997, experimental direct sailing between the two sides of the Taiwan strait has made Port of Xiamen one of most important ports to undertake mainland-Taiwan shipping.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov.", "start_char": 127, "end_char": 131, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first ten months of 2005", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 2, 2001", "start_char": 465, "end_char": 477, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001-01-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "these years", "start_char": 616, "end_char": 627, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 894, "end_char": 898, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 930, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 1087, "end_char": 1092, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1250, "end_char": 1259, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1262, "end_char": 1266, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a single month", "start_char": 1343, "end_char": 1357, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1997", "start_char": 1505, "end_char": 1515, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0158.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0264\n\nDHAKA, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS opposition, diplomat reax ///\n\n\n\n\nFour members of Bangladesh's interim government quit on Monday in protest at the president's decision to deploy the army to restore order ahead of January's elections.\n\nThe resignations came despite assurances from President Iajuddin Ahmed that calling in the military would not harm the democratic process in the country, paralysed for weeks by opposition protests and bloody clashes.\n\n\"We have sent our resignation letter to the president, because we think that no situation has been created in the country that warranted an army deployment,\" interim cabinet member Sultana Kamal said.\n\nThe president ordered the deployment late on Saturday in a bid to restore order and counter opposition threats to conduct non-stop protests to force electoral reforms.\n\nThe opposition, led by the Awami League, have alleged the January 23 polls will be rigged in favour of the outgoing Bangladesh National Party (BNP).\n\nAt least 34 people have also died in pre-election violence in the impoverished and politically polarised south Asian nation.\n\nKamal said all the president's 10 advisors, or cabinet members, had opposed the president's move to deploy the armed forces.\n\n\"But he did not care,\" she said. \"The deployment of the army is against the democratic process ... it can provoke the political parties and create obstacles to holding a free and fair election.\"\n\nThe four cabinet members who quit included a former army chief, a former senior bureaucrat, a former foreign secretary and a human rights lawyer.\n\n\"The resignation of four advisers proves that a free and neutral election is impossible under President Iajuddin Ahmed,\" said senior Awami League official Tofail Ahmed.\n\n\"The president has been serving the outgoing Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). I think unless he is removed as the head the caretaker government, we can not expect free and fair elections.\"\n\nThe opposition, meanwhile, vowed its protests would continue, even as thousands of troops fanned out across the capital and the country.\n\n\"We will hold protest rallies to press our demand for creating a level-playing field for the upcoming elections,\" opposition spokesman Abdul Jalil said.\n\n\"We will continue our movement until the caretaker government implements all our demands.\"\n\nAwami League leader Sheikh Hasina Wajed said Sunday that the situation in the country did not warrant the army's deployment.\n\nBut in a televised speech to the nation late Sunday, the president sought to justify his move by saying the armed forces had been deployed by previous governments.\n\nHe also said he merely wanted to \"ensure security and to create a congenial and peaceful atmosphere\".\n\nSoldiers have been deployed in Dhaka -- particularly around the presidential palace -- as well as in all districts and towns and the nation's ports.\n\n\"So far we have deployed nearly 16,000 army troops, 1,000 navy and 500 airforce personnel,\" armed forces spokesman, Colonel Anisur Rahman, told AFP.\n\n\"If the situation demands, the troops will move to sub-district towns,\" he said.\n\nBritish High Commissioner Anwar Choudhury said the resignations would create uncertainty in the present political situation ahead of next month's general election, according to the private UNB news agency.\n\n\"The resignation is unexpected. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0030\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nUS Congress passes bill to normalize trade with Vietnam\n\n\n\n\nThe US Congress early Saturday gave its final approval to a bill to restore normal trade ties with Vietnam.\n\nThe bill granting \"permanent normal trade relations\" (PNTR) status to Vietnam was part of a large omnibus measure approved by the Senate 79-9 during an all-night session.\n\nThe US House of Representatives voted for it 212-184 late Friday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 137, "end_char": 145, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "212-184 late Friday", "start_char": 441, "end_char": 460, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0030.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0093\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS activist quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nSoutheast Asia's new campaign for the Myanmar junta to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is unlikely to be successful any time soon, United Nations envoy Razali Ismail said Thursday.\n\nRazali welcomed the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) decision to send their own envoy to the military-run state to check on the progress of promised democratic reforms and push for the release of political prisoners.\n\n\"It's a wonderful decision and it's good that the ASEAN countries have been able to persuade Myanmar to make this visit and I hope it will be a very meaningful visit which will clarify all aspects,\" he told AFP.\n\nBut Razali, the representative of UN chief Kofi Annan, warned that Malaysian Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar was unlikely to achieve any coups when he carries out his mission to Yangon, expected next month.\n\n\"There is a lot of expectation that commitments given by Myanmar to ASEAN will be lived up to and...the release of Aung San Suu Kyi is one of the commitments given,\" he said on the sidelines of a peace forum here.\n\n\"But I don't think it's something that can happen just like that,\" he said. \"We'll have to allow the leaders of the military regime there to work something out, but it's not going to happen instantaneously.\"\n\nRazali said the fact that Myanmar's ruling generals had agreed to the visit was positive.\n\n\"I'm hopeful that the foreign minister of Malaysia will be able to express the collective sense of impatience and concern about the Myanmar issue discrediting ASEAN, and hopefully this will have an impact on the Myanmar leaders to want to do something.\"\n\nRazali said that although he has not been able to visit the country since March 2004, the United Nations was \"happy\" to continue its efforts to engage with Myanmar.\n\nBut he stressed that the world body would increasingly depend on regional nations to exert whatever influence they could on their neighbour, which has earned pariah status for refusing to end four decades of military rule.\n\nASEAN aired its new stand on Myanmar at this week's summit in the Malaysian capital, demanding progress on political reforms and the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi who has spent 10 of the last 16 years in detention.\n\nMyanmar's regime earlier this month confirmed that the current house arrest restrictions against her had been extended by six months.\n\nDebbie Stothard, from the pressure group Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma, welcomed the regional bloc's \"long overdue\" change of tack, which was a major departure from its policy of non-interference in other members' affairs.\n\n\"It's not going to be an easy job but we are hoping that if Syed Hamid Albar is backed by the rest of ASEAN then the regime will respect what he's representing and what needs to be done,\" she said.\n\nStothard said that rather than just securing the release of political prisoners, ASEAN should demand a genuine reconciliation dialogue between the pro-democracy opposition, ethnic leaders and the regime.\n\nOtherwise, when the mood turned sour in Myanmar the generals would simply retrace their steps and haul all their opponents back to jail.\n\n\"Burma (Myanmar) has a habit of recycling political prisoners. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0199\n\nTIRANA, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nProdi gets warm welcome in Vlore, offers condolences\n\n\n\n\nItalian Prime Minister Romano Prodi made a flying visit to the rebel- held southern Albanian town of Vlore on Sunday, telling townspeople that he \"shared their pain,\" witnesses said.\n\nSpeaking from a balcony of the town hall, Prodi told thousands of residents: \"I salute the people of Vlore. I offer my condolences to the families who have lost their loved ones and I share their pain.\"\n\nThe Italian leader, accompanied by Albanian Prime Minister Bashkim Fino, was then whisked to Tirana aboard an Italian military helicopter for a meeting with authoritarian President Sali Berhisa.\n\nItaly leads a 6,000-strong multinational force being sent to Albania to secure routes for humanitarian supplies pouring into the country wracked by weeks of anarchy.\n\nThe unrest blew into a full-scale armed uprising in the south, with the port town of Vlore at its hub.\n\nProdi told reporters: \"Italy has an important mission to reconstruct Albania.\" He said the aim of the mission, codenamed Alba, was peaceful, noting: \"Alba means dawn but it also means renaissance.\"\n\nHe said his government would provide additional \"technical and financial assistance\" to Vlore, and that an Italian consulate would be set up in the town. \"It is only the beginning of aid to Albania,\" he said.\n\nThree Italian military helicopters landed the two officials and their entourage earlier for a 90-minute visit to the town, during which they held talks with town leaders, journalists contacted by telephone from Tirana said.\n\nThe premiers met around 200 representatives of the town, including relatives of refugees who drowned when their overcrowded boat collided with an Italian naval vessel, an incident which sparked a wave of anti-Italian feeling in Albania.\n\nItaly has received about 13,000 desperate Albanian refugee \"boat people\" who fled the lawlessness in the country, large parts of which are controlled by armed gangs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 13 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0199.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0153\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS background ///\n\n\n\n\nThe European Central Bank said Friday it had sold 23 tonnes of gold in line with an existing international central banks' gold agreement.\n\n\"On November 30, the ECB completed gold sales amounting to 23 tonnes of gold. These sales are in full conformity with the central banks' gold agreement dated September 27, 2004, of which the ECB is a signatory,\" the bank said in a brief statement.\n\nThe ECB did not provide any further details.\n\nThe 2004 gold agreement, signed by the ECB, the 12 national central banks of the euro area, as well as the central banks of Switzerland and Sweden, limits combined gold sales to a maximum 500 tonnes per year over a five-year period, or a maximum 2,500 tonnes over all of the five years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 121, "end_char": 127, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 30", "start_char": 233, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 27, 2004", "start_char": 387, "end_char": 405, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-09-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 799, "end_char": 809, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0153.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0099\n\nLONDON, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nEuropean shares fall at open: London FTSE down 0.16 percent\n\n\n\n\nEuropean stock markets declined in early trading on Thursday, with London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares losing 0.16 percent to reach 6,188.70 points.\n\nIn Frankfurt the DAX 30 index shed 0.21 percent to 6,573.37 points and in Paris the CAC 40 lost 0.27 percent in value to 5,499.43.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 168, "end_char": 176, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0099.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0413\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details, background ///\n\n\n\n\nA meeting of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany is planned for Tuesday to discuss a United Nations resolution on Iran's nuclear programme, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday, contradicting an earlier statement.\n\n\"As a result of the work and efforts undertaken among others by Russia, the meeting of political directors of the six (countries) will take place on Tuesday,\" Lavrov was quoted as saying by news agencies.\n\nEarlier, Lavrov had been quoted by the news agencies as saying that the meeting had been cancelled due to differences between the six countries.\n\nThe so-called P5-plus-one group -- Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States -- has been trying for weeks to agree on what sanctions to impose on Iran for its refusal to comply with an earlier UN resolution requiring it to freeze a uranium enrichment program.\n\nShortly after Lavrov made his first statement the French foreign ministry also said a meeting was still planned for early next week.\n\nWhile all six states have agreed in principle to impose some sanctions until Iran agrees to suspend the enrichment and enter into negotiations on its nuclear program, Russia and China have balked at the terms of a draft resolution drawn up by Britain, France and Germany.\n\nThe United States and its European allies are seeking sanctions under Chapter 7 of the UN charter, which legally obliges all UN members to comply with the punitive measures.\n\nA draft resolution circulated by Britain, France and Germany would have barred trade with Iran in goods related to its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and slapped financial and travel restrictions on persons and agencies involved in the sectors.\n\nBut Russia and to a lesser extent China, which have extensive economic and energy ties with Iran, have tried to water down the resolution, while Washington, which fears that Tehran is trying to develop a nuclear weapons programme, hoped to beef it up.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 191, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 314, "end_char": 322, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 510, "end_char": 517, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "weeks", "start_char": 833, "end_char": 838, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next week", "start_char": 1110, "end_char": 1125, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0413.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0277\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEU Parliament nods EU-wide airline blacklist\n\n\n\n\nThe European Parliament has overwhelmingly approved the introduction of a European Union (EU)-wide blacklist of unsafe airlines, in a package of measures to bolster air safety on the continent.\n\nUnder the proposed regulation, airlines, whether they are based in the EU or not, which fail to meet certain safety requirements will be subject to an operating ban throughout the EU, the parliament said in a press release.\n\nPassengers will be informed of the blacklist and will have the right to compensation should the carrier they have made reservation with be included in the blacklist, it said.\n\nThe EU deputies voted by 577 in favor and 16 against the measures, which also include proposals to boost EU aviation authorities powers in areas such as licensing pilots.\n\nThe blacklist will be drawn up by the EU's executive body the European Commission after consulting member states and air carriers concerned will have the opportunity of being heard. The list will be published on the Internet and in the EU's official journal.\n\nAt least every three months, the commission should verify whether it is appropriate to update the list, either adding or removing air carriers from it.\n\nEU transport commissioner Jacques Barrot said Tuesday that such a blacklist could be in place by as early as January 2006, as there is already broad agreement between the commission, the European Parliament and national authorities on this issue.\n\nTransport ministers of EU member countries are expected to adopt the regulation on December 5 and the list could be made public early in the new year.\n\nCurrently there is a patchwork of rules on suspect airlines in Europe. France and Belgium have this year introduced blacklists of banned airlines, following Britain and Switzerland which already have such lists.\n\nThe incoherence of current rules was highlighted in May when a Turkish airline, suspended by four European countries, simply redirected its flights to Belgium which had no ban.\n\nA European Commission spokesman responsible for transport said Wednesday airlines blacklisted have the right to appeal the decision by the EU executive.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 1150, "end_char": 1162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1334, "end_char": 1341, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2006", "start_char": 1397, "end_char": 1409, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 5", "start_char": 1619, "end_char": 1629, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the new year", "start_char": 1673, "end_char": 1685, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1783, "end_char": 1792, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1953, "end_char": 1956, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2142, "end_char": 2151, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0277.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0572\n\nWASHINGTON, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nWhite House hails Zaire talks as the road to democratic regime\n\n\n\n\nThe White House hailed the Zairean peace talks announced Wednesday as major progress toward ending the civil war and paving the way toward democratic rule.\n\n\"This is a very significant step forward in our goal of attempting to mediate a resolution of the conflict between the two factions,\" White House spokesman Michael McCurry said.\n\nZairean President Mobutu Sese Seko will meet with rebel leader Laurent Kabila Friday for their first face-to-face talks on board a South African ship in a deal brokered by the US mediator, UN Ambassador William Richardson.\n\n\"Our hope, of course, is that discussions can lead to some cease-fire, to a suspension of the violence that has led to the displacement of so many refugees and so many deaths of innocent civilians in Zaire,\" McCurry said.\n\nKabila's rebels have captured more than half the country since they launched their offensive over six months ago to topple Mobutu, who has ruled Zaire for 32 years.\n\nMcCurry added that the United States also hopes \"these discussions will begin the transitional process that can lead to a government that will be elected in free and fair elections.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 191, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 539, "end_char": 545, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months ago", "start_char": 1006, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "32 years", "start_char": 1063, "end_char": 1071, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P32Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0572.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0393\n\nGENEVA, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nMore relief workers leave Darfur\n\n\n\n\nSome 124 nongovernmental and United Nations employees have left Darfur in the latest evacuation of relief workers from Sudan's turmoil-torn region, the Swiss humanitarian group Terre des Hommes (TDH) said Monday.\n\n\"It's a decision that's been pushed back for some time and carries heavy consequences for populations enduring the planet's most serious humanitarian crisis,\" the group's relief director Ignacio Packer said in a statement about the relief workers flown out of Darfur Sunday.\n\nViolent incidents have been on the rise lately in Darfur, a vast western region of Sudan where the humanitarian situation has steadily deteriorated. At least 200,000 people have died of the combined effect of war and famine since fighting there erupted almost four years ago, the UN says, although others offer far higher tolls.\n\nTDH, which evacuated 5 employees Sunday, has suspended its Darfur operations until January, although it retains a skeleton staff in the region.\n\n\"The violence is peaking,\" the group warned, as it denounced attacks by government-backed Arab militias in Darfur. \"Incidents and attacks are multiplying against displaced people and humanitarian personnel.\"\n\nThe evacuations follow the exodus from Darfur of 250 employees of international non-governmental organisations, announced Friday by the relief agency Oxfam International.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 294, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "some time", "start_char": 348, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 839, "end_char": 853, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 942, "end_char": 948, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 992, "end_char": 999, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1385, "end_char": 1391, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0393.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0109\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSri Lankan gov't budget not election related: official\n\n\n\n\nSri Lanka's government budget for the year 2006 would be a \"pro poor, pro-growth\" budget and not election related, the Finance Minister Sarath Amunugama said here Monday.\n\nThe budget is to be presented in parliament on Tuesday amidst protests by the main opposition United National Party (UNP).\n\nAmunugama said the Sri Lankan economy was now ready to take off from 6 percent growth and with the country's per capita income of 1,034 US dollars, Sri Lanka now had a place in the list of countries with \"lower end of middle range income.\"\n\nReferring to the pledges by both main candidates in the Nov. 17 presidential poll to achieve 8 to 10 percent growth, Amunugama said the foundation has been laid for such growth in the past year.\n\n\"Our emphasis will be on developing education, health, social benefits and better infrastructure,\" Amunugama said, adding that the preparation of the budget commenced long before the announcement of the presidential poll.\n\n\"The elections were not talked about when preparations began and it went through the normal routine process,\" Amunugama said.\n\nThe UNP charges that the budget would provide undue advantage to the ruling party candidate, the incumbent Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse.\n\nThe main opposition challenger and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe met President Chandrika Kumaratunga asking to delay the presentation of the budget until after the election.\n\nThe UNP spokesman Tissa Attanayake told reporters here Monday that the government move was undemocratic and illegal but his party would not stage a boycott of the parliamentary session.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year 2006", "start_char": 149, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 341, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 569, "end_char": 572, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 17", "start_char": 708, "end_char": 715, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past year", "start_char": 832, "end_char": 845, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1572, "end_char": 1578, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0109.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0226\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: RMB breaks 7.85 mark against U.S. dollar\n\n\n\n\nThe value of the Renminbi (RMB) against the U.S. dollar hit a new high on Monday, with the central parity rate at 7.8402 yuan to one dollar, breaking the 7.85 mark.\n\nThis signifies RMB value has risen by 5.31 percent after China's reform of the exchange rate system on July 21, 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 21, 2005", "start_char": 379, "end_char": 392, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0226.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0337\n\nSOFIA, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSofia seeks long-term settlement with Russian gas\n\n\n\n\nBulgaria is negotiating with the Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom for a long-term agreement on gas supply and transit, the country's Economy and Energy Minister Rumen Ovcharov told the parliament's Energy Committee on Wednesday, reported BTA.\n\nHe stressed that Sofia seeks strategic partnership with Gazprom in order to ensure sufficient amounts of natural gas for Bulgaria. If the effective agreements, which will expire in 2010, are not renegotiated, gas prices will increase at least 40 percent after that year and gas transit via Bulgaria will be reduced, he said.\n\nHe refuted media predictions about a remarkable price raise of Russian natural gas at the beginning of 2007.\n\nOvcharov noted that his country does not have many opportunities to diversify its gas supply sources.\n\nAt the end of the month, the minister will report to the leadership of Bulgaria's ruling coalition on the outcome of the talks. A decision will then be made whether to sign new long-term agreements or to go by the current agreements.\n\nUnder the contract for gas supply from Russia to Bulgaria signed in 1998, the Balkan country pays some 257 U.S. dollars per 1,000 cube meters of gas and receives 83 dollars for transit. Though the agreement has a term until 2010, the two countries are expected to start talks to review the terms of supply.\n\nMore than 97 percent of gas consumed in Bulgaria comes from Russia.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 331, "end_char": 340, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "that year", "start_char": 617, "end_char": 626, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the beginning of 2007", "start_char": 769, "end_char": 790, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the month", "start_char": 899, "end_char": 919, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 1199, "end_char": 1203, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1355, "end_char": 1359, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0337.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0208\n\nBEIRUT, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nLebanese PM vows to remain in office to prevent civil war\n\n\n\n\nLebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora said he would remain in office to prevent the outbreak of a civil war as political parties were turning the country into a battlefield for regional conflicts, local Daily Star reported on Wednesday.\n\n\"We have turned Lebanon into a battlefield for regional conflicts ... This logic is suicidal,\" Siniora told Al-Arabiya television news channel in an interview on Tuesday.\n\nThe premier vowed to prevent civil war from breaking out again in Lebanon, which is still reeling from the devastating 1975-1990 civil war between rival sects battling each other with the support of an array of foreign powers, said the report.\n\n\"We want to avoid discord. My presence here (in the government), and that of many others will prevent discord and civil war because even if there is war ... in the end, we will have to sit back together\" to settle disputes through dialogue, he said.\n\n\"I still have hope, and continue to seek that there will be no street protests,\" he said. \"We are constantly working to prevent the outbreak of any clashes.\" he added.\n\nLebanon, long been divided between opponents and supporters of Syria, saw a political crisis blew up in full force following the resignation of six pro-Syrian ministers from Hezbollah and its allies, hours after all-party roundtable talks collapsed and the assassination of an anti-Syrian minister last week.\n\nThe Shiite group and its pro-Syrian allies had been demanding a greater say in the anti-Syrian forces-dominated government led by Siniora. They have warned of street protests if the demand was not met.\n\nThe militant Lebanese Hezbollah on Sunday renewed their threats of \"surprise\" street protests aimed at toppling Siniora's government, one day after Lebanon's cabinet approved a plan for setting up an international tribunal to try suspects in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, overriding objections from Hezbollah and other pro-Syrian factions.\n\nThe anti-Syrian ruling parliamentary majority led by Siniora has accused Hezbollah and Amal movement, the main pro-Syrian and pro-Iranian Shiite groups, of doing Damascus's and Tehran's bidding and seeking to undermine the formation of the tribunal.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 344, "end_char": 353, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 518, "end_char": 525, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1491, "end_char": 1500, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1741, "end_char": 1747, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 1840, "end_char": 1847, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0208.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0010\n\nPARIS, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nglobal energy demand to soar by more than 50 percent by 2030: IEA\n\n\n\n\nThe global energy demand will soar by more than 50 percent by 2030, amounting to 16.3 billion tons of oil, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Monday in its 2005 World Energy Outlook.\n\nBy 2030, the global demand for oil and coal will increase by 1.4 percent every year, while the annual demand for natural gas will grow by 2.1 percent. If the energy output does not largely increase by that time, the price of energy will rise sharply, estimated the IEA.\n\nThere are adequate oil and natural gas reserves to meet such demand in the world, especially in north Africa and the Middle East. However, some new investments of 17 trillion euros (20 trillion US dollars) will be urgently needed to transfer the energy supply to the consumer market, the IEA said.\n\nUnder the IEA's reference scenario, along with the increasing output of oil, the international oil price will decrease to 35 dollars a barrel by 2010. Nevertheless, the price will rise back to 39 dollars a barrel by 2030, 10 dollars higher than the price the IEA had estimated in 2004.\n\nThe Outlook also added that the global refining industry would face new challenges in the future, due to the drop of surplus production capacity and weakness of production flexibility resulting from the lack of investment.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2030", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2030", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2030", "start_char": 319, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2030", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 389, "end_char": 399, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1031, "end_char": 1035, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2030", "start_char": 1102, "end_char": 1106, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2030", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1166, "end_char": 1170, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1259, "end_char": 1269, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0010.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0275\n\nDOHA, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUzbekistan eyes on more than 15 golds from Doha Asiad\n\n\n\n\nUzbekistan expected to win at least 15 golds from the Doha Asian Games slated for Dec. 1-15.\n\nBahodir Husan Hodjaev, chef de mission of the Uzbekistan delegation, said they are confident of winning more golds this time than four years ago in Busan.\n\n\"Last time we finished fifth with 15 golds in Busan, and this time I believe we can win more golds\" said Hodjaev.\n\n\"Wrestling and boxing are our medal hopeful sports. Besides them we are expected to do well in athletics, chess and Gymnastics, \" added he.\n\nUzbekistan has a long and distinguished sporting history. Gymnast Oksana Chusovitina, now 31, is the only female gymnast in history to have competed in four Olympic Games. She finished second in the vault at the 2005 World Championships.\n\nIn athletics, javelin thrower Sergey Voynov won the 1998 Asian Games title and was third in Busan four years ago.\n\nUzbeckistan finished fifth on medal tally with 15 golds, 12 silvers and 24 bronzes in the Busan Asiad in 2002.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1-15", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 203, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 336, "end_char": 350, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Busan four years ago", "start_char": 949, "end_char": 969, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1077, "end_char": 1081, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0275.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0177\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n(China Sports) Qatar's Chinese chess queen Zhu feels no pressure\n\n\n\n\nBy Sportswriters Wang Zijiang and Zhao Renwei\n\nDOHA, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Forget Liu Xiang. The most popular Asian Games athlete picked by Chinese netizens is not even on the Chinese team.\n\nZhu Chen, former Chinese women's world chess champion who will represent her adopted country Qatar in the Dec. 1-15 games, has beaten the Chinese Olympic hurdles champion in an online popularity vote.\n\nThe 30-year-old chess beauty, who married to Qatari Grandmaster Mohammed Al-Modiahki in 2000, changed her citizenship to the oil- rich gulf country in early 2006 in a controversial transfer.\n\nIn Tuesday's telephone interview with Xinhua, Zhu said she felt relaxed representing Qatar.\n\n\"I don't have a specific goal for the Asian Games,\" she said. \" Nobody pushes you as in China. I just want to have a normal performance.\"\n\nZhu, who grabbed her first world crown in 1988 at the World Under-12 Girls Championship, has won the world titles at all levels, taking the World Junior Girls Chess Championship in 1994 and 1996 and the World Chess Championship in 2002.\n\nZhu, born in east China's Zhejiang Province, has been living in a two-storied house in Doha with his husband in the past few years. To prepare for the games, she left their two-year-old daughter to her parents' care in China.\n\n\"I sent her back two months ago because I am very busy with training and I don't feel well sometimes,\" she said. \"The other reason is that my parents missed her very much. She was brought up by my parents and my uncle and all of them cried when she moved here.\"\n\nZhu said that she is getting well along with her parents-in-law in Doha and has accustomed to living in the Arab country.\n\n\"My parents-in-law are very nice to me. They are both very open- minded. In general, all the Qatari people are very friendly. The only thing I cannot understand when I first came here is their slow-rhythm life. They do everything in a slow pace,\" she said.\n\nZhu gets up late everyday, trains with her husband every afternoon for four to five hours a day. She enjoys the leisure life by walking on the seaside, swimming and fishing.\n\n\"I also learned a little scuba-diving. We have barbecue in the farm. I don't feel bored here even though the life here is not as colorful as in China.\"\n\nNicknamed \"Chess Beauty Queen\" by Chinese fans, Zhu has felt pressure of age. \"As a 30-year-old chess player, I feel pressure. Everybody will get old, no exception with chess players.\"\n\nZhu hopes that her appearance in the Asian Games for Qatar will give the country a boost in the mind sport.\n\n\"There are not many people playing chess in Qatar,\" she said. \" Fortunately, the royal family of Qatar likes sports. They have put a lot of heart and resources in hosting the Asian Games and tennis, golf and table tennis tournaments. They will also stage chess competitions next year.\"\n\nZhu said she will bring her daughter back to Qatar as soon as possible after the Asian Games.\n\n\"It's difficult to juggle between chess and family,\" she said. \"But I always remind myself that my family, including my parents, my daughter and my husband, is more important than playing chess. I want to spend more time with my daughter.\"\n\nZhu's switch of allegiance had caused resentment from a few Chinese, who called her \"traitor\", but her immense popularity remains undented.\n\n\"I know there are many people missing me and looking out for me. Their support is always important. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0054\n\nHANOI, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nEmployees stage work stoppage at Vietnam Nike supplier\n\n\n\n\nAbout 800 employees staged a work stoppage for several hours at a Nike supplier in Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh City over the weekend to protest their contracts, a factory manager said on Monday.\n\nPark Hyun Tae, general director at Korean-owned Sam Yang Company told AFP that \"there was some small struggle\" at the plant, but denied press reports of a massive strike involving more than 3,000 workers.\n\nAll workers had returned to work Monday, he said.\n\nAccording to the Lao Dong newspaper, workers on April 25 walked off the job to protest labour conditions and accused management of behaving \"arrogantly\" in contract negotiations.\n\nThe officia labour newspaper also reported that when workers demanded a meeting with management, they were instead locked into a dining hall.\n\nPark, who was reached by telephone, flatly denied the press reports, and said that labour representatives met with management in a boardroom to discuss their grievances.\n\nLabour officials said Sam Yang was strong-arming employees into signing the contracts, according to Lao Dong. Sam Yang does not have unions, and each worker signs an individual contract.\n\nPark acknowledged that management was negotiating new labour contracts with workers, but denied heavy handed methods.\n\n\"Nobody here makes less than the 45 dollar a month minimum, and we proposed an 8.6 percent wage increase after one year,\" he said.\n\nNike officials could not be reached for comment.\n\nThe incident at Sam Yang is the latest headache for Nike, whose suppliers in Vietnam have been embroiled in a number of labour problems.\n\nIn April 1996 Sam Yang hit the news when a Korean supervisor slapped 15 Vietnamese workers on the side of the head with a shoe upper as punishment for poor quality.\n\nIn order to make sure its suppliers toe the line, Nike appointed a dedicated labour practices manager in Vietnam to help oversee the roughly 35,000 workers turning out products made exclusively for Nike.\n\nBut problems have continued. In March a Taiwanese supervisor at Nike supplier Pou Chen Shoe Factory was suspended after forcing 56 women to run around the factory floor.\n\nEarlier this month Nike's director of communications for the Asia Pacific Region Martha Benson flew into Vietnam from Hong Kong just days after a New York-based Labour activist group highlighted low pay and instances of corporal punishment at two of Nike's subcontracters in Southern Vietnam.\n\n\"We have had production managers who are Nike employees working in the factories (in Vietnam) since day one. But we recognise the need to increase the level of oversight, especially in working conditions and labour practices\" Benson told AFP by telephone from Ho Chi Minh City at the time.   fb/djw", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 293, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 541, "end_char": 547, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 25", "start_char": 607, "end_char": 615, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one year", "start_char": 1471, "end_char": 1479, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1996", "start_char": 1683, "end_char": 1693, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 2083, "end_char": 2088, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this month", "start_char": 2222, "end_char": 2240, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "days", "start_char": 2355, "end_char": 2359, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0054.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0648\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nPakistani convicted in US for aiding Sikh militants in India\n\n\n\n\nA Pakistani man was convicted Wednesday for providing financial support to a Sikh militant group in India and could face up to 45 years in prison.\n\nThe federal jury in New York returned the verdict on Khalid Awan following two weeks of trial, the US Department of Justice said in a statement.\n\nAwan, who lives in New York, was accused of providing money and financial services to the Khalistan Commando Force (KCF), a Sikh militant group fighting for a separate state in the Punjab region of India.\n\nThe group is branded a terrorist organization by Washington.\n\nHeld on federal credit card fraud charges, Awan reportedly made telephone calls to Paramjit Singh Panjwar, the KCF leader and one of 10 \"most wanted fugitives\" in India, the statement said.\n\n\"Awan faces a maximum sentence of 45 years in prison,\" it said, ahead of the sentencing scheduled on March 7, 2007.\n\nAmong evidence presented in court were statements by Awan admitting that he sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to KCF.\n\n\"The war on terror is a global battle,\" said US attorney Mauskopf Mauskopf of the Eastern District of New York. \"We will not permit individuals in our jurisdiction to finance terrorist groups responsible for murder and violence in any part of the world.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 149, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 342, "end_char": 351, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "45 years", "start_char": 906, "end_char": 914, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P45Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 7, 2007", "start_char": 973, "end_char": 986, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-03-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0648.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0072\n\nPARIS, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFrench rail services resume after strike\n\n\n\n\nFrench rail services on Thursday returned to normal after trade unions scrapped a plan for a prolonged nationwide strike over pay, pensions and the possible privatization of state railway company SNCF.\n\nThe unions accepted the offer of an interim pay rise of 0.3 percent pending wage talks in January, and a promise that each employee will receive a bonus of at least 120 euros.\n\nPresident Jacques Chirac pledged on Tuesday not to privatise SNCF, a move to fend off a prolonged strike that could further tarnish France's image after three weeks of rioting in the suburbs.\n\nThe strike, which began on Monday evening, left only one in three international high-speed trains (TGV) running at its peak on Tuesday.\n\nEurostar linking London and Thalys linking Brussels had four out of five trains running. Train service to Italy, Spain and Switzerland were also affected. Overnight trains between Paris and Barcelona were canceled Monday and Tuesday.\n\n\"It's over,\" SNCF Chairman Louis Gallois told France 2 television.\n\nThe strike had cost SNCF up to 30 million euros (35.3 million US dollars), said Galloise.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 124, "end_char": 132, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 393, "end_char": 400, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 516, "end_char": 523, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three weeks", "start_char": 633, "end_char": 644, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday evening", "start_char": 700, "end_char": 714, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 800, "end_char": 807, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1024, "end_char": 1030, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1035, "end_char": 1042, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0072.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0548\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nDollar holds steady as US growth trimmed\n\n\n\n\nThe dollar held steady against the euro and other currencies on foreign exchange markets Thursday despite a slight downward revision to third quarter US economic growth.\n\nAt 22:00 GMT, the euro was changing hands at 1.3173 dollars, showing scarcely any change from 1.3175 dollars late Wednesday.\n\nThe US currency lost some ground to the Japanese yen, however, as it declined to 118.32 yen compared with 118.45 yen on Wednesday.\n\nAlthough the government revised down third quarter US gross domestic product (GDP) to a 2.0 percent growth rate from a prior estimate of 2.2 percent, traders said the markets are looking forward to the economic prospects for 2007.\n\nAnd while the world's largest economy has slowed considerably this year, they said the market is hopeful that the US economy will glide to a so-called soft-landing in the months ahead rather than pitching into a deeper slowdown.\n\n\"US GDP data played little role as headline growth rates slowed slightly but price measures edged up,\" said Jamie Coleman at IFR Markets.\n\nAt the same time, the Federal Reserve's preferred measure of inflation, the core PCE, remained unrevised at the high rate of 2.2 percent.\n\nAn index of future US economic activity released Thursday suggested the expansion will continue, but at a sluggish pace, giving some support to the dollar, traders said.\n\nThe Conference Board said its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.1 percent in November, the same increase as in October. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0441\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCairo int'l film festival kicks off\n\n\n\n\nThe 30th Cairo International Film Festival kicked off on Tuesday with the opening film of Brazil's \" Two Sons of Francisco\" at the star-studded gala.\n\n\"Welcome to Egypt to enjoy the sunshine, especially in the winter, and (we) hope there is sunshine deep in everyone's heart,\" said Omar El Sherif, honorary president of the festival, at the opening ceremony at the Nile-side Cairo Opera House.\n\nEgyptian Culture Minister Farouq Hosni inaugurated the festival, where a narrative film about the festival and its 30th edition was screened.\n\nMeanwhile, a special documentary about late Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz was also screened in honor of the great Arab writer.\n\nThe ceremony awarded British actress Jacqueline Bisset, the leading role in many films such as \"Domino\" and \"New Year's Day,\" and American actor Danny Glover, who starred in films like \"Places in the Heart\" and \"Mandela,\" as well as Argentinean director Luis Puenzo, whose film won in 1985 \"Best Foreign Film\" in the Oscars and the Golden Globe.\n\nAmong those honored were Egyptian stars Yousra, Mahmoud Abdel- Aziz and musician Omar Khayrat.\n\nThis year's festival will be unique, said Ezzat Abu Ouf, the new head of the festival. \"This year's session will witness the return of the Film Market, which used to attract many companies from around the world.\"\n\nThe main international competition of this year's festival will include 19 films from 16 countries, including three Egyptian films and a Chinese film \"The Road\" directed by Zhang Jiarui.\n\nThere will be more than 65 films screened as official out-of- competition films, which will be the main attraction for the general public, while Saudi Arabia and Oman will present their very first feature films at the Arab film competition section.\n\nThe guest of honor, Latin America, will present a peculiar, yet intriguing group of films at the festival which will last until Dec. 8.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Festival", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 137, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 159, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the festival", "start_char": 584, "end_char": 596, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 1213, "end_char": 1222, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 8", "start_char": 1993, "end_char": 1999, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0441.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0112\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nUS considers ending Sunni reconciliation efforts in Iraq: report\n\n\n\n\nUS officials are looking into ending reconciliation efforts with Sunni insurgents as part of the ongoing review of US policy in Iraq, the Washington Post reported Friday, citing anonymous government officials.\n\nThe proposal, presented by the State Department, follows an internal review that says US efforts to reach out to Sunni dissidents have failed, the Post reported.\n\nSuch efforts may even have backfired and alienated Iraqi Shiites, the review said.\n\nUS policy up to now has been to support a unified Iraq based on its three main communities -- the Shiites, the Sunnis and the Kurds. Washington would not drop the goal, but instead would let the Iraqis take leadership in reconciliation efforts, the Post reported.\n\nUS ambassador in Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad and top military commanders believe that bringing Sunni insurgents into the political process is key to stabilizing the country, and strongly oppose the effort, according to the Post.\n\nSunnis, favored during Saddam Hussein's regime and for centuries the backbone of the ruling elite and middle class, make up about 20 percent of Iraq's population.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 287, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 598, "end_char": 601, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0112.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0327\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nS. Africa suffers huge losses from gold theft: report\n\n\n\n\nSouth Africa, the world's largest gold producer, suffers losses as huge as 2 billion rand ( 278 million U.S. dollars) each year due to gold theft from mines, a report revealed on Thursday.\n\nThe country's Chamber of Mines said that a report, compiled by the Institute of Security Studies, confirmed that about 1.8 billion rand to 2 billion rand worth of gold is stolen every year.\n\nThe report, focusing on the theft of precious metals from South African mines and refineries, also showed that theft of platinum and other precious metals was a problem, the SAPA news agency reported.\n\nThe chamber said gold production in South Africa in 2005 was 300 tons, 42 tons less than the 2004 production.\n\nJohannesburg-based newspaper The Star reported on Wednesday that South African police have arrested 60 armed \"gold mine pirates\" who hijacked gold ores in shafts as deep as 2 kilometers below the surface.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 488, "end_char": 498, "tid": "t3", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 755, "end_char": 759, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 864, "end_char": 873, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0327.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970426.0027\n\nHANOI, April 26 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nVietnam to tighten security on \"state secrets\"\n\n\n\n\nPrime Minister Vo Van Kiet has issued a directive calling on all levels of government to tighten vigilance against revealing state secrets, reports said Saturday.\n\nAccording to the April 24 directive, portions of which were published in all daily Vietnamese-language newspapers, \"the situation of revealing state secrets in a number of offices and localities is still serious,\" the Communist party's official mouthpiece Nhan Dan said.\n\nThe paper quoted the government as saying that since 1991 when the ordinance on Protection of State Secrets was issued much progress had been made, but there were \"cases of abusing regulations on state secret protection.\"\n\nVietnam has nebulous laws on state security and press freedom that give the government a free hand in restricting the media. The laws allow for criminal prosecution and harsh prison terms for those who reveal state secrets or damage national interests.\n\nThe directive did not provide any list or description of what was included under state secrets.\n\nInstead it called on \"ministries, offices of ministerial level, government offices and People's Committees of provinces and cities under central authority to submit lists of state secrets to be approved by the prime minister before the third quarter of 1997,\" the paper said.\n\nThe directive also said the Ministry of Culture and Information needed to regulate news reporting in the press in order \"to ensure both the spread of information to the public and the correct implementation of regulations on preserving state secrets.\"\n\nThe government has closed several newspapers in the past to punish them for their reporting. Though there are more than 500 journals and periodicals, the Vietnamese media is state-owned and subject to severe limitations on freedom of speech.\n\nLast month the ministry of culture and information and the State Bank issued a circular aimed at curbing and controlling local media coverage of the banking industry, which included a list of information considered as state secrets in that industry.\n\nInformation is tightly controlled in Vietnam, and statistics jealously guarded. Economic data considered routine in other countries, such as the size of the government budget deficit, are not publicly known.\n\nLast year several local journalists were investigated for revealing \"national secrets in violation of Article 97 of the criminal code,\" after reporting possible mishandling of aircraft purchases by Vietnam Airlines.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 26 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 265, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 24", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 593, "end_char": 597, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter of 1997", "start_char": 1346, "end_char": 1371, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 1692, "end_char": 1700, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last month", "start_char": 1887, "end_char": 1897, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 2347, "end_char": 2356, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970426.0027.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0043\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nthis fall\n\n\n\n\nThe number of Chinese students pursuing Masters or Ph.D studies in American universities has gone up this fall, the first increase for the past three years.\n\n20 percent more Chinese postgraduate students enrolled in the United States this year, making China second only to India, which saw growth of 32 percent, according to a survey conducted by the American Council of Graduate Schools cited by Monday's Beijing Morning Post.\n\nChinese postgraduate enrollment was 5 percent down in 2005 compared with the previous year, said the newspaper.\n\nU.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Dina H. Powell headed the first ever high-profile delegation of colleges and university presidents on a visit to China last week, aiming to attract more Chinese students to study in the United States.\n\nDelivering a speech at Beijing Normal University on Thursday afternoon, Spellings said \"For decades, we have attracted more students from China than almost any other country in the world.\"\n\nThere were over 62,000 Chinese students studying in the United States, according to Spellings.\n\nLast year, the number of student and exchange visas the United States issued to international students reached an all-time high of nearly 600,000, she said, adding student visas were up 15 percent.\n\nForeign students have complained that, following Sept. 11, getting a visa to the United States was hard to come and usually took a long time.\n\n\"We've been working hard to make the visa process smoother, easier and more transparent,\" Spellings said.\n\nShe said more than 97 percent of qualified students could obtain their visas in a few days.\n\nIn addition, statistics show that more than 10,000 American students came to China last year, a 36 percent growth compared with 2004.\n\nAsia remains the largest source of total U.S. international enrollments, accounting for 58 percent. With 76,503 students in the United States in 2005/06, India is the leading country followed by China with 62,582 students.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this fall", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-FA", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three years", "start_char": 206, "end_char": 226, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 305, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous year", "start_char": 573, "end_char": 590, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 817, "end_char": 826, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday afternoon", "start_char": 952, "end_char": 970, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 1186, "end_char": 1195, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 11", "start_char": 1434, "end_char": 1442, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1811, "end_char": 1820, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0043.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0541\n\nGAZA CITY, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(GRAPHIC+PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nViolence flared in Gaza Monday despite a fragile truce between rival Palestinian factions, as president Mahmud Abbas, locked in a dangerous standoff with the ruling Hamas movement, vowed to press ahead with his controversial plans for early elections.\n\nA member of Abbas's Fatah party was killed after gunmen fired on a welfare agency in northern Gaza in an attack that also wounded five other people, medics said.\n\nUntil the attack, a shaky late-night ceasefire appeared to be holding between the two rival groups battling for power in the volatile Palestinian territories, although sporadic gunfire rang out in the Gaza Strip.\n\nNine Fatah members, including senior official Sofiane Abu Zaida, and five Hamas loyalists were kidnapped during the day in the north of the coastal strip, according to officials and witnesses.\n\nZaida was later released after about two hours, and the others released shortly after that, a mediator said.\n\n\"The mediation to free all Fatah and Hamas hostages was successful and allowed security to improve and tensions to stop,\" said Islamic Jihad mediator Daud Shihab.\n\nAbbas won support for his election plan from visiting Prime Minister Tony Blair, who appealed to the international community to back the moderate Palestinian president and called for an initiative to put the Middle East peace process back on track.\n\nAbbas described the situation in the territories as a \"grave internal crisis\" after an explosion of deadly violence at the weekend following his high-stakes political challenge to Hamas.\n\n\"I have called for early presidential and parliamentary elections so that the people can decide on the base of an acceptable program to preserve their national interests ... and put an end to the siege and crisis,\" he said.\n\nBut he said the door was still open to forming a national unity government after Hamas vowed to boycott any elections, describing Abbas's move as a coup and tantamount to a call for civil war.\n\nAbbas, who has been at loggerheads with Hamas since it trounced his Fatah party in January elections, also appealed for an end to the street violence.\n\n\"Any bullet shot anywhere is a loss for the Palestinian people and is not in our interest.\"\n\nBlair, standing alongside Abbas at a Ramallah news conference, called for an initiative to support the Palestinians and move toward a two-state solution for the Middle East conflict.\n\n\"I hope therefore that we will be in a position over these coming weeks to put together an initiative that allows us both to give that support, in particular for reconstruction and development, and to alleviate the suffering and plight of the Palestinian people,\" Blair said.\n\n\"But also crucially that gives us a political framework within which we can move forward on that two-state solution.\"\n\n\"It's a critical moment,\" he said after later holding talks in Jerusalem with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. \"It's never been more important that we try to make progress.\"\n\nA senior Palestinian official told AFP that the initiative announced by Blair would be worked out in coordination with the United States and be unveiled by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice during her expected visit to the region early next year.\n\nThe Palestinian territories have been plunged into their deepest ever financial crisis because of a Western aid freeze imposed after Hamas came to power in March.\n\nAbbas has said elections were the way to resolve the turf war with Hamas, boycotted internationally because of its failure to recognize Israel, renounce violence and agree to past peace deals.\n\nBut he did not set a date and election officials said they would need 110 days to organize a ballot once Abbas issues an official decree.\n\nThe surge in unrest drew urgent appeals for restraint from across the globe.\n\nArab League chief Amr Mussa called the situation in the Palestinian territories \"extremely dangerous\" and called for an emergency meeting of foreign ministers next Sunday aimed at ending the fighting.\n\nIsrael -- which pulled out its troops and settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005 but maintains control over its borders -- said that Abbas should be supported.\n\n\"There is no doubt that we have to support the moderates favorable to negotiations among the Palestinians ... and that everything should be done to reinforce Mahmud Abbas,\" Olmert said after talks with Blair.\n\nWashington also rallied behind the Palestinian president on Monday.\n\n\"We support president Abbas in trying to work through this current impasse,\" said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.\n\n\"President Abbas is doing what he can, taking the steps that he thinks are prudent, to try to resolve this situation,\" McCormack said.\n\n\"And we certainly hope that the steps that he is taking can lead to a reduction in the violence.\"", 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{"text": "SJMN91-06338157 \n 06338157 \n  Photo; PHOTO: Sununu; (Photo ran in PM editions only)  \n  US; GOVERNMENT; OFFICIAL; RESIGN; CONTROVERSY  \n  One of President Bush's sons has informed White House Chief of Staff John\nSununu that he has lost much of his support among Republicans, prompting an\nintense effort by Sununu to hold on to his job by demonstrating his GOP\nbacking, White House and Republican sources said Monday.;   Sununu was told\nWednesday by Bush's son, George, that he had alienated members of the Cabinet,\nthe White House staff and the Republican political community, creating a\nsituation that puts his effectiveness in significant doubt, the sources said.  \n  Front  \n  SUNUNU BATTLES TO KEEP HIS JOB  \n     The message to the chief of staff was meant to be taken as a suggestion\nthat Sununu offer to resign, one highly placed source said. Instead, Sununu\nsought to prove to the president that his supporters outnumber his critics and\nthat he should remain in his post.;   One senior official Monday described the\nWhite House as \"a collection of small groups of aides holding their breaths,\"\nwaiting to see whether Sununu survives. One GOP source, reporting on a call\nfrom the chief of staff to a Republican leader, said Sununu lamented that \"the\nnoose is tightening around my neck, and I need your help.\";   Another highly\nplaced source said the president's son met with Sununu last week after holding\na series of conversations about the structure of the White House staff and of\nthe campaign with other Bush loyalists and GOP activists. The source said the\nyounger Bush \"sketched out for Sununu\" problems the president is encountering\nbecause of the chief of staff's tenure.;   \"He was told . . . the handwriting\nwas on the wall,\" the source said Monday.;   That, the source said, was when\nSununu started calling congressional Republicans and asking them to tell Bush\nthat the conservative wing of the party, in particular, would  object if he\nwere fired.;   Officials said the president himself met with Sununu Sunday. A\nsource said the outcome of that session was unclear.  \n  ANN DEVROY, Washington Post  \n  USA  \n  Washington  \n  Morning Final  \n  SJ  \n  San Jose Mercury News  \n   911203   \n  Tuesday  \n  December  \n  4A  \n  1991  \n  WEST  \n  PHOTO  \n  CA  \n  326  \n  Tuesday, December 3, 1991\n00338157,SJ1  \n  Copyright 1991, San Jose Mercury News  \n  1  \n  ENG", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Monday", "start_char": 409, "end_char": 415, "tid": "t70", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991-12-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t66"}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 436, "end_char": 445, "tid": "t73", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991-11-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t66"}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1003, "end_char": 1009, "tid": "t78", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991-12-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t66"}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1389, "end_char": 1398, "tid": "t81", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991-W48", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t66"}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1759, "end_char": 1765, "tid": "t87", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991-12-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t66"}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2024, "end_char": 2030, "tid": "t88", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991-12-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t66"}, {"text": "Tuesday, December 3, 1991", "start_char": 2285, "end_char": 2310, "tid": "t66", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "SJMN91-06338157.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0204\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBeijing auto show closes with record turnout\n\n\n\n\nThe Beijing auto exhibition 2006 closed Monday with a record turnout of almost 600,000 visitors in 10 days, the organizers said.\n\nNearly 550,000 people visited the main venue at the China International Exhibition Center, while another 50,000 visited the auto parts show at the National Agricultural Exhibition Center.\n\nThe event, which has been held biennially since 1990, also drew 6,376 journalists, including 1,135 from outside China.\n\nINCREASING lNTERNATIONAL INFLUENCE\n\nThe rising importance of the Beijing auto show was reflected by the unprecedented presence of major international carmakers.\n\nMore than 1,500 businesses from over 20 countries and regions, including big names in the international auto industries, were represented.\n\nForeign carmakers brought two-thirds of the 572 cars to the show. Ten models, including Toyota's Corolla and Maybach's ultra-luxury 62S, made their global debuts in Beijing.\n\nAfter years of dynamic growth, China is the world's second largest auto market after the United States.\n\nBoth its production and sales of automobiles are expected to surpass seven million this year, according to the latest estimate of the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.\n\nThough that is still less than half of the 16.5 million cars expected to be sold in the United States, China could overtake the U.S. as the world's largest carmaker in 10 years, Nick Reilly, General Motors Asia and Pacific head, told a Detroit newspaper.\n\nCHINESE BRANDS STEALS THE SHOW\n\nThis year's Beijing auto show also saw an impressive turnout of home-grown brands, a reflection of their growing strength in the fast expanding auto market.\n\nAccording to the organizers, Chinese brands accounted for one third of the vehicles on show, the most in the history of the event.\n\nFAW, which produced China's first truck and car in the 1950s, brought 29 vehicles, including 19 of its joint venture brand partners such as Volkswagen and Toyota, and 10 of its own.\n\nThe most eye-catching is a new Red Flag (Hongqi) model dubbed HQ3. Using a 4.3 liter engine, it takes only 7.3 seconds for HQ3 to accelerate to 100 kilometers per hour.\n\nThe car is also equipped with a sophisticated infrared night vision system that can detect obstacles from 250 meters away.\n\nDongfeng Motor, another major Chinese manufacturer, came with 15 models, half of them Dongfeng's own brands. They include a full range of cars, multi-purpose vehicles, small utility vehicles, racing cars and hybrid sedans.\n\nGeely, a minor Chinese carmaker which recently entered into agreement with the Manganese Bronze Holdings Plc. of the United Kingdom to produce London's iconic black cabs, is displaying over a dozen new models.\n\nAlso on show is Geely's first concept car, and another from its subsidiary, Shanghai Maple Automobile.\n\nOther Chinese carmakers, the Shanghai Automotive Industry Corp., Great Wall, Chery and others all brought their Chinese brand models.\n\nChinese brands account for about a quarter of China's auto sales. While consolidating their share in low-end products, they are moving into more lucrative markets dominated by foreign carmakers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 days", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "P10D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 473, "end_char": 477, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1210, "end_char": 1219, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 years", "start_char": 1477, "end_char": 1485, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 1597, "end_char": 1606, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1950s", "start_char": 1938, "end_char": 1947, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "195", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0204.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0236\n\nCHANGSHA, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina draws with Bulgaria 0-0 in friendly (updated)\n\n\n\n\nChina were held to a goalless draw with East European side Bulgaria in an international soccer friendly here on Wednesday.\n\nChina boss Zhu Guanghu's wish of ending the winless record against European teams failed again due to the weaknesses in both the midfield and the forward line in a match lacking excitement.\n\n\"As you see I have sent several young players in this match for the sake of preparing for 2008 Olympics and they did a good job,\" said Zhu after the match.\n\n\"It's really a problem that we haven't scored in five matches against European sides. We packed the backline and gave them big pressure, but was not good when we got the ball and began the counter attack. That's what we have to solve.\"\n\nChina dominated the first half in front of a slack Bulgaria squad made up of second-thought players chosen by 1994 World Cup hero Dimitar Penev, packing the guest's half with short passes and long range drives.\n\nAfter several long range efforts from Cao Yang, Chen Tao and Sun Xiang, midfielder Wang Liang created the best chance for the hosts before the interval with a superb 25m curve after rounding down a defender, which was merely tipped over by a full-stretched Zdravko Zdravkov.\n\nSkipper Li Weifeng went close on 87 minutes to head wide a Wang Liang's fine corner, which was the only highlight of the second half.\n\n\"It's a good match anyway. The significance for both teams is not about which one beats the other, but as an exercise for the 2010 World Cup as we both failed to qualify for 2006,\" commented Penev.\n\nChina had suffered four consecutive defeats against European teams like Spain, Ireland, Germany and Serbia and Montenegro this year before this match without scoring a goal.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 226, "end_char": 235, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "87 minutes", "start_char": 1344, "end_char": 1354, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT87M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0236.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0406\n\nWELLINGTON, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nWide-scale search for NZ missing glider\n\n\n\n\nSeven more helicopters have joined the search Thursday for a powered glider with two people aboard that went missing during a competition in South New Zealand late Wednesday afternoon.\n\nThey joined four fixed-wing aircraft and a helicopter which resumed searching at first light for the glider, four hours after taking off from Omarama, about 119 km northwest of Oamaru.\n\nRescue Co-ordination Center New Zealand (RCCNZ) said four fixed- wing aircraft are scouring the search area as widely and quickly as possible while the helicopters search at a lower and more detailed level.\n\nSeveral glider pilots and trained observers are among the air search personnel.\n\nVisibility remains good in the search area but worsening weather conditions are forecast for later in the day.\n\nPolice continue to search the numerous airstrips in the area and are asking locals to check their properties for any sign of the missing glider or the two people on board.\n\nGround-based search and rescue teams were ready to move if required.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday afternoon", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 287, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 867, "end_char": 874, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0406.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0027\n\nGANSU, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: 11 dead in NW China colliery gas blast\n\n\n\n\nEleven people were confirmed dead in a coal mine gas blast Wednesday morning in northwest China's Gansu Province, said local work safety bureau.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 165, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0027.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0011\n\nBUENOS AIRES, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCaribbean, L. American states to unite Chinese friendship societies\n\n\n\n\nSome 20 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will unite their Chinese friendship societies into a new regional federation for friendship with China on Saturday, Guillermo Penfold, head of the Foundation to Develop Relations with the Chinese People, told Xinhua on Friday.\n\nPenfold made the announcement here at the opening ceremony of the third conference of the Caribbean- and Latin America-China Friendship Societies.\n\nThe two-day meeting is taking place at the headquarters of Banco de la Nacion in Buenos Aires, Argentina's capital.\n\nAbout 30 friendship societies from these countries were to formally launch the new federation at Saturday's session, he said.\n\nSome 70 delegates will approve the new organization's charter. They will also reaffirm the one-China policy and their support for China's Anti-Secession Law.\n\nPresent at the ceremony were former Argentine President Raul Alfonsin and Cheng Siwei, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress and head of the China-Latin America Friendship Association.\n\nCheng said that China and the countries of the Caribbean and Latin America are enjoying good relations both in government-to-government and people-to-people aspects.\n\nThanking the friendly associations for enhancing bilateral friendship, Cheng said good ties between China and those nations had promoted the fast development of bilateral cooperation in politics, economy, business, culture, education and science.\n\nThe associations met last time in Bogota, capital of Colombia, in 2002.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 293, "end_char": 301, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 406, "end_char": 412, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 777, "end_char": 785, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1673, "end_char": 1677, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0011.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0214\n\nOTTAWA, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nWild ducks found with avian flu viruses in Canada\n\n\n\n\nThirty-six wild ducks in Canada have tested positive for H5 and H7 strains of avian influenza viruses after two farms in the country's west part were found infected with H5 earlier this week.\n\nThe ducks, taken from an area along the border between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in the Atlantic coast, are among 710 birds tested as part of a national wild bird surveillance program, Canadian Press reported Friday.\n\nAdditional testing needs to be done to identify which strains of H5 viruses were found.\n\nHealth officials say it is unlikely the viruses are the same as the virulent H5N1 strain causing widespread outbreaks among birds in southeast Asia which has caused 68 human deaths.\n\nCases of H5 and H7 viruses have been found in Canada's British Columbia, Manitoba and Quebec provinces recently. Earlier this week, a low pathogenic North American strain of H5 viruses was found on two poultry farms in British Columbia, leading to the culling of more than 110,000 birds.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 516, "end_char": 522, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 900, "end_char": 908, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this week", "start_char": 910, "end_char": 927, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0214.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0100\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 11 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nlambastes \"selling of official posts\"\n\n\n\n\nBuying and selling government posts and official titles have become one of the main corruption in China, said a former head of the CPC's organization department.\n\nZhang Quanjing, who headed the department for five years until 1999, said, \"It's appalling to hear that a Chinese official killed his superior in order to get a higher post,\" Zhang told the Southern Weekly this week.\n\nZhang, who was in charge of the country's high-level appointments, said since 1982 a new generation of higher-educated, less ideological officials have replaced the older cadres who had earned their jobs fighting for the socialist cause.\n\n\"The older senior officials who survived wartime were different than the younger officials who tend to think about themselves and are mainly after power, salary, status, housing and medical care. This thinking triggers jealousy and encourages the buying of official posts to get promoted,\" the South China's Guangzhou-based newspaper quoted Zhang as saying.\n\nZhang said more open hiring practices by the party's disciplinary and organization bodies would help stop the practice of buying or selling government posts.\n\nIn 2005, 334 CPC officials were criticized for seeking illegal promotions and 97 were punished according to organizational or disciplinary rules, statistics show.\n\nZhang said the public has helped crack down on official misconduct. By visiting or writing letters whistle blowers have reported a large number of official corruption cases in recent years.\n\nIn July, eight CPC officials were punished, some with long jail terms, for buying or selling government jobs.\n\nCao Yongbao, former Deputy Secretary of Liangshan Prefectural Committee of the CPC in Southwest China's Sichuan Province was expelled from the Party and sentenced to 13 years in jail.\n\nIn an infamous scandal involving officials of Chenzhou, Central China's Hunan Province, buying and selling government posts was so popular that Li Dalun, the former secretary of the Chenzhou municipal CPC committee, was found to have accepted 13.25 million yuan (about 1.65 million U.S. dollars) in bribes that included free overseas tours and free overseas education for his family members.\n\n\"Officials who do this must be severely criticized,\" said Wu Guangzheng, secretary of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection earlier in a speech.\n\n\"We need to be tough on people who buy and sell official posts, \" he said.\n\n\"Government department with too many officials is also a big problem\" Zhang said, adding that departments should be streamlined with fewer officials who are more efficient.\n\nHe suggested that China's provincial governments should reduce the number of official posts to one governor and two vice-governors.\n\n\"Fewer official posts would shift the attention of officials from thinking about getting a promotion to the actual doing their work,\" Zhang said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 318, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 325, "end_char": 329, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 477, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1982", "start_char": 558, "end_char": 562, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1982", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1240, "end_char": 1244, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1577, "end_char": 1589, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1595, "end_char": 1599, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0100.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0259\n\nSTOCKHOLM, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPalestinian election gets Danish aid\n\n\n\n\nThe Danish minister of foreign affairs promises an aid package to help Palestinians carry out their January parliamentary election, Ritzau news bureau reported on Monday.\n\nAid for the upcoming Palestinian election was on the agenda when Minister of Foreign Affairs Per Stig Moeller met with the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, in Ramallah on the West Bank on Sunday.\n\nIn addition to approximately 600,000 euros in aid to the independent election commission, Moeller promised that Denmark would send election observers and offer assistance to the media.\n\nAssisting the fledgling Palestinian democracy was the goal of the program, according to Moeller, which would also encourage women to exercise their democratic rights.\n\n\"The goal is that the Palestinian people get a democracy, that includes a president and only one army, but several political parties,\" said Moeller.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 263, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 465, "end_char": 471, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0259.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0086\n\nMACAO, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDu's late goal sends China into men's soccer final at EAG\n\n\n\n\nA last-gasp header by defender Du Wei earned China a 2-1 victory over Japan Saturday in the men's soccer semifinals at the East Asian Games.\n\nChina will face the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in Sunday's final. The DPR Koreans downed South Korea 2-0 in the other semifinal.\n\nJust as the match looked set for a 1-1 draw in regulation time, Du rose unmarked in the penalty box to head home a free-kick from midfielder Sun Xiang one minute into injury time.\n\nChina opened the scoring in the 41st minute with a header by striker Gao Lin, but the Japanese grabbed the equalizer through Shingo Akamine's header 15 minutes after halftime.\n\nEarlier in the group stage, DPR Korea defeated China 3-1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 319, "end_char": 325, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 41st minute", "start_char": 608, "end_char": 623, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PT41M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 minutes", "start_char": 729, "end_char": 739, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT15M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0086.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0220\n\nROME, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nInternational conference to review rural development: FAO\n\n\n\n\nAn international conference is being staged to review agrarian reform and rural development that could contribute to poverty alleviation, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Thursday.\n\nThe International Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ICARRD) will take place in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on March 2-7, 2006.\n\nAccording to the FAO, three out of four people suffering from hunger live in rural areas and depend on natural resources such as land and water for their survival.\n\n\"If we want to reduce hunger and poverty in the world, we must go to the root causes of the problem,\" said Parviz Koohafkan, executive secretary of the conference.\n\n\"In the poor rural zones, one of the main problems is the lack of secure access to factors of production, particularly land and water,\" he added.\n\nThe main objective of the conference is to analyze agrarian reform and rural development experiences in different countries, and to identify policies, practices and lessons learnt that can bring about a new rural development paradigm based on social inclusion, environmental sustainability and livelihood security for the poor.\n\nPorto Alegre, the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, is known for hosting the World Social Forum.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 309, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2-7, 2006", "start_char": 443, "end_char": 458, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0220.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0224\n\nLAGOS, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSmall plane crashes in northern Nigeria, two killed\n\n\n\n\nA privately-owned small plane on Monday crashed in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna shortly after take-off, killing two people on board, officials told Xinhua.\n\n\"The incident happened at about 10:30 (0930 GMT) in the morning in Kaduna airport soon after the aircraft took off. Two people on board, the pilot and a lady, were killed,\" said Sam Adurogboye, spokesman for the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority.\n\nThe crash cause of the Abuja-bound plane is still not clear, Adurogboye said.\n\nHe said the plane had been in operation for more than eight years and had just returned to Nigeria on Saturday after regular maintenance in Britain.\n\nThe pilot held a US license and the plane was registered in that country but operated in Nigeria, he added.\n\nA Boeing-737 plane crashed on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria's largest city on October 22 three minutes after take-off, killing all 117 on board.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning", "start_char": 328, "end_char": 339, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than eight years", "start_char": 647, "end_char": 668, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 705, "end_char": 713, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 22", "start_char": 942, "end_char": 952, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0224.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0001 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0001. \n Ralston Profit\n@  Declined 47%\n@  In 4th Quarter\n@  ---\n@  By Richard Gibson\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n RAL \n EARNINGS (ERN)\nFOOD PRODUCTS (FOD) \n\n   Ralston Purina Co. reported a 47% decline in fourth-quarter earnings, reflecting restructuring costs as well as a more difficult pet food market. \n\n   The St. Louis company earned $45.2 million, or 65 cents a share, compared with $84.9 million, or $1.24 a share, a year earlier. \nSales in the latest period were $1.76 billion, a 13% increase from last year's $1.55 billion. \n\n   For the year ended Sept. 30, Ralston earned $422.5 million, or $6.44 a share, up 8.9% from $387.8 million, or $5.63 a share. \nThis year's results included a gain of $70.2 million on the disposal of seafood operations. \nSales for the full year were $6.6 billion, up 13% from $5.8 billion. \n\n   Ralston said its restructuring costs include the phase-out of a battery facility in Greenville, N.C., the recent closing of a Hostess cake bakery in Cincinnati and a reduction in staff throughout the company. \nThe battery plant, which makes rechargeable nickel cadmium and carbon zinc products,  will  be closed over the next year or so, a spokesman said. \n\n   Ralston attributed its fourth-quarter slump partly to higher costs of ingredients in the pet food business as well as competitive pressures, which required higher advertising spending. \nFor the year, pet food volume was flat, the company said. \n\n   Its cereal division realized higher operating profit on volume increases, but also spent more on promotion. \nThe Continental Baking business benefited from higher margins on bread and on increased cake sales, it added. \n\n   Ralston said its Eveready battery unit  was hurt by continuing economic problems in South America. \n\n   Ralston shares closed yesterday at $80.50, off $1, in New York Stock Exchange composite trading.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t35", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "fourth-quarter", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 309, "tid": "t38", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1989-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 513, "end_char": 527, "tid": "t39", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t38"}, {"text": "the latest period", "start_char": 539, "end_char": 556, "tid": "t42", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 597, "end_char": 606, "tid": "t43", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t42"}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 633, "end_char": 641, "tid": "t41", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "Sept. 30", "start_char": 648, "end_char": 656, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 755, "end_char": 764, "tid": "t50", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "the full year", "start_char": 858, "end_char": 871, "tid": "t44", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "recent", "start_char": 1028, "end_char": 1034, "tid": "t45", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "the next year or so", "start_char": 1239, "end_char": 1258, "tid": "t46", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "fourth-quarter", "start_char": 1306, "end_char": 1320, "tid": "t47", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1473, "end_char": 1481, "tid": "t48", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 1882, "end_char": 1891, "tid": "t49", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0189.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0525\n\nBAGHDAD, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIraq flies Mecca pilgrims home through both exclusion zones by Farouk Choukri\n\n\n\n\nIraqi helicopters started on Friday to fly home Moslem pilgrims from the Saudi border, violating US-patrolled exclusion zones in the south and north of the country, the official news agency INA said.\n\nA first helicopter carrying \"sick, elderly or weary\" pilgrims took off from the southern border region of Jodaidat Arar to the town of Mosul in northern Iraq, it said, without giving the number of passengers.\n\n\"The operation to transport pilgrims to other governorates will continue,\" the agency added. A second group of returning pilgrims was expected at Jodaidat Arar, three kilometres (two miles) from the border, on Saturday.\n\nOfficial Baghdad Radio and Youth TV, which is run by President Saddam Hussein's son Uday, interrupted its programmes to announce the news of the first flight and played patriotic songs.\n\nBaghdad earlier this week sent nine helicopters to the south, already violating the \"no-fly\" zone, to wait for the Iraqis returning from the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe flight to Mosul also violates a northern exclusion zone set up shortly after the 1991 Gulf War to protect Iraqi Kurds from air attack by Baghdad.\n\nIraq said the helicopters were sent to ferry home dozens of elderly and sick pilgrims, in defiance of Washington which imposed the exclusion zone in the south together with London and Paris since 1992.\n\nThe United States said the southern flights were a \"technical\" violation and that it would not take military action in retaliation.\n\nBut the US Defense Department on Thursday accused Baghdad of seeking to exploit the annual pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites, known as the hajj, for political ends.\n\n\"I think they're trying to hide behind religion or to manipulate the hajj pilgrimage for political reasons,\" said Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. \"We're not going to play that game.\n\n\"We've stressed we're not going to interfere with their efforts to bring pilgrims back from the hajj,\" he said.\n\n\"And we've also made it very clear that we continue to enforce the no- fly, no-drive zone which is designed to prevent the Iraqis from accumulating military power in the southern part of their country.\"\n\nBaghdad, which in September said it would no longer recognize no-fly zones set up in the south to protect Shiite Moslems and the north for the Kurds, has hailed the flights as a victory.\n\n\"Iraq has for years rejected these imaginary lines and announced in its official communiques that it does not recognize the zones because they are not in UN Security Council resolutions,\" an official spokesman told AFP on Friday.\n\nOn April 9, Iraq also flouted the UN sanctions in force since its August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and flew more than 100 Iraqis to Saudi Arabia for the start of the pilgrimage.\n\nIraq insisted that the flight was \"purely humanitarian\" and so not a violation of the embargo, a position which China, Egypt, France and Russia supported in the UN Security Council.\n\nThe United States failed in its efforts to secure UN condemnation of Iraq for the flight to Saudi Arabia.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 758, "end_char": 766, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 972, "end_char": 981, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1482, "end_char": 1486, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1655, "end_char": 1663, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 2310, "end_char": 2319, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2702, "end_char": 2708, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 9", "start_char": 2714, "end_char": 2721, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1990", "start_char": 2777, "end_char": 2788, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0525.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0105\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: Germany's Merkel elected first woman chancellor\n\n\n\n\nAngela Merkel, the leader of the Christian Democrats, was elected Tuesday by the German parliament as new chancellor, the first woman chancellor in Germany.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0105.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0297\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBy-elections ruled out in Malawi: report\n\n\n\n\nThe Malawi Electoral Commission (MEC) has declared that there will be no by-elections this year because the electoral process can not be concluded in months, Nation Online of Malawi reported on Thursday.\n\nThe declaration came when political parties are busy with campaigning for vacant constituencies for possible by-elections this year.\n\n\"Honestly speaking, people should forget by-elections this year because apart from shortage of commissioners, the electoral process is long and cannot be finished within two months,\" said MEC spokesperson Fegus Lipenga.\n\nLipenga said that even if President Bingu wa Mutharika can appoint commissioners now, there still will be no by-elections immediately because they have to be briefed on the operations of the commission before they start working.\n\nHe also said the commissioners then have to decide on the date of by-elections which would be followed by official opening of the campaign period of about two months.\"Then there is also the issue of registration and  a cost proposal has to be sent to the Treasury so that they can release money which also takes time. So you can see that it is not easy to conduct by-elections within two or three months from now,\" Lipenga said.\n\nMzuzu University political analyst Noel Mbowela said the failure to hold the by-elections in time when a vacancy falls infringes rights of the people in the affected constituency to be represented in the parliament.\n\nMbowela also criticized the system of allowing the president to choose electoral commissioners. He asked the executive branch to treat vacancies in the National Assembly as a matter of urgency and make sure that they are filled quickly.\n\nThe failure to hold by-elections would affect many aspiring candidates and political parties who hoped the polls would be held and have already spent a lot of money on campaigning.\n\nMalawi's constitutional court Tuesday ruled that the parliamentary speaker could declare scores of disputed seats vacant, making possible the ouster of President Wa Mutharika.\n\nWa Mutharika's ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) might stand to lose 70 members of the parliament in the 139-seat assembly following the court's ruling on seats occupied by lawmakers who defected last year to join the DPP, enabling it to become the governing party.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "months", "start_char": 250, "end_char": 256, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 294, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 436, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 493, "end_char": 502, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months", "start_char": 609, "end_char": 619, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 741, "end_char": 744, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two or three months", "start_char": 1274, "end_char": 1293, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1299, "end_char": 1302, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1987, "end_char": 1994, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2338, "end_char": 2347, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0297.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980219.0476 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/19/1998 08:02:00 \n\nw1151 Cx1f wstm-\nr i Cx13  Cx11  BC-Cambodia-Britain-Host     02-19 0690\n\n\n BC-Cambodia-Britain-Hostage \n\nCambodian resistance general looking for remains of missing Briton\n\n UR By DON PATHAN QC \n UR Associated Press Writer QC \n\n\n\t   O'SMACH, Cambodia (AP) _ The top commander of a Cambodian\nresistance force said Thursday he has sent a team to recover the\nremains of a British mine removal expert kidnapped and presumed\nkilled by Khmer Rouge guerrillas almost two years ago.\n\t   Gen. Nhek Bunchhay, a loyalist of ousted Cambodian Prime\nMinister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, said in an interview with The\nAssociated Press at his hilltop headquarters that he hopes to recover the remains of Christopher Howes within the next two weeks.\n\t   Howes had been working for the Britain-based Mines Advisory\nGroup when he was abducted with his Cambodian interpreter Houn\nHourth in March 1996. There were many conflicting accounts of his\nfate.\n\t   Howes' team was clearing mines 17 kilometers (10 miles) from\nAngkor Wat, the fabled 11th century temple that is Cambodia's main\ntourist attraction, when it was attacked.\n\t   In January this year, British police officers who had been searching for Howes concluded he had probably been killed soon\nafter being captured.\n\t   The Foreign Office said it had informed the family of Howes, 37\nyears old when he was kidnapped, that he probably died within weeks\nor months of his capture on March 26, 1996.\n\t   ``Obviously, it is deeply discouraging for the family after 22\nmonths, but there is no proof of life. But there is no evidence in\neither direction _ that there is proof of life or death,'' said a\nForeign Office spokesman, speaking with customary anonymity. ``We\nwill continue to do everything we can  to establish what has happened.''\n\t   Thai military officials who monitor Cambodian affairs said privately Thursday that Britain, through its embassies in Thailand\nand Cambodia, has been pushing hard to resolve the Howes case as\nthe second anniversary of his abduction nears.\n\t   Nhek Bunchhay, who had been closely involved in the search for\nHowes before having to flee the Cambodian capital after a coup\nd'etat last year, appeared confident he would find Howes' remains.\n\t   He said he received information from Khmer Rouge guerrillas on\nwhere the body had been buried, and recently ordered 10 of his men\nfrom a force of 500 near Khmer Rouge headquarters in Anlong Veng to conduct the search.\n\t   If and when the remains are found, he said, they would be turned\nover to the British Embassy, apparently meaning they would be sent\nacross the border into Thailand and onward to Bangkok.\n\t   Nhek Bunchhay said he now believed Howes had been killed within\na week of his capture by a Khmer Rouge faction loyal to Pol Pot,\nthen the guerrilla group's leader. Pol Pot is considered\nresponsible for the radical policies that led to the deaths of as\nmany as 1.7 million Cambodians when the communist group held power\nin the late 1970s.\n\t   At the time Howes was captured, the Khmer Rouge were a more or\nless united guerrilla force with more than 10,000 men under arms.\nBut the group began to fall apart in mid-1996 after the defection\nof one of its top leaders, Ieng Sary. Other commanders, and\nthousands of guerrillas, followed him.\n\t   A small hardcore group under Pol Pot continued to hold out at\ntheir headquarters at Anlong Veng in northern Cambodia near the\nThai border.\n\t   But in June last year, the remaining leadership had a falling\nout, and Pol Pot was arrested.\n\t   In July last year in Phnom Penh, Cambodia's capital, Second\nPrime Minister Hun Sen staged a successful coup d'etat against\nFirst Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh. Ranariddh's\nloyalists, including Nhek Bunchhay, his top military commander,\nwent into hiding or fled the capital.\n\t   Nhek Bunchhay, evading an intensive manhunt, made his way to\nO'Smach, the last major outpost held by Ranariddh's forces. His men\nhave held the stronghold _ which is on the border just opposite the\nThai province of Surin _ against repeated intense attacks by Hun\nSen's troops. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0101\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNew Labor leader vows to pull party out of Sharon's coalition\n\n\n\n\nThe newly elected Labor Party leader Amir Peretz reiterated his intention Thursday to pull the party out of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition government, local newspaper Haaretz reported.\n\n\"We will notify the prime minister that we want to leave. We want to leave... certainly out of a desire to turn the Labor Party into an alternative that intends to take power in the next elections,\" Peretz said.\n\n\"Amir will discuss with the prime minister an agreed date for an election,\" said Yuli Tamir, a Labor legislator and Peretz supporter.\n\nAnalysts believe that Labor's leaving will propel the country into political disarray and raise the likelihood of early general elections set for November 2006.\n\nIsraeli trade union chief Amir Peretz was unexpectedly elected new leader of the dovish centre-left Labor Party in an election on Wednesday, defeating Vice Premier Shimon Peres who brought Labor in Sharon's cabinet to push for Israeli withdrawal from Gaza which was completed on Sept.12.\n\nShortly after 6 a.m. local time (0400 GMT), amid cheering from Peretz's supporters, Labor Secretary-General Eitan Cabel announced at the party's headquarters in Tel Aviv that Peretz had won with 42.35 percent of the votes, while Peres was backed by 39.96 percent of voters.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 199, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 2006", "start_char": 814, "end_char": 827, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 960, "end_char": 969, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0101.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0089\n\nNAIROBI, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, more details ///\n\n\n\n\nSudan's top leadership, including President Omar el-Beshir, bears responsibility for widespread atrocities committed in the troubled western Darfur region, a leading human rights watchdog said Monday.\n\nBeshir and 15 other current and former senior officials in the Khartoum government, military commanders and local administrators should be subjected to UN sanctions and probed for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.\n\n\"The Sudanese government at the highest levels is responsible for widespread and systematic abuses in Darfur,\" HRW said in a report entitled \"Entrenching Impunity: Government Responsibility for International Crimes in Darfur.\"\n\n\"Senior Sudanese officials ... must be held accountable for the campaign of ethnic cleansing in Darfur,\" said HRW's Africa director Peter Takirambudde.\n\nThe New York-based group called for the UN Security Council and individual nations to take stronger measures to atrocities there and boost the African Union (AU) military mission in the region.\n\nAnd it called on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal, to investigate Sudan's entire leadership for possible prosecution for the abuses.\n\nIt named Beshir, Sudan's Second Vice President Ali Osman Taha, Defense Minister Abduraheem Hussein, armed forces chief of staff Abbas Arabi and intelligence chief Salah Abdallah Ghosh as among those suspect of orchestrating repression in Darfur.\n\nThey \"should be investigated for crimes against humanity and war crimes, either as a matter of individual criminal responsibility or command responsibility,\" HRW said in the nearly 90-page report.\n\nWar broke out in Darfur in 2003 when rebel groups began fighting what they say is the political and economic marginalisation of the region's black African tribes by the Arab-led regime in Khartoum.\n\nAs many as 300,000 people have died and more than two million fled their homes in what UN aid agencies have dubbed the world's worst humanitarian crisis with reports of rapes, extrajudicial killings and other atrocities rampant.\n\nMuch of the abuse is blamed on Khartoum's proxy militias -- the so-called \"Janjaweed\" -- but in its report, HRW placed responsibility higher, citing witness accounts from refugees and interviews with Sudanese soldiers and officials.\n\nBased on those accounts, HRW said: \"the looting and destruction of villages was not just condoned by government officials, it was methodically organized, with troops and militia members permitted to take land, livestock and other civilian property.\"\n\nAlthough the Sudanese army itself appears to have ended operations in Darfur, the Janjaweed are still active and despite promises to rein them in, Khartoum has done little to end the abuses of its proxies, it said.\n\n\"The Sudanese leadership continues to implement policies that permit continuing attacks on civilians and perpetuate a climate of fear and intimidation through structural and institutional abuse,\" HRW said.\n\n\"(It) has shown no sign that it is prepared to fundamentally change its policies,\" the report said.\n\n\"If the ongoing abuses in Darfur are to be stopped, and if the ethnic cleansing is to be reversed, then the UN Security Council, regional bodies and other governments must sharply increase their sanctions on the Sudanese government for human rights crimes,\" it said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1794, "end_char": 1798, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0089.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0135\n\nISLAMABAD, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nPakistan calls Saddam hanging a \"sad event\"\n\n\n\n\nPakistan, a key US ally, on Saturday described the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as a \"sad event\" and expressed hope that it would not further exacerbate the security situation in Iraq.\n\n\"The execution of former president Saddam Hussein, which can only be described as a sad event, is another poignant reminder of the violence that continues to grip Iraq,\" the foreign ministry said in a statement.\n\n\"We hope that this event would not further exacerbate the security situation,\" the statement said.\n\nIt said Pakistan desired peace, stability and reconciliation in Iraq.\n\n\"It remains our earnest hope to see peace, stability and reconciliation so that the people of Iraq regain control of their affairs in a secure environment.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0135.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0490\n\nLONDON, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with market closings ///\n\n\n\n\nEuropean stock markets closed higher Friday, boosted by a strong signal of business confidence in Germany, the eurozone's biggest economy, and a positive opening on Wall Street.\n\nThe London FTSE 100 index added 0.66 percent at 5,531.6 points, the Frankfurt DAX jumped 1.09 percent to 5,353.66 and in Paris the CAC 40 rose 0.67 percent to 4,704.41.\n\nThe DJ Euro Stoxx 50 index of leading eurozone shares climbed 0.98 percent to 3,556.76.\n\nThe euro, meanwhile, rose to 1.2004 dollars.\n\nGermany's Ifo business climate index rose to 99.6 in December, its highest reading in five years and ahead of market expectations, which fuelled hopes that the European economic recovery was indeed under way.\n\n\"This increase is all the more favourable because it shows a perfect balance between the positive analysis of the current situation, and the optimistic anticipations for the future,\" said Alexandre Bourgeois, an economist at Natexis Banques Populaires in Paris.\n\nOn Wall Street, US stocks were lifted with bullish comments from General Motors and weaker oil prices. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 32.70 points at 10,914.10, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq was 1.38 points lower at 2,259.25.\n\nBack in London, financials provided the main boost for blue chips, with the sector in demand after recent trading updates -- with Northern Rock up 3.35 percent at 925.5, Alliance and Leicester ahead 1.75 percent at 959 and HBOS 1.48 percent higher at 962.\n\nFund management group Amvescap topped the leaders board, however, up 3.69 percent at 436 pence, after it was upgraded to \"overweight\" from \"equal-weight\" by Morgan Stanley.\n\nElsewhere, shares in Centrica added 2.10 percent at 243.50 pence after an inline trading update from the gas distributor.\n\nIn Frankfurt, index heavyweight E.ON was among the main gainers on the DAX, rising 3.11 percent to 85.30 euros, amid a report RAG is determined to take over the rest of MDAX-listed speciality chemicals company Degussa by acquiring E.ON's 43 percent stake.\n\nSuez was the largest gainer among Paris blue chips, closing up 3.38 percent at 26.03 euros, after Morgan Stanley resumed coverage with an \"overweight\" rating and a 30-euro share price target.\n\nFrench companies with stakes in pay-TV services gained amid unconfirmed reports that Vivendi will take a minority stake in TPS. Lagardere, with an interest in the CanalSatellite unit of Vivendi's Canal Plus, rose 2.71 percent to 64.45 euros, while Vivendi added 1.18 percent at 26.63.\n\nTPS part-owner TF1 rose 0.51 percent to 23.48, while its partner, second liner M6, was 0.81 percent higher at 23.65.\n\nElsewhere in Europe, the Swiss Market Index climbed 0.44 percent to 7,491.03.\n\nThe Amsterdam AEX added 0.95 percent at 436.17, the Brussels Bel-20 advanced 1.49 percent to 3,495.28, the Madrid Ibex-35 took on 0.68 percent at 10,555.3 and the Milan SP/Mib gained 0.76 percent at 35,286.0.\n\nEarlier in Asia, Tokyo's Nikkei-225 index lost 0.53 percent at 15,173.07 points in the third successive fall, as a firmer yen led to a further dumping of exporter shares, dealers said.\n\nHong Kong's Hang Seng Index lost 0.19 percent at 15,029.81.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 132, "end_char": 138, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 632, "end_char": 640, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 665, "end_char": 675, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10,555.3", "start_char": 2919, "end_char": 2927, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third successive fall", "start_char": 3066, "end_char": 3091, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0490.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0022\n\nGAZA CITY, Dec 23 , 2006, 2006\n\nPro-Abbas officer wounded in Gaza Strip ambush\n\n\n\n\nA colonel in the Preventive Security force loyal to president Mahmud Abbas was wounded in a shooting ambush in the southern Gaza Strip early Saturday, witnesses and emergency services said.\n\nColonel Hassan Gardua was driving to work in the town of Rafah hard by the Egyptian border when the gunman or gunmen opened fire on his vehicle.\n\nThe attack came on the fourth day of a fragile ceasefire between Abbas's secular Fatah faction and the Islamist movement Hamas which leads the government.\n\nThe truce, which came after four days of streetfighting in Gaza killed 14 people and wounded dozens, had already suffered minor breaches.\n\nA civilian died on Thursday night in eastern Gaza City in clashes between Hamas and a powerful local clan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 23 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Saturday", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth day", "start_char": 462, "end_char": 476, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four days", "start_char": 627, "end_char": 636, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday night", "start_char": 757, "end_char": 771, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0022.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0319\n\nDOHA, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's badminton head coach delighted with new schedule\n\n\n\n\nChinese badminton team's head coach Li Yongbo looked delighted as he knew on Monday the competition at the Doha Asian Games had been rescheduled.\n\nThe Chinese team arrived at Doha International Airport at 7 a.m. Monday. Several hours later, Li was told by the umpire that the team semifinals and finals would not be played in the same day, but in two days.\n\n\"I'm very happy to know that. It's good news,\" said Li, who had blasted at the former schedule as a \"big joke\".\n\nThe previous schedule had put the team semifinals and finals on Dec. 5. Li had said bluntly that it was \"the most unreasonable schedule\" he had ever seen.\n\n\"Badminton competition demands physical strength,\" said the head coach. \"For Chinese players, two matches a day is too hard to stand, let alone playing the singles and doubles events the next day.\"\n\nTo Li's delight, the team semifinals will take place on Dec. 4 and finals on Dec. 5. He believed his 16-member contingent would fine-tune in two days.\n\nChina is the biggest winner at the 2004 Athens Olympics and 2005 Madrid World Championships as the dream team collected three and four golds respectively.\n\nThe traditional powerhouse, however, took only two out of seven golds at the Busan Asian Games in 2002. Four years around, Chinese shuttlers will vie for at least three titles, said Li.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "7 a.m.", "start_char": 320, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 327, "end_char": 333, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Several hours", "start_char": 335, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PTXH", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two", "start_char": 462, "end_char": 465, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 5", "start_char": 650, "end_char": 656, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next day", "start_char": 925, "end_char": 937, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 4", "start_char": 997, "end_char": 1003, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 5", "start_char": 1018, "end_char": 1024, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two", "start_char": 1082, "end_char": 1085, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1347, "end_char": 1351, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Four years", "start_char": 1353, "end_char": 1363, "tid": "t14", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0319.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0177\n\nGAZA, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSlight progress achieved on issue of captive Israeli soldier: Hamas\n\n\n\n\nA leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in Gaza said on Thursday that there was a slight progress made on the issue of free the Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militant groups, adding that more talks were still needed.\n\nOsama al-Muzini here said that the \"Israeli occupation is softening stance gradually,\" however, \"there were many points need to be agreed upon.\"\n\nMeanwhile, al-Muzini revealed that Israel has accepted the principle of prisoners-exchange which had been rejected at the beginning.\n\nHe explained that Israel refuses the coincidence principle, saying that \"Until recently, Israel used to demand unconditional release of Corporal Gilad Shalit, but now it had agreed to release\n\nPalestinian prisoners in exchange of him.\"\n\nCorporal Gilad Shalit was captured by three militant groups, led by Hamas, in a cross-border raid last June. The captors demand to swap him for a number of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.\n\nHowever, Al-Muzini denied recent reports that the deal to release Shalit was very close. \"It is true a good progress has been made but this achievement is still limited and the swap is still in its\n\nearly phase.\"\n\nHe also denied that Hamas has handed lists of the prisoners it wished to get them released. \"There is still long time before this\n\nphase is reached,\" added al-Muzini.\n\nDeclining to specify a time limit for the swap, al-Muzini accused Israel of trying to get advantage of time and end the issue without losses.\n\nMentioning a Hamas delegation in Cairo, Al-Muzini said that the talks between Hamas and Egyptian officials focused on the soldier' s issue, forming a Palestinian national unity government and ending international siege on the Hamas-led administration.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 193, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 720, "end_char": 728, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 804, "end_char": 807, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last June", "start_char": 976, "end_char": 985, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early phase", "start_char": 1272, "end_char": 1283, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0177.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0285\n\nTUNIS, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: WSIS wraps up with agreement on Internet governance\n\n\n\n\nThe second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) wrapped up here on Friday with an agreement on Internet governance and vows to benefit all people with information technology.\n\nFollowing a series of meetings, delegates from over 170 countries adopted the Tunis Agenda for the Information Society and the Tunis Commitment on the final day of the summit, which kicked off on Wednesday.\n\n\"The most important thing of the Tunis summit is raising the awareness of the information and communication technologies (ICT), \" Yoshio Utsumi, secretary general of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) told reporters at the end of the summit.\n\nInternet Governance\n\nThere has been a long debate over the management of the Internet as the United States wants to keep its control and the rest of the world want to share it.\n\nAfter eleven hours of bargains, negotiators agreed in the agenda that the international management of the Internet should be multilateral and transparent, calling on UN chief Kofi Annan to establish a new forum -- the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), early next year to continue discussions on Internet issues.\n\nThe forum, to be convened in spring 2006 in Greece, will involve governments, stakeholders and civil society for further discussions on Internet governance, spam, cyber crime, privacy and other net-related issues.\n\nThe IGF is a major step forward toward the Internet management, said officials of the ITU, a UN agency specialized with global telecommunication services.\n\n\"It is a win-win deal,\" Tim Kelly, head of the policy and strategy unit of the ITU, told reporters, adding all governments are ensured to have equal footing over the issue.\n\n\"All governments should have an equal role and responsibility, for international Internet governance and for ensuring the stability, security and continuity of the Internet,\" said the agenda.\n\nIt also called for \"enhanced cooperation in the future, to enable governments, on an equal footing, to carry out their roles and responsibilities, in international public policy issues pertaining to the Internet.\"\n\nSince 1998, under the authorization of the US Commerce Department, Washington has controlled the Domain Name System (DNS), a key part of the running of the Internet, through Internet Corporation Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit company based in California.\n\nThe United States said it was happy because it still controls while other countries embraced the wording of final documents, which promised equal role and responsibility concerning Internet governance.\n\n\"We did not change anything about the role of the US government, \" David Gross, coordinator of international communication and information policy in the State Department, said after the negotiations late on Tuesday. \"It's very significant.\"\n\nHowever, Yet Benhamou, a member of the French delegation, said that he saw it differently.\n\n\"What the US did not want was international cooperation on core resources of the Internet,\" Benhamou said, adding the agreement showed, for the first time, that \"there is sovereignty in the Internet space.\"\n\nFinancial Mechanism\n\nAddressing the digital divide, the Tunis Commitment underlined the importance of removing barriers to bridge the digital gap, \"in particular, in developing countries.\"\n\nThe summit welcomed a voluntary Digital Solidarity Fund (DSF) as \"an innovative financial mechanism\" to transform the digital gap into digital opportunities for developing world.\n\nThe fund, which was launched in Geneva earlier this year, gained recognition in the Tunis Agenda as one means of finance.\n\nSo far, the DSF has raised 7 million euros (about 8.2 million US dollars).\n\nOpening the Tunis phase of WSIS on Wednesday, Annan called on nations to show political will to bridge the digital divide.\n\nBut money remains a contentious issue, with many rich countries being cautious about providing more aid, arguing that developing nations should be looking at attracting more private investment.\n\n\"The challenge to the developing world is now to make sure they have the infrastructure, rules, legal processes and market systems to attract the investment of the technologies that we see on display at the summit,\" US Assistant Secretary of Commerce Michael Gallagher said.\n\nSenegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, who spearheaded the fund said the fund will also benefit the West since millions of dollars could then be spent on buying ICT infrastructure and equipment from Western companies.\n\nThe Tunis summit completed a two-year process of the WSIS, which outlined the vision of an information society, in which everyone has access to the ICTs at the first phase held in December 2003 in Geneva and marched toward concrete actions to bridge the digital 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0084\n\nHANOI, Nov. 18 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ndiscuss sustainable development\n\n\n\n\nLeaders of the 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) began their annual meeting in Hanoi on Saturday to facilitate free trade and promote sustainable development in the region.\n\nThe closed-door meeting opened Saturday afternoon at Hanoi's National Convention Center after a welcome ceremony for the leaders by Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet at the entrance of the center.\n\nThe leaders were sitting in a round-table manner in the meeting room, according to a video tape footage shown to the press at the international media center.\n\nDuring the two hour-long informal retreat, the leaders discussed issues relating to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the Doha Development Agenda (DDA), and issues on Regional Trade Agreements and Free Trade Areas, said a press release issued after the meeting.\n\nThey also discussed and endorsed the Hanoi Action Plan to implement the Busan Roadmap for realizing the Bogor Goals of free and open trade and investment in the region, and issued a statement on the Doha round of WTO negotiations.\n\n\"We reaffirm our collective and individual commitments to concluding an ambitious and balanced WTO Doha agreement,\" the leaders said in the statement. \"We are ready to break the current deadlock: each of us is committed to moving beyond our current positions in key areas of the (Doha) Round.\"\n\nThe endorsed Hanoi Action Plan will help translate the Busan Roadmap into reality by elaborating concrete actions for APEC member economies to take in five areas including the promotion of high-quality regional trade arrangements and free trade agreements.\n\nImmediately after the retreat, the leaders had a one-hour dialogue with the APEC Business Advisory Council.\n\nSpeaking at the beginning of the dialogue, Triet described the leaders' discussions as \"profound\" and \"rich.\"\n\nLater on Saturday evening, the leaders and spouses will attend a formal dinner and cultural performance in the National Convention Center, hosted by Vietnamese president and his spouse.\n\nA trip to the Temple of Literature, a site of interest in Hanoi, was arranged for the spouses in the morning.\n\nThe annual meeting of Pacific-Rim leaders is a forum of the highest level in the Asia-Pacific region, drawing the presence of such prominent figures as Chinese President Hu Jintao, U.S. President George W. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0469\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: RMB breaks 7.84 mark against U.S. dollar\n\n\n\n\nThe value of the Renminbi (RMB) against the U.S. dollar hit a new high on Wednesday, with the central parity rate at 7.8394 yuan to one dollar, breaking the 7.84 mark.\n\nThis signifies RMB value has risen by 5.32 percent after China's reform of the exchange rate system on July 21, 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 21, 2005", "start_char": 382, "end_char": 395, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0469.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0285\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. urges Syria, Iran not to interfere in Lebanon\n\n\n\n\nThe United States said on Monday that it rejects the interference of internal affairs of Lebanon by Syria and Iran and said such efforts should be stopped.\n\n\"And we certainly would reject any efforts on the part of outside governments to try and interfere or influence\" Lebanon's political process, State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said at a briefing.\n\n\"And you certainly know we've spoken to and continue to speak to the fact that the Syrian government continues its interference into Lebanese affairs. We definitely want to see that stopped,\" Casey said.\n\nThe United States does not want to see any other outside actors, including Iran, interfering in the legitimate decision-making of the Lebanese political system, Casey added.\n\nThe United States has accused Syrian officials of involving in the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Syria has denied it has any links to the killing of Hariri.\n\nThe United States has also accused Iran of providing support for Lebanon's Hezbollah, a group branded by the United States as terrorist.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0285.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0271\n\nDURRES, Albania, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFirst French soldiers disembark in Albania, meet Italians by Stephane Bentura\n\n\n\n\nThe first French soldiers of an international force in Albania disembarked here at dawn Sunday and met up with an advanced Italian unit, while the main body of troops for \"Operation Alba\" is due to arrive in the week ahead.\n\nA 40-strong team from several special forces units came ashore from the troop transport ship Champlain, which had sailed from the Italian port of Brindisi. A further 80 troops remained aboard in reserve.\n\nAbout 20 four-wheel-drive vehicles were unloaded onto the dilapidated quayside of Albania's main port, some 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the capital Tirana.\n\nLieutenant Colonel Jean-Marc Lebout, who is in charge of the French operation, said he had been greeted by several officials from the Albanian defence ministry.\n\n\"We don't feel in a hostile environment,\" Lebout said.\n\n\"It's a humanitarian mission. We're here to prepare the ground for our colleagues' arrival,\" he said.\n\nTwo hours after the French landed, an Italian military vehicle drove up to the port to make contact.\n\n\"The situation is very calm here. The population is very self- disciplined, they want tranquility,\" said Lieutenant Colonel Michele Tunzi, of an Italian paratroop unit.\n\nThe advanced Italian units landed on Albanian soil on Friday, about 20 arriving by sea and the same number flying in to Tirana airport.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Romano Prodi told a press conference here held along with his Albanian counterpart Bashkim Fino that Operation Alba would end one month after elections are held sometime before the end of June.\n\nProdi said: \"Our aim is to leave as soon as we have helped reconstruct the state, that is one month after the democratic elections we are asking for.\"\n\nHe confirmed that most of the troops in the operation were to arrive on Tuesday.\n\nProdi also visited the port of Vlore in the south, where the Albanian insurrection began. From the balcony of the local government offices he called for a minute's silence for the four dead and 83 missing from a refugee boat that sank after colliding with an Italian warship on March 28.\n\n\"Alba (Italian for dawn) is not just the start of a new day, but also that of the new Albania,\" he said to applause. \"Next week we will all be busy working together for the rebirth of Albania.\"\n\nA spokesman for the French army information service said the advance party was made up of highly-mobile troops whose task was to prepare for the arrival of the troop ship Orage, due here Tuesday with 450 marines on board.\n\n\"There is no question of giving in to the slightest threat or the least blackmail,\" spokesman Major Herve Gourmelon said.\n\n\"It would be more stupidity than hostility if a group attacked the force,\" he added.\n\nFrance is expected to provide up to 1,000 troops to the UN-approved multinational force in Albania.\n\nTheir principal task will be to secure the port and the road linking it to Tirana.\n\nThe mission, which will total around 6,000 troops, is intended to facilitate aid shipments to the most vulnerable sections of the population.\n\nThe biggest contributor will be Italy with around 2,500 men.\n\nItaly which occupied Albania between April 1939 and the end of World War II declaring its king, Victor Emmanuel III, king of Albania, has traditionally close ties with its neighbor, only 70 kilometers (45 miles) across the Adriatic Sea.\n\nAlthough the force is only mandated to secure aid channels, Lieutenant Colonel Thimi Hudhra -- one of the Albanian military staff sent to meet the French troops -- said he was counting on the troops of Operation Alba to restore order in his country.\n\n\"We have already got together three or four units totalling 2,500 men in Tirana to work with the international force,\" he said.\n\nThe force is not going to start disarming civilians who seized weapons during the Albanian insurgency however.\n\nDespite the apparent absence of hostility in Durres and the north, question marks remain over the reception the force will get in the south, much of which is in rebel hands.\n\nGreece, Italy and Romania are expected to deploy troops to the south, while Spanish troops will be sent to the north and the French will remain in Durres and Tirana.\n\nIn Greece's northern city of Salonika, General Manoussos Preveroudakis, commander-in-chief of the Greek army, said the Greek contingent was ready after inspecting the troops.\n\nHe said that \"all the instructions have been given\" to the force of about 680 men who will be deployed in Tirana and Vlore.\n\nGreek Defence Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos said the soldiers would travel to Tirana in a C-130 transport plane.\n\nAn authoritative Greek source said most of the contingent, made up entirely of career soldiers, would leave on Wednesday.\n\nOther contingents will be supplied by Austria, Denmark and Turkey, but it is not yet clear where they will be posted.", 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{"text": "WSJ891030-0030 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0030. \n Shoney's to Report\n@  Write-Off in Quarter\n@  Totaling $2.5 Million \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n SHN \n NASHVILLE, Tenn.  \n\n   Shoney's Inc. said it will report a write-off of $2.5 million, or seven cents a share, for its fourth quarter ended yesterday. \nThe restaurant operator cited transaction costs from its 1988 recapitalization as a result of a $160 million restructuring of its bank debt. \n\n   The write-off will be reported as an extraordinary item in the company's 1989 operating results. \n\n   In addition, the effective interest rate on the $410 million of total remaining bank debt after the restructuring is 10.66%. \nThe combined effect of these changes is expected to save the company about $4 million in interest expenses next year, or six cents a share. \n\n   Shoney's said the latest restructuring affected bank indebtedness that was incurred to finance $585 million of the company's $728 million recapitalization that took place in 1988. \n\n   The company has made payments of $175 million against the original $585 million of bank debt incurred in connection with the recapitalization. \nThese payments consisted of $54 million in scheduled payments and $121 million in prepayments, funded by $82.8 million from operating cash flow, zero-coupon subordinated debt and assets sales.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "fourth quarter", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t41", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t40"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t42", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-29", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t40"}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 368, "tid": "t47", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 526, "end_char": 530, "tid": "t49", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 788, "end_char": 797, "tid": "t53", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t40"}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 1000, "end_char": 1004, "tid": "t54", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0667.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0053\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nelections\n\n\n\n\nEgypt's Electoral Commission has announced the final results of the first phase of the three-stage parliamentary elections, the Egyptian Gazette daily reported on Thursday.\n\nThirty-one seats were decided by the ballot held on Nov. 9 with the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) garnering 26 seats, the Muslim Brotherhood four seats, and another going to an independent, according to the commission.\n\nThe run-off for 133 seats was held on Tuesday and the NDP, led by President Hosni Mubarak, won 42 seats, the commission announced late Wednesday.\n\nThe Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's de facto largest opposition group, won 30 seats, the independents won 54 and opposition parties won eight, it added.\n\nThe first phase of Egypt's three-stage parliamentary election was held in 82 constituencies across eight governorates, including the capital Cairo.\n\nThe second and third stages will be held on Nov. 20 and Dec. 1 respectively. Any run-offs, if necessary, will be held six days after each round of voting.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 232, "end_char": 240, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 9", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 301, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 510, "end_char": 517, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Wednesday", "start_char": 602, "end_char": 616, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 20", "start_char": 962, "end_char": 969, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1 respectively", "start_char": 974, "end_char": 993, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six days", "start_char": 1036, "end_char": 1044, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0053.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0536\n\nNEW YORK, April 10 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJP Morgan net drops in first quarter\n\n\n\n\nJP Morgan net profits fell 3.4 percent to 424 million dollars in the first quarter from 439 million dollars in the same period last year, the bank announced Thursday.\n\nNet profit per share was 2.04 dollars against 2.13 last year.\n\nSales rose to 1.83 billion dollars, from 1.74 billion.\n\nJP Morgan Chairman Douglas Warner said the company's \"good\" first quarter result was based on higher revenues and increasing global diversification, noting that client activity \"remains strong\" into the second quarter.\n\nThe company's Finance and Advisory unit's revenues increased eight percent to 451 million dollars, mainly as a result of higher debt and equity underwriting revenues.\n\nMarket making revenues fell 38 million dollars 733 million with revenues in emerging markets, equities, and foreign exchange up strongly, while fixed income revenues in developed markets fell from the \"high\" levels of 1996, Warner said.\n\nAsset Management and Servicing revenues increased nine percent to 375 million dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 10 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period last year", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 233, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2.13 last year", "start_char": 311, "end_char": 325, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10T13:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter", "start_char": 583, "end_char": 601, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 990, "end_char": 994, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0536.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0145\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nISS crew play golf during space walk\n\n\n\n\nThe 14th crew of the International Space Station (ISS) played golf during a nearly six-hour space walk in a Russian program on Thursday, a Mission Control spokesman said.\n\nRussian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin and U.S. astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria opened the hatches and begun their walk at 0020 GMT on Thursday after a 60-minute delay for technical reasons, said Valery Lyndin, spokesman for the Mission Control Center near Moscow.\n\nAccording to the Itar-Tass news agency,the pair spent in outer space five hours 38 minutes instead of the planned five hours 47 minutes, Lyndin said.\n\n\"Most of the program has been fulfilled,\" Lyndin said. They played golf, installed a neutron telescope on the exterior of the Zvezda service module, took a picture of an antenna of the Kurs docking system and replaced a WAL 2 antenna.\n\nGerman astronaut Thomas Reiter assisted the space walk from the ISS.\n\nTyurin hit a ball with a golf club manufactured by the Canadian firm Element 21 Golf.\n\nThe company's chiefs said that they wanted to mark by the space \"game of golf\" the 35 anniversary of the first \"golf strike\" made by American astronaut Alan Shepard on the moon surface.\n\nTyurin's strike, which has entered the Guinness Book of Records, was only a two-minute event, but preparations for it were long. Lopez-Allegria helped him in fixing a device with a spring that sent the ball in a needed direction.\n\nThe technical director of the Golf project, Alexander Alexandrov, told reporters that the golf ball would travel \"miles and miles\" in space, while Shepard's ball flew only 22 feet.\n\nUnlike usual golf balls weighing 35 grams, the space ball weighs only three grams.\n\nUnder the contract, the golf club and remaining balls will be returned to the Earth in a Soyuz spacecraft in the spring and turned over to the customers.\n\nBesides the golf, Tyurin and Lopez-Allegria examined the antenna of the Kurs system for problems that arose during the docking of Russia's supply ship Progress with the ISS in late October. They tried to retract the antenna, but failed to do so.\n\nThe pair moved a WAL 2 antenna to a more convenient place that will be used during the docking of the European craft ATV, the launch of which is scheduled for the beginning of 2008.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 398, "end_char": 406, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "35 anniversary", "start_char": 1156, "end_char": 1170, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late October", "start_char": 2088, "end_char": 2100, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the beginning of 2008", "start_char": 2318, "end_char": 2339, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0145.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0768\n\nSINGAPORE, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nOil prices steady in Asia after gains on OPEC production cuts\n\n\n\n\nOil prices were steady in Asian trade Friday after sharp overnight gains on news the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries would cut output further to shore up the market, dealers said.\n\nAt 10:15 am (0215 GMT), New York's main contract, light sweet crude for January delivery, was up four cents to 62.55 US dollars a barrel from New York trade where it had risen 1.14 dollars to 62.51 dollars on the OPEC lead.\n\nBrent North Sea crude for January delivery was steady at 62.12 dollars.\n\nOPEC's decision to cut output by 500,000 barrels per day (bpd) from February showed the oil cartel's resolve to maintain crude prices at 60 dollars and above, dealers said.\n\n\"The indication from OPEC is they are determined to defend the 60-dollar price level,\" said Victor Shum, an analyst with energy consultancy Purvin and Gertz.\n\nOPEC ministers 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0029\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES toll ///\n\n\n\n\nA suicide bomber killed 13 Iraqis queuing at a police recruitment centre in central Baghdad on Thursday and wounded 12 more, security and medicals sources said.\n\nThe bomber, believed to have been wearing an explosive vest, struck at sunrise outside a police academy in a street in the heart of the Iraqi capital that has been barred to traffic, he said.\n\nBefore the traffic ban had been put into place, the police academy near Palestine Street in the Rusafa District, had come under attacks three times by car bomb, mortar and a suicide bomber.\n\nTen police recruits were killed instantly and another three died of their injuries after being taken to the al-Kindi hospital, a medical source said.\n\nIn October last year, a bomber in a suicide vest killed 17 people when he blew himself up on a bus dropping police cadets off at the academy.\n\nSince then security has been improved in the area, which is near the main interior ministry headquarters, but the city of Baghdad remains in the grip of mounting insurgent and sectarian violence.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 181, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October last year", "start_char": 786, "end_char": 803, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0029.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0140\n\nLONDON, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nOil prices fall, though Brent crude holds above 64 dollars\n\n\n\n\nWorld oil prices dropped on Monday after striking two-month high points the previous week on supply concerns.\n\nIn London, Brent North Sea crude for January delivery slid 52 cents to 64.10 dollars in electronic trading.\n\nNew York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in January, lost 45 cents to 62.98 dollars per barrel in electronic deals before the official opening of the US market.\n\nWorld oil prices had risen sharply last week, mainly owing to data that revealed falls in US energy stocks and expectations that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will decide later this month to cut further its oil output.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 148, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 394, "end_char": 401, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 547, "end_char": 556, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 709, "end_char": 719, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0140.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0336\n\nRIYADH, Nov 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIsrael's new Labor leader could help peace: Saudi King\n\n\n\n\nSaudi Arabia's King Abdullah said the new Israeli Labour leader Amir Peretz may help unite Israel's \"peace camp\" and promote talks with the Palestinians, the official Saudi Press Agency reported on Monday.\n\n\"The emergence of Amir Peretz as the leader of the Israeli Labour party may pave the way for a breakthrough and lead to unification of the dispersed peace camp in Israel,\" SPA quoted Abdullah as saying.\n\nPeretz emerged as the winner during a leadership election on Nov. 9, replacing the veteran Labor chief Shimon Peres.\n\nPeretz, who had promised to pull Labour out of a coalition government headed by Ariel Sharon, pledged to restart talks with Palestinians if Labour wins parliamentary elections in March.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov 28 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 312, "end_char": 318, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 9", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 592, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 822, "end_char": 827, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0336.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0146\n\nJAKARTA , Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesian shares close lower\n\n\n\n\nShare prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange ended lower Thursday with the composite index down 1.29 points to close at 1,668.8 points.\n\nTurnovers totaled 1.9 billion shares worth 2.3 trillion rupiah (246.6 million U.S. dollars).\n\nGainers beat losers 69 to 61, with 80 other issues left unchanged.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0146.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0168\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIsraeli anti-rocket defense system decided soon\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said Tuesday afternoon that Israel would decide within weeks what anti-rocket defense system to erect in areas bordering the Gaza Strip, Israel's local newspaper Jerusalem Post reported on its website.\n\nSneh said that the Israeli government was examining four different systems produced both in Israel and abroad, but their efficiency was as yet unproven.\n\nSneh made the announcement hours after an Israeli civilian was critically wounded in a Qassam rocket hit on a factory in Sderot, a city in south Israel.\n\nSince Monday, more than 25 Qassam rockets have landed in the Negev, seven in Sderot and one which scored a direct hit on a home, that caused extensive damage, in a nearby kibbutz.\n\nMeanwhile, Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz also said Monday that Israel was not \"coming to terms\" with Qassam rocket fire, however, he was not currently in favor of launching a massive ground operation into Gaza to stop the daily rocket attacks on towns in the western Negev.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday afternoon", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "weeks", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 673, "end_char": 679, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 934, "end_char": 940, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0168.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0159\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNuclear industry research base launched in Shanghai\n\n\n\n\nThe China Nuclear Industry Group (CNIG) set up Sunday a research base for nuclear power, instruments for civilian use, and military industry, in Shanghai, according to sources with CNIG.\n\nLocated in Shanghai Caohejin high-tech development zone, the research base covers 21,000 square meters of floor space, and will combine the functions of management, service and trade.\n\nAn official with CNIG said that China's nuclear industry has embraced a crucial development opportunity, with nuclear power, nuclear fuel and nuclear applications to be the three pillars.\n\nBy the year 2020, the installed capacity of China's nuclear power is expected to reach 40 million kilowatts, accounting for 25 percent of the country's total.\n\nIn the coming five years, the market scale for nuclear applications will reach 100 billion yuan (about 12.5 billion US dollars).\n\nWang Shoujun, CNIG deputy general manager, said that in the 2006-2010 period, his group will complete integration and research of the meters matched with the nuclear industry to provide more home-made products for the country's nuclear power construction.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year 2020", "start_char": 679, "end_char": 692, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2020", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 850, "end_char": 860, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 2006-2010 period", "start_char": 1022, "end_char": 1042, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0159.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0663\n\nBRASILIA, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nBrazil and Russia agreed Thursday to develop cooperation in military, trade, space and energy affairs during a visit by Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, officials said.\n\nReporters peppered Lavrov and his Brazilian counterpart, Celso Amorim, with questions about a proposed purchase of Russian-made military helicopters at a joint news conference.\n\nAmorim would only say there had been a discussion of whether the helicopters would be bought already assembled or be assembled in Brazil, and whether they would have Brazilian components.\n\nThe newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported last week that the deal involves 30 Russian military attack and transport helicopters, worth 400 million dollars and sought by the Brazilian government to fight smuggling and drug trafficking.\n\nRussia recently sold arms and aircraft to Venezuela, but Lavrov denied that his country was pursuing a career as a weapons supplier in Latin America.\n\n\"We are not selling them to any country that violates international laws,\" Lavrov said.\n\nThe top diplomats of the two resource-rich countries also discussed biofuels, an area of expertise for Brazil, and signed an agreement to protect technology in their planned cooperation in space projects.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 95, "end_char": 103, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 657, "end_char": 666, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 858, "end_char": 866, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0663.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0495\n\nGENEVA, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS wants China put on the spot over rights\n\n\n\n\nThe United States wants China put on the spot over its suspect human rights record at the UN Human Rights Commission's annual meeting here, US rights envoy John Shattuck said Monday.\n\nShattuck was in Geneva to lobby against a Chinese motion to block a resolution criticising its human rights record, which would in effect block the 53-state Commission's annual meeting from discussing it.\n\n\"No country, no matter how large, no matter how strongly it feels about the subject, should be able to block consideration by the commission of its rights record,\" said Shattuck, US Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights.\n\nChina, as in previous years, has lodged a non-action motion to block criticism at the forum on Tuesday.\n\n\"For this reason, we are concerned by the efforts of the government of China to foreclose discussion through a non-action motion on the resolution,\" the US official said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 276, "end_char": 282, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "previous years", "start_char": 734, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 816, "end_char": 823, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0495.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0120\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTaiwan share prices close down -- Nov. 17\n\n\n\n\nShare prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange closed lower Thursday, with the weighted index moved down 25.26 points to close at 6,020.94, according to reports reaching here from Taipei.\n\nThe bourse opened at the day's high of 6,063.09 and hit a low of 5,994.91 during trading. A total of 2.75 billion shares changed hands on a market turnover of 73.23 billion Taiwan dollars (2.18 billion US dollars).\n\nOnly one of the eight major stock categories gained ground, with paper and pulp issues moving up at 0.2 percent.\n\nSeven of the eight major stock categories lost ground, with banking and financial shares moving down the most at 1.3 percent, followed by construction issues and foodstuff issues both at 0.6 percent.\n\nPlastics and chemicals shares moved down at 0.5 percent, textile stocks at 0.4 percent, and cement stocks and machinery and electronics shares both at 0.1 percent.\n\nLosers outnumbered gainers 560 to 442, with 186 stocks remaining unchanged.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0120.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0085 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0085. \n Westinghouse\n@  Sees Big Gains\n@  For Next Year\n@  ---\n@  Boost in Operating Margins,\n@  Double-Digit Per-Share\n@  Growth Forecast by Firm\n@  ----\n@  By Gregory Stricharchuk\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n WX \n ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS AND EQUIPMENT (ELQ) \n NEW YORK  \n\n   Westinghouse Electric Corp., capitalizing on a major restructuring program, expects operating margins of more than 10% and double-digit per-share earnings growth next year, top officers told securities analysts here. \n\n   John C. Marous, chairman and chief executive officer, also said the company expects sales from continuing businesses to rise 8.5% annually through the next three years. \n\n   In 1988, the company earned $822.8 million, or $5.66 a share, on sales of $12.49 billion. \n\n   Since 1983, Westinghouse has shed 70 businesses that it did n't expect to produce 10% operating margins while acquiring 55 businesses. \n\n   In the past 20 months alone, Paul E. Lego, president and chief operating officer, said the divestiture of $300 million of slow-growth, low-profit businesses has been more than offset by $600 million in profitable acquisitions. \n\n   Westinghouse expects to meet its corporate goals despite a softening in the economy. \nEven if the gross national product is either flat or in the growth range of 2% to 2.5%, \"we can handle that,\" Mr. Marous said. \nGNP is the total value of the nation's output of goods and services. \n\n   A bright spot is the company's power-generation business, which is experiencing a surge of growth for the first time in years. \nMr. Marous said the business will achieve higher sales this year than the company's target goal of 8.5%. \n\n   While Westinghouse hasn't had a nuclear power plant order from a U.S. utility in about a decade, excess capacity is beginning to shrink. \nMr. Lego said the company foresees the need for a major boost in new-generation capability throughout the 1990s. \n\n   Westinghouse also is well positioned to sell steam turbine and gas turbine plants to independent power producers. \nThe company's ability to respond to energy needs world-wide will be enhanced through a recently announced venture with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mr. Lego said. \n\n   He said the independent power segment could grow to provide as much as 50% of near-term generation capacity, adding: \"We expect to supply a significant share of this market.\" \n\n   Westinghouse also expects its international sales to soon grow to 25% of total corporate sales from 20% last year. \nThe company is negotiating with the Soviets to build a Thermo King truck-refrigeration plant that would produce about 10,000 units annually. \n\n   Mr. Marous said Westinghouse would own 70% of the facility. \nThe deal, which will involve an initial $20 million investment, was struck with a handshake, he added. \n\n   Company officials also said that any gain from the sale of Westinghouse's 55% stake in its 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{"text": "WSJ891102-0026 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0026. \n Marketing Brief -- Heritage Media Corp.:\n@  Firm to Buy Rest of Shares\n@  Of POP Radio in a Swap \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n HTG POPX \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   Heritage Media Corp., New York, said it offered  to buy the shares of POP Radio Corp. it  does n't  already own in a stock swap. \n\n   Heritage, which owns 51% of POP's 3.6 million shares outstanding, said it  will exchange one share of a new preferred stock for each POP common share it  does n't  already own. \nDepending upon how many warrants and options  are exercised prior to completion of the transaction, Heritage would issue between 1.8 million and 2.35 million preferred shares, a Heritage spokesman estimated. \nIn national over-the-counter trading yesterday, POP plunged $4 to $14.75. \n\n   The preferred stock, which would have a dividend rate of $1.76 a year, would be convertible into Heritage common at a rate of four common shares for each preferred. \nNew York-based POP Radio provides, through a national, in-store network, a customized music, information and advertising service which simulates live radio. \nHeritage owns and operates television and radio stations and in-store advertising and promotion programs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t25", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 796, "end_char": 805, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t25"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0165.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0391\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAmsterdam orders prostitution windows shut\n\n\n\n\nA large amount of the window prostitution in Amsterdam's famous red light district will be shut down as the city gets tougher on criminal activities, Dutch news agency ANP reported on Thursday.\n\nThe Amsterdam city council said investigations had revealed about one-third of the prostitution sector is allegedly involved in money laundering.\n\nProstitution is legal in the Netherlands and Amsterdam's red light district is well known for the prostitutes that offer their services from behind glowing windows to their \"customers.\"\n\nA total of 33 permits for the sex windows were revoked. About 100 of the 350 prostitution windows in the Dutch capital's red light district will be forced to close by the end of the year.\n\nHowever, the operators of the sex windows can still appeal against the city council's decision to withdraw their permits.\n\nUnder a law introduced in 2003, the Amsterdam city council can investigate the operational management in the sex industry so as to prevent authorities from unintentionally supporting criminal activities by issuing permits and subsidies.\n\nIt is the first time that the city council used the new regulations. Amsterdam now intends to investigate the rest of the city's sex industry, including its brothels.\n\nHotels, cafes and restaurants will also be investigated.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 801, "end_char": 820, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 972, "end_char": 976, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1263, "end_char": 1266, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0391.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0097\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nfor nuke program: ISNA\n\n\n\n\nIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that his country wants to have 100,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium, the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported.\n\n\"We intend to have 100,000 centrifuges and, God willing, Iran will be able to meet its needs in nuclear fuel by next year,\" Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.\n\nThe Iranian president said last week that Iran intended to launch 60,000 centrifuges in its nuclear program.\n\nIran has so far built two cascades of 164 centrifuges each for uranium enrichment, which can be used to make nuclear fuel or, in much higher grades, the core of an atom bomb.\n\nIranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini confirmed earlier this month Iran's plan to install 3,000 centrifuges for uranium enrichment by March 2007.\n\nAsked whether Tehran would execute its plan to install 3,000 centrifuges by the end of the current Iranian year, which will end on March 20, 2007, the spokesman answered that \"Iranian officials and experts are still seeking to carry out this (plan).\"\n\nThe United States has been seeking to impose sanctions on Iran through the UN Security Council on the grounds that Tehran is developing a nuclear-weapon program under the guise of a civilian- use program.\n\nHowever, Iran has insisted that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes and voiced hope for talks on the nuclear standoff. But the Islamic Republic rejected a prerequisite of suspending nuclear work for such talks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 373, "end_char": 382, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 456, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 781, "end_char": 791, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2007", "start_char": 859, "end_char": 869, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the current Iranian year", "start_char": 948, "end_char": 983, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 20, 2007", "start_char": 1003, "end_char": 1017, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-03-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0097.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0102\n\nBEIJING, Dec 26 , 2006, 2006\n\nChina's economy expected to grow 9.5 percent in 2007: think tank\n\n\n\n\nChina's economy is expected to grow by 9.5 percent next year, realizing the government's goal of achieving \"steady but fast\" growth, state media reported Tuesday, citing a top government think tank.\n\nThe slowdown from this year's estimated 10.5 percent will be led by a cooling in investment and a less brisk world economy affecting China's exports, the Shanghai Securities News said, citing the State Information Center.\n\nThe report forecast the country's export to rise by 15 percent in 2007, about 10 percentage points lower than the figure this year.\n\nThe acceleration of fixed-asset investment, which has been fueled by high liquidity and companies' reinvestments of large profits, will ease slightly next year to 20 percent growth as the government keeps tightening, it said.\n\nHowever, the negative impacts of the slowdown in investment and export growth could be compensated to some extent by rising domestic consumption bolstered by residents' anticipation of rising incomes, the report said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 26 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 276, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 611, "end_char": 615, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 666, "end_char": 675, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 828, "end_char": 837, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0102.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0373\n\nMADRID, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nSpanish league result\n\n\n\n\nSpanish league results on Saturday:\n\nValencia 1 (Vicente 74) Athletic Bilbao 1 (Etxeberria 57)\n\nReal Sociedad v Villarreal - late kickoff\n\nSunday\n\nAtletico Madrid v Alaves, Deportivo La Coruna v Cadiz, Getafe v Racing Santander, Osasuna v Mallorca, Real Betis v Espanyol, Real Zaragoza v Celta Vigo, Malaga v Real Madrid, Barcelona v Sevilla", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 98, "end_char": 106, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0373.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0705\n\nPERTH, Australia, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nAustralia win toss and elect to bat in first Test\n\n\n\n\nAustralia won the toss and elected to bat in the first Test against South Africa at the Western Australian Cricket Association Ground here Friday.\n\nFor South Africa, star allrounder Jacques Kallis was left out of the side after failing a last-minute fitness test on his injured left elbow. It is the first time in two years that Kallis has missed a Test match.\n\n\"Though Jacques made significant progress, it was not enough to make him eligible for selection in the Test match,\" team physiotherapist Shane Jabbar said.\n\nCaptain Graeme Smith said the team was upbeat, despite Kallis' loss.\n\n\"The team is pretty confident, it hasn't unsettled us much,\" he said.\n\nJacques Rudolph was brought in as the number three batsman with captain Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers to open the batting for the Proteas.\n\nAustralia have named seamer Nathan Bracken in their bowling attack.\n\nLight drizzle was falling at the ground but was forecast to clear later in the day.\n\nThe wicket, known for its pace, had a light cover of grass and the overcast conditions were expected to be good for bowling.\n\nTeams:\n\nSouth Africa: Graeme Smith (c), AB de Villiers, Jacques Rudolph, Herschelle Gibbs, Ashwell Prince, Justin Kemp, Mark Boucher, Shaun Pollock, Charl Langeveldt, Makhaya Ntini, Andre Nel, Garnett Kruger (12th man).\n\nAustralia: Ricky Ponting (c), Matthew Hayden, Justin Langer, Brad Hodge, Mike Hussey, Andrew Symonds, Adam Gilchrist, Shane Warne, Brett Lee, Nathan Bracken, Glenn McGrath, Stuart Clark (12th man).", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years", "start_char": 424, "end_char": 433, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 1056, "end_char": 1063, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0705.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0115\n\nGAZA, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGaza\n\n\n\n\nTwo Palestinian Islamic Hamas militants were killed Saturday afternoon after an Israeli aircraft targeted a group of militants by one missile east of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip, medics confirmed.\n\nEyewitnesses said that an Israeli army reconnaissance drone fired one missile at two Islamic Hamas militants east of Jabalia refugee camp as they were trying to launch a homemade rocket from northern Gaza Strip at Israel.\n\nMedics said that two brothers, 23-year-old Eessa and 25-year- old Ali arrived dead at Kamal Odwan Hospital near Jabalia. No more injuries were reported.\n\nIn central Gaza Strip, another group of Islamic Jihad (Holy War) militants had escaped a possible death after another Israeli aircraft targeted their car, said eyewitnesses, adding that they jumped from the car before the rocket hit it.\n\nThe Israeli army has intensified its ground and air offensive on Gaza Strip since Wednesday morning, killing at least 44 Palestinians and wounding more than 150 others.\n\nIsraeli said the aim of the offensives is to prevent Palestinian militants from launching homemade rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday afternoon", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 132, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-28TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 973, "end_char": 990, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0115.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0174\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nwithdrawals\n\n\n\n\nTennis fans will be compensated for the withdrawals and absentees of tennis masters at the season-ending Masters Cup, said senior officials from the organizing committee here on Tuesday.\n\n\"Fans who have already bought tickets for this tournament will be able to enjoy a discount next year in the Tennis Masters Cup with no price raising,\" said Wang Liqun, deputy director of the organizing committee for the year-end event jointly held by the International Tennis Federation (ITF), the world governing body, and the ATP.\n\nBy the same token, the ATP has also promised that in the next three to six months, some of the top-notch or first-class tennis players will come to Shanghai to meet fans and endorsers.\n\n\"In this way, we hope that we are able, to a certain degree, to compensate for the regret,\" added Wang who promised that details about the compensation wpuld come out in one or two days.\n\nThe Masters Cup, which is always at risk of absenteeism as it comes at the end of the season, has been without five of the world's leading six players after only the second day.\n\nWorld No. 2 Rafael Nadal Monday announced his pulling out with a left foot injury before his Masters debut even started, and minutes later Andre Agassi further long line of withdrawals at the ATP season-ending event, blaming a bad ankle sprain sustained playing racquetball.\n\nThe loss, having severely diminished the tournament's status as the showcase for the finest talent in the men's game, had seen third-ranked Andy Roddick pulling out before the tournament with a back problem and Australian Open winner Marat Safin with a knee injury.\n\nLleyton Hewitt, ranked fourth, remained in Sydney with his wife, actress Rebecca Cartwright, who is expecting the couple's first child within two weeks.\n\nTop-ranked Roger Federer was left the only top-five player in the elite field, but the two-time defending champion might not go the distance with a sore right ankle.\n\n\"We certainly feel regret, and the regret actually comes from not only the fans, but the organizing committee and also the ATP,\" said another deputy director of the tournament Qin Weichang Tuesday evening.\n\nAs an immediate action from the organizers for apologizing to fans, Nadal went on court Monday night between matches and to the media center to say sorry for his withdrawal. Also the 19-year-old Spaniard spared 40 minutes Tuesday afternoon to meet with his fans, which drew about 500 to attend.\n\nThe organizing committee and the ATP had a press conference Monday night, apologizing to the media and public for the situation with two tennis masters pulling out.\n\n\"With both Raf (Rafael Nadal) and Andre (Agassi) being injured in the one day is extraordinary. As we know, this comes on the back of three other significant withdrawals,\" said Monday Brad Drewett, the vice president of ATP.\n\n\"It's in many ways what I describe as the perfect storm,\" added the former tennis player, who's also here the tournament director for the year-ending event of ATP.\n\nSince the beginning of the ATP World Championships and now the Tennis Masters Cup, up until this week, There had been a total of two withdrawals in 15 years before Monday night.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 252, "end_char": 259, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 353, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next three to six months", "start_char": 649, "end_char": 677, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one or two", "start_char": 952, "end_char": 962, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the season", "start_char": 1041, "end_char": 1062, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second day", "start_char": 1132, "end_char": 1146, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1174, "end_char": 1180, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 1834, "end_char": 1843, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday evening", "start_char": 2202, "end_char": 2217, "tid": "t9", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 2308, "end_char": 2320, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday afternoon", "start_char": 2442, "end_char": 2459, "tid": "t11", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 2576, "end_char": 2588, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 2752, "end_char": 2759, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2859, "end_char": 2865, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 3165, "end_char": 3174, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 years", "start_char": 3221, "end_char": 3229, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 3237, "end_char": 3249, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0174.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0091\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nColombo stocks close down\n\n\n\n\nShare prices on the Colombo Stock Exchange closed lower on Friday, with the key Colombo All Share Price Index decreasing by 15.14 points to close at 2,564.81 points.\n\nThe highly capitalized Milanka Price Index also decreased by 34. 58 points to close at 3,334.13 points.\n\nA total turnover of 385 million rupees (about 3.85 million U.S. dollars) was recorded during the day with a volume of 14 million shares being traded.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 452, "end_char": 459, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0091.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0198\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMinister\n\n\n\n\nChina's urban centers need to create 13 million new jobs a year, according to the Minister of Labor and Social Security Tian Chengping.\n\nAt least 24 million urban residents will be looking for jobs each year in the coming several years but there are likely to be only 11 million openings, said Tian, in an interview with the the Study Times, a newspaper affiliated to the Party School of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.\n\nTian predicts that ten million new laborers will flock to urban areas every year.\n\nThe number of university and college graduates who cannot find jobs is also on steadily rising. Tian said 1.24 million university and college graduates who graduated this year did not have a job when they completed their studies.\n\nJob security is being affected by the closure and bankruptcy of some state-owned enterprises (SOE). Tian said 3.5 million employees of the SOE could be laid off between 2006 and 2008.\n\nHe said the number of SOE employees dropped from 71 million to just over 40 million between 1998 to 2005.\n\nMore than 19 million laid-off SOE workers have been reemployed with many of them finding jobs in the private sector, he said.\n\nMost of the urban unemployed are located in the underdeveloped western and central areas of the country. They are mostly in their 40's and 50's and lack technical skills. Meanwhile many factories are in dire need of skilled workers.\n\nTo tackle the problems, the government plans to develop labor-intensive industries and sectors, such as the service industry, private sector and medium and small enterprises, Tian said.\n\nThe government will also expand occupational education to train more skilled workers and open more training classes to help the unemployed to start their own business.\n\nThe residency registration system is also expected to be reformed, to ensure the free flow of labor and provide equal employment services to local and rural laborers, said Tian.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 127, "end_char": 133, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 584, "end_char": 594, "tid": "t3", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 763, "end_char": 772, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 997, "end_char": 1001, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1006, "end_char": 1010, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 1105, "end_char": 1109, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0198.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0078\n\nHONG KONG, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nWall Street surge triggers Asian buying by David Williams\n\n\n\n\nA surge on Wall Street triggered a wave of buying across Asia on Wednesday, with some markets also benefitting from favourable domestic data while others reported mild profit taking.\n\nWall Street on Tuesday experienced its second largest point gain on record following the release of better-than-expected quarterly corporate results.\n\nThe Dow Jones industrial average jumped 173.38 points, or 2.6 percent, to 6,833.59. The record was set October 21, 1987 when the Dow soared 186.84 points.\n\nThe surge pulled up bourses in Sydney, Hong Kong and Jakarta while improving sentiment in Tokyo. Most other stock markets in the region benefitted largely from bargain hunting on domestic factors, brokers said.\n\nJapanese share prices closed 1.0 percent higher with the key barometer of the Tokyo Stock Exchange up 191.02 points at 18,735.47, due to strong underlying sentiment, brokers said.\n\n\"The market was heartened by the rally on Wall Street as well as the yen's continued weakness of the dollar,\" said Yasuo Ueki, a broker at Nikko Securities Co. Ltd.\n\nHong Kong share prices were up 1.3 percent in morning trade following the Wall Street gains, with the key Hang Seng Index gaining 165.95 points to close the morning session at 12,746.80.\n\nHerman Chu, senior dealing manager at Anglo Chinese Securities, said \"there was strong buying following Wall Street's sharp rise,\" adding that the index came off its highs as it approached resistance at 12,800 points.\n\n\"This is seen as a very strong resistance level and it's not good to push any more at the moment. If I were an investor I would be taking short-term profit at these levels,\" he said.\n\nChu said attention would probably switch to blue chips after the next US Federal Reserve Board meeting in late May, which would remove much of the interest rate uncertainty overhanging the market.\n\nIn Jakarta, the stock exchange index rose 3.70 points to close morning trade at 649.95 points.\n\n\"We seem to be getting a bit of a run on the back of New York,\" a sales representative with a Japanese brokerage said, adding that people were hunting for bargains among some stocks.\n\nAustralian share prices rose 1.0 percent due to the Wall Street rally, the release of data showing a four-year low inflation rate and an agreement on moderate wage rises for much of the country's workforce, brokers said.\n\nThe Australian Stock Exchange's main indicator, the all ordinaries index, closed 23.8 points up at 2,471.4.\n\nThe inflation data and wages deal \"points the market to feeling better about the possibility the Reserve Bank could shave interest rates,\" said Grant Williams, broker at Reynolds and Co.\n\nShare prices in other regional bourses rallied mostly on technical factors, brokers said.\n\nStock market indices closed 0.7 percent higher in Seoul and 1.9 percent firmer in Manila on technical factors and ended 1.7 percent up in Taipei due to high hopes for dividend payouts from eletrical issues, brokers said.\n\nIn Bangkok, the key SET index was up just 0.05 point at 691.21 at the end of morning trade with investors sidelined ahead of key monthly economic data due for release Thursday, brokers said.\n\nAmong the losers, Singapore's blue-chip share index closed 0.1 percent lower at midday Wednesday on profit-taking but bargain-hunting on selected stocks capped overall falls.\n\nMalaysia's stock market benchmark, the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share weighted composite index, shed 5.48 points to 1,115.02 in early trade.\n\nDealers said the US rally had litle impact on the Malaysian market which was depressed due to rumours of a cabinet reshuffle and reports of a rift between Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and a Malay ruler.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 318, "end_char": 325, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 21, 1987", "start_char": 557, "end_char": 573, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987-10-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late May", "start_char": 1866, "end_char": 1874, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of morning", "start_char": 3136, "end_char": 3154, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 3237, "end_char": 3245, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 3349, "end_char": 3358, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0078.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0568\n\nGENEVA, Dec 14 , 2005\n\nSwiss parliament probes CIA flights\n\n\n\n\nThe Swiss parliament opened an inquiry into flights over the tiny landlocked nation by CIA-chartered aircraft thought to be carrying suspected terrorists, a parliamentary commission said in a statement Wednesday.\n\nOver the next few weeks, the commission is to probe how much the government knew about the flights, what steps it took and the level of Swiss intelligence involvement.\n\n\"The opening of this inquiry was decided by the delegation of adminstrative commissions during its meeting on Tuesday,\" the delegation said.\n\nWith a host of European countries concerned over possible implication in Washington's \"war on terror\", questions have been raised about 32 flights by US-registered aircraft in Swiss airspace between early 2003 and December this year.\n\nOn November 27, the Swiss government demanded explanations from Washington about 27 overflights of its territory by US planes in 2003 and 2004.\n\nThe Swiss foreign ministry said it had demanded explanations from US authorities several times about suspected CIA flights, most recently on November 15 through the Swiss embassy in Washington.\n\nThe US embassy in Bern said on Wednesday that the US State Department had still not responded.\n\nThe European Parliament on Wednesday agreed to launch an investigation into allegations of CIA prisons after a probe by the Council of Europe rights and democracy group concluded that preliminary evidence suggested the United States illegally abducted and detained individuals.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next few weeks", "start_char": 305, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 579, "end_char": 586, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2003", "start_char": 810, "end_char": 820, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December this year", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 843, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 27", "start_char": 849, "end_char": 860, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 975, "end_char": 979, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 984, "end_char": 988, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 15", "start_char": 1132, "end_char": 1143, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1217, "end_char": 1226, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1309, "end_char": 1318, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0568.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0022\n\nKANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nUS-Afghan forces kill four insurgents, capture 10\n\n\n\n\nUS-led coalition and Afghan troops killed four Taliban militants and arrested 10 suspected \"terrorists\" in separate raids in insurgency-hit Afghanistan, the US military said Monday.\n\nThe forces \"seized an enemy weapons cache containing mines and explosives\" in an operation near Sperwan Ghar in the troubled southern province of Kandahar, it said in a statement.\n\nDuring the raid late on Sunday \"four insurgents were killed and three coalition force soldiers wounded\", it said.\n\n\"A coalition air strike and indirect fire supported the operation,\" it said, adding that there were no military or civilian deaths.\n\nCoalition troops backed by Afghan army soldiers also detained 10 \"suspected terrorists\" including an Al-Qaeda-linked militant in the eastern province of Kunar early Monday, the coalition said in another statement.\n\n\"The operation resulted in the capture of a known transporter of weapons and explosives who is linked to foreign fighter movements in the region,\" it said.\n\nThe man, whose name and nationality were not disclosed, was also responsible for facilitating suicide bombings which have increased in Afghanistan in recent months, the statement said.\n\nThe militant was \"responsible for facilitating suicide and improvised explosive device attacks against the Afghan population, Afghan national security forces, and coalition forces,\" it said.\n\n\"Credible information led the combined force to believe the transporter and his associates were at the compound,\" which the rebels shared with women and children, it said.\n\nThere were no civilian casualties during the raid, it said.\n\nThe Taliban, whose regime was toppled in a US-led invasion five years ago, have dramatically stepped up insurgent attacks on foreign and Afghan security forces.\n\nSome 4,000 people, many of them militants but also troops and civilians, have died in Taliban-led violence this year alone, making it Afghanistan's bloodiest year since 2001.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 46, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 301, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 509, "end_char": 515, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Monday", "start_char": 892, "end_char": 904, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent months", "start_char": 1255, "end_char": 1268, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years ago", "start_char": 1776, "end_char": 1790, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1986, "end_char": 1995, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 2048, "end_char": 2052, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0022.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0113 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0113. \n World Markets:\n@  London Shares Decline Sharply as Resignation\n@  By Lawson, New York Slump Weigh on Market\n@  ----\n@  A Wall Street Journal News Roundup \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n FREST CANDA EUROP JAPAN \n COMMODITY NEWS, FARM PRODUCTS (CMD)\nSTOCK MARKET, OFFERINGS (STK)\nPRECIOUS METALS, STONES, GOLD, SILVER (PCS) \n\n   London share prices closed sharply lower Friday in active trading after Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson's resignation slapped the market and Wall Street's rapid initial sell-off knocked it down. \n\n   London shares were depressed initially by overnight losses in New York and by the drop in sterling after Mr. Lawson's resignation. \nIt showed some early resilience after central bank support firmed sterling, but the weight of Wall Street late in London trading, and signs of further weakness in the British pound, proved a hefty load to bear. \nNew York stocks recovered some of their losses after the London market closed. \n\n   The Financial Times 100-share index shed 47.3 points to close at 2082.1, down 4.5% from the previous Friday and 6.8% from Oct. 13, when Wall Street's plunge helped spark the current weakness in London. \n\n   The 30-share index settled 42.0 points lower at 1678.5. \nVolume was 840.8 million shares, up from 443.6 million Thursday and the week's most active session. \n\n   Dealers said the turnover, largely confined to the 100-share index stocks, partly reflected the flurry of activity typical at the close of a two-week trading account and the start of a new account. \nBut they said Friday's focus on the top-tier stocks telegraphed active overseas selling and showed the broad-based fears over the status of the U.K. economy and Britain's currency in the wake of the upheaval in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's cabinet. \n\n   A senior dealer with Warburg Securities noted British Gas, the most active blue-chip stock at 20 million shares traded, was affected by the political implications of Mr. Lawson's departure and Mrs. Thatcher's cabinet shuffle. \n\n   He attributed the unusually high volume to broad-based selling on fears that the Thatcher government may be in turmoil and Britain's Labor Party positioned to regain control of the government and renew efforts at nationalization. \n\n   British Gas shed 8.5 pence a share to close at 185 pence ($2.90). \n\n   Other dealers added that the blue-chip stocks in general were hit by profit-taking over concerns that London shares will continue posting declines and the uncertainty over sterling given that Mr. Lawson's successor, John Major, had only been in the job one day. \n\n   Besides British Gas, British Steel skidded 1.74 to 123.5 on turnover of 11 million shares. \n\n   British Petroleum fell 5 to 286 on 14 million shares traded. \nDealers said the multinational oil company was pressured by recent brokerage recommendations urging investors to switch into Shell Trading amp Transport. \nShell eased 1 to 416 on turnover of 4.8 million shares. \n\n   Among the other actively traded blue-chip issues, Imperial Chemical Industries dropped 11 to #10.86, Hanson skidded 9.5 to 200.5, and British Telecom fell 10 to 250. \n\n   In Tokyo, stocks closed lower but above intraday lows in active trading. \nThe Nikkei index was pressured down by profit-taking triggered by sharp advances made through this week and fell 151.20 points to 35527.29. \n\n   In early trading in Tokyo Monday, the Nikkei index fell 148.85 points to 35378.44. \n\n   On Friday, the Tokyo stock price index of first section issues was down 15.82 at 2681.76. \nFirst-section volume was estimated at 1.3 billion shares, up from 886 million shares Thursday. \n\n   An official at Wako Securities said brokerages' excessive expectations about recent advances in Tokyu Group shares and real estate issues were dashed Friday. \n\n   Dealers placed heavy buy orders in the morning to start the first trading day for November transactions. \nBut they failed to sell these stocks to client investors, who were cautious about the sharp gains these issues made this week, the Wako official said. \n\n   Fund managers said Friday's profittaking was a natural result of the week's \"abnormal fever\" in buying real estate, shipbuilding, steel and construction shares. \n\n   Frankfurt prices closed lower again Friday, the fourth decline in the past five days and the culmination of a week that saw the DAX index lose 4%. \nThe DAX dropped 19.69 points Friday to 1462.93. \n\n   Traders said the continued turbulence in other markets, coupled with the drop in London following the Lawson resignation, were responsible. \n\n   Traders said that selling pressure wasn't enormous and that the DAX dropped Friday more on a lack of any substantial buying interest. \nThey said contributing to the downward drift was the fact that many professional traders had chosen to square positions ahead of the weekend. \n\n   \"It's the whole uncertainty about what's happening around us,\" said Valentin Von Korff, a trader at Credit Suisse First Boston in Frankfurt. \n\"If you take away the outside influences, the market itself looks very cheap. \nWhat's happening here is n't justified by the fundamentals.\" \n\n   Traders said the market remains extremely nervous because of the wild swings seen on the New York Stock Exchange last week. \nThat's leaving small investors with cold feet, they said, and prompting institutions to take a reserved stance on the sidelines as well, at least until the market in New York settles down somewhat. \n\n   Elsewhere, share prices closed lower in Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, Brussels and Stockholm, and were mixed in Milan. \nThe British shakeup was widely cited for the declines. \n\n   Share prices also closed lower in Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Manila, Wellington and Seoul. \nConcern about declines in other markets, especially New York, caused selling pressure. \n\n 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0223\n\nTEHRAN, Dec 23 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, background ///\n\n\n\n\nIran on Saturday vowed it would defy the UN Security Council's decision to impose sanctions by pressing ahead with its nuclear programme and drastically increasing uranium enrichment capacities.\n\nForeign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said that Iran would carry out its plan to install and make operational 3,000 uranium-enriching centrifuges at a key nuclear plant, in defiance of the resolution.\n\nSuch a move would be an important step for Iran towards enriching uranium on an industrial scale. So far it has two cascades of 164 centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant in the central city of Natanz.\n\n\"This new resolution will not be an impediment to Iran's nuclear progress,\" Hosseini said, in a statement published by Iranian official media minutes after the resolution was unanimously agreed.\n\n\"The Iranian nation, relying on national abilities and within the framework of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and its undeniable rights, will go ahead with its peaceful nuclear plans.\"\n\nHe said this would involve \"making operational the 3,000 centrifuges unit in Natanz, in a continuation of Iran's peaceful nuclear activities under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).\"\n\nIran has maintained that it wants to install the new centrifuges by March and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the Islamic republic will be able to celebrate its \"nuclearisation\" around that time.\n\nAfter weeks of diplomatic wrangling, the UN Security Council on Saturday adopted the resolution which imposes restrictions on Iran's nuclear industry and ballistic missile programme.\n\nWestern countries have sought to agree the sanctions in response to Tehran's refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, a process which they fear could be used to make a nuclear bomb.\n\nEnriched uranium can be used both to make nuclear fuel and also, in highly enriched form, the explosive core of a nuclear bomb. Iran insists its atomic drive is peaceful.\n\n\"The Islamic Republic of Iran finds the adoption of the new resolution to be illegal and beyond the duties of the UN Security Council and contrary to the rules of the UN charter,\" said Hosseini.\n\nThe spokesman lashed out at its arch enemy United States as well as Britain for exploiting the UN Security Council while at the same time \"expanding their own nuclear arsenal.\"\n\n\"This illegal action by the United States and Britain on the UN Security Council will solidify Iranians' will to guard their independence, national sovereignty and preserve their rights for the future of Iran,\" he said.\n\nHosseini however did not give details of any retaliation that Iran could itself impose to hit back at sanctions. Top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani has warned of \"painful measures\" in the case of sanctions.\n\nBut senior Iranian lawmakers warned on Saturday that parliament could hit back at the Security Council sanctions against Tehran by blocking United Nations inspections of its nuclear facilities.\n\nA bill to suspend inspections of Iran's atomic sites by the UN nuclear watchdog has already been prepared by parliament and passed by its security and foreign affairs committee.\n\n\"The committee has approved a bill, whereby Iran will seriously revise the nature of its relationship with the International Atomic Energy Agency,\" speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel told state television.\n\n\"We will have no other option but to bring this bill before parliament for debate, if Iran comes under pressure,\" he said.\n\nIran in February stopped applying the additional protocol to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which allows extensive access to atomic sites, after the Security Council adopted a resolution urging Tehran to freeze enrichment.\n\nHowever, up until now it has still been allowing regular UN inspections of its atomic sites.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 23 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 3810, "end_char": 3813, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0223.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0672\n\nROME, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nFour found dead in burning apartment in Italy\n\n\n\n\nFour people including a three-year-old child were found dead, apparently stabbed, in northern Italy on Monday night by firefighters called to a burning apartment building, ANSA news agency reported.\n\nFirefighters found the bodies of three women and the child, some of them bearing what may have been knife wounds, inside the flaming building in Erba, near Lake Como north of the city of Milan, the agency said.\n\nAn injured man was also found at the scene and was taken to hospital.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 203, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0672.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0004\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nparticipation' incidents decline\n\n\n\n\nChina is sending more policemen to its rural regions following a government call to build a peaceful countryside, a senior public official said here on Monday.\n\nMore than 30,000 police stations have been built in rural regions as the government streamlines its larger police stations and redeploys more police officers to \"frontier grass roots\" rural regions, said Public Security Vice-Minister Liu Jinguo.\n\nPolice have been researching the public security situation in villages, safeguarding social order and taking preventive measures against possible security incidents, he said at a meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensive Management of Public Security.\n\nThe Ministry of Public Security claimed that 17,900 incidents involving mass participation were handled nationwide in the first nine months of the year, down 22.1 percent from the same period last year.\n\n\"It's overall stable in terms of public security in the rural areas\", he said, though he warned China's fast urbanization poses public security concerns in areas bordering urban and rural regions and in relatively developed countryside.\n\nThe number of criminal cases investigated by police around the country also fell in the first nine months of the year by 1.2 percent to 3.34 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 245, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 881, "end_char": 902, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 906, "end_char": 914, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 955, "end_char": 964, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 1289, "end_char": 1310, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1314, "end_char": 1322, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0004.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0445\n\nBEIJING, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nWTO calls calls for 'urgency' in talks on Chinese accession\n\n\n\n\nWorld Trade Organisation (WTO) chief Renato Ruggiero called here Monday for a new \"sense of urgency\" on the issue of China's entry to the global trade body, amid signs of real progress towards a final agreement.\n\nDuring a meeting with Foreign Trade Minister Wu Yi, which was held in an \"extremely positive atmosphere,\" Ruggiero stressed that both sides must take advantage of breakthroughs made during March talks on China's WTO accession in Geneva.\n\n\"March has been a success, but now we have to build on the momentum with a sense of urgency in order to accelerate negotiations,\" the WTO director general said.\n\nThe breakthroughs in the March talks were China's undertaking to grant individual overseas firms import-export rights three years after joining the WTO, and its pledge to abide by all WTO rules on intellectual property rights from the moment of its accession.\n\nHowever, according to WTO spokesman Keith Rockwell, Ruggiero also stressed the need for greater flexibilty from China over issues such as market access, especially in the services and agricultural sectors.\n\n\"The director general said that movement on market access was something the other WTO members would really insist on,\" Rockwell said.\n\nAccording to sources close to Monday's talks, Wu Yi accepted the need for greater flexibility, but insisted that the WTO members take into account China's current level of economic development.\n\nThe next round of Geneva talks will be held in May, when hot topics will include non-discrimination against foreign firms, transparency and price controls.\n\nDespite the difficulties presented by these issues, Rockwell said the current atmosphere was overwhelmingly optimistic.\n\n\"There is now acknowledgement from all parties that an agreement can be made,\" he said.\n\nIt now appears clear that the WTO is willing to grant China a transition period -- but only in certain sectors -- to come into line with particular WTO requirements.\n\n\"The question now is how long a transition period and in which sectors,\" Rockwell said.\n\nIn a speech at Beijing University earlier Monday, Ruggiero admitted that even with the exisiting positive feeling, tough negotiations remained ahead.\n\n\"Much of the important work -- and the toughest issues -- have been left to the end,\" he said, while warning Beijing that WTO membership was crucial to the country's economic future.\n\n\"An outward-looking China cannot afford to stand on the sidelines while others write the rules of the game,\" he said.\n\n\"China's entry into the global trading system is about more than trade, it is about China's future role as a world economic leader.\"\n\nChina tried in vain to be a founding member of the WTO in 1995. Before that, it had been seeking admission to the WTO's predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) since 1986.\n\n\"We want China to be a WTO member, but only under the right terms and conditions,\" Rockwell said, adding that with 27 other nations waiting for admission, China could not be allowed to set any precedents.\n\n\"If the rules are altered to suit one entrant, other countries will obviously want the same.\"\n\nFollowing his talks with Wu Yi, Ruggiero also met with Vice Premier Li Lanqing. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0027\n\nPERTH, Australia, Dec 17 , 2005\n\nBrilliant Warne claims new wickets record\n\n\n\n\nAustralian leg-spinner Shane Warne outstripped Dennis Lillee's 24-year-old record for most wickets in a calendar year on Saturday when he claimed his 85th and 86th in the first Test against South Africa.\n\nWarne bowled opener A.B. de Villiers for 68 before trapping Ashwell Prince lbw for 28, moving past compatriot Lillee's 1981 haul of 85.\n\n\"If I had the choice of picking someone to beat the record, I would've picked Warney,\" Lillee said earlier. \"I just think he's a sensational player.\n\n\"He's the best leg-spinner I've ever seen, by a mile, and he's probably the best bowler as well.\"\n\nWarne, the world's leading Test wicket-taker with 647 in 133 matches, began the year with a five-wicket haul in the final Test against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January on the way to a 3-0 series whitewash.\n\nThe 36-year-old then picked up 17 victims in a three-Test tour of New Zealand, but it was the 2-1 Ashes defeat in England that brought him within reach of the record.\n\nHe took 40 wickets in the five-Test series at 19.92 and added an average of 27.66 with the bat for good measure.\n\nWarne then claimed six ICC World XI wickets in the one-off Test match at the SCG and 16 West Indian scalps before the South Africa series.\n\nHe has eclipsed his previous best years of 72 wickets in 1993 -- in just his second season of Test cricket -- and 70 in 1994 and 2004.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2005", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 223, "end_char": 231, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "28", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 392, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1928", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 869, "end_char": 876, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "19.92", "start_char": 1130, "end_char": 1135, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 1395, "end_char": 1399, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 1458, "end_char": 1462, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1467, "end_char": 1471, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0027.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0305\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGerman stocks close lower\n\n\n\n\nGerman stocks ended lower on Tuesday on the Frankfurt market.\n\nThe 30-share DAX Index lost 6.35 percent to 6,387.38 points.\n\nThe MDAX index of medium-sized companies was down 0.21 percent to 8,877.6 points.\n\nThe TecDAX index of technologies and science firms lost 0.65 percent to 706.71.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 115, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0305.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0224\n\nLONDON, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSpurs dismiss King contract problems\n\n\n\n\nEnglish premier league club Tottenham have dismissed reports saying captain Ledley King had rejected a fresh deal, insisting that they have yet to offer him a new contract.\n\nThe 25-year-old's current contract runs until 2008 and Spurs sporting director Damien Comolli said: \"We initiated talks with Ledley and his advisors.\n\n\"Our discussions are in the early stages and will continue in private.\n\n\"It is totally inaccurate to say that he has rejected any offer, we haven't made one.\"\n\nKing plays in central defence for Spurs but was employed in a holding midfield role for England against Argentina on Saturday.\n\nHe had the task of man-marking playmaker Juan Riquelme and revealed the game proved a steep learning curve.\n\n\"It was difficult for me,\" he said. \"They have got players who like to drop into the hole and at times I found it hard.\n\n\"Riquelme is a top-class player and there were times he drifted out wide, dragged me out - and left spaces for other players to move into.\n\n\"It is a learning process. I don't play there often so every game is a learning curve and it is a good lesson being up against some of the best.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 317, "end_char": 321, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 699, "end_char": 707, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0224.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0192\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRussia, Sri Lanka sign WTO accession deal\n\n\n\n\nRussia and Sri Lanka on Friday signed an agreement on the completion of bilateral talks on Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo, Russian news agencies reported.\n\nRussian Economic Development and Trade Minister German Gref and Sri Lankan Minister of Trade, Commerce and Consumer Affairs Jeyaraj Fernandopulle signed the document on behalf of the two sides, Russian WTO negotiator Andrei Kushnirenko was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.\n\nSri Lanka initially was a member of a working group on Russia's accession to the WTO. It was also one of a number of countries that did not make any demands on Russia and thus did not hold any bilateral negotiations earlier.\n\nAs Russia's bilateral accession talks are coming to an end, Sri Lanka expressed the hope to conclude an appropriate agreement, mainly to strengthen the terms of tea exports, which accounts for 96 percent of the country's exports to Russia.\n\nRussia still has to sign bilateral protocols with the United States and Costa Rica, with whom the talks have been technically concluded.\n\nAccording to Russian presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko, Russia is expected to sign an agreement with the United States on its entry into the WTO on Sunday in Vietnam's capital Haoni, where the 14th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Informal Meeting is held on Nov. 18-19.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 126, "end_char": 132, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1354, "end_char": 1360, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18-19", "start_char": 1491, "end_char": 1501, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0192.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0451\n\nMEXICO CITY, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nStocks close higher in Argentina, Brazil, lower in Mexico\n\n\n\n\nLatin America's three major stock markets closed mixed on Tuesday.\n\nThe Buenos Aires stock market closed with the Merval index up 0.81 percent at 1,907.57 points. The trade volume was 16.451 million dollars.\n\nIn Sao Paulo, Latin America's biggest bourse, the leading Bovespa index closed at 41,043 points, up 0.31 percent. The trade volume was 983 million dollars.\n\nMexico City's IPC stock index drooped by 0.4 percent to close at 24,344.95 points. A total of 140.8 million shares were traded at 398.9 million U.S. dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 181, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0451.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0190\n\nDHAKA, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTrial of alleged Bangladesh 1975 coup plotters abruptly adjourned\n\n\n\n\nThe trial of the alleged plotters of a 1975 coup in which Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed was opened and then abruptly adjourned Monday.\n\nThe surprise move came when a defence lawyer tabled a motion of \"no confidence\" against the judge on the first day of the hearing. The motion will now be ruled on by the High Court.\n\nThe court was adjourned about two hours into the trial, and the court set April 29 for the next hearing.\n\nSheikh Mujib, also father of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, was slain with most of his family in the August 15, 1975 coup. For more than 20 years, no action was taken against the coup-leaders, until Sheikh Hasina swept his Awami League back into power last year.\n\nDefence lawyer Mahbubur Rahman, a MP of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party, moved the no-confidence motion after trial judge Kazi Golam Rasul rejected an appeal to suspend the trial.\n\nRahman wanted time to first petition the High Court against the indictment of his client Zobaida Rashid, wife of one of the alleged key plotters retired colonel Abdur Rashid.\n\nBut Rasul refused the request saying the High Court could issue an order to stay the proceedings at any time during the hearing.\n\n\"After receiving any such order from the High Court, the trial of the court would be immediately stopped and therefore there is no reason to wait for a order,\" he said.\n\nLegal experts said the High Court was likely to issue a stay order to hear the defence petition and may transfer the case to another court.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first day", "start_char": 392, "end_char": 405, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two hours", "start_char": 504, "end_char": 513, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT2H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 29", "start_char": 548, "end_char": 556, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 15, 1975", "start_char": 686, "end_char": 701, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1975-08-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 20 years", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 730, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 837, "end_char": 846, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0190.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0161\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 18 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGaza\n\n\n\n\nEgypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit Saturday welcomed the adoption of a resolution in the previous day by the United Nations General Assembly deploring the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip, the official MENA news agency reported.\n\nThe adoption of the resolution, which calls for the Israeli troops' immediate withdrawal from Gaza, reflects a world desire to expose Israeli practices against the Palestinian people, Abul Gheit was quoted as saying in a statement.\n\nWhile expressing satisfaction with the European Union's support for the resolution, Abu Gheit also expressed his deep regret for the United States' opposition to the resolution even though it included a direct appeal to the Palestinian side to halt firing missiles at Israel, MENA said.\n\nMeanwhile, Abul Gheit reiterated Egypt's denunciation of a recent Israeli offensive in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun town that killed some 19 Palestinian civilians.\n\nHe said that he was astonished to find that some powers still allow Israel to act as it pleased and go on with its policy of violating international law and human rights after the deadly attack on Palestinians.\n\nThe Arabs resorted to the UN General Assembly and asked for protection of the Palestinian people after the UN Security Council failed to adopt a draft resolution due to a U.S. veto, Abul Gheit said.\n\nThe United Nations General Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly adopted the resolution by a vote of 156 to 7 with six abstentions.\n\nThe resolution asked the UN secretary-general to set up a UN probe into the Beit Hanoun incident in which 19 Palestinians were killed, including many children and women, on Nov. 8.\n\nIt called on the international community, as well as the diplomatic Quartet on the Middle East peace process -- the European Union, Russia, the United States and United Nations - to help stabilize the situation and restart the peace process.\n\nThe 25-member European Union joined the Arab states in voting positively after a last-minute effort to soften the tone of the text, while the United States, Israel and Australia were among those who voted against it.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 106, "end_char": 114, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent", "start_char": 893, "end_char": 899, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1449, "end_char": 1455, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 8", "start_char": 1712, "end_char": 1718, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0161.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0205\n\nDOHA, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nChina wins men's Double Trap team gold\n\n\n\n\nChina won the men's Double Trap team gold medal on Tuesday to pick up their 17th shooting title at the Asian Games here.\n\nIndia took the silver and Taiwan the bronze at the Lusail ranges.\n\nThe Chinese team of Hu Binyuan, Wang Nan and Liu Anlong finished with 424 points, 15 ahead of the Indian trio of Rajyavardhan Rathore, Ronjan Sodhi and Vikram Bhatnagar.\n\nHu, the world number two, is also expected to pick up the individual gold medal to be decided later on Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 555, "end_char": 562, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0205.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0232\n\nMAPUTO, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMozambican suspected of killing Maputo prison director escapes\n\n\n\n\nA Mozambican man suspect of murdering Jorge Microsse, director of Maputo central prison, has escaped from the city's police headquarters, local media reported on Tuesday.\n\nThe suspect, known by the nickname \"Todinho\", escaped before dawn Monday along with four other inmates.\n\nAlthough the police have so far refused to confirm or deny Todinho's escape, an official Interior Ministry statement confirmed that five people had escaped from the police cells of the Maputo city command, in the small hours of Monday morning.\n\nEight policemen, including sergeants and officers, have been detained, accused of negligence in allowing the escape to happen.\n\nTodinho had been waiting trial for the Oct. 21 murder of Microsse, who shortly before his death said he was the target of death threats because of his pledge to crackdown on corruption in the prison system.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 361, "end_char": 367, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday morning", "start_char": 628, "end_char": 642, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 21", "start_char": 812, "end_char": 819, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0232.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0167\n\nZAGREB, April 19 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nResults of elections in Eastern Slavonia expected later Saturday\n\n\n\n\nResults for last week's UN-organised elections in Eastern Slavonia, the last Serb-held part of Croatia, are due to be announced later on Saturday a UN spokesman said.\n\nSpokesman Yuri Chizik told AFP that the results of the local, regional and upper house elections would be announced during the day.\n\nAccording to Croatian radio, the results will be announced simultaneously in the UN headquarters in Vukovar, the main town in Eastern Slavonia, and in Zagreb.\n\nPolling in the elections began Sunday but in the face of problems with delayed ballot papers and incomplete electoral lists, the UN administration extended the vote until Monday, and in one polling station until Tuesday.\n\nThey also relaxed voting rules to allow people not on the electoral lists to vote provided they had a Croatian identity card.\n\nThe UN said that it was confident that, after the initial problems, everyone who wanted to vote was able to do so.\n\nEastern Slavonia was captured by rebel Serbs during bitter fighting in 1991. Under a 1995 peace plan, it is due to return to Croatian control by January next year at the latest, and the elections were a key step in that process.\n\nThe announcement of the results was delayed by the need to collect ballots cast by tens of thousands of Croats force out of the region by the Serbs in 1991 -- in the process known as \"ethnic cleansing\" -- and now living in other parts of the country.\n\nOnce the area has returned to Croatian control they will be entitled to return to their original homes.\n\nUN administrator Jacques Klein is expected to meet Croatian President Franjo Tudjman later Saturday to discuss the elections, the post- election period and what happens when the current UN mandate ends, Chizik said.\n\nCurrently, the mandate for the UN administration in Eastern Slavonia (UNTAES) is due to end on July 15 after one and a half years.\n\nHowever, the UN Security Council has said that a further UN presence, as yet undefined, will remain in the region until January.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 19 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 414, "end_char": 421, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 615, "end_char": 621, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 755, "end_char": 761, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 796, "end_char": 803, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1120, "end_char": 1124, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January next year", "start_char": 1194, "end_char": 1211, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1998-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1430, "end_char": 1434, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1488, "end_char": 1491, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1727, "end_char": 1735, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 15", "start_char": 1948, "end_char": 1955, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one and a half years", "start_char": 1962, "end_char": 1982, "tid": "t14", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 2105, "end_char": 2112, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0167.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0503\n\nPARIS, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nParis mayor calls for PSG hooligan ban\n\n\n\n\nThe mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, on Monday called on Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to take steps to bar hundreds of potential troublemakers from attending this week's UEFA Cup tie between Paris Saint Germain and Panathinaikos.\n\nDelanoe was speaking amid fears of a repeat of ugly scenes that followed PSG's 4-2 UEFA Cup loss to Israeli side Hapoel Tel Aviv on November 23.\n\nA black off-duty police officer shot dead a PSG supporter and seriously injured another as he tried to shield a Hapoel Tel Aviv fan from a mob of around 150 PSG supporters.\n\nDelanoe said that PSG \"should lead by example in the fight against violence, racism and anti-semitism\" but that it was \"100 percent the responsibility of the Interior Ministry\" to deal with the problem, and they could start by preventing potential troublemakers from attending Wednesday night's game.\n\nPanathinaikos have also had their problems on and off the pitch with Greek police detaining 62 of their fans, some of whom were found in possession of weapons and cannabis, after clashing with rivals Olympiakos last month.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 141, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 267, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 23", "start_char": 463, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 928, "end_char": 943, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1164, "end_char": 1174, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0503.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0089\n\nFORT DAVIS, Texas, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPolice optimistic about peaceful end to Texas standoff by Francis Temman\n\n\n\n\nNegotiations were moving forward between police and a handful of armed separatists near this remote west Texas community, authorities said.\n\n\"Things are looking very positive,\" said on Tuesday Mike Cox, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety. \"We are optimistic that there is going to be a peaceful outcome.\"\n\nThe separatists in the negotiation are demanding that they be treated as diplomats, CNN television reported.\n\nPolice believe that at least 13 people are holed up in a small house they call their \"embassy\" on the property of Richard McLaren, the self-proclaimed leader of the \"Republic of Texas.\"\n\nThe group, which includes one woman but no children, claims the United States illegally annexed the state in 1845.\n\n\"We do know they have weapons,\" Cox said.\n\nAt least 75 officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety, the US Border Patrol, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a special assault unit have surrounded McLaren's property at the Davis Mountain resort near Fort Davis.\n\nSince the standoff began three days ago, authorities have declined to say exactly how many officers are here. But a grocery store owner at Fort Davis said he has sold enough food to feed some 300 men.\n\nThe forces are deployed some 1.5 kilometers (one mile) from the \"embassy.\" The police command post is some seven kilometers (4.3 miles) away, not far from a firehouse occupied by the separatists on Sunday and seized by police Monday.\n\nTensions rose on Monday when Texas Attorney General Dan Morales announced that three members of the group had been charged with \"organized criminal activity,\" and that three others face kidnapping charges.\n\nMcLaren and several other Republic of Texas members were wanted on state and federal contempt of court charges.\n\nOn Sunday, a separatist \"commando\" held a husband and wife hostage for some 12 hours in a bid to free Robert Scheidt, one of their comrades jailed on weapons charges.\n\nThe couple, Joe and Margaret Rowe, was exchanged Monday for Scheidt. Joe Rowe was treated for minor injuries.\n\nShortly after mid-day Tuesday, McLaren placed a package outside the residence containing \"legal documents\" for his attorney, Terence O'Rourke. O'Rourke, who was barred from entering the residence by police, said he has talked to McLaren by telephone.\n\n\"He's willing to die for what he believes in,\" O'Rourke said of his client. But he said: \"He doesn't need to be a martyr.\"\n\nAuthorities spent hours retrieving the documents with the help of an armored vehicle because the area around the \"embassy\" was reportedly studded with explosives.\n\n\"It wasn't a major planned operation,\" Cox said. \"We've got some felony warrants to serve and we're going to serve them.\"\n\nAround 120 residents of nearby properties have been asked by police to leave their homes. Those who sought to return Tuesday were barred by a police roadblock across the only street into the community.\n\n\"It's for their personal safety,\" Cox said.\n\nThe Red Cross has set up a shelter for residents in a gym at Fort Davis, and members of the Texas National Guard have set up tents to shield law enforcement officials and their equipment -- which now includes two armored vehicles -- from the blinding Texas sun.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 42, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 327, "end_char": 334, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1845", "start_char": 873, "end_char": 877, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1845", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days ago", "start_char": 1180, "end_char": 1194, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1555, "end_char": 1561, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1583, "end_char": 1589, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1609, "end_char": 1615, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1915, "end_char": 1921, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "some 12 hours", "start_char": 1983, "end_char": 1996, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-29T12:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2129, "end_char": 2135, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2213, "end_char": 2220, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2971, "end_char": 2978, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 3298, "end_char": 3301, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0089.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0327\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. stocks end higher\n\n\n\n\nU.S. stocks ended higher on Monday, as crude oil prices dived to near 59 dollars.\n\nIn the closing trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 23.45, or 0.19 percent, to 12,131.88. The Standard  Poor's 500 index gained 3.52, or 0.25 percent, at 1,384.42, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 16.66, or 0.70 percent, at 2,406.38..\n\nCrude oil prices fell to near 59 dollars on Monday amid warm winter concern, after the International Energy Agency cut its oil product demand growth forecast for 2006.\n\nCrude futures have fallen more than 25 percent from its record 78.40 dollars per barrel in mid-July. Low energy prices would boost corporate profits and consumer spending, which accounts for about two-thirds of the U.S. economic activity.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 119, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 463, "end_char": 469, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0327.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0150\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina enhances quarantine work to safeguard normal fowl trade\n\n\n\n\nThe Ministry of Agriculture recently issued a circular requiring local departments to enhance quarantine and supervision of the poultry trade.\n\nMillions of chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry have been culled after bird flu outbreaks were reported in Xinjiang uygur autonomous region, Liaoning, Hubei, Anhui and Hunan provinces.\n\nThe circular requires veterinary and quarantine departments at all levels to improve their quick-response mechanisms and enhance supervision over feeding, slaughtering and stockpiling of poultry.\n\nUnqualified and unlicensed poultry processors are to be closed immediately. The processing, sale, transport and consumption of sick fowl are forbidden, the circular said.\n\nThe ministry emphasized the blockade, culling, inoculation and disposal work in epidemic zones, saying the trade of poultry from non-affected zones should not be hampered so as to safeguard normal market order.\n\nThe blockade areas should not be expanded without warrant, and special effort should be made to prevent the entry of infected birds from overseas, it said.\n\nThe ministry demanded firm action be taken against illegal activities such as falsifying quarantine certificates, arbitrary fee and fine collection by quarantine officials.\n\nThe circular asked all relevant departments to enhance information exchange and coordination, so as to ensure the prevention and control of the highly pathogenic bird flu.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 159, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0150.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0209\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 28 , 2006  (Xinhua)\n\nSri Lankan gov't to clarify rebel's position on truce\n\n\n\n\nThe Sri Lankan government said Tuesday that it had asked the Norwegian peace facilitators and the Nordic truce monitors to clarify Tamil Tiger rebels' position on truce in the light of comments made by the rebel leader in his annual policy speech.\n\n\"We have asked both the Norwegian government and the SLMM (Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission) to clarify the stand on the cease-fire,\" Keheliya Rambukwella, the minister of Policy Planning and the government's defense spokesman told reporters.\n\nThe leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), Velupillai Prabakaran in his speech delivered Monday said that the government's use of military power in the Tamil regions has rendered the 2002 cease-fire agreement (CFA) brokered by the Norwegians \"defunct\".\n\nPrabakaran also said that the government's action \"has effectively buried the CFA.\"\n\nThe rebel leader said the actions of the majority Sinhala governments had led the rebels with only one option: an independent state for the Tamil people. He appealed to the international community to \"recognize our freedom struggle.\"\n\nRambukwella said despite the rebel leader's pronouncement to resume the independence struggle after six years of peace negotiations, the government was committed to furthering the process of negotiations and would keep the window opened for the LTTE to return to talks.\n\nThe LTTE leader's policy speech has renewed fears of full scale war resuming in the island's Northern and Eastern provinces.\n\nNorway's peace effort began in 2000 saw the LTTE and the government meeting face to face eight times for negotiations since 2002.\n\nThe process became marred by high cost of violence with the government, saying that over 3,000 people died in the conflict between December 2005 and October 2006.\n\nMore than 60,000 have been killed in Sri Lanka since the LTTE launched its separatist campaign in the mid-1980s.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 710, "end_char": 716, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six years", "start_char": 1295, "end_char": 1304, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1623, "end_char": 1627, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1716, "end_char": 1720, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2005", "start_char": 1854, "end_char": 1867, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2006", "start_char": 1872, "end_char": 1884, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "mid-1980s", "start_char": 1989, "end_char": 1998, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0209.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0616\n\nINDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nPacers banish Jackson for bad conduct\n\n\n\n\nStephen Jackson was suspended by the Indiana Pacers for Monday's game at Chicago after a heated exchange with coach Rick Carlisle, the National Basketball Association club announced Monday.\n\nThe veteran guard's banishment came for conduct detrimental to the team in a 107-105 loss Saturday at Cleveland. He was replaced by Darrell Armstrong 2:46 before the end of the first half and let Carlisle know he was unhappy about it.\n\n\"I substituted for (Jackson) and he came to the bench and an exchange ensued that I felt was inappropriate, detrimental to the team, so I made a decision to remove him from the bench,\" Carlisle said.\n\n\"As of right now, this is a one-game situation. I expect that this is an incident that is isolated and will be dealt with as such.\"\n\nNotorious for his role in the riot at Detroit two years ago, Jackson was arrested for allegedly firing a gun outside an Indianapolis strip club in October.\n\nJackson is averaging 12.3 points and 3.4 assists in 22 games with the Pacers this season, his third with the team.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 46, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 165, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 398, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 750, "end_char": 753, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Detroit two years ago", "start_char": 908, "end_char": 929, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1017, "end_char": 1024, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0616.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0372\n\nSKOPJE, Dec 14 , 2005\n\nMacedonia pleads for French support over EU candidacy\n\n\n\n\nMacedonia's president on Wednesday sent a letter to his French counterpart pleading for Paris to reverse its stance against the former Yugoslav republic gaining official EU candidacy.\n\n\"The citizens of Macedonia believe in Europe and believe in France. Candidacy would be a huge opportunity, but an obligation as well,\" President Branko Crvenkovski said in the letter to France's Jacques Chirac.\n\nCrvenkovski made the appeal ahead of a summit Thursday of EU leaders in Brussels, at which the tiny Balkan state was hoping to be granted the official status of a candidate for EU membership.\n\nFrance has emerged as the most vocal opponent of Macedonia's official candidacy as the 25-nation bloc struggles to reach an agreement over its 2007-2013 budget plans.\n\nIn his letter, the Macedonian president said Skopje \"fully understands\" the problems that Brussels faces, but added he believed that giving his country the status would represent a \"victory\" for Europe.\n\n\"I am addressing you as the president of France, a state that has always actively supported ... Macedonia on its path towards Europe,\" Crvenkovski told Chirac in the letter.\n\n\"Your personal contribution has been an integral part of my country to get to the place where it belongs -- in the European family\" of nations, he said.\n\n\"Macedonia does not fear for its future and expects the European Council in Brussels to confirm all of our achievements by giving us candidate status for EU membership,\" said Crvenkovski, referring to the pace of reforms in the country since the end of an ethnic Albanian uprising in 2001.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy has said Paris was questioning Macedonia's candidacy because it would \"send a signal to the public... that we are heading for more enlargement\".\n\nFrench and Dutch voters rejected the European Union's carefully prepared constitution earlier this year, plunging the bloc into its deepest political crisis.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 138, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 547, "end_char": 555, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1679, "end_char": 1683, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 1964, "end_char": 1981, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0372.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0104\n\nCOLOMBO, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nSri Lanka army chief seeks talks with Tigers amid blasts\n\n\n\n\nSri Lanka's new army chief took command Tuesday with a call for talks with Tamil Tiger rebels to defuse tension in the northern town of Jaffna after 14 soldiers were killed in two blasts.\n\nLieutenant General Sarath Fonseka said he wanted to re-establish communication links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to prevent attacks against government forces.\n\nFonseka's maiden press conference after assuming command of the country's 120,000-strong army was delayed for nearly half an hour after suspected Tiger rebels blew up an army tractor, killing seven security personnel.\n\nHe played down Tuesday's blast, the second since Sunday when another seven soldiers perished in an identical attack, and sounded a conciliatory line in sharp contrast to his military reputation as a hawk.\n\n\"There has been a communication gap between us and the LTTE,\" Fonseka said. \"The LTTE has said they did not carry out the attacks. We don't have 100 percent evidence, but we think they did it.\n\n\"If they did not do it, who else could have done it. And we need to stop them.\"\n\n\"It is important to establish contact with the LTTE to ensure that the peace process will not collapse,\" he said, adding that the Tigers and the government had not maintained direct contact at field level for several months.\n\nSri Lanka's peace broker Norway has tried but failed to arrange a top-level meeting between the two sides to strengthen the February 2002 truce.\n\nFonseka said he did not believe that the escalation of violence in the island's former rebel stronghold of Jaffna would lead to fresh hostilities.\n\n\"I don't think this is a build-up to a war. Even if the attacks are indeed by the LTTE we know it is by a small group and we can deal with it,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 711, "end_char": 718, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 745, "end_char": 751, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several months", "start_char": 1386, "end_char": 1400, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2002", "start_char": 1527, "end_char": 1540, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0104.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0623\n\nMONS, Belgium, April 19 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBelgian police renew searches after more human remains surface by Bertrand Pinon\n\n\n\n\nPolice prepared for new efforts Saturday to track down a suspected serial killer after the discovery of more dumped human body parts near this southern Belgian town.\n\nThe latest remains, comprising a thigh, an arm, a forearm and a hand, were found in three bags Friday by municipal workers cleaning drains in a residential area of Havre, a suburb of Mons, public prosecutor Pierre Honore said.\n\nThe macabre find brought to 15 the total number of garbage bags to turn up in the area since March 22. All the others contained neatly- severed female body parts, except for one stuffed with clothing.\n\nThey add up to between four and six suspected victims of a murderer being dubbed the \"killer of Mons.\" Only one so far has been identified, thanks to a tattoo.\n\nShe was Martine Bohn, a 43-year-old French prostitute living locally, whose torso had already been fished out of a river in July last year.\n\nHonore said late Friday that like the earlier remains, the limbs would be sent for analysis by forensic experts in Liege.\n\nThe police probe would be intensified Saturday, he added.\n\nThe chain of finds began on March 22 with nine garbage bags in the suburb of Couesmes, containing the limbs of three women. Another bag, holding the upper part of a torso, turned up nearby two days later.\n\nTwo supermarket bags containing a foot, an ankle and the head of a woman aged between 35 and 40 were found in Havre on April 12.\n\nHonore's department has also been in contact with French prosecutors just over the border in Valenciennes, to see if there is any link with the pelvis of a still-unidentified woman's body found in January 1996 at Chateau l'Abbaye, northern France.\n\nThe search for a pattern in the killer's operations has uncovered a dark twist in his choice of dumping grounds for the bags.\n\nApparently playing a cat-and-mouse game, the killer has left the remains of his victims in places with suggestive names: Rue du Depot (Dump) near the River Haine (Hate), on Chemin de l'Inquietude (Worry) and the banks of the River Trouille (Jitters).\n\nThe latest finds were in an area known as La Poudriere, or the Powder- keg.\n\nBelgian police are under heavy pressure to solve the killings in the wake of strong parliamentary criticism of bungled investigations into missing children kidnapped by a suspected paedophile ring.\n\nPrime Minister Jean-Luc Dehaene Friday promised disciplinary axction against those responsible for mishandling the cases.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 19 , 1997", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 408, "end_char": 414, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 22", "start_char": 634, "end_char": 642, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July last year", "start_char": 1028, "end_char": 1042, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Friday", "start_char": 1057, "end_char": 1068, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1206, "end_char": 1214, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 22", "start_char": 1255, "end_char": 1263, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days", "start_char": 1416, "end_char": 1424, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "35", "start_char": 1519, "end_char": 1521, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1935", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 12", "start_char": 1552, "end_char": 1560, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1996", "start_char": 1760, "end_char": 1772, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2499, "end_char": 2505, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0623.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0118\n\nBEIJING, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nChina anti-drugs war confirms narcotics pandemic by Giles Hewitt\n\n\n\n\nChina's new crackdown on drugs has confirmed how narcotics abuse has spread rapidly across the country, snaring the young and fanning violent crime and the spread of AIDS, press reports said Thursday.\n\nWhile public security authorities have hailed the success of the campaign launched this month, the predominant feeling is one of concern at the extent of drug trafficking and abuse.\n\n\"The situation ahead of us is extremely serious,\" Public Security Minister Tao Siju was quoted as saying in the latest edition of the bi-monthly magazine, Democracy and the Legal System.\n\nPointing to a sharp increase in drug trafficking cases last year, Tao warned that the smuggling gangs were becoming \"increasingly sophisticated, well organised and armed.\"\n\nChina currently has some 520,000 registered drug addicts, but even Tao admitted that the figure was nowhere near the actual number.\n\n\"Drugs are not only a threat to public security, but also to society as a whole,\" Tao said, pointing out that between 60 and 70 percent of HIV carriers in China had contracted the virus from sharing needles.\n\nMeanwhile, a report carried by the Xinhua news agency on Thursday demonstrated the pandemic nature of China's drug problem, which only five years ago was almost exclusively restricted to the southwestern province of Yunnan, bordering the heroin-producing Golden Triangle region.\n\nOn April 15, a major trans-provincial drug-trafficking cartel was broken up in the the new western municipality of Chongqing, with six suspects arrested and 3.33 kilograms (7.3 pounds) of heroin seized.\n\nThe ongoing campaign also resulted in the arrest of all members of an 11-strong trafficking gang in Beijing, together with 5.8 kilograms (12.76 pounds) of heroin.\n\nIn the northern province of Shanxi, one of China's most-wanted drug traffickers was arrested on April 1 in the city of Datong after eight years on the run.\n\nPolice said 50 drug-related crimes had been uncovered this month in Datong alone, resulting in the arrest of 64 suspects.\n\nIn Yunnan, some 588 kilograms (1,295 pounds) of heroin were seized in the first three months of this year.\n\nXinhua also carried a statement from the Public Security Ministry confirming the arrival of the Western designer drug, Ecstasy, which is known here as the \"rocking head pill.\"\n\n\"It is dangerous to health and harmful to social stability,\" it said, adding that the drug had surfaced in major cities like Shanghai, Beijing, Shenyang and Shenzhen.\n\nIn Shanghai on Tuesday, police arrested five drug traffickers and confiscated a total of 6.3 kilograms (13.86 pounds) of heroin and 60,000 yuan (7,200 dollars) in cash.\n\nThe current anti-drug campaign is slated to last until the end of September.\n\nThe China Youth Daily on Thursday said the rise in drug abuse was especially serious among 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0229\n\nSTOCKHOLM, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDanish foreign minister condemns Amman bombings\n\n\n\n\nDanish Minister of Foreign Affairs Per Stig Moeller on Friday condemned the bombings against three hotels in Amman, Jordan, Ritzau News Bureau reported.\n\n\"Once again, we see that terrorists have brought their contempt for human life to bear on innocent people,\" Moeller said. \"These kinds of acts can in no way be justified.\"\n\nMoeller said that the bombings would not prevent him from visiting Jordan on Sunday as part of a series of visits in the Middle East.\n\nMoeller pointed out that terrorists had become increasingly more brazen in their methods.\n\n\"And that highlights the importance of continuing to strengthen international cooperation in the fight against terror,\" he said.\n\nThe foreign minister also said that Jordan was one of the Middle-Eastern countries that was doing most to implement reforms.\n\n\"It is characteristic that terror attacks have been targeted against reformers in the Middle East, such as Jordan. Therefore it is vital that we continue to expand our cooperation and dialogue with Middle-Eastern countries,\" Moeller said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 515, "end_char": 521, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0229.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0249\n\nDOHA, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nHidayat takes gold over arch rival Lin\n\n\n\n\nOlympic champion Taufik Hidayat from Indonesia won the men's Asian Games singles badminton gold medal over arch rival Lin Dan of China 21-15, 22-20 here Saturday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 245, "end_char": 253, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0249.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0010\n\nYUANPING, Shanxi, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina coal mine\n\n\n\n\nRescuers on Monday were still searching for the 30 miners trapped in a coal mine explosion which had claimed 17 lives in north China's Shanxi Province on Sunday.\n\nAbout 90 rescuers in eight teams went down more than 300 meters to search for the trapped miners, while others were busy moving exhaust fans, cables, timber and other materials into the mine.\n\nOfficials with the rescue headquarters said the resumption of ventilation and power supply is vital for rescue operation.\n\nInitial investigations suggest that human errors were blamed for the fatal accident.\n\nThe mine should have been evacuated since gas had accumulated to a dangerous level on Sunday morning after exhaust fans stopped working due to power failure. However, power supply resumed without safety measures and caused the explosion.\n\nAccording to the rescue headquarters, 393 workers were working in the mine when the blast took place, and 346 miners escaped.\n\nThe accident occurred at 11 a.m. Sunday in the Jiaojiazhai Coal Mine of Xuangang Company under Datong Coal Mine Group, in Xinzhou, a central-north city of Shanxi Province.\n\nAll the victims are miners of Datong Coal Mine Group.\n\nThe Shanxi government on Monday ordered all the coal mines in the coal-rich province to operate in accord with work safety regulations, saying any one who violate regulations will be punished.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 97, "end_char": 103, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 239, "end_char": 245, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday morning", "start_char": 736, "end_char": 750, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "11 a.m.", "start_char": 1041, "end_char": 1048, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1049, "end_char": 1055, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1269, "end_char": 1275, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0010.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0150\n\nLIBREVILLE, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nOpposition hold large-scale rally in Gabonese capital\n\n\n\n\nThe Gabonese opposition held here a large-scale rally Saturday, gathering support for Pierre Mambounbou, who was defeated in last elections and vowed to replace Africa's longest serving leader Bongo Ondimba in Sunday's polls.\n\nSeveral thousands of people, dressed in red T-shirts, symbolic for Union of Gabonese People Party, accumulated in the capital's Rio district in the afternoon, dancing and singing to show their support for Mambounbou.\n\n\"We need change, Gabon needs change. Bongo has been president for nearly 40 years, it's too long and there's not much change in our country,\" said Demar, a crane driver in Libreville.\n\nDespite of the challenges from other four candidates, Bongo is widely expected to win Sunday's elections that are seen as a one- sided contest which will prolong his 38 years rule in Gabon.\n\nGabon is one of the few countries in central Africa that has never -- since its independence from France -- been affected by an armed conflict.\n\nIt is a small country with only about 1.5 million people, yet Gabon's people has one of the highest per capita incomes in Africa, largely due to the country's substantial revenues from petroleum exports.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 328, "end_char": 334, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the afternoon", "start_char": 489, "end_char": 502, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly 40 years", "start_char": 629, "end_char": 644, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P40Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 834, "end_char": 840, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0150.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0486\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nUS envoy predicts high turnout in Iraq election\n\n\n\n\nThe US State Department's coordinator on Iraq predicted Monday a high turnout in this week's parliamentary election and said pre-poll violence had dropped sharply in recent days.\n\nWashington also does not expect a new Iraqi government to ask for the withdrawal of US troops \"any time in the near future,\" James Jeffrey told a briefing at the Foreign Press Center here.\n\nJeffrey spoke ahead of the election Thursday for Iraq's first permanent legislature of the post-Saddam Hussein era, a milestone US officials hope will undermine the Iraqi insurgency and allow American troops to pull out.\n\nDismissing concern that minority Sunni Muslims would stay away from the polls, Jeffrey said, \"I do believe that there will be a very high turnout from all groups in the country.\n\n\"We hope, but cannot guarantee, that violence will be down, but I believe that even if the level of violence were to spike, that the Iraqi people ... will in large numbers go and vote.\"\n\nJeffrey gave no figure for predicted turnout. About 59 percent of eligible Iraqis cast ballots last January for an interim parliament, and 64 percent voted in the October 15 referendum on a new constitution.\n\nThe US envoy said that unlike the runup to January's ballot, \"the level of violence has dropped my almost any measure over the past few days and we hope that that trend continues.\"\n\nHe gave no backup data but speculated this \"might indicate that, particularly in some of the Sunni Arab areas, people are making a major commitment to vote, including among circles close to the insurgency.\"\n\nIraqi parties have started to make rumblings about a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops in Iraq, currently numbering some 160,000 for the election but expected to drop by 20,000 afterward.\n\nJeffrey repeated the US line that American forces would leave if asked but said, \"We don't think that the Iraqi government, or a Iraqi government, will take that step any time in the near future.\"\n\nUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who spent a day in Iraq last month, was briefed by Sunni and other groups on the security situation, including \"the interest in an eventual transfer\" to local security forces, Jeffrey said.\n\n\"But this was underlined very, very strongly -- nowhere more strongly than by Sunni Arabs -- they (US forces) should not be withdrawn until there are capable Iraqi troops that can move in and take care of the security situation.\"\n\nJeffrey said if some Iraqis such as the faction led by Shiite firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr sought a timetable for the US withdrawal, \"there are many other groups that reject that.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the near future", "start_char": 389, "end_char": 404, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 508, "end_char": 516, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last January", "start_char": 1155, "end_char": 1167, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 15", "start_char": 1223, "end_char": 1233, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1312, "end_char": 1319, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past few days", "start_char": 1392, "end_char": 1409, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the near future", "start_char": 2035, "end_char": 2050, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 2118, "end_char": 2128, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0486.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0084 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0084. \n Financing Business:\n@  Blockbuster Entertainment Corp. \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n BV \n BOND MARKET NEWS (BON) \n\n   BLOCKBUSTER ENTERTAINMENT CORP. said it raised $92 million from an offering of liquid yield option notes. \nThe gross proceeds from the sale of the notes, which will be due on Nov. 1, 2004, will be used to reduce existing debt and for general corporate purposes, the company said. \nThe debt reduction is expected to save the Fort Lauderdale, Fla. home video concern about $2 million a year in interest expense. \nThe zero-coupon subordinated notes have no periodic interest payments. \nEach note is being offered at $308.32 per $1,000 principal amount at maturity, representing an 8% yield to maturity. \nIn addition, each note can be converted into Blockbuster Entertainment common stock at a rate of 13.851 shares per note. \nMerrill Lynch Capital Markets Inc. is the sole underwriter for the offering. \nThe notes will have a principal amount of $300 million at maturity. \nBlockbuster shares closed yesterday at $18.75, down $1.125, in New York Stock Exchange trading.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 100, "end_char": 108, "tid": "t41", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1, 2004", "start_char": 345, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t42", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 1066, "end_char": 1075, "tid": "t45", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0811.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0403\n\nMEXICO CITY, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nScientists discover new gene linked with schizophrenia\n\n\n\n\nLOS ANGELES, Nov. 17 (Xinhua)-- A new gene has been identified to link with higher risk of schizophrenia and depression, scientists reported on Thursday.\n\nSchizophrenia and related mood disorders are thought to arise from a combination of genetic and environmental factors, but researchers have had difficulty identifying the specific genes involved.\n\nEarlier studies have found a gene called DISC1, operating in a way that may contribute to the disorder, may make people susceptible to schizophrenia. However, the function of its encoded protein has been unclear.\n\nThe new research, appearing in the Nov. 18 issue of the journal Science, presented genetic and biochemical evidence suggesting that the DISC1 protein interacts with an enzyme called phosphodiesterase 4B (PDE4B), which in turn influences the activity of the signaling molecule cAMP.\n\nThis signaling system has previously been implicated in learning, memory and mood in other experimental systems, which is consistent with the idea that alterations in the system may contribute to schizophrenia, according to the researchers.\n\nDamage to the gene PDE4B is also seen to increase the risk of developing mental illness. In addition, the researchers have discovered that DISC1 acts as a regulator for PDE4B, creating a 'pathway' between the two genes.\n\n\"The new genetic link we have made to PDE4B and how that links back to DISC1 sheds much needed light on these debilitating disorders. It also suggests a new way of thinking about developing better and effective medicines,\" said David Porteous, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, Britain, who led the study.\n\nThe new discovery may in the future lead to the eventual development of new drugs to treat mental health problems, the researchers said.\n\n\"Our insights into the important role that the proteins PDE4B and DISC1 may play in the mis-function of the brain that leads to schizophrenia will lead our thinking in the development of new treatments for this disorder,\" said Peter Hutson, co-author of the study from the drug maker Merck Sharp  Dohme.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 17", "start_char": 133, "end_char": 140, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 264, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18", "start_char": 721, "end_char": 728, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1774, "end_char": 1784, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0403.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0312\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMalaysian opposition calls on politician to resign\n\n\n\n\nA Malaysian opposition leader Friday called for the resignation of a high-ranking Malaysian politician charged with attempting to take undeclared currency out of Australia.\n\nMuhammad bin Muhammad Taib, chief minister of Malaysia's central state of Selangor, was earlier Friday ordered by an Australian court to attend a three-day committal hearing beginning August 19.\n\nMuhammad, 51, who was not required to attend the court hearing Friday, was charged with failing to declare the equivalent of 2.4 million ringgit (981,000 US) in December 1996.\n\nUnder Australian law it is an offence to carry more than 5,000 dollars in cash into or out of the country without declaring it.\n\nParliamentary opposition Lim Kit Siang called on Muhammad to \"resign or take immediate long leave until the outcome of the court proceedings in August.\"\n\n\"If Muhammad loves Malaysia, he should resign as Selangor chief minister to end the enormous embarassment he is causing the nation with endless international reports about his vast wealth,\" Lim said in a statement.\n\n\"Malaysia must not be put through another four month's agony and international embarrassment over his 2.4-million-ringgit cash caper in Brisbane and frequent reports about his Australian properties,\" he said.\n\n\"The reports not only embarass Malaysia but reinforces international perceptions that the anti-corruption agency (ACA) is impotent when faced with corruption in high political places,\" he added.\n\nMuhammad had said the undeclared money was entrusted to him by his three brothers to buy property in Brisbane's Gold Coast but Australian newspaper alleged he owned multi-million-dollar properties in the country.\n\nACA officials on Tuesday flew to Brisbane to probe allegations of Muhammad's property investments in Australia including a two-million- ringgit (800,000-dollar) house and various properties.\n\nMuhammad was about to board a flight to New Zealand on December 23 last year when a customs official opened his suitcase and allegedly discovered the cash in Malaysian, Singaporean and New Zealand currency.\n\nMuhammad, who is also the vice-president of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's ruling UMNO party, came into the limelight six years ago when he incurred the wrath of the Selangor sultan by secretly marrying his second daughter, Princess Zahariah Sallahuddin.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 385, "end_char": 391, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 19", "start_char": 473, "end_char": 482, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-08-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 548, "end_char": 554, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 1996", "start_char": 646, "end_char": 659, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 935, "end_char": 941, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four month", "start_char": 1203, "end_char": 1213, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1798, "end_char": 1805, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 23 last year", "start_char": 2028, "end_char": 2049, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11T23:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six years ago", "start_char": 2302, "end_char": 2315, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0312.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0611\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nvote\n\n\n\n\nThe US House of Representatives backed a resolution Friday asserting that the Palestinain Islamist movement Hamas should not be allowed to participate in Palestinian elections.\n\nThe resolution, which said that Hamas should not be permitted to participate in Palestinian polls until it recognizes \"Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state,\" was approved by a voice vote of 397 to 17 with seven abstentions.\n\nHamas scored a resounding victory Friday in local elections in the main West Bank cities in what was one of the clearest indicators of the Palestinain Islamist movement's strength ahead of January's parliamentary contest.\n\nAccording to preliminary results provided by a senior election official, Hamas was savouring victory in three of the West Bank's four major cities, while rival Fatah was left licking its wounds following a week of violence and bitter divisions which nearly split the dominant party.\n\nThe results are expected to bode well for Hamas ahead of the January 25 parliamentary election.\n\nThe US congressional resolution also urged Hamas -- which is designated a terrorist group by the US State Department -- to \"permanently disarm and dismantle their terrorist infrastructure.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 111, "end_char": 117, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 501, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 656, "end_char": 663, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 25", "start_char": 1035, "end_char": 1045, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0611.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0206\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's first ever space textbook declassified and published\n\n\n\n\nThe formerly classified manuscript written by the father of China's space and missile industry has been published.\n\nQian Xuesen's manuscript entitled \"A General Introduction to the Missile\" hit the shelves in Beijing on Friday, 50 years after Qian first used it to teach 156 university students, China's first generation of space scientists.\n\n\"The manuscript was China's first textbook on space and missiles but it was defined as a classified document in 1956,\" said Shi Lei, vice president of the China Astronautic Publishing House, the book's publisher.\n\n\"Although the content of 'A General Introduction to Missile' was passed on by word of mouth between different generations of Chinese space scientists, few people ever saw the manuscript,\" Shi said.\n\n\"The publishing of the book marks the 50th anniversary of China's space industry and the 95th anniversary of Qian's birth,\" he said.\n\nBorn in 1911 in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, Qian Xuesen, or Tsien Hsue-sen, left for the United States after winning a scholarship in 1936. He earned a doctorate and became a professor at the California Institute of Technology. In October 1955, Qian and his family returned to Beijing.\n\nHe led the development of China's first nuclear-armed ballistic missiles and worked on its first satellite, launched in 1970.\n\nQian retired in 1991. His research formed the basis for the Long March CZ-2F rocket that carried China's astronaut Yang Liwei into orbit.\n\nAn autographed copy by Qian was given to the National Museum of China.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday, 50 years", "start_char": 342, "end_char": 358, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1956", "start_char": 577, "end_char": 581, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1956", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1911", "start_char": 1020, "end_char": 1024, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1911", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1936", "start_char": 1156, "end_char": 1160, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1936", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 1955", "start_char": 1253, "end_char": 1265, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1955-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1970", "start_char": 1429, "end_char": 1433, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1970", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1452, "end_char": 1456, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0206.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0296\n\nABU DHABI, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nInvestors race for world's biggest Islamic bank by Nadim Kawash\n\n\n\n\nUnited Arab Emirates (UAE) investors are racing to subscribe in the world's biggest Islamic bank that is to be set up by the oil-rich Gulf states, dealers said Wednesday.\n\nMany of them have sold shares in other institutions to secure cash for their stake in the Emirates Islamic Bank (EISB), which will be based in Abu Dhabi and partly owned by the UAE government, they said.\n\n\"I have been flooded with queries about the date of the subscription, which I expect to begin within a few weeks,\" said Bassam al-Ramahi, deputy manager of the Emirates Commercial Centre, a leading brokerage house.\n\n\"Many dealers are selling their shares to get cash to contribute to the bank. I am sure that the bank's capital will be far oversubscribed because the government participation gives confidence to investors,\" he told AFP.\n\nBankers said the central bank had already approved the project and it would be launched once its statute is finalized. The state-owned Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and other official institutions are among the key shareholders.\n\nThe project had initially been called the Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank and was confined to investors from the emirate. But it was changed to cover the whole UAE following applications by other emirates to set up similar banks.\n\nThe official daily Al-Bayan said the bank would have a paid-up capital of 1.2 billion dirhams (326 million dollars) and an authorised capital of three billion dirhams (817 million dollars).\n\n\"Our expectations are that subscription would reach double the authorised capital in a short period of time given the large liquidity in the market. This could prompt shareholders to raise the paid-up capital,\" Ramahi said.\n\nThe venture will be the biggest Islamic bank in the world in terms of capital. The Cairo-based Faisal Bank is currently the top Islamic bank.\n\nEISB is the second Islamic bank in the UAE after the Dubai Islamic Bank, at present the second biggest in the world, with a capital of 135.6 million dollars.\n\nAl-Bayan did not specify the size of the government's shareholding in EISB but bankers expect it to be less than 50 percent. They said investors from other Gulf Arab states would be given a limited access to the project.\n\n\"This project it highly feasible and I am certain there will be a rush by investors,\" said Zuhair Kaswani, another UAE stockbroker.\n\n\"The UAE has a large number of banks but the market here and in other regional states can accommodate more given the expanding business opportunities. As you see, most banks are making high profits every year.\"\n\nThe UAE, a major OPEC oil-producer, has 19 national banks and 28 foreign units, with assets of around 46 billion dollars. It has suspended permits for new foreign commercial banks but allowed opening of representative offices.\n\nEISB was planned after several other Middle East banks opened Islamic banking units to take advantage of the growing demand for such operations.\n\n\"There are two main factors for the expected success of the EISB project. The first is that there is a growing tendency by the public to invest in Islamic banks for religious reasons,\" Ramahi said.\n\n\"The second factor is purely economic. Most Islamic banks here are now ensuring higher returns for investors compared with commercial banks.\"\n\nIslamic banks do not deal in interest which is prohibited in Islam as usury. Their main activities cover financing of projects and charging a percentage of the profits as well as trading in property, cars and other items.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a few weeks", "start_char": 603, "end_char": 614, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 2664, "end_char": 2674, "tid": "t4", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0296.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "CNN_20130322_248\n\nMarch 22, 2013\n\nFAA to close 149 regional airport control towers, spare 40 others\n\n\n\n\n\nThe FAA on Friday announced it will close 149 regional airport control towers because of forced spending cuts -- sparing 40 others that the FAA had been expected to shutter.\n\nA four-week, phased closure of the 149 control towers will begin on April 7, the FAA said.\n\nThe FAA had been expected to announce the closure of 189 low- or moderate-volume towers staffed by contractors. Before Friday's announcement, it said it would consider keeping a tower open if the airport convinces the agency it is in the \"national interest\" to do so.\n\nBy congressional mandate, the FAA must cut nearly $600 million from its nearly $48 billion budget this fiscal year. Because the majority of its 47,000 employees are air traffic controllers, it is impossible to cut its budget without affecting controllers, the agency says.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "March 22, 2013", "start_char": 18, "end_char": 32, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 116, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four-week", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t15", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 7", "start_char": 348, "end_char": 355, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 491, "end_char": 497, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this fiscal year", "start_char": 739, "end_char": 755, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "CNN_20130322_248.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0370\n\nABUJA, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAU extends Darfur peacekeeping force's mandate for 6 months\n\n\n\n\nThe African Union (AU) is to extend the mandate of its peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region for six months, an AU delegate said here on Thursday.\n\nThe delegate, who is participating in the AU's peace and security council meeting in Nigerian capital Abuja, said the commander of the AU force would be appointed by the AU after consultations with the United Nations and the Sudanese government, which has declined the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Darfur.\n\nThe AU Peace and Security Council agreed in September to extend the mandate of its forces in Darfur to the end of this year with the helps to be provided by the UN and the international society.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 222, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 270, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 628, "end_char": 637, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0370.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0153\n\nBEIRUT, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Lebanese leaders resume \"ice-breaking\" talks amid debates\n\n\n\n\nLebanon's top politicians resumed all-party talks on Tuesday to discuss the demand by Hezbollah guerillas and its allies for the formation of a national unity government.\n\nThe round-table talks kicked off on Monday amid an abyss between Hezbollah and the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority who threatened to stage mass protests.\n\nAfter the Monday talks, Lebanese parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who hosts the talks in central Beirut, said that the atmosphere at the first session had been positive.\n\nThe participants had succeeded in \"breaking the ice\" and agreed on a \"media truce\" to stop attacking each other by media reports.\n\n\"It is necessary to reach a solution because we cannot stay in this situation. Everyone is keen to unite in order to resolve issues,\" Berri added.\n\nAll major political leaders attended the Tuesday's dialogue amid tight security, except for Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for safety reasons, who was represented by cabinet minister Mohammed Fneish as well as parliament members Mohammed Raad and Hussein Hajj Hassan.\n\nHezbollah is calling for the formation of a national unity government to \"face up to the challenges with which Lebanon is confronted\".\n\nNasrallah has said he wants his Shiite party, which has two ministers in the cabinet dominated by the ruling anti-Syrian parliamentary majority, and allies to comprise one-third of the cabinet. That effectively means that Hezbollah and its allies could veto key decisions.\n\nA two-thirds vote in the cabinet is needed to pass decisions that are not made by consensus. A resignation of one-third of the cabinet automatically brings down the government.\n\nNasrallah has threatened that if talks fail, Hezbollah would \" go to the streets\" to demand a unity government and call for early parliamentary elections.\n\nIn response to Nasrallah's warning, anti-Syrian Christian leader Samir Geagea said his camp was ready to stage counter- protests.\n\nThe dialogue, launched in early March, had been scheduled for July 25. But the outbreak of the 34-day Israel-Hezbollah conflict on July 12 has prevented the resumption of the talks.\n\nDuring the previous sessions, the political leaders failed to reach consensus on the future of Lebanese president Emile Lahoud, a staunch Syrian supporter, and the disarmament of Hezbollah.\n\nLast year, there were bombings to target anti-Syrian figures and commercial centers in Christian areas, killing two prominent anti-Syrian journalists and a politician.\n\nThe largest explosion was in Feb. 2005, killing former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 22 others in central Beirut.\n\nAnti-Syrian groups have accused Damascus of backing the bombings, an accusation denied by Syria which later was forced to withdraw its army from Lebanon.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 186, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 340, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday talks", "start_char": 466, "end_char": 478, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 946, "end_char": 953, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 2091, "end_char": 2096, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 25", "start_char": 2121, "end_char": 2128, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 12", "start_char": 2190, "end_char": 2197, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 2433, "end_char": 2442, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Feb. 2005", "start_char": 2631, "end_char": 2640, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0153.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0031\n\nHEFEI, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIsolation on bird flu epidemic ends in east China city\n\n\n\n\nIsolation on bird flu epidemic in Tianchang, a city in east China's Anhui Province, was relieved Tuesday, the local government has announced after a 21-day quarantine check.\n\nA bird flu outbreak took place in the city on October 20, killing 550 poultry, and the city has made tremendous efforts in the treatment of the bird flu outbreak, blockade and disinfection of affected areas.\n\nA final check jointly organized by the Anhui Provincial government and Chuzhou city government on Monday confirmed the city has met the standards set by the Ministry of Agriculture and is therefore in a position to end epidemic isolation.\n\nLive poultry markets 10 kilometers in circumference from the affected region have also reopened after a three-week closure.\n\nBut the city government said it will continue to strictly monitor the formerly affected areas in Liangying village, where the epidemic broke out on Oct. 20. Thousands of live poultry had been killed ever since and all poultry farms have vaccinated their livestock.\n\nTianchang, seated on the course of migratory birds' migration route between Siberia in the north and Australia in the south, is a midway rest place for one million migratory birds every year. All monitoring stations in the city are monitoring migratory birds' activities round-the-clock.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 20", "start_char": 335, "end_char": 345, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 596, "end_char": 602, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 20", "start_char": 1011, "end_char": 1018, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 1309, "end_char": 1319, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0031.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0174\n\nGAO, Mali, April 7 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMali's nomadic election campaign hits the home stretch by Serge Daniel\n\n\n\n\nMali's political parties are hitting the dusty roads in the run-up to Sunday's legislative elections, wooing voters with \"victory caravans.\"\n\nIt is an appropriate way to campaign in a desert country more than twice the size of France, and which had 35 years of single-party rule until its first free elections in 1992.\n\nThough it is one of the world's poorest nations, Mali -- home to nine million people -- has recently acquired a reputation as one of Africa's most democratic states.\n\nThirty-five years of one-party rule ended in 1992 with the election of Alpha Oumar Konare, who is one of 10 registered candidates for presidential elections to be held in May.\n\nSunday will see the first round of the legislative polls, to be followed by a run-off on April 27. More than 1,500 candidates are in the running nationwide, representing at least 34 of Mali's 62 political parties.\n\nCars, motorcycles and bicycles make up the various campaign caravans that are criss-crossing northern Mali with loudspeakers blaring the virtues of their respective candidates.\n\nMost evident are the governing Alliance for Democracy in Mali, which took 76 of the 129 seats contested in 1992, and the Bloc for Democracy and African Integration.\n\n\"For us, an election is not won with a platform, but with the ability of the parties to mobilize their supporters,\" one candidate said.\n\nThe mood is even livelier than it was five years ago in the north, the stronghold of a long-running Tuareg insurgency that formally ended in 1992.\n\nWooing voters, candidates are giving away T-shirts and rice. Some village chiefs have found themselves the recipients of motorcycles and sheep.\n\nIt is not rare to see in villages the heads of donkeys sacrificed in anticipation of a candidate's victory at the polls.\n\nMerchants are delighted, saying they would not mind an election every month because of the extra business that campaigning has brought to them.\n\nHappy too are the marabouts, the Moslem monks of North Africa, whose advice is regularly sought out by candidates.\n\nIn Gao, some 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) north of the capital Bamako, election officials say 289,000 people have registered to cast ballots at 450 polling stations.\n\nSeventy of the polling stations will be mobile, bringing democracy to the voters where they live and work.\n\n\"We are ready,\" said Bakayoko (eds: one name), the chief returning officer in Gao.\n\nTo deal with bandits, who are blamed for recent thefts of four-wheel- drive vehicles, a special security unit has been set up to assit the national election commission.\n\nIt is tasked with guarding ballot papers, see-through ballot boxes and indelible ink as they are distributed over the countryside.\n\nIn far-off places with names like Bourem, Menaka and Djebock, voting will take place \"under supervision,\" officials said.\n\n\"The aim is to deter any interference by armed bandits, so that the return of peace is genuine in the north,\" one official told AFP.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 7 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 201, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 444, "end_char": 448, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thirty-five years", "start_char": 618, "end_char": 635, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P35Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 663, "end_char": 667, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 789, "end_char": 792, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 795, "end_char": 801, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 27", "start_char": 884, "end_char": 892, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1295, "end_char": 1299, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years ago", "start_char": 1529, "end_char": 1543, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1632, "end_char": 1636, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every month", "start_char": 1970, "end_char": 1981, "tid": "t12", "type": "SET", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0174.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0084\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 17 , 2006, 2006\n\nMalaysia's Anwar signals political return, warns of Islam debate\n\n\n\n\nMalaysia's ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim Sunday said debates over Islam's role in the nation had become divisive and \"worrying\", in statements marking his full-time return to politics here.\n\nThe comments from Anwar, who also said he will contest the next elections, come amidst growing tensions between Malaysia's majority Muslim Malays and minority Chinese and Indians.\n\n\"The worrying thing is the Muslims feel their position and their power, including the religious courts, are being eroded,\" Anwar told reporters on the sidelines of a forum of Muslim scholars and activists.\n\n\"The non-Muslims feel that they are being marginalised and discriminated against,\" he said.\n\nMalaysia is seen as a moderate Muslim-majority nation, but race relations have been strained by a series of controversial court cases involving the rights of Muslims and non-Muslims, and questions over which group takes precedence.\n\nThe government has banned activists from discussing religious rights and called on the media to stop highlighting race-related issues.\n\n\"We have come to the stage where it is considered to be unhealthy,\" Anwar said, asked about debates on the perceived Islamisation of Malaysia.\n\n\"The position by the prime minister and the government to deny the rights of non-Muslims ... or deny an open public discourse on the subjects ... have exacerbated the entire problem,\" he said.\n\nAnwar, 59, has criss-crossed betweeen Malaysia and overseas destinations since his release from prison in 2004 on sodomy and corruption charges, including the United States, where he was a professor with Georgetown University.\n\nBut Anwar, who returned permanently to Malaysia earlier this month, said he had finished his tenure and announced his full-time return to politics here.\n\nAsked if he will contest elections to be a member of parliament in late 2008, he replied: \"Of course. It's my right, which they used the courts to deny.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1614, "end_char": 1618, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1792, "end_char": 1802, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2008", "start_char": 1957, "end_char": 1966, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0084.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0209\n\nDOHA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nInjured Roslin to miss Doha's Asiad\n\n\n\n\nMalaysian shuttler Roslin Hashim was confirmed here on Wednesday to miss the upcoming Asia Games slated here for Dec. 1-15 due to an elbow injury.\n\nRoslin is nursing an elbow injury sustained at the Holland Open two weeks ago and he will be replaced by Wong Choon Han for the men's singles event, Abdullah Sani Karim, chef de mission of the Malaysian delegation told Xinhua by telephone.\n\nMalaysia king Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, who was scheduled to compete in the equestrian event of the Doha Asiad, also quit the Games due to a royal ceremony at home.\n\nSultan Mizan will be coronated as the 13th Yang di-Pertuan Agong on Dec. 13.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 149, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1-15", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 13", "start_char": 719, "end_char": 726, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0209.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0662\n\nLOS ANGELES, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details ///\n\n\n\n\nThe Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in the northwest US state of Oregon has settled with around 150 people claiming they were abused by priests, authorities said Monday.\n\nOregon District Court Judge Michael Hogan, who mediated in the case, said in a statement those seeking damages had dropped their lawsuits after agreeing settlement with church authorities.\n\nNo figure for the settlement was revealed and parties in the case have been forbidden from discussing the deal in public.\n\nThe Portland Archdiocese filed for bankruptcy protection in 2004 as it staggered under a 135 million-dollar lawsuit claiming sexual abuse by members of its clergy.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Church in the United States has been rocked by clergy pedophilia scandals in recent years.\n\nSeveral priests have been convicted and four dioceses have gone bankrupt after being ordered to pay huge civil penalties and interest.\n\nEarlier this month, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles said it had agreed to pay 60 million dollars to settle accusations by 45 people that they were sexually abused by priests.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 259, "end_char": 265, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 641, "end_char": 645, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 842, "end_char": 854, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this month", "start_char": 993, "end_char": 1011, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0662.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0496\n\nNEW DELHI, Dec 5 , 2005\n\noil-for-food scam\n\n\n\n\nThe Indian government was braced for a storm in parliament Monday after fresh allegations that the former foreign minister and the ruling Congress party were involved in a scam to profit from a UN oil-for-food deal in Iraq.\n\n\"We will be adopting an aggressive posture\" during the coming week in parliament, Vijay Kumar Malhotra, a leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said Sunday.\n\n\"We will insist on Natwar Singh's resignation from the union cabinet and Sonia Gandhi's resignation as chairperson of the National Advisory Council,\" a body that provides an interface between the government and civil society, Malhotra said.\n\nMalhotra's comments followed new revelations at the weekend by a former Indian ambassador and Congress insider that former foreign minister Natwar Singh and the Congress party got special vouchers to purchase oil cheaply from Baghdad in 2001.\n\nIn an interview with India Today magazine, Anil Matherani, India's former envoy to Croatia, said the Iraqis had rewarded Singh with an oil allotment for his \"personal service.\"\n\nMatherani, who said the comments were not for publication and taken out of context, worked closely with Natwar Singh in the Congress party before being posted as ambassador to Croatia. He was recalled to Delhi at the weekend after his revelations.\n\n\"The fact of the matter is that both allottees ... in my view are exactly the same ... one has been (given) to Natwar and the other one to the Congress party,\" Matherani told the national news weekly.\n\nSingh led a four-member team to Iraq in 2001 that included Matherani.\n\n\"One (was) for Natwar's personal services. Don't forget that he has been the one who has been espousing Iraq's cause.\"\n\nThe comments caused a furore in parliament late Friday and the opposition demanded afresh that Singh be dumped from his current role as cabinet minister without portfolio that was assigned during an investigation into oil-for-food allegations made in a United Nations report.\n\nSingh was also sacked from his post in the Congress Steering Committee, the party's highest decision-making body overnight, a decision taken in a meeting chaired by Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi, a Congress party spokesman said Monday.\n\nIt came after Singh, who has consistently denied any wrongdoing, refused to resign from his cabinet post Sunday.\n\nIn October, former US Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker said in a report to the UN that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's regime manipulated the oil-for-food programme to extract about 1.8 billion dollars in surcharges and bribes.\n\nVolcker named Singh as a beneficiary of four million barrels of Iraqi oil allotted to Zurich-based firm Masefield AG.\n\nCongress, India's oldest political party, is also listed as a beneficiary of a separate allotment of four million barrels of oil as part of the transactions.\n\nSingh has consistently denied any wrongdoing, as has the Congress party.\n\nBut the opposition, whose earlier campaign to embarrass the government in parliament through a discussion and vote fell through last week, seemed determined to capitalise on the opportunity presented by Matherani's revelations.\n\nPolitical analysts described the crisis as the biggest challenge yet for the Manmohan Singh-led government which completed one year in office in May.\n\n\"It's a very, very big problem for the government,\" said T.R. Ramachandran, bureau chief of the Tribune newspaper.\n\n\"The target (for the opposition) has shifted from Natwar Singh to Sonia Gandhi. Congress strategists are trying their best to deflect the flak from her,\" he said.\n\nAnother analyst Rashid Kidwai, who has written a biography of Sonia Gandhi, said the controversy had snowballed into a major crisis through \"inept handling.\"\n\n\"I do not think the party realised the gravity of the situation.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 465, "end_char": 471, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 764, "end_char": 775, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 953, "end_char": 957, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 1351, "end_char": 1362, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1629, "end_char": 1633, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1828, "end_char": 1834, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 1900, "end_char": 1907, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2289, "end_char": 2295, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2403, "end_char": 2409, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 2415, "end_char": 2422, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 3134, "end_char": 3143, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one year", "start_char": 3358, "end_char": 3366, "tid": "t15", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 3380, "end_char": 3383, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0496.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0051\n\nLONDON, Nov. 26 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUK to strengthen trade ties with China: official\n\n\n\n\nThe United Kingdom (UK) will seek a closer tie with China in its bid to make the country one of the leading business partner in the world of economic globalization, a senior trade official has said.\n\n\"China, with its massive influence in global trade, is of great importance to UK's trade and industry, which is trying to attract a new wave of high-value investment,\" Alistair Darling, Britain's secretary of sate for trade and industry, said in the weekend before his visit to China.\n\nDarling, who will visit Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong, is on his first ever trip to China's mainland. He, who will lead a 15-strong delegation, said that Sino-British trade ties will be strengthened through mutual investment, not only trade.\n\nThe UK, whose manufacturing industry has shrunk much during its economic structure readjustment in the past decades, finds that it has opportunities in helping China in fields like environment protection and power plant building.\n\nThe British trade and industry leader said that globalization provides a tremendous opportunity for both UK and China in which both countries could cooperate to curb climate change and improve bilateral trade.\n\nDarling was appointed Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, replacing Alan Johnson in the government reshuffle in May.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 555, "end_char": 566, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past decades", "start_char": 939, "end_char": 955, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1401, "end_char": 1404, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0051.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0266\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS congressman pleads guilty to bribe charges\n\n\n\n\nA US congressman pleaded guilty Monday to bribe charges that he sold his home to a defense contractor at an inflated price in 2003.\n\nIn a court hearing in San Diego, California, the 63-year-old Republican congressman Randy \"Duke\" Cunningham answered \"yes\" when asked by US District Judge Larry Burns if he had accepted bribes from someone in exchange for his performance of official duties.\n\nHe now faces a maximum of ten years in jail and a fine.\n\nProsecutors said two years ago, Cunningham and his wife sold their home for over 1.6 million US dollars to a defense contractor named Mitchell Wade and then used the proceeds from the sale to buy a 2.55-million-dollar mansion.\n\nA year later, Wade put Cunningham's old home back on the market and sold it for less than a million dollars.\n\nWade also let Cunningham live rent-free on his yacht while his firm, MZM Inc., donated generously to Cunningham's political campaigns.\n\nBy bribing Cunningham, Wade and MZM won several valuable defense contracts, since the congressman sits on the House Appropriations Subcommittee which controls defense budgets.\n\nCunningham, a former Vietnam War pilot who has been in Congress since 1991, announced in July that he wouldn't seek re-election next year.\n\nHe drew little notice outside his San Diego-area district before a local newspaper reported last June that he sold the home to Wade.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 148, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 240, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 505, "end_char": 508, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "ten years", "start_char": 528, "end_char": 537, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years ago", "start_char": 576, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "A year", "start_char": 787, "end_char": 793, "tid": "t6", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1280, "end_char": 1284, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1299, "end_char": 1303, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1338, "end_char": 1347, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last June", "start_char": 1442, "end_char": 1451, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0266.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0059\n\nSEOUL, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nUkrainian economy to grow 10 percent every year: Yushchenko\n\n\n\n\nUkraine's President Viktor Yushchenko told South Korean business leaders Tuesday his country would be one of the world's fastest growing economies in a year or two, expanding 10 percent every year.\n\n\"Within a year or two, Ukraine will be regarded as one of the world's fastest growing economies,\" Yushchenko told them, calling for investment in his country.\n\n\"Ukraine's economy will be stabilized shortly and grow more than 10 percent every year,\" he was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.\n\nStressing that international ratings have been upgraded from stable to positive, Yushchenko said Ukraine has emerged as one of the world's largest recipients of foreign investment.\n\nHe suggested the two countries engage in joint projects including in nuclear energy, aerospace and the defence industry.\n\n\"Especially, there is a lot of interest in the fields of aerospace and the defence industry,\" Yushchenko told a press conference later Tuesday, noting that the two countries signed two agreements in those sectors on Monday.\n\n\"This is a very significant development in bilateral ties,\" he said.\n\nAt a summit with President Roh Moo-Hyun on Monday, Yushchenko said Ukraine's experience in scrapping its nuclear arsenal could be helpful in defusing the standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes.\n\n\"The Ukranian side proposed to share the experience of its nuclear disarmament with the Korean side,\" a joint statement said.\n\nUkraine abandoned nuclear weapons in the 1990s in return for a collective security guarantee and economic assistance.\n\nRoh and Yushchenko welcomed the resumption of six-party talks in Beijing this week and called for \"substantive progress\" in the dismantling of North Korean nuclear weapons, the statement said.\n\nYushchenko arrived here Monday for a two-day state visit.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year or two", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 278, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 311, "tid": "t3", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year or two", "start_char": 322, "end_char": 335, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 550, "end_char": 560, "tid": "t5", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1050, "end_char": 1057, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1131, "end_char": 1137, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1253, "end_char": 1259, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1990s", "start_char": 1585, "end_char": 1594, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "199", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1740, "end_char": 1749, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1885, "end_char": 1891, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0059.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0214\n\nDOHA, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, details ///\n\n\n\n\nA second weightlifter from Myanmar has tested positive for drugs and has been stripped of her medal and disqualified from the Asian Games, the Olympic Council of Asia announced Monday.\n\nShe was named as Oo Mya Sanda, 29, who won the silver medal in the 75kg category.\n\nOo tested positive for a metabolite of an anabolic agent that helps athletes build muscle bulk and also hastens the recovery period after training. She waived her right to have her \"B\" sample tested.\n\nIt means that South Korea's Kim Soon now gets the silver and Indonesia's Sinta Darmariani is promoted from fourth to third. China's Cao Lei won gold.\n\nFellow Myanmar competitor Kyi Kyi Than, who failed to win a medal in the women's 48kg category, was disqualified on Saturday for failing a drugs test.\n\nUzbek weightlifters Elmira Ramileva and Alexander Urinov, in the women's 69kg and men's 105kg categories respectively, were tossed out of the Games on Sunday for doping offences.\n\nDespite drugs again blighting a major sporting event, Olympic Council of Asia director general Husain al-Musallem said given there had been more than 800 drugs tests here so far, four positives was not a bad percentage.\n\n\"We have conducted more than 800 tests and the percentage of positives is not high compared to other big events like this,\" he said.\n\n\"People complain about weightlifting, but weightlifting is a good sport. There are just some individual cheaters, or they have been given the wrong advice.\n\n\"We are fighting the cheaters. Hopefully in the future we can eliminate all cheaters.\"\n\nDespite the positive drugs tests, Musallem said the Games were \"in a good state\".\n\n\"Before, the positive cases were high and the testing levels low,\" he said.\n\n\"In Busan four years ago, we had under 1,000 tests and around 10 positive tests, while the number of sports was less and there was no pre-competition testing.\n\n\"In these Games, we will carry out 1,200 urine tests and around 50 blood tests. We also carried out 86 pre-competition tests.\"\n\nMusallem said the OCA had initiated a drugs awareness programme in 2004 in the run-up to the Games.\n\n\"Asia is divided into five regions, and we organised two-day briefings for NOC officials (in the respective regions) about the doping programme,\" including information on banned drugs and how to access that information.\n\nMusallem added that the OCA's own website would shortly launch a multilingual guide to the list of banned substances currently only available in English, in a bid to avoid any confusion.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 598, "end_char": 601, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 828, "end_char": 836, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1015, "end_char": 1021, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1600, "end_char": 1610, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Busan four years ago", "start_char": 1808, "end_char": 1828, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 2159, "end_char": 2163, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0214.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0073\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nprogram: ISNA\n\n\n\n\nIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that his country wants to have 100,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium, the Iranian Student's News Agency (ISNA) reported.\n\n\"We intend to have 100,000 centrifuges and, God willing, Iran will be able to meet its needs in nuclear fuel by next year,\" Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying.\n\nThe current Iranian year ends on March 20, 2006.\n\nThe Iranian president had said last week that Iran intended to launch 60,000 centrifuges in its nuclear program.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 120, "end_char": 126, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 365, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current Iranian year", "start_char": 416, "end_char": 436, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 20, 2006", "start_char": 445, "end_char": 459, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 493, "end_char": 502, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0073.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0363\n\nVIENNA, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nMozart piano score discovered in Salzburg\n\n\n\n\nA hitherto unknown piano score extremely likely to be by the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has been discovered in the composer's birthplace Salzburg, Austrian broadcaster ORF said on Wednesday.\n\nThe score's facsimile will be officially presented and played by clavichordist Florian Birsak on Friday, it said.\n\nSome time ago, the archives of the city's episcopal office were offered unsigned keyboard works, including an \"Allegro di Wolfgango Mozart\". Detailed tests led experts to conclude that the piece was indeed written by the master, when he was between six and 10 years old.\n\nA second score in the collection could also be by Mozart.\n\nMozart was born 250 years ago, and Austria has been abuzz with events marking the occasion all year long.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 281, "end_char": 290, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Some time ago", "start_char": 408, "end_char": 421, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six and 10 years old", "start_char": 657, "end_char": 677, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27T10:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "250 years ago", "start_char": 755, "end_char": 768, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1756", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "all year long", "start_char": 830, "end_char": 843, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0363.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0358\n\nCARACAS, Nov. 1 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nVenezuela, China sign satellite launch agreement\n\n\n\n\nVenezuela on Tuesday signed an agreement to purchase a satellite from China as part of a plan to guarantee its telecommunications autonomy, the Venezuelan government said.\n\nAt the signing ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez thanked China for the scientific and technological support, saying the satellite will help Venezuela develop its own industries of telecommunications, movies and TV, culture and education.\n\nThe satellite, named after Simon Bolivar, the famous South American independence hero, will be send into orbit in 2008, according to the Venezuelan Ministry of Science and Technology.\n\nThe satellite will provide telecommunications services to all parts of Venezuela, including scarcely populated areas that have never been reached by commercial communications firms.\n\nThe ministry said the satellite will also help in the early detection of natural disasters and be used to broadcast educational and information programs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 122, "end_char": 129, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 682, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0358.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0414\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nYankees sign Japanese pitcher Igawa to five-year deal\n\n\n\n\nThe New York Yankees unveiled Major League Baseball's latest Japanese import on Wednesday, announcing they have signed lefthanded pitcher Kei Igawa to a five-year contract.\n\nThe move comes less than two weeks after New York's American League East rivals Boston signed Daisuke Matsuzaka to a six-year, 52-million-dollar deal.\n\nFinancial terms were not disclosed, but the Yomiuri Shimbun reported two weeks ago that Igawa's contract is worth 20 million dollars.\n\nIgawa, 27, became the fifth Japanese player to come to the major leagues this offseason, joining Matsuzaka, Red Sox lefthander Hideki Okajima, Tampa Bay Devil Rays infielder Akinori Iwamura and Pittsburgh Pirates righthander Masumi Kuwata.\n\nThe Yankees earned exclusive negotiation rights with Igawa after posting a winning bid of 26 million dollars on November 28.\n\nThey had until midnight on Thursday to reach a contract agreement with Igawa, who otherwise would have returned to his Japanese club, the Hanshin Tigers.\n\nIgawa will likely join a starting rotation which already includes Mike Mussina, Andy Pettitte, Chien-Ming Wang and Carl Pavano. The Yankees reportedly are looking to trade 43-year-old lefthander Randy Johnson, who has underachieved in his two seasons in New York.\n\nIgawa went 14-9 with a 2.97 ERA for the Tigers last season. He recorded 197 strikeouts to lead the Central League in strikeouts for the third time in eight seasons.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "less than two weeks", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 320, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 507, "end_char": 520, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 28", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 937, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 967, "end_char": 975, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight seasons", "start_char": 1510, "end_char": 1523, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0414.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0219\n\nBAMAKO, Dec 4 , 2005\n\n///\n\n\n\n\nLeaders at a Franco-African summit have warned against some developments in world trade that are \"too liberal\", French President Jacques Chirac told reporters on Sunday at a closing news conference.\n\n\"We all warned against certain evolutions that are too liberal, which risk bringing satisfaction to rich countries and emerging countries in trade issues and notably agriculture, to the detriment of the poorest countries,\" Chirac said.\n\nThe 148-strong World Trade Organisation will at a December 13-18 ministerial meeting in Hong Kong, push for an agreement paving the way for a global trade pact to take effect next year.\n\nFour years of talks have largely stalled over the degree to which rich countries offer financial support to their agriculture sectors. France is the biggest recipient of EU farm subsidies.\n\nThe French leader, who gathered here with more than 20 African counterparts, plus officials from across the continent, also urged the international community to double public aid for development.\n\n\"We must, in general, double and bring to 150 billion (dollars) a year public assistance for development,\" he told reporters.\n\nBut he said this could not be achieved via state budgets alone, and insisted on the importance of innovative financing \"to raise this sum thanks to an international tax, of one form or another.\n\n\"It's vital.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 215, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 13-18", "start_char": 540, "end_char": 554, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 665, "end_char": 674, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Four years", "start_char": 677, "end_char": 687, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0219.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0043\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n(Beijing Olympics) Tickets for Beijing Olympics affordable for ordinary people\n\n\n\n\nThe Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG) Wednesday revealed details of the most affordable ticketing program in recent Olympic history.\n\nFifty-eight percent of the tickets for sale will be priced at or lower than RMB 100 yuans (about 13 US dollars). Among them, a significant portion will be available to students at less than RMB 10 (about one dollar and 30 cents).\n\nIn mapping out the program, BOCOG has evaluated the ticketing policies of previous Olympic Games and other major international meets, conducted consultations with experts in the field and made thorough marketing research.\n\nThroughout the process, the Organizing Committee has carried out its commitment to ensure the greatest number of people to enjoy the Olympic enthusiasm and to devote themselves to the national drive for a harmonious society.\n\nTherefore, the ticketing program reflects both the spirit of the Olympic Games and the hope of the host country, said BOCOG officials.\n\nUnder the ticketing policy, prices for preliminaries range from RMB 30 (about four US dollars) to RMB 300 (about 40 dollars), while the finals will be priced at RMB 60 (about eight dollars) to RMB 1,000 (about 130 dollars).\n\nThe lowest tickets for the opening ceremony will be priced at RMB 200 (about 26 dollars), with the highest at RMB 5,000 (about 650 dollars), and the cheapest for the closing ceremony will be at RMB 150 (about 20 dollars), with the highest at RMB 3,000 (about 400 dollars).\n\nIn line with the Olympic Education Program, BOCOG has also allocated a number of special tickets to encourage attendance from among China's youth. Those tickets for preliminaries will be available for students at RMB 5 (less than one US dollar) and for finals at RMB 10 (about one dollar and 30 cents).\n\nAbout 14 percent of the tickets available will be reserved for the Chinese students.\n\nTickets will become available in China in the first half of 2007.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 203, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first half of 2007", "start_char": 2046, "end_char": 2068, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0043.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0080\n\nMOGADISHU, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS, ADDS WFP suspends air operations ///\n\n\n\n\nHeavy fighting resumed in central Somalia Wednesday after retreating Islamist fighters opened fire on a force of government and Ethiopian troops, officials and residents said, as the conflict in the Horn of Africa nation entered its second week.\n\nHours after the UN Security Council failed to agree on the withdrawal of foreign troops, Islamists fighters in trenches near the town of Jowhar opened fire to stop Somali-Ethiopian troops from advancing further southwards.\n\n\"Very heavy fighting has erupted outside Jowhar. The Islamic forces say they will keep fighting,\" said Mohamed Abdi Ali, a resident of the town about 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of the Islamist-controled capital of Mogadishu.\n\n\"Ethiopians have not started using planes yet, but we do not rule that out,\" he added.\n\n\"Our Islamist fighters are showing strength, they are in their defensive positions. God willing we will drive back the Ethiopian invaders,\" said Islamist commander Sheikh Takow.\n\nFighting first erupted December 20 after the Islamists, who controled most of the country, demanded the departure of Ethiopian troops supporting the UN-backed, but feeble government.\n\nSomalia has been wracked by conflict since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.\n\nThe government Wednesday predicted Jowhar would fall as the allied Somali-Ethiopian forces consolidate their grip across the country's central and southern region with Islamic forces retreating.\n\n\"We expect to capture the town in the coming hours,\" said government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari.\n\nFleeing residents said rival sides deployed heavy artillery on the eighth day of duels that occurred 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Jowhar.\n\n\"This fighting is very heavy, I have never heard such weapons used in Somalia, my wife and children are asking me to take them from the village because of the heavy artillery and mortar shells,\" said one resident, Hasan Doyow Nur.\n\nThe Islamists have retreated from their frontlines and accused Ethiopian forces of massacring civilians in the name of killing foreign fighters believed to be supporting the movement.\n\nWitnesses said columns of Islamist forces had retreated to the heavily-fortified capital Mogadishu, where ruling clerics vowed to dig in for a long-lasting war with Ethiopian troops.\n\nThe Islamists said it was a \"tactical retreat\" that was forced by Addis Ababa's air assault on their positions.\n\nThe sustained clashes over the past week forced the UN World Food Programme to suspend its air operations and pull out its air-support staff.\n\n\"The WFP on Tuesday temporarily relocated two MI8 helicopters and 25 humanitarian workers from Kismayo to Nairobi,\" WFP spokesman Peter Smerdon told AFP Wednesday.\n\n\"The air operation had also become difficult because of an airspace ban into Somalia declared by the transitional federal government,\" he said.\n\n\"Therefore the helicopter operations and food airdrop from Antonov 12 into southern Somalia are currently suspended because of the airspace restriction,\" Smerdon said.\n\nHe emphasized the agency had suspended air but not land operations.\n\nOn Tuesday, Ethiopian Prime Meles Zenawi said his forces had killed more than 1,000 rival fighters, including Eritreans, forcing the Islamists to \"full retreat\", but added he was not aiming to take over Mogadishu.\n\nIn New York, the UN Security Council late Tuesday failed to agree on calling for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Somalia with key powers pressing for a ceasefire and a resumption of dialogue between warring Somali parties.\n\nWashington, which accuses the Islamists of links to Al-Qaeda, put its weight behind Addis Ababa, but called on its regional anti-terrorism ally to exercise \"maximum restraint.\"\n\nRegional peacemaker Kenya, which helped form the Somali government in 2004, asked Ethiopia to cease military 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0147\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMechanical failure suspends Hong Kong's unique Peak Tram service\n\n\n\n\nA mechanical failure struck Hong Kong's landmark Peak Tram during rush tourist hours Saturday, bringing the service to suspension and upsetting hundreds of travelers.\n\nThe accident occurred about 10:00 a.m. (0200 GMT) Saturday when about 100 tourists rode the centenarian tram from the mid-levels in Central District to the 500-meter height Victoria Peak.\n\nThe trapped tourists had to walk from the mountainside to the tram's starting terminal after it failed to restart. No one was hurt.\n\nIt took engineers six hours to fix the tram system and the Peak Tram company resumed service at about 4:20 p.m. (0820 GMT).\n\nTransport authority organized extra buses to help tourists climb to the peak for a bird's-eye sightseeing of the Victoria Harbor and entire Hong Kong.\n\nThe transport authority demanded the Peak Tram company to submit a report on the accident.\n\nBuilt in 1888, the Peak Tram was one of Hong Kong's must-see tourist areas for its picturesque landscape and unique angel of view.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10:00 a.m.", "start_char": 323, "end_char": 333, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 345, "end_char": 353, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "4:20 p.m.", "start_char": 719, "end_char": 728, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1888", "start_char": 995, "end_char": 999, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1888", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0147.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0332\n\nDOHA, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSouth Korea in Asiad volleyball\n\n\n\n\nDefending champion China crushed Vietnam Thursday in straight sets at the women's volleyball tournament here on Thursday to open its campaign for the seventh Asian Games title since 1978.\n\nThe reigning Olympic champion, in desperate need of a victory after a disappointing fifth-place finish at the 2006 World Championship in Japan, fielded a full-strength squad led by captain Feng Kun.\n\nThe Chinese spiker handed out a volleyball lesson to the Vietnamese peers with devastating spikes and powerful servings, ending the one-sided match 25-18, 25-9 and 25-10 in less than one hour.\n\nChen Zhonghe, China's head coach, was satisfied with his team, but kept a low-key on his expectations at the games.\n\n\"It's a challenge for China to play weaker teams. So, I asked my players to go all out in this match and they didn't let me down, \" said Chen.\n\n\"But at the first set, we had some serving errors, which left a 12-12 tie to Vietnam and that's what I hadn't expected,\" said Chen. \"Every match is the key match for us and now, we are concentrating on the preparations for the matches later.\"\n\nIn the following match of the day, South Korea rallied from two sets down to upset arch rival Chinese Taipei 3-2, revenging the 2- 3 loss to the latter at the World Championship.\n\nDue to a slow start and a string of service errors, South Korean, silver medalist of the Busan Asiad, lost the opening two sets 21-25 and 20-25, but came back to life and controlled the rhythm of the match's rest time, pulling it back 25-23, 25-19 and 15-9.\n\n\"I'm happy with the victory, but I'm not satisfied with my players at the beginning of the match. They moved too slowly,\" said Kim Myeong Soo, head coach of South Korea. \"We should focus on the next match against powerful China now. That is what I care about.\"\n\nLin Kuang Hung, head coach of Chinese Taipei, blamed the poor physical conditions and excessive serving and receiving errors of his team for the dramatic loss.\n\n\"The World Championship cost us dear and left little time for the recovery,\" said Lin. \"However, we should learn from the never- give-up spirit of the Koreans.\"\n\nIn another two matches of the day, Busan Asiad's bronze medalist Japan powered to a straight-set victory over Mongolia, while Thailand overshadowed Tajikstan 3-0.\n\nNine teams split into two groups to battle for the women's volleyball championship, with China, South Korea, Chinese Taipei and Vietnam playing in Group A and Kazakhstan, Japan, Thailand, Tajikistan and Mongolia in Group B.\n\nJapan, South Korea and Chinese Taipei were generally regarded as the major opponents of China at the Asian Games.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 202, "end_char": 210, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1978", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1978", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "less than one hour", "start_char": 652, "end_char": 670, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT1H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1107, "end_char": 1110, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20-25", "start_char": 1496, "end_char": 1501, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25-19", "start_char": 1600, "end_char": 1605, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15-9", "start_char": 1610, "end_char": 1614, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tajikstan 3-0", "start_char": 2350, "end_char": 2363, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0332.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0185\n\nJERUSALEM, April 17 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIsraeli army demolishes Palestinian homes, two shot in clashes\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli troops on Thursday demolished a second home in the Palestinian village of Surif on the West Bank where a curfew is in force in connection with last month's Tel Aviv suicide bombing, the army said.\n\nA first home was destroyed on Wednesday night belonging to Ibrahim Ghanimat, a member of a cell of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) accused of causing the deaths of 11 Israelis in a series of attacks.\n\nThe demolition sparked clashes with troops during which two villagers were shot and wounded as protesters took to the streets in violation of the curfew, hospital sources said.\n\nThe army sent in the bulldozers again on Thursday to tear down the home of Abdel Rahman Ghanimat, who like his namesake has been linked to the Islamic suicide bomber who killed three Israeli women in Tel Aviv on March 21.\n\nThe curfew on Surif, a town of 15,000 inhabitants, was imposed after the army discovered the body of a kidnapped Israeli soldier, Sergeant Sharon Edry, in the village last Thursday.\n\nThe HAMAS radicals were arrested on suspicion of involvement in Edry's murder and the 10 other deaths.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 17 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 360, "end_char": 375, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 758, "end_char": 766, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 21", "start_char": 929, "end_char": 937, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Thursday", "start_char": 1107, "end_char": 1120, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0185.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0085\n\nTOKYO, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nBulgaria captured their first medal in 20 years by beating Serbia and Montenegro to finish third in the men's world volleyball championships on Sunday.\n\nThe Bulgarian men, who have not won a medal since the 1986 worlds, coasted to a close 22-25, 25-23, 25-23, 25-23 victory over the 2000 Olympic champions.\n\n\"We are very happy, because after 20 years we received this medal. It doesn't matter (whether it's gold or silver), it's the bronze, but it's very important for us,\" said Bulgarian captain Plamen Konstantinov.\n\n\"Life is interesting, because yesterday it was the most disappointing day and today is the happiest day for us. We found power to win this game after yesterday's match.\"\n\nBulgaria's coach Martin Stoev said his team had bigger motivation than the Serbians, because they had not won a medal in the past 20 years.\n\n\"The Serbians won the Olympic gold medal, and they have medals from the European championships and the world championships. We didn't win anything in the last 20 years. That's why we had better motivation for today,\" said Stoev.\n\nIt was Bulgaria's fourth bronze medal in the world championships, following medals in 1949, 1952 and 1986. They also won the silver medal in 1970.\n\nIt was Serbia and Montenegro's last international tournament as a united team, since the countries declared their independence in June after a referendum in Montenegro.\n\n\"We came here with a big wish to have the best possible way to say goodbye to big international competitions with the name of Serbia and Montenegro. Also I think some of the players who will say goodbye to the national team deserved to win the medal,\" said Serbian coach Igor Kolakovic.\n\n\"Unfortunately we weren't strong enough to win the medal before we left the competition.\"\n\nIt was the last tournament for Vladimir Grbic, the elder brother of Bulgarian captain Nikola Grbic, who announced his retirement before the championships.\n\n\"This was his last tournament for the national team,\" admitted the captain. \"I also have to think about it, because I will become a father in a month. 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{"text": "WSJ891102-0006 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0006. \n Upjohn Offers\n@  Plan to Reduce\n@  Its Work Force\n@  ----\n@  By Bradley A. Stertz\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n UPJ \n DRUG MANUFACTURERS (DRG) \n KALAMAZOO, Mich.  \n\n   Upjohn Co. said it will offer an early retirement package to as many as 1,100 employees in a cost-cutting move expected to result in a fourth-quarter charge. \n\n   Upjohn officials said they could n't estimate the size of the charge until they determine which employees, and how many, will participate in the retirement plan. \nBut the pharmaceutical company said it \"anticipates the long-term savings resulting from the plan's implementation will more than offset short-term costs.\" \n\n   The program, available to Upjohn employees 55 years old or older, could increase an individual's retirement benefits 10% to 20%. \nIn addition, Upjohn is offering a one-time retirement bonus equal to six months of base pay. \n\n   Chairman Theodore Cooper called the program part of the company's two-year strategy to implement budget constraints and \"an effective headcount-control program.\" \n\n   But some analysts questioned how much of an impact the retirement package will have, because few jobs will end up being eliminated. \n\"It's a cosmetic move,\" said Jonathan S. Gelles of Wertheim Schroder amp Co. \n\n   According to Upjohn's estimates, only 50% to 60% of the 1,100 eligible employees will take advantage of the plan. \nUpjohn further estimated that about 50% of the employees who leave for early retirement may be replaced. \nAs a result, Upjohn will likely trim only about 275 to 350 of its more than 21,000 jobs world-wide. \n\n   In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange yesterday, Upjohn shares rose 87.5 cents to $38.875 apiece. \n\n   An Upjohn spokesman said he had \" heard nothing\" to suggest the early retirement package was spurred by shareholder pressure or a potential bidder for the company, which occasionally has been the target of takeover speculation. \nThe company earlier this year adopted a shareholder-rights plan to ward off unwanted suitors. \n\n   The spokesman said it is the first early retirement plan offered under its two-year cost-control strategy. \nEarlier staff-reduction moves have trimmed about 300 jobs, the spokesman said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t78", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "fourth-quarter", "start_char": 400, "end_char": 414, "tid": "t79", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1989-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t78"}, {"text": "two-year", "start_char": 1046, "end_char": 1054, "tid": "t190", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 1740, "end_char": 1749, "tid": "t92", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t78"}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 2046, "end_char": 2063, "tid": "t372", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t78"}, {"text": "Earlier", "start_char": 2241, "end_char": 2248, "tid": "t404", "type": "TIME", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t78"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0184.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0513\n\nPRETORIA, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nVirgin and Air France bid to buy S.Africa's Sun Air\n\n\n\n\nAir France, Malaysia Air and Britain's Virgin Atlantic Airways are among eight finalist bidders for South Africa's domestic Sun Air, Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau told journalists Tuesday.\n\nThe other finalists, out of an original 16 bidders, include various groupings representing combinations of domestic airlines, trade unions, financial institutions and black business consortiums, the minister said.\n\nVirgin has teamed up with six black empowerment groups, including the National Empowerment Corporation (NEC), which last year made headlines by purchasing a controlling share in Johnnic, the subsidiary investment firm of mining giant Anglo American.\n\nAir France and Air Malaysia have launched independent bids without local partners for Sun Air, a para-statal company created during the apartheid era.\n\nPresident Nelson Mandela's government launched an ambition privatisation programme in 1995, which culminated in the selling of a partial share of national Telkom to a group including Telekom Malaysia and Texas-based SBC Communications.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 304, "end_char": 311, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "era", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 929, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1018, "end_char": 1022, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0513.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0194\n\nCAIRO, April 5 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFormer Italian beauty queen claims to be last wife of Faruq\n\n\n\n\nA former Italian beauty queen has claimed she was married to Egypt's deposed King Faruq, drawing immediate denials here Saturday from an Egyptian historian and an authority on the late monarch.\n\n\"She definitely was not his wife. His mistress or a girlfriend but not his wife. I am one billion percent sure of that,\" Magdi Farag told AFP.\n\nThe government weekly Akhbar al-Yom, in a dispatch from Rome, quoted the former Miss Naples identified as Irma Capucci Minitolo, on Saturday as saying \"I was the wife of King Faruq.\"\n\n\"We exchanged private vows with God as our witness ... but we could not register our wedding officially. In Paris the king introduced me to his friends as his wife and said he will marry me officially once I converted to Islam,\" she told Akhbar Al-Yom.\n\nIrma said she was currently writing her memoirs to set the record straight about her \"matrimony\" with Faruq, who was reputed to like the good life and the company of beautiful women.\n\nIrma said she first met Faruq in Naples where her father ran the rowing club which boasted nobility among its members. She was only 7 and was chosen to present the royal couple with a bouquet of flowers. They met again in the Italian resort of Capri when she was 15 and it was love at first sight.\n\n\"I hit the ceiling when I saw it when I read this report,\" said Farag, a historian who specialises in modern Egypt and widely considered an authority on the royal family.\n\nFarag admitted that Irma and Faruq were linked. \"I have many photographs of her and the king. But he never married after he was sent into exile.\" Akhbar Al-Yom also printed several pictures showing Faruq and Irma.\n\n\"There are many impostors in this game. I meet at least two each year,\" Farag said.\n\nHe identified one of them as Egyptian Fuad Shedid, whom claims to be the illegitimate son of Faruq from a Jewish mistress.\n\n\"Shedid is very fat and smokes cigars like King Faruq. He makes sure he gets invited to low-level embassies and goes to restaurants where he pretends he's the king's son and gets away by not paying the bill.\"\n\n\"After all these years people are still trying to cash on him (Faruq). This is a shame,\" Farag said.\n\nThe monarchy was toppled in 1952 and Faruq went into exile in Italy, where he died in 1965.\n\nHe married twice, repudiating his first wife Farida and later married Nariman.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 5 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 587, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15", "start_char": 1340, "end_char": 1342, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1915", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each year", "start_char": 1823, "end_char": 1832, "tid": "t5", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "these years", "start_char": 2193, "end_char": 2204, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1952", "start_char": 2312, "end_char": 2316, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1952", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1965", "start_char": 2370, "end_char": 2374, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1965", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0194.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0180\n\nURUMQI, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n27 foreign drug traffickers arrested in Xinjiang this year\n\n\n\n\nTwenty-seven foreign drug traffickers have been arrested this year in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region amid China's efforts to prevent the influx of heroin from the \"Golden Crescent\" area of central Asia.\n\nThe 27 people came from Pakistan, Afghanistan and Africa, said Jin Peng, an anti-drug smuggling official with the region's public security department.\n\nThe regional police have cracked 13 drug trafficking cases involving 53.1 kilograms of heroin since last January, nearly three times the total of last year, according to Jin.\n\nAs Xinjiang is promoting trade with its eight neighboring countries, drugs from the Golden Crescent which includes parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran are \"pouring\" into China across the 5,400 kilometer-long border, Jin said.\n\n\"Drug trafficking gangs have created channels and set up a drug purchase, transport, storage and trade network in China,\" he said.\n\nLow prices and the high purity of the heroin has also encouraged drug traffickers to take the risk, Jin said.\n\nA two-week class began in the cities and prefectures of Urumqi, Kashi and Ili on Nov. 6 to educate policemen, custom officers, train staff and postmen about drug smuggling.\n\nIn April 2005, China launched a People's War on Drugs, calling on the public to help rehabilitate drug addicts and offering rewards for information that led to the arrest of traffickers.\n\nThe Chinese government also announced plans to support opium replacement planting abroad in the country's first bill on drug control which was introduced to the legislature in August.\n\nThe draft law also stipulates that Chinese police should share information with other countries and international organizations and enhance collaboration in drug smuggling investigations.\n\nSoutheast Asia's Golden Triangle, an area along the Mekong River delta, including Myanmar, Laos and northern Thailand, has been blamed for most of the country's drug-related problems.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 176, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last January", "start_char": 595, "end_char": 607, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 641, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 6", "start_char": 1226, "end_char": 1232, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2005", "start_char": 1322, "end_char": 1332, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 1683, "end_char": 1689, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0180.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0161 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0161. \n Montedison Bid for Erbamont \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n MNT ERB \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nDRUG MANUFACTURERS (DRG) \n NEW YORK  \n\n   Italian chemical giant Montedison S.p.A., through its Montedison Acquisition N.V. indirect unit, began its $37-a-share tender offer for all the common shares outstanding of Erbamont N.V., a maker of pharmaceuticals incorporated in the Netherlands. \n\n   The offer, advertised in today's editions of The Wall Street Journal, is scheduled to expire at the the end of November. \n\n   Montedison currently owns about 72% of Erbamont's common shares outstanding. \n\n   The offer is being launched pursuant to a previously announced agreement between the companies.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 73, "end_char": 81, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 483, "end_char": 488, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "the end of November", "start_char": 558, "end_char": 577, "tid": "t18", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-11", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 595, "end_char": 604, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "previously", "start_char": 708, "end_char": 718, "tid": "t21", "type": "TIME", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0032.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0367\n\nWELLINGTON, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNZ economy heads for a fall: OECD report\n\n\n\n\nNew Zealand's economy could be heading for a hard fall, a report by the organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Wednesday.\n\nNew Zealand local media NZPA quoted the report of the Paris- based organization as saying \"the economic growth rate was expected to fall to 2.8 percent in 2005, down from 4.4 percent last year.\"\n\nMonetary tightening by Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard had failed slow domestic demand growth, the OECD economic report said.\n\nThe OECD paper examined the rise in house prices, and current valuations against a range of benchmarks. It also reviewed the possibility of a correction of housing prices and real activity.\n\nBollard last month issued a severe warning of imbalances and \" significant excesses\" developing in the economy.\n\nThe report said New Zealand was an OECD country where the cost of housing and rent had risen much more rapidly than incomes.\n\nIn its May economic outlook, the OECD said New Zealand was one of the world's top performers over the past two years.\n\nWhile the economy was slowing down as higher interest rates took effect, it was heading for a soft landing, said the OECD report.\n\nNew Zealand Finance Minister Michael Cullen said Wednesday the latest OECD report on New Zealand should \"silence the clamor for tax cuts.\"\n\n\"I agree with the OECD that the current account deficit poses a potential risk to this outlook and that continued careful fiscal management is necessary to mitigate that risk,\" said Cullen.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 243, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 410, "end_char": 414, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 438, "end_char": 447, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 780, "end_char": 790, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1018, "end_char": 1021, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two years", "start_char": 1109, "end_char": 1127, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1310, "end_char": 1319, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0367.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0053\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFour Iraqis killed in two bomb attacks in Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nFour Iraqis, including a police commando, were killed and seven others wounded in two roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad on Monday, a police source said.\n\n\"A roadside bomb struck a police commando patrol at about 8:30 a.m. (0530 GMT) in Saidiyah district in southern Baghdad, killing a commando member and wounding three others,\" Ahmed Abdullah from Baghdad police told Xinhua.\n\n\"Another roadside bomb exploded at about 9:00 a.m. (0600 GMT) in the Camp Sarah area in southeastern Baghdad shortly after an Iraqi army convoy passed by,\" Abdullah said.\n\nThe blast destroyed a civilian car, killing three people and wounding four others, he added.\n\nInsurgents frequently target the fledgling Iraqi security troops, accusing them of collaborating with the US occupation forces.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 233, "end_char": 239, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "9:00 a.m.", "start_char": 529, "end_char": 538, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0053.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0031\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFarmers in Shanghai enjoy two-digit rise in income\n\n\n\n\nThe per-capita disposable income of farmers in Shanghai increased by 10 percent in the first three quarters of this year, thanks largely to accruement in housing rents, proceedings from land transfers and various forms of social welfare.\n\nFarmers' income in Shanghai, the economic hub of the country, went up 10.3 percent year-on-year to 6,998 yuan (863 US dollars) in the January-September period, according to the municipal rural work commission.\n\nThe growth rate was 0.7 percentage points higher than the year-earlier level, the source said, adding that Shanghai continued to rank first among China's provincial regions in terms of farmers' income over the past 10 years or so, the source added.\n\nOfficials with the commission owed the fast growth in farmers' income to the fact that more farmers began to work in enterprises which offer the farmers higher pay, in addition to the rise in housing rents and proceedings from land transfers.\n\nThe income growth was also attributed to increasing social welfare, including pension and funds for education and poverty relief as well as that for the handicapped and the low-income earners.\n\nSuburbs, covering more than 90 percent of Shanghai's total land area, have become a major propeller of the local economy, the commission said.\n\nThe rural areas realized 200 billion yuan (24.6 billion US dollars) in value-added output in the first three quarters, up 19.4 percent from the same period of last year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first three quarters of this year", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 233, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the January-September period", "start_char": 482, "end_char": 510, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 10 years or so", "start_char": 769, "end_char": 792, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first three quarters", "start_char": 1488, "end_char": 1512, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1554, "end_char": 1563, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0031.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061225.0285\n\nTOKYO, Dec 26 , 2006, 2006\n\nHerewith a corrected repetition ///\n\n\n\n\nJapanese core consumer prices rose by 0.2 percent in November from a year earlier, the government said Tuesday as deflationary pressure eases in the country.\n\nConsumer prices in November as a whole, including volatile prices of fresh food, rose 0.3 percent year-on-year, preliminary figures from the Ministry of Internal Affairs showed.\n\nThe December core consumer price index (CPI) for Tokyo alone -- the leading indicator for national price trends -- rose 0.2 percent from a year earlier.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 26 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 277, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 433, "end_char": 441, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 566, "end_char": 580, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061225.0285.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0286\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIOM to help internally displaced Sudanese return home\n\n\n\n\nThe International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday it had begun the registration of internally displaced Sudanese living in Khartoum who wants to return home after a peace agreement ended a 21-year-old civil war in the south.\n\nIn a statement issued in Nairobi, the organization said the registrations which will continue till next February, will allow the first rounds of organized returns to communities in southern Sudan, most likely next year.\n\nAbout 100,000 households with an average size of six people per family are expected to register.\n\n\"As well as registering those IDPs (internally displaced persons) in Khartoum state who want to return home, IOM is also providing information and material assistance to the displaced, including facilitating transportation to destinations in the south, \" it said.\n\n\"The Government of South Sudan and the United Nations have agreed that 150,000 people displaced in the north will be assisted through organized returns, with the IOM facilitating the transportation of 35,000 people,\" it added.\n\nAnother estimated 48,000 southern Sudanese IDPs, currently in southern Darfur and other states, will be assisted to go back home by the IOM between now and next July.\n\nAn estimated 4 million Sudanese are still displaced within their country as a result of the conflict in the south.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next February", "start_char": 457, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 567, "end_char": 576, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1318, "end_char": 1321, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next July", "start_char": 1326, "end_char": 1335, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0286.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0312\n\nLOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNigeria aims to export more gas to increase revenues\n\n\n\n\nNigeria aims to export more gas to increase revenues\n\nABUJA, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Nigerian government has planned to export more liquefied natural gas (LNG) to capture significant market shares in the world to increase the nation's revenues, a senior petroleum official said here on Friday.\n\nFunsho Kupolokun, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, told reporters that \"the strategy being adopted to capture the market will focus on growing the LNG market and gas export pipelines.\"\n\nHe said a project carried out by the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) \"has attracted over 3.6 billion (U.S.) dollars revenues to the country,\" adding that part of the money had been reinvested for further growth and the country's gas sector.\n\nAccording to him, the NLNG will contribute a whopping 20 percent of Nigeria's gross domestic product (GDP) by 2007.\n\nKupolokun said Train 5 of the country's LNG project was commissioned in December 2005 and the Train 6 was slated for being commissioned in 2008, with the growth forecast for the NLNG capacity of about 30 million tons annually by 2012.\n\nHe said the West African Gas Pipeline project would be commissioned by the end of the first quarter of 2007.\n\nThe official also disclosed that two additional regional pipelines were under evaluation including the supply to Equatorial Guinea.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 3", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 402, "end_char": 408, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2005", "start_char": 1080, "end_char": 1093, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1147, "end_char": 1151, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2012", "start_char": 1237, "end_char": 1241, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the first quarter of 2007", "start_char": 1315, "end_char": 1351, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0312.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0446\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nFBI focusing on lawyer as leak source in BALCO case: report\n\n\n\n\nFBI agents are focusing upon defense attorney Troy Ellerman as the source of leaks of grand jury testimony linking Barry Bonds and other top athletes to steroids, Yahoo Sports reported Friday.\n\nLarry McCormack, who worked as an investigator on the BALCO steroids case, told the website that Ellerman has been the subject of an FBI probe. McCormack said he was based in the same office as Ellerman at the time of the leaks.\n\nMcCormack told he performed investigative work on behalf of BALCO founder Victor Conte and said he told the FBI Ellerman relayed confidential grand jury information to a San Francisco Chronicle reporter in 2004.\n\n\"I felt it was wrong,\" McCormack said of the leaks. \"I said it was wrong from the get-go.\"\n\nGrand jury testimony, which was to remain secret, was published in the Chronicle and the words of Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and sprinter Tim Montgomery were used to link them to the steroid scandal.\n\nThe Chronicle reporters, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, wrote a book on the BALCO scandal. They face longer prison sentences for refusing to reveal the source of the leaked testimony than any served by the five men convicted in the BALCO scandal.\n\nMichael Rains, the attorney representing Bonds, told Yahoo he does not believe Ellerman leaked grand jury information or transcripts, saying Ellerman would not have had access to some information reported by the Chronicle.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 753, "end_char": 757, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0446.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0310\n\nKABUL, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - INSERTS Taliban claim of responsibility ///\n\n\n\n\nA bomb exploded Friday near the building where Afghanistan's parliament will meet next week for the first time in three decades, killing an apparent suicide attacker and wounding two passers-by.\n\nThe bomb was in a car and exploded about 500 metres (1,650 feet) from the building where parliament is scheduled to open on Monday, killing the driver who appeared to be a suicide bomber, a government official said.\n\nThe bloodied and shredded remains of the dead man were flung about 50 metres off the road, which was strewn with metal and glass shards of the destroyed vehicle.\n\n\"It's believed to have been a suicide attack that was not able to make it to a potential target -- we believe it exploded prematurely,\" interior ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai told AFP.\n\n\"The bomb was placed in a pressure cooker. The driver has been killed and two passers-by were wounded,\" he said, blaming the attack on the \"enemies of Afghanistan\" -- a term used to refer to insurgents, including from the Taliban government ousted in 2001 in a US-led invasion.\n\nA Norwegian vehicle in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force that patrols the heavily fortified capital was slightly damaged in the blast, ISAF said.\n\nIt was unclear if the ISAF convoy was the target of the blast, a spokesman said. ISAF patrols in the city were hit by two suicide blasts on November 14 which killed a German soldier and eight Afghans. Police blamed Taliban insurgents and their Al-Qaeda allies.\n\nA purported spokesman for the toppled Taliban said one of the movement's fighters had carried out Friday's attack, which he claimed had been intended for the parliament building.\n\n\"The attack was carried out by one of our mujahedin (holy warriors),\" Mohammed Hanif said by telephone.\n\n\"The actual target was the parliament building but when he saw lots of security outside, he changed his target to the NATO convoy,\" he said.\n\nAnother man who often contacts the media claiming to be a Taliban spokesman warned earlier that the parliament, elected in September in the first general legislative election since 1969, would become a target of the insurgency.\n\n\"The parliament has been made up by invader Americans. They want to impose it on Afghans,\" said Qari Mohammad Yousuf Ahmadi.\n\n\"We'll attack them as we attack the government and invading American infidels,\" he said by telephone.\n\nThe United States launched the attack that removed the Taliban from power after the hardliners refused to hand over Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden for the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington.\n\nTaliban rebels are mostly active in southern and eastern Afghanistan with the insurgency leaving more than 1,500 people dead this year. There has been an upsurge in Taliban-blamed suicide attacks in the past weeks, with about 10 since late September.\n\nThe violence has cast a shadow on the war-scarred country's attempts to moves towards democracy, a key step being the election for the parliament to meet on Monday.\n\nPresidential spokesman Karim Rahimi said there may be some \"disturbances\" related to the sitting of the new parliament but this would not affect the quest for democracy.\n\n\"We believe that the process that the majority of the people of Afghanistan have chosen -- going towards democracy, having a parliament -- that will continue, despite some problems. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0327\n\nTALLINN, Dec 7 , 2005\n\nEstonia protests further alleged air space violation by Russia\n\n\n\n\nEstonia has protested to the Russian authorities after a Russian military plane breached the Baltic state's air space in the fifth such violation this year, officials said Wednesday.\n\n\"A Russian military transport An-26 entered Estonian airspace without permission Tuesday,\" the Estonian defence forces said in a statement.\n\n\"The plane, flying towards Kaliningrad, entered Estonian airspace near the island of Vaindloo in the Gulf of Finland.\"\n\nThe Russian plane, which posed no threat to civilian air traffic, was picked up on the radar of the Estonian Air Sovereignty Centre and left the Baltic state's air space after it was contacted by Estonian officials.\n\nKaliningrad is a heavily militarised Russian enclave which lies to the south of the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which joined NATO last year.\n\nNATO member countries take turns patrolling the skies of the Baltic states, which were incorporated into the Soviet Union after World War II and regained independence in 1991.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 7 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 259, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 385, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 931, "end_char": 940, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1113, "end_char": 1117, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0327.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0207\n\nGAZA, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPalestinians slam Israeli call to end UN mandate in Gaza\n\n\n\n\nSenior Palestinian officials on Tuesday slammed an Israeli call to suspend activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip.\n\nHatem Abdel Qader, a Palestinian legislator, told reporters that Israel attempts to end the UNRWA's mandate to remove the issue of refugees and their right of return.\n\nHe said the international community should pay close attention to the issue of Palestinian refugees and work to alleviate their sufferings.\n\nIsraeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom called on the UNRWA to transfer its mandate to the Palestinian National Authority and end its activities in the Gaza Strip.\n\nMeanwhile, Sami Mushasha, a spokesperson for the UNRWA in Jerusalem, said Shalom's request was a personal one and the UNRWA has rejected his request.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0207.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0222\n\nLONDON, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBritish output prices fall by 0.1 percent in March\n\n\n\n\nA surprise fall in factory gate prices here in the month of March may mask inflationary pressures in Britain's dominant service sector, economists said on Monday.\n\nBritish output prices, or the price of goods at the factory gate, showed their sharpest fall since September 1986 in March, when they fell by 0.1 percent from the figure for February. Output prices rose by 1.0 percent on a 12-month comparison, official figures showed.\n\nThese figures were slightly lower than analysts had expected. The market median forecast was for output prices to rise by 0.2 percent over the month and to rise by 1.3 percent on a 12-month comparison.\n\nEconomist at the HSBC James Capel trading house, Adam Cole, said that the data -- which is only applicable to the manufacturing sector -- covers just 20 percent of the British economy.\n\n\"The weakness of the manufacturing sector has been well documented, while it is the strength of the service sector which is giving cause for concern with regard to the build up of inflationary pressures,\" Cole said.\n\nBritish inflation figures will be published on Thursday. Economists said that they would also pay close attention to average earnings and unemployment data which was due to be published on Wednesday.\n\nInput prices, or the cost of raw materials for industry, showed their sharpest fall since December 1986 and fell by 0.5 percent in March from the figure for February. On a 12-month comparison, input prices fell by 7.7 percent .\n\nThe fall in prices was higher than analysts had forecast. The market median forecast was for input prices to rise by 0.3 percent over the month and to fall by 6.5 percent on a 12-month comparison.\n\nIn February, factory-gate prices had risen by 1.3 percent on a 12-month comparison. Input prices fell by 6.5 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the month", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 264, "end_char": 270, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 1986", "start_char": 372, "end_char": 386, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1986-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 395, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 455, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the month", "start_char": 682, "end_char": 691, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1196, "end_char": 1204, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1338, "end_char": 1347, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 1986", "start_char": 1440, "end_char": 1453, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1986-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1481, "end_char": 1486, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1507, "end_char": 1515, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the month", "start_char": 1713, "end_char": 1722, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1780, "end_char": 1788, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0222.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0598\n\nGENEVA, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAung San Suu Kyi calls for action to restore democracy\n\n\n\n\nBurmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday urged the international community to denounce the escalating human rights violations in Burma and restore the democracy snatched away by the ruling military junta.\n\n\"There are hardly any human rights which have not been violated by this military regime. And we need strong action from the international community to put an end to these constant violations of basic human rights,\" Aung San Suu Kyi said.\n\nShe further asked the international community to implement a general assembly resolution, calling for the restoration of democracy in Burma.\n\n\"Our political rights are getting fewer and fewer by the day. There are more restrictions, more repression, the autorities seem determined to crush any kind of political movement,\" the opposition leader said in a video message, smuggled out of Burma and delivered to the 53rd session of the annual session of the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva.\n\nThe European Union is expected to present a resolution condemning Burma to the commission.\n\nLast month, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Burma denounced arbitrary executions, torture, forced labour, deportation, rape and the general climate of fear under Burma's ruling junta.\n\nThe junta in 1990 cancelled the election victory of the opposition National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi.\n\nThe opposition leader accused the government of persecuting its opponents, their sympathisers and their families through economic pressure and carrying out arrests on the basis of trumped up charges.\n\nFor the past three months, all of her visitors have been filtered by the military and she said access is often denied to diplomats and foreign journalists.\n\nAung Sang Suu Kyi urged the United Nations to ensure that the UN human rights rapporteur to Burma should be authorised to travel to the country and she further called for the establishment of a human rights surveillance group.\n\nLastly, she called on Thai authorities to welcome refugees driven out by the Burmese army's offensive against ethnic minorities carried out earlier this year.\n\nShe is anxious that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees should have access to the approximately 100,000 refugees that the Thai authorities are preparing to send back to Burma following an agreement with the ruling military.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 765, "end_char": 772, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last month", "start_char": 1164, "end_char": 1174, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 1375, "end_char": 1379, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three months", "start_char": 1690, "end_char": 1711, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 2211, "end_char": 2228, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0598.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0235\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nS. African rand steady\n\n\n\n\nThe South African rand was steady in late trade on Monday despite a weaker euro, supported by two-way trade and a stronger gold price which was at a 18-year high.\n\nAt 15:40 (1340 GMT), the rand was bid at 6.5160 per dollar from Friday's close of 6.4940 and Thursday's close of 6.5011.\n\nIt was bid at 7.6386 to the euro from Friday's close of 7.6163 and Thursday's close of 7.6875 and at 11.1090 against sterling from a previous 11.1052 and Thursday's 11.2023.\n\nTraders said that gold, which seems once again to be eyeing the key 500 US dollars per ounce level, would lend support to the local currency.\n\nAt 15:40 (1340 GMT), gold was quoted at 495.60 dollars a troy ounce, having earlier traded at an 18-year high of 499.14 dollars per ounce.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 140, "end_char": 146, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 317, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 413, "end_char": 419, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 442, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday's 11.2023", "start_char": 529, "end_char": 547, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2023", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0235.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0143 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0143. \n Dividend News:\n@  AEP Industries Inc. \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n AEPI \n DIVIDENDS (DIV) \n\n   AEP INDUSTRIES Inc. directors authorized a 3-for-2 split of the common, payable Dec. 7 to stock of record Nov. 22. \nThe split was aimed at boosting the stock's liquidity, said Brendan Barba, chairman of the Moonachie, N.J., maker of plastic film products. \nAfter the split, the company will have more than 4.7 million shares outstanding. \nIn national over-the-counter trading yesterday, AEP shares closed at $21.25, down 50 cents.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 83, "end_char": 91, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 7", "start_char": 228, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-12-07", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}, {"text": "Nov. 22", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 261, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-22", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 524, "end_char": 533, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0752.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0135\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese father \"prolongs\" son's life by organ donation\n\n\n\n\nA father from Shenzhen has donated all of his dying son's organs in an attempt to make his son's life more meaningful and memorable.\n\nWhen 17-year-old Xia Chao Ming was diagnosed with an incurable galloping tumor in his head, his 48-year-old father Xia Yueyan decided to donate his son's organs. Initially, the shocked family could not agree but Xia's perseverance and persuasion finally made them change their minds.\n\n\"His eyes will still be shining and we will feel his heart beating if his organs remain alive somewhere in this world after his death\", Xia Yueyan said.\n\nXia added that his son's life would be more meaningful and \"prolonged\" as more people would remember him.\n\nThe Xia family left their farmland in Yuanjiang of China's central Hunan province and opened a small restaurant in Shenzhen just a year ago. Xia Yueyan decided to donate his son's organs to the Shenzhen branch of the Red Cross Society and entered his son's name on the donation agreement after a long conversation with him.\n\nXia Chaoming agreed to his father's decision and said it was the right thing to do as he could not do enough to pay back his parents and society.\n\nMany people sent money to Xia's family after media exposure and were declined. \"Money is irrelevant. We are donating the organs not selling them\", Xia said.\n\nChina is suffering a serious shortage of human organ donations as many Chinese believe that their body are their parents' flesh and blood and few are willing to donate their organs after death.\n\nAccording to a recent report, about 1.5 million patients in China need organ transplants each year, but only around 10,000 operations can be carried out due to organ shortages.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 925, "end_char": 935, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each year", "start_char": 1710, "end_char": 1719, "tid": "t2", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0135.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0174 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0174. \n Crossland Savings Stock Plunges as Firm\n@  Recommends Suspension of Dividends\n@  ----\n@  By Udayan Gupta\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CRL \n DIVIDENDS (DIV)\nFINANCIAL, ACCOUNTING, LEASING (FIN)\nEARNINGS (ERN) \n NEW YORK  \n\n   Crossland Savings Bank's stock plummeted after management recommended a suspension of dividend payments on both its common and preferred stock because Crossland may not meet the new government capital criteria effective Dec. 7. \n\n   In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Crossland closed at $5.25, down $1.875, a 26% decline. \n\n   A spokesman said the savings bank may not qualify for the capital requirements because, under the proposed guidelines, its $380 million of preferred stock does n't meet the \"core capital\" criteria outlined under the new Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989. \nHe added that final guidelines to be published in early November will determine whether the bank is in compliance. \n\n   Crossland said it retained three investment bankers to assist it in developing and implementing a financial restructuring plan. \nIt would n't identify the bankers. \n\n   Additionally, Crossland reported a third-quarter loss of $175.5 million, or $13.44 a share, compared with net income of $27.1 million, or $1.16 a share, a year ago. \nA major factor in the third-quarter loss was the write-down of $143.6 million of goodwill. \n\n   The spokesman said that the proposed guidelines caused Crossland to revise its business objectives and, consequently , to write down the asset value of some previous acquisitions. \nCrossland recorded an additional $20 million in loan loss reserves in the third quarter. \n\n   Net interest income for the third quarter declined to $35.6 million from $70.1 million a year ago. \nHowever, non-interest income rose to $23.5 million from $22 million. \nThird-quarter loan originations dropped sharply to $663 million from $1 billion a year ago. \n\n   Standard amp Poor's Corp. lowered the rating on Crossland's preferred stock to double-C from single-B-minus and placed it on CreditWatch for possible further downgrade. \nIt also placed on CreditWatch for possible downgrade other securities, including the double-B-minus/B rating of Crossland's certificates of deposit and the single-B rating of its senior subordinated capital notes. \nAbout $518 million of debt is affected.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 203, "tid": "t84", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 7", "start_char": 543, "end_char": 549, "tid": "t85", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-12-07", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t84"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 608, "end_char": 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0066\n\nLONDON, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nMacquarie makes formal offer for LSE\n\n\n\n\nAustralian investment group Macquarie Bank made a formal cash offer of 580 pence per share for the London Stock Exchange on Thursday, valuing the LSE at about 1.5 billion pounds (2.2 billion euros, 2.7 billion dollars).\n\nLast week, the LSE had rejected an informal offer from Macquarie Bank which valued the stock market operator at 1.48 billion pounds, describing it as \"derisory\".\n\nThursday's offer was made before a December 15 deadline set by the British Takeover Panel for Macquarie Bank to make a formal bid or walk away.\n\nMacquarie said that if its bid succeeded, the LSE would continue to be regulated solely by the Financial Services Authority. The exchange would continue to be managed in London.\n\nThe Australian group said one week ago that it had approached the LSE, the biggest equity market in Europe, over bid talks and indicated that it would be prepared to offer 580 pence per share in cash.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 219, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 471, "end_char": 479, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 15", "start_char": 506, "end_char": 517, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one week ago", "start_char": 821, "end_char": 833, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0066.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0028\n\nDOHA, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIraq makes second stage of 15th ASIAD soccer with Jordan, Syria and Kyrgyzstan\n\n\n\n\nJordan slashed a pounding 13-0 victory over Macao of China and Iraq drew 0-0 with Syria here Friday in the final preliminary round of the soccer tournament in the Doha Asian Games.\n\nIraq and Jordan, with seven and five points respectively, have become the winners of two groups to qualify for the next stage.\n\nSyria, together with Kyrgyzstan which tied with Tajikistan 2-2 earlier on Friday, is also able to stay in Doha as runner-up of Gruop B.\n\nAccording to the newest rule issued by the Asian Games organizer,the runners-up are to take the berths of the next round in the tournament because Turkmenistan and Yemen had withdrawn from the Games.\n\nDespite finishing on the same points with Jordan and Kyrgyzstan in Group A, Tajikistan fall out on goal difference due to Kyrgyzstan's three-goal superiority.\n\nHowever, as the best third-placer, the middle Asian side still saw a glimpse of hope if Iran was banned from the game.\n\nAccording to news reaching here, the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) announced a decision earlier to suspend the Iran Association from all international games.\n\nTill now, no official advice has been received from the Asian Football Conference about Iran's suspension or what changes would be made to competition, said the official website of the 15th Asian Games.\n\nIn another uneventful game in Group A, Singapore drew with Indonesia 1-1 and both were eliminated form the competition.\n\nThe eight teams must play this preliminary round because they had not competed in the 2002 Asian Games soccer tournament.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 236, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next stage", "start_char": 430, "end_char": 444, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 521, "end_char": 527, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1255, "end_char": 1258, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0028.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0126\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFrench minister praises China's efforts to prevent bird flu\n\n\n\n\nChina's approach to its fight against the bird flu is \"resolute and comprehensive\", said Xavier Bertrand, the French Minister of Health and Solidarity, Tuesday during his two-day visit to Shanghai.\n\n\"The Chinese government has a very full, clear understanding on the importance of containing the pandemic and the general public here have not shown an unnecessary sign of panic,\" Bertrand said.\n\nHe said both Chinese and French governments have taken prudent measures in preventing bird flu, adding that China has made great efforts to share information with the rest of the world.\n\nBertrand was invited by the Chinese Ministry of Health to kick off his first official visit to China on Nov 21. During the two-day visit, he discussed a range of issues on the topic of bird flu prevention and control with his Chinese counterpart Gao Qiang.\n\n\"China and France have a long history of cooperation in the medical field and the two sides will continue to promote medical exchanges in the future,\" Bertrand said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov 22 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov 21", "start_char": 807, "end_char": 813, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1099, "end_char": 1109, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0126.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0240\n\nBONN, April 5 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nKinkel slams Ankara after criticism of deadly fire\n\n\n\n\nGerman Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel has blasted Ankara for its fierce criticism of Germany following a fire there in which three Turkish people died that was initially blamed on racists.\n\nKinkel told the weekly Welt am Sonntag to be published Sunday that \"megaphone diplomacy conducted in the gutter\" could only \"destroy relations nurtured over a long period.\"\n\nHe also called on Ankara not to exacerbate difficulties in German- Turkish relations.\n\nThe Turkish press and government reacted furiously to the fire, which occurred on March 31 in the western city of Krefeld, plunging Turkish- German relations to a new low.\n\nA 41-year-old woman, her 19-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son were killed in the blaze.\n\nOn Thursday an angry exchange between the two countries reached a peak when Turkish Interior Minister Meral Aksener accused Germany of trying to \"burn\" Turks out of the country.\n\nHowever investigators found no evidence of a racist or political motive for the deadly blaze, and on Friday the woman's husband, Aziz Demir, 42, was arrested and charged over the incident.\n\nPolice said he was apparently angry that his wife was planning a divorce.\n\nKinkel stressed that Turkey and Germany were \"very important partners for each other\" and said that Turks were living in Germany as \"well- regarded fellow citizens.\"\n\n\"We are a country that likes foreigners,\" he said.\n\nGerman legislators also criticised Ankara.\n\nCornelia Schmalz-Jacobsen, a deputy of the Free Democratic Party, warned that Turkey's \"premature\" judgement could have negative consequences for relations between the two countries.\n\nIn an interview in the daily Neue Osnabruecker Zeitung on Saturday she said that politicians should \"watch their language.\"\n\nCem Ozdemir, a member of parliament for the opposition Greens party who is of Turkish origin, told the weekly Bild am Sonntag that Ankara's reaction \"not only damages official relations between Germany and Turkey\" but also \"puts pressure on daily life\" between members of the two communities.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 5 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 350, "end_char": 356, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 31", "start_char": 638, "end_char": 646, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 833, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1102, "end_char": 1108, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1771, "end_char": 1779, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0240.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "nyt_20130321_cyprus\n\n2013-03-21\n\nFor Euro Zone, a Cyprus Exit Would Have Little Impact\n\n\n\nA Cyprus exit from the euro union, if it comes to that, would have a devastating effect on the country's citizens, who are among the most indebted in the euro zone. And for European unity and diplomacy, the Cyprus debacle has already been at least a short-term disaster.\n\nut for the broader financial system in Europe, the losses resulting from a Cypriot banking collapse and the country's return to its former currency would be minimal compared with the havoc that Greece would have created had it not been bailed out.\n\nAnd that, economists and investors contend, is why Germany and its Dutch stalking horse, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, the president of the Eurogroup of finance ministers, were so adamant that depositors - large and small, Cypriot and Russian - contribute 5.8 billion euros ($7.5 billion) toward the 10 billion euro bailout of Cyprus's largest banks.\n\nGreece may well have been too big to fail last year, but Cyprus, which creates less than one-half percent of the euro zone's gross domestic product, is certainly not.\n\nFrom a financial standpoint, what is most noteworthy is that the combined debt of the Cypriot people, companies and government is 2.6 times the size of the country's gross domestic product. Only Ireland, still struggling to recover from the banking collapse that required an international bailout in 2010, has a higher debt-to-G.D.P. ratio among euro zone countries.\n\nAs debts in Europe mount in inverse proportion to the ability of its citizens, companies and governments to make good on them, the view is forming in Berlin and Brussels that a signal must be sent that citizens and investors must start accepting losses for the euro zone to survive in the long run.\n\n\"There have been too many bailouts in Europe; it's time to remove the air bags,\" said Stephen Jen, a former economist at the International Monetary Fund who runs a hedge fund in London. \"This is not a Lehman,\" he said, referring to the disastrous chain reaction touched off by the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008.\n\nEric Dor is a French economist who has studied the mechanics of how a country might remove itself from the monetary union. By his calculations, the euro zone - through its central banking system and its national banks - has just 27 billion euros in outstanding credit exposure to Cyprus. That is a mere rounding error compared with the euro zone G.D.P. of 9.4 trillion euros.\n\nEstimates of the potential cost if Greece had been forced into a disorderly euro exit have ranged from 200 billion euros to 800 billion euros, given the larger exposure that the European Central Bank and European banks had to the country.\n\n\"This explains why Germany and others are putting so much pressure on Cyprus,\" said Mr. Dor, head of research at the Ieseg School of Management in Lille, France. \"They are saying we can take the risk of pushing Cyprus out of the euro zone, and that Europe can take the losses without going broke.\"\n\nMr. Dor notes that the current euro zonewide system of insuring bank deposits up to 100,000 euros was put in place after the financial panic that followed the Lehman collapse. Those deposits are supposed to be insured by national governments.\n\nSo when the president of Cyprus admitted this week that his country did not have the money to backstop the 30 billion euros of guaranteed bank deposits - a figure greater than the Cypriot economy itself - a crucial bond of trust between a government and its citizens was snapped.\n\n\"It is the first time ever that the leader of a euro zone country has admitted that he could not afford to pay the guarantee,\" Mr. Dor said.\n\nA hasty expulsion from the euro zone would make the savings of the Cypriot people all the more evanescent, once they are converted back into Cypriot pounds, the currency Cyprus used before adopting the euro in 2007.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "2013-03-21", "start_char": 21, "end_char": 31, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 996, "end_char": 1005, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1422, "end_char": 1426, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 2102, "end_char": 2106, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 3310, "end_char": 3319, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-W12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 3902, "end_char": 3906, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "nyt_20130321_cyprus.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0102\n\nPARIS, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nPolice swoop in Paris region nets 20 to 30\n\n\n\n\nBetween 20 and 30 people were arrested early Monday in the Paris region under an investigation into the funding of Islamist extremists, officials said.\n\nInvestigators believe some of the detainees are active in organised crime and have carried out armed robberies to raise money for Islamist groups, the officials said.\n\nThe suspects were under surveillance for several weeks and were detained after evidence emerged that \"violent actions\" were being planned, the officials added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20", "start_char": 100, "end_char": 102, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1920", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Monday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 143, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several weeks", "start_char": 454, "end_char": 467, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0102.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0035\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTokyo stocks end higher\n\n\n\n\nJapan's key stock index rose for the eighth straight trading day Monday to set a new five-year closing high as export-oriented high-tech and auto maker issues attracted buying on the dollar's rise to near the 120 yen line.\n\nThe 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 202.65 points, or 1.37 percent, to 14,986.94, its highest close since 15,168.68 was registered on Dec. 13, 2000.\n\nThe Tokyo Stock Price Index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange climbed 13.76 points, or 0.90 percent, to 1, 543.43, setting its highest finish since 1,543.63 was marked on Aug. 28, 2000.\n\nMizuho Trust  Banking was the day's volume leader, down 6 yen to 383 yen.\n\nSoftbank was the most heavily traded issue by value. It rose 470 yen to 9,830 yen.\n\nTrading volume on the TSE's main section came to 2,046.45 million shares against Friday's 2,264.31 million shares.\n\nExport-related issues gained and bank, oil and mining issues were the major decliners.\n\nAdvancing issues outnumbered decliners 975 to 595, with 93 shares ending unchanged.\n\nThe TSE's Second Section index rose 39.27 points, or 0.86 percent, to 4,602.64 on a volume of 142.00 million shares. In Osaka, the near-term December Nikkei 225 index futures contract surged 190 points to 14,970.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "day Monday", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "SET", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 13, 2000", "start_char": 445, "end_char": 458, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 28, 2000", "start_char": 654, "end_char": 667, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000-08-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 910, "end_char": 916, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0035.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0634\n\nWEST PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nWilliams sisters did not break contract: lawyer\n\n\n\n\nThe Williams sisters did not breach a 2001 contract for an unplayed tennis tournament because the promise to play was a letter signed by their father and not the tennis stars, their lawyer said at the close of a trial here Wednesday.\n\n\"There is no contract which my clients entered into,\" Malcolm Cunningham told a jury of eight at the close of a nine-million-dollar lawsuit brought by two promoters for breach of contract. The first trial was annulled a year ago.\n\nThe jury withdrew and was expected to arrive at a verdict as soon as Thursday.\n\nAt the heart of the lawsuit is a written promise their father, Richard Williams, signed for the appearance of his daughters Venus and Serena in a 2001 tournament, billed as the battle of the sexes. The event never took place and the plaintiffs say the Williams sisters reneged on their promise.\n\nCunningham maintained that what the promoters's lawyers called a \"valid and binding contract\" was simply a letter of introduction to the private company that handles the sisters' business.\n\nThe so-called contract, the lawyer told the jury, \"was signed by Richard Williams, not Venus Williams, not Serena Williams ... this letter is not a contract.\"\n\nHe went on to say that the Williams sisters signed their own contracts and that neither was aware of what their father had done.\n\n\"There's simply no evidence here that Venus and Serena Williams did something wrong here. They simply did not know,\" Cunningham said.\n\nA lawyer for the promoters, who claim they lost nine million dollars by cancelling the tournament, maintained the tennis stars' father was involved with all aspects of his daughters' careers.\n\nRichard Williams negotiated their contracts and signed documents in their names, said John Romano who showed the jury a video in which Williams said his daughters were aware of all his business deals.\n\nRomano also showed tax returns filed by Williams showing he was paid two million dollars by his daughters for his training and administrative services.\n\n\"An income tax return didn't authorize Richard Williams\" to make deals on behalf of his daughters, replied Cunningham.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 49, "end_char": 62, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 345, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 575, "end_char": 585, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 657, "end_char": 665, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0634.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0089\n\nPAPEETE, April 4 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBlack pearl is jewel in the Polynesian crown\n\n\n\n\nExports of French Polynesian black pearls rose 46 percent in 1996 against the previous to become the jewel of the French territory's economy, officials said Friday.\n\nThe 750 million francs (135 million dollars) earned from the pearls made up 90 percent of the value of French Polynesia's exports, according to the territorial economy minister, Georges Puchon.\n\nHe added that a tripling of the pearl industry exports in the next 10 years could bring the trade account into surplus. The territory currently exports about 850 million francs worth of goods but imports around five billion francs of goods.\n\nJapan takes around two thirds of the pearls, with the United States, Hong Kong and Singapore the other main markets.\n\nSome 87,000 black pearls from the Tuamotu and Gambier islands were to be put on show in Papeete on Friday and Saturday before being auctioned. Around 145 lots will be offered to around 50 foreign wholesalers and jewelers and 30 local buyers.\n\nProducers hope to make 35 million francs from the auction, against 17 million francs last year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 4 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 266, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 10 years", "start_char": 522, "end_char": 539, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 598, "end_char": 607, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 923, "end_char": 929, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1152, "end_char": 1161, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0089.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0124\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMalaysia stock market closes higher\n\n\n\n\nShare prices on Malaysia stock market closed higher on Wednesday.\n\nAt the closing bell, the benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) gained 4.01 points to 1007.29.\n\nThe Second Board Index dropped 0.74 of a point to 87.03, the Industrial Index rose 23.43 points to 2119.66 and Mesdaq edged down 0.29 of a point to 115.50.\n\nLosers led gainers 419 to 389 while 322 counters traded unchanged.\n\nVolume stood at 984.13 million shares worth 1.274 billion ringgit (344.32 million U.S. dollars), up from 875.15 million shares worth 1.22 billion ringgit (330 million U.S. dollars on Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 679, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0124.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0248\n\nKHARTOUM, Dec 10 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details on AU observers ///\n\n\n\n\nTwenty-two civilians were killed in a weekend attack in western Sudan which the government blamed on Darfur rebels and which threatened to deepen the crisis in the war-torn region.\n\nThe latest violence erupted as US envoy in Sudan Andrew Natsios stepped up efforts to persuade Khartoum to accept a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force for Darfur.\n\nAfrican Union spokesman Nureddin Mezni said 22 civilians were killed and 10 wounded on Saturday when gunmen ambushed a vehicle in Sirba, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north of Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state.\n\nMezni did not identify the attackers but said an investigation would be launched into the attack.\n\nThe governor of West Darfur said the attack was carried out by rebel groups who refused to sign the May peace agreement reached between Khartoum and the main faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement.\n\n\"The raid was perpetrated by the rebels from the National Redemption Front, who are committed to a military escalation,\" interim governor Mohammed Yusef al-Tulib was quoted as saying by the state-run SUNA news agency.\n\nHe also provided a lower casualty toll of 15 dead and 14 wounded, saying the attack targeted a bus carrying 34 civilians near the border with Chad.\n\nEight AU observers, who were sent to investigate the incident, and their helicopter crew were held for 24 hours by an angry crowd near Sirba, the African body said.\n\nLocal residents insisted the AU team take pictures of the bodies and prevented them from flying out. The observers were eventually released unharmed on Sunday.\n\n\"Our team was freed,\" Mezni told AFP.\n\nThe incident comes as the fragile alliance between Khartoum and the dominant faction of the SLM was closer than ever to breaking point.\n\nAccording to the United Nations, at least 200,000 people have died from the combined effects of war and famine since the fighting erupted in February 2003. Some sources put the toll much higher.\n\nThe African Union, whose 7,000 military observers in Darfur have struggled to contain the nearly four-year-old violence, said two civilians were killed on Saturday in El-Fasher, the largest town in Darfur.\n\nThe latest incident in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state and the main base for AU troops, came a week after five people were killed in fighting between SLM former rebels and pro-government forces.\n\nSLM chief Minni Minnawi threatened to quit the government over what he said were repeated attacks by the Janjaweed militia abetted by the regime of President Omar al-Beshir.\n\nThe UN Security Council in August adopted a resolution calling for the deployment of 20,000 UN peacekeepers in Darfur, but Beshir has so far rejected such an option as well as proposals for a \"hybrid\" AU-UN force.\n\nNatsios arrived in Khartoum on Saturday in a bid to soften Khartoum's stance on peacekeepers and met Foreign Minister Lam Akol on Sunday.\n\n\"Natsios came with the idea that Sudan had a uncompromising stance and hadn't accepted everything that was decided in Abuja,\" foreign ministry spokesman Ali Sadek told reporters after the meeting.\n\n\"So we explained that have indeed accepted that the command of the African force be decided in consultation with the government, the AU and the UN,\" he said, in reference to an AU meeting held earlier this month in Abuja.\n\nThe spokesman said Khartoum had also accepted the principle of some logistical UN support to African Union forces in Darfur.\n\nDuring his trip, Natsios is expected to visit the southern city of Malakal -- where violent clashes broke out last month -- as well as the disputed central territory of Abyei.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 543, "end_char": 551, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 870, "end_char": 873, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 hours", "start_char": 1442, "end_char": 1450, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT24H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1657, "end_char": 1663, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2003", "start_char": 1983, "end_char": 1996, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 2193, "end_char": 2201, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "week", "start_char": 2353, "end_char": 2357, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 2656, "end_char": 2662, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 2875, "end_char": 2883, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2974, "end_char": 2980, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this month", "start_char": 3374, "end_char": 3392, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 3640, "end_char": 3650, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0248.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0287\n\nLJUBLJANA, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nOSCE fails to agree joint declaration\n\n\n\n\nThe 55 member states of the OSCE failed Tuesday to agree a joint declaration at a ministerial meeting here, instead issuing a statement by the current holder of its rotating presidency, Slovenia.\n\nThe statement was issued by the conference chairman, Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel.\n\nThe move followed Russia's refusal to acknowledge a 1999 commitment to withdraw troops from Georgia and Moldova.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 233, "end_char": 240, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0287.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0293\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua Mideast news summary at 2200 GMT, Nov. 8\n\n\n\n\nA lawyer for ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's codefendants was killed and another injured when gunmen opened fire at their car in Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.\n\n\"Unknown gunmen opened fire at a car carrying the two defense lawyers in al-Adil district in western Baghdad, killing Adel Muhammed Abbas and wounding Thamir Hmoud Hadi,\" police officer Col. Ali Muhmoud told Xinhua. (Iraq-Saddam-Lawyers-2nd Lead)\n\nKHARTOUM, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- A British aid worker working for the International Aid Services (IAS) was ambushed and shot dead by armed men in southern Sudan, a spokesman of IAS said on Tuesday.\n\nAndreas Zetterlund said three members of its staff aboard a vehicle were ambushed Saturday by a group of armed men while they were traveling from Kaya in Uganda to Yei, a town in southern Sudan. (Sudan-Attack)\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Tuesday rejected a recent statement issued by the European Union (EU) which urges Tehran to fully suspend activities related to uranium enrichment before the two sides resume the stalled bilateral nuclear talks.\n\nIranian chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani Tuesday rejected the EU call to stop the uranium conversion facilities and condemned the EU for having gone extremes and adopting journalistic hype toward the Iranian nuclear issue, the official IRNA news agency reported. (Iran-Nuclear)\n\nGAZA, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Mahmoud al-Zahar, a prominent leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday called on ruling Fatah movement to step down from the authority if its unable to solve its internal problems.\n\nAl-Zahar told reporters that Fatah movement is not responsible for all Palestinians, adding that the pursuit of a Palestinian state is not strictly in the hands of that movement. (Palestinians- Hamas)\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Visiting UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday that the international organization is interested in pushing forward the Middle East peace process at all tracks.\n\nAnnan, who arrived here late Monday, made the remarks at a press conference after talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit. (Egypt-Annan-Mideast)\n\nDAMASCUS, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- A senior Syrian official said here Tuesday that the country would keep its firm stances and deal with mounting international pressure against Damascus in an objective and flexible way.\n\nInformation Minister Mahdi Dakhlullah made the remarks to reporters in a statement following a weekly cabinet session.\n\n\"The pressure against Syria is due to its rejection of occupation, aggression and hegemony policies in this region and in any part of the world,\" Dakhlullah told the reporters. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0214\n\nAMMAN, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: Iraq's Maliki arrives in Amman for talks with Bush\n\n\n\n\nIraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki arrived here Wednesday for talks with U.S. President George W. Bush on ways to halt violence in his war-torn country.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 176, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0214.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0150\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIDF chief of staff rejects findings of inquiry on soldiers' capture\n\n\n\n\nIsrael Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Dan Halutz on Sunday rejected some of conclusions formulated by a commission of inquiry investigating the abduction of two IDF soldiers on the Lebanese border in July, which led to a recent war with Hezbollah.\n\nDuring a meeting of the IDF General Staff, Halutz said that some of criticisms by the commission, headed by Major General Doron Almog, were baseless.\n\nAlmog lashed criticism at the policy of restraint employed by the IDF in recent years, saying that it failed to curb the growing forces of Hezbollah on Lebanon's border with Israel.\n\nEarlier in the day, IDF Galilee Division Commander Brigadier General Gal Hirsch decided to resign from his position amid criticism of his performance prior to and during the month-long war with Hezbollah.\n\nHirsch hinted in his letter of resignation to Halutz that his superiors should take responsibility for failures made during the war, causing speculation that the comments may be aimed at Halutz himself.\n\nHirsch also said that he had acted appropriately before and during the war, and he has decided to leave the army because of the anguish caused to his family by recent events.\n\n\"I believe that placing divisional commanders at the focus of the investigation of the fighting was a grave error,\" Hirsch wrote in the letter.\n\n\"I believe that it would be right to conclude that concrete responsibility for the errors, the missteps, and the failures, falls not only on the forward units and their commanders -- there is responsibility that truly should be taken by senior echelons,\" he said.\n\nAlmog, who is expected to present his findings later in the day to Defense Minister Amir Peretz, has said recently that he insisted that Hirsch be dismissed from the IDF over his responsibility for the abduction.\n\nIn the aftermath of the war, there have been public calls for resignations of Israeli political and military leaders, including Halutz, Peretz and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 336, "end_char": 340, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent", "start_char": 357, "end_char": 363, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 609, "end_char": 621, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 1771, "end_char": 1778, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0150.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0534\n\nSHANGHAI, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nShanghai police raid home of another underground priest\n\n\n\n\nShanghai police have raided the home of a second underground Catholic priest carting away money and religious items, a US-based pressure group said Wednesday.\n\nThe Cardinal Kung Foundation said in a statement faxed here that six public security officials searched the home of Father Zen Caijun on March 29 for five hours and took away cash, a video casette recorder, religious videos and other electrical goods.\n\n\"The raid consisting of six policemen started in the late evening March 29 until early morning of March 30, lasting about five hours,\" the statement said, adding that no reason was given for the search and no receipt issued for the goods seized.\n\nAn official of the municipal religious affairs bureau said that they knew of the incident.\n\n\"This is a secretive matter. We cannot talk about this to the public because it involves many different opinions,\" she said.\n\nA public security bureau official said the police were unable to comment on the statement.\n\nBut Shanghai police did say that on March 24 they had taken similar action against Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang, coadjutor of the underground Roman Catholic Church. They declined to provide details.\n\nThe Stamford, Conneticut-based Cardinal Kung Foundation said police took away 20,000 yuan (2,500 dollars), bibles, rosaries, religious medals and books.\n\nFan, 79, is coadjutor bishop in the absence of the Vatican-appointed Bishop of Shanghai, Cardinal Ignatius Kung, who left Shanghai in 1988 to seek medical treatment in the United States where he remains today.\n\nThe Roman Catholic Church was driven underground after the Chinese government formed its own Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association in 1957. The official church is still seeking Vatican recognition.\n\nOn Sunday, US House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gringrich and Australian Prime Minister John Howard attended Easter service at an official protestant church in Shanghai.\n\nGringrich said it was a \"wonderful thing to be able in Shanghai to be celebrating the resurrection of Christ and to worship with Chinese, Australian and with others.\"\n\n\"And I think it is a good sign, we want to encourage that kind of openess,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 263, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 29", "start_char": 412, "end_char": 420, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five hours", "start_char": 425, "end_char": 435, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT5H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 29", "start_char": 594, "end_char": 602, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early morning of March 30", "start_char": 609, "end_char": 634, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five hours", "start_char": 650, "end_char": 660, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT5H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 24", "start_char": 1121, "end_char": 1129, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 1573, "end_char": 1577, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1957", "start_char": 1785, "end_char": 1789, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1957", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1853, "end_char": 1859, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Easter", "start_char": 1963, "end_char": 1969, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0534.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0206\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nWorld Bank offers assistance to Indonesia for overcoming bird flu\n\n\n\n\nPaul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank and former US ambassador to Indonesia, has offered assistance to Indonesia to overcome bird flu epidemic that has so far killed 14 people in the country.\n\n\"President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Saturday received a telephone call from World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz who conveyed 'Happy Idul Fitri' greetings and congratulated him on his first anniversary as president. The two later discussed two issues namely cooperation to overcome bird flu and reconstruction process in Aceh,\" presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal said here on Tuesday.\n\nPresident Yudhoyono welcomed the offer of assistance among others compensation for farmers whose poultry would be culled to prevent the spread of the bird flu, Antara news agency quoted the spokesman as saying.\n\n\"It will be followed up. Of course there will be compensation and other things. It is still being studied,\" he said.\n\nThe bird flu virus H5N1 is reported to have killed 63 people in four countries and has led to the culling of 150 million poultry across the world.\n\nRegarding Aceh reconstruction Dino said President Yudhoyono had explained to Wolfowitz that the Indonesian government was focusing efforts especially on development of infrastructural facilities and houses for refugees now still in camps.\n\nOver 220,000 people were killed after the province was hit by the December 26 tsunami last year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 372, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 709, "end_char": 716, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1416, "end_char": 1419, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 26", "start_char": 1503, "end_char": 1514, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1523, "end_char": 1532, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0206.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0152\n\nKINSHASA, April 19 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nHopes of Mobutu-Kabila talks stumble over rebel demands by Mario Fiorito\n\n\n\n\nHopes of direct talks between Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila receded Saturday, as demands that Mobutu quit immediately enraged his entourage and damaged prospects of a face-saving exit.\n\nMobutu's special advisor said Friday the president had agreed in principle to meet Kabila at the request of South African President Nelson Mandela.\n\nBut, as the rebels insist the only negotiations they will agree to must be on the manner of his departure, and given the differences on a ceasefire that still divide the warring sides, the chances of an encounter appear remote.\n\nMobutu's aide, Honore Ngbanda Nzambo, told a news conference Friday that Mobutu had accepted Mandela's invitation for talks, but practical details on time and date remained to be sorted out.\n\nLater Friday, the Zairean government called for a \"complete and immediate cessation of hostilities.\"\n\nMandela's spokesman was more confident, saying Mobutu could meet Kabila in Cape Town \"in the first part of next week, probably on Monday or Tuesday.\"\n\nHowever, that supposes a sudden climbdown on the part of Kabila who, with his forces already in control of half the nation and most of its vast mineral resources, can call the shots.\n\nKabila has not yet confirmed that he will meet Mobutu, who the rebels have continually called on to resign throughout their six-month campaign.\n\nOn Friday, rebel \"foreign minister\" Bizima Kahara restated that position, saying \"Mobutu must quit power\" and \"no ceasefire is possible before the end of the war,\" nor would the rebels ever share power.\n\n\"We will not stop hostilities, we want an end to the war. We cannot sign a ceasefire with mercenaries,\" he added, stating that both negotiations and the military option were open to the rebels.\n\nNgbanda rejected any suggestion that Mobutu should relinquish his 32-year rule or go into exile, but said there was agreement between the two sides on free and fair elections open to all, including the president.\n\nCancer-stricken Mobutu, 66, has resolutely clung to power despite the rebel onslaught and announced he may stand if presidential elections are held.\n\nGiven his long autocratic hold on power, the rebel demands -- coupled with hints from capitals around the world that he should resign -- must be hurting Mobutu's pride.\n\nKabila meanwhile continues to threaten to take Kinshasa by June, but says he will spare the lives of expatriates, as if hinting they could be hostages. The rebels say they are 200 kilometres (125 miles) from the capital, although diplomats put them further away.\n\n\"What difference is there for Zaire between Mobutu and Kabila,\" a diplomat here asked Saturday.\n\n\"Kabila must understand that routing the Zairean army is one thing, it is not difficult, but colliding with the powerful machinery of the international community is another matter altogether.\"\n\nThe diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity, also voiced a rumour that has already surfaced in Kinshasa -- the presence of a total of 4,000 Belgian, British, French and US soldiers in neighbouring countries to evacuate foreign nationals if necessary.\n\n\"He (Kabila) should ask wy the West has placed so many of your best troops around Zaire ... to evacuate less than 3,000 people.\"\n\nKabila himself was due to hold a public meeting on Saturday in Lubumbashi, Zaire's second city and its economic hub, which was captured by the rebels 10 days ago, the rebels' Voice of People radio station reported.\n\nAt the end of the morning, local people were starting to converge on foot on the stadium, still named after Mobutu.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 19 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 238, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 386, "end_char": 392, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 795, "end_char": 801, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 932, "end_char": 938, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 1135, "end_char": 1144, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday or Tuesday", "start_char": 1158, "end_char": 1175, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1511, "end_char": 1517, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2500, "end_char": 2504, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 2791, "end_char": 2799, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 3434, "end_char": 3442, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 days ago", "start_char": 3533, "end_char": 3544, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the morning", "start_char": 3602, "end_char": 3624, "tid": "t15", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0152.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0035\n\nSEOUL, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS reported torture deaths ///\n\n\n\n\nNorth Koreans who risk imprisonment and torture to flee the impoverished Stalinist state also face repatriation if caught by China and a hostile reception if they reach South Korea, rights activists said Thursday.\n\nMarcus Noland and Andrei Lankov, two of the co-authors of a new report, urged Beijing and Seoul to alleviate the plight of the refugees, estimated to number between tens to hundreds of thousands.\n\n\"Everybody wants North Koreans to die quietly without making too much noise,\" said Lankov, a professor at Seoul's Kookmin University.\n\nWith six-party talks on scrapping North Korea's nuclear programme set to resume Monday, Noland said it was understandable the nuclear issue received attention.\n\nBut human rights issues would also have to be dealt with eventually if the North were to integrate with the world, and silence did not encourage better behavour by Pyongyang.\n\n\"People have treated North Korea with kid gloves and the result has been a missile test and a nuclear test,\" Noland, a senior fellow of the Institute for International Economics in Washington, told a press conference.\n\nThe report by the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea is based on interviews with more than 1,300 refugees hiding in China.\n\nNoland said Pyongyang's \"systematic denial of human, civil and political rights combined with economic incompetence\" and food shortages were the cause of the refugee crisis.\n\nBut China's response was \"harassment, arrest and forced return -- as many as 200 a week in some periods,\" he said.\n\nThe report urges China to honour its international obligations to refugees and to stop maintaining -- despite \"incontrovertible evidence\" to the contrary -- that the North Koreans are economic migrants.\n\n\"Its obstinacy has blocked what would otherwise be a massive international response in the form of assistance and protection.\"\n\nThe report urges Beijing to allow the establishment of temporary refugee resettlement camps, together with third-country commitments to accept the North Koreans for permanent resettlement.\n\nIt says almost 10 percent of interviewees had previously been in prison or labour camps and a majority of the ex-prisoners had witnessed hunger-related deaths or deaths due to torture.\n\nA few also reported cases of infanticide involving mixed-race babies of women who became pregnant while in China.\n\nThe report terms South Korea's \"increasingly unwelcoming\" attitude to the refugees as \"shamefully\" ambivalent despite the tiny numbers who finally reach the South -- around 10,000 in the past half-century.\n\nNoland said Seoul should insist that its embassies and consulates do their utmost to help refugees, who often take tortuous journeys via Mongolia, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries.\n\nIt should also consider reinstating substantial financial payments to refugees to prevent them falling prey to criminal trafficking gangs, he said.\n\nSeoul feared jeopardising its \"sunshine\" engagement policy with the North and also saw refugees as an economic burden, Lankov said. Those who were accepted faced discrimination and problems finding jobs.\n\nBut Lankov argued that they should be seen as the \"advance guard\" of the inevitable eventual reunification of the peninsula after the North's system collapsed.\n\n\"The experience of living with them will be very helpful when living with not 10,000 but 24 million.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 304, "end_char": 312, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 727, "end_char": 733, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past half-century", "start_char": 2634, "end_char": 2655, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0035.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0624\n\nLONDON, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBritish mercenary returns home from Papua New Guinea\n\n\n\n\nBritish mercenary boss Tim Spicer, freed in Papua New Guinea on the eve of his trial for illegal firearms possession Tuesday, arrived back in Britain late Wednesday.\n\n\"It feels great to be home,\" said Spicer at London's Heathrow airport, adding he would be holding a press conference Thursday.\n\nSpicer, carrying only hand luggage and a book, was met by a driver in a limousine and was understood to be on his way to a reunion with his wife Catherine and children, Sam, Jessica and Francesca at their home in south London.\n\nThe inquiry into the PNG government's hiring of Spicer's Sandline International mercenary group heard allegations Thursday that Spicer was detained by PNG soldiers because he was planning to commit atrocities on the war-torn island of Bougainville.\n\nBrigadier General Jerry Singirok, sacked commander of the PNG Defence Force who made the accusations, sparked a military rebellion last month by demanding the sacking of prime minister Sir Julius Chan for hiring Sandline for 50 million kina (36 million dollars).\n\nThe tensions spilled over into several days of unrest on the streets of Port Moresby.\n\nChan has since stepped aside while a commission of inquiry under Justice Warwick Andrew investigates.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Wednesday", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 394, "end_char": 402, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 747, "end_char": 755, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1014, "end_char": 1024, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several days", "start_char": 1178, "end_char": 1190, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0624.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0254\n\nVATICAN CITY, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nPope distressed over 'unlawful' Chinese ordination\n\n\n\n\nPope Benedict XVI learned with \"deep distress\" of the \"unlawful\" ordination of a Chinese bishop without papal approval, the Vatican said in a statement on Saturday.\n\nChina's state-run Catholic Church on Thursday ordained Wang Renlei, 36, as Bishop of Xuzhou in the eastern province of Jiangsu. He became the fourth bishop ordained in China this year without the blessing of the Vatican.\n\nThe ordination \"is the last of these unlawful ordinations of bishops which have been tormenting the Catholic Church in China for dozens of years\", the Vatican's statement said.\n\n\"(They) create divisions within the diocesan community and trouble the religious sentiments of many priests and worshippers.\"\n\nThese \"extremely serious\" acts are the consequence \"of a vision of the Church which does not correspond to the Catholic doctrine and which is opposed to the fundamental principles of its hierarchical structure\", the statement continued.\n\nThe ordination was announced at the start of the week by China's Catholic Church.\n\nThe Vatican warned of severe sanctions in canonical law for such ordinations but did not say whether Xuzhou's case fell into this category.\n\nIt praised the majority of Chinese priests and believers for maintaining strong faith links with Rome.\n\nChina's millions of Catholics are divided between a \"patriotic\" church, with around four million faithful, and a clandestine church following the Vatican, with around 10 million believers.\n\nThe ordination of three Chinese bishops without Vatican approval in the spring led the pope to denounce a \"serious violation of religious freedom\". This was despite discussions between Beijing and the Vatican aimed at normalising bilateral relations, which were broken off in the early 1950s.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 267, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 452, "end_char": 461, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the week", "start_char": 1088, "end_char": 1096, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the spring", "start_char": 1629, "end_char": 1639, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-SP", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the early 1950s", "start_char": 1837, "end_char": 1852, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "195", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0254.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0058\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 31 , 2006, 2006\n\nCricket: McGrath has plenty still to offer, says Clark\n\n\n\n\nStuart Clark has urged his retiring mentor Glenn McGrath to help the Australian team with his vast playing experience when he quits the game.\n\nMcGrath and Shane Warne will play their final Test matches in Tuesday's fifth Ashes Test against England at the Sydney Cricket Ground, although McGrath, 36, plans to continue until the one-day World Cup in the Caribbean before calling it quits.\n\nClark has been a revelation in his first eight Test matches taking 42 wickets, half of them in the Ashes series.\n\nThe seam bowler believes McGrath would be too useful a resource to be lost to Australian cricket once he retires.\n\nClark said he learned the art of fast bowling from studying McGrath at close hand.\n\nThe two have been team-mates at club, state and national level and have similar bowling actions. They also share the ability to find good bounce and movement off the seam, and maintain accuracy.\n\n\"He's retiring from Australian cricket but I don't think he'll be lost to Australian cricket,\" Clark told reporters here Sunday.\n\n\"There's a lot of knowledge in that 13-year career so we'll be doing everything we can, whether it's for Australia or for NSW, to be keeping him around the team.\"\n\nClark said McGrath and Warne were irreplaceable, but he was focused on forming a strong, lasting new ball partnership with Brett Lee.\n\nLee and Clark bowled impressively in the fourth Test, where their combined 11 wickets helped Australia beat England by an innings and 99 runs.\n\n\"Partnerships in bowling work like batting, if you get a good one it can lead the whole team into a good position in any Test match,\" Clark said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 31 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 316, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1130, "end_char": 1136, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0058.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0316\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st LD: U.S. economy grows at 2.2 percent in third quarter\n\n\n\n\nThe U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.2 percent in the July-to-September period, better than the initially estimated 1.6 percent pace, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.\n\nThe rate of expansion in gross domestic product was stronger than the 1.8 percent pace that economists had forecast, but less than half the blistering 5.6 percent rate recorded in the first quarter.\n\nThe 2.2 percent growth was slowest since a 1.8 percent growth rate in final quarter of 2005, when the economy was suffering fallout from the devastating Gulf Coast hurricanes.\n\nGDP measures the value of all goods and services produced within the United States and is considered the best barometer of the country's economic fitness.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 298, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter", "start_char": 490, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "final quarter of 2005", "start_char": 580, "end_char": 601, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0316.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0085 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0085. \n International:\n@  Navigation Mixte Chairman Says Board\n@  Rejected Paribas Bid to Raise Its Stake\n@  ----\n@  By E.S. Browning\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n F.CNM F.CFP G.ALL F.SGF F.CLC \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nFOOD PRODUCTS (FOD)\nTRANSPORTATION, TRUCK AND SHIP LINES, RAILROADS (TRA)\nINSURANCE (INS) \n PARIS  \n\n   Cie. de Navigation Mixte Chairman Marc Fournier said his board unanimously rejected as too low the $1.77 billion bid by Cie. \nFinanciere de Paribas to bring its stake in Navigation Mixte to 66.7%. \n\n   At a news conference, Mr. Fournier accused Paribas of planning to pay for the takeover by selling parts of the company, whose interests include insurance, banking, tuna canning, sugar and orange juice. \n\n   The chairman said his board members, including representatives of West German insurance giant Allianz AG and French banks Credit Lyonnais and Societe Generale, hold nearly 50% of Navigation Mixte's capital. \n\n   Mr. Fournier said that as Navigation Mixte chairman, he is prohibited by takeover regulations from organizing his own defense or doing anything besides managing current company business. \nBut sources said he will be urging his allies to boost their stakes in Navigation Mixte, which is being traded in London and is to resume trading in Paris Tuesday. \nAt the same time, he is expected to seek legal and regulatory means of blocking or delaying Paribas's bid. \nFor the moment, the sources said, he has decided against seeking a white knight or organizing a counterbid for Paribas. \n\n   Mr. Fournier said Navigation Mixte's 1989 unconsolidated, or parent-company, profit is likely to be 4.7 billion francs ($754.4 million), up from 633.8 million francs last year. \nThat is due mostly to payments from Allianz for most of the 50% stake it has agreed to acquire in Navigation Mixte's insurance business. \nMr. Fournier said the exceptional gain would mean nearly twice as high a dividend this year as last. \nIf holders avoid tendering to Paribas, he added, they can expect strong dividends again next year. \n\n   Analysts noted that over the past 20 years, Mr. Fournier has built his company through astute stock-market activity and has warded off at least three takeover attempts. \nThis time, however, some analysts think he could face a real battle. \n\n   \"Without some unexpected \"coup de theatre\", I do n't see what will block the Paribas bid,\" said Philippe de Cholet, analyst at the brokerage Cholet-Dupont amp Cie. \nMr. de Cholet said Mr. Fournier's biggest hope was to somehow persuade regulatory authorities to block the bid. \nParibas still needs the go-ahead from the Commission des Operations de Bourse, a government regulatory agency, but analysts said that is considered likely. \n\n   Mr. Fournier also noted that Navigation Mixte joined Paribas's core of shareholders when Paribas was denationalized in 1987, and said it now holds just under 5% of Paribas's shares. \nOnce he realized that Paribas's intentions weren't friendly, he said, but before the bid was launched, he sought approval to boost his Paribas stake above 10%. \nThe petition is still pending, but Mr. Fournier downplayed the likelihood of his organizing a takeover bid of his own for the much-larger Paribas. \n\n   One big question now is the likely role of Mr. Fournier's allies. \nMr. Fournier said the large institutions that hold nearly 50% of Navigation Mixte's capital all strongly support him, but some analysts said they aren't so sure. \nAllianz, for example, has said in official comments so far that it will remain neutral. \nParibas is Allianz's lead French bank. \n\n   Paribas said Monday that it intends to bid to boost its stake in Navigation Mixte to 66.7%, from the 18.7% it already owns. \nThe purchase of the additional 48% stake is expected to cost more than 11 billion francs ($1.77 billion). \n\n   Paribas says it will offer 1,850 francs ($296.95) each for Navigation Mixte shares that enjoy full dividend rights, and 1,800 francs each for a block of 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0102\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambia remains ban on importation of turkeys\n\n\n\n\nTurkeys lovers in Zambia will miss out on their favorite meat this festive season because Zambia's ban stays, The Post reported on Tuesday.\n\nThe Department of Veterinary and Livestock Development decided in March this year to ban the importation and movement of live birds and poultry products following reports of avian influenza in Nigeria and the possibility of the disease spreading to other African countries.\n\nPoultry Association of Zambia executive director Mathew Ngosa said the ban on the importation of poultry products still stands.\n\nNgosa was quoted as saying that Zambia is not able to contain the potential outbreak of bird flue and so it needs to be protective.\n\n\"We are not likely to have new stocks for the festive season until management resolves some important issues with the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives,\" a supermarket attendant said.\n\nThe Shoprite attendant said usually it imports several tons of turkey and other birds from South Africa and Brazil for special occasions such as Christmas and the festive season.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this festive season", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 186, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 243, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March this year", "start_char": 312, "end_char": 327, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the festive season", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 843, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 1120, "end_char": 1129, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the festive season", "start_char": 1134, "end_char": 1152, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0102.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980213.1320 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/13/1998 14:35:00 \n\nw2122 Cx1f wstm-\nr f Cx13  Cx11  BC-Australia-India-Qanta     02-13 0223\n\n\n BC-Australia-India-Qantas,0225 \n\nQantas to run daily flights between Australia and India\n\n\n\nCANBERRA, Australia (AP) _ Qantas  will  almost double its flights\nbetween Australia and India by August in the search for new markets\nuntouched by the crippling Asian financial crisis.\nThis move comes barely a month after Qantas suspended a number\nof services between Australia, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia in\nthe wake of the Asian economic crisis.\nThe airline  has  also cut all flights to South Korea.\nQantas plans daily flights between Sydney and Bombay, up from\nthe current four flights a week,  to boost business and tourism ties\nwith India, the airline announced Friday.\nIn a joint statement with Tourism Minister Andrew Thomson, it\nsaid two new flights would leave Bombay on Monday and Tuesday\nnights from March 30, with the third departing each Thursday from\nAugust 6.\nThis  will add nearly 700 seats a week on the route.\nThomson, in India  to talk to tourism leaders, said the flights\nwould provide extra support to the growing tourism market.\nQantas' India manager Khursheed Lam said the airline  was working closely with the Australian Tourist Commission  to develop greater\nawareness of Australia in the Indian market.\nQantas  will  also appoint a Bombay-based public relations\nconsultant.\n\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-Australia-India-Qantas; CT:f;\n(REG:MEST;)\n(REG:INDI;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(REG:EURO;)\n(REG:BRIT;)\n(REG:SCAN;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-02-13-98 1435EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "02/13/1998 14:35:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t41", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-13T14:35:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 320, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t43", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-08", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 431, "end_char": 438, "tid": "t44", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 698, "end_char": 705, "tid": "t46", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 797, "end_char": 803, "tid": "t47", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 910, "end_char": 916, "tid": "t190", "type": "SET", "value": "XXXX-WXX-1TNI", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t189"}, {"text": "Tuesday\nnights", "start_char": 921, "end_char": 935, "tid": "t189", "type": "SET", "value": "XXXX-WXX-2TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 30", "start_char": 941, "end_char": 949, "tid": "t56", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "each Thursday", "start_char": 976, "end_char": 989, "tid": "t54", "type": "SET", "value": "XXXX-WXX-4", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 6", "start_char": 995, "end_char": 1003, "tid": "t55", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-08-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980213.1320.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0167 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0167. \n Conseco to Redeem Preferred \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CNC \n BUYBACKS, REDEMPTIONS, SWAP OFFERS (BBK) \n CARMEL, Ind.  \n\n   Conseco Inc. said it is calling for the redemption on Dec. 7 of all the 800,000 remaining shares outstanding of its $1.875 Series A convertible preferred stock at $26.805 a share. \n\n   The insurance concern said all conversion rights on the stock will terminate on Nov. 30. \nUntil then, Conseco said the stock remains convertible into common stock at the rate of 1.439 shares of common stock for each share of preferred stock, which is equivalent to a conversion price of $17.50 a common share. \nIn New York Stock Exchange trading Friday, Conseco closed at $19.50, down 25 cents.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 73, "end_char": 81, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 7", "start_char": 232, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-12-07", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t14"}, {"text": "Nov. 30", "start_char": 443, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t14"}, {"text": "then", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 463, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t18"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 709, "end_char": 715, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t14"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0534.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0046\n\nKABUL, Nov. 26 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st Ld Writethru: Suicide bombing kills 9 Afghans in restaurant\n\n\n\n\nA suicide bombing killed nine Afghans and injured over 20 others Sunday in the center of Urgon district of Paktika province in eastern Afghanistan, an official of Interior Ministry told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.\n\n\"The incident occurred in a restaurant, which local officials frequently visited,\" the official said.\n\nMeanwhile, the provincial governor Akram Khapalwak told Xinhua that the blast, which happened at around 10:00 a.m., killed seven people and wounded 20 others.\n\nBarmal district chief Mohammad Mubin, who was there by chance, and a police chief were among the injured, he added.\n\nHowever, locals said 10 persons were killed and about 30 others injured in the explosion.\n\nAll bazaars and shops in the center of Urgon have been shut down in the wake of the blast and local police have launched an investigation into the incident.\n\nIt is not very clear what motivation is behind the blast, but a man named Mullah Abdul Samad, who claimed himself as a local Taliban commander, said a Taliban fighter carried out the attack.\n\nHe claimed a number of Afghan soldiers were killed and injured in the explosion.\n\nPaktika has been a hotbed of Taliban and other militants, who attack government and foreign targets frequently.\n\nA suicide bombing killed Paktika governor Abdul Hakim Taniwal on Sept. 10, and the Taliban claimed responsibility.\n\nDue to rising Taliban-linked violence this year, Afghanistan has plunged into the worst spate of bloodshed since the Taliban regime was toppled down nearly five years ago.\n\nOver 3,800 people, mostly Taliban militants, have been killed in this volatile country this year. Among the fatalities are over 150 foreign soldiers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10:00 a.m.", "start_char": 551, "end_char": 561, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 10", "start_char": 1425, "end_char": 1433, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1514, "end_char": 1523, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years ago", "start_char": 1632, "end_char": 1646, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1736, "end_char": 1745, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0046.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0003\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPaddy production to decrease in Nepal\n\n\n\n\nThe paddy production in Nepal is expected to decrease by around nine percent this year due to drought during the period of plantation, local Nepal Samacharpatra daily reported here on Monday.\n\nThe paddy production will decrease by 8.9 percent as per the field survey carried out by officials at the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative (MoAC) and World Food Organization ( WFO), the vernacular newspaper reported quoting MoAC sources.\n\n\"The production will decrease by more than 500,000 metric tons in the fiscal year 2006/07 against total production of 4.2 million tons in the year 2005/06,\" MoAC sources said.\n\nThe MoAC and WFO team had visited various places of the country and met government officials, political parties, farmers and officials working on natural calamities to acquire the information regarding paddy production.\n\nGanesh Kumar K.C., secretary at the MoAC, said that the ministry would talk with the donor agencies to save the country from possible food crisis due to lack of adequate food security.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "daily", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 267, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fiscal year 2006/07", "start_char": 606, "end_char": 629, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0003.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ_20130322_804\n\nMarch 22, 2013\n\nHealth Insurers Warn on Premiums\n\n\n\n\n\nHealth insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation's biggest firm projecting that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans.\n\nThe projections, made in sessions with brokers and agents, provide some of the most concrete evidence yet of how much insurance companies might increase prices when major provisions of the law kick in next year - a subject of rigorous debate.\n\nThe projected increases are at odds with what the Obama Administration says consumers should be expecting overall in terms of cost. The Department of Health and Human Services says that the law will \"make health-care coverage more affordable and accessible,\" pointing to a 2009 analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that says average individual premiums, on an apples-to-apples basis, would be lower.\n\nThe gulf between the pricing talk from some insurers and the government projections suggests how complicated the law's effects will be. Carriers will be filing proposed prices with regulators over the next few months.\n\nPart of the murkiness stems from the role of government subsidies. Federal subsidies under the health law will help lower-income consumers defray costs, but they are generally not included in insurers' premium projections. Many consumers will be getting more generous plans because of new requirements in the law. The effects of the law will vary widely, and insurers and other analysts agree that some consumers and small businesses will likely see premiums go down.\n\nStarting next year, the law will block insurers from refusing to sell coverage or setting premiums based on people's health histories, and will reduce their ability to set rates based on age. That can raise coverage prices for younger, healthier consumers, while reining them in for older, sicker ones. The rules can also affect small businesses, which sometimes pay premiums tied to employees' health status and claims history.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "March 22, 2013", "start_char": 18, "end_char": 32, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 206, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2014", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 569, "end_char": 578, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2014", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2009", "start_char": 885, "end_char": 889, "tid": "t2000", "type": "DATE", "value": "2009", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next few months", "start_char": 1217, "end_char": 1236, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1717, "end_char": 1726, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2014", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "WSJ_20130322_804.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "APW19980301.0720 \n NEWS STORY \n 03/01/1998 14:11:00 \n\nw1219 Cx1f wstm-\nu i Cx13  Cx11  BC-Israel-Lebanon     03-01 0570\n\n\n BC-Israel-Lebanon \n\nPolitical momentum gathers for Israeli pullout from Lebanon\n\nUR Eds: INCORPORATES Israel-Syria; ADDS background and additional\ncomment Sunday QL\n\n\nJERUSALEM (AP) _ Top Israeli officials sent strong new signals\nSunday that Israel wants to withdraw from southern Lebanon, where a\ncostly war of attrition has been steadily claiming soldiers' lives.\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet on Sunday\nthat Israel was willing to withdraw from southern Lebanon provided\nIsrael's northern frontier could be secured.\n``If the Lebanese government will cooperate with us in making\nappropriate security arrangements in south Lebanon, we will be\nhappy to get out of Lebanon in the framework of implementation of\nU.N. Resolution 425,'' Netanyahu told his ministers.\nThat 1978 resolution calls for Israel's unconditional withdrawal\nfrom the self-declared security zone it occupies in south Lebanon,\nand for the deployment of the Lebanese army and U.N. forces to ensure security along the Lebanese-Israeli border.\nOn Friday, Netanyahu said he had ``no qualms'' about\nimplementing the U.N. resolution, as long as Israel had ``the\nnecessary security safeguards.''\nCabinet minister Michael Eitan said Sunday that Netanyahu's\nremarks marked a substantive change in Israel's position.\n``We will defend our north from the international border,'' said\nEitan, the science minister. ``No one wants to stay in Lebanon;\nthus we think it better to withdraw.''\nUri Lubrani, Israel's top official for Lebanon affairs, also suggested Israel was willing to modify its political goals in\nLebanon.\n``This is a new thing...it means that we are willing to talk\ntoday _ full stop _ about security,'' Lubrani told Israel's Channel\nOne. ``We have gotten off the issue of peace, off the issue of\nnormalization.''\nAs the death toll in Lebanon has mounted, the Israeli government\nhas been faced with a growing grassroots movement calling for\nIsrael's unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon.\nSince 1985 _ when the Israelis created a security buffer zone\nsouthern Lebanon _ nearly 200 Israeli soldiers have been killed\nfighting Hezbollah and other guerrillas. Last week, Hezbollah\nfighters killed three Israeli soldiers and seriously wounded six\nothers.\nThe Israelis suffered a record 39 deaths in southern Lebanon\nlast year. In addition, 73 soldiers were killed en route to Lebanon\nwhen two military helicopters crashed last February.\nThe Maariv newspaper said Sunday that Netanyahu's comments last\nweek were in response to signals from Syria that it wants to renew\nthe long-stalled peace talks between the two countries.\nThe newspaper, quoting ``secret reports,'' said Syria had indicated its interest in resuming talks in remarks made last week\nby the Syrian ambassador to Washington, Walid Mualem, in a lecture\nto a closed forum in Baltimore.\nTwo top aides to Netanyahu, political adviser Uzi Arad and\nCabinet Secretary Danny Naveh, left for Europe on Sunday,\napparently to investigate the Syrian issue, the newspaper said.\nIsrael-Syrian talks have been cut off for nearly two years.\nDefense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai was the first senior Israeli\nofficial to refer to U.N. resolution 425 in a speech six weeks ago,\nsaying at the time he was willing to withdraw troops in exchange\nfor guarantees that Israel would not be attacked.\n\nUR (pvs-dh-lk)\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-Israel-Lebanon; CT:i;\n(REG:MEST;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(REG:EURO;)\n(REG:BRIT;)\n(REG:SCAN;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-03-01-98 1411EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "03/01/1998 14:11:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t122", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-03-01T14:11:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 353, "end_char": 359, "tid": "t123", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 543, "end_char": 549, "tid": "t125", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "1978", "start_char": 911, "end_char": 915, "tid": "t128", "type": "DATE", "value": "1978", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1155, "end_char": 1161, "tid": "t127", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1336, "end_char": 1342, "tid": "t129", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1779, "end_char": 1784, "tid": "t134", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "1985", "start_char": 2105, "end_char": 2109, "tid": "t1979", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 2266, "end_char": 2275, "tid": "t1980", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-W08", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2421, "end_char": 2430, "tid": "t1981", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "last February", "start_char": 2527, "end_char": 2540, "tid": "t1982", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2568, "end_char": 2574, "tid": "t1983", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "last\nweek", "start_char": 2601, "end_char": 2610, "tid": "t1985", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-W08", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 2844, "end_char": 2853, "tid": "t1986", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-W08", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 3062, "end_char": 3068, "tid": "t1987", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "nearly two years", "start_char": 3176, "end_char": 3192, "tid": "t1988", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six weeks ago", "start_char": 3311, "end_char": 3324, "tid": "t1989", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-W02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t122"}, {"text": "time", "start_char": 3340, "end_char": 3344, "tid": "t1993", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t1989"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980301.0720.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0151\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese state councilor meets ROK guest\n\n\n\n\nChinese State Councilor Chen Zhili met with Oh Myung, deputy prime minister and minister of science and technology of the Republic of Korea (ROK), at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse on Tuesday.\n\nChen had an exchange of views with the guest on issues of common concern at a friendly atmosphere.\n\nChen said, China and ROK have a traditional friendship as neighboring countries. The bilateral cooperation in politics, economy, science and technology, education and culture has scored remarkable achievements.\n\nThe bilateral cooperation in science and technology is reciprocal and enjoys a bright prospect, Chen said, adding that the two sides should join hands to push the cooperation to a higher stage of development.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0151.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0549\n\nBLANTYRE, Dec 12 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with quotes, details  ///\n\n\n\n\nSouthern African nations Tuesday mulled ways to rope high-risk groups into the fight against HIV/AIDS in the world's worst-affected region as they started a three-day meeting in Malawi.\n\nThe meeting will hammer out a \"comprehensive strategy on how to accelerate prevention and we are addressing key drivers of the epidemic in terms of prevention,\" Stephen Sianga, an official from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), told AFP.\n\n\"Yes, the problem of sexual workers and gays is there ... why stigmatise this group as our strategy is multi-pronged and we want to cover all risk groups?\" said Sianga, who is in charge of social and human development at the SADC secretariat.\n\nSouthern Africa is the epicentre of the pandemic accounting for a third of the global HIV infections.\n\nIt is also grappling with the heaviest death toll from AIDS. A total of 1.2 million out of the worldwide toll of 2.8 million people died from AIDS-related illnesses last year in southern Africa.\n\nRoy Hauya, director of policy and programmes at Malawi's National AIDS Commission, told AFP the meeting would also try to come up with a strategy on male circumcision.\n\n\"We want to determine what role circumcision can play to accelerate prevention... as a region we are not experienced in programming male circumcision,\" as a tool to control the spread of HIV, he said.\n\n\"There is evidence that in regions where the majority of men are circumcised, HIV infection is lower than in regions where circumcision is not practiced.\"\n\nFive southern African countries hard-hit by the AIDS pandemic -- Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zambia -- are in talks with the UN AIDS agency on making circumcision more accessible to men.\n\nThe new strategy follows the results of a three-year study in a South African township -- Orange Farm near Johannesburg -- that showed that circumcision reduced the risk of contracting HIV by 60 percent.\n\nLess than 20 percent of men are said to be circumcised in southern Africa where HIV prevalence is the highest.\n\nMalawi's Health Minister Marjorie Ngaunje set the tone for the meeting by saying: \"To make advances in prevention, we must begin to tackle honestly the difficult questions that the epidemic raises ... addressing positively the needs of sex workers and of men who have sex with men.\"\n\nShe said the fight against HIV/AIDS \"will take a better turn if we stop doing business as usual ... we must address the real drivers of the epidemic and target groups that are most vulnerable.\"\n\nOmotayo Olaniyan, African Union regional delegate to the SADC, told the meeting that poor provision of services for sex workers and drug users had allowed HIV to take root in society's most vulnerable populations.\n\nOlaniyan said young people and women were also vulnerable to infection due to poverty and their lack of control over their sex lives in male-dominated societies.\n\n\"These are the heart of the acceleration of the spread of HIV,\" Olaniyan said.\n\nHe said southern Africa was the \"epicentre\" of the pandemic, since one third -- or 32 percent -- of all people with HIV worldwide lived in the region and 34 percent of all deaths arising from AIDS in 2006 occurred in southern Africa.\n\n\"You will agree with me that these are not acceptable developments...it is a well known fact that we are not yet winning the war against HIV and AIDS.\"\n\nSADC groups Angola, Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 136, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1059, "end_char": 1068, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "male circumcision", "start_char": 1239, "end_char": 1256, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 3274, "end_char": 3278, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0549.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0483\n\nRIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSao Paulo presents lowest unemployment rate in October\n\n\n\n\nBrazil's largest metropolitan region Sao Paulo registered its lowest unemployment rate in October since 1996, a monthly Employment and Unemployment Survey (PED) reported on Tuesday.\n\nThe survey was carried out by Sao Paulo state's research institute Seade and the Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Social-Economic Studies.\n\nThe current unemployment rate was 14.6 percent, against 16.9 percent in October, 2005. Unemployment has been in a falling trend since June this year. In September, the PED released an jobless rate of 15.3 percent.\n\nAround 94,000 job positions were created in October, 2006. A total of 67,000 citizens found work, which brought the number of unemployed in Sao Paulo down to 1.47 million workers, while 27,000 people entered the region's labor market.\n\nThe survey showed that the positive results were closely related to the performance in the service sector, which provided 50 percent of occupations in the metro region, and created 68,000 positions in October, up 1.5 percent from September.\n\nThe PED said local industry created 10,000 jobs, while the retail market contributed 23,000, caused by the rise in sales as the year-end holiday approaches.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 213, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 231, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 296, "end_char": 303, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October, 2005", "start_char": 526, "end_char": 539, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June this year", "start_char": 588, "end_char": 602, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 607, "end_char": 616, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October, 2006", "start_char": 713, "end_char": 726, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1106, "end_char": 1113, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1135, "end_char": 1144, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0483.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0067\n\nPORT VILA, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nHoliday in Vanuatu to mark ordination of first indigenous bishop by Patrick Decloitre\n\n\n\n\nVanuatu's President Jean-Marie Leye has declared Saturday a public holiday to celebrate the ordination of the first indigenous Roman Catholic bishop here, the State House said Friday.\n\nMichel Visi, 42, the first Melanesian bishop in this southwestern Pacific island state's history, was appointed last December by Pope John Paul II.\n\nVisi, from Ambae island, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of here, takes over from American Francis Lambert who at 75 must retire.\n\nThe new Vanuatu bishop, who studied in seminaries in neighbouring New Caledonia and at Fiji's Pacific Regional Seminary, where he was rector, obtained a canon law degree in Canada.\n\nHe will now be in charge of a diocese, with 14 priests, covering the 80 scattered islands in this Y-shaped archipelago. He is the first indigenous bishop since Vanuatu's catholic mission arrived here more than 110 years ago.\n\n\"I prepared myself, especially I made a 30-day retreat in Australia with the Jesuits. I think the mission of a bishop requires a lot of tranquility in heart and mind,\" Visi told AFP on the eve of the historic event.\n\nMore than 1,000 people are converging on the capital from outlying islands and more than 200 visitors, including the Wellington-based nuncio Archbishop Thomas White, are journeying from overseas.\n\nThe two-day celebrations, which are to start Saturday with the official ordination, are set in Port Vila's largest open ground, the Independence Park.\n\nVanuatu's linguistic and religious legacy is strongly related to the presence of missionaries who early last century were among the first permanent white settlers in these islands.\n\nThe nation, with its 170,000 inhabitants on some 80 inhabited islands, defines itself in its constitution as a Christian country.\n\nChurches are grouped into a council with the largest members being Roman Catholic, with around 22,000 believers, Presbyterian and Anglican churches.\n\nHowever, as always here, Saturday's celebrations will be a harmonious mix of liturgy and traditional tribal dances, once labelled \"evil\" and banned by the missionaries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 323, "end_char": 329, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last December", "start_char": 444, "end_char": 457, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 803, "end_char": 806, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 110 years ago", "start_char": 995, "end_char": 1018, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1480, "end_char": 1488, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last century", "start_char": 1691, "end_char": 1703, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 2075, "end_char": 2083, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0067.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0139\n\nJAIPUR, India, Dec 16 , 2006, 2006\n\nIndian cricket board expels former chief Dalmiya\n\n\n\n\nFormer world cricket chief Jagmohan Dalmiya was on Saturday expelled from the Indian cricket board on charges of misappropriation of funds.\n\nThe former Indian cricket chief is accused of mishandling funds of around 890,000 dollars relating to the 1996 World Cup which India hosted jointly with Pakistan and Sri Lanka.\n\nDalmiya, credited with turning the gentlemen's game into a lucrative global sport, has been given the right to appeal after three years for inclusion in the board, media committee member Rajiv Shukla said.\n\nShukla said the resolution was moved by board president Sharad Pawar, who suggested to expelling him and barring him from holding any positions in any cricket body.\n\nDalmiya is currently the president of Cricket Association of Bengal and National Cricket Club of Kolkata. Only these two bodies opposed the move while the remaining associations supported it.\n\nDalmiya, who was organising secretary of that event, later served as the president of the International Cricket Council for three years from 1997 to 2000.\n\nSince 1983, he had been the most powerful figure in the Indian board until his faction was thrown out by Pawar, a political heavyweight and federal agriculture minister, in a bitter election last year.\n\nDalmiya denied the charges, saying he had submitted a report which the disciplinary committee did not even read.\n\n\"They did not even read it. They are all biased. There is no misappropriation. It is only their misinterpretation,\" the Press Trust of India news agency quoted him as saying.\n\nBut board vice-president Shashank Manohar said that Dalmiya had been given a fair chance.\n\n\"He was heard by a full house. But whatever he said carried no weight. We gave him a fair chance,\" Manohar said after a special general meeting here.\n\nDalmiya was credited with bringing the World Cup to the Indian sub-continent which has held the event twice in 1987 and 1996.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2006", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 555, "end_char": 566, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 1121, "end_char": 1132, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 1138, "end_char": 1142, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1983", "start_char": 1159, "end_char": 1163, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1983", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1344, "end_char": 1353, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1987", "start_char": 1999, "end_char": 2003, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 2008, "end_char": 2012, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0139.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0372\n\nTUNIS, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nefforts\n\n\n\n\nTunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali on Monday urged Israel to respond to the international peace efforts to make the Middle East a peaceful, secure and stable region.\n\nIsrael's withdrawal from Gaza is a right step forward, Ben Ali said in a letter to the United Nations on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.\n\nHe hoped that Israel's pullout from Gaza would be the beginning of its withdrawal from all the occupied Palestinian territories so that Middle East peoples can live in peace with one another.\n\nThe president called on all relevant parties, especially the mediating Quartet to implement the roadmap peace plan in earnest and push forward the Middle East peace process in accordance with relevant UN resolutions.\n\nBen Ali also reiterated support for the Palestinian people's efforts to restore their national dignity and establish an independent state of their own.\n\nA UN resolution adopted in 1977 designated Nov. 29 as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 119, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 29", "start_char": 1036, "end_char": 1043, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0372.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0030\n\nWELLINGTON, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNew Zealand to join international anti-doping treaty\n\n\n\n\nNew Zealand is set to adopt the International Convention Against Doping in Sport as part of its commitment to eliminating the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, a minister announced on Tuesday.\n\nThe convention was tabled in Parliament Wednesday and it is hoped that New Zealand will become a party to the international agreement before the end of the year.\n\n\"New Zealand is recognized internationally as a world leader in the fight against the use of performance enhancing drugs in sport and being party to this convention reflects our strong and unwavering commitment in this area,\" said Sport and Recreation Minister Trevor Mallard.\n\nHe said the use of doping in sport is a major challenge to the international sporting community, and threatens everything we respect and value in sport - honesty, ethics, fairness, health, respect, and courage.\n\nParties to the convention commit to implementing measures consistent with the World Anti-Doping Code, which harmonises anti-doping policy and practice and provides standards in areas such as testing programs, sanctions, appeals and laboratory practices.\n\nThey must also adopt measures, where appropriate, to restrict the availability of prohibited substances by tackling their production, movement, importation, distribution, sale and trafficking.\n\nIt is hoped that the convention will be in force by the time of the February 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. This will require that at least 30 countries join before the end of December 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 312, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 362, "end_char": 371, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 463, "end_char": 482, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2006 Winter", "start_char": 1492, "end_char": 1512, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of December 2005", "start_char": 1596, "end_char": 1620, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0030.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0336\n\nPARIS, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSuez-GDF merger gets EU conditional approval\n\n\n\n\nFrench energy groups Gad de France and Suez won European Union conditional approval on Tuesday for their merger, which would create Europe's second-largest utility and maintain national control of the French power market.\n\nThe deal would result in a group with a combined market capitalization of nearly 80 billion euros (102.6 billion dollars), putting the new entity behind EDF of France but ahead of E.ON, the German energy giant.\n\nSuez and GDF got the go-ahead after they agreed to give up control of Belgian natural gas companies and a heating network in France, the European Commission said in Strasbourg, France.\n\n\"Our intervention in this case is part of our action to ensure that there is effective competition in the newly-liberalized energy markets to the benefit of consumers and business,\" EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes said.\n\nFrance brokered the merger in February to prevent a bid for Suez by Enel of Italy, prompting criticism that it was breaking EU free-market rules by shutting the energy market to outsiders.\n\nInside France, the government has struggled to push the merger because it requires reducing the state's stake in GDF, - a move opposed by unions and socialist politicians who promised to make the deal an issue in next year's presidential election.\n\nA law allowing the French government to cut its stake in the company from 70 percent to one-third, ahead of the merger, was formally passed by parliament last week.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 191, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 985, "end_char": 993, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1358, "end_char": 1367, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1548, "end_char": 1557, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0336.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0048 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0048. \n Sun Microsystems Debentures \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n SUNW \n BOND MARKET NEWS (BON) \n MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.  \n\n   Sun Microsystems Inc., a computer maker, announced the effectiveness of its registration statement for $125 million of 6 3/8% convertible subordinated debentures due Oct. 15, 1999. \n\n   The company said the debentures are being issued at an issue price of $849 for each $1,000 principal amount and are convertible at any time prior to maturity at a conversion price of $25 a share. \n\n   The debentures are available through Goldman, Sachs amp Co.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 73, "end_char": 81, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 15, 1999", "start_char": 336, "end_char": 349, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999-10-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0650.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0484\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 13 , 2005\n\nIsrael puts off Gaza-West Bank bus link over rocket fire\n\n\n\n\nIsrael has put off opening a bus link between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank because of the Palestinian Authority's failure to stop militants from firing rockets on the country, its army chief of staff said Tuesday.\n\n\"Israel has no intention of allowing the passage of convoys between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank while the Palestinian Authority does not act to stop the firing of the Qassam (homemade) rockets,\" General Dan Halutz was quoted by parliamentary sources as saying.\n\nUnder an agreement in principle reached between the two sides last month brokered by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the service was to have begun on Thursday.\n\nThe announcement comes as no suprise.\n\nLast week, Israel froze negotiations on the details, with a spokesman for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saying: \"There will be no discussions about these convoys as long as the Palestinian Authority fails to respect its commitments to fight against terrorism.\"\n\nThe security cabinet took the decision on December 6, a day after a suicide bomber from the radical Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad killed five Israelis at the entrance to a shopping mall.\n\nUnder the deal, Israel should also allow convoys of trucks to travel between Gaza and the West Bank from January 15.\n\nAt the time, a senior security official quoted by the Haaretz daily attributed the decision to halt the negotiations to Israeli concerns about the monitoring of travellers crossing the Rafah border between Gaza and Egypt since it reopened late last month, alleging that \"hostile elements\" had entered the territory.\n\nThe Palestinians have been pushing for residents of Gaza and the West Bank to be allowed to travel back and forth, while Israel was insisting on limiting movement to Gazans.\n\nAt the same time, Israel wants to ban travel by men between the ages of 16 and 35.\n\nThe Israeli media have said a working document proposed by the United States talks of five, five-bus convoys making the trip each day, transporting 1,800 Palestinians. In contrast, Israel wants only one such convoy, limiting the number to 250.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 319, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 658, "end_char": 668, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 754, "end_char": 762, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 804, "end_char": 813, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 6", "start_char": 1106, "end_char": 1116, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 15", "start_char": 1362, "end_char": 1372, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1619, "end_char": 1629, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "35", "start_char": 1946, "end_char": 1948, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1935", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each day", "start_char": 2076, "end_char": 2084, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0484.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0001\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesia hires Russian planes to douse forest fires\n\n\n\n\nTwo amphibious Russian aircraft have arrived in Indonesia's South Sumatra province to help fight haze-causing fires in the west of the country, a report said Wednesday.\n\nThe two BE-200 aircraft, which will be used to douse the land- clearing fires lit on Kalimantan and Sumatra islands, will strengthen the nation's fire-fighting air fleet, which consists of five BO-105 helicopters owned by the Indonesian Air Force, Navy and police, reported major national newspaper The Jakarta Post.\n\nThe Indonesian House of Representatives has approved 100 billion rupiah (10.52 million U.S. dollars) to fight the fires, which have caused choking haze to blanket the west of the country, along with Singapore, Malaysia and parts of southern Thailand.\n\nThe lease for the aircraft was signed on Oct. 23 by officials from the Russian Emergencies Ministry and the Indonesian National Disasters Coordination Agency (Bakornas).\n\nKirill Barsky, Russia's deputy chief of mission here, said the country was happy to help Indonesia fight the haze.\n\nBarsky expressed confidence the two aircraft supported by 29 crew would be capable of extinguishing forest fires over large areas.\n\n\"We're optimistic about getting the best results because of the experienced crew members,\" he said.\n\nThe planes' crew had fought similar fires in Africa several years ago and had just finished dealing with blazes in Portugal, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 23", "start_char": 894, "end_char": 901, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several years ago", "start_char": 1425, "end_char": 1442, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0001.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980227.0468 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/27/1998 07:56:00 \n\nw2373 Cx1f wstm-\nr i Cx13  Cx11  BC-Russia-Kalashnikov'sM 1stLd   02-27 0148\n\n\n BC-Russia-Kalashnikov's Museum, 1st Ld \n\nMoscow mayor donates funds to build Kalashnikov museum\n\nUR Eds: SUBS 3rd graf to conform to AP style. QL\n\n\nMOSCOW (AP) _ The mayor of Moscow  has allocated funds  to help\nbuild a museum in honor of Mikhail Kalashnikov, the Russian who\ngave his name to the world's most widely wielded weapon, according\nto a news agency report Friday.\nKalashnikov designed the AK-47 automatic rifle, famed for its\nreliability and effectiveness. Together with its derivatives, the\nKalashnikov rifle  has  been used by the police and armies of 55\ncountries and an assortment of guerrillas, terrorists and just\nplain thugs around the globe.\nSeventy-five million copies of the rifle  have  been built since\nit entered production in February 1947, making it history's most\nwidely distributed weapon.\nUR The ITAR-Tass, 4th graf pvs\n(pvs/ji)\n\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-Russia-Kalashnikov's Museum, 1st Ld; CT:i;\n(REG:EURO;)\n(REG:BRIT;)\n(REG:SCAN;)\n(REG:MEST;)\n(REG:AFRI;)\n(REG:INDI;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(REG:ASIA;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-02-27-98 0756EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "02/27/1998 07:56:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t13", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-27T07:56:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 501, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "February 1947", "start_char": 885, "end_char": 898, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1947-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980227.0468.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0459\n\nGAZA CITY, Dec 7 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES injured, ADDS reax ///\n\n\n\n\nOne militant was killed and nine other Palestinians wounded Wednesday in an Israeli air strike on a vehicle in the Rafah region of the southern Gaza Strip, military sources and witnesses said.\n\nMilitary sources said that the target of the attack, Mahmud al-Arqan, had been working with members of the radical Islamic Jihad movement which was behind a suicide bombing on a shopping mall on Monday.\n\nThe strike comes after Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz gave the green light to the resumption of targeted killing operations in the wake of the bombing at the mall in Netanya which killed five Israelis and following a series of rocket attacks on Israeli soil fired from Gaza.\n\nPalestinian sources confirmed the dead man's identity, saying Arqan was a member of the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella organisation which has previously carried out rocket attacks against Israel.\n\nThe Israeli military sources said that Arqan had been responsible for a range of attacks, including sniper attacks and the firing of anti-tank missiles.\n\nTwo of the injured were travelling in the vehicle with Arqan while the other seven were passers-by.\n\nA spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, Abu Abir, said that the movement would avenge Arqan's death.\n\nAfter the raid, dozens of the group's followers gathered outside Rafah hospital where the victims were being treated, firing their rifles into the air and chanting for his death to be avenged.\n\nChief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat \"strongly condemned\" the attack, describing it to AFP as a \"crime which is part of a framework of an Israeli escalation.\"\n\nThe latest death brought the overall toll since the start of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000 to 4,899. More than three-quarters of the victims have been Palestinian.\n\nBefore the air strike, both the Israeli military and Palestinian security forces had carried out a series of arrests in the West Bank of Islamic Jihad activists in the wake of the Netanya blast.\n\nPalestinian security sources said they had arrested three Jihad members in the Tulkarem area of the northern West Bank while Israel said its forces had arrested another Jihad activist in the Balata refugee camp near Nablus.\n\nThe father and three brothers of the 21-year-old bomber were detained on Tuesday by the Israeli army at the family home in a village in the northern West Bank which is seen as a stronghold of Jihad.\n\nIn a statement issued late Tuesday, Jihad criticised Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas for describing the attack as an act of terrorism and called on him to stop arresting its members and sympathisers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 7 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 484, "end_char": 490, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 2000", "start_char": 1791, "end_char": 1805, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2374, "end_char": 2381, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Tuesday", "start_char": 2523, "end_char": 2535, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0459.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0114 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0114. \n Chip by Intel\n@  Contains Flaw\n@  In Calculating\n@  ---\n@  `Bugs' Could Stall Makers\n@  Of Certain Computers;\n@  Most Users Unaffected\n@  ----\n@  By Stephen Kreider Yoder\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n INTC IBM CPQ \n SEMICONDUCTORS, INTEGRATED CHIPS (SEM)\nCOMPUTERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CPR) \n\n   Intel Corp.'s most powerful computer chip has flaws that could delay several computer makers' marketing efforts, but the \"bugs\" are n't expected to hurt Intel and most computer makers. \n\n   Computer experts familiar with the flaws, found in Intel's 80486 chip, say the defects do n't affect the average user and are likely to be cleared up before most computers using the chip as their \"brains\" appear on the market sometime next year. \n\n   Intel said that last week a customer discovered two flaws in its 80486 microprocessor chip's \"floating-point unit\", a set of circuits that do certain calculations. \nOn Friday, Intel began notifying customers about the bugs which cause the chip to give wrong answers for some mathematical calculations. \n\n   But while International Business Machines Corp. and Compaq Computer Corp. say the bugs will delay products, most big computer makers said the flaws do n't affect them. \n\"Bugs like this are just a normal part of product development,\" said Richard Archuleta, director of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s advanced systems development. \nHewlett announced last week that it planned to ship a computer based on the 486 chip early next year. \n\"These bugs do n't affect our schedule at all,\" he said. \n\n   Likewise, AST Research Inc. and Sun Microsystems Inc. said the bugs wo n't delay their development of 486-based machines. \n\"We have n't modified our schedules in any way,\" said a Sun spokesman. \nTo switch to another vendor's chips, \"would not definitely be an option,\" he said. \n\n   Nonetheless, concern about the chip may have been responsible for a decline of 87.5 cents in Intel's stock to $32 a share yesterday in over-the-counter trading, on volume of 3,609,800 shares, and partly responsible for a drop in Compaq's stock in New York Stock Exchange composite trading on Wednesday. \nYesterday, Compaq plunged further, closing at $100 a share, off $8.625 a share, on volume of 2,633,700 shares. \n\n   Most of Compaq's decline is being attributed to a third-quarter earnings report that came in at the low end of analysts' expectations. \n\n   Intel said it had corrected the problems and would start producing bugless chips next week. \n\"We should not be seeing any more,\" said Bill Rash, Intel's director for the 486 chip. \n\n   What's more, the bugs only emerge on esoteric applications such as computer-aided design and scientific calculations, he said, and then very seldom. \n\"These errata do not affect business programs,\" he said. \nThe bugs will cause problems in \"specific and rare circumstances that will not occur in typical applications\" such as word-processing and spreadsheets, said Michael Slater, editor of the Microprocessor Report, an industry newsletter. \n\n   Sun, Hewlett-Packard and others say Intel isn't wholly to blame for the snafu. \nThe real culprits, they said, are computer makers such as IBM that have jumped the gun to unveil 486-based products. \n\"The reason this is getting so much visibility is that some started shipping and announced early availability,\" said Hewlett-Packard's Mr. Archuleta. \n\"You can do that but you're taking a risk. \nThose companies are paying the price for taking the risk.\" \n\n   In late September, IBM began shipping a plug-in card that converts its PS/2 model 70-A21 from a 80386 machine to an 80486 machine. \nAn IBM spokeswoman said the company told customers Monday about the bugs and temporarily stopped shipping the product. \n\n   IBM has no plans to recall its add-on cards, the spokeswoman said, and could probably circumvent the bugs without long product delays. \n\"We do n't look at this as a major problem for us,\" she said. \n\n   Compaq, which said it discovered the bugs, still plans to announce new 486 products on Nov. 6. \nBecause of the glitch, however, the company said it does n't know when its machine will be commercially available. \nThat's a break from Compaq tradition, because the company does n't announce products until they're actually at the dealers. \n\n   The problem is being ballyhooed, experts say, because the 486 is Intel's future flagship. \nIntel's microprocessors are the chips of choice in many of today's personal computers and the 80486 microprocessor is the spearhead of the company's bid to guard that spot in the next generation of machines. \n\n   \"Although these sorts of bugs are not  at all uncommon, the 486 is an extremely high-profile product,\" said Mr. Slater, the newsletter editor. \n\n   Intel's 80486 chip is the Corvette of Intel's microprocessors, a super-fast, super-expensive chip that only the most power-hungry computer users are likely to buy for at least several years. \n\n   Unveiled last April, the chip crams 1.2 million transistors on a sliver of silicon, more than four times as many as on Intel's earlier model, 80386. \nIntel clocks the chip's speed at 15 million instructions per second, or MIPs. \nThat's four times as fast as the 386. \n\n   Machines using the 486 are expected to challenge higher-priced work stations and minicomputers in applications such as so-called servers, which connect groups of computers together, and in computer-aided design. \n\n   But while the chip's speed in processing power is dazzling, it's real strength lies in its software inheritance. \nThe 486 is the descendant of a long series of Intel chips that began dominating the market ever since IBM picked the 16-bit 8088 chip for its first personal computer. (A 16-bit microprocessor processes 16 pieces of data at a time and is slower than newer, 32-bit chips.) Since then, Intel has cornered a large part of the market with successive generations of 16-bit and 32-bit chips, all of which can run software written for previous models. \n\n   That's what will keep computer makers coming in spite of the irritation of bugs. \nBig personal computer makers and many makers of engineering workstations are developing 486-based machines, which are expected to reach the market early next year. \n\n   Of the big computer makers, only Apple Computer Co. bases its machines on Motorola chips instead. \n\"The 486 is going to have a big impact on the industry,\" said Hewlett-Packard's Mr. Archuleta. \n\"It's going to be the leading edge technology in personal computers for the next few years. \nThis bug is not going to have any affect on that at all.\" \n\n   ---\n\n   Andy Zipser in Dallas contributed to this article.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t277", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "sometime next year", "start_char": 816, "end_char": 834, "tid": "t278", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-XX-XX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 857, "end_char": 866, "tid": "t279", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-WXX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1009, "end_char": 1015, "tid": "t280", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1488, "end_char": 1497, "tid": "t281", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-WXX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 1555, "end_char": 1570, "tid": "t282", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 2040, "end_char": 2049, "tid": "t283", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2210, "end_char": 2219, "tid": "t284", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-25", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "Yesterday", "start_char": 2222, "end_char": 2231, "tid": "t285", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 2559, "end_char": 2568, "tid": "t286", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-WXX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "late September", "start_char": 3570, "end_char": 3584, "tid": "t287", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 3750, "end_char": 3756, "tid": "t288", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-23", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "Nov. 6", "start_char": 4113, "end_char": 4119, "tid": "t289", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "last April", "start_char": 5024, "end_char": 5034, "tid": "t291", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-04", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 6296, "end_char": 6311, "tid": "t292", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t277"}, {"text": "the next few years", "start_char": 6585, "end_char": 6603, "tid": "t293", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0781.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0166\n\nPARIS, Dec 14 , 2005\n\nGeneral blames Gbagbo allies for air strike on French troops\n\n\n\n\nThe former commander of French forces in Ivory Coast has implicated senior allies of President Laurent Gbagbo in a deadly air strike on French forces in the country last year, an official said on Wednesday.\n\nGeneral Henri Poncet, who is separately being probed over the killing of an Ivorian man in French military custody, told an investigating magistrate last week that two Gbagbo allies may have ordered the bombing, the official said.\n\nThey are Kadet Bertin, Gbagbo's special advisor on defence and security, and Colonel Edouard Seka Yapo, former chief of the Ivory Coast air force, according to the official, who is close to the investigation.\n\nThe attack on a French military base in the central rebel-held town of Bouake, on November 6, 2004, left nine French soldiers dead.\n\nIn retaliation, France destroyed the totality of the west African country's small air force, provoking a wave of serious anti-French riots led by Gbagbo partisans in the main city Abidjan.\n\nFrench prosecutors separately announced on Wednesday the opening of an investigation into complaints filed by 20 French nationals repatriated during the violence.\n\nIvory Coast, once one of Africa's most prosperous states, has been divided into a rebel-held north and government controlled south since a failed coup in September 2002.\n\nFrance has deployed a 4,000-strong peacekeeping force to the country, which was under Poncet's command until June this year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 476, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 6, 2004", "start_char": 842, "end_char": 858, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1126, "end_char": 1135, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 2002", "start_char": 1401, "end_char": 1415, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June this year", "start_char": 1527, "end_char": 1541, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0166.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0136\n\nLANZHOU, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFirst international forum on Chinese \"father of philosophy\" opens\n\n\n\n\nThe first international forum on Lao Tzu, known as China's \"father of philosophy\", opened Tuesday in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu province.\n\nUnder the theme \"Nature, Science and Harmony\", the forum would focus on the essence and relevancy to modern life of Lao Tzu's culture based on his work Tao Te Ching, said Gao Zhanxiang, a member of the National Committee of the CPPCC and chairman of Chinese Culture Promotion Association.\n\nThe forum was attended by 120 experts and scholars from more than 40 countries and regions who made a declaration on the status, influence and future development of Lao Tzu's culture, Gao said.\n\nLao Tzu, the first philosopher in Chinese history and father of Taoism, was born 2,500 years ago in the Zhou Dynasty (11th Century B.C -- 221 B.C.), said Zhang Bingyu, an official in charge of foreign affairs.\n\n\"The reason for holding the forum in Gansu was that Lao Tzu was said to have flown up to heaven from Linzhao town of Gansu, making it a kind of pilgrimage center for Taoism,\" Zhang said.\n\nTao Te Ching, the universal Taoist text book written in only 5,000 ancient Chinese characters, contained the quintessential spirit of Chinese thought and philosophy, Zhang said.\n\nIt had been translated into dozens of languages and studied by thousands of scholars all over the world, Zhang said.\n\nThe Lao Tzu' only work had more than 250 different editions and hundreds of millions of copies in circulation, second only to the Bible, according to UNESCO.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2,500 years ago", "start_char": 849, "end_char": 864, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0136.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0420\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSingapore group to acquire US shipper in 825-million-dollar deal\n\n\n\n\nSingapore-based Neptune Orient Lines said Sunday it would acquire US shipping group APL Limited in a deal valued at 825 million dollars, creating the largest trans-Pacific shipping line.\n\nNeptune Orient said it would acquire all 24.6 million outstanding shares of APL stock at 33.50 dollars per share, in an all-cash deal.\n\nThe deal, subject to US regulatory approval, would create a global shipping giant with some four billion dollars in revenues, and a fleet of 113 vessels, according to a statement from the two companies.\n\nThe new firm will be in the top six global firms in container shipping, and the biggest in the Pacific, according to company officials.\n\nUnder the deal, APL, the number two US firm, will retain its name and brand in the marketplace and will continue operations headed by its existing management in Oakland, California.\n\n\"This merger in no way lessens APL's commitment to the US flag and American seafaring labor,\" said APL president Timothy Rhein.\n\nAPL officials said a separate US-owned company would manage the fleet, to ensure the vessels qould qualify for US subsidies under the Maritime Security Program and to be eligible for US military shipments.\n\nLua Cheng Eng, deputy chairman and chief executive of Neptune, said the merger would allow cost savings of 130 million dollars for the two firms.\n\nNeptune said the purchase will be funded by lines of credit from commercial banks and internal resources. Neptune is being advised by Goldman Sachs while APL is being advised by J.P. Morgan. The deal is expected to be finalized later this year.\n\nAPL is a leader in trans-Pacific and intra-Asia shipping, while Neptune specializes in lines from Europe to the Far East trade using the Suez canal, as well as from the Far East to United States.\n\nNeptune is Singapore's largest shipper and a global transportation firm; APL is the second-largest US shipper.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 13 , 1997", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "later this year", "start_char": 1689, "end_char": 1704, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0420.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0109\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nJakarta stocks end lower\n\n\n\n\nShare prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange ended lower Thursday with the composite index down 9.12 points to close at 1,043.69 points.\n\nTurnovers totaled 801.37 million shares worth 1.01 trillion rupiah (101.11 million US dollars).\n\nDecliners beat advancers 70 to 31 while 64 other issues left unchanged.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 149, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0109.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0432\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nelections\n\n\n\n\nThe Democrats have captured 15 seats from the Republicans in Tuesday's midterm legislative elections, the CNN reported.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 134, "end_char": 141, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0432.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0389\n\nUNITED NATIONS , Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nSecurity Council extends mandate of UN mission in Sierra Leone\n\n\n\n\nThe Security Council on Friday agreed a one-year extension of the mandate of the UN mission in Sierra Leone to help the Freetown government consolidate peace and prepare general elections due next July.\n\nThe 15-member council also unanimously passed a resolution endorsing departing UN chief Kofi Annan's call for boosting by 15 officers the 298-strong UN mission for the January 1-October 31 2007 period to help Sierra Leone's security sector carry out its election-related responsibilities.\n\nThe resolution extends the mandate of the mission known as the UN Integrated Office in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) until December 31, 2007.\n\nIt calls on all parties in Sierra Leone \"to demonstrate their full commitment to the democratic process and to ensure that the 2007 presidential and parliamentary elections are peaceful, transparent and free and fair.\"\n\nWith some 17,500 troops at the peak of the brutal civil war which officially ended in 2002, the UN deployed in Sierra Leone what was then the largest UN peacekeeping operation in the world.\n\nThe UN troops were withdrawn last December and replaced by UNIOSIL.\n\nIn his latest report on Sierra Leone, Annan, who is stepping down on December 31 after 10 years at the helm of the world body, said the security situation there \"remained stable, but still fragile\".\n\nHe cited the \"high level of youth unemployment, the poor social and economic conditions of the people and the general public perception of the government's mismanagement of public resources\" as the most serious threats to the country's \"tenuous stability\".\n\nAnnan, who visited Sierra Leone last July, described next year's elections as \"a major milestone, which should help define an exit strategy for UNIOSIL.\"\n\nTo avoid resumption of hostilities, the UN is providing help from its Peacebuilding Commission, a 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0252\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nMalaysia on Tuesday launched its first self-cleaning public toilets in a vibrant Kuala Lumpur shopping district in a move to dispel complaints its facilities are grim and dirty.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said the new and improved toilets with their multiple facilities would be a welcome sight for visitors as the country prepares for a major tourism campaign in 2007.\n\nNajib, who visited the outdoor loo with officials in tow, said clean toilets were a measure of a country's level of civilisation.\n\n\"People say toilets represent the level of development of a country,\" Najib said in his speech at the launch.\n\n\"The adequate number of toilets, quality and maintenance of public washrooms are a benchmark of the infrastructural development of a country,\" he said.\n\nThe new toilets are air-conditioned and have an automatic seat cleaner that will wash, scrub and dry the pan after every use.\n\nIt also has a baby change station and seats for children to wait as parents answer the call of nature.\n\nThe toilets, which cost one ringgit (0.28 dollars) to use, also flush automatically and have facilities for the disabled.\n\nThe government is aiming to install some 23 of the toilets around Kuala Lumpur, especially in major shopping districts and tourist sites, by the end of 2007.\n\n\"I think this is a very good effort, especially to help the disabled people,\" said holidaymaker Spencer Kaurin, a retired school teacher from Oslo.\n\n\"I usually go to the toilet at the hotel before I leave for town because the toilets, even in shopping complexes, are very dirty,\" said Kaurin, who has visited Malaysia some 15 times.\n\n\"People don't seem to know how to use the toilet ... It seems to be a problem of mentality of people just not caring enough,\" he said.\n\nMalaysians and tourists alike complain many users do not flush and that they step on toilet seats, leaving dirty shoe prints behind.\n\nToilets also lack basic hygiene items such as toilet paper and soap.\n\nMalaysia in August hosted a national toilet expo hoping to revolutionise the way its citizens use lavatories.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 86, "end_char": 93, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 446, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2007", "start_char": 1343, "end_char": 1358, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 2047, "end_char": 2053, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0252.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0527\n\nCAMP PENDLETON BASE, California, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details, quotes, background ///\n\n\n\n\nFour US Marines are to face murder charges in connection with the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha last year, the military said Thursday.\n\nThe four soldiers are among eight Marines who are to be prosecuted for their role in the killings on November last year, the most serious war crimes case involving US soldiers since the invasion of Iraq in 2003.\n\nThe charges were announced at a press conference at the Marines' Camp Pendleton base outside San Diego, in southern California,\n\nProsecutors allege Marines went on a killing spree on November 19, 2005, shooting unarmed men, women and children after a comrade, Miguel Terrazaz, was killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Haditha.\n\nDefence lawyers have said the Marines followed established war-time rules of engagement and the deaths occurred after the soldiers became embroiled in a furious firefight with insurgents.\n\nAmong those accused of murder are Staff Sergeant Frank Wuterich, who led the troops from Kilo Company 3rd Battalion 1st Marine Regiment on the patrol.\n\nWuterich is charged with 13 counts of murder -- 12 individual counts and a separate charge relating to the death of six people.\n\nOthers accused of murder are Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz, who faces five counts of murder, Lance Corporal Justin Sharratt, who faces three murder charges and Lance Corporal Stephen Tatum, who is charged with two murders and four counts of unlawful killing.\n\nFour other Marines are accused of failing to properly report or investigate the killings.\n\nLawyers for Wuterich have said their client was following established procedure. \"What Sergeant Wuterich is guilty of is serving this nation honorably and reasonably acting as he felt he was trained to do,\" said attorney Mark Zaid.\n\nInitial reports of the incident from the Marines said 15 people had died in a roadside bombing. But an investigation published by Time magazine in March contradicted the official version of events.\n\nColonel Stewart Navarre told a press conference Thursday that the Marines' initial release was false.\n\n\"We now know with certainty the press release was incorrect, and that none of the civilians were killed by the IED explosion,\" Navarre said.\n\nWitnesses and relatives accused Marines of killing Iraqis indiscriminately, accusations which led to two separate military investigations.\n\nThe first investigation focused on the events in Haditha itself while a second looked at whether military commanders attempted a cover-up.\n\nThe probe into events on the ground has found that 10 of the victims were women and children who died after being shot at close range.\n\nThe investigations also discovered that five unarmed men travelling in a taxi were shot dead as they approached the scene.\n\nThe Haditha investigation is unrelated to a separate case involving seven Marines and a Navy medic accused of kidnapping and executing an Iraqi civilian in Hamdania, west of Baghdad on April 26.\n\nFour soldiers in the case have pleaded guilty to lesser charges while the remaining defendants are expected to face trial next year.\n\nThe Haditha and Hamdania investigations are part of a string of incidents involving the deaths of Iraqi civilians that have tarnished the reputation of US forces since the beginning of the war.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 56, "end_char": 69, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November last year", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 408, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 495, "end_char": 499, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 19, 2005", "start_char": 685, "end_char": 702, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 2035, "end_char": 2040, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2135, "end_char": 2143, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2194, "end_char": 2197, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 26", "start_char": 3057, "end_char": 3065, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 3190, "end_char": 3199, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0527.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0330\n\nBEIRUT, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nunconstitutional\"\n\n\n\n\nLebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said Wednesday that any cabinet meeting was \" unconstitutional\" after the resignation of all Shiite ministers last week.\n\n\"Any (cabinet) session held now is unconstitutional because it would be in breach of Lebanon's national pact,\" Berri said in an interview with Dubai-based satellite channel Al-Arabiya.\n\nThe pro-Syrian speaker was referring to Monday's extraordinary cabinet session which approved a UN draft for the establishment of an international tribunal to try Lebanese former Premier Rafik Hariri's assassination.\n\nBerri noted that the Lebanese constitution guarantees a representation for the country's different religious communities in the government.\n\nOn Nov. 11, five Shiite ministers, including two representing Hezbollah, resigned from the 24-member cabinet headed by Prime Minister Foaud Siniora.\n\nTwo days later, Lebanese Environment Minister Yaacoub Sarraf, a Christian but an ally of Lebanese President Emile Lahoud, also quit from the cabinet.\n\nTheir resignations came after the country's top leaders failed to reach agreement on the formation of a national unity government.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 123, "end_char": 132, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 228, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 466, "end_char": 472, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 11", "start_char": 788, "end_char": 795, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Two days", "start_char": 935, "end_char": 943, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0330.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0077\n\nNEW DELHI, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nCongress refuses compromise with Indian coalition\n\n\n\n\nIndia's Congress (I) party said Thursday it would not back down after withdrawing support from the beleaguered ruling coalition but would do its best to avoid fresh elections.\n\n\"There is no question of any compromise,\" Congress spokesman Vithal Gadgil told AFP. \"We have withdrawn our support to the government, and there is no question of withdrawing the withdrawal.\n\n\"Our stand is there should be a Congress-led coalition.\"\n\nThe 10-month government of Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda was reduced to a minority after the Congress withdrew its parliamentary backing on March 30 and then staked its own claim to form a government.\n\nIt wants the United Front, which faces a vote of confidence in parliament on April 11, to step aside and back a Congress government.\n\nGadgil, however, said the faction-ridden Congress was opposed to fresh elections.\n\n\"We don't want elections,\" he said. \"We will try our best to see that elections don't take place. That is why we have told the United Front if you want to prove your credentials, back a Congress-led coalition.\"\n\nGadgil's comments followed reports that Congress president Sitaram Kesri was under pressure to compromise after failing to split the ruling coalition and woo some of its partners to its side.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 30", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 11", "start_char": 817, "end_char": 825, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0077.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0122\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPakistan passenger bus plunges into river, killing several people\n\n\n\n\nA passenger coaster plunged into a river in the earthquake-hit Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Sunday, killing several people, according to a TV report.\n\nGeo TV reported that around 50 people were traveling in the coaster when the accident happened at Chalbani town, some 8 kilometers from Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir.\n\nThe TV earlier reported that 10 people died in the hospital.\n\nThe coaster fell down in the Neelam river when it was taking a turn on a bridge.\n\nThe coaster has the seating capacity of 25 people, but some 45 to 50 people were on board when the accident occurred.\n\nAmbulances of the aid groups, busy in the quake-relief activities in the region, rushed to the site of the accident and started shifting the injured to local hospitals.\n\nReports said that majority of the passengers were local survivors in the Oct. 8 devastating earthquake and were going to Muzaffarabad to meet relatives, who are living in tents established for survivors.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 223, "end_char": 229, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 8", "start_char": 983, "end_char": 989, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0122.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0174\n\nRAMALLAH, West Bank, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nArafat determined to crush first Palestinian public sector strike by Hisham Abdallah\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian leader Yasser Arafat appeared determined Wednesday to crush the first labor dispute against his self-rule government, using arrests and threats of dismissal to force thousands of striking West Bank teachers back to work.\n\nAfter ordering the roundup of 23 strike leaders Monday, Arafat's Palestinian Authority reportedly arrested several more teachers overnight and deployed police around schools Wednesday to ensure they remained open.\n\nTeachers in Nablus, where the strike for higher pay and better working conditions had closed virtually all public schools since April 5, told AFP that they had returned to work Wednesday under threat of dismissal.\n\n\"We were threatened by education ministry officials and security officers that if we didn't hold classs today we would be fired,\" said one returning teacher on condition he not be identified.\n\nBut in Ramallah, teachers refused to go back to work and despite the presence of large numbers of police and preventive security agents at school exits, pupils refused to remain in their classrooms, witnesses said.\n\nPalestinian sources said around 10 more teachers were detained in Ramallah overnight, although this could not be immediately confirmed. Police also confiscated the film of a cameraman trying to video one schoolyard.\n\nSchools also remained closed in Bethlehem, officials said, but teachers returned to work at some schools in Hebron and Jericho, and classes were reported nearly normal in the other self-rule towns of Tulkarem and Qalqilya.\n\nMore than 10,000 teachers launched their strike at the start of the month to press demands for a 200 percent pay hike and for the reinstatement of 19 teachers dismissed over a warning strike held the previous month.\n\nArafat met with strike leaders on Saturday and rejected their pay demands, saying that repeated Israeli security closures of the Palestinian territories over the past year had caused great economic hardship and made such salary increases impossible.\n\nWhen the teachers voted to continue the strike despite Arafat's appeal, police stepped in and arrested key leaders of the walk-out, which had closed 80 percent of West Bank schools and kept more than 200,000 pupils out of class.\n\nThe official teachers' union, affiliated with Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, has condemned the strike and said the coordinating committee leading the action was an illegal offshoot.\n\nThe strike has also drawn criticism from a broad range of Palestinian officials, including some independent members of the legislative council who say economic problems and the current stalemate in the peace process with Israel make this the wrong time for divisive protest actions.\n\n\"The difficult situation for our people now cannot tolerate that the education of hundreds of thousands of students be disrupted,\" said Salah Tamari, a legislative council member, on Voice of Palestine radio.\n\nBut civil rights groups expressed alarm at the latest illustration of Arafat's heavy-handed response to dissent against his three-year-old self-rule administration.\n\n\"The teachers' arrests make us more worried about the status of democracy and freedom of expression in Palestinian 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0240\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. wholesale prices drop by 1.6 percent in October\n\n\n\n\nWholesale prices in the United States fell by 1.6 percent in October, tying with the record decline set in the same month of 2001, the Labor Department reported on Tuesday.\n\nThe big drop in wholesale prices, a gauge of inflation at the factory gate, followed a 1.3 percent fall in September and was sharper than the 0.5 percent decline expected by analysts.\n\nJust as in September, the big drop in October was led by falling energy prices.\n\nThe core inflation at the wholesale level, which excludes volatile energy and food, dropped by 0.9 percent in October, marking the biggest monthly fall in 13 years.\n\nThe 0.9 percent drop in core inflation followed an increase of 0.6 percent in September, and reflected big declines in prices for new cars and sport utility vehicles.\n\nWhile excluding new car prices, core inflation would have risen by 0.1 percent in October.\n\nThe retreat in core inflation was a welcome development because it means inflation pressures are easing. Policymakers at the Federal Reserve are hoping that the slowing economy can help keep inflation in control, according to analysts.\n\nThe U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the third quarter, compared to a rate of 2.6 percent in the second quarter and a brisk 5.6 percent rate in the first three months of this year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same month of 2001", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 281, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 398, "end_char": 407, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 487, "end_char": 496, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 514, "end_char": 521, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 667, "end_char": 674, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "13 years", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 720, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P13Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 801, "end_char": 810, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 973, "end_char": 980, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 1278, "end_char": 1295, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter", "start_char": 1334, "end_char": 1352, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first three months", "start_char": 1385, "end_char": 1407, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1411, "end_char": 1420, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0240.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0250\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ngov't: President Hu\n\n\n\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao said here on Friday that China is willing to work together with the new German government to push forward the bilateral relations.\n\nDuring his meeting with designated chancellor Angela Merkel, Hu congratulated her on becoming the first woman chancellor in the German history, and spoke highly of her long-term contributions to the development of Sino-German relations.\n\nDeveloping Sino-German relations conforms to the fundamental interests of the two peoples, he said, adding that China will keep high-level exchanges and contacts with Germany and make joint efforts with the new German government to expand bilateral cooperation in all fields.\n\nMerkel said that the new German government will stick to the policy toward China, which has been upheld since former chancellor Helmut Kohl took power.\n\nThe new government will strengthen political dialogues with China and explore new areas for bilateral cooperation, she added.\n\nHu arrived here Thursday after a state visit to Britain. Germany is the second leg of his four-nation European-Asian tour, which will also take him to Spain and South Korea. He is also scheduled to attend the 13th APEC Economic Leaders Meeting in Busan, South Korea, on Nov. 18-19.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 121, "end_char": 127, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1051, "end_char": 1059, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18-19", "start_char": 1305, "end_char": 1315, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0250.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0370\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: Lincoln Memorial in Washington closed after suspicious items found\n\n\n\n\nThe well-known Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. has been closed to tourists after suspicious items were found, CNN reported on Monday.\n\nA U.S. government official said an envelope with the word \" anthrax\" on it was found at the memorial.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0370.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0423\n\nPESHAWAR,  Pakistan, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nA suspected militant died Friday when explosives he was carrying on a motorcycle blew up in a high-security zone of Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, police said.\n\nThe blast happened in a garrison area of the border town, within a kilometre (just over half a mile) of the US consulate and military intelligence buildings, police chief Habibur Rehman told AFP.\n\n\"A lone motorcyclist aged about 32 years old was driving in the area then there was a loud explosion and he died. The ID card found from his says he was a resident of Peshawar,\" Rehman said.\n\nThe police chief said it was \"difficult to say at this moment whether it was a suicide bombing\", although provincial police chief Riffat Pasha indicated it was not.\n\n\"It appears that he was taking explosives somewhere else. It was a sensitive area -- he was within a one kilometre radius of the US Consulate and military intelligence,\" Rehman added.\n\nPasha said the police had established the identity of the bomber, but would not give details saying that he did not want to compromise investigations.\n\nThe bomb was fitted to the motorcycle with the intention of leaving it somewhere to explode, he said. It was also a low-intensity device so the damage was limited.\n\nAnother local police official said the explosion took place close to a high-security residential area for the officials of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's feared spy agency.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 122, "end_char": 128, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0423.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0090\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUK medical device developer bases Asia-Pacific office in HK\n\n\n\n\nSunTech Medical Inc, one of the world leaders in blood pressure monitoring products and technology, announced here Monday the opening of its Hong Kong office.\n\nAs SunTech's first Asian venture, the Hong Kong operation will be responsible for providing a full range of sales and marketing support to its distributors throughout the Asia-Pacific region, according to Anthony Nixon, the Regional Director of SunTech Medical in Hong Kong.\n\n\"Sales operations associated with our medical devices have previously been based only in the UK and the United States. As our business grows in this region, it has become strategically important to establish a base here in order to be immediately available and responsive to the needs of our customers, both in Hong Kong and the rest of this region,\" Anthony Nixon said.\n\nCommenting on the choice of Hong Kong as its regional hub, Nixon said, \"We firmly believe that Hong Kong is the epicenter for Asian market development. Chinese mainland's rise as a major consumer and manufacturer further prompted SunTech Medical to operate directly in this booming market. The business-friendly environment and the great ease of setting up and operating a business in Hong Kong are among the city's many advantages.\"\n\nFounded in 1984, SunTech Medical is a wholly owned subsidiary of SunTech Medical Group Limited which is a privately-owned British company. It develops and markets clinical grade blood pressure measurement devices and operates from bases in the Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and Oxford, UK.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 238, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1984", "start_char": 1377, "end_char": 1381, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0090.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0361\n\nBERLIN, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nissue of parliamentary mandate ///\n\n\n\n\nGermany is \"prepared in principle\" to send Tornado reconnaissance planes to Afghanistan in response to a request from NATO but a decision has not been made, a deputy foreign minister said on Thursday.\n\n\"We are prepared in principle to provide intelligence capacity of this kind,\" Gernot Erler told Deutschlandfunk radio.\n\nErler said that sending the planes would require a change to the parliamentary mandate covering German forces already deployed in Afghanistan, but his ministry later clarified that this was \"not necessarily\" the case and the request was still being studied.\n\nPress reports say Germany has been asked to send five or six Tornadoes, which could be used in missions across Afghanistan, including in the south where fighting is fiercest.\n\nGermany currently has 2,700 troops serving in the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan but has resisted pressure to redeploy any of them from the relatively stable calm north to trouble spots in the south and east.\n\nOther NATO member states have urged Germany to send troops to the south to help overstretched forces face up to the increasingly militant Taliban.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 290, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 856, "end_char": 865, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0361.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0614\n\nTOKYO, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMitsubushi to form auto metal sheet processing unit in Thailand\n\n\n\n\nJapanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp. plans to set up a joint venture in Thailand in May to process and market auto metal sheets in the country, a company spokesman said Friday.\n\nMC Metal Service Asia Co Ltd., capitalised at 830 million yen (6.5 million dollars), will be owned 51 percent by Mitsubishi and the remaining 49 percent by Thai MC Co. Ltd. an affiliate of the major trading company, the spokesman said.\n\nTotal investment in the venture is estimated at 1.4 billion yen, including the construction of a plant near Bangkok, with production starting in December, the spokesman said.\n\nThe new plant will have annual capacity of 80,000 tonnes, equivalent to 400,000 passenger car units.\n\nThe venture plans to sell the product to Thai production units of Japanese carmakers such as Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.\n\nIt also plans to supply other carmakers which have plans to start operations in Thailand, including Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Corp., the spokesman added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 211, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 293, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 684, "end_char": 692, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0614.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0065\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina informs UNEP, UNDP of Songhua River Pollution\n\n\n\n\nChina on Saturday informed the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) of the major pollution in northeast China's Songhua River.\n\nBoth the headquarters and their respective representative offices in China of the two UN agencies have been informed of the accident as well as measures the Chinese government has taken to tackle the pollution problem, said China's State Environmental Protection Administration in a statement.\n\nThe Chinese government has also informed Russia of the pollution, which could affect its neighbor when the pollution slick flows into the Heilongjiang River bordering China and Russia. The government also pledges its utmost to reduce pollution beyond China's borders\n\nThe pollution slick, stretching more than 80 km, is flowing pass Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang Province, and is expected to reach Heilongjiang River in a matter of 12 days.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 122, "end_char": 130, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12", "start_char": 1034, "end_char": 1036, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0065.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0087\n\nTEHRAN, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIran halts dialogue on human rights, terrorism, arms with EU\n\n\n\n\nIran has decided to halt talks with the EU on human rights, terrorism and arms control in retaliation for Europe's suspension of a \"critical dialogue,\" the foreign ministry announced Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 302, "end_char": 311, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0087.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0093\n\nRAMALLAH, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nOne Israeli, three Palestinians wounded in Nablus clashes\n\n\n\n\nAn Israeli officer and three Palestinian militants were wounded in clashes in the West Bank early Tuesday, Palestinian and Israeli security sources reported.\n\nPalestinian sources said Israeli troops stormed the refugee camp of Balata in the West Bank city of Nablus, where Palestinian militants threw a bomb at one of the Israeli jeeps, wounding the officer.\n\nIsraeli soldiers fired back at the militants haphazardly, wounding three, among them a 15-year-old teenager, witnesses said.\n\nPalestinian medics at the Rafidia hospital said the teenager was inside his home in the refugee camp when he was wounded, adding that he was taken to hospital for a serious wound in the chest.\n\nIsrael army radio reported that the wounded Israeli officer sustained light injury and was transferred to hospital for treatment.\n\nIsraeli troops also arrested some 20 Palestinians in an overnight operation throughout the West Bank cities, mainly in Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin and Hebron, claiming that they were wanted militants affiliated to several Palestinian factions.\n\nIn Jenin, Israeli soldiers raided the village of Kherbet Marka and arrested Ahmed Mousa, 20, brother of Zayed Mousa, a wanted militant of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).\n\nIsraeli troops are continuing their military operation against Palestinian militants in the West Bank after an Islamic Jihad ( Holy War) suicide bomber from Jenin killed five Israelis last month.\n\nPalestinian sources said hundreds of Palestinians were arrested during the operation and the majority of the arrested are members of Hamas and Jihad.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Tuesday", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1535, "end_char": 1545, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0093.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0110\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMajor German stocks open higher\n\n\n\n\nGerman stocks opened higher Wednesday on the Frankfurt market.\n\nThe 30-share DAX Index climbed 0.44 percent to 6,309 points.\n\nThe TecDAX index of technologies and science firms gained 0.92 percent to 686 points.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 120, "end_char": 129, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0110.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0011\n\nBAGHDAD, Oct. 31 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: US military experiences worst month in Iraq since January\n\n\n\n\nThe deaths of six more US soldiers in Iraq Monday raised the US military death toll for October to 93, making it the worst month for US troops since January, the US military said.\n\nThe US death toll for the Iraq war just broke the 2,000 mark last week.\n\nPentagon spokesman Lawrence DiRita attributed the increased deaths to \"an adversary that continues to develop some sophistication on very deadly and increasingly precise standoff weapons.\"\n\nAmong the six soldiers who died Monday, four were killed by a makeshift bomb in the Yusufiyah district, southwest of Baghdad, and two other soldiers were killed in an explosion while on patrol near the Anaconda base, on the outskirts of Balad, north of the capital, the military said.\n\nThe week's casualties included the highest ranking army officer killed in action since the start of the war, Colonel William Wood, who died Sunday when an improvised bomb hit his vehicle near al-Amiriyah, west of Baghdad.\n\nThat made October, which saw Iraqis voting for a constitution and putting Saddam Hussein on trial, the worst month for US forces since January, when 107 US soldiers were killed, more than 30 of them in a helicopter crash.\n\nOnly during two other months since the war began has the US military seen a higher toll: 137 in November 2004 and 135 in April 2004, according to Pentagon figures. The tolls included combat and non-combat deaths.\n\nThe Iraqi insurgents have been using bigger, deadlier bombs and with new techniques, such as \"shaped\" explosive charges capable of blowing through armored US vehicles since the beginning of this year.\n\nIn the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a car bomb hit a police patrol Monday evening, killing at least 20 people, including five policemen, and wounding 40 or so others.\n\nThe bomb was so powerful that it damaged six cars and destroyed 10 shops nearby when Basra's bustling Algiers Street area was packed with festive crowds enjoying the cool evening during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.\n\nUnder the control of the British troops, the second largest Iraqi city was comparatively quiet after the war started in March 2003.\n\nPublic safety has deteriorated in recent months in Basra largely because of feuding among rival Shiite militias.\n\nEarlier, US military commanders have warned that Sunni insurgents will step up their attacks in the run-up to the Dec. 15 election, when Iraqis will choose their first full-term parliament since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.\n\nTo guard against such attacks, the military has raised the number of American troops in Iraq to 157,000 -- among the highest levels of the Iraq war.\n\nDiRita said US forces are looking for new ways to deal with the modified bombs.\n\n\"We're getting more intelligence that's allowing us to stop more of these things, find more of them. So we're learning from them and the enemy is learning from us, and it's going to be that way for as long as there is an insurgency,\" DiRita said.\n\nRealigned Iraqi parties and coalitions have fully geared up for the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections, which many analysts believe will lead to considerable changes in the country's political landscape.\n\nRegistration ended on Friday with 21 coalitions and 230 political parties and entities set to run.\n\nFive groups are widely expected to dominate the race -- the Shiite list, the Kurdish bloc, two Sunni Arab parties and a secular coalition led by former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.\n\nThe order in which parties appear on the lengthy ballot paper will be drawn by lot on Tuesday. Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari said up to 1 million Iraqis living abroad may not be able to vote due to the cost and a tight schedule.\n\nThe new four-year-term parliament will have 275 seats, of which 230 are distributed among 18 provinces by proportional representation, according to the Iraqi Electoral Commission.\n\nThe remaining 45 seats will be allocated for parties which fail to win seats in any one province but garner enough votes nationwide for at least one seat.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Oct. 31 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 216, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 277, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 370, "end_char": 379, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 604, "end_char": 610, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "The week", "start_char": 858, "end_char": 866, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 998, "end_char": 1004, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "worst month", "start_char": 1184, "end_char": 1195, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1216, "end_char": 1223, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two other months", "start_char": 1316, "end_char": 1332, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 2004", "start_char": 1400, "end_char": 1413, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2004", "start_char": 1425, "end_char": 1435, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the beginning of this year", "start_char": 1691, "end_char": 1717, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday evening", "start_char": 1788, "end_char": 1802, "tid": "t15", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-10-24TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the holy fasting month of Ramadan", "start_char": 2075, "end_char": 2108, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 2231, "end_char": 2241, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent months", "start_char": 2278, "end_char": 2291, "tid": "t18", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 15", "start_char": 2472, "end_char": 2479, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 15", "start_char": 3142, "end_char": 3149, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 3298, "end_char": 3304, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 3643, "end_char": 3650, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0011.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0533\n\nLONDON, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS press conference details ///\n\n\n\n\nBritish police probing the killings of five prostitutes in Ipswich said they would make an announcement at 2215 GMT on Thursday.\n\nAs a legal deadline approached to either charge or release two suspects being held in connection with the enquiry, unconfirmed reports said that police would also hold a news conference.\n\nTwo men aged 37 and 48 were being questioned over the murders of five sex workers whose bodies were found in the countryside around the eastern port town over a 10-day period earlier this month, but no-one has yet been charged.\n\nBy Friday morning, police must charge or release a man they had arrested on Monday. Police have not named him but media reports have said he is 37-year-old supermarket worker Tom Stephens.\n\nA second man, whom the media named as Steve Wright, 48, of Ipswich in Suffolk county, was also being questioned over the deaths and can be held until Saturday at the latest after being arrested on Tuesday.\n\nEarlier, it emerged that officers working on the case had compared notes with a neighboring force trying to resolve sex worker murders dating back to 1992.\n\nIn Norwich, north of Ipswich in the county of Norfolk, mystery still shrouds the stranglings of Natalie Pearman, 16, in 1992, and Michelle Bettles, 22, who died 10 years later. Kellie Pratt, 29, vanished from Norwich's red-light district in 2000.\n\nInspector Jamie Ayers of Norfolk Police said that the three cases were still open, but that a senior police officer had now been assigned to each one.\n\n\"We carry on searching and if there is any help that we can possibly give to Suffolk we will endeavour to do our best,\" he said.\n\nAccording to The Sun newspaper, which cited unnamed police sources, Wright was not cooperating fully with the inquiry.\n\n\"At the moment Wright isn't playing ball with us. He is exercising his legal right not to answer questions,\" the source told the tabloid daily.\n\nPolice have said the two men were suspected of murdering all five women, whose bodies were found around Ipswich between December 2 and December 12, but have formally declined to name them or say whether they knew each other.\n\nThe murdered women are Gemma Adams, 25, Tania Nicol, 19, Anneli Alderton, 24, Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29. Adams and Nicol were found in a stream while the other three were found in woodlands.\n\nThe cases have triggered comparisons with the \"Yorkshire Ripper\" Peter Sutcliffe, convicted of the murders of 13 women between 1975 and 1980, and Jack the Ripper, who killed five east London prostitutes in 1888.\n\nCause of death has only been established in two of the five deaths in Ipswich -- Clennell died of \"compression to the neck\" and Alderton died from \"asphyxiation\".\n\nNone of the corpses showed signs of having been subjected to significant trauma or serious sexual assault before dying.\n\nAlmost 500 officers are working on what has become one of Britain's biggest-ever manhunts, with 350 drafted in from 31 police forces around the country, including Northern Ireland.\n\nAs police investigations continued, Britain's Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith, warned the country's newspapers and broadcasters to show restraint in reporting the prostitutes' killings.\n\nIn particular he urged them to beware of prejudicing a future trial, by refraining from speculation about suspects or material which \"asserts or assumes, expressly or implicitly\" a person's guilt.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 229, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 603, "end_char": 613, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 652, "end_char": 666, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 725, "end_char": 731, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 989, "end_char": 997, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1036, "end_char": 1043, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1323, "end_char": 1327, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 years", "start_char": 1364, "end_char": 1372, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1444, "end_char": 1448, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2 and December 12", "start_char": 2118, "end_char": 2144, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1975", "start_char": 2562, "end_char": 2566, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1975", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980", "start_char": 2571, "end_char": 2575, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1888", "start_char": 2641, "end_char": 2645, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1888", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0533.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0146\n\nMACAO, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina beats South Korea 78-67 in men's basketball in EAG\n\n\n\n\nYi Jianlian's 25 points led China to a 78-67 victory over South Korea in men's basketball at the East Asian Games here on Wednesday.\n\nThe 2.12-meter center also had a team high of 15 rebounds and 7 blocks for the team's sixth straight victory and forward Jiao Jian added 15 points and 8 rebounds.\n\n\"We played quite a good third quarter,\" said Yi. \"We focused on playing inside and the game became easy for us.\"\n\nThe Chinese used a 8-2 run of its own to start the third quarter and finished it with a 12-4 run, which widen its advantage to 57-48.\n\nPoint guard Lee Kwang Jae led the South Korea with 22 points and Yang Hee Jong added 12.\n\nChina, who had entered the final stage with 12 points, is to compete with its last rival Hong Kong on Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 237, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a good third quarter", "start_char": 430, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "8-2", "start_char": 546, "end_char": 549, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 574, "end_char": 591, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 854, "end_char": 862, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0146.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0316\n\nSANTIAGO, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChile freezes trade negotiations with Peru amid waters dispute\n\n\n\n\nChile suspended trade negotiations with Peru on Friday on account of a law passed by Peru that claims sovereignty over 35,000 square km of offshore waters which Chile says belong to it, a foreign ministry official said.\n\nCarlos Furche, head of international economic relations for the ministry said, \"we have considered it prudent to postpone negotiations for a better time, even though they were at a very advanced stage.\"\n\nHe cited the \"well-known difficulties\" between the two countries as the reason for the freeze.\n\nOn Thursday Peru's Congress unanimously approved a bill that claims sovereignty over a sea area covering 35,000 square km of the Pacific Ocean along the South American coastline, which is now controlled by Chile. Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo immediately signed it into law.\n\nMeanwhile, Chilean President Ricardo Lagos Friday pledged a diplomatic resolution to the dispute and chastised the media for sensationalizing.\n\n\"The diplomatic channels are open and we have to do the diplomatic thing,\" Lagos said, adding that the media had fuelled the conflict unnecessarily.\n\nRegarding the issue, Peruvian President Toledo said at the sidelines of the fourth Summit of the Americas that \"the ball is in play and we're clear of our rights ... but this mustn't damage our relationship with Chile.\"\n\nChile and Peru have strong business ties and many companies have cross-border investments, especially in mining, the backbone of both economies, but their relations are marred by mutual distrust that has its roots in a 19th century war in which Peru lost a swath of mineral-rich southern coast to Chile.\n\nAccording to the Chilean government, Chile's border with Peru was already resolved in the 1952 and 1954 treaties. But Peru claimed that it never signed any maritime demarcation pact with Chile.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 648, "end_char": 656, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 833, "end_char": 836, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 970, "end_char": 976, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "19th century", "start_char": 1661, "end_char": 1673, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "P19C", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1952", "start_char": 1837, "end_char": 1841, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1952", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0316.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0155\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS, ADDS supervisory board source ///\n\n\n\n\nDeutsche Boerse, operator of the German stock exchange, did not make an \"informal\" tie-up offer to rival group Euronext, which operates the Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Lisbon exchanges, a supervisory board member told AFP on Friday on condition of anonymity.\n\n\"There was nothing like that. If there had been, the supervisory board would have been informed,\" the source said.\n\nIndeed, Deutsche Boerse's newly installed management team would likely wait before embarking on any tie-up projects, it said.\n\n\"At present, management's top priority is to remunerate shareholders.\"\n\nOn Friday, Deutsche Boerse announced that it expected to reach its goal of paying out 800 million euros (960 million dollars) to shareholders, most of them investment funds, by way of share buy-backs and dividends. And the group plans to dish out a total 1.5 billion euros to shareholders by 2007.\n\nThe French daily Le Figaro had reported in its Friday edition that the operator of the Frankfurt stock exchange had made an overture to Euronext last weekend with a view to a possible tie-up.\n\nFor its part, Deutsche Boerse declined to comment.\n\n\"I can't make a statement on that specific article,\" a Deutsche Boerse spokesman said.\n\n\"We've already said that we're open to cooperation on condition it is in the interest of Deutsche Boerse,\" he added, noting that talks were held regularly in the sector.\n\nThe German group has tried on several occasions to tie the knot with the London Stock Exchange. But its latest tie-up attempt ended in spectacular failure earlier this year with the ouster of the chief executive Werner Seifert.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 336, "end_char": 342, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 689, "end_char": 695, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 978, "end_char": 982, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1032, "end_char": 1038, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last weekend", "start_char": 1130, "end_char": 1142, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 1644, "end_char": 1661, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0155.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0428\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. stocks rise as economy grows faster than expected\n\n\n\n\nU.S. stocks rose Wednesday as the economy grew by 2.2 percent in third quarter, a better performance than expected.\n\nIn midday trading, Dow Jones Industrial Average went up 84.12, to 12,220.57. The Standard and Poor's 500 index gained 11.22 to 1, 397.94, and the Nasdaq composite index increased 19.56 to 2,432.17.\n\nThe U.S. economy grew 2.2 percent in the July-September period, a better performance than the estimated 1.6 percent rate, the Commerce Department reported on Wednesday.\n\nThe growth rate in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was considerably stronger than the 1.8 percent rate that economists had forecast, and less than half the blistering 5.6 percent rate recorded in the first quarter.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 134, "end_char": 143, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third quarter", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the July-September period", "start_char": 470, "end_char": 495, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 591, "end_char": 600, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter", "start_char": 796, "end_char": 813, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0428.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0340\n\nDOHA, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nMalaysia's Koo and Tan win gold in doubles badminton\n\n\n\n\nMalaysia's Koo Kien Keat and Tan Boon Heong won Asian Games gold in the men's doubles badminton defeating Indonesia's Luluk Hadiyanto and Alvent Yulianto Chandra.\n\nThe Malaysian underdogs were in complete control against the fifth seeds winning 21-13, 21-14 in just 27 minutes.\n\nIndonesia's third seeds Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan shared bronze with Jung Jae Sung and Lee Yong Dae, the second seeds from South Korea.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "27 minutes", "start_char": 372, "end_char": 382, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT27M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0340.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0242\n\nSOFIA, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBulgaria sees bases deal with US next spring: defense chief\n\n\n\n\nBulgaria hopes to reach a deal with the United States on the deployment of US troops at Bulgaria's military bases by spring next year, Bulgarian Defense Minister Vesselin Bliznakov said on Tuesday.\n\n\"I hope all the details will be agreed and we can have a deal maybe in February or March,\" he said.\n\nOn Saturday, Lyubomir Ivanov, Bulgaria's chief negotiator and ambassador to NATO, said the two countries had agreed to jointly use the Novo Selo shooting range and the Bezmer airport, both in central Bulgaria.\n\nWashington aims to pull about 70,000 troops out of Germany and Asia in the next decade and is planning to create small, flexible bases in Eastern Europe.\n\nBulgaria joined US-led NATO last year along with six other Eastern European nations. The United States is also in talks with Romania over the use of its military bases.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 243, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 389, "end_char": 397, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 422, "end_char": 430, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next decade", "start_char": 701, "end_char": 716, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 813, "end_char": 822, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0242.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0010 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0010. \n CNW Acquisition Completed \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CNW \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nTRANSPORTATION, TRUCK AND SHIP LINES, RAILROADS (TRA) \n CHICAGO  \n\n   CNW Corp. said the final step in the acquisition of the company has been completed with the merger of CNW with a subsidiary of Chicago amp North Western Holdings Corp. \n\n   As reported, CNW agreed to be acquired by a group of investors led by Blackstone Capital Partners Limited Partnership for $50 a share, or about $950 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 71, "end_char": 79, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0685.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0310\n\nWASHINGTON, April 5 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS shifts to daylight savings time\n\n\n\n\nMost areas of the United States shift Sunday to daylight savings time, with clocks moving one hour ahead.\n\nThe change was to take place in the eastern zone at 2:00 a.m. (0700 GMT). Some areas of the country exercise local options not to join the summer time.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 5 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0310.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0210\n\nGENEVA, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\n2006\n\n\n\n\nNatural and man-made catastrophes caused global economic losses of about 40 billion dollars (30 billion euros) in 2006, but less than a third was covered by insurance, the reinsurance company Swiss Re said on Wednesday\nThirty thousand people worldwide were estimated to have lost their lives in catastrophes over the year, the company said in a statement on preliminary estimates of losses for the year.\n\nTyphoons and earthquakes hit mainly at newly industrialising countries in 2006, where insured values are relatively low, and so the impact on the industry was \"quite mild\" the company said.\n\nOnly 15 billion dollars' worth of the 40 billion dollars in losses were covered by insurance, it added.\n\n\"After years of record losses, property insurers appear to be getting off lightly in 2006,\" Swiss Re said.\n\n\"Catastrophe losses of only 15 billion dollars will allow them to replenish their risk capital, depleted by record payments for hurricane damage in 2005 and 2004,\" it added.\n\nReinsurers were hit with costs in excess of 75 billion dollars last year, according to Swiss Re's German peer, Munich Re.\n\nHurricane Katrina, which pummelled the southern United States and caused widespread flooding in New Orleans, accounted for around 45 billion dollars alone, according to estimates released by Munich Re at the end of 2005.\n\nIn 2006, three events racked up losses for insurance companies over one billion dollars; two tornados in the United States and one typhoon in Japan, according to Swiss Re.\n\nOver the last 20 years, this makes 2006 the third-lowest year for insurance losses after 1997 and 1988, it added.\n\nThe United States had a quiet hurricane season, Europe suffered no expensive catastrophes, and nor was any major industrialised region hit by earthquakes.   Very expensive man-made disasters such as major air crashes or large-scale fires were also conspicuous by their absence, the company noted.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 270, "end_char": 279, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thirty", "start_char": 280, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1930", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 374, "end_char": 382, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 455, "end_char": 463, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 540, "end_char": 544, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 847, "end_char": 851, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1018, "end_char": 1022, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1108, "end_char": 1117, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2005", "start_char": 1372, "end_char": 1387, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 1393, "end_char": 1397, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 20 years", "start_char": 1568, "end_char": 1585, "tid": "t14", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 1652, "end_char": 1656, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 1661, "end_char": 1665, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "season", "start_char": 1718, "end_char": 1724, "tid": "t19", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0210.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0205\n\nGUANGZHOU, South China, Nov. 9 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nOlympic gold medalist Taufik quits China Open badminton\n\n\n\n\nAthens Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia quit the 250,000-dollar China Open badminton championships which started here on Tuesday.\n\nTaufik, who also claimed the title at this year's world championships, did not appear at this afternoon's first round match and was then automatically out of the tournament.\n\nA coach from the Indonesian team said that Taufik's right foot hurt. But an organizer said that although Taufik, the fourth seed, had registered for competing in the China Open, he did not arrive in Guangzhou.\n\nLast week at the Hong Kong Open, Taufik was unceremoniously bundled out of the mens singles in the third round by Malaysian Wong Choong-hann.\n\nIn today's other matches, third-seeded Bao Chunlai from China cruised through, beating Persson Joachim of Denmark 15-2, 15-1, while world No.1 Lin Dan from China, second-seeded Jonassen of Denmark enjoyed byes.\n\nMore than 237 atheltes from 13 countries and regions participated in the tournament here.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2005", "start_char": 47, "end_char": 60, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 264, "end_char": 271, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 312, "end_char": 321, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 660, "end_char": 669, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 806, "end_char": 811, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0205.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "ed980111.1130.0089 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n The lights are out and the heat is off and those vital signs are not likely  to change much over the next several days for p- people in parts of the northeastern US and eastern Canada. \n\n A powerful ice storm continues  to maintain its grip.\n\n Yesterday New York governor George Pataki toured five counties that  have  been declared under a state of emergency. He added one more today.\n\n Helicopters  are flying over northern New York today trying  to locate people stranded without food, heat or medicine.\n\n In Maine, about a half million people still don't have power and they 're going to have  to live without it for a while.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "980111", "start_char": 2, "end_char": 8, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next several days", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t15", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Yesterday", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t14"}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 418, "end_char": 423, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-11", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t14"}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 474, "end_char": 479, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-11", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t14"}, {"text": "a while", "start_char": 660, "end_char": 667, "tid": "t20", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t14"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "ed980111.1130.0089.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0096\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSingapore shares end further higher\n\n\n\n\nThe shares prices in Singapore closed further higher on Thursday with the benchmark Strait Times Index (STI) rising 7 points to close at 2,261.5 points.\n\nThe overall volume stood at 654 million shares worth 697.9 million Singapore dollars (about 410.5 million US dollars).\n\nLosers led gainers by 252 to 235 with another 648 remained unchanged.\n\nOn Wednesday, the benchmark Strait Times Index rose 14 points to end at 2,254.5 points.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 456, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0096.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0039\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 18 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nuniversity graduates\n\n\n\n\nChina's Ministry of Personnel on Saturday began its annual national employment service for millions of university graduates, with more than 480,000 positions up for grabs online and at job fairs around the country.\n\nA total of 121 local human resources departments and job service websites and 26,000 employment units will take part in 126 job fairs across the country including those held over the Internet.\n\nEmployment experts will be invited to university campuses and job fairs to offer job seeking tips to students due to graduate next July.\n\nAccording to the ministry, the most sought-after positions are in marketing, administration, computer science, machinery, architecture, finance, chemistry, human resources, foreign languages and medicine.\n\nStatistics show that 4.13 million students graduated from higher education institutions this year, 750,000 more than last year.\n\nAbout 1.24 million Chinese college students will graduate next year without immediate job offers.\n\nThe ministry encourages university graduates to work in the rural areas in West China region with favorable policies such as guaranteed salaries and medical care, and subsidies for those who go to undeveloped and remote rural areas,\n\nStatistics show China is facing a severe employment crisis with 34.5 million people expected to come on to the labor market from 2006 to 2010.\n\nAbout 25 million new job-seekers would enter the market this year, of whom 11 million might find jobs in the urban areas, leaving 14 million unemployed.\n\nThe unemployed in China are mainly composed by laid-off workers, college graduates, redundant rural laborers and those returned from overseas study, or \"haigui\" which means a \"sea turtle\" -- a Chinese pun for overseas returnees.\n\nA random sample survey of 1,500 Chinese returned from recent overseas study shows that more than 35 percent of them have employment problems, said Lin Zeyan, researcher with the human resources study training center of the Development Research Center of the State Council.\n\nLin said their job difficulties are mainly resulted from their high expectations of salaries as they want their huge overseas educational investment pay off by finding a \"lucrative\" job.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 115, "end_char": 123, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "126", "start_char": 418, "end_char": 421, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "126", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next July", "start_char": 618, "end_char": 627, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 924, "end_char": 933, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 953, "end_char": 962, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1023, "end_char": 1032, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 1427, "end_char": 1431, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1498, "end_char": 1507, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0039.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0203\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nApplications for importing ROK poultry suspended in HK\n\n\n\n\nThe Hong Kong Center for Food Safety announced Monday that the processing of applications for importing poultry and poultry products from the Republic of Korea would be suspended with immediate effect.\n\n\"The decision was taken following confirmation of an outbreak of avian influenza H5N1 in a poultry farm there,\" a spokesman for the center said.\n\n\"We will seek further information about the case from the relevant authorities,\" he said.\n\nHong Kong imported some 900 tons of frozen poultry meat/offal from ROK from January to August this year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 165, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 634, "end_char": 641, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August this year", "start_char": 645, "end_char": 661, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0203.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0062\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nIndonesian president to meet Putin for trade talks\n\n\n\n\nIndonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Friday for talks on trade links, officials said.\n\n\"The priority in negotiations will be questions of increasing the turnover and diversification of trade cooperation,\" a Kremlin official said ahead of the meeting.\n\nTrade turnover between the two countries rose from 366.3 million dollars (276 million euros) in 2004 to 551.2 million dollars in 2005 and amounted to 300.9 million dollars in the first half of 2006, the official said.\n\nTen documents are set to be signed during Yudhoyono's visit, the Kremlin official said, including cooperation in nuclear energy, space technology, arms sales and tourism.\n\nThe Kommersant daily cited officials as saying that Indonesia intends to buy Russian arms, mainly submarines and fighter jets, and will be given one billion dollars (755 million euros) in credit to do this.\n\n\"The most important document is set to be an agreement on the development of military technical cooperation for 2007-2010,\" Kommersant said, adding that Indonesia was particularly interested in buying two Amur submarines.\n\nYudhoyono was impressed by the Russian military technology he saw on display at the Indo Defence 2006 arms fair that took place in Jakarta last week, Kommersant said.\n\nIndonesia, once a major purchaser of Soviet weaponry, bought fighter jets, military helicopters, armoured personnel carriers and Kalashnikov assault rifles in 2003, Kommersant added.\n\nIndonesia and Russia will also sign an agreement for Russian energy firms Gazprom and Lukoil to take part in oil and gas projects on the island of Borneo and for Russia to build Indonesia's first nuclear reactor, Kommersant said.\n\nYudhoyono has already visited the northern Russian city of Saint Petersburg during his visit and on Friday is set to address a business forum and receive an honorary diploma from a Russian foreign ministry academy.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 215, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 526, "end_char": 530, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 559, "end_char": 563, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first half of 2006", "start_char": 605, "end_char": 627, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1391, "end_char": 1400, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1579, "end_char": 1583, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1935, "end_char": 1941, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0062.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0130\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 19 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMasters\n\n\n\n\nDavid Nalbandian came out the first Argentine to reach the final of a year-ending championship for 31 years after the eighth seed beat top Russian Nikolay Davydenko in straight sets here on Saturday in the semifinals of the ATP tennis Masters Cup.\n\nLast time a tennis player from Argentina being a finalist is in 1974 when Guillermo Vilas won the title.\n\nWith the victory of 6-0, 7-5 in 1 hour 26 minutes and 43 seconds, Nalbandian set up a final matchup with world number one Roger Federer as the superlative Swiss made short work of his semifinal clash against seventh seed Gaston Gaudio 6-0, 6-0 earlier the night.\n\nThe 23-year-old cracked 2 aces, none of double-fault and 21 winners against 13 unforced errors for the win.\n\nDavydenko, who has taken the place of Marat Safin to be the highest ranked Russian in the world and playing on his debut in the season-ending event, had been attempting to become the first Russian reaching the final since Yevgeny Kafelnikov was runner-up at the ATP Tour World Championship in 1997.\n\nThe 24-year-old, however, made 29 unforced errors throughout the match though winning 4 aces and 17 winners.\n\nDavydenko, who had made his Masters Cup debut on Monday by defeating all-time great Andre Agassi 6-4, 6-2 in his first round robin match, held a chance of coming back in the middle of the second set when he broke Nalbandian in the sixth game, beating his Argentine opponent to no answers.\n\nBut Nalbandian, ranked 12th in the world, soon broke back after the seventh-ranked Davydenko wasted three game points on his own serve.\n\nAgain the Argentine made a successful break in the eleventh game before turning two match points into win in the following.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "31 years", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P31Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 383, "end_char": 387, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1 hour 26 minutes", "start_char": 457, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT1H26M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 1091, "end_char": 1095, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1257, "end_char": 1263, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0130.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0080\n\nLAGOS, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFive airlines grounded in Nigeria\n\n\n\n\nThe Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has suspended airline operating certificates of five domestic carriers to sanitize the ailing aviation industry, local media reported on Sunday.\n\nThe affected airlines are Sosoliso, IRS, Space World, Fresh Air and Dasab. The NCAA revoked ADC's certificate on October 30 after its B737-200 aircraft crashed in Abuja one day earlier, killing 98 people.\n\nThe NCAA at the weekend withdrew the certificates for what it described as their \"flouting safety rules, (and) operation of one airplane.\"\n\nSosoliso was specifically accused of using bad tires in the fleet of its aircraft which recorded an air crash on Dec. 10, 2005 which killed 108 people, including more than 60 teenage students.\n\nManaging Director of Sosoliso Airlines Oscar Ikwuemesi confirmed the suspension, but explaining that the airline's management was meeting with the NCAA to resolve the problem.\n\nThe affected airlines' billboards had been removed from their counters at the domestic wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos.\n\nAviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode said on Friday at his maiden interactive forum with journalists that he was going to be firm in the area of aviation safety, adding that he would give the aviation regulatory body \"all the necessary backing to sanitize the industry.\"\n\nFani-Kayode said he was happy that the NCAA autonomy bill had been signed into law by President Olusegun Obasanjo on Wednesday. He, however, reiterated that more domestic carriers would be giving internationally lucrative routes, noting that the airlines would only grow if they were given choice routes.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 30", "start_char": 397, "end_char": 407, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Abuja one day earlier", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 468, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 502, "end_char": 513, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 10, 2005", "start_char": 743, "end_char": 756, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1177, "end_char": 1183, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1521, "end_char": 1530, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0080.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0188\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: Four explosions rock Baghdad's Sadr City\n\n\n\n\nFour explosions, including a car bomb at the 55th Square, in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City, took place on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 229, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0188.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0369\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nThree U.S. soldiers killed in western Iraq\n\n\n\n\nThree U.S. soldiers, including two marines, have been killed in Iraq's western province of Anbar, the U.S. military said on Monday.\n\nOne marine, assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, died Saturday from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Anbar province, the U.S. military said in a statement.\n\nA second marine from the same combat team, died Sunday from wounds sustained due to the same reason, the statement added.\n\nOne U.S. soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division was also killed Sunday by enemy fire while operating in Anbar province, the military said.\n\nSince the U.S.-led war in Iraq broke out in March 2003, more than 2,820 U.S. soldiers have been killed in the country, according to media count.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 233, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 465, "end_char": 471, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 619, "end_char": 625, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 739, "end_char": 749, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0369.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0170\n\nROME, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nItalian first division league top scorers\n\n\n\n\nFollowing are the top scorers of the Italian first division league after the soccer matches played on Sunday:\n\n8 Christian Rigano (Messina)\n\n6 Eugenio Corini (Palermo)\n\nAmauri (Palermo)\n\nRolando Bianchi (Reggina)\n\n5 Mario Frick (Siena)\n\nGiorgio Corona (Catania)\n\nAdrian Mutu (Fiorentina)\n\nCristiano Doni (Atalanta Bergamo)\n\nIgor Budan (Parma)\n\nFabio Quagliarella (Sampdoria)\n\nTommaso Rocchi (Lazio)\n\nDavid Di Michele (Palermo)\n\nGionatha Spinesi (Catania)\n\n4 Nicola Ventola (Atalanta Bergamo)\n\nFrancesco Totti (AS Roma)\n\nHernan Crespo (Inter Milan)\n\nDejan Stankovic (Inter Milan)\n\nMassimo Oddo (Lazio)\n\nLuca Toni (Fiorentina)\n\nVincenzo Iaquinta (Udinese)", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 202, "end_char": 208, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0170.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0052\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBeijing youth are heavier, suffer poorer eyesight: survey\n\n\n\n\nThe eyesight of young students in Beijing gets worse as their school careers advance according to a recent survey, which shows that 86 percent of students in colleges and 31 percent in primary schools have poor eyesight.\n\nTong Zhiyan, an official with the Beijing sports administration, said the city's rate of young with poor eyesight and who are overweight continues to grow and is the worst in the country.\n\nTong said governments and schools should take measures to curb the deterioration of eyesight and the weight of students.\n\nA total of 32,879 people between the ages of three and 69 were surveyed in 2005.\n\nThe 2005 survey found 22.1 percent of Beijingers were \"very\" physically fit, up 4.2 percentage points from 2000, and 27.2 percent were classified as \"good,\" a drop of 0.3 percentage points since 2000.\n\nA nationwide survey on student health conducted by the Ministry of Education in 2004 found that 80 percent of Chinese college students suffered from poor eyesight and that the older the students, the poorer their sight.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 727, "end_char": 731, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 841, "end_char": 845, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 929, "end_char": 933, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1016, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0052.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0096\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 18 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina issues porky gold bars to commemorate Year of the Pig\n\n\n\n\nChina Gold Coin Corporation issued a series of gold bars made of 99.99 percent gold on Friday to commemorate the forthcoming Year of the Pig.\n\nThe total volume of gold bars being issued in China this year is 3,000 kg, at a price of 175 yuan per gram in Bejing, the first city to issue them to the public. They can be bought in weights of 1000g, 500g, 200g, 100g and 50g.\n\nSales of the gold bars are expected to be boosted due to the Year of the Pig being the last year in the 12-year rotation of the Chinese lunar calendar making it a lucky and rich year, according to traditional superstition.\n\nAdd to the fact that out of the five Chinese elements - metal, wood, water, fire and earth - 2007 is the year of metal, or gold, and people are expected to snaffle up the pig bars.\n\nChina first issued the gold bars to commemorate the lunar new year in 2002, the Year of the Sheep. The wooly gold bars were sold for 92 yuan per gram.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "forthcoming Year", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 250, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 316, "end_char": 325, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 580, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "rich year", "start_char": 666, "end_char": 675, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 969, "end_char": 973, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the Year", "start_char": 975, "end_char": 983, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0096.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0334\n\nBUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nS. Korea's Busan to use APEC to become international convention city\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korea's second largest city, Busan, is aiming to become an international convention host city through the successful hosting of this year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, city planners said Saturday.\n\nBusan, also the country's largest port city, was designated by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism as an international convention city last month, and city authorities plan to update infrastructure to make Busan even more attractive for conventions. The new status allows the city to receive central government assistance and legal support.\n\n\"Conventions are a high-value-added business that can also help transform the city's image from a bustling port to one where people can hold meetings while taking the time to enjoy scenic vistas,\" a Busan city official said.\n\nHe added that if the city can play host to the leaders of 21 economies and countless officials and reporters, as well as host sideline events, it can hold any convention in the world.\n\nOther experts said the city has great growth potential, with attractive beaches in Haeundae and Gwangalli, as well as parks including Yongdusan and Taejongdae and the Eulsukdo Migratory Bird Sanctuary.\n\nIn addition, to splash new green space o the urban landscape, three new parks have been opened to celebrate the hosting of the 2005 APEC summit. They are the Dongbaek Park, APEC Naru Park and Peace Park.\n\nThe city, which is one of the five busiest ports in the world, has an international airport for easy access and is linked to Seoul by air and the KTX, the country's bullet train service.\n\nThe city boasts first-class hotels in both the downtown area and Haeundae district and at the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center(BEXCO). BEXCO has an exhibition space of 26,508 square meters and an additional 13,233 square meters for outdoor displays.\n\nThe facility has a convention hall that can hold 5,800 people and has played host to various international events, including the official draw for the 2002 FIFA World Cup held in South Korea.\n\nIn addition, the new Nurimaru APEC House is expected to become a tourist attraction and valuable asset in terms of getting people to hold conferences in the city. The structure near Haeundae Beach, the venue for the second summit session for APEC leaders on Nov. 19, has a striking view of the ocean.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 354, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 500, "end_char": 510, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 19", "start_char": 2422, "end_char": 2429, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0334.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0391\n\nROME, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS with late match ///\n\n\n\n\nFiorentina edged struggling Treviso 1-0 on Saturday to move up to second in Italy's Serie A.\n\nStefano Fiore headed the only goal six minutes into the second half as the Florence club returned to winning ways after their 2-1 defeat at home to leaders Juventus last week which ended their six-match unbeaten run.\n\nFiore's winner saved the blushes of Serie A's leading scorer Luca Toni whose first half penalty was saved by Adriano Zancope.\n\nAfter their 15 matches played, Fiorentina have 32 points, seven less than Juventus who entertain Cagliari on Sunday.\n\nTreviso, promoted from Serie B last season, could drop to bottom of the table on Sunday if fellow strugglers Lecce take at least a point from their fixture away to Udinese.\n\nFiorentina were awarded a penalty on the half hour when Alberto Giuliatto fouled Alessandro Gamberini as a free-kick came into the area.\n\nToni, who has scored 16 goals this season, stepped up only to see his spot-kick tipped away by Zancope's outstretched fingers.\n\nBut the home side made the breakthrough in the 51st minute.\n\nGiampaolo Pazzini exchanged passes with Christian Brocchi before floating a cross to the back post from the right and Fiore headed in from close range.\n\nTreviso had a golden opportunity to equalise for the visitors shortly afterwards but Dino Fava blasted wildly over the bar from a good position.\n\nSiena climbed two places up to 12th after defeating Tuscan rivals Empoli 1-0 in Saturday's early match.\n\nAlbanian striker Erjon Bogdani scored the only goal in the second minute, sliding in to stab home Simone Vergassola's low left-wing cross.\n\nEmpoli's fourth straight defeat left them in 13th place on 17 points, one behind Siena.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 347, "end_char": 356, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 636, "end_char": 642, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 726, "end_char": 732, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the half hour", "start_char": 856, "end_char": 869, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 51st minute", "start_char": 1128, "end_char": 1143, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1525, "end_char": 1533, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second minute", "start_char": 1605, "end_char": 1622, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0391.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0191\n\nLONDON, Nov. 26 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNewcastle beat Portsmouth 1-0\n\n\n\n\nAntoine Sibierski scored his first Premiership goal of the season on Saturday to award Newcastle a 1- 0 win over Portsmouth.\n\nThe home side were on top from the start and were unfortunate to see Obafemi Martins' first-half goal ruled out for a marginal offside decision.\n\nNewcastle saw more chances go astray before Charles N'Zogbia crossed for substitute Sibierski to slot home in the 69th minute.\n\nPortsmouth offered little going forward and only some fine saves from David James stopped the Magpies adding more.\n\nThe win was still a welcome one for Newcastle boss Glenn Roeder as, for all his side's heroics in the UEFA Cup, their domestic form had been a serious cause for concern.\n\nThis was their first victory on home turf in the league since the opening day of the season - and Sibierski's goal was only their ninth in 14 top-flight games.\n\nThey were never going to get it all their own way here either.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 159, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 69th minute", "start_char": 472, "end_char": 487, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the opening day of the season", "start_char": 839, "end_char": 868, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0191.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0480\n\nSANTIAGO, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nChile president defends decision to deny Pinochet state funeral\n\n\n\n\nChilen President Michelle Bachelet on Monday defended her decision to deny ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet a state funeral, saying the move was made for the good of the country.\n\n\"In any society, in any country, when there are not norms, or predetermined laws for a particular situation, it is up to the leaders, the government, to make decisions in the best interests of the people,\" she said.\n\n\"Over the past several hours we have seen divisive acts that we don't like, but as a society and as a country we have to have the ethical strength to overcome this challenge,\" she said.\n\nBachelet, together with her parents, suffered torture during the Pinochet regime. Pinochet, 91, died Sunday a week after suffering a heart attack, escaping years of charges against his 17-year regime of human rights violations, including torture and murder.\n\nAfter Bachelet's decision that the ex-dictator would be buried with military honors, rather than a state funeral and without a period of national mourning, Pinochet's relatives said representatives from the government would not be welcome at the late dictator's burial service.\n\n\"I don't want acts of hypocrisy, out of respect to my mother and my family\" Marco Antonio Hiart, the youngest of Pinochet's five children, told Chilean television, as he blasted the government for failing, in his view, to accord his father the honor befitting a former leader.\n\nPinochet's body lied in Santiago's Military School Monday. Defense Minister Viviane Blanlot had been expected represent the government at the ex-dictator's funeral Tuesday.\n\nThe death of the former general, whose US-backed coup in 1973 toppled the Socialist government of Salvador Allende, struck a chord in this country where many suffered under his regime while supporters hailed him as Chile's savior from communism.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday a week", "start_char": 803, "end_char": 816, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1569, "end_char": 1575, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1682, "end_char": 1689, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0480.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0016\n\nNEW DELHI, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndia disowns criticisms of Saudis after Mecca blaze\n\n\n\n\nIndia has disowned a foreign ministry official's allegations that Indian pilgrims who died in last week's Mecca disaster could have been saved, newspapers reported Friday.\n\nThe Hindustan Times said the foreign ministry had rejected the allegations by India's Consul General Afzal Amanullah in Jeddah following a blaze on April 15 which left at least 343 dead.\n\nAmanullah claimed Indian pilgrims had been locked in their camp by their Saudi guides, condemning them to their fate. More than 100 Indians are believed to have died in the fire.\n\nBut a foreign ministry official said the consul general views appeared to be based on \"information provided by a few of the injured relating to the conduct of an individual gatekeeper.\"\n\nHe said no pilgrims had made a complaint about a locked gate to an investigating team from India and it would be \"premature to approportion blame.\"\n\nHe added: \"No broad generalisations about the tragic accident can be drawn on this basis.\"\n\nSaudi officials say the fire killed at least 343 people and left more than 1,500 wounded during the annual Moslem pilgrimage to Mecca known as the hajj.\n\nA preliminary Indian investigation, however, has indicated 600 may have died. Most of the victims were from Asian countries, notably India and Pakistan.\n\nThe Saudi authorities said the blaze, which incinerated 70,000 tents, was started accidently by the explosion of a gas canister used for cooking in the Pakistani pilgrims' camp.\n\nAmanullah reportedly said there had been time to save the pilgrims, adding: \"You do not prevent your own pilgrims from rushing out to safety. You do not confine them to a small space and certain death.\"\n\nThe Hindustan Times said the foreign ministry announcement had been made \"apparently in deference to Saudi clout.\"\n\nThe Asian Age, in an unsourced front page article, accused the Indian government of a \"soft approach\", arguing India did not want to offend Saudi Arabia since many of its nationals worked there and it also relied on Saudi oil supplies.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 15", "start_char": 435, "end_char": 443, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0016.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0524\n\nGENEVA, April 10 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDenmark defies Beijing with resolution slamming rights abuses by Jacques Boyer\n\n\n\n\nDenmark, backed by the United States and 13 other countries, filed a resolution Thursday denouncing Chinese human rights abuses, despite threats from Beijing and deep European divisions over the issue.\n\nDanish Ambassador Tyge Lehmann waited until literally the last minute before presenting the resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva at 1559 GMT in order to muster maximum support.\n\nThe 53-members of the commission will vote on the text next Tuesday, but diplomats believed that, as on all previous occasions, the anti- China resolution would be defeated through skillful Chinese lobbying.\n\nDenmark's motion received support from nine fellow EU members, the United States, Norway, Switzerland, and Iceland.\n\nBut, for the first time, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece all withdrew their support, ending EU unity on the issue.\n\nAustralia, which had co-sponsored the anti-China resolution for six years without success, was also among the countries withholding support for Thursday's motion.\n\n\"Governments not confortable with not showing solidarity have promised to support the resolution as such and to move to defeat the non-action motion,\" Lehman said.\n\nHowever, diplomats said the resolution had little chance of being adopted.\n\nChina has faced a similar resolution every year since the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.\n\nDenmark stepped in Saturday and announced it would put forward the motion after the European Union failed to agree on a joint position on the annual human rights debate.\n\nChina had stepped up the pressure on Denmark in a last-gasp effort to prevent the Danish-sponsored resolution from being presented.\n\n\"This motion will be like Denmark lifting a rock only to drop it on its own head,\" foreign ministry spokesman Shen Guofang warned earlier Thursday.\n\n\"It will be a heavy loss for Denmark as the leader of the pack usually suffers the brunt of the attack,\" he added.\n\nDiplomats said no Asian country was willing to back the text after the defection of Japan, and African and South American countries also held back.\n\nLehmann said he hoped all the countries who had withheld support would return to back the motion next Tuesday.\n\nAll previous resolutions have been defeated as a result of intense lobbying by Beijing, which presents the debate as a clash between North and South.\n\nDenmark's motion criticised violations of fundamental liberties and called for the respect of all human rights, impartial administration of justice, the release of political prisoners and the protection of Tibetans' cultural, ethnic, linguistic and religious identity.\n\nIn Beijing, the Danish embassy confirmed that it and other EU member missions had been summoned by the Chinese foreign ministry for a dressing down over their support for the resolution.\n\n\"They 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0238\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMadagascar invites Chinese businesses: president\n\n\n\n\nMadagascan President Marc Ravalomanana Friday said he hopes more Chinese companies enter Madagascar to expand cooperation with local businesses in infrastructure construction, agriculture, personnel training, health care and environment protection.\n\nIn a meeting with his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing, the president referred to China as an important partner and sincere friend.\n\nMadagascar faces an arduous task in boosting national development and is implementing a new blueprint, he said.\n\nHu said China and Madagascar have maintained close high-level contacts and initiated cooperation in infrastructure construction and agriculture.\n\nThe Chinese president expressed hope that the two governments establish a more effective communication and coordination mechanism in order to hold timely discussions on ways to boost bilateral relations.\n\n\"We should implement trade and economic cooperation projects we have agreed upon and tap potentials for further cooperation,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, it is also important to cement multilateral cooperation. \"China supports the active role Madagascar has played in the Indian Ocean regional affairs,\" said Hu.\n\nRavalomanana arrived in Beijing Friday morning for the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation slated for Nov. 4- 5.\n\nSo far, 47 delegations of the 48 African countries that have diplomatic ties with China, including 41 heads of state or government, have arrived for the summit featuring \"friendship, peace, cooperation and development\".\n\nChina and Madagascar forged diplomatic relations on Nov. 6, 1972. Bilateral trade amounted to 197 million U.S. dollars in 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 1303, "end_char": 1317, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-27TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov.", "start_char": 1393, "end_char": 1397, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 6, 1972", "start_char": 1678, "end_char": 1690, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1972-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1748, "end_char": 1752, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0238.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0560\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 14 , 2005, 2005\n\nAmnesty labels conviction of would-be Bush assassin 'flawed'\n\n\n\n\nAmnesty International challenged Wednesday the conviction of an Arab-American man for conspiring to assassinate President George W. Bush, saying the court had failed to take into account torture allegations.\n\nA US jury last month found Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, 24, guilty on nine counts, including conspiracy to kill Bush, conspiracy to hijack a plane and offering to aid Osama bin Laden's terror network.\n\nAmnesty argued the verdict was flawed because the jury was not allowed to hear evidence supporting claims by Abu Ali that his videotaped confession, on which the prosecution relied almost exclusively, had been obtained following torture in Saudi Arabia.\n\nAbu Ali said he was flogged and beaten by security service agents under the Saudi interior ministry and forced to confess.\n\n\"It's seriously concerning that the trial of Abu Ali may set a precedent in US courts by which statements obtained by torture and ill-treatment are accepted as evidence,\" said Susan Lee, Amnesty Internationals Americas Programme Director.\n\nJudge Gerald Bruce Lee, in the federal court in Washington, ruled that only evidence that related directly to Abu Ali's interrogation would be admissible, thus denying the defence the opportunity to present relevant contextual evidence.\n\n\"Equality of arms before the court is a fundamental principle of fair trial standards,\" said Lee.\n\n\"The apparent absence of this fundamental right in Abu Ali's trial, especially where it considerably weakens a defendant's ability to prove that his confession was obtained through torture, has cast a dark shadow over the fairness of the trial,\" she added.\n\nSentencing is scheduled for February 17, with the defendant facing a possible life sentence.\n\nThe indictment against him said Abu Ali and another conspirator discussed two options for assassinating Bush -- either shooting him the street or using a car bomb.\n\nBorn in Texas, Abu Ali's parents were Jordanian. The family lived in Falls Church, Virginia, a Washington suburb, until Abu Ali went to study at the Islamic University of Medina in Saudi Arabia.\n\nHe was detained in Medina in a sweep following bomb attacks in Riyadh on May 12, 2003 that left 34 dead.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 338, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 17", "start_char": 1763, "end_char": 1774, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 12, 2003", "start_char": 2263, "end_char": 2275, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-05-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0560.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0135\n\nIPSWICH, England, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nPolice grappled Wednesday with the grisly task of identifying two new bodies found near a quiet English town gripped by fears of a prostitute serial killer, as the death toll rose to five.\n\nDetectives stepped up the search for forensic evidence after the discovery Tuesday near Ipswich of two corpses believed to be those of missing prostitutes Paula Clennell, 24, and 29-year-old Annette Nicholls.\n\nThe finds bring to five the number of bodies found in less than two weeks near the eastern port town.\n\nThey have evoked thoughts of one of Britain's most notorious serial killers, east London's elusive Jack the Ripper, who murdered five prostitutes in 1888 and was linked to several other killings.\n\nThey have also revived more recent memories of Peter Sutcliffe, the \"Yorkshire Ripper\", who preyed on prostitutes and murdered 13 women and attacked seven others between 1975 and 1980.\n\nAll the corpses have been found in the countryside around Ipswich, some 80 miles (130 kilometres) northeast of London, prompting one of Britain's biggest ever murder inquiries.\n\n\"This is a most unprecedented inquiry. Nothing like this has ever happened,\" said Alastair McWhirter, chief constable, or head, of Suffolk Police.\n\n\"If you think back to the Yorkshire Ripper, the murders there took place over a long period of time ... We're responding to it effectively and as well as we possibly can.\"\n\nThe corpses of the first two murdered prostitutes, Gemma Adams, 25, and 19-year-old Tania Nicol, who both went missing from Ipswich's red light district, were found on December 2 and 9 respectively.\n\nPolice confirmed Tuesday that the strangled body of a third woman found in woods Sunday was 24-year-old Anneli Alderton.\n\nLater that day, a member of the public found a fourth body and a police helicopter crew member called out to survey the scene spotted the fifth shortly afterwards.\n\nThe streets of Ipswich were virtually deserted overnight -- the 30 or so prostitutes who usually work the red light district seemed to heed police advice to stay indoors, while the streets were all but empty of revellers during the normally busy Christmas party season.\n\nPairs of police officers carried out patrols to reassure local people for the second night running, while motorists were being stopped and questioned.\n\nSuffolk Police, a rural force more used to dealing with illegal raves than fast-moving murder cases, has faced questions from the media about whether it is equipped to cope.\n\nBut senior officers insist they are handling it well and have requested assistance from forces around Britain, as well as enlisting a behavioural analyst to help them understand who might have committed the crimes.\n\nDetective Chief Superintendent Stewart Gull, in charge of the investigation, told BBC television that an extra 70 officers would be drafted in Wednesday to help the 100 police already working on the case.\n\nHe has described it as \"almost a crime in action\", adding that \"the facts speak for themselves\" in terms of similarities between the killings.\n\nThe two latest bodies, which remain where they were found, were likely to be identified formally Wednesday, although Gull was cautious in formally confirming this would happen.\n\nNo other prostitutes are currently reported missing.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 94, "end_char": 103, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 343, "end_char": 350, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "less than two weeks", "start_char": 532, "end_char": 551, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1888", "start_char": 730, "end_char": 734, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1888", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1975", "start_char": 948, "end_char": 952, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1975", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980", "start_char": 957, "end_char": 961, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2", "start_char": 1631, "end_char": 1641, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1680, "end_char": 1687, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Later that day", "start_char": 1785, "end_char": 1799, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2907, "end_char": 2916, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 3211, "end_char": 3220, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0135.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0327\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina starts annual civil servant recruitment exam\n\n\n\n\nChina started a nationwide examination on Saturday to recruit civil servant for the Central Government in 2007, with 42 people competing for each job on average.\n\nThe exam is held simultaneously in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions nationwide where more than 530,000 people will compete for about 12,700 jobs, said a spokesman of the Ministry of Personnel, the exam organizer.\n\nThe ministry said the exam includes two sessions, with the administrative aptitude test (AAT) in the morning and the essay test in the afternoon, according to the exam schedule.\n\nSince 1994, China has organized 13 consecutive civil servant recruitment examinations for departments of the central authorities and regional units of these departments.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 222, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the afternoon", "start_char": 639, "end_char": 652, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 693, "end_char": 697, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0327.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0069\n\nMANILA, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nUS demands custody of marine convicted in Philippines rape case\n\n\n\n\nThe United States has demanded interim custody of a US marine sentenced to 40 years in jail for raping a Filipina woman, the Philippines foreign department said Wednesday.\n\nThe US embassy in Manila filed a diplomatic note invoking the right of the US military authorities to exercise custody of the marine in keeping with the provisions of the Visiting Forces Agreement between the two countries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 280, "end_char": 289, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0069.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0450\n\nSAO PAULO, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nA former shoeshine boy who rose from abject poverty, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 61, has given up his once fiery leftist rhetoric but not his image as a champion of the underdog.\n\nThe bearded leader will take office on Monday after his overwhelming reelection with more than 60 percent of the vote on October 29, thanks largely to support from the millions of Brazilians who survive on less than two dollars a day.\n\nHis electoral victory in the run-off marked a clear rebound since claims of campaign dirty tricks had thwarted his bid to win reelection in the first round of voting on October 1, when he fell 1.4 percentage points short of the simple majority needed for outright victory.\n\nAt campaign rallies, he showed great pride in his humble background, reminding cheering crowds that unlike his opponent, a trained doctor, he has no university degree.\n\nBorn on October 6, 1945, in the dirt-poor northeast of Brazil, Lula learned to read when he was 10.\n\nAs a child, he worked as a shoeshine boy and a peanut vendor before getting a job as a metal worker at the age of 14. He lost a finger in a work accident in the 1960s.\n\nA trade unionist and strike leader, he came to symbolize opposition to the military dictatorship in the 1970s and early 1980s. He founded the leftist Workers Party (PT) in February 1980.\n\nIn 1986, he was elected to Congress, and three years later he launched his first bid for the presidency. He tried again in 1994 and 1998 before winning by a landslide in 2002.\n\nHis victory was in part attributed to the fact that he dramatically toned down his once fiery leftist speech and moved the PT closer to the political center.\n\n\"I don't know how many elections I've lost to get to where I am now,\" Lula said in an October interview. \"But I do know how many insults and prejudices I've had to overcome to get there.\n\n\"That's why my only objective now is to show that I'm more competent than many of the people who've been runnning this country.\"\n\nHe insists Brazil has made great strides forward since he took office, saying poverty has gone down 19 percent since he took office.\n\nHis government pumped billions of dollars into social projects, including an ambitious program that subsidizes 11 million impoverished families, and which has gained widespread popularity.\n\nHis electoral triumph four years ago rocked financial markets that feared he would lead the country to economic ruin. Lula eventually gained the markets' trust, as he kept the economy stable and achieved the budget surplus required by agreements with the International Monetary Fund.\n\n\"In four years, I have learned a lot,\" he says.\n\nHis popularity plummeted in 2005 amid a wave of corruption scandals involving members of his cabinet and his party. He quickly bounced back, but a new scandal that erupted two weeks before the first round of voting again eroded his support, which has surged once more in recent weeks.\n\nLula fired top government and party officials, and insists he had no prior knowledge of the wrongdoing.\n\nHe has distanced himself from the brand of radicalism advocated by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who in his recent address to the UN General Assembly called US President George W. Bush \"the devil.\"\n\nAn avowed admirer of the Cuban revolution, he nonetheless recently criticized Cuba's ailing President Fidel Castro.\n\n\"I only regret that Fidel Castro did not carry out a process of political opening,\" he recently told the Folha de Sao Paulo daily.\n\n\"I think that our (Cuban) comrades missed their chance to move closer to democracy,\" he said.\n\nLula is married and has three children.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 29", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 400, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 1", "start_char": 674, "end_char": 683, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 6, 1945", "start_char": 956, "end_char": 971, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1945-10-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10", "start_char": 1044, "end_char": 1046, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1960s", "start_char": 1206, "end_char": 1215, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "196", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1970s", "start_char": 1318, "end_char": 1327, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "197", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980s", "start_char": 1338, "end_char": 1343, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "198", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 1980", "start_char": 1390, "end_char": 1403, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1986", "start_char": 1409, "end_char": 1413, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1986", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 1447, "end_char": 1458, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the presidency", "start_char": 1495, "end_char": 1509, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 1529, "end_char": 1533, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 1538, "end_char": 1542, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1576, "end_char": 1580, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1960, "end_char": 1963, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years ago", "start_char": 2406, "end_char": 2420, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years", "start_char": 2673, "end_char": 2683, "tid": "t19", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 2746, "end_char": 2750, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 2890, "end_char": 2899, "tid": "t21", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent weeks", "start_char": 2989, "end_char": 3001, "tid": "t22", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "daily", "start_char": 3553, "end_char": 3558, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0450.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0299\n\nWASHINGTON, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS consumer prices up 0.1 percent in March\n\n\n\n\nUS consumer prices rose 0.1 percent in March, following a 0.3 percent increase in February, the Labor Department said Tuesday.\n\nAnalysts widely had forecast a 0.2 percent rise in the department's consumer price index (CPI).\n\nThe CPI core rate, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, rose 0.2 percent last month.\n\nOver the past 12 months ending in March, the CPI has climbed 2.8 percent and core prices have risen 2.5 percent.\n\nFor the first three months of 1997, the CPI was up 1.8 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 149, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 187, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 223, "end_char": 230, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 414, "end_char": 424, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 12 months", "start_char": 432, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 461, "end_char": 466, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first three months", "start_char": 545, "end_char": 567, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 571, "end_char": 575, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0299.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0178\n\nJENIN, West Bank, Dec 21 , 2005\n\nURGENT  Local Hamas chief shot dead in West Bank\n\n\n\n\nA local leader of the radical Palestinian movement Hamas was shot dead Wednesday by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Jenin, medical sources said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2005", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0178.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0405\n\nMEXICO CITY, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMexico's president-elect names last cabinet ministers\n\n\n\n\nMexico's president-elect Felipe Calderon, of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), named on Thursday the last four cabinet ministers who will assist him in his six-year term to start on Dec. 1.\n\nCalderon named Eduardo Medina Mora as Attorney General, Genaro Garcia Luna as Public Security Minister, Guillermo Galvan Galvan as Minister of National Defense and Mariano Francisco Sainez Mendoza as Navy Minister.\n\nTwelve other cabinet ministers were appointed earlier this week.\n\nThe appointment of Francisco Javier Ramirez Acuna as Interior Minister sparked controversy as there have been allegations of heavy-handed policing during his previous term as governor of the western Mexican state of Jalisco.\n\nHuman rights groups have accused Ramirez of turning a blind eye to allegations of abusive and aggressive tactics by Jalisco police.\n\nHis most prominent appointment, Finance Minister Agustin Carstens, was former number three at the International Monetary Fund.\n\nOnly one official was ratified in his post: Tourism Minister Rodolfo Elizondo.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 213, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 313, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this week", "start_char": 578, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0405.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0387\n\nQUITO, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nEcuador begins WTO process against EU over banana tariff\n\n\n\n\nThe Ecuadorian government on Thursday sent a letter to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to appeal against the European Union's tariff on imported bananas.\n\nThe letter said the EU tariff of 176 euros per ton, which took effect on Jan. 1, had reduced Ecuador's market share in Europe by 6.4 percent, though the total tonnage of bananas has increased.\n\nThe letter is the first step of an arbitration process. WTO procedures usually give two conflicting sides two months to reach a compromise before a group of referees are authorized to arbitrate.\n\nThe EU has already reduced its tariffs from the initial 230 dollars per ton when faced with similar arbitrage processes.\n\nAccording to statistics of Ecuador's central bank, the world's largest banana exporter sold bananas worth nearly 1.1 billion dollars to Europe in 2005, up 6 percent from the previous year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 1", "start_char": 347, "end_char": 353, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months", "start_char": 574, "end_char": 584, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 932, "end_char": 936, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous year", "start_char": 956, "end_char": 973, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0387.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0262\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st LD: U.S. helicopters fire into Baghdad's Sadr City, 2 wounded\n\n\n\n\nTwo U.S. helicopters opened fire on a funeral in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad on Friday, wounding two people, an Interior Ministry official told Xinhua.\n\nResidents in Sadr City attended a funeral for victims who were killed in Thursday's deadliest bombings and some people fired into the air when two U.S. Apache helicopters flow over, the official said on condition of anonymity.\n\nThe choppers fired into the crowd, wounding two people, the official said, adding it seemed to be an accident, not clash.\n\nEarlier in the day, Doha-based al-Jazeera English channel reported that armed clashes erupted on Friday evening between U.S. forces and Shiite militiamen in Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad.\n\nOn Thursday afternoon, at least 200 people were killed and more than 250 others were injured in four coordinated bombings in Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.\n\nIt was the deadliest bombing attacks since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 354, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday evening", "start_char": 729, "end_char": 743, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday afternoon", "start_char": 844, "end_char": 862, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1069, "end_char": 1073, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0262.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0181 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0181. \n Dutch Firm Seeks\n@  To Buy Up to 25%\n@  Of Nashua's Stock\n@  ----\n@  By Lawrence Ingrassia\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n NSH \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nBUYBACKS, REDEMPTIONS, SWAP OFFERS (BBK) \n NASHUA, N.H.  \n\n   Nashua Corp., rumored a potential takeover target for six months, said that a Dutch company has sought U.S. approval to buy up to 25% of Nashua's shares. \n\n   Nashua immediately responded by strengthening a poison-pill plan and saying it will buy back up to one million of its shares, or 10.4% of the 9.6 million outstanding. \n\n   Nashua, whose major business is selling copiers, facsimile machines and related supplies, said Reiss amp Co. B.V. of the Netherlands filed a request with the Federal Trade Commission under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act for permission to buy more than $15 million of Nashua's stock but less than 25%. \n\n   Previously, an affiliate of Unicorp Canada disclosed a stake of less than 5% in Nashua, according to Daniel M. Junius, Nashua's treasurer. \n\n   Nashua's stock has fluctuated sharply on takeover speculation, rising to a high for the year of $42.875 a share in June from $29.75 in March. \n\nBut the company has had weak results so far this year, with earnings declining 43% to $13.7 million, or $1.43 a share, on a 4% decline in revenue to $713.5 million through the first nine months of the year.\n\nIts stock has slumped recently , closing unchanged Friday at $29 a share in composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange; at that price, the company has a market value of about $278.4 million. \nNashua announced the Reiss request after the market closed. \n\n   Mr. Junius said Nashua's \"intention is to remain an independent public company.\" \nThe company said it amended its shareholder rights plan by reducing to 10% from 20% the level of ownership by an outsider that would trigger the issuance to other holders of rights to buy additional shares of Nashua common at half price. \n\n   In addition, the company's board authorized the purchase of up to an additional one million shares. \nUnder a program approved by the company in 1987 that did n't specify a share amount, Nashua had purchased 481,000 shares through Sept. 29. \n\n   Alex Henderson, an analyst at Prudential-Bache Securities, said that while Nashua's performance this year has been \"atrocious,\" the company nonetheless is attractive as a \"classic breakup candidate because there's no similarity between its {four} businesses.\" \nHe estimated the breakup value at $55 a share. \nIn addition to selling Japanese-made photocopiers and facsimile machines in Europe and copier supplies in the U.S., Nashua has three other major businesses: labels and tapes, data storage disks for computers and mail-order photofinishing.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 181, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t76", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 383, "end_char": 393, "tid": "t77", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1189, "end_char": 1197, "tid": "t88", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t76"}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1220, "end_char": 1224, "tid": "t89", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t76"}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1240, "end_char": 1245, "tid": "t90", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-03", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t76"}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1293, "end_char": 1302, "tid": "t92", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t76"}, {"text": "first nine months", "start_char": 1425, "end_char": 1442, "tid": "t100", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1446, "end_char": 1454, "tid": "t1000", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": "t76"}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 1479, "end_char": 1487, "tid": "t101", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t76"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1508, "end_char": 1514, "tid": "t103", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t76"}, {"text": "1987", "start_char": 2189, "end_char": 2193, "tid": "t109", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 29", "start_char": 2275, "end_char": 2283, "tid": "t111", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09-29", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t76"}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 2386, "end_char": 2395, "tid": "t112", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t76"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0520.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0018\n\nMANILA, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPhilippines to deploy 7,000 policemen for ASEAN summit\n\n\n\n\nThe Philippines will deploy some 7, 000 policemen for the Association of Southeast Asian (ASEAN) Summit to be held in Cebu City, the police chief said on Tuesday.\n\nPolice forces will secure the arrival and the departure of all the delegates of the summit in December, Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Oscar Calderon told reporters in a press conference at Camp Crame, PNP headquarters in the capital.\n\nCalderon said that the police could not rule out the possibility that international and local terrorist groups might take advantage of the event.\n\n\"But with the preparations we've been conducting, there will be no threat. And as of now, there is no threat. Cebu is safe like Metro Manila,\" he said, referring to the second largest city of the country.\n\nThe Philippines is now the yearly chairman country of ASEAN and the host of the 12th ASEAN Summit and its related meetings scheduled in early December.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 373, "end_char": 381, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early December", "start_char": 1012, "end_char": 1026, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0018.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0108\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina asks Malaysia to probe assault cases against Chinese citizens\n\n\n\n\nChina has asked Malaysia to conduct immediate investigation into and punish offenders involved in the assault and humiliation of Chinese citizens in Malaysia, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said here Tuesday.\n\nThe Chinese Foreign Ministry and Embassy in Malaysia have expressed grave concern about reports of Chinese citizens being assaulted and humiliated in Malaysia, and made strong representations to the Malaysian government, demanding immediate investigation into and stern punishment of the offenders, said spokesman Liu Jianchao.\n\nAmong the cases, a woman, believed to be a Chinese national, was forced to do squats in front of a woman in police uniform in a room with some lookers. The scene was videotaped and shown to Malaysian ministers and parliament members as evidence, Malaysian national news agency Bernama reported on Friday.\n\nMalaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had reportedly asked the police authorities not to \"hide\" any facts in the probe into the videofootage. Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak also said that Malaysia would carry out a thorough investigation into the video evidence and would not protect the perpetrators, according to Bernama.\n\n\"The Chinese government has always considered it important to protect the legitimate rights and interests of Chinese citizens from being violated,\" Liu said at a routine press conference.\n\nThe Chinese side has noticed the promise of senior Malaysian officials to investigate the cases earnestly, Liu said.\n\nHe stressed \"China will continue to urge Malaysia to investigate and deal with these cases in a serious and just manner and bring the trouble makers to justice so as to really protect the dignity and safety of Chinese citizens and prevent such cases from recurring.\"\n\nIn response to a question on Malaysian Minister of Interior Azmi Khalid's possible visit to China, Liu said the two countries have been discussing details for the \"important visit\" on an date that is proper for both sides.\n\nChina welcomes Khalid to come for a visit, which will play a positive role in pushing forward bilateral cooperation in certain fields, the spokesman said.\n\nThe Chinese Foreign Ministry announced last Thursday that Premier Wen Jiabao will pay an official visit to Malaysia in mid-December.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 327, "end_char": 334, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 963, "end_char": 969, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Thursday", "start_char": 2313, "end_char": 2326, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0108.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0645\n\nMANILA, Dec 14 , 2005\n\nUS Fed hike may halt peso rally: Philippines central bank\n\n\n\n\nA strong rally by the Philippine peso may be nearing its end after the US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rates by another 25 basis points, Filipino central bank chief Amando Tetangco said Wednesday.\n\nThe US Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously Tuesday to raise the benchmark federal funds target rate by a quarter-percentage point to 4.25 percent, its highest level since May 2001.\n\n\"Its immediate implication for the Philippines is on interest rate differential and the possible downward effect on the domestic currency,\" Tetangco told reporters.\n\nThe peso, which traded at 53.695 to the dollar on Tuesday afternoon, has been hovering at two-and-a-half-year highs against the dollar in recent sessions, boosted by brisk remittances from the millions of Filipinos who work abroad.\n\nTetangco said the US Fed move was not likely to push Philippine consumer prices to rise sharply.\n\nHe said the US rate increase was expected but did not say whether the Philippine central bank will follow suit.\n\n\"The monetary board will make a full assessment that would include the inflation outlook, liquidity growth, external sector developments and other relevant factors when it meets tomorrow,\" Tetangco said.\n\nThe central bank has raised its overnight interest rates three times this year, by a total of 75 basis points to 7.50 percent for borrowing and 9.75 percent for lending.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 311, "end_char": 320, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 385, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2001", "start_char": 506, "end_char": 514, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday afternoon", "start_char": 733, "end_char": 750, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-13TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "tomorrow", "start_char": 1305, "end_char": 1313, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1401, "end_char": 1410, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0645.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0132\n\nTEHRAN, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nRecord 238 candidates sign up for Iran's presidential vote\n\n\n\n\nA record 238 people have signed up to contest next month's presidential election in Iran, but only a small number are expected to be approved, the interior ministry announced on Tuesday.\n\nThe ministry said it forwarded the list of hopefuls -- including several women -- to the 12-member Council of the Guardians, which will vet them to ensure they meet legal and ideological requirements.\n\nOnce a list of eligible candidates is released, they can launch a 12-day campaign for the May 23 polls, Interior Minister Ali Mohammad Besharati said. Campaigning will have to stop 24 hours before the election.\n\nThe names of the hopefuls have not been published, but, according to newspapers, nine women have signed up for the first time in a presidential election since the 1979 Islamic revolution.\n\nThe Iranian constitution is vague on whether or not women can run for president, and it is up to the council to decide based on its interpretation of the law.\n\nThe council, composed of six senior clergymen and six jurists, has a duty to ensure laws and their implementation conform to the constitution and Islamic regulations.\n\nHowever, the overwhelming majority of the hopefuls are expected to be rejected, as the constitution states the president should be a political and religious authority.\n\nThe two main candidates are parliamentary speaker Ali Akbar Nategh- Nuri, who is backed by the ruling clergy, and former culture minister Mohammad Khatami, supported by Islamic moderates and leftwingers. Both are clerics.\n\nIt will be the seventh presidential election in Iran since the revolution. President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has served two four- year terms and is not allowed to run again.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 23", "start_char": 597, "end_char": 603, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0132.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0150\n\nTOKYO, April 18 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMatsuzakaya profit soars 62.9 percent\n\n\n\n\nJapanese department store operator Matsuzakaya Co. Ltd. Friday said its parent company pre-tax earnings leapt 62.9 percent from a year earlier to 5.5 billion yen (45 million dollars) in the year to February.\n\nThe Nagoya-based company said consolidated sales climbed 1.7 percent to 435.6 billion yen in the same period, forecasting an even higher profit of 5.8 billion yen for the current year on increased sales of 444 billion yen.\n\n\"Although demand from corporate clients was sluggish, sales of women's clothing and personal effects showed steady gains,\" a statement said.\n\n\"We can expect new demand as a result of deregulation and administrative reforms in the current year. But concerns remains over stagnant personal spending following the April 1 consumption tax hike.\"\n\nSales of clothing rose 1.8 percent to 180.3 billion yen and sales of personal effects edged up 0.6 percent to 37.3 billion yen. Sales of household utensils fell 4.2 percent to 45.3 billion yen.\n\nSales of foodstuffs rose 1.7 percent to to 89.1 billion yen and sales of sundry goods were up 2.7 percent at 65.3 billion yen. Revenue from restaurant and coffee shop businesses rose 1.6 percent to 10.0 billion yen with other sales up 47.1 percent at 8.1 billion yen.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 18 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 223, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year to February", "start_char": 281, "end_char": 301, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period", "start_char": 397, "end_char": 412, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the current year", "start_char": 471, "end_char": 487, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the current year", "start_char": 754, "end_char": 770, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1", "start_char": 839, "end_char": 846, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0150.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0655\n\nHONG KONG, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\n10 Vietnamese arrested in China while trying to sneak into Hong Kong\n\n\n\n\nTen Vietnamese men have been arrested in southern China while trying to sneak into Hong Kong to look for jobs, it was reported Thursday.\n\nThe 10 Vietnamese, aged between 20 and 40, were held in coastal Wuchuan city in Guangdong province, while preparing to sail to Hong Kong, the Hong Kong branch of China News Service said.\n\nThey told Chinese authorities that they paid 10 billion dong (800 US dollars) to human smugglers to take them to Hong Kong where they were promised work, the report said.\n\nThe Vietnamese illegal immigrant left Nan Dinh in north Vietnam for Hong Kong on April 12.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 265, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20", "start_char": 300, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1920", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 12", "start_char": 709, "end_char": 717, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0655.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0473\n\nGUANGZHOU, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSchools must not expel juvenile students, violent TV banned\n\n\n\n\nSouth China's Guangdong Province is mulling legislation to ban schools from expelling students during the nine-year compulsory education period.\n\nPoor grades, puppy love or skipping classes will no longer be a sufficient pretext for schools to kick out primary and junior high school students, according to the draft law on juvenile delinquency prevention being deliberated in Guangzhou, the provincial capital.\n\nThough no official figures are available regarding the percentage of students expelled, it is common knowledge that some Chinese schools kick out children with poor grades in order to improve their performance and compete more successfully with other schools, said Wang Xudong, an official with the Guangdong Provincial People's Congress, the provincial legislature.\n\nIf a school wants to expel a child for consistently bad behavior, it will have to file records with the local education authority within 15 days of the date of dismissal, according to Wang.\n\n\"The legislation will prevent schools from giving up too soon on unruly students, and help decrease juvenile delinquency,\" said Xu Daosheng, deputy director of the Civil Affairs and Judicial Commission of the Provincial People's Congress.\n\nExpelling a problematic kid from school just makes it more likely that he or she will become a juvenile delinquent, he said.\n\nThe draft also bans violence, horror and atrocities from Guangdong radio and television programs. No crime-related video content can be screened from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., and no overseas animation content is allowed from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.\n\nThe draft will be reviewed by the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress on Dec. 1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 days", "start_char": 1041, "end_char": 1048, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1", "start_char": 1790, "end_char": 1796, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0473.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0062\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ndelays\n\n\n\n\nSections of five Beijing and eight Tianjin highways are currently closed after thick fog smothered north China from Sunday night.\n\nThe highway from Beijing to Shenyang, capital of China's northeastern Liaoning Province, didn't reopen until 9:33 a.m on Monday.\n\nThe closure of highways caused congestion and a slow crawl of vehicles on National Route 107, said an official from the Dujiakan toll station.\n\nPassengers for Baoding and Shijiazhuang, the two largest cities in northern Hebei province, were waiting in Liuliqiao bus station on Monday morning for their buses -- delayed by the closure of the highway -- to leave.\n\nThe Beijing Municipal Observatory and neighbouring Tianjin Municipal Observatory issued yellow fog warnings on Monday.\n\nCity roads were also affected by fog, with police called out repeatedly to deal with congestion and accidents.\n\nVisibility was reported to be as low as 500 meters in Beijing.\n\nVisibility is between 300 meters and 600 meters on average and as low as 10 meters on some road sections, said Zhao Jinghong, a weather forecaster with Tianjin Municipal Observatory.\n\nVisibility at Beijing Capital International Airport fell to 600 meters, resulting in some flight delays, especially flights for eastern Shandong Province, according to the Beijing Municipal Observatory.\n\nThe airport has launched an emergency fog plan to avoid mass congestion at the airport. It increases intervals between flights and reminds travelers to check times before going to the airport, said an airport official.\n\nThere was some air pollution on Monday. People should scale back outdoor activities and go out with a respirator, said the local environmental bureau.\n\nThe price of tomatoes rose from 1 yuan to 1.8 yuan per kilo as vegetables from Shandong and Henan provinces, two major sources for Beijing's dinner tables, were kept out of the city by the fog.\n\nThere were 30 percent more faucitis, rhinitis and respiratory infection patients than usual at major Tianjin hospitals.\n\nHigh humidity and little wind over the past week has caused the fog, said He Lifu, a meteorologist with the National Meteorology Center.\n\nCold air late on Monday night will bring fairly strong winds to north China and disperse the fog, the Beijing Municipal Observatory said.\n\nVisibility in parts of east China's Shandong and Jiangsu provinces, north China's Beijing and Tianjin municipalities and northeastern China's Liaoning Province was a mere 200 meters.\n\nMore than 40 flights from Taoxian airport in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning, were delayed Sunday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday night", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 320, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday morning", "start_char": 606, "end_char": 620, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 803, "end_char": 809, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1628, "end_char": 1634, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past week", "start_char": 2099, "end_char": 2112, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 2219, "end_char": 2231, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2614, "end_char": 2620, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0062.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0057\n\nOSLO, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS production levels, quotes, background ///\n\n\n\n\nThe Norwegian oil company Statoil is to take over the oil and gas activities of Norsk Hydro and create the largest offshore production group, the two groups said on Monday.\n\nThe new company will be 62.5 percent state-owned and given a new name, which was not disclosed.\n\nBoth companies' boards as well as the government have approved the takeover, which is expected to be completed by the third quarter of 2007.\n\nThe merged entity will have a combined production of 1.9 million barrels per day in 2007 and proven oil and gas reserves of 6.3 billion barrels of oil equivalents.\n\n\"This is the start of a new era. We are creating a global energy company and strengthening Norway's oil and gas industry,\" Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement.\n\n\"The government sees the recommended merger as industrially and strategically well founded,\" he said.\n\nThe state is expected to eventually raise its stake to 67 percent.\n\nNorsk Hydro will continue to operate as an aluminium company under its existing name.\n\nNorway is the world's third largest oil exporter, behind Russia and Saudi Arabia.\n\nphy/po/wai\n\n\"By combining forces, the new company will be a highly competent and financially strong Norwegian-based energy champion, well positioned to ensure continued domestic excellence and pursue international business opportunities for long-term growth,\" said Jan Reinaas and Jannik Lindbaek, the chairmen of the Board of Directors of Hydro and Statoil, respectively, in a joint statement. \"The industry faces an increasingly challenging international landscape. To merge now makes perfect sense.\"\n\nHydro will continue as a leading, focused global aluminium company.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter of 2007", "start_char": 498, "end_char": 523, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 610, "end_char": 614, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1686, "end_char": 1689, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0057.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0342\n\nLONDON, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nNearly 700 'gay marriages' in England and Wales next week\n\n\n\n\nNearly 700 \"gay marriages\" will take place in England and Wales next week when arrangements for new civil partnerships come into force, official statistics released Friday showed.\n\nSome 687 same-sex couples will take part in ceremonies to legally recognise their relationships next Wednesday, when England and Wales lift the veil on \"gay marriage\", the General Register Office (GRO) said.\n\nThe central London borough of Westminster leads the way with 20 all-male ceremonies.\n\nThe Civil Partnership Act comes into force on Monday in Northern Ireland and Tuesday in Scotland but no projected figures for first-day ceremonies were available, the equivalent bodies there told AFP.\n\nThe new legislation, which allows gay couples to obtain the same rights as heterosexual couples in areas such as employment, pension and inheritance, came into force on December 5.\n\nTo form a civil partnership, a couple must first register their intent, undergo a compulsory waiting period then go to a register office or other authorised place.\n\nThere they sign an official civil partnership document in front of a registrar and two witnesses. The ceremony is much like a civil wedding although the term \"gay marriage\" has no legal force and same-sex ceremonies are not allowed in church.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 273, "end_char": 279, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 399, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 630, "end_char": 636, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 661, "end_char": 668, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 5", "start_char": 955, "end_char": 965, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0342.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0044\n\nHANOI, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAPEC ministers endorse Hanoi Action Plan for free trade, Investment\n\n\n\n\nMiniters and representatives of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) here Thursday endorsed the Hanoi Action Plan for further free and open trade and investment.\n\nThe plan was endorsed at the two-day ministerial meeting closed here Thursday afternoon at the newly built Hanoi National Convention Center, announced the cochairman of the meeting, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem at a news briefing after the meeting.\n\nThe document, initiated by APEC senior officials, together with others, will submit for approval to the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting to be held here on Nov. 18-19.\n\nThe ministers and representatives at the meeting reaffirmed APEC's commitment to achieve the Bogor Goals in 2010/2020 and recognized that the Bogor Goals remain important for APEC today's fast changing trade and investment environment.\n\nThey endorsed the Hanoi Action Plan to implement the Busan Roadmap, which was agreed in 2005 to accelerate progress towards the Bogor Goals.\n\nUnder the Plan, member economies of APEC will take concrete actions in five key areas, in particular, the support for the multilateral trading system and the promotion of high-quality regional trade arrangements and free trade agreements.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 209, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday afternoon", "start_char": 367, "end_char": 385, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18-19", "start_char": 742, "end_char": 752, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010/2020", "start_char": 863, "end_char": 872, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 935, "end_char": 940, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1080, "end_char": 1084, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0044.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0147\n\nANKARA, Nov 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n1st lead: Earthquake shakes Turkey's Malatya province\n\n\n\n\nAn earthquake with a magnitude of 5. 3 on the Richter scale shook Turkey's central province of Malatya on Saturday.\n\nNo casualty was reported.\n\nSemi-official Anatolia News Agency quoted officials of an observatory center as saying that the quake occurred at 17:56 p.m. (1556 GMT) and that the epicenter of the quake was at the Poturge town of Malatya.\n\nMalatya Governor Osman Derya Kadioglu was quoted as saying that there were no reports of any casualties or damage after the quake which was felt in Malatya and surrounding provinces.\n\nEarthquakes are frequent in Turkey. A strong quake hit western Turkey in 1999, leaving more than 18,000 people dead.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov 26 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 219, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "17:56 p.m.", "start_char": 371, "end_char": 381, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 723, "end_char": 727, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0147.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0432\n\nSHENYANG, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: Colliery flood traps 8 in northeast China\n\n\n\n\nEight people were trapped when a colliery was flooded in northeast China's Liaoning Province, the local government confirmed Tuesday.\n\nThe accident was reported at the Dahenan Colliery in Huazi Township in Dengta, a city about 50 kilometers south of the provincial capital Shenyang.\n\nA spokesman of the provincial work safety administration said reports of the flood were received at 11:30 a.m. and it was not clear whether the victims were still alive.\n\nHe did not give the exact time of the accident.\n\nRescue work is underway and a team of reporters from Xinhua's Liaoning provincial bureau are on their way to the site.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 237, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "11:30 a.m.", "start_char": 496, "end_char": 506, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0432.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0089 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0089. \n Financing Business:\n@  Healthdyne Inc. \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n HDYN \n STOCK MARKET, OFFERINGS (STK)\nINITIAL STOCK OFFERINGS (INI) \n\n   HEALTHDYNE Inc., Atlanta, said its subsidiary, Home Nutritional Services Inc., registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission an initial public offering of four million shares of common. \nThe in-home health care services provider said it will sell 1.8 million of the new shares, while Home Nutritional Services will sell the remaining 2.2 million. \nThe company estimates the offering price at between $14 and $16 a share. \nThe company said it expects to use the proceeds to repay certain bank debt and for general corporate purposes, including establishing new operating centers and possible acquisitions. \nHome Nutritional currently has 10 million shares outstanding. \nIt will have 11.8 million shares outstanding after the offering, with Healthdyne owning about 65% of the total.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 84, "end_char": 92, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 834, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t22"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0806.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0301\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina, India boost Africa's growth: World Bank\n\n\n\n\nAfrica is reaping the fruits of a new \"Silk Road\" to the fast-growing Asian economies, notably through a sharp rise in trade and investments by China and India, a new study by the World Bank has found.\n\nAccording to the study, \"Africa's Silk Road: China and India's New Economic Frontier,\" 27 percent of African exports are sold in Asia, up from 14 percent in 2000 or three times the amount in 1990.\n\nEurope, Africa's leading trade partner since the early independence days, has lost ground with a 50 percent fall between 2000 and 2005 in the share of African exports to European Union members, said a report of the study released here on Monday.\n\nApproximately 47 percent of Africa's exports to Asia comprise oil and natural gas, which represent 12 percent of Africa's overall exports to the world. The leading non-oil mineral and metal products include gold, silver, platinum, iron, aluminum, iron ore, copper, and pearls.\n\nThe study finds that existing Chinese and Indian investment in Africa is concentrated on raw materials, notably in the mining and oil sectors.\n\nHowever, the two Asian countries \"are fast diversifying outside the natural resources sector into the apparel, food processing, retail, fisheries, commercial real estate, labor- intensive light manufacturing and the services sector in ways that could help Africa move away from over-reliance on a few export commodities which has left the continent so vulnerable to economic shocks,\" said the report.\n\nChina and India's foreign direct investments in Africa, although more modest than trade flows, are also growing very rapidly, the \"Silk Road\" study reveals, drawing parallels with the Silk Road used by traders from 100 B.C.\n\n\"This new Silk Road presents a significant, and to date, rare opportunity to accelerate Africa's growth, expand intra-African trade and hasten the continent's integration into the global economy,\" said Harry Broadman, World Bank's economic advisor in the African region and the author of the study\n\nThe study finds that in both Africa and Asia there are strong complementary relationships between foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade.\n\n\"Chinese and Indian firms operating in Africa have been playing a significant role in facilitating these linkages between FDI and trade on the African continent,\" said the report.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 473, "end_char": 477, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 507, "end_char": 511, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 635, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 644, "end_char": 648, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 752, "end_char": 758, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0301.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0189\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nprocess\n\n\n\n\nThe Association of Muslim Scholars on Friday called on Sunni Arab politicians to withdraw from the government and parliament after the authorities issued an arrest warrant for the most prominent Sunni cleric, Harith al-Dhari.\n\n\"A call on the political groups to withdraw from the parliament and the government, which it has proved that is not a national unity government,\" the Association spokesman, Abul Salam al- Kubaisi, told reporters.\n\n\"The warrant was issued to cover the acts of the government's security forces that kill dozens of Iraqis every day,\" Kubaisi said.\n\nOn Thursday, Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani said that al-Dhari, was trying to \"spread division and strife among the Iraqi people and will be chased by our security agencies.\"\n\nThe arrest warrant was issued days after al-Dhari was accused by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki of \"inciting sectarian and ethnic sedition.\"\n\nDhari, 65, who is safe from arrest in neighboring Jordan, reported the pan Arab al-Jazeera television on Friday, adding that the Iraqi government is \"provoking crises\" with him to cover its failure in facing up the militias loyal to government Shiite political parties.\n\nDhari, the secretary general of the Association of Muslim Scholars, described the arrest warrant of the Shiite-dominated government as \"illegal\" and that he would return to Iraq at the appropriate time.\n\nHowever, government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said in the day that the Iraqi government has not ordered an arrest warrant for Dhari, but it was only to open a criminal investigation into his activities.\n\n\"There is an investigation warrant related to the activities of Sheikh Dhari and they are not final,\" Dabbagh told state-run Iraqia television.\n\n\"Iraqi government issued an arrest warrant is not accurate. We confirm that this news were out of context,\" Dabbagh said.\n\nAl-Dhari is the top leader for Iraq's Sunni minority and reportedly is an outspoken critic of Al-Maliki's Shiite-dominated government.\n\nHe often travels abroad and it is not clear whether he is in the country when the arrest warrant was issued late Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 107, "end_char": 113, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 645, "end_char": 653, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1079, "end_char": 1085, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Thursday", "start_char": 2164, "end_char": 2177, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0189.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0240\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ncosts: report\n\n\n\n\nU.S. federal regulators will unveil \"significant changes\" in the coming weeks to make it less costly for companies to obey rules aimed at ensuring the accuracy of their financial reports, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.\n\nRegulators \"will unveil significant changes\" aimed at ensuring internal-control audits are \"top down, risk-based and focused on what truly matters\" in ensuring the accuracy of corporate financial results, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Christopher Cox.\n\nThe changes apply to a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley corporate-reform law known as Section 404, which requires companies to review their internal controls on financial reporting and then to have those controls tested by outside auditors.\n\nBusiness groups have pressed the SEC and Congress for such changes, complaining that the way Section 404 is interpreted is overly broad and requires them to spend too much time and money, documenting things that have nothing to do with the integrity of their financial statements.\n\nCritics also said that Section 404 is partly responsible for discouraging foreign companies from listing their shares on U.S. exchanges.\n\nSpeaking before the International Organization of Securities Commissioners in London on Thursday, Cox said that the changes \"will provide guidance for both companies and their auditors to permit common-sense reliance on past work, and on the work of others.\"\n\nThe goal is to reduce the compliance costs, while increasing the benefits provided by the annual reviews, he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "coming weeks", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 302, "end_char": 308, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1350, "end_char": 1358, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0240.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0329\n\nPARIS, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n9th day in France\n\n\n\n\nTwo warehouses in Seine-Saint-Denis, two other buildings in the suburb of Val d'Oise, and over 120 vehicles nationwide were set ablaze in France as the nation's worst unrest in decades dragged into the ninth day on Friday.\n\nFiremen rushed to Val d'Oise to extinguish blazes on more than ten cars and two buildings, while flames flared up Friday in several other locations despite heavy police deployment.\n\nAt least 78 people have been captured overnight on Thursday around the suburban regions of Paris, the French National Police General Direction said Friday.\n\nDays of arson attacks also put the authorities on fire. The French Communist Party on Friday urged Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to step down, saying his policy is \"a total failure.\"\n\n\"The interior minister's policy, recycling ideas of the far-right is more than a total failure: it stirs all the tensions and generates the results strictly contrary to what it pretends to obtain,\" the party said.\n\nThe party also called on the French government to recognize its failure in public and decide a radical change of its public security policy.\n\nWhile determined to restore order and justice, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has acknowledged that people living in high-immigrant areas need security, recognition, hope, respect and future, promising further help with the youths in those areas in seeking jobs.\n\nThe government has also presented an initial report on an investigation into the deaths of the two teenagers, identified respectively as Bouna Traore, 15, born in Mauritania, and Zyed Benna, 17, of Tunisian origin.\n\nViolence was sparkled by the accidental deaths of the two teenagers last week in Seine-Saint-Denis in northeast Paris, an area which is home to many poor Muslim immigrants from North Africa.\n\nThe two victims scaled the wall of an electrical relay station to flee a police identity check and were electrocuted near a transformer.\n\nYoung people in the suburban areas went on a rampage at the two deaths, while some others from the high-immigration neighborhoods joined in, protesting unemployment and other problems.\n\nRiots first began in Seine-Saint-Denis, and have spread to areas surrounding Paris before flaring up also in Marseille, Dijon and in Normandy -- and even in central parts of the capital itself.\n\nHeavy police deployment has seemed to be doing little help in quenching out the flames. Some 1,300 police officers have been sent to Seine-Saint-Denis, the place worst hit by the violence.\n\nAccording to police estimates, over 1,260 vehicles have so far been torched and more than 200 people arrested amid fears that the country's racial and social divisions were fueling the violence, the worst seen since a 1968 student revolt.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 414, "end_char": 420, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 533, "end_char": 541, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 630, "end_char": 636, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 725, "end_char": 731, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1738, "end_char": 1747, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0329.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0277\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMerkel pledges to meet eurozone budget deficit rule by 2007\n\n\n\n\nGerman chancellor-designate Angela Merkel pledged here Thursday to bring Germany's budget deficit down by 2007 to meet the 3-percent rule that the European Union stipulated for the 12-nation euro-zone.\n\n\"It is not just meeting the ... criteria - this is a question of justice for the future,\" said Merkel in a speech to business leaders.\n\nGermany has violated the 3 percent of gross domestic product ( GDP) euro-zone budget deficit rule for a fourth year in a row in 2005 and many experts expect further violation next year.\n\nMerkel said her government would make 35 billion euros (42 billion US dollars) of spending cuts in the coming months, but adding the need to reach the goal \"rests on assumptions for which we have to do something first\" and \"rests on the assumption that we will have 1.8 percent growth and the hope that we will end the spiral of losing 1,000 full-time jobs per day\".\n\nMerkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU)/CSU alliance and outgoing Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democratic Party ( SPD) are negotiating on the formation of a grand coalition government with Merkel as the next chancellor. A new government is expected to be in place later this month.\n\nThe German government said last month that Germany's GDP will grow 1.2 percent next year, less than the 1.6 percent it predicted in its last official forecast in April. It also lowered its projection for growth this year to 0.8 percent from 1 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 399, "end_char": 409, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a fourth year", "start_char": 560, "end_char": 573, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 590, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 633, "end_char": 642, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "coming months", "start_char": 748, "end_char": 761, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1294, "end_char": 1304, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1334, "end_char": 1344, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1386, "end_char": 1395, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 1469, "end_char": 1474, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1518, "end_char": 1527, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0277.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0302\n\nNICOSIA, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCyprus expresses deep concern over increasing violence in Gaza\n\n\n\n\nThe Cypriot government expressed its deep concern on Thursday over the increasing violence in Gaza Strip after the killing of more than 60 Palestinians by Israeli troops.\n\n\"The Government of the Republic of Cyprus is deeply concerned with the increased violence in Gaza,\" the Cypriot Foreign Ministry said in a statement.\n\n\"The indiscriminate Israeli military strike on civilian targets which resulted in the loss of several lives including women and children is against international humanitarian law and cannot be justified,\" the ministry added.\n\nThe Cypriot government called on both parties to refrain and adopt a spirit of moderation and responsibility, underlining that violence would further impede the efforts over restarting the peace process.\n\nOn Nov. 1, Israel launched a large-scale military operation, dubbed \"Autumn Clouds\" in northern Gaza Strip with the aim of stemming rocket attacks on southern Israel from the Palestinian side. More than 60 Palestinians were killed and more than 250 others wounded during the Israeli operation.\n\nOnly one day after Israel announced the end of the operation, the Israeli tank shells struck houses in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun on Wednesday, killing at least 18 civilians and wounding dozens of others.\n\nThe attack was the deadliest on Palestinian civilians in the past several years, prompting a wave of strong censure across the Arab world and the international community.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 176, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 880, "end_char": 886, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 1177, "end_char": 1184, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1316, "end_char": 1325, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past several years", "start_char": 1446, "end_char": 1468, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0302.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0150\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSchwarzenegger says US will benefit from China's progress\n\n\n\n\nGovernor of the US state of California Arnold Schwarzenegger said here Wednesday that the United States and the world will benefit from China's progress and scientific and technological advances.\n\nSchwarzenegger said in a speech at prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing that China's economy has become an engine of human progress, lifting millions of people out of poverty.\n\n\"I often read that China's economy is likely to become the largest in the world over the next 50 years,\" Schwarzenegger said, noting that this is terrific.\n\nSome in his country fear that China's development will overtake the Unites States' development, he said. \"But I believe the United States and the world will benefit from China's scientific and technological advances,\" he noted, saying the US-China economic relations will become even closer in the years ahead.\n\n\"We should welcome China's investment in US firms.\" That would show that China has faith in the United States, he said.\n\nThe Austrian-born actor-turned-politician, who is very familiar to Chinese audiences as a movie hero, also educated Tsinghua students on the importance of seizing dreams. He used his own experiences, from bodybuilding to movie star to governor of one of the most important US states, to tell Chinese youth to make unswerving efforts to achieve their dreams.\n\nWu Xiao'ai from the university's medical school told Xinhua after the speech that Schwarzenegger's life experiences were very \"admiring\" and his speech today was very \"encouraging\".\n\nSchwarzenegger also voiced concerns for Tsinghua student Zhou Guang's brother, who was injured in a car crash and is very depressed. Zhou said his brother is a fan of Schwarzenegger, hoping that Schwarzenegger would write some words for his brother to encourage him to regain faith.\n\nSchwarzenegger said immediately after hearing Zhou's request that he would like to phone Zhou's brother to express his concerns.\n\nWhen learning that it is not convenient to conduct a phone talks with Zhou's brother, the governor's assistant delivered Schwarzenegger's name card to Zhou, and Schwarzenegger said he will send Zhou a card to encourage Zhou's brother before leaving China.\n\nSchwarzenegger and his economic and trade delegation will leave here Wednesday evening for Shanghai, China's economic hub in east China, to continue their China trip.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 199, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 50 years", "start_char": 584, "end_char": 601, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the years ahead", "start_char": 950, "end_char": 965, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1600, "end_char": 1605, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday evening", "start_char": 2371, "end_char": 2388, "tid": "t5", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0150.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0647\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\ncontracts\n\n\n\n\nThe death of Turkmenistan's authoritarian leader Saparmurat Niyazov left wild speculations over his possible successor and fears that Russia might lose exclusive gas exploitation contracts, Russian media wrote Friday.\n\n\"His death launched a vicious fight for power in Turkmenistan and, what is more important, a new stage of struggles between Russia, China, the European Union and other interested parties for Turkmen gas,\" the Kommersant daily wrote.\n\nSuccession forecasts were hazy at best, with Niyazov -- known as Turkmenbashi, or Leader of all Turkmens, and self-proclaimed president for life -- having stamped out not only opposition but every possible rival to his authority, newspapers noted in unison.\n\nHowever, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, appointed acting president Thursday, was a likely pretender, the Izvestia daily pointed out, adding that \"he was considered an eminence grise in the country, and Turkmenbashi, normally quick to anger, treated him with care.\"\n\nTurkmenistan's constitution bars an interim president from nominating himself for the top post, but \"this norm can be overlooked if necessary.\"\n\nChief of Niyazov's presidential guard, Akmurad Redjepov, was another possible candidate, as \"he enjoyed Niyazov's special trust and support,\" Izvestia wrote.\n\nNiyazov's own son Murad, currently a businessman living in Austria, had neither, but \"experts say Murad not only knows the political elite very well, but also made contacts with the opposition leaders,\" the daily said.\n\n\"As we are talking about a typical Eastern despotic system, it would be wrong to absolutely discard the possibility of family succession to the throne,\" the Vremya Novostei daily echoed.\n\nHowever, Moscow's particular concern lay with the lucrative gas contracts granted Russia's gas giant Gazprom by Niyazov, and which could now be threatened, Russian media warned.\n\nRussia was willing to overlook the many faults of Niyazov's regime for the sake of Turkmen gas, turning a blind eye \"to the build-up of a Stalin-like regime combined with a Saddam-kind of an Eastern despotism,\" even up to ignoring the plight of Turkmenistan's ethnic Russians, the state Rossiyskaya Gazeta wrote.\n\n\"The reason for our diplomats' melancholic aloofness is not hard to understand -- Russia's gas interests made us tolerate both Turkmenbashi and his dictatorship. Much the same as the United States tolerated Nicaragua's dictator Somosa, who allowed the United Fruit Company a most comfortable existence,\" the daily wrote.\n\nNiyazov in his turn pledged to treat Russia as a preferential partner, even while raising gas prices up to 100 dollars per 1,000 cubic meters, Kommersant recalled.\n\nHowever, now the price was likely to stay the same, while \"political pledges to stay loyal to Russia and not to participate in various other pipeline projects and transit to the EU are gone with Turkmenbashi,\" the daily warned.\n\nMoreover, Niyazov's death could seriously destabilise the country, analysts noted.\n\n\"All this region is basically the region of collapsing states, which are very weak and unstable. Russia and other countries would have to try to fill the security vacuum so that the region would not explode and become another sore,\" Sergei Karaganov, chief of the foreign and defense policy council, said as quoted by Izvestia.\n\n\"A dictator's death is always a trial for his people. Sometimes a worse trial than his life had been,\" Rossiyskaya Gazeta quipped.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 276, "end_char": 282, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 843, "end_char": 851, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2743, "end_char": 2746, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0647.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0667\n\nWASHINGTON, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS holds tete-a-tete with North Korea by Carole Landry\n\n\n\n\nUS officials, still hoping to bring North Korea to the peace table, held a meeting with Pyongyang's envoys in New York Tuesday to keep discussions on the proposal afloat.\n\nThe State Department said the meeting in New York touched on joint efforts to account for the remains of Americans missing from the Korean war, missile nonproliferation and the establishment of liaison offices.\n\nBut the decision to hold the meeting marked a surprising twist as US officials had insisted bilateral talks would be scheduled only once Pyongyang had given its response to proposed peace negotiations.\n\nSenior US and South Korean envoys left New York Monday after waiting six days for Pyongyang's emissaries to deliver a response to a proposal to begin talks on a peace treaty to replace the 1953 armistice agreement.\n\nUS officials maintained that it was not seeking to sideline South Korea from the talks that have stalled over North Korean demands for more food aid.\n\n\"We never negotiate this issue without the Republic of Korea,\" State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said.\n\nUnder the proposal made one year ago by President Bill Clinton and his South Korean counterpart Kim Young-Sam, the two Koreas would enter into negotiations on a peace treaty with the United States and China acting as guarantors.\n\nThe State Department insisted Tuesday that the peace offer remained on the table and said US officials will remain in New York to continue discussions.\n\n\"The ball is in their court and the ball will remain there until they tell us otherwise,\" Burns said.\n\nThe bilateral meeting was meant to prepare talks scheduled for May 12 to discuss US claims that North Korea is exporting missile technology to Syria and Iran.\n\nThe United States and North Korea also discussed \"technical problems\" in the way of opening up liaison offices in each other's capitals, Burns said.\n\nUS and South Korean officials also held informal contacts with the North Koreans to discuss the proposed peace negotiations.\n\nBurns said the North Koreans continue to make appeals for food aid but he reiterated the US view that the humanitarian assistance should not be a condition for Pyongyang's acceptance of the offer.\n\nHe argued that North Korea was in need of urgent assistance, asking rhetorically: \"Why would we want to link food aid to talks that are moving at the speed of molasses ?\".\n\nNorth Korea's food crisis will be a key topic at a meeting here Friday between Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto at the White House.\n\nJapan has refused to give food aid to North Korea, citing abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s including a 13-year-old girl who went missing in 1977.\n\nThe United States in February offered 10 million dollars of aid and committed another 15 million dollars last week in an apparent bid to induce 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0689\n\nMINSK, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nBelarus political prisoner kept from father's funeral: family\n\n\n\n\nA political prisoner convicted to two years in jail for \"public insult\" to Belarus's iron-fisted leader Alexander Lukashenko was denied a requested one-day leave to attend his father's funeral, his family said.\n\nValery Levonevsky, leader of the entrepreneurs' strike committee, was only allowed to phone home to voice his condolences, his son Vladimir told AFP late Thursday, saying the jail administration justified their decision by \"repeated violations of regime\" by Levonevsky.\n\n\"I understand that my father is in jail for political reasons, but this is inhuman -- not to let him attend his father's funeral,\" Vladimir said.\n\nAccording to lawyer Garry Pogonyailo, it is up to the jail's administrators to grant a leave in case of exceptional circumstances, \"and as practice shows, normally those criminals that are not dangerous are allowed to go to funerals.\"\n\n\"But since Levonevsky is a political prisoner, the attitude is very different,\" he added.\n\nLevonevsky was convicted last September on charge of insult to Lukashenko, which the court saw in a leaflet calling on Belarusians to \"come and say if you are against somebody vacationing in Austria, skiing and living as he pleases on your money.\"\n\nLukashenko has earned stinging criticism from the West for suppressing liberties and cracking down on his political opponents during ten years at the helm of the former Soviet republic.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 477, "end_char": 485, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last September", "start_char": 1093, "end_char": 1107, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "ten years", "start_char": 1450, "end_char": 1459, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0689.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0094\n\nBUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBy Huang Xingwei\n\n\n\n\nAsia-Pacific Rim ministers pledged on Wednesday to take concerted measures to facilitate free trade and combat avian influenza, terrorism and corruption.\n\nAfter wrapping up a two-day ministerial meeting, the ministers endorsed a joint statement, saying the 6th World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference in Hong Kong next month would be a \"critical step\" in achieving the successful conclusion of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations by the end of 2006 with an ambitious and overall balanced outcome.\n\nThe ministerial meeting was held prior to the Economic Leaders' Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in South Korea's southeastern port city of Busan slated on Friday.\n\nAPEC MINISTERS COMMITTED TO STRENGTHENING MULTILATERAL TRADING SYSTEM\n\n\"Significant progress\" must be made at Hong Kong conference in resolving considerable divergence, and a clear roadmap for completing the Doha Round in 2006 must be established,\"said the joint statement which will be submitted to the APEC economic leaders.\n\nThe ministers recommended that their leaders adopt a stand- alone statement on the DDA negotiations that \"provided strong political leadership and commitment necessary to produce a sound platform for successfully concluding the negotiations in Hong Kong \".\n\nThe APEC ministers \"reaffirmed their deep commitment to the multilateral trading system and their support for the WTO\" and agreed that \"APEC economies would continue to make contributions towards the successful outcome of the WTO DDA negotiations\".\n\nAttempt to unlock the tangle in the WTO negotiations would dominate the APEC summit amid mounting gloom over the outcome of the trade talks.\n\nThe statement urged all other WTO members to show flexibility needed to move forward the negotiations by and beyond the Hong Kong talks.\n\nAPEC COMMITTED TO ACHIEVING BOGOR GOALS\n\nThe APEC ministers also reaffirmed their commitment to achieving the Bogor Goals of free and open trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region by 2010 for developed members and 2020 for developing members as stipulated in the Bogor Declaration.\n\nThe ministers expressed the need of APEC to adapt its focus accordingly and to continue to deliver concrete and business relevant outcomes in the years ahead to realize the Bogor Goals.\n\nThe Bogor Goals, named after the city in Indonesia where they were declared in 1994, specify APEC objectives for eliminating developed members' trade and investment barriers by 2010, and those of developing members by 2020.\n\nBan Ki-moon, South Korea's minister of foreign affairs and trade who chaired this year's APEC Ministerial Meeting, said considerable progress has been made toward APEC's central Bogor Goals.\n\n\"The results of the mid-term stocktaking of progress toward the Bogor Goals show that APEC has made great strides in liberalizing trade and investment during the past 16 years,\" he told a press conference after concluding the ministerial meeting.\n\n\"The ministers agreed that, while the APEC agenda should be revitalized to keep pace with the new international trade environment, APEC must ensure that the achievement of the Bogor Goals,\" said the joint statement issued following the APEC Ministerial Meeting.\n\nIn order to accelerate progress toward the Bogor Goals, the ministers also emphasized the Busan Roadmap to the Bogor Goals, which outlines key priorities and frameworks, such as support for the multilateral trading system, strengthening collective and individual actions, promotions of high-quality regional trade agreements and free trade agreements (RTAs/FTAs), the Busan Business Agenda, said the joint statement.\n\nThe ministers also reaffirmed their deep commitment to the multilateral trading system and their support for the World Trade Organization (WTO).\n\n\"APEC economies would continue to make contribution toward the successful outcome of the WTO DDA negotiations and that the APEC Geneva Caucus must redouble its collective efforts to advance the negotiations in all areas of the Doha Development Agenda,\" the ministers said.\n\nThe APEC ministers agreed that high-quality Regional Trade Agreements/Free Trade Agreements maximized the contribution of those agreements to APEC-wide progress toward the Bogor Goals.\n\nMinisters agreed that APEC would develop by 2008 comprehensive model measures as many commonly accepted RTA/FTA chapters as possible for trade facilitation, said the joint statement.\n\nAPEC MINISTERS URGE TO EFFECTIVELY RESPOND TO BIRD FLU\n\nIn the joint statement, the ministers vowed to accelerate APEC' s ongoing work on infectious disease threats such as avian influenza.\n\nThe ministers expressed the concern the threat that the highly pathogenic avian influenza posed to the Asia-Pacific region as well as to the world, said the statement.\n\n\"They agreed it was critical to ensure that APEC was prepared for and had the capacity to effectively respond to infectious diseases at the individual, regional and international levels,\" said the statement.\n\nThey approved Vietnam's proposal to host an APEC ministerial meeting on avian influenza in 2006 and called for active participation in the APEC symposium on containing contagious diseases to be held in China in April 2006.\n\nThe ministers also called on cooperating with specialized international organizations, such as the WTO, the Food and Agricultural Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health, to prevent spread of the bird flu.\n\nMoreover, ministers called for support to strengthen their regional and international surveillance and responses systems, according to the statement.\n\n\"Ministers endorsed the initiative on Preparing for and Mitigating and Influenza Pandemic, with the aim of strengthened collective action and individual commitment on a multi-sectoral basis to prepare for and respond to an influenza pandemic,\" the statement said.\n\nThey also agreed on the recommendations of the cross-sectoral APEC Symposium on Response to Outbreak of Avian Influenza and Preparedness for a Human Health Emergency held in San Francisco in this July, which sought to minimize the threats to animal and human health, including the threat of transmission from animal to human, as well as the economic consequences of avian and other pandemic influenza.\n\nThe ministers also instructed all APEC fora to continue to work cooperatively with APEC's Health Task Force and Task force on Emergency Preparedness to achieve this goal.\n\nThey also stressed the importance of timely and accurate reporting and capacity building efforts to enable adequate, systematic and well-coordinated prevention. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0320\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nDowned US pilot officially listed as dead\n\n\n\n\nCrashed US pilot Major Troy Gilbert whose F-16 fighter went down in Iraq last week was officially listed as killed in action by the US air force on Sunday.\n\nThe pilot had been described as \"duty status and whereabouts unknown\" but following DNA tests made on remains found at the crash site this was changed to \"killed in action\", the military said in a statement.\n\nUS military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Garver, said: \"Based on the remains found, the air force is confident of its classification ... We have some remains now from the crash site but we are still looking for more.\"\n\nGilbert was supporting US ground troops some 32 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad on November 27 when his plane crashed for reasons that are currently under investigation.\n\nIt took ground forces several hours to reach the crash site at which an insurgent presence was detected by other US aircraft.\n\nA US military official told AFP at the time that the major's body was missing and was presumed to have been taken by insurgents.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 246, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 634, "end_char": 637, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 27", "start_char": 789, "end_char": 800, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0320.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0490\n\nLUXEMBOURG, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nEU seeks to make China hold its promises to Hong Kong by Angus MacKinnon\n\n\n\n\nPlans to step up the European Union's ties to Hong Kong after this transfer to Chinese rule on July 1 will be discussed for the first time at a meeting of EU foreign ministers here on Tuesday.\n\nOn the table will be a report from the European Commission setting out how the EU should go about defending its extensive interests in the territory -- the bloc's 10th largest trading partner -- and its role in ensuring that Beijing honours its commitments to respect its autonomy.\n\nAt the heart of the commission's strategy, drawn up by British commissioner Sir Leon Brittan, is a commitment to continue dealing directly with Hong Kong after the Chinese takeover and to actively developing ties in those areas, such as trade, where it will have autonomy from Beijing.\n\nOther areas earmarked for more \"formal and structured\" cooperation include investment, customs cooperation and the battle against fraud.\n\nConfidence in Hong Kong's future depends on its new status as a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China not leading to an erosion of the rule of law or key rights such as free speech, the right to assembly and form political parties and data protection, the commission report noted.\n\nPrimary responsibility for ensuing that the SAR lives up to its tasks lies with the Hong Kong government and Chinese authorities, but the EU also had a role to play in monitoring events.\n\n\"The EU should ensure permanent vigilance and keep a watching brief on developments in Hong Kong,\" the report states.\n\nTo ensure this happens, the commission is proposing to draw up an annual report on the economic, political and human rights situation in Hong Kong. The reports would not only ensure regular discussion in Hong Kong but would also provide the basis for discussions in the EU's political dialogue with Beijing.\n\nThe report also called for high-level visits to Hong Kong to be given priority after the handover. \"Hong Kong depends on confidence and alertness in the international community is an important guarantee to sustain this confidence,\" Brittan said.\n\nMore controversially, the commission called on EU governments to guarantee that Hong Kong will be assessed on its own merits when a decision is made about whether its population will need visas to visit Europe.\n\n\"The benefits which easy travel gives to developing economic and other contacts, and the importance of demonstrating confidence in Hong Kong's future, suggest that freer access to the EU would be in the interests of both the EU and of Hong Kong.\"\n\nAlthough Britain has the biggest connections with Hong Kong, it is not the only one with a vested interest in its future prosperity. France, Germany, the Netherlands and Italy all have annual trade with the colony in excess of two billion dollars.\n\nThe construction of Hong Kong's new airport alone has involved some 115 European companies and there are some 250 European business which have regional headquarters there.\n\nThere are also an average of 50,000 EU citizens in Hong Kong at any one time, including 32,000 who are permanently settled there.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 236, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 319, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0490.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0194\n\nLONDON, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDe Larosiere urged to remain at the helm of EBRD\n\n\n\n\nMajor shareholders in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have urged Jacques de Larosiere to accept their offer to continue as president of the bank for another four years.\n\nBritain's Overseas Development Minister, Baroness Chalker, on Tuesday added her voice to those who are pressing de Larosiere to remain at the helm of the bank after his term of office expires in September.\n\n\"You have transformed the bank and shareholders are deeply indebted to you. When the Governors meet in Kiev next year, we very much hope that you will be there, in your second term as President,\" Baroness Chalker told the annual meeting of the EBRD.\n\nDe Larosiere, 67, has been asked by the EBRD's board of governors to serve a second four-year term, but says he has not made up his mind, and will give an answer in May.\n\nTogether with the outgoing vice-president, Wall Street banker Ron Freeman, de Larosiere was able to repair the damage from a scandal which, in 1993, forced the resignation of the EBRD's first president, Jacques Attali, criticized for his lavish spending.\n\nUnder the Frenchman's presidency, the bank, set up in 1991 to assist the transition to a market economy in the former Communist states of Europe, has frozen its operating costs for the past three years.\n\nAt the same time, in collaboration with Freeman, who has worked doggedly to ensure the bank's money goes only to projects which meet sound banking principles, de Larosiere has massively expanded its portfolio of loans and equity investments.\n\nThe succession of these two top posts is the main uncertainty hanging over the future of this multilateral institution, which has become an essential partner for the private sector in the former Communist states of eastern and central Europe and the ex-Soviet Union.\n\nOn Monday, the United States praised the two men, and underlined the importance of finding a good successor to Freeman, who announced last week he would step down in June to return to his old employer, Salomon Brothers.\n\nThe Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the US Treasury, David Lipton, expressed his \"appreciation for what President de Larosiere and Ron Freeman have accomplished in this institution.\"\n\nBelgian finance minister Philippe Maystadt, for his part, said that Freeman's departure was \"a further important argument in favour of a second term of office for Mr de Larosiere, representing stability and continuity at the head of the bank.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "another four years", "start_char": 284, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-15T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 367, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 500, "end_char": 509, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 620, "end_char": 629, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 928, "end_char": 931, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 1077, "end_char": 1081, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1244, "end_char": 1248, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three years", "start_char": 1371, "end_char": 1391, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1908, "end_char": 1914, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 2039, "end_char": 2048, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2071, "end_char": 2075, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0194.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0161\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBulgarian PM\n\n\n\n\nBulgaria expects to expand exchanges and cooperation with China and hopes for more Chinese investment, visiting Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev said during a tour of Shanghai.\n\nStanishev said in a meeting with Han Zheng, acting party chief and Mayor of Shanghai, that his major missions included looking for new approaches to cement trade cooperation and increasing mutual investment.\n\nStanishev also gave a speech on EU Enlargement and Bulgaria's Contribution to the EU at the prestigious Fudan University.\n\nThe Prime Minister said he expected Bulgaria to contribute to the security and stability of southeast Europe after its accession to the European Union.\n\nStanishev arrived in Beijing on Sunday where he held talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, and met with China's top legislator Wu Bangguo and Vice President Zeng Qinghong.\n\nBoth sides agreed to take active measures to enhance trade cooperation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 779, "end_char": 785, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0161.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0735\n\nPERTH, Australia, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nAustralia 96-1 against South Africa at lunch in first Test\n\n\n\n\nAustralia were 96-1 at lunch on the first day of the first cricket Test against South Africa at the WACA Ground here Friday.\n\nBrief score: Australia 96 for one (Ricky Ponting 57 not out, Justin Langer 33 not out; Ntini 1-34)", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first day", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 242, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0735.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0160\n\nRAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nAbbas condemns Israel blast as act of 'terrorism'\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian leader Mahmud Abbas condemned Monday's suicide bomb attack in the Israeli city of Netanya as an act of \"terrorism\" and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.\n\n\"We severely condemn this terrorist operation in Netanya,\" a statement from his office said.\n\n\"President Abbas has ordered all the security services to catch whoever is responsible for this attack and bring them to justice.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0160.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0327\n\nLAGOS, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNigerian government promotes agriculture in north\n\n\n\n\nThe Nigerian government approved measures to promote agricultural production in the country's vast north, a senior official has said.\n\nNigerian Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Adamu Bello said on Tuesday that the government had approved run-off water harvesting projects for irrigation and cattle rearing in northern states of Sokoto, Jigawa and Yobe.\n\nThe projects were funded from the debt relief gains under the Millennium Development Goals, he said, adding that the run-off water harvesting structures would bring about 40 million cubic meters of flood water for irrigation and domestic use.\n\nThe minister explained that the projects would encourage the production of meat, milk and cheese as well as increase farmers' income and minimize poverty in the benefiting states.\n\nThe federal government was working toward addressing the threats of environmental degradation and other severe stress facing the country's land and water resources, he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 316, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0327.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0141\n\nNANNING, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nWild fruit poisons 43 children in S. China county\n\n\n\n\nForty-two pupils from a rural primary school and a pre-school boy in south China are recovering after suffering food poisoning caused by wild fruit, said a hospital source on Tuesday.\n\nThe local government said the children in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region suffered nausea and dizziness after eating the fruit on Monday afternoon and all were taken to hospital.\n\nAll children are from Shuichong Primary School in Hepu County's Shankou Township and the younger boy was in a safe condition on Tuesday.\n\nTest results showed they were poisoned by the fruit of the jatropha curcal, a shrub that is used to produce biological diesel oil and mainly distributed in south China.\n\nThe fruit of the plant is poisonous and can cause dizziness, vomiting, diarrhea or shock.\n\nAn emergency safety campaign was launched by all primary and middle schools in the county to avoid a recurrence of such incidents, said Wang Yi, deputy head of the county.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday afternoon", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 443, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-20TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 605, "end_char": 612, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0141.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0662\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 14 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS, ADDS company quotes, analysts ///\n\n\n\n\nAustralian flag-carrier Qantas announced Wednesday that it had chosen Boeing's 787 long-haul airliner as the \"cornerstone\" for a major renewal of its fleet, snubbing rival Airbus for a deal expected to be worth some 20 billion US dollars.\n\nThe Qantas board said it would acquire 115 of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliners, rather than the Airbus 350s.\n\nQantas said it was ordering 65 of the twin-engine, wide-body aircraft for delivery from 2008 for use by Qantas and its budget offshoot Jetstar, which is due to begin international operations in 2007.\n\nThe airline also took purchase rights for an additional 50 787's to account for future growth of its fleet.\n\nThe decision was a blow for Airbus, which had been pushing its fuel efficient A350 to Qantas.\n\nQantas Chief Executive Geoff Dixon said the tender had been \"very competitive, with excellent options proposed by both Boeing and Airbus\".\n\n\"The Boeing 787 provides breakthrough technology, enabling us to fly further to more point-to-point destinations throughout the world at a cost equivalent to operating larger aircraft like the Boeing 747-400,\" he said.\n\n\"The Boeing 787 is ideal for operating to Asia, as well the USA and Europe, and with 300 seats, will enable both Qantas and Jetstar to closely target markets without compromising efficiency,\" he said.\n\n\"Its new technology engines, cutting-edge airframe and increased seat count also offer a significant reduction in costs ... compared to the current Boeing 767.\"\n\nDixon said one of Qantas' priorities in choosing Boeing was the need to have Jetstar to be ready for international operations by early 2007 \"with the fastest possible transition to new technology, more efficient aircraft.\"\n\nJetstar would begin its overseas operations with an interim fleet of four A330-200 aircraft and move to a fleet of 10 new Boeing 787s with delivery of the first aircraft scheduled for August 2008.\n\nQantas Chairwoman Margaret Jackson said the purchase of the new aircraft would be funded from operating cash flow.\n\n\"These new aircraft are vital for our continued growth in the face of increasing competition in the years ahead,\" she said.\n\n\"They will cater for international capacity growth and new routes, as well as replacing the Qantas Groups fleet of wide-body Boeing 767-300s,\" she said.\n\nCenter for Asia Pacific Aviation chief executive Peter Harbison said both Boeing and Airbus were likely to have proposed incentives to win the orders.\n\nAirbus had been a strong competitor in the past, offering perks like full pilot training, he said.\n\nQantas has already approved orders for 12 of Airbus's new super jumbo A380s, with the company planning to fly the aircraft on the Australia-US route after delivery in late 2006.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Airbus 350s", "start_char": 439, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 647, "end_char": 651, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2007", "start_char": 1711, "end_char": 1721, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 2008", "start_char": 1990, "end_char": 2001, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the years", "start_char": 2216, "end_char": 2225, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 2590, "end_char": 2598, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "A380s", "start_char": 2721, "end_char": 2726, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2006", "start_char": 2818, "end_char": 2827, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0662.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061224.0147\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 24 , 2006, 2006\n\nUAE funds ///\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas sparked hope for the stalled Middle East peace process Sunday by meeting for the first time in six months, but observers warned against expecting too much from the encounter.\n\nThe two leaders met at Olmert's residence in Jerusalem late Saturday, kissing and warmly shaking hands after a two-hour dinner followed by one-on-one talks.\n\n\"The two leaders expressed their will to cooperate, as true partners, in an effort to advance the peace process\" and reiterated support for reaching \"a solution of two states living side by side in peace and security,\" Olmert's office said in a statement late Saturday.\n\nThe two leaders' long-awaited encounter -- their first since an informal meeting in Jordan in late June -- sparked hope that the peace process could be nudged from the slumber in which it has been for the past six years.\n\n\"Our intention is to begin ongoing negotiations in order to advance the peace process that we want so much,\" Olmert said Sunday at the opening of a weekly cabinet meeting.\n\nIn a phone call with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, also on Sunday, Olmert said his meeting with Abbas \"could mark an opening for a better future,\" his office said.\n\n\"The ice has been broken,\" Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said. The meeting \"again opened the way to negotiations.\"\n\nBut while Israeli officials played up the importance of the encounter, observers on both sides said it lacked in concrete measures and warned against inflated expectations.\n\n\"It was a first step, but we won't know if it's important before we see the results on the ground,\" Ali al-Jarbawi, a political science professor at the Birzeit University in Ramallah, told AFP. \"The Palestinian people are looking for results, not meetings.\"\n\nAs part of the measures agreed on during the encounter the Israeli cabinet voted unanimously Sunday to release up to 100 million dollars in customs duties that it has been withholding from the Palestinian Authority since the Islamist Hamas movement formed a cabinet in March.\n\nHamas is considered a terrorist organization by Israel and the West, which froze all direct aid to the Palestinian government after it took power.\n\nObservers said that the meeting was meant to strengthen Abbas at a time when he is facing off against Hamas in an intense power struggle, which boiled over into deadly armed clashes last week between rival Palestinian factions after the Palestinian president called for early elections.\n\nOlmert said Sunday that he agreed to release the money \"in order to help in humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people who suffer among other things due to the failing conduct of their government which is not part of the international community.\"\n\nThe United Arab Emirates is to transfer 30 million dollars to the Palestinian Authority \"to help reduce the suffering of the Palestinian people,\" the official WAM news agency said.\n\nBut Israel did not agree to release prisoners -- an important gesture sought by Abbas.\n\n\"Olmert did not give Abu Mazen anything real,\" said Khani al-Masri, an analyst in Ramallah.\n\nWrote the Israeli newspaper Maariv: \"The biggest achievement of Abu Mazen yesterday at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem lay in the Palestinian flag that was raised in his honor above the entrance.\"\n\n\"He received a lot of promises and a little money... The only asset that Abu Mazen can broadcast to his people today is a little optimism.\"\n\nHamas likewise said the encounter did not amount to anything concrete.\n\n\"This meeting was meant to throw sand in our eyes... an exercise in public relations,\" said Wasfi Kabha, the Hamas minister for prisoner affairs. \"Both Abu Mazen and Olmert are facing internal crises and they held this meeting just to say there is hope to resume the negotiations.\"\n\nAnd the radical Islamic Jihad group said in a statement that it was a waste of time that \"is not helping the Palestinian interests.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 24 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 202, "end_char": 208, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Saturday", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 391, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Saturday", "start_char": 736, "end_char": 749, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past six years", "start_char": 953, "end_char": 971, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1095, "end_char": 1101, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1210, "end_char": 1216, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1964, "end_char": 1970, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 2140, "end_char": 2145, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 2478, "end_char": 2487, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2596, "end_char": 2602, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 3516, "end_char": 3521, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061224.0147.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0450\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambian gov't works out budget plan for next three years\n\n\n\n\nThe Zambian government released on Wednesday a budget plan, the Medium Term Expenditure Framework ( MTEF), for the year 2007 to 2009 to project revenues and outline expenditures for the period.\n\nSpeaking at the launch of the plan, Secretary to the Treasury Evans Chibiliti said the three-year plan would focus on consolidating the macro-economic stability achieved in the last few years.\n\n\"In this regard implementation of prudent fiscal and monetary policies will continue, particularly by limiting government borrowing,\" Chibiliti said.\n\nHe said government plans to strengthen tax administration and resource mobilization, adding that the three-year budget plan has also incorporated the implementation of the decentralization policy which aims at empowering local authorities to control their own resources.\n\nMeanwhile, Finance Minister N'gandu Magande said the government projects to raise about 32 trillion kwacha (about 8 billion U.S. dollars) in revenue and grants between 2007 and 2009 while the expenditure is projected at 34.3 trillion kwacha (about 8.6 billion dollars) over the same period.\n\nThe minister said the government hopes to achieve economic growth of six percent a year and to bring down inflation to no more than five percent from the current level of eight percent.\n\nMagande said the government will in the next three years focus on infrastructure development which includes construction of road, schools, houses and water and sanitation facilities.\n\nThe draft plan will be released for public consultation and contribution, said the minister.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year 2007", "start_char": 228, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last few years", "start_char": 485, "end_char": 503, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 1097, "end_char": 1101, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2009", "start_char": 1106, "end_char": 1110, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2009", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period", "start_char": 1203, "end_char": 1218, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 1302, "end_char": 1308, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next three years", "start_char": 1444, "end_char": 1464, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0450.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0555\n\nBEIRUT, Dec 12 , 2005\n\ngovernment\n\n\n\n\nCabinet ministers of the Shiite Amal-Hezbollah coalition on Monday suspended their participation in the Lebanese government after it voted to call for international probes into murders of anti-Syrian critics.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 121, "end_char": 127, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0555.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0186\n\nBRUSSELS, Dec 17 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS Austria, Lithuania ///\n\n\n\n\nBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair was praised abroad and vilified at home on Saturday for clinching an EU budget deal, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel was applauded as a key mediator.\n\nActing as EU president until the end of the month, Blair sealed agreement overnight on a tighter 2007-2013 spending package with a mechanism to review and perhaps modernise it during the seven-year term.\n\nBut it was his decision, under heavy domestic fire, to give up more of Britain's beloved multi-billion euro annual rebate which drew most comment.\n\n\"The British presidency deserves praise for its constructive role in a complicated negotiation and for the courage it showed in giving up part of its rebate,\" Greek Prime Minister Costas Caramanlis said.\n\nEuropean Commission head Jose Manuel Barroso was disappointed that the deal, which represents 1.045 percent of gross national income, was not as big as his EU executive team had sought, but hailed Blair nonetheless.\n\n\"I was not always agreeing with my good friend Prime Minister Blair ... but honestly this was a very successful presidency,\" he told reporters.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said Blair had shown strength.\n\n\"He is a British prime minister who preferred an internal battle on an idea of the EU, rather than to quietly do his job as a simple British prime minister,\" Douste-Blazy said.\n\n\"He has been intelligent, courageous. He challenged a clear advantage amid a difficult domestic political climate.\"\n\nThe budget freed up important funds for the new member states, many of them former communist countries, and indeed part of the rebate Blair gave up will be headed east from 2007.\n\n\"The budget proposals from EU presidency country Britain improved for Estonia with each round in the run-up to the solution,\" Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said.\n\n\"We can leave the EU summit with the knowledge that we have enough money to lift the economic and social life even more rapidly to the level of older EU member states,\" he said.\n\nSlovak Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda agreed: \"The result is better than we had hoped.\"\n\nLithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas said Vilnius was \"happy\", adding that it would receive some 440 million euros more a year than at present for a total of 8.7 billion over the life of the budget.\n\nAustrian Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser said he was \"very pleased\" with an \"exceptional\" deal, which maintained Vienna, London's successor as EU president from January 1, \"in the right middle ground\" with its net contribution increasing only moderately.\n\nBut in Britain, the press flayed Blair over his \"surrender\".\n\n\"Blair's the seven billion pound loser,\" declared the mass-circulation Sun, as it savaged \"the feeble premier\" for compromising on the rebate won by then Conservative prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1984.\n\nThe right-wing Daily Mail struck a similar note, talking of \"Blair's surrender\" and \"spectacular U-turn\" arguing that \"in return for the gigantic cash handover, he was set to get virtually nothing.\"\n\nThe conservative Daily Telegraph said he \"had performed his biggest climbdown over Europe\" by giving up part of the rebate \"without winning any commitment from France on early reform of farm subsidies\".\n\nMost praise however was reserved for Angela Merkel, Germany's first woman chancellor taking part in her first summit, for her behind-the-scenes diplomacy, shuttling between her partners.\n\nMerkel played an \"important role\", Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet daily said in its online edition. \"She agreed to a higher budget level, and therefore to paying more, so Blair could gather his 'Christmas presents' for those who were dissatisfied.\"\n\nFrance's Le Figaro went further. \"It appeared as if without her Europe would have found itself in a new political crisis.\"\n\nMajor Spanish daily El Pais said she had played a key role.\n\n\"Merkel played an essential part in reducing the gap separating Blair and a Chirac who seemed inflexible,\" it wrote.\n\nFrench President Jacques Chirac, who appeared to have come away with the EU's farm aid system he so staunchly defended virtually intact, was largely criticised.\n\nCzech daily Lidove Noviny said France, once \"Europe's motor\", had become its \"nightmare\".", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the month", "start_char": 312, "end_char": 332, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the seven-year term", "start_char": 466, "end_char": 485, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 2324, "end_char": 2330, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1", "start_char": 2569, "end_char": 2578, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1984", "start_char": 2929, "end_char": 2933, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0186.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0034\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBOCOG sets up Olympic lecturer team\n\n\n\n\nThe Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) has launched its Olympic lecturers team to cope with increasing demand for knowledge about the Olympics.\n\nThe team is composed of heads of relevant BOCOG departments and its key staff members, who will serve as a bridge linking BOCOG and all walks of life, urging them to actively spread Olympic knowledge, listen to the voice of the community and answer the inquiries.\n\nIn August 2005, a small group was set up to give lectures on the Olympics, with up to 200 Olympic-themed lectures held so far.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 2005", "start_char": 552, "end_char": 563, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0034.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0052\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nIsrael court says targeted killings 'legal' in some cases\n\n\n\n\nIsrael's Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the legality of targeted strikes against suspected Palestinian militants should be determined on a case-by-case, army radio reported.\n\n\"We cannot determine in advance that all targetted killings are contrary to international law. At the same time, it is not possible that all such liquidations are in line with international law,\" the radio quoted the ruling as saying.\n\nThe legality of all targeted killings must be examined on a case by case basis,\" it said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0052.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0039\n\nBOMBAY, April 5 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndian political crisis to make bourses cautious\n\n\n\n\nIndia's stock markets will remain cautious next week, when the country's 10-month coalition government is to face a crucial confidence vote in parliament, analysts said Saturday.\n\nOn the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), India's oldest and largest, the barometer 30-share sensitive index shed 113.16 points or three percent during a week of sharp swings, to close on Friday at 3,550.37 points.\n\nThe broadbased 100-share national index was down by 45.22 points or 2.85 percent and closed at 1,539.75 points.\n\nIndia was thrown into a political crisis March 30 when the Congress (I) party withdrew its parliamentary support to the United Front government led by Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda.\n\nHit by the unexpected development, panicky Indian stock market speculators sold heavily the next day, pulling the BSE sensex down by more than eight percent in a single day.\n\nPrices recovered moderately during the week as domestic and foreign institutional investors bought at low, attractive price levels.\n\nAnalysts and stock brokers said trading sentiment would be cautious when the market opens Monday.\n\n\"Everybody will be waiting for the confidence vote on Friday. The political situation is the key sentiment for the markets now,\" said stock broker Ajit Ambani.\n\nAmbani said no fresh buying support was expected. \"I do not expect any big jump or fall in prices next week. Prices are likely to be at current levels,\" he said.\n\nAverage daily business volumes were up to 190 million dollars from 171 million dollars the previous week.\n\nIn trading, the Associated Cement Co. lost 103.25 rupees to 1,367.75 rupees, Bombay Dyeing fell 10.50 rupees to 111.25 rupees, while Glaxo lost 3.75 rupees to 273.25 rupees.\n\nReliance Industries fell 16.25 rupees to 268.75 rupees, State Bank of India fell 37.50 rupees to 271.50 rupees, Tata Engineering was down eight rupees to 367 rupees, and Tata Steel fell by 14 rupees to 163.75 rupees.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 5 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 432, "end_char": 438, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 30", "start_char": 650, "end_char": 658, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the week", "start_char": 1003, "end_char": 1011, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1191, "end_char": 1197, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1254, "end_char": 1260, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 1459, "end_char": 1468, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous week", "start_char": 1611, "end_char": 1628, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0039.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0289\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nArab League pledges continued efforts to resume Somali negotiations\n\n\n\n\nThe Cairo-based Arab League (AL) said on Thursday that it would continue its efforts to help resume Somali parties' negotiations on the crisis they are facing.\n\nAL Secretary General Amr Moussa promised in press statements to exert further AL efforts to resume negotiations till the Somali crisis was resolved.\n\nAlthough Somali negotiations are facing difficulties due to conflicting stances, the AL has kept contacts to stop the Somali crisis from any possible escalation and have Somali factions return to negotiations, Moussa said.\n\nHe added that talks could resume in the coming few weeks as the AL keeps in touch with the Somali government and the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) to resume negotiations.\n\nMoussa further noted that the AL delegation to the Somali crisis negotiations will meet and discuss a demand for a fact- finding commission proposed by some Somali parties, before discussions on all aspects of the Somali question.\n\nSomalia was plunged into lawlessness in 1991 after the ousting of strongman Mohamed Siad Barre and the nation of some 10 million population was then divided into a patchwork of fiefdoms governed by unruly warlords.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the coming few weeks", "start_char": 697, "end_char": 717, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1102, "end_char": 1106, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0289.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0201\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNairobi world conference to focus on sport, environment\n\n\n\n\nThe linkages between sport, peace and the environment will be the main focus at the Sixth World Conference on Sport and Environment to be held in Nairobi from November 9 to 11, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) said here Tuesday.\n\nThe conference, one of the key activities under UNEP's long term strategy on sport and environment, will be attended by 300 heads of National Olympic Committees, international sport organizations, UN agencies as well as sport stars, according to a UNEP statement.\n\nThe three-day meeting, organized by the International Olympic Committee and UNEP, will review the environmental activities of the Olympic Movement and other sport stakeholders. Within the course of the conference the participants will take part in panel discussion on key themes relating to sports, peace, environment and sustainable development.\n\nThis edition follows on from the one held in Turin, Italy, in December 2003, where delegates from all five continents shared experiences and ideas on sustainable development in and through sport, and how it could be better promoted and achieved.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 9", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 349, "end_char": 356, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2003", "start_char": 1034, "end_char": 1047, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0201.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0029\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 13 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, background ///\n\n\n\n\nIraq's first Kurdish head of state Jalal Talabani said Tuesday that he would not seek a second presidential mandate if the post remained largely ceremonial following this week's watershed general election.\n\n\"In keeping with the new constitution, the president of the republic does not have the power to participate in the management of state and therefore I would not agree to become an honorary president,\" said Talabani.\n\n\"I refuse to present my candidacy in such circumstances,\" he added in a statement released overnight.\n\nIraq goes to the polls on Thursday to elect its first full-term parliament since the 2003 US-led invasion and the fall of Saddam Hussein.\n\n\"The president of the republic must be a real president, active in the leadership of the state, for the simple reason that Iraqis expect a lot from him,\" said Talabani.\n\n\"They address numerous demands to him, they call on him to end injustice and to help them solve their problems. If the president is honorary, he cannot respond to these demands.\"\n\nThe 72-year-old Talabani leads the main Kurdish coalition contesting Thursday's election, an alliance of his Patriotic Union of Kurdistan and Massud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party.\n\nThe first task of the elected 275 members of parliaments will be to appoint, by a two-thirds majority, a president and two vice-presidents.\n\nThe presidency council will then have 15 days to name a prime minister, who will form a cabinet to be put to parliament for approval.\n\nThe constitution, adopted at a referendum in October, limits the powers of the four-year head of state in order to guard against any return to the decades of authoritarian dictatorship during the Saddam Hussein era.\n\nA strong man who hates to be made a fool of, Talabani publicly reprimanded Shiite Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, accusing him of violating Iraqi law and exceeding his authority by taking decisions without consulting the president.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 266, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 644, "end_char": 652, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1176, "end_char": 1184, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 days", "start_char": 1474, "end_char": 1481, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1616, "end_char": 1623, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0029.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0730\n\nHONG KONG, Dec 12 , 2006, 2006\n\nHong Kong gold opens higher\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong gold prices opened higher Tuesday at 629.00-629.50 US dollars an ounce, up from Monday's close of 628.40-628.90 dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 123, "end_char": 130, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0730.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0199\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES throughout, CONTAINS pool copy ///\n\n\n\n\nKnown only as \"Witness A\", a Shiite woman gave chilling testimony Tuesday of how she was jailed for four years and beaten by intelligence agents at the mesmerising trial of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.\n\nSpeaking with her voice disguised and sitting behind a heavy beige curtain, to protect her identity from journalists in the press box, her testimony got off to a tearful start as she recalled events in the early 1980s.\n\nAged 16 when she was rounded up by Saddam's forces in the Shiite village of Dujail, she said she was taken first to intelligence headquarters before being flung into Iraq's notorious Abu Ghraib prison.\n\n\"My youth ... was destroyed,\" said the woman recalling the legacy of her experiences. Today she described herself as a housewife.\n\nSaddam, for decades one of the most feared leaders in the Middle East before being ousted by invading US-led troops in 2003, is on trial with seven henchmen for the massacre of 148 people from the Shiite village of Dujail in 1982.\n\nHe and his seven deputies, who have pleaded not guilty, face the death penalty by hanging if convicted over the killings, which followed an assassination bid against Iraq's former strongman during a visit to the village.\n\nTaken to an operation room at intelligence headquarters, the woman said a man ordered her to remove her clothes before pistol whipping her and lashing her with cables. In all six witneses were to testify Tuesday.\n\n\"He said take off your clothes. He hit me with the pistol and I was forced to take off my clothes and he lifted my legs upward and he hit me with cables and asked me to talk,\" she was translated as saying.\n\nJust metres away on the other side of the court room, relayed television footage showed a silent Saddam sitting in the dock, his eyes blinking.\n\n\"They lifted my legs upwards and they tied my hands and they would beat me with cables and hit me with electric shocks -- how can you describe that?\" said the witness at a later point.\n\n\"I cannot discribe what was there,\" she said of her time in Abu Ghraib, where she recalled how men were forced to strip naked and run in front of women.\n\nIn at times confused testimony in which she repeatedly invoked God, she said that at least three of her toenails fell off because she was forced to walk in the desert.\n\nPresiding judge Rizkar Mohammed Amin repeatedly asked her not to deviate from the topic and relate her evidence directly to Saddam.\n\n\"Your honour he is the president of the country, he is the protector of the people, when the people are tortured and imprisoned, who ordered that?\" she said at one such prompting.\n\nAmin at one point said her evidence was different from in December 2004 and asked to know why but she gave no answer.\n\nShe was cross-examined by both the prosecution and defence, who wanted to see the woman face-to-face. The proceedings were then closed off to journalists and the heavy curtain pushed to one side.\n\nA defence lawyer asked her if she had had her photo taken at Abu Ghraib, in an apparent reference to photos that emerged during last year's US military prison abuse scandal of Iraqi detainees at the same prison. She replied \"No.\"\n\nAfter a recess for lunch, another woman, \"Witness B\", began to give evidence to the court, an AFP correspondent said.\n\nBorn in 1937, the second witness was arrested and held for four months along with her husband and seven children in 1981, the year before the Dujail massacre.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the early 1980s", "start_char": 512, "end_char": 527, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "198", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 819, "end_char": 824, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 983, "end_char": 987, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1982", "start_char": 1089, "end_char": 1093, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1982", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1522, "end_char": 1529, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2004", "start_char": 2765, "end_char": 2778, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 3151, "end_char": 3160, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1937", "start_char": 3381, "end_char": 3385, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1937", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four months", "start_char": 3432, "end_char": 3443, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1981", "start_char": 3489, "end_char": 3493, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1981", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 3495, "end_char": 3503, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0199.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980213.1310 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/13/1998 14:26:00 \n\nw2112 Cx1f wstm-\nr i Cx13  Cx11  BC-Australia-Republic 4thLd-Writethru   02-13 0603\n\n\n BC-Australia-Republic, 4th Ld-Writethru,0602 \n\nConstitutional convention votes for republic, against links to\n\nBritish monarchy QL\nUR Eds: ADDS 2 grafs at end with reaction from former prime minister\nPaul Keating QL\nUR AP Photo CANB101,102,103 QL\nUR By ALAN THORNHILL QC\nUR Associated Press Writer QC\n\n\nCANBERRA, Australia (AP) _ Turning its back on 210 years of\nloyalty to the British royal family, a constitutional convention\nvoted overwhelmingly Friday to make Australia a republic under its\nown president.\nPrime Minister John Howard, a monarchist himself, promised to put the question to a national referendum next year after\nconvention delegates voted 89-52 for a republic, with 11\nabstentions.\nSpontaneous applause echoed through the chamber and public\ngalleries as the crucial vote passed by a wide margin.\n``I want a referendum,'' Howard said. ``The Australian people\nare owed the opportunity of expressing an opinion on this.''\n``It would be a travesty in common sense terms of Australian\ndemocracy for that proposition not to be put to the Australian\npeople,'' Howard said.\nEven in his own Cabinet, Howard is becoming increasingly isolated with his monarchist stance. Treasurer Peter Costello,\nEnvironment Minister Robert Hill and Attorney General Daryl\nWilliams all voted to support the republic Friday.\n``This convention will be seen as a turning point in our\nhistory,'' Australian Republican Movement spokeswoman Mary\nDelahunty said.\nPro-republicans hope to have an Australian president by the\nopening of the 2000 Olympics and the 100th anniversary of\nAustralian federation.\nCalling for an amended constitution with a new preamble, to be written by Australian poets, republican Janet Holmes a Court said,\n``We need the smell of eucalyptus in this, and the feel of red\ndust.''\nMonarchists hope to defeat the republic at the referendum.\n``The phony war has finished and the real referendum campaign\nhas clearly begun,'' Australians for a Constitutional Monarchy\nexecutive director Kerry Jones said.\n``Well may  we say  `God save the Queen,' for nothing will save\nthe republic,'' outraged monarchist delegate David Mitchell said.\n``The idea of a republic will fall to dust through the grace of\nalmighty God.''\nPolls have shown public support for a republic increasing,\nrising from about 35 percent several years ago to about 51 percent\nthis year, as pro-monarchist sentiment diminishes.\nAustralia has been independent since 1901, but like many\nCommonwealth nations it still recognizes the British monarch as its\nhead of state.\nHoward said Queen Elizabeth II is taking a great interest in the\nconvention.\n``She is, I can assure you, from what I've been told, she's following the thing very closely and taking the view it's our\nbusiness.\n``It's no secret that she's indicated to me ... she is a 20th\ncentury democrat, understands that the role of the crown in\nAustralia rests in the hands of the Australian people as it has for\nalmost a hundred years.''\nThe model for a republic, adopted over bitter objections from\nthose advocating direct election of a president, is for\npresidential nominations to be made with public input and the\nwinning candidate decided by a two-thirds majority of Parliament.\nFormer prime minister Paul Keating, who put the republic issue\nin the spotlight in his unsuccessful 1996 campaign for re-election,\nwelcomed the result.\n``This is an important step along the path towards Australia\nclaiming its full sovereignty, and due recognition that the\nmonarchy can no longer serve us appropriately,'' Keating said.\n\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-Australia-Republic, 4th Ld-Writethru; CT:i;\n(REG:EURO;)\n(REG:BRIT;)\n(REG:SCAN;)\n(REG:MEST;)\n(REG:AFRI;)\n(REG:INDI;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-02-13-98 1426EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "02/13/1998 14:26:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t109", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-13T14:26:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "210 years", "start_char": 491, "end_char": 500, "tid": "t110", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P210Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 590, "end_char": 596, "tid": "t111", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t109"}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 755, "end_char": 764, "tid": "t112", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t109"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1448, "end_char": 1454, "tid": "t114", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t109"}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1663, "end_char": 1667, "tid": "t121", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several years ago", "start_char": 2449, "end_char": 2466, "tid": "t117", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t109"}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 2487, "end_char": 2496, "tid": "t358", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t109"}, {"text": "1901", "start_char": 2575, "end_char": 2579, "tid": "t118", "type": "DATE", "value": "1901", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "almost a hundred years", "start_char": 3077, "end_char": 3099, "tid": "t119", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P100Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 3449, "end_char": 3453, "tid": "t120", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980213.1310.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0548\n\nGENEVA, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDenktash ready to meet Clerides\n\n\n\n\nTurkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash said Wednesday he was prepared to meet his Greek Cypriot counterpart, Glafcos Clerides, to try and forge a solution to the Cyprus question, but warned he would not let his community be \"colonised\" by the Greek majority.\n\nSpeaking to journalists after talks with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, Denktash said he was optimistic about UN plans to try and get the leaders of the feuding communities on the divided island together for a June meeting.\n\nBut he stressed that his base position going into any talks would rule out any notion of Greek supremacy over the Turkish-held north of the Mediterranean island.\n\n\"I have been inviting Mr. Clerides to come to the negotiating table and to discuss a bizonal, bicommunal federation resting on the partnership of two politically equal communities (...) and they have been running away from it all this time,\" Denktash said.\n\n\"He (Clerides) has attempted to change the agenda by making a unilateral application to the EU, and pretending that this application is an application by Cyprus, when it is an application by Greek Cypriots only. So naturally we cannot accept that kind of tactics,\" the Turkish Cypriot leader said.\n\nCyprus has been divided since Turkey invaded the northern third of the island in 1974 after a military coup in Nicosia aimed at uniting the island with Greece.\n\nDenktash's breakaway Turkish-Cypriot northern state declared in 1983 is recognized only by Ankara.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 140, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 559, "end_char": 563, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 1375, "end_char": 1379, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1983", "start_char": 1519, "end_char": 1523, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1983", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0548.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0209\n\nTOKYO, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes by Abe ///\n\n\n\n\nJapan urged Russia on Friday to be \"responsible\" but said it was confident it would receive gas supplies as planned after Moscow took control of the massive Sakhalin-2 project from British and Japanese companies.\n\nJapan, which has few natural resources of its own, is the primary market for the gas from the 22 billion-dollar project off Russia's east coast, which would have been the world's biggest privately financed energy project.\n\n\"We want the Russian side to take responsible policies,\" Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki told a news conference in Tokyo.\n\n\"Our country relies on energy resources from abroad. It is important to see the project go ahead smoothly to secure energy resources and provide stable supply,\" said Shiozaki, the government spokesman.\n\nOn Thursday, Russia's state-run Gazprom secured control of the project and agreed to pay 7.45 billion dollars to the consortium led by Anglo-Dutch giant Royal Dutch Shell.\n\nShell and its two Japanese partners, trading houses Mitsui and Co. and Mitsubishi Corp. will become minority owners.\n\nThe project had been halted when Russia accused the companies of environmental violations, a move widely seen by foreign investors as a way for the government to muscle in and take control.\n\nBut Prime Minister Shinzo Abe welcomed the latest deal.\n\n\"It means a lot that Japan secured the energy supply from Russia,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"I would like to use diplomacy to diversify the sources of energy and ensure stable supply,\" Abe said.\n\nJapan's oil supply comes almost exclusively from the Middle East, whose turbulence is a constant worry for businesses and policymakers here.\n\n\"The signed contract ensures a stable supply for Japan's domestic demands, which I highly value,\" Akira Amari, Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry, said of the Gazprom deal.\n\n\"The Japanese government has been sending Russia its requests through diplomatic routes,\" he added.\n\nJapan had previously warned Russia that a failure to receive gas from the project would set back overall bilateral relations.\n\nAsked whether Russia made the environmental allegations to gain control of the project, Amari said: \"I feel that way but I cannot assert it in my position (as trade minister).\"\n\nRussia was infuriated when the Sakhalin-2 announced a doubling of costs for the project. Under the original production sharing agreement, the state was only to receive a share of the profits after the group recouped its investment.\n\nThe two Japanese companies said in a joint statement that they will \"make utmost efforts to ensure liquified energy gas supply as scheduled to existing customers in Japan, South Korea and the west coast of the United States.\"\n\n\"In addition, Gazprom and the three existing shareholders reaffirmed to do our best to solve the issue of the approval and license,\" they said in a joint statement, in an indirect reference to the environmental allegations.\n\nRisk assessment agency Standard and Poor's said the share transfer would not affect the ratings of Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsui -- and that if anything they would benefit.\n\n\"Difficulties in negotiations with the Russian government had increased uncertainty over Mitsubishi and Mitsui and Co's investment in the Sakhalin-2 project,\" it said.\n\nThe risks \"may recede due to Gazprom's participation in the project.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 112, "end_char": 118, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 866, "end_char": 874, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0209.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0342\n\nBERLIN, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nEU enlargement positive for German economy: study\n\n\n\n\nEuropean Union enlargement has had a positive effect on the German economy so far, boosting gross domestic product by around one percentage point, and the benefits are likely to continue as the bloc expands further, a study showed on Thursday.\n\nA study commissioned by the German Economy Mininstry showed that Germany, the eurozone's largest economy, had already largely profited from the extension of the EU from 15 to 25 nations in May 2004.\n\n\"And the study shows that the upcoming membership of Bulgaria and Romania will also have a slightly positive effect on overall economic developments in Germany,\" the ministry said in a statement.\n\n\"The positive effect of the fifth round of enlargement, which will be completed with the entry of Bulgaria and Romania, represents around one percent of German GDP in the long term,\" the statement said.\n\nThe two central European states are set to become the EU's 26th and 27th members on January 1.\n\n\"From a long-term perspective, Germany's potential in terms of foreign trade is not yet exhausted,\" the ministry said.\n\nEconomic immigration of citizens from most of new EU states had increased since May 2004 but \"has fallen short of forecasts,\" largely as a result of interim regulations limiting such influxes, it said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 340, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15", "start_char": 520, "end_char": 522, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1915", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2004", "start_char": 540, "end_char": 548, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1", "start_char": 1036, "end_char": 1045, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2004", "start_char": 1248, "end_char": 1256, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0342.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0756\n\nHONG KONG, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nconcerns\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong share prices opened 0.21 percent lower Tuesday following Wall Street's pullback overnight after the US Federal Reserve warned yet again of inflation risks despite acknowledging that the economy has weakened, dealers said.\n\nThe statement, which accompanied the Fed's widely expected decision to keep its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 5.25 percent, is being interpreted to mean that the central bank might raise rates again if inflation accelerates, disappointing investors who had been looking for signals for a rate cut.\n\nThe Hang Seng Index opened down 39.50 points at 18,867.67.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 117, "end_char": 124, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0756.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0561\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nSouth African cricket championship scores\n\n\n\n\nScores after first day of South African four-day cricket championship matches on Thursday:\n\nAt Newlands, Cape Town\n\nCape Cobras v Highveld Lions\n\nLions 287-3 in 94 overs (N.McKenzie 135, J.Ontong 120 no; M.Zondeki 2-31)\n\nAt Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein\n\nFree State Eagles v KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins\n\nEagles 262-3 in 90.1 overs (H.Dippenaar 71 no, M. van Wyk 57 no)\n\nAt SuperSport Park, Centurion\n\nNorthern Titans v Eastern Cape Warriors\n\nWarriors 268-8 in 85 overs (M.Goodwin 77, A.Jacobs 70; J.Morkel 4-47)", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0561.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0091\n\nDec 13 , 2005\n\nTel: Nicosia (357) 22-758-826\n\n\n\n\nMiddle East news highlights on Tuesday:\n\n+ Lebanon in crisis after latest killing\n\n+ UN Security Council studies report\n\non Hariri murder\n\n+ Iraqis living abroad start voting\n\n+ Palestinians, Israelis in gunbattle\n\nAMMAN: Iraqis living in 15 nations start voting ahead of Thursday's general election (Iraq-vote-foreign)\n\nBAGHDAD: Iraq marks the second anniversary of the capture of ex-dictator Saddam Hussein, who was found at the bottom of a hole on a farm by US troops.\n\n- Five-day public holiday begins as part of security measures seeking to minimise bloodshed for Iraq's watershed general election on Thursday\n\n- US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad holds news conference (1130 GMT)\n\n- Abdel Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the powerful United Iraqi Alliance list, gathers together Shiite tribal leaders in a final campaign bid ahead of Thursday's election.\n\n- Monitoring developments after deadline set by kidnappers to kill four Western peace activists held in Iraq expires.\n\nBANGKOK: Jordan's King Abdullah II begins a two-day private visit Thailand, followed by an official one-day visit (Thailand-Jordan-royal)\n\nBEIRUT: Lebanon is facing new political turmoil after the killing of a leading anti-Syrian journalist, with five Shiite ministers protesting a government decision to call for an international probe into a wave of attacks (Lebanon-attack)\n\n- The family of slain MP and newspaper boss Gibran Tueni receive condolences ahead of his funeral Wednesday, while schools are closed.\n\n- Anti-Syria political parties and figures gather at An-Nahar newspaper offices.\n\nCAIRO: The new Egyptian parliament holds its first session a week after the final round of month-long polls that saw the ruling party keep its grip on power and Islamists make spectacular gains (Egypt-politics)\n\nDUBAI: Dubai film festival (to 17)\n\nKUWAIT CITY: Organisation of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries meets, a day after OPEC decided to maintain its current output.(OAPEC-oil).\n\nNABLUS, West Bank: Fourteen Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers wounded in armed clashes on streets of Nablus (Mideast-unrest).\n\nRAMALLAH, West Bank: Central committee of ruling Fatah faction meets in bid to settle on a final list for January's parliamentary election (0900 GMT).\n\nTEHRAN: Press conference by Iranian government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham\n\nUNITED NATIONS: UN Security Council to examine a new report which pointed to fresh evidence further implicating senior Syrian officers in the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2005", "start_char": 23, "end_char": 36, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 103, "end_char": 110, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 344, "end_char": 352, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 905, "end_char": 913, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1522, "end_char": 1531, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 1701, "end_char": 1707, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 2268, "end_char": 2275, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0091.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0255\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 11 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nShanghai posts big-margin growth in trade with Africa\n\n\n\n\nShanghai recorded 7.48 billion U.S. dollars in trade with Africa in the first 10 months of this year, a growth of 35.1 percent from the same period last year, local customs sources said.\n\nThe total included 1.33 billion U.S. dollars in exports, up 19.8 percent, and 6.15 billion U.S. dollars, up 38.9 percent.\n\nFrom January to October, Shanghai's external trade amounted to 350.27 billion U.S. dollars, up 22.4 percent over the same period of last year.\n\nOver the 10 months, Shanghai's imports of primary products declined due largely to price hikes for raw materials on international markets.\n\nThe city imported 2.94 million tons of plastic in primary form, down 2.3 percent from a year earlier, 2.44 million tons of rolled steel, down 22.3 percent, and 485,000 tons of unprocessed copper and copper products, down 43.6 percent.\n\nAccording to the local customs sources, foreign-funded businesses made up 223.83 billion U.S. dollars, or 63.9 percent, of Shanghai's total foreign trade.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first 10 months", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 203, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 264, "end_char": 273, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 432, "end_char": 439, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 443, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period of last year", "start_char": 540, "end_char": 568, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 10 months", "start_char": 576, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier, 2.44", "start_char": 797, "end_char": 817, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0255.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0270\n\nHONG KONG, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDiaoyu Island group in HK sets mid-May for protest date\n\n\n\n\nA Hong Kong group said Wednesday it planned to make a landing next month on the Diaoyu Islands, an archipelago claimed by China, Japan and Taiwan.\n\nThe group, which backs China's claim, announced the protest after Japanese supporters of Tokyo's claim said they wanted to land there in May.\n\nThe protestors, called the Protect the Diaoyu Islands Committee, are led by members of the Democratic Party, Hong Kong's largest political group.\n\nTsang Kin-shing, a legislator, said a group of 40 people would fly from Hong Kong to Taipei and team up with around 100 others from Taiwan and the United States.\n\nThey would then set sail from a northern port in Taiwan to the archipelago, hoping to land there on May 18 \"and camp there for four to five days,\" Tsang said.\n\nHe added \"there is a possibility that we will meet them (the Japanese).\"\n\n\"We will do our utmost to refrain from violence. We intend to ask them whether they have applied for a visa from China in order to be there.\"\n\nThe islands, believed to lie in an oil-rich area of the East China Sea, are known to Chinese as the Diaoyus and to Japanese as the Senkakus.\n\nThe three-way dispute over ownership was revived last July after an ultra-right-wing Japanese group erected a lighthouse on one of the islands as a symbol of Tokyo's claim, sparking anti-Japanese sentiment in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 140, "end_char": 149, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 402, "end_char": 405, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 18", "start_char": 818, "end_char": 824, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last July", "start_char": 1286, "end_char": 1295, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0270.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0172\n\nRIYADH, Dec 12 , 2006, 2006\n\nSaudi beheaded for murder\n\n\n\n\nA Saudi man convicted of murder was beheaded by the sword on Tuesday in the capital of the Gulf Arab monarchy, the interior ministry announced.\n\nThe ministry, in a statement carried by state news agency SPA, said Mosfer bin Mubrak al-Qahtani had shot dead a fellow Saudi, wounded a number of other people, and damaged homes and cars.\n\nThe beheading in Riyadh brings to at least 36 the number of executions in Saudi Arabia this year. At least 83 were put to death in 2005 and 35 the year before.\n\nExecutions are generally carried out in public in the oil-rich kingdom, which applies a strict form of Islamic law. The death penalty is applied for murder, rape, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 548, "end_char": 552, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0172.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AP_20130322\n\nMarch 22, 2013\n\n105 U.S. Kids Died From Flu, CDC Says\n\n\n\n\n\nThe flu season is winding down, and it has killed 105 children so far - about the average toll.\n\nThe season started about a month earlier than usual, sparking concerns it might turn into the worst in a decade. It ended up being very hard on the elderly, but was moderately severe overall, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.\n\nSix of the pediatric deaths were reported in the last week, and it's possible there will be more, said the CDC's Dr. Michael Jhung said Friday.\n\nRoughly 100 children die in an average flu season. One exception was the swine flu pandemic of 2009-2010, when 348 children died.\n\nThe CDC recommends that all children ages 6 months and older be vaccinated against flu each season, though only about half get a flu shot or nasal spray.\n\nAll but four of the children who died were old enough to be vaccinated, but 90 percent of them did not get vaccinated, CDC officials said.\n\nThis year's vaccine was considered effective in children, though it didn't work very well in older people. And the dominant flu strain early in the season was one that tends to cause more severe illness.\n\nThe government only does a national flu death count for children. But it does track hospitalization rates for people 65 and older, and those statistics have been grim.\n\nIn that group, 177 out of every 100,000 were hospitalized with flu-related illness in the past several months. That's more than 2 1/2 times higher than any other recent season.\n\nThis flu season started in early December, a month earlier than usual, and peaked by the end of year. Since then, flu reports have been dropping off throughout the country.\n\n\"We appear to be getting close to the end of flu season,\" Jhung said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "March 22, 2013", "start_char": 13, "end_char": 27, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a decade", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t1000", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last week", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 481, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-W11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 559, "end_char": 565, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2009", "start_char": 663, "end_char": 667, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2009", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 668, "end_char": 672, "tid": "t2000", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each season", "start_char": 786, "end_char": 797, "tid": "t5", "type": "SET", "value": "XXXX-WI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 994, "end_char": 1003, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "XXXX-WI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past several months", "start_char": 1454, "end_char": 1477, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent season", "start_char": 1530, "end_char": 1543, "tid": "t2001", "type": "SET", "value": "XXXX-WI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early December", "start_char": 1573, "end_char": 1587, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 1589, "end_char": 1596, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of year", "start_char": 1631, "end_char": 1646, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AP_20130322.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0182\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ncontries \"of great importance\"\n\n\n\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 30 (Xinhua)-- Senior Chinese diplomats said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's impending visit to five countries in Europe and Asia will further improve the mutual understanding and trust between China and the five countries, highlighting the visit as \"of great significance\".\n\nAccording to Chinese Foreign Ministry's announcement, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao will pay official visits to France, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Portugal and Malaysia from Dec. 4 to 15, and he will also attend the ninth Summit between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ninth ASEAN plus China, Japan and the Republic of Korea Summit and the First East Asian Summit in Kuala Lumpur.\n\nZhao Jun, director of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's European Department at a briefing on Wen's visit here Wednesday called the visit to the four European countries \"another big event\" after Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Europe in November.\n\nChina and France have maintained good momentum of development in the all-round strategic partnership and the political mutual trust continues to grow as the two state leaders realized their first annual mutual visit in 2004 and met twice in 2005, Zhao said.\n\nThe latest Chinese official statistics show that China and France have achieved a breakthrough in economic and trade cooperation with the two-way trade volume valued at 17.58 billion US dollars, up 31.3 percent over the same time of previous year in 2004.\n\nFrom Jan. to Oct. this year, bilateral trade volume reached 16.64 billion US dollars, up 17.3 percent over the same time in 2004.\n\nGreat successes were also scored in the Chinese culture year in France and French culture year in China, Zhao said, noting relevant activities remarkably helped the two peoples to expand mutual understanding and friendship.\n\n\"We are satisfied with the current comprehensive growth of Sino-French relations\", Zhao stressed, adding that Wen will hold talks with French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, meet with French President Jacques Chirac and President of the French national Assembly Jean-Louis Debre, deliver an important speech in Paris, visit French and European aviation and space companies and sign a series of important agreements of cooperation.\n\nIn response to a reporter's question on Wen's visit to Slovakia, Zhao recognized that the joint statement signed between China and Slovakia in 2003 marked a landmark for the growth of bilateral relations in the new era.\n\nPolitical mutual trust is further boosted, bilateral economic and trade cooperation has scored remarkable growth and exchanges in the fields of science and technology, culture, education, sports and tourism continue to increase, Zhao said, highlighting that Wen's visit to Slovakia will be the first by a Chinese leader since Slovakia gained independence in 1993.\n\n\"Premier Wen will exchange views with Slovak leaders on furthering China-Slovakia friendly and cooperative ties and issues of common concern, and the two sides will also sign some bilateral documents\", Zhao said.\n\nWhen touching on the China-Czech relations, Zhao said that Czech President Vaclav Klaus and Czech Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek's respective successful visits to China last and this year witnessed increased bilateral exchanges and cooperation in various fields and helped enhance the scale and level of bilateral cooperation.\n\nChina will join in hands with Czech to push forward bilateral relations on the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, Zhao said, noting that Wen's visit to Czech will also be the first visit by a Chinese leader since the country claimed independence in 1993.\n\n\"Premier Wen will exchange views with Czech leaders on promoting bilateral ties and issues of common concern and sign some bilateral documents\", Zhao added.\n\nThe relations between China and Portugal have developed smoothly since they forged diplomatic ties in 1979, Zhao said.\n\n\"Wen is the first Chinese premier to visit Portugal over the past 13 years,\" he said, adding that the high-level contacts would enhance mutual understanding, trust, and cooperation.\n\nDuring his stay in Portugal, Wen is expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Jose Socrates, and meet President Jorge Sampaio and Parliament Speaker Jaime Gama, he said.\n\nThe two sides would also sign some cooperative documents covering politics, trade, judiciary, education and public health.\n\nWen's visit to Malaysia and his attending to the ten plus one, ten plus three and East-Asian summits would be an important diplomatic move by Chinese leaders at the end of the year, and would achieve good results, said Cui Tiankai, director of the ministry's Asian Department.\n\nMalaysia is China's friendly neighbor and an important member of the ASEAN, and Wen's visit is of significance to furthering bilateral good-neighborly relationship and the strategic partnership between China and the ASEAN, he noted.\n\nAccording to Cui, Wen will meet Supreme head of state Sultan Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra Jamalullail and Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, exchanging views on bilateral cooperation, the relationship between China and the ASEAN, as well as regional and international issues of common concern.\n\nWen will deliver speeches when attending the regional summits, he said, noting the year of 2006 will be the 15th anniversary of the establishment of the dialogue partners between China and the ASEAN, and the ten plus one meeting of this year is particularly important, he said.\n\nChina will sum up the experience over the past 15 years and put forward its own proposals to further cooperation, he noted, stressing that China will push cooperation on bird flu control during the meeting.\n\nAs for the ten plus three summit, Cui said, China will give a positive appraisal for the achievements of East-Asian cooperation and advocate building up an East-Asian community and supporting ASEAN's leading role in the community.\n\nThe first East-Asian summit will be attended by ten ASEAN members, China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India, Australia and New Zealand. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0235\n\nHELSINKI, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHelsinki launches \"Finland on the web\" campaign\n\n\n\n\nNational \"Finland on the web\" campaign was launched on Monday in Finland in a bid to increase citizens' knowledge of the Internet.\n\nThe campaign \"Finland on the web\" is part of the Finnish Government Information Society Programme and it is organized in close cooperation with companies, municipalities, regional councils and various state organizations.\n\nDuring Nov. 7-11, libraries and citizens' service centers of over 280 municipalities in Finland will participate in this event and provide e-services training for free.\n\nThe event targets especially the working-age population and the elderly, local media reported.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 7-11", "start_char": 471, "end_char": 480, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0235.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0170\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUPDATE-2: Russia's Chechnya votes to elect parliament amid tight security\n\n\n\n\nAmid tight security, Chechens voted on Sunday to elect a parliament that officials say will enable the war-ravaged region to function as a normal part of the Russian state after years of conflict.\n\nThe fourth vote in the region since 2003, which came after two presidential elections and one constitutional referendum, this parliamentary poll will give Chechnya a full set of government bodies.\n\nA total of 600,000 voters were registered in Chechnya for the polls, which will elect 58 deputies to the two-chamber parliament - - the Republican Council (upper house) and the People's Assembly ( lower house). The election has drawn 342 candidates from eight parties.\n\nPolling stations opened at 8:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) amid heightened security in this volatile region, where separatist rebels have frequently targeted security forces as well as civilians in bombing attacks for much of the past decade, Russian news agencies reported.\n\nThe Interior Ministry deployed 24,000 police and troops to provide security and metal detectors were set up at polling stations to guard against weapons and explosives, the Itar-Tass news agency said.\n\nChechen President Alu Alkhanov pronounced the poll valid about four hours into voting, citing reports of voter turnout reaching the threshold for validity.\n\n\"Based on reports we have received from the heads of districts and territorial election commissions, I can officially announce that the Chechen parliamentary elections are valid,\" Alkhanov said.\n\nThe polls closed at 6:00 p.m. (1500 GMT) and Chechen Elections Commission Chairman Ismail Baikhanov put the turnout at 57 percent.\n\nPreliminary results will be announced by Monday noon but official results will only be available by the end of next week, Baikhanov said.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has called the election a \"milestone\" that will boost stability in the republic and the whole North Caucasus region.\n\nAbout 20 observers from international groups including the Council of Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States visited polling stations to monitor the vote.\n\nAlkhanov met with international observers for the election Sunday, saying the election will \"confirm Chechnya's path of construction, peace and cooperation with those who share these guidelines.\"\n\n\"Democratic processes in the republic will become more dynamic, as we will have the power body crowning the republican statehood,\" Alkhanov said.\n\nAlkhanov wanted the new parliament to convene as soon as possible to adopt laws. \"We plan to hold the first meeting between Dec. 10-15,\" he said.\n\nMany in the war-ravaged region expected the new parliament to focus on ending the violence.\n\n\"We have a goal of termination of the warfare. Our mission will be complete when shooting ceases and abductions stop,\" Chechnya's First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 368, "end_char": 372, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "8:00 a.m.", "start_char": 827, "end_char": 836, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "past decade", "start_char": 1019, "end_char": 1030, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1793, "end_char": 1799, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of next week", "start_char": 1852, "end_char": 1872, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2260, "end_char": 2266, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 10-15", "start_char": 2669, "end_char": 2679, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0170.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0057\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSex fairs gaining popularity in China despite dissenting voices\n\n\n\n\nEncouraged by the success of the fourth Guangzhou Sex Culture Expo, held earlier this month, family planning officials from Liaoning, Beijing and Shanghai have promised to follow suit.\n\nAltogether 500,000 visitors visited the expo from Nov. 4-6, ten times the number for the first such event in 2003.\n\nAn official with the State Population and Family Planning Commission heralded the expo as an opportunity for the general public to learn about sex, health and science.\n\nPopulation and family planning officials from Liaoning, Beijing and Shanghai attending a symposium on population in Beijing, said they would travel to Guangdong to visit the fair. They hope to sponsor similar sex fairs in their own areas next year.\n\nForeign participants attending the symposium said the fourth Guangzhou sex fair helps promote sexual awareness and a code of sexual conduct.\n\n\"The fair reflects the development of Chinese society and is laudable,\" they said.\n\nBeijing and Shanghai had planned to organize sex expos in the past but the events were called off because of negative publicity.\n\nThough Chinese attitudes towards sex have become more liberal in recent decades, many people are still conservative about sex.\n\nWhen the fourth Guangzhou sex culture expo opened on Nov. 4, some netizens dismissed it as \"morally decadent\" or a \"legalized sex show\".\n\n\"Culture is simply a cloak for a sexual display,\" said one netizen.\n\n\"Why do we have to mimic westerners with their obsession about sex,\" said another netizen, \"conservative attitudes about sex are fitting and proper for Asian people and part of the graciousness of oriental life\".\n\nZhu Jiaming, from the China Sexology Society, denied that sex culture festivals were vulgar and said that such opinions were backward.\n\n\"Sex is an objective reality for all human beings. We have to stay up with the times,\" said Zhu.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 206, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4-6", "start_char": 361, "end_char": 369, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 420, "end_char": 424, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 834, "end_char": 843, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 1130, "end_char": 1138, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent decades", "start_char": 1267, "end_char": 1281, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4", "start_char": 1383, "end_char": 1389, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0057.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0023 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0023. \n Business Brief -- RMS International Inc.:\n@  Financing Sources, Waivers\n@  On Debt Are Being Sought \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n RMS \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   RMS International Inc., Hasbrouk Heights, N.J., facing a cash-flow squeeze, said it  is seeking other financing sources and waivers from debenture holders. \n\n   The company said that because of softening sales it isn't in compliance with requirements that it maintain $3 million in working capital. \nRMS distributes electronic devices and produces power supplies and plastic literature displays. \n\n   RMS said it had a loss of $158,666, or 10 cents a share, in the third quarter, compared with a year-earlier loss of $26,956, or two cents a share. \nSales rose to $3 million from $2.9 million. \n\n   For the nine months, the company reported a net loss of $608,413, or 39 cents a share, compared with year-earlier net income of $967,809, or 62 cents a share. \nSales rose to $9.8 million from $8.9 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 669, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t19"}, {"text": "year-earlier", "start_char": 704, "end_char": 716, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t21"}, {"text": "the nine months", "start_char": 810, "end_char": 825, "tid": "t23", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "year-earlier", "start_char": 907, "end_char": 919, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t21"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0167.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0434\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nUkraine-Russia gas dispute not to be politicised: Putin\n\n\n\n\nA dispute between Russia and Ukraine over gas supplies to the strategic transit country should not be politicised, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday after a telephone discussion with Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko.\n\n\"We are in agreement on not politicising the question of gas,\" Putin said, quoted by the Interfax news agency.\n\nYushchenko had assured Putin that he would not allow \"the politicisation of this question and I agree with him,\" the Russian leader said.\n\n\"A market exists and all our partners should benefit from equal conditions. Economic matters are one thing, politics another,\" Putin said.\n\nAnalysts have detected in the current dispute Moscow's disapproval of last year's \"orange revolution\", which set Kiev on a pro-Western course.\n\nThe Russian energy giant Gazprom has said the dispute threatens supplies through Ukraine to other European countries, the main transit route for Russian gas supplies to Europe.\n\nThe dispute centres on a demand by Gazprom that Ukraine pay market prices for gas supplies to Ukrainian consumers, rather than sticking to the current barter arrangement whereby Ukraine gets cut-price gas in exchange for providing transit to other countries.\n\nGazprom chairman Alexei Miller said earlier this week that supplies to the Ukrainian market could be cut altogether if Kiev did not agree to the company's terms by January 1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 259, "end_char": 265, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 803, "end_char": 812, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1359, "end_char": 1368, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1", "start_char": 1479, "end_char": 1488, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0434.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0108 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0108. \n GM Hughes\n@  Profit Fell 22%\n@  In Third Period\n@  ---\n@  GMAC Net Slipped 3.1%;\n@  Electronic Data Systems\n@  Says Earnings Rose 16%\n@  ----\n@  By Neal Templin\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n GM GME GMH \n AUTOMOBILES (AUT)\nEARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   General Motors Corp.'s big defense and automotive electronics unit, GM Hughes Electronics, said net income fell 22% in the third quarter, reflecting declining military spending and slumping GM vehicle production. \n\n   Meanwhile, net at GM's finance arm, General Motors Acceptance Corp., fell 3.1%. \nBy contrast, Electronic Data Systems Corp., GM's data processing subsidiary, boosted net 16%. \n\n   GM closed down $1.875 at $44.875 in New York Stock Exchange trading yesterday. \nEarnings for GM common stock, reflecting the performance of GM's core automotive operations, will be disclosed this morning. \nGM Class H, which represents a dividend interest in Hughes earnings, closed at $29, up 25 cents in Big Board composite trading. \nGM Class E, which represents a dividend interest in EDS profit, fell 75 cents to $52.25 on the Big Board. \n\n   The earnings drop at GM Hughes Electronics is a sign of tough times at both the defense operations of Hughes Aircraft Co. and GM's North American automotive operations, which are a primary customer for the Delco Electronics Corp. side of the GM Hughes unit. \n\n   Profit at the unit fell to $110.6 million, or 37 cents a share, from $142.4 million, or 45 cents a share, largely because of a $24 million one-time charge associated with Hughes's previously announced plan to reduce employment by at least 6,000 people by year end. \nEven excluding the charge, however , net fell 5%. \n\n   In addition, GM's North American vehicle production fell 8.4% from a year ago, which hurt Delco Electronic's earnings, a company spokesman said. \nThat decline was reflected in revenue 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0043\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMalaysia's central bank moves to allay unease over lending curbs\n\n\n\n\nMalaysia's central bank Tuesday moved to clear up confusion over new bank lending curbs which have depressed the stock market in the past week.\n\nBank Negara deputy governor Fong Weng Phak admitted \"monetary measures are always difficult to implement but it is unfortunate that people have over-reacted without understanding or rationalising\" the policies.\n\n\"The measures are not meant to curtail or squeeze the economy but to reallocate financial resources to the more productive manufacturing and services sectors,\" Fong told a news conference.\n\nThe key index on the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange recovered 1.4 percent at the close of morning trade Tuesday, from its Monday close. During last week's trading, the index plunged 6.6 percent following Bank Negara's announcement on March 28 of new credit-tightening measures.\n\nThe central bank limited lending to the property sector to 20 percent of banks' total outstanding loans, excluding homes costing 60,000 dollars and below, infrastructure projects and industrial facilities.\n\nIn the area of share financing, it maintained a 15 percent lending cap for commercial banks but broadened the definition to include loans to holding companies and investment firms which use credit to finance share trading.\n\n\"We know there shall always be grey areas and loopholes but we think it's timely to implement these preemptive measures before the asset inflation bubble bust,\" Fong said.\n\nClarifying the rules, Fong said the limits exclude a wide segment of the property sector, including \"owner-occupied\" houses, apartments, shophouses, hotels, theme parks, holiday resorts, as well as equipment and machinery.\n\nLending for initial public offers for manufacturing and infrastructure companies and stock options for employees would not be covered under the measures.\n\nGuarantees given by merchant banks for profits of companies seeking to list on the local bourse -- part of the securities commission's requirements -- are also exempted from the credit curbs.\n\n\"We do not want banks who have exceeded the limits to pull back the existing credit lines but to trim exposure to the two sectors. As their loan base expands, the ratio will fall,\" Fong said.\n\nBanks are expected to submit by April 15 proposals to reduce lending to the two sectors and dialogues have been held with bank executives to clarify doubts, he added.\n\n\"The number of banks who have exceeded the limits is not large. This is not an industry-wide issue. We have the luxury of time to implement these measures while the economy is still strong,\" Fong said.\n\n\"The fate of the economy and the banking sector is intertwined. It is not right for us to do nothing after seeing the experience of other countries,\" he added, alluding to neighbouring Thailand, recently rocked by a financial crisis triggered by bad property debts.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 159, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past week", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 270, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 776, "end_char": 783, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 800, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 815, "end_char": 824, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 28", "start_char": 906, "end_char": 914, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 15", "start_char": 2352, "end_char": 2360, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0043.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0271\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS judge halts Guantanamo trial of Aussie: report\n\n\n\n\nA US federal judge has halted the war crimes trial of an Australian terror suspect detained in the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.\n\nIn her ruling, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly suspended for several months the US military's plan to resume the trial of David Hicks, the Aussie charged with fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan.\n\nThe move follows a request made by his lawyers, according to the report.\n\nKollar-Kotelly cited the Supreme Court's decision last week to review the legality of the military commissions being used to try Guantanamo detainees with war crimes.\n\nThe court ruling concerns the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who was a driver for Osama bin Laden and has been accused of participating in terrorist activities.\n\nAfter the Supreme Court agreed to consider the issue, the Pentagon said it would nonetheless go forward with plans to try Hicks under the same procedure.\n\nThe military commission which sits at Guantanamo had been scheduled to hear motions in the Hicks case beginning on Friday.\n\nHowever, Kollar-Kotelly's ruling halted the process. She also ordered that Hicks's trial should be postponed until after the Supreme Court rules in the Hamdan case, which is expected in June next year.\n\nHicks and Hamdan, along with seven other Guantanamo detainees, have been charged with war crimes.\n\nThe Kollar-Kotelly ruling means, in effect, that none of the proceedings can go forward until the Supreme Court resolves the issue of the legality of the military commissions.\n\nLast year, another US district judge ruled that the commissions violated both domestic laws and international conventions.\n\nHowever, in July 2005, a three-judge appeal court, including John Roberts before he became the chief justice of the Supreme Court in October, overturned that ruling.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 629, "end_char": 638, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1176, "end_char": 1182, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June next year", "start_char": 1371, "end_char": 1385, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 1664, "end_char": 1673, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 2005", "start_char": 1800, "end_char": 1809, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1921, "end_char": 1928, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0271.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0521\n\nWASHINGTON, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS to give 15 million dollars in aid to North Korea by Sarah Jackson-Han\n\n\n\n\nThe United States will provide 15 million dollars in emergency aid to North Korea to help feed young children in the famished communist country, the State Department said Tuesday.\n\nThe new aid -- 50,000 tonnes of US corn to be given through the UN World Food Programme (WFP) -- is targeted at nursery school- and kindergarten-aged children, State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said.\n\n\"I think we're talking about food arriving as quickly as a couple of months,\" he said, adding that the first two ships bearing 10 million dollars in US food aid pledged in February would arrive in the first two weeks of May.\n\nThe aid, valued at about 15 million dollars and announced after a series of high-level US visits to East Asia, brings total US emergency assistance to North Korea to 33.4 million dollars since 1995, when flooding damaged Pyongyang's already low food supplies.\n\nOne US official, who asked not to be named, said the US pledge was sharply lower than the amount of aid Pyongyang requested.\n\nNo reaction was immediately available from the WFP.\n\n\"There are roughly 2.4 million children under the age of six who we believe are adversely affected\" by the food shortage, Burns said. \"We think the food situation will reach a critical stage this spring with children severely at risk.\"\n\nOn April 7, the United Nations launched an urgent appeal for 126 million dollars to help North Korea, citing a sharp deterioration in recent months. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0037\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHushen index up -- Nov. 30\n\n\n\n\nThe Hushen 300 Index reflecting the whole fluctuation of China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges closed at 873.83 points on Wednesday, up 2.52 points from the previous close.\n\nAbout one fifth of the total shares listed in the two markets have been chosen as samples of the Hushen 300 Index, accounting for 60 percent of the market value in China's stock market.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0037.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0214\n\nLONDON, Dec 31 , 2006, 2006\n\nfestivities\n\n\n\n\nNew Year's Eve fireworks displays, concerts and other outdoor parties were scrapped on Sunday in several British cities amid security fears over heavy storms, disappointing tens of thousands of revelers.\n\nCelebrations overnight Sunday in the Northern Irish capital of Belfast and the Scottish city of Glasgow as well as the northern English cities of Newcastle and Liverpool were all canceled because of the bad weather.\n\nUp to 10,000 people had been due to watch soul singer Beverley Knight and rock band The Thrills in the streets outside Belfast's City Hall, but the city council called off the events for safety reasons.\n\nOfficials in Glasgow dropped plans for a massive outdoor street party in central George Square where around 25,000 people had been expected to dance and sing along with Fratellis and Sandi Thom as well as watch a fireworks show.\n\nWith high winds and rain forecast, a spokesman for Glasgow City Council urged partygoers to stay away from the Hogmanay or New Year's party, traditionally the biggest event in the Scottish calendar.\n\nA pyrotechnics extravaganza in Newcastle, the culmination of the city's month-long Winter Festival, was also dropped.\n\n\"Obviously the safety of the public comes first,\" said Newcastle councillor Pauline Allen.\n\nFireworks planned for Liverpool's St George's Plateau were called off and the event will now take place on Friday, January 5.\n\nNew Year's fireworks displays in the British capital London were still planned, according to Mayor Ken Livingstone.\n\nLondon's New Year's Day Parade of marching bands, clowns, vintage cars, traction engines and carnival queens -- expected to attract up to 400,000 spectators -- will definitely go ahead, organizers added.\n\nForecasters said gusts of up to 80 miles (130 kilometres) per hour were expected off the coast of Cumbria, northwest England.\n\nDays of fierce storms have already caused a number of casualties. An 18-year-old woman died and her two 19-year-old friends were injured when a tree crashed onto a mobile home in Staffordshire on Saturday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 31 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 296, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Winter Festival", "start_char": 1207, "end_char": 1222, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1424, "end_char": 1427, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday, January 5", "start_char": 1442, "end_char": 1459, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 2107, "end_char": 2115, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0214.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0371\n\nMEXICO CITY, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nStocks close lower in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil\n\n\n\n\nLatin America's three major stock markets closed lower on Thursday.\n\nMexico City's IPC stock index dropped by 0.22 percent to close at 24,266.03 points. A total of 116 million shares were traded at 339 million U.S. dollars.\n\nThe Buenos Aires stock market closed with the Merval index down 1.38 percent at 1,891.51 points. The trade volume was 16.91 million dollars.\n\nIn Sao Paulo, Latin America's biggest bourse, the leading Bovespa index closed at 41,161 points, down 0.31 percent. The trade volume was 1.48 billion dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0371.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0105\n\nTAIYUAN, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd Ld: Fatal coal mine accident reported in north China, 25 dead\n\n\n\n\nTwenty-five people have been confirmed dead and nine others are still missing in a deadly coal mine accident in north China's Shanxi Province.\n\nThirty-six miners were working underground when privately made explosives stored in a pit of the Nanshan Colliery in Wangyu Village of Lingshi County, caught fire at 7:40 p.m. Sunday, sources with rescue headquarters confirmed on Monday.\n\nThe Lingshi county government received its first report of the accident at 4 a.m. Monday.\n\nTwo miners survived but 25 others were suffocated by the quantities of poisonous gas released by the explosives, according to rescuers.\n\nEfforts to find the missing are still under way.\n\nAlso on Monday, the death toll in another deadly accident in this coal-rich province climbed to 35, with 12 others missing in the pit of Jiaojiazhai Colliery in Xinzhou, where a gas blast trapped 47 on Nov. 5.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "7:40 p.m.", "start_char": 437, "end_char": 446, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 453, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 501, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "4 a.m.", "start_char": 585, "end_char": 591, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 592, "end_char": 598, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 796, "end_char": 802, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 5", "start_char": 990, "end_char": 996, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0105.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0215\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nnuke program\n\n\n\n\nIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad vowed on Tuesday to install up to 60,000 centrifuges ultimately to enrich uranium.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 120, "end_char": 127, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0215.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0024\n\nMELBOURNE, Australia, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCCTV 's advertising revenues hit new high as Olympics nears\n\n\n\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 19 (Xinhua)-- The bidding for advertising on China Central Television (CCTV) in 2007 concluded on Saturday with the network's revenues hitting 6.79 billion yuan, up 16 percent over last year.\n\nProcter  Gamble, the world's consumer goods giant topped the bidding list for the fourth year running, at 420 million yuan, CCTV announced.\n\nThe annual bidding has been hailed as the barometer of the country's economic performance.\n\n\"Enterprises can foresee the economic trend in the coming year from the participating brands,\" said Yao Jingyuan, chief economist with the National Bureau of Statistics\n\nOlympic-related commercials notched up a combined value of 370 million yuan.\n\n\"Since the Olympic Games will not open until 2008, it is imperative for enterprises to enhance their brand image in 2007,\" said Zhang Weiying, professor with the Guanghua School of Management at Beijing University.\n\nChinese banks and car manufacturers also featured high up on the bidding list in anticipation of fiercer competition from foreign companies next year after the industries are opened up to overseas investors.\n\n\"CCTV's advertising charges have been rising in recent years as the Chinese economy maintains robust growth, said Sun Xianhong, vice chairman of Meng Niu Dairy, also a competitive bidder\n\n\"Enterprises are devoting more attention to advertising, with long-term effects influencing their decision-making,\" he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 19", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 246, "end_char": 254, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 329, "end_char": 338, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth year", "start_char": 419, "end_char": 434, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "coming year", "start_char": 625, "end_char": 636, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 867, "end_char": 871, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 938, "end_char": 942, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1178, "end_char": 1187, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "years as", "start_char": 1302, "end_char": 1310, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0024.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0190\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES toll, ADDS quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nIraqis turned out in droves Thursday in a landmark poll to choose a new government many hope will restore stability to a nation wracked by violence and sectarian feuding since the fall of Saddam Hussein.\n\nDespite a massive security lockdown, two men were killed in attacks in northern Iraq while mortar strikes in Baghdad, including one in the heavily fortified Green Zone claimed by an Al-Qaeda-linked group, injured four civilians and a US marine.\n\n\"The most important thing is for Iraqis to express themselves with ballots, not blasts,\" said Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari.\n\nTurnout quickened throughout the day, with voting strong in the Shiite south and in Sunni Arab districts where people queued up to cast their ballots, in stark contrast to their overwhelming boycott of an election in January.\n\nStrict security measures brought Iraq to a halt as 15.5 million Iraqis were called to vote for a four-year, 275-member parliament, with top candidates pledging to restore stability and pave the way for an exit of foreign troops.\n\n\"It's a national celebration for all Iraqis,\" said President Jalal Talabani, the country's first Kurdish head of state.\n\nUS President George W. Bush, whose approval ratings slumped over the mounting US death toll in Iraq, said Iraqi democracy would serve as a \"model\" for the Middle East.\n\nThe vote, the third this year, marks a new beginning following the US-led invasion in March 2003 to oust Saddam, two transitional governments and the adoption of a constitution in October.\n\nIraqis poured into the streets and walked to polling stations because of a vehicle ban aimed at curbing car bomb attacks.\n\nIn the capital and in the restive Sunni city of Fallujah, disabled men in wheelchairs and on crutches joined neighbours to cast their ballots, with many demanding stability and the restoration of public services such as electricity and water.\n\nIn the holy city of Najaf, as well as the main southern city of Basra, residents were already celebrating the victory of the main religious Shiite United Iraqi Alliance coalition.\n\nA total of 7,655 candidates and 307 political entities, nearly triple the number that stood in January, are running, with turnout among the ousted Sunni minority expected to be much higher this time.\n\n\"The next parliament will represent all Iraqis,\" said Vice President Abdel Abdel Mehdi, tipped by many as the next prime minister.\n\nMinisters praised the security operation intended to prevent the suicide attacks that killed almost 40 people during January's election, the first free vote in Iraq in half a century.\n\n\"The security situation in most of the provinces is good, if not to say excellent,\" announced Interior Minister Bayan Jabr Solagh.\n\nThe leading secular Shiite candidate, former prime minister Iyad Allawi, complained however that his supporters had been attacked and killed during the campaign.\n\nA top British general said the election gave London \"growing confidence\" that a transition of security powers, allowing foreign troops to leave Iraq, would begin in the first half of 2006.\n\n\"We ought to be just grateful that today is going so well and will bring us that much nearer to the day that the job gets done and we can come home,\" General Nick Houghton told the BBC.\n\nRoughly 2,150 US soldiers have been killed since the 2003 invasion, which Bush admitted Wednesday had been based on wrong intelligence. An estimated 30,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed.\n\nSuicide attacks, shootings and kidnapping have become standard fare in a deadly insurgency driven by Sunni Arab nationalism and Al-Qaeda extremists.\n\nAdjourned for the election, Saddam's trial on charges of crimes against humanity threatened to exacerbate already high ethnic tensions in the country.\n\nFollowing purported Al-Qaeda threats to \"ruin the 'democratic' wedding\", virtually all Iraq's 190,000 police and army were mobilized, with US-led troops providing perimeter security for voting stations.\n\nCivilians were banned from carrying weapons and driving to polling stations that opened at 7:00 am (0400 GMT) and were to close at 5:00 pm.\n\nShiites and Kurds who dominated the transitional administration, are looking to a full-term parliament as a chance to cement their grip on power after decades of oppression.\n\nThe Sunni minority is keen to prevent a government dominated by religious Shiites and a break-up of Iraq into autonomous Kurdish and Shiite zones.\n\n\"The Shiites have more seats than they deserve and because of this there has been state terrorism and killings,\" charged Mekky Latif, an election observer in Fallujah.\n\nThe first task of the new parliament will be to appoint a president and two vice presidents. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0466\n\nTOKYO, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapan's central bank chief says recovery accelerating\n\n\n\n\nBank of Japan governor Yasuo Matsushita said Monday that the country's economic recovery was gathering pace and described the dollar's recent surge against the yen as \"steep.\"\n\nSpeaking at a lecture in Tokyo, the central bank governor said the recovery was \"becoming firmer\" with the increase in consumption taxes from three percent to five percent on April 1 unlikely to thwart the upturn.\n\nMatsushita also said that drastic restructuring measures announced by the troubled Nippon Credit Bank Ltd. earlier this month showed that Japanese banks were being \"aggressive\" in resolving their debt problems.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1", "start_char": 463, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this month", "start_char": 610, "end_char": 628, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0466.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0018\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nconference\n\n\n\n\nChinese Premier Wen Jiabao is hosting a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People Saturday afternoon to welcome the African guests attending the high-level dialogue and second conference of Chinese and African entrepreneurs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday afternoon", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-11TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0018.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0100\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCanada and Russia split titles at Cup of China\n\n\n\n\nCanada's Emanuel Sandhu clinched the title of the men's single skating at Cup of China ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating here on Saturday.\n\nSandhu collected a total of 212.66 points for the win.\n\nSandhu continued his victory after his home win on Skate Canada International this year. Ranked fourth after short program, he made an error-free performance to the first position.\n\n\"I'm very satisfied with my performance today, I don't think I can make it better,\" said Sandhu.\n\nWorld champion Stephane Lambiel failed to win gold following two errors, sitting second with 203.60.\n\nRussian Andrei Griazev, winner at Junior Championships last year, settled for the third, earning 200.60 points.\n\nLi Chengjiang, China's medal hopeful, slided from second after short program to eighth after stumbles and falls.\n\nYao Bin, coach of China's skating team, shook head during Li's performance. \"He didn't even give his half best today,\" said Yao.\n\nTwo other gold medals both went to Russia. Irina Slutskaya grabbed the women's singles gold with 196.12 points, while European champion Slutskaya put up a flawless performance to Mario Takes a Walk and got her personal best 196.12, enlarging her gap with rival skaters to nearly 20 points.\n\n\"I like all parts of the music,\" said Slutskaya. \"When I was on ice, I felt like I am a flamenco dancer.\"\n\nWorld junior champion Mao Asada of Japan also made a brilliant debut at senior figure skating Grand Prix. The 15-year old, who fell on the first jump in the match, managed to recover with clear spins and jumps highlighted with a triple Axels, which gained her a total of 176.60 to stand on the podium.\n\n\"I made some mistakes during the competition,\" said Asada, \"but silver medal is a good start, next time I will make it.\"\n\nAsada's compatriot Shizuka Arakawa, last year's world champion, won the bronze with 173.60.\n\nAlso on Saturday, Russian top ice dancing pair Tatiana Navaka/ Roman Kostomarov won the ice dancing title.\n\nThe two-time world champions, skating to \"Carmen Suite\" by G. Bizet, earned continuous cheers from the audience during their routine. The pair held on to their lead in compulsory and original dancing in previous two days, and ended with a total score of 197.07, leaving the runner-up nearly 11 pints behind.\n\nGalit Chait/Sergei Sakhnovski from Israel ended second with 186.14, followed by Canadian Megan Wing/Aaron Lowe with 163.36.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 243, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 524, "end_char": 529, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 739, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1022, "end_char": 1027, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1900, "end_char": 1909, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1965, "end_char": 1973, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "previous two days", "start_char": 2268, "end_char": 2285, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-05T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0100.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0163\n\nJAKARTA, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndonesian activists in subversion case get six and four year sentences\n\n\n\n\nAn Indonesian court in East Java Tuesday handed down six and four year jail sentences for two pro-democracy activists accused of subversion, their lawyer said.\n\nThe Surabaya, East Java, district court handed the sentences to Dita Indahsari and Coen Husein Pontoh from the small pro-democracy group People's Democratic Party (PRD), for inciting labor riots in the province.\n\n\"The two were very calm, even smiling, when the sentences were read out since they knew that they would be found guilty as this trial has been so politicized,\" one of their lawyers, Nurbadria (eds: one name), told AFP by phone from Surabaya.\n\nNurbadria said chief judge Amrin Boer found Dita, 24, and Coen, 27, guilty of inciting labor riots, and also of being members of the unrecognized PRD. Both are appealing their sentences, she added.\n\n\"I'm not surprised, this was a political trial and the judges were not free,\" said Trimulya Suryadi, another lawyer for the pair.\n\nPRD is an umbrella group of labor, student and farmer activists.\n\nNurbadria said Tuesday's court session was attended by hundreds of people, and heavily secured by police who checked the identities of all the court attendees. No incidents were reported during the session.\n\nDita's sentence was longer because the court found her guilty of inciting more labor riots and strikes than Coen, Nurbadria said. The prosecutor had earlier asked for eight years for Dita and six for Coen.\n\nSubversion carries a maximum penalty of death.\n\nDita and Coen were detained shortly after a mass labor strike nearby Surabaya in early July.\n\nPolice violently broke up the march of some 4,000 workers from 10 factories in the industrial area of Tandes, Surabaya, as two workers' groups were trying to join forces and walk to another factory.\n\nThe demonstrators were demanding a 75 percent raise in their daily wage from 4,000 rupiah to 7,000 rupiah (1.70 dollars to three dollars.)\n\nThe subversion trial of another 11 PRD members has been underway since December in two Jakarta courts, with prosecutors demanding sentences of between 12 and 15 years.\n\nThe 11 were were detained soon after mass riots in Jakarta on July 27. The riots were sparked by an attack on the headquarters of the Indonesian Democracy Party (PDI), until then under the control of toppled leader Megawati Sukarnoputri, by a rival faction backed by troops.\n\nThe popular Megawati was ousted as PDI chairwoman by a government- backed faction in June.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four year", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1159, "end_char": 1166, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight years", "start_char": 1519, "end_char": 1530, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early July", "start_char": 1688, "end_char": 1698, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 2112, "end_char": 2120, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12", "start_char": 2192, "end_char": 2194, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 years", "start_char": 2199, "end_char": 2207, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 27", "start_char": 2272, "end_char": 2279, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-07-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2571, "end_char": 2575, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0163.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0345\n\nLONDON, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNorthern Ireland holds Portugal 1-1\n\n\n\n\nWarren Feeney capitalized on a rare international start by scoring Northern Ireland's goal in their 1-1 draw against Portugal on Tuesday.\n\nThe Luton Town striker, who had not started for over three years and was a sub for the last seven games, scored with a looping header in the 53rd minute.\n\nWorld Cup finalists Portugal had led through a Stephen Craigan own goal five minutes before half-time when the Motherwell defender diverted a Ronaldo cross past keeper Maik Taylor.\n\nNorthern Ireland did well to battle back against Luiz Filipe Scolari's side and the result allowed them to end the year on a positive note.\n\nBack-to-back defeats against Wales and Austria in the World Cup qualifiers had taken some of the gloss off the famous victory against England.\n\nHowever, they bounced back against a side ranked eighth in the world thanks to Feeney's equaliser.\n\nGiven manager Lawrie Sanchez was without a number of key players, he could claim a moral victory.\n\nThere were good performances from goalkeeper Maik Taylor and midfielder Steve Davis and Portugal knew they had been in a game.\n\nThe Belfast fans were also able to celebrate the appearance of Irish League star Peter Thompson.\n\nThe Linfield striker, with 18 goals this season, came on as a substitute for James Quinn with 14 minutes left.\n\nDean Shiels of Hibernian also won his first cap, coming on just before the end.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 225, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 53rd minute", "start_char": 372, "end_char": 387, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 683, "end_char": 691, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0345.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0130 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0130. \n Sun Microsystems Inc.\n@  Posts 1st-Quarter Net\n@  Totaling $5.2 Million \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n SUNW \n EARNINGS (ERN)\nCOMPUTERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CPR) \n MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.  \n\n   Sun Microsystems Inc., snapping back to profitability after its first quarterly loss as a public firm, said it earned $5.2 million, or seven cents a share, in the fiscal first quarter. \n\n   Sun, a maker of computer workstations, reported sales of $538.5 million for the quarter ended Sept. 29, up 39% from $388.5 million a year earlier. \nIn the 1988 period, the company earned $20.6 million, or 26 cents a share. \n\n   Sun's results were slightly better than expectations. \nEarlier this month, the company said it expected to break even for the quarter on sales of $530 million. \n\n   In a statement, Scott McNealy, Sun's chief executive officer, said the company's performance was hampered by problems tied to the introduction of a major new family of computers in April. \nOne of those new computers, called Sparcstation 1, accounted for nearly half of the 28,000 systems Sun shipped in the quarter, he said. \nMore than two-thirds of the systems shipped, meanwhile , were products introduced in April. \n\n   But problems in manufacturing, forecasting demand and getting the bugs out of a new management information system made it extremely difficult for Sun to meet demand for its newest computers well into the summer. \nThese problems also resulted in Sun reporting a $20.3 million loss for its fourth quarter ended June 30. \n\n   Mr. McNealy said the issues that hurt Sun's performance earlier this year are now \" largely\" behind the firm, and he indicated that Sun's profitability should increase throughout the fiscal year. \n\n   Sun also reported a record backlog of orders. \nWhile this indicates continued strong demand for the company's desk-top computers, Sun faces increasing competition from Digital Equipment Corp. and Hewlett-Packard Co. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0394\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nyears\n\n\n\n\nChina will train 15,000 African professionals, send 100 senior agricultural experts to Africa, and set up 10 special agricultural technology demonstration centers in Africa in the next three years.\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao made the remarks here Saturday when addressing the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next three years", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0394.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0123\n\nTAIYUAN, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nnorth China\n\n\n\n\nFour county-level officials from north China's Shanxi Province have been dismissed from their posts in the Party in the wake of three coal mine accidents that claimed 65 lives, according to the provincial government on Friday.\n\nThe Communist Party of China (CPC) Committee of Taiyuan, the provincial capital, has removed Wang Qinghe from the post of deputy secretary of the CPC Committee of Wangbolin District in Taiyuan. Ning Keqiang was deprived of his membership of the district CPC committee following two mine accidents that left 21 miners dead in late October and early this month.\n\nThe Jinzhong City CPC Committee has removed Gong Qi from the post of deputy secretary of the CPC Committee of Lingshi County and Feng Kaicheng was deprived of his membership of the county CPC committee for a coal mine fire that claimed 34 lives this month.\n\nThe Shanxi Provincial CPC Committee has also suggested that the four people should be removed from their administrative posts, said a spokesman for the provincial government on Friday.\n\nWang is the acting head of Wangbolin District and Ning is Wang's deputy. Gong is the head of Lingshi County government and Feng is the deputy.\n\nThese four people were removed from their posts in the Party according to regulations that stipulate officials in charge should be punished for fatal accidents, the spokesman said.\n\nLocal governments are responsible for managing and supervising coal mining businesses and other production activities in areas under their jurisdiction, the spokesman said.\n\nThe four people will face further punishments once investigations into the three accident are concluded, according to the spokesman.\n\nExplosive blast that occurred in the Pagou Coal Mine in Taiyuan's Wanbolin District on Oct. 24 left 11 miners dead. Preliminary investigations show that the mine was operating illegally because its production safety and coal mining certificates expired at the end of December last year.\n\nA coal mine in Jijiagou Village, also based in Wanbolin District, was flooded on Nov. 7, killing 10 miners. The owner of the coal mine ran away after the flooding. Investigators said that the coal mine was operating illegally without a production permit.\n\nA fatal fire occurred in the Nanshan Coal Mine in Lingshi County on Nov. 12, claiming 34 lives. The production licence of the Nanshan Coal Mine expired at the end of last year and rescuers found it had neither a gas monitoring system nor a life-saving appliance in the shaft. The mine contractor escaped after the accident and is still at large.\n\nThis is the second time within six months that county-level officials have been dismissed for fatal coal mine accidents in Shanxi Province.\n\nThe Standing Committee of the Zuoyun County People's Congress approved the resignations filed by Zhang Mingsheng, former head of the county government, and his deputy Shi Lu, who was in charge of local coal production, in June.\n\nZhang was also removed from the post of deputy secretary of the Zuoyun County committee of the CPC, and Shi was deprived of his membership of the CPC county committee after mine management attempted to cover up the fatal accident by reporting that only five miners were trapped.\n\nShanxi provincial government has ordered safety check-ups in local coal mines starting from Friday and mines with an annual output of 90,000 tons and lower will be closed within 20 days if they are found not to meet safety requirements.\n\nChina has issued specific new 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0328\n\nBUSAN, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTight security control enforced for APEC meetings in Busan\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korea has mounted a 37,000- strong team for security of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum being held from Nov. 12 to 19 in the country's coastal city of Busan.\n\nThe South Korean military and police security personnel have mapped out a set of comprehensive measures to counter the possible airborne and sea-based terror attacks during the summit, according to an APEC forum security official on Saturday.\n\nThe security team has launched guard operations for the country 's land, sea and air routes.\n\nAround the Busan Exhibition and Convention Center where a series of APEC meetings will be held, police are on high alert and have strengthened security.\n\nAn 11-strong mounted police team started patrols as of Saturday. The team will patrol around the center from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. until the end of meeting.\n\nAccording to an official of the Busan Police Bureau, the advantage of the mounted police is that the policemen can enter into places where cars and other motor vehicles cannot reach. In addition, they can help maintain orders with a higher point of view in case a riot happens.\n\nThe official said an airborne early warning system and anti- submarine aircraft provide defense against hostile infiltration. And the early-warning aircraft will launch round-the-clock patrol of the territorial sky of the country during the APEC Summit scheduled from Nov.18 to 19.\n\nAll conference-related venues and facilities will be covered by air patrols using F-16 fighters, and vessels sailing near the port are to be cordoned off seven kilometers away from the summit venue.\n\nOfficials at the Construction and Transportation Ministry said on Friday that they will enforce no-fly zone from Nov. 16 to 21 within a 5.6 kilometer radius of the summit venues and major accommodation facilities.\n\nHigh-speed patrol boats with thermal detection camera are also in operation.\n\nTo prevent the entrance of terrorist suspects who may come in disguise as tourists, all passengers using Busan's Gimhae International Airport are required to open up their luggage for thorough inspection.\n\nOfficials at Busan Customs said they have deployed 265 personnel around seaports to prevent any smuggling materials and launched around-the-clock watches by installing 105 closed circuit televisions.\n\nAt Incheon Airport, passengers are even required to take off their shoes for security checks, and staff members there said \"it' s merely a routine work.\"\n\nA total of 3,000 volunteers will be deployed at 73 stations of two subways for help maintain security. Big department stores and shopping malls will be closed during the APEC summit.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 12", "start_char": 247, "end_char": 254, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 535, "end_char": 543, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 849, "end_char": 857, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. until the end of meeting", "start_char": 903, "end_char": 950, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1781, "end_char": 1787, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 16", "start_char": 1828, "end_char": 1835, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0328.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0125\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese vice premier meets Japanese guests\n\n\n\n\nChinese Vice Premier Wu Yi met with a delegation from the Kansai region of Japan here Friday.\n\nThe delegation is headed by Fusae Ota, governor of Osaka-Fu, Keiji Yamada, governor of Kyoto-Fu and Toshizo Ido, governor of Hyogo-Ken.\n\nWu expressed her appreciation for Kansai's friendly exchanges and cooperation with China. She said China and Japan, as close neighbors, are strongly compatible in economy and enjoy broad fields for cooperation.\n\n\"To develop Sino-Japanese long-term stable good-neighborly relations is in the fundemental interests of the people of the two countries\", Wu said.\n\nShe noted that Japanese leaders' stubborn visits to Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 14 Class-A war criminals, had caused severe difficulties for Sino-Japanese ties.\n\n\"Their acts severely hurt the feeling of the Chinese people and undermined the political foundation of Sino-Japanese ties\", she said.\n\nUnder the current situation, the two countries should cherish the traditional friendship of the people of both countries, enhance exchanges and mutual understanding, and facilitate cooperation.\n\nShe expressed the hope that the Kansai region will make full play of its advantages to expand friendly exchanges with China in terms of economy, trade, culture and personnel exchanges, and contribute more to the improvement of bilateral ties.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0125.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0059\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIsraeli FM vows to rehabilitate Likud party\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom, who has announced bid for the Likud party leadership, vowed on Wednesday to restore the Likud party to glory if he is elected, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported.\n\n\"The Likud is in crisis and we cannot sweep under the carpet,\" said Shalom, asserting that he is the only one who can rehabilitate the three-decade old party and win the March general elections.\n\nShalom made his vow one day after officially launching his bid for the Likud leadership, which was vacated after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon quit the party he co-founded and formed a new centrist party named Kadima (Forward) last week.\n\n\"I call on the people in my party to stay in Likud and to vote for me in the primaries and to lead the state,\" said Shalom, indicating that he would invite Sharon and the Labor party to join any government under his leadership.\n\nBesides Shalom, two other heavyweights, former premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, are also vying for the chairmanship.\n\nQuestioning Netanyahu's lead in the race, Shalom said the former premier was defeated by Labor candidate Ehud Barak in the 1999 elections.\n\nShalom called himself a centrist and stabilizing option, saying that he had been behind much of the rehabilitation of the Likud after the 1999 defeat.\n\nIsrael will hold general elections on March 28, 2006, in which three major parties, the center-right Likud, center-left Labor and Sharon's Kadima will compete.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 219, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 526, "end_char": 533, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 739, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1404, "end_char": 1408, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 28, 2006", "start_char": 1456, "end_char": 1470, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0059.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0115\n\nSARAJEVO, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPope to honour Turin firemen for Shroud rescue\n\n\n\n\nPope John Paul II is to honour three Turin firemen who risked their lives to save the Shroud of Turin when a weekend fire ravaged the Italian city's cathedral, a Vatican spokesman announced Sunday.\n\nThe pontiff had decided to honour the city's fire chief and two firemen on his return to Italy from Sarajevo, spokesman Joaquim Navarro said.\n\nThe fire Saturday partially destroyed the Guarini chapel which normally houses the Shroud, revered for centuries by Christians as the cloth which wrapped the body of Christ after the crucifixion.\n\nThe linen cloth had been removed from the chapel while restoration work was in progress, and temporarily placed behind the nearby central altar in the St John the Baptist cathedral.\n\nTwo firemen braved the inferno in the adjacent chapel to reach the relic, and used sledgehammers to smash a thick protective screen before carrying the priceless cloth from the cathedral, the spokesman said.\n\nThe pope, who held an open-air mass in Sarajevo's main football stadium early Sunday, was to return to Italy in the evening.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 13 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 297, "end_char": 303, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 458, "end_char": 466, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Sunday", "start_char": 1110, "end_char": 1122, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the evening", "start_char": 1150, "end_char": 1161, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-13TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0115.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0699\n\nLA PAZ, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS detail, quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nCampaigning ended in Bolivia on Thursday, ahead of a weekend election pitting a former president against a leftist indigenous leader who wants to end eradication of the plant that produces cocaine.\n\nOpinion polls ahead of Sunday's election, closely watched by Washington, gave a few points advantage to Evo Morales, 46, whose campaign has been marked by anti-US slogans, pledges to increase state controls over the key gas industry and a promise to defend coca plantations.\n\nIf he manages to defeat former president Jorge Quiroga, 45, he would become the first indigenous president of the impoverished South American country.\n\nBut he appears unlikely to win the 50 percent of the ballots needed for an outright victory, in which case the decision will be in the hands of the new Congress that will also be elected on Sunday.\n\n\"One vote, two votes are important,\" Morales told his supporters in Cochabamba. \"A little more effort, more participation to free Bolivia as soon as possible,\" he urged.\n\nEight candidates are in the running, but the scene appears to be set for a battle between Morales and Quiroga, a US-educated technocrat who was president for a year after Hugo Banzer, then stricken by cancer, stepped down in 2001.\n\nOpinion polls put support for Morales at 35 percent, with Quiroga getting 28 to 29 percent and the other candidates trailing far behind.\n\nQuiroga has gone so far as to call Morales a \"narco\" trafficker.\n\nUS officials are keeping a keen eye on the election in a region that has seen several left-leaning leaders rise to power in recent years.\n\nAnd Washington has made no bones about its concern over Morales' pledge to end US-funded programs to eradicate coca, from which traffickers extract cocaine for US drug users.\n\nHowever, Indians have chewed coca leaf, a mild stimulant in its natural form, for thousands of years. It is used in indigenous rituals and as medication against altitude sickness in the Andean country.\n\n\"We expect whatever government comes next in Bolivia to honor those commitments that they have made to fight the production and transport of illegal drugs,\" State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Thursday.\n\nThe outcome of the presidential election would only be decided on January 22, if no candidate garners 50 percent of the votes on Sunday.\n\nThe 157-seat Congress would then elect the new president, and is not bound to pick the front-runner.\n\nWith electoral campaigning officially ending on Thursday, the candidates made a last-ditch effort to win the votes of as many as 21 percent of still undecided voters.\n\nMorales has capitalized on his popularity as the leader of a growing movement to wrest Bolivia's natural gas reserves from foreign control. He played a key role in protests that forced two presidents out of office in the past three years.\n\nQuiroga, for his part, promised jobs, universal health care, better prices for Bolivia's natural gas and the writing off of the country's huge foreign debt.\n\nQuiroga supporters claim a Morales presidency would scare off private investors and lead to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs.\n\nBut the Morales camp claims that the pro free-market Quiroga would auction off the country and strengthen the power of oil multinationals.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 118, "end_char": 126, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 903, "end_char": 909, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1308, "end_char": 1312, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1643, "end_char": 1655, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2241, "end_char": 2249, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 22", "start_char": 2318, "end_char": 2328, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2381, "end_char": 2387, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2540, "end_char": 2548, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three years", "start_char": 2877, "end_char": 2897, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0699.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0293\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nInterview: UN climate chief regrets America's refusal to ratify Kyoto Protocol, applauds China's environment policy\n\n\n\n\nThe UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer said here Tuesday that he felt regretful about America's refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, while praising China for its efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emission.\n\n\"I think it's a great pity that America decided not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol,\" said de Boer, who is currently attending the UNFCCC in Nairobi, in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.\n\nThe United States, the world's largest emitter of green house gases, said Monday that there would be no change in its rejection of the Kyoto Protocol on global warming until at least the end of American President George W. Bush's second term, due to be in January, 2009.\n\nBush has incurred the wrath of environmentalists and ecological experts by abandoning the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which aims to reduce the emission of climate change-causing greenhouse gases, saying it would hurt the U.S. economy.\n\n\"I do not have any expectations that the U.S. will return or ratify the Kyoto Protocol,\" said de Boer, who was appointed to the current post by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Aug. 10, 2006. He said America's greenhouse gas emissions are so high that it would be virtually impossible for it to meet the targets under the Kyoto Protocol.\n\nDe Boer at the same time applauded China for its environment policy, saying that China is already doing quite a lot in addressing the question of climate change.\n\n\"China has very ambitious strategy and also has plans to reduce emission from electricity sector,\" he said.\n\nThe UN conference on climate change kicked off on Monday, with participating parties exploring an international framework to deal with the issue of global warming after 2012, the last year covered by the current gas emission rules under the Kyoto Protocol.\n\n\"The discussion on that has just begun,\" said de Boer, \"there was a decision at the meeting in Montreal last year to start two dialogues in the future. One is an ad hoc working group which talks about future industrial country targets, and the other is a broad dialogue on the future.\"\n\n\"All the countries have been saying that we urgently need to develop environment policy beyond 2012. In fact today there were presentations from the EU, from Japan, from Norway, all indicating that they are ready to take on far more stringent emission reductions,\" he said.\n\nThe 1997 Kyoto Protocol requires 35 industrialized countries to reduce their emissions by at least 5.2 percent from 1990 levels by 2012.\n\nA UN report last week indicated that many countries were struggling to meet their targets.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 273, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 692, "end_char": 698, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January, 2009", "start_char": 874, "end_char": 887, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2009-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 10, 2006", "start_char": 1298, "end_char": 1311, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1782, "end_char": 1788, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2012", "start_char": 1901, "end_char": 1905, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1911, "end_char": 1920, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2094, "end_char": 2103, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 2130, "end_char": 2140, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 2386, "end_char": 2391, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2012", "start_char": 2683, "end_char": 2687, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 2702, "end_char": 2711, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0293.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "PRI19980216.2000.0170 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n The British government  has  formally called for Sinn Fein, the IRA's\n political wing,  to  be expelled from the multiparty peace talks on northern\n Ireland. The move  had  been widely expected after northern Ireland police\n said they believe the IRA was behind two killings in Belfast last week. Sinn\n Fein chairman Mitchell McLaughlin says the party  will challenge the move by\n legal means if they have to.\n\n\n We 're going  to fight it. And uh we 've  already challenged , very strongly, the uh the terms\n in which this  has  been presented. But we 're challenging it on the ground that uh\n the RUC uh  have offered an opinion, and this opinion  is going  to  be used as a mechanism for ejecting us from the talks, and uh that's a very\n serious.\n\n\n Any decision  to expel Sinn Fein must  be agreed jointly by the governments\n of both Britain and the Irish Republic.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980216", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t25", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 328, "end_char": 337, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-W07", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t25"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "PRI19980216.2000.0170.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0194\n\nJAKARTA, Dec 21 , 2005\n\nIndonesian militant group to safeguard churches\n\n\n\n\nMembers of a Muslim group notorious for its anti-vice raids on nightclubs will help safeguard churches over Christmas in Indonesia amid fears that extremists may strike, a report said Wednesday.\n\nThe Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI) will join other groups including youths from the country's largest Muslim organisation Nahdlatul Ulama, to help guard churches on Christmas Eve, said senior member Alawi Usman.\n\n\"We will be involved directly to show that relations between religious communities are good,\" he was quoted as saying by the state Antara news agency.  He said group members, many of whom wear white Islamic skullcaps and turbans, would be advised against staying too close to churches they were guarding as they could be suspected by police as potential trouble-makers.     \"They are free to wear or to take off their FPI paraphernalia,\" Usman said.\n\nThe FPI has in the past made a number of high-profile attacks on Jakarta nightspots which it accused of harboring sex workers and drug dealers.\n\nIts leader Habib Mohammad Rizieq Shihab was jailed for seven months in 2003 in connection with the raids.\n\nIndonesia's intelligence agency warned earlier this month that information indicated extremists may be planning attacks over the Christmas-New Year period in large cities across the world's most populous Muslim nation.\n\nNineteen people were killed when Islamic extremists launched a coordinated nationwide bombing campaign targeting churches and priests on Christmas Eve in 2000. The campaign was the first major attack to be blamed on the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah regional network.\n\nSince then the group has launched a string of bloody attacks, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people, mostly western holidaymakers.\n\nJakarta police have said they will deploy 18,000 officers over the period this year.\n\nThe country's intelligence chief also warned Tuesday that extremists were planning to kidnap high-ranking officials in an apparent shift away from bombings.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 974, "end_char": 982, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "seven months", "start_char": 1159, "end_char": 1171, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P7M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1175, "end_char": 1179, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this month", "start_char": 1250, "end_char": 1268, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 1568, "end_char": 1577, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1585, "end_char": 1589, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the period this year", "start_char": 1917, "end_char": 1937, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1985, "end_char": 1992, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0194.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0160\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina catching up with leading countries in basic science research\n\n\n\n\nChina is catching up with the forerunners in basic science research, with an increasing number of theses and journals complied by Chinese scientists being referenced by the Science Citation Index (SCI), according to China's Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST).\n\nChina was ranked fifth in the world in terms of the number of its journals cited by the SCI in 2004 and 2005, up from 15th place in 1991, MOST statistics showed.\n\n\"The number of our theses and journals cited by the SCI is an important indicator of the success of our research progress in basic science fields,\" said Zhang Xianen, the director of MOST's scientific research department.\n\n\"The greater number of Chinese scientists winning international prizes and occupying senior positions in major international research organizations also proves that China is catching up with leading countries in the field of science and technology,\" Zhang said.\n\nIn the last two years, 14 Chinese scientists have won international prizes including the Fresnel Prize awarded by the European Physical Society, and 40 Chinese have been granted memberships to international academic organizations and science academies of other countries, he said.\n\nMOST statistics show that there were 115,400 basic science researchers in China in 2005, 46.5 percent higher than in 2001.\n\nThe Chinese government has promised to increase the country's investment in basic science research in an attempt to build a \"self-innovative\" country.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 491, "end_char": 495, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 528, "end_char": 532, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last two years", "start_char": 1048, "end_char": 1066, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1410, "end_char": 1414, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1444, "end_char": 1448, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0160.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0081\n\nHOHHOT, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSerial rapist-killer stands on trial in Inner Mongolia\n\n\n\n\nA man in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region went on trail on Tuesday, accused of raping and killing nine women and girls over a period of ten years.\n\nThe results will be announced in two or three days, according to the Intermediate People's Court of Hohhot City, the regional capital.\n\nZhao Zhihong, 34, was allegedly involved in 21 cases of murder, rape, robbery and larceny between 1996 and 2005, according to the People's Procuratorate of Hohhot.\n\nHis victims are said to have included a college student, a government employee, a female taxi driver and a 12-year-old girl.\n\nWhen he was arrested on Oct. 23 last year, Zhao had been working in a private kindergarten in Hohhot for more than two years, doing manual repairs and working as a driver. None of the kindergarten pupils or personnel were among his victims.\n\nRegional police offered a reward of 200,000 yuan (25,300 U.S. dollars) for information leading to his capture.\n\nPolice said that Zhao, a native of Liangcheng County in Inner Mongolia, was originally a carpenter in a village of Liangcheng. He later moved to Hohhot.\n\nFrom there, he drifted all over Inner Mongolia. He is accused of crimes in Hohhot, Togtoh County, Tumd Zuoqi Banner and Ulanqab City.\n\nZhao had been sentenced to six-month jail for larceny in Hohhot in October, 2003.\n\nAn earlier attempt to prosecute Zhao failed because of a lack of evidence.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a period of ten years", "start_char": 253, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two or three days", "start_char": 310, "end_char": 327, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 511, "end_char": 515, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 520, "end_char": 524, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 23 last year", "start_char": 728, "end_char": 745, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28T23:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than two years", "start_char": 809, "end_char": 828, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October, 2003", "start_char": 1414, "end_char": 1427, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0081.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "VOA19980331.1700.1533 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n The US government recently announced new regulations designed to change\n the way transplant organs are made available to sick patients. Under the new\n guidelines, donor organs will be made available to the sickest people\n first, wherever they live in the country. Currently, transplant organs are rationed through a regional system of distribution.\n The private group that runs the current system, United Network for Organ\n Sharing, or UNOS, objects to the new regulations. UNOS says the regulations\n put the federal government in charge of deciding who gets transplants and\n that many hospital transplant centers would be forced to close.\n Health and Human Services Secretary Do- Donna Shalala says patients who need\n an organ transplant should not have to take a chance that an organ will become\n available in their local area, nor should patients have to travel to transplant centers far from their homes to improve their chances of getting\n an organ. UNOS spokeswoman Donna Henry Wright says the new policy would not necessarily be more fair or effective because allowances are already made for the most\n needy patients.\n\n\n The sickest patients are already treated first. There are not huge waiting uh\n disparit- waiting time disparities amongst the very uh sickest patients.\n It's between two to six days for every one uh of the sickest patients across the\n country. um So it's a- it's a fallacy that they're doing this because um the sickest\n patients are n't being served.\n\n\n Doctor James Burdick, the Professor of Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins\n University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and former President of UNOS,\n said the current system has evolved over several years and it works well.\n\n\n  You may, in a year or two, save a few more lives if you do sickest first.\n But the number of patients waiting then begins to increase, um and, in fact, um over\n the years many more patients who are about to die of liver tra- uh without a liver\n transplant would  accumulate.\n If you do the uh alternative extreme, you do n't save as many lives in the\n early years, by a small fraction. Our system is balanced, it's right in the\n middle. And, therefore, it works very well.\n\n\n Nationwide, there are about ten thousand patients waiting for liver transplants\neach year and only four thousand organs become available for transplants.\n Secretary Shalala says UNOS five months ago, or gave them five months to develop a new plan to distribute livers which are in the shortest supply.\n This is VOA Today.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980331", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t95", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several years", "start_char": 1717, "end_char": 1730, "tid": "t103", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year or two", "start_char": 1766, "end_char": 1779, "tid": "t105", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t95"}, {"text": "the years", "start_char": 1915, "end_char": 1924, "tid": "t106", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the\n early years", "start_char": 2101, "end_char": 2117, "tid": "t118", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each year", "start_char": 2310, "end_char": 2319, "tid": "t107", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five months ago", "start_char": 2413, "end_char": 2428, "tid": "t108", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t95"}, {"text": "five months", "start_char": 2443, "end_char": 2454, "tid": "t109", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "VOA19980331.1700.1533.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0201\n\nSOFIA, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nLegendary Lechkov elected as 1st vice president of BFU\n\n\n\n\nFormer Bulgarian international Yordan Lechkov, also mayor of central Bulgarian city Sliven, was elected on Tuesday as the first vice president of the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU).\n\nA 14-member Executive Committee of BFU on Tuesday with a majority elected Lechkov the first vice president of the country's genaral soccerl organisation. Mihail Kasabov and Stefan Ormandzhiev were also seated on the vice presidential chairs.\n\nAccording to the decision made by the Executive Committee, Lechkov will take charge on contacts and work with the local soccer groups.\n\nLechkov said that he was determined to unite the power of the government, court system and parliament to find out a way to raise the level of the professional and amateur teams all over the country.\n\nLegendary Lechkov was born in 1967 at Straldzha, Bulgaria. He was the biggest hero in the World Cup 1994, who led Bulgaria to the historic 4th place in the United States.\n\nAfter a brilliant career Lechkov was elected mayor of Sliven in 2003, and is very popular among the local citizens.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 220, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 338, "end_char": 345, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1967", "start_char": 905, "end_char": 909, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1967", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1111, "end_char": 1115, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0201.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0156\n\nKIEV, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUkrainian prosecutors deliver Gongadze case to supreme court\n\n\n\n\nUkrainian prosecutors have delivered a criminal case concerning the murder of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze to the country's Supreme Court, a court spokesman confirmed on Friday.\n\nThe case was brought against three former police officers, charged with committing the murder of Gongadze, and the prosecutors requested the court determine where to hear the charges.\n\nThe three suspects were Valeriy Kostenko, Mykola Protasov and Oleksandr Popovych. A fourth suspect, Oleksiy Pukach, has absconded.\n\nThe Internet jounalist Gongadze, famous for his reports of high-level corruption when Leonid Kuchma held the presidency, was slain in 2000.\n\nThe former president Kuchma has denied accusations of his masterminding the murder.\n\nGongadze's death triggered nationwide demonstrations against the former Kuchma government, leading to last year's Orange Revolution after which the opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko came to power.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 748, "end_char": 752, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 942, "end_char": 951, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0156.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0154\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSingapore, Australia participate in joint exercise\n\n\n\n\nSingapore and Australia armed forces participated in a four-day joint exercise, which concluded here on Friday, according to Ministry of Defence (MINDEF)\n\nThe MINDEF said in a statement that the exercise underscored the close defence ties between the two countries and provides a good opportunity for the two armed forces to enhance professional interaction and mutual understanding.\n\nThe Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosives (CBRE) Defence Group participated in the exercise, code named \"Ex LION BRIDGE\", with troops from the Australian Defence Force Incident Response Regiment (ADF-IRR).\n\nThis annual exercise was the third series, which conducts alternately in Singapore and Australia.\n\nAbout 120 soldiers participated in the exercise, comprising a series of response missions, aimed at enhancing inter-operability between the two armed forces when responding to terrorist attacks that involve the use of improvised explosive devices with chemical, biological and radiological components, according to the statement.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0154.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0198\n\nBUCHAREST, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGrowing number of Israelis asking for Romanian citizenship: envoy\n\n\n\n\nThere is a growing number of Israeli citizens who are asking for Romanian citizenship, the national Rompres news agency reported on Saturday quoting Romania' s Ambassador to Israel Mariana Stoica as saying.\n\nAccording to Stoica, the applicants are Jews originating from Romania who wish to re-acquire Romanian citizenship or second generation offspring of people born in Romania and who wish to get Romanian citizenship.\n\nThe main motivation for this growing number of applications consists in Romania becoming European Union member state starting on January 1, 2007, underlined the Romanian diplomat, adding that \"This a sufficiently serious reason for them, to become citizens of an EU member country.\"\n\nOn the other hand, she pointed out that \"there is an enhanced interest in investing in Romania and, in this case, it is a very good idea to hold Romanian citizenship\".\n\n\"Third reason is that a great number of young people whose parents are of Romanian origin go to study in Romania, especially Medicine and Economics,\" said the ambassador.\n\nAccording to the latest population figures, more than 110,000 of Israel's six million residents are from Romania, those Romanian jews arrived in Israel mostly in 1948-1951. Dual nationality is allowed now in Romania as well as in Isreal.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1, 2007", "start_char": 679, "end_char": 694, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1948-1951", "start_char": 1337, "end_char": 1346, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1948", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1376, "end_char": 1379, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0198.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "PRI19980213.2000.0313 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n Officials in California  are warning residents that oncoming rains  will cause dangerous and unpredictable landslides. From member station KQED, Auncil\n Martinez reports.\n\n\n Experts say the ground  is  so saturated it cannot absorb any more water. So\n that means soil will fall off in chunks and destroy anything in its path.\n In Los Angeles that lesson  was brought home today when tons of earth cascaded down a hillside, ripping two houses from their foundations. No one  was hurt, but firefighters ordered the evacuation of nearby homes and said they'll monitor the shifting ground. In the northern California town of Rio Nido,\n officials say a football field sized slab of hillside could  still break loose at\n any time and destroy an entire neighborhood. And in San Francisco, a mansion\n overlooking the Pacific Ocean and the Golden Gate Bridge  is slipping toward\n the sea. Forecasters say the picture  will get worse because more rains are\n on the way. For NPR news, I'm Auncil Martinez reporting.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980213", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 414, "end_char": 419, "tid": "t38", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t37"}, {"text": "any time", "start_char": 757, "end_char": 765, "tid": "t39", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t37"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "PRI19980213.2000.0313.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0227\n\nDUBLIN, Dec 10 , 2006, 2006\n\nIreland's 1916 'Alamo' to be national monument\n\n\n\n\nA dilapidated building in Dublin where leaders of a doomed Irish nationalist rebellion surrendered to their British rulers is to become a national monument, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern said on Sunday.\n\nThe Taoiseach said number 16 Moore Street was of significant national importance as the \"last stand\" of the ill-fated \"1916 Rising\" against the British.\n\nThe house -- which sits on the site of Ireland's most famous street market -- had been due to be part of a multi-million euro refurbishment but a campaign to preserve it has been receiving increasing support.\n\nAhern said that from a historical, social and political standpoint, the house was of significant national importance as the \"last stand\" and should be given the country's highest conservation tag.\n\nThe building was dubbed the \"Alamo\" after the US fort which played a key role in the Texan war of independence against Mexico when Texan insurgents made their last stand and few survived.\n\nIn the 1916 Rising, Irish rebels took over the nearby General Post Office (GPO) building in O'Connell Street -- Dublin's main thoroughfare.\n\nThey retreated to the nearby Moore Street building when the British shelled the GPO and set it on fire.\n\nLeaders including Padraig Pearse, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Sean MacDermott and Thomas Clarke, met in the building around the bed of the wounded James Connolly and decided to surrender to save further bloodshed.\n\nWithin weeks, all were executed by firing squad.\n\nAhern made the announcement while attending the annual commemoration in Castletown in southeast Ireland of another executed patriot, Liam Mellows, who died in the 1922 civil war that eventually led to Irish independence.\n\nA museum commemorating the Rising was also being considered for the GPO, he added.\n\nHe said he wanted to see a \"spirit of generosity\" permeate modern Ireland's study of its history.\n\n\"This is our national inheritance. It is incumbent on all who value our democracy to join in suitably recognising the bravery, dignity and sacrifice of our forebearers,\" Ahern said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 296, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1916", "start_char": 1063, "end_char": 1067, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1916", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "weeks", "start_char": 1518, "end_char": 1523, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0227.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0619\n\nLONDON, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSanter's intervention fuels Euro-sceptic impulse in British election by Alex Perry\n\n\n\n\nIn what was widely interpreted as intervention in the British election campaign, a speech by European Commission President Jacques Santer attacking Euro-scepticism was roundly condemned here Tuesday.\n\nThe Conservatives leapt on Santer's speech, delivered in English in Amsterdam to the Dutch Association of European Journalists, in which he called Euro-sceptics \"prophets of doom\".\n\nForeign Secretary Malcom Rifkind said he \"passionately welcomed\" the speech as highlighting Conservative reservations about European intergration.\n\nOne Conservative party source said Santer's speech was \"manna from Heaven\" allowing the Conservatives to highlight their own Euro- scepticism and attack opposition party Labour, which they claim would surrender Britain's interests to Europe after the May 1 poll.\n\n\"If it is right for Britain, I will keep my feet on the brakes,\" said Tory Prime Minister John Major. \"(Labour leader Tony) Blair would go to the (Intergovernmental Conference in) Amsterdam and put his foot on the accelerator to a federal Europe.\"\n\nLabour called Santer's speech \"ill-judged and unwise\", and attempted to promote their own Euro-scepticism by noting that Santer's appointment had been approved by Major in 1994.\n\n\"Santer should be in no doubt that a Labour government will make decisions based on British needs in the British interests under the strong leadership of Tony Blair,\" said Labour's economics spokesman Gordon Brown.\n\nIn his speech, Santer said: \"We have only one option: to move on. But it will not silence the prophets of doom.\"\n\nAlthough he did not directly refer to Britain, his speech was interpreted as a direct attack on British Euro-scepticism. Press reports here said Santer had dropped a reference to a Conservative campaign advertisment in which Blair was depicted as a puppet sitting on German Chancellor Helmut Kohl's knees.\n\nMeanwhile centrist Liberal Democrats leader Paddy Ashdown was the only party leader to endorse further European integration, saying he was in favour of a federal Europe.\n\nAnd Labour, in its latest attack on the Tories, depicted Major and the Chancellor of the Exchequer Kenneth Clarke as film stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy to illustrate an Organisation of Economic and Development report on per capita income which said Britain had sunk to 21st in the world.\n\n\"Another fine mess\" read the caption, echoing Hardy's catchphrase.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 332, "end_char": 339, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1 poll", "start_char": 923, "end_char": 933, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 1357, "end_char": 1361, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0619.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0129\n\nHEBRON, West Bank, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNew clashes in Hebron after police free settlers who killed Palestinian\n\n\n\n\nHundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops here Wednesday following the funeral of one of three men killed in rioting the previous day in the divided West Bank city, witnesses said.\n\nThe clashes came after Israeli police released two Jewish settlers whose slaying of a Palestinian man in central Hebron Tuesday sparked several hours of deadly clashes between protestors and troops.\n\nPolice officials said investigators accepted the account of the settlers, religious students in their 20s, that they opened fire with automatic weapons in self-defense after being attacked by tear gas as they walked near Hebron's Jewish enclave.\n\nA second Palestinian was wounded in the shooting.\n\nAt least three Palestinians, including a policeman, were wounded by rubber bullets fired by soldiers after the protestors began pelting them with stones on Wednesday.\n\nThe new clashes broke out after 1,500 Palestinians turned out for the funeral of Nadir Said, 24, one of two men killed by Israeli rubber bullets in Tuesday's unrest.\n\nMourners called for revenge and chanted \"No more settlers\" as they carried Said's body wrapped in a Palestinian flag to his grave.\n\nPalestinian police deployed large numbers of men around the Jewish quarter in a bid to prevent new clashes as the mourners and other protestors fanned out towards the Israeli lines.\n\nBut hundreds of youths skirted the police positions to confront the troops.\n\nIn Tuesday's unrest, hundreds of Palestinians threw stones and firebombs at Israeli troops guarding the Jewish enclave, where 400 settlers live surrounded by 120,000 Arabs.\n\nTwo Palestinians were killed and some 100 wounded by rubber bullets as the troops battled the protestors. Five soldiers were hurt by stones.\n\nIt was the deadliest day of clashes since almost daily violent protests erupted after Israel broke ground for a new Jewish settlement in disputed east Jerusalem on March 18.\n\nIn all, five Palestinians have been killed in the battles and hundreds injured. Three Israelis were killed by a Palestinian suicide bomber in Tel Aviv on March 21.\n\nHebron has long been a flashpoint for Arab-Israeli violence.\n\nFour-fifths of the city passed to Palestinian rule in January under a breakthrough agreement which many hoped would give new life to a peace process in deep trouble since the nationalist right-wing took power in Israel in June.\n\nBut Israeli troops continue to guard the enclaves where the Jewish settlers live. The Israeli-controlled zone was under curfew Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 42, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 987, "end_char": 996, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1147, "end_char": 1154, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the Jewish quarter", "start_char": 1354, "end_char": 1372, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1561, "end_char": 1568, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 18", "start_char": 2038, "end_char": 2046, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 21", "start_char": 2203, "end_char": 2211, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 2330, "end_char": 2337, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2498, "end_char": 2502, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2632, "end_char": 2641, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0129.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0064\n\nCANBERRA, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAustralian stock market closes higher\n\n\n\n\nThe Australian stock exchange market closed higher Friday as the benchmark S/ASX200 added 42 points to 4,671.1 while the all ordinaries lifted 40.5 points to 4, 610.6.\n\nMarket turnover was 955.6 million shares worth 3.45 billion Australian dollars(2.53 billion US dollars) with 598 stocks rising, 402 falling and 328 unchanged.\n\nIn the resources sector, BHP Billiton surged 45 cents or 2.1 percent to 21.85 dollars.\n\nAmong the banking stocks, the Commonwealth Bank firmed 30 cents to 42.00 dollars, Westpac rose one cent to 22.24 dollars, ANZ was steady at 24.05 dollars but the National Australia Bank backpedaled 16 cents to 33.45 dollars.\n\nIn the media sector, News Corp lost 19 cents to 20.71 dollars.\n\nTelecommunications giant Telstra put on 11 cents to 4.12 dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0064.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0483\n\nNEW YORK, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT Trading on CompuServe halted on Wall Street\n\n\n\n\nWall Street trading on the computer online service CompuServe was suspended Wednesday ahead of an expected announcement later in the day, a stock exchange spokesman said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0483.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0104\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTaiwan share prices close down 0.19 percent -- Nov. 24\n\n\n\n\nTaiwan share prices ended down 0.19 percent with a thicker traded volume on Thursday, according to sources reaching here from Taipei.\n\nThe weighted index, a key barometer of Taiwan Stock Exchange, went down 11.63 points to close at 6,111.89.\n\nThe bourse opened at 6,122.97 and fluctuated between 6,143.87 and 6,104.11 during trading.\n\nA total of 3.19 billion shares changed hands on a market turnover of 77.84 billion new Taiwan dollars (2.33 billion US dollars), up from Wednesday's turnover of 77.48 billion new Taiwan dollars (2.31 billion US dollars).\n\nThree of the eight major stock categories gained ground, with textile stocks moving up at 1.5 percent and machinery and electronics shares and construction issues both gaining 0.1 percent.\n\nThe other five major stock categories lost ground, with banking and financial shares moving down the most at 1.1 percent, followed by plastics and chemicals shares and paper and pulp issues both at 0.4 percent, and cement stocks and foodstuff issues both at 0.1 percent.\n\nGainers outnumbered losers 509 to 444, with 236 stocks remaining unchanged.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "6,143.87", "start_char": 414, "end_char": 422, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "6,104.11", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 435, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 590, "end_char": 599, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0104.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0035 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0035. \n Business Brief -- Jayark Corp.:\n@  Firm Agrees to Buy Kofcoh\n@  For Cash, Debt and Stock \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n JAYA \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   Jayark Corp. agreed to pay $4 million in cash, $2 million of 12% convertible debentures, and 1.6 million common shares to acquire closely held Kofcoh Imports Inc. \n\n   In over-the-counter trading Friday, Jayark was quoted at 87.5 cents bid , down 15.625 cents. \nAt the market price, the transaction has a total indicated value of $7.4 million. \n\n   Kofcoh is a New York holding company for Rosalco Inc., which imports furniture and other items. \nDavid L. Koffman, president and chief executive officer of Jayark, holds about 40% of Kofcoh, Jayark said. \n\n   Jayark, New York, distributes and rents audio-visual equipment and prints promotional ads for retailers. \nIn the quarter ended July 31, Jayark had an average of 5.6 million shares outstanding. \n\n   The transaction is subject to approval by a panel of disinterested directors, the company said, adding that shareholder approval is n't needed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 134, "end_char": 142, "tid": "t31", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 422, "end_char": 428, "tid": "t32", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t31"}, {"text": "the quarter", "start_char": 893, "end_char": 904, "tid": "t36", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q2", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t35"}, {"text": "July 31", "start_char": 911, "end_char": 918, "tid": "t35", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-07-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t31"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0662.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0139\n\nNEW DELHI, Nov. 26 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSnow storm claims two in India-controlled Kashmir\n\n\n\n\nA heavy snow storm claimed two lives Sunday at a mountain pass in India-controlled Kashmir, Indo- Asian News Service reported.\n\nEyewitnesses said two among forty people were swept away by snow storm and killed when they were trying to cross the Zojilla Pass in the Himalaya Mountains, the local police said.\n\nThe police sent a team to search the bodies.\n\nThe national highway linking the region's winter capital Srinagar to mountainous region Leh has been closed for all vehicular traffic since Nov. 15 due to snowfall but some people chose to walk all the way across the Zojilla Pass.\n\nThe local authorities have instructed the police to stop these trekkers as crossing the pass on foot is highly dangerous in the extreme cold weather.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 15", "start_char": 608, "end_char": 615, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0139.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0669\n\nLIMA, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAll hostage-takers killed as siege ended: police source\n\n\n\n\nAll hostage-takers were killed as security forces ended the 18-week- old hostage drama at the Japanese ambassador's residence Tuesday, a police source told AFP.\n\nAbout 20 members of the Marxist Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA), most of them younger than 20, had been holding the residence and 72 prominent hostages since December 17.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 238, "end_char": 245, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 17", "start_char": 442, "end_char": 453, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0669.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0044\n\nJAKARTA, Dec 29 , 2006, 2006\n\nresults\n\n\n\n\nA former rebel jailed by Jakarta has won a landslide victory in the first direct elections for governor of Aceh province, according to official results Friday which confirmed earlier forecasts.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 29 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0044.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0249\n\nBRASILIA, Nov. 20 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBrazil to open dictatorship-era secret files\n\n\n\n\nBrazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has ordered the country's intelligence service, ABIN, to publish dictatorship-era secret files by the end of the year, the official Agencia Brasil news agency reported on Sunday.\n\nThe report said that Lula signed a decree on Saturday, instructing the ABIN to turn over all intelligence files from the 1964-85 military dictatorship to the National Archive by Dec. 31.\n\nThe secret police can only withhold documents that would endanger lives or the viability of the Brazilian state, the report said.\n\nLula's order reversed the 2002 decree, signed by Lula's predecessor Fernando Henrique Cardoso in the closing hours of his presidency, which had sealed the documents for 50 years.\n\nBrazil's Defense Ministry claimed in 2003 that all such files were destroyed, but after the Brazilian newspaper Correio Brazilense published in 2004 photos of a naked man, an alleged political prisoner, holding his head in his hands, the Ministry admitted it had lied.\n\nThe publication triggered a campaign to make public the documents by the human rights groups which want to find out who was arrested by the secret police, whether they were tortured and what happened to their bodies, so as to enable their relatives to recover their remains.\n\nThe military has long tried to block the publication of the documents, citing a 1979 amnesty which prevents anyone from prosecuting either former-leftist guerrillas or the military.\n\nHuman rights activists say some officials still in power could be implicated by the documents being released.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 251, "end_char": 270, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 324, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 386, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 31", "start_char": 511, "end_char": 518, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "presidency", "start_char": 774, "end_char": 784, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "50 years", "start_char": 821, "end_char": 829, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 869, "end_char": 873, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0249.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0344\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 17 , 2005\n\nVaccine for uterine cancer more active in pre-teens: study\n\n\n\n\nAn experimental vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline that targets two viruses responsible for 70 percent of uterine cancer cases triggers twice the immune response in girls aged 10 to 14 than in those aged 15 to 24, the British pharmaceutical firm said Saturday.\n\nThe results of phase 3 clinical trials were presented at an annual conference on infectious diseases under way this weekend in Washington.\n\nThey indicate that the vaccine Cervarix could offer more durable and efficient protection, if it is given to the young, well ahead of their becoming sexually active.\n\n\"Vaccination of pre-teen/adolescent girls against cancer-causing HPV (Human Papillomavirus) before onset of sexual activity will be an important part of the overall strategy for cervical cancer prevention,\" said Anna-Barbara Moscicki, a pediatrics professor from the University of California.\n\nThe two viruses are responsible for 70 percent of cases of uterine cancer. More than 500,000 cases of this disease are diagnosed in the world each year.\n\nThe clinical trials conducted by Glaxo in Europe and Russia involved 158 girls aged between 10 and 14 and 458 women aged between 15 and 25. Each of them received three doses of the vaccine over a period of six months.\n\nCervarix, which has not been introduced to the market yet, is one of the company's most important new drugs.\n\nGlaxoSmithKline's American competitor Merck is waiting for the green light to start marketing its own vaccine called Gardasil.\n\nThe conference organized by American Society for Microbiology has brought together some 9,000 researchers from about 80 countries of the world.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this weekend", "start_char": 488, "end_char": 500, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each year", "start_char": 1120, "end_char": 1129, "tid": "t3", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10", "start_char": 1224, "end_char": 1226, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "14", "start_char": 1231, "end_char": 1233, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1914", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15", "start_char": 1261, "end_char": 1263, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1915", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25", "start_char": 1268, "end_char": 1270, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a period of six months", "start_char": 1326, "end_char": 1348, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0344.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0544\n\nSANTIAGO, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS detail ///\n\n\n\n\nAugusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile with an iron fist 1973-1990, came to symbolize Latin American military repression and was linked to thousands of tortures, abductions and deaths.\n\nHe was in serious condition at the Military Hospital after heart surgery in Santiago Sunday.\n\nPinochet, 91, has avoided trial on any charge, with his lawyers arguing that \"mild dementia\" prevents him from defending himself.\n\nNow frail, Pinochet once cut an and awe-inspiring figure in dark glasses and an imposing Prussian-style military tunic and cape.\n\n\"Not a leaf moves without my knowledge,\" Pinochet said, as thousands of Chileans were tortured, executed and forced into exile following the 1973 coup against elected Socialist president Salvador Allende.\n\nThe Pinochet era deeply divides Chile even today.\n\nSome Chileans hail him for replacing socialism with free-market policies, despite his international renown for military abuses.\n\nOthers say the pain of the dictatorship will continue until Pinochet is convicted or exonerated in court.\n\nDuring his rule, some 3,000 people were executed or disappeared from custody and presumed killed, according to an official count.\n\nHe faces more than 250 charges for alleged rights abuses, including masterminding the infamous \"Caravan of Death\" that killed 75 regime opponents after he seized power.\n\nBorn in the port city of Valparaiso on November 25, 1915, Pinochet never finished his school studies. He was expelled at 15 for misconduct but joined the Military School in 1933, rising slowly through the ranks.\n\nIn 1947, Pinochet, then a captain, ran a camp for detainees from the banned communist party.\n\nIn one of the ironies of history, Allende himself appointed Pinochet to head the military just one month before the coup.\n\nFour generals took charge and Pinochet grabbed the first turn as leader of what was to be a rotating junta, saying: \"I am a man without ambitions.\" A year later he decreed one-man rule.\n\nPinochet throttled labor unions and dissolved Congress. Soon outcry over repeated human rights violations turned him into an international pariah.\n\nNobel Prize winner from Chicago University, the late Milton Friedman, visited Pinochet in Santiago and persuaded him to impose a free-market recipe offered by a group of Chilean economists trained at Chicago.\n\nImmediately, draconian policies to slash inflation and privatize state companies left millions of Chileans jobless.\n\nAfter a brief boom, the free-market economy crashed 1981-1982. Pinochet was for the first time vulnerable, as students, businessmen and union leaders were emboldened to protest.\n\nOn September 7, 1986 Pinochet escaped a guerrilla ambush that killed five bodyguards. The failed assassination led to a new crackdown.\n\nMany died when troops fired on street protesters and police made random mass arrests in Santiago's slums.\n\nIn 1988 Pinochet lost a plebiscite on another eight years in office. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0125\n\nSHENZHEN, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFruit show adds market value to Chinese farm produce\n\n\n\n\nThe three-day China International Fruit, Vegetable and Technology Trade Show concluded in Shenzhen, a booming special economic zone in south China's Guangdong Province, on Saturday, raising market value for the country's high-quality farm produce.\n\nAmong dozens of varieties of fruits on show, the \"Pingliang Golden Apple\" from northwest China's Gansu Province became the biggest winner. A total of 12 sales contracts worth over 16 million dollars were signed for the fruit at the fair.\n\nThe annual show was co-organized by China Fruits Marketing Association (CFMA), China Vegetable Marketing Association, Agropress from Switzerland and China Entry-exit Inspection and Quarantine Association.\n\nThe show has attracted over 48,000 visitors, including 6,000 Chinese professionals and 2,000 from abroad, according to Meng Xuanli, manager of Domestic Department of the organizing committee.\n\nMeng roughly estimated that contracts worth 85 million US dollars were signed on the venue of the show.\n\n\"The Pingliang apple used to be sold by farmers in local markets only. We wish that our apples could not only become a famous brand in domestic market, but also turn popular across the border,\" said Ma Xuejun, mayor of Pingliang.\n\nFruits like honey melon from overseas also interested many visitors. \"Thanks to the new zero-tariff policy for Taiwan fruits' entry into the mainland market, we hope to sell more of our products here,\" says Wu Jia-Hsiung, general manager of the Taiwan-based Chia Kei Ni Industries Co. Ltd.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 287, "end_char": 295, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0125.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0248\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nvia modern media\n\n\n\n\nChina's famous Shaolin Temple is planning to cull outstanding Kungfu players worldwide via television, internet and mobile phones in a bid to better promote its 1,500-year martial art heritage and fame.\n\n\"Our efforts will reach more people and be more effective by using modern technologies and media channels,\" said Shi Yongxin, abbot with the temple, at a press conference here Thursday.\n\nThe 8-month grand competition, to be shown on television across China through satellite transmission as of March next year, will allow Chinese audiences to vote for their favorite Kungfu exercisers through the website or mobile phone messages.\n\nThe top 108 winners are expected to have the chance to play a part in a movie and TV series depicting martial arts and monks of Shaolin, according to Fu Min, general manager with the Shaolin Temple Culture Communication Co., Ltd, which is owned by the temple.\n\n\"We hope more people around the world will enjoy, practice and benefit from Chinese Kungfu,\" said Shi.\n\nThe movie and TV series, both named \"Legends of Monk Warriors from Shaolin Temple,\" will be based on a true story of the temple and is expected to attract top international actors and film industry professionals to work on the production, with an estimated cost of 200 million yuan (nearly 25 million US dollars).\n\nShaolin monks have made world tours in recently years to perform martial arts, attracting over 30,000 fervent fans and attention from local media, according to Shi.\n\nThe senior abbot, who has visited some 30 countries, said he always uses mobile phones, digital cameras, portable computers and e-mails.\n\n\"Modern technologies facilitate my communication with the world and help me to better manage the temple,\" said Shi.\n\nThe temple, which has been running its own website for years, is planning to open another one in English to promote its cooperation with the world.\n\nEstablished about 1,500 years ago in central China's Henan Province, Shaolin is famed for the great combination of martial arts style and Chan, a sect of Buddhism, that features long meditation sessions for purifying the mind.\n\nShaolin Kungfu is an important component part of the Chinese culture and has played a key role in the development of Chinese civilization.\n\n\"Instead of fading gradually in the high-tech era, the Chinese martial arts have created a peculiar platform in the modern world, \" said Fu.\n\nThe establishment of the cultural communication company is to scientifically research and develop the temple's cultural heritages and promote its fame in the world, according to the manager.\n\nFu, also a monk of Shaolin, used to study in the United States for media communication and speaks good English.\n\n\"With the help of technologies and modern media, the ancient temple will face a more vigorous development era,\" said Shi.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 458, "end_char": 466, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March next year", "start_char": 576, "end_char": 591, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently years", "start_char": 1433, "end_char": 1447, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1,500 years ago", "start_char": 1982, "end_char": 1997, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0248.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0316\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBush, Howard discuss Iraq, APEC meeting\n\n\n\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 11 (Xinhua)-- US President George W. Bush on Friday had a telephone discussion with Australian Prime Minister John Howard over Iraq's upcoming elections and the agenda for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) informal economic leaders' meeting scheduled for November 18-19, the White House said.\n\n\"The two leaders compared notes on Iraq's upcoming elections and progress in the training of Iraqi security forces. They exchanged views on the upcoming US-Australia defense and foreign policy ministerial (meeting),\" US national security council spokesman Fred Jones said.\n\n\"They reviewed the agenda for the APEC meeting in Busan, Korea on November 18-19, including initiatives on avian flu, trade liberalization and energy cooperation,\" said Jones.\n\n\"The president looks forward to continuing his conversation with prime minister Howard when they see each other at the APEC leaders' meeting this time next week,\" said the spokesman.\n\nThe United States has been in good relations with Australia which supports the US-led war on Iraq and has 1,400 troops deployed in Iraq. Howard visited the White House in July.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 11", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 120, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 169, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 18-19", "start_char": 384, "end_char": 398, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 18-19", "start_char": 763, "end_char": 777, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 1025, "end_char": 1034, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1229, "end_char": 1233, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0316.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0093\n\nBEIJING, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENTChina quake kills three\n\n\n\n\nAn earthquake measuring 6.6 on the Richter scale hit the northwest Chinese region of Xinjiang on Friday, killing three people, the State Seismological Bureau said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0093.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0091\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nDollar trades in lower-117 yen in Tokyo\n\n\n\n\nThe U.S. dollar hovered at the lower- 117 yen level on Monday in Tokyo.\n\nAt 5:00 p.m., the dollar was quoted at 117.40-43 yen compared with 117.40-50 yen at 4:00 p.m. Friday in London and 117.61-64 yen at 5:00 p.m. Friday in Tokyo.\n\nThe U.S. currency traded between 117.13 yen and 117.57 yen during the day, changing hands most often at 117.38 yen.\n\nThe euro was quoted at 1.2858-2861 dollars and 150.98-151.02 yen against 1.2860-2870 dollars and 151.05-10 yen at 4:00 p.m. Friday in London and 1.2857-2860 dollars and 151.24-28 yen at 5:00 p.m. Friday in Tokyo.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5:00 p.m.", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "4:00 p.m.", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 265, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 266, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5:00 p.m.", "start_char": 304, "end_char": 313, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 314, "end_char": 320, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 398, "end_char": 405, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "4:00 p.m.", "start_char": 563, "end_char": 572, "tid": "t10", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 573, "end_char": 579, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5:00 p.m.", "start_char": 635, "end_char": 644, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 645, "end_char": 651, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0091.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0186 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0186. \n Service Corp. Earnings \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n SRV \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n HOUSTON  \n\n   Service Corp. International said it expects to report net income of 15 cents a share for the third quarter. \nThe company said it expects to release third-quarter results in mid-November. \n\n   The funeral home and cemetery operator changed from a fiscal year to a calendar year in December. \nIn the comparable year-ago quarter, the second quarter ended Oct. 31, Service Corp. had a loss of about $12.5 million, or 26 cents a share, on revenue of $175.4 million. \nResults for that quarter included a $30 million, or 40 cents a share, write-down associated with the consolidation of a facility.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 68, "end_char": 76, "tid": "t25", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t25"}, {"text": "mid-November", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 327, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t25"}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 422, "end_char": 430, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-12", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t25"}, {"text": "the comparable year-ago quarter", "start_char": 436, "end_char": 467, "tid": "t30", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q2", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t31"}, {"text": "second quarter", "start_char": 473, "end_char": 487, "tid": "t31", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q2", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "Oct. 31", "start_char": 494, "end_char": 501, "tid": "t32", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-10-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "that quarter", "start_char": 616, "end_char": 628, "tid": "t33", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q2", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t31"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0709.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0186\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGold price higher in Hong Kong -- Nov. 16\n\n\n\n\nThe gold price in Hong Kong rose 35 HK dollars at 4,351 HK dollars a tael Wednesday, according to the Bank of China (Hong Kong).\n\nThe gold price is equivalent to 471.33 US dollars a troy ounce, up 3.79 US dollars at Wednesday's exchange rate of one US dollar against 7.7490 HK dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 321, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0186.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0369\n\nLONDON, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nParty offers peace and prosperity through \"yogic flying\"\n\n\n\n\nBritain's Natural Law Party (NLP), which is putting forward 300 candidates in the May 1 elections, issued its campaign manifesto on Friday with answers to such pressing problems as crime, unemployment and indigestion.\n\nTranscendental meditation and \"yogic flying\" hold the key to creating \"heaven on earth\" and a \"happy, prosperous and trouble-free country,\" said the party which in 1992 won 64,000 votes nationwide, but no seats.\n\nBy voting NLP candidates for parliament, Britain would obey a natural law based on scientific research, instead of the old, tired policies of the traditional parties right, left and center, said party leader Doctor Geoffrey Clements (PhD, physics).\n\n\"Last week the manifestos for the old parties were launched that showed nothing new was being offered. We cannot afford to let this situation continue,\" Clements told a London press conference simultaneously relayed around the country.\n\n\"When we look around at the galaxies and the Earth they are governed by natural law,\" he said. \"But what is absent in this country is that same natural law.\"\n\nThis, said Clements, is the essence of the Natural Law Party: combining the need of the individual and of society through transcendental meditation and yogic flying which, practiced 20 minutes morning and evening, leads to a \"bubbling bliss of intense coherence.\n\n\"It increases the functioning and intelligence of the mind,\" he said.\n\n\"We are not a superficial party,\" said deputy leader Peter Warburton. \"There is depth in our goals.\"\n\nYogic flying is when you sit on the floor in the lotus position, meditate yourself into a lighter and lighter state, then sort of, well, bounce up and down.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 247, "end_char": 253, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 498, "end_char": 502, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 798, "end_char": 807, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "morning", "start_char": 1386, "end_char": 1393, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0369.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980306.1001 \n NEWS STORY \n 03/06/1998 13:19:00 \n\nw2188 Cx1f wstm-\nu i Cx13  Cx11  BC-Iraq 3rdLd-Writethru   03-06 0642\n\n\n BC-Iraq, 3rd Ld-Writethru \n\nAmerican Ritter resumes inspections in Iraq\n\nUR Eds: AMs; RECASTS throughout with Ritter inspecting three sensitive\nsites; UN quotes QL\nUR By LEON BARKHO QC\nUR Associated Press Writer QC\n\n\nBAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) _ An American leader of a U.N. weapons\ninspection team resumed work in Iraq Friday, nearly two months\nafter his team was effectively blocked.\nScott Ritter led his team on a 10-hour tour of three suspected\nweapons sites classified as ``sensitive'' by the Iraqi authorities,\nU.N. spokesman Alan Dacey said.\n``All sites were inspected to the satisfaction of the inspection\nteam and with full cooperation of Iraqi authorities,'' Dacey said.\nAt least one of the sensitive sites was a barracks of the elite\nRepublican Guard, a well-placed source told The Associated Press.\nPreviously the Iraqis have resisted attempts to inspect such\nquarters.\nThe U.N. Security Council has charged the inspectors with\nverifying that Iraq has destroyed its long-range missiles and\nweapons of mass destruction.\nIt was the first time that Ritter, who arrived Thursday with\nsome 50 inspectors for a tour likely to last over a week, had been allowed to carry out an inspection since Jan. 13.\nThen the Baghdad government stopped providing Ritter's team with\nescorts, making it impossible for him to enter any site. Iraq\nalleged Ritter was an American spy whose team had a\ndisproportionately high number of Americans and Britons.\nThe official Iraqi News Agency, which gives the daily tally of\ninspections, did not mention Ritter by name, but said Friday that\nteam no. 225 _ which Ritter heads _ made surprise visits to a\nnumber of sites and was assisted by aerial surveillance.\nFive other U.N. inspection teams visited a total of nine other\nsites, the agency reported.\nAn Iraqi official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity,\nsaid Ritter would not try to visit any of the eight presidential\nsites that Baghdad had placed off-limits to U.N. weapons\ninspectors.\nThe official said these sites could only be visited by a special\nteam of U.N. monitors and diplomats as laid down by the Feb. 23\naccord signed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Iraqi Deputy\nPrime Minister Tariq Aziz.\nRitter's return is seen as something of a test of that\nagreement, under which Iraq agreed to give inspectors full access\nto eight of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces.\nThe United States had moved additional troops and a naval armada\ninto the Gulf and said it would strike Iraq unless it gave the U.N.\narms inspectors unfettered access to all potential weapons sites,\nincluding Saddam's palaces. Iraq had argued the presidential sites\nshould be off limits as symbols of sovereignty.\nA Pentagon spokesman said Thursday that the 38,000 U.S. troops\nin the Gulf will remain until Iraq complies with the U.N. Security\nCouncil agreement over weapons inspections.\n``We are going to maintain our forces in the region for the\nforeseeable future,'' said spokesman Kenneth Bacon.\nThe U.N.-Iraq accord was worked out by U.N. Secretary-General\nKofi Annan, who appointed a retired Indian diplomat on Thursday as\nhis special representative to Iraq. Prakash Shah, 58, a former\nIndian ambassador to the United Nations, is part of an effort by\nAnnan to expand contacts with the Iraqi leadership.\nPalace inspections are not expected to start until the new\nagreement's procedures are in place. U.N. officials in New York on\nFriday finished drafting the rules, in consultation with Iraqi\ndiplomats. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0524\n\nLONDON, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nClimber killed abseiling on Britain's highest peak\n\n\n\n\nA climber who fell while abseiling on Britain's highest mountain has died from his injuries, police said Thursday.\n\nThe man was climbing with a friend on Observation Gully near the summit of 4,406-foot (1,300-meter) Ben Nevis in Scotland when he fell. The second man also suffered \"serious injuries.\"\n\nThe pair were airlifted to hospital in Fort William where the first climber died from his injuries, a police spokesman said.\n\nNeither climber was named by police.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 213, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0524.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891101-0040 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0040. \n Business Brief -- QVC Network Inc.:\n@  Acquisition of CVN Cos.\n@  Is Completed by Company \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n QVCN CAVN \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nMEDIA, PUBLISHING, BROADCASTING, ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING (MED)\nRETAILING (RET) \n\n   QVC Network Inc. said it completed its acquisition of CVN Cos. for about $423 million. \n\n   QVC agreed  to pay $19 and one-eighth QVC share for each of CVN's 20 million fully diluted shares. \n\n   The acquisition brings together the two largest competitors to Home Shopping Network Inc., which now reaches more viewers than any other company in the video shopping industry. \nAmong them, Home Shopping, QVC and CVN already control most of that young and fast-growing market, which last year had sales of about $1.4 billion.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89 ", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 602, "end_char": 605, "tid": "t49", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t9"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 788, "end_char": 797, "tid": "t64", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t9"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0324.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0063\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nDollar hits 2-month low in lower 116 yen level in Tokyo\n\n\n\n\nThe U.S. dollar hit a two-month low in the lower 116 yen level Friday in Tokyo as concern among market participants on the outlook of the U.S. economy weighed on the U.S. currency.\n\nAt 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at 116.32-35 yen, compared with Thursday's 4 p.m. quote of 116.10-20 yen in London.\n\nIt moved between 116.18 yen, its lowest level in Tokyo since Sept. 25, and 116.49 yen during the day, most frequently at 116.40 yen.\n\nBoth U.S. and Japanese financial markets were closed Thursday for holidays.\n\nThe euro was quoted at 1.2969-2972 dollars and 150.88-92 yen against Thursday's 4 p.m. quotes of 1.2945-2955 dollars and 150.35- 40 yen in London.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 362, "end_char": 370, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 25", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 484, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 602, "end_char": 610, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 695, "end_char": 703, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0063.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051209.0130\n\nTOKYO, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nquotes ///\n\n\n\n\nJapan coach Zico said his side were prepared to face five-time world champions and his home country Brazil in the group stage of the World Cup finals in Germany next year.\n\n\"A team that has qualified for the World Cup finals must be prepared for any situation whatsoever,\" Zico told Japanese television in Leipzig after the World Cup draw there. \"I thought about the possibility of fighting Brazil.\n\n\"For us, it is easier to encounter Brazil in the first round. It is better than fighting them after winning through to the second round,\" said the former Brazilian World Cup hero, who attended the draw Friday with Japanese Football Association president Saburo Kawabuchi.\n\nJapan, the Asian champions, were drawn into Group F, which also included Croatia and Australia.\n\n\"It was not so bad,\" Kawabuchi said of the result. \"We did not wish to be in Group C with the Netherlands and Argentina. We ended up in a medium group.\n\n\"Coach Zico told me with a smile that we would be alright. Emotionally, it might be a bit tough for him to fight his home country,\" the FA president said.\n\n\"But it will be the last match in the group and we had better qualify for the final tournament in the first two matches before facing Brazil,\" the FA president said.\n\nJapan sprang a surprise at the Confederations Cup last June when they battled to a 2-2 draw against Brazil before fading in the group round.\n\nZico took over Japan after they reached the last-16 round at the 2002 World Cup finals on home turf under Frenchman Philippe Troussier. He has vowed to do better at Germany 2006.\n\nZico described Australia, who have qualified for the finals for the first time in 32 years, as a \"highly motivated team\" under Dutch coach Guus Hiddink.\n\n\"They are well guided. It will be very important for us to win the first match and boost the morale of my players,\" Zico said. Japan will face Australia in their opening match on June 12.\n\nZico said he had few worries about Croatia, who beat Japan 1-0 in their winless World Cup finals debut at France 1998. Croatia finished third in that tournament.\n\n\"We have fought Serbia-Montenegro and Slovakia and we are used to such a European team,\" Zico said.\n\nJapanese supporters were delighted at the result of the draw, and many spent all night at sports bars to see the draw live on television in the early morning local time.\n\n\"It will be great to fight Brazil in terms of competition,\" a young man told public broadcaster NHK. And a young woman said, \"We will definitely win the first match. I wish for miracles thereafter.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 230, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 662, "end_char": 668, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last June", "start_char": 1356, "end_char": 1365, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Germany 2006", "start_char": 1613, "end_char": 1625, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "32 years", "start_char": 1710, "end_char": 1718, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P32Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 12", "start_char": 1961, "end_char": 1968, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "France 1998", "start_char": 2077, "end_char": 2088, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the early morning", "start_char": 2375, "end_char": 2392, "tid": "t9", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051209.0130.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0251\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 5 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n(China-Africa) Beijing Summit to adopt declaration, action plan\n\n\n\n\nTwo historic documents, a declaration and an action plan for 2007-2009, are expected to be adopted at the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), due to conclude on Sunday afternoon.\n\nTwo-session roundtables of Chinese and African leaders will be held at the Great Hall of the People Sunday, with the morning session chaired by Chinese President Hu Jintao and the afternoon session chaired by Ethiopian Prime Minister Ato Meles Zenawi.\n\nOn the sidelines of the roundtable meetings, the High-level Dialogue and 2nd Conference of Chinese and African Entrepreneurs will close on Saturday afternoon. Chinese Vice Premier Zeng Peiyan is expected to meet some African ministers attending the conference.\n\nAs the African leaders hold discussions, their spouses will watch performances at the theater of Beijing Exhibition Center in the morning.\n\nThe action plan and declaration will be announced in the afternoon as the summit concludes. Later on, Chinese, Ethiopia and Egyptian foreign ministers will jointly meet the press.\n\nChinese and African entrepreneurs will sign a batch of deals on Sunday evening.\n\nThe landmark Beijing Summit opened here Saturday morning. President Hu, 41 heads of state or government and senior officials of 48 African countries that have diplomatic ties with China, as well as representatives from regional and international organizations attended the landmark gathering highlighting \" friendship, peace, cooperation and development\".\n\nAddressing the opening ceremony, Hu announced a package of major assistance, investment, trade and other key cooperation projects with Africa in an effort to forge a new type of strategic partnership.\n\nLater Saturday, the high-level dialogue and entrepreneurs conference opened at the Great Hall of the People, where Premier Wen Jiabao proposed China and Africa fully tap cooperation potential.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007-2009", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday afternoon", "start_char": 314, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 433, "end_char": 439, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday afternoon", "start_char": 725, "end_char": 743, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning", "start_char": 974, "end_char": 985, "tid": "t5", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-05TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the afternoon", "start_char": 1041, "end_char": 1054, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-05TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday evening", "start_char": 1233, "end_char": 1247, "tid": "t7", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday morning", "start_char": 1290, "end_char": 1306, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1815, "end_char": 1823, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0251.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0339\n\nDOHA, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nShaheen's Asiad withdrawal leaves host fans no track star\n\n\n\n\nMen's 3000m steeplechase world record holder Saif Saaeed Shaheen made a shock withdrawal Thursday from the 15th Asian Games, which leaves the Qatari fans no chance of seeing the athletics star of their own.\n\nShaheen set the current 3000m steeplechase world record of 7:53. 63 in 2004 and won the world title twice for Qatar in 2003 and 2005 respectively.\n\nHe made history this year by winning double in the 3000m steeplechase and the 5000m at the World Cup in Athens. He is the most favored candidate in both of the events at Asiad if not for the sudden exit.\n\nShaheen set the Asian record of 7:56.63 in the 5000m and also won the 3000m title at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in Pattaya City of Thailand.\n\nShaheen's title roster is void of only the Asian and Olympic champions. His opportunity to win in Athens 2004 was deprived for Kenya Olympic Committee's insistence of a three-year delay for his nationality transformation to Qatar in 2003. The pullout of Doha 2006 postponed Shaheen's bid of winning the Asian title.\n\nShaheen's rise began in 1999 when he was running for Kenya by winning the world youth steeplechase title. In 2001, he lowered the world junior 3000m steeplechase record to 7:58.66. He won the Kenya national 3000m steeplechase title in 2002 and then grabbed the Commonwealth Games gold in Manchester the same year.\n\nThe absence of Shaheen also leaves opportunities for the other athletes, including his countrymen Gamal Belal Salem of Qatar, who ranked third in Asian steeplechase this year, and the 2005 world youth steeplechase champion Tareq Mubarak Salem of Bahrain.\n\nAt the IAAF Super Grand Prix in Doha in 2005, Shaheen set the second fastest time in history over the 2000m steeplechase, clocking 5:14.57.\n\nChina's Liu Xiang is now the only world record holder in athletics who will compete in Doha. Liu broke Briton Colin Jackson 's 110m hurdles record when he ran 12.88 seconds in Lausanne in July 2006.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 395, "end_char": 399, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 443, "end_char": 447, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 488, "end_char": 497, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Athens 2004", "start_char": 931, "end_char": 942, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1066, "end_char": 1070, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1174, "end_char": 1178, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1259, "end_char": 1263, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1385, "end_char": 1389, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1630, "end_char": 1639, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1761, "end_char": 1765, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 2000m steeplechase", "start_char": 1819, "end_char": 1841, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 2006", "start_char": 2050, "end_char": 2059, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0339.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0211\n\nKIEV, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nURGENT  Ukraine's parliament sacks pro-West foreign minister\n\n\n\n\nThe pro-Russian majority in Ukraine's parliament on Friday sacked Foreign Minister Boris Tarasyuk, a key pro-Western politician and major proponent of NATO accession for this ex-Soviet republic.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0211.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0041\n\nHANOI, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd Ld: APEC ministerial meeting concludes in Hanoi\n\n\n\n\nTrade, foreign ministers and representatives from the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC) member economies wrapped up their two-day gathering here Thursday, agreeing to continue the support for WTO negotiations and facilitate trade in the region.\n\n\"The ministerial meeting has concluded successfully,\" Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem told a press conference after the meeting.\n\nKhiem said the delegates spent a lot of time discussing the need to resume the stalled Doha round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations, and endorsed the Hanoi Action Plan to implement the Busan roadmap for realization of the 1994 Bogor goals of free and open trade and investment in the region.\n\nThe meeting also devoted a lot of time to discussing the reform of APEC to make it more dynamic and efficient, he said.\n\nDocuments endorsed by the ministers and representatives will be submitted to the APEC economic leaders for approval during their meeting on Nov. 18-19.\n\nSharing the view that the support for the WTO negotiations continues to be APEC's top priority, the delegates after discussions agreed on the draft of a stand-alone statement on the Doha round, which they will propose to the economic leaders to issue.\n\nAnti-corruption and human security, including anti-terrorism and health security, were also discussed during the meeting, according to a joint statement issued afterward.\n\nFounded in 1989, APEC is a major regional forum acting as the primary regional vehicle for promoting open trade and practical economic and technical cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.\n\nIt represents the most economically dynamic region in the world, with its 21 member economies accounting for more than one third of the world's population, approximately 60 percent of world GDP, about 47 percent of world trade.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 267, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18-19", "start_char": 1101, "end_char": 1111, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 1550, "end_char": 1554, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0041.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0104\n\nPHNOM PENH, Dec 10 , 2006, 2006\n\nCambodian military police chief named head of football federation\n\n\n\n\nThe Cambodian Football Federation has re-elected a close ally of Prime Minister Hun Sen as its president, despite claims of political interference in choosing the sport's national chief.\n\nNewly-elected Sao Sokha, a military police chief, on Sunday vowed to work to improve the quality of the country's football team after he was chosen unanimously on Saturday by the 11-member executive committee.\n\nHe was first brought in as the new president of the Cambodian Football Federation in an April election, but the world football governing body FIFA claimed political interference marred those elections.\n\nFIFA also threatened to suspend its 250,000 dollars in annual funding to Cambodia's national football program, which has struggled to gain international respect after numerous scandals and a dismal record of losses.\n\n\"We have nothing now, but we have to boost and encourage our players, to have more players and more supporters,\" Sao Sokha told AFP.\n\n\"When there are more players, more supporters and more matches, we will have more experience and we can choose the best quality players for our nation and for international competitions,\" he added.\n\nHe said that Rene Z. Adad, representative for the Asian Football Confederation, had observed Saturday's election, and labelled them \"democratic and good\".\n\nCambodia is currently ranked 184 out of 205 countries by FIFA.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 367, "end_char": 373, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 477, "end_char": 485, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1371, "end_char": 1379, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0104.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0217\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDay 5 roundup: Liu Xiang-mania sweeps Macao\n\n\n\n\nBy Sportswriter Cao Jianjie\n\nMACAO, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Liu Xiang's coach pled on a television network on Wednesday, asking overzealous supporters to leave the Olympic champion alone.\n\nLiu's gold medal in the 110m hurdles was one of 26 won by China on Wednesday at the East Asian Games (EAG).\n\nChina remains a runaway leader with 74 golds, with Japan in a distant second place with 10, one over arch rival South Korea.\n\nThe 22-year-old Liu defended his EAG title in 13.21 seconds, beating teammate Shi Dongpeng (13.36) and Japan's Kota Kumamoto ( 13.89).\n\nLiu became one of China's biggest celebrities when he tied the world record of 12.91 seconds and won the gold medal in the Athens Olympics last year.\n\nLiu soon felt the weight of being famous.\n\n\"We are very grateful to our supporters,\" Liu's mentor Sun Haiping said on Macao's television TDM. \"But overzealous fans disrupt his training and distract him from the ultimate goal: the 2008 Olympic Games.\n\n\"So, please, please let him do his job.\"\n\nSpectators in the Macao Stadium looked on races indifferently until Liu showed up. Girls shrieked when the big screen flashed a shot of Liu taking off his trousers.\n\nLiu cleared all the hurdles smoothly and slowed at the finish.\n\nHis winning clocking was 0.16 seconds behind his top time this year and a further 0.08 behind this season's best 12.97 set by Frenchman Ladji Doucoure, who beat Liu into second place in the world championships.\n\nLiu said he fared well in this season, in which he competed in 18 meets.\n\n\"I didn't fall out of the top three in the international meets I entered and has won all the domestic races,\" he said.\n\nChina also won nine athletics titles on Wednesday: the men's 20m walk (Yu Chaohong, 1:23:51), high jump (Huang Haiqiang, 2.23m); the women's 200m (Chen Lisha, 23.78 seconds), 400m hurdles (Huang Xiaoxiao, 55.33 seconds), pole vault (Zhao Yingying, 4.40m), 800m (Liu Qing, 2:00.11), discus (Song Aimin, 64.32m), 20km walk (Wang Liping, 1:34.01) and javelin (Ma Ning, 61.95m).\n\nSouth Korean Kim Kun-woo took the grueling decathlon by totaling 7,754 points, while his compatriot Lee Jae-hun clocked 1: 48.60 for the men's 800m crown.\n\nJapan nabbed three golds as Shinji Takahira stormed home first in 20.88 seconds in the men's 200m, Takayuki Koike won the men's 400m hurdles in 50.85 and Kumiko Ikeda leapt 6.54m for the women's long jump gold.\n\nJapan expected a gold rush from the swimming pool, but the first day didn't see that happen.\n\nChinese swimmers made it six out of eight with Japan taking the remaining three golds.\n\nOlympic champion Luo Xuejuan easily won the women's 50m backstroke in 31.67 seconds, one second ahead of runner-up Sayaka Nakamura from Japan.\n\nChinese Zhang Lin bettered the men's 1,500m freestyle Asian record by 9.25 seconds as he touched the pad first in 15:00.27.\n\nChina also won the men's 4x200m relay, men's 100m breaststroke (Zeng Qiliang), women's 200m butterfly (Li Jie) and women's 100m freestyle (Pang Jiaying).\n\nJapan's golds came from Yuta Shoji in the men's 200 individual 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0021\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nconference\n\n\n\n\nChinese Premier Wen Jiabao delivered a speech Saturday afternoon at the opening ceremony of High-level Dialogue and the Second Conference of Chinese and African Entrepreneurs, urging business communities of both sides to cement cooperation for common prosperity.\n\nA total of 27 presidents and 6 prime ministers from Africa attended the opening ceremony of the conference.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday afternoon", "start_char": 117, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-10-28TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0021.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0129\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNepali king leaves for SAARC summit in Dhaka\n\n\n\n\nNepali King Gyanendra left Kathmandu for Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh, on Friday to participate in the 13th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) to be held in Dhaka on Nov. 12 and 13.\n\nThe King is scheduled to address the summit on Nov. 12 and meet heads of state or government of the SAARC member countries on the sidelines of the summit, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.\n\nOn Nov. 14, the King will leave Dhaka for Riyadh on way to Tunis to participate in the World Summit on the Information Society to be held in Tunis from Nov. 16 to 18, the ministry said in a statement.\n\nThe King will also inspect the Nepalese Peace Keeping contingent serving in the United Nations Operation in Burundi.\n\nWhile returning home, the King will visit the United Republic of Tanzania, the Republic of Kenya, the Republic of South Africa and the Arab Republic of Egypt, the ministry noted.\n\nThe King is scheduled to return home on Dec. 2, the ministry added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 13th", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 12", "start_char": 310, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "13", "start_char": 322, "end_char": 324, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1913", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 12", "start_char": 374, "end_char": 381, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 14", "start_char": 532, "end_char": 539, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 16", "start_char": 681, "end_char": 688, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 2", "start_char": 1069, "end_char": 1075, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0129.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0315\n\nBANJUL, Dec 15 , 2005\n\njournalist's murder\n\n\n\n\nGambia's main press union renewed a call Thursday at the start of a conference on media freedom in Africa for foreign investigators to probe the murder a year ago of a journalist in the west African state.\n\nDeyda Hydara, who was AFP's correspondent in Gambia and also worked with the media watchdog Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF), was an outspoken critic of tough media laws that authorize jail terms for journalists who violate press laws and heavy fines for their publishers.\n\nHe was gunned down late at night on December 16, 2004 while driving colleagues home from a party at the offices of The Point, the newspaper he co-edited.\n\nThe Banjul media conference, being held Thursday through Saturday, was organized by the Gambian Press Union and was to include a tribute to the slain Hydara as well as to Norbert Zongo, another investigative journalist who was shot and burned in his car in Burkina Faso on December 13, 1998.\n\n\"We call on the government to allow the intervention of outside investigators to investigate in the case of Deyda Hydara,\" GPU president Madi Ceesay said, opening the meeting attended by media representatives from across west Africa as well as members of Hydara's family.\n\nNeither Hydara's murder of that of Zongo, who was deep into a probe seven years ago into the dealings of relatives and associates of President Blaise Compaore when he and three friends were attacked on a lonely road, have been cleared up.\n\nA representative of Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres was unable to travel to the conference because the Gambian embassy in France failed to issue a visa in time, the group said.\n\nDespite RSF's daily calls to the embassy, no explanation was given for the delay, it added.\n\nRSF in June joined the Gambian Press Union in condemning an official report into Hydara's murder. It said it was \"sickened\" by the report by Gambia's National Intelligence Agency, denouncing an official \"smear campaign\".\n\nThe 23-page report described Hydara as \"an instigator who stirred up the anger of a number of people through critical reports in his newspaper,\" The Point, of which he was co-founder.\n\nThe Gambian Press Union's president on Thursday reminded his audience of various attacks on media workers in the former British colony.\n\n\"In the last ten years we have been operating in a very hostile environment,\" said Ceesay.\n\nRSF said earlier this week that it \"deeply\" regretted being unable to attend the conference \"to express our solidarity with Gambia's independent press, which has suffered so much in recent years, but we reaffirm our commitment to see justice done.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "call Thursday", "start_char": 106, "end_char": 119, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 222, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 16, 2004", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 603, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 745, "end_char": 753, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 762, "end_char": 770, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 13, 1998", "start_char": 978, "end_char": 995, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "seven years ago", "start_char": 1339, "end_char": 1354, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1795, "end_char": 1799, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2234, "end_char": 2242, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last ten years", "start_char": 2340, "end_char": 2354, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 2441, "end_char": 2450, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 2606, "end_char": 2618, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0315.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0133\n\nLONDON, Dec 29 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - EMBARGO, RELEASABLE at 0001 GMT Friday ///\n\n\n\n\nBritain considered abandoning its nuclear deterrent as it cast around for ways to raise money during a humiliating economic crisis 30 years ago, newly declassified papers revealed Friday.\n\nIn 1976, the value of the pound sterling against the dollar began a slide which led ministers to ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan in September.\n\nA 3.9-billion-dollar (2.9-billion-euro) package was eventually agreed, but the image of Britain going \"cap in hand\" to the IMF did lasting damage to the kingdom's image around the world.\n\nOfficials and politicians considered several courses of action to ease the economic pressure, according to papers released by the National Archives in London, under rules which allow them to be made public after 30 years.\n\nIn a note marked \"top secret\", Sir John Hunt, who as cabinet secretary was a highly influential civil servant at the heart of government, mooted defence cuts as one possible solution if negotiations with the IMF broke down.\n\nHe wrote that he was against losing British troops stationed in West Germany to protect western Europe from the Soviet Union.\n\n\"It would be preferable, rather than cutting BAOR (the British Army of the Rhine), to look again at our eastern Atlantic contribution which involves no treaty commitment and/or the deterrent,\" he said in the December 1976 note.\n\n\"The Americans would strongly resist the former.\n\n\"But abandoning the deterrent, or at least scrapping its improvement, would cause much less concern to our allies.\"\n\nHunt warned that any such move \"would be seen as proof of Britain's definitive disappearance as a major military power\".\n\nIn September that year, Callaghan had raised the possibility that Britain would face pressure to withdraw troops from West Germany in a telephone conversation with Gerald Ford, then president of the United States.\n\nAccording to a transcript, Callaghan told Ford he was \"deeply concerned\" about what was happening to the pound.\n\n\"If our sterling balances go and there is no protection, I can only say to you, Gerry, that we would be faced with political decisions that would change our whole attitude as a Western partner,\" Callaghan said.\n\nHe added that Britain was spending 600 million pounds a year in West Germany and that some might question why this should continue, given the domestic situation.\n\n\"We are putting great things at risk if this pressure on sterling continues,\" he added.\n\nBritain had around 56,000 Army, 10,000 Royal Air Force and 28,000 civilian personnel committed to European mutual defence at the time.\n\nCallaghan also sought support from the then West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt in a telephone conversation in November 1976.\n\nSchmidt compared the economic position to \"a Churchillian situation in 1940\".\n\nAccording to a transcript, the 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0202\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNepali guerrillas, UN representative discuss arms management\n\n\n\n\nThe United Nations Secretary General's personal representative to Nepal, Ian Martin, held discussion with the guerrillas' leadership on arms management process on Thursday.\n\nThe hour-long meeting was focused on the technicalities of setting up cantonments and arms storages as agreed between the Seven-Party Alliance (SPA) and the guerrillas recently.\n\nThe guerrillas' top leader Prachanda and some other guerrillas ' leaders were present during the discussion.\n\nThe meeting came two days after a landmark peace deal between the ruling SPA and the guerrillas on the management of arms under the inspection of UN.\n\nAs per the agreement, the guerrillas' armed forces would be settled in seven cantonments around the country along with three tributary cantonments around each main cantonment and the guerrillas' weapons will be stored under \"single lock\" system with close inspection by UN teams while equal number of weapons of the Nepali Army will also be locked up.\n\nAccording to the guerrillas, their armed forces are more than 35,000 and they have seven divisions.\n\nMeanwhile, UN mission chief Martin told a press conference organized at the UN office in Kathmandu Thursday afternoon that his team would start trilateral negotiations from Friday to finalize the technicalities of management of arms and armies.\n\nHe said the government and the guerrillas should come up with a detailed agreement to make easier the process of arms management.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days", "start_char": 603, "end_char": 611, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday afternoon", "start_char": 1290, "end_char": 1308, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1364, "end_char": 1370, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0202.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0037 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0037. \n International Brief -- Erbamont N.V.:\n@  Montedison Agrees to Buy\n@  Rest of Stock for $37 Each \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n MNT ERB \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   Montedison S.p.A. definitively agreed to buy all of the publicly held shares of Erbamont N.V. for $37 each. \n\n   Montedison now owns about 72% of Erbamont's shares outstanding. \n\n   The companies said the accord was unanimously approved by a special committee of Erbamont directors unaffiliated with Montedison. \n\n   Under the pact, Montedision will make a $37-a-share tender offer for Erbamont stock outstanding. \nThe tender offer will be followed by the sale of all of Erbamont's assets, subject to all of its liabilities, to Montedison. \nErbamont will then be liquidated, with any remaining Erbamont holders receiving a distribution of $37 a share. \n\n   The companies said the transaction is being structured this way because the laws of the Netherlands Antilles, under which Erbamont is organized, do n't provide for merger transactions.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 149, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 360, "end_char": 363, "tid": "t29", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0660.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0189 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0189. \n Security Pacific Corp. \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n SPC LJC \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nBANKS (BNK) \n LOS ANGELES  \n\n   Security Pacific Corp. has set its sights on buying its second bank holding company this year. \n\n   Security said it signed a letter of intent to purchase La Jolla Bancorp, agreeing to pay $15 of its own stock for each share of La Jolla. \nBased on the current number of La Jolla shares, that gives the transaction a value of $104 million. \n\n   La Jolla is the parent company of La Jolla Bank amp Trust Co., which has 12 branches in San Diego County. \nAs of Sept. 30, the bank had assets of $511 million and deposits of $469 million, Security Pacific said. \n\n   Earlier this month, Security Pacific, which is among the 10 largest bank holding companies in the U.S., completed the acquisition of San Diego-based Southwest Bancorp.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 68, "end_char": 76, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t29", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 442, "end_char": 449, "tid": "t30", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "Sept. 30", "start_char": 647, "end_char": 655, "tid": "t33", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "Earlier this month", "start_char": 751, "end_char": 769, "tid": "t34", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0706.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0235\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCooperation\n\n\n\n\nSenior officials from China and 48 African countries concluded a two-day meeting in the Chinese capital Thursday, having made final preparations for the upcoming high-profile Beijing Summit scheduled for Nov. 4-5.\n\nThe Senior Officials Meeting has been the fifth in the framework of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), a mechanism for collective dialogue and cooperation jointly established by China and Africa to cope with new challenges and facilitate common development.\n\nChina will announce a package of major assistance, investment, trade and other key cooperation projects with Africa at the summit, said Chinese Vice Commerce Minister Wei Jianguo at the Senior Officials Meeting.\n\nConsidering the wishes of African friends, the Chinese government has decided to offer more cooperation projects to Africa to deepen mutual benefit and cooperation and realize common development, Wei said.\n\nDuring the Senior Officials Meeting, delegates from China and African countries reviewed the preparation work for the Beijing Summit and the FOCAC Ministerial Conference, and further exchanged views on the documents to be passed at the summit.\n\nMeanwhile, 15 African leaders arrived in Beijing Thursday, including presidents of Zambia, Ghana and Kenya, and nine others had arrived earlier for the Beijing Summit.\n\nDuring Chinese President Hu Jintao's talks with James Alix Michel, president of the Republic of Seychelles on Thursday, Hu said \"the China-Seychelles relation has become a model for equal treatment and mutual assistance between big and small countries\", and China will continue to boost the international community to pay more attention to the development issue of Seychelles and other small-island developing countries.\n\nIn a meeting with Sudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed El- Bashir, Hu said China hopes the Sudanese government can strengthen dialogue with each concerned party on the Darfur conflict and try to maintain stability in the region.\n\n\"We hope the Sudanese government can find an appropriate settlement, maintain stability, and constantly improves the humanitarian conditions in the region,\" Hu said, noting China will continue to make contributions to an early realization of peace and stability in Darfur.\n\n\"We are willing to deepen mutual understanding and trust, widen bilateral cooperation in economy, trade, culture, education and health, and strengthen coordination and cooperation between China and Botswana in international affairs to maintain the common interests of developing countries,\" Hu told Botswana President Festus Mogaein in a meeting the same day.\n\nChina's capital has been dressed up in the run-up to the historic summit, with traditional Chinese red lanterns and billboards featuring typical images of Africa and posters proclaiming Sino-African \"friendship, cooperation, development and peace\" in English and French on major streets in downtown Beijing.\n\nOn the sideline the of the Beijing Summit, the Chinese government is also cranking up a campaign to promote African culture among citizens, with two exhibitions opening here Thursday, one of coins and stamps from 48 African countries and the other of African handicraft, to showcase African landscapes, places of historical interest and relations with China.\n\n\"It's a good opportunity for ordinary Chinese to have a glimpse of Africa,\" said Cheng Hui, an avid collector who provided some of the handicraft pieces on show. \"Many Africans are born to be artists. Even items from 2,000 years ago still make vogue artwork today.\"\n\nJohnson Weru from Kenya said the exhibition made him feel at home and would help enhance friendship and understanding between the Africans and the Chinese.\n\nSo far over 1,200 Chinese and overseas journalists have been registered for the covering of the summit, including 118 African reporters that have arrived in Beijing. About 300 African reporters are also gearing up for the Third Ministerial Conference on Friday, and the summit over the weekend.\n\nSeeing comfortable environment, convenient communication equipment, broadband, IDD telephone, bulletin boards, many African reporters coming to China for the summit said they feel like working at home.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 176, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4-5", "start_char": 276, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1272, "end_char": 1280, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1502, "end_char": 1510, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same day", "start_char": 2664, "end_char": 2676, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 3162, "end_char": 3170, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2,000 years ago", "start_char": 3565, "end_char": 3580, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 3606, "end_char": 3611, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 4026, "end_char": 4032, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 4054, "end_char": 4065, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0235.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0195\n\nARUSHA, Tanzania, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAU adopts commodity declaration before WTO rounder\n\n\n\n\nThe African Union (AU) on Wednesday adopted an Arusha Declaration and Plan of Action on Commodities to coordinate member states stance on the coming World Trade Organization's (WTO) Hong Kong round of negotiations.\n\nThe AU demonstrated determination to develop and implement a common African strategy on commodities and the regional bloc called upon international community and the continent's partners to provide adequate and sustainable support to Africa's efforts to fully utilize its commodities for its own development.\n\nParticipants of the Arusha meeting of trade ministers of AU member countries agreed that fair, equitable and stable prices for African commodities play a key role in poverty alleviation and in the improvement of living conditions for Africa's rural population.\n\nCommodity production constitutes the largest source of revenue and employment for African countries.\n\nIn many African countries 65 percent of the total exports originate from the commodity sector and approximately half of the countries in Africa derive over 80 percent of their merchandise export income from commodities.\n\nIn quite a few African countries three or four commodities represent the main source of export earnings, government revenue and employment.\n\nThe trade ministers endorsed the draft declaration worked out by their senior aides prior to Wednesday's ministerial, stressing that it is commodity dependence characterized by low productivity, low added value, low product quality and low competitiveness that hinders the achievement of the required level of economic growth and poverty alleviation.\n\nThe Arusha declaration welcomes a WTO consideration in Hong Kong of effective and expeditious reduction in subsidies by developed countries in cotton, sugar and all other commodity products of interest to developing countries apart from announcing that the African countries need flexibility and policy space under the WTO multilateral trade rules to choose the most effective strategy appropriate to the African situation.\n\nFrom 1977 to 2001, however, the combined UNCTAD price index for all commodities declined by as much as 53 percent in real terms and the combined current price index of commodities has not surpassed the 1995 level despite recent improvement, according to the aides who proposed further South-South cooperation.\n\n\"South-South trade has the potential for mutually beneficial exchanges between Africa and developing countries in other regions, \" said the declaration. \"Indeed there are encouraging prospects that South-South trade provides a 'window of opportunity' for African countries to increase their earnings from commodity exports.\"\n\nThe forthcoming Hong Kong round of the WTO ministerial meeting or otherwise known as the Doha Development Round is expected to settle the issues that will shape the final accord of the Doha Development Agenda.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 55, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1466, "end_char": 1475, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1977", "start_char": 2155, "end_char": 2159, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1977", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 2352, "end_char": 2356, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0195.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0438\n\nAMMAN, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBush, al-Maliki to meet Thursday: media\n\n\n\n\nA summit between U.S. President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was put off until Thursday, local media reported on Wednesday.\n\nThe postponement was announced shortly after Bush arrived in Jordan Wednesday evening for talks with Jordan's King Abdullah II and al-Maliki.\n\nBush and al-Maliki are expected to discuss the worsening security situation and ways to stem mounting violence in the war- torn country.\n\nThe Bush-Abdullah II meeting will proceed as scheduled.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 238, "end_char": 247, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0438.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0316\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's path of peaceful development unswerving: President Hu\n\n\n\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao said here Thursday that China will adhere to the path of peaceful development characterized by peace, opening up and cooperation.\n\n\"China's development will be achieved through striving for a peaceful international environment and its development will promote world peace in return,\" Hu said at a banquet hosted by the Asian-Pacific Committee of the German Business.\n\n\"China will steadfastly adhere to the road of peaceful development,\" Hu said.\n\nHe said China will stick to its basic policy of reform and opening up and will honor its commitments to the World Trade Organization made upon the entry into the global trading body.\n\nChina will continue to improve its foreign-related economic structures, strengthen the protection of intellectual property rights, foster a stable and transparent foreign-related economic management system, create a fair and foreseeable legal environment, raise the level of freedom and convenience for trade and investment so as to create a better environment for investment, said Hu.\n\nChina will stick to the policies of harmonious development at home and peaceful development internationally, which is conducive to building a harmonious world with everlasting peace and common prosperity, he said.\n\nOn China's relations with the European Union (EU), Hu said that this year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two sides.\n\nThe development of a comprehensive strategic partnership between China and the EU conforms to the fundamental interests of both sides, he noted.\n\nThe trade and economic cooperation between China, the world's largest developing country, and the EU, the world's largest bloc of developed countries, conducted on the basis of equality and mutual benefit is conducive to the healthy development of economic globalization as well as the multi-polarization of the world, Hu noted.\n\nChina is ready to develop China-EU relations on the basis of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit and build an even closer partnership.\n\nGermany, the largest economy in the EU and an important driving force for European integration, has over the years offered vigorous support and commitments to closer China-EU cooperation and has thus made important contributions to the development of China-EU relations.\n\nHu hoped that Germany would continue to play its positive role within the EU and make new contributions to the all-round development of China-EU ties.\n\nThe Chinese president arrived here Thursday for a three-day state visit to Germany.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the years", "start_char": 2273, "end_char": 2282, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2627, "end_char": 2635, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0316.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0281\n\nISLAMABAD, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPakistan dismisses Indian alarm over situation along Kashmir border (bon pour tous)\n\n\n\n\nPakistan's defence ministry Sunday dismissed Indian reports of an alarming increase in cross border firing in the disputed Kashmir state.\n\n\"It is a ploy to divert attention\" from the turbulence in Indian-held Kashmir, a ministry official said.\n\n\"There is no unusual situation\" as skirmishes have routinely occurred along the Line of Control dividing Pakistani- and Indian-held sections of the disputed Himalayan state, the defence ministry sources said.\n\nPakistan controls the northern third of Kashmir while the rest is administered by New Delhi.\n\nOfficials in Jammu, the winter capital of the Indian held part of the state, earlier said Indian troops were placed on high alert along the Kashmir frontier as they traded fire with Pakistani forces for the fourth successive day Sunday.\n\nOne official alleged that Pakistani troops \"using heavy artillery stepped up attacks on Indian villages near the Kargil sector.\"\n\n\"We have retaliated. No one was injured (Sunday),\" he said.\n\nTwo Indians, including a child, were reported killed and eight others injured Saturday in the shooting between the two sides.\n\nIndia and Pakistan dispute the ownership of the state. The two countries have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir.\n\nA Kashmiri separatist movement in Indian-held territory has claimed some 20,000 lives since 1989.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 13 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth successive day Sunday", "start_char": 897, "end_char": 929, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1201, "end_char": 1209, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 1466, "end_char": 1470, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0281.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0332\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Malawi court throws out president's plea for appeal in referral case\n\n\n\n\nMalawi's Constitutional Court sitting in Blantyre was on Monday a source of bad news for President Bingu wa Mutharika and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) as it threw out his plea for appeal in the Section 65 referral case, Nation Online of Malawi reported on Tuesday.\n\nMutharika was asking the court for a chance to appeal against its interpretation made two weeks ago of the controversial Section 65 of the Constitution that does not allow lawmakers to cross the floor in Parliament.\n\nThe ruling effectively leaves about 85 members of parliament ( MPs) in the line of fire as the speaker of parliament can now unleash the constitutional provision on those legislators deemed to have crossed the floor.\n\nThe three-man panel of judges--comprising Healey Potani, Edward Twea and Frank Kapanda--told the packed court that after examining the affidavit sworn by Solicitor-General Alexander Maluza, it found that the plea for appeal had no basis.\n\n\"The decision by the speaker will depend on the facts before him. MPs have the right to come to the court on their own right, according to Section 63, part 3 of the Constitution,\" said Twea, who delivered the 10-minute ruling on behalf of his colleagues.\n\nTwea said Mutharika's argument that the application for the appeal would help avoid unnecessary costs--if by-elections are held following the speaker's decision to invoke the section-- lacked merit and that it only served to show that the president lacks confidence in the court.\n\n\"The court, therefore, denies the stay...This application must fail in its totality,\" said Twea.\n\nJust as the judges went backdoor, cheers of jubilation by opposition members, notably from the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) and the United Democratic Front (UDF), spiced by hand-clapping and waving, filled the court room, according to the report.\n\nTwo weeks ago the constitutional court ruled that the parliamentary speaker could declare scores of disputed seats vacant, making possible ouster of President wa Mutharika.\n\nThe Constitutional Court sitting in Blantyre said Section 65 of the Constitution is valid and not inconsistent with other provisions of the Constitution. This means the Speaker of Parliament Louis Chimango can now make his ruling on petitions by the opposition UDF and MCP to declare seats of some MPs vacant, arguing they had crossed the floor according to the parties' understanding of Section 65 (1) of the Constitution.\n\nWa Mutharika's ruling party stands to lose 70 members of parliament in the 139-seat assembly following the ruling on seats occupied by defecting MPs, who defected from the then ruling UDF last year to join the DPP, enabling it to become the governing party.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 411, "end_char": 418, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 507, "end_char": 520, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 759, "end_char": 762, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Two weeks ago", "start_char": 1977, "end_char": 1990, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2764, "end_char": 2773, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0332.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0149\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nThousands flee homes in Kenya slum fighting\n\n\n\n\nThousands of Kenyans are fleeing their homes in a fourth day of slum gang violence that has left at least eight people dead, witnesses and police said on Thursday.\n\nThe fighting between the proscribed Mungiki sect and the local vigilante group \"Taliban\" began Sunday as they competed for control of the illegal liquor market.\n\nPolice spokesman Gideon Kibunja said the death toll rose to eight late Wednesday when a gang member was beaten to death. However, Kibunja said riot police had taken control of most of the slum and were urging people to return home.\n\nKibunja said four people were hacked to death in skirmishes in Mathare slum between the outlawed Mungiki and Taliban groups while police then shot two people as they attempted to contain the battles that erupted over protection money the gangs levied on brewers of an illegal drink.\n\n\"We have arrested some members of the sect and this would continue until calm would be restored,\" Kibunja said by telephone.\n\nHundreds of people were expected to sleep outdoors because their homes were destroyed in parts of the slum where fighting between the two rival gangs and Kenyan police had taken place.\n\n\"At the moment the situation is under control. The police have normalized the situation and calm seemed to have returned last night,\" Kibunja said.\n\nMoses Odhiambo, a slum dweller, said he was forced to relocate his family after his house was torched, saying he was afraid to return home due to insecurity.\n\n\"I cannot return home if what I saw last night is anything to go about. The gang struck at night because they fear daylight due to police patrol, but in the night the police are nowhere to be seen giving the gangs advantage to roam around,\" Odhiambo said.\n\nPolice has imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew on the slum but many residents camped outside Nairobi's military air base overnight and many people continue to leave the area.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "fourth day", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 266, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 370, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 502, "end_char": 511, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last night", "start_char": 1381, "end_char": 1391, "tid": "t5", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last night", "start_char": 1604, "end_char": 1614, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the night", "start_char": 1721, "end_char": 1730, "tid": "t7", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0149.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0289\n\nBUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Hu Jintao expounds China's stance on win-win cooperation\n\n\n\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday expounded China's stance on win-win cooperation by urging the APEC member economies to increase mutual understanding through communications and to strengthen cooperation while seeking greater mutual understanding.\n\nDelivering a speech entitled \"An Open Mind for Win-Win Cooperation\" at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO Summit in South Korea's southeastern port city of Busan, the Chinese president said that building a harmonious world with an open mind is a basic prerequisite to win-win cooperation.\n\nHu arrived on Thursday in Busan, the second largest city in South Korea, to attend the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting scheduled on Friday and Saturday with the main theme of this year--\"Toward One Community: Meet the Challenge, Make the Change.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the three-day APEC CEO summit was kicked off here on Thursday morning.\n\nThe summit is an annual event that gives business leaders from the Asia-Pacific region to participate in highly interactive discussions on regional and global economic and trade issues with APEC Economic Leaders, economists, policy makers and fellow business leaders.\n\nThe theme of this year's APEC CEO Summit is: \"Entrepreneurship and Prosperity: Building a Successful Partnership in the Asia-Pacific Region.\"\n\nHu also termed \"deepening mutual trust and expanding trade and economic exchanges\" as a solid foundation for win-win cooperation.\n\nChina encourages well-established Chinese businesses to go global and, within the framework of market rules and laws and in the principle of reciprocity, mutual benefit and complementarity, participate in international economic and technological cooperation and competition, Hu added.\n\n\"Setting store by dialogue and consultation, and seeking a proper settlement of disputes is also an important avenue to win-win cooperation,\" the Chinese president said.\n\nHe also described strengthening solidarity and coordination, and maintaining security and stability as an effective guarantee for win-win cooperation.\n\nNon-traditional security issues, such as terrorism, financial risks and natural disasters, are posing a threat to the very existence and development of mankind, Hu said.\n\nSTRENGTHEN DIALOGUE AND COOPERATION TO MAINTAIN WORLD ENERGY SECURITY\n\nThe Chinese president pledged to strengthen energy dialogue and cooperation with all countries, to jointly maintain world energy security and stability.\n\n\"To achieve balanced and orderly growth in the world economy, the international community must handle well the energy issue,\" Hu told some 800 APEC business leaders.\n\nSince 2004, the Chinese president said, the surge of oil prices in the international market has affected the economic growth of the world economy, developing countries in particular.\n\n\"The most critical thing is for all countries to work together for stability of the world energy market, and to fuel the sustained growth of the world economy with sufficient, safe, economical and clean energy resources,\" the Chinese president said.\n\nIt is also important to take a long-term perspective, intensify energy development, deepen energy cooperation, increase energy efficiency, and facilitate the development and use of new energy resource, Hu added.\n\nThe Chinese president also briefed the APEC business leaders on China's energy strategy.\n\n\"The core of China's energy strategy has been clearly defined. We will strengthen policy guidance for energy conservation and high efficiency, give priority to energy conservation and rely on domestic resources,\" Hu said.\n\n\"While focusing on developing coal resources, we will develop diverse energy resources, and put in place a system that supplies stable, economical and clean energy,\" he added.\n\nThe development of nuclear, wind and bio-power in China has just started, and there is great potential for future development, Hu noted.\n\nThough China's demand for energy has somewhat increased due to its steady economic growth, its consumption volume in per capita is not high, the Chinese president pointed out.\n\n\"China is a major energy consumer. But it is also a major energy producer,\" Hu told the business leaders.\n\nSince the 1990s, China has always met over 90 percent of its overall energy needs on its own. As a country with coal dominating its energy structure, China still has huge potential for domestic supply.\n\nHu also briefed the APEC business leaders on China's energy conservation.\n\n\"We always work to combine energy development with conservation, and give top priority to conservation,\" he added.\n\nHu told the business leaders that China has introduced a mid-and long-term energy conservation program, with the objective of saving 3 percent of energy every year by 2020, or 1.4 billion tons of standard coal in total savings.\n\nMAKING FURTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO A SUSTAINED EXPANSION OF GLOBAL TRADE\n\nHu also said that China will make further contributions to a sustained expansion of global trade by changing the mode of foreign trade growth, increasing import and enhancing the protection of intellectual property rights.\n\nHe said although China has a trade surplus with some regions, it has a deficit with the Asia-Pacific region, Hu said.\n\nAmong China's top 10 sources of trade deficit of 2004, six are in the Asia-Pacific region, and the deficit totaled 127 billion US dollars.\n\n\"It is not true that China is seeking a big surplus in foreign trade. As a matter of fact, the enormous domestic demand and the broad internal market are the perpetual driving force behind China's economic development,\" Hu told the business leaders.\n\nHu also pointed out that global trade imbalance should be viewed from a dialectical perspective and in the context of world economic development.\n\n\"International trade expansion has helped optimize the allocation of global resources, and promoted world economic development as well as the well-being of the people of all countries,\"Hu said.\n\nAmong the CEOs to attend the APEC CEO Summit are Citigroup Chairman William Rhodes, Microsoft Vice President Craig Mundie and Chevron Managing Director Samuel Snyder, along with top executives from Toyota, China Unicom and Hong Kong's Li and Fung Ltd.\n\nCHINA'S DEVELOPMENT NOT TO POSE THREAT TO OTHERS\n\nHu said China's development will not stand in the way of anyone, nor will it pose any threat to anyone.\n\n\"Instead, it will only do good to peace, stability and prosperity of the world,\"Hu said.\n\n\"China is becoming an important driving force behind the economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region and the world as a whole,\" Hu added.\n\nChina's economic development not only benefits the Chinese people, but also provides the whole world with more investment opportunities and a bigger market, he added.\n\n\"We will continue to take economic development as our central task and top priority, concentrate on development, and work hard to achieve our goals and, at the same time, make our own contributions to regional and global economic developments,\" he said.\n\nChina will continue to purse the basic state policy of opening-up, conduct extensive international cooperation, steadily improve its investment environment, open its market, and endeavor to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results with the whole world, he added.\n\nSince its inception in 1989 in response to the growing interdependence among Asia-Pacific economies, APEC has become a 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0292\n\nAFGOYE, Somalia, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS residents confirmation, quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nEthiopian-backed government troops on Thursday entered northern Mogadishu hours after Islamists abandoned the city they had controlled for six months, the country's premier and residents said.\n\n\"We are already inside Mogadishu in some areas,\" Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi told reporters in Afgoye township, about 20 kilometres (13 miles) west of the capital.\n\nMogadishu residents in the Suuqaholaha district confirmed the troops had entered into the city from the north, where one said that crowds cheered the government forces he saw accompanied by Ethiopian soldiers.\n\n\"I saw government troops in north Mogadishu. They have fully entered the town. People were cheering and shouting that 'Welcome our government',\" said Nur Dirie, another resident\n\n\"I am telling you that I also saw Ethiopian forces enter, (they) are now in Suuqaholaha. They are eating banana and mangoes and I saw them do that,\" Dirie added.\n\n\"They have come, the Ethiopian troops!\" exclaimed Saney Mumin, a resident said.\n\n\"I counted 50 Ethiopian armed vehicles. They are now Masnah military camp (in northern Mogadishu),\" he added.\n\n\"I have seen some government troops who are uniformed enter parts of Suuqaholaha and El-arsid neighbourhood,\" said Aweys Ibrahim, a resident of northern Mogadishu.\n\n\"I never saw Ethiopians, but only government.\"\n\nMogadishu residents said the government forces had approached the city from the north, northwest and west, effective surrounding the capital by the land approaches.\n\nIn Afgoye, Gedi started talks with elders and other local leaders, amid fears that the Islamists were planning to launch a guerrilla war, an AFP correspondent accompanying him reported.\n\nGedi, who was carried by an Ethiopian helicopter, said he had no plans to meet Islamic Courts Union officials.\n\nGedi arrived in this township accompanied by cabinet minister Hussein Aidid and police comissioner Ali Madobe, both former warlords who were routed from Mogadishu by the Islamists in June.\n\nFighters backing the government took control of the international airport, the sea port and the presidential palace once Islamists had conducted a latest \"tactical withdrawal\" after Ethiopian troops and aircraft began attacking them on December 20.\n\nRelief workers said the Islamist leadership told them that their gunmen had been forced to split up into clan-based militia similar to those run by the warlords who held Mogadishu until they were routed in June and the Islamic Courts Union's power spread over the south and centre of the country.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 266, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 939, "end_char": 942, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2086, "end_char": 2090, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 20", "start_char": 2329, "end_char": 2340, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2549, "end_char": 2553, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0292.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0172\n\nVIENNA, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nMuslims face discrimination in Europe: report\n\n\n\n\nMuslims in Europe face discrimination in education, employment and housing and are often victims of verbal abuse and physical attacks, a monitoring group reported Monday.\n\n\"The report makes it clear that Muslims... frequently suffer different forms of discrimination which reduce their employment opportunities, and affect their educational achievement,\" the director of the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) said in a statement.\n\nThe \"Muslims in the European Union: Discrimination and Islamophobia\" report, published on Monday, said incidents against Muslims were \"under-documented and under-reported\" and called on European Union countries to improve their methods for reporting racist crimes.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 271, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 648, "end_char": 654, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0172.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0120 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0120. \n Cineplex Chairman Drabinsky Considers\n@  Bid of $666 Million to Acquire Company\n@  ----\n@  By Suzanne McGee\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CPX MCA RANKY \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nRECREATION, ENTERTAINMENT, TOYS, MOVIES, PHOTOGRAPHY, SPORTS (REC) \n TORONTO  \n\n   Cineplex Odeon Corp. directors said the company's chairman and chief executive, Garth Drabinsky, is considering bidding 780.6 million Canadian dollars (US$666 million) to acquire the company. \n\n   The board said Mr. Drabinsky and Vice Chairman Myron Gottlieb are negotiating financing before offering C$16.40 a share to acquire all of Cineplex's shares outstanding. \nThe directors added that the two executives have n't reached a final decision to proceed with a bid and that until an offer is made the board will continue seeking higher offers from other bidders. \n\n   The directors said if Messrs. \nDrabinsky and Gottlieb mail an offer to shareholders by Nov. 22, it will reimburse them a maximum of C$8.5 million for expenses related to a bid. \n\n   \"We consider that his bid is an acceptable bid,\" said Sandra Kolber, spokeswoman for the independent directors' committee appointed last May to solicit and review bids for the company in the wake of a dispute between Mr. Drabinsky and Cineplex's major shareholder, MCA Inc. \n\n   MCA and Cineplex's other major shareholder, Montreal-based financier Charles Bronfman and his associates, have agreed to tender their holdings to an offer by Mr. Drabinsky unless a higher offer is made by another bidder. \nMCA holds half of Cineplex's equity and 33% of its voting rights through restricted voting shares, while Bronfman interests hold about 24% of the company's equity. \n\n   Ms. Kolber said the committee had received other bids. \nShe declined to identify other bidders but said Mr. Drabinsky's offer \"is all cash, and it's for all of the company.\" \nSeveral Cineplex analysts have speculated that outside bids received by the committee were either disappointingly low or for only part of the company. \n\n   \"All this has really established is that MCA and the Bronfmans have agreed on a price at which they can be bought out,\" said Jeffery Logsdon, an analyst with Crowell, Weedon in Los Angeles. \n\"If a bid materializes at that price, shareholders will have every reason to be glad, but the question of financing still remains.\" \n\n   Last April, Mr. Drabinsky and a group of financial backers planned to acquire up to 30.2% of Cineplex for C$17.50 a share from Bronfman associates. \nMr. Drabinsky, who would have had the right to vote those shares for two years, said the purchase, subsequently rejected by regulators, was aimed at consolidating his control of the company. \nMCA strongly opposed the Drabinsky group's move. \n\n   The directors did n't indicate the source of financing for Mr. Drabinsky's new proposal, but said MCA and the Bronfman associates agreed in principle to buy for $57 million and then lease back to Cineplex its 18-screen theater complex in Universal City, Calif., if Mr. Drabinsky succeeds in an offer. \n\n   \"This is being done at the suggestion of {Mr. \nDrabinsky} and to accommodate him, to facilitate his financing arrangements,\" Ms. Kolber said. \n\n   In addition, the directors said if a bid by Mr. Drabinsky is successful, Cineplex expects Rank Organisation PLC to acquire the 51% of Cineplex's Film House unit it doesn't own, and provide Mr. Drabinsky with additional loan financing. \n\n   Michael Gifford, Rank's chief executive, said the British theater chain's total involvement \"would n't exceed $100 million\" but declined to give a breakdown between the loan financing and the proposed Film House purchase. \n\n   Cineplex shareholders responded coolly to yesterday's announcement. \nIn trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Cineplex closed at $11, down 25 cents, with more than a million shares changing hands. \nOn the Toronto Stock Exchange, Cineplex closed at C$12.875, off 37.5 Canadian cents, well below the C$16.40 level. \n\n   \"Where's the bid?\" asked Pierre Panet-Raymond, an analyst and broker with Toronto securities dealer McDermid St. Lawrence Ltd. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0239\n\nVAL GARDENA, Italy, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nURGENT Grugger wins World Cup Super-G in Italy\n\n\n\n\nAustria's Hans Grugger won the men's World Cup Super-G race here on Friday ahead of Canadian Erik Guay and Ambrosi Hoffmann of Switzerland.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0239.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0041\n\nURUMQI, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSpecial loan support provided to help fight bird flu in Xinjiang\n\n\n\n\nChina Development Bank (CDB) Xinjiang Branch announced Thursday that it had provided Urumqi, one of the two counties reported with bird flu case in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China, with 5 million yuan (616,500 US dollars) in emergency loan to combat the avian pandemic there.\n\nHao Gang, deputy head of the office with the CDB Xinjiang Branch, said they were also discussing details of providing emergency loans to Zepu County, the other county in Xinjiang also spotted with bird flu case, with representatives of the relevant county departments.\n\nBy August, CDB has granted 260 million yuan of short-term emergency loans across China since the latter half of 2003, when it began granting loan support to meet a urgent demand cropping up in infrastructure, basic industries, backbone industries and its supportive projects following various kinds of emergencies.\n\nThe Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Tuesday disclosed that China's National Avian Flu Reference Laboratory had found the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the dead fowls sent from some family farms in Zepu and Urumqi counties, both in southern Xinjiang.\n\nIn the two counties hit by the bird flu pandemic, 322,500 domestic fowls within a radius of three km have been culled, and poultry and products markets within 10 kms have been closed, said the ministry.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 693, "end_char": 699, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the latter half of 2003", "start_char": 783, "end_char": 806, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0041.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0222\n\nNANJING, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRiver\n\n\n\n\nProvinces and municipalities along the Yangtze River should cooperate to modernize the world's third longest river, said Chinese Vice Premier Huang Ju.\n\nThe improved shipping capacity of the river, which links west, central and east China, would contribute greatly to social and economic development, said Huang in a written instruction on the waterway construction.\n\nThe Yangtze River runs through the Shanghai and Chongqing municipalities, as well as Sichuan, Yunnan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces.\n\nThe government will invest 15 billion yuan (1.875 billion U.S. dollars) in the 2006-2010 period to build the Yangtze waterway, the Communications Ministry announced on Tuesday.\n\nThe money will be mainly used for waterway management, port construction, shipbuilding standardization and shipping security projects.\n\nThe turnover of containers at ports along the Yangtze River was estimated to grow by 30 percent, according to the ministry.\n\nChina's fast economic growth, shortages of energy and resources and increasing environmental pressure have made water transport a favored choice because of the low cost, low energy consumption, low pollution and high handling capacity.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006-2010", "start_char": 669, "end_char": 678, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 758, "end_char": 765, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0222.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0290\n\nGLASGOW, Dec 24 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Martin Stirling\n\n\n\n\nCeltic captain Neil Lennon could be facing a lengthy suspension after being sent off during his side's 1-0 victory at home to Falkirk.\n\nThe Northern Irish midfielder was giving his marching orders for allegedly head-butting the Bairns' on-loan Arsenal striker Anthony Stokes - ironically after winning an injury time penalty.\n\nFollowing the red card from referee Iain Brines, Lennon flung his captain's armband onto the pitch before facing up to assistant referee Neil Brand, who had flagged to draw attention to the clash between him and Stokes, and screamed his displeasure at the official.\n\nHe then kicked the ground as he marched up the tunnel.\n\nIn addition to an automatic one game suspension, Lennon could face a further punishment after Celtic manager Gordon Strachan revealed the referee would include Lennon's angry departure in his report.\n\n\"We were both called to the referee's room but I was only there to listen. I won't say what went on as that is up to the referee and it will be in his report,\" said Strachan.\n\n\"It was a stupid incident but I'm not saying Neil was stupid and I didn't actually see what happened.\n\n\"To be honest I don't know why he became too agitated as we had won the penalty and were winning.\n\n\"But he's not been called a diver too often in his career as he's not really the type of player to be driving into the opposition's box so I think the Falkirk players' response to the referee's decision upset him.\"\n\nStrachan also revealed the Falkirk player involved in the incident had backed Lennon.\n\n\"I didn't see the sending off so other people will need to fill me in but by all accounts from what I am hearing from some of the other coaches the two boys met with their heads together,\" said the former Aberdeen, Manchester United and Scotland midfielder.\n\n\"But the word I'm hearing from the Falkirk dressing room is the boy Stokes says he hardly touched him and it was not a sending off. I can only take his word for it.\"\n\nStrachan himself had looked to have been raging at the referee's decision to send Lennon off but denied he was having a go at Brines.\n\n\"I was agitated but I was agitated at some of the things we were doing as well, so there was nothing to it,\" said Strachan.\n\nDespite the controversial end to the match, the victory - courtesy of a superb strike from Danish midfielder Thomas Gravesen - stretched Celtic's lead at the top of the Scottish Premier League to 16 points.\n\nThe only goal, in what was an evenly balanced match, arrived in the 24th minute with a stunning strike from the former Real Madrid midfielder.\n\nGravesen won the ball on the edge of Falkirk's box and sent a curling right-foot shot from 20-yards beyond Australian goalkeeper Scott Higgins into the top corner of the net.\n\nIn injury time Celtic won a penalty after Lennon appeared to be fouled by Kenny Milne - sparking a furious reaction from the Falkirk players who believed the Northern Irishman had dived.\n\nLennon reacted and appeared to push his head into the face of Stokes and referee Brines showed him a straight red card.\n\nAfter all that Kenny Miller, who had replaced Polish striker Maciej Zurawski in the 72nd minute, missed from the spot, smashing the ball off the post.\n\nEarlier in the day Rangers defeated Aberdeen 2-1 at Pittodrie to leapfrog the Dons into second place.\n\nFirst half goals from Spanish striker Nacho Novo and Czech midfielder Libor Sionko gave Paul Le Guen's side all three points despite Stevie Lovell's late consolation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 24 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 24th minute", "start_char": 2566, "end_char": 2581, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 72nd minute", "start_char": 3211, "end_char": 3226, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT72M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 3294, "end_char": 3301, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0290.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0438\n\nGAZA CITY, Dec 17 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS identity of victim ///\n\n\n\n\nA member of the Palestinian presidential guard was killed and several others injured Sunday in a clash with supporters of the Palestinian ruling party Hamas, medical and security officials said.\n\nA security official said Hamas members tried to storm a southern Gaza training camp for the presidential guard, which Hamas has accused of targeting prime minister Ismail Haniya on Thursday by firing on his convoy.\n\nOne of Haniya's bodyguards was killed and one of his sons injured in the crossfire on Thursday.\n\nThe security official said one member of the guard was killed in Sunday's clash, which involved automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades.\n\nWitnesses told AFP there were explosions and intense exchanges of gunfire. Hamas officials were not immediately available for comment.\n\nFatah-backed Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas called Saturday for early elections to resolve the political standoff in the Palestinian territories, but Hamas rejected the move as a \"coup d'etat\".\n\nThe Palestinians have been suffering from an aid freeze as the West considers Hamas to be a terrorist organisation. The ruling Islamists have refused to agree to renounce violence, recognise Israel and accept past peace deals.\n\nA Palestinian boy was shot dead and at least 18 others wounded late Saturday as thousands of armed loyalists from both sides, some of them masked, took to the streets of Gaza.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 484, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 597, "end_char": 605, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 673, "end_char": 679, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 945, "end_char": 953, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Saturday", "start_char": 1380, "end_char": 1393, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0438.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0159\n\nBARCELONA, SPAIN, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEU, Mediterranean leaders to re-launch Barcelona Process\n\n\n\n\nLeaders from the European Union (EU) and Mediterranean states are gathering in Spanish city Barcelona on Sunday for a two-day summit which would try to re- launch the Barcelona Process.\n\nIn spite of ambitious declarations signed in Barcelona in 1995, there is little tangible progress of the so-called Barcelona Process in its first 10 years.\n\nAccording to EU officials, the summit will seek to overcome divisions between the two shores of the Mediterranean and agree a \"Declaration on a shared vision\" and a five-year work program.\n\nThe EU leaders also try to focus two controversial issues: terrorism and immigration. The code of conduct on combating terrorism is likely to be the topic most hotly debated. Meanwhile, the EU also try to seek promises from its Arabic neighbors to prevent illegal immigration.\n\nThe EU is determined to secure a solemn commitment from its partners on a document taking up the United Nations' definition of terrorism and closing all legal loopholes available to terrorists.\n\nThis remains a sensitive issue for certain Arab governments, especially in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\n\nThe EU is also keen to place the issue of migration at the heart of the EuroMed partnership in future at the risk of facing resistance from certain partners. Failing concrete results, the EU hopes the summit will define a \"shared vision\" to give \"fresh impetus\" to the issue.\n\nHowever, with nearly all Arabic leaders, including Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Moroccan King Mohamed VI and Jordan's King Abdullah II, absent from the meeting, major announcements are unlikely.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 55, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 232, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 372, "end_char": 376, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "first 10 years", "start_char": 454, "end_char": 468, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0159.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0284\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nO'Neal may miss 2-4 weeks with sprained ankle\n\n\n\n\nShaquille O'Neal may miss two to four weeks with a sprained right ankle during Thursday's team loss to Indiana in Miami.\n\nO'Neal, who flew with his team to Milwaukee on Friday, learned results of an MRI exam performed earlier in the day.\n\nThe 12-time All-Star was getting in position for an offensive rebound when he stepped on Ron Artest's foot and rolled the ankle midway through the fourth quarter of the Heat's 102-105 loss. X-rays did not reveal a fracture, but O'Neal left the arena on crutches.\n\nThe Heat will turn to Alonzo Mourning to start at center, with undrafted rookie Earl Barron the likely choice to be the first center off the bench.\n\n\"You never want one of your best players going down with an injury,\" Van Gundy was quoted as saying. \"It's all also part of the game. We're already dealing with three veteran guys out, now a fourth veteran guy out, so some of these young guys are going to have to step up and play.\"\n\nJames Posey will probably miss a few more games because of an injured thumb, reserve forward Shandon Anderson has been sidelined by back spasms and isn't traveling with the team and backup center Michael Doleac hasn't made his season debut yet because of an injured calf.\n\nO'Neal averaged 15 points and six rebounds in Miami's first two games. He missed nine regular-season games and two playoff games last year because of various injuries. The Heat went 8-3 without O'Neal last season.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four weeks", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth quarter", "start_char": 491, "end_char": 509, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q4", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 946, "end_char": 949, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1447, "end_char": 1456, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last season", "start_char": 1519, "end_char": 1530, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0284.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0069 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0069. \n Young's Market Co. to Merge \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n LOS ANGELES  \n\n   Young's Market Co., a wholesaler of spirits, wines and other goods, said it  will merge with a new corporation formed by the Underwood family, which controls Young's. \n\n   Under terms of the agreement, shareholders other than the Underwoods  will receive $3,500 a share at closing, which  is expected in December. \nThe Underwood family said that holders of more than a majority of the stock of the company  have approved the transaction by written consent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89 ", "start_char": 73, "end_char": 82, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 477, "end_char": 485, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-12", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t15"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0122.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0040 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0040. \n Business Brief -- Intelogic Trace Inc.:\n@  Shareholder Sells 18% Stake\n@  In $9.9 Million Buy-Back \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n IT DPC \n BUYBACKS, REDEMPTIONS, SWAP OFFERS (BBK) \n\n   Intelogic Trace Inc., San Antonio, Texas, said it bought 2.7 million shares, or about 18%, of its common stock from an unaffiliated shareholder for $3.625 a share, or $9.9 million. \n\n   The move boosts Intelogic Chairman Asher Edelman's stake to 20% from 16.2% and may help prevent Martin Ackerman from making a run at the computer-services concern. \nMr. Ackerman already is seeking to oust Mr. Edelman as chairman of Datapoint Corp., an Intelogic affiliate. \n\n   The action followed by one day an Intelogic announcement that it will retain an investment banker to explore alternatives \"to maximize shareholder value,\" including the possible sale of the company. \n\n   In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, Intelogic shares rose 37.5 cents to close at $2.75. \n\n   Mr. Edelman declined to specify what prompted the recent moves, saying they are meant only to benefit shareholders when \"the company is on a roll.\" \nHe added, \"This has nothing to do with Marty Ackerman and it is not designed, particularly , to take the company private.\" \n\n   But Mr. Ackerman said the buy-back, and the above-market price paid, prove that Mr. Edelman is running scared.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t53", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 723, "end_char": 730, "tid": "t60", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 949, "end_char": 958, "tid": "t58", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t53"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0151.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0127\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nGerman government expresses confidence in Siemens directors\n\n\n\n\nGerman Economy Minister Michael Glos said in a newspaper interview Monday that he had full confidence in the management of engineering giant Siemens, currently at the centre of a bribery and embezzlement probe.\n\n\"I still have every confidence in Siemens' management,\" Glos told the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.\n\nBut he added: \"The case of Siemens is very unfortunate and clearly shows that many control instruments either weren't installed or didn't function.\"\n\nLast month, prosecutors launched a massive probe at Siemens, raiding the offices and homes of a number of Siemens employees amid suspicions of embezzlement, bribery and tax evasion.\n\nProsecutors allege that the employees concerned are suspected of collaborating to open slush fund accounts abroad and of operating a system to embezzle company money.\n\nProsecutors put the sum held in the accounts at 200 million euros (262 million dollars) and some of that money may have been used as bribes to obtain contracts abroad.\n\nA number of arrest warrants were issued against seven current and former employees, two of whom have since been released.\n\nLast week, the Munich prosecutor's office announced that Thomas Ganswindt, former head of Siemens' information and communications unit, had been detained as part of the investigation.\n\nIn a weekend newspaper interview, Siemens supervisory board chief Heinrich von Pierer said he had no intention of stepping down over the deepening scandal.\n\n\"I will not resign. For me, the question doesn't arise, because I have nothing to feel guilty about,\" von Pierer told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last month", "start_char": 590, "end_char": 600, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 1233, "end_char": 1242, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0127.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0152\n\nBONN, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT German growth of 2.25-2.75 percent seen in 1997-98\n\n\n\n\nThe German economy will grow by 2.25 percent in 1997 and 2.75 percent next year, the country's six leading economic institutes said in their spring report published Tuesday.\n\nThe institutes' prediction is in line with government estimates.\n\nGermany's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 1.4 percent in 1996.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 417, "end_char": 421, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0152.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0131\n\nCHANGSHA, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ncase\n\n\n\n\nExperts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and China's Ministry of Public Health praised the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital here Tuesday for its successful cure of a suspicious case of pneumonia.\n\nA nine year old boy and his sister developed symptoms of pneumonia in xianggang county, central-south Hunan province, last month after eating a chicken that had died of bird flu. A 36-year-old male was also diagnosed with pneumonia at around the same time. Only the boy and the man survived.\n\nBoth brother and sister were sent to the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital. The twelve-year-old girl died on her second day in the hospital. Her brother surnamed He, left hospital on November 12.\n\n\"We must congratulate the hospital on curing the nine-year-old boy. That is really an exciting piece of news,\" said Julie Hall, WHO's permanent inspector in Beijing, who led a five-member panel to Hunan.\n\nHall said the panel together with Chinese experts from the Ministry of Public Health will collect disease samples and data from the other two pneumonia patients.\n\n\"We will upload the treatment and some related information into the database of the WHO for further studies,\" she said.\n\nChina's Ministry of Public Health reported on Nov. 6 that the pneumonia among the three had unknown causes, and that H5N1 virus could not be ruled out.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nine year", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 287, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 394, "end_char": 404, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "second day", "start_char": 685, "end_char": 695, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 12", "start_char": 755, "end_char": 766, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 6", "start_char": 1304, "end_char": 1310, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0131.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0337\n\nBEIRUT, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Lebanese leaders condemn killing of industry minister\n\n\n\n\nLebanese political and religionary leaders Tuesday voiced condemnation on the assassination of anti- Syrian Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel earlier in the day.\n\nGemayel was killed by a gunshot on the head when his convoy was attacked on a street in Jedeide, about 15 km northeast from Beirut.\n\nFollowing the killing of 34-year-old Gemayel, who was also a Christian leader in Lebanon and son of former president Amin Gemayel, Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora said at a press conference that the murder of the anti-Syrian minister \"will not terrorize us\" and \"we will not let the criminal killers control our fate.\"\n\nThe prime minister called for unity in the deeply divided country and pledged that his government will take up all its responsibilities to protect the interests of the people.\n\nHe said that the country was more determined to set up the international tribunal for assassinations in the wake of the killing of Gemayel.\n\nThe Gemayel assassination \"increases our determination to see the creation of the international tribunal\" to try suspects in the 2005 murder of former premier Rafiq Hariri, said Seniora.\n\nMeanwhile, Lebanese President Emile Lahoud called on the Lebanese people to unite and start dialogue to overcome political stalemate.\n\nLahoud described the killing of Gemayel as \"a conspiracy that started with the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri.\"\n\nFormer Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, also a prominent anti- Syrian political figure, was killed in a suicide bombing in February 2005, which led to rising anti-Syrian waves and the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon.\n\nNabih Berri, the parliament speaker, said the murder of Gemayel was an action against the Lebanese state and government by undermining stability and security of the country.\n\nBerri also expressed deep condolence to family of the deceased, vowing to do all he could to hunt down those behind the killing of Gemayel and other officials in Lebanon.\n\nIn addition, Lebanese Sunni Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rasheed Qabbani also denounced the assassination of Gemayel.\n\n\"The assassination of Pierre Gemayel amid circumstances of tension and defiance currently being observed in the country was a severe blow to all those who wished that the situations could not reach to this extent,\" he said.\n\nDescribing Gemayel as one of Lebanon's national figures, Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun, a Christian opposition leader, also denounced the assassination crime.\n\nGemayel was the fifth anti-Syrian figure to be killed in the past two years.\n\nLebanon has witnessed a series of blasts since February 2005 when former premier Rafik Hariri was killed in a deadly bombing attack. The most recent assassination was the killing of journalist Gebran Tueni on Dec. 12, 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1191, "end_char": 1195, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2005", "start_char": 1631, "end_char": 1644, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two years", "start_char": 2649, "end_char": 2667, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2005", "start_char": 2717, "end_char": 2730, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 12, 2005", "start_char": 2879, "end_char": 2892, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0337.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0198\n\nMADRID, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nquarter profits\n\n\n\n\nSpain's largest airline Iberia netted 372.6 million euros (436 million US dollars) in the third quarter profits, a multi-fold increase over the same period of last year, according to the national carrier's report released Tuesday.\n\nThe eye-catching surge against 87.9 million euros (103 million dollars) a year earlier was largely linked to extraordinary gains from the sale of its stake in travel reservations company Amadeus.\n\nThe report put Iberia's revenue for the third quarter at 1.98 billion euros (2.32 billion dollar), up from 1.29 billion euros (1.51 billion dollars).\n\nThe company's key occupation rate hit a record high in October, when its passenger load factor reached 80.2 percent, representing a rise of 3 percentage points from the same month of last year.\n\nThe rise was backed by solid increases in passenger occupation rates at Iberia's intercontinental flights, the report said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 298, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 380, "end_char": 394, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 541, "end_char": 558, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 711, "end_char": 718, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "same month of last year", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 848, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0198.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0377\n\nHEBRON, West Bank, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDeadly violence flares after disappointing Israeli-US peace summit by Samih Chahin\n\n\n\n\nTwo Palestinians were killed Tuesday in clashes with Israeli settlers and soldiers in Hebron after an Israeli-US summit meeting failed to offer hope for a quick end to the Mideast peace crisis.\n\nThe violence began when two Israeli settlers killed a Palestinian with submachinegun fire in Hebron's central market after they said the man attacked them with tear gas spray, police said.\n\nThe settlers were detained by Israeli police.\n\nSeveral hundred angry Palestinians responded to the killing by throwing stones and firebombs at Israeli soldiers, drawing volleys of rubber bullets that killed a second man and wounded more than 80, one critically, officials said.\n\nPalestinian hospital officials said they had also received Palestinians with wounds from live ammunition fired by Israeli soldiers, apparently after they were targetted by dozens of firebombs during several hours of rioting.\n\nQassem Rashad Kamel Arafa, 24, was pronounced dead at a Hebron hospital with several of the settlers' bullets in his chest. A second man was killed by a rubber bullet which entered his brain while a third man was in critical condition on a life support system in a Jerusalem hospital, officials said.\n\nThe Israeli army reported four soldiers had been hurt by stones.\n\n\"We were just walking through the market when suddenly the settler began shooting,\" said one witness who asked not to be identified.\n\nA third settler was arrested by Israeli forces after firing his gun at stonethrowers, a police spokesman said.\n\nThe army sent in reinforcements and imposed a curfew on the fifth of Hebron still under its control following the transfer of most of the flashpoint West Bank city to Palestinian rule in January, officials said.\n\nPalestinian police tried ineffectively to prevent protestors from entering the Israeli area during the clashes, but Israeli security officials complained that not enough was done to curb the rioters.\n\nPalestinian West Bank security chief Jibril Rajub lashed out in return at the 400 settlers who live in army-guarded enclaves amid Hebron's 120,000 Arab residents.\n\n\"This is an organized crime encouraged by the Israeli government,\" he told reporters following Arafa's funeral.\n\n\"What happened today shows there can be no coexistence between us and Israeli settlers, who are here against our will and against all laws. This is terrorism itself.\"\n\nThe violence followed talks in Washington Monday between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Bill Clinton organized as part of a US push to resolve the crisis caused by Israel's decision to begin work last month on a new Jewish settlement at Abu Ghneim in disputed east Jerusalem.\n\nNetanyahu defiantly rebuffed demands he halt settlement activity to restore Palestinian confidence in the peace process and insisted the only way back to negotiations was through a Palestinian clampdown on the violence which erupted following construction at Abu Ghneim.\n\n\"The construction will carry on, whether it is the Har Homa suburb or in the territories\" of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Netanyahu said.\n\nA spokesman for Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said the Hebron killing was \"an immediate result of the policies of Mr Netanyahu.\"\n\n\"I hope he is happy to have this blood on his hands,\" he said.\n\nArafat said Netanyahu's refusal to halt settlement expansion \"means that he doesn't want peace.\"\n\nThe Palestinian frustrations were echosed by US officials, with State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns saying the peace process was in \"a very difficult impasse, a critical point.\"\n\nPalestinians spoke in despairing terms of the situation.\n\n\"We all thought the prime minister would find ways in Washington to give the people of the area the feeling that peace is prevailing, but on the contrary he kept to his ways of deception and distorting facts,\" Kanafani said.\n\n\"We are extemely upset by this,\" he said.\n\nBut Palestinian officials said they would still send a high-level delegation to Washington this week as requested by Clinton to pursue efforts to save the peace.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 42, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1842, "end_char": 1849, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 2727, "end_char": 2737, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 4121, "end_char": 4130, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0377.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0082\n\nMANILA, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRape case not to affect US-Philippine military ties: AFP chief\n\n\n\n\nThe chief of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Monday expressed confidence that the rape case involving six US servicemen would not affect future military exercises between Philippine and US forces.\n\n\"They (exercises) would not be affected,\" AFP chief Generoso Senga said in an interview after swearing in the new sets of officers of the Air Material Wing Savings and Loan Association Inc.\n\nSenga said he is also confident that the Visiting Forces Agreement would not be affected by the case. The agreement states that Philippine authorities shall have the jurisdiction over US personnel with offenses committed within the Philippines.\n\n\"The agreement will stay as an agreement until the parties withdraw from the agreement. That's a case that's covered by the agreement so that will not damage the agreement,\" the AFP chief said.\n\nAt least 20 exercises are being held yearly by US and Philippine troops under the Mutual Defense Treaty of 1951 and the Visiting Forces Agreement of 1998, which governs the conduct of US forces while on training in the Philippines.\n\nThe six US marine servicemen were on rest and recreation after a joint training at the former US naval base in Subic Bay when they allegedly raped a 22-year-old Filipina from Zamboanga City on Nov. 1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 1107, "end_char": 1111, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 1384, "end_char": 1390, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0082.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0036 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0036. \n Investor Group Makes\n@  Bid for Dataproducts;\n@  Liquidation Is Sought \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n DPC \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n WOODLAND HILLS, Calif.  \n\n   A unit of DPC Acquisition Partners launched a $10-a-share tender offer for the shares outstanding of Dataproducts Corp., and said it would seek to liquidate the computer-printer maker \"as soon as possible,\" even if a merger is n't consummated. \n\n   DPC Acquisition is controlled by Crescott Investment Associates, Wilson Investment Group, Kernel Corp. and Catalyst Partners. \nThe investor group owns 1,534,600 Dataproducts common shares, or a 7.6% stake. \n\n   The offer is based on several conditions, including obtaining financing. \nDPC Acquisition said it had received the reasonable assurance of Chase Manhattan Bank N.A. that the financing can be obtained. \n\n   In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, DPC Acquisition said it expects it will need about $215 million to buy the shares and pay related fees and expenses. \nDPC Acquisition added that it has not begun discussions with financing sources, and said it expected to repay the amounts borrowed through proceeds of the liquidation. \n\n   Dataproducts officials declined to comment, and said they had not yet seen a suit filed in federal court by DPC Acquisition that seeks to nullify a standstill agreement between DPC Acquisition and Dataproducts. \n\n   Earlier this year, DPC Acquisition made a $15-a-share offer for Dataproducts, which the Dataproducts board said it rejected because the $283.7 million offer was not fully financed. \nDataproducts has since started a restructuring, and has said it is not  for sale.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 116, "end_char": 124, "tid": "t81", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "as soon as possible", "start_char": 418, "end_char": 437, "tid": "t80", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t81"}, {"text": "Earlier this year", "start_char": 1463, "end_char": 1480, "tid": "t86", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t81"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0661.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0114\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIraqi PM pledges to arrest kidnappers of ministry employees\n\n\n\n\nIraqi Prime Minister Nuri al- Maliki pledged Wednesday to arrest all those carried out kidnappings in Baghdad within the \"open battle with terrorists.\"\n\n\"We feel sorry to what happened yesterday, but I pledge that we will trail those who put their hands in the hands of the devil,\" Maliki told a gathering at a Baghdad university.\n\n\"This is an open battle with terrorists whatever their names are,\" Maliki said during his visit to the university after mass abduction of the Higher Education Ministry employees on Tuesday.\n\nThe state-run television reported Tuesday that gunmen wearing Iraqi police commando uniform stormed the ministry's Research Directorate building in the Nidhal Street in Karradah district, kidnapping scores of male employees.\n\n\"It is not enough for us to release some captives, but also we are keen to bring those kidnappers to justice,\" he said.\n\nMaliki also said that he rejects any sectarian and political activities in the Iraqi universities.\n\nThe Iraqi Higher Education Minister, Abed Thiyab al-Ajili, said Tuesday that the number of hostages was more than 100, including male employees and visitors.\n\nHowever, the Interior Ministry sources said the number of hostages in the hands of the kidnappers was exaggerated.\n\nLate Tuesday, at least 15 hostages of the mass kidnapping were released, local security and education sources said.\n\nAccording to the released hostages, there were only some 40 people had been held hostages by the unidentified gunmen.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 634, "end_char": 641, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 685, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1155, "end_char": 1162, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1371, "end_char": 1378, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0114.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0050\n\nTAIYUAN, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nsustainable economy\n\n\n\n\nChinese Vice-Premier Zeng Peiyan urged China's major coal-producing province of Shanxi to turn its economy to a sustainable development track.\n\nDuring his inspection of the province from Thursday through Friday, Zeng expressed his appreciation of Shanxi's contribution to China's economic achievements and urged the province to develop a recycling economy.\n\nZeng stressed that Shanxi, which boasts rich resources and favourable industry infrastructure, should speed up industrial restructuring in accordance with the requirement of building a resource efficient and environment-friendly society.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0050.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0224\n\nDOHA, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDoha vows to host best ever Asian Games\n\n\n\n\nDoha said on Wednesday it would deliver the the best ever Asian Games.\n\n\"I am proud of the phenomenal success the committee has achieved so far in preparations for the Games,\" Abdulla Khalid Al Qahtani, director general of the Doha Asian Games Organizing Committee (DAGOC), said in a press conference\n\n\"We are fulfilling the challenge of hosting the Games with pride and determination while setting an example in the region.\n\n\"Our eventual successful hosting the best ever Asian Games becomes more real everyday which is a reflection of the effort and hard work put in by everyone involved.\"\n\nQatar is expecting about 10,500 athletes and officials from 45 countries and regions to participate in the 39-event Games, he said, adding that it will be the biggest sporting event in Asia.\n\nInternational Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge, who arrived in Doha on Tuesday for a charity event, also showed the confidence with the DAGOC's work.\n\n\"The organizing committee has made a fast progress in their preparation and everything is going smoothly,\" he said.\n\n\"I am sure Doha will bring you an excellent Asian Games next year.\"\n\nAccording to Al Qahtani, developments across all the programs have been immense and the DAGOC are determined to make Doha 2006 not only a memorable experience for participants and visitors, but to ensure that there is a lasting legacy in the facilities, skills and enthusiasm the nation can contribute to world sport and the region they were proudly a part of.\n\nUntil now, several stadiums are under construction, while some are being refurbished, including the Sports City, a key place for the Games which embraced the newly completed Khalifa Stadium, a state-of-the-art 50,000 capacity sporting arena where the opening and closing ceremonies are to be held.\n\nThe Games Village, which will become a home away from home for athletes, is expected to be completed by April next year. Most of the venues are 85 percent complete and should be ready by end of this year.\n\nThe 2006 Asian Games will begin on December 1 in Doha, thus making Qatar the smallest country in the world's largest continent to host an Asian Games.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 111, "end_char": 120, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 963, "end_char": 970, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1216, "end_char": 1225, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1597, "end_char": 1600, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April next year", "start_char": 1994, "end_char": 2009, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 2084, "end_char": 2093, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 1", "start_char": 2131, "end_char": 2141, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0224.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0307\n\nRIGA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAfghanistan\n\n\n\n\nNATO has agreed to consider the idea of setting up a contact group, initiated by French President Jacques Chirac, on Afghanistan, NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Wednesday.\n\n\"I, the secretary general of NATO, has been tasked to think about and put forward proposals for the possibility of a contact group for Afghanistan,\" de Hoop Scheffer told reporters shortly after the conclusion of the NATO summit.\n\nHe said that the contact group would not only be relevant to NATO, but to all the other international organizations active in Afghanistan.\n\nWrapping a two-day summit which started on Tuesday evening, NATO leaders issued a declaration earlier Wednesday, saying that its door remains open for European countries, and encouraged the accession efforts by Albania, Croatia and Macedonia.\n\n\"We reaffirm that NATO remains open to new European members under Article 10 of the North Atlantic Treaty,\" said the leaders in their Riga Summit Declaration.\n\nBut they emphasized that actual accession will be strictly performance-based.\n\n\"At our next summit in 2008, the alliance intends to extend further invitations to those countries who meet NATO's performance-based standards and are able to contribute to Euro-Atlantic security and stability,\" said the declaration.\n\nNATO's ongoing enlargement process has been an historic success in advancing stability, peace and cooperation in Europe, and the vision of a Europe, which is whole, free, and at peace, it said.\n\nThe leaders welcomed the efforts of Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia to prepare themselves for the responsibilities and obligations for membership.\n\nThe three Balkan states are recognized by NATO as formal aspirant countries.\n\nOn the last day of the two-day summit, leaders of the 26-member bloc also invited Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia to join its Partnership for Peace (PfP) program.\n\nThe PfP, launched in 1994, is a program of practical bilateral cooperation between individual partner countries and NATO. It allows partner countries to build up an individual relationship with NATO, choosing their own priorities for cooperation. A total of 20 countries have joined the program.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 253, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday evening", "start_char": 679, "end_char": 694, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 738, "end_char": 747, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1142, "end_char": 1146, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last day", "start_char": 1778, "end_char": 1790, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 1970, "end_char": 1974, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0307.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0181\n\nTIRANA, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nThree released Guantanamo detainees arrive in Albania\n\n\n\n\nThree men released from Guantanamo Bay, the U.S. navy base in Cuba, have arrived in Albania, a government spokesman said on Monday.\n\n\"They have arrived, that is all,\" Neritan Sejamini told reporters without revealing any other details.\n\nAlbania admitted on Saturday that it would take from the U.S. three detainees released from the controversial base which has been used to hold terror suspects.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 238, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 371, "end_char": 379, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0181.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0226\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st LD: U.S. warplane crash in northwest of Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nA U.S. fighter jet crashed northwest of Baghdad on Monday with one pilot on board, al-Jazeera TV channel reported.\n\nThe U.S. military confirmed the incident in a brief statement, saying the U.S. Air force jet, F-16 carrying one pilot crashed in northwest of Baghdad at about 1:35 p.m. (1035 GMT).\n\nThe F-16 CG was providing support for the coalition ground forces when it went down in an area located 32 km northwest of Baghdad in the volatile Anbar province, added the statement.\n\nHowever, the statement did not say what cause the crash or the fate of the pilot.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1:35 p.m.", "start_char": 388, "end_char": 397, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0226.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0334\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nResearchers develop novel treatment for sickle cell disease\n\n\n\n\nVirginia Commonwealth University researchers have developed a unique anti-sickling agent that may one day be effective in treating sickle cell disease, a painful and debilitating genetic blood disorder, according to a statement released by the university on Tuesday.\n\nThe research team has shown that 5-HMF, a pure compound developed by the team, has a high affinity for sickle cell hemoglobin and holds promise for the treatment of sickle cell disease.\n\n\"Our findings suggest that this anti-sickling agent may lead to new drug treatments and may one day help those suffering with sickle cell disease. This molecule, 5-HMF, is the most promising molecule to treat sickle cell anemia to come from our research group in more than 30 years,\" said Donald Abraham of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry in VCU's School of Pharmacy,\n\nSickle cell disease is caused by an abnormality in the hemoglobin molecule. Normal red blood cells carrying hemoglobin are smooth, round and flexible and can travel easily throughout blood vessels. However, sickle cells are stiff, abnormally shaped, red blood cells that do not flow freely through blood vessels. The sickle cells also may clot together causing a blockage to form which results in pain and potentially dangerous complications that can compromise a patient's organs.\n\nAccording to Abraham, the 5-HMF agent binds to hemoglobin to increase the oxygen affinity of both normal and sickle hemoglobin. In a patient with sickle cell disease, the binding action of 5-HMF would allow sickle cells to move more smoothly throughout the blood vessels of the body and prevent blockages from forming.\n\nThe United States Patent and Trademark Office recently issued VCU a Notice of Allowance for a patent relating to a method of treating sickle cell disease with 5-HMF compound. A Notice of Allowance is a written notification that a patent application has cleared an internal review and it has been approved for issuance.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 381, "end_char": 388, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 670, "end_char": 677, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0334.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0277\n\nPARIS, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nAssad says Mehlis commission should \"correct its mistakes\"\n\n\n\n\nSyrian President Bashar al-Assad said Monday that he expects the UN commission of enquiry into the murder of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri to \"correct its mistakes.\"\n\n\"In the first place we expect this enquiry to be professional and the commission to correct the mistakes it made earlier in order to form a report that is fair and objective,\" al-Assad said on France 3 television.\n\nThe Syrian leader was speaking as investogators began questioning five Syrian officials at UN headquarters in Vienna as part of the international enquiry led by German magistrate Detlev Mehlis.\n\nThe identities of the five have not been made public, but officials have said that Assaf Shawkat, Assad's brother-in-law and head of military intelligence, is not among them.\n\n\"There were witnesses who gave false testimony. Recently there has been a Syrian witness who admitted he was forced to provide evidence that backed up a particular point of view .... That gives us cause for concern,\" al-Assad said.\n\nLast week state television in Syria showed an interview with Syrian witness Hussam Taher Hussam who said he had provided evidence to the commission under duress.\n\n\"There is no proof that Syria was involved (in the assassination). There is no criminal proof, and it was not in the interests of Syria to commit such an act,\" Assad said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 1107, "end_char": 1116, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0277.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0087\n\nTHE HAGUE, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nDutch temp agency company Vedior to take over Norwegian Corridor\n\n\n\n\nThe Dutch temporary employment company Vedior announced Monday that it will take over Norwegian recruitment specialist Corridor for an undisclosed sum.\n\nCorridor specializes in the recruitment and supply of temporary and permanent staff within accounting and finance, sales and marketing, IT and administrative sectors and reported 2005 sales of 6.8 million euros (8.9 million dollars).\n\nVedior said it will take a majority stake in the company while Corridors existing management will keep a minority interest and will continue to develop the company.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 186, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0087.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0478\n\nMONTREAL, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nNHL ponders divisional realignment: report\n\n\n\n\nNational Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman is looking at realigning the league's divisions and altering its schedule makeup, The Sports Network of Canada reported on its website Friday.\n\nCiting unnamed sources, TSN said the overhaul being considered would see the six current divisions reduced to four with each division having seven or eight teams rather than five.\n\nSix club executives, one from each current division, met with Bettman in New York earlier this week to discuss the matter and take information to other clubs in their division for feedback.\n\nTwenty of 30 teams would have to back such a move in order to make it happen next season. That could happen at a board meeting during the NHL All-Star Game in Dallas next month.\n\nNew scheduling plans would see teams play division foes six times, rivals from the same conference three or four times and non-conference clubs once.\n\nThe Eastern and Western conferences would each stay with 15 teams, with the top two teams in each division taking the four top playoff seeds and the teams with the next four highest point totals also qualifying in each conference.\n\nThe Columbus Blue Jackets and Atlanta Thrashers would switch conferences, with Columbus moving to the East and joining a division with Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Boston, Buffalo and Pittsburgh, which might be relocating after a new arena plan fell apart.\n\nThat would leave the New York Rangers and Islanders, New Jersey, Washington, Philadelphia, Carolina, Tampa Bay and Florida in the other Eastern division.\n\nThe Western Conference would have an eight-team division with clubs in the Pacific and Mountain time zones, including Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, San Jose, Anaheim, Los Angeles, Colorado and Phoenix.\n\nThat would leave seven teams for the remaining division - Dallas, Minnesota, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta and Nashville.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "website Friday", "start_char": 277, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 565, "end_char": 574, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next season", "start_char": 743, "end_char": 754, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 832, "end_char": 842, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0478.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0073\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nwater pollution\n\n\n\n\nForeign Minister Li Zhaoxing informed Russian Ambassador to China Sergey Razov here Saturday afternoon of the situation with the Songhua River's water pollution and measures taken by the Chinese government to tackle the issue.\n\nThe Songhua River in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, suffered major water pollution as a result of a blast that had occurred in the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Jilin Petrochemical company on Nov.13. The polluted water in Songhua River is expected to flow into the Heilongjiang River (also called Amur River in Russia) on the Sino-Russian border.\n\nLi Zhaoxing, on be half of the Chinese government, expressed his regret over the possible harms to be done to the Russian people by the major environmental pollution accident, saying China fully understands and attaches great importance to the concerns of the Russian side, and that Chinese leaders have time and again made important directions to tackle the problem\n\nAfter the water pollution incident occurred, China has repeatedly informed its neighbor of the details of the pollution incident, including various lab test results such as the pollutant's species and density and the location of polluted stretches.\n\nThe two sides have agreed to open up a hotline between environmental departments for still better contacts and communication over the water pollution problem, and China informs Russia of the latest developments daily, the Chinese forign minister said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday afternoon", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-19TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0073.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0452\n\nBELGRADE, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNATO to open liaison office in Belgrade\n\n\n\n\nThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) would open a liaison office in Belgrade in mid December, a senior Serbian official said here on Wednesday.\n\n\"The opening of the NATO liaison office in Belgrade is doubly important in the sphere of multilateral cooperation, exchange of experiences and better mutual communication and understanding,\" said Snezana Samardzic-Markovic, Serbian assistant defense minister for the defense policy.\n\nSamardzic-Markovic told the press that the Serbian government has decided to open this office and that it was offered to NATO officials that this office is located in the Defense Ministry.\n\nEarly on Wednesday, NATO's heads of state decided at a summit in Riga to invite Serbia to join the Partnership for Peace program along with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Montenegro.\n\nThe Partnership for Peace, which was created by NATO in 1994, was a program designed to facilitate cooperation with partner countries to extend the zone of peace and stability in Europe.\n\nAccording to the official Tanjug news agency, NATO plans to open its office in Belgrade probably on Dec. 19.\n\nThe opening ceremony will be attended by high NATO officials headed by its Deputy Secretary-General Alessandro Minuto Rizzo, the news agency reported, citing diplomatic sources.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 203, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 253, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 739, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 962, "end_char": 966, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 19", "start_char": 1194, "end_char": 1201, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0452.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0004\n\nTAIPEI, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTaipei shares end 1.2 percent lower\n\n\n\n\nShare prices in Taiwan closed 1.2 percent lower Wednesday due to dwindling buying interest among investors, brokers said.\n\nThe Taiwan Stock Exchange weighted price index fell 106.78 points to 8,485.66.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0004.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0017\n\nTOKYO, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - UPDATE rates, ADDS quotes and Asian currencies ///\n\n\n\n\nThe yen hit a 32-month low against the dollar and sank to an all-time trough against the euro Monday as G7 powers including Japan appeared unfazed by the currency's decline at a weekend meeting, dealers said.\n\nContrary to reports ahead of the Group of Seven gathering in London, there was no specific discussion of the yen's recent slide, Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki said.\n\nSpeaking on the sidelines of the two-day meeting of finance ministers and central bankers from the world's seven richest nations, Tanigaki said the yen's depreciation against the US currency merely reflected \"current fundamentals\".\n\nWith US Treasury Secretary John Snow also denying earlier reports he would raise the issue of the yen's weakness at the meeting, dealers took the comments as the green light to drive the Japanese unit down to new lows.\n\nThe dollar rose to 121.34 yen in Tokyo afternoon trade from 120.56 yen in New York late Friday, the highest since late March 2003.\n\nThe euro fell to 1.1693 dollars from 1.1716 dollars as a backdrop of rising US interest rates continued to support the US unit.\n\nThe euro also hit the highest level since its launch in 1999 against the Japanese unit, climbing to 141.91 yen. It later stood at 141.87 in late Tokyo trade, up from 141.30 in New York on Friday.\n\n\"The dollar remains strong,\"said Kikuko Takeda, currency analyst at Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi.\n\n\"Amid on-going interest rate differentials, the weaker yen was re-confirmed at the G7 meeting and the market is prone to sell the yen given lower interest rates in Japan,\" she said.\n\nSaturday's G7 statement said that \"exchange rates should reflect economic fundamentals (whilst) ... excess volatility and disorderly movements in exchange rates are undesirable for economic growth\".\n\nAnalysts said the yen was likely to extend its losses against the dollar but just how far was still unclear.\n\nThe currency market showed little reaction to a firm performance by Tokyo share prices and the release of a quarterly survey by Japan's finance ministry showing strong growth in capital expenditure, dealers said.\n\n\"Judging from fundamentals ... including strong share prices and relatively positive economic data, the recent fall of the yen is apparently overdone,\" said Commerzbank currency watcher Ryohei Muramatsu.\n\n\"However, the falling momentum of the yen is so strong that market participants disregard news that is positive for the yen,\" he added.\n\n\"The next target of the yen looks to be around 122.50 yen against the dollar and 142.50 yen against the euro,\" he added.\n\nIn early afternoon trading, the dollar rose to 41.4350 Thai baht from 41.2300 on Friday and to 1,038.6 South Korean won from 1,033.5.\n\nThe dollar fell to 54.130 Philippine pesos from 54.180, to 9,998 Indonesian rupiah from 10,030, to 1.6898 Singapore dollars from 1.6914 and to 33.491 Taiwan dollars from 33.546.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1042, "end_char": 1048, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late March 2003", "start_char": 1068, "end_char": 1083, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1271, "end_char": 1275, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1403, "end_char": 1409, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1690, "end_char": 1698, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent fall", "start_char": 2318, "end_char": 2329, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2759, "end_char": 2765, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "54.180", "start_char": 2861, "end_char": 2867, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0017.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0571\n\nDOHA, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nChina's clean sweeps all 10 Asiad diving gold\n\n\n\n\nLin Yue and Wang Xin won the men's and women's 10m platform golds here Thursday, handing China a record clean sweep of all 10 titles at the Asian Games.\n\nLin, 15, beat teamamte Zhou Luxin into silver with North Korea's Kim Chon Man taking bronze, while Wang, 14, edged compatriot Chen Ruolin and North Korea's Hong In Sun.\n\nIt was the first time in the history of the Games that one country has taken all 10 medals. China also won six silver.\n\n\"I didn't do very well in the first several dives tonight,\" said Lin. \"I made some small mistakes but in the latter dives I did well.\n\n\"I have practised for this for a long time. These are my first Asian Games and I am trying to increase my degrees of difficulty as well as the quality of my dives. I will learn from our former world champions and Olympic champions.\"\n\nChina is a world force in diving and Olympic diving champion Guo Jingjing on Tuesday became the most successful female diver in Asian Games history.\n\nGuo, who has already announced she will retire after the Beijing Olympics, took the women's 3-metre synchronized springboard title here with Li Ting to add to the three golds from previous Asian Games.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 990, "end_char": 997, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0571.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0301\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nIraqi PM defends government on campaign trail\n\n\n\n\nOutgoing Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari on Monday defended his 10-month record in government, just three days before a general election that could see him lose the top cabinet job.\n\nJaafari, who has been criticised by rivals for a weak administration that has failed to quell violence, said his mandate had improved Iraq's security services and enshrined the principle of a peaceful change of power.\n\n\"Despite the short mandate which has been our lot, with God's help we have had security, economic and political successes,\" said the premier, a devout Shiite and leader of the Dawa party.\n\nJaafari was sworn in last May. His predecessor as interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, has accused the current administration of exacerbating sectarian divisions and marching the country to the brink of civil war.\n\n\"Praise be to God, Iraq is today stronger after overcoming so many obstacles,\" said Jaafari, recalling 35 years of political and economic instability, and international isolation under former dictator Saddam Hussein.\n\n\"We inherited a difficult situation with disorganised security services and we have now completed two-thirds of our objectives for the manning and equipment of these forces,\" he told a Baghdad news conference.\n\n\"On the political level, the principle of a peaceful transfer of power has become a reality and we are ready to re-assume power if that is what the people decide,\" he said.\n\nHis government created 59,000 jobs in the education ministry alone and brought back 4,000 staff to their former positions at the information ministry, Jaafari said before expressing hopes for a peaceful election on Thursday.\n\nIn a direct response to complaints from Allawi against institutional abuses among Shiite-dominated security forces and torture in prisons, Jaafari pointed the finger at his secular rival.\n\n\"The towns of Fallujah and Najaf continue to bleed from the effects of actions\" taken by Allawi's administration.\n\nAs prime minister from June 2004 to April 2005, Allawi's unflinching support for US military campaigns against Sunni and Shiite insurgents in Fallujah and Najaf left him few friends in those cities.\n\nJaafari also hit out against accusations of human rights abuses and pointed out that he had brought Sunnis into his government saying \"Iraq can only rebuild itself with their participation.\n\n\"The new Iraq excludes none of its sons.\n\n\"My government avoided any sectarianism,\" he concluded.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days", "start_char": 202, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last May", "start_char": 714, "end_char": 722, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1726, "end_char": 1734, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2004", "start_char": 2064, "end_char": 2073, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2005", "start_char": 2077, "end_char": 2087, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0301.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0123\n\nSEOUL, April 7 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSeoul shares close 1.1 percent higher\n\n\n\n\nShare prices rose 1.1 percent on the Korea Stock Exchange Monday as local institutional investors went on a buying spree ahead of a planned rise in the foreign shareholding ceiling, dealers said.\n\nThe composite index gained 7.48 points to finish at 694.90.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 7 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0123.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061208.0027\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 8 , 2006, 2006\n\nUS stocks higher as job growth improves; Dow up 0.24 percent\n\n\n\n\nUS stocks ended higher Friday after a government report showed an improving job market last month as employers added a better-than-expected 132,000 nonfarm positions.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up 29.08 points (0.24 percent) at 12,307.49 just after the closing bell.\n\nThe tech-dominated Nasdaq composite gained 9.67 points (0.40 percent) to 2,437.36 while the broad-market Standard and Poor's 500 index added 2.55 points (0.18 percent) to a preliminary close of 1,409.84.\n\nThe Labor Department said that US employers added 132,000 jobs in November in a report that suggested overall economic growth remains on track days before the Federal Reserve meets to deliberate interest rates.\n\nMerger speculation rose as Merrill Lynch banking analysts meanwhile said in a research report that they believe Bank of America is \"very interested\" in acquiring Barclays bank of Britain.\n\nThe banking analysts said such a potential deal would be profitable even if Bank of America had to pay a 25-to-30 percent premium to acquire Barclays.\n\n\"We don't comment on market rumors or speculation,\" said Scott Silvestri, a Bank of America spokesman.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 8 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 670, "end_char": 678, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061208.0027.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0061 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0061. \n Labatt Plans to Place\n@  New Preferred Shares \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n T.LBT \n LONDON, Ontario  \n\n   John Labatt Ltd. said it plans a private placement of 150 million Canadian dollars (US$127.5 million) in preferred shares, to be completed around Nov. 1. \n\n   Proceeds will be used to reduce short-term debt at the beer and food concern, said Robert Vaux, vice president, finance. \n\n   The preferred shares will carry a floating annual dividend equal to 72% of the 30-day bankers' acceptance rate until Dec. 31, 1994. \nThereafter, the rate will be renegotiated. \nMr. Vaux said that if no agreement is reached, other buyers will be sought by bid or auction. \nThe shares are redeemable after the end of 1994. \n\n   Mr. Vaux said the share issue is part of a strategy to strengthen Labatt's balance sheet in anticipation of acquisitions to be made during the next 12 to 18 months. \nLabatt's has no takeover bids outstanding currently, he said. \n\n   Lead underwriter to the issue is Toronto Dominion Securities Inc.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 91, "end_char": 99, "tid": "t34", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "around Nov. 1", "start_char": 297, "end_char": 310, "tid": "t72", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t34"}, {"text": "Dec. 31, 1994", "start_char": 560, "end_char": 573, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 1994", "start_char": 747, "end_char": 762, "tid": "t42", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 12 to 18 months", "start_char": 908, "end_char": 932, "tid": "t46", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 977, "end_char": 986, "tid": "t49", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t34"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0637.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0233\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nthis is a test\n\n\n\n\nthis is a test file. this is a test file. this is a test file.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0233.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0133\n\nSEOUL, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSeoul stock market ends higher\n\n\n\n\nThe benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) added 11.08 points to 1,422.55 on Wednesday.\n\nThe volume of KOSPI was moderate at 247 million shares worth 3. 46 trillion won (3.7 billion U.S. dollars).\n\nThe tech-rich KOSDAQ index gained 4.26 points to 617.19 with a volume of 671.025 million shares worth 2.275 trillion won (2.445 billion U.S. dollars).\n\nThe local currency ended at 930.50 won to one U.S. dollar, up 0. 30 won from Tuesday's close.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 530, "end_char": 537, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0133.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0125\n\nNANNING, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nInt'l contracts with total investment of 5.845 bln USD inked at China-ASEAN Expo\n\n\n\n\nBusinessmen have signed 132 international cooperation projects involving investment of 5.845 billion US dollars by the press time at the ongoing Third China- ASEAN Expo, up 10.47 percent from the figures of last year's Expo.\n\nThe statistics was released by the Expo's Organizing Committee on Thursday.\n\nParticipants of the Third China-ASEAN Expo also endorsed 301 domestic cooperation projects involving 55.374 billion yuan (6.9 billion US dollars) of investment, up 10.36 percent from the figure of last year.\n\nThe Third China-ASEAN Expo was held here from Oct. 31 to Nov.3, attracting more than 2,000 companies from China and ASEAN countries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 348, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 433, "end_char": 441, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 641, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 31", "start_char": 699, "end_char": 706, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0125.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0423\n\nZAGREB, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nCroatian ruling party wins 35 percent in capital: preliminary results\n\n\n\n\nThe ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) has won 35.94 percent in the elections for Zagreb city council, a key battlefield with the opposition, according to preliminary results announced early Monday.\n\nThe figures were slightly down from its share of the vote after local elections in 1995 when it won 36.55 percent.\n\nElectoral commission chairman Ivan Mrkonjic said that with about half the votes counted, the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP) in coalition with the tiny Croatian People's Party (HNS) had won 23.87 percent, a small rise on 1995.\n\nThe Croatian Social and Liberal Party (HSLS) had won 12.24 percent, as against 12.87 percent it won two years ago.\n\nIn elections in 1995, the opposition won control of the city council after which Tudjman four times vetoed their choice of mayor, drawing international condemnation.\n\nFinal results for the local, regional and upper house polls were expected Monday or Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 13 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Monday", "start_char": 317, "end_char": 329, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 415, "end_char": 419, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 682, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years ago", "start_char": 785, "end_char": 798, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 817, "end_char": 821, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday or Tuesday", "start_char": 1042, "end_char": 1059, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0423.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0429\n\nVIENNA, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nOil prices down may cause OPEC further output cut\n\n\n\n\nThe Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)'s weekly average crude oil prices dropped 0.17 U.S.dollars to 54.89 dollars per barrel last week, the cartel's secretariat said on Monday.\n\nFollowing its decision on Oct. 20 to slash oil output by 1.2 million barrels per day from Nov. 1, OPEC's oil prices fluctuated within a narrow range of 54.16 to 55.74 dollars per barrel in the last five weeks, and daily oil prices hit the lowest of 53.37 dollars on Oct. 31.\n\nMarket analysts believed, the narrow range of OPEC's oil prices fluctuation indicated that OPEC had achieved its purpose of arresting the sharp fall in oil prices through output cut.\n\nIn the meantime, plentiful inventories of U.S. crude oil and the calm winter in the Northern Hemisphere helped to ease worry about oil supply in the market.\n\nThey forecast that the international oil prices would continue to hover until the Northern Hemisphere's cold airflow set in, or OPEC cut the output again.\n\nThe possibility of OPEC's another cut increased.\n\nSaudi Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi warned recently that OPEC would cut production again at its December meeting, should the recent production cuts fail to balance the market.\n\nOPEC's rotating President Edmund Daukoru, who is also Nigeria's Oil Minister, last Friday expressed his worry about the U.S. overhigh crude oil stock, and said that OPEC would be likely to cut its output at least by 500,000 barrels at December meeting.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 263, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 298, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 20", "start_char": 333, "end_char": 340, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 397, "end_char": 403, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last five weeks", "start_char": 496, "end_char": 515, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 31", "start_char": 573, "end_char": 580, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 1224, "end_char": 1232, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Friday", "start_char": 1383, "end_char": 1394, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 1540, "end_char": 1548, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0429.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0243\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEU to grant market economy status to Ukraine\n\n\n\n\nThe European Union (EU) is to grant market economy status to Ukraine during the first EU-Ukraine summit, to be held on Thursday in Kiev, the European Commission ( EC)said here on Wednesday.\n\n\"Tomorrow I look forward to informing President Yushchenko of our intention to grant Market Economy Status to Ukraine,\" said EC President Jose Manuel Barroso before he left for Kiev to attend the summit.\n\nIn a press release, the EU's executive said three agreements were to be signed at the one-day summit - a memorandum of understanding on energy cooperation, and agreements on Galileo and Aviation.\n\n\"The summit is expected to announce that Ukraine has now met the technical criteria for the granting of Market Economy Status,\" said the press release.\n\nAccording to the EC, the EU would reiterate its strong support for Ukraine's early accession to World Trade Organization (WTO), and encourage the government to address the last remaining issues in this regard, so that work can start on deepening economic integration between the EU and Ukraine through the creation of a Free Trade Area.\n\nBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose country is holding the EU presidency, Barroso and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana will attend the summit.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 226, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 295, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tomorrow", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0243.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0326\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nS. African wheelchair basketball coach confident for Beijing\n\n\n\n\nNew South African wheelchair basketball team coach Viv Sierra came through the opening day of the Wheelchair Basketball Challenge on Thursday confident that the core of his squad for the 2008 Beijing Paralympics is in place.\n\nSierra watched the opening match of the Wheelchair Basketball between local league outfit the Pumas and a visiting Angola team, which the Pumas won 72-40, at the Vodacom Mandeville Indoor Center in Johannesburg on Thursday evening.\n\nThereafter Sierra oversaw the first of two national trial matches he has arranged during the Challenge as part of his final selection process for the Paralympics.\n\nThe second trial match will take place on Saturday, after which Sierra will announce his final squad of 15 players for Beijing.\n\n\"I've got a fairly good idea of my squad. I know the core of the team. Players like Marius Papenfuss, Justin Govender, and the oversees-based players like Richard Nortje, David Curle and Nick Taylor basically pick themselves,\" Sierra was quoted as saying by the SAPA news agency.\n\n\"But this tournament will give me a good chance to look at some of the guys I think are fighting for places,\" Sierra said.\n\nAs the newly-elected coach of the South African wheelchair basketball team, Sierra said he will use this event to bring a different focus to the national side.\n\n\"I'm looking for team players, not individual stars. That's what I want in order to build for the next two years for Beijing. We've certainly got the players. It's now just a question of getting them to play a particular style that works for them as a team,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the opening day", "start_char": 202, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 567, "end_char": 583, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 792, "end_char": 800, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next two years", "start_char": 1539, "end_char": 1557, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1609, "end_char": 1612, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0326.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0048\n\nMUSAYYIB, Iraq, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nNine bodies found south of Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nPolice have discovered nine bodies of Iraqi civilians shot dead near Mussayab, south of the capital, police said Tuesday.\n\nThe victims had all been shot at close range and were men in their 30s, added police.\n\nIraq has seen a spike of violence in the run-up to legislative elections on December 15.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 15", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 389, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0048.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0189\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nbird flu.\"\n\n\n\n\n\"We have conquered the SARS epidemic in 2003, and we will surely conquer the bird flu virus,\" said Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao here Thursday when inspecting workshops of bird flu human vaccine and medicine.\n\nAccompanied by Vice Premiers Wu Yi and Hui Liangyu, Wen came to the Beijing Kexing Biological Product Company on Thursday morning for inspection of China's research on bird flu human vaccine.\n\nKexing company, the first in the world to develop SARS vaccines, is now taking joint effort with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention to research bird flu human vaccine.\n\nChinese scientists have developed human vaccines for the bird flu and will carry out clinical tests in days.\n\nMillions of chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry have been culled after bird flu outbreaks were reported in Xinjiang, Liaoning, Hubei, Anhui and Hunan provinces.\n\nChina's health authorities have confirmed on Wednesday the first two human infection cases of bird flu in the country, and enhanced efforts to prevent and control the epidemic.\n\nThe two confirmed cases involve a nine-year-old boy in Xiangtan County of Hunan Province and a 24-year-old woman farmer in Zongyang County of Anhui Province. The boy has been discharged from hospital. The woman died on November 10.\n\nWhen coming to the vaccine workshop, Wen watched carefully the whole process of vaccine manufacture and packing, frequently asking questions about the progress of vaccine research and development, technical characteristics and producing capacity.\n\n\"The public pay great attention to the vaccine safety problem, which should not be overlooked,\" Wen told company leaders.\n\nLater Wen paid a visit to the institute researching and manufacturing medicines for treatment of human cases of bird flu. He said he was happy to know that progress has been made in researching such medicine.\n\n\"Currently China's bird flu prevention and control situation is severe,\" said Wen after his inspection tour.\n\n\"Prevention of human infection of bird flu and safeguarding people's health and safety are the focus of the prevention work,\" he said.\n\nThe efficient prevention and control work of highly pathogenic bird flu epidemic depends on science and technology, he said.\n\nChina has made important breakthroughs in researching fowl-use vaccines and substantive progress in researching human-use vaccines and medicines, he said.\n\nHe called for new progress in bird flu vaccine, medicine research and production, as well as in monitoring migratory birds.\n\nChina hastened to fight bird flu earlier this month, when a cabinet meeting chaired by Premier Wen decided to set aside 2 billion yuan (248 million dollars) to check the spreading of the virus. On Tuesday, China announced plans to vaccinate its more than 14 billion farm birds.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 112, "end_char": 116, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 203, "end_char": 211, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 392, "end_char": 408, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 540, "end_char": 543, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 982, "end_char": 991, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 10", "start_char": 1334, "end_char": 1345, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 2623, "end_char": 2633, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2779, "end_char": 2786, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0189.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0219\n\nCAIRO, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nEgypt dismisses theory that concrete was used in pyramids\n\n\n\n\nEgypt's antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass on Sunday derided new studies according to which an early form of concrete rather than natural limestone was used to build the great pyramids.\n\n\"It's really silly. It was limestone, it's been studied before by hundreds of chemists,\" Hawass, who heads the Supreme Council of Antiquities, told AFP.\n\nFrench Professor Gilles Hug, from the Office of National Aerospatial Studies and Research) and Egyptian-born Michel Barsoum, a professor at Philadelphia's Drexel University analysed the mineralogy of samples from the Giza pyramids.\n\nThey found that what would be the earliest known occurrence of concrete was used and not only limestone from the nearby quarries, explaining in part the mystery of how the Egyptians were able to erect such colossal structures.\n\n\"The sophistication and endurance of this ancient concrete technology is simply astounding,\" said the article printed in the December issue of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society.\n\nBut Hawass dismissed the study and questioned the origin of the samples.\n\n\"We don't know the origin of these samples... We certainly never gave permission for anyone to take samples,\" he said. \"This well-worn theory keeps coming up for publicity purposes.\"\n\nMark Lehner, a leading Egyptologist, also received the latest research supporting the concrete theory with caution. \"Where did these samples come from is the first important question,\" he told AFP.\n\nThe theory that the great pyramids were built using man-made agglomerated stone was first put forward in the early eighties by French chemist Joseph Davidovits.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 1036, "end_char": 1044, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0219.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0256\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 21 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nLandmine explosions kill 1, injuring 6 in central Nepal\n\n\n\n\nAt least one security man died and six others were injured in two separate land mine explosions on Sunday in central Nepal, a local police office said Monday.\n\n\"At least one security man died and another was injured when a security patrol overran an anti-government guerrillas planted land mine in Dayagaun area of Kavre district, some 50 km east of Kathmandu,\" the district police office of Kavre said in a press statement.\n\nMeanwhile, five others of the same patrol team were injured in another explosion at Chaukidanda area of the district, the press statement said.\n\nAt the same day, security forces and guerrillas clashed at Sapsu Khola area of Khotang district, some 200 km east of Kathmandu.\n\n\"However, in the 45-minute long clash, no casualties were reported on either side,\" said Ramesh Thapa Magar, chief of Indra Dhwoj Army Battalion.\n\nOver 12,000 Nepalese people have been killed since the anti- government insurgency took place in the Himalayan kingdom in February 1996.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 270, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 1996", "start_char": 1088, "end_char": 1101, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0256.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0417\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 7 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS Likud meeting ///\n\n\n\n\nIsrael's beleaguered right-wing Likud suffered a new blow Wednesday when its acting chairman, cabinet minister Tzahi Hanegbi, announced his defection to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new Kadima party.\n\nHanegbi, a minister without portfolio, became the sixth minister to follow Sharon out of Likud as part of the continuing turmoil in Israeli politics in the run-up to a March general election.\n\n\"My heart was telling me to stay in Likud but my head told me otherwise and so therefore I am today announcing my resignation from Likud after representing the party for the last 17 years in the Knesset,\" he told a press conference.\n\n\"Prime minister, I am with you,\" Hanegbi said. \"Israel can place its trust in Ariel Sharon, who has always fought mercilessly against terrorism and has never compromised on Israel's security.\"\n\nHanegbi said he would stand down as an MP immediately but would remain in the cabinet.\n\nThe move came amid reports that police are to recommend Hanegbi's prosecution on charges of cronyism during his time as environment minister.\n\nWhile the other five Likud ministers to have joined Sharon were seen as close allies of the premier, Hanegbi was regarded as an opponent of his controversial decision to pull troops and settlers out of the Gaza Strip.\n\nAs interim head of the Likud central committee, the party's main governing body, Hanegbi was to have played a key role in organising the leadership election to replace Sharon due on December 19.\n\nSenior Likud officials met at party headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday evening to discuss their next move, with the head of the party's faction in parliament, Gideon Saar, touted as a possible replacement for Hanegbi.\n\nThe defection will be seen as another major blow to Likud which won 38 out of the 120 seats in the Knesset at the last election but is now set to win only a dozen, according to an opinion poll in Wednesday's Haaretz newspaper.\n\nThe survey found Kadima was on course to emerge as the largest party with 39 seats after the March 28 election, comfortably ahead of the centre-left Labour with 22.\n\nThe findings demonstrate how Kadima has been able to shatter the mould of Israeli politics, which had been essentially a two-party system, since its formation on November 21.\n\nApart from the Likud defectors, Sharon has also won the endorsement of the former Labour leader Shimon Peres.\n\nSharon decided to break from the party he was instrumental in founding 32 years ago, fed up with battling hardliners who refused to forgive him for pulling out of Gaza after a 38-year occupation.\n\nIn a speech Wednesday by the tomb of the Jewish state's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, the current premier indicated that Israel must be ready for more pullouts from the West Bank.\n\n\"In order to achieve peace, we are ready to give up some of what is rightfully ours,\" Sharon said during a ceremony in the southern Negev desert.\n\nFormer premier Benjamin Netanyahu, who is favourite to regain the Likud leadership, insisted security and military strength would bring peace to Israel as he took a swipe at his arch-rival Sharon.\n\n\"Our peace is dependent on our strength ... and not on endless (territorial) retreats,\" he said in his first press conference since Sharon's split.\n\nBefore news emerged of Hanegbi's switch, there were widespread reports that police were about to submit a file on the minister to the state prosecutor which contained enough evidence to justify pursuing a case through the courts.\n\nPolice opened an investigation in August last year after a report by state comptroller Eliezer Goldberg found Hanegbi had \"trampled on the law\" by appointing dozens of political supporters to posts while environment minister.\n\nAsked about the reports of an imminent prosecution, Hanegbi dismissed them as \"newspaper speculation.\"", "time_expressions": 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0284\n\nISLAMABAD, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nIran's FM in Pakistan this week, nuclear programme on agenda\n\n\n\n\nIranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki will visit Pakistan this week for talks with Pakistani leaders likely to touch on Tehran's controversial nuclear programme, an official said Monday.\n\nMottaki -- who was due to arrive in Pakistan on Wednesday -- will be making his first visit to the country since August when he was named to his post, foreign ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam told a weekly press briefing.\n\n\"The visit offers a useful opportunity to review bilateral relations and intensify cooperation in areas of mutual interest,\" she said.\n\nMottaki was also expected to discuss Iran's controversial nuclear programme with Pakistani officials, she said.\n\n\"Yes I think that will be (on the agenda). We will discuss bilateral issues, we will discuss regional and international issues and this will probably figure in the meetings,\" Aslam said.\n\nMottaki's visit to Pakistan comes ahead of December 21 talks between Iran and the so-called European Union 3 -- Britain, France and Germany -- on its disputed nuclear programme.\n\nEU-Iran talks collapsed in August when Tehran ended its suspension of uranium conversion, a first step towards enrichment, and the planned talks are aimed at determining if negotiations can resume.\n\nNuclear-armed Pakistan has figured in the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation of Iran's atomic fuel reactor programme.\n\nPakistan in May sent parts from used nuclear centrifuges to the IAEA to allow the agency to compare microscopic traces of uranium on them with those found on devices in Iran.\n\nThe IAEA confirmed in August that the particles found at a key nuclear site in Iran were from Pakistani centrifuges, which were passed to Tehran by the disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 356, "end_char": 365, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 421, "end_char": 427, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 21", "start_char": 1012, "end_char": 1023, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 1175, "end_char": 1181, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1494, "end_char": 1497, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 1680, "end_char": 1686, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0284.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0247\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUN warns of climate change threat as conference opens in Kenya\n\n\n\n\nA series of climate change meetings opened at the UN Office in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday with participants warning that climate change is fast proving to be one of the greatest challenges in the history of humankind.\n\nThousands of participants to the meetings, dubbed as \"the United Nations Climate Change Conference -- Nairobi 2006\", called for collective action to tackle the threat.\n\n\"Climate change is rapidly emerging as one of the most serious threats that humanity may ever face,\" said the newly-elected President of the conference, Kenyan Environment Minister Kivutha Kibwana at the opening ceremony.\n\nThe Nov. 6-17 conference, including the 12th Conference of the 189 Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 2nd meeting of the 166 Parties to the Kyoto Protocol and other side events, is the first UN climate summit held in sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nKibwana warned that global warming threatened the development goals for billions of the world's poorest people.\n\n\"We face a genuine danger that recent gains in poverty reduction will be thrown into reverse in coming decades, particularly for the poorest communities on the continent of Africa,\" he said.\n\nThe conference president went on to say that for these communities, scarce resources that would otherwise be channeled into essential projects to further economic development would instead be used for other emergencies, such as health care crises, water shortages and food stock failures.\n\nHe called on parties meeting in Nairobi to work together to ensure that real action is achieved on the issue of adaptation to climate change.\n\n\"Past and current greenhouse gas emission levels have already committed us to at least some level of temperature increase, and therefore a certain level of adaptation measures will be needed as a result,\" Kibwana said.\n\nThe UNFCCC's Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer called for specific activities to be agreed within the five-year work plan on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation.\n\n\"We expect countries to take decisions in Nairobi that will enhance action on adaptation on the ground,\" he said.\n\nAnother key outcome expected of the conference is agreement on how to manage the UNFCCC's Adaptation Fund. The fund is financed by a share of proceeds generated by the Kyoto Protocol's clean development mechanism (CDM).\n\nThe CDM permits industrialized countries which are members of the protocol to invest in sustainable development projects in developing countries, and thereby generate tradable emission credits.\n\n\"Ministers meeting in Nairobi have an opportunity to reach agreement on critical elements of the governance and management of the Adaptation Fund,\" the UN top climate change official said.\n\nKibwana called on the meeting to address the key obstacles faced by the least developed countries, in particular those in Africa, in participating successfully in the CDM.\n\nHe added that after a successful start in May 2006 in Bonn, discussion on future action to mitigate climate change would continue in Nairobi.\n\nOne track is for negotiating commitments beyond 2012 for countries under the Kyoto Protocol, the other deals with talks under the UNFCCC on the future of the climate change process, with a focus on how to advance development in a sustainable way and on how to realize the full potential of market-based opportunities.\n\n\"We need an equitable and effective future climate change regime that enables us to stabilize atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases while at the same time allowing economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner,\" Kibwana said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 210, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 6-17", "start_char": 736, "end_char": 745, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "coming decades", "start_char": 1230, "end_char": 1244, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2006", "start_char": 3078, "end_char": 3086, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2012", "start_char": 3227, "end_char": 3231, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0070\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nRussian ex-PM suffering 'unknown' illness\n\n\n\n\nRussian doctors treating former prime minister Yegor Gaidar have detected symptoms that \"do not correspond to any known illness\" but cannot say for sure that he was a victim of poisoning, Gaidar's office said Tuesday.\n\n\"The sudden development of the illness, the multi-faceted nature of the symptoms... do not correspond to any known illness,\" although \"doctors cannot unequivocally diagnose poisoning,\" the office said in a statement.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 313, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0070.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0065\n\nSEOUL, Dec 7 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with government action, details ///\n\n\n\n\nThe South Korean goverment threatened Wednesday to invoke emergency powers to avert a strike by Korean Air pilots.\n\nThe warning came after pilots of the country's largest airline said they would strike from shortly after midnight Wednesday unless they reached a last-minute compromise in pay bargaining with management.\n\nThe government issued a statement urging pilots to cancel the strike and resolve the dispute with their management through negotiations.\n\n\"Otherwise, we will take stong measures such as our emergency arbitration rights,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"We have kept the door open for dialogue with management,\" said an official of the union that represents 1,344 of Korean Air's 1,986 pilots.\n\nThey are demanding a 6.5 percent increase in wages and a 50 percent rise in bonuses. Of the 1,126 pilots who voted, 897 supported the strike, the union said.\n\nThe pilots earlier rejected a proposal by the government's arbitration body for a 2.5 percent increase in wages and a 50 percent rise in bonuses.\n\nKorean Air officials said the pilots had been given enough incentives this year, including special allowances amounting to 11.4 percent of their annual pay.\n\nDue to mounting fuel costs, Korean Air suffered a net loss of 42.5 billion won (40 million dollars) in the second quarter to June but in the third quarter, net profit jumped 59 percent from a year earlier to 154.2 billion won, helped by growth in passenger demand and lower costs.\n\nIn August pilots at Korean Air called off threatened strike action after a compromise over improved working conditions was reached with management.\n\nAt rival Asiana Airlines, the government invoked rarely-used emergency powers and mobilized riot police to end a 25-day stoppage by pilots in August.\n\n\"Korean Air's stoppage will seriously hurt our exports and credibility abroad,\" Construction and Transportation Minister Choo Byung-Jik said.\n\nThe goverment estimates that a strike by Korean Air pilots could cause 18.7 billion won (18.1 million dollars) in losses to the airline and 50 billion won to the country.\n\nKorean Air accounts for 40.6 percent of international passenger services and 48.1 percent of international cargo services out of South Korea.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 7 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1189, "end_char": 1198, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "second quarter", "start_char": 1384, "end_char": 1398, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-Q2", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1402, "end_char": 1406, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 1414, "end_char": 1431, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 1467, "end_char": 1481, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 1562, "end_char": 1568, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 1850, "end_char": 1856, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0065.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "bbc_20130322_1150\n\n2013-03-22\n\nLast 1953 Everest team member George Lowe dies, aged 89\n\n\n\nThe last surviving member of the team which first conquered Everest in 1953 has died in a Derbyshire nursing home.\n\nGeorge Lowe, 89, died in Ripley on Wednesday after a long-term illness, with his wife Mary by his side.\n\nNew Zealand-born Mr Lowe was part of the team that helped Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the summit in 1953.\n\nFamily friend and historian Dr Huw Lewis-Jones paid tribute to a \"gentle soul and fine climber\" who shunned the limelight.\n\nMr Lowe also took part in the trans-Antarctic expedition of 1957-58, which made the first successful overland crossing of Antarctica via the South Pole.\n\nHe later made expeditions to Greenland, Greece and Ethiopia.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in 1995, Mr Lowe said of his Antarctic adventure: \"We estimated we could do it in 100 days, and we got across on the 99th day.\n\n\"There was a great feeling of euphoria from everyone. It had a multiplying effect.\n\n\"We were pleased that England and New Zealand knew about it, and we thought that's where it would stop.\"\n\nHe also talked about his \"second job\" as the group's cameraman, and having to wear four pairs of gloves to work the clockwork camera.\n\n\"When there were dramas, there was a split problem. Do you take part in the urgency - or do you record it?\" he said.\n\nDr Lewis-Jones, the former curator at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, who first met Mr Lowe in 2005, called him a \"hero\".\n\n\"I don't often use that word but then it is not very often that you get to meet one,\" he said.\n\nA book of memoirs and photographs from the climb by Mr Lowe, which he worked on with Dr Lewis-Jones, is due to be published in May.\n\nHe said: \"Lowe was a brilliant, kind fellow who never sought the limelight... and 60 years on from Everest his achievements deserve wider recognition.\n\n\"He was involved in two of the most important explorations of the 20th Century... yet remained a humble, happy man right to the end... an inspirational lesson to us all.\"\n\nBefore retiring in 1984, Mr Lowe worked as an Inspector of Schools with the Department of Education and Sciences, and he leaves three sons from a previous marriage.\n\nThe last British climbing member of the 1953 team, Mike Westmacott, died last June.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "2013-03-22", "start_char": 19, "end_char": 29, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1953", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1953", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 250, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1953", "start_char": 424, "end_char": 428, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1953", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1957", "start_char": 615, "end_char": 619, "tid": "t2000", "type": "DATE", "value": "1957", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "58", "start_char": 620, "end_char": 622, "tid": "t2001", "type": "DATE", "value": "1958", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 798, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "100 days", "start_char": 873, "end_char": 881, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P100D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 99th day", "start_char": 904, "end_char": 916, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "XXXX-XX-XX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1492, "end_char": 1496, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1743, "end_char": 1746, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "60 years", "start_char": 1831, "end_char": 1839, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P60Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20th Century", "start_char": 1967, "end_char": 1979, "tid": "t2002", "type": "DATE", "value": "19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1984", "start_char": 2092, "end_char": 2096, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last June", "start_char": 2312, "end_char": 2321, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "bbc_20130322_1150.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0206\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPhoto exhibition on Sun Yat-sen's life held in Pakistan\n\n\n\n\nA photo exhibition to mark the 140th anniversary of the birth of Sun Yat-sen, one of the forefathers of modern China, opened here Monday.\n\nThe exhibition was organized by the Chinese Embassy to Pakistan and Pakistan National Council of the Arts.\n\nSome 200 people including representatives of the overseas Chinese, Chinese students in Pakistan and Pakistani friends were present at the occasion in Pakistan National Art Gallery.\n\nSpeaking on the occasion, Cultural Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy Shan Baoxiang recalled the glorious life of Sun and his great achievements made in the past for realizing independence, democracy and prosperity of China.\n\nShan Baoxiang said that Dr. Sun Yat-sen is respected by the Chinese people as the forerunner of the Chinese Revolution. His life had also been a story of struggles and self-sacrifices.\n\nShan said that Dr. Sun Yat-sen brought democracy to China, which still heavily influences the Chinese government today, from which the Chinese people are still benefiting.\n\nHe added that without Sun's efforts and ideological contributions, we will not have been able to stand here with you and talking about our deep-rooted friendships.\n\nOn displayed at the exhibition are 84 sheets of photos introducing Sun's glory life.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1072, "end_char": 1077, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0206.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0299\n\nNEW DELHI, April 10 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndia's tottering government given more breathing time\n\n\n\n\nIndia's Congress (I) party Thursday gave the ruling coalition government until Friday to sack Prime Minister H.D. Deve in return for its support in a vote of confidence.\n\nCongress spokesman Ved Prakash said: \"We have told the United Front (government) that if it does not come to a viable solution before 11 a.m. (0530 GMT) tomorrow the Congress will vote against it.\n\n\"Then the government will fall.\"\n\nPrakash's comments came after final peace talks between the two sides failed Thursday.\n\nPrakash, however, said a rapprochement could not be ruled out until the last minute.\n\nThe Congress last month withdrew its parliamentary backing to the minority centre-left alliance, accusing the government of misrule.\n\nIt said Deve Gowda should be sacked and announced it wanted to form its own coalition. Neither group, however, is strong enough to govern without outside backing.\n\nPrakash added: \"In politics, you cannot say anything has failed until the very end. There are still lots of possibilities and scope for compromise.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 10 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "11 a.m.", "start_char": 421, "end_char": 428, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 596, "end_char": 604, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last minute", "start_char": 675, "end_char": 690, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09T23:59", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 706, "end_char": 716, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0299.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0190\n\nNAGANO, Japan, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nJapanese wondergirl skater Mao Asada is heading to Russia to defend the Grand Prix Final after winning the NHK Trophy Friday with the highest ever score for a woman.\n\nJapanese rivals Fumie Suguri and Yukari Nakano, who won the NHK event last year, delighted the home fans by finishing second and third respectively.\n\nAsada, 16, collected 199.52 points in the Japanese competition, having marked 130.02 points in the free skating section and 69.50 from the short program.\n\nThe overall point score edged above 198.06 points won by two-time world champion Irina Slutskaya of Russia at the 2005 Cup of Russia.\n\n\"I was so happy because this is my first victory this season,\" Asada said. \"About the total score...it was a surprise and I was happy to see that.\"\n\nAsada gained her international prominence by beating Slutskaya to win the Grand Prix Final last year.\n\nAsada, the crowd's all-out favorite, kicked off her free skating program with a wobbly landing from a triple axel, but her performance improved after that.\n\n\"I thought I could ride the wave if I could succeed the triple axel. Today, I landed but kind of wobbled a bit. But it was not a failure and I was on my wave,\" she said.\n\n\"The rest of the programs had jumps that I felt confident about. I was able to do as I wanted, and I was relieved by that,\" she said.\n\nThere was considerable pressure on the high school student, who needed to win the competition to advance to the Grand Prix Final in Saint Petersburg later this month. The NHK Trophy is the last in the six-round qualifying series for the Final.\n\n\"This was the first time that I was put in a high-pressure situation like this. I was nervous but I came out OK. Maybe I grew up a little,\" said Asada, a driving force behind Japan's figure skating craze.\n\n\"I want to keep this momentum going into the finals. I hope I can do (a triple axel) there,\" Asada said.\n\nSecond-placed Suguri, 25, the world silver medallist who also came in second at Skate Canada this season, said she had struggled with fitness for the home competition.\n\n\"New generations of skaters are growing, even girls who are 10 years younger than I. I must to work more in order to survive,\" said Suguri, who won a total 179.31 points, scoring 117.39 in free skating and 61.92 from her short program.\n\n\"Maybe I failed to build my stamina, and it might have shown at the end,\" she said. \"I want to learn from new ideas from new girls.\"\n\nNakano, who failed to defend her title, said she was disappointed about repeated mistakes, particularly in her free skating, but that she would work to sharpen the accuracy of her jumps and spins.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 311, "end_char": 320, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this season", "start_char": 730, "end_char": 741, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 921, "end_char": 930, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 1159, "end_char": 1164, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "later this month", "start_char": 1545, "end_char": 1561, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0190.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0486\n\nKINSHASA, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nUN airlifts 1,800 Angolan refugees home from DR Congo\n\n\n\n\nThe UN refugee agency has begun to fly home 1,800 Angolan refugees who have lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo for many years, it announced on Tuesday.\n\n\"Some 50 of them left (Monday) afternoon on the first flight from Kinshasa to Mbanza Kongo, in the north of Angola,\" said a statement from the office in the DRC capital of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).\n\nUntil December 30, there will be three daily flights carrying a total of about 150 Angolans who have volunteered for repatriation, with a Christmas break between December 24 and 25, the agency said.\n\nRefugee flights are costly, but the UNHCR said that \"return transport by air is currently the only possible option due to the condition of roads and bridges that are inaccessible in the rainy season\".\n\nAngolan refugees moved into the DRC during the course of a civil war that ravaged their southern African country from independence in 1975 until 2002, but the UNHCR said that by the end of this year, 52,000 of them should be home.\n\nThe Angolan government paid for Monday's first airlift, the UNHCR said.\n\nVoluntary repatriations began after the DRC, Angola and the UN agency signed a tripartite accord in 2003, the year a regional war that had raged across the vast central African country came to an end. During that conflict, Angola was one of three countries to send troops to support Kinshasa against rebels backed by Rwanda and Uganda.\n\nThe refugees are being flown either to Mbanza Kongo or to Uige in northern Angola and the UNHCR allows them to take 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of luggage, and gives them either cash subsidies or assistance packages of food and items like cooking utensils, depending on their destination.\n\nThe latest registered number of Angolan refugees in the DRC was 145,000, among 224,000 refugees from neighbouring countries. The UNHCR also estimates that 410,000 DRC refugees live abroad, mainly in Tanzania, Zambia and Congo.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "many years", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday) afternoon", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 312, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 30", "start_char": 498, "end_char": 509, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 630, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 24", "start_char": 654, "end_char": 665, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25", "start_char": 670, "end_char": 672, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "season", "start_char": 884, "end_char": 890, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1039, "end_char": 1043, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of this year", "start_char": 1072, "end_char": 1092, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1158, "end_char": 1164, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1299, "end_char": 1303, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1305, "end_char": 1313, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0486.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0077\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n60,000 Afghans registered so far in Pakistan: UNHCR\n\n\n\n\nMore than 60,000 Afghans in Pakistan have so far been registered since the largest ever registration has been started on Oct. 15, the UN refugee agency said on Thursday.\n\nPakistan had launched the registration process in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the process would be completed by the end of this year, Pakistan news agency NNI reported.\n\nSenior Regional Public Information Officer of UNHCR Vivian Tan said that UNHCR is trying to give identification to Afghan refugees and their registration process would be completed by the end of year.\n\nShe said it is a wrong perception that process of registration of Afghan refugees will be used for expelling Afghan refugee from Pakistan.\n\nShe said that the basic purpose of the registration process is to protect Afghan refugees from harassment as after the registration Afghan refugees could legally stay for three years in Pakistan and they could obtain passports and identity cards to prove their identification.\n\nShe said that it is true that Afghan refugees are afraid of the registration process and they do not want to do so but the UNHCR is trying to convince them for registration.\n\nShe said that it is true that the UNHCR is lacking fund for completion of the registration process but the donors have pledged to provide more funds.\n\nShe said that 1 million Afghan refugees have been staying in 74 camps in Pakistan, mostly in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and southwestern Balochistan province.\n\nShe said that they would ask Pakistan government to set up more registration centers outside Islamabad, adding that the meeting is scheduled to be held in December to review the registration process.\n\nShe said, \"We are giving them 12 U.S. dollars per person going back to Afghanistan with a traveling allowance of four to 37 dollars according to their distance.\"\n\nIt is true that most of the Afghan refugees are coming back to Pakistan but there is no way to document the record of these people, said Van.\n\n\"We have always stressed the need of development in Afghanistan so that these people could stay in their country,\" she added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 15", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 242, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 282, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of this year", "start_char": 450, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of year", "start_char": 692, "end_char": 707, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 1021, "end_char": 1032, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 1778, "end_char": 1786, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0077.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0054\n\nNANJING, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's new Schmidt telescope's test observation successful\n\n\n\n\nTests on China's Schmidt telescope, which is designed to detect near-earth objects (NEO) that could threaten the planet were successful.\n\nThe telescope, measuring one meter in diameter, was tested by scientists at the Mount Zijin Observatory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the suburb of Huai'an city of east China's Jiangsu Province.\n\nIt is the fist telescope in China specialized in NEO observation and one of only six, one-meter NEO observation telescopes in the world, said Yang Jiexing, a researcher with the observatory.\n\nNear-earth objects are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational pull and may collide with earth.\n\nUsing the most sensitive CCD (Charge-Coupled Device) detectors, the telescope can take pictures of the high-orbit satellites, spatial debris, nebula and variable stars.\n\nAfter the test observation, the telescope will help astronomers document all NEOs, including unknown ones, for further study, and enable astronomers to know in advance whether an NEO poses a threat to the earth, said Yang.\n\nOnce the danger is found, astronomers will exchange the information within the global observation network, Yang said .\n\nA global observation network has been set up to prevent the NEOs from colliding with earth.\n\nSo far, more than 800 near-earth asteroids have been discovered by scientists, including nearly 100 with a diameter of more than 1,000 meters.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0054.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0154\n\nTAIPEI, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTaiwan to start first ever \"three-in-one\" election to saving money\n\n\n\n\nThe \"Central Election Commission\" of the Taiwan authorities on Tuesday announced a candidate list for the island's election of county heads, county councilors and village heads.\n\nIt is the first time for the island to put the election of county heads, county councilors and village heads in one election.\n\nThe election will be held in December.\n\nThe so called \"three-in-one\" election aims to economize election costs, according to the Taiwan authorities.\n\nStatistics offered by the \"Central Election Commission\" showed that the Taiwan authorities spent more than 13.1 billion New Taiwan dollars (409 million US dollars) holding a total of 21 elections over the past ten years.\n\nAlthough three elections integrated in one, the island's election atmosphere is still crazy. News of the election, candidate introductions and election analysis are frequently seen on local newspapers and TV programs. Candidates' photos and posters with their competition slogans were put up along the streets.\n\nThere are also reports of corruption. At present, 12 candidates are sued for being suspected of taking bribes for more votes.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 462, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past ten years", "start_char": 784, "end_char": 802, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0154.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0202\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua International News Advisory -- Nov. 28\n\n\n\n\nFollowing are some of the major international news stories scheduled to be covered or pursued by Xinhua on Monday.\n\n-- Exit polls show that opposition candidate Manuel Zelaya leads Sunday's presidential election in Honduras, winning more than 50 percent of the vote.\n\n-- Ice on the wings of the West Caribbean Airways (WCA) airplane had caused the Colombian company's plane to crash in Venezuela, killing the 160 people on board on Aug. 16 this year, Colombian media said on Sunday.\n\n-- Jordan has a new cabinet on Sunday, which faces the tasks of fighting against terrorism and improving the country's economy.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 214, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 16 this year", "start_char": 539, "end_char": 556, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 582, "end_char": 588, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 622, "end_char": 628, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0202.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0364\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambia soccer squad formed for CECAFA\n\n\n\n\nZambian national team coach has named a 19-member squad for the Confederation of East and Central African Football Association (CECAFA) championship that will start this month in Ethiopia.\n\nAccording to the list released here Wednesday by Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) Patrick Phiri has blended experience and new talent in his team, bringing in players from both the Under 20 and Under 23.\n\nThe championship that will also feature Malawi and the host Ethiopia will run from November 25 to December 10.\n\nFAZ spokesperson Joseph Nkole said: \"We are taking this championship seriously because it would help our players to prepare for the Ghana 2008 Africa Cup qualifiers early next year.\"\n\nNkole said FAZ decided to include the Under 20 players in the team to shape them up for the Africa Youth Championship next year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 323, "end_char": 332, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 25", "start_char": 579, "end_char": 590, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 10", "start_char": 594, "end_char": 605, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 773, "end_char": 788, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 910, "end_char": 919, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0364.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0308\n\nLAGOS, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSea pirates raid police station in south Nigeria\n\n\n\n\nA group of sea pirates have raided a police station in southern Nigeria and carted away arms and salaries of local government workers, the official News Agency of Nigeria reported on Monday.\n\nAn eyewitness was quoted as saying that about a dozen of pirates stormed Bori Divisional Police Station in southern state of Rivers on early Sunday morning and shot sporadically to scare away policemen on duty before looting.\n\nThe pirates also took away funds belonging to the local government and burnt their bus before escaping in a boat, the witness added.\n\nConfirming the event, police public relation officer Ireju Barasua said that a special police team had been deployed to the station and investigations had been started.\n\nShe appealed to the public to be vigilant and assist the police with useful information on the movement of strange persons and criminal activities in the area.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Sunday morning", "start_char": 435, "end_char": 455, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0308.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0024\n\nBANGKOK, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nI was a youthful Don Juan, says Thai PM\n\n\n\n\nThai Prime Minister Chaowalit Yongchaiyudh, who recently divulged that he had been married three times, has admitted to being a womanizer in his youth, The Nation reported Wednesday.\n\nChaowalit denied allegations of having been married to a fourth woman without the knowledge of the Thai public, but told reporters he had enjoyed a number of short term affairs as a young man.\n\n\"I had a lot of those kind of affairs. It was like a moon being surrounded by stars. I could not help it if I was a womanizer when I was young,\" the newspaper quoted him as saying.\n\nSpeculation over Chaowalit's marital history has been rife in the Thai press in recent weeks after an interview with his second wife, whose existence was largely unknown to the general public, was published in a leading newspaper.\n\nChaowalit and his second wife were married for three years in the 1960s after he divorced from his first wife.\n\nThe prime minister said the revelations had not caused any anguish to his current wife, who knew all about his colorful past.\n\nAsked to describe his second wife by reporters, Chaowlait responded: \"All women are the same -- they are all lovely.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent weeks", "start_char": 739, "end_char": 751, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 938, "end_char": 949, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0024.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "NYT19980212.0019 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/12/1998 01:58:00 \n\nA4195 Cx1f taf-z\nu a Cx13  Cx11  BC-NY-LAUNDRY-MURDER-NYT     02-12 0207\n\n\n BC-NY-LAUNDRY-MURDER-NYT \n\nWOMAN KILLED AT BROOKLYN LAUNDROMAT\n\n(lh) QL\nUR c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service LR  QC  QL\n\n\nNEW YORK _ A Brooklyn woman who  was watching her clothes dry in\na laundromat  was killed Thursday evening when two would-be robbers\nemptied their pistols into the store, the police said.\nThe men appeared in the store at 469 Vermont St. in Brownsville\naround 7:15 p.m., after the victim, Linda Sanders, 35,  had finished\nher cleaning and  was waiting for her clothes  to dry, detectives\nsaid.\n``It looks as though they panicked,'' a detective, speaking on\ncondition of anonymity, said of the robbers. ``They intended  to rob\nthe place. There were four or five people inside, and they just started firing.''\nMs. Sanders  was hit several times and  was pronounced dead at the\nscene. The other customers fled, and the police said it did not appear that anyone else was injured.\nThe men took no money from their victim or from the\nestablishment, said Detective Joseph Pentangelo, a Police\nDepartment spokesman.\nVictor Miranda, who lives in Ms. Sanders' apartment building at\n405 Williams Ave., said the laundry machines in the building  were removed a few years ago to make room for management offices.\n\n\n\nNYT-02-12-98 0158EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "02/12/1998 01:58:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t41", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-12T01:58:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 339, "end_char": 355, "tid": "t44", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-12TEV", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "around 7:15 p.m.", "start_char": 501, "end_char": 517, "tid": "t46", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-12T19:15", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t44"}, {"text": "a few years ago", "start_char": 1295, "end_char": 1310, "tid": "t47", "type": "DATE", "value": "199X", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "NYT19980212.0019.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0104\n\nBAKU, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAzerbaijan starts parliamentary elections amid opposition protests\n\n\n\n\nSome 4.66 million registered voters in Azerbaijan Saturday went to the polls amid opposition protests.\n\nThe oppositions said the elections to choose the 125-seat Milli Majlis, or national assembly, have been marked by \"harassment\" as a leading opposition party's campaign leader has been kept under arrest for a third day.\n\nFaramaz Javadov, campaign manager for the Democratic Party, was reportedly arrested in a raid on the party's election headquarters on Thursday evening.\n\nOpposition parties of the country, including Javadov's Democratic Party, which are united in the the Azadlyq (Freedom) Bloc, have promised demonstrations if any fraud is detected.\n\nPledging a fair and transparent vote, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Javadov was arrested when police were searching his offices after a tip-off about illegal weapons.\n\n\"Faramaz Javadov put up resistance and he was therefore arrested for obstructing police.\" said the spokesman.\n\nThe government of President Ilham Aliyev has introduced a package of anti-fraud measures, including applying special ink on voters' fingers to prevent multiple voting in the elections which have drawn much attention from western countries.\n\nMeanwhile, the voting process in the oil-rich nation of eight million people will also be watched by about 2,000 Azeri monitors, as well as 1,291 foreign observers.\n\nThe polls will be closed at 1500 GMT and preliminary results are expected to come out within 24 hours.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a third day", "start_char": 434, "end_char": 445, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 582, "end_char": 598, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 hours", "start_char": 1567, "end_char": 1575, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT24H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0104.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0227\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nhumans\n\n\n\n\nThe Beijing-based vaccine producer Sinovac Biotech, the first in the world to develop SARS vaccine, said Friday it has made preparations to produce human-use bird flu vaccine in mass quantity.\n\nSinovac has installed a special production line for the human-use bird flu vaccine, said Yin Weidong. general manager of the company, which is working with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention to research bird flu human vaccine.\n\n\"We have applied for human clinical trials for the vaccine with the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration and the vaccine can be put into production once the clinical trials complete,\" said Yin, adding the price of the vaccine could be lower than the commonly-used flu vaccines.\n\nChinese scientists have developed a bird flue vaccine for human use and will carry out clinical tests in days.\n\n\"Tests show that the vaccine is highly safe,\" said Yin.\n\nFounded in 2001, Sinovac, known in China as Beijing Kexing Bioproducts Limited Company, focuses on manufacturing and marketing human-use vaccines and related products for infectious diseases such as Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B, influenza and SARS.\n\nThe company was designated to cooperate with the state disease control and prevention center to carry out the research and development for human-use bird flu vaccine, to be used for preventing the disease among humans, since the epidemic among birds was first found in March 2004.\n\n\"We get the virus samples from the lab of the influenza center under the World Health Organization and the research is going on well,\" said Yin.\n\n\"If the bird flu virus mutates, we can develop new vaccines in four months,\" said Yin.\n\nMillions of chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry have been culled after bird flu outbreaks were reported in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Hunan, Hubei, and Anhui provinces this year.\n\nChina's health authorities have confirmed on Wednesday the first two human infection cases of bird flu in the country, and enhanced efforts to prevent and control the epidemic.\n\nChinese Premier Wen Jiabao inspected the workshops of bird flu vaccine and medicine for human use in Sinovac on Thursday and called for new progress on the research and development of the bird flu vaccine.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 974, "end_char": 978, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2004", "start_char": 1481, "end_char": 1491, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four months", "start_char": 1703, "end_char": 1714, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1910, "end_char": 1919, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1967, "end_char": 1976, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2212, "end_char": 2220, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0227.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "nyt_20130322_strange_computer\n\n2013-03-22\n\nA Strange Computer Promises Great Speed\n\n\n\nOur digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern computer code.\n\nBut a powerful new type of computer that is about to be commercially deployed by a major American military contractor is taking computing into the strange, subatomic realm of quantum mechanics. In that infinitesimal neighborhood, common sense logic no longer seems to apply. A one can be a one, or it can be a one and a zero and everything in between  all at the same time.\n\nIt sounds preposterous, particularly to those familiar with the yes/no world of conventional computing. But academic researchers and scientists at companies like Microsoft, I.B.M. and Hewlett-Packard have been working to develop quantum computers.\n\nNow, Lockheed Martin  which bought an early version of such a computer from the Canadian company D-Wave Systems two years ago  is confident enough in the technology to upgrade it to commercial scale, becoming the first company to use quantum computing as part of its business.\n\nSkeptics say that D-Wave has yet to prove to outside scientists that it has solved the myriad challenges involved in quantum computation.\n\nBut if it performs as Lockheed and D-Wave expect, the design could be used to supercharge even the most powerful systems, solving some science and business problems millions of times faster than can be done today.\n\nRay Johnson, Lockheeds chief technical officer, said his company would use the quantum computer to create and test complex radar, space and aircraft systems. It could be possible, for example, to tell instantly how the millions of lines of software running a network of satellites would react to a solar burst or a pulse from a nuclear explosion  something that can now take weeks, if ever, to determine.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "2013-03-22", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "digital", "start_char": 90, "end_char": 97, "tid": "t100", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 819, "end_char": 822, "tid": "t102", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years ago", "start_char": 931, "end_char": 944, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2011", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1443, "end_char": 1448, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1817, "end_char": 1820, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "weeks", "start_char": 1826, "end_char": 1831, "tid": "t101", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "nyt_20130322_strange_computer.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0389\n\nMEXICO CITY, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFive police killed on drug patrol in Mexico\n\n\n\n\nFive police officers were killed in an ambush by drug gangs in the western Mexican state of Michoacan on Tuesday, state prosecutors said.\n\nAn investigative officer and four police officers were shot dead when conducting a routine patrol in the mountain town of Aguililla where farmers grow opium poppies and marijuana, a spokesman for the state prosecutor said.\n\nThe victims' bodies were found bullet-riddled.\n\nThe incident happened close to Tumbuscatio, where Mexican soldiers killed one drug trafficker and arrested two last week, and seized a vast cache of weapons.\n\nDrug violence has surged in western Mexican states like Michoacan and Guerrero recently, despite efforts by the government of President Vicente Fox to break the gangs.\n\nSince the beginning of this year, 30 police have been killed in drug-related violence.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 214, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 631, "end_char": 640, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the beginning of this year", "start_char": 854, "end_char": 880, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0389.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0121\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSome 2.8 tons of drugs seized in southeastern Iran in three days\n\n\n\n\nIranian anti-drug police have seized some 2.8 tons of illicit drugs in the southeastern city of Zahedan during the past three days, the official IRNA news agency reported on Saturday.\n\nThe massive haul, including 2,000 kg of opium, 400 kg of hashish, 400 kg of heroin and some narcotics, were seized when police searched suspected vehicles in the city during a drug- busting operation, a police officer was quoted by the IRNA as saying.\n\nOver 100 weapons were also confiscated during the operation and 39 drug traffickers arrested, the officer added.\n\nZahedan is the capital city of the Sistan-Baluchestan province, which shares a 1,100-km border with Pakistan and Afghanistan.\n\nDrug addiction and transportation has been a serious social problem in Iran, a country sitting in the crossroad linking drug producing Afghanistan and Pakistan and markets in the Persian Gulf states, central Asia, western Europe and other regions.\n\nAccording to official statistics, there are at least 2 million drug addicts in Iran.\n\nThe country also accounts for 80 percent of the opium and 90 percent of the morphine intercepted worldwide, according to the International Narcotics Control Board.\n\nThe Islamic Republic spends 5 billion US dollars annually on anti-drug programs, and over 3,100 police have lost their lives in clashes with drug smugglers during the past two decades.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three days", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two decades", "start_char": 1467, "end_char": 1487, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-26T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0121.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0253\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAnnan calls for strong action to eliminate violence against women\n\n\n\n\nUN Secretary General Kofi Annan called on states on Friday to take strong action to eliminate violence against women.\n\nThe United Nations on Friday marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women with calls for states to take legal action against the global scourge, for societies to change a mindset that permits such abuse, and for women themselves to stand up and speak out against a culture of shame.\n\nIn a message on the Day, Annan pointed out that \"violence against women remains pervasive worldwide.\"\n\n\"It is the most atrocious manifestation of the systemic discrimination and inequality women continue to face, in law and in their everyday lives, around the world. It occurs in every region, country, and culture, regardless of income, class, race or ethnicity,\" he said.\n\nNoting that leaders at September's UN World Summit pledged to redouble efforts to eliminate all forms of violence against women and the girls, he stressed that this required a change of the mindset, still all too common and deep-seated, that violence against women is acceptable.\n\n\"That means leadership in showing, by example, that when it comes to violence against women and girls, there are no grounds for tolerance and no tolerable excuses,\" the Secretary-General declared.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 965, "end_char": 974, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0253.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0093\n\nSEOUL, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSeoul shares close 1.3 percent lower\n\n\n\n\nShare prices fell 1.3 percent on the Korea Stock Exchange Tuesday, hit by reports of financial problems at Jinro group subsidiaries, dealers said.\n\nThe composite index closed down 9.38 points at 687.96.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 159, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0093.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0053 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0053. \n Bethlehem Steel\n@  Net Fell 54%\n@  In 3rd Period\n@  ---\n@  Higher Costs, Less Volume\n@  Are Cited; 2 Others Post\n@  Lower Operating Profits\n@  ----\n@  By Clare Ansberry\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n BS AS NII \n STEEL MANUFACTURERS (STL)\nEARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   Bethlehem Steel Corp., hammered by higher costs and lower shipments to key automotive and service-center customers, posted a 54% drop in third-quarter profit. \n\n   Separately, two more of the nation's top steelmakers -- Armco Inc. and National Intergroup Inc. -- reported lower operating earnings in their steel businesses, marking what is generally believed to be the end of a two-year boom in the industry. \n\n   Wall Street analysts expect the disappointing trend to continue into the fourth quarter and through at least the first two quarters of 1990, when the industry will increasingly see the effect of price erosion in major product lines, such as rolled sheet used for cars, appliances and construction. \n\n   \"It does n't bode well for coming quarters,\" said John Jacobson, who follows the steel industry for AUS Consultants. \nIn fact, he thinks several steelmakers will report actual losses through the third quarter of 1990. \n\n   Bethlehem, the nation's second largest steelmaker, earned $46.9 million, or 54 cents a share. \nThe figures include $15 million in costs related to a blast furnace outage and $8 million in losses from unauthorized work outages at the company's coal operations. \nIn the year-ago period, Bethlehem earned $101.4 million, or $1.27 a share, including a $3.8 million gain from early retirement of debt. \n\n   Third-quarter sales dropped 11% to $1.27 billion from $1.43 billion a year ago. \n\n   In composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Bethlehem shares rose 50 cents to $17.375. \n\n   Of all the major steelmakers, Bethlehem would seem to be the most vulnerable to a slowdown. \nIt hasn't diversified beyond steel, nor has it linked up with a joint venture partner to share costs and risks. \n\n   However, in spite of the difficult industrywide environment of high cost and low volume, Bethlehem \"had pretty good earnings numbers,\" said Michelle Galanter Applebaum, an analyst with Salomon Brothers Inc. Ms. Applebaum had estimated third-quarter earnings of 55 cents a shhha55 cents a share,   ents a share, but  ssa share, but said the losses for the unusual items were larger than expected. \n\n   Still, Bethlehem's core basic steel operations experienced a steep drop in operating profit to $58.6 million from $186.4 million a year ago, when the industry enjoyed strong demand and pricing. \nThe company said its shipments declined as a result of a reduction in inventories by service centers, a lackluster automotive market and increasing competitive pressures in the construction market. \n\n   At the same time, production costs, compared with a year ago, were boosted by higher raw material and employment costs, which resulted from the company's new labor pact effective June 1. \n\n   \"We anticipate that steel market conditions will exhibit a further moderate decline in the fourth quarter as the automotive sector remains weak and customers continue to adjust inventories,\" said Bethlehem Chairman Walter F. Williams. \nHe noted , however, that the company's order entry has increased from the low levels of the early summer, following the end of labor negotiations. \n\n   steel business, said third-quarter net income dropped 8% to $33 million, or 35 cents a share, from $36 million, or 39 cents a share in the year-ago quarter. \nSales dropped to $441.1 million from $820.4 million, because the company no longer consolidates its Eastern Steel division, which is now a joint venture with Kawasaki Steel Corp. \n\n   Along with reduced volume, analysts said the nation's fifth largest steelmaker was hurt by holding higher-cost inventory when raw material costs of such key products as nickel dropped. \nOperating profit dropped 46% in its specialty flat-rolled steel segment. \nMoreover, the company said higher sales and shipments to service centers from its Armco Steel Co. joint venture failed to offset weakness in the automotive market, higher production costs and a poorer product mix. \n\n   Armco shares closed unchanged at $10.625 in composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange. \n\n   National Intergroup, which owns 50% of the nation's sixth largest steelmaker -- National Steel Corp. -- posted net income for the fiscal second-quarter of $8.6 million, or 33 cents a share, compared with a net loss of $50.3 million. \nSales increased in the quarter ended Sept. 30 to $747.8 million from $623.5 million a year ago. \nThe latest period includes gains of $9.1 million from early retirement of debt and tax loss carry-forward. \nLast year's results were hurt by $41.3 million in restructuring charges. \n\n   National Intergroup stock closed at $15, unchanged in composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange. \n\n   The company noted that its Fox-Meyer Drug Co., Ben Franklin Stores Inc. and Permian Corp. operations showed improvements as a result of restructuring moves. \nHowever, its equity in the net income of National Steel declined to $6.3 million from $10.9 million as a result 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0067\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTwo people killed in two roadside bombs in central Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nTwo people were killed and five others wounded when two roadside bombs went off at central Baghdad district on Sunday, a well-informed police source said.\n\n\"Two roadside bombs detonated at about 1:40 a.m. (1040 GMT) in the Fanarah district near the Taiyran Square, killing two civilians and wounding five others,\" the source said on condition of anonymity.\n\nIn an earlier incident, the death toll of a suicide bomb attack at a police commando recruitment center in western Baghdad rose to 35, with up to 60 others wounded, the source said.\n\nViolence rages in Iraq as sectarian killings, car bombings and roadside bombings claim lives of dozens of Iraqis on the daily basis.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1:40 a.m.", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 324, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0067.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0225\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina Netcom and Spanish Telefonica form joint venture for PCCW\n\n\n\n\nChina Netcom Group Corp announced on Monday an agreement with Spain's Telefonica SA to form a joint venture which will hold controlling shares in PCCW, a Hong Kong-based phone operator.\n\nTelefonica will purchase an eight percent stake in PCCW which would increase the shares of the joint venture in PCCW to 27.94 percent, said China Netcom Group in a press release.\n\nChina Netcom Group, Telefonica and PCCW have signed a strategic alliance which will enable the three companies to fully cooperate in mobile services and voice communication.\n\nChina Netcom Group said that Telefonica was a well-known international telecom operator and its entry into PCCW would help to enhance the value of PCCW and guarantee better returns to the shareholders.\n\nChina Netcom Group acquired a 20 percent stake in the enlarged share capital of Hong Kong-listed PCCW last year for one billion U.S. dollars, at 5.90 HK dollars per share.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 972, "end_char": 981, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0225.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0680\n\nWASHINGTON, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT Washington blames casualties in Lima on rebels\n\n\n\n\nThe United States blamed leftist hostage-takers Tuesday for what it said were \"some casualties\" suffered as Peruvian security forces ended the siege at the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0680.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0340\n\nBELFAST, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nBritain\n\n\n\n\nA senior figure of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), has been expelled from the party after admitting he had been a spy for the British government, a party spokesman said on Friday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 271, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0340.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0411\n\nPARIS, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nBogus Segolene Royal haunts Second Life\n\n\n\n\nAn avatar made up to look like French presidential candidate Segolene Royal has made an appearance in the popular virtual world of Second Life, though it is not piloted by the politician or her any of her supporters.\n\nVincent Feltesse, the head of the \"new technologies division\" of Royal's Socialist party, told AFP the character -- known as Segolene RoyalE -- had been spotted some time ago but nothing had been done to stop it.\n\n\"That's just par for the course for the 'net,\" he said.\n\nHe added that, while the behaviour of the avatar was \"sophomoric\" and not approved of by the party, it would go unhindered \"as long as it's not an initiative controlled by a PR agency.\"\n\nA French free newspaper, Metro, on Wednesday conducted an interview with the character.\n\nSecond Life, a vast online world created by a San Francisco technology company called Linden Lab, counts around two million \"residents\", or virtual characters whose likenesses are made up by members.\n\nThe computerised environment has attracted several real-world companies, including car manufacturers and sports clothing makers, which created 3-D stores.\n\nIt also has a branch of the French far-right group the National Front, which was opened by its youth movement to promote the presidential candidacy of its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "some time ago", "start_char": 474, "end_char": 487, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 806, "end_char": 815, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0411.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0485\n\nLONDON, Dec 14 , 2005\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nLondon mayor Ken Livingstone never meant to offend Jewish people by comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration guard, his lawyer said Wednesday.\n\nHis remarks to a journalist from London's Evening Standard newspaper were instead triggered by his dislike of Associated Newspapers, which owns the title and its national sister paper the Daily Mail, and its alleged support for anti-Semitism, lawyer Tony Child said.\n\nThe anti-Semitism claims -- made by Livingstone during a February 22 response to the controversy -- refer to a leaving party thrown for an outgoing Daily Mail editor in which some guests were reportedly dressed as Nazis.\n\nHe also referred to the Daily Mail's support for facism and its opposition to allowing Jews fleeing European pogroms to come to Britain in the 1930s.\n\n\"What Mr. Livingstone was doing when he made the statement which has led to this hearing is to reflect his long-held and, it's accepted, honestly held political view of the Mail group,\" Child told a disciplinary hearing in central London.\n\n\"An apology may be relevant to mitigation, but a lack of an apology cannot determine liability.\"\n\nLivingstone, who was not at Wednesday's hearing, is facing charges that he failed to treat others with respect or had brought his office into disrepute.\n\nIf found guilty, he could be banned from office for five years, ordered to make an apology, suspended, made to undergo training or be censured.\n\nWhen Evening Standard reporter Oliver Finegold approached Livingstone at a public function in February, the mayor asked him whether he had ever been a \"German war criminal\".\n\nOn hearing that Finegold was Jewish, Livingstone likened him to a Nazi concentration camp guard.\n\nThe publicised remarks led to calls from Jewish groups, concentration camp survivors and politicians, including Prime Minister Tony Blair, for an apology, but none has been forthcoming.\n\nDespite once being the newspaper's restaurant critic, there is no love lost between Livingstone and the Evening Standard, which the mayor believes has waged a lengthy hate campaign against him.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 22", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 553, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1930s", "start_char": 846, "end_char": 855, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "193", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1224, "end_char": 1233, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 1402, "end_char": 1412, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1589, "end_char": 1597, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0485.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0389\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nURGENT Saddam trial adjourned until Wednesday\n\n\n\n\nThe trial of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was adjourned Monday until Wednesday, an AFP correspondent said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0389.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0183\n\nAMMAN, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n1st lead: Woman suicide bomber confesses to bomb attack\n\n\n\n\nThe woman suicide bomber in Wednesday's Amman hotel bombing attacks confessed that she was told to carry out the bombing, the official Jordanian television reported on Sunday.\n\nSajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, an Iraqi national, appeared on the television with explosives strapped around her waist.\n\nThe 35-year-old confessed to failing in her mission of carrying out the attack, which killed at least 57 people in Radisson, Grand Hyatt and Days Inn hotels in the Jordanian capital Wednesday night and wounded over 110 others.\n\nShe said she was told by her husband, Ali Hussein Ali al- Shamari who was identified as one of another three Iraqi suicide bombers, to wear an explosive belt, but she failed to blow herself up when accompanying her husband to attack Radisson Hotel.\n\nThe other two were identified as Rawad Jassem Mohammed Abed and Safaa Mohammed Ali.\n\nEarlier reports said the woman was sister of a senior aide of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of al-Qaida in Iraq. The aide was killed by US-Iraqi forces in Iraq earlier this year.\n\nAl-Shamari and his wife were disguised as guests to a wedding party held in Radisson Hotel before the attack, Jordanian authorities said.\n\nAl-Qaida terror group in Iraq has claimed responsibility for the blasts in an Internet statement.\n\nIn the wake of the bloodshed, Jordan has vowed to hunt down the attackers and those behind the blasts. Scores of suspects have been rounded up by Jordanian police across the country and investigations are underway.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 289, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 598, "end_char": 613, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 1138, "end_char": 1155, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0183.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0613\n\nBEIJING, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nfund loss\n\n\n\n\nChina has ordered local governments to make up shortfalls in their social security funds after it found 7.1 billion yuan (900 million dollars) had been misappropriated, state media reported Monday.\n\nDeputy Minister of Labor and Social Security Liu Yongfu was quoted by state newspapers as saying local governments should recover the embezzled funds but must compensate for the losses if they fail to do so.\n\n\"For the funds that have been lost and unable to be recovered, the (local) governments have to compensate,\" according to the report.\n\nLocal governments must also submit plans to recover misused funds from illegal investments to the ministry before the end of this year, Liu was quoted by the People's Daily as saying.\n\n\"As the supervising government department... the ministry takes major responsibility. And we must learn a lesson and make timely corrections,\" Liu said.\n\nThe ministry will also look into building a mechanism to improve transparency by requiring local governments regularly report on the use of social security funds.\n\nLast month, the National Audit Office said it has unearthed a total of 7.1 billion yuan in social security funds that have been misappropriated.\n\nMost of the misused funds was used for construction of government buildings or other property projects, unauthorized overseas investment and loans to companies, it said.\n\n\"We have to strengthen reform and make efforts to prevent similar incidents from happening,\" the ministry was cited in the People's Daily as saying.\n\nMeanwhile, a local official in northeast China's Liaoning province was found to have embezzled 11.5 million yuan in rural pension funds in illegal stock investments, according to the Liaoshen Evening News.\n\nThe official surnamed Fu was sentenced to three years in jail by a local court, it said.\n\nCorruption involving national social security funds has become the focus of attention since it was revealed that about 3.2 billion yuan worth of funds in Shanghai had been misappropriated by officials in the real estate market.\n\nThe biggest political corruption scandal in more than a decade brought down Shanghai's top Communist Party official Chen Liangyu in late September and scores of officials and businessmen have been implicated since.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of this year", "start_char": 722, "end_char": 742, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last month", "start_char": 1111, "end_char": 1121, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late September", "start_char": 2236, "end_char": 2250, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0613.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0099\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Dec 17 , 2006, 2006\n\nControversy hits South African cricket\n\n\n\n\nSouth African cricket, already reeling after the national team collapsed to 84 all out in the first Test against India, found itself enmeshed in front page controversy Sunday.\n\nThe Sunday Times reported that vice-captain and star all-rounder Jacques Kallis refused to sing the national anthem, while the Afrikaans newspaper Rapport published strong criticism of the sport's officials by spin bowler Nicky Boje, who retired suddenly when he was due to join the team for the Test.\n\nCricket South Africa (SA)will discuss with Kallis what the player describes as \"good and valid personal reasons\" why he does not sing the national anthem when it is played before international matches.\n\nThe Sunday Times published an e-mail from Kallis to a member of the public who had queried why he did not sing the anthem. Kallis wrote: \"It is my choice whether I sing or do not sing the anthem. I certainly do not have to explain my reasons to anyone, especially you. I do have good and valid personal reasons and I intend to keep it that way.\"\n\nKallis refused to elaborate on his comments but Cricket SA chief executive Gerald Majola said the issue would be discussed with the player after the Test.\n\nNational symbols are a particularly sensitive issue in South Africa with a new anthem and new flag introduced when the country achieved majority rule in 1994.\n\nMajola said Cricket SA \"insists on having the SA anthem sung.\" He listed several reasons, including the enhancement and encouragement of nation-building and because it was \"a bridge between the players and the spectators, unifying their support of their nation and of each other.\"\n\nMajola said these reasons had been explained to the players and there had been no request from any player not to sing the anthem.\n\nMeanwhile, Boje told Rapport he felt he had been harshly treated by the selectors. \"At some stage you have to ask yourself where you are going and where your loyalties lie. Mine are no longer with the Proteas.\"\n\nBoje, who will continue to play domestic cricket for the Eagles franchise, said an unhealthy situation had developed in South African cricket.\n\nHe said he believed several players would opt to play their cricket in other countries if they were not selected for the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies.\n\n\"With the uncertainty over places and the scramble to be part of the group it seems as though certain players are playing for themselves and their own places - and that is unhealthy for SA cricket,\" said Boje.\n\nFormer Test off-spinner Pat Symcox joined the criticism when he said South African captain Graeme Smith was so busy dealing with non-cricket issues that he did not have time to concentrate on his game.\n\nSmith, who has been in woeful form, was out for five Saturday at the start of his team's slide to 84 all out, their lowest total since the country returned to international cricket in 1991.\n\nAlthough cricket officials have denied there is conflict in the national team set-up, there was a public rift between Smith and selection convenor Haroon Lorgat shortly before the third one-day international in Cape Town where Lorgat insisted on a late change to the team when Smith was walking out for the toss.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday Times", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday Times", "start_char": 788, "end_char": 800, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 1440, "end_char": 1444, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five Saturday", "start_char": 2835, "end_char": 2848, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 2971, "end_char": 2975, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0099.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0002\n\nDALLAS, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nSore ankle no problem for Nowitzki as NBA Mavericks romp\n\n\n\n\nDirk Nowitzki scored 20 points and grabbed 12 rebounds despite playing on a sore left ankle to spark the Dallas Mavericks past the Los Angeles Clippers 115-83 here Friday.\n\nJosh Howard scored 25 points and Devean George scored a season-high 21 points with 5-of-6 3-point accuracy as the Mavericks hit 15-of-27 from beyond the 3-point arc for their sixth victory in a row.\n\nNowitzki left Wednesday's game against Seattle in the first quarter after hurting his left ankle and had been questionable, but the 7-foot German star answered all soubts by shooting 7-for-15, 3-of-5 in 3-pointers, in 26 minutes.\n\nDallas led by as many as 43 points in the fourth quarter over the Clippers, who lost their six game in a row.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 277, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 500, "end_char": 509, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter", "start_char": 536, "end_char": 553, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "26 minutes", "start_char": 704, "end_char": 714, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT26M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth quarter", "start_char": 755, "end_char": 773, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q4", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0002.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0233\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIranian supreme leader says no limit on cooperation with Iraq\n\n\n\n\nIranian Supreme Leader Seyed Ali Khamenei said here on Tuesday that there was no limit for Iran on the development of cooperation with Iraq, the official IRNA news agency reported.\n\n\"Iran is proud of Iraq's progress, security, independence and national strength and there is no limit on the development of cooperation with Iraq,\" Khamenei was quoted as saying at a meeting with visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.\n\nKhamenei said Iran and Iraq enjoyed long-standing religious, cultural and historical affinity, stressing that Iran was pleased with the political process for the establishment of a democratic government in Iraq.\n\nKhamenei called on the Iraqi nation to \"leave behind the current ordeal\" and foster national solidarity in order to pave the way for setting a timetable for the withdrawal of occupation forces.\n\n\"Iraqi people will be exposed to the US pressure if the government and Iraqi people fail to strengthen their unity,\" Khamenei said.\n\nFor his part, Talabani expressed pleasure with his visit to Iran, terming the bilateral relations as strategic, according to IRNA.\n\nEarlier in the day, Talabani also met Chairman of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.\n\nLeading a ranking delegation, Talabani arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran on Monday afternoon for a three-day official visit. The Iraqi president held close-door official talks with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad soon after arrival.\n\nIran and Iraq fought a lengthy war from 1980 to 1988, during which altogether more than 500,000 people were killed.\n\nThe downfall of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein paved the way to the normalization of relations between the two once hostile neighbors.\n\nIraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari paid a landmark official visit to Iran in mid-July, opening a new chapter in bilateral relations.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday afternoon", "start_char": 1395, "end_char": 1411, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-21TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980", "start_char": 1605, "end_char": 1609, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0233.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0146\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesia tries to stop flow of funds for terrorists\n\n\n\n\nAlthough a channel to flow fund from overseas for terrorist cell in Indonesia has been cut, the Indonesian police would persistently track down the other possible ways to flow funds for the cell here, in a bid to totally stop the channeling of finance to the cell in the world most populated Muslim country, Police chief General Sutanto said here on Tuesday.\n\nSutanto said that the police would hunt and capture curriers of funds as well as cooperate with banking sectors to freeze the money.\n\nHe said that terrorist cell in overseas had sent money to terrorist cells here to finance explosions.\n\n\"We hope to continuously able to stop the flow of their funds. We will capture their curriers and cooperate with banks,\" he said.\n\nTo prevent from the authority's surveilance, the terrorists in overseas had ignored to send their funds through bank, but currier, Sutanto said.\n\n\"After sending fund with currier, terrorist changes the currier with other person for the other sending,\" he said.\n\nSutanto claimed that currently the terrorist cells in the country were facing financial problem, as they had raised funds through selling of mobile phone vouchers and robbing gold store.\n\nA key terrorist suspect Imam Samudra and other terrorist fellows robbed a gold store in West java province to finance Bali bombings in 2002.\n\nAbdullah Sonanta, who channeled fund from a terrorist cell in Saudi Arabia, was captured in June last year, his arrest has disrupted the funding from the cell, said Sutanto.\n\nSonata was a member of group of Azhari Husin, the mastermind of major suicide bombings in the country and shot death on Nov. 9 in a villa in East Java province.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 464, "end_char": 471, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1427, "end_char": 1431, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June last year", "start_char": 1526, "end_char": 1540, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 9", "start_char": 1729, "end_char": 1735, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0146.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0016 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0016. \n Business Brief -- Octel Communications Corp.:\n@  Hewlett-Packard Co. Raises\n@  Stake to 8.5% of Common \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n HWP OCTL \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   Hewlett-Packard Co. said it raised its stake in Octel Communications Corp. to 8.5% of the common shares outstanding. \n\n   In a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, Hewlett-Packard said it now holds 1,384,119 Octel common shares, including 100,000 shares bought from Aug. 26 to Oct. 20 for $23.31 to $24.25 a share. \n\n   Hewlett-Packard, a Palo Alto, Calif., computer company, said it acquired the stock \"to develop and maintain a strategic partnership in which each company remains independent while working together to market and sell their products.\" \n\n   Octel said the purchase was expected. \nHewlett-Packard affirmed it does n't plan to obtain control of Octel, a Milpitas, Calif., maker of voice-processing systems. \n\n   According to the filing, Hewlett-Packard acquired 730,070 common shares from Octel as a result of an Aug. 10, 1988, stock purchase agreement. \nThat accord also called for Hewlett-Packard to buy 730,070 Octel shares in the open market within 18 months. \nIn addition, Hewlett-Packard acquired a two-year option to buy an extra 10%, of which half may be sold directly to Hewlett-Packard by Octel.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t46", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 26", "start_char": 516, "end_char": 523, "tid": "t94", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-08-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t46"}, {"text": "Oct. 20", "start_char": 527, "end_char": 534, "tid": "t51", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-20", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t46"}, {"text": "Aug. 10, 1988", "start_char": 1078, "end_char": 1091, "tid": "t57", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-08-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "18 months", "start_char": 1218, "end_char": 1227, "tid": "t60", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two-year", "start_char": 1270, "end_char": 1278, "tid": "t61", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0679.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0245\n\nPARIS, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFrench economy stagnates unexpectedly in 3rd quarter\n\n\n\n\nThe French economy came to a halt in the third quarter of the year, stagnating from the second quarter when it climbed 1.2 percent, French national statistics office Insee announced on Friday.\n\nFrance's gross domestic product registered no growth compared with the April-June period, casting doubt on a government target of economic growth of 2.3 percent this year, Insee data showed on Friday.\n\nIndustrial production had fallen in September by 0.9 percent compared with August after a rise of 0.9 percent in August from July.\n\nThe drop tracked the fortunes of the auto industry. PSA peugeot Citroen, Europe's second-biggest carmaker, cut its profit target on Oct. 26 for the second time since July, as European sales slumped for models such as 307 compact and the 407 midsized sedan.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund raised its forecast for French growth next year to 2.3 percent, with an estimate of 2.5 percent this year. In 2005, the growth was 1.2 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter of the year", "start_char": 149, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 297, "end_char": 303, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 476, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 499, "end_char": 505, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 544, "end_char": 553, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 583, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August from July", "start_char": 621, "end_char": 637, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 26", "start_char": 772, "end_char": 779, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 806, "end_char": 810, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 968, "end_char": 977, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1026, "end_char": 1035, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1040, "end_char": 1044, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0245.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0587\n\nHONG KONG, Dec 17 , 2005\n\nWTO chief presents compromise on agriculture at trade talks\n\n\n\n\nWTO Director General Pascal Lamy has put forward a compromise text on eliminating agricultural export subsidies in a last-minute bid to overcome a stalemate at trade talks here.\n\nThe text, presented to WTO ministers late Friday and seen by AFP, seeks to assure the European Union that whatever concessions it makes on farm trade will be matched by parallel moves from the United States and other developed countries.\n\nThe EU has come under intense pressure from all sides at World Trade Organization talks here to offer deeper cuts in trade-distorting farm subsidies and import tariffs but has steadfastly refused to change its position.\n\nThe deadlock threatens the outcome of the conference, called to spur movement toward a global trade liberalization accord and which ends Sunday.\n\nThe text calls for \"detailed modalities that ensure the parallel elimination of all forms of export subsidies and disciplines on all export measures with equivalent effect.\"\n\nAs to a date by which such government support will be scrapped, the document mentions within brackets both the year 2010 and \"by x years after implementation\" of the overall accord.\n\nThat agreement, which would emerge from the current Doha Round of negotiations, would probably not take effect until 2008 under the best of circumstances, trade analysts said.\n\nThe European Union has refused to agree to a date by which export subsidies would be abolished on grounds that the United States has not made an equivalent commitment on its export credits and food aid program, which the EU sees as trade distorting.\n\nThe EU is also pressing Australia, New Zealand and Canada to reform their state trading monopolies.\n\nOn the issue of market access, the proposal says WTO members would adopt \"four bands for structuring tariff cuts.\" Such a system would give greater flexibility to governments to tailor tariff cuts to specific products.\n\nIt says in essence that governments wishing to maintain high tariffs on \"sensitive products,\" those that are of special economic importance, would be obliged to offer exporters a comparably higher access quota.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 340, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 889, "end_char": 895, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year 2010", "start_char": 1180, "end_char": 1193, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "x years", "start_char": 1202, "end_char": 1209, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1373, "end_char": 1377, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0587.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0305\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAbout 60,000 state-owned enterprises turn private in 10 years\n\n\n\n\nFrom 1996 to 2005, about 60,000 state-owned industrial corporations have been changed into private ones, according to a report recently released by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).\n\nBy 2005, about 50 percent of state-owned industrial corporations have been privatized, and 26 percent have been merged or liquidated, said the IFC.\n\nIn 1996, China had about 114,000 state-owned industrial corporations, and in 2005, the figure dropped to 27,000. Over 70 percent have been partly or completely privatized, the IFC said.\n\nIn recent years, the reform process of China's state-owned enterprises has been accelerating, now covering almost all types of industrial enterprises.\n\nThe ownership of those corporations has been changed in various ways, including bankruptcy, going public, auctioning and being sold to domestic or overseas business persons.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 127, "end_char": 131, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 319, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 472, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 546, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 655, "end_char": 667, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 746, "end_char": 749, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0305.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0026\n\nKAMPALA, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAfrica's leasing volume grows to 6.3 billion dollars in 2005\n\n\n\n\nAfrica's leasing volume has grown to 6.3 billion US dollars in 2005 from 3.7 billion dollars in 2003, according to the World's Leasing Year Book 2005.\n\nSouth Africa has the largest leasing industry in the continent with 4.6 billion dollars in 2005, which is about 73 percent of the African leasing volume.\n\nThree other largest leasing countries are Egypt with 660 million dollars, Morocco 550 million dollars and Nigeria 440 million dollars.\n\nEast Africa accounts for only 100 million dollars in 2005.\n\nA lease is a usage agreement between the equipment owner ( lessor) and user of the equipment (lessee).\n\nUganda's Dfcu Bank's business development manager David Mulinde was quoted by local media on Tuesday as saying that the lease industry is characterized by high concentration of equipment in the transport, construction and manufacturing sectors.\n\nHe said the region's average lease transactions are between 10, 000 dollars and 250,000 dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 368, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 617, "end_char": 621, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 821, "end_char": 828, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10", "start_char": 1034, "end_char": 1036, "tid": "t7", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0026.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0314\n\nSEOUL, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSouth Korea's Hanbo founder moved from jail to hospital by Zeno Park\n\n\n\n\nThe ailing founder of South Korea's failed Hanbo Group was moved from his jail to hospital after a reported stroke Tuesday as prosecutors investigated a loans-for-kickbacks scandal surrounding the conglomerate, officials said.\n\nHanbo founder Chung Tae-Soo was taken to hospital following a deterioration in his health, prison authorities said.\n\n\"The jailed Hanbo chief was sent out for a medical check at a private hospital,\" a spokesman for the Seoul Detention Center told AFP.\n\nChung, who suffers from diabetes, has had high blood pressure since he was jailed on January 31 on charges of embezzlement, tax evasion and bribery, he said.\n\nThe jailed tycoon suffered a stroke and paralysis, the South's Yonhap News Agency reported.\n\nHanbo, the country's 14th largest conglomerate, collapsed in January under 5.8 billion dollars of debt, leading to allegations that it obtained loans without sufficient collateral in return for kickbacks.\n\nThe 73-year-old was one of 11 figures jailed, including four lawmakers and one former cabinet minister, for their alleged involvement in the massive loans-for-kickbacks scandal.\n\n\"Chung's condition has worsened since he faced a gruelling parliamentary hearing from his jail on April 7,\" the spokesman said, giving no further details.\n\nPress reports Tuesday said South Korea's parliamentary speaker was resisting prosecutors' demands he be questioned on allegations he also received money from Hanbo.\n\nSpeaker Kim Soo-Han was asked to appear at the Prosecutor General's Office after an Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting being hosted in Seoul ends on Tuesday, Yonhap and other news reports said.\n\nBut Kim refused to respond to the summons, citing his status as head of the legislature, Kim's aide was quoted as saying.\n\n\"We have not been notified by the prosecution (of the reported summoning) but it would amount to challenging the authority of the legislature to investigate the speaker,\" said Ku Bon-Tae, head of the speaker's secretariat.\n\nThe speaker reportedly resented the prosecutor's move, saying: \"They may drag me into a questioning room but I will never present myself at the prosecutor's office.\"\n\nThe prosecutors then offered to question him away from the prosecutor's office to spare the speaker the embarassment of appearing in public before cameras, Yonhap said.\n\nIt was not clear whether he would appear and Senior Prosecutor Kim Sang-Hee declined to comment on the reports.\n\nThe speaker has been accused of receiving 50 million won (56,000 dollars) from Hanbo in political funds.\n\nThe prosecution has been investigating politicians reportedly on a list of alleged beneficiaries of money from Hanbo.\n\nThe reported summoning of the speaker came after the chairman of the ruling New Korea Party, Lee Hoe-Chang, accused the prosecution of investigating politicians 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0429\n\nTHE HAGUE, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nOriginal Venus singer dies\n\n\n\n\nMariska Veres, singer for the Dutch group Shocking Blue who had a worldwide hit with their song \"Venus\" in 1970, died Saturday aged 59, Dutch media reported.\n\nVeres died from cancer. In 1970 \"Venus\" reached the top of the American music charts but Shocking Blue did not have any other success that matched their big hit. The group split up in 1974.\n\nTheir song \"Venus\" would go on to make it to number one in the American Billboard chart two more times: in 1981 by cover band Stars on 45 and in 1986 in a version by girlband Bananarama.\n\nIn the late 1980s Shocking Blue also served as an inspiration for grunge band Nirvana who covered the band's song \"Love Buzz\" on their 1989 debut album Bleach.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1970", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1970", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1970", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1970", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 428, "end_char": 432, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1981", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 546, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1981", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "45", "start_char": 570, "end_char": 572, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1945", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1986", "start_char": 580, "end_char": 584, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1986", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the late", "start_char": 626, "end_char": 634, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0429.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0146\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIran shows new generation of anti-helicopter weapons\n\n\n\n\nIran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Saturday tried new generation of anti-helicopter weapons and other military hardware during the ongoing military maneuvers, the official IRNA news agency reported.\n\nDifferent types of improved anti-helicopter, anti-armor and anti-personnel weapons had been used by the Iranian troops, General Mohammad-Reza Zahedi, commander of the IRGC's ground forces, told a press conference.\n\nThe combat capability of these anti-helicopter weapons had been doubled in recent years and they could be used against all types of helicopters, Zahedi said.\n\nIran's new generation of anti-personnel bullets, which had been used in the war games, could penetrate the most advanced bullet- proof vests, Zahedi said.\n\nThe IRGC forces were using modern equipment and tactics to encounter enemies' combat power, the Iranian general said, adding that the IRGC ground forces' weapons could reach as far as 1,400 km into hypothetical enemy's territory.\n\nZahedi said the war games were intended to show the Iranian military's ability to defend the country against any attack and thereby discourage enemies from inimical contemplation.\n\nThe IRGC's 10-day maneuvers, dubbed \"The Great Prophet 2,\" began on Thursday and are to be carried out in the Gulf waters, the Sea of Oman and 14 of the country's provinces.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 619, "end_char": 631, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1339, "end_char": 1347, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0146.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0148\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese FM, commerce minister to attend APEC ministerial meeting\n\n\n\n\nChinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and Commerce Minister Bo Xilai will attend the 17th APEC Ministerial Meeting from Nov. 15 to 16 in Busan of the Republic of Korea (ROK), Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao announced here Tuesday.\n\nThe two ministers will make preparations for the 13th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting which will be attended by Chinese President Hu Jintao after he concludes his state visit to Britain, Germany, Spain and the ROK.\n\nAPEC, which has 21 members, is the most important forum of economic cooperation in the Asian-Pacific region. Aiming to promote multilateral trade system and eliminate trade barriers within the region, APEC has become an active force that helps make regional trade and investment more liberal and convenient, promote regional economic and technological cooperation and economic development.\n\nAccording to Liu, the upcoming ministerial meeting will give priority to regional trade planning, economic and technological cooperation, trade and energy security, bird flu prevention and control, and anti-corruption.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 15", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 354, "end_char": 361, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0148.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0370\n\nCARACAS, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIDB loans 750 mln US dollars for Venezuelan hydropower project\n\n\n\n\nThe Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on Tuesday said a 750-million-US-dollar loan had been granted for the construction of the Tocoma hydropower project in Venezuela.\n\nThe Washington-based multi-lateral funding body said the money would fund programs in engineering, administration, environmental and social management.\n\nThe loan is the biggest ever granted since Luis Alberto Moreno assumed the presidency of the IDB on Oct. 3.\n\nThe IDB said in a release that it had approved the loan on the basis that the project would improve Venezuela's power supply and economic competitiveness, creating a more environmentally sustainable power source for economic development, compared with the existing alternatives.\n\nThe Tocoma project, the fourth one in the Lower Caroni River Valley,with an installed capacity of 2,160 megawatts, costs a total of 3 billion US dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 176, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 3", "start_char": 550, "end_char": 556, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0370.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0180\n\nKABUL, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIncident involving NATO troops kills Afghan civilian\n\n\n\n\nAn incident involving a convoy of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) killed an Afghan civilian and injured four others near Kabul of Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said on Thursday.\n\nA civilian van was observed driving \"suspiciously\" near the convoy on the Bagram road, north of Kabul, on Wednesday morning, it said, adding \"ISAF troops signaled for the vehicle to stop and fired a number of bullets.\"\n\n\"The driver subsequently lost control of the van and unfortunately crashed,\" the statement said, adding one civilian was killed and four others injured as a result.\n\nThe vague statement didn't say whether the civilians killed and injured were the van's occupants or just passers-by, nor said whether the bullets were shot toward the vehicle or just warning ones.\n\nIt is also unclear whether the driver lost control of the vehicle because he was shot or only out of scare.\n\nHowever, local daily newspaper Outlook quoted Alishal Paktiawal, criminal director of Kabul police, as saying ISAF troops \"shot dead one civilian and wounded four others, one of them seriously\" in the incident.\n\nThe killed one, a resident from the eastern Laghman province, was working at a health facility in Bagram U.S. military base, about 50 km north of Kabul, it added.\n\nThe ISAF statement said the casualties were quickly taken to a military hospital in Kabul for treatment, and a senior U.S. commander Benjamin C. Freakley had demanded a \"detailed and thorough investigation\" into the incident.\n\nThe investigation is currently ongoing and the Afghan government will be informed of the results as soon as they are available, it added.\n\nSimilar incidents have happened in Afghanistan from time to time before.\n\nOn Nov. 15, an ISAF patrol killed two adult civilians and injured a child in the southern Helmand province as their van approached the patrol fast and failed to stop when hand signals were given.\n\nOn Aug. 22, ISAF fired bullets toward two boys on a motorbike, killing one of them, in Kandahar city, capital of the southern Kandahar province, shortly after a deadly suicide bombing, as they ignored ISAF's warning to stop.\n\nCivilian casualties have damaged the image of ISAF and reduced their popularity among Afghans.\n\nIn a much more severe case, a NATO air strike killed up to 80 civilians in a village of Panjwai district of Kandahar province on Oct. 24, according to locals.\n\nHowever, ISAF recently said a joint Afghan and NATO investigation found 31 civilians were killed in the incident, which has caused huge rage among locals.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 309, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 426, "end_char": 443, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "from time to time before", "start_char": 1802, "end_char": 1826, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 15", "start_char": 1832, "end_char": 1839, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 22", "start_char": 2029, "end_char": 2036, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 24", "start_char": 2477, "end_char": 2484, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0180.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0143\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBush reaffirms one-China policy, says Chinese FM spoksman\n\n\n\n\nUnited States President George W. Bush has reaffirmed his one-China policy and his stance in opposition to Taiwan independence, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao here Tuesday.\n\nAt a regular press conference Liu made the above remarks in response to a question on Bush's just-concluded visit to China.\n\nPresident Bush enunciated his support to the one-China position when talking on the Taiwan issue with Chinese leaders, Liu said, and Bush also voiced his opposition to any unilateral actions aimed to change the status-quo across Taiwan strait, the spokesman said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 305, "end_char": 312, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0143.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0071\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 26 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIsrael to display patience and restraint: PM\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday said that Israel would display \"patience and restraint\" in the face of Palestinian breaching of a cease-fire that went into effect earlier in the day, local media said.\n\nSpeaking at a high school in the Bedouin town of Rahat, Olmert said that Israel must give the truce a chance and pledged that \" the government of Israel will not miss this opportunity for calm.\"\n\n\"I hope the ceasefire will take effect in the West Bank as well, although it currently does not apply there; however, responsibility and good will may lead to the beginning of serious, open and direct negotiations between us and the Palestinians,\" Olmert was quoted as saying.\n\nThe prime minister added that \"In the past few weeks the Israeli and Palestinian offices have been in constant contact, and there are understandings; but these must mature in negotiations, and I hope this will happen soon.\"\n\n\"Although there are still breaches from the other side, I ordered troops to show restraint and to give the ceasefire a chance,\" Olmert said.\n\nIsrael and the Palestinian factions in Gaza officially began the cease-fire at 6 a.m. on Sunday, following an agreement reached between Palestinian National Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian factions.\n\nAbbas made a phone call to Olmert on Saturday to inform him of the deal and Olmert accepted the offer of cease-fire.\n\nHowever, three Qassam rockets hit Israel in the first few hours after the truce went into effect, causing no damage or injuries.\n\nOne of the rockets hit Sderot, another fell in an open area north of the western Negev town, and the third landed close to a local kibbutz. The military wings of Hamas and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the continued Qassam rocket fire on Israel.\n\nAbbas on Sunday ordered heads of Palestinian security forces to ensure that Gaza militants respect the truce, Palestinian officials said.\n\nDefense Minister Amir Peretz said Sunday morning that any attempt to fire into Israeli territories would be considered a breach of the cease-fire and treated with severity. According to Peretz, Israel is interested in quiet, but would not accept attacks on its citizens.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past few weeks", "start_char": 831, "end_char": 849, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1253, "end_char": 1259, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1422, "end_char": 1430, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1900, "end_char": 1906, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday morning", "start_char": 2064, "end_char": 2078, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0071.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0018 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0018. \n Business Brief -- Benjamin Franklin Federal SampL:\n@  Thrift Plans to Restructure\n@  After Loss in Third Quarter \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n BENJ \n\n   Benjamin Franklin Federal Savings amp Loan Association said it plans to restructure in the wake of a third-quarter loss of $7.7 million, or $1.01 a share, reflecting an $11 million addition to loan-loss reserves. \n\n   The Portland, Ore., thrift said the restructuring should help it meet new capital standards from the Financial Institution Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act. \nA year ago, Benjamin Franklin had profit of $1.8 million, or 23 cents a share. \n\n   In over-the-counter trading yesterday, Benjamin Franklin rose 25 cents to $4.25. \n\n   The company said the restructuring's initial phase will feature a gradual reduction in assets and staff positions. \nThe plan may include selling branches, consolidating or eliminating departments, and winding down or disposing of unprofitable units within 18 months. \n\n   Initially, the company said it will close its commercial real-estate lending division, and stop originating new leases at its commercial lease subsidiary. \n\n   Details of the restructuring wo n't be made final until regulators approve the regulations mandated by the new federal act, the company said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t45", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t59", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t45"}, {"text": "A year ago", "start_char": 585, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t96", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t45"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 697, "end_char": 706, "tid": "t101", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-25", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t45"}, {"text": "within 18 months", "start_char": 1004, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t140", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18M", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_1038.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0262\n\nBOGOTA, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPossible volcano eruption triggers evacuation in Colombia\n\n\n\n\nAbout 1,500 people living on the slopes of a volcano in southwest Colombia were ordered to evacuate on Tuesday as it has shown signs of an imminent eruption.\n\nLocal authorities on Monday issued a mandatory evacuation order following a warning issued by Colombia's Geology and Mines Institute that the Galeras volcano, which lies 540 km southwest of Bogota, is probable to erupt \"within days or weeks.\"\n\nIn addition, another 7,500 people living near the volcano have been asked to leave their homes voluntarily.\n\nThe last eruption of the volcano, which occurred in 1993, killed nine people, including five scientists who had descended into the crater to sample gases at the moment it blew.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 298, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "days or weeks", "start_char": 504, "end_char": 517, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 682, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0262.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0191\n\nCHANGSHA, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina, says offcial\n\n\n\n\nPolice are searching for two senior managers of the Xinpo Coal Mine after they fled following Wednesday's fatal gas explosion in Central China's Hunan Province, local government official said Friday.\n\nLi Quanfa and Li Quansheng, head and vice head of the coal mine respectively, are accused of neglecting work safety supervision, said Li Ming, vice mayor of Leiyang City, where the mine is located.\n\nMore than 40 rescuers are searching for five missing miners, who likely did not survive the explosion, said Li.\n\nAnother five injured were in a stable condition, according to the vice mayor.\n\nThe gas explosion, which killed four miners, took place at around 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday in the Xinpo Coal Mine, where 17 miners were working underground. Eight of them were rescued while the nine others were trapped.\n\nRescuers have retrieved the bodies of four of the miners.\n\nMost of the victims were villagers from the town of Simenzhou, where the mine is situated and families of the four dead have each been compensated 220,000 yuan (25,425 U.S. dollars), said Li.\n\nThe cause of the accident remains unclear. The privately-owned coal mine produced 30,000 tons of coal annually.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 176, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 753, "end_char": 762, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0191.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0413\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nelections: poll\n\n\n\n\nOne week before next Tuesday's midterm Congressional elections, Iraq and terrorism top the list of issues that American voters consider \"extremely important,\" a new poll released on Wednesday showed.\n\nThe CNN poll, conducted from Friday through Sunday, found that 49 percent of those surveyed said they consider Iraq \"extremely important\" in deciding how to vote.\n\nTerrorism followed closely, at 46 percent, and the third-biggest issue was ethics in government, with 37 percent of respondents saying they consider it extremely important.\n\nThe importance of economy dropped in the poll, which found only 33 percent of those canvassed said it was important in their decision how to vote.\n\nThe poll of 837 registered voters had a margin of sampling error at plus or minus three percentage points.\n\nAnother poll released on Wednesday suggested that Democrats continued to have a significant advantage heading into the midterms.\n\nThe NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that Democrats held a 15-point lead over Republicans in voters' preference for control of Congress - 52 percent against 37 percent. President George W. Bush's approval rating remained below 40 percent.\n\nThe poll, which was taken of 1,010 registered voters from Friday through Monday and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points, also found more than 60 percent of those respondents felt less confident that the war in Iraq would come to a successful conclusion.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "One week before next Tuesday", "start_char": 79, "end_char": 107, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 270, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 309, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 324, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 899, "end_char": 908, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1309, "end_char": 1315, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1324, "end_char": 1330, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0413.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0171\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nstate in six months\n\n\n\n\nArab League (AL) chief Amr Moussa on Saturday welcomed proposal by exiled Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal to establish a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders in six months.\n\n\"Meshaal's proposal is in line with the basics of the Arab peace initiative,\" Moussa said in a statement after meeting with Meshaal at the AL headquarters here.\n\nVisiting exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal warned earlier Saturday that the Palestinian authorities could collapse and there would be a third intifada (uprising) if the international community couldn't work out a political solution to a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders within six months.\n\nMoussa said the proposal \"is very important\", noting that the Hamas official underlined the need to have a time ceiling for the proposal to flesh out.\n\n\"The timeframe is very important. Previous failures were due to the lack of timeframes,\" Moussa said.\n\nFor his part, Meshaal said Palestinians are capable of achieving their demand of establishing a state, adding that \"we can achieve this with Arab and Muslim support and we expect that we can reap the fruit of our efforts\".\n\nOn breaking the siege imposed on the Palestinians, Moussa said that it has already been broken with 30 million U.S. dollars from Kuwait arriving in the Palestinian Authority (PA) coffers.\n\nContacts are continuing with Arab countries to send agreed sums of money to the Palestinians, he added.\n\nMeshaal, who is now in exile in Syria, said Arab countries are committed to paying 52 million dollars every month to the Palestinian Authority.\n\n\"The Palestinians must restore their rights or else chaos would be rampant in the region and the PA might disappear altogether,\" he said.\n\nRegarding the recognition of Israel, Moussa said recognition should be mutual.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 116, "end_char": 124, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 484, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 706, "end_char": 716, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1508, "end_char": 1511, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every month", "start_char": 1594, "end_char": 1605, "tid": "t8", "type": "SET", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0171.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0191\n\nLONDON, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS pullback\n\n\n\n\nBritain is pulling together a coalition to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida insurgency in southern Afghanistan after next year's partial US pullback, the Guardian newspaper said on Tuesday.\n\nBritain is set to take over NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan in early 2006, when the United States plans to withdraw 4,000 soldiers from a parallel force fighting the rebels.\n\nTalks to create a counter-rebel force were allegedly taking place with several countries, including Australia, Canada and New Zealand.\n\nBritish Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram said on Monday that elite paratroopers were already training for possible operations in Afghanistan's lawless Helmand province.\n\nAs many as 2,000 more British troops are expected to be sent to Afghanistan next year to increase the UK's forces in the war-torn country to almost 5,000, said the report.\n\n\"We are not talking war fighting. But there is potential for armed conflict in some areas,\" an unnamed military source told the newspaper, adding \"the reality is that there are warlords, drug traffickers, al-Qaida, al-Qaida wannabes and Taliban.\"\n\nThe report came amid demands from critics for Britain to seek an exit strategy from Afghanistan, where there is no sign of a letup in the bloodshed with a German ISAF soldier reported to be one of the latest killed in car bomb attacks by Taliban fighters.\n\nThe report was also published against the backdrop of NATO's announcement on Monday that it had agreed to the US-proposed closer cooperation in Afghanistan between ISAF peacekeeping force and the US-led coalition fighting insurgents.\n\nThe agreement is a step towards ending a dispute sparked last year when France, Germany and others rejected a US proposal for an outright merger of the two forces under overall NATO command.\n\nNATO's 9,000-strong ISAF peacekeeping force is present in the relatively stable north, west and in the capital Kabul. The push to the south will bring its numbers up to 15,000 by early next year, with further expansion to the east also planned.\n\nNATO took over command of ISAF in 2003, two years after US-led forces overthrew the Taliban government.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 187, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 251, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 367, "end_char": 371, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 659, "end_char": 665, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 856, "end_char": 865, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1535, "end_char": 1541, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1750, "end_char": 1759, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 2064, "end_char": 2079, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 2165, "end_char": 2169, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years", "start_char": 2171, "end_char": 2180, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0191.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0614\n\nLIMA, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPeru hostages in good physical health: doctor\n\n\n\n\nA cardiologist who visited the 72 hostages held in the Japanese ambassador's residence here said Monday that those with heart problems were in good physical shape.\n\n\"I would say that the patients in my area of specialty, cardiovascular medicine, are all being well treated,\" Dr. Miguel Sanchez told Peruvian radio.\n\nSanchez, a former hostage who has entered the compound periodically since the crisis began December 17, spoke as the hostages completed their 118th day as captives of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA).\n\nTwo of the hostages who suffer from heart problems are Bolivia's ambassador to Peru, Jorge Gumucio, and Moises Pantoja, former president of the Peruvian Supreme Court.\n\nSanchez spent three hours with the hostages Monday and said that the only problem he noticed is that some of them appear to have put on weight.\n\nBut others have taken to exercise and \"now are in much better physical shape than before,\" he said.\n\nOn Monday Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori met with top hostage mediator Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani in an attempt to find a solution to the crisis.\n\n\"There are small advances towards a good end,\" Cipriani said.\n\nThe MRTA wants the government to free some 400 imprisoned comrades, and wants improved prison conditions. Fujimori said he will release no prisoners.\n\nThe last face-to-face meeting between the government and the rebels came March 12, after which negotiations broke off when the rebel commando said that security forces were digging a tunnel into the residence.\n\nSince then, mediators have shuttled between the government palace and the residence, trying to gain concessions from the two sides to end the crisis.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 199, "end_char": 205, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 17", "start_char": 509, "end_char": 520, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 846, "end_char": 852, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1051, "end_char": 1057, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 12", "start_char": 1490, "end_char": 1498, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0614.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0388\n\nMOSCOW, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nYeltsin sacks transport minister\n\n\n\n\nRussian President Boris Yeltsin on Monday sacked his transport minister, Anatoly Zaitsev, the Interfax news agency reported, quoting informed sources.\n\nYeltsin issued a decree to fire Zaitsev, who had assumed the post in August 1996. He is to be replaced by his deputy, Nikolai Aksenenko.\n\nZaitsev, 57, is on the board of a company that plans to build a high- speed rail link between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, a multi-billion dollar project that has drawn wide criticism the past two years.\n\nBetween 1988 and 1996, Zaitsev ran the Oktiyabrskaya railway between the two cities.\n\nAlso Monday, Yeltsin accepted the resignation, tendered on April 5, of the head of Russia's top tax authority, Vitaly Artyukhov, Interfax quoted the same sources as saying.\n\nArtyukhov had been in his post since February 1996.\n\nTax collection is a serious problem in Russia, where last year only 60 percent of taxes owing were paid. So far this year only 50 percent of tax targets have been achieved.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 126, "end_char": 132, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1996", "start_char": 312, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two years", "start_char": 565, "end_char": 583, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 594, "end_char": 598, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 603, "end_char": 607, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 677, "end_char": 683, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 5", "start_char": 731, "end_char": 738, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 1996", "start_char": 883, "end_char": 896, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 952, "end_char": 961, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1011, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0388.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0249\n\nKINSHASA, April 4 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nZairean premier fights to save his job by Michael Adler\n\n\n\n\nNew Zairean premier Etienne Tshisekedi fought to save his job Friday, rebuffed by rebels in the east and assailed by his political opponents at home just two days after taking up the post.\n\nOpposition parties were expected to meet here Friday to discuss whether to replace him as prime minister, according to newspaper reports, after he angered just about everybody in sight in that short period.\n\nWith rebels advancing on two more key towns and peace talks due to start in South Africa at the weekend, this latest political crisis could not have come at a worse time for Zaire.\n\nTshisekedi, a long-time opponent of President Mobutu Sese Seko, made it clear in his first day in office Thursday that he would take up and finish his old political battles with the head of state.\n\nHe snubbed Mobutu by not giving a single job in his 24-member government to supporters of the president, and then compounded that by offering six to Laurent-Desire Kabila's rebels, including defence.\n\nHe praised the rebels for defending the national interest by fighting corruption, but dismissed the planned peace talks in South Africa between rebel and Mobutu officials this weekend as pointless.\n\nTshisekedi also dismissed the current transitional parliament, saying it should be replaced by a legislature conceived in 1992 but never ratified by Mobutu.\n\nHe then announced his government line-up without getting prior approval from Mobutu, contrary to the 1994 constitution, which he also rejects.\n\nHis overtures to Kabila's rebels were snubbed. They had earlier warned him not to assume the premiership and insisted they would not work for any government while Mobutu was president.\n\nPress reports in Kinshasa said the \"family\" of oppposition parties, the Political Conclave Force (FPC), was ready to meet Friday to decide whether to replace him.\n\nUnder the 1994 constitution, the opposition suggests the prime minister, who must be approved by Mobutu. In turn the premier must name a government that includes supporters of the president.\n\nIn Pretoria, the domestic SAPA news agency quoted unnamed diplomats as saying the peace talks would likely begin on Sunday.\n\nSAPA said officials were locked in \"delicate discussions\" to prepare for the talks between Mobutu's envoy Honore Ngbanda Nzambo and representatives of Kabila.\n\nNzambo arrived Thursday while the rebel delegation led by Bizima Karaha, in charge of international relations in the rebel alliance, was reported to have left Goma in eastern Zaire.\n\nSouth African officials on Friday would not confirm the rebels' arrival, nor whether the talks would start Sunday.\n\nKabila's Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo- Zaire will be able to negotiate from a position of strength with troops advancing toward the key Zairean towns of Lubumbashi and Mbuji Mayi.\n\nSince they began their offensive in mid October, they have seized more than one quarter of Zaire, including the third city Kisangani, and pledged to march into Kinshasa by June.\n\nZairean soldiers were reported to have begun looting and shooting early Friday in Mbuji Mayi, the capital of diamond-rich Eastern Kasai province.\n\nSo far in the six-month Zairean conflict, government soldiers have gone on the rampage before fleeing without a fight. Tensions in Mbuji Mayi have been high in expectation of an imminent rebel attack.\n\nRebel forces are also reported to be closing in on Lubumbashi, Zaire's second city and the capital of the mining-rich Shaba province.\n\nIn New York overnight, the United Nations called on Kabila to \"stop the killing\" and let humanitarian aid organizations work unhindered to aid the several hundred thousand refugees left helpless by the civil war.\n\nThe United States separately called on Kabile to assist in repatriation of refugees, and to reconsider his rejection of the invitation to join the new government.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 4 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 277, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 351, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 605, "end_char": 616, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-W14-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "first day", "start_char": 780, "end_char": 789, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 800, "end_char": 808, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this weekend", "start_char": 1265, "end_char": 1277, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W13-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1415, "end_char": 1419, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1903, "end_char": 1909, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2253, "end_char": 2259, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2437, "end_char": 2445, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2632, "end_char": 2638, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2712, "end_char": 2718, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 2971, "end_char": 2978, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 3103, "end_char": 3107, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 3182, "end_char": 3188, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0249.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0167\n\nLONDON, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nLondon shares follow Wall Street higher\n\n\n\n\nShares here rose on Wednesday morning on the wings of an overnight rally on Wall Street, which reversed early losses to close 50 points higher than at the previous close, dealers said.\n\nThe FT-SE 100 index of leading shares rose by 22.7 points to 4,292 points.\n\nIn Paris, the CAC-40 index opened 34.72 points higher at 2,613.72 points.\n\nDespite the rise in share prices, London traders said that market sentiment remained cautious because of the strength of the pound sterling, which, they fear, might hit future profits of British exporters.\n\nIn addition, they fear that British and US interest rates will be raised in the short or medium term.\n\nKey institutional investors have decided to stay away from the market in the run-up to general elections that will be held on May 1, dealers said.\n\nOil stocks rose after positive broker comment encouraged heavy buying on Wall Street. Shares in British Petroleum (BP) rose by two pence to 684.5 pence and Shell oil stocks rose by 11 pence to 1,050.5 pence.\n\nBanking shares rose after dealers predicted there would be further consolidation in the world's banking system. Abbey National shares rose by 10 pence to 781 pence, NatWest bank stocks rose by seven pence to 710.5 pence and Lloyds TSB shares rose by five pence to 507.5 pence.\n\nShares in British drinks groups fell after a slump in whisky sales in Britain. Shares in Allied Domecq, which produces the Teachers whisky brand, fell by one pence to 443 pence and Guinness shares fell by 0.5 pence to 495.5 pence.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 117, "end_char": 134, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 870, "end_char": 875, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0167.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0497\n\nKINSHASA, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMobutu uses troops to dismiss PM and appoint general by Michael Adler\n\n\n\n\nZairean President Mobutu Sese Seko used his troops Wednesday to stop a demonstration backing Prime Minister Etienne Tshisekedi, even arresting him briefly, and then replaced him with an army general.\n\nSecurity forces under the command of Mobutu's son, Major Mobutu Kongolo, detained Tshisekedi around midday (1000 GMT) Wednesday as he attempted to enter the prime minister's office building to begin running his new government.\n\nA few hours later in flashes on state radio and television the government announced that Mobutu had named the defense minister in the outgoing government, General Likulia Bolongo, to be prime minister.\n\nMobutu declared a state of emergency Tuesday and is now running the government by decree, thus short-circuiting the constitutional debate which had pitted him in a power struggle with Tshisekedi since he appointed the long-term opposition leader premier a week ago.\n\nZairean journalist Michel Ladi Luya told AFP Wednesday that Mobutu was clearly trying to assert his authority in Kinshasa, and the rest of Zaire he controls, as he is on the defensive against rebels who have seized the wealthy eastern third of the central African state.\n\n\"He is trying to save his skin, by showing the the regime has not yet lost,\" Ladi Luya said. \"He feared an uprising of the people if he did not\" put on this show of force.\n\nUS officials were saying in Washington this week that Mobutu is finished and should quit but UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said rebels led by Laurent Kabila will not be able to capture the rest of Zaire.\n\nIn any case, Mobutu needs to show some strength if he is to hope win something in talks that have already started between his regime and the rebels.\n\nOfficials from Tshisekedi's Union for Democracy and Social Progess (UNDP) party told AFP Wednesday that they would continue to demonstrate but did not say what their strategy would be. They said they saw themselves as allies, albeit non-violent, of Kabila.\n\nIn Wednesday's demonstration, troops sealed off access to the parliament office building, and Tshisekedi's car was stopped at a crossroads about one kilometre (half a mile) away, with thousands of people gathered around it.\n\nHe got out of the light brown Peugeot 405 and was walking towards the office building when he was arrested. At first he was surrounded by some 30 armed civil guard troops who were protecting him. Behind him stretched the huge crowd.\n\nBut troops from the elite Special Presidential Divison (DSP) plowed into the crowd in armored cars, hitting Tshisekedi's car, and troops behind them fired tear gas. The crowd began to disperse and the civil guards who were with Tshisekedi fled.\n\nTshisekedi, making the V victory sign with his fingers, still advanced however and a line of troops guarding the prime minister's offices shot in the air as he approached.\n\nHe kept coming, along with some 50 supporters, and troops finally grabbed him, threw him into a four-wheel drive jeep and took him away.\n\nEarlier, soldiers charged and tear-gassed a crowd of around 1,000 people who had gathered outside the prime minister's house to accompany him to his offices in a planned mass march.\n\nTshisekedi has angered both opposition parties and pro-Mobutu groups by declaring Mobutu's regime illegitimate.\n\nMobutu Kongolo brought Tshisekedi, after he had been detained home to his residence, an official said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 448, "end_char": 457, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "A few hours", "start_char": 558, "end_char": 569, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT1H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 798, "end_char": 805, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 813, "end_char": 816, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week ago", "start_char": 1015, "end_char": 1025, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1073, "end_char": 1082, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1512, "end_char": 1521, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1919, "end_char": 1928, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2091, "end_char": 2100, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0497.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "CNN19980223.1130.0960 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n Despite the recent possibility of military conflict with Iraq, oil prices  have  been falling, that's because of a worldwide glut of oil.\n Now with a diplomatic solution to the crisis seemingly at hand, get set for oil prices from the Brent north sea variety  to light swede crude to fall further.\n\n\n Oil prices  have come down from the middle of October from a twenty-two dollar barrel level down to the fourteen dollars we 're seeing today.\n that 's built up a heck of a momentum and that momentum  will look  to increase.\n ah next up is that thirteen dollar a barrel level we saw in the winter of nineteen ninety-four.\n\n\n Weakened oil prices  have  already made life easier for motorists at the gas\n pump.\n Gas prices fell nearly two cents a gallon over the last two weeks. That according to the Lundberg survey of ten thousand gas stations nationwide.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980223", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent", "start_char": 54, "end_char": 60, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t19"}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 181, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t19"}, {"text": "the middle of October", "start_char": 375, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t19"}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 478, "end_char": 483, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-23", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t19"}, {"text": "the winter of nineteen ninety-four", "start_char": 628, "end_char": 662, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-WI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last two weeks", "start_char": 799, "end_char": 817, "tid": "t25", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "CNN19980223.1130.0960.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0377\n\nVIENNA, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIAEA chief voices support for resuming talks on DPRK nuclear issue\n\n\n\n\nMohamed ElBaradei, director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), on Thursday welcomed the positive signals sent by relevant parties about the resumption of talks on the nuclear issue of the Korean Peninsula.\n\nIn an address to the Board of Governors of IAEA, ElBaradei said that the nuclear weapon test launched last month by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) underscored \"the importance and urgency of finding a negotiated solution to the current situation regarding the DPRK's nuclear program.\"\n\n\"The resumption of dialogue between all concerned parties is indispensable and urgent,\" he added.\n\nHe also stressed that the DPRK's test was \"a matter of deep regret and concern\" and constituted a \"serious challenge\" to the current international nuclear non-proliferation regime.\n\nAt present, he noted, the IAEA stood ready to work with the DPRK and all concerned parties toward a solution to assure the international community that all nuclear activities in the DPRK would be \"exclusively for peaceful purposes.\"\n\nAs to Iran's nuclear issue, ElBaradei said that due to Iran's limited cooperation with IAEA, the IAEA was unable to move forward in its efforts to confirm the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran.\n\nHe described Iran's recent decision to allow IAEA experts to inspect two nuclear sites as \"steps in the right direction.\"\n\nThe IAEA chief expressed his hope that through dialogue between Iran and its partners, conditions would be created to achieve a comprehensive solution that addresses the respective concerns of all parties.\n\nAt Thursday's meeting, the IAEA Board of Governors decided that it would temporarily not provide technical assistance to Iran's Arak heavy water nuclear reactor program.\n\nChristopher Hill, U.S. assistant secretary of state, said on Tuesday after a whirlwind one-day visit to Beijing that he believed the six-party talks dedicated to resolving the unclear issue on the Korean Peninsula would probably resume in mid-December.\n\nThe six-party talks, launched in 2003, were suspended last November when Pyongyang walked out in protest against financial sanctions imposed by Washington.\n\nAfter carrying out a nuclear test on Oct. 9, the DPRK government agreed to return to the talks which also involve China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the United States, but did not say a specific date.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 216, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 469, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1731, "end_char": 1739, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1960, "end_char": 1967, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 2186, "end_char": 2190, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last November", "start_char": 2207, "end_char": 2220, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 9", "start_char": 2347, "end_char": 2353, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0377.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0356\n\nPARIS, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFrench force fires Taliban units with laser-guided bomb\n\n\n\n\nA French Mirage 2000-D warplane used a laser-guided bomb against Taliban units in the south of Afghanistan on Oct. 30, the defense ministry in Paris said on Thursday.\n\nThe Mirage's action was part of the Serpentaire air support mission, and the target on the ground was designated by U.S. and British troops engaged with Taliban fighters, the ministry said.\n\nIn the past four months, French aircraft have opened fire eight times in Afghanistan, it said.\n\nThey are part of France's contribution to Operation \"Enduring Freedom\" and support for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 30", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 231, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 279, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past four months", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 496, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0356.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0297\n\nCAIRO, April 17 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAncient pharaonic sarcophagus seized in Egypt\n\n\n\n\nEgyptian authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle a priceless limestone pharaonic sarcophagus containing a wooden statue out of the country, a government daily reported Thursday.\n\nThe discovery was made in the town of Ihnassiya in Beni Sueif province, 125 kilometers (65 miles) south of the capital, Al-Akhbar newspaper said.\n\nIhnassiya is the site of the ancient city of Henen-nesut, later known as Herakleopolis, which rose to importance in the 9th-10th Dynasty when its rulers controlled large parts of Egypt.\n\nAccording to Al-Akhbar, the authorities acted on a tip-off about tomb thieves in the area and carried out a raid. They arrested an unspecified number of people trying to remove the coffin by night.\n\nThe uncovered coffin contained a wooden sculpture with colorful pharaonic decorations, the newspaper said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 17 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 277, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "night", "start_char": 813, "end_char": 818, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0297.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0324\n\nDAMASCUS, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSyria criticizes UN envoy over allegation of weapons smuggle\n\n\n\n\nSyria criticized on Wednesday the top UN diplomat on Lebanese ties with Syria Terje Roed-Larsen over his recent allegations that Damascus continues to smuggle weapons into Lebanon, the official SANA news agency reported.\n\nThe allegations were \"an attempt to again escalate atmospheres in the region and further deteriorate Syria's relation with Lebanon more than ever,\" said Syria's foreign ministry in a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and President of the Security Council.\n\nIt added that Larsen's allegations also seek to divert the UN Security Council attention away into \"marginal issues rather than following up its main duties through concentration on non- essential and insignificant issues and neglecting the sensitive issues which destabilize safety and stability of Lebanon.\"\n\n\"Mr. Larsen also ignored Israeli flagrant continued violations of Lebanon's sovereignty, airspace and waters and national soil,\" said the letter.\n\nIt stressed that \"the statements issued by Lebanese official circles, including Ministers of Defense and Foreign Affairs and Army Commander, had denied as unfounded Mr. Larsen's allegations and were a strong blow to the credibility of the report and its writer.\"\n\n\"Such reports which are full of fallacies and selectivity could only lead to weakening the credibility of the peoples in the region in the honesty of some UN envoys,\" said the letter.\n\nSyria has pledged to increase border security to stop flow of weapons into the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas in accordance with UN resolution 1701 which brokered a truce between the militant group and Israel after a 34-day-long war.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0324.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0072\n\nHANOI, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nVietnam, Bulgaria to boost all-round cooperation\n\n\n\n\nVietnam and Bulgaria have agreed to foster their comprehensive cooperation, especially in the fields of trade, health and tourism, their top leaders said here Thursday.\n\nAfter their talks on Thursday morning, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his visiting Bulgarian counterpart Sergey Stanishev witnessed the signing of three bilateral cooperation deals on economy, tourism and healthcare.\n\nEarlier, they discussed directions and measures to bring the friendly ties and comprehensive cooperation, especially that on trade and economy, to a new height, and other issues of common concern.\n\nStanishev's visit, taking place at Vietnam's accession to the World Trade Organization, and Bulgaria's upcoming entry to the European Union, will contribute to deepening and broadening the Vietnam-Bulgaria cooperative relations on the basis of mutual benefit and development, Dung said at a press briefing after the talks.\n\nHe thanked Bulgaria for its assistance to Vietnam during his country's national liberalization and construction process.\n\nStanishev, starting his three-day official visit to Vietnam on Thursday, said the two countries should beef up their cooperation, especially on energy, agriculture, and education and training.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 267, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1218, "end_char": 1226, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0072.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0118\n\nLIVERPOOL, England, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nGazza arrested after hotel fight\n\n\n\n\nFormer England star Paul Gascoigne has been arrested after allegedly assaulting a photographer outside a Liverpool hotel.\n\nThe incident happened hours after Gazza was sacked as manager of Nationwide Conference North side Kettering Town after just 39 days in charge, with team bosses complaining about his drinking.\n\nGazza was to be questioned by police later Tuesday in connection with an incident at the Hope Street Hotel in Liverpool.\n\nA Merseyside Police spokesman said: \"A 38-year-old man was arrested following reports of an alleged assault outside the Hope Street Hotel at around 11.30pm last night.\n\n\"He is currently in custody at a police station in the city and will be interviewed by detectives later today.\"\n\nGascoigne, 38, had visited the city to speak at a fund-raiser for a drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre.\n\nThe Sun newspaper reported that freelance photographer Steve Farrell, nursing a cut eye, complained to police that he had been assaulted as he was on the street outside the hotel alongside other snappers.\n\nEarlier Monday, Kettering Town chairman Imraan Ladak had decided to remove Gascoigne as manager.\n\nLadak said he spoke to Gascoigne after 37 separate incidents since he became manager.\n\nHe said Gascoigne was \"under the influence of alcohol before, during and after several first-team games and training sessions\".\n\nThe one-time Newcastle, Spurs, Lazio and Rangers midfielder admitted drinking a double brandy before one game, but insisted he had been \"stitched up\".\n\nConfronted with claims that he had been under the influence of drink at a recent match, Gascoigne told Sky Sports News: \"So what? I tell you the truth, I had a double brandy before the game.\n\n\"Before it used to be four bottles of whisky. It's not any more.\"\n\nHe added: \"As far as I'm concerned I'm not sacked because I never signed a contract.\"\n\nHe was also dismissive of Ladak's knowledge of the game, describing him as \"a doctor\" who was a \"control freak\".\n\n\"He told me he's been watching football for 20 years, five days a week, and knows how football should be played,\" he said.\n\n\"Well, the guy can't trap a bag of cement as far as I'm concerned.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 55, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "39 days", "start_char": 341, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P39D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 453, "end_char": 460, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last night", "start_char": 688, "end_char": 698, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 805, "end_char": 810, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1137, "end_char": 1143, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20 years", "start_char": 2099, "end_char": 2107, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0118.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0124\n\nURUMQI, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ncoming five years\n\n\n\n\nChina is launching a water supply project to ensure safe drinking water for the 80 million rural population who are suffering from serious shortage of water supply and disqualified drinking water, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.\n\nChina will step up construction of water supply projects at the country's towns and villages and further popularize the utilization of tap water in the rural areas between 2006 and 2010, said Pang Jinwu, deputy director of the ministry's planning department.\n\nTo ensure safe drinking water for the rural people, the country will give priority to the treatment of disqualified water supply in the rural areas which are afflicted with high content of fluorine, arsenic and various kinds of pollutants, official said.\n\nAnd effective measures will be taken to control the spread of water-borne schistosomiasis, he added.\n\nAccording to the official, China invested 20 billion yuan (2.4 billion US dollars) between 2001 and 2005 in efforts to provide clean drinking water for 60 million people in rural areas.\n\nAt present, more than 300 million people in rural areas still have no access to qualified drinking water, the official said, adding the aim of providing safe drinking water supply for rural people will be achieved by 2020.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 494, "end_char": 498, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1031, "end_char": 1035, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2020", "start_char": 1344, "end_char": 1348, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2020", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0124.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0159 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0159. \n Poughkeepsie Savings\n@  Abandons Plan to Sell\n@  South Carolina Offices \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n PKPS \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y.  \n\n   Poughkeepsie Savings Bank said a plan to sell its South Carolina branch offices to First Citizens Bank, of Columbia, S.C., fell through. \n\n   Poughkeepsie also expects to post a one-time charge of $8.3 million, resulting in a net loss for the third quarter. \nThe charge represents a write-down of the goodwill associated with Poughkeepsie's investment in the banks it is trying to sell and its North Carolina branches as well. \n\n   The thrift announced the plan Aug. 21. \nAmong other reasons, high fees regulators imposed on certain transfers of thrift deposits to commercial banks \"substantially altered the economics of the transaction for both parties,\" Poughkeepsie said. \n\n   Additionally, the bank is increasing its loan-loss reserves for the third quarter by $8.5 million before taxes. \n\n   In the year-earlier third quarter, Poughkeepsie Savings had net income of $2.8 million, or 77 cents a share. \n\n   Poughkeepsie said it is continuing to try to sell itself, under a June agreement with a dissident-shareholder group. \nThe bank also said its effort would continue past the Nov. 1 deadline set in that agreement and that the litigation between the two sides might resume as a result. \nThe thrift and the holders had suspended their lawsuits as part of the agreement.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 117, "end_char": 125, "tid": "t61", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 470, "end_char": 487, "tid": "t62", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t61"}, {"text": "Aug. 21", "start_char": 693, "end_char": 700, "tid": "t63", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-08-21", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t61"}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 976, "end_char": 993, "tid": "t64", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t61"}, {"text": "the year-earlier third quarter", "start_char": 1032, "end_char": 1062, "tid": "t65", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t61"}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1209, "end_char": 1213, "tid": "t66", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t61"}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 1315, "end_char": 1321, "tid": "t67", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t61"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0736.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0096\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese NPC vice-chairman meets Togolese guests\n\n\n\n\nChina appreciates Togo's support to the one-China policy as well as the human rights issue, said Xu Jialu, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), here Thursday.\n\nIn a meeting with Kpatcha Gnassingbe, minister delegate in the Presidency in charge of Defence and Veterans, Xu said China and Togo enjoy profound friendship and fruitful cooperation in various fields.\n\nChina is ready to further enhance friendly cooperation with Togo in various fields, said Xu.\n\nKpatcha said Togo values the relations with China, and will, as always, support China in the Taiwan issue and other international and regional affairs.\n\nKpatcha hoped that his visit would be conducive to promoting exchanges and cooperation between the two nations, in a bid to push forward the Togo-China friendly ties.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0096.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0089\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nWAC takes China's trademark office to court\n\n\n\n\nThe Washington Apple Commission (WAC) has taken the Chinese Trademark Review and Adjudication Board to court after its application to register a trademark was rejected.\n\nThe application was rejected because the trademark contains the word Washington, the capital of the United States.\n\nBut WAC said Washington is also a person's name and, historically speaking, was used earlier as a personal name than as a geographical name.\n\nAccording to Chinese trademark law, well-known foreign geographical names must not be used as trademarks, but exceptions can be made for geographical names that have other meanings.\n\nThe Trademark Review and Adjudication Board, which is responsible for handling trademark disputes, claimed Washington is better known in China as the capital of the U.S. than as a person's name, and so cannot be considered an exception.\n\nWAC said its trademark, which has already been registered in the United States, is known the world over and that it has no intention of monopolizing the geographical name. It contends that the trademark will not have a negative impact on competition.\n\nWashington State is one of the major apple-producing areas in the U.S.\n\nThe Intermediate People's Court has not yet handed down its decision on the case.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0089.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0333\n\nBRASILIA, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBrazil to warm up for World Cup in Switzerland\n\n\n\n\nBrazil will be based at a luxury lakeside hotel in Switzerland in the run-up to next year's World Cup finals in Germany, the Brazilian Football Confederation said Tuesday.\n\nThe four-time world champions will prepare for the defence of their crown in Weggis, on the shores of Lake Lucerne, from May 22 to June 4 and will have exclusive use of the hotel, the CBF said on its official website.\n\nThe tournament starts on June 9.\n\nThe CBF did not say whether Brazil had fixed up any friendly internationals during the period.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 279, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 22", "start_char": 403, "end_char": 409, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 4", "start_char": 413, "end_char": 419, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 9", "start_char": 526, "end_char": 532, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the period", "start_char": 618, "end_char": 628, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0333.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0159\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEU, China to enhance cooperation on product safety\n\n\n\n\nChina and the European Union (EU) signed a Memorandum of Understand (MOU) on Friday to set up a consultation and cooperation mechanism on product safety.\n\nBoth sides have agreed to exchange information and establish a series of joint initiatives to help safeguard consumers' health and safety.\n\n\"The MOU is a voluntary agreement between legislators on food and non-food product safety, which aims to promote common interests and enhance the safety of products traded between the regions,\" said a press release of the European Commission.\n\nThe agreement will also help in reaching solutions to any trade problems and in forging a common view on safety standards, it added.\n\nChina is the EU's second largest trading partner, accounting for 8.8 percent of the EU's total trade in 2004. Food products and consumer goods such as electrical appliances, toys, household items and clothing, make up a large proportion of the EU's imports from China.\n\nIn the area of non-food consumer goods, the agreement focuses on developing and improving communication channels between the EU and China authorities in order to raise the overall level of product safety.\n\nIn 2004, the EU imported over 2 billion euros (about 2.4 billion US dollars) worth of Chinese agricultural goods and food, while exporting over 1 billion euros (about 1.2 billion dollars) worth of such products to China.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 890, "end_char": 894, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1265, "end_char": 1269, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0159.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0108\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNew Chinese historic sites granted certificates of world heritage\n\n\n\n\nA batch of Chinese historic sites, including the historic center of Macao, were granted the certificates of world heritage here on Monday.\n\nChinese State Councilor Chen Zhili, Edmund Ho Hau Wah, chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) and Koichiro Matsuura, director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) attended the certificate awarding ceremony in Beijing.\n\nThe historic center of Macao was added to the World Heritage List at the 29th session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Durban, South Africa, in July this year.\n\nThe heritage in Macao comprises about two dozen monuments, including the Buddhist Ma Kok Temple, the Catholic Holy House of Mercy, the Old City Walls, the Fortress Hill and a number of churches.\n\nThe relics, most are still in use, have witnessed the earliest pervasion of Western religious culture in the oriental continent as well as its ensuing coexistence with the local culture.\n\nThe other sites awarded the certificates include the capital cities and tombs of the ancient Koguryo Kingdom of China, the three imperial mausoleums dedicated to first and second emperors and the two empresses of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), as well as to the ancestors of the emperors, all in Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province, and the Shenyang Imperial Palace of the early Qing Dynasty.\n\nThese sites were added to the World Heritage List at the 28th conference of the World Heritage Committee in July 2004 in Suzhou, a scenic city in Jiangsu Province, east China.\n\nJoining UNESCO's Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 1985, China now has 31 sites on the World Heritage List, the third most next to Italy and Spain, and it is now playing an active role in protecting the world heritages.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 264, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July this year", "start_char": 716, "end_char": 730, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 2004", "start_char": 1621, "end_char": 1630, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1985", "start_char": 1790, "end_char": 1794, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1802, "end_char": 1805, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1897, "end_char": 1900, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0108.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0469\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, detail, background ///\n\n\n\n\nThe United States said Saturday that the Cuban regime must take steps toward democracy before Washington would consider any \"deepening\" of bilateral relations, responding to Raul Castro's invitation to come to the negotiating table.\n\n\"The dialogue that needs to take place is one between the Cuban regime and the Cuban people about the democratic future of the island,\" Janelle Hironimus, a State Department spokeswoman, told AFP.\n\n\"As we have consistently stated, any deepening of our engagement with Cuba depends on that dialogue and the Cuban regime's willingness to take concrete steps toward a political opening and a transition to democracy,\" she said.\n\nRaul Castro, Cuba's defense minister and interim leader since his ailing brother Fidel underwent surgery in July, said in a speech to troops earlier Saturday: \"Let me take this opportunity to express our willingness to settle the long US-Cuba disagreement at the negotiating table.\"\n\n\"Of course, that is, as long as they accept that we are a country that does not tolerate any reduction of its independence, and based on the principles of equality, reciprocity, non-interference and mutual respect,\" he told Communist Party and military leaders at Cuba's first military parade in a decade.\n\n\"Until that happens, after almost half a century, we are prepared to wait patiently for the moment when common sense takes root in the halls of power in Washington,\" he said.\n\nThe parade marked the 50th anniversary of the armed forces and capped belated 80th birthday celebrations for Fidel Castro, Cuba's leader since 1959.\n\nThe speech by Raul Castro, coming in the vacuum of Fidel Castro's public disappearance since his intestinal surgery in July, seemed to confirm a desire to ease the traditionally strained tensions with Washington.\n\nThe policy of willingness to talk with the United States if respected as an equal is standing Cuban policy.\n\nBut Raul Castro's timing and mention of the negotiating table -- as Cuba is consolidating its changing of the communist guard -- suggests some growing autonomy on his part.\n\nA few weeks after taking the reins of government from his brother on July 31, Raul Castro hinted at some openness to dialogue with the United States in an interview with the Communist Party newspaper Granma, suggesting ties might be normalized on equal terms.\n\nBut the US had shot back that it was not talking to \"Fidel light.\"\n\nSince Fidel Castro's illness removed him from the scene, the United States has made numerous appeals for Cuba to open up to democracy.\n\nCuba, Latin America's only one-party communist regime, and the United States do not have full diplomatic relations. Each maintains an Interests Section, a diplomatic office, in the other's capital.\n\nThe United States has maintained a trade embargo against Cuba since 1962.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 130, "end_char": 138, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 875, "end_char": 879, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 916, "end_char": 924, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a decade", "start_char": 1347, "end_char": 1355, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "half a century", "start_char": 1392, "end_char": 1406, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1959", "start_char": 1677, "end_char": 1681, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1959", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1803, "end_char": 1807, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "A few weeks", "start_char": 2181, "end_char": 2192, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 31", "start_char": 2250, "end_char": 2257, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1962", "start_char": 2913, "end_char": 2917, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1962", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0469.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0370\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSri Lanka wildlife officials told to guard against bird flu\n\n\n\n\nThe Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWLC) of Sri Lanka has urged wildlife officials to guard against possible detection of signs of bird-flu as the bird- migration season began, Daily News reported Thursday.\n\nThe DWLC in cooperation with the Sri Lankan Animal Production and Health Department conducted a workshop recently to help wildlife workers learn about bird flu and possible methods through which the virus could enter the country.\n\nBirds fly into tropical countries to escape harsh winters and take refuge in Sri Lanka's wetlands such as Bundala, Kumana and Anawilundawa. These national parks are habitats to a wide range of fauna.\n\nThe workshop studied different possible aspects of the virus affecting Sri Lanka's birdlife with migratory birds joining local waterfowl in catchment areas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 324, "end_char": 332, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0370.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0613\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nUN turns spotlight on sexual abuse by peacekeepers\n\n\n\n\nUN chief Kofi Annan on Monday opened a high-level conference here that turned the spotlight on continuing sexual exploitation and abuses by a minority of UN peacekeepers serving around the world.\n\n\"Acts of sexual exploitation and abuse by both civilian and uniformed UN personnel continue,\" the outgoing secretary general told a gathering of more than 100 senior leaders from the world body, non-governmental organizations, UN member states, academics and victim advocates.\n\n\"There have been crimes such as rape, paedophilia and human trafficking. My message of zero tolerance has still not got through to those who need to hear it -- from managers on the ground, to all our other personnel.\"\n\nMonday's conference came close on the heels of a BBC expose that found allegations of child prostitution and rape involving the UN peacekeeping missions in Haiti and Liberia.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC last week, UN Assistant Secretary General for peacekeeping operations Jane Holl Lute conceded that the abuse reported in Haiti \"is going on ... and I don't challenge the facts as they were presented\".\n\nShe insisted, however, that the United Nations was working to deal with cases of abuse by peacekeepers, telling the broadcaster that the UN had \"accepted our responsibility for dealing comprehensively with this.\"\n\nMonday, participants at the one-day conference approved a statement in which they reaffirmed their determination to prevent future acts of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN and non-governmental organization (NGO) personnel.\n\nThey specifically committed themselves to implementing 10 key goals, including developing organization-specific strategies to deal with the problem, incorporating standards on induction materials and training courses for their personnel and preventing perpetrators of abuse from being \"(re-) hired or (re-) deployed.\"\n\nOther goals include taking appropriate action to \"protect persons from retaliation\" where allegations of sexual abuse are reported, investigate allegation \"in a timely and professional manner\" and providing \"basic emergency assistance to complainants\".", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 137, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 802, "end_char": 808, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1007, "end_char": 1016, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1423, "end_char": 1429, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0613.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0314\n\nMADRID, April 18 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJames Baker on Western Sahara mission\n\n\n\n\nFormer US secretary of state James Baker will meet the leader of Western Sahara's Polisario Front in Algeria on April 26, as part of a bid to resolve the dispute over the former Spanish colony, a Western Saharan source said here Friday.\n\nBaker, 66, was named UN special envoy for Western Sahara in March and charged with relaunching the peace process there.\n\nThe meeting with Mohamed Abdelaziz in Tindouf, southwest Algeria, will be his first visit to the region since his nomination.\n\nBaker will also visit refugee camps housing Western Saharan refugees, the source told AFP.\n\nSpain withdrew from Western Sahara in 1976, prompting Morocco and Mauritania to claim sovereignty over the area while the nationalist Polisario Front, supported by Algeria, unleashed an independence war.\n\nThe United Nations has proposed a referendum on whether the territory should become part of Morocco or an independent state.\n\nHowever the plebiscite has been repeatedly postponed since 1992, because the two sides cannot agree on criteria for determining who has the right to vote.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 18 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 26", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 325, "end_char": 331, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 394, "end_char": 399, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1976", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 716, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1976", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1064, "end_char": 1068, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0314.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0171\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSingapore recruits students as crime prevention ambassadors\n\n\n\n\nThe Singapore police are recruiting students as young crime prevention ambassadors as part of efforts to reduce crime involving the youth.\n\n\"To reduce youth crime, particularly shop theft and rioting, the National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) has been engaging students to act as Student Crime Prevention Ambassadors (CPAs),\" Senior Minister of State for Law and Home Affairs Ho Peng Kee said at the launch of the annual Festive Season Crime Prevention campaign on Sunday.\n\nHe said that the aim is to teach students crime prevention strategies and they in turn can become mentors for fellow students.\n\nNCPC believes that peer influence exerts a strong influence on youths, guiding them to make sound choices in life, he added.\n\nStarting next year, a new program will be rolled out at 32 schools, teaching National Police Cadet Corps (NPCC) trainees to stop crime.\n\n\"It consists of a 3-year program where NPCC Cadets would acquire crime prevention skills and knowledge and embark on school and community projects under the supervision of both the school officers and the police liaison officers from the NPCs,\" he said, adding that \"this program serves to strengthen the link between the police and the schools, establishing NPCC as a platform for its youths to become efficient crime prevention police youth ambassadors.\"\n\nPointing out that over the first nine months of this year, there have been increases in incidents of housebreaking, robbery, snatch theft and handphone theft, he stressed that crime prevention is everybody's business.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 591, "end_char": 597, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 863, "end_char": 872, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 1472, "end_char": 1493, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1497, "end_char": 1506, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0171.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0057\n\nRAMALLAH, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIsrael considers releasing jailed Fatah leader: lawyer\n\n\n\n\nKhader Shqirat, lawyer of the jailed Fatah leader Marwan al-Barghouti, said on Sunday that Israel is considering releasing Barghouti after he won the Fatah primaries.\n\nShqirat told reporters that Barghouti's victory in Fatah's internal elections in the West Bank city of Ramallah last week would make Israel seriously consider his release.\n\nIsraeli Army Radio quoted senior Israeli security sources as saying that Israel's military and security establishments are mulling on the issue of releasing Barghouti.\n\nMeanwhile, Yosi Belin, an Israeli party head, called on the Israeli government to release Barghouti, saying that his victory among the young generation in Fatah could help both Israel and the Palestinians to achieve a permanent peace.\n\nBarghouti's wife Fadwa told reporters that Shqirat will visit her husband in his Israeli jail and inform him of the good news that he had won the primaries.\n\nBarghouti, a top Fatah leader in the West Bank and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC), was arrested in April 2002 in Ramallah by Israeli army in its Defensive Shield operation.\n\nAn Israeli court convicted Barghouti of leading the armed Intifada (Uprising) against Israel in which several Israelis were killed, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 397, "end_char": 406, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2002", "start_char": 1141, "end_char": 1151, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0057.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "VOA19980303.1600.2745 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n While the expansion of the Internet has been a blessing for researchers,\n students and the just plain curious, the new opportunities mentioned by Mr.\n Gates are also being used by some rather unsavory characters. A new report\n says there has been a dramatic rise in the growth of hate groups in the\n United States over the past year. And many of them are using the Internet to spread their messages of racial superiority.\n VOA's Jim Teple has details from our southeast news bureau.\n\n\n The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights monitoring group based in\n Montgomery, Alabama, has long monitored such groups as the Ku Klux Klan.\n More recently it has followed the growth of the militia movement and church\n groups that preach a message of white supremacy and anti-semitism.\n The new study written by Mark Potach, who edits the Southern Poverty Law\n Center's Intelligence Report, warns that such groups grew rapidly last\n year, mostly by recruiting younger members. Mr. Potach says the growth is\n surprising since membership in hate groups usually declines during periods of economic\n prosperity.\n\n\n We in fact have seen hate group numbers dropping through the nineties, uh but\n this year they jumped up uh twenty percent, quite a dramatic rise.\n\n\n Mark Potach says over four hundred hate groups have been identified and many are becoming increasingly successful at recruiting younger members through the\n use of Internet web pages and the promotion of racist rock music.\n\n\n The Internet has certainly helped uh hate mongers to organize and uh to feel that\n they are part of a larger community, even if uh they are essentially uh, you\n know, angry people sitting in their bedrooms uh all alone.\n Uh, in addition, white power racist music has become uh quite\n popular in certain sectors. Uh, there are over fifty thousand CDs a year\nsold with uh lyrics that are quite uh unbelievable.\n\n\n Many of these new members are joining chapters of the so called Christian\n Identity Movement which cites Biblical scripture as a foundation for a\n belief in white supremacy and anti-semitism. Mark Potach says such members are also intensely attracted to apocalyptical fantasies.\n\n\n The approach of the year two thousand has many of these groups in a kind of\n millennial frenzy. Uh, uh a- they believe, or at least many of them believe,\n uh that they are approaching the Battle of Armageddon in which they will be pitted against the uh kind of Satanic forces trying to take over the world.\n\n\n Mr. Potach notes older, more traditional groups like the Ku Klux Klan are also opening new chapters, thanks in part to their ability to use new\n technologies like the Internet. The Federal Bureau of Investigation says\n it received more than eight thousand reports of hate group crimes last\n year. Law enforcement authorities say such reports are likely to increase\n as police departments are now beginning to more accurately report hate\n crimes than they have in the past.\n Jim Teple, VOA News, Miami.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980303", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t105", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past year", "start_char": 361, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t168", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t105"}, {"text": "More recently", "start_char": 677, "end_char": 690, "tid": "t109", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t105"}, {"text": "last\n year", "start_char": 962, "end_char": 972, "tid": "t111", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t105"}, {"text": "the nineties", "start_char": 1203, "end_char": 1215, "tid": "t115", "type": "DATE", "value": "199", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1225, "end_char": 1234, "tid": "t116", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t111"}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 1871, "end_char": 1877, "tid": "t120", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year two thousand", "start_char": 2231, "end_char": 2252, "tid": "t121", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last\n year", "start_char": 2810, "end_char": 2820, "tid": "t126", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t105"}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2917, "end_char": 2920, "tid": "t129", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t105"}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 2988, "end_char": 2996, "tid": "t133", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t105"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "VOA19980303.1600.2745.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0278\n\nOTTAWA, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFormer Canadian prime minister challenges sponsorship scandal inquiry\n\n\n\n\nFormer Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien on Wednesday filed an expected challenge against a judicial inquiry which blamed him for a notorious corruption scandal.\n\nJustice John Gomery was biased against him and Gomery's conclusion was not backed up by the information given at the inquiry, Chretien said in his appeal.\n\nWednesday is the last day of a 30-day limit that Chretien could file the challenge in a Federal Court since the release of the Gomery report. In his initial investigation report released on Nov. 1, Gomery confirmed a system of illegal kickbacks and contributions that funneled millions of dollars to the federal Liberal Party in Quebec.\n\nHe described Chretien as the architect of the program, and his chief of staff Jean Pelletier as the man who implemented it. And Prime Minister Paul Martin, then Chretien's finance minister, was exonerated of any wrongdoing over the scandal.\n\nChretien's appeal came when Martin launched his Quebec election campaign on Wednesday with a star candidate astronaut Marc Garneau who was asking Quebecers to turn the page on the sponsorship scandal.\n\nThe Liberal popularity in Quebec was hit most hard by the scandal which led to the defeat of Martin's minority government on Monday by a non-confidence vote in the House of Commons.\n\nHowever, Chretien's associates said that the timing of the appeal was linked to the time limit yet has nothing to do with the election.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last day", "start_char": 470, "end_char": 478, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 643, "end_char": 649, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1109, "end_char": 1118, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1360, "end_char": 1366, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0278.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0085\n\nRAMALLAH, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n11 Palestinians, three Israeli police officers wound in Jenin\n\n\n\n\nSome 11 Palestinians and three Israeli border police officers were injured during heavy clashes in the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday morning, sources from both sides said.\n\nPalestinian security sources said large Israeli troop containing some eighty tanks stormed the city's center early Wednesday accompanied by dozens of jeeps and military vehicles.\n\nThe Israeli army imposed a curfew at the area while the operation was taking place, they added.\n\nPalestinian medical sources confirmed that 11 armed men were injured in the clashes.\n\nIsraeli army radio said that three Israelis policemen sustained light wounds Wednesday in an exchange of fire with armed Palestinians during an operation to detain suspect militants in the town of Jenin.\n\nViolent gunfights promptly ensued at the scene involving Israeli forces and Palestinian gunmen, according to witnesses.\n\nAs Israeli soldiers fanned out through Jabal Abu Dheir, Al Marah, Jenin Refugee Camp, the industrial area and the Eastern neighborhoods, they encountered arms fire from Palestinian armed men, the witnesses clarified.\n\nMeanwhile, Israeli army forces operating northeast of Tulkarem recovered a handgun, two hunting rifles and ammunition, and detained the homeowner early Wednesday, Israel radio said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 271, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 419, "end_char": 428, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 744, "end_char": 753, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Wednesday", "start_char": 1357, "end_char": 1372, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0085.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0283\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Bombings kill 153 in Baghdad, indefinite curfew imposed\n\n\n\n\nA series of coordinated bombings killed 153 people in a Shiite militia stronghold in eastern Baghdad on Thursday, prompting the authorities to impose an indefinite curfew.\n\nA further 201 people were also injured when four car bombs in short succession struck 55th Square, al-Sadrain Square, the popular Hai market and Mudhafar Square in Sadr City on Thursday afternoon, a well-informed Interior Ministry official told Xinhua.\n\nThe anonymous official denied the earlier report that Mudhafar Square was hit by a mortar round.\n\nThere are additional two car bombings near the Shiite district, causing no casualties, the official added.\n\nShortly after the bloodbath, some 13 mortar rounds shelled a Sunni district in northern Baghdad in retaliation, leaving at least 10 people wounded.\n\nSadr City in eastern Baghdad is a stronghold for thousands of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The revered cleric's militia Mahdi Army is often accused of getting involved in the sectarian violence, in which thousands of people have been kidnapped and tortured and their bodies dumped.\n\nAngry residents and armed militiamen flooded the streets to protest the bloody attacks, denouncing Sunni militants behind it. Some people warned the latest carnage was likely to inflame sectarian passions and pushed the country closed to a full-scale civil war.\n\nThe Interior Ministry has imposed an indefinite curfew on Baghdad, Iraqi state-run television reported.\n\nThe Iraqiya channel quoted an Interior Ministry official as saying that the curfew began at 8:00 p.m. (1700 GMT) Thursday and all people and vehicles must stay off the streets of the city until further notice.\n\nIn other violence, gunmen attacked a Shiite ministry in central Baghdad, prompting fierce clashes with security guards.\n\n\"Up to 30 gunmen attacked the Health Ministry in Bab al-Mu' adham area at about 2:30 p.m. (1130 GMT), prompting fierce clashes with Iraqi army and police forces,\" an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.\n\n\"There is no immediate police report on casualties,\" the source said, adding that there were some people being taken to nearby hospitals.\n\nDeputy Minister Hakim al-Zamily told the Iraqi state-run television Iraqiya that since Thursday morning the ministry building has been shelled by mortar rounds and machine-gun fire.\n\nRecently, the Iraqi Health Ministry controlled by al-Sadr are frequently targeted. Zamily himself survived assassination attempt on Monday when gunmen attacked his convoy in Bab al-Mu'adham area, killing two of his bodyguards.\n\nA day before that, Ammar Assafar, another ministry deputy was kidnapped when gunmen wearing police uniforms stormed his house in Baghdad's northern district of Adhamiyah.\n\nEarlier this month, militants in police uniforms stormed a building of the Iraqi High Education Ministry in central Baghdad, kidnapping about 100 people, some of whom were released later.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday afternoon", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 494, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1695, "end_char": 1703, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2:30 p.m.", "start_char": 1994, "end_char": 2003, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 2345, "end_char": 2361, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2573, "end_char": 2579, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this month", "start_char": 2841, "end_char": 2859, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0283.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0076\n\nMANILA, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFiscal deficit of Philippines drops greatly in first 10 months\n\n\n\n\nThe fiscal deficit in the first 10 months this year of the Philippine government reached 56.3 billion pesos (1.12 billion U.S. dollars), lower than 115.5 billion pesos (2.23 billion U.S. dollars) incurred during the same period last year, the Philippine Central Bank said on Thursday.\n\nThe lower deficit was a result of better revenue performance and lower-than-expected spending due to the non-approval of the 2006 proposed budget bill, said the central bank.\n\nMoreover, the first ten months' deficit is just 45 percent of the full year target of 125 billion pesos (2.5 billion U.S. dollars).\n\nFrom January to October, government revenues were up by 19 percent compared to the same period last year, with collections of the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Bureau of Customs reaching 522.8 billion pesos 10.5 billion U.S. dollars) and 159.8 billion pesos (3.2 billion U.S. dollars) respectively.\n\nThe Philippine government is cutting its fiscal deficit as part of its fiscal reform package which is aimed at reaching zero deficit by 2010, the year President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's presidential term expires.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first 10 months this year", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 174, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16T10:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 351, "end_char": 360, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 398, "end_char": 406, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "ten months", "start_char": 605, "end_char": 615, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 723, "end_char": 730, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 813, "end_char": 822, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1159, "end_char": 1163, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1165, "end_char": 1173, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0076.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0406\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n4 Vietnamese traffickers arrested\n\n\n\n\nHANOI, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) --The Vietnamese police have just arrested a drug seller from a central province and three of his customers from Hanoi capital, confiscating 2.8 kg of heroin, 800 amphetamine and some 8,500 US dollars, local media reported Friday.\n\nThe police arrested the three middle-aged men from the capital city's rural districts on Nov. 16 after detecting the drugs hidden in their car, newspaper Young People said.\n\nThe men confessed that they bought them from a man named Vi Van May from Nghe An province. When local police approached May's house in Ky Son district on the morning of Nov. 16, he embraced two of his little children and a grenade in the house.\n\nMay did not surrender to the police until the afternoon of Nov. 17.\n\nLast year, Vietnamese authorities reported 12,068 drug-related crimes, seized 239.4 kg of heroin, and arrested 18,260 people involved. Under the country's laws, anyone possessing, trading or trafficking heroin of 0.6 kg or above can be sentenced to death or life in prison.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18", "start_char": 102, "end_char": 109, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 342, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 16", "start_char": 440, "end_char": 447, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 645, "end_char": 648, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning of Nov. 16", "start_char": 679, "end_char": 701, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the afternoon of Nov. 17", "start_char": 813, "end_char": 837, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 840, "end_char": 849, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0406.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0603\n\nBONN, April 12 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSchroeder would lead the SPD to victory over Kohl, poll shows\n\n\n\n\nGerhard Schroeder would lead the social democratic SPD party to victory if he were selected to face Chancellor Helmut Kohl in next year's general elections, according to an opinion poll published Saturday.\n\nSchroeder, who heads the state government in Lower Saxony, would win 56 percent of the vote against 33 percent for Kohl, the poll, conducted by the DIMAP institute and published by the daily Bild, indicated.\n\nWith Oskar Lafontaine as its champion, the SPD would lose with 40 percent of the vote against 45 percent for Kohl's CDU Christian- Democratic Union, according to the poll in which 1,100 people were questioned.\n\nKohl would win by an even bigger margin - 47 percent - against an SPD led by Rudolf Scharping, the leader of the SPD's parliamentary group whom only 36 percent of those questioned said they would back.\n\nThe SPD leadership said on April 3 that Kohl's decision to run for chancellor again would not affect its decision to wait until next year to pick its own candidate for the country's top post.\n\nAsked how they would vote if the elections took place this week, 41 percent of those polled said they would vote SPD (plus one percent) and 35 percent said they would back the CDU.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 12 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 253, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 314, "end_char": 322, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 3", "start_char": 975, "end_char": 982, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1076, "end_char": 1085, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1195, "end_char": 1204, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0603.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0297\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAnnan to speak on bird flu\n\n\n\n\nUN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is scheduled to deliver his first major speech on avian flu Thursday, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced Wednesday.\n\nIn that speech which is to be delivered at the Time Global Health Summit in New York, the Secretary-General is expected to describe the highly complex challenges involved, and outline a set of key priorities for the UN system and the international community as a whole -- actions needed in seeking to avert, and preparing for the possibility of, a human pandemic, Dujarric said.\n\n\"Annan will describe the coordination mechanism set up by the UN family to address the threat, and call for collective action among all partners of the United Nations,\" he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 237, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0297.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0247\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 20 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: Chinese president to visit US early next year\n\n\n\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao will pay a visit to the United States early next year, according to sources close to the talks between Hu and visiting US President George W. Bush, who offered an invitation, Sunday morning.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 181, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday morning", "start_char": 318, "end_char": 332, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0308\n\nKHARTOUM, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSudanese government disregards Washington's warning on Darfur\n\n\n\n\nThe Sudanese government on Tuesday brushed aside a U.S. warning on its Darfur issues by saying that they did not know the plan referred in the warning.\n\nAli al-Sadig, the spokesman of the Sudanese Foreign Ministry, told reporters that his government knew neither Plan A nor Plan B, which were talked about by Andrew Natsios, the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan.\n\nOn Monday, Natsios warned that the United States and other countries would resort to what he called \"Plan B\" if Khartoum refused to change its position on the peacekeeping issue in Darfur by Jan. 1.\n\n\"On Jan. 1, either we see change or we go to Plan B,\" Natsios told reporters at the State Department, without elaborating the details.\n\nDescribing Natsios' statement as \"inappropriate and not helpful for resolving the problem in Darfur,\" the spokesman said that \"The U.S. envoy ignored the fact that agreements had been reached at the joint meeting of the UN, the AU, the Arab League and the Sudanese government in Addis Ababa on Thursday on most of the questions it discussed.\"\n\nHe reiterated that the Sudanese government would only accept a UN presence within the AU Mission in Darfur in the form of experts and technicians as well as the technical assistance that the AU force needs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 486, "end_char": 492, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 1", "start_char": 674, "end_char": 680, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 1", "start_char": 687, "end_char": 693, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1113, "end_char": 1121, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0308.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0196\n\nROME, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nItalian lower house approves govt's 2007 budget\n\n\n\n\nItalian lower house on Sunday approved the government's planned 2007 budget, which included heavily protested tax increases and spending cuts.\n\nThe budget, which suggested 15 billion euros of spending cuts, passed by 311 votes to 251, one day after the government won a confidence vote on a series of measures tied to the budget, which must be approved by the Senate before the end of the year.\n\nItalian Premier Romano Prodi, who narrowly beat former premier Silvio Berlusconi in April's general election, has been struggling to gain support among some of its allies for the budget, which is aimed at promoting growth and bringing the Italian deficit to within 3 percent of GDP by next year to meet Rome's EU commitments.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 341, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 480, "end_char": 499, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 591, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 787, "end_char": 796, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0196.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0551\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nUS mulling Darfur no-fly zone at urging of Blair\n\n\n\n\nThe United States and Britain are considering the imposition of a no-fly zone over Sudan's war-torn Darfur region if the Khartoum government does not allow a UN-led peacekeeping force into the area, the State Department said Wednesday.\n\nBlair raised the no-fly zone option during a meeting here last week with US President George W. Bush amid growing frustration with Sudan's refusal to comply with agreements on the peacekeepers, department spokesman Sean McCormack said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 404, "end_char": 413, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0551.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0195\n\nKINSHASA, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nZaire premier says army can defend capital against rebels\n\n\n\n\nZaire's Prime Minister Likulia Bolongo has called on residents of Kinshasa to denounce all suspect people, saying the army can defend the city against rebels but needs public support.\n\nIn a television interview late Monday, General Likulia declared that the Zairean armed forces, the FAZ, was able to hold the city against rebels who have swept across the eastern half of the country, but needed \"the support of the people\".\n\nHe claimed that inhabitants of all the towns conquered by Laurent Kabila's guerrillas since October were putting up \"strong resistance to the rebels\", but denounced wide divisions among Zairean politicians which had weakened the strength of the armed forces.\n\nLikulia also renewed Zairean charges that \"certain neighbouring countries\" had sent regular troops to fight for the mainly Tutsi rebel alliance, claiming that Kabila was dependent on help from these forces. Zaire has previously accused Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi of involvement, charges denied by all these countries.\n\nOn peace talks which have been under way in South Africa, Likulia said he was \"confident\" they would achieve a settlement.\n\n\"But if they collapse, the FAZ is ready to end a truce and resume fighting,\" he said.\n\nFrequently, Zaire's rag-tag army has looted and fled towns ahead of rebel advances and Kabila's men now control more than half the country, including the mineral-rich southeastern provinces crucial to the economy.\n\nLikulia said he would talk to the transitional parliament, the High Council of the Republic, on the situation in the country, where \"the state coffers are empty\", but for notes with a face value of between 100,000 and one million new zaires.\n\n180,000 new zaires are worth one dollar, but the biggest note in circulation is the 50,000 new zaire bill, because Zaireans refuse to take other notes arguing that they will worsen inflation.\n\nOn Monday, the United States urged Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko and Kabila to hold talks in South Africa, lamenting the difficulty in arranging the meeting.\n\nIt is \"important for the rebels and the government to respond favorably to the South African proposal\" for a summit, said State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns.\n\nObstacles to holding the meeting were \"quite disappointing, because we think the only way that any progress is going to be made in the current civil war in Zaire\" is through such dialogue, Burns said.\n\nWashington will give \"all necessary support\" to the efforts of the South African government and the UN special envoy Mohamed Sahnoun to arrange the direct talks, he said.\n\nThe question was raised during a meeting early Monday between Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and South African Vice President Thabo Mbeki.\n\nSahnoun said Monday that there is \"still a small hope to concretize the meeting.\" He told AFP that both parties \"continue to say they're ready\" to meet.\n\nLast Thursday, Sahnoun and South African Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad, peace mediators in the ongoing conflict, announced in Cape Town that the two foes had agreed to meet.\n\nBut Saturday, Kabila toughened his position, saying he only would meet Mobutu to discuss the conditions for the president's departure, while the head of state refuses to stand down.\n\nThe rebels have seized all key cities apart from the capital Kinshasa and are seeking to oust Mobutu, ruler for the past 32 years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Monday", "start_char": 329, "end_char": 340, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 636, "end_char": 643, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1434, "end_char": 1437, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "100,000", "start_char": 1755, "end_char": 1762, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1988, "end_char": 1994, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2736, "end_char": 2742, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2849, "end_char": 2855, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2995, "end_char": 3003, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 3183, "end_char": 3191, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 32 years", "start_char": 3474, "end_char": 3491, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P32Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0195.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0057\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBeijing\n\n\n\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao rolled out red carpet on Friday morning at the Great Hall of the People in downtown Beijing, to welcome five presidents of African countries, who were here for a two-day China-Africa summit.\n\nHu met, on separate occasions, with five African presidents, including Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the Republic of Congo, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Alhaji Ahmed Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana.\n\nHu extolled the upcoming Beijing Summit of the Forum on China- Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), saying it is a great undertaking in the history of China-Africa relations.\n\nAt the two-day summit slated for Nov. 4-5, leaders of China and African countries will review the development of China-Africa relationship and blueprint the future cooperation, Hu said.\n\nThe Chinese president said the summit will have a significant impact on enhancing mutual understanding and trust between China and African leaders, deepening traditional friendship, bolstering pragmatic cooperation and promoting South-South cooperation.\n\nHe also expressed China's appreciation to the five countries for their adherence to the one-China policy and \"precious support\" to China in international affairs.\n\nPresidents of the five countries said China, which has been offering consistent and firm political and economic support to Africa, was seen as a favorable partner by African people.\n\nThe presidents agreed the Beijing Summit, with its significant impact on China-Africa relations, were warmly supported by the governments and people of their countries, saying they hope African countries and China make full use of the summit and draw up future cooperative plans to achieve common development.\n\nWhile meeting Sassou-Nguesso, Hu said the friendly cooperation between China and the Republic of Congo has been going on smoothly since the two countries established strategic partnership more than a year ago.\n\n\"We've been exploring new ways to serve our mutual best interest and to create a win-win situation,\" he said.\n\nSassou-Nguesso, who was elected African Union (AU) chairman for the 2006 session at the sixth AU summit in the Sudanese capital Khartoum in January, spoke positively of his country's relations with China, saying the two sides are putting into practice their consensus for cooperation.\n\nDuring a meeting with Museveni, Hu said bilateral ties will be consolidated through strengthening friendly exchanges and exploring cooperation potential, noting the two countries share mutual trust and close cooperation, vowing China is willing to push forward mutual friendship to a new level.\n\nMuseveni said China had granted important support when Uganda strove for national independence, and offered assistance in Uganda 's economic development. He said Uganda hopes to expand cooperation with China in fields of railway, energy, processing of agricultural produce and tourism.\n\nWhen meeting with Kabbah, Hu said the relations between the two countries have developed smoothly on the basis of equality, mutual respect and trust.\n\nKabbah said Sierra Leone is under economic reconstruction and willing to see cooperation with China in trade, investment, infrastructure building and health.\n\nIn his meeting with Kagame, Hu said he believed the friendly cooperative relations between China and Rwanda would advance in a healthy and rapid manner.\n\nKagame recognized the effective cooperation between Rwanda and China in agriculture, fishery, sanitation and the construction of public utilities. Bilateral coordination in international affairs was favorable, he said.\n\nWhen meeting with Kufuor, Hu said China wishes to enhance cooperation with Ghana in areas of infrastructure construction, telecommunications and human resources.\n\nThe high quality of the road and other projects that the Chinese side helped construct in Ghana has received applause from the Ghanaian people, who wish to enhance cooperation with China in trade, investment, power development, information networks and road construction, so as to fulfill win-win and mutual benefit, said Kufuor.\n\nForty eight African countries that have diplomatic relations with China are to participate in the two-day summit focusing on \" friendship, peace, cooperation and development.\" Since FOCAC was established in 2000, economic and trade cooperation between China and Africa has entered a new era, with comprehensive, rapid and stable development.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 121, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-27TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4-5", "start_char": 733, "end_char": 741, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 1998, "end_char": 2008, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 2262, "end_char": 2269, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 4376, "end_char": 4380, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0057.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0787\n\nJAKARTA, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nIndonesia jails Muslim militant over Australian embassy bombing\n\n\n\n\nAn Indonesian court has sentenced a Muslim militant to three years in jail for storing explosives used in the 2004 suicide bombing of the Australian embassy here, a court clerk said Wednesday.\n\nTwelve people, including the bomber, were killed when an explosives-laden van exploded in front of the mission on September 5, 2004.\n\nJudges at the state court in Surabaya, East Java, sentenced Ahmad Arif Hermansyah, 27, on Tuesday, a court clerk who identified himself only as Bambang told AFP.\n\n\"The panel of judges found him guilty of having intentionally assisted acts of terrorism and withholding information on act of terrorism,\" Bambang said, adding that the defendant and his lawyers had filed an appeal.\n\nThe sentence was two years lighter than what the prosecution had recommended.\n\nProsecutors had accused the defendant of agreeing to store a cardboard box for a friend, who was tried separately, but failing to ask what it contained.\n\nProsecutors said it contained explosives later used in the embassy attack. They also told the court the defendant had been an active member of the Jemaah Islamiyah militant network in 1997.\n\nJemaah Islamiyah is accused of being behind a series of bombings and other attacks in Indonesia and the region in the past years, including the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 235, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 312, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 5, 2004", "start_char": 429, "end_char": 446, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-09-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 539, "end_char": 546, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 1246, "end_char": 1250, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past years", "start_char": 1367, "end_char": 1381, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0787.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0323\n\nNICOSIA, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nconfirmed\n\n\n\n\nCyprus Government Spokesman Christodoulos Pashiardis said Wednesday that proximity talks in Helsinki concerning Turkish obligations towards European Union (EU) and Cyprus has not yet be confirmed.\n\nPashiardis made the remarks to the press after a cabinet meeting, as Finland, the rotating EU presidency, is working on a draft proposal, providing for opening of Turkish occupied port of Famagusta under the EU administration for 24 months in combination with the opening of Turkish ports to ships carrying the Cypriot flag and the transfer of Varosha to the UN.\n\nFor the purpose, it has been focusing on preparing the ground for a possible meeting over the weekend in Helsinki between Cyprus and Turkey.\n\nPashiardis told the press that the return of Famagusta is the prime issue. \"Without the return of Famagusta to its lawful inhabitants, there is no room or possibility for the Finnish initiative to be successful.\"\n\nAsked if Nicosia objects to the presence of Turkish Cypriots at the possible talks in Helsinki, Pashiardis replied that if there is finally an invitation, the presence of any Turkish Cypriot will be merely to make an impression.\n\n\"Only the Turkish army has a say and it will be present in the Helsinki negotiations with a representative of the Turkish government,\" said Pashiardis.\n\nCyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkey militarily intervened and occupied the north of Cyprus following a coup by a group of Greek officers.\n\nTurkey, a country aspiring to become an EU member state, does not recognize the Republic of Cyprus and has failed so far to implement the EU-Turkey Customs Union Protocol, which provides for opening of its ports and airports to Cyprus.\n\nThe EU formally launched talks with Turkey over the country's accession last October. The negotiations are expected to last at least a decade and Ankara is required to meet a number of criteria spelled out by the EU before entry.\n\nThe Republic of Cyprus, which entered the EU on behalf of the whole island in May 2004, is able to block Turkey's entry talks with its veto.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 128, "end_char": 137, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 months", "start_char": 498, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P24M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 722, "end_char": 733, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 1401, "end_char": 1405, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last October", "start_char": 1830, "end_char": 1842, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2004", "start_char": 2067, "end_char": 2075, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0323.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0369\n\nMEXICO CITY, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nDEMOCRATS WIN CONTROL OF SENATE: AP\n\n\n\n\nDEMOCRATS WIN CONTROL OF SENATE: AP", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0369.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0255\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 26 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRaptors cruise past Indiana\n\n\n\n\nChris Bosh scored 17 points and grabbed 11 rebounds on Sunday as Toronto cruised past Indiana 92- 83 at Air Canada Center in Toronto.\n\nItalian Andrea Bargnani contributed 14 points while Jorge Garbajosa and Jose Calderon added 13 each for the Raptors, who have won two of three since dropping six straight games.\n\nDanny Granger and Stephen Jackson both scored 18 points and Jermaine O'Neal poured in 15 points with 11 rebounds for the Pacers, who have lost two of their last three.\n\nJamaal Tinsley also netted 15 points on 6-of-11 shooting with four assists in defeat, while Al Harrington chipped in 11 points with 14 rebounds.\n\nToronto, who shot 43.5 percent (37-of-85) from the floor, went on a 19-9 run in the first quarter and ended the frame with seven consecutive points.\n\nIndiana shot a dismal 37.2 percent from the field.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter", "start_char": 801, "end_char": 818, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0255.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0315\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNew York crude oil futures fall below 56 dollars\n\n\n\n\nNew York crude oil futures fell below 56 dollars Friday as concern over supply eased.\n\nNew York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, which expired Friday, fell 45 cents to close at 55.81 dollars a barrel, the lowest settlement price since June 15, 2005, after hitting 54.86 dollars.\n\nIn London, Brent North Sea crude for delivery in January gained 45 cents to settle at 58.99 dollars a barrel.\n\nThis winter in northeast United States, the world's largest consumer of heating fuel, is warmer than normal till now. Moreover, the weather in northeast would be warmer than normal from December until February, the U.S. National Weather Service said on Thursday. The warmer winter could boost the distillate stockpiles and weaken the fuel prices.\n\nThe Paris-based International Energy Agency lowered its forecast of oil product demand growth last Friday. The global average daily demand in 2006 may reached 84.5 million barrels per day, an 1.1 percent increase on the previous year, instead of its previous forecast of 1.2 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 266, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 15, 2005", "start_char": 374, "end_char": 387, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 475, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 643, "end_char": 646, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 716, "end_char": 724, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 731, "end_char": 739, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 783, "end_char": 791, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Friday", "start_char": 972, "end_char": 983, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous year", "start_char": 1094, "end_char": 1111, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0315.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0312\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua International News Advisory -- Nov. 4\n\n\n\n\nFollowing are some of the major international news stories scheduled to be covered or pursued by Xinhua on Friday.\n\n-- EU ignorant of CIA secret prisons: EU commissioner.\n\n-- Peruvian congress approves bill on maritime territory.\n\n-- Arms seized in outskirts of Mar del Plata ahead of the 4th Summit of the Americas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 4th", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 397, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0312.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0321\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua international news advisory -- Nov.23\n\n\n\n\nThe following are some of the major international news stories scheduled to be covered or pursued by Xinhua on Thursday.\n\n-- Hu Jintao delivers speech in India.\n\n-- Chinese president arrived in Islamabad.\n\n-- WTO chief calls for relaunch of Doah Round talks.\n\n-- Uruguay legislators ratify protocol of Mercosur Parliament.\n\n-- Argentina condemns assassination of Lebanese minister.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 225, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0321.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0099\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nHong Kong shares close fresh high -- Nov. 7\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong share prices closed fresh high on Tuesday but the speed is slowing down, with the benchmark Hang Seng Index going up only 7.03 points, or 0.04 percent to 18943.58, breaking the previous record of 18,936.69 on Monday.\n\nThe Index opened 166.33 points higher to 19102.88 and reached an all-time high at 19,161.38 during the trading, but can not keep the momentum and fell back at closing with a turnover of 51.72 billion HK dollars (6.56 billion U.S. dollars).\n\nMarket heavyweights China Mobile fell 2.47 percent to 67.05 HK dollars, while HSBC went up 0.53 percent to 151.20 HK dollars.\n\nHong Kong property companies performed well on the news of bank interests cut this morning, with Cheung Kong up 2.07 percent to 88.75 HK dollars, Henderson Land up 3.81 percent to 46.3 HK dollars and SHK PPT up 3.34 percent to 91.3 HK dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 325, "end_char": 331, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this morning", "start_char": 780, "end_char": 792, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0099.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0199\n\nTIRANA, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nOverseas visitors to Albania hit record in summer\n\n\n\n\nA record number of overseas visitors came to Albania in the past summer, reaching well over 550,000 people, an Albanian official said on Monday.\n\nEris Hozha, director of the National Tourism Organization, explained that the increasing numbers of visitors are attracted by Albania's well reserved cultural heritage.\n\n\"Albania is home to the internationally renowned archeological sites, such as the Butrint National Park, the country's Stone City of Gjirokastra and its 2500-year-old city of Berati,\" he said, adding that Berati is expected to be granted World Heritage site status in 2007.\n\nHe said that after the new terminal at the Tirana International Airport is completed in early 2007, an even greater number of visitors will come to Albania.\n\nAlbania is a small, mountainous country, boasting some of the wildest mountain scenery in Europe. It has a least built-up coastline of 150 miles in the Mediterranean region.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past summer", "start_char": 165, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 246, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 693, "end_char": 697, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2007", "start_char": 788, "end_char": 798, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0199.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0676\n\nHONG KONG, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nCITIC Hong Kong-backed long-term debt assigned Baa3 rating by Moody's\n\n\n\n\nInternational rating agency Moody's Investors Service said Thursday it has assigned a medium grade rating to long-term foreign currency debt of a Hong Kong-listed China-owned firm.\n\nMoody's assigned a \"Baa 3\" rating to long-term foreign currency debt guaranteed by China International Trust and Investment Corp. Hong Kong (Holdings) Ltd, which owns CITIC Pacific Ltd.\n\nIt said that the rating reflected \"the critical position\" of CITIC Hong Kong in the group structure of the Beijing-based China International Trust and Investment Corp.\n\nCITIC Hong Kong's role within the group's structure underpins its credit strength, Moody's said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0676.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891101-0016 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0016. \n Business Brief -- Ogden Corp.:\n@  Ogden Estimates Unit Had\n@  Jump in Third-Period Net \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n OG \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   Ogden Projects Inc. said net income jumped to $6.6 million, or 18 cents a share, in the third quarter. \n\n   The Fairfield, N.J., company, which is 92%-owned by Ogden Corp., New York, had net of $1.1 million, or four cents a share, a year ago. \nRevenue soared to $101.7 million from $39.5 million. \n\n   Ogden Projects, whose shares began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in August, closed yesterday at $26.875, down 75 cents. \nThe stock began trading this summer at $14 apiece. \n\n   Ogden Projects, which has interests in solid-waste recovery and hazardous-waste cleanup, said it has 13 facilities in operation, up from seven a year ago. \n\n   Meanwhile, Ogden Corp., which also has interests in building maintenance and management, reported third-quarter net income of $27.1 million, or 67 cents a share, more than twice the $13.5 million, or 34 cents a share, a year earlier. \nRevenue rose 33% to $378.1 million from $283.8 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89", "start_char": 132, "end_char": 140, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 295, "tid": "t29", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 425, "end_char": 435, "tid": "t89", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t29"}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 573, "end_char": 579, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-08", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 588, "end_char": 597, "tid": "t38", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "this summer", "start_char": 650, "end_char": 661, "tid": "t41", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-SU", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 835, "tid": "t158", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-11", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 940, "end_char": 953, "tid": "t52", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 1060, "end_char": 1066, "tid": "t55", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t52"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0348.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0556\n\nUNITED NATIONS, April 4 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUN Security Council denounces Libyan violation of air embargo\n\n\n\n\nThe UN Security Council Friday denounced Libya for a \"clear violation\" of a UN air embargo for carrying passengers from Libya for the annual hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca.\n\nIn a statement read by council president Antonio Monteiro of Portugal, the council noted that arrangements had been made for Libyan worshippers to travel to Saudi Arabia without violating the embargo.\n\nBut diplomats here said no additional action is planned against Tripoli.\n\nLibya violated the embargo for the third consecutive year Friday by bringing 105 pilgrims, including members of Libya's official delegation, to Saudi Arabia on a Libyan Arab Airways flight.\n\nThe plane returned to Libya the next morning.\n\nLibya also violated the flight embargo in 1995 and 1996 to transport pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, and for some trips by its leader, Colonel Moamer Kadhafi.\n\nThe United Nations imposed an international embargo on Libya in April 1992 for its refusal to hand over two Libyans suspected of involvement in the bombing of a Pan Am plane over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 which killed 270 people.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 4 , 1997", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third consecutive year Friday", "start_char": 606, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next morning", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 810, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 855, "end_char": 859, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 864, "end_char": 868, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1992", "start_char": 1031, "end_char": 1041, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 1169, "end_char": 1173, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0556.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0202\n\nGAZA, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAbbas, Haneya slam Israel's new round of Gaza offensive\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haneya slammed on Wednesday separately a fresh Israeli raid into northern Gaza Strip where six Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded.\n\nAbbas described the Israeli operations as \"a circle of dangerous and ignoble series because Israel is considering systematic operations in Gaza Strip without any reason.\"\n\nIsraeli army confirmed on Wednesday morning that the Israel Defense Force (IDF) is conducting a large-scale operation in Beit Hanoun, northern town of the Gaza Stripe.\n\nSix Palestinians had been reported as being killed and over 20 others injured in the operation.\n\nMeanwhile, Prime Minister Haneya also condemned the Israeli operation in Gaza at a news conference held outside his office in Gaza.\n\nHe said that the Israeli operation came as part of a pressure campaign exerted against the Hamas-led government and the Palestinian people.\n\nAttributing the action to the inclusion of an ultra-nationalist politician into Israel's government, Haneya said that \"The massacre committed today in Beit Hanoun is a result of the Israeli government's move to include a radical minister.\"\n\nHe warned that the inclusion of Avigdor Lieberman, chairman of the extreme-right party Yisrael Beiteinu, into the Israeli cabinet \"would affect the nature of the Israeli escalation against the Palestinian people.\"\n\nOn Monday evening, Israeli Knesset (parliament) voted and approved the addition of extreme-right party Yisrael Beiteinu into the government coalition, drawing criticisms from Israel's left parties and Palestinian side.\n\nHaneya also called on the international community and the Arab League to intervene immediately and put an end to the Israeli offensive, while urging the Palestinian people to unite and shelve their differences.\n\nThe Islamic Jihad (Holy War) movement also condemned the Israeli military operations in Gaza Strip, saying the Israeli army \"tries to recover its dignity lost in the recent war in Lebanon.\"\n\nIslamic Jihad's leader in Gaza, Khaled al-Batsh, told reporters that Israel \"was seeking a fake victory in Gaza.\"\n\nHe also said the operations \"are a gift to the ultra- nationalist bigot Avigdor Lieberman who joined the government to expand aggression and terrorism.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the Israeli escalation \"became intolerable.\"\n\nCalling on the international community to bear responsibility and intervene, Erekat said that the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) had repeatedly called for the European countries' intervention, but the Israeli aggression, however, continued.\n\nErekat expressed hope the Middle East Quartet would move to revive the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians, adding the release of the Israeli soldier and forming a new Palestinian government would pave the way for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 193, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 514, "end_char": 531, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-25TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1170, "end_char": 1175, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday evening", "start_char": 1487, "end_char": 1501, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-10-30TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0202.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0034\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: Israeli woman killed by Palestinian rocket attack: TV\n\n\n\n\nAn Israeli woman was killed in the town of Sderot by a rocket attack from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, Israel's Channel 2 television reported.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 226, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0034.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0046\n\nATHENS, Dec 31 , 2006, 2006\n\nSaddam-related bomb scare forces Greek plane landing\n\n\n\n\nA Greek aircraft bound for New York made a dawn emergency landing Sunday in Ireland after a telephone caller said there was a bomb on board \"for Saddam (Hussein)\", the dead Iraqi dictator.\n\nThe plane, belonging to Olympic Airlines, had left Athens for the United States with 183 passengers and 12 crew and landed at Shannon in the west of Ireland.\n\nThose aboard disembarked and were taken to a hotel while the aircraft, an Airbus 340, was searched.\n\n\"Unknown individuals speaking English with an Arab accent warned of the presence of a bomb on the plane, saying it was 'for Saddam'\", an airline spokesman said, adding two calls had been received at Athens airport early Suday morning.\n\nThe airline told the aircraft to land at the nearest airport and it touched down at Shannon at 4:20 am (0420GMT).", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 31 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Suday morning", "start_char": 773, "end_char": 792, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0046.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0034\n\nNEW DELHI, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndia disowns 'Saudi bungling' claim after Mecca blaze\n\n\n\n\nIndia has disowned a foreign ministry official's allegations that Saudi bungling led to the deaths of some Indian pilgrims in last week's Mecca disaster, newspapers reported Friday.\n\nThe Hindustan Times said the foreign ministry had rejected the allegations by India's Consul General Afzal Amanullah in Jeddah following a blaze on April 15 which left at least 343 dead.\n\nAmanullah claimed Indian pilgrims had been locked in their camp by their Saudi guides, condemning them to their fate. More than 100 Indians are believed to have died in the fire.\n\nBut a foreign ministry official said the consul general views appeared to be based on \"information provided by a few of the injured relating to the conduct of an individual gatekeeper.\"\n\nHe said no pilgrims had made a complaint about a locked gate to an investigating team from India and it would be \"premature to approportion blame.\"\n\nHe added: \"No broad generalisations about the tragic accident can be drawn on this basis.\"\n\nSaudi officials say the fire killed at least 343 people and left more than 1,500 wounded during the annual Moslem pilgrimage to Mecca known as the hajj.\n\nA preliminary Indian investigation, however, has indicated 600 may have died. Most of the victims were from Asian countries, notably India and Pakistan.\n\nThe Saudi authorities said the blaze, which incinerated 70,000 tents, was started accidently by the explosion of a gas canister used for cooking in the Pakistani pilgrims' camp.\n\nAmanullah reportedly said there had been time to save the pilgrims, adding: \"You do not prevent your own pilgrims from rushing out to safety. You do not confine them to a small space and certain death.\"\n\nThe Hindustan Times said the foreign ministry announcement had been made \"apparently in deference to Saudi clout.\"\n\nThe Asian Age, in an unsourced front page article, accused the Indian government of a \"soft approach\", arguing India did not want to offend Saudi Arabia since many of its nationals worked there and it also relied on Saudi oil supplies.\n\nThe newspaper added that many returning pilgrims also accused their guides of \"fleecing\" them of their money.\n\nBut Maqbool Dar, an Indian home minister who was on the pilgrimage and who is to brief Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral on the tragedy, told the paper that there had been \"excellent arrangements\" by the authorities at the hajj.\n\nRelatives of the Indian victims, meanwhile, are reportedly due to be paid 100,000 rupees (around 2,800 dollars) in compensation by the government.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 290, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 15", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 455, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0034.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0148\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nreport\n\n\n\n\nChina's economy will continue to grow at around 9.5 percent in 2007, with fixed asset investment up 20 percent on 2006, according to the latest report from the State Information Center (SIC).\n\nAccording to the SIC, a think tank under the National Development and Reform Commission, the three main engines driving Chinese economic growth -- exports, consumption and investment -- will all slow down a little.\n\nFixed asset investment is expected to hit 13.45 trillion yuan (1.68 trillion U.S. dollars) in 2007, up 20 percent, but 6.5 percentage points lower than the figure predicted for 2006.\n\nChina's fixed asset investment rose to 7.19 trillion yuan in the first nine months of this year, up 27.3 percent from the same period of 2005, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.\n\nMeanwhile, the volume of retail sales will reach 8.59 trillion yuan in 2007, a nominal growth of 12.5 percent, but again 1.1 percentage points lower than the predicted whole-year growth rate for 2006.\n\nExports will jump 15 percent in 2007, which is 9.5 percentage points slower than in 2006. The trade surplus is expected to reach 177 billion U.S. dollars, 30 billion U.S. dollars more than in 2006.\n\nTo achieve a balance in international payments, the think tank suggested adjusting the tax system and speeding up the standardization of corporate income tax for domestic and overseas-funded companies.\n\nIt said that China could use its ample foreign reserves to buy in reserves of strategic resources like crude oil and major metal products when prices on the international market are low.\n\nThe SIC also suggested the government institute heavier taxes on fossil energy such as coal, oil and natural gas, in order to improve energy efficiency.\n\nChina should follow a slightly more stringent monetary policy in 2007, restricting newly increased loans to three trillion yuan, said the report.\n\nSizzling fixed asset investment needed to be curbed, but more work should also be done to regulate investment structure, and government should put more money into public service sectors like education, public sanitation, resource conservation and environmental protection.\n\nChina's 11th five-year plan (2006-2010) projects continued high economic growth based on higher domestic consumption.\n\nAccording to the latest statistics, China's consumer price index, the key inflation indicator, rose by 1.4 percent year-on-year in October, 0.2 percentage points higher than a year ago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 186, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 571, "end_char": 575, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 654, "end_char": 658, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 722, "end_char": 743, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 747, "end_char": 756, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period of 2005", "start_char": 779, "end_char": 802, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 924, "end_char": 928, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 1048, "end_char": 1052, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 1087, "end_char": 1091, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 1139, "end_char": 1143, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 1247, "end_char": 1251, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 1864, "end_char": 1868, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 2470, "end_char": 2477, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 2513, "end_char": 2523, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0148.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0021 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0021. \n Business Brief -- Ratners Group PLC:\n@  Bid for Another Jeweler\n@  Is Raised to $62.1 Million \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n RATNY WEIS \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   Ratners Group PLC, a fast-growing, acquisition-minded London-based jeweler, raised its price for Seattle-based specialty jeweler Weisfield's Inc. to $57.50 a share, or $62.1 million, from $50 a share, or $55 million, after another concern said it would be prepared to outbid Ratners's initial offer. \nThe other concern was n't identified. \n\n   Ratners's chairman, Gerald Ratner, said the deal remains of \"substantial benefit to Ratners.\" \nIn London at mid-afternoon yesterday, Ratners's shares were up 2 pence (1.26 cents), at 260 pence ($1.64). \n\n   The sweetened offer has acceptances from more than 50% of Weisfield's shareholders, and it is scheduled for completion by Dec. 10. \n\n   The acquisition of 87-store Weisfield's raises Ratners's U.S. presence to 450 stores. \nAbout 30% of Ratners's profit already is derived from the U.S.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 139, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "mid-afternoon yesterday", "start_char": 689, "end_char": 712, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01TAF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t27"}, {"text": "Dec. 10", "start_char": 910, "end_char": 917, "tid": "t36", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-12-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t27"}, {"text": "already", "start_char": 1041, "end_char": 1048, "tid": "t101", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t27"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0169.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0238\n\nBUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nS.Korean, Japanese FMs to hold meeting on sidelines of APEC forum\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korean and Japanese foreign ministers are to hold bilateral meeting later Monday on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC) forum, according to a schedule distributed by the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Monday.\n\nIt will be their first meeting since Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Asao took office in late October.\n\nDuring their meeting, South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon and Asao are expected to discuss bilateral relations which had been in a cold water since Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid a visit to a controversial shrine in October.\n\nOn Oct. 17, Koizumi paid his fifth homage to the Yasukuni Shrine which honors 2 million Japanese war dead, including 14 Class A criminals of the World War II.\n\nSouth Korean Foreign Minister Ban initially hinted at canceling his planned visit to Tokyo in protest against Koizumi's shrine visit but later went ahead with the trip in late October, citing the need for \"unavoidable diplomatic activities.\"\n\nThe Ban-Aso meeting, to be held at the BEXCO (Busan Exhibition and Convention) center on late Monday afternoon, comes ahead of a summit meeting between South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and Koizumi on Friday.\n\nThe two diplomats are also to have dinner meeting on Monday.\n\nThe APEC Ministerial Meeting is scheduled to be held on Tuesday and Wednesday at BEXCO, before the holding of the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting on Nov. 18-19 in Busan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 395, "end_char": 401, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late October", "start_char": 492, "end_char": 504, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 745, "end_char": 752, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 17", "start_char": 758, "end_char": 765, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late October", "start_char": 1086, "end_char": 1098, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Monday afternoon", "start_char": 1247, "end_char": 1268, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1361, "end_char": 1367, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1423, "end_char": 1429, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1488, "end_char": 1495, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1500, "end_char": 1509, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18-19", "start_char": 1580, "end_char": 1590, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0238.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0256\n\nAUGUSTA, Georgia, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nMourners Saturday paid a last tribute to \"Godfather of Soul\" James Brown, whose body lay in state at a public funeral ceremony in his hometown deep in the US South.\n\nFans of the towering music icon filed silently past the open, white-lined casket set among huge wreaths at the center of the James Brown Arena in Augusta, Georgia.\n\nThe Reverend Al Sharpton, a civil rights advocate, former presidential contender and close friend of Brown, was scheduled to participate later in the day in what was dubbed a \"Homecoming Celebration.\"\n\nThe event was was the final tribute for Brown, who was honored on Thursday at the famed Apollo Theater in New York's Harlem neighborhood, and at a private ceremony relatives held in Augusta on Friday.\n\nBrown, who shaped American rhythm-and-blues, funk and disco genres for a half-century and was a charter inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, died of complications from pneumonia in the state capital Atlanta on Christmas Day. He was 73.\n\nBorn in the small South Carolina town of Barnwell in 1933, Brown moved at the age of four to Augusta, where he grew up in a brothel run by his aunt.\n\nFor the past days, mournful and adoring fans have flocked to a statue of Brown leaving flowers, records and messages at its feet.\n\nThe bronze statue, depicting Brown microphone-in-hand and shrouded in an American flag, stands in a square named after the famous singer.\n\nAugusta recently adopted \"We Feel Good\" as its city motto -- a play on Brown's 1965 hit \"I Got You (I Feel Good).\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 87, "end_char": 95, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 677, "end_char": 685, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 804, "end_char": 810, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a half-century", "start_char": 884, "end_char": 898, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas Day", "start_char": 1032, "end_char": 1045, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1933", "start_char": 1112, "end_char": 1116, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1933", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past days", "start_char": 1213, "end_char": 1226, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 1487, "end_char": 1495, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0256.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891101-0043 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0043. \n Business Brief -- StatesWest Airlines:\n@  Offer for Mesa Withdrawn;\n@  Firm to Continue Pursuit \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n SWAL MESA \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   StatesWest Airlines, Phoenix, Ariz., said it withdrew its offer to acquire Mesa Airlines because the Farmington, N.M., carrier did n't respond to its offer by the close of business yesterday, a deadline StatesWest had set for a response. \n\n   However, StatesWest is n't abandoning its pursuit of the much-larger Mesa. \nStatesWest, which has a 7.25% stake in Mesa, said it may purchase more Mesa stock or make a tender offer directly to Mesa shareholders. \n\n   StatesWest had proposed acquiring Mesa for $7 a share and one share of a new series of StatesWest 6% convertible preferred stock it values at $3 a share. \nEarlier, Mesa had rejected a general proposal from StatesWest to combine the two carriers in some way. \n\n   StatesWest serves 10 cities in California, Arizona and Nevada. \nMesa flies to 42 cities in New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado and Texas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 149, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 419, "end_char": 428, "tid": "t41", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t40"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0321.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0254\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRelief agency steps up emergency operations in Somalia\n\n\n\n\nThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday launched emergency operations to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by severe floods in Somalia.\n\nIn a statement issued in Nairobi, the relief agency said it was stepping up its emergency operation to assist more than 300,00 people affected by floods in southern Somalia.\n\n\"The year 2006 has been catastrophic for the Somali people. After the worst drought in a decade, they are now facing torrential rain,\" said Pascal Hundt, head of the ICRC delegation in Somalia.\n\n\"Families are pushed to the limit of their capabilities, trying to survive under such extreme climate conditions. What they need most is drinking water, shelter and food,\" Hundt added.\n\nThe ICRC started airlifting tarpaulins to assist 324,000 people in Jubba, Gedo and Hiraan regions, where floods have swept farmlands, disrupted food supplies and cut off villages, claiming at least 52 lives and affecting nearly a million people.\n\nThe World Food Program (WFP) on Monday launched a three-month regional air operation with fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters to transport humanitarian workers and aid to regions in Somalia and Kenya that have been cut off by the floods.\n\n\"We are particularly concerned about the situation in Somalia. The floods compound what was already one of the most horrendous humanitarian situations in the world. The country has endured 15 years of armed conflict; it lacks basic health services and infrastructure,\" Hundt said.\n\nThe rain has also dislodged landmines seeded in Somalia's long- running strife, posing additional hazards.\n\nThe UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) estimated that it would need well over 7 million U.S. dollars in Somalia alone to provide aid to a projected 1 million flood victims.\n\nThe floods which also affect Kenya and Ethiopia began in late October and intensified food insecurity brought about by the drought earlier this year.\n\nIn many areas, the soil was so dry that it could not even absorb rainwater. The few crops that survived the drought are now destroyed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006 has", "start_char": 475, "end_char": 483, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 571, "end_char": 574, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1125, "end_char": 1131, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 years", "start_char": 1521, "end_char": 1529, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late October", "start_char": 1946, "end_char": 1958, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 2020, "end_char": 2037, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0254.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0355\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S., Japan, EU, Norway open conference on Sri Lanka's peace\n\n\n\n\nOfficials from the United States, Japan, the European Union (EU) and Norway opened a two-day conference here on Monday regarding Sri Lanka's fragile peace process.\n\n\"This is basically the main forum that we're using to discuss strategies that the international community can pursue to be able to encourage the peace process in Sri Lanka,\" State Department deputy spokesman Tom Casey said at a briefing.\n\n\"We will be looking to see what we can do to help move that process forward. And we think it's important for the people of Sri Lanka that peace process does move forward and ultimately leads to a resolution of the long-standing situation in that country,\" Casey said.\n\nU.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns and Richard Boucher, U.S. assistant secretary of state for South Asia, will join officials from the EU, Japan and Norway at the conference, Casey added.\n\nThe Tamil Tigers have been fighting for a separate homeland for 3.2 million ethnic Tamils living in Sri Lanka, accusing the majority Sinhalese population of discriminating them. Although neither side has officially withdrawn from the truce signed in 2002, over 3,200 people have been killed in the ongoing violence since December last year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 237, "end_char": 243, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1246, "end_char": 1250, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December last year", "start_char": 1317, "end_char": 1335, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0355.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0377\n\nBERLIN, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, Mars project, figures ///\n\n\n\n\nEuropean ministers meeting at a two-day conference of the European Space Agency (ESA) have agreed to prioritise European satellite launchers over cheaper options in other countries, ESA officials told AFP on Tuesday.\n\nThe ministers adopted a five-year programme, which will cost about 8.255 billion euros (9.710 million dollars) and includes an Earth surveillance project that is focused on both security and the environment, they said.\n\nThe decisions prove \"the will and the desire to take Europe further\" in space research, an area that has become \"strategic\", Dutch Economy Minister Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, told the press.\n\nThe \"European preference\" will mean that the 17 member countries of ESA will give priority to launchers developed by the agency, such as the Ariane 5 and its smaller cousin Vega, which is expected to make its first flight at the end of 2007.\n\nRussia's Soyuz launcher is to be used as a medium-sized option when launched from the ESA centre in French Guyana from 2008-2009.\n\nThe European Space Agency had been seeking to persuade member states to give preference to Europe-produced launchers, rather than cheaper alternatives in Russia and India, in order to support technology developed on the continent.\n\nEuropean operators will have recourse to non-European satellite launchers only if the price in Europe is more than 25 percent higher than an alternative elsewhere, or if their technical needs cannot be met in Europe, according to the principle accepted by ministers, official said.\n\n\"It is going to reinforce the coherence of the ESA member states' policies on satellites. We are increasingly going to develop European standards,\" ESA director Jean-Jacques Dordain said.\n\nIn other measures adopted at the meeting, ministers agreed to continue financing the International Space Station, which faced an uncertain future. The project is to receive 650 million euros (766 million dollars) until 2008, the sources said.\n\nMinisters also agreed to increase their budget payments for space research by 2.5 percent per year until 2010 to take account of inflation. The ESA budget for space research is 500 million euros and is paid for by all member states of ESA.\n\nThe ExoMars mission, which is aimed at sending a robot in search of traces of past or present life on Mars in 2011, was given additional funding at the meeting.\n\n\"Europe will land on Mars in 2011,\" Dordain said.\n\nThe ministers also gave their backing to a project to prepare for ESA to have a stake in a future inhabitable moon base. They approved a total 724 million euros for this and the ExoMars mission.\n\nThe only project that was shelved was ESA's planned participation in the so-called Russian space aircraft project Clipper.\n\nDordain said it was however only a delay and ESA could return to the issue later.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2007", "start_char": 952, "end_char": 967, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008-2009", "start_char": 1089, "end_char": 1098, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 2024, "end_char": 2028, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 2154, "end_char": 2158, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2011", "start_char": 2400, "end_char": 2404, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2011", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2011", "start_char": 2481, "end_char": 2485, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2011", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0377.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0014\n\nWELLINGTON, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNZ wins right to fish Antarctic waters but worried about illegal trade\n\n\n\n\nNew Zealand has won the legal right to fish in Antarctic waters but a senior cabinet minister Tuesday said the country was worried about illegal fishing spreading in the region.\n\nAssociate Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Simon Upton said there had been reports of large-scale illegal fishing of Antarctic toothfish in waters south of South Africa.\n\n\"More than 40 vessels are reported as having caught over 30,000 tonnes of the high value toothfish,\" he said in a statement.\n\nFishing in these waters was subject to regulation by the Hobart-based Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources, which, for the first time, has agreed to let New Zealand fish for toothfish in the Ross Sea this year.\n\nNew Zealand would be bound by strict limitations set by the convention, Upton said.\n\nUnregulated fishing on the scale reportedly taking place off the coast of South Africa threatened the fragile Antarctic ecosystem, he said.\n\n\"It may pose a threat to the waters south of New Zealand, if reports that this fishing is continuing to spread westwards into French and Australian Antarctic waters, are borne out.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0014.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0214\n\nLONDON, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFulham beat Everton 1-0 in English Premiership\n\n\n\n\nClaus Jensen's deflected second-half strike awarded Fulham a 1-0 victory over visiting Everton in the English Premiership on Saturday.\n\nThe sole goal of the game came in the 65th minute when Jensen's angled shot from 20 yards flew off Tim Cahill and beyond Everton keeper Tim Howard.\n\nIt completed the transformation of a game Everton had completely dominated for the first half.\n\nAndrew Johnson missed two good chances and also saw clear penalty appeals ignored when he tumbled under a challenge from Fulham's Ian Pearce.\n\nIt continued Everton's miserable sequence of 40 years without a win at Fulham and maintained Chris Coleman's side's steady start to the season.\n\nEverton named an unchanged side after the creditable draw at Arsenal, while Fulham were able to recall captain Luis Boa Morte after he recovered from a fractured cheekbone.\n\nAnd the Merseysiders controlled the first 45 minutes, with England striker Johnson a central figure.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 239, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first half", "start_char": 470, "end_char": 484, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "40 years", "start_char": 675, "end_char": 683, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P40Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0214.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0340\n\nPARIS, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nParis busts stereotypes with new tourist ads aimed at Britons\n\n\n\n\nA dip in arrivals from Britain, its biggest tourist market, has pushed Paris to re-think the way it packages itself and throw off some of the sniffy stereotypes it has been saddled with.\n\nOn Tuesday, the tourist board for the Paris region launched a new ad campaign aimed at Britons that, far from flaunting its well-known monuments and museums, seeks to portray the French capital as an energetic, youthful and trendy city.\n\nThe 970,000-euro (1.3-million-dollar) billboard and postcard campaign \"is to show Londoners that Paris isn't a stuffy museum city, but that it is a vibrant destination brimming with exiting events that are worth visiting regularly,\" the board said in a statement.\n\nThe ads can be seen on a new website (www.cestsoparis.com), and include, for instance, a picture of the inside of the Versaille palace with partying young things letting loose in the MTV style of Sofia Coppola's recent \"Marie Antoinette\" movie under the tag: \"At Versaille, you're treated like royalty.\"\n\nThe site also features a page of actors in pantomime poses meant to convey common French gestures, such as the \"Gallic shrug\" or showing when someone is \"fed up\".\n\nAt stake is a strategy to boost the number of British tourists, especially those from London. Britons already account for one in five visitors to Paris, but their flow dropped 0.9 percent last year, to 3.2 million people.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1464, "end_char": 1473, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0340.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0069\n\nCANBERRA, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAustralian stock market closes lower\n\n\n\n\nThe Australian stock exchange market closed lower Thursday as the benchmark S/ASX200 lost 7.0 points to 5,409.4, while the all ordinaries dipped 6.5 points to 5, 377.1.\n\nMarket turnover was 1.4 billion shares worth 5.47 billion Australian dollars (4.22 billion U.S. dollars), with 584 stocks down, 578 up and 315 unchanged.\n\nAmong the resources stocks, BHP Billiton advanced 8 cents to 27. 60 dollars, Rio Tinto improved 9 cents to 79.20 dollars.\n\nAmong the banking stocks, the National Australia Bank softened 24 cents to 38.20 dollars, the Commonwealth Bank rose 12 cents to 47.81 dollars, and the ANZ lifted 5 cents to 29.59 dollars.\n\nIn the media sector, News Corp slid 53 cents to 27.67 dollars.\n\nTelecommunications giant Telstra slumped 4 cents to 3.88 dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0069.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0206\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's mainland calls for weekend charter flights with Taiwan\n\n\n\n\nA Chinese mainland official has called for weekend charter flights between the mainland and Taiwan, following the realization of charter flights on major festivals.\n\nA mainland spokesman on Wednesday also called for normalizing charter flights on major festivals, including the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, instead of negotiations on each occasion.\n\nLi Weiyi, spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said the expansion of charter flights was necessary to facilitate the cross-Straits traffic of people in Taiwan and the mainland.\n\nHe said the mainland hoped to realize comprehensive and direct cross-Straits air traffic as soon as possible.\n\nHe said on the basis of three Spring Festival charter flights, airliners would provide better services to Taiwan businessmen on the mainland.\n\nAs of the end of October, a total of 71,027 Taiwan-funded projects were approved by the mainland, while the total actual use of Taiwan capital reached 43.46 billion dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 314, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Spring Festival", "start_char": 402, "end_char": 417, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three Spring Festival", "start_char": 824, "end_char": 845, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of October", "start_char": 949, "end_char": 967, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0206.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0282\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details ///\n\n\n\n\nMany of the EU countries hoping to sign up to the euro are making progress in meeting economic conditions but must do more on inflation or spending deficits, the European Central Bank said on Tuesday.\n\nCompared with a so-called convergence report published two years ago, the ECB found in its 2006 study that \"many of the countries under review have made progress with economic convergence\".\n\nHowever, \"in some countries there have also been setbacks\", the guardian of the euro wrote.\n\nIn order to be able to adopt the euro, candidate countries must fulfil a total five different convergence criteria, most importantly with regard to inflation and to strict budgetary discipline.\n\nThe 2006 convergence report examined nine countries with respect to their fulfilment of the different criteria for euro entry: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Sweden.\n\nTwo other countries, Slovenia and Lithuania, had already been the object of a convergence report in May this year and so were not included in the latest report.\n\nSlovenia is scheduled to adopt the euro from January 1, 2007.\n\nOf the nine countries examined this time round, four had inflation rates below the reference value of 2.8 percent, namely the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Poland and Sweden, the ECB found.\n\n\"However, in some countries with inflation above the reference value, significant increases in inflation have been recorded in recent years,\" the report said.\n\nThe largest deviations were seen in Estonia, Latvia and Slovakia, it found.\n\nWith regard to the budgetary situation, five countries currently had so-called excessive deficits -- public deficits in excess of 3.0 percent of output -- namely the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia.\n\nFurthermore, \"further fiscal consolidation is required in most of the countries under review,\" the ECB said.\n\nThe ECB did not give any recommendation as to the possible date when the euro aspirants might adopt the euro.\n\nThe EU Commission in Brussels published its own separate report at the same time, in which it found that none of the prospective euro candidates fulfilled all of the necessary criteria.\n\nThe ECB does not only look at the different economic criteria, but also examines the legal framework within the countries wanting to adopt the euro, particularly with regard to central bank independence.\n\nOn this front, the bank expressed \"particular concern about recent growing signs of pressure being put on the decision-making bodies of some member states' national central banks, which would be inconsistent with the spirit of the (Maastricht) Treaty as regards central bank independence\".\n\nThe ECB said it was \"closely monitor any developments\" in this area \"prior to any final positive assessment\" with regard to euro membership.\n\nThe bank did not name any specific country. But ECB chief Jean-Claude Trichet publicly expressed concern earlier this year about the independence of the Polish central bank.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years ago", "start_char": 344, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May this year", "start_char": 1086, "end_char": 1099, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1, 2007", "start_char": 1193, "end_char": 1208, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1523, "end_char": 1535, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 3012, "end_char": 3021, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0282.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0308\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGeorgian FM visits Moscow to mend ties\n\n\n\n\nGeorgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili met with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, on Wednesday to mend ties between the two neighbors that have dipped to a new low since the Caucasus nation's brief detention of Russian officers in late September.\n\n\"We are not meeting in the best period in our relations. I expect that there will be more clarity as a result of this meeting about what we are to do to put right what is an unhealthy situation,\" Lavrov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying at the start of talks with Bezhuashvili.\n\nMoscow, infuriated by the arrest of four Russian officers in Georgia, has imposed an economic blockade on the Caucasus nation by cutting transport and postal links and deported Georgians accused of staying in Russian illegally.\n\nSpeaking after talks with Lavrov, which Bezhuashvili described as \"very useful,\" the Georgian minister said Russian sanctions against Georgia were raised at the meeting. \"We certainly did. How could I not have brought up this issue.\"\n\nHe also said Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a planned summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Minsk, capital of Belarus, later this month.\n\nRelations between Moscow and Tbilisi have been strained by tensions over Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and the country's bid to join NATO since Saakashvili came to power in 2003.\n\nBezhuashvili said current Georgian-Russian relations were not normal, but added: \"Our openness gives us reasons to think that we will be able to put the situation on a normal course.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 203, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late September", "start_char": 340, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the best period", "start_char": 380, "end_char": 395, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1324, "end_char": 1334, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1538, "end_char": 1542, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0308.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0229\n\nCHANGSHA, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBackgrounder: major warship visits between China, U.S.\n\n\n\n\nZHANJIANG, GUANGDONG PROVINCE, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) --The USS Juneau (LPD 10) on Wednesday arrived in Zhanjiang, a port city of South China's Guangdong Province, for an upcoming search-and-rescue exercise with the Chinese navy.\n\nWarship visits constitute an important part of military exchanges. The following were major warship visits between China and the United States.\n\n-- November 1986\n\nA U.S. navy fleet composed of three warships visited Qingdao, a port city in east China's Shandong Province. It was the first visit to China by the U.S. warships since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.\n\n--April 1989\n\n\"Zhenghe\" Training Ship of Chinese navy visited the Pearl Harbor, the headquarters of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, marking the first visit of the Chinese warship to the United States.\n\n-- May 1989\n\nThe \"Blue Ridge\" of the U.S. Navy, together with other two warships, visited Shanghai, establishing warship visit mechanism between China and the United States.\n\n-- March 1997\n\nChina's guided missile destroyer \"Harbin\" and the warship \"Pearl River\" visited Haiwaii and California's San Diego. It was the first time that the Chinese warship visited the mainland of the United States.\n\n-- November 2002\n\nThe U.S. navy's missile destroyer \"Foster\" visited Qingdao, a sign of resumption of Sino-U.S. military exchanges. The exchange halted in 2001 when a Chinese fighter aircraft was damaged by a U.S. surveillance plane over the South China Sea.\n\n-- September, 2006\n\nChina's missile destroyer \"Qingdao\" and fuel tanker \"Hongze Lake\" visited Haiwaii and California's San Diego. They participated in the first-phase of the first-ever search-and-rescue exercise between China and the United States.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 15", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 203, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1986", "start_char": 490, "end_char": 503, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1986-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1949", "start_char": 723, "end_char": 727, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1949", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "--April 1989", "start_char": 730, "end_char": 742, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1989", "start_char": 927, "end_char": 935, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 1997", "start_char": 1102, "end_char": 1112, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 2002", "start_char": 1324, "end_char": 1337, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1476, "end_char": 1480, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0229.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0330\n\nLONDON, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMajor European stock markets end lower\n\n\n\n\nThe major European stock markets closed down on Wednesday as a drop in the price of crude hit oil companies and the FTSE 100 closed down 0.18 percent and other markets took similar trend.\n\nIn London, leading shares closed lower, led by weak mining stocks and drug distributor Alliance Unichem on concerns over its merger with Boots and the FTSE 100 index was quoted 9.6 points lower, or 0.2 percent, at 5,430.\n\nEarly losses in the oil sector were tempered after crude prices jumped back above 57 dollars a barrel.\n\nSome investors took UK's central bank, the Bank of England's latest Inflation Report as a sign interest rates could dip early next year.\n\nIn Paris, French shares fell, tracking declines in most of Europe's main markets as a drop in the price of crude hit oil companies and the CAC 40 index was quoted 31.02 points lower, or 0. 68 percent, at 4,512.13.\n\nVivendi Universal, which lost 2.3 percent to 25.10 euros was the leading slider. Insurer Axa and car group Peugeot also declined.\n\nOn the plus side, Vinci, Pernod-Ricard, Thales and EADS attracted the most support.\n\nIn Frankfurt, German shares fell on the day, led lower by RWE after the utility reported earnings that disappointed the market, with Frankfurt's benchmark DAX index lost 29.15 points, or 0.57 percent, to 5,081.46.\n\nRWE lost 2.2 percent to 56.53 euros, reversing Tuesday's gains that had been driven by optimism about it earnings report.\n\nSporting goods producer Adidas-Salomon, and chip firm Infineon also declined.\n\nCommerzbank gained for a fourth day after announcing it planned a takeover.\n\nIn the currency market, the US dollar inched up over the euro, ending the day at 1.1692 dollars to a euro from 1.1698, and the dollar also closed slightly higher over Japanese yen at one dollar to 118.96 yen from 118.90 yen.\n\nThe greenback went higher over the British sterling, ending at 1.7180 dollars to a pound from 1.7354.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 734, "end_char": 749, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1445, "end_char": 1452, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a fourth day", "start_char": 1623, "end_char": 1635, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0330.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0571\n\nLUBUMBASHI, Zaire, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nRebels agree Friday's meeting with Mobutu\n\n\n\n\nRebel leader Laurent Kabila has agreed to historic face-to-face talks with Zaire's embattled President Mobutu Sese Seko aboard a South African naval vessel Friday, rebel officials told AFP.\n\nSources close to the negotiators made the comments Wednesday in this rebel-held city, Zaire's second largest, after US envoy Bill Richardson announced in the capital Kinshasa that Mobutu would attend the talks.\n\n\"I am pleased to announce that President Mobutu and Mr. Kabila have agreed to face-to-face talks,\" Richardson said.\n\n\"This is a historic occasion that hopefully will lead to a peaceful transition in Zaire.\n\n\"There are no pre-conditions,\" he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 42, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 267, "end_char": 273, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 353, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0571.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0340\n\nSANTIAGO, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nPinochet released on bail, while on death bed\n\n\n\n\nA Santiago court Monday released Pinochet on bail from house arrest, although the ailing former leader is gravely ill in hospital after suffering a massive heart attack over the weekend.\n\nThe release order follows charges against Pinochet, 91, in connection with two murders by the \"Caravan of Death,\" a band of soldiers who conducted extrajudicial killings in the months after the 1973 coup that brought him to power.\n\nIn 2002, the Supreme Court dropped an earlier attempt to try Pinochet on the \"Caravan of Death\" case, arguing that mild dementia hindered his ability to defend himself.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 120, "end_char": 126, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 277, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-W49-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "months", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1973", "start_char": 485, "end_char": 489, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1973", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 526, "end_char": 530, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0340.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0019\n\nHOHHOT, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGas spill kills two in Inner Mongolia\n\n\n\n\nTwo people were gassed to death and two others hospitalized Thursday while exhausting a heating pipeline in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the local government said Friday.\n\nThe accident occurred at around 4:00 p.m. in Haibowan district in the city of Wuhai, the city's work safety supervision authority told Xinhua.\n\nThey said the workers were injecting water into the pipeline to exhaust gas and were suffocated by an obvious gas spill. The two other injured workers are being treated at the People's Hospital in Wuhai.\n\nThe pipeline belongs to the city's heating power corporation and cause of the accident is under investigation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 280, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0019.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0367\n\nLONDON, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nHammers sack Pardew\n\n\n\n\nStruggling English Premiership side West Ham on Monday sacked manager Alan Pardew.\n\nThe club are in 18th place in the Premiership after Saturday's 4-0 thrashing at Bolton with only three points separating them from bottom club Watford.\n\nThe Hammers have lost five of their last six Premiership games including both matches since Icelandic businessman Eggert Magnusson became chairman a week ago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 124, "end_char": 130, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week ago", "start_char": 460, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0367.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0026\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNepali Election Commission urges early issuance of interim constitution\n\n\n\n\nAs Nepal is gearing up for the election to constituent assembly (CA), the first time in history, the Election Commission (EC) has to face many difficulties in the absence of needed legislations for holding the election by mid- June 2007.\n\nAlthough the government and the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) (formerly known as guerrillas) have expressed their commitment to hold the CA election by set date, they are yet to finalize the interim constitution, under which other needed laws are to be formulated.\n\n\"We need two Acts -- Election Commission Act and Electoral Role Act immediately to carry out our activities legally. But, these Acts can not be formulated without interim constitution,\" Bhojraj Pokharel, chief election commissioner, told Xinhua.\n\nThe first Act gives us mandate to conduct CA election and the second one describes what kind of people can vote in the election, he said, noting the existing EC Act is based on the constitution of 1990, which has no provision on conducting CA election.\n\nHowever, the political parties'failure to issue an interim constitution on scheduled time is delaying the formulation of needed Acts, he said. Both the government and CPN pledged to issue the new constitution by Nov. 21, which has not been materialized yet.\n\nHe said the EC would feel comfortable to carry out its activities if the above two Acts were formulated by mid-December. \"We will start preparing voters' list after that,\" he added.\n\nPokharel said the EC is now making assessments of required resources to conduct the poll and interacting with all stakeholders including political parties and civil society members on how to successfully conduct the poll.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2007", "start_char": 362, "end_char": 371, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 1085, "end_char": 1089, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 21", "start_char": 1354, "end_char": 1361, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1608, "end_char": 1611, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0026.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0125 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0125. \n Control Data Says It May Repurchase\n@  Debt Soon, Seeks Alliances With Others\n@  ----\n@  By Richard Gibson\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CDA \n COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CPR)\nTENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n MINNEAPOLIS  \n\n   Control Data Corp., which just months ago was hemorrhaging financially , thinks it will be healthy enough soon to consider repurchasing public debt. \n\n   Moreover, the company, whose go-it-alone approach nearly proved fatal, now sees alliances with others as the way back to prosperity in what it calls \"the data solutions\" business. \n\n   \"I'm not saying everything is hunky-dory, but we have completed the transition,\" Robert M. Price, chairman and chief executive, said in an interview. \n\"Transition\" is a reference to the company's five-year restructuring effort. \nDuring that time, Control Data had losses of more than $1 billion. \n\n   Now , following asset sales that shrank revenue by more than one-third this year alone, Control Data is flush with cash. \nSo its senior executives are talking openly about possibly buying back some of the company's $172.5 million in subordinated convertible debentures next year. \n\n   \"We'd like to continue to reduce debt,\" President Lawrence Perlman said. \nNoting that the company is offering to buy back $154.2 million in senior notes paying 12 3/4%, he said the response will help determine future debt-reduction efforts. \nThe offer was automatically triggered by the recent sale of Control Data's Imprimis disk-drive business to Seagate Technology Inc. \n\n\n   Mr. Perlman, who is also acting chief financial officer and the odds-on favorite to become the next chief executive, said the company is achieving \"modest positive cash flow from operations, and we expect that to continue into 1990.\" \n\n   He said the company has no intention of tapping its short-term bank lines \"for a good part of 1990.\" \nSometime next year, Control Data will \" develop a new bank relationship,\" Mr. Perlman said. \nIn recent months a group of lenders, led by Bank of America, has extended Control Data up to $90 million in revolving loans through January, as well as $115 million in standby letters of credit. \n\n   Loan covenants require that the company achieve specified levels of operating earnings and meet a rolling four-quarter profitability test. \nLast week Control Data reported third-quarter earnings of $9.8 million, or 23 cents a share, on revenue of $763 million. \nThrough the first nine months, the company had a loss of $484 million, largely reflecting the closing of its supercomputer unit. \n\n   While a few assets are still being shopped -- including the sports and entertainment ticketing portion of the company's Ticketron unit -- Mr. Price said future restructuring would be a question of strategy. \n\"We do n't need the cash.\" \n\n   Ticketron's automated wagering business, which operates lotteries in a half dozen states, is not  for sale, the company said. \nRather, Mr. Perlman said, Control Data intends to bid for the coming Minnesota lottery contract and is seeking new applications for the technology overseas, where \"there is great interest in games of skill.\" \nHe would n't elaborate. \n\n   Control Data's semiconductor business, VTC Inc., continues to lose money, the executives acknowledged, but they said they consider some of the technology vital to national defense and so are reluctant to dispose of it. \n\n   The company's strategy for keeping its computer products business profitable -- it recently achieved profitability after several quarters of losses -- calls for a narrow focus and a lid on expenses. \nPartly, costs will be held down through strategic technology alliances, management said. \nControl Data recently announced an agreement with MIPS Computer Systems Inc. to jointly develop machines with simplified operating software. \n\n   James E. Ousley, computer products group president, said such arrangements could help slash Control Data's computer research and development costs in half by the end of 1990. \nHe disclosed that before Control Data scrapped its ETA Systems Inc. supercomputer business this past spring, those costs were running at nearly 35% of group revenue. \nAt the same time four of six design projects were spiked, he said. \n\n   Asked how the company hopes to expand its computer hardware business, Mr. Ousley said it sees good opportunities in systems integration. \n\"We think we're getting only 10% of the integration dollars our customers are spending,\" he said. \n\"We're in environments that are going to spend a lot of money on that.\" \n\n   Control Data mainframes are designed for numerically intensive computing users, such as the scientific, engineering and academic communities. \nUtilities management is a major commercial niche. \n\n   Reviewing the company's scrape with disaster, Mr. Price conceded it 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0041\n\nBANGKOK, April 12 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBurmese democrat MP gets four years prison sentence\n\n\n\n\nAn elected MP of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) has been sentenced to four years in prison for alleged medical malpractice, a senior party official said Saturday.\n\nDoctor Than Aung, an MP for a Rangoon township was sentenced Friday for running an unlicensed clinic and causing the death of a patient through negligence. He has been sent to the capital's notorious Insein prison.\n\nSpeaking by telephone from Rangoon, NLD joint vice-chairman, Tin Oo said the negligence charge was \"fabricated\" and noted that Than Aung had been a practising doctor for 25 years.\n\n\"He's a member of the NLD and a member of parliament. The authorities are continuing to act oppressively against our league,\" he said of the verdict.\n\nThe NLD swept the last general elections to be held in military-run Burma in 1990, the results of which were never recognised by the ruling junta, the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC).\n\nThe sentencing of Than Aung follows lighter treatment earlier this month of another NLD MP and doctor, Than Nyein, who was released from custody and ordered to pay a small fine for operating a clinic without a license.\n\nObservers in the Burmese capital speculated that he was granted favourable treatment because he was brother-in-law of Lieutenant General Khin Nyunt, the SLORC first secretary and military intelligence chief.\n\nThe cases of the two NLD doctors are the first time that members of the pro-democracy party have been granted a formal trial, with opportunity to have defence witnesses.\n\nPreviously, NLD members found guilty of even a minor law violation have been given arbitrary sentences ranging from three to seven years.\n\nTin Oo declined to speculate on whether Than Nyein had been granted leniency because of the family connection, but noted that the judicial system in Burma \"is not independent and according to due process of law.\"\n\nHe said that the NLD would appeal against the sentencing of Than Aung to the high court, and if necessary, to the supreme court and to the chairman of the SLORC.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 12 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 360, "end_char": 366, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25 years", "start_char": 685, "end_char": 693, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P25Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 924, "end_char": 928, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1110, "end_char": 1120, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0041.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0435\n\nKINSHASA, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT Zairean premier forms government\n\n\n\n\nZairean Prime Minister General Likulia Bolongo on Friday announced the formation of a \"national salvation\" government which includes two generals.\n\nGenerals were appointed to the posts of interior and defense minister while former foreign minister Gerard Kamanda Wa Kamanda was reappointed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0435.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0336\n\nLONDON, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS, EU urged to take ambitious steps at HK trade talks\n\n\n\n\nBritish Prime Minister Tony Blair called on the United States and the European Union Monday night to take \"bold\" and \"ambitious\" steps to make the international trade negotiations next month a success.\n\nIn his speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet at the Guildhall in central London in honor of the past mayor, Blair said the EU and US should \"break the logjam\" which threatens the talks in Hong Kong by making concessions on agricultural subsidies and tariffs.\n\nIn return, he said, developing countries must open up to foreign investment.\n\nTerrorism also tops his speech. In Blair's view, reducing world poverty would help fight terrorism.\n\n\"In a modern world there is no security or prosperity at home unless we deal with the global challenges of conflict, terrorism, climate change and poverty. Self interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action,\" he said.\n\nHe urged the world to calculate not just \"the human misery of the poor themselves\", but the loss of developed countries, \"the aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.\"\n\nThe World Trade Organization meeting is scheduled on December 13 in Hong Kong, with growing fears that the pledge on poverty by Group of Eight leaders at Gleneagles in July may not result in a meaningful deal.\n\nDespite offers from major players like the US and the EU to consider reductions in agricultural subsidies and tariffs in order to open up markets to poorer nations, negotiators have so far held back from the kind of breakthrough sought by anti-poverty campaigners.\n\n\"We need a comprehensive, ambitious agreement to cut barriers to trade in the three key areas: agriculture, non-agricultural market access, and services,\" Blair said.\n\nThe British leader suggested that specific measures to help the poorest countries should include doubling investment in infrastructure and eliminating all export subsidies, while rules applied to exports from the poorest developing countries be simplified.\n\nThe Hong Kong meeting comes at the end of Blair's year-long presidency of the G8 as well as the six-month presidency of the EU. And Blair is trying hard for a trade deal at the meeting.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 200, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 13", "start_char": 1437, "end_char": 1448, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1552, "end_char": 1556, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0336.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0344\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ntalks\n\n\n\n\nChief negotiator of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to the six-party talks urged here Wednesday all parties to have more patience in the new round of talks.\n\nThe path is still \"open\" for all sides to implement the joint statement through consultations, Song Min-soon told reporters when leaving the hotel to attend the fifth round of the six-party talks, which opened in Beijing Wednesday morning.\n\nThe fifth-round talks will lay the groundwork for carrying out the first joint statement among the parties, he said, adding that in the coming three days, all parties will exchange views and hold consultations in this regard.\n\nSong admitted that differences exist among the parties, but all sides will find out methods to narrow the differences.\n\nThe ROK delegation will hold bilateral consultations with other delegations respectively on Wednesday afternoon, Song added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 441, "end_char": 458, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the coming three days", "start_char": 593, "end_char": 614, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-09T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday afternoon", "start_char": 900, "end_char": 919, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0344.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0052\n\nGAZA, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPalestinian militants continue launching rockets at Israel\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian militant groups continued on Saturday launching homemade rockets from northern Gaza Strip at Israel as a revenge for killing their fellow members last week.\n\nIsrael Radio reported that two rockets landed at an Israeli army base near the Erez Crossing early Saturday, causing two explosions, but no injuries had been reported.\n\nAl Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, armed wing of the ruling Fatah movement, has claimed responsibility for the rocket attack, said the report.\n\nMeanwhile, residents of central Israel have expressed fear that militants would fire rockets from the West Bank at their towns, and called the Israeli army to station early alarming system in their areas.\n\nHeads of local councils in areas between the West Bank and Tel Aviv in central Israel met with Israeli Defense Minister Shaoul Mofaz and asked for taking serious measures against firing rockets, said the radio.\n\nLast week, Israeli troops arrested three Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, who were said to be on their way to the West Bank to start lunching homemade rockets at central Israel.\n\nThe three are members of Sallah el Dein Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees that was active during five years of the Palestinian Intifada (uprising) in carrying armed attacks against Israel.\n\nIsrael and the United States have repeatedly asked Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rein on militants and prevent them from launching homemade rockets at Israel.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 385, "end_char": 393, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 1008, "end_char": 1017, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 1322, "end_char": 1332, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0052.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0337\n\nBRUSSELS, April 10 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBrussels warns France on textile aid\n\n\n\n\nFrance must inform the European Commission of how it plans to recover some 500 million francs of illegal state aid to textile producers and could face action in the European Court if it fails to do so, commission officials said Thursday.\n\nThe warning came the day after Brussels rejected a French plan to boost employment in its textile industries by cutting payroll taxes, judging the scheme to be an indirect state subsidy that would give French companies an unfair competitive edge over other EU producers.\n\nFrench Industry Minister Frank Borotra has said he has no intention of asking companies to pay back an amount equivalent to what they gained from the scheme.\n\nSome 500 French companies have received aid with a value above 100,000 ecus (114,000 dollars) -- the threshold at which the approval of Brussels is required for any state subsidy.\n\nThe commission said on Wednesday when it rejected the textile plan that it would consider a broader job-creating scheme on condition this was not confined to one sector.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 10 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 325, "end_char": 333, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 971, "end_char": 980, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0337.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0046\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: Annan pays surprise visit to Iraq\n\n\n\n\nUrgent: Annan pays surprise visit to Iraq\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan paid a surprise visit to Iraq on Saturday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 12", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0046.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051202.0007\n\nLAKE LOUISE, Canada, Dec 2 , 2005\n\nItaly's Recchia crashes during Lake Louise downhill\n\n\n\n\nItaly's Lucia Recchia crashed at high speed in Friday's women's World Cup downhill and was airlifted to hospital.\n\nStarting from the 18th spot, the 26-year-old Recchia apparently lost a ski and hit a gate shortly after starting her run, then before crashed through the safety netting on the side of the course.\n\nShe was put on a stretcher and airlifted off the mountain by helicopter to a waiting ambulance.\n\nRecchia was conscious as ski patrol and medical staff assisted her on the mountain.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2005", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051202.0007.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0232\n\nTEHRAN, April 17 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIranian war veterans hold overnight sit-in in front of German embassy\n\n\n\n\nDozens of war veterans disabled by chemical weapon attacks during the 1980-1988 war against Iraq staged a sit-in Thursday in front of the German embassy here to protest alleged chemical aid to Baghdad by German firms.\n\nThey began their protest on Wednesday along with thousands of other people, and some 200 people stayed camped outside the mission overnight.\n\nThe veterans, who included patients who left hospital for the protest, set up a canvas awning on the pavement in front of the embassy compound to shelter them from rain.\n\nThey are also protesting a German court ruling accusing the Iranian government in the 1992 murder of four Kurdish dissidents in Berlin. The veterans have vowed to stay there until Bonn appologizes to Tehran for the \"insult.\"\n\nA giant poster of a young man with his face badly deformed by a chemical attack has been set up along the front gate of the compound as a proof of \"German crimes\" against Iran.\n\nThe veterans came forward after the Iranian authorities accused 24 German companies of providing Iraq with chemical weapons technology in the 1980s, saying they were preparing to sue them.\n\nBonn says several German pharmaceutical companies helped Iraq to build agricultural plants, but that the factories were later modified to produce chemical weapons.\n\nThe state Foundation for the War Disabled has brought a number of disabled veterans from hospitals and dropped them off in front of the mission, which is tightly protected by Iranian security forces.\n\nA make-shift hospital has been set up in the area to care for the patients while they continue with their protest, Iran's official IRNA news agency said.\n\nSeveral rallies have already been held in front of the German embassy in Tehran and in other Iranian cities since the Berlin court verdict was announced a week ago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 17 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 249, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 375, "end_char": 384, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 746, "end_char": 750, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1980s", "start_char": 1202, "end_char": 1211, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "198", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week ago", "start_char": 1928, "end_char": 1938, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0232.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0175\n\nPARIS, Dec 7 , 2005\n\nFrench transplant woman pleads for privacy\n\n\n\n\nThe 38-year-old French woman who received the world's first facial transplant pleaded with the media to let her to recover in peace from the high-risk operation, in an interview published on Wednesday.\n\n\"I feel very well,\" she told the French newspaper Le Parisien. \"Everything is fine, but I would like to send out a message: I have just had an operation, for the sake of my health, I need to live these moments in peace and quiet.\"\n\n\"At the moment, I feel shaken up. I also want my family to be left out of all this. They didn't ask to be thrown into the spotlight,\" she told the paper by telephone from the university hospital in the eastern city of Lyon.\n\nShe also said she thanked the whole team -- \"from the cleaning lady to the nurses\" -- who made the operation possible. \"They are all wonderful.\"\n\nThe mother of two from the town of Valenciennes in northern France, lost both lips, her nose and chin after she was mauled by her dog in May, and was unable to speak or eat properly.\n\nDoctors transplanted a nose, chin and mouth taken from a brain-dead donor on to her lower face at a university hospital in the northern French town of Amiens on October 27, a world first for an operation that carries high medical risks.\n\nShe is currently under medical observation in Lyon by Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard, a transplant pioneer who carried out the world's first double hand graft five years ago.\n\nReports -- denied by her medical team -- that the woman was injured during a suicide attempt, have raised questions about her psychological ability to cope with the aftermath of the operation, which has drawn intense media attention.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 7 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1034, "end_char": 1037, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 27", "start_char": 1242, "end_char": 1252, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years ago", "start_char": 1479, "end_char": 1493, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0175.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0015\n\nCHANGCHUN, Northeast China, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFourth Vasaloppet China int'l ski race to be held in NE China\n\n\n\n\nThe fourth Vasaloppet China international cross-country ski race is to be held in January 2006 in Changchun City, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, an official of the organizing committee said Monday.\n\n\"We are busy preparing for the ski race these days,\" Gong Wenbin, an official of the organizing committee, told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on Monday.\n\nThe event, known as Vasaloppet China, will enter its fourth edition in Changchun after it was brought to China in 2003.\n\n\"Three experts of the International Ski Federation (FIS) came to Changchun in October this year to help reconstruct the skiing lanes for the competition,\" Gong said.\n\n\"The construction of the new design is underway.\"\n\nWith the theme of cultural exchanges, the fourth Vasaloppet China aims to promote relationship and strengthen exchanges between China and Sweden, Gong said.\n\nIn addition, a snow sculpture show and a special ski race for the disabled will be held during the event.\n\nVasaloppet, a long distance cross-country ski race, is held annually in Sweden and has a long history of more than 80 years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 51, "end_char": 65, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2006", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 236, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 352, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "these days", "start_char": 395, "end_char": 405, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 503, "end_char": 509, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 626, "end_char": 630, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 711, "end_char": 718, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 719, "end_char": 728, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0015.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0219\n\nLOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPierce and Mauresmo to fight for title of WTA Championships\n\n\n\n\nMary Pierce and her French fellow Amelie Mauresmo will meet each other on Sunday's final after both winning their semifinals in the WTA Tour Championships here on Saturday.\n\nPierce beat top-ranked American Lindsay Davenport 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6), while Mauresmo defeated defending champion Russian Maria Sharapova 7-6 (1) and 6-3.\n\nNo French player has ever won the championships, although Pierce was runner-up in 1997 and Mauresmo finished second in 2003. Pierce had 10 aces in a 2-6, 6-4, 6-2 round-robin victory over Mauresmo on Friday.\n\nSharapova appeared listless against Mauresmo, falling to 4-7 in semifinals this year. The 18-year-old Russian hasn't reached a final since June when she won a Wimbledon warmup at Birmingham.\n\nShe has been bothered by a strained right chest muscle since August, and it hurt during the match.\n\n\"I couldn't serve very big, especially in the second set,\" she said. \"That's not very good when you're playing a top player in the semifinals. Without the injury, I felt like I was in control and that still gives me a lot of confidence for next year.\"\n\nSharapova broke Mauresmo to open the match, built a 5-2 lead, then double-faulted away the tiebreaker after committing five forehand errors -- among her 39 unforced errors.\n\n\"At 5-2 down, I felt I could still come back,\" Mauresmo said. \"I only had one bad game on my own service. I didn't know she got injured. Maybe that's why she didn't manage to put her first serves in on big moments.\"\n\nSharapova saved one match point and held trailing 5-3, then led 30-love in the next game. But she made four consecutive errors to end the match, sending a backhand wide on the final point.\n\nShe made a lowly 19 percent of her second serves, while Mauresmo 's first-serve percentage was 81.\n\nPierce led 4-0 before Davenport won three straight points. The American closed to 5-4 on a big forehand, but trailed 6-4 on a netted forehand. Davenport used her big serve to get to 6-5 before Pierce won the first tiebreaker on a net cord forehand.\n\nThere were no service breaks in the back-and-forth second set. Davenport used a 100-mph ace to go up 6-5, but her forehand error in the next game allowed Pierce to force the second tiebreaker.\n\n\"I made a few errors in each tie break like one shot in each tie break I would love to take back,\" said Davenport. \"And the year is over.\"\n\nPierce was 5-5 in tiebreaks this year coming in. In 11 previous meetings, they had never played a tiebreaker.\n\nThe two players combined to serve seven love games, with Pierce connecting on 70 percent of her first serves and firing 10 aces to Davenport's 12.\n\nDavenport hit nine more winners than Pierce, but had 24 unforced errors to Pierce's 10.\n\nDavenport is assured of ending the year at No. 1 for the fourth time in her career despite not winning a Grand Slam title. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0072\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nJihad recruiter gets life sentence in Indonesia\n\n\n\n\nAn Islamic teacher believed to have recruited suicide bombers was convicted of terrorism by an Indonesian court Wednesday and sentenced to a lifetime jail term.\n\nSubur Sugiarto, 33, is proven guilty of the primary charges of sheltering the country's top terror fugitive Noordin Moh Top, the tightly-guarded District Court in the Central Java capital of Semarang heard.\n\nMalaysian-born Noordin is the suspected brains behind a series of bombings that killed more than 230 people since 2002.\n\nSugiarto, alias Abu Mujahid, is also convicted of illegal arms possession.\n\nHe was arrested in January and brought to trials along with three other militants.\n\nPolice believed that Sugiarto was the key aide of Noordin, whose hunting remains fruitless so far.\n\nHe has allegedly recruited people to launch suicide bombings, including three young men from Central Java and West Java who carried out triple suicide attacks on Bali island last October, in which 19 people were killed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 230, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 593, "end_char": 597, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 695, "end_char": 702, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last October", "start_char": 1034, "end_char": 1046, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0072.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0011\n\nLOS ANGELES, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nAniston sues photographer for trying to take topless photos\n\n\n\n\nUS actress Jennifer Aniston has filed suit against a photographer for allegedly illegally using a telephoto lens to take snapshots of her when she was topless in her own home.\n\nThe suit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Friday alleges that Peter Brandt used \"a powerful telephoto lens\" to capture images of Aniston last month \"in the privacy of her home,\" where she could only be observed \"from a great distance through invasive, intrusive and unlawful measures.\"\n\nAttorneys for the actress charge Brandt then offered to sell the photos to various media organizations.\n\nAniston is seeking damages and an injunction stopping Brandt -- and any organization that bought the photos from him -- from using them.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 336, "end_char": 342, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 431, "end_char": 441, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0011.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0168\n\nKISANGANI, Zaire, April 18 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nVillagers stone UNHCR vehicles\n\n\n\n\nVillagers near the Zairean city of Kisangani threw stones Friday at vehicles of the United Nations, Filipo Grandi, coordinator in eastern Zaire for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, told AFP.\n\nGrandi said local residents attacked the UN vehicles to protest at the presence of Rwandan Hutu refugees in their area, saying the situation remained extremely tense although an uneasy calm had been restored.\n\nWitnesses said the incident was sparked by the killings of seven local villagers 20 kilometres (12 miles) from Kisangani, deaths blamed by locals on the refugees.\n\n\"Local people blocked the vehicles on the town's left bank (of the Zaire river) to protest against the presence of refugees and thus of humanitarian organisations. Our teams were trapped in the vehicles as they were stoned,\" Grandi said.\n\nHe added that UN officials would investigate the claims that local people had been killed by the refugees. At the end of last month, several villagers were killed near refugee camps, sparking the looting of several UN World Food Programme trucks in retaliation.\n\nBetween 80,000 and 100,000 Hutu refugees have been sheltering in camps south of Kisangani, which was taken on March 15 by Zairean rebels fighting the regime of President Mobutu Sese Seko.\n\nThey had fled westwards from camps near the Rwandan border as the rebels swept across the eastern half of the country, taking a string of key towns, and took refuge in tropical forests where relief workers could not get aid to them.\n\nThe UNHCR had planned on Friday to start a huge airlift operation to help the refugees on their way back to Rwanda, but this was delayed at least until Saturday.\n\nLocal rebel authorities failed to give the green light because of fears that an outbreak of cholera among the refugees could spread among the local population. However, the UNHCR said there was no risk and that only people in good health would initially be repatriated.\n\nMore than a million Rwandan Hutus fled their small neighbouring country in 1994 as Rwandan Tutsi rebels won a civil war in which at least 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the Hutu former army and militia groups.\n\nAmong the refugees are armed Hutus held to be responsible for the Rwandan genocide. Many Rwandans, however, have returned home to their country, now dominated by the Tutsi minority.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 18 , 1997", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1031, "end_char": 1041, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "80,000", "start_char": 1181, "end_char": 1187, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 15", "start_char": 1283, "end_char": 1291, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1621, "end_char": 1627, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1748, "end_char": 1756, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 2105, "end_char": 2109, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0168.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0114 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0114. \n OTC Focus:\n@  Sell Programs\n@  Are Hurting\n@  Market Makers\n@  ----\n@  By Sonja Steptoe and Craig Smith\n@  Staff Reporters of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n STOCK MARKET, OFFERINGS (STK)\nSTOCK INDEXES (NDX)\nSECURITIES INDUSTRY (SCR) \n NEW YORK  \n\n   Market makers in Nasdaq over-the-counter stocks are adding their voices to the swelling chorus of complaints about program trading. \n\n   Their motivation, however , has a strong practical aspect: Program trading is hazardous to their paychecks. \nThe most controversial form of program trading, stock-index arbitrage, is \" making it tough for traders to make money,\" declares Robert Antolini, head of OTC trading at Donaldson, Lufkin amp Jenrette. \n\n   Stock-index arbitrage -- the computer-guided buying and selling of stocks with offsetting trades in stock-index futures to profit from fleeting price discrepancies -- affects the OTC market directly through the 31 stocks included in Standard amp Poor's 500-stock index. \nThe SampP 500 is often used in arbitrage strategies. \n\n   The portion of OTC volume attributable to program trading isn't known, as it is on the New York Stock Exchange, where it amounted to more than 13% in September. \nEstimates from traders put it at less than 5% of Nasdaq's average daily volume of roughly 133 million shares. \n\n   Other market-maker gripes: Program trading also causes the Nasdaq Composite Index to lose ground against other segments of the stock market. \nBecause of program trading it is more difficult to trade many OTC stocks without sharp price moves, a condition known as illiquidity. \nMoreover, the price volatility that is amplified by program trading is undercutting efforts to woo individual investors back to an OTC market that sorely misses them. \n\n   Some of these problems are neither new nor unique to the OTC market. \nBut the big, often tumultuous slide in stock prices this month has turned some of those who have been profiting from the practice against it. \n\n   Peter DaPuzzo, head of retail equity trading at Shearson Lehman Hutton, acknowledges that he wasn't troubled by program trading when it began in the pre-crash bull market because it added liquidity and people were pleased to see stock prices rising. \n\n   \"We were n't  as concerned until they became sell programs,\" says Mr. DaPuzzo, who now thinks it adds unnecessary volatility. \nShearson Lehman, however , executes program trades for clients. \n\n   Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Kidder Peabody, in addition to Shearson, do program-trade OTC stocks. \nShearson, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs say they do so only for customers, however. \nKidder Peabody does program trading for its own as well as clients' accounts. \n\n   Of course, there were sell programs in past years, too, but they seem to hurt market makers more painfully these days. \nThat's largely because of defensive measures they adopted after the 1987 crash, when individual investors fled the market and trading activity dwindled. \nMarket makers, to cut costs, slashed inventories of stocks they keep on hand to sell investors when other holders are n't selling. \n\n   And to protect their reduced capital investment from eroding further, market makers became quicker to lower price quotes when sell programs are in progress. \nOn days when prices are tumbling, they must be willing to buy shares from sellers when no one else will. \nIn such an environment, market makers can suffer huge losses both on trades made that day at steadily dropping prices and in the value of their inventories of shares. \n\n   \"It makes no sense for us to put money at risk when you know you're going to lose,\" says Mr. Antolini, of Donaldson Lufkin. \n\n   But this skittishness, Mr. Antolini says, is creating liquidity problems in certain OTC stocks. \n\"It's harder to sell stocks when the sell programs come in because some market makers do n't want to { take the orders}. \nNo one has big positions and no one wants to take big risks.\" \n\n   Joseph Hardiman, president of the National Association of Securities Dealers, which oversees trading on Nasdaq, agrees that program trading is hurting the market's efforts to bring back small investors. \nBut, he observes, while makers suffer losses when program trading drags the market down, they also make money when program trading pushes the prices higher. \n\"Sometimes {traders} lose sight of that,\" he says. \n\n   The OTC stocks in the SampP 500 include Nasdaq's biggest, such as Apple Computer, MCI Communications, Tele-Communications and Liz Claiborne. \nThese big stocks greatly influence the Nasdaq Composite Index. \nWhen the computers say \"sell,\" the composite tumbles as well as the Dow Jones Industrial Average. \n\n   The problem, market makers say, is that while the industrial average and the SampP 500 usually recover as buy programs kick in, the Nasdaq Composite frequently is left behind. \n\n   Eight trading days after Oct. 12, the day before the stock market plunge, for instance, the Nasdaq Composite had fallen 4.3%, compared with 3.3% for the SampP 500, 3.5% for the New York Stock Exchange Composite Index and 3.6% for the industrial average. \nThis gap eventually closes, but slowly. \nThree days later, as of Friday's close, the Nasdaq Composite was down 6%, compared with 5.9% for the industrial average, 5.7% for the SampP 500 and 5.8% for the Big Board Composite. \n\n   The main reason for this lag is that individual investors own 65% of the OTC market's capitalization, according to Mr. Hardiman, much more than on the Big Board. \nSuch investors tend to be more cautious than institutional investors are about re-entering the market after massive selloffs, market makers say. \n\n   ---\n\n   Friday's Market Activity \n\n   The Nasdaq Composite Index tumbled 5.39, or 1.2% to 452.76 on Friday. \nFor the week, the index dropped 3.8%. \n\n   Weakness in big technology stocks hurt the composite as well as the Nasdaq 100 Index, which fell 1.4%, or 6.43, on Friday, to 437.68. \nThe Nasdaq Financial Index lost about 1%, or 3.95, to 448.80. \n\n   Friday's trading volume totaled 132.8 million shares. \nThe average daily share turnover for October is almost 148 million shares. \n\n   LIN Broadcasting surged 4 5/8 to 112 5/8; LIN and BellSouth sweetened their merger agreement in an attempt to keep shareholders from tendering their shares to McCaw Cellular Communications. \nMcCaw, which dropped 2 1/2 to 37 3/4, has offered $125 a share for a majority of LIN's shares. \n\n   The revised LIN-BellSouth agreement boosts the dollar amount of the special dividend LIN promises to pay shareholders. \nLIN now plans to dole out $42 a share in cash, up from the earlier $20 amount. \n\n   Intel eased 1/8 to 31 7/8. \nThe semiconductor concern said the interruption in shipment of its 80486 computer chip will be brief and have little impact on the company's earnings. \nThe stock fell 7/8 Thursday amid concerns over problems discovered with the chip. \nIntel told analysts that the company will resume shipments of the chips within two to three weeks. \n\n   Weisfield's rocketed 9 1/2 to 39 after the jewelry store operator said it is in preliminary discussions, with a party it would n't identify, regarding the possible acquisition of the company. \n\n   Starpointe Savings Bank rose 3 to 20 after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. approved Dime Savings Bank of New York's $21-a-share acquisition of Starpointe. \n\n   Kirschner Medical fell 4 to 15. \nThe company said its third-quarter earnings will probably be lower than the 16 cents a share it reported last year, despite a rise in the company's revenue. \nKirschner earned $376,000 on revenue of $14.5 million in the 1988 quarter. \nThe company blamed a number of factors for the earnings decline, including softer sales of joint-implants.", "time_expressions": [{"text": 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0068\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTwo people killed in two roadside bombs in central Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nTwo people were killed and five others wounded when two roadside bombs went off at central Baghdad district on Sunday, a well-informed police source said.\n\n\"Two roadside bombs detonated at about 1:40 p.m. (1040 GMT) in the Fanarah district near the Taiyran Square, killing two civilians and wounding five others,\" the source said on condition of anonymity.\n\nIn an earlier incident, the death toll of a suicide bomb attack at a police commando recruitment center in western Baghdad rose to 35, with up to 60 others wounded, the source said.\n\nViolence rages in Iraq as sectarian killings, car bombings and roadside bombings claim lives of dozens of Iraqis on the daily basis.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1:40 p.m.", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 324, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0068.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0362\n\nABUJA, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nBy Helen Vesperini\n\n\n\n\nThe HIV/AIDS virus is destroying family life across Africa, international health experts warned Tuesday as they met in the Nigerian capital Abuja.\n\n\"The family has been made fragile in Africa because of poverty and because of AIDS,\" Rima Salah, deputy executive director of the UN children's agency UNICEF, told reporters.\n\n\"Our interventions focus on treating individuals and ignore the cornerstone of African society, the family,\" she added.\n\nDelegates to the 14th International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) said that while the family should be a strong unit in the fight against AIDS, it was being undermined.\n\nIn poor families where the two parents had difficulty in making ends meet, the death of even one parent from AIDS places an intolerable economic strain on the household.\n\nIf both parents die, the children are left to fend for themselves and take charge of younger brothers and sisters.\n\nGirls with little education who find themselves catapulted into the role of head of household may have no option other than turning to prostitution to support their brothers and sisters, putting themselves at risk of being infected if they are not already.\n\n\"Children being affected is a major social crisis ... in terms of taking care of them and in terms of family stability\", Michel Sidibe, deputy director of UNAIDS, the body that groups together ten UN agencies in the fight against AIDS.\n\nHusbands infect their wives and mothers infect their children.\n\nEven though the technology to prevent mother-to-child transmission exists, the necessary measures can only be implemented if pregnant women attend ante-natal consultations. Such consultations are unheard of in large swathes of rural sub-Saharan Africa.\n\nCliff, a 23-year-old Nigerian living with AIDS told delegates how, as a teenager, he had been told he could only catch the disease through \"serial relationships with prostitutes\".\n\nHe became infected. He was kicked out of the navy after his HIV-positive status became known and, ashamed to stay in his home village, ran away to Abuja.\n\nNow his wife and two-year old son are also infected.\n\nEven though half of mother-to-child transmissions occur during delivery, his wife was told that as long as she avoided breast-feeding any child she bore would be free of the virus.\n\n\"When my son was one year old he was declared HIV-positive\", Cliff said, adding: \"I often feel tears coming to my eyes when I see him\".\n\nSub-Saharan Africa, the region the worst affected by the pandemic, was home to an estimated two million HIV-positive children in late 2005.\n\nSome poverty-stricken parents may hesitate to take antiretrovirals, even now that their prices have been slashed across the continent, because the money they do have to spend on the drugs means less food is available to feed the family.\n\nFor Jim Kim, the World Health Organization's outgoing head of HIV/AIDS, the fact that mothers now have access to antiretrovirals, which can, if the patient has access to adequate food, prolong life by up to 15 years, is already a positive step.\n\n\"If we can prevent mother-to-child transmission and treat children then we're going to be able to allow (infected) mothers to raise their children to the age of 15\", he told AFP.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one year", "start_char": 2414, "end_char": 2422, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2005", "start_char": 2663, "end_char": 2672, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2748, "end_char": 2751, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 3007, "end_char": 3010, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "up to 15 years", "start_char": 3114, "end_char": 3128, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0362.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "CNN19980213.2130.0155 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n President Clinton says he is committed to a possible strike against Iraq,\n despite objections from other countries.\n Steve Hurst has that.\n\n\n The US military buildup in the Persian gulf continues apace, more\n planes headed from the united states and senior officials say Iraq's\n president Saddam Hussein can expect punishing air strikes to continue well\n into the future if he does n't stop building biological and chemical\n weapons.\n\n\n Saddam will know by our actions and our warning that we will be prepared to act again if we have evidence he is trying to rebuild his weapons of mass\n destruction capabilities.\n\n\n In a bit of television diplomacy, Iraq's deputy foreign minister responded\n from Baghdad in less than one hour, saying Washington would break\n international law by attacking without UN approval.\n\n\n The united states is not authorized to use force before going to the\n council.\n\n\n President Clinton, meantime, glossed over stern warnings from Moscow on\nThursday that US air strikes against Iraq could do serious harm to\n relations with the Kremlin.\n\n\n We're trying to find a diplomatic solution.\n And I hope that, whatever happens today, that our relationships with Russia\n will continue to be productive and constructive and strong, because that's\n very important to the future of our peoples.\n\n\n One contrary view of the issue presented itself to the president as he\n arrived in Philadelphia later in the day.\n Nevertheless, the president said Washington would use force if diplomacy\n fails to force Saddam Hussein to back down.\n The Russian foreign minister, meanwhile , sought to soften the harsh words\n of his military counterpart, saying on Friday that Russia now feels the\n US must hold off at least until UN secretary general Kofi Annan visits\n Baghdad in a last-ditch effort at diplomacy.\n Annan has no trip planned so far.\n Meanwhile, secretary of state Madeleine Albright, Berger and defense\n secretary William Cohen announced plans to travel to an unnamed city\n in the US heartland next week, to explain to the American people just why\n military force will be necessary if diplomacy fails.\n Steve Hurst, CNN, the state department.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980213", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t104", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 402, "end_char": 412, "tid": "t105", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t104"}, {"text": "less than one hour", "start_char": 751, "end_char": 769, "tid": "t111", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT1H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1011, "end_char": 1019, "tid": "t116", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-12", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t104"}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1189, "end_char": 1194, "tid": "t119", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t104"}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 1461, "end_char": 1468, "tid": "t126", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t119"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1705, "end_char": 1711, "tid": "t133", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-13", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t104"}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1724, "end_char": 1727, "tid": "t135", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t133"}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 2052, "end_char": 2061, "tid": "t145", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-WXX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t104"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "CNN19980213.2130.0155.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0048\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details, background, closing shares ///\n\n\n\n\nShares in Australian flag carrier Qantas jumped more than four percent Monday amid expectations a takeover consortium is finally ready to formally table a multi-billion dollar offer for the airline.\n\nThe consortium, led by Australia's biggest investment bank Macquarie and US-based private equity firm, Texas Pacific Group, has reportedly finalised the debt financing package for the bid.\n\nThe Australian Financial Review reported the offer, worth up to 10.9 billion dollars (8.4 billion US), could be unveiled as early as Tuesday, more than three weeks after Qantas revealed the initial approach.\n\nAfter intense speculation about the bid's structure, Bell Potter private client advisor Stuart Smith said the market responded positively to the prospect of seeing details.\n\nQantas shares closed up 21 cents or 4.2 percent to 5.26 dollars on the Australian Stock Exchange after briefly hitting a record intra-day high of 5.30 dollars.\n\nMacquarie Bank closed up 1.30 at 73.10 dollars.\n\nThe Australian Financial Review, citing unnamed sources, said the bid would be pitched at more than 5.50 dollars a Qantas share.\n\nIt said Macquarie and Texas Pacific planned to sell bonds backed by Qantas' fleet of 217 planes to finance more than half the debt incurred if the bid proceeds.\n\nThe newspaper said Canberra was struggling to formulate a policy to deal with the bid, torn between its commitment to free-market economics and protecting a national icon.\n\nGovernment backbencher Bruce Baird said the value of protectionist measures designed to shore up Qantas' position against rivals such as Singapore Airlines and Emirates would be questioned if the bid was successful.\n\n\"I'm sure the protection it has got from Singapore Airlines is one of the things that makes it attractive. Maybe we have fatted the calf too much for market day,\" he said.\n\nThe government has ruled out changing the law to prevent Qantas being broken up and says it will maintain rules limiting overall foreign ownership of the airline at 49 percent and capping single stakes available to foreign firms at 25 percent.\n\nBut Baird signalled other trade barriers protecting Qantas could be up for review if a takeover meant the airline became \"just another multinational organisation\".\n\nSingapore Airlines vice-president TK Mun said over the weekend that the airline remained keen to complete with Qantas on the lucrative Australia-US route even though Canberra rejected its application earlier this year.\n\nMun said Singapore Airlines was closely watching the takeover bid and potential implications for the trans-Pacific route.\n\n\"The subject is very much alive; nothing is forever,\" Mun told Australian Associated Press.\n\nQantas earlier this month said it expected profits to lift up to 30 percent in the 2006/07 financial year if fuel prices remain near current levels.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 636, "end_char": 643, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than three weeks", "start_char": 645, "end_char": 666, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 2412, "end_char": 2423, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W49-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 2561, "end_char": 2578, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this month", "start_char": 2804, "end_char": 2822, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006/", "start_char": 2880, "end_char": 2885, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0048.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0158\n\nNIMBA, Liberia, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Liberians urged to sustain food security initiatives\n\n\n\n\nUN peacekeeping troops in Liberia from Bangladesh called on Liberians over the weekend to mitigate the effects of 14 years of civil war and sustain ongoing initiatives towards achieving self-sufficiency in food production.\n\n\"Liberians must move towards a brighter future of self- dependence,\" Col. Abdul Haque, commander of the 10th Battalion of the Bangladeshi peacekeeping troops, told Liberians at the inaugural harvesting of mechanized rice farms in Ganta, a once embattled town in Nimba county, about 300 km north of the Liberian capital Monrovia.\n\nThe inaugural harvesting was part of two days of festivities in commemoration of the World Food Day organized by the Liberian government.\n\nUnder the slogan \"Mechanized Farming is the Key to Agriculture Success,\" Bangladeshi peacekeepers have been assisting the farmers to start mechanized farming at viable project sites abandoned during the civil crisis. A modest amount of lands have been redeveloped and cultivated for seed rice multiplication by the farmers through the assistance of the peacekeepers who provided tractors, fuel and training.\n\nLiberian Agriculture Minister Chris Toe hailed the peacekeepers' efforts, saying that the initiative would lead the way to food security in the country. He assured, \"As the economy improves and with available resources, there would be marked improvement within the agriculture sector within five years.\"\n\n\"Next year we will triple the amount of lands and the government will buy each bag of seed rice that would be produced by the farms,\" Toe told farmers.\n\nFood insecurity in the country is a challenge the Liberian government is committed to cope with through its own initiatives and with the support from development partners, Toe said.\n\nAccording to a commerce ministry's estimate, food imports in Liberia account for more than 50 percent, among which rice imports take up over 50 percent.\n\nThe World Food Day was set by the United Nations on October 16, but last month's global celebration of the World Food Day was postponed in Liberia by a month to accommodate mass participation.\n\nOfficials of the government, nongovernmental organizations and the diplomatic community, as well as Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and UN Special Envoy Alan Doss, gathered in the town of Ganta for the festivities and were impressed by the huge turnout and the variety of produce hundreds of farmers put on display from around country.\n\nJohnson-Sirleaf said to farmers, \"Do not see this as a one-day event. See it as a kickoff to continue the work.\"\n\nIn view of the need for smaller countries to gain maximum benefits from increased investment in agriculture, Doss called for a \"level playing field\" in global trade by appealing to industrialized nations to do away with barrels that hinder fair trade to the disadvantage of smaller nations.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "14 years", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P14Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days", "start_char": 721, "end_char": 729, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 1523, "end_char": 1533, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 16", "start_char": 2079, "end_char": 2089, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 2095, "end_char": 2105, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 2177, "end_char": 2184, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0158.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0340\n\nNICOSIA, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIran's exiled opposition calls boycott of presidential polls\n\n\n\n\nIran's main opposition group called Monday for a boycott of next month's presidential elections in Iran, calling it an \"illegitimate mascarade.\"\n\nThe National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said that \"this vote, like all the other mascarades of this theocracy, is completely illegitimate,\" according to a statement received by AFP in Nicosia.\n\nMassud Radjavi, head of the Paris-based NCRI and chief of the armed opposition group People's Mujahedeen, called the May 23 polls a \"political funeral and the inevitable sweeping aside\" of outgoing president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.\n\n\"This event is the most import schism that will affect the regime in its terminal stage,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 23", "start_char": 587, "end_char": 593, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0340.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0079\n\nPARIS, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nDexia bank to vote against Euronext-NYSE merger\n\n\n\n\nDexia bank, a big shareholder in pan-European stock market operator Euronext, will vote against a merger between the operator and the New York Stock Exchange, chief executive Axel Miller said on Tuesday.\n\nHe told the French financial newspaper Les Echos: \"We will vote against the trans-Atlantic merger project.\"\n\nThis was because the bank felt that the NYSE would eventually dominate the new entity and because the merger ran counter to Euronext's original vision of a pan-European stock market.\n\n\"It would be sort of like the birth of America Next,\" he added.\n\nEuronext groups the stock markets in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam and Lisbon, and the Liffe financial futures market in London, and its shareholders are to vote Tuesday on the planned merger with the NYSE.\n\nMiller also objected that \"under the cover of an open market, the United States is demonstrating regulatory hegemony.\"\n\nHe forecast that other members of a pact of Euronext shareholders that disbanded last week would also vote against the deal, but stressed he could speak only for his company.\n\nOn June 1, the boards of the two markets signed an agreement in principle under which the NYSE was valued at 22 billion euros (28.8 billion dollars) and Euronext at about 10.5 billion euros.\n\nThe marriage was presented as a \"merger of equals\". But a report, strongly critical of the deal, published by an association of financial interests in France called Paris Europlace, said that the marriage amounted to a takeover by the NYSE.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 298, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 832, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1072, "end_char": 1081, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 1", "start_char": 1170, "end_char": 1176, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0079.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0061\n\nFALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSniper hunts two US soldiers west of Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nAn insurgent sniper hunted two US soldiers in the flashpoint city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, on Saturday, a witness said.\n\n\"A sniper opened fire at a US military patrol in Souq al-Qadiem district, and picked off two soldiers before he fled the scene,\" Abdul-Rahman told Xinhua.\n\n\"Another insurgent hurled a grenade at a US patrol in the city damaging a US Humvee, but it was not known whether there was any casualty,\" he said.\n\nUS troops returned fire and cordoned off the area and searched for the attackers, he added.\n\nFallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad in the restive Anbar province, has witnessed frequent attacks against US and Iraqi forces.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0061.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0009\n\nMELBOURNE, Nov. 18 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPolice injured in clashes with protesters during G20 meeting\n\n\n\n\nA number of police officers were injured during clashes with protesters at several places near the venue of a meeting of the Group 20 (G20), which is being held Saturday in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city.\n\nOne police officer was taken to hospital with a suspected broken wrist when police tried to push back protesters who tried to break barricades surrounding the Grand Hyatt hotel in central Melbourne, where finance ministers and central bank governors from 19 countries and the European Union are gathering.\n\nThey will discuss issues including world economic conditions, energy security, demographic change, climate change and International Monetary Fund and the World Bank's reforms.\n\nThe protesters are about 2,700 people from an alliance of left- wing groups, anti-war activists, environmentalists and religious organizations.\n\nSome protesters were seen throwing garbage bins at police.\n\nSome protesters tried to pull down the barricades and police responded by striking the barricades, yelling at the protesters to back off.\n\nThe G20 is an informal forum which first met in December in 1999 following the Asian financial crisis. It brings together Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States.\n\nThe European Union is also a member.\n\nThe group's members represent around 85 percent of global gross domestic, product, 80 percent of world trade and two-thirds of the world's population.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 1218, "end_char": 1226, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1230, "end_char": 1234, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0009.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0278\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nIraq on brink of disintegration: think-tank\n\n\n\n\nIraq faces \"complete disintegration into failed state chaos\" a respected think-tank warned Tuesday, urging the United States to adopt a radical change of strategy to end the crisis.\n\nThe stark analysis from the International Crisis Group came as a Pentagon report confirmed that violence in Iraq has hit record levels and two weeks after a bipartisan US panel branded the situation \"grave and deteriorating.\"\n\nThe ICG's new report endorsed the Iraq Study Group's criticisms of White House strategy, but warned the recommendations of former secretary of state James Baker's panel would not be enough to stem the bloodshed.\n\nIn particular, the Crisis Group criticised the US insistence on supporting Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's coalition government, and called instead for the international community to open talks with all Iraq's warring parties.\n\n\"The Iraqi government and security forces cannot be treated as privileged allies to be bolstered; they are simply one among many parties to the conflict,\" the ICG said.\n\n\"The (Baker) report characterises the government as a 'government of national unity' that is 'broadly representative of the Iraqi people': it is nothing of the sort,\" it said.\n\nThe ICG said Baker's report \"calls for expanding forces that are complicit in the current dirty war and for speeding up the transfer of responsibility to a government that has done nothing to stop it.\"\n\nRather than blindly backing Maliki's beleaguered regime, the ICG said, Washington and other international and regional actors should adopt \"a new forceful multilateral approach that puts real pressure on all Iraqi parties.\"\n\nThe five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Iraq's six neighbours should become an \"international support group\" for the country.\n\n\"But its purpose cannot be to support the Iraqi government. It must support Iraq, which means pressing the government, along with all other Iraqi constituents, to make the necessary compromises,\" the ICG said.\n\nSuch advice will not go down well in the White House, where President George W. Bush has held talks with a range of policy experts and Iraqi officials in preparation for announcing a change of strategy next month.\n\nBut the US leader has ruled out working with Iraq's neighbours Iran and Syria, whom he accuses of fomenting the violence, and has given his backing to Maliki, describing him as \"the right man for the job.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 199, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 423, "end_char": 432, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 2285, "end_char": 2295, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0278.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0304\n\nKUWAIT CITY, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nKuwaiti crude oil prices end rising trend\n\n\n\n\nKuwaiti crude oil prices have seen a halt of rising trend by dropping to 53.62 U.S dollars per barrel (dpb) on Monday, 93 cents lower than that of last Friday, local media reported on Tuesday.\n\nKuwaiti crude oil prices rose by 80 and 96 cents per barrel on last Monday and Tuesday, or on Nov.6 and Nov. 7, to reach 52.88 dpb and 53.84 dpb respectively.\n\nThe rising trend emerged when the prices surged up by 59 cents to 54.55 dpb on Friday from Thursday's 53.96 dpb.\n\nLocal media attributed the week-long rising trend of oil prices to the effect of Kuwait's output slash which began on Nov.1.\n\nGlobal crude oil prices hovered below 59 dollars recently amid warm winter concern, which negatively affected the Kuwaiti prices, said local analysts.\n\nWith a self-boasted proven oil reserves of about 101.5 billion barrels, Kuwait now produces 2.3 million barrels of crude oil per day.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Friday", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 265, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 298, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "80", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 336, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Monday", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 375, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 380, "end_char": 387, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 7", "start_char": 405, "end_char": 411, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 540, "end_char": 546, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 552, "end_char": 560, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 932, "end_char": 935, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0304.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0203\n\nSANTIAGO, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n26 soldiers die in Chile after bus falls off cliff into river\n\n\n\n\nTwenty-six soldiers died on Sunday when a minibus carrying 31 people fell off a 15-meter cliff into a river in Chile's eighth region, 515 km south of Chilean capital Santiago, Chilean radio said.\n\nThe vehicle was carrying the Chacabuco military band from the city of Concepcion to Canete, a town in Arauco province, for a civic event.\n\nThe minivan driver lost control of the vehicle close to the Quelen Quelen Bridge, on Route 160. The bus landed in the Tucapel River, and swiftly sank.\n\nFire crews and the Special Operations Group of Chilean police force, the Carabinieri, rescued five people and took them to the Concepcion Regional Hospital.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Route 160", "start_char": 545, "end_char": 554, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061112.0203.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0004\n\nGAZA CITY, Dec 3 , 2005\n\nURGENT  Israeli troops kill two Palestinians in Gaza Strip\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli soldiers shot dead two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip early Saturday, Palestinian security officials said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Saturday", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0004.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0207\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nArafat\n\n\n\n\nBy Saud Abu Ramadan\n\nGAZA, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- Two years after late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's leaving from the world, pictures of him reoccurred in the Gaza streets on Friday, a day before a two-year anniversary for his death on Saturday, showing the Palestinians' yearning for the late leader.\n\nAbu Ibrahim Salama, a 65-year-old Gazan man, pointed a huge Arafat picture hanging in front of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) building and said, \"Where are you? Where are your days? If you were here, our life would be better.\"\n\nIn the overpopulated poor enclave, Gaza Strip, many Palestinians like Salama still miss their historic and symbolic leader Yasser Arafat and believe that if he was alive, they would not live in such a miserable situation.\n\nAhmed Abu Ghazza, a 29-year-old fan of Arafat, told Xinhua that \"When Arafat was alive, we were also under siege and Israeli daily offensives, but our life was going well.\"\n\nHe attributed it to Arafat's political skills and tactics, saying that \"if he (Arafat) was still alive, Hamas would never win in any legislative elections, because Arafat would never let them win.\"\n\nPalestinians faced formidable difficulties following Hamas won the legislative elections in January and thus given the mandate to form the current Hamas-led government in late March.\n\nHamas regime was boycotted by Israel and the international community from the very beginning because the former's adherence to destruction of Israel.\n\nThe international boycott and siege pushed the fledging Hamas government and the Palestinian people into dual plights of economy and politics.\n\nHowever, the Palestinians were not immediately conscious of the significance of Arafat until they witnessed deteriorating life conditions day by day after his pass-away.\n\nPalestinian observers believe that it because the Palestinians were too busy with other affairs to ponder the result of Arafat's leaving from the Palestinian life.\n\nThey said, since Arafat's death in a French Hospital near Paris in Nov. 11, 2004, the Palestinians have been experienced too many changes, including electing a new leader to succeed Arafat, municipal elections, the Israeli unilateral disengagement plan, the legislative elections and a new government led by Hamas.\n\nBut as time went by, the Palestinians began to be aware of what they lost with the death of Arafat, who was then given high evaluations and praises by the Palestinians from all circles.\n\nChief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Friday that \" We really don't want to turn the date of pass-away of the eternal leader Yasser Arafat into an anniversary only, because Arafat should be remembered all the time.\"\n\nHe said that \"Yasser Arafat had passed away, while massacres are committed everyday against our people. Yasser Arafat passed away, while our internal situation remains as difficult as it is, while Palestinian blood has been shed by Palestinian hands.\"\n\nApart from Arafat's importance in politics, his personal enchantment also attracted a handful of adherents.\n\nMohamed Ishtayya, a former minister of housing loyal to Arafat told Xinhua that \"When I met him for the first time, I really felt so proud, because he gave me the impression that he knows me for a long time.\"\n\nHe added that \"after I worked with him closely, I found that he can name almost everyone he met before even if they had met several years ago.\"\n\n\"This is Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestinians that everyone is missing. Even in Israel, Israelis believe that he was the only man who could make peace with them,\" he concluded with pride.\n\nA day before the two-year anniversary of Arafat's death, the desperate Palestinians, who are living in economic and political crisis for months, expressed their missing for the late Palestinian leader.\n\n\"I think Arafat was not only an elected president of the Palestinians, but also a leader with a special charisma,\" said Ahmed al-Jammali, a storekeeper in Gaza City.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 10", "start_char": 100, "end_char": 107, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Two years", "start_char": 120, "end_char": 129, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 250, "end_char": 256, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 311, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1305, "end_char": 1312, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late March", "start_char": 1384, "end_char": 1394, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "day", "start_char": 1837, "end_char": 1840, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 11, 2004", "start_char": 2095, "end_char": 2108, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2580, "end_char": 2586, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several years ago", "start_char": 3455, "end_char": 3472, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "months", "start_char": 3811, "end_char": 3817, "tid": "t15", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0207.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0015\n\nDAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nWTO calls for EAC trade policy review\n\n\n\n\nThe World Trade Organization(WTO) has called for a trade policy review by the East African Community (EAC), according to local press reports on Tuesday.\n\nEnglish broadsheet The Guardian quoted a WTO Secretariat's trade policy review released earlier this month as urging Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to improve their multilateral commitments on both goods and services so as to increase their attractiveness to investment and business.\n\nThe WTO review expressed concerns to the multiple and sometimes overlapping regional trade arrangements of the three EAC member countries.\n\nApart from their own Customs Union, Kenya and Uganda are also members of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern African ( COMESA) while Tanzania is a member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and is also a signatory to the Agreement on the Global System of Trade Preferences Among Developing Countries (GSTP).\n\nCOMESA is a preferential trading bloc that was formed in December 1994 to replace the Preferential Trade Area that had existed since 1981. Tanzania quit COMESA in 2000.\n\nSADC, yet to become a full-fledged customs union, is a regional economic integration union that was formed in April 1980 when it was known as the Southern African Development Coordination Conference.\n\nThe WTO review noted that though the EAC member states are free to negotiate bilateral trade arrangement, their overlapping arrangements have caused problems in such aspects as difficulties in identifying origins of products for taxability, in that COMESA and SADC are governed by different protocols.\n\nThe East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) is scheduled to debate in early December multiple membership with regional trading blocs so as to solve an eligibility dispute.\n\nThe EALA, the legislative arm of the East African Community, will start trading bloc membership debate on Dec. 5 when the East African parliament for Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda meets in Arusha.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 256, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 355, "end_char": 365, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 1994", "start_char": 1070, "end_char": 1083, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1981", "start_char": 1146, "end_char": 1150, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1981", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1176, "end_char": 1180, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1980", "start_char": 1293, "end_char": 1303, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early December", "start_char": 1758, "end_char": 1772, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 5", "start_char": 1967, "end_char": 1973, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0015.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0100\n\nHONG KONG, April 10 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS giant enters HK market for paper-free commerce\n\n\n\n\nThe US company EDS on Thursday signed a deal giving it a stake in a Hong Kong firm that is developing the use of electronic transactions between companies, a statement said.\n\nUnder the deal, EDS will become an equal partner with three other major shareholders in Transportation Community Network Ltd., which is promoting the use of paperless transactions in Hong Kong through its operator Cargonet.\n\nEDS and CargoNet also agreed on a \"strategic alliance\" to develop the sector among trade and transport companies in Hong Kong and the neighbouring province of Guangdong, the two firms said in a joint statement.\n\nElectronic commerce service is regarded as the latest area of growth in computer networking.\n\nUnder it, companies negotiate, conclude and conduct transactions entirely by computer, something that offers a potentially huge saving in costs.\n\nCompanies carry out this business via a data centre operated by the information service provider, which makes its money by charging customers a subscription fee.\n\n\"After launching in 1995 and achieving a significant client base in 1996, CargoNet is poised for major growth in 1997,\" CargoNet chairman Richard Pearson said.\n\n\"The whole field of electronic commerce is evolving rapidly, and EDS' commitment and support will help maintain a decisive technological lead.\"\n\nEDS, a provider of information services, is an independent, publicly- owned company listed in New York and London.\n\nIt had income of 14.4 billion US dollars last year, with a payroll of 100,000.\n\nA spokeswoman for CargoNet said she was unable to provide any financial details of the agreement signed Thursday.\n\nThe other major shareholders in Transportation Community Network are three local firms: HIT Holdings Ltd.; Kenwa Communication Cp. Ltd.; and CSSL.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 10 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 133, "end_char": 141, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1146, "end_char": 1150, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 1194, "end_char": 1198, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 1239, "end_char": 1243, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1589, "end_char": 1598, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1732, "end_char": 1740, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0100.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0158\n\nNAIROBI, Oct. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMarathon star Tergat foresees \"world class battle\" in London\n\n\n\n\nWorld marathon record holder Paul Tergat thinks next year's London Marathon will provide an opportunity for a new world-class battle, local media reported Wednesday.\n\n\"I am looking forward to facing a great competition on a fast course. Everybody wants to be there,\" Tergat was quoted by newspaper Kenya Times as saying.\n\nAccording to the newspaper, the World Food Program's ambassador against hunger and patron of the IAAF's \"Athletes for a Better World\" charity project, gave a special press conference in Milan in which he spoke about his dramatic win in the 2005 New York Marathon and his future running career.\n\nThe former five-time world cross country champion said he is looking forward to future challenges including the next London Marathon on April 23, 2006 which will feature a rematch with Hendrick Ramaala, and another encounter with Haile Gebrselassie who ran 2:06:20 in Amsterdam on October 16, the fastest time in the year.\n\nThe Kenyan marathon star also took a chance to look back at his New York achievement.\n\nIn one of the most memorable marathon finishes in history on November 6, he just managed to defeat defending champion Ramaala of South Africa after a breathtaking neck and neck battle which ended with his 2:09:30 victory.\n\n\"I am recovering from a grueling race which was really a dramatic and painful experience\", said Tergat.\n\n\"It was a psychological fight in the final 60 meters. The final five miles run on a hilly course were very tough. The key for my success in the final sprint was my mind which enabled me to beat Ramaala into the finish line. It is from my mind that I found the strength to win this dramatic race. I never lost faith in my capabilities.\"\n\n\"When Hendrick Ramaala and Alberico Di Cecco launched their attacks to break away from the rest of the field I did not follow them but focused on running my own race.\"\n\nAsked if it was more important for him to set a world record in Berlin or to win in New York, he said: \"Berlin was very special for me. It was my first win in the marathon after some defeats in my first attempts over the distance and I broke the world record running 2:04:55.\"\n\n\"In New York, I came back from some hamstring problems after my eighth place in London Marathon, to take the second win of my marathon career at the end of an exciting and thrilling battle. I knew that millions of Kenyans watched me in New York via TV, so this win was very important for them.\"\n\nTergat also said he is not thinking yet about retirement. \"I want to continue for some years. But at the moment it is unlikely that I will run at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. But I can't rule it out. It depends on my fitness. What motivates me is passion for running. It is not a question of age but of mind which is the key for my success.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Oct. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-10-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 277, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 23", "start_char": 875, "end_char": 883, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 16", "start_char": 1020, "end_char": 1030, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1052, "end_char": 1060, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 6", "start_char": 1211, "end_char": 1221, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2:04:55", "start_char": 2251, "end_char": 2258, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "some years", "start_char": 2640, "end_char": 2650, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-10-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0158.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0176\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 23 , 2005  (Xinhua)\n\nthis year\n\n\n\n\nChina's foreign trade of electronic and machinery products is expected to hit 780 billion US dollars this year, growing 25 percent year on year, the International Business Daily quoted an official with the Ministry of Commerce as saying.\n\nLi Minglin, director of the Machinery and Electronic Product Import and Export Department under the ministry, also predicted China's process trade this year to hit 690 billion US dollars, up 25 percent.\n\nAs a main driving force of China's foreign trade, the trade of electronic and machinery products will continue to grow stably, thanks to a domestic investment rise and further opening of the Chinese market, he said.\n\nAlthough China's export of electronic and machinery products is growing robustly, unstable factors such as fluctuations in the international trade structure, raw material supply shortages and a Renminbi exchange rate change will have a negative impact, he said.\n\nChina's innovation capacity in this area is still weak, lacking independent property rights and core technologies, he said.\n\nIn the next five years, China will optimize its industrial structure and encourage the export of machinery and electronic products with high technology and independent intellectual property rights, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "year", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 458, "end_char": 467, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next five years", "start_char": 1123, "end_char": 1142, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0176.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0100\n\nSUVA, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFiji agrees to more ethnic seats in new parliament\n\n\n\n\nFiji's political leaders agreed Wednesday to retain more ethnic-based seats than open seats in parliament under a new constitution being negotiated here.\n\nThe decision was reached unanimously by a 25-member parliamentary select committee appointed to negotiate consensus on a new charter to replace the post-coup document widely seen as racist.\n\nBy agreeing to a majority of ethnically elected seats, the review committee has rejected the guiding principle of a three-man commission which reviewed and reported on constitutional reform.\n\nThe commission headed by Sir Paul Reeves, former governor general of New Zealand, had recommended 45 open or nationally elected seats as opposed to 25 ethnically elected seats in a 70-member new Parliament.\n\nIn a statement late Wednesday, the committee said it had agreed to \"the principle of retaining a larger percentage of communal seats and a smaller percentage of open seats.\"\n\nDetails would be worked out later, the committee said.\n\nThe select committee last week endorsed a multi-racial cabinet under a new constitution in what Indian leaders immediately hailed as one of Fiji's most significant political concessions since the 1987 coups.\n\nFijian provincial councils have recently been vocal in their rejection of the Reeves Report recommendation and want instead a majority of seats to be contested on an ethnic roll.\n\nConstitutional talks were adjourned until Monday to allow for a two- day meeting of the Great Council of Chiefs beginning Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 138, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 872, "end_char": 881, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1104, "end_char": 1113, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1514, "end_char": 1520, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "day", "start_char": 1541, "end_char": 1544, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1594, "end_char": 1602, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0100.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0048\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nJapan, DPRK talk over abduction issue, wartime compensation\n\n\n\n\nNo conclusion has been reached yet in the one-on-one meeting between the delegations of Japan and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and they pledged to continue the talks, said head of the DPRK delegation Song Il-Ho here Thursday.\n\nThe two sides started their bilateral talks in the Chinese capital Thursday morning, aiming to settle the abduction issue and Japan's wartime compensation to the DPRK, he said.\n\nBefore the afternoon session, Song, also vice director of the Asian Affairs Department of the DPRK Foreign Ministry, told reporters they would possibly talk about the abduction issue in the afternoon.\n\nThe meeting between the two countries is to \"solve problems,\" said Song, demanding that the Japanese government do something about its compensation for the past problems.\n\nAfter the morning session, Song told reporters that both sides stated their positions during the opening session in a \"good\" atmosphere.\n\nAkitaka Saiki, head of the Japanese delegation and deputy head of the Foreign Ministry's Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, said the two sides had \"serious exchanges on items of mutual concern.\"\n\nDiplomatic sources here said the talks are expected to last at least two days.\n\nPrior to the two-way talks between Japan and the DPRK, Li Bin, Chinese ambassador for Korean Peninsula Affairs, met with Akitaka Saiki Wednesday evening. They exchanged views on how to proceed in the next round of the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 357, "end_char": 365, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 435, "end_char": 451, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-27TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the afternoon session", "start_char": 553, "end_char": 574, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning session", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 945, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two", "start_char": 1323, "end_char": 1326, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday evening", "start_char": 1469, "end_char": 1486, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0048.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0177\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 19 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChechen PM recovers from kidney operation: report\n\n\n\n\nChechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov, who underwent a kidney surgery after a car accident two days ago, is in normal condition and \"feels well\", the Interfax news agency quoted his aide as reporting on Saturday.\n\n\"No one has any doubt any more that the operation was successful. Abramov feels well. However, the doctors have decided to ban access to his room to any outsiders\" except his wife and aide, Abramov's aide Tamerlan Mingayev said.\n\nAccording to the aide, for the past 24 hours dozens of people, including the prime minister's friends, colleagues and representatives of the Chechen government, the Federation Council, the State Duma and other bodies, have come to the hospital, wishing to see Abramov and to ask about his health.\n\n\"Abramov is already trying to sit up in bed,\" Mingayev said. Abramov didn't hit his head during the accident and didn't suffer any cranial or brain injury. He can cope with everything else, the aide was quoted as saying.\n\nIn an earlier interview with Interfax, Chechen Health Minister Shakhid Akhmadov, who had arrived at the Central Clinic Hospital, also said the surgery had been successful and that Abramov was out of danger.\n\nThe Chechen prime minister was seriously injured in a traffic accident in Moscow on Thursday evening. The accident occured when the car, in which Abramov was riding on his way to the airport for a flight to Chechnya, collided with a truck.\n\nA spokesman for the Chechen administration in Moscow, Ziyad Sabsabi, ruled out the possibility of an assassination attempt on Abramov, the Interfax news agency reported.\n\nThe Chechen republic is expected to hold a parliamentary elections on November 27. Abramov was appointed prime minister of the Russian republic in March 2004.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days ago", "start_char": 201, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 313, "end_char": 321, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 24 hours", "start_char": 581, "end_char": 598, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT24H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 1366, "end_char": 1382, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 27", "start_char": 1764, "end_char": 1775, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2004", "start_char": 1841, "end_char": 1851, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0177.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0497\n\nKINSHASA, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFormer Zairean PM Kengo flees country: spokesman\n\n\n\n\nFormer Zairean Prime Minister Kengo wa Dondo has fled the country and the government is thinking of charging him with treason, government spokesman Kin Kiey Mulumba told reporters Tuesday.\n\nThe spokesman said that Zaire's war chest funds were empty and that the government believed Kengo was responsible.\n\nOfficials were thinking of issuing an international arrest warrant against Kengo, he said, commenting: \"We would like to get that money back.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0497.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0658\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nChina's Yao leads West vote getters for all-star game\n\n\n\n\nChina's Yao Ming is the leading Western Conference vote-getter with 729,178 votes after the first returns of the 2006 NBA all-star balloting programme, announced Thursday.\n\nTracy McGrady leads forwards in voting from fans around the world who are responsible for picking the starters for the 55th NBA All-Star Game, which will be played in Houston on February 19.\n\nThe Rockets (8-12) are in last place in the Southwest Division due in part to a back injury that has forced McGrady to miss eight games.\n\nYao is a three-time All-Star averaging a career-high 19.5 points and 9.10 rebounds and McGrady is averaging 24.0 points, 7.3 rebounds and 4.7 assists.\n\nA five-time All-Star, McGrady has garnered 600,507 votes and is followed by Minnesota's Kevin Garnett with 469,497.\n\nKobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers is the top vote-getter among Western Conference guards with 664,744 with reigning league Most Valuable Player Steve Nash second with 562,846.\n\nCleveland forward LeBron James is the leader among Eastern Conference players with 665,849 votes, 19,764 more than Miami Heat center Shaquille O'Neal.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 19", "start_char": 457, "end_char": 468, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0658.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891101-0072 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0072. \n Kimberly-Clark Corp.\n@  Net Income Rose 20%\n@  In the Third Quarter \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n KMB \n EARNINGS (ERN)\nPULP, PAPER, PACKAGING (ALL TYPES) (PUL) \n DALLAS  \n\n   Despite continuing problems in its newsprint business, Kimberly-Clark Corp. posted a 20% gain in third-quarter net income. \n\n   The consumer-products and newsprint company said net rose to $108.8 million, or $1.35 a share, from $90.5 million, or $1.12 a share, a year ago. \nSales rose 6.2% to $1.45 billion from $1.37 billion. \n\n   After a flat second quarter tied largely to lower newsprint earnings, Kimberly-Clark attributed the gain to improved results in its consumer businesses in North America, Brazil and Korea. \nThose gains came from higher prices, particularly for disposable diapers and tissue products, and from increased sales, primarily for feminine-care products, the company said. \nNewsprint results continued to be depressed, the company added, because of industrywide price discounting. \n\n   The quarter-to-quarter comparison was also enhanced by charges taken in the year-earlier period, including $11 million related to the modernization of a pulp and newsprint mill in Alabama. \nIn the 1989 period also, interest expense and tax rates were lower than a year ago. \n\n   In the first nine months, profit rose 10% to $313.2 million, or $3.89 a share, from $283.9 million, or $3.53 a share. \nSales rose 6.7% to $4.27 billion from $4 billion. \n\n   In New York Stock Exchange composite trading, Kimberly-Clark closed at $66.50 a share, up $1.50.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t76", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 324, "end_char": 337, "tid": "t82", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t76"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 488, "end_char": 498, "tid": "t78", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t82"}, {"text": "a flat second quarter", "start_char": 565, "end_char": 586, "tid": "t79", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q2", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t76"}, {"text": "the year-earlier period", "start_char": 1109, "end_char": 1132, "tid": "t85", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t82"}, {"text": "the 1989 period", "start_char": 1230, "end_char": 1245, "tid": "t86", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t82"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 1299, "end_char": 1309, "tid": "t87", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t86"}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 1319, "end_char": 1340, "tid": "t88", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0292.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0096\n\nJAKARTA, Dec 29 , 2006, 2006\n\ncorrected repetition ///\n\n\n\n\nIndonesia is aiming for zero human cases of bird flu next year as its strategy of poultry vaccination and increasing public awareness appears to be paying off, officials said Friday.\n\nIndonesia has the highest number of fatalities from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, with 57 deaths from 74 confirmed cases. The most recent fatality was that of a 35-year-old woman on November 28.\n\nMass vaccination of poultry had proved successful in slowing down infection rates, said Bayu Krisnamurthi, head of the national committee for control of avian influenza.\n\n\"We are aiming for zero cases of human infection by next year,\" Krisnamurthi told reporters.\n\nThe vast majority of human cases have occurred after contact with infected poultry.\n\n\"International organisations such as the FAO (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) are now more convinced that vaccination, the method that we have chosen, has started to show good results,\" he said.\n\n\"Particularly after the latest cases in China and Vietnam, it is proven that mass culling does not guarantee that the environment is free from the virus.\"\n\nVietnam has reported no new human cases since November 2005, but animal outbreaks have been reported in three provinces over the past week.\n\nKrisnamurthi said the ratio of confirmed to suspected cases had dropped significantly since the bird flu committee was established in March.\n\n\"This is important because it means people's awareness of the disease has increased. People are more willing to report and be examined by doctors,\" he said.\n\nIndonesia has not reported any new cases of human infection since November 28. Since October, 14 provinces have not reported any new outbreaks among poultry.\n\n\"Unfortunately this does not guarantee that (the province) is bird flu free,\" he said.\n\nAceh province, not among the 14, had reported an outbreak after six months without a case.\n\nKrisnamurthi also announced a substantial increase in spending on prevention of bird flu and pandemic preparedness.\n\nInternational funding would nearly double, from 35 million dollars this year to 65.54 million dollars in 2007, while government spending would rise from 56 million to 61 million.\n\nHe acknowledged that some areas, in particular the vaccination program, remained under-funded.\n\n\"We have 60 to 70 million doses of vaccine for 2007. That is about 10 percent of what we need to effectively vaccinate chickens raised in backyard farms.\"\n\nFor 2007, Indonesia would maintain its priorities of continuing with public awareness campaigns and moving to restructure the poultry industry.\n\n\"We see the importance is not only to face bird flu, but also to prepare the industry for any other animal-sourced diseases in the future,\" said Krisnamurthi.\n\nScientists fear the H5N1 strain of the virus could mutate to become easily transmissible among people, which could in turn lead to a global flu pandemic with a potential death toll of millions.\n\nH5N1 has killed more than 150 people worldwide since late 2003, and triggered the mass slaughter of tens of millions of poultry.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 29 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 263, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 28", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 458, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 684, "end_char": 693, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 2005", "start_char": 1215, "end_char": 1228, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past week", "start_char": 1294, "end_char": 1307, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1444, "end_char": 1449, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 28", "start_char": 1676, "end_char": 1687, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1695, "end_char": 1702, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 1921, "end_char": 1931, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 2133, "end_char": 2142, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 2171, "end_char": 2175, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 2389, "end_char": 2393, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 2502, "end_char": 2506, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "future,", "start_char": 2774, "end_char": 2781, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2003", "start_char": 3051, "end_char": 3060, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0096.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0005\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesia's infrastructure projects to create 1.9 mln jobs\n\n\n\n\nThe infrastructure projects the government will begin to implement in January 2006 are expected to absorb 1.9 million work force, Manpower and Transmigration Minister Fahmi Idris said.\n\nAfter the completion of a number of infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges and their supporting facilities, some 1.9 million of the work force would find employment, Antara news agency Wednesday quoted the minister as saying on Tuesday.\n\nSome 800,000 people have joined the ranks of the unemployed in various sectors this year, according to Fahmi.\n\nOn the other hand, the government would deregulate and eliminate bureaucracy in many sectors to improve the business climate. For example, the government would lower terminal and container handling charges at sea ports, he said.\n\nThe government would also shorten the procedures investors have to follow to begin their business in Indonesia. So far it takes more than 100 days for investors to obtain their operating licenses. This lead-time would be cut to a few weeks.\n\nThe government also plans to annul regional government regulations that are hampering investment, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2006", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 498, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 541, "end_char": 548, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 630, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "few weeks", "start_char": 1122, "end_char": 1131, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0005.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0158\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesia sees 0.86 pct inflation in October\n\n\n\n\nInflation in Indonesia was recorded at 0.86 percent in October as the government is moving closer to achieving a single-digit figure this year, according to a report Wednesday.\n\nThe consumer price index (CPI) in all commodity groups rose in October, the Central Statistics Agency said in its latest report.\n\nThe CPI in foodstuff was up by 2.17 percent, in food, beverages, cigarettes and tobacco 0.64 percent, in housing, water, electricity, gas and fuel 0.26 percent, in clothes 1 percent, in health services 0.29 percent, in education, tourism and sports 0.1 percent and in transportation, communication and financial services 0.46 percent.\n\nThe agency also reported year-on-year inflation eased to 6.29 percent and cumulative inflation in the first 10 months of 2006 stayed low at 4.96 percent.\n\nThe government has forecast 2006 inflation of below 8 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 238, "end_char": 247, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 353, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first 10 months", "start_char": 847, "end_char": 866, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0158.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0138\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's State Post Bureau to cooperate with Alibaba in e-commerce\n\n\n\n\nChina's State Post Bureau (SPB) will provide delivery services and on-line payment support to e-commerce giant Alibaba.com.\n\nUnder a framework agreement, the express mail service (EMS) under China's largest deliverer, would be recommended by Alibaba's on-line payment platform Alipay to its customers.\n\nAlibaba president Ma Yun said the cooperation would help solve the problem of delivery that bottlenecks the country's burgeoning e-commerce.\n\nMost commodities traded on-line in China are delivered by regular mail, small and medium-sized express companies or standard EMS services, which are either too slow or too costly, especially for long-distance deals.\n\nThe SPB will develop a special EMS service, 40 percent cheaper than the standard service, for on-line traders at Taobao.com, an Alibaba subsidiary and the country's most popular consumer-to-consumer marketplace, said director Yuan Guoli of the SPB's delivery bureau, without revealing details.\n\nThe \"special EMS service\" will be piloted in Hangzhou, capital of the southern Zhejiang Province, at the end of the year, before being expanded to nationwide next year.\n\nIndustry insiders say the strategic partnership could reduce the costs of delivery through large-scale negotiation, and prevent e-commerce fraud as the EMS would check the delivered commodities.\n\nMeanwhile, on-line buyers can remit the payments through post bureaus to their Alipay accounts instead of solely relying on bank cards as they do now, according to the agreement.\n\nThe agreement follows moves by the SPB to set up an on-line bookstore and philatelic center at Taobao.com, and a simultaneous issue of greeting cards and special stamps for the New Year on the website and at the bureau's outlets on Nov.1.\n\nFounded in 2003 with an investment of 450 million yuan (56.25 million U.S. dollars), Taobao.com has six million registered users.\n\nBy June 30, about a quarter of China's 123 million Internet users were regularly engaged in on-line shopping, 50 percent more than the same time last year, according to the China Internet Network Information Center.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 1185, "end_char": 1204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1242, "end_char": 1251, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1596, "end_char": 1599, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1881, "end_char": 1885, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 30", "start_char": 2004, "end_char": 2011, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2146, "end_char": 2155, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0138.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0148\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIsraeli warplanes attack Hezbollah target in south Lebanon\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli warplanes attacked a suspected Hezbollah target in south Lebanon on Tuesday, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported.\n\nWitnesses were quoted as saying that the Israeli jets fired rockets at the post near the border village of Abayseh, just north of the Lebanon-Israel border.\n\nThere was no immediate word on casualties.\n\nThe air strikes broke a tense calm along the Israel-Lebanon border on Tuesday, after the Hezbollah attacks sent Israelis to bomb shelters across the north on Monday.\n\nAt least four Hezbollah gunmen were killed on Monday trying to kidnap soldiers from outposts of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) on the Lebanese border, and seven Israeli soldiers and four civilians were wounded in the series of clashes.\n\nThis was considered the broadest Hezbollah attacks since Israeli army withdrew from south Lebanon more than five years ago.\n\nHours before the Tuesday air strike, IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said that Israel has a \" very diverse basket\" of military means at the ready.\n\n\"We are ready with a basket of operations. The basket of means in our hands is very diverse, and we will know how to use it with judgment,\" Halutz said.\n\nAs an armed group in Lebanon, Hezbollah played an important role in fighting Israel, which ended its 22 years of occupation in south Lebanon in May 2000.\n\nDefying a UN Security Council resolution in September 2004 to disarm, the pro-Iranian group vowed to keep fighting Israel and defending Lebanon.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 205, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 515, "end_char": 522, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 603, "end_char": 609, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 658, "end_char": 664, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years ago", "start_char": 958, "end_char": 972, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 992, "end_char": 999, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "22 years", "start_char": 1376, "end_char": 1384, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P22Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2000", "start_char": 1419, "end_char": 1427, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 2004", "start_char": 1474, "end_char": 1488, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0148.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0089\n\nSEOUL, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nS.Korea, UAE to sign agreement on military cooperation\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korea and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are expected to sign a military agreement this week to strengthen their cooperation, the South Korean Defense Ministry said Tuesday.\n\nSouth Korean Vice Defense Minister Hwang Kyu-sik, who left for the UAE on Tuesday on a four-day trip, will sign an agreement with UAE officials on Wednesday, the ministry said, adding that the agreement would help increase exchanges between the two countries' militaries as well as their defense-related industries.\n\nHwang was also expected to discuss ways to expand South Korea's exports of weapons to the UAE during his visit, the ministry said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 203, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 369, "end_char": 376, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 442, "end_char": 451, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0089.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0255\n\nSTOCKHOLM, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNorway's dual role in Sri Lanka peace talks under fire\n\n\n\n\nNorway's role in Sri Lanka has come under fire during the nation's election campaign, Norwegian Broadcasting reported on Friday (NRK).\n\nNorway is both facilitating the peace talks between Colombo and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as well as leading the international observer force in Sri Lanka.\n\n\"It is unfortunate that Norway is both mediating between the two sides in the civil war, and at the same time heading the observer force which is supposed to criticize those who break the ceasefire,\" a spokesman for the Sri Lanka Democracy Forum said to NRK.\n\n\"Norway will consider withdrawing from the leadership of the international observer force,\" said Norway's International Development Minister Erik Solheim.\n\nHe underlined, however, that such a move must be taken in close cooperation with the two sides in the conflict.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 238, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0255.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0176\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAxed South African deputy president declines comment on rape investigation\n\n\n\n\nFormer South African deputy president Jacob Zuma Tuesday declined to comment on an ongoing investigation against him led by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) over allegations of rape, saying that he would reserve comment until after the investigation had been completed.\n\nA number of media reports had speculated that Zuma would announce his resignation as deputy president of the ruling ANC on Tuesday should he be charged formally.\n\nA media release issued by lawyer Michael Hulley on behalf of Zuma said that they'd been advised by members of the South African Police Service that the investigation into the alleged rape remained incomplete, and that more time was warranted in order to complete the investigation under the direction of the NPA.\n\n\"We acknowledge that the SAPS are the appropriate agency to deal with allegations of such a serious nature and that they should be allowed to complete their work free from interference and speculation.\n\n\"In the circumstances, Zuma, out of respect for due process, will reserve any further comment on the matter until such time as the SAPS have completed their work.\"\n\n\"We feel that such an approach is in keeping with the integrity with which the police have dealt with the investigation, in contrast with that of some media organizations,\" the statement said.\n\nThe National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) received a docket from the police on allegations last week. It has to decide whether Zuma should be prosecuted.\n\nImmediate comment from the NPA on Zuma's statement was not available.\n\nAccording to various media reports, a 31-year-old woman said she was raped at Zuma's house in Forest Town, Johannesburg, in early November.\n\nZuma has denied the rape allegation. He goes to court in July next year to defend himself against charges of corruption, which he has also denied.\n\nMany of Zuma's supporters believe there is a campaign against him to stop him becoming the next president of the African National Congress.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 543, "end_char": 550, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1549, "end_char": 1558, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early November", "start_char": 1808, "end_char": 1822, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July next year", "start_char": 1882, "end_char": 1896, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0176.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0005\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n4th Ld: Two bomb blasts in southern Pakistan kill at least four\n\n\n\n\nAt least four people were killed and several others injured on Tuesday morning in two bomb blasts in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, according to local TV reports.\n\nOne blast occurred near the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC). Another blast occurred outside a foreign food restaurant, said the Karachi police chief Mushtaq Shah.\n\nTwo five-star hotels are located close to the bomb blast site.\n\nShah said that investigation into the blast has started. Police have sealed the blast site.\n\nSeveral cars were also damaged and widows of the nearby building shattered.\n\nAmbulances rushed to the site to take the injured to hospitals.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday morning", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 205, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0005.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0246\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDeclining birth rate puts brakes on population growth in Netherlands\n\n\n\n\nPopulation growth in the Netherlands is curbed both by declining birth rate and increasing number of emigrants, Statistics Netherlands (CBS) reported Thursday.\n\nNew births in the first nine months of 2005 fell to 142,000, 4, 000 less than the same period of 2004, while 89,000 people moved out of the country in the same period, an increase of the same margin than a year before.\n\nThe population increased by less than 25,000 in the first nine months of 2005. This is 7,000 less than in the same period of 2004, CBS figures show.\n\nPopulation growth started slowing down in 2000. In the first nine months of that year the number of inhabitants increased by over 90,000.\n\nThe birth rate is expected to decrease even further over the next few years, said the CBS.\n\nIt is expected that 190,000 children will be born in the whole year of 2005, whereas some 207,000 children were born in the year 2000. The number of births is expected to drop below 180,000 by 2010.\n\nA major cause of the decline is the falling birth rate in the early 1970s, which means the number of women aged around 30 is decreasing. Then there is the downward effect of the unfavorable economic situation, said the CBS.\n\nThere are more and more children whose parents remain unmarried. In the first nine months of 2005, one in three children was extra- marital, compared to one in six 10 years ago. Almost half of all first children born in 2005 were born outside marriage.\n\nOn Jan. 1, 2005 there were a quarter of a million unmarried couples with children. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0116\n\nPARIS, April 27 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAir France Europe guarantees 60% of flights despite strike\n\n\n\n\nThe management of Air France Europe said it could guarantee 60 percent of flights Sunday, despite a decision by pilots to extend a strike until Monday.\n\nThe most severe disruption was expected on flights from Paris' Orly airport to the three main southern cities of Nice, Marseille and Toulouse.\n\nAlmost all these flights were cancelled on Friday and Saturday, but AFE said \"some\" would be running Sunday.\n\nAll flights from Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport would be running as usual, as well as flights between provincial towns.\n\nThe strike was called in protest over the conditions of the carrier's merger with state-owned Air France.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 27 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 266, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 456, "end_char": 462, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 475, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 514, "end_char": 520, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0116.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0033\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nAustralian shares close down 0.43 percent on resource selling\n\n\n\n\nAustralian share prices closed down 0.43 percent Thursday, retreating from Wednesday's record highs as investors sold resource stocks after metal prices fell in overnight trading, dealers said.\n\nThey said profit taking also weighed on the local market while rises in banking stocks provided support.\n\nThe benchmark SP/ASX 200 fell 24.3 points to 5,583.5 from yesterday's record high of 5,607.8, while the broader All Ordinaries Index shed 25.2 points to 5,561.7, from Wednesday's record high of 5,586.9.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 193, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 477, "end_char": 486, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0033.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980501.0480 \n NEWS STORY \n 05/01/1998 09:13:00 \n\nw2844 Cx1f wstm-\nr w Cx13  Cx11  SETTING-THE-STAGEsked     05-01 0665\n\n\n SETTING-THE-STAGE sked \n\nMALAYSIA\nSetting the stage for Net convergence, NEW STRAITS TIMES-MANAGEMENT TIMES \nQL\nxfdws SETTING-THE-STAGE sked\nEmerging Markets Datafile\nApril 30, 1998\nNEW STRAITS TIMES-MANAGEMENT TIMES\nENGLISH\nCOPYRIGHT 1998 BY WORLDSOURCES, INC., A JOINT VENTURE OF FDCH,\nINC. AND WORLD TIMES, INC. NO PORTION OF THE MATERIALS CONTAINED\nHEREIN MAY BE USED\nIN ANY MEDIA WITHOUT ATTRIBUTION TO WORLDSOURCES, INC.\n\nMALAYSIA'S aggressive move into the information age could not come in a more opportune time.\nWith the convergence of communications and information\ntechnologies (IT) coupled with the coming of age for the Internet\nand its related technologies, the stage is set for Malaysians to seize the chance to transform into a knowledge society and become\nworthy opponents/players in the global market space.\nThe Internet, the global network of computers, is now far reaching into the country - extending its embrace to include every\nnook and cranny of the nation - opening doors to not only a diverse\nrange of information sources but also an exhaustive list of\npossibilities to create new applications which add value to\npeople's lives.\nIn the business world, the Internet - through intranet and\nextranet solutions - has become an invaluable tool for companies to\nharness so as to gain a competitive edge.\nThe solutions are also vital components in developing the\nborderless marketing flagship application which is a vital element\nfor spearheading the development of the Multimedia Super Corridor\n(MSC) project.\nThe application will create the necessary framework and\ninfrastructure to support electronic commerce (e-commerce)\ninitiatives in the country.\nHowever, it is important to note that installing or implementing\nInternet technologies for technology's sake would not ensure\ninstant success.\nFor e-commerce to flourish with full-blown end-to-end business\ntransactions, strategic planning which incorporates both business\nand technology plans that are complementary is necessary for an\norganisation to see feasible returns on investment.\nIntranets, through the use of Internet technology, are positioned as a platform for companies to optimise, expand and\ntransform new channels of business.\nWhen strategically implemented, an intranet solution will provide the ability to mediate mission-critical, decision support\nfunctions in organisations. It will also help further improve\ncommunications and collaboration at all levels in an organisation.\nWith intranets in place, it is only logical for organisations to\nrespectively link the network to other companies' for extended\nbusiness purposes through extranets.\nWhile this will enable the sharing of information among\nenterprises, security issues such as firewalls and encryption as\nwell as access and control procedures, and the trust levels that\nenterprises have with each other will emerge and there will be a\nneed to address them.\nOther than usage in business, Internet technology is also beginning to infiltrate the lifestyle domain. ``Smart homes'' have emerged bringing a wealth of information and entertainment to\nfamilies over telecommunications lines.\nThe art of socialising is also experiencing a change where\nNet/virtual relationships are fast overtaking or becoming parallel\nwith the normal human relationships.\nWhether this would prove positive or otherwise towards society\nin the future is yet to be seen.\nAll in all, the Internet has a lot to offer. However, its value\nand benefits are only as good as how we use it.\n\n\nCopyright 1998 NEW STRAITS TIMES-MANAGEMENT TIMES all rights\nreserved as distributed by WorldSources, Inc.\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:SETTING-THE-STAGE sked; CT:w;\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-05-01-98 0913EDT", "time_expressions": [{"text": "05/01/1998 09:13:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t136", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-05-01T09:13:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "time", "start_char": 642, "end_char": 646, "tid": "t138", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t136"}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 3489, "end_char": 3499, "tid": "t153", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t136"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980501.0480.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0142\n\nRAMALLAH, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAfghanistan eager to earn prestige when coming back to sports family\n\n\n\n\nBy sportswriter Liu Yang\n\nDOHA, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- History was made in 2004 when the six-member Afghanistan team entered the Athens Olympic Games. Two years later, Afghanistan is eager to earn prestige from the sports world in Doha Asian Games.\n\n\"After being a long time away from the sports family, now we are entering the family again,\" Din Mohammad Safi, the Chef de Mission, told Xinhua.\n\nThe flag-raising ceremony for Afghanistan delegation was held in the Athletes' Village on Monday.\n\n\"We lost some prestige during the war. We came back here to earn the prestige of the sports world. And we want to find what we lost in the past,\" he said after the ceremony.\n\nThe south Asian country Afghanistan, with a population of 26 million, could not achieve so much success in the international sports due to its political unsettle and wars within the country.\n\nRoia Zamani won bronze for Afghanistan in the women's 72kg taekwondo at the 2002 Busan Asian Games.\n\n\"Afghanistan TV stations also came to Doha to broadcast the competitions, and the Afghan people are quite enthusiastic with the Asian Games,\" Safi said.\n\n\"Winning or losing is not important for our delegation. We want to learn from the Asian Games, and be a part of the sports family. \"\n\nIt has a long tradition of sports as Afghanistan first competed in the Berlin Olympic Games in 1936. Its best result came from wrestler Mohammed Ebrahimis who finished fifth at Tokyo Olympiard in 1964.\n\nIn the Athens Games, Afghanistan sent women for the first time in the 100m track event and judo but did not win any medal.\n\nFor a country devastated by the wars, Afghanistan needs the helping hands from the sports family.\n\n\"Our young people need the sports to change their life and we have asked for help from some sports federations.\"\n\n\"China is the sports powerhouse in Asia, and we have contacted our embassy in Doha, hoping China to send some coaches to our country,\" Safi said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 27", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 203, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Two years", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 432, "end_char": 435, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 615, "end_char": 621, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1936", "start_char": 1475, "end_char": 1479, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1936", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1964", "start_char": 1576, "end_char": 1580, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1964", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0142.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0352\n\nCARACAS, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRoad accident kills 19 in central Venezuela\n\n\n\n\nNineteen people were killed and several others injured in a bus-truck collision in central Venezuela on Wednesday, said Venezuelan Deputy Director for Land Transportation Ivan Noguera.\n\nNoguera told reporters that the cause of the crash, which happened on a highway across a valley in the Miranda state, had not been finally determined. But he said the heavy rainfall hours before the accident could be blamed for the tragedy.\n\nFiremen, the National Guard and other rescuers were sent to the spot of the collision.\n\nAccording to a local fire brigade officer working at the scene, signs on the spot showed that because of overspeeding the bus lost control and swerved into the opposite lane, colliding with the truck carrying Coca Cola products.\n\nThe people injured in the accident have been hospitalized. Police are conducting further investigation into the accident.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 209, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0352.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0043\n\nHANOI, April 5 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nHanoi sets up commission for new trans-Vietnamese highway\n\n\n\n\nHanoi has set up a commission to oversee the construction of Vietnam's second main road artery linking the north to the south of the country, a report said Saturday.\n\nThe first of the Southeast Asian country's major infrastructure projects will be completed through a mass moblisation of Vietnamese workers.\n\nThe 12-member road commission is headed by Prime Minsiter Vo Van Kiet and which includes several ministers.\n\n\"This is a major project which will use the labour of milllions of people,\" Kiet was Saturday quoted as saying by the daily Vietnam News.\n\nThe \"Truong Son\" highway will be built parallel to the existing main road which runs along the country's coast and is exposed to floods and typhoons.\n\nThe new 1,800-kilometer (1,125-mile) road will follow some of the route of the famous Ho Chi Minh trail which was the major supply route of the communist forces fighting the Americans during the Vietnam war.\n\nIt will link the capital Hanoi with the southern hub of Ho Chi Minh City and will initially have two lanes which will later be expanded to four and then to six in some places after 2002.\n\nThe feasability study for the project is expected to begin in June and work should start next year. The total cost of the project will could come to as much as 5.5 billion dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 5 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 270, "end_char": 278, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 617, "end_char": 625, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1212, "end_char": 1216, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1281, "end_char": 1285, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1308, "end_char": 1317, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0043.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0193\n\nPARIS, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIEA revises down forecast for growth of oil demand in 2005, 2006\n\n\n\n\nThe International Energy Agency (IEA) said Thursday that it has revised down its forecast for the growth of world oil demand this year and next year.\n\nIn 2005, global demand for oil would rise by 1.5 percent to 83.3 million barrels per day, and by 2.0 percent to 85.0 million barrels per day in 2006, the IEA said.\n\nIt has lowered its forecast for the growth of global oil demand by 70,000 barrels per day to 1.20 million barrels per day for 2005 and by 90,000 barrels per day to 1.66 million barrels for 2006.\n\n\"With crude and product prices now below pre-hurricane levels and refinery and crude capacity returning, the market appears to have weathered the storm,\" said the IEA in its monthly report.\n\n\"But while spot prices are below their peaks, it must not be forgotten that just a few months ago 60-dollar per barrel crude prices reflected extreme market tightness. Moreover there is potential for further tightness to emerge, particularly if the weather (in the northern hemisphere) turns cold and recent buoyant economic growth continues,\" said the report.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 263, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 282, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 419, "end_char": 423, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 566, "end_char": 570, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 629, "end_char": 633, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0193.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0259\n\nHANOI, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nties\n\n\n\n\nU.S. President George W. Bush on Friday reiterated his support for Congressional approval at a earliest time of his country's Permanent Normal Trade Relations ( PNTR) with Vietnam.\n\nThe visiting U.S. president said this when meeting with Vietnamese State President Nguyen Minh Triet. A bill on the PNTR was voted down at the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this week.\n\nThe U.S.-Vietnam relationship is multi-faceted and forward looking, said a joint statement between the two countries issued after the two leaders' talks.\n\nThe two leaders reiterated their efforts to ensure that bilateral relations are stable, constructive, broad-based, and conducted on the basis of equality and mutual benefit.\n\nThe two presidents also discussed the growing cooperation between the two countries to address regional and global concerns, the statement said.\n\nThey pledged to increase cooperation to halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related technology and materials in accordance with international and national laws and each country's capacities.\n\nThe two presidents also discussed the cooperation on the health issue and agreed to further strengthen cooperation on combating bird flu and HIV/AIDS, and the settlement of environmental contamination near former dioxin storage sites.\n\nThey expressed satisfaction with progress on resolving outstanding issues from the Vietnam War, and agreed that the two sides would continue cooperation in this respect.\n\nTriet reaffirmed his government's continued efforts to assist the United States to ensure the fullest possible accounting for Americans who remain missing in action, through both joint and enhanced unilateral actions.\n\nBush invited Triet to visit the United States in 2007, and the Vietnamese president accepted the invitation, said the statement.\n\nBush arrived in Vietnam on Friday for a four-day official visit to the country. He will also attend the 14th APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Economic Leaders' Meeting on Saturday and Sunday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 97, "end_char": 103, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 436, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 1804, "end_char": 1808, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1912, "end_char": 1918, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday and Sunday", "start_char": 2064, "end_char": 2083, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0259.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0284\n\nMANILA, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPhilippines lodges formal protest over Chinese vessels\n\n\n\n\nThe Philippine foreign ministry summoned Beijing's ambassador to Manila on Wednesday to protest at the presence of armed Chinese vessels in the disputed Spratlys, an official said.\n\n\"I formally gave him the details of the reported sightings,\" said Delia Rosal, executive director of the department's Asia and Pacific Affairs, after meeting China's envoy, Guan Dengming.\n\n\"I (conveyed to) him the Philippine concern about this incident,\" she added.\n\nThe Philippine military reported to Ramos on Tuesday that three armed \"frigate-type\" Chinese vessels were spotted by Air Force reconnaisance aircraft Friday off Philippine-garrisoned Kota and Panata islands in the disputed South China Sea chain.\n\nThe Philippines and China are among six countries which claim the supposedly oil-rich South China Sea chain in whole or part, the others being Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 607, "end_char": 614, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 718, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0284.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0042 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0042. \n Anheuser-Busch, Slugging It Out, Plans Beer Price Cuts\n@  ----\n@  By James P. Miller\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n BUD \n BEVERAGES (BVG)\nMARKETING, ADVERTISING (MKT)\nEARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   Anheuser-Busch Cos. said it plans to aggressively discount its major beer brands, setting the stage for a potentially bruising price war as the maturing industry's growth continues to slow. \n\n   Anheuser, the world's largest brewer and U.S. market leader, has historically been reluctant to engage in price-cutting as a means of boosting sales volume. \nWith the passing of the heady days of swelling industry sales, however, the once-sporadic and brief forays into discounting are becoming standard competitive weapons in the beer industry. \n\n   Over the summer, Anheuser competitors offered more and deeper discounts than industry observers have seen for a long time. \nSome experts now predict Anheuser's entry into the fray means near-term earnings trouble for all the industry players. \n\n   The St. Louis company said major rivals, Philip Morris Co.'s Miller Brewing unit and Adolph Coors Co. \"have been following a policy of continuous and deep discounting for at least the past 18 months\" on their premium brands, pricing their product as much as 25 cents a 12-pack below Anheuser's Budweiser label in many markets. \nAnheuser said it's discounting policy basically would involve matching such moves by rivals on a market-by-market basis. \n\n   Anheuser-Busch announced its plan at the same time it reported third-quarter net income rose a lower-than-anticipated 5.2% to $238.3 million, or 83 cents a share, from $226.5 million, or 78 cents. \nThird-period sales were $2.49 billion, up from last year's $2.34 billion. \n\n   Anheuser said its new strategy -- started in some markets last month and expected to be applied soon in selected markets nationwide -- will mean lower-than-anticipated earnings for the last half of 1989 and for 1990. \nThe projection sent Anheuser shares plunging $4.375 in New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday. \nThe stock closed at $38.50 on heavy volume of about 3.5 million shares. \nShares of Coors, the company's sole publicly traded major competitor, fell $1.50 apiece to $19.125 in national over-the-counter trading, apparently on investor concerns over potential fallout from the coming pricing struggle. \n\n   Anheuser noted that \"beer industry sales volume is 1989 is following the trend that has characterized the last half of the '80s, with sales volume being essentially flat\" while consolidation creates fewer, bigger players. \n\n   \"We cannot permit a further slowing in our volume trend,\" Anheuser said, adding it will take \"appropriate competitive pricing actions to support our long-term market share growth strategy\" for the premium brands. \nAnheuser said it continues to hold to its earlier-announced goal of a 50% U.S. market share by the mid-1990s. \n\n   Beneath the tepid news-release jargon lies a powerful threat from the brewing giant, which last year accounted for about 41% of all U.S. beer sales and is expected to see that grow to 42.5% in the current year. \n\"Anheuser is the biggest guy in the bar, and he just decided to join in the barroom brawl,\" said Joseph J. Doyle, an analyst with Smith Barney, Harris Upham amp Co. \n\"It's going to get bloody.\" \n\n   Jerry Steinman, publisher of Beer Marketers Insights, a trade newsletter, said Anheuser's announcement means \"everybody else in the industry is going to have a difficult time reaching their profit objectives.\" \n\n   Prudential-Bache Securities Inc. analyst George E. Thompson downplayed the importance of the announcement, and called any comparison between the coming beer-industry tiff and the seemingly unending \"cola wars,\" unwarranted. \nMr. Thompson calls discounting \"a loser's game for anyone without a dominant market share,\" and projected that Anheuser's statement of intent could simply be a means of warning competitors to ease up on price-cutting or face a costly and fruitless battle. \n\n   Mr. Thompson noted that the disappointing earnings, which fell five cents a share short of his own projections, contributed to the sell-off by an edgy and currently unforgiving investing public. \n\n   But Smith Barney's Mr. Doyle, who yesterday trimmed his 1990 Anheuser earnings projection to $2.95 a share from $3.10, called the market's reaction \"justified.\" \nWhile the third-quarter earnings were a \"moderate disappointment,\" he said, \"the real bad news is the intensity of price competition\" in the premium-beer sector. \n\n   According to Mr. Steinman, the newsletter publisher, Anheuser's market share is nearly twice that of its nearest competitor, Miller Brewing, which had a 21.2% stake last year. \nIt's followed by Stroh Brewery Co., which has agreed to sell its assets to Coors. \nBoth Coors and Stroh have recently been ceding market share to Miller and Anheuser.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t161", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "days", "start_char": 666, "end_char": 670, "tid": "t227", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "summer", "start_char": 838, "end_char": 844, "tid": "t246", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-SU", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t161"}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 966, "end_char": 969, "tid": "t261", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t161"}, {"text": "at least the past 18 months", "start_char": 1248, "end_char": 1275, "tid": "t283", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18M", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 1594, "end_char": 1607, "tid": "t321", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t161"}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1866, "end_char": 1876, "tid": "t354", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t161"}, {"text": "the last half of 1989", "start_char": 1989, "end_char": 2010, "tid": "t371", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-H2", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 2019, "end_char": 2023, "tid": "t370", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 2123, "end_char": 2132, "tid": "t394", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-25", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t161"}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 2490, "end_char": 2494, "tid": "t419", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last half of the '80s", "start_char": 2541, "end_char": 2566, "tid": "t446", "type": "DATE", "value": "198", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the mid-1990s", "start_char": 2975, "end_char": 2988, "tid": "t2054", "type": "DATE", "value": "199", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the current year", "start_char": 3188, "end_char": 3204, "tid": "t2056", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t161"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 4341, "end_char": 4350, "tid": "t2196", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-25", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t161"}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 4363, "end_char": 4367, "tid": "t2201", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 4479, "end_char": 4492, "tid": "t2210", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t161"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 4801, "end_char": 4810, "tid": "t2238", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t161"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_1014.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0131\n\nFOSHAN, Guangdong, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nmodern ROK\n\n\n\n\nChina and the Republic of Korea (ROK) share great similarities in cultural background and some Chinese classic culture can be found intact in modern ROK, said Bae Jhong-shin, vice minister of culture and tourism of the ROK.\n\nHe made the remarks here on Saturday at the ongoing 7th Asia Art Festival, which opened on Friday in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province.\n\nThe ROK culture has exerted much impact on the Chinese youth who tend to imitate the hairstyles, dressing styles and even life styles from imported ROK TV series. Some Chinese media called this phenomenon \"the blowing of a strong Korean wind\" in China.\n\nChinese traditional virtues like benevolence, loyalty in marriage and respect for the older generations are also shown in the ROK society today, said Bae.\n\nHe said in history the ROK conducted many cultural exchange activities with its close neighbor China, and both countries share similar values. The ROK has also been deeply influenced by Chinese classic culture, and some of the elements can be neatly shown in the current ROK society, he added.\n\nThe ROK people began to import books, Confucius thoughts and advanced technologies from China some two thousand years ago, and gradually the two countries have reached consensus in many aspects of culture. Bae said that the ROK people attach great importance to teenage education on filial piety, which means to respect the older generations. Teenage education on traditional values is also one of the measures they are taking to combat cultural westernization, which most Asian countries are faced with.\n\n\"Most countries are faced with heated global competition of culture and arts,\"Bae said. \"How to integrate into cultural globalization while preserving local arts is the problem we are trying to resolve.\"\n\nBae said the ROK TV series have also absorbed some elite western culture and properly integrated them into the local life. \"That's one of the reasons why our TV series are quite popular in China and some other Asian countries,\" explained Bae.\n\nA total of 22 artistic troupes from 21 Asian countries will present their performance in the seven-day Asia Art Festival, while a forum is also held here for Asian cultural ministers to discuss prospective cultural cooperation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 42, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 335, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 398, "end_char": 404, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 843, "end_char": 848, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two thousand years ago", "start_char": 1255, "end_char": 1277, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "0005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0131.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0116\n\nCHONGQING, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nenvironment\n\n\n\n\nUrbanites suffer the phobia that the whole world has deserted them only because they forget to bring their cellphones. Trendies, though not necessarily high earners, buy a new handset every three months. Cellphones embedded with diamonds are sold at 210,000 yuan each (25,900 US dollars).\n\nIn booming China, cellphone is not just a communication device, but also a luxury and a symbol of one's status and taste, said Sun Yuanming, a sociologist with the Chongqing Municipal Academy of Social Sciences.\n\nMinistry of Information Industry says the Chinese were throwing away 70 million cellphones a year by mid 2004, according to the latest data available.\n\nPiles of deserted cellphones -- most of which worked perfectly though weren't stylish enough -- have overloaded the resource-thirsty Chinese economy and threatened its environment with massive electronic waste, whose proper disposal remains a problem.\n\nOn top of it, to buy a trendy cellphone every three months is not a piece of cake even for many extravagant consumers.\n\n\"I saved for six months and was even ready to cut my meals to buy that cellphone. It cost 5,000 yuan (616 US dollars) but is worth it -- it has a superb lens and make very good videos,\" said a junior clerk at a Beijing bank, surnamed Yu.\n\nThis is already his third cellphone in two years, though Yu makes less than 4,000 yuan (493 US dollars) a month, nearly two thirds of which has to repay his housing loan.\n\n\"Most customers are more interested in the accessory functions of cellphones: whether they play MP3, shoot videos or have the latest games,\" said Liu, a sales clerk at a Beijing-based store.\n\nThree years after the first camera phone debuted in 2002, China's mobile communication market is in full bloom with novel cellphone brands and diverse functions.\n\n\"In most American and European markets, a cellphone is just a communication device and it doesn't matter much how it looks. In China and some other Asian countries, however, a phone has to be fashionable to catch the buyers' eyes,\" said Liu.\n\nNearly 60 percent of China's mobile subscribers are in the market for a new cellphone; 12.8 percent of them buy a new handset every six to 12 months and 24.4 percent buy one every 12 to 24 months, according to a recent survey by China Center of Information Industry Development (CCID).\n\nAt the end of 2004, there were 25.7 mobile phones for every 100 Chinese, which exceeded the world average, statistics released at the 2005 China Mobile Telecommunications Terminal Development Forum showed.\n\nIt also predicted that the number of mobile phone subscribers in China would top 380 million by the end of this year, and soar to 520 million by 2008 and 600 million by 2010.\n\nIncompatibility between different brands and even between different cellphones from the same manufacturer simply produces more waste.\n\nSuppose each subscriber buys a new cellphone every three years, and each cellphone is equipped with two batteries and one charger, an average 200 million batteries and 100 million chargers become wastes every year.\n\n\"In fact, most people absent-mindedly put their outdated cellphones away -- after all, it's not easy to throw away something that used to cost dearly,\" said Sun Yuanming, a Chongqing-based sociologist. \"But the proper disposal of these e-wastes remains a problem in the long run.\"\n\nLithium batteries and chargers contain copper, aluminium and plastics that are not degradable and threaten the environment, says Wang Xiaoming, an expert with Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau. \"Besides, deserted cellphones also contain precious metal. It'd be a huge waste if the valuable materials are not recalled for reuse.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every three months", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-08T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "mid 2004", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 1028, "end_char": 1040, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 1115, "end_char": 1125, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years", "start_char": 1380, "end_char": 1389, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Three years", "start_char": 1705, "end_char": 1716, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1757, "end_char": 1761, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every 12 to 24 months", "start_char": 2285, "end_char": 2306, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-08T12:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2004", "start_char": 2401, "end_char": 2416, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of this year", "start_char": 2701, "end_char": 2721, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 2750, "end_char": 2754, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 2774, "end_char": 2778, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every three years", "start_char": 2961, "end_char": 2978, "tid": "t16", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-08T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 3119, "end_char": 3129, "tid": "t17", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0116.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0274\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nProportion of private companies in China's exports to rise\n\n\n\n\nPrivate sector in China would keep on growing and its proportion in the national exports is expected to reach 35 percent by 2010, said sources with All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce (ACFIC).\n\nLast year, private businesses achieved about 20 percent of China's exports and it has a strong momentum of growth, show statistics with ACFIC.\n\nAccording to the statistics with the Ministry of Commerce, China's total exports were 762 billion U.S. dollars in 2005, 57.3 percent of which are made by foreign companies in China.\n\nThe proportions of private businesses in exports of electronic and machinery products as well as hi-tech products are growing fast and will reach 50 percent and 20 percent respectively by 2010, said the federation.\n\nMeanwhile, China's total investment abroad is expected to reach 60 billion U.S. dollars in 2006-2010 period, more than half of which would come from the private sector, according to the federation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 243, "end_char": 247, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 323, "end_char": 332, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 581, "end_char": 585, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 838, "end_char": 842, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006-2010 period", "start_char": 957, "end_char": 973, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0274.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0102\n\nLONDON, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBritish pubs to get longer opening hours\n\n\n\n\nAbout one-third of the pubs, clubs and shops in England and Wales licensed to sell alcohol are to get longer opening hours, a research conducted by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) suggested on Wednesday.\n\nBritain's new licensing laws which allow pubs to apply for 24-hour drinking in some areas come into force at midnight Wednesday.\n\nResearchers found 60,326 outlets will now be able to sell alcohol longer. But so far only 359 pubs and clubs get 24-hour licences.\n\nLicensing Minister James Purnell said the new laws would be coupled with the \"toughest ever crackdown on alcohol fuelled violence.\"\n\nA rise in the number of arrests could be a measure of the success of powers in the Licensing Act, he said, adding that premises which sell to underage youngsters including supermarkets will be putting their licence at risk.\n\n\"There should be a very clear principle here -- that if people are not causing harm to others, government should get out of their personal lives,\" said Purnell.\n\nThe survey results come after ministers warned that the introduction of more relaxed licensing laws on Thursday is likely to lead to an increase in alcohol related arrests.\n\nBut Mark Hastings from the British Beer and Pub Association welcomed the changes.\n\n\"We've been saying for a long time that the result of this change would be a relatively modest increase in overall licensing hours, that 24-hour opening was an urban myth, and certainly 24-hour drinking would be an urban myth,\" he said.\n\n\"What we're actually seeing is that at last in this country adults are going to be treated like grown-ups and given a little bit of choice about having a social life beyond 11 o'clock at night,\" Hastings noted.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 305, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 435, "end_char": 444, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1202, "end_char": 1210, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0102.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0153\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina to take measures to protect foreign citizens: FM spokesman\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinese government is taking effective measures to ensure the safety of foreigners and foreign organizations in China, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told a regular press conference here Tuesday.\n\nLiu was commenting on a warning on the US embassy website that it had received credible information that a terrorist threat may exist against official US government facilities in Guangzhou, the capital of south China's Guangdong province.\n\n\"China's public security departments organized a meeting as soon as it received the message from the US embassy.\" Liu said, adding that China is taking the report seriously and will respond responsibly.\n\nThe US embassy published the warning on its website on November 13. The website also indicated that the threat may also exist for places where Americans are known to congregate or visit, including clubs, restaurants, places of worship, schools or outdoor recreation events.\n\nLiu emphasized that the Chinese government always attaches great importance to the safety of foreign nationals and organizations in China.\n\n\"The Chinese government has taken effective measures and will continue such efforts to guarantee personal safety of foreign citizens here.\" Liu said, \"I believe that with these measures and increased awareness of self protection, foreign citizens will continue to enjoy living, working, traveling and studying in China.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 326, "end_char": 333, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 13", "start_char": 835, "end_char": 846, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0153.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0224\n\nABUJA, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes from Kuwait, Venezuela, background ///\n\n\n\n\nOPEC oil ministers agree on the need to restrict their oil production but have not decided on the timing of an output cut, Algeria's energy minister said Thursday.\n\n\"I think there is a consensus for a reduction but we don't know if it is going to be applied straight away or later,\" Chakib Khelil told reporters.\n\nOPEC ministers were meeting in the Nigerian capital Abuja to discuss their production policy. A formal decision was expected later Thursday.\n\nThe Libyan representative to the 11-member group, Shukri Ghanem, said that OPEC would decide to keep its production target of 26.3 million barrels per day (bpd) unchanged.\n\n\"My impression is that there will be no cut today,\" he said. \"If there is a need (to cut), we will do it, but not today.\"\n\nThe Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose members produce about one third of global oil supplies, decided in October at a meeting in Doha, Qatar to cut their output by 1.2 million bpd.\n\n\"We are satisfied with what's going on. The decision of Doha was great, I think. The market is stable now,\" said Kuwaiti Energy Minister Sheikh Ali Jarrah al-Sabah.\n\nOPEC decided to cut production by 1.2 million bpd in October to stem falling oil prices, which had dropped from about a high of 78 dollars per barrel in July to about 58 dollars at the time of the meeting.\n\nIndonesian Energy Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro suggested that the group would meet again early next year, possibly to take a decision to cut production.\n\n\"The market is stable. I may propose to have some kind of meeting before the entering of the Spring session, before March,\" he said. \"Because you know in Spring, demand is slowing.\"\n\nWorld oil futures climbed on Thursday ahead of the meeting.\n\nNew York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in January, rose 30 cents to 61.67 dollars per barrel in electronic deals before the official opening of the US market.\n\nIn London, Brent North Sea crude for January delivery gained 23 cents to 61.56 dollars in electronic trading.\n\nIn assessing their production policy, OPEC members are mindful that the coming winter months in the northern hemisphere are the peak oil period of the year.\n\nAnalysts have warned that a cut could send prices back to uncomfortably high levels, which OPEC would want to avoid.\n\nNevertheless, Venezuelan Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez repeated his call for a further cut of 500,000 bpd, adding that compliance to the reduction in October should be observed.\n\n\"We want to get out of the market 500,000 bpd from the existing level,\" he said.\n\nActual production has been cut less than announced in October, analysts say, with the real reduction estimated at between 500,000-800,000 barrels per day because of over-production by some members.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 563, "end_char": 571, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 861, "end_char": 866, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 994, "end_char": 1001, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1173, "end_char": 1176, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1290, "end_char": 1297, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1390, "end_char": 1394, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 1533, "end_char": 1548, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1714, "end_char": 1719, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Spring", "start_char": 1752, "end_char": 1758, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-SP", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1810, "end_char": 1818, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1902, "end_char": 1909, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 2057, "end_char": 2064, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "coming winter months", "start_char": 2203, "end_char": 2223, "tid": "t17", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 2278, "end_char": 2286, "tid": "t18", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 2558, "end_char": 2565, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 2723, "end_char": 2730, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0224.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0106\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSingapore shares end higher\n\n\n\n\nThe shares prices in Singapore closed higher on Thursday with the benchmark Straits Times Index ( STI) rising 10.3 points to end at 2,745.6 points.\n\nThe overall volume stood at 1.541 billion shares worth 1.1802 billion Singapore dollars (about 755.4 million U.S. dollars).\n\nGainers led losers by 319 to 276 with another 715 unchanged.\n\nOn Wednesday, the STI fell 13.9 points to end at 2735.3 points.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 138, "end_char": 146, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Times", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 429, "end_char": 438, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0106.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0391\n\nPHNOM PENH, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Phnom Penh well-prepared for influx of 1.5 million visitors on Water Festival\n\n\n\n\nDragon boat races, fireworks and other celebrations are expected to attract around 1.5 million visitors into the Cambodian capital around the Water Festival from Nov. 4 to 6, and the municipal government has been fully mobilized to embrace the annual heat, local media said on Thursday.\n\nPa Socheatvong, Phnom Penh's Deputy Governor, estimated that the population of the city will double during the festival, but said the government has got well-prepared for the rush.\n\n\"I think we have arranged enough toilets for the crowds of people and boat races this year,\" he was quoted by the Cambodian Daily as saying.\n\nSome 50 provisional toilets, along with the already-installed 30 permanent public toilets, will be more than enough to handle private problems of the incoming visitors.\n\nMeanwhile, some 2,300 policemen, 660 armed forces and 800 official security guards will be deployed to ensure the order during the celebrations, according to reports of Jian Hua Daily.\n\nThe police have made a detailed plan to keep the city bustling but safe, it added.\n\nIn addition, the municipal government has established seven technical groups respectively in charge of security, health, information, fireworks supervision, boat management, decoration and secretariat, so as to improve its overall control of the activities, according to reports of the Commercial Daily.\n\nMajor roads will be blocked against motor vehicles during the festival in order to avoid traffic jam, it said.\n\nDragon boat races are the most hilarious celebration of the festival, for which more than 20,000 participants have arrived to play over 400 boats on the Mekong River.\n\nThe Water Festival is one of the most important festivals in Cambodia, for which people celebrate ebb tide and ensuing re- surface of land. Additionally, water is also a symbol of life and birth in the eyes of the Cambodians.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4", "start_char": 312, "end_char": 318, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 435, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the festival", "start_char": 545, "end_char": 557, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 701, "end_char": 710, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the festival", "start_char": 1565, "end_char": 1577, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0391.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0215\n\nSANAA, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nYemeni ruling parties in lead in violence-hit elections by Acil Tabbara\n\n\n\n\nYemen's two ruling parties looked set Monday to win the country's first legislative elections since its 1994 civil war, as police announced that 16 people were killed in polling-day violence.\n\nInternational observers described Sunday's polls as generally fair despite the clashes, the worst of which was a shooting in southern Yemen in which eight people died.\n\nThe interior ministry also hailed the smooth running of the elections, saying it had expected far worse violence in a country where practically all men carry firearms.\n\n\"From a technical point of view, everything went smoothly, with only minor problems,\" one of the 116 international observers in Yemen said.\n\n\"It can be compared to the best elections in the Arab world, for instance those in the Palestinian territories and then Lebanon or Jordan,\" the Western observer added, asking not to be named.\n\nYemen is the only country on the Arab peninsula to have a parliament elected by universal suffrage.\n\nThe General People's Congress (GPC) of President Ali Abdallah Saleh said early results showed it would scoop most of the 301 parliamentary seats, with its erstwhile coalition partner Al-Islah winning 70 seats.\n\nThe fundamentalist Al-Islah announced Monday that its chief, tribal leader Sheikh Abdallah al-Ahmar, had been elected, while unofficial sources said Saleh's eldest son Ahmad had won his first seat for the GPC in the capital Sanaa.\n\nCompetition between the GPC and Al-Islah, who fought a bitter election campaign, was especially tight in the main southern city of Aden where the two parties will win seats for the first time.\n\nSouthern Yemen was formerly ruled by the Yemeni Socialist Party (YSP) which boycotted the elections, complaining of a lack of national reconciliation.\n\nFinal results are not expected to be announced before Monday or Tuesday.\n\nYemeni voters were not deterred by the violence and turned out in force, the government said, putting the turnout at 80 percent.\n\nThe Western observer, however, estimated the national average turnout at about 65 percent, dropping to 50 percent in some areas of southern Yemen.\n\nThe worst violence came in Abyan province in south Yemen, where a soldier sprayed a polling station with gunfire, killing six other soldiers and two party officials.\n\nIn Maarib in eastern Yemen, independent candidate Saad al-Qardahi died during a clash, police said without giving further details.\n\nFive people were killed in Aamran and Al-Jawf north of Sanaa in fights between GPC and Al-Islah supporters, while two civilians died in an ambush by tribal rivals in Dammar, around 100 kilometres (62 miles) south of the capital.\n\nEven before Sunday three people had been killed in the run-up to elections in impoverished Yemen, where 60 million firearms circulate among the 16 million strong population.\n\nInterior Minister Hussein Arab said voting day had gone better than expected.\n\n\"The authorities were expecting many more incidents, as the elections in Yemen did not please everyone,\" the minister said late Sunday.\n\nIt was Yemen's first legislative polls since the civil war when government troops crushed an attempt spearheaded by the YSP to re- establish the former Marxist republic of South Yemen, which merged with the north in 1990.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 356, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0201\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nExperts: Sino-Russian space cooperation \"beneficial, win-win\"\n\n\n\n\nChina and Russia pledged to deepen long-term cooperative relations in the space sector, with focus on joint development of large projects, which will bring about mutual benefits and win-win results, said the space experts.\n\nAccording to the joint communique issued at the 10th regular meeting between Chinese and Russian prime ministers, the two sides agreed to \"explore the possibility of cooperation in the moon and deep space exploration\" as well as joint development of large space projects.\n\nThe progress and achievements China has made in the space sector is indispensable to the signing of the long-term space cooperation program between China and Russia, said Wu Guoting, researcher with the China Space Technology Institute, in a interview with Xinhua.\n\nRussia proposed to cooperate with China on lunar and deep space probe projects, which demonstrates its confidence on the Sino-Russian space cooperation, he said.\n\nChina is still at the initial stage in the lunar and outer space probe and the Sino-Russian cooperation in the sector will speed up China's pace in space exploration and avoid many detours, said Pan Houren, a researcher with the Space Science and Application Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.\n\nWang Yongzhi, chief designer of China's manned-space project, urged to expand space cooperation scale, particularly in the joint development of the large space projects, adding it will benefit space development on both sides.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0201.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0473\n\nBRUSSELS, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, background ///\n\n\n\n\nEuropean Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso slammed new EU budget proposals by the bloc's British presidency as \"unacceptable\" and unfair to its poorer new member states.\n\nSpeaking shortly after the new plans were unveiled in London, he slammed them as a \"minimalist\" proposal which could only fund a \"mini Europe\" rather than the EU including 10 new mostly ex-communist states which joined last year.\n\n\"As it is the UK presidency proposal is unacceptable. It is simply not realistic. This proposal amounts to a budget for a 'mini Europe', not the strong Europe that we need,\" he said.\n\n\"It has not yet struck the right balance between the member states. In particular the propsals needs to become fairer for new member states,\" he added.\n\nThe British proposals are aimed at breaking a budget deadlock in time for an EU summit in Brussels next week.\n\nThe main stumbling blocks have been Britain's refusal to surrender its long-cherished rebate, and French resistance to calls for reform of generous farm subsidies.\n\nIn the new proposals, Prime Minister Tony Blair's government pledged to forgo eight billion euros of its EU rebate in 2007-13 to help cover the cost of enlargement. In addition funds for the new EU member states would be cut.\n\nBarroso said there was a contradiction between wanting the EU to play a bigger global role while cutting its funding.\n\n\"Some people say ... 'we need a Europe with ambition in terms of trade, in terms of dimension, in terms of competitiveness'. But afterwards when it comes to the financial means there is no ambition at all.\n\n\"There is a contradiction there,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 484, "end_char": 493, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 932, "end_char": 941, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007-13", "start_char": 1227, "end_char": 1234, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0473.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0254\n\nPARIS, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nLebanese jet-setter buys Tapie yacht: report\n\n\n\n\nA Lebanese multi-millionairess has anonymously purchased a yacht formerly owned by disgraced politician Bernard Tapie, a French newspaper reported Wednesday.\n\nMouna al Ayoub, ex-wife of a close friend of Saudi Arabia's King Fahd, has bought the four-master \"Phocea\" for 36.5 million francs (6.3 million francs), according to the daily Le Figaro.\n\nThe administrators selling off the bankrupt former soccer boss's assets announced a few days ago that the 74-metre (250 foot) yacht was being sold to Tranquil Ltd, a company based in the British Virgin Islands.\n\nLe Figaro said the company was a front for the Lebanese jet-setter, who it said had homes in Paris and Majorca, and lived for 18 years with her husband in a Riyadh palace.\n\nDespite its price tag, the \"Phocea\" is in one sense a consolation prize compared to a 105-metre vessel, the \"Lady Mouna,\" which she used to sail in, but which belongs to her ex-husband.\n\nTapie is currently serving an eight-month jail term over a football match-rigging scandal.\n\nIronically, on Tuesday he was allowed out of jail under day-release terms to work for a shipbuilding firm run by a former colleague -- which previously did maintenance work on his own former yacht.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "few days ago", "start_char": 533, "end_char": 545, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "18 years", "start_char": 787, "end_char": 795, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1128, "end_char": 1135, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0254.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0157\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. Congress elections not affect Pakistan-U.S. relations: FM\n\n\n\n\nPakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri has said that the outcome of recent elections in the United States would not affect Pakistan-U.S. relations.\n\nIn an interview with state-run Pakistan Television (PTV) on Friday, the foreign minister said Pakistan enjoyed special relations with the United States whose policy toward Pakistan had bipartisan support in the U.S. Congress.\n\nHe said that the policy of both the parties, the Republicans and Democrats, was based on the 9/11 Commission Report, which stressed the centrality and importance of Pakistan for regional and international peace and security.\n\nHe added the new Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, and other leaders of Democratic Party during their election campaign had stressed the necessity of faithful implementing the 9/11 Commission's recommendations.\n\n\"This ensured continuing support to Pakistan,\" said Kasuri.\n\nKasuri said due to its strategic location and the vital role it played in regional peace and security, Pakistan remained an important country not just for the United States but also for the European Union, China, Russia, Japan, the Islamic World as well as other countries of the world.\n\nHe added that Pakistan was following a policy of constant engagement with important countries. It was, therefore, immaterial who controlled the U.S. Congress, he said.\n\nKasuri said the numerous Congressional delegations that visited Pakistan and with whom he interacted, contained top leaders from both the parties.\n\nHe said former U.S. President Clinton, the best known leader of the Democratic Party, had recently invited President Musharraf to attend Clinton Global Initiative in New York where he was the only leader from Asia.\n\nThis was indicative of importance of Pakistan and of President Musharraf in the eyes of leaders of both Republican and Democratic parties, he said.\n\nOn the recent visit of the U.S. Assistance Secretary of State Richard Boucher, Kasuri categorically denied the reports that he carried a secret message to Pakistan.\n\nHe rubbished the reports that any country could dictate to Pakistan. The foreign minister stressed that Pakistan did what it found to be in its best national interest.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 347, "end_char": 353, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0157.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0215\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. stocks trade higher\n\n\n\n\nU.S. stocks traded higher on Monday, after U.S. leading indicators of economic activity increased 0.2 percent in October.\n\nIn the midday trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 3.70, to 12,346.26. The Standard  Poor's 500 index gained 2.19 to 1,403.39, and the Nasdaq composite index climbed 7.44 to 2,453.30.\n\nThe Conference Board said Monday that leading indicators of the U.S. economic activity increased 0.2 percent in October, suggesting slow growth will continue through the winter and into the spring.\n\n\"The impact of a slower housing market on consumers and slower profit growth on business isn't completely offset by lower gas prices and a rising stock market,\" said Ken Goldstein, labor economist at the Conference Board.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 116, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 200, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 433, "end_char": 439, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 519, "end_char": 526, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the winter and into the spring", "start_char": 573, "end_char": 603, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0215.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0324\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGerman stocks end lower\n\n\n\n\nGerman stocks ended lower Wednesday in the Frankfurt Stock Exchange for the first day in six.\n\nThe 30-share benchmark DAX Index fell 0.57 percent to 5,081.46 points with 19 stocks falling.\n\nThe fall was led by Europe's third-largest utility RWE AG after reporting poor earnings. RWE fell 2.2 percent to 56.55 euros.\n\nThe index of medium-sized firms, MDAX, slipped 0.31 percent to 6,976.49 points.\n\nThe index of high-tech stocks, TecDAX, was down 0.86 percent to 574.82 points.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 110, "end_char": 119, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0324.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0721\n\nBEIJING, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nChina tightens oversight of state pension funds\n\n\n\n\nChina's national social security fund will oversee nine provincial governments' pension programs in a move aimed at centralising control of retirement plans and stopping corruption, state press reported Thursday.\n\nThe China Daily said the new arrangement follows supplements worth 10 billion yuan (1.3 billion dollars) doled out from central government coffers to supplement the provinces' own pension holdings.\n\nThe National Council for the Social Securities Fund, which will oversee the program, has promised a minimum of 3.5 percent annual investment return and said it would also shoulder any losses in the five-year arrangement.\n\nThe management overhaul is a response to the far-reaching graft scandal that involved city officials in the misuse of Shanghai's 1.25 billion dollar pension fund, with money there being spent on speculative property and highway projects.\n\nThe financial scandal, which first emerged in July, ensnared scores of senior Shanghai officials and felled the city's top politician, Chen Liangyu.\n\nIt is believed the new system will help ensure transparency in the management and supervision of social security funds.\n\n\"The move is aimed at ensuring the pension fund (is) invested and managed more efficiently and safely,\" the report quoted Xiang Huaicheng, chairman of the council and a former finance minister as saying.\n\nChina's National Audit Office said in a report in November that by the end of 2005 a total of 7.1 billion yuan of pension funds had gone missing.\n\nThe National Council for Social Securities Fund currently manages roughly 220 billion yuan of China's pensions.\n\nThe country also has about 100 billion yuan in local pension funds, mostly corporate annuities, that have been contributed to by companies as employee retirement benefits apart from basic social security.\n\nProvincial and municipal governments currently decide how those pensions are invested and usually do not employ professional asset managers or custodians.\n\nAs a result, a substantial portion of the money is held in investments such as real estate projects and long-term loans without public accountability and subject to low liquidity and high risk.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 316, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1025, "end_char": 1029, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 1505, "end_char": 1513, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2005", "start_char": 1522, "end_char": 1537, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1650, "end_char": 1659, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0721.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0037\n\nDHAKA, Nov. 20 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nby Pan Xiaozhu\n\n\n\n\nEntire capital city Dhaka and its surrounding areas have been brought under \"terror alert\" following an intelligence report about possible militant bomb attacks ahead of opposition's planned grand rally in the city on Tuesday.\n\nAccording to the intelligence report, the banned Islamist outfit the Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) blamed for country- wide bomb blasts on Aug. 17 which left three people killed and over 150 others injured, has again planned for a series of bomb attacks in the capital city.\n\nDifferent groups of the said militant outfit are trying to dispatch a huge quantity of high explosive to Dhaka through land or riverine routes.\n\nThe JMB is also trying to gather its some highly trained cadres along with the members of \"suicide squad\" to accomplish their mission.\n\nThe JMB might go for blasting high-powered explosives in Dhaka to eliminate opposition and ruling party leaders, high officials including judges and also general people.\n\nIn this regard, being directed by the high-ups of the government, a security blanket has been rolled down the capital city since Saturday evening where surveillance was also increased at all the entrance and exit points by setting up additional check posts.\n\nAt the same time, the security forces including the para- military the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Rapid Action Battalion ( RAB) have been put on high alert across the country to prevent any possible terrorist activity by the suicide bombers of JMB.\n\nMeanwhile, 14 opposition political parties headed by Awami League has planned a huge anti-government showdown at a grand rally on Nov. 22 in the capital where opposition leader Sheikh Hasina will announce a comprehensive road map to realize their demands for bringing reforms to caretaker administration and the Election Commission to hold influence-free and neutral polls under a non-partism caretaker government.\n\nPolitical sources said the Awami League-led 14 parties are likely to issue a one-month ultimatum for the government from the grand rally to concede to their demands.\n\nThe opposition planed to gather 2.5 million people on the day in the capital. Leaders of the opposition threatened that agitation would spread out across the country from Nov. 22 if the government obstructed people from joining the grand gathering.\n\nThe government has decided to take all the necessary security arrangements with the deployment of 15,000 security personnel including RAB, BDR, police and armed police to ensure smooth holding of the planned grand rally of the opposition.\n\nAgainst the backdrop of last year's August-21 grenade attack on Awami League's rally in the capital in which 22 leaders and activists of the party were killed and hundreds others injured, the law enforcers will make a fool-proof security over the city to avoid any untoward incident.\n\nIn face of the escalating of terrorist bomb attacks, the government is going to start a joint operation to be called \"Clean Militant Operation\" across the country with the members of the army, BDR, RAB, police and Ansar (militia) to wage a campaign against the members of different banned Islamist militant organizations, especially JMB, with a view to wiping them out, according to The Independent Sunday.\n\nThe Special Branch of police and Criminal Investigation Department of police will take special measures to ensure security for VIPs like the ministers, state ministers, deputy ministers and secretaries of different ministries and departments.\n\nThe operation will start from this week as part of a short-term plan of the government and will continue for one month.\n\nThe government will decide on how to implement the mid-term and long-term plans to net the members of the militant groups, who are scattered across the country.\n\nAround 400 JMB cadres have been arrested from different parts of the country since August-17 country-wide bomb blasts. The law enforcers, however, have failed to arrest the masterminds of the bombing.\n\nPraful C Patel, vice president of World Bank, the main development partner of Bangladesh, recently advised the government of Bangladesh to nab the bomb attackers at any cost. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0447\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nHong Kong stocks open higher -- Nov. 28\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong stocks went up 207.17 points, or 1.08 percent, to open at 18,996.84 on Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 191, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0447.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0278\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nS. Africa's Mbeki congratulates Liberian new woman president\n\n\n\n\nSouth African President Thabo Mbeki has personally telephoned Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to congratulate on her election as the first woman president of Liberia as well as of Africa.\n\nMbeki said the election process in Liberia, in spite of a hard- fought and even bitter contest, had shown the world that democracy and free elections were becoming the norm on the continent, according to a statement issued by South Africa's Foreign Ministry on Thursday.\n\nHe appealed to all concerned to accept the confirmed outcome of the election, to concentrate on national unity and development, and to pursue any remaining disputes through the available machinery set up for the purpose.\n\nMbeki also expressed the hope that Liberia would achieve stability after a bitter and debilitating civil war, the ministry said.\n\n\"The government and people of South Africa join Liberians and the international community in celebrating your election as the first democratically elected woman head of state in Africa,\" he told Johnson Sirleaf.\n\n\"Your election is indeed a victory not only for Liberian women in particular, but also represents a beacon of hope for women in Africa and the world in general. It most eloquently makes the unequivocal statement that, indeed, a new dawn has arrived for African women,\" he said.\n\nLiberia, a country with a unique and compelling history, could be assured of the continued support of the government and people of South Africa in its government-led efforts to pursue a sustainable reconstruction and development program and to play a positive role in the New Partnership for Africa's Development, not only in its own region but in Africa generally, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 567, "end_char": 575, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0278.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0461\n\nLONDON, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nHudson ends Sunderland's undefeated run\n\n\n\n\nMark Hudson scored the only goal as hosts Crystal Palace ended Sunderland's seven-match unbeaten run with a 1-0 victory in the Championship at Selhurst Park here on Friday.\n\nDefeat left the Black Cats in 11th place but only three points off the play-off places as they seek a return to the Premiership at the first attempt following last season's relegation from English football's top-flight.\n\nSunderland, managed by former Manchester United and Republic of Ireland captain Roy Keane, had plenty of possession but failed to take their chances and Hudson's half-volley strike four minutes before half-time saw Palace take all three points.\n\nVictory saw the Londoners climb further away from danger, the Eagles now nine points clear of the relegation zone ahead of Saturday's matches.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 267, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 806, "end_char": 809, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 860, "end_char": 868, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0461.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0318\n\nMANILA, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPhilippine, US carriers near decision on international accounting rate\n\n\n\n\nThe Philippines and the United States are near a decision on changing the accounting rate for long-distance telephone calls between the two countries, it was announced here Wednesday.\n\nArt Samson, senior vice-president of Philippine Long Distance and Telephone Co. (PLDT), said PLDT and the US firm, American Telephone and Telegraph (AT et T), may reach a decision this month on lowering the accounting rate over five years.\n\nSamson said the negotiations would likely result in an agreement to lower the US-Philippine telephone rates from the present one dollar a minute to about 38 cents.\n\nSamson said they may agree to a 10 to 15 percent reduction every year until the 38-cent rate is reached.\n\nThe US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the Philippine National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) set the parameters for the PLDT-AT et T talks which will be a benchmark for all other US and Philippine carriers.\n\nThe FCC has been pressing other countries to lower the accounting rate of long-distance calls between them and the United States in order to bring down the cost borne by US consumers.\n\nHowever the NTC has said this will threaten the viability of Philippine telephone companies since they rely on international calls for most of their profits.\n\nThe NTC has said several new telephone companies that have sprung up in recent years following the deregulation of the industry would be particularly hit since they had expected their international operations to subsidize local expansion.\n\nAs part of an effort to make Philippine carriers less dependent on international services, the NTC is considering proposals to raise long-distance domestic rates.\n\nThe NTC is also considering a system of metering all telephone calls, instead of the flat rate that most Filipinos are charged.\n\nSamson said PLDT relies on international calls for 56 percent of its income but that this will eventually go down to 33 percent when the rates are changed.\n\nPLDT president Antonio Cojuangco said in a speech at the PLDT annual stockholders meeting Wednesday that the company had already prepared for the rate change.\n\nCojuangco said PLDT, which has 1.52 million telephone lines, would add another 1.7 million lines and change to a purely digital system by 2000.\n\nPLDT posted a net income of 6.44 billion pesos (247 million dollars) in 1996, up 8.8 percent from its 1995 figure.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 302, "end_char": 311, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 494, "end_char": 504, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 552, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 779, "end_char": 789, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1468, "end_char": 1480, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2176, "end_char": 2185, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 2384, "end_char": 2388, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 2463, "end_char": 2467, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0318.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0025 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0025. \n Business Brief -- Philip Morris Cos.:\n@  Defense Measure Is Adopted\n@  By Foods, Tobacco Concern \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n MO \n TOBACCO PRODUCTS (TOB)\nFOOD PRODUCTS (FOD) \n\n   Philip Morris Cos., New York, adopted a defense measure designed to make a hostile takeover prohibitively expensive. \n\n   The giant foods, tobacco and brewing company said it will issue common-share purchase rights to shareholders of record Nov. 8. \nUnder certain circumstances, the rights would entitle Philip Morris holders to buy shares of either the company or its acquirer for half price. \n\n   The board is n't  aware of any attempts to take over Philip Morris, the company said. \nAs of Sept. 30, Philip Morris had 926 million shares outstanding. \nIn composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Philip Morris shares closed yesterday at $43.50 each, down $1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 8", "start_char": 473, "end_char": 479, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-08", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "Sept. 30", "start_char": 724, "end_char": 732, "tid": "t25", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 866, "end_char": 875, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-25", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_1031.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0342\n\nBOGOTA, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT Hostage release under way in Colombian prison seige\n\n\n\n\nThe 11 hostages who have been held by rioting inmates in a prison in Valledupar, Colombia, since April 3 were released Sunday under a deal negotiated with the prisoners.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 13 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 3", "start_char": 214, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 242, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0342.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0280\n\nNICOSIA, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUN Security Council to meet on Cyprus\n\n\n\n\nUN Security Council permanent members are to hold a special session Tuesday on efforts to relaunch direct peace talks on this divided island, a UN official announced Thursday.\n\nGustave Feissel, the UN representative in Nicosia, said that \"senior persons\" from the United States, Britain, France and Russia would take part in the meeting.\n\nDiplomats said David Cavanaugh, who is in charge of Southeast Europe at the US State Department, Britain's special envoy Sir David Hannay and senior French foreign ministry official Claude Martin would be among those taking part.\n\n\"It will provide a good opportunity to review the situation ... and coordinate their own approach to the effort and support\" the Security Council, he told reporters after a meeting with President Glafcos Clerides.\n\nFeissel told reporters that the permanent members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- would be briefed \"about what we have been doing and where things are.\"\n\nClerides, who heads the Greek-Cypriot community, and Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash have been \"willing and able to be available whenever I thought we ought to get together, so I think their attitude has been good,\" he said.\n\nThe United Nations aims to bring together the two leaders, who have not met since October 1994, by mid-1997.\n\nFeissel welcomed the Greek-Cypriot side's decision to suspend overflights by Greek warplanes during war games early next month as a goodwill gesture during his shuttle mediation between Clerides and Denktash.\n\n\"I think it's a good step, it shows that there is an effort being made to create the best possible climate to facilitate what we are in the process of doing,\" the official said.\n\nUN Secretary General Kofi Annan last week appointed Diego Cordovez, an Ecuadoran diplomat who helped negotiate the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, as his special adviser on Cyprus.\n\nThe island has been divided since 1974 when Turkish mainland troops invaded and occupied the northern third of Cyprus in response to a coup in Nicosia aimed at uniting the country with Greece.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 165, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 263, "end_char": 271, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 1994", "start_char": 1376, "end_char": 1388, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 1520, "end_char": 1530, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1825, "end_char": 1834, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 2013, "end_char": 2017, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0280.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0013\n\nHONG KONG, April 20 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nArmed Chinese police take control of southern town: reports\n\n\n\n\nMore than 2,000 Chinese armed police and soldiers have taken over a town in southern China after a revolt there against plans to switch it to another municipality, reports here said Sunday.\n\nThe armed police surrounded the town of Wuyin, in southern Guangdong province, Saturday after townsfolk injured and threw out members of an official working group sent in to solve the long-running row over the boundary change.\n\nThe villagers, mainly ethnic Chiu Chow, are angered by the plan to switch jurisdiction of Wuying to Kaxi municipality, mainly peopled by another Chinese minority group, the Hakka, according to a report in the China-backed Wen wei Po published here.\n\nAround 10,000 people in Wuyin turned out for a protest recently, calling on the authorities to allow them to remain within the boundaries of Luhe municipality.\n\nThe argument has been raging since 1960 when the authorities first mooted the idea of change the jurisdiction of Wuyin which has rich natural resources.\n\nA similar confrontation happened in 1991, but no-one was injured.\n\nThe Kaxi area is poorer and the Hakka people are considered China's gypsies.\n\nAccording to the Oriental Daily News on Sunday, 86 percent of people in Wuyin oppose the proposed boundary change.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 20 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 309, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 391, "end_char": 399, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 845, "end_char": 853, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1960", "start_char": 986, "end_char": 990, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1960", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1141, "end_char": 1145, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1290, "end_char": 1296, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0013.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0238\n\nBERLIN, Nov 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGerman chancellor rejects sending troops to Afghan hotspots\n\n\n\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday ruled out sending German troops to the more volatile regions in southern Afghanistan despite growing international pressure.\n\n\"Germany has a strong presence in Afghanistan. We have taken responsibility for the North,\" Merkel said on Monday after meeting New Zealand's Prime Minister Helen Clark in Berlin.\n\n\"We have a mandate that allows us in emergencies to help in the south but we believe this mandate should not be altered,\" she added.\n\nAbout 2,800 German soldiers were stationed in the relatively stable northern part of Afghanistan, though the United States and Britain have been urging Berlin to send soldiers to the more dangerous southern part.\n\nNATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said in a recent commentary in the Berliner Zeitung newspaper that individual NATO members should allow commanders to deploy the troops anywhere in the country.\n\n\"We need to better configure our forces in Afghanistan,\" Scheffer wrote. \"That also means removing the limitations individual nations have placed on their troops.\"\n\nAbout 31,000 NATO troops from 37 countries are serving in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan.\n\nGermany currently has around 9,000 troops deployed around the world on peacekeeping missions, including Afghanistan, the Middle East and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Africa.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov 13 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 394, "end_char": 400, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1322, "end_char": 1331, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0238.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0148\n\nMANAGUA, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPreliminary results show leftist leader leads Nicaragua vote\n\n\n\n\nLeftist Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega, a U.S. Cold War foe, is heading for victory in Nicaragua's presidential elections, with a partial count on Monday giving him a lead strong enough to return to power.\n\nWith around 15 percent of polling stations counted, Ortega had 40 percent of Sunday's votes, which would secure him a first-round win.\n\nTrailing behind was Eduardo Montealegre, of the Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance, who got about 33 percent of votes counted.\n\nOrtega needs at least 35 percent of the vote and an advantage of 5 percentage points over his closest rival to avoid a runoff in December.\n\nThe race, 16 years after a U.S.-backed rebellion helped force him from office, was Ortega's fifth consecutive presidential campaign.\n\nOrtega's victory, if confirmed by final results, would give Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a strong ally in the region.\n\nMontealegre, who was Washington's favored candidate, refused to concede defeat and insisted he would force a runoff vote next month.\n\n\"In a democracy, that is unacceptable ... We are going to a second round,\" he told supporters.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 406, "end_char": 412, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 715, "end_char": 723, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "16 years", "start_char": 736, "end_char": 744, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P16Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 1104, "end_char": 1114, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0148.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0514\n\nCAMP PENDLETON, California, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\ncivilians\n\n\n\n\nTwo US Marines are to face murder charges in connection with the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha last year, defense lawyers and relatives of the men said Thursday.\n\nSergeant Frank Wuterich is to face 13 counts of murder, his lawyer said, while Lance Corporal Justin Sharratt has been told he will face three murder charges, his father told reporters.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 51, "end_char": 64, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0514.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0148\n\nHARARE, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMalaysia to strengthen bilateral relations with Zimbabwe: envoy\n\n\n\n\nMalaysia is committed to strengthening bilateral relations with Zimbabwe, especially in the area of agriculture, outgoing Malaysian ambassador to Zimbabwe Shaharuddin Som said here on Thursday.\n\nHe said this while addressing journalists after paying a courtesy call on Vice President Joseph Msika to bid him farewell at the end of his four-year tour of duty.\n\n\"Zimbabwe is one of the countries that we are seeking to enhance cooperation with. We are looking at various areas of cooperation, especially agriculture,\" he said.\n\nDuring the meeting, Som, who is expected to leave at the end of the month, also assured the vice president of Malaysia's support for the country, especially in addressing colonial imbalances.\n\nMalaysia and Zimbabwe enjoy strong economic relations that encompass areas such as agriculture, transport and communications and information technology.\n\nZimbabwe has benefited immensely from the experiences of Malaysia in developing small and medium scale enterprises.\n\nThe Zimbabwean government has adopted a deliberate policy to move away from traditional markets in the West and establish new ones in the East in the wake of soured relations with the former as a result of the land reform program, which the country embarked on in 2000 to rectify imbalances emanating from the colonial era.\n\nFormer Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammed was in the country last week on a three-day official visit, which saw him meeting President Robert Mugabe and delivering a lecture on civil service reforms.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 316, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the month", "start_char": 703, "end_char": 723, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1378, "end_char": 1382, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1508, "end_char": 1517, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0148.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970406.0247\n\nMOSCOW, April 6 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nChechen president to complete hajj\n\n\n\n\nAslan Maskhadov, the president of the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya, is planning a pilgrimage to Mecca this year, Russian television reported Sunday.\n\nMaskhadov's hajj, which will also take him to Saudi Arabia's second holy city Medina, will be his first foreign trip since he was elected president in January.\n\nInterfax news agency said Maskhadov wanted to meet Arab leaders during his trip and \"draw their attention to the difficult situation Chechnya is in.\"\n\nThe president also planned to warn Arab states not to give money to every Chechen envoy who asks for it. \"This money is then used to finance different armed gangs whose aim is to undermine the Chechen state,\" he said.\n\nMaskhadov did not specify who he meant.\n\nThe president, who plans to also drum up financial aid for his republic, ruined by 21 months of war against Moscow forces, did not say when he would leave, but Interfax said April 11 was a probable date.\n\nThe Chechen and Moscow authorities have agreed to reach an understanding on the status of Chechnya by 2001. While Chechens already consider that they have de facto independence, Moscow still views Chechnya as a part of Russia.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 6 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 243, "end_char": 249, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 403, "end_char": 410, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "21 months", "start_char": 907, "end_char": 916, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P21M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 11", "start_char": 998, "end_char": 1006, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1131, "end_char": 1135, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970406.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0119\n\nHANOI, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nVietnam's stock market index ends higher\n\n\n\n\nVietnam's stock market index, VN- Index rose 16.47 points, or 2.67 percent, to 633.05 on Thursday, with 241.052 billion Vietnamese dong (VND) (15.16 million U.S. dollars) worth of shares and investment certificates being traded.\n\nA total of 2,669,710 shares worth 221.183 billion VND (13.91 million dollars), and 667,780 investment fund certificates totaling 19.868 billion VND (1.25 million dollars) changed hands at the Ho Chi Minh City Securities Trading Center on Thursday. Meanwhile, no bonds were traded.\n\nVietnam currently has 57 kinds of listed shares, 372 kinds of listed bonds, mostly government bonds, and one listed investment fund totaling over 67,324 billion VND (over 4.23 billion dollars).", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 568, "end_char": 576, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 620, "end_char": 629, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0119.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0178\n\nAMMAN, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: Woman suicide bomber confesses to bomb attack\n\n\n\n\nThe woman suicide bomber in Wednesday's Amman hotel bombing attacks confessed that she was told to carry out the suicide attack, the official Jordanian TV channel reported Sunday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0178.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0341\n\nULAN BATOR, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMongolian president vows to boost bilateral ties with China\n\n\n\n\nMongolian President Nambaryn Enkhbayar, who will start a week-long visit to China on Sunday, said here that his country is willing to promote bilateral relations with China.\n\n\"Mongolia's major foreign policy is to boost bilateral relations with China and Russia. Mongolia attaches importance to ties with China,\" Enkhbayar said in an interview with Xinhua before his trip to China.\n\n\"The political relationship between Mongolia and China has developed healthily,\" he noted.\n\nHe also said the bilateral economic and trade cooperation had seen rapid development and that his government is implementing big projects funded by Chinese loans.\n\nEnkhbayar said that during his visit, the two sides would discuss how to expand cooperation in economy, trade and other fields.\n\nHe expressed his hope that China will participate and invest in Mongolia's infrastructure construction, such as railway, road and power facilities.\n\nAccording to Enkhbayar, a delegation of Mongolian entrepreneurs will accompany him to China and will hold talks with their Chinese counterparts in the hope of attracting more Chinese investment.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 209, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0341.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0042\n\nOSAKA, Japan, Nov. 11 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBrazil sweep Germany 3-0 in women's volleyball championship\n\n\n\n\nBrazil rocked Germany in three straight sets here on Saturday in 2006 women's volleyball World Championship.\n\nIt took Brazil 70 minutes to gain their eighth victory in the tournament with 25-16, 25-22 and 25-15.\n\nSheila Castro scored 11 points for Brazil while Welissa Gonzaga had 13 and Fabiana Claudino 10.\n\nCaptain Angelina Grun scored nine points to lead the Germany team, Birgit Thumm and Corina Ssuschke each contributed five points.\n\nBrazil will face Russia on Sunday to decide the top team of the group. Both teams, who kept an unbeaten record in the tournament until now, had gained the berth for the semifinal.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25-22", "start_char": 321, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25-15", "start_char": 331, "end_char": 336, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 594, "end_char": 600, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 702, "end_char": 705, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0042.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0270\n\nTAIYUAN, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSix coal mine blast victims discharged from hospital in N.China\n\n\n\n\nSix victims in a colliery gas blast in north China's coal-rich province of Shanxi left hospital on Tuesday after treatment.\n\nThe other two survivors are still in hospital because of serious injuries, said Xinli hospital in the city of Linfen.\n\nInvestigators said a power failure earlier on Sunday afternoon and an ensuing gas explosion after the electricity restored 10 minutes later caused the accident.\n\n\"I'm so scared. I'll never do this job any more.\"said Li Hongjun, a hospitalized miner.\n\nThe electricity often breaks down in the colliery. Nobody asked the miners to get out of the well when the power was cut off, said Li.\n\nThe accident occurred at around 6:40 p.m. at Luweitan Colliery in Yaodu district in Linfen on Sunday. Twenty-four people were dead and eight injured.\n\nLuweitan colliery is designed to produce 150,000 tons a year, but its production permit and safety license have both expired.\n\nPolice have detained the mine owner but its general manager is on the run.\n\nThree days of colliery disasters in four provinces have left 85 Chinese workers dead since Saturday.\n\nChinese coal mines suffer frequent explosions, flooding and cave-ins, claiming about 6,000 lives a year.\n\nUnsafe small coal mines account for two-thirds of the total fatalities in mine accidents, government figures show.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 231, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday afternoon", "start_char": 415, "end_char": 431, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 850, "end_char": 856, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 961, "end_char": 967, "tid": "t6", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1201, "end_char": 1209, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 1309, "end_char": 1315, "tid": "t9", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0270.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980227.0494 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/27/1998 08:17:00 \n\nw2399 Cx1f wstm-\nr i Cx13  Cx11  BC-Russia-Ukraine 1stLd-Writethru   02-27 0647\n\n\n BC-Russia-Ukraine, 1st Ld-Writethru \n\nRussia, Ukraine sign plan, Yeltsin claims progress in major\n\ndisputes QL\nUR Eds: UPDATES throughout with joint statement of two presidents,\nUPGRADES attribution, CORRECTS in graf 14 that An-70 is cargo\nplane. QL\nUR By ANNA DOLGOV QC\nUR Associated Press Writer QC\n\n\nMOSCOW (AP) _ Presidents Leonid Kuchma of Ukraine and Boris\nYeltsin of Russia signed an economic cooperation plan Friday, and\nYeltsin claimed they resolved even more nagging problems.\nRussia and Ukraine share similar cultures and languages, and\nUkraine was ruled from Moscow for centuries. But while the two\nSlavic neighbors see themselves as natural partners, their\nrelations since the breakup of the Soviet Union have been bedeviled\nby a number of disputes _ Black Sea naval bases, border problems\nand Ukraine's natural gas debts.\n``We have covered the entire list of questions and discussed how\nwe will be tackling them,'' Yeltsin was quoted as saying by the\nITAR-Tass news agency. ``I must  say there are no unsettled problems\nany more. We have solved them all.''\nBut his sweeping statement contained no details, and gave no\nindication of how the disputes could be resolved. Their solution\nwould require a compromise between the two nations' parliaments.\nA major dispute concerns a broad political treaty calling for\nborder demarcation, which the two presidents signed last May.\nIn effect, the treaty amounts to Russian recognition of\nUkraine's sovereignty and borders, and the Ukrainian parliament has already ratified it. However, Russia has stalled ratification,\ntrying to tie it to an agreement that would permit the Russian navy\nto use a naval base on Ukraine's Crimean peninsula for at least 20\nmore years.\nIn their joint statement issued after the talks, Yeltsin and\nKuchma called for the fastest possible ratification of the treaty,\nsaying it would create a ``strong legal foundation'' for bilateral\nties and help stability in Europe.\nKuchma assured Yeltsin that Ukraine would not join NATO,\nYeltsin's spokesman Sergei Yastrzhembsky said, according to the\nInterfax news agency. The Russian leadership has staunchly opposed\nthe western alliance's expansion into Eastern Europe.\nIn their joint statement, released by the Kremlin, the two\nleaders also pledged to consult each other regularly on their\napproaches to relations with NATO and, in particular, their action\nwithin the framework of NATO's Partnership for Peace program.\nLast year, Russian officials assailed Ukraine for holding joint\nnaval exercises with NATO in the Black Sea _ an area Moscow\nconsiders its own turf.\nKuchma has said repeatedly that Ukraine would remain neutral for\nthe foreseeable future.\nYeltsin and Kuchma also called for developing the stagnant\nrelations between the members of the Commonwealth of Independent\nStates, a loose coalition of former Soviet republics. In the past,\nRussia has often claimed that Ukraine was undermining efforts at\ncloser cooperation within the CIS.\nA major goal of Kuchma's four-day state visit was the signing of\na 10-year economic program aimed at doubling the two nations' trade\nturnover, which fell to dlrs 14 billion last year, down dlrs 2.5\nbillion from 1996.\nThe two presidents on Friday signed the plan, which calls for\ncooperation in the metallurgy, fuel, energy, aircraft building,\nmissile, space and chemical industries. A major project is joint\nmanufacturing of An-70 cargo planes, the Kremlin statement said.\nThe program also calls for coordination of economic reforms and\njoint improvement of social programs in the two countries, where\nmany people have become impoverished during the chaotic post-Soviet\ntransition to capitalism.\nKuchma also planned to visit Russian gas giant Gazprom, most\nlikely to discuss Ukraine's dlrs 1.2 billion debt to the company.\n(pvs/vi/ji)\n\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-Russia-Ukraine, 1st Ld-Writethru; CT:i;\n(REG:EURO;)\n(REG:BRIT;)\n(REG:SCAN;)\n(REG:MEST;)\n(REG:AFRI;)\n(REG:INDI;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(REG:ASIA;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-02-27-98 0817EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "02/27/1998 08:17:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t142", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-27T08:17:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 554, "end_char": 560, "tid": "t2297", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t142"}, {"text": "centuries", "start_char": 719, "end_char": 728, "tid": "t154", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last May", "start_char": 1513, "end_char": 1521, "tid": "t143", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t142"}, {"text": "at least 20\nmore years", "start_char": 1833, "end_char": 1855, "tid": "t2300", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 2579, "end_char": 2588, "tid": "t146", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t142"}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 2997, "end_char": 3005, "tid": "t149", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t142"}, {"text": "four-day", "start_char": 3132, "end_char": 3140, "tid": "t150", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 3280, "end_char": 3289, "tid": "t2303", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t142"}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 3318, "end_char": 3322, "tid": "t152", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 3346, "end_char": 3352, "tid": "t151", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t142"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980227.0494.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0223\n\nRAMALLAH,  West Bank, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nPalestinian leadership urges early elections\n\n\n\n\nThe executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization recommended Saturday that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas call early parliamentary and presidential elections to resolve a spiraling political crisis, committee members said.\n\n\"The exectuive committee, chaired by Abbas, decided to call on Abbas to hold early parliamentary and presidential elections,\" executive committee member Saleh Rafaat told AFP.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 191, "end_char": 199, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0223.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0024\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nfirst photography auction\n\n\n\n\nThe iconic photograph of China's most prestigious charity program - Project Hope - was the most expensive picture sold at China's first photography auction held in Beijing on Thursday.\n\nThe 1991 photograph, popularly known as Big Eyes, captures the innocent eyes of a girl and is credited with persuading millions of Chinese to donate to Project Hope which helps school drop-outs in rural areas to return to class.\n\nBidding on the 51 cm by 34.8 cm photograph by Xie Hailong opened at 240,000 yuan (30,000 U.S. dollars). It finally sold for 308,000 yuan (38,500 U.S. dollars), the highest price paid at the Beijing auction, where more than 130 photographs were sold.\n\nXie said he would donate the proceeds to help pay for the construction of a Project Hope primary school in Tibet.\n\nMany of the other photographs sold for 10 times more than their reserve prices.\n\n\"Photographs worth collecting should be of special significance and be a record of history,\" said Xu Jianing, an official with the auction house -- Huachen Auctions.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 270, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0024.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0326\n\nTEHRAN, Dec 5 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURE) =\n\n\n\n\nIran on Monday warned Israel of \"heavy consequences\" if its nuclear installations were attacked by the Jewish state, after a former Israeli premier suggested Israel should take an aggressive stance toward Iran.\n\n\"The Islamic republic is a tough target and there would be heavy consequences,\" said Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.\n\nHe was speaking after former Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel needed to \"act in the spirit\" of the late premier Menachem Begin, who ordered an air strike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981.\n\n\"I view the development of the Iranian nuclear (programme) as a paramount threat and as a real danger to the future of the state of Israel,\" Netanyahu told the Yediot Aharonot newspaper.\n\n\"Israel needs to do everything to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear threat against it,\" said Netanyahu.\n\nBut Larijani said Iran, which maintains its nuclear programme is peaceful, was not afraid of an attack.\n\n\"Comparing Iran and Iraq is an error, because Iran is not an easy target. You should not pay attention to such rude comments by Israeli officials,\" he told a news conference.\n\nIran's foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi also said Iran's response to such an attack would be \"devastating and unbearable\".\n\nPrime Minister Ariel Sharon, Netanyahu's arch rival, said last week that Israel would never allow its arch-enemy Iran to come into possession of nuclear weapons.\n\nIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad caused an international backlash in October when he called for the Jewish state to be \"wiped off the map\".\n\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in September found Iran in non-compliance with the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, paving the way for the matter to be referred to the UN Security Council if Iran does not halt nuclear fuel work and cooperate fully with an IAEA investigation.\n\nIran has insisted that its nuclear programme is merely designed to meet domestic energy needs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 71, "end_char": 77, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1981", "start_char": 641, "end_char": 645, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1981", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1420, "end_char": 1429, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1599, "end_char": 1606, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1720, "end_char": 1729, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0326.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0081\n\nPARIS, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\npercent for 2006\n\n\n\n\nThe Bank of France on Wednesday estimated that fourth quarter gross domestic product will grow by 0.6 percent from the third quarter, unchanged from its previous estimate a month ago.\n\nIt foresees GDP for the full year rising by 2.0 percent, also unchanged from its previous estimate. This would be at the low end of the government's forecast range of 2.0-2.5 percent.\n\nIn its monthly report, the central bank also said its business climate indicator stood at 106 in November, unchanged from October.\n\nThe national statistics institute INSEE said Tuesday that the French economy should expand by 2.1 percent this year, thanks to a rebound in the fourth quarter, and appeared likely to resist a slowdown in global momentum expected in early 2007.\n\nINSEE economist Eric Dubois said the stagnation in the French economy in the third quarter was a surprise and should be corrected by growth of 0.9 percent in the final three months of the year, powered by a pickup in the manufacturing industry.\n\nINSEE in early October predicted French growth in 2006 of 2.3 percent.\n\nIn its twice-yearly forecast late last month the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development foresaw growth in France this year of 2.1 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 94, "end_char": 103, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 187, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month ago", "start_char": 243, "end_char": 254, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the full year", "start_char": 277, "end_char": 290, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 539, "end_char": 547, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 564, "end_char": 571, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 619, "end_char": 626, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 680, "end_char": 689, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth quarter", "start_char": 714, "end_char": 732, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q4", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2007", "start_char": 806, "end_char": 816, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 892, "end_char": 909, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the final three months", "start_char": 977, "end_char": 999, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-13T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1003, "end_char": 1011, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1080, "end_char": 1087, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late last month", "start_char": 1166, "end_char": 1181, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year of 2.1 percent", "start_char": 1265, "end_char": 1289, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0081.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0070\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nVoting underway in Sri Lanka, turnout rates mixed\n\n\n\n\nSri Lanka's presidential election Thursday was marked by low polling in the Tamil minority north and eastern areas while high and brisk voting was recorded in the Sinhala majority dominated south, election officials and polls monitors said.\n\nAfter five hours of voting, only 516 people had voted in the northern capital of Jaffna. The city was observing a protest shutdown with less people seen on the streets.\n\nThere was no polling in the Tamil Tiger held areas with not a single voter turning out to vote in the polling stations, polls monitors said.\n\nThe Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) urged the Tamil minority to stay away from the poll, claiming that they had no faith in both leading candidates, the incumbent Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse and the opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.\n\nIn the eastern province, the polling has been good in the Muslim dominated pockets while the Tamil community was showing less enthusiasm, officials added.\n\nTwo more explosions rocked the polling stations in the eastern Batticaloa town following two explosions on Wednesday night, police said. At least two policemen were injured in the attacks.\n\nIn the Muslim dominated town of Kalmunai, the opposition parties complained of intimidation of voters.\n\nIn the rest of the country, in areas dominated by the Sinhala majority, over 50 percent polling had taken place on average by noon.\n\nOver 13.3 million Sri Lankans were eligible to vote in the election to appoint a President for a six-year term.\n\nAnd 10,486 polling stations are open throughout the island from 07:00 to 16:00 local time (0100 to 1000 GMT).", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five hours", "start_char": 359, "end_char": 369, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT5H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 1181, "end_char": 1196, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0070.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0142\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nsecurity\n\n\n\n\nChechen voters started casting their ballots Sunday morning to elect a parliament as tens of thousands of police and security forces fanned out to ensure a smooth ballot in the war-ravaged region.\n\nA total of 600,000 voters have been registered in Chechnya for the polls, which will elect 58 deputies to the bicameral parliament -- the 18-seat Republican Council (upper house) and the 40-seat People's Assembly (lower house). The election has drawn 342 candidates from eight parties.\n\nPolling stations opened at 8:00 a.m. (0500 GMT) amid heightened security in the volatile region, where separatist rebels have frequently targeted security forces as well as civilians in bombing attacks for much of the past decade, Russian news agencies reported.\n\nThe Interior Ministry has deployed 24,000 police and troops to provide security on the election day, the Itar-Tass news agency said.\n\nA regional Interior Ministry official told Itar-Tass that no breach of order or incidents had occurred by 1:00 p.m. (1000 GMT).\n\n\"Metal detectors have been set up at the entrance to each polling station to prevent weapons and explosives from being carried into the building,\" a ministry official told Itar-Tass on the eve of the election.\n\nChechen President Alu Alkhanov pronounced the poll valid about four hours into voting, citing reports of voter turnout reaching the threshold for validity.\n\n\"Based on reports we have received from the heads of districts and territorial election commissions, I can officially announce that the Chechen parliamentary elections are valid,\" Alkhanov told Interfax on Sunday.\n\nVoter turnout had exceeded 25 percent by 2 p.m. (1100 GMT) and the voting was proceeding quietly, said Alkhanov.\n\nThe polls will close at 3 p.m. (1500 GMT) and preliminary results are expected no earlier than Monday.\n\nPresident Vladimir Putin has called the parliamentary election a \"milestone\" that will boost stability in the republic and the whole North Caucasus region.\n\nAbout 20 observers from international groups including the Council of Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States visited polling stations to monitor the vote.\n\nAlkhanov met with international observers Sunday, saying the election will \"confirm Chechnya's path of construction, peace and cooperation with those who share these guidelines.\"\n\n\"Democratic processes in the republic will become more dynamic, as we will have the power body crowning the republican statehood,\" Alkhanov said.\n\nChechnya's First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov wanted the parliament to focus on ending war in the republic.\n\n\"We have a goal of termination of the warfare. Our mission will be complete when shooting ceases and abductions stop,\" Kadyrov said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday morning", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 128, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-20TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "8:00 a.m.", "start_char": 581, "end_char": 590, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "past decade", "start_char": 772, "end_char": 783, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1:00 p.m.", "start_char": 1058, "end_char": 1067, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1655, "end_char": 1661, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1873, "end_char": 1879, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2248, "end_char": 2254, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0142.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0030 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0030. \n Business Brief -- Hadson Corp.:\n@  Company Expects to Report\n@  Deficit for Third Quarter \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n HAD \n\n   Hadson Corp. said it expects to report a third-quarter net loss of $17 million to $19 million because of special reserves and continued low natural-gas prices. \n\n   The Oklahoma City energy and defense concern said it will record a $7.5 million reserve for its defense group, including a $4.7 million charge related to problems under a fixed-price development contract and $2.8 million in overhead costs that wo n't be reimbursed. \n\n   In addition, Hadson said it will write off about $3.5 million in costs related to international exploration leases where exploration efforts have been unsuccessful. \n\n   The company also cited interest costs and amortization of goodwill as factors in the loss. \n\n   A year earlier, net income was $2.1 million, or six cents a share, on revenue of $169.9 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 143, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 222, "end_char": 235, "tid": "t28", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t27"}, {"text": "A year earlier", "start_char": 883, "end_char": 897, "tid": "t31", "type": "TIME", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0161.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0352\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nSouth African lifespans cut short by AIDS\n\n\n\n\nSouth Africa, which has the world's second heaviest caseload of HIV/AIDS, has seen average life expectancy fall by 13 years since 1990 to 51, a new study has said.\n\nA survey by the Medical Research Council and Actuarial Society of South Africa, based on epidemiological and demographic data, said life expectancy this year was \"estimated to be 49 years for males and 53 years for females\" or an average of 51.\n\n\"By 2005, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has already taken about 13 years off life expectancy,\" it said.\n\nSenior MRC Researcher Debbie Bradshaw said life expectancy in South Africa was on average 64 years in 1990 and had now dropped to 51.\n\nA mathematical AIDS model was used to determine how much the disease contributed to the decline in population figures.\n\nSouth Africa is second to India as the country with the highest number of HIV-infected people in the world.\n\nAround 5.5 million people in a population of 47 million are living with HIV or AIDS.\n\nThe government has come under fire for delays in rolling out lifesaving antiretroviral drugs.\n\nAccording to government figures for September, 213,000 infected people now benefit from a government-funded antiretroviral plan, and 11,000 more join each month.\n\nThe study said that without the ARV programme \"the decrease in life expectancy would be nearly 19 years by 2015, with an average life expectancy of less than 48 years.\n\nBased on a scenario developed by researchers that by 2015 50 percent of those needing treatment will be receiving it, the impact of AIDS deaths could slow down in the coming years.\n\n\"With the programme, the difference is expected to reduce below 16 years, giving a life expectancy of 50 years.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "13 years", "start_char": 219, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P13Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 417, "end_char": 426, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "53 years", "start_char": 471, "end_char": 479, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P53Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "13 years", "start_char": 571, "end_char": 579, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P13Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "64 years", "start_char": 702, "end_char": 710, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P64Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 714, "end_char": 718, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1193, "end_char": 1202, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1228, "end_char": 1231, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly 19 years", "start_char": 1408, "end_char": 1423, "tid": "t14", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P19Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2015", "start_char": 1427, "end_char": 1431, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2015", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the coming years", "start_char": 1652, "end_char": 1668, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "16 years", "start_char": 1735, "end_char": 1743, "tid": "t18", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P16Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "50 years", "start_char": 1773, "end_char": 1781, "tid": "t19", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0352.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0085\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTV\n\n\n\n\nVisiting exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal warned Saturday that the Palestinian authorities could collapse and there would be a third intifada (uprising) if the international community couldn't find a political vision to a Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders within six months.\n\nMeshaal, who arrived here on an unannounced visit on Wednesday night, made the remarks at a press conference broadcast live on the Doha-based al-Jazeera Arabic channel.\n\nThe international community has six months to work out a real political solution for a Palestinian state, and such a state should be based on the 1967 borders, said Meshaal, now exiled in the Syrian capital Damascus.\n\nThere is a historic opportunity for such a political solution, but if the demands are not met, the Palestinians will seal off all political files and start a third intifada, he warned.\n\nMeshaal also warned that there would be more Palestinian resistance groups like Hamas, which is bent on Israel's destruction, without such political vision to a Palestinian state within six months.\n\nThe first intifada witnessed a series of violent incidents between the Palestinians and Israel between 1987 and 1990.\n\nThe second intifada, or called the al-Aqsa intifada, is the wave of violence that began in September 2000. The second intifada never ended officially, but the relative success of the Sharm el- Sheikh Summit and the low levels of violence during 2005, were considered by many to mark its effective end.\n\nThe Sharm el-Sheikh Summit occurred in February 2005 when four leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories met in Egypt's Red Sea resort in order to declare their wish to work towards the end of the four-year intifada.\n\nThe four leaders were Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordanian King Abdullah II, then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 337, "end_char": 347, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 403, "end_char": 418, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 552, "end_char": 562, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 694, "end_char": 697, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 1110, "end_char": 1120, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1987", "start_char": 1226, "end_char": 1230, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 1235, "end_char": 1239, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 2000", "start_char": 1333, "end_char": 1347, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1487, "end_char": 1491, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2005", "start_char": 1584, "end_char": 1597, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0085.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0091\n\nTOKYO, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details ///\n\n\n\n\nJapan on Friday created a full-fledged defense ministry for the first time since World War II, when the United States stripped the defeated country of its right to a military.\n\nThe upper house voted by a majority, with support from the main opposition Democratic Party, to create the defense agency. The lower house had earlier passed the bill, meaning it becomes law, a parliamentary official said.\n\nPost-war Japan has had a \"Defense Agency\" with lower standing than full-fledged ministries as the 1947 constitution declared the country to be pacifist.\n\nDespite calling its troops the \"Self-Defense Forces\", Japan has one of the world's biggest military budgets at 4.81 trillion yen (41.6 billion dollars) a year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 93, "end_char": 99, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 791, "end_char": 797, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0091.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0189\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nGerman new car registrations up in November\n\n\n\n\nAutomobile sales in Germany rose sharply in November, reinforcing expectations for full-year growth, the VDA auto industry federation said on Tuesday.\n\nThe number of new car registrations -- a key yardstick of domestic demand in the sector -- jumped by 18 percent to 326,000 vehicles last month, VDA said in a statement.\n\nAnd that put the industry on target for a three-percent rise in sales to 3.4 million vehicles for the whole of 2006, the VDA said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 386, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0189.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0007\n\nPARIS, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFrance's Royal wins Socialists' presidential candidate\n\n\n\n\nSegolene Royal from France's Socialist Party (PS) won a resounding victory in the party's primary on Friday, taking her closer toward becoming France's first female president, PS spokesman Stephane Le Foll said.\n\nIn a ballot of some 220,000 Socialist Party (PS) members, Royal won slightly over 60 percent of the vote, well over the 50 percent of votes needed to avoid a second round in the primary against her two experienced rivals, Dominique Strauss-Kahn and Laurent Fabius.\n\nThere will be only one round of voting and Segolene Royal will be the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party in 2007, said Le Foll.\n\nAccording to preliminary results, Strauss-Kahn collected 20.8 percent of the vote and Fabius 18.5 percent.\n\nThe figures may change slightly when the results of overseas French voters are added, but no big change is expected.\n\nRoyal, who voted Thursday afternoon in the western town of Melle, acknowledged victory shortly before midnight.\n\n\"I would like to express all the happiness I am feeling. I am living this moment of happiness with intensity,\" she said.\n\nRoyal, who represents Poitou-Charentes regional council, a rural district in western France, and who is largely untested in electoral politics, emerged as a national candidate last year amid a blizzard of publicity.\n\nRoyal, mother of four children and partner of the PS leader Francois Hollande, would lead the opposition Socialist Party challenge at April's election, standing a strong chance of becoming France's first woman president.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 215, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 716, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday afternoon", "start_char": 976, "end_char": 994, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1370, "end_char": 1379, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 1545, "end_char": 1550, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0007.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0390\n\nROME, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPressure mounts to get multi-national force into Albania\n\n\n\n\nInternational pressure mounted Wednesday to deploy the Italian-led, 5,000-strong multi-national force to Albania on the ground \"quickly,\" as food stocks there dwindle to dangerously low levels.\n\n\"It has to be done quickly,\" the head of the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) humanitarian mission to Albania, Franz Vranitzky, said after talks in Rome with Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini.\n\nAlbanian Prime Minister Bashkim Fino, speaking after a meeting with his Italian counterpart Romano Prodi in the rebel-held southern Albanian town of Gjirokaster, said: \"Albania is ready, the other countries are ready, we must not waste any more time. Each day lost damages Albania.\"\n\nHowever Dini said the force's deployment, which \"not yet been decided, will be decided in common.\"\n\nTheir comments came before a meeting in Rome of the countries which will supply the force's troops, whose mission is to protect humanitarian aid channels in the chaos-torn country.\n\nIn Brussels, EU Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Emma Bonino added to the calls, warning that food supplies in Albania had reached alarming levels.\n\n\"There is no famine yet but we are are concerned that stocks have been reduced below safety levels,\" she told the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee.\n\nBonino said EU food and medical aid could be sent to Albania quickly using logistical structures established in the former Yugoslavia. \"But only if we can solve the protection problem.\"\n\nThe proposed international force's role would be strictly confined to protecting the humanitarian convoys, Bonino noted. \"There is no mandate for disarming rebels or anything else of that nature,\" she said.\n\n\"The United Nations have given us three months,\" Vranitzky, Austria's former chancellor, told journalists, adding that the soldiers should be on the ground \"in the space of 10 or 14 days.\"\n\nItaly is expected to provide 2,000 soldiers; France said Tuesday it was sending 1,000; Greece has promised up to 700 troops; Turkey, 500; Romania, 400. Hungary on Wednesday ruled out sending troops, but Slovenia, Spain and Portugal are considering doing so.\n\nThe force's mission, approved by the UN Security Council March 28, involves securing roads, junctions, warehouses and aid depots, as well as in distributing the aid.\n\nMilitary sources in Rome said it was unlikely Italian troops would be sent into southern Albania, where rebels are most active, although Dini said \"there were clear signals Tuesday that Italian forces would be well-received.\"\n\nLast Friday, a collision between an Italian warship and an Albanian refugee boat killed four people and left 83 missing.\n\nAlbania itself would set up a volunteer force of 3,000 \"well armed\" and \"well paid\" soldiers to support the European soldiers, Albanian Deputy Defence Minister Alfred Moisiu told AFP in Tirana on Wednesday.\n\nVranitzky also told journalists \"we have a chance to avoid\" the errors committed in the former Yugoslavia, where there was an initial lack of international coordination.\n\n\"If we're not in agreement this time, it will be impossible to convince the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to give us their support,\" he added.\n\n\"Albania has need of aid, of restoring public order, of economic reconstruction and in restoring confidence in its political system,\" Vranitzky said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 1836, "end_char": 1848, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 or 14", "start_char": 1975, "end_char": 1983, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2049, "end_char": 2056, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2155, "end_char": 2164, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 28", "start_char": 2308, "end_char": 2316, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2591, "end_char": 2598, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last Friday", "start_char": 2645, "end_char": 2656, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2963, "end_char": 2972, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0390.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0336\n\nCANA, Lebanon, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTop Arab actor pays tribute to Cana victims\n\n\n\n\nAdel Imam, the best-known comedy actor of the Arab world, paid tribute Tuesday to the 105 Lebanese killed by Israeli shelling in Cana in south Lebanon.\n\nDressed in a dark suit, the normally razor-sharp Egyptian comic was at a loss for words as he prayed and placed flowers on the graves of the victims in Cana village.\n\n\"I am incapable of saying anything standing here before these tombs,\" he told reporters, before greeting victims' relatives who turned out to see him.\n\nAdel Imam has been in Lebanon since April 16 to perform his latest play, Az Zaim (The Leader), a satire on Arab politics.\n\nLebanon marked the first anniversary on Friday of Israel's shelling of a UN compound in Cana which killed 105 civilians taking shelter there during the Jewish state's Grapes of Wrath operation against Hezbollah guerrillas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 16", "start_char": 617, "end_char": 625, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 744, "end_char": 750, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0336.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0014\n\nCANBERRA, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAustralian PM condemns Jordan bomb attacks\n\n\n\n\nAustralian Prime Minister John Howard on Thursday condemned the bomb attacks on three hotels in Jordan in which at least 57 people were killed and up to 300 wounded.\n\nHoward said the attacks showed that terrorists had no regard for their victims, in this case mainly Muslim Jordanians.\n\n\"We have to again remind ourselves that terrorism is the enemy of all civilized societies,\" he told Sky News television.\n\n\"This was carried out in an Islamic country, the target, albeit three hotels frequented by westerners,\" he said.\n\n\"It's indiscriminate. It just shows that nobody can assume that they're immune,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer \" unequivocally\" condemned the bombings, which he described as \" appalling.\"\n\n\"This was a cowardly and indiscriminate attack on innocent people as they were going about their lives peacefully in Amman,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"It reminds us yet again that terrorism remains a serious threat,and that no country is immune,\" he said.\n\n\"And it underlines the importance of strong international cooperation in the fight against terror,\" he said.\n\n\"I extend my deepest sympathies to the loved ones of those killed and to those injured in this despicable act,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0014.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0147\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMcGinley confirmed for Royal Trophy\n\n\n\n\nRyder Cup hero Paul McGinley has been unveiled as the second European team player for the inaugural Royal Trophy tournament against Asia in Bangkok, Thailand in January.\n\nThe Irish ace, winner of the European Tour's season-ending Volvo Masters in Valderrama, Spain, last month, has given a massive boost to the pioneering event by confirming he will take part. He joins the winner of last week's HSBC Champions in Shanghai, David Howell, as confirmed players for the European team.\n\n\"I know from my Ryder Cup experiences what a thrill it is to represent Europe at team golf,\" said McGinley. \"The Royal Trophy is a new and very exciting challenge and I'm delighted to be involved. I'm looking forward to going head to head with the best golfers in Asia and to fighting for Europe under Seve's leadership.\"\n\nEuropean captain Seve Ballesteros hailed McGinley's confirmation. \"Paul is one of the very best players in Europe,\" said the Spanish legend. \"He has been in great form this season and is a proven winner in team golf. He will be a huge asset to our European team.\"\n\nMcGinley will always be remembered as the man who holed the winning putt in the 2002 Ryder Cup against the United States at the Belfry in England. His 10-footer on the 18th green secured a half with Jim Furyk and with it the famous trophy for Europe.\n\nHe continued his Ryder Cup heroics last year, scoring two-and-a-half points out of three, including a final-day singles victory over Stewart Cink, as Europe retained the trophy in record-breaking fashion at Oakland Hills, Michigan.\n\nThe Royal Trophy, to be held on January 5-8 at Thailand's world-class Amata Spring Country Club, has been sanctioned by the Asian, Japan and European Tours.\n\nEach team will comprise eight players, led by a non-playing captain, competing in a series of 16 matches involving foursomes, four-ball and singles.\n\nSix players on each team will be chosen according to each Tour's Order of Merit table and the world rankings, with the two remaining players on each side being captain's picks.\n\nMcGinley finished the year as the second-highest European player in the European Order of Merit standings after a season that saw him claim runner-up spot in both the BMW Championship and HSBC World Match Play Championship before ending the 2005 Tour on a high with a remarkable victory at Valderrama.\n\nFive-time major winner Ballesteros, whose charisma and competitiveness were critical in turning the Ryder Cup into the most compelling viewing in world golf, will spearhead the European challenge as non-playing captain.\n\nMasahiro \"Massy\" Kuramoto, one of Asia's most decorated golfers with 30 Japan Tour titles to his name, will captain the Asian team.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 265, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 363, "end_char": 373, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 481, "end_char": 490, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this season", "start_char": 1071, "end_char": 1082, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1455, "end_char": 1464, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 5-8", "start_char": 1685, "end_char": 1696, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 2157, "end_char": 2165, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0147.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0041\n\nALGIERS, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT Paper reports new massacre of 42 people in Algeria\n\n\n\n\nA total 42 people were slain in a village in the Medea region south of the capital overnight Tuesday to Wednesday, the daily El Watan newspaper said on Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 230, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 277, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0041.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0716\n\nWELLINGTON, Dec 7 , 2005\n\nAustralia make 322-5 batting first against New Zealand\n\n\n\n\nAustralia made 322-5 in their 50 overs after Andrew Symonds scored a magnificent 156 against New Zealand in the second match of the Chappell-Hadlee one-day cricket series at Westpac Stadium here Wednesday.\n\nSymonds teamed up with Michael Clarke (82 not out) to put on 220 runs for the fifth wicket.\n\nFor New Zealand, Kyle Mills took 2-60 with all the bowlers suffering from Symonds' onslaught.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 7 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 312, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0716.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0332\n\nDOHA, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nJapan's Nakamura wins women's 200m backstroke gold medal\n\n\n\n\nJapan's Reiko Nakamura won the women's 200m backstroke gold medal at the Asian Games here Sunday in a time of 2:10.33.\n\nZhao Jing of China took the silver with Takami Igarashi of Japan winning bronze.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 200, "end_char": 206, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0332.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0059\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. soldier killed in Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nOne U.S. soldier was killed in a small arms fire in Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said Thursday in a statement.\n\nAccording to the statement, the latest killing bring the number of U.S. soldiers killed on Tuesday to seven.\n\nLate on Wednesday the military said that two U.S. soldiers were killed at approximately 11:30 p.m. (0830 GMT) on Tuesday when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in northwest of Baghdad.\n\nBefore that, four more soldiers, including three marines, were killed in Iraq's western Anbar province, said the military.\n\nSince the U.S.-led war in Iraq broke out in March 2003, more than 2,850 U.S. soldiers have been killed in the war-torn country, according to media count.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 187, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 304, "end_char": 311, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 331, "end_char": 340, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "11:30 p.m.", "start_char": 411, "end_char": 421, "tid": "t5", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 436, "end_char": 443, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 687, "end_char": 697, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0059.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0459\n\nLONDON, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDollar rises against allcomers, save Swiss franc\n\n\n\n\nThe dollar firmed except against the Swiss franc on Wednesday, dealers saying the greenback had risen on technical factors and because US interest rates were relatively high.\n\nIn Frankfurt, meanwhile, most economists said that the central council of the Bundesbank was expected to hold its key rates at a meeting on Thursday.\n\nThe dollar opened weakly against the Japanese yen but then rallied. The initial weakness was in reaction to the Tankan report by the bank of Japan implying that industrial confidence was improving.\n\nAt James Capel economist Ian Morris explained that the dollar had then rallied because US interest rates were higher than Japanese rates.\n\nAnalysts said that they did not expect the Japanese central bank to increase its rates and noted that the bank itself expected confidence to falter in the next few months.\n\nThe lira rose against the mark on technical factors but was unlikely to maintain this position because \"Italian manufacturing industry is suffering and this is likely to cause the bank of Italy to ease its rates,\" Morris said.\n\nSterling fell because of uncertainty surrounding a general election on May 1 and because of fears that inflation might emerge, analysts said.\n\nMorris said that British interest rates would be increased after the election but that the market would judge this to be too little, too late.\n\nThe dollar was being priced at 1.6714 marks from 1.6698 here late on Tuesday, at 122.70 yen from 122.53, 1.4280 Swiss francs from 1.4395 and 5.6286 French francs from 5.6247.\n\nThe mark was at 3.3673 French francs from 3.3681, 992.0 lire from 998.0, 84.60 pesetas from 84.69, 0.8608 Swiss francs from 0.8629 and 73.42 yen from 73.48.\n\nSterling was at 1.6445 dollars from 1.6495, 2.7492 marks from 2.7544, 201.84 yen from 2202.11, 2.3643 Swiss francs from 2.3745 and 9.2559 French francs from 9.2779.\n\nThe price of gold firmed to 350.75 dollars an ounce from 350.25 dollars.\n\nThe three-month British interbank rate fell to 6.437 percent from 6.468 percent and the three-month eurodollar rate was unchanged at 5.687 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 422, "end_char": 430, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next few months", "start_char": 922, "end_char": 941, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 1243, "end_char": 1248, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1528, "end_char": 1535, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1.4395", "start_char": 1589, "end_char": 1595, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5.6247", "start_char": 1626, "end_char": 1632, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "0.8629", "start_char": 1759, "end_char": 1765, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2.3745", "start_char": 1913, "end_char": 1919, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0459.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0575\n\nCHICAGO, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nChicago Fed faces congressional scrutiny over alleged rule breach\n\n\n\n\nThe Chicago Federal Reserve, one of 12 regional bracnhes of the US central bank, is facing congressional scrutiny over charges that its president broke rules by inviting an outside consultant to attend secret briefing sessions on interest rate policies.\n\nRepresentative Henry Gonzalez said Chicago Fed President Michael Moskow violated Fed rules by inviting Northwestern University economist Martin Eichenbaum to sit in at two briefing sessions in January and February.\n\nAides of Gonzalez, a Democrat from Texas who is a long-time critic of the Federal Reserve Board, slammed the move as a waste of money since the Chicago Fed employs 23 economists.\n\nLast week, the policy-making Open Market Committee, of which Moskow is a voting member, moved to hike the federal funds rate to 5.5 percent from 5.25 percent, sparking a stock market sell-off.\n\n\"If someone knows what the members are going to do at the FOMC (Federal Open Market Committee) meeting, it is highly exploitable and extremely valuable information,\" an aide to Gonzalez involved in the probe was quoted as saying Thursday.\n\n\"There was no breach of confidentiality,\" Moskow said in a terse statement.\n\nThe Chicago Fed said Eichenbaum attended two policy briefings in January and February and was 'bound by a strict coinfidentiality agreement.\"\n\n\"We have since taken steps to assure than only employees with specific clearance will participate in future Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago monetary policy briefings,\" a Fed statement said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 572, "end_char": 579, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 775, "end_char": 784, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1198, "end_char": 1206, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1351, "end_char": 1358, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1363, "end_char": 1371, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0575.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0091\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nmoon mission in 10 to 15 years: official\n\n\n\n\nChina expects to build up its capacity for manned space mission and building up a space station within 10 to 15 years, said Hu Shixiang, deputy commander of China 's manned spaceflight project on Sunday.\n\nHe made the remarks while meeting with chief editors of Hong Kong-based press.\n\nHu said, China has been developing a new variety of rocket with a carrying capacity three times as much as the present ones for achieving the two targets.\n\nChina plans to achieve extravehicular activity by astronauts and locking of spacecraft by 2012, basis for establishing the future space station and even the moon probing, he said.\n\nThe 30-strong Delegation of Shenzhou-VI Manned Space Mission arrived here earlier in the day and attended a variety show for welcoming the delegation at Hong Kong Stadium in the afternoon.\n\nHu said China is a country treasuring friendly relations with neighboring countries. The probing of space is the common target of the whole mankind and China would like to join with people from other countries in peaceful use of the outerspace and peaceful development of the mankind.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 to 15 years", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 300, "end_char": 306, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2012", "start_char": 635, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the afternoon", "start_char": 900, "end_char": 913, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0091.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0403\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's rural women worry about children's education the most\n\n\n\n\nChina's rural women worry about their children's education the most, followed by their livelihood and health, according to a national survey.\n\nThe All-China Women's Federation carried out the survey on the status of rural women's rights protection with 6,596 questionnaires distributed in 416 villages in eight provinces as well as 53 migrant worker residences in four major cities.\n\nThe survey showed 35.8 percent of respondents worried about their children's education, 34.5 percent about making a living and 14 percent about their health.\n\nThe survey also showed rural women wanted women's federations to help in better safeguarding women's rights, advice on improving their living standard and poverty relief assistance.\n\nMo Wenxiu, vice chairwoman of the federation and vice director of the survey group, said, \"We found rural women's legal awareness enhanced, as 81.1 percent respondents knew the Law on Women's Rights Protection.\"\n\nThe survey showed 77 percent rural women and 68.7 percent of female migrant workers said they knew of or had accepted legal aid or judicial assistance.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0403.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "NYT19980402.0453 \n NEWS STORY \n 04/02/1998 22:52:00 \n\nA0786 ampCx1f taf-z\nu a ampCx13  ampCx11  BC-NJ-WOMEN-MURDER-PROBE     04-02 0319\n\n\n BC-NJ-WOMEN-MURDER-PROBE-NYT \n\nTASK FORCE TO STUDY CASES OF 14 SLAIN WOMEN\n\n(lb) ampQL\nampUR By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN ampLR  ampQC  ampQL\nampUR c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service ampLR  ampQC  ampQL\n\n\nNEWARK, N.J. _ A new Essex County task force began delving\nThursday into the slayings of 14 black women over the last five\nyears in the Newark area, as law-enforcement officials acknowledged\nthat they needed  to work harder  to solve the cases of murdered\nwomen.\nThe police and prosecutors said they  had identified different\nsuspects in six of the cases and had yet to find any pattern\nlinking the killings or the victims, several of whom  were believed\nto be prostitutes.\nState, county and local law-enforcement officials  have expressed\nconcerns in recent months about a possible pattern of murdered\nwomen and a disproportionate number of unsolved cases.\nCiting an example, Sgt. Derek Glenn, a spokesman for the Newark\nPolice Department, said that of nine women who  had  been killed last\nyear, suspects  had  been arrested in only four cases. But over all,\narrests  were made in more than 60 percent of murder cases, he said.\nEight of the 14 killings since 1993 were already under\ninvestigation by the Newark Police Department, Glenn said. Of the\neight victims, three  were stabbed, two  were strangled, two  were beaten to death and one  was asphyxiated, he said, and these\ndifferent methods of killing and other evidence seem  to indicate\nthat the eight cases are not related.\nBut with the task-force investigation just getting under way,\nofficials have been careful not to draw any firm conclusions,\nleaving open the possibility of a serial killer in some of the\ncases. There have been no arrests in any of the slayings.\n``I have n't seen a pattern yet ,  '' said Patricia Hurt, the Essex\nCounty prosecutor, who created the task force on Tuesday. ``The\ntype of lifestyle these women have is extremely dangerous,'' she\nsaid.\n\n\n\nNYT-04-02-98 2252EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "04/02/1998 22:52:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t43", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-04-02T22:52:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 394, "end_char": 402, "tid": "t46", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-04-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "the last five\nyears", "start_char": 444, "end_char": 463, "tid": "t48", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent months", "start_char": 887, "end_char": 900, "tid": "t52", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last\nyear", "start_char": 1122, "end_char": 1131, "tid": "t64", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 1296, "end_char": 1300, "tid": "t63", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1980, "end_char": 1987, "tid": "t61", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "NYT19980402.0453.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0347\n\nCARACAS, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nelection \"good\"\n\n\n\n\nVenezuelan Vice President Jose Vecente Rangel said Tuesday that Sunday's congressional elections will go ahead despite boycott from three opposition parties, saying the opposition's withdrawal was \"good.\"\n\n\"The opposition says this election isn't clean. It's the cleanest in Venezuela's history, but they have interests opposed to the National Electoral Council,\" Rangel told local press. \"The Democratic Action party has withdrawn... very good! \"\n\nRangal's remarks came after three opposition parties -- the Democratic Action, the Project Venezuela and the Social Christian Party, or Copei, announced their pulling out from the elections.\n\nThe opposition said the National Electoral Council favored the ruling party candidates and has failed to correct the errors in the voter registry.\n\n\"Imagine what it means for a party like Democratic Action to say that today...under these conditions, we cannot participate in the electoral process, \" said Henry Ramos of the Democratic Action, the largest opposition party in the country.\n\nPolling firms said the ruling Fifth Republic Movement of President Hugo Chavez will win a sweeping victory in Sunday's elections. If the ruling party reaches its goal of getting a two-thirds majority, it can begin to make constitutional reforms.\n\nAnalysts said one of the possible reforms might be lifting the restriction limiting presidents to two six-year terms. Chavez's term will not expire until 2012 if he is re-elected next year.\n\nVenezuela's opposition parties, including the three parties that boycotted the upcoming elections, now hold a total of 79 seats in the 165-seat National Assembly, while the rest 86 seats are taken by pro-Chavez lawmakers.\n\nSunday's election will be the first time when both Democratic Action and Copei have no candidates since 1958 -- when Venezuela's last military dictatorship ended. Venezuelans will elect 167 deputies to the National Assembly for five-year terms.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 128, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1217, "end_char": 1223, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2012", "start_char": 1508, "end_char": 1512, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1533, "end_char": 1542, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1644, "end_char": 1647, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1768, "end_char": 1774, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1958", "start_char": 1872, "end_char": 1876, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1958", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0347.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0019\n\nJAKARTA, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nIndonesian police ask churches to dig bomb disposal holes\n\n\n\n\nPolice in the Indonesian district of Solo said Friday they had ordered churches in the area to dig holes into which suspected bombs could be tossed, amid fears of Christmas attacks.\n\nThe police chief in Central Java's Solo told church officials to dig holes one metre (yard) cubed outside their buildings, local policeman Supran Yoga said.\n\n\"This is in anticipation of bombings,\" he told AFP.\n\nThe Koran Tempo newspaper also said police would scour all 61 churches in Solo, located about 500 kilometres (300 miles) southeast of the capital Jakarta, looking for bombs before services on Christmas Eve.\n\nRaids were carried out on several houses in Solo after the triple suicide bombings on the resort island of Bali on October 1, which killed 20 bystanders.\n\nMalaysian bomb-maker Azahari Husin, who was tracked down and killed by police in November, as well as his on-the-run compatriot Noordin Mohammad Top, were both linked to the bombings and are believed to have spent time in Solo.\n\nIndonesia's intelligence agency warned last week that information indicated extremists may be planning attacks over the Christmas-New Year period in large cities across the sprawling archipelago.\n\nJakarta police have said they will deploy 18,000 officers across the capital during that time.\n\nNineteen people were killed when Islamic extremists launched a coordinated nationwide bombing campaign targeting churches and priests on Christmas Eve in 2000.\n\nThe attacks were blamed on the Al Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) network, which has also been blamed for a string of deadly attacks in Indonesia since then, including the 2002 Bali bombing, which left 202 people dead.\n\nAzahari and Top were believed to be JI members but experts say the pair may have split off to form an even more hardline group.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 695, "end_char": 704, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 1", "start_char": 826, "end_char": 835, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 947, "end_char": 955, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1134, "end_char": 1143, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 1525, "end_char": 1534, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1542, "end_char": 1546, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0019.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0424\n\nKATHMANDU, Dec 7 , 2005\n\nNepalese king rings the changes\n\n\n\n\nKing Gyanendra of Nepal reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday shortly after returning from a foreign trip during which Maoist rebels and opposition parties lined up against him.\n\n\"His Majesty the King has reshuffled the present 22-member Council of Ministers to 35 members,\" said a statement from the royal palace read out on Nepali television.\n\nThe king brought in several new faces and dropped senior ministers including those in charge of the home and finance ministries.\n\nHis announcement came days after his return from a three-week trip to Africa and amid growing criticism from opposition parties angered by his failure to restore democracy in the Himalayan kingdom.\n\nMaoist rebels, who have been fighting for a communist republic in Nepal since 1996, on Friday extended their three-month unilateral ceasefire by one month.\n\nThe Maoists and seven mainstream opposition parties agreed last month to form an anti-royal alliance to restore democracy, setting out a 12-point plan and calling for an end to fighting and for elections held under UN auspices.\n\nUnder the agreement, the Maoists would lay down their arms under UN or other international supervision while a new constitution was drafted.\n\nNepal has been shaken by repeated strikes and protests since the king assumed total control in February, a move he justified by saying the government had failed to quell the Maoist revolt.\n\nThe violence and the royal takeover has brought international condemnation for both sides as well as reviews of military and humanitarian aid from several countries, including the United States, Britain and India.\n\nThe Maoist conflict has killed more than 12,500 people.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 7 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 134, "end_char": 143, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "days", "start_char": 580, "end_char": 584, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 835, "end_char": 839, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 844, "end_char": 850, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one month", "start_char": 902, "end_char": 911, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 973, "end_char": 983, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1380, "end_char": 1388, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0424.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0113\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina holds major human rights exhibition in Beijing\n\n\n\n\nA major human rights exhibition kicked off in China's capital on Friday, showcasing the country's efforts to protect human rights.\n\nThe ten-day exhibition, the largest of its kind ever held in Beijing,features more than 700 pictures, 250 legal documents, 330 books on human rights and 24 diagrams, which \"truthfully record China's efforts to promote and safeguard the people's right to life and right to develop and, more broadly, their political, economic, social and cultural rights,\" organizers said.\n\n\"We hope the exhibition will give people a more comprehensive and objective understanding of human rights in China, a clearer picture of how human rights have developed in the Chinese context and more confidence in China's commitment to human rights as it builds a socialist harmonious society,\" said Cai Wu, director of the Information Office of the State Council, at the opening ceremony of the exhibition at the Museum of Nationalities.\n\nThis year marks the 40th anniversary of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. It is also 15 years since China issued its first white paper on human rights.\n\n\"The exhibition reflects China's recognition of and respect for the UN bill on human rights and basic international human rights principles,\" Cai said.\n\n\"Adhering to the principle of respecting and safeguarding human rights, and promoting the progress of human rights, are important governing concepts in China,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe the exhibition will help promote human rights in China and boost exchanges between China and the outside world,\" said Dong Yunhu, vice chairman of the China Society for Human Rights Studies.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 1060, "end_char": 1069, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 years", "start_char": 1243, "end_char": 1251, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0113.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0181\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nThai deputy PM recommends actions against Thaksin over lottery\n\n\n\n\nThailand's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula Monday recommended legal actions against former prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, his Cabinet members and senior officials over the two and three- digit lottery.\n\nPridiyathorn asked the National Counter Corruption Commission and the Assets Examination Committee to take the actions on ground that Thaksin and others had allegedly committed malfeasance and negligence.\n\nThe deputy premier said at the press conference here that the Finance Ministry's reports are based on the Council of State's ruling on November which ruled that the government's decision the two and three-digit lottery violates in 2003 the Government Lottery Act 1974.\n\nPridiyathorn said that the first group of those subject to the charges are senior officials at the Government Lottery Office.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 705, "end_char": 713, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 801, "end_char": 805, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0181.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0071\n\nDAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTanzanian electoral body removes 10,000 voters from register\n\n\n\n\nTanzania's National Electoral Commission has removed more than 10,000 people from the country's permanent voters register.\n\nThese people therefore will not be eligible for the country's general elections slated for December 14 this year.\n\nSisti Cariah, IT manager of the electoral body, told local media that some of these people were either under-age or not bona fide citizens while others had either passed away or were in prison.\n\nThe National Electoral Commission removed these people after a general review and the electoral body promised to accept some 4, 000 of-age voters who were not eligible for the general elections originally scheduled for October 30.\n\nThis year's general elections, the third multi-party polls in the country since 1995, will be held on December 14 which is already rendered a public holiday through a special presidential decree to facilitate voting.\n\nThe general elections had to be postponed in the wake of the death of a presidential running mate from the Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (CHADEMA) party on October 26.\n\nThe CHADEMA presidential running mate, Jumbe Rajab Jumbe, died of heart attack on October 26.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 14 this year", "start_char": 343, "end_char": 364, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 30", "start_char": 781, "end_char": 791, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 803, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 874, "end_char": 878, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 14", "start_char": 896, "end_char": 907, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 26", "start_char": 1172, "end_char": 1182, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 26", "start_char": 1267, "end_char": 1277, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0071.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0361\n\nJOHANNESBURG, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPolice trumpeter asks human rights committee to save his dreadlocks\n\n\n\n\nA rasta-loving policeman who faces disciplinary action for wearing his hair in dreadlocks, has taken his case to the South African Human Rights Commission, officials said Wednesday.\n\nD.P. Sass, a trumpet player in a police band, faces suspension or dismissal for sporting long, twisted tresses, but has protested the ruling on the grounds that it infringes on his religious freedoms, the SAPA news agency said Wednesday.\n\nSass became a follower of Rastafarianism (also known as 'rasta'), a philosophical movement originating in Jamaica and the Antilles, a year after joining the police in 1992, the commission said in a statement.\n\nPolice admit their regulations contradict Sass' religious rights, but say the measures are necessary in order to maintain standards of neatness and integrity, the commission added.\n\nIn a similar case, a Cape Town high school student appealed to the commission after his school refused to allow him to write exams because he would not hide his dreadlocks, the statement said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 312, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 551, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 721, "end_char": 725, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0361.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0449\n\nGENEVA, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nKofi Annan urges rapid action on Zaire refugee repatriation by Tani Freedman\n\n\n\n\nUN Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the rapid repatriation of up to 100,000 Rwandan refugees stranded and sick in camps in eastern Zaire, saying imminent action was needed to save lives.\n\nAnnan, in a statement issued in Geneva before he returned to New York after a 24-hour visit, called on an \"all parties to stop fighting and allow the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance to the civilian population caught in the conflict.\"\n\nUN refugee chief Sadako Ogata, who discussed the refugee crisis with Annan, also called on the Kisangani authorities to \"take urgent action to airlift Rwandan refugees home,\" insisting that delays would lead to more deaths and that repatriation was the only solution for these people.\n\nA first batch of Rwandan refugees was supposed to be airlifted out of Kisangani on Friday, but Zairean Tutsi rebels who control the city blocked the move.\n\nThey apparently fear that cholera plaguing the Kasese and Biaro camps south of Kisangani, which shelter some 80,000 individuals, would contaminate the city. Relief workers on the ground, claiming the cholera outbreak is containable, said there was no such risk.\n\nThey want to begin a major operation to fly refugees from Kisangani more than 500 kilometres (300 miles) southeastwards to Goma, on the border with Rwanda, for repatriation, the but the exercise has been postponed indefinately. Goma is the \"capital\" of rebel-held eastern Zaire.\n\n\"I hope repatriation and air-bridge operations will start very soon to save the lives of the vulnerable women and children needing better care,\" Annan said.\n\nOutbreaks of violence over the last four days among the local population, including the looting Monday of a relief train carrying 120 tonnes of food south of Kisangani, have interrupted aid agency operations in the camps.\n\n\"Since Friday a series of security incidents, including the looting of foodstocks, has blocked our access to the camps. Today the military told us that we would not be allowed in the camps because of a security operation in the area,\" Ogata said.\n\n\"This is not good enough. We must have access and we must begin the airlift. Every day's delay means more lives lost. Repatriation is the only solution for these people, the only way to guarantee their safety.\"\n\nThe UNHCR is calling for security guarantees for its staff to carry out their urgent humanitarian work in the camps and to help defuse tensions between the refugees and the local population which is clamouring to benefit from humanitarian agency assistance.\n\nIn Goma, UNHCR spokesman Filipo Grandi on Monday told AFP that \"the (rebel) military authorities have asked humanitarian organizations to stop all their operations in the camps until further notice.\n\n\"No agency can go to the left bank\" of the Zaire river, to which they need access to reach the camps, Grandi added. \"We are extremely concerned about the deterioration in the security situation, which has prevented humanitarian agencies from providing help to the camps and nearby villages for the third time in four days.\"\n\nLast week's attack on UNHCR vehicles led to the first suspension of assistance, which resumed on the weekend.\n\nThe refugees went on a five-month trekking odyssey following the launch of the rebels' offensive against President Mobutu Sese Seko's army in October.\n\nThey escaped to Zaire following the civil war in Rwanda in 1994 in which Tutsi rebels toppled the governing Hutu regime after Hutu extremists massacred half a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 943, "end_char": 949, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last four days", "start_char": 1744, "end_char": 1762, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1813, "end_char": 1819, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1947, "end_char": 1953, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 2060, "end_char": 2065, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2701, "end_char": 2707, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four", "start_char": 3171, "end_char": 3175, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 3184, "end_char": 3193, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 3281, "end_char": 3292, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 3437, "end_char": 3444, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 3506, "end_char": 3510, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0449.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0182\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nfacilitate bilateral investment\n\n\n\n\nChina and Russia signed eight agreements in Beijing on Thursday to boost bilateral investment, trade and technical cooperation.\n\nThe signing of the agreements, covering sectors such as trade, energy, car production and development of infrastructure, marked the beginning of Sino-Russian Investment Promotion Week.\n\nTwo of the eight agreements relate to joint mining exploration. The other agreements include the setting up of a car assembly factory, a glass factory and wood processing facilities.\n\nThe contracted investment volume from the Chinese side is 800 million U.S. dollars.\n\nAddressing the opening ceremony, Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi said the China-Russia trade volume was expected to reach 60 billion to 80 billion U.S. dollars by 2010, and China's total investment volume in Russia will reach its target of 12 billion dollars before 2020.\n\nZhang Xiaoqiang, Vice Director with the State Development and Reform Commission, said the two countries' cooperation in energy would increase in the future.\n\nSpeaking at a Sino-Russian trade forum in Beijing, Zhang said the energy cooperation between the two countries had entered a new phase, especially the joint oil exploration project in Veninsky Block of Sakhalin region and the joint operation of Udmurtneft Petroliem Company.\n\nThe government encourages Chinese firms to engage more in the joint exploration of ores of iron, zinc, lead, and copper in regions such as Chita Oblist, and Tuva Republic, Zhang said.\n\nTrade volume between China and Russia reached 29.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2005. In the first nine months of this year, the bilateral trade volume totaled 24.64 billion dollars, up 18.8 percent on the previous year.\n\nThe Sino-Russian Investment Promotion Week will feature 13 promotional activities aimed at boosting bilateral investment, as part of the \"Year of Russia\" in China which is scheduled to conclude on Thursday evening.\n\nMore than 200 activities were held during the \"Year of Russia\", which helped strengthen the traditional friendship between the two countries and push forward the China-Russia strategic partnership.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 834, "end_char": 838, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2020", "start_char": 937, "end_char": 941, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2020", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1089, "end_char": 1099, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1638, "end_char": 1642, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 1647, "end_char": 1668, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1672, "end_char": 1681, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous year", "start_char": 1760, "end_char": 1777, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 1977, "end_char": 1993, "tid": "t9", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0182.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0067\n\nSEOUL, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nS.Korean, Japanese FMs to meet on sidelines of APEC meeting: report\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki- moon will hold one-on-one talks with his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso on the sidelines of the upcoming Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, reported South Korean Yonhap News Agency on Wednesday.\n\nYonhap quoted a source from the government as saying that Ban and Taro agreed to meet during a telephone conversation earlier in the day.\n\nBut the exact date of the meeting has not been fixed. The APEC summit meetings are to take place in the third week of this month in South Korea's southern port city of Busan.\n\n\"They will exchange views on bilateral ties including ways of addressing the current strained relations,\" the unnamed official was quoted by Yonhap as saying.\n\nThe two neighbors' relations have been strained since Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi visited Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 2 million Japanese war dead, including 14 Class A Criminals of the World War II.\n\nThe South Korean government, political parties and non- governmental groups have made strong reactions to the latest shrine visit, the fifth since Koizumi took office in 2001.\n\nThe ties between South Korea and Japan did not turn better although Ban made a trip to Japan last week.\n\nPublic anger in South Korea even deepened as Koizumi brought in some hawkish officials, including Shinzo Abe as chief Cabinet secretary and Taro Aso as foreign minister, in his latest cabinet reshuffle on Monday.\n\nIt is still unclear whether South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun will hold a summit with Koizumi during the APEC event, the official said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 360, "end_char": 369, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third week of this month", "start_char": 611, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1233, "end_char": 1237, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1333, "end_char": 1342, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1550, "end_char": 1556, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0067.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0246\n\nLONDON, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nResearchers say dogs susceptible to \"mad cow\" disease\n\n\n\n\nGovernment researchers found six years ago that dogs were susceptible to a form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or \"mad cow\" disease, from eating contaminated pet food, press reports Monday said.\n\nThe Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, commenting on the report in The Independant, confirmed the results of the 1992 study were never published and that no follow-up was done.\n\nAt the time, government scientists had studied the brains of 444 hunting hounds that had died after showing signs of distress associated with BSE, and found abnormalities called fibrils, tiny fibres first noticed by scientists studying scrapie, a spongiform encephalopathy in sheep.\n\nThe presence of fibrils, said the scientists, confirmed that some of the brains showed signs of a canine equivalent of mad cow disease.\n\nConsultant microbiologist Stephen Dealler, a leading critic of government handling of the BSE crisis, said it was \"incredible that this experiment was known about before the last general election.\"\n\nThe test results were reported verbally to the Government's advisers on BSE in 1992, he said, but then chairman of the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee, David Tyrell, said the dog study should not be taken further.\n\nA ministry spokesman said the study was halted because no danger to public health had been ascertained.\n\n\"You can be absolutely certain that the presence of scrapie associated fibrils shows these dogs had the disease,\" said Dealler.\n\nLast week, Norwegian scientists said they thought an 11-year-old golden retriever had died from spongiform encephalopathy, and linked the dog's death to pet food made from cattle remains imported from Britain.\n\nBut British health sources said it was unlikely the Norwegian dog could have picked up the disease after September 1990 when bovine offal was banned from pet food in Britian.\n\nCats, however, are known to be affected by spongiform encephalopathy and at least 75 of them have already died from the feline version of the disease.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six years ago", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 443, "end_char": 447, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1207, "end_char": 1211, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 1590, "end_char": 1599, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 1990", "start_char": 1906, "end_char": 1920, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0246.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0346\n\nANKARA, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTurkish defence minister's Israel visit postponed\n\n\n\n\nA planned trip by Turkish Defence Minister Turhan Tayan to Israel has been postponed to a later date as it coincides with Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy's visit to Ankara, Turkish diplomats said Thursday.\n\nAccording to a schedule announced last month, Tayan would visit Israel between April 7 and 9 and Levy would be in the Turkish capital on April 8 and 9.\n\n\"Tayan's visit will now be rescheduled for late April or early May,\" a foreign ministry official told AFP.\n\nTurkey and Israel, whose relations remained dormant during decades of the Arab-Israeli conflict, boosted their ties to a strategic level last year.\n\nThey signed two major pacts on military and defence industry cooperation despite condemnation by radical Arab or Moslem states like Iran, Syria and Iraq.\n\nIn the largest-scale defence industry deal between the two countries, a 630 million agreement, under which a consortium led by Israel Aircraft Industries will upgrade Turkey's aging fleet of 54 F-4E Phantom aircraft, took effect last November.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 352, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 7", "start_char": 397, "end_char": 404, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 8", "start_char": 455, "end_char": 462, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late April or early May", "start_char": 514, "end_char": 537, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 716, "end_char": 725, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last November", "start_char": 1112, "end_char": 1125, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0346.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0403\n\nPRETORIA, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nRare black gibbon born at Pretoria zoo\n\n\n\n\nA rare black gibbon has been born at South Africa's national zoo in Pretoria, the zoo announced Thursday.\n\nSome 31,000 black gibbons disappear each year, making it \"extremely important ... to coordinate their breeding programmes,\" the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa said in a statement.\n\nThe tiny primates known for their agility were once common in China, but their numbers have dwindled steadily because of hunting and deforestation. They are now found only in the far south of China and east of the Mekong River in Southeast Asia, the zoo said in a statement.\n\nSince 1992, the Pretoria zoo has been home to the only pair of black gibbons in Africa. A total of 53 specimens of the vanishing species are in captivity around the world.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each year", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 250, "tid": "t2", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 681, "end_char": 685, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0403.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0143 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0143. \n RJR Is Selling\n@  Candy Brands\n@  For $370 Million\n@  ----\n@  By Peter Waldman\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n RJR Z.NES \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nFOOD PRODUCTS (FOD) \n\n   RJR Nabisco Inc. said it agreed to sell its Baby Ruth, Butterfinger and Pearson candy businesses to Nestle S.A.'s Nestle Foods unit for $370 million. \n\n   The sale, at a higher price than some analysts had expected, helps the food and tobacco giant raise funds to pay debt and boosts Nestle's 7% share of the U.S. candy market to about 12%. \n\n   The candy businesses had sales of about $154 million last year, which was roughly 12% of total revenue for RJR's Planters LifeSavers unit, according to a memorandum distributed by RJR's owner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts amp Co., to bankers last December. \n\n   The Nestle acquisition includes a candy plant in Franklin Park, Ill., which employs about 800 workers. \n\n   The sale, which had been expected, is part of KKR's program to pay down $5 billion of a $6 billion bridge loan by February. \nRoughly $2 billion of that debt has already been repaid from previous asset sales, and RJR expects to use another $2 billion from the pending, two-part sale of most of its Del Monte unit. \nThat sale, however , could still fall through if financing problems develop. \nThus, it remains crucial for RJR to obtain top dollar for its smaller assets like the candy brands. \n\n   Louis Gerstner Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of New York-based RJR, called the sale a \"significant step\" in the company's divestiture program, as well as a \"a strategic divestiture.\" \nSince KKR bought RJR in February for $25 billion of debt, it has agreed to sell nearly $5 billion of RJR assets. \nRJR's executives have said they will dispense with certain brands, in particular, that are n't  leaders in their markets. \n\"RJR Nabisco and Planters LifeSavers will concentrate more on our own core businesses,\" Mr. Gerstner said Friday. \n\n   Baby Ruth and Butterfinger are both among the top-selling 15 chocolate bars in the U.S., but RJR's overall share of the roughly $5.1 billion market is less than 5%. \nNestle's share of 7% before Friday's purchases is far below the shares of market leaders Hershey Foods Corp. and Mars Inc., which have about 40% and 36% of the market, respectively. \n\n   \"This means Nestle is now in the candybar business in a big way,\" said Lisbeth Echeandia, publisher of Orlando, Fla.-based Confectioner Magazine. \n\"For them, it makes all kinds of sense. \nThey've been given a mandate from Switzerland\" to expand their U.S. chocolate operations. \nNestle S.A. is based in Vevey, Switzerland. \n\n   The new candy bars, \"make an important contribution to our Nestle Foods commitment to this very important strategic unit,\" said C. Alan MacDonald, president of Nestle Foods in Purchase, N.Y.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t78", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 685, "end_char": 694, "tid": "t79", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t78"}, {"text": "last December", "start_char": 869, "end_char": 882, "tid": "t82", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-12", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t78"}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1111, "end_char": 1119, "tid": "t85", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t78"}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1714, "end_char": 1722, "tid": "t91", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t78"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2033, "end_char": 2039, "tid": "t95", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t78"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2240, "end_char": 2246, "tid": "t99", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t78"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0557.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0188\n\nMANILA, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPhilippines considers change of ASEAN summit venue from unfinished convention center\n\n\n\n\nDespite repeated denials from Philippine government that there is no change of venue for the upcoming Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to be held in December in Cebu, a presidential palace official admitted Thursday that a change of venue for the summit is under consideration by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.\n\nA ranking palace official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the government might go for Plan B which would transfer the venue of the summit from the unfinished Cebu International Convention Center (CICC) to a Shangri-La hotel.\n\nThe source said this was discussed during the cabinet meeting in Malacanang last Tuesday.\n\n\"This is what the cabinet have discussed because the construction of the CICC has not yet been completed,\" the official said.\n\nThe official said under a worst-case scenario, the government will activate Plan C, which will move the meeting to Manila from Cebu. But it's too late as delegates have already booked and paid for their hotel accommodations in Cebu.\n\nASEAN member-states, delegates and foreign media have expressed concern over the delay of completion of the convention center as meetings will formally start on Dec. 6 to be followed by the summit meetings from Dec. 10 to 13.\n\nLeaders from Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam will be joined by their counterparts from China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, India and New Zealand for an East Asian regional summit meeting in the wake of the ASEAN summit.\n\nOther officials from Timor-Leste, France and the European Union will also be present in the meeting.\n\nThe construction on the huge center, estimated to cost 800 million pesos (16 million U.S. dollars), which began in April, was originally scheduled to be completed this month.\n\nA police chief in charge of security for the summit meetings has first told foreign media that the venue of the summit will be transferred to Shangrila hotel from the unfinished CICC. But government officials maintained that meetings will still be held at the convention center.\n\nThe publisher of local daily \"The Philippine Star\", Max Solliven, has criticized the local government of Cebu for hasting the construction of the convention center at the cost of safety while urging the government to transfer the venue of the summit to a safer place.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 316, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Tuesday", "start_char": 787, "end_char": 799, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 6", "start_char": 1324, "end_char": 1330, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 10", "start_char": 1374, "end_char": 1381, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 1901, "end_char": 1906, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1949, "end_char": 1959, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0188.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0429\n\nTYRE, Lebanon, April 4 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTwenty-six Israeli soldiers killed in Lebanon in 12 months: toll\n\n\n\n\nAt least 26 Israeli soldiers have been killed in south Lebanon since the Jewish state's offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas in the region in April 1996, security sources said Friday.\n\nAttacks against the Israeli-occupied \"security zone\" in south Lebanon, mainly by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah, have also killed 13 members of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army (SLA) militia, said the sources.\n\nAt least 83 Israeli soldiers have been injured in the attacks along with 34 members of the SLA.\n\nThe Islamic Resistance, Hezbollah's military wing, has launched 383 attacks on the buffer strip since last April's Israeli offensive -- dubbed Operation Grapes of Wrath -- according to the security service toll.\n\nA total of 24 Hezbollah fighters were killed in the attacks, it added.\n\nIsraeli shelling in response to Hezbollah attacks killed three Lebanese civilians and wounded 36 others during the same period.\n\nIsrael's 17-day offensive, launched to stamp out Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel, killed 175 people and injured 350 others, mostly civilians, and also caused an estimated 500 million dollars of damage in south Lebanon.\n\nA five-nation ceasefire monitoring committee set up under the terms of the April 26 truce agreement ending the Israeli offensive has met 14 times, and has received 12 complaints from Lebanon and eight from Israel.\n\nIsrael has occupied a \"security zone\" in south Lebanon since 1985 to protect its northern border from attacks by anti-Israeli fighters.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 4 , 1997", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1996", "start_char": 273, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 313, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last April", "start_char": 729, "end_char": 739, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period", "start_char": 1023, "end_char": 1038, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 26", "start_char": 1348, "end_char": 1356, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1985", "start_char": 1549, "end_char": 1553, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0429.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0141\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGermany's incoming FM rules out change in Iraq policy\n\n\n\n\nGermany will not change its Iraq policy under future Chancellor Angela Merkel, designated Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Wednesday.\n\n\"I believe there won't be any fundamental changes,\" Steinmeier said in an interview with German public television broadcaster ARD.\n\nThe grand coalition government of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) had agreed there would be no major changes on the Iraq policy, the future foreign minister said.\n\nOutgoing Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has refused to send any troops to join the US force to Iraq before and after the Iraq war broke out in early 2003.\n\nMerkel, who is to be elected chancellor by parliament on Nov. 22, has indicated she would repair special partnership with the United States, which had been impaired in recent years over Iraq and other issues.\n\nSteinmeier told ARD that he would make some efforts to improve relations with the United States.\n\n\"To do nothing would surely not be good advice,\" said Steinmeier.\n\nHowever, Steinmeier ruled out any major changes in transatlantic ties.\n\n\"People are intelligent enough and know enough on the other side of the Atlantic to see that we are pulling our weight in global engagement and responsibilities,\" he said.\n\nThe future foreign minister noted that the transatlantic partnership and European integration are the two pillars of German foreign policy under the new government.\n\nSteinmeier, Schroeder's close partner in the SPD, will be sworn in on Nov. 22.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 253, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2003", "start_char": 780, "end_char": 790, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 22", "start_char": 850, "end_char": 857, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 961, "end_char": 973, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 22", "start_char": 1649, "end_char": 1656, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0141.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0358\n\nRIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nJapan make quarters in beach soccer World Cup\n\n\n\n\nJapan's national beach soccer team became the second Group A team to qualify for the quarter-finals of the sport's World Cup, held on Copacabana beach in Brazilian city Rio de Janeiro, though the team lost 5-8 to Poland on Tuesday.\n\nJapan, the United States and Poland are equal on points, each with one win and two losses. Japan scraped through on goal-difference.\n\nJapan, which qualified as second in Group A, will play France, the top team of Group B, in a repeat of one of the sport's semi-final matches, which was held on the same beach in 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 336, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 658, "end_char": 662, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0358.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0123\n\nFREETOWN, April 12 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nLiberian security officials seize navy craft\n\n\n\n\nLiberian security officials seized a craft belonging to the Sierra Leone Navy Friday after it was found to be carrying drugs, a Sierra Leone military spokesman said Saturday.\n\nThe spokesman said seven baskets of marijuana were hidden in the hull of the vessel when it berthed in the Freeport of Monrovia.\n\nThe vessel had travelled directly to Monrovia from Freetown carrying food and other logistics.\n\nA Sierra Leone naval officer is now in detention and being questioned by military police of the West African Peacekeeping Force (ECOMOG). His name and rank have not been disclosed.\n\nThe military spokesman here described the incident as a \"major embarrassment\" but he did not say what charges were likely to be brought against the detained officer.\n\nECOMOG Field Commander Major-general Victor Malu quoted by Liberian radio said \"this is not the first time that officers have betrayed the confidence\" placed in them.\n\nThe arrested officer, diplomatic sources said, claimed to have been given the baskets by a woman trader in Freetown who told him that the consignment was foofoo - a starchy but edible foodstuff made up of pounded cassava - to deliver to a friend in Monrovia.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 12 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 270, "end_char": 278, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 539, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0123.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0230\n\nLHASA, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's last guaranteed jobs axed, Tibetan graduates face market\n\n\n\n\nA university degree is no longer a passport to a steady job in Tibet, the last Chinese locality to axe guaranteed jobs for college graduates.\n\nDespite the impact on the students, experts say the move will ultimately improve personnel training in Tibet and adapt it to the needs of the local job market.\n\nAbout 2,730 three-year college graduates -- those who don't get a bachelor's degree upon graduation -- became the first group of Tibetan students to face the job market this summer, and about 700 of them were still looking for work, Purbu Cering, an official with the regional education department, told Xinhua.\n\nGuaranteed jobs for all Tibetan graduates will be phased out next year, according to new regulations issued by the regional government in May to break the \"iron rice bowl\" of jobs assigned by the government.\n\nTibet staged its first ever recruitment fair for college students last week in Lhasa, with 53 companies offering more than 700 openings for sales representatives, secretaries, IT engineers, tour guides and hotel staff.\n\n\"It's hard to adapt to the changes,\" said Tibetan University graduate Lhamo Cering as she passes around her CV.\n\nLhamo Cering has failed to secure a job since her graduation four months ago. \"I've got to learn to be more sociable.\"\n\nBut Soinam Toinzhub, a senior student, said he loves the changes because \"instead of being assigned a job, students are given more opportunities\".\n\nThe regional capital Lhasa has offered training to prepare the first-time job seekers for the competition, said Dang Feng, an official with the city's labor and social security bureau.\n\nHe said about 356 graduates in Lhasa, about one third of this year's total, are still looking for jobs.\n\nEmployment was never an issue during the era of central planning, when only one percent of secondary students gained entry to university and the government assigned everyone a job.\n\nThat system changed in 1988 with the first graduate job fair at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. The last guaranteed job was axed in most Chinese cities in 2000.\n\nMinistry of Education statistics show 4.13 million college students graduated this year, three quarters of a million more than last year.\n\nThe number of college graduates in 2007 will be close to five million, about 1.24 million of whom will have no immediate job offers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this summer", "start_char": 597, "end_char": 608, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 802, "end_char": 811, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 879, "end_char": 882, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1016, "end_char": 1025, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four months ago", "start_char": 1344, "end_char": 1359, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 2047, "end_char": 2051, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 2180, "end_char": 2184, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year, three quarters", "start_char": 2265, "end_char": 2290, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2314, "end_char": 2323, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 2361, "end_char": 2365, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0230.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0198\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nS. Africa may amend law to fight money laundering, terrorism\n\n\n\n\nThe South African government may amend a financial intelligence law to give it more stringency in the fight against money laundering and the financing of international terrorism.\n\nThe review of the Financial Intelligence Center Act (FICA) could enable the Financial Intelligence Center to have wider supervisory powers, Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said at Parliament on Wednesday, the South African media reported.\n\nThe Financial Intelligence Center is an affiliate of the international Financial Action Task Force (FATF), of which South Africa is currently holding the presidency.\n\nSince its inception in February 2003, the center had received 33,435 reports of suspicious financial transactions from reporting institutions, which included banks and other financial institutions, Nqakula said.\n\nNqakula, also chairman of the justice, crime prevention and security (JCPS) cluster of ministries, said the review of the law would be part of the cluster's attempts to strengthen counter- measures against money laundering and the funding of international terrorism, reported the SAPA news agency.\n\nThe act currently provides for the reporting of \"suspicious transactions\" by financial and other institutions to the center for investigation.\n\nThese suspicious acts include money transfers exceeding 100,000 rand (about 15,000 US dollars) and the purchase of specialized goods including expensive cars.\n\nThis information, however, may not be used as evidence in court, which Deputy Justice Minister Johnny de Langa said was rather pointless.\n\n\"It is all good and well to let everyone report but if you don' t have the power to follow up, to check, to verify then it's absolutely toothless,\" he was quoted as saying.\n\nHe said the decision to extend the powers was still under debate but if the act was amended the center could become an effective tool in the fight against organized crime.\n\nIn a drive to expand the intelligence gathering capabilities in Africa, South Africa earlier this week hosted a financial intelligence workshop attended by 14 Eastern and Southern African countries, according to the government's news service BuaNews.\n\n\"It is our hope that the seed would have been planted during the sessions to build a solid foundation toward the establishment on the African continent of regimes to counter all financial transactions that relate to organized crime and terrorism,\" Nqakula said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 513, "end_char": 522, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2003", "start_char": 749, "end_char": 762, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 2121, "end_char": 2130, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0198.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0021\n\nLOS ANGELES, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAstronomers claim spotting birth of tiniest solar system\n\n\n\n\nUsing a combination of ground-based and orbiting telescopes, astronomers reported on Tuesday that they have discovered the possible birth of a tiny solar system around a failed star.\n\nThe failed star, called brown dwarf by astronomers, is less than one-hundredth the mass of the Sun. It is the smallest known star-like object to harbor what appears to be a planet-forming disk of rocky and gaseous debris.\n\nThe brown dwarf, Cha 110913-773444, is located 500 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon. One day the debris around it could evolve into tiny planets and create a solar system in miniature, said a research team led by Kevin Luhman, an assistant professor at the Pennsylvania State University.\n\nThe finding will appear in the Dec. 10 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters.\n\n\"The similarity in the disk fractions of stars and brown dwarfs is consistent with a common formation mechanism and indicates that the raw materials for planet formation are available around brown dwarfs as often as around stars,\" the researchers said in the paper.\n\nThe fact that a brown dwarf this small could be in the midst of creating a solar system challenges the very definition of star, planet, moon and solar system.\n\n\"Our goal is to determine the smallest 'sun' with evidence for planet formation,\" said Luhman.\n\n\"Here we have a sun that is so small it is the size of a planet. The question then becomes, what do we call any little bodies that might be born from this disk: planets or moons?\"\n\nIf this protoplanetary disk does form into planets, the whole system would be a miniaturized version of our solar system -- with the central \"sun,\" the planets, and their orbits all roughly 100 times smaller, he said in a statement.\n\nThe team detected the brown dwarf with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, and two telescopes in the Chilean Andes, the Blanco telescope of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory and the Gemini South telescope.\n\n\"There are two camps when it comes to defining planets versus brown dwarfs,\" said team member Giovanni Fazio of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.\n\n\"Some go by size, and others go by how the object formed. For instance, this new object would be called a planet based on its size, but a brown dwarf based on how it formed.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 10", "start_char": 865, "end_char": 872, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0021.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0118\n\nHARARE, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nZimbabwe to participate at travel showcases in China\n\n\n\n\nThe Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) will participate in two major international events this month as part of its continuous efforts to market the country as a prime tourist destination and revive the fortunes of the flagging tourism sector, an official said on Saturday.\n\nZTA marketing and communications director, Givemore Chidzidzi said they would be participating at the World Travel Market (WTM) in London from November 14 to 17 and at the China International Travel Market (CITM) in southwestern city Kunming from 24 to 27 of this month.\n\n\"We have at least 15 companies that will participate on the Zimbabwean stand at the WTM and we will also be seeking to consolidate our presence at the mega show in China,\" Chidzidzi said.\n\nHe said Zimbabwe would have to be more aggressive and tactful in its marketing campaign in China in the wake of more competitors coming on stream from Europe, which has been recently granted an Approved Destinations Status (ADS) by the Asian country.\n\n\"We have to be more aggressive now because tourists from China are simply not going to come because we have the ADS,\" he said.\n\nZimbabwe was granted the ADS by China in 2003 to become one of the eight African countries that the Chinese government approves for its citizens to travel to.\n\nMeanwhile, Chidzidzi said the delegation to Kunming would travel to Guangzhou, Beijing and Shanghai after the CITM to conduct sales calls with their Chinese counterparts.\n\nLast year the delegates held a workshop in Shanghai during which they met and discussed business with Chinese tour operators.\n\nChidzidzi said they would also take the opportunity presented by the CITM to make a follow up on the 31 Chinese buyers who participated at the 2005 Zimbabwe Travel Expo held in Harare last month.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 200, "end_char": 210, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 374, "end_char": 382, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 14", "start_char": 528, "end_char": 539, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 to 27 of this month", "start_char": 632, "end_char": 654, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1129, "end_char": 1132, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1267, "end_char": 1271, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 1558, "end_char": 1567, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1869, "end_char": 1879, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0118.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0244\n\nABUJA, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(GRAPHIC+PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nOPEC members meeting in Nigeria this week decided to restrict their output but expand their club, sending strong signals that the cartel is targeting high prices and a tighter grip on world oil resources.\n\nAt a gathering in Abuja on Thursday, ministers from the 11 member countries opted to cut their production by another 500,000 barrels per day from February and accepted African producer Angola as a new member from January 1.\n\nThe first decision sent oil prices immediately higher; the second portends further expansion, with the admission of another African producer, Sudan, possible in March.\n\nDespite protestations from the Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi that the cartel was not targeting prices, analysts were united in their opinion that OPEC members had lined up to defend 60 dollars per barrel.\n\nAt this level, oil prices are about three times higher than in 2002, but OPEC appears confident that the world economy will continue to grow and inflationary pressures stay contained.\n\n\"They've drawn a line in the sand at 60 dollars,\" said an analyst at investment bank Investec, Bruce Evers.\n\nThe decision to cut output was driven by fears of oversupply, mainly because of forecasts of higher non-OPEC production next year, slowing economic growth and mild start to winter in the northern hemisphere.\n\nFurthermore, the impetus for higher oil prices in recent times has come from low spare capacity -- the safety cushion in the world oil system -- and geopolitical tensions. The impact of both has lessened in recent times and inventories have built up.\n\nSome ministers also expressed concern about the weakening dollar, which reduces their revenues from oil exports.\n\nThe inclusion of Angola is the first time the group has expanded since Gabon joined in 1975.\n\nThe move brings in a fourth African member -- Gabon has left but Algeria, Libya and Nigeria remain -- and binds a country with fast-growing production to the OPEC production system.\n\nOPEC members regulate their oil exports and are assigned production limits under the quota system at the heart of the organisation.\n\nAngola, a former Portuguese colony gripped by civil war for 27 years until 2002, currently produces 1.4 million barrels per day (bpd) and intends to increase this to 2.0 million bpd by the end of next year.\n\n\"Angola has vast resources which have only recently started to materialise,\" commented John Hall of energy consultancy John Hall Associates.\n\nThe admission of the country increases OPEC's total production to 32 million bpd, including Iraqi production which is excluded from the quota system.\n\nThe cartel, whose members have 75 percent of proven oil reserves worldwide, will have an increased share of the world oil market of about 40 percent.\n\nAn OPEC spokesman suggested Thursday that Sudan could join in March as a 13th member after approval from new president Omar al Bashir, while a membership bid by South American producer Ecuador must clear similar political obstacles.\n\n\"Both Angola and Sudan feel that OPEC membership will give additional political benefit and protection, while for Ecuador there has to be an additional motive,\" said John Hall.\n\n\"With the administration (in Ecuador) somewhat under the influence of President Chavez of Venezuela we can surely expect some more anti-US behaviour from yet another OPEC member.\"\n\nAnother leftist South American nation, Bolivia, has also expressed a desire to join OPEC despite its modest oil 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0380\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSlaughterhouses to be moved out of Bangkok: report\n\n\n\n\nSlaughterhouses will be moved out of the Thai capital to prevent possible spread of bird flu from poultry to people, local press reported Wednesday.\n\nAfter inspecting abattoirs and stalls selling poultry meat in the Yaowarat area, Bangkok's Chinatown, Tuesday, Thai Public Health Minister Phinij Jarusombat said slaughterhouses are major sources of the bird flu virus and pose a grave risk for both area residents and passers-by.\n\n\"Unhygienic slaughtering practices are the prime cause of human infections by the H5N1 bird flu virus as slaughters, poultry sellers and buyers are all in close contact with the birds,\" he was quoted by the Bangkok Post as saying.\n\nAmong 57 poultry slaughterhouses in Bangkok, 19 are in Wattana district where traders are in direct contact with chickens without wearing any protective gear such as gloves and gowns.\n\nAs part of the national bird flu prevention scheme, the ministry plans to set up poultry slaughterhouses on the outskirts of Bangkok and placing them under strict sanitary control.\n\nThe traditional practice of buying freshly killed poultry for cooking will also be banned in a bid to avert the transmission of bird flu virus, the report said.\n\nThe Public Health Ministry and other agencies, including the Livestock Development Department and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration, will join hands to draft a plan to control all slaughterhouses in the capital as soon as possible, said Phinij.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 250, "end_char": 259, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 371, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0380.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0481\n\nWELLINGTON, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT Iran recalls ambassador to New Zealand\n\n\n\n\nIran recalled its ambassador to New Zealand Monday, following New Zealand's temporary recall of its ambassador to Tehran at the weekend in response to a German court ruling.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0481.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0135\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMalaysia stock market ends higher\n\n\n\n\nThe key indices of the Malaysia stock market closed higher on Tuesday over stronger regional markets and foreign buying interests in selected heavyweights.\n\nThe benchmark Kuala Lumpur Composite Index (KLCI) rose 9.98 points to close at 1,003.28 points after opening at 993.68.\n\nThe Second Board Index increased by 1.10 points to 87.77, the Industrial Index edged up 12.77 points to 2,096.23, and Mesdaq rose 2.06 points to 115.79.\n\nThe Emas gained 54.62 points to 6,525.33.\n\nLosers led gainers by 675 to 172, with other 259 counters unchanged, 275 untraded and 26 counters suspended.\n\nVolume stood at 875.15 million shares worth 1.22 billion ringgit (330 million U.S. dollars on Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 778, "end_char": 785, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0135.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0029\n\nTOKYO, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS, UPDATES, Asian currencies ///\n\n\n\n\nThe dollar rebounded from 20-month lows against the euro Monday afternoon as investors bought back the US currency following its recent losses, dealers said.\n\nThe euro fell to 1.3316 dollars from 1.3337 in New York Friday when it charted its highest levels since March 2005.\n\nThe dollar rose to 115.72 yen from 115.43 yen. The euro slipped to 153.89 yen from an all-time high of 154.11 in New York.\n\nThe dollar had taken another beating in the morning after Friday's surprisingly weak US manufacturing data further jolted confidence in the world's largest economy.\n\n\"But players bought back the dollar in the afternoon as they were concerned about a fast, continued decline,\" said Nobuo Kihara, a dealer at BNP Paribas.\n\n\"However, dollar-selling momentum has yet to be erased,\" Kihara said. \"There is no guarantee that the day's gains against the euro or the yen will lead to a stable rebound.\"\n\nThe European Central Bank is widely expected later this week to hike interest rates, giving further support to the single unit, while many here predict a rise in Japanese borrowing costs by early next year.\n\nFriday's fall in the dollar was triggered by the Institute for Supply Management's index of US manufacturing activity, which dropped to 49.50 from 51.2 in October, falling below the 50 mark to indicate a contraction in the sector for the first time since April 2003.\n\nPundits said the fall could end all remaining talk of further interest rate hikes from the Federal Reserve.\n\nLooking ahead, the market is now keenly awaiting US jobs data due later this week and a news conference by the European Central Bank governor, dealers said.\n\nMarkets are also braced for the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates to 0.50 percent going into early 2007, the first rate hike since July when it ended five years of zero interest.\n\nParticipants are also on alert for Japan's revised third-quarter growth estimate and the central bank's Tankan quarterly business confidence survey due later this month for fresh guidance on the interest rate outlook, dealers said.\n\nThe dollar was mixed against Asian currencies. It slipped to 1.5425 Singapore dollars from 1.5427 late Friday and to 927.65 South Korean won from 928.70.\n\nThe dollar rose to 49.650 Philippine pesos from 49.470, to 32.349 Taiwan dollars from 32.270, to 35.915 Thai baht from 35.730 and to 9,162.5 Indonesian rupiah from 9,140.0.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday afternoon", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 320, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2005", "start_char": 368, "end_char": 378, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning", "start_char": 545, "end_char": 556, "tid": "t5", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 563, "end_char": 569, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the afternoon", "start_char": 710, "end_char": 723, "tid": "t7", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1052, "end_char": 1061, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 1191, "end_char": 1206, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1209, "end_char": 1215, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1364, "end_char": 1371, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "50", "start_char": 1391, "end_char": 1393, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1950", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2003", "start_char": 1464, "end_char": 1474, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1615, "end_char": 1618, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1658, "end_char": 1667, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2007", "start_char": 1841, "end_char": 1851, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1879, "end_char": 1883, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 1898, "end_char": 1908, "tid": "t18", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 2086, "end_char": 2096, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2264, "end_char": 2270, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0029.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0194\n\nABUJA, Nov. 26 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nLeaders to discuss Darfur crisis at Afro-South American Summit\n\n\n\n\nAfrican Heads of State and Government attending the First Africa-South America Summit will discuss the Darfur crisis on Thursday, according to the summit timetable issued here on Sunday.\n\nThe timetable of the five-day summit, which kicked off here on Sunday in the Nigeria capital Abuja with pre-summit technical meeting of officials, shows that Darfur crisis will engage the African leaders when their visiting colleagues from South America will have left.\n\nSome 53 African countries and 12 South American countries are expected to attend the conference.\n\nThe timetable also indicates that ministers of foreign affairs of the countries will meet on Monday and Tuesday, and the heads of state will arrive on Wednesday.\n\nSpecial group meetings of NGOs and civil society organizations will feature before the summit of heads of state and governments.\n\nThe summit would largely discuss workable areas of cooperation and understanding that would facilitate genuine strategic development in the two regions.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 250, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 373, "end_char": 379, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 772, "end_char": 778, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 783, "end_char": 790, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 830, "end_char": 839, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0194.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0085\n\nSIEM REAP, Cambodia, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese CPC delegation visits Cambodia\n\n\n\n\nA delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC) headed by Liu Yunshan, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, arrived here on Saturday for a five-day official goodwill visit at the invitation of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) and the royalist FUNCINPEC party.\n\nLiu and the delegation were greeted at the Siem Reap International Airport by senior leaders of the CPP and the FUNCINPEC, including CPP Secretary-General Say Chhum and Vice- Prime Minister and FUNCINPEC party Secretary-General Prince Norodom Sirivudh.\n\nDuring his stay in Cambodia, Liu is scheduled to meet with King Norodom Sihamoni; Chea Sim, Senate president and the CPP's chairman; Prince Norodom Ranariddh, National Assembly president and president of the FUNCINPEC; and Hun Sen, prime minister and vice-chairman of the CPP, according to officials of the Chinese Embassy here.\n\nSiem Reap, more than 300 km north of capital Phnom Penh, is home of the world famous Angkor Wat temples.\n\nThe delegation arrived here from Thailand after ending a four- day visit there as guest of the ruling Thai Rak Thai Party.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 270, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0085.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0392\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBush's adviser expresses doubts about Iraqi PM\n\n\n\n\nU.S. President George W. Bush's national security adviser Stephen Hadley has expressed serious doubts about Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Malik's capacity to control sectarian violence in the war-torn country, the New York Times reported Wednesday.\n\nIn his Nov. 8 memorandum prepared for Bush, Hadley recommended that the U.S. take new steps to strengthen the Iraqi leader's position.\n\n\"His (Maliki) intentions seem good when he talks with Americans. ..But the reality on the streets of Baghdad suggest Maliki is either ignorant of what is going on, misrepresenting his intentions, or that his capabilities are not yet sufficient to turn his good intentions into action,\" the memo said.\n\nHadley suggests that if Maliki fails to carry out series of specified steps, it may ultimately be necessary to press him to reconfigure his parliamentary bloc, a step Washington could support by providing \"monetary support to moderate groups,\" and by sending thousands of additional U.S. troops to Baghdad to make up for what the document suggests is a current shortage of Iraqi forces.\n\nThe White House has sought to avoid public criticism of Maliki, who is due to meet Bush in Jordan later Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 345, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 8", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 370, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "later Wednesday", "start_char": 1281, "end_char": 1296, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0392.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0004\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nO'Neal to undergo left knee surgery\n\n\n\n\nShaquille O'Neal will undergo knee surgery and be out of the Miami Heat lineup for four to six weeks, according to the NBA club from Miami on Friday.\n\nThe thirteen-time NBA All-Star O'Neal, who has no date been set for the operation, has struggled to stay on the court in recent campaigns. He has missed four of Miami's first eight contests this season with a bruised left knee.\n\nTeam medical personnel determined that it was more than a bruise and recommended surgery after an MRI revealled torn cartilage.\n\nO'Neal suffered the injury when he collided with Houston Rockets forward Chuck Hayes in a November 12 game.\n\nLast season, O'Neal missed 23 games with an assortment of injuries but returned to help lead Miami to its first NBA title.\n\nThe former MVP is averaging 14.0 points, 7.5 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.0 block in 30.8 minutes per game this season.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four to six weeks", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this season", "start_char": 441, "end_char": 452, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 12", "start_char": 699, "end_char": 710, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last season", "start_char": 718, "end_char": 729, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "30.8 minutes", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 938, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT30.8M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this season", "start_char": 948, "end_char": 959, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0004.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0207\n\nOKINAWA, Japan, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nMiyazato misses cut in debut against men\n\n\n\n\nJapanese women's sensation Ai Miyazato missed the cut in the Asia-Japan-Okinawa Open on Friday in a disappointing end to her debut tournament against the men.\n\nMiyazato, whose brother shared the halfway lead in the 830,000-dollar Asian and Japanese-sanctioned event, slumped to a second-round 78 to be 16 over for two rounds.\n\nDefending champion Kiyoshi Miyazato fired a 67 at the par-71 Naha Golf Club for a share of the lead along with countrymen Yasuharu Imano and Kaname Yokoo on seven-under-par 135.\n\nAi Miyazato, the first Japanese woman to play in a men's tournament, got off to a disastrous start with a triple bogey at the par-four first.\n\nThe 20-year-old World Cup-winner had a rollercoaster run with birdies on the second, bogey on the third and birdie again on the fourth.\n\nBut she double-bogeyed the par-three eighth hole and dropped another shot on nine. She birdied 10 and 15 but bogeyed four of the last five in a demoralising finish.\n\nMeanwhile Kiyoshi Miyazato fired five birdies against a lone bogey to tie with Imano and Yokoo, who shot a 64 and 70 respectively.\n\nMiyazato had birdies on the par-four third and par-three fifth, dropping a shot on seven but enjoyed a blemish-free back nine with birdies on 11, 12 and 15.\n\n\"I was fully focused and gave it my best as I was desperate to score well today which I did,\" he said. \"I had a good day as I was able to gauge the wind and struck the ball consistently well.\n\nImano, who finished second in the recent Japan Golf Tour Money list with two victories in 2005, was blemish-free as he nailed seven birdies on the card to charge into contention.\n\nNewly crowned Asian Tour Order of Merit winner Thaworn Wiratchant of Thailand fired a fine 67 for a 136 total and shared fourth place with local hope Ryuichi Oda and Australias Chris Campbell.\n\nThe Okinawa Open is the opening leg for the 2006 season for the Asian Tour and Japan Golf Tour.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 187, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "seven-under-par 135", "start_char": 583, "end_char": 602, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15", "start_char": 987, "end_char": 989, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1915", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "64", "start_char": 1158, "end_char": 1160, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1964", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "70", "start_char": 1165, "end_char": 1167, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1970", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "11", "start_char": 1325, "end_char": 1327, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2011", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12", "start_char": 1329, "end_char": 1331, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15", "start_char": 1336, "end_char": 1338, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1915", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1415, "end_char": 1420, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1624, "end_char": 1628, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0207.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0067\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n(China-Africa) Sudanese President visits S. China province\n\n\n\n\nSudanese President Omer Hassan Ahmed El-Bashir arrived Monday at Sanya, a scenic city in China's southernmost Hainan Province, in an effort to facilitate Sudan- China cooperation.\n\nWei Liucheng, governor of Hainan Province, briefed the president in a meeting on the development of the tropical agriculture, tourism and oceanic oil resources exploration, and expressed his hope to enhance trade and economic cooperation with Sudan.\n\nEl-Bashir said China has already been a leading partner of Sudan in foreign trade and petroleum cooperation, but large room still exists for further cooperation.\n\nIn another development, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf visited Shenyang, an old industrial base in north China's Liaoning Province, to inspect local industries, especially processing, natural resources, communication and agriculture.\n\nThe two presidents attended the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation which closed on Sunday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1063, "end_char": 1069, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0067.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0457\n\nCRAWFORD, Texas, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\n///\n\n\n\n\nThe United States warned Iran Wednesday against heading into a \"downward spiral\" of non-cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog IAEA after Tehran's parliament authorized the government to limit the agency's access to its atomic sites.\n\nA White House spokesman, Scott Stanzel, urged the Islamic Republic to \"immediately\" conform to the demands of the UN Security Council to suspend its enrichment of uranium, a practice many fear is a cover for developing nuclear weapons.\n\n\"Iran has long been in non-compliance with its Non-Proliferation Treaty and required IAEA safeguard agreements,\" Stanzel said in Crawford, Texas, where President George W. Bush was spending the end of the year.\n\nFurther non-compliance by Iran \"will worsen its situation in the eyes of the world\" and generate further reports of non-compliance from the International Atomic Energy Agency, he said.\n\n\"It is hard to see how such a downward spiral is in the interest of the Iranian people,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"We hope, therefore, that the Iranian regime will set aside threats and confrontation and will begin immediately to cooperate with all the requirements of the Security Council.\"\n\nThe spokesman's comments echoed an earlier statement by the State Department.\n\n\"We assume further reductions in Iran's already insufficient cooperation would likely lead to additional IAEA reports of additional Iranian non-compliance,\" spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said.\n\nEarlier Wednesday, Iran's parliament approved a bill obliging the government to \"revise its cooperation\" with the UN nuclear watchdog in retaliation for Security Council sanctions imposed on Tehran.\n\nThe text of the bill, which also tells the government to \"accelerate\" Iran's controversial nuclear programme, was approved by an overwhelming majority in the conservative-controlled parliament, with 161 in favour and 15 against.\n\nThe move is set to further inflame tensions over the Iranian nuclear programme, which the Islamic republic has vowed to expand in defiance of the sanctions agreed by the UN Security Council last week.\n\nIran has refused to heed the council's demand to suspend uranium enrichment, a process that Western countries fear could be used to develop a nuclear weapon. Iran insists its atomic drive is entirely peaceful.\n\nThe formulation of the bill gives the government a free hand to limit cooperation with the Vienna-based IAEA. This could involve limiting UN inspections of its atomic sites, a move urged by several lawmakers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 99, "end_char": 108, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 744, "end_char": 752, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1508, "end_char": 1517, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 2120, "end_char": 2129, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0457.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0232\n\nKATHMANDU, Dec 12 , 2006, 2006\n\nNepal seeks Indian help to resolve Bhutanese refugee crisis\n\n\n\n\nNepal is seeking Indian help to resolve the problem of Bhutanese refugees languishing in eastern Nepal for more than a decade, officials said Tuesday.\n\nA seven-member team led by Bhutanese refugee leader Tek Nath Rijal met with Nepal's Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on Monday to press their demands to be repatriated.\n\n\"The prime minister said that he has been in regular touch with India and is seeking Indian government's help to resolve the refugee crisis,\" Balram Poudel, the chairman of the exiled Bhutan People's Party, told AFP.\n\nBut he quoted the prime minister as saying that New Delhi continues to view the crisis as a \"bilateral issue between Nepal and Bhutan\".\n\nMore than 100,000 Bhutanese refugees, mostly ethnic Nepalese Hindus, have been living in seven camps in southeast Nepal after leaving Bhutan in 1990 when the Buddhist kingdom launched cultural reforms encouraging the use of Bhutan's language and national dress.\n\nBhutan later expelled more ethnic Nepalese for allegedly entering the remote Himalayan kingdom illegally. Bhutan and Nepal have argued for years over each other's responsibility for the refugees.\n\nIn October, the United States said it was prepared to absorb 60,000 Bhutanese refugees, while Australia and Canada have also said they are willing to grant asylum.\n\nFresh rounds of talks between Nepal and Bhutan had been scheduled for November this year, but the talks were put off due to the Nepalese government's preoccupation with a peace deal with Maoist insurgents.\n\nFifteen rounds of bilateral talks between the two Himalayan kingdoms have already been held to address the refugee problem but failed to yield any concrete results.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than a decade", "start_char": 226, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 395, "end_char": 401, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 944, "end_char": 948, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1263, "end_char": 1270, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November this year", "start_char": 1495, "end_char": 1513, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0232.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0226\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. consumer prices drop 0.5 percent in October\n\n\n\n\nU.S. consumer prices dropped by 0.5 percent in October, registering the second consecutive monthly decline, the Labor Department reported on Thursday.\n\nThe 0.5 percent drop in the department's Consumer Price Index, an inflation barometer on consumer price levels, matched the decline in September and was better than the 0.3 percent dip expected by analysts.\n\nIt was the first back-to-back drops in consumer prices since late last year, providing evidence that inflation pressures started to ease because of declining energy prices and a slowing economy.\n\nThe October drop in consumer prices was helped by a decrease of 7 percent in energy prices, which followed a 7.2 percent decline in September.\n\nGasoline prices plunged by 11.1 percent in October, while prices of natural gas and home heating oil also posted big declines.\n\nHowever, food costs edged up 0.3 percent in October. Beef, pork and vegetable prices increased but poultry and fruit prices declined.\n\nExcluding volatile food and energy, the \"core\" consumer prices rose by 0.1 percent in October, the smallest since a similar 0.1 percent increase in February.\n\nOver the past 12 months, \"core\" inflation is up by 2.7 percent, above the Federal Reserve's comfort zone of increases in the range of 1 percent to 2 percent.\n\nPolicymakers at the central bank are hoping that the slowing economy will eventually put inflation in control. During the two years till June 2006, interest rates were increased by 4.25 percentage points, trying to produce a soft landing for the economy.\n\nThe U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of just 1.6 percent in the third quarter, compared with gains of 2.6 percent in the second quarter and 5.6 percent in the first quarter.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 400, "end_char": 409, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late last year", "start_char": 534, "end_char": 548, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 673, "end_char": 680, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 801, "end_char": 810, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 856, "end_char": 863, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 985, "end_char": 992, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1162, "end_char": 1169, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1224, "end_char": 1232, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 12 months", "start_char": 1240, "end_char": 1258, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the two years", "start_char": 1512, "end_char": 1525, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2006", "start_char": 1531, "end_char": 1540, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 1713, "end_char": 1730, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter", "start_char": 1770, "end_char": 1788, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter", "start_char": 1808, "end_char": 1825, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0226.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0086 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0086. \n Financing Business:\n@  Rogers Communications Inc. \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n RCI.B \n\n   ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS Inc. said it plans to raise 175 million to 180 million Canadian dollars (US$148.9 million to $153.3 million) through a private placement of perpetual preferred shares. \nPerpetual preferred shares aren't retractable by the holders, the company said. \nRogers said the shares will be convertible into Class B shares, but that the company has the option to redeem the shares before a conversion takes place. \nA spokesman for the Toronto cable television and telecommunications concern said the coupon rate has n't yet been fixed, but will probably be set at around 8%. \nHe declined to discuss other terms of the issue.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 95, "end_char": 103, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0106.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0186\n\nTHE HAGUE, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFight erupts between Kurds and Turks after football game\n\n\n\n\nNine people were arrested here overnight following a fight that erupted between Kurds and Turks in the wake of Tukey's win over Holland in a World Cup qualifying match, police said.\n\nThe Turkish victory (1/0) late Wednesday in the Turkish town of Bursa sparked clashes between the two communites, especially in a neighborhood where six members of a Turkish Kurd family died last week in a suspicious fire.\n\nPolice said several vehicles were damaged by about a dozen Turks and Kurds.\n\nFights also erupted in the eastern town of Arnhem.\n\nThe incidents came as a Turkish parliamentary delegation was in the Netherlands to assess progress being made by police investigating the March 26 fire that killed a woman and five of her six children.\n\nDutch Interior Minister Hans Dijkstal was to meet later Thursday with members of the Turkish community to inform them of security measures being taken to protect their neighborhoods.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 331, "end_char": 340, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 491, "end_char": 500, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 26", "start_char": 791, "end_char": 799, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 912, "end_char": 920, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0186.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0290\n\nTIRANA, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAlbania's central bank gets new governor\n\n\n\n\nAlbanian President Sali Berisha on Friday appointed a new head for the country's central bank, which has been without a governor for two months, a presidential spokesman told AFP.\n\nQamil Tusha, 40, will replace Kristaq Luniku, who left Albania two months ago for the United States, a Tusha aide said.\n\nTusha was previously deputy director of the Albanian Trade Bank, a state institution. According to opposition Socialist newspapers, Tusha is a close associate of Berisha.\n\nLuniku, 35, had warned of the dangers of pyramid schemes -- the bogus savings schemes whose collapse sparked widespread unrest in January that developed into a full-scale insurgency.\n\nAccording to the Albanian press, he went to the United States to take up a post as adviser to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 134, "end_char": 140, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months", "start_char": 232, "end_char": 242, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months ago", "start_char": 343, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 703, "end_char": 710, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0290.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0371\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambian president salutes DRC counterpart on re-election\n\n\n\n\nZambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Monday congratulated Joseph Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for his re-election in the October presidential run-off.\n\nState-owned Zambia News and Information Services (ZANIS) cited a message from Mwanawasa as saying that Kabila's re-election was a clear testimony of the confidence that the people of DRC have in his proven leadership ability.\n\nMwanawasa said Zambia has followed the democratic process that has taken place in the DRC, adding that Kabila's re-election was a reflection of people's willingness to participate and consolidate democracy in that country.\n\nMeanwhile, Mwanawasa assured his counterpart of his support as he will work towards reconciliation and development.\n\nThe Supreme Court of the DRC confirmed on Monday that incumbent Kabila was the winner of the October 29 presidential run-off with 58 percent support, rejecting the challenge by Vice President Jean- Pierre Bemba.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 153, "end_char": 159, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 910, "end_char": 916, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 29", "start_char": 961, "end_char": 971, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0371.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0194\n\nANKARA, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFIFA to investigate clash in Turkey\n\n\n\n\nInternational football's governing body is to launch a full investigation into clashes between Turkish and Swiss players following their play off qualifying match for next year's World Cup final, Turkish private NTV reported on Thursday.\n\nThe report said that should it be found at fault, Turkey could be banned from taking part in the 2010 World Cup.\n\nThe physical match, which saw Turkey win the game but lose out on a place in the finals in Germany on away goals, was followed by a brawl involving a number of players and officials from both sides on Wednesday.\n\nSwitzerland's Stephane Grichting was hospitalized after the mayhem, reportedly after being kicked in the groin and Swiss coach Kobi Kuhn was also hit by coins thrown by the crowd as he left the pitch after the match.\n\nIn announcing the investigation, FIFA president Sepp Blatter on Thursday condemned the incidents, saying he had been horrified by the events following the game.\n\n\"Something is going wrong in football,\" he said, adding, \"I've never seen anything like it.\"\n\nBlatter vowed that if sanctions were found to be warranted, they would be applied in full.\n\n\"I can tell you this, not as a Swiss, but as the president of FIFA that we will act here and we will act tough,\" he said.\n\nFIFA has it in its power to ban any country's football association from taking part in competitions or events, up to and including a ban on taking part in the 2010 world Cup.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 263, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 324, "end_char": 332, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 650, "end_char": 659, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 944, "end_char": 952, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0194.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0296\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Dec 16 , 2006, 2006\n\nSouth African cricket championship scores\n\n\n\n\nScores after third day of South African four-day cricket championship matches on Saturday:\n\nAt Newlands, Cape Town\n\nCape Cobras v Highveld Lions\n\nLions 508 in 155.5 overs (J.Ontong 155, N.McKenzie 135, V. van Jaarsveld 54; M.Zondeki 4-82). Cobras 215 in 57.4 overs (R.Kleinveldt 63; C.Henderson 6-87, F. de Wet 3-57) and 128 in 33.1 overs (B.Hector 36; T.Henderson 5-37, C.Henderson 4-40)\n\nLions win by innings and 165 runs\n\nAt Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein\n\nFree State Eagles v KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins\n\nEagles 500-5 dec in 147 overs (H.Dippenaar 132, M. van Wyk 88, N.Boje 80 no). Dolphins 170 in 53 overs (A.Amla 45; R.McLaren 5-57, D. du Preez 3-41) and 211 in 69.4 overs (J.Kent 52, D.Brown 51 no; McLaren 4-59, W.Deacon 3-35)\n\nEagles win by innings and 119 runs\n\nAt SuperSport Park, Centurion\n\nNorthern Titans v Eastern Cape Warriors\n\nWarriors 348 in 113 overs (M.Goodwin 77, L.Meyer 72 no, A.Jacobs 70; J.Morkel 4-59) and 105 in 31 overs (A.Thomas 5-50, M.Morkel 3-23). Titans 195 in 40.4 overs (J.Kemp 100 no; L.Tsotsobe 5-45) and 261-6 in 69.5 overs (F. du Plessis 103, M. van Jaarsveld 52; J.Botha 3-60)\n\nTitans win by four wickets", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third day", "start_char": 117, "end_char": 126, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0296.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0226\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBy Li Xuejun\n\n\n\n\nWith the visit to the United States by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday and Tuesday and the expected visits to Germany by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, relations between the United States and Germany are showing signs of warming up after new German Chancellor Angela Merkel took office.\n\nSteinmeier, who held talks with Rice on Tuesday, raised the sensitive issue of secret CIA prisons in Europe and the CIA transporting of suspected Islamic extremists through Germany but without notifying the German authorities.\n\nHowever, both Rice and Steinmeier chose the unusual move of not holding a press conference after their meeting as sharp questions from the press might eclipse a sense of good will and cooperation between the two countries after Merkel was sworn in on Nov. 22.\n\nInstead, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack informed the reporters of the meeting and promised that the United States would make a response to European concerns.\n\n\"The United States realizes that these are topics that are generating interest among European publics as well as parliaments, and that these questions need to be responded to,\" McCormack said at Tuesday's briefing.\n\n\"These are certainly legitimate questions that are posed by the press in public. And we will do our best to respond,\" McCormack said.\n\nPolitical analysts have pointed out that the new style indicates that the new German leadership prefers to discuss its differences with the United States in private rather than airing their differences in public as in the past.\n\nUS media has also reported that Steinmeier's visit to the United States was also aimed at paving the way for Merkel's visit to the White House early next year.\n\nIn other signs of improving US-Germany relations, Zoellick starts his visit to Germany from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1 and will meet Merkel to strengthen bilateral relations.\n\nMoreover, Rice will also travel to Germany, Romania, Ukraine and Belgium from Dec. 5-9 to highlight the \"enduring importance of transatlantic relations.\"\n\n\"Secretary Rice's visit to Germany will be an opportunity to meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel and members of her government to discuss ways to build our long-standing friendship,\" the State Department said in a statement on Monday.\n\nMerkel, after she was elected as German chancellor, has promised to repair Germany-US relations badly battered because of the Iraq war. Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has been a strong critic of the Iraq war launched by the Bush administration.\n\nHowever, thorny issues between the United States and Germany might impede the rapid improvement of bilateral relations. On Iraq, Merkel is unlikely to reverse course of Schroeder's policy of not sending troops to Iraq and becomes too close to the United States as in her coalition government, Schroeder's camp holds important positions such as foreign minister and treasury minister.\n\nOn Iran's nuclear issue, Germany has insisted that Iran has the right for civilian nuclear power, but the United States has accused Iran of developing nuclear weapons under the civilian cover.\n\nMoreover, the United States has voiced opposition to Germany's bid to become a permanent member of the UN Security Council.\n\nNonetheless, as US President George W. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0315\n\nSOUTHAMPTON, Britain, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nLabour leader sets out \"seven pillars of a decent society\"\n\n\n\n\nBritish opposition leader Tony Blair Wednesday set out \"seven pillars of a decent society\" to promote prosperity and security as he attacked the ruling Conservatives for displaying \"all the leadership qualities of lemmings.\"\n\nOn the day nominations closed for the May 1 general election, which Blair's Labour is widely predicted to win, the party leader spelt out his alternative vision of a more equal society.\n\nIn one of four keynote speeches of the campaign, Blair warned the divided society he said the Tories had created, directing all prosperity to a \"charmed circle\", was morally wrong and could not prosper economically.\n\nCampaigning in the port of Southampton on Britain's south coast, he said it was time to give back \"a heritage of hope\" to Britain's children.\n\nBlair's seven pillars of a decent society are: a world-class education system; a comprehensive national health service; security and dignity in retirement; security and freedom from the fear of crime; quality housing; a welfare state without dependence; and strong social institutions, from the family upwards, promoting mutual responsibility and a spirit of public and voluntary service.\n\nBlair claimed the Conservatives saw inequality as a sign of success and accused them of denigrating the health service, the basic pension and public education. If they were re-elected, an American-style \"underclass\" would develop in Britain, he warned.\n\n\"Britain is more divided today than at any time since the war,\" he said. \"We have had for 18 years a politics of self instead of a politics of society.\"\n\nBlair also used the opportunity to seize on fresh Tory divisions over Europe after two government Euro-sceptic ministers defied Major's policy of waiting to see how European Monetary Union (EMU) developed before deciding whether to join.\n\n\"We are witnessing the collapse of the Conservative party under the weight of its own divisions,\" said Blair.\n\n\"We are seeing the culmination of six years of weak leadership, a prime minister reduced to a laughing stock by his MPs, his party now a rabble.\n\nBlair concluded that it was a \"defining moment\" of the campaign.\n\n\"Britain deserves better leadership and I believe the choice is now clear: strong and united leadership with Labour or a Tory Party that displays all the leadership qualities of lemmings.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 60, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 168, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 395, "end_char": 400, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1573, "end_char": 1578, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "18 years", "start_char": 1638, "end_char": 1646, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six years", "start_char": 2086, "end_char": 2095, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2183, "end_char": 2186, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2328, "end_char": 2331, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0315.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0408\n\nAMMAN, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nLate Jordan blitz sinks Oman in AFC Asian Cup qualifier\n\n\n\n\nJordan drubbed Oman 3-0 and gained a measure of revenge in the AFC Asian Cup 2007 final Group C qualifier here late Wednesday.\n\nIn the previous round, Oman had sneaked into the finals with a 2-1 win over the already-qualified United Arab Emirates, rendering inconsequential Jordan's rousing 3-0 defeat of Pakistan.\n\nAll the three Jordanian goals were scored in the last 10 minutes. Amer Deeb was the first to hit the net in the 80th minute, followed in quick succession by Rafat Ali (84) and Hassona Al Shaikh (90).\n\nJordan finished third with 10 points while Oman could not improve on the 12 points they had before today's match.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Wednesday", "start_char": 226, "end_char": 240, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 10 minutes", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 495, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 80th minute", "start_char": 539, "end_char": 554, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT80M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 731, "end_char": 736, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0408.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0192\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Palestinians enjoys freedom as Rafah Crossing opens\n\n\n\n\nBy Saud Abu Ramadan\n\nRAFAH, Gaza Strip, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- It is the first time in the history of the Palestinian cause that the Palestinians enjoy freedom, as an agreement to re-operate Rafah Crossing on the borders between Gaza and Egypt was officially implemented on Friday.\n\nPresident Mahmoud Abbas, who arrived at the crossing on Friday afternoon for the inauguration ceremony, said that opening of the crossing is a key to achieve peace, security and economic development in the region.\n\nIt is the first time ever that the Palestinians control the border crossing of Rafah, which was under the Israeli army control for dozens of years. Israel withdrew from the crossing and the entire Gaza Strip on Sept. 12.\n\nAn agreement had been reached between Israel, Egypt and the Palestinians two weeks ago with the mediation of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who had visited the region and pushed hard on the two sides to hammer out the agreement.\n\nAccording to the agreement, the Palestinians would be fully responsible for their part of the crossing and the Egyptians would control their side, while EU observers will be present at the crossing.\n\nThe EU observers will watch the Palestinian passengers' movement at the crossing, where Gaza Strip residents, who are officially registered as citizens in Gaza, will be allowed only to travel through the crossing.\n\nNabil Abu Rudeineh, a Palestinian official spokesman told reporters that after inauguration ceremony was held on Friday afternoon, the Rafah Crossing will officially start working on Saturday morning.\n\n\"Palestinians can cross through Rafah Crossing from Saturday and it would be opened for four hours in the first ten days as a test and then it will be opened for 24 hours a day,\"said Abu Rudeineh.\n\n70 EU observers will observe the crossing during the first ten days, the number of the observers will be minimized to 50 when the crossing is fully opened.\n\n\"The first and last decisive word will be in the Palestinians hands. The European presence will never be an alternative to the Palestinian presence, and the Europeans will never be representing the Israeli side at the crossing,\" added Abu Rudeineh.\n\nEU Middle East envoy Marc Otte and some Arab and foreign representatives participated in the ceremony at the Rafah terminal.\n\n\"We are here to help you but not to replace you, it is the Palestinian (National) Authority to be in charge of the border,\" Otte told Abbas and scores of other high-ranking Palestinian officials.\n\nOtte said that \"we want to leave as soon as we can, because when we go it means we have succeeded. Our success is your success. \"\n\nEgypt's chief of intelligence Omer Suleiman and other high- ranking Egyptian security officers were also present at the ceremony.\n\nMahmoud Al-Zahar, leader of the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas), who took part in the ceremony, was seen shaking hands with Palestinian Minister of Civil Affairs Mohamed Dahlan.\n\nReplied the questions by reporters that if his presence at the crossing meant his movement accepted the Rafah agreement to re- operate the crossing, al-Zahar said \"our presence here is symbolic and doesn't mean that we accept the whole agreement.\"\n\n\"We are here to say that we only accept the positive parts of the agreement, but if the crossing would be isolated the Palestinians from the Arab world, we will of course fight against the Israeli occupation,\" said al-Zahar.\n\nThe Islamic Jihad (Holy War) said in a leaflet that it boycotts the ceremony, because the agreement is still incomplete and vague.\n\nAt the same time, Jihad criticized stationing cameras that reporting to Israelis about the movement of the Palestinians at the crossing.\n\nDahlan, as the PNA Minister of Civil Affairs said Friday that operating Rafah crossing on the borders between Gaza and Egypt is the first step towards establishing the dependent Palestinian state.\n\n\"We open the crossing is to re-creat life for the Palestinian people towards freedom and independence and the establishment of an independent state that borders Egypt,\"said Dahlan, adding the step was supported by Jordan, Egypt and the European Union.\n\nHaving a crossing and a free access for the Palestinian people is their right and an important step to achieve peace in the Middle East, Dahlan stressed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 25", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 392, "end_char": 398, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday afternoon", "start_char": 457, "end_char": 473, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-02TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 12", "start_char": 827, "end_char": 835, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 911, "end_char": 924, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday afternoon", "start_char": 1605, "end_char": 1621, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday morning", "start_char": 1675, "end_char": 1691, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1746, "end_char": 1754, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four hours", "start_char": 1782, "end_char": 1792, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT4H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first ten days", "start_char": 1796, "end_char": 1814, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 hours a day", "start_char": 1856, "end_char": 1870, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first ten days", "start_char": 1941, "end_char": 1959, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 3863, "end_char": 3869, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0192.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0318\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS charge against Gazprom, details, analysis ///\n\n\n\n\nBritish-Dutch oil group Shell has made new proposals for Russia's Gazprom to enter the massive Sakhalin-2 energy project it heads, Gazprom said Monday.\n\nThe offers followed months of pressure on Shell from environmental regulators that analysts said was aimed at giving Gazprom control of the 22-billion-dollar (16.6-billion-euro) project.\n\n\"On December 8, a meeting took place between Gazprom chairman Alexei Miller and Shell chief executive officer Jeroen van der Veer,\" who made \"a number of proposals concerning the Sakhalin-2 project,\" Sergei Kuprianov, a spokesman for the state gas monopoly, said in a statement.\n\n\"At the present time these proposals are being analyzed. A decision will be taken in view of the existing problems at the Sakhalin-2 project, including ecological,\" Kuprianov said.\n\nThe British-Dutch energy giant, which controls 55 percent of the vast oil and gas development off Russia's Pacific coast, hit a deadlock in fall 2005 in talks with Gazprom on trading a share of Sakhalin-2 for onshore Gazprom gas assets.\n\nThe project came under fire from environmental regulators several months later, leading analysts to interpret the environmental campaign as a negotiating tactic to help Gazprom gain the best possible terms.\n\nRegulators have rejected the claim and pointed to violations on the part of state companies as well, such as top environmental official Oleg Mitvol's claim Monday that \"serious violations of environmental law\" had been found at Gazprom sites in western Siberia, according to Interfax.\n\nStill, MDM Bank oil and gas analyst Andrei Gromadin said the campaign against Shell \"was essentially a catalyst\" in compelling the company to return to the negotiating table.\n\nBecause Sakhalin-2 was initiated as a production-sharing agreement (PSA) -- a contract between the state and foreign investors that is difficult for the state to change -- \"there was very little opportunity for the state to influence the project,\" Gromadin said.\n\nShell and Gazprom had reached a preliminary agreement last year to trade a 25-percent stake in Sakhalin-2 for half of Gazprom's Zapolyarnoye gas field in western Siberia.\n\nTalks broke down in September 2005 when Shell more than doubled its initial cost projection for Sakhalin-2 to 20 billion dollars.\n\n\"The fact that Shell is proposing something -- whereas earlier they were keeping silent -- means they are willing to give something up,\" Gromadin said. \"If this actually means a controlling stake, Gazprom should be quite satisfied.\"\n\nBoth Gromadin and Aton Bank oil and gas analyst Artyom Konchin said they believed Gazprom would end up with a stake of around 30 percent, which would make it the project's chief operator.\n\nSakhalin-2's recent regulatory problems have raised questions as to whether the operating consortium will be able to fulfill commitments to begin shipping liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Asia in 2008.\n\nShell owns a 55 percent stake in the consortium, while Japanese firms Mitsui and Mitsubishi hold 25 percent and 20 percent respectively.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 263, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 8", "start_char": 464, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "fall 2005", "start_char": 1062, "end_char": 1071, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several months", "start_char": 1218, "end_char": 1232, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1524, "end_char": 1530, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2148, "end_char": 2157, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 2005", "start_char": 2286, "end_char": 2300, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 3014, "end_char": 3018, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0318.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0347\n\nATHENS, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFolli Follie receives retail sales license in China\n\n\n\n\nFolli Follie announced on Tuesday that it has received retail sales licenses in the Chinese market and the immediate beginning of retail operations in China.\n\nFolli Follie is a Greek company which designs, manufactures and distributes jewelry, watches and fashion accessories under the Folli Follie brand. The Folli Follie brand's core values are \" affordable, fashionable luxury.\"\n\nCommenting on the news, G. Koutsolioutsos, Folli Follie vice- chairman, expressed satisfaction over this development, noting that his company was among the few multinational companies to acquire a retail sales license in China.\n\nFolli Follie became famous in China after a popular Chinese TV series which was produced in Aegean island of Santorini.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 138, "end_char": 145, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0347.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0263\n\nPARIS, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChirac meets with Talabani in Presidential Palace\n\n\n\n\nFrench President Jacques Chirac met with his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talabani Thursday afternoon in the Presidential palace l'Elysee.\n\nAccompanied by four ministers, Talabani arrived in Paris Wednesday afternoon for a three-day official visit. It is the second visit of an Iraqi president to France since 2003.\n\nIn a speech in the French Institute of International Relations earlier the day, Talabani expressed his wishes to build up a new momentum in France-Iraq relations.\n\nDuring the meeting, Chirac and Talabani are to discuss the situation in Iraq, the French Presidential office said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday afternoon", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-26TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday afternoon", "start_char": 300, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 413, "end_char": 417, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0263.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0169\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndian premier to visit Japan\n\n\n\n\nIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will visit Japan from Dec. 13 and hold talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Kyodo News reported Tuesday.\n\nSingh and Abe are to talk about a bilateral free trade agreement and are expected to discuss a strategic dialogue framework to strengthen ties on security, energy and economic issues, Japanese Foreign Ministry spokesman said on a press conference.\n\nSingh is also scheduled to meet with Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 13", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 232, "end_char": 239, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0169.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0733\n\nLONDON, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPoll suggests Conservative voters returning to the fold\n\n\n\n\nA newspaper opinion poll published Wednesday, eight days before the British general election on May 1, \"electrified\" the hitherto predictable campaign by appearing to suggest that previously discontented Conservative voters were returning to the fold.\n\nAn ICM poll for the left-of-centre Guardian newspaper suggested a dramatic fall in support for the main opposition party Labour to just five percent.\n\nAccording to the survey, Labour's lead had fallen nine percent, with Labour support falling three points to 42 percent of voting intentions. The Conservatives were up six on 37 and the centrist Liberal Democrats on 14.\n\nThe result, the first time the Labour lead has been measured in single figures since Tony Blair took over as leader three years ago, was balanced by a Gallup poll in the right-wing Daily Telegraph which put Labour's lead at 21 percent.\n\nThis suggested Labour had increased its lead still further, rising three points to an absolute majority of 51 percent, while the Tories were down two points on 30 percent and the Liberal Democrats steady on 12 percent.\n\nThe last two Gallup polls have shown Labour steady at 16 points ahead but the latest survey of 1,129 voters on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday indicated a shift in mood.\n\nThe ICM poll was carried out on 1,004 voters on Sunday and Monday.\n\nICM reported that nearly half of voters who had chosen Conservative at the last election in 1992 but who had switched to Labour or Liberal Democrat at the beginning of the campaign almost five weeks ago now indicated they would vote Conservative again.\n\nICM also found John Major was judged to be the best prime minister ahead of Blair, and that the Conservatives would be the best party to handle the economy and represent Britain in Europe.\n\nThe result backs up assertions by Major that the polls, which have given Labour leads of up to 28 percent, do not reflect the reception Tory candidates have garnered around the country. A party spokesman declined to comment on the latest findings.\n\nA Labour spokesman said: \"It is extremely difficult to take any clear message from tonight's polls. They are so contradictory.\"\n\nThe British press claimed the ICM poll had thrown open the campaign. The Guardian called the result a \"bombshell for Labour\", the right- wing Daily Mail said the poll had \"electrified\" the campaign, and the Telegraph quoted Conservative sources who claimed it showed their tactic to focus on Europe and Blair's credibility were paying off.\n\nICM's result is the lowest any pollster has recorded for Labour for five years, but the company has consistently shown a Labour lead of at least 10 points lower than those reported in other surveys.\n\nIn the last election in 1992, polls predicted a Labour victory but the Conservatives eventually won.\n\nIn this election, sources from both parties have said the polls were still exaggerating the Labour lead and political analysts agree that there will be no landslide of the kind indicated by a 20-point lead.\n\nMany have said the poll gap between the two main parties will narrow as election day approaches, as has happened in eight of the last nine general elections.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 149, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight days", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "37", "start_char": 692, "end_char": 694, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1937", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "14", "start_char": 733, "end_char": 735, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1914", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years ago", "start_char": 854, "end_char": 869, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday, Monday", "start_char": 1306, "end_char": 1320, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1325, "end_char": 1332, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1409, "end_char": 1415, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1420, "end_char": 1426, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1521, "end_char": 1525, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five weeks ago", "start_char": 1617, "end_char": 1631, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1632, "end_char": 1635, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 2660, "end_char": 2670, "tid": "t15", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 2816, "end_char": 2820, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0733.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0117\n\nBELFAST, Dec 3 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES, ADDS quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nTens of thousands of mourners packed the rain-soaked streets of Belfast to say an emotional farewell to Northern Ireland's favourite son George Best on Saturday.\n\nIn what came close to a state funeral, Best's cortege drove from the family's humble home to the splendour of Stormont, the Northern Irish parliament, with the people of the province giving the soccer legend one last standing ovation as the hearse passed by.\n\nTears were shed along the route as fans from the working-class Protestant Cregagh estate and beyond said a final goodbye to their home-grown hero, the Belfast Boy who dazzled the world.\n\nFlowers and football scarves were thrown onto the hearse before old teammates and his family carried the coffin into the palatial Parliament Buildings to the tune of a piper's lament as driving rain fell.\n\nThree hundred guests squeezed into the Great Hall with the emotional service being broadcast to an expected 30,000 people allowed in the Stormont grounds.\n\nMaster of ceremonies Eamonn Holmes underlined Best's importance to Northern Ireland and the nature of the man who hit the highs of international stardom to the lows of wanton -- and equally public -- alcoholism.\n\nBelfast-born broadcaster Holmes called Best \"probably the greatest footballer who ever lived\".\n\n\"In Ulster folklore we have many heroes, many legends. George Best will pass into that folklore as mercurial, as magical, as someone who made his dreams, and as someone who made our dreams come true.\n\n\"George would always recognise that however much a genius he may have been, he was also flawed. Maybe that imperfection made us love him more.\n\n\"In a country that often cannot rise above religion or politics, George Best did more than most to bring us together as a people. To make us recognise that maybe there is more that unites us than divides us.\n\n\"We want to show the world how delighted we are that he came from a country of just 1.5 million people and became the best footballer the world has ever seen.\"\n\nFormer teammates, ex-wives, dignitaries and friends filled the cream-marbled hall.\n\nFighting back the tears, Best's son Calum, 24, read Mary Frye's poem \"Do not stand at my grave and weep.\"\n\nOld United colleague Denis Law brought smiles as he reminisced on his pal Bestie's character and his battle against the illness that claimed his life.\n\nBest died aged 59 on November 25 from multiple organ failure, after suffering a series of health problems in a London hospital.\n\nThe Best family earlier held a private ceremony at their home on the east Belfast estate where Best honed his skills against the terraced house walls.\n\nThe funeral cortege left shortly after 10:00 am (1000 GMT) from Cregagh, whose Loyalist paramilitary murals had been painted over and flags taken down for the occasion.\n\nMourners lined the length of the three-mile (five-kilometre) route to Stormont, which was selected as the site of a funeral for the first time because of the huge crowds expected.\n\n\"George was a Belfast boy,\" said Dawn Purvis, 39, secretary of a small Protestant political party, as she watched through the umbrellas while the cortege slowly left Cregagh.\n\n\"We all had an affinity for him. He had charisma, talent, but a great weakness too,\" she told AFP.\n\n\"In a way, he was a tragic hero.\"\n\nConsidered the first \"pop-star\" footballer, Best brought Northern Ireland a dash of glamour and sporting wizardry as it descended towards sectarian bloodshed.\n\nBest is considered as being among football's finest ever players.\n\n\"Maradona good; Pele better; George Best\" read a soaked flag at the end of Best's old street.\n\nBest's alcoholism brought on a string of health problems which led to a liver transplant in 2002. He was back on the bottle within a year, however, despite having been told another drink could kill him.\n\nBest made his professional debut for Manchester United in 1963, aged 17, going on to help the club become the first English side to lift the European Cup in 1968. In the same year he was voted European Player of the Year.\n\nDubbed \"El Beatle\", his playboy lifestyle involved an unquenchable thirst for alcohol and beautiful women.\n\nHe won 37 Northern Ireland caps before heavy boozing took its toll and he unexpectedly quit United for good at the early age of 28.\n\nBest will be buried next to his mother, Ann, in the Roselawn cemetery in the Castlereagh hills overlooking east Belfast and the fields where he first shone as a footballer.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 239, "end_char": 247, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 25", "start_char": 2447, "end_char": 2458, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 3783, "end_char": 3787, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 3822, "end_char": 3828, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1963", "start_char": 3953, "end_char": 3957, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1963", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1968", "start_char": 4052, "end_char": 4056, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1968", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same year", "start_char": 4061, "end_char": 4074, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the Year", "start_char": 4107, "end_char": 4115, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0117.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "bbc_20130322_721\n\n2013-03-22\n\nRussian police raid rights group Memorial and other NGOs\n\n\n\nRussian police and tax inspectors have raided the offices of the human rights group Memorial and other civil society groups which get foreign funding.\n\nMemorial is famous for documenting human rights abuses in Russia.\n\nThe US embassy in Moscow has voiced concern and asked the Russian government for an explanation.\n\nA new Russian law says foreign-funded non-governmental groups (NGOs) linked to politics must register as \"foreign agents\" - a term which suggests spying.\n\nIn the worst repressions of the Soviet period the label \"foreign agents\" was used to denounce dissidents - or simply political rivals of Joseph Stalin - and could lead to execution.\n\nMemorial says inspectors returned to its Moscow offices on Friday, having already seized 600 documents including accounts on Thursday.\n\nA statement on the Memorial website said the inspections were directly linked to the new law on NGOs and the targeted groups' compliance with it.\n\nMemorial director Arseny Roginsky, quoted by the Russian news website Vesti, said it was \"a complete check on everything concerned with our sources of funding\".\n\nHe insisted that the NGO law \"will not change our position at all\". \"We won't refuse foreign donations, nor will we register as a 'foreign agent',\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "2013-03-22", "start_char": 18, "end_char": 28, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 804, "end_char": 810, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 870, "end_char": 878, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "bbc_20130322_721.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "APW19980227.0487 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/27/1998 08:09:00 \n\nw2392 Cx1f wstm-\nu i Cx13  Cx11  BC-Israel-Rabin     02-27 0300\n\n\n BC-Israel-Rabin,0300 \n\nFriend of Rabin's assassin regretted praying for Rabin's death\n\nUR By DANNA HARMAN QC\nUR Associated Press Writer QC\n\n\nJERUSALEM (AP) _ Taking the stand in her own defense, a friend\nof Yitzhak Rabin's assassin said Friday that she regretted calling\nthe prime minister a traitor and praying for his death.\nMargalit Har-Shefi, 22, has pleaded innocent to charges that she\nfailed to report Yigal Amir's plan to kill Rabin. She took the\nstand for more than four hours Friday in a Tel Aviv magistrate's\ncourt.\nAmir, 27, is serving a life sentence for the November 1995\nassassination of Rabin at a Tel Aviv peace rally. Newspaper reports\nhave said Amir was infatuated with Har-Shefi and may have been\ntrying to impress her by killing the prime minister.\nHar-Shefi acknowledged she told police interrogators that Rabin\nwas a traitor and that she prayed for him to have a heart attack\nand die. She said Rabin's murder was ``a black stain on Israel,''\nIsrael radio and Israel army radio reported.\nHar-Shefi said she heard Amir talk about killing Rabin but did\nnot tell the police because she did not believe he was serious.\nInstead, she turned to her community rabbi in the Jewish West Bank\nsettlement of Beit El and told him about Amir's statements. The\nrabbi said called the talk about killing Rabin ``nonsense,'' and\nsaid Jews are prohibited from killing one another, the radio\nreports said.\nHar-Shefi described Amir as an ``original thinker,'' as well as\ndelusional and a liar.\nShe also denied accusations made by Amir's brother, Hagai, that\nshe joined an anti-Arab underground movement. She said she gave the\nAmir brothers false information regarding the location of a weapons\nand ammunition cache when they asked her to help organize such a\nmovement.\n\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-Israel-Rabin; CT:i;\n(REG:MEST;)\n(REG:INDI;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(REG:AFRI;)\n(REG:ASIA;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-02-27-98 0809EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "02/27/1998 08:09:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t69", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-27T08:09:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 358, "end_char": 364, "tid": "t70", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t69"}, {"text": "more than four hours", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 606, "tid": "t71", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT4H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 607, "end_char": 613, "tid": "t72", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t69"}, {"text": "November 1995", "start_char": 693, "end_char": 706, "tid": "t73", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980227.0487.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0246\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina to launch special inspection over rural tax reform\n\n\n\n\nChina will kickoff a special inspection of rural tax and fee system reform in some provinces, the Ministry of Finance announced on Tuesday.\n\nThe State Council will send 6 inspection teams to 12 provinces from November 21 to December 5 to check out the reform progress concerning rural tax and fee collection, according to the ministry.\n\nTo alleviate the burden on Chinese farmers, the government has been reforming its rural tax and fee systems for years in an effort to eliminate growing administrative and arbitrary fees.\n\nSince the beginning of this year, the government has stopped collecting the agricultural tax in all provinces except three, where agricultural tax ratios have been lowered to 2 percent. Next year, the whole country is expected to annul the agricultural tax.\n\nAs local governments collect less taxes and fees from farmers, they are facing fund shortages in supporting education and infrastructure construction. To solve this problem, the central government has allocated huge sums of money to alleviate the fund shortages of local governments.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 256, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 21", "start_char": 327, "end_char": 338, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 5", "start_char": 342, "end_char": 352, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the beginning of this year", "start_char": 649, "end_char": 675, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Next year", "start_char": 829, "end_char": 838, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0246.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0111\n\nMADRID, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nThree air passengers arrested in Spain for bomb joke\n\n\n\n\nThree air passengers were put into police custody at Malaga airport in Spain on Saturday, for one of them joked that he had a bomb on board a plane from Stockholm.\n\nThe crew has overheard that one passenger told his friends he had a bomb on board the plane, according to Niels Blix, a spokesman for Sterling Airlines flight.\n\nHowever, the captain of the flight decided to carry on to Malaga and landed without incident. The Spanish police then detained the three passengers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 193, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0111.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0031\n\nDHAKA, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nBangladesh cabinet members quit over army deployment\n\n\n\n\nFour members of Bangladesh's interim cabinet have quit in protest at the president's decision to deploy the army to restore order ahead of January's elections, an interim cabinet member said.\n\n\"We have sent our resignation letter to the president, because we think that no situation has been created in the country that warranted an army deployment,\" interim cabinet member Sultana Kamal said.\n\nPresident Iajuddin Ahmed ordered the deployment late on Saturday to help the civil administration restore order after the country's opposition parties threatened non-stop protests to force electoral reforms.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 247, "end_char": 254, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 559, "end_char": 567, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0031.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0362\n\nLISBON, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nagency\n\n\n\n\nAround 10 percent of Portuguese intravenous drug users are infected with HIV, the virus which causes AIDS, European Union experts said on Thursday.\n\n\"Portugal reported a very high rate of new infections with 88 new infection cases per million citizens,\" the European Rapporteur for Drugs and Drug Dependency (OEDT) said in a report published on Thursday, based on 2003 data.\n\nThe OEDT said that Portugal had 33 AIDS cases per million citizens in 2003, a number which has been falling since 1999, as many HIV carriers have not developed into full-blown AIDS.\n\nThe European Drug Information Agency said in a report on Thursday that \"indices of newly-diagnosed cases remained at low levels in recent years,with the exception of Portugal\".\n\nThe OEDT said that while AIDS infection statistics showed some reduction, the news about hepatitis remained very bad. A very large percentage of intravenous drug users are infected with hepatitis B and C only a few years after they began injecting.\n\nAlmost 5 million people were infected with HIV globally in 2005, taking the number living with the virus to a record 40.3 million, according to UN data.\n\nThe Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) has killed more than 25 million people in the world since it was first found in 1981, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 412, "end_char": 420, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 513, "end_char": 517, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 557, "end_char": 561, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 683, "end_char": 691, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 757, "end_char": 769, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a few years", "start_char": 1013, "end_char": 1024, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1113, "end_char": 1117, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1981", "start_char": 1335, "end_char": 1339, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1981", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0362.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0150 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0150. \n GM Seeks to Buy Up to 15% of Jaguar,\n@  Heating Up Its Skirmishing With Ford\n@  ----\n@  By Joann S. Lublin\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n GM JAGRY F EUROP \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nAUTOMOBILES (AUT) \n LONDON  \n\n   General Motors Corp. wants to buy as much as 15% of Jaguar PLC, marking its first salvo in a possible full-scale battle against Ford Motor Co. for control of the British car maker. \n\n   GM sought U.S. antitrust clearance last week to purchase more than $15 million worth of Jaguar shares but does n't own any yet, according to GM officials here and at the company's Detroit headquarters. \nThe No. 1 U.S. auto maker then wrote Jaguar that it intends \"to go to that 15%\" level once it wins the U.S. clearance to go beyond $15 million, a Jaguar spokesman said yesterday. \n\n   The GM move follows Tuesday's declaration by Ford, which holds an unwelcome 12.45% stake in Jaguar, that it is prepared to bid for the entire company. \nGM is close to completing a friendly deal with Jaguar that is likely to involve an eventual 30% stake and joint manufacturing ventures. \nSpeculative investors, betting on an imminent clash between Ford and GM, pushed up Jaguar's share price five pence (eight U.S. cents) to a near-record 720 pence ($11.60) in late trading on London's stock exchange yesterday. \nSince Tuesday, the shares have gained nearly 4%. \n\n   But an all-out bidding war between the world's top auto giants for Britain's leading luxury-car maker seems unlikely. \n\"We will not go over a certain level,\" said David N. McCammon, Ford's vice president for finance, at a news conference yesterday in Dearborn, Mich.\n\"There's some price at which we'd stop bidding.\" \nHe would n't specify what it was. \n\n   And powerful political pressures may convince the Conservative government to keep its so-called golden share, which limits any individual holding to 15%, until the restriction expires on Dec. 31, 1990. \n\n   \"I really do n't see the government doing something that Jaguar does n't want over the next 14 months,\" said Kenneth Warren, a Conservative member of Parliament and chairman of the Select Committee on Trade and Industry in Britain's House of Commons. \n\"The golden share is a single share, but it is the magic share.\" \n\n   The government retained the single share after selling its stake in Jaguar in 1984 -- part of a nationalistic practice of protecting former government-owned enterprises to deflect criticism of privatization. \nThe 15% restriction covers any would-be suitor, British or foreign. \n\n   Ford is willing to bid for 100% of Jaguar's shares if both the government and Jaguar shareholders agree to relax the anti-takeover barrier prematurely. \nAs Jaguar's biggest holder and Britain's biggest car maker, Ford could turn up the heat by convening a special shareholders' meeting and urging holders to drop the limits early. \nFord might succeed because many shareholders are speculators keen for a full bid or institutional investors unhappy over Jaguar management's handling of its current financial difficulties. \n\n   The government probably would n't give in readily to a hostile foray by Ford, however. \nIt has relinquished a golden share only once before -- during British Petroleum Co.'s #2.5 billion ($4 billion) takeover of Britoil PLC in 1988. \n\n   In wooing British lawmakers, GM has pointed out that its willingness to settle for a minority stake would keep Jaguar British-owned and independent. \nThis week, the U.S. auto giant paid for 10 House of Commons members and two House of Lords members to fly to Detroit and tour its operations there. \nWhile the visit was unrelated to Jaguar, GM Chairman Roger Smith answered the legislators' questions about it over lunch Tuesday. \nHe said Jaguar \"should n't be smothered by anyone else , \" recalled one participant. \n\n   Politics also influences the government's thinking on the anti-takeover restriction. \nThe Conservatives do n't dare jeopardize marginal Tory seats in Coventry, where Jaguar has headquarters, nor can the government easily back down on promised protection for a privatized company while it proceeds with controversial plans to privatize most of Britain's water and electricity industries. \n\n   Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher might , however , be receptive to any request by Jaguar Chairman Sir John Egan for the restriction's early removal to let GM amass more than 15% or mount a friendly suitor bid against Ford. \nIn the end, Sir John -- rather than the government or Jaguar 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0159\n\nTAIYUAN, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCreator of China's largest porn website jailed for life\n\n\n\n\nThe creator of China's largest pornographic website was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday.\n\nJudges at the Taiyuan Intermediate People's Court handed down the sentence to Chen Hui and ordered the confiscation of 100,000 yuan (12,500 U.S. dollars).\n\nThe other eight organizers of the website were jailed for terms ranging from 13 months to ten years.\n\nThe nine were convicted of profiting from pornographic dissemination.\n\nApart from one who is over 50, the average age of the other eight criminals is just 23.\n\nChen, 28, and his accomplices started the Qingseliuyuetian (pornographic summer) website in 2004 and opened a further three porn websites, attracting more than 600,000 users.\n\nA police source said it was difficult to know the exact illegal profits of the website because most of the money was spent or saved in foreign bank accounts.\n\nThe police found about 200,000 yuan (25,000 U.S. dollars) in the Chinese bank accounts of the nine.\n\nA member of the public complained to city police on June 21 last year that a hospital website had changed to become the homepage of a porn website.\n\nPolice questioned the administrator of the website, Wang Jianfei, who allegedly admitted he was in charge of the \"Qingseliuyuetian\" Taiyuan section.\n\nThree months later, police in the provinces of Fujian, Guangdong, Jilin, Liaoning, Anhui and Hubei arrested Chen and other organizers.\n\nAll the servers of \"China's largest adult community\" were based overseas and Chen regularly changed the website's domain name, servers and Internet provider address, the police said.\n\nAt first the four websites accepted about 200,000 registered members free of charge, but demanded 199 to 266 yuan (25 to 33 U.S. dollars) in registration fees from people who joined later.\n\nSome paid more for a life membership. According to the police, a \"top-level VIP membership\" sold at 3,999 yuan (500 U.S. dollars).\n\nCommercial space on the website sold for 1,000 to 3,000 yuan (125 to 375 U.S. dollars) per month.\n\nOn Oct. 3 last year, when the website was closed down, the registered members exceeded 600,000 around China.\n\nThe website contained more than nine million pornographic images and articles and it had received more than 11 million clicks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "ten years", "start_char": 465, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 729, "end_char": 733, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 21 last year", "start_char": 1125, "end_char": 1142, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22T21:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Three months", "start_char": 1372, "end_char": 1384, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "month", "start_char": 2105, "end_char": 2110, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 3 last year", "start_char": 2116, "end_char": 2132, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0159.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0681\n\nSEOUL, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNorth Korea says more three-way talks needed before peace talks\n\n\n\n\nNorth Korea on Thursday said it wanted to take part in four party- peace talks, but that three-party talks between South and North Korea and the United States should continue until confidence has been built.\n\n\"It is our stand to hold 'four-way talks' for peace and security of the Korean peninsula. We, therefore, put forward a way of realising the talks,\" the North's Vice Minister of foreign affairs, Kim Kye-Gwan told the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).\n\n\"In order to make the talks more effective and productive, we proposed to have more rounds of negotiations among the DPRK (North Korea), the United States and South Korea before beginning the 'four-way talks',\" Kim said.\n\nArguing his case, he said \"The confidence needed for 'four-way talks' has not yet been built between the DPRK and the United States and, still worse, our equal footing at the talks has not been guaranteed.\"\n\n\"We are ready to have further contacts to this end,\" added Kim who is also the head of the North Korean delegation to last week's failed talks in New York designed to induce Pyongyang to accept the four- party formula.\n\nThe four-party talks would involve South and North Korea as direct interlocutors, with the United States and China in a support role.\n\nIn New York, a North Korean official said Wednesday that China should join the talks only after Washington recognizes the North.\n\nSouth Korea's Yonhap News Agency quoted Han Sung-Ryol, head of the North Korean UN mission, as repeating Kim's insistence that such steps were needed to put the North on an \"equal footing\" before the four- party talks take place.\n\nThe North put forth the \"three-plus-one\" formula during the last round of meetings with South Korean and US officials in New York on Sunday, Han said.\n\nHe noted that while the United States and China recognize South Korea, Washington has no diplomatic ties with Pyongyang. On top of it, the United States still maintains a trade embargo on the North, he said.\n\nThe four-party talks could open only after Washington establish ties with Pyongyang and recognizes its socialist system, and only after peaceful co-existence takes root and the North is assured that it would not be absorbed by the South, he said.\n\nHan also told Yonhap in a telephone interview that massive food aid to the hungry North must be realized to build up mutual trust before all countries concerned move toward the four-way talks.\n\nFood aid should not be used as a leverage to force the North to accept talks, he said.\n\nThe New York meeting broke up aftr North Korea failed to give a widely-anticipated answer to the US-South Korea talks proposal aimed at replacing the 1953 Korean War armistice with a formal peace treaty.\n\nAlthough no date has been set for a next meeting, Han said the North was willing to resume contact at any level.\n\nHan noted that North Korean and US officials would sit down for talks on the repatriation of remains of US troops killed during the Korean War of 1950-53 and on restricting North Korean missile exports in New York in May.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1130, "end_char": 1139, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1409, "end_char": 1418, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1861, "end_char": 1867, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 3155, "end_char": 3158, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0681.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0204\n\nROME, Dec 26 , 2006, 2006\n\nItalian PM says he wants media strikes to end\n\n\n\n\nItalian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said on Tuesday he wanted to see a speedy end to a conflict between Italian journalists and media bosses which has led to repeated strikes.\n\n\"I am happy that the strike is over because five days without newspapers is very worrying,\" Romano Prodi said. \"I want you to find a rapid resolution to this disagreement,\" he told journalists according to the ANSA newsagency.\n\nNewsstands were empty for five days when the written press went on strike on Thursday, Friday and Saturday before their two-day Christmas holiday.\n\nTelevision and newspaper journalists have resorted to industrial action several times to demand the renewal of a collective bargaining charter nearly two years after it expired in 2005.\n\nThe journalists' representatives are demanding greater job security for journalists as well as legal recognition of freelancers, while the management stresses the need for flexibility and controlling costs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 26 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five days", "start_char": 321, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five days", "start_char": 531, "end_char": 540, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 582, "end_char": 590, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 592, "end_char": 598, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 603, "end_char": 611, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two-day Christmas holiday", "start_char": 625, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly two years", "start_char": 796, "end_char": 812, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 833, "end_char": 837, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0204.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0369\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nfinal\n\n\n\n\nDefending champions Al-Ahly's coach is facing huge pressure before a decisive game with Sfaxien of Tunisia on Saturday in the second and decisive leg of the Champions League final.\n\nAhly's Portuguese coach Manuel Jose has thrown all his cards into the fray and is waiting for a royal flush, local English newspaper The Daily Star reported on Thursday.\n\nEarlier this week, the Egyptian Football Association agreed to postpone Ahly's game with Giza-based Enppi in order to give the \"Red Devil\" players enough rest before their away game with Sfaxien.\n\nAhly, however, were held to a 1-1 draw with Sfaxien on Oct. 29 in the first leg of the African Champions League final.\n\nOwing to the draw, Ahly's home advantage was wasted and its hopes to win a second successive African Champions League title received a big blow.\n\nDespite the urging of local experts that the game would have been a good way to prepare and get in form for the Nov. 11 game with Sfaxien, Jose pushed to get his way and will likely be held accountable should the Egyptians come home empty-handed.\n\nBut there is another aspect to consider -- Ahly, Egypt's best soccer club based in Cairo, needs a serious morale booster.\n\nMoreover both Zamalek and Ismailia, Ahly's main competitors in the Egyptian league, failed to win their games this week. Had Ahly played and won this week, the team would have jumped up to second place in the league standings, only one point behind Ismailia and ahead of Zamalek.\n\nWith three postponed games still in hand for Ahly, such a scenario could have certainly boosted the team's morale before their Saturday game.\n\nThe 1-1 draw with Sfaxien on Oct. 29 was deemed unforgivable by Ahly club senior members and by the 85,000 fans that attended the game.\n\nThe Portuguese coach also suspended midfielder Hassan Mostafa before game one and Ahly's midfield has clearly been hurt on both the offensive and defensive fronts.\n\nThe embattled coach is clearly firing all guns.\n\nHe announced after the poor showing in the first leg of the final that he is the person responsible for Ahly's achievements in the past few years.\n\nIn spite of all this, the Egyptian press and Ahly's management sound relatively supportive of the coach and the players. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0187\n\nOTTAWA, Nov. 19 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nH5N1 bird flu found in wild birds in central Canada\n\n\n\n\nWild birds in Canada's central province of Manitoba have tested positive for a low-pathogenic subtype of the H5N1 avian flu virus, a health official said on Saturday.\n\nThe strains are from the family of North American H5N1 viruses, not the forms circulating in Southeast Asia, said Dr. Brian Evans, chief veterinary officer at the Canadian Food Inspection Agency ( CFIA).\n\n\"I want to emphasize that the H5N1 subtype detected in Manitoba is completely distinct from the strain currently present in Asia,\" said Evans\n\n\"From a genetic perspective, there are significant strain differences in their structure,\" he said.\n\nIn addition, officials isolated an H5N3 subtype in two birds from Quebec, as part of a cross-country surveillance program to find what avian flu viruses are being carried by wild ducks in this country.\n\n\"Finding only low pathogenic avian influenza means that these viruses would cause only mild disease, if any at all, if introduced into domestic birds,\" Evans said.\n\nMeanwhile, a commercial farm in British Columbia's Fraser Valley remains under quarantine after a duck was found infected with a strain of H5 bird flu on Friday.\n\nNorth American H5N1 viruses have so far proven to be much milder viruses than their distant Asian counterparts, avian influenza experts say.\n\n\"We've got 32 years of surveillance work that says these North American strains in wild birds in the past have never been a threat,\" Dr. Richard Slemons, an avian influenza expert at Ohio State University, told The Canadian Press.\n\n\"Does that mean they won't be a threat in the future? No it does not. But history says they aren't a risk,\" he said.\n\nThe Asian H5N1 viruses, which are highly pathogenic, have infected 130 people in five countries since 2003 and 67 of those people have died.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 277, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1251, "end_char": 1257, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "32 years", "start_char": 1413, "end_char": 1421, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P32Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1676, "end_char": 1686, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1854, "end_char": 1858, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0187.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0184\n\nROME, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nItalian jobless rate plunges to lowest level since 1992\n\n\n\n\nItaly's unemployment rate fell to 6.8 percent of the workforce in the third quarter, its lowest reading since 1992, from 6.9 percent in the second, the statistics agency Istat said Wednesday.\n\nThe number of people holding jobs increased 2.0 percent to 23 million from third quarter 2005.\n\nThe increase reflected employment gains by foreign residents and people over 50 as well as short-term contracts given to workers under the age of 40, according to the agency.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 176, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 220, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third quarter 2005", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0184.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0155 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0155. \n Technology amp Health:\n@  Compaq Computer\n@  Posts a 51% Surge\n@  In 3rd-Period Net\n@  ----\n@  By Robert Tomsho\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CPQ \n COMPUTERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CPR)\nEARNINGS (ERN) \n HOUSTON  \n\n   Compaq Computer Corp. said that its net income rose 51% in the third quarter, bolstered by unusual gains from its investment in a disk-drive maker and reflecting continued growth in its European operations. \n\n   The computer maker said net jumped to $87 million, or $2.02 a share, from $58 million, or $1.40 a share, a year earlier. \nSales increased 36% to $683 million from $502 million. \nThe latest quarter's results, however , included a pretax gain of $13.7 million, or 20 cents a share, in the carrying value of the company's investment in Conner Peripherals Inc. and a $7.6 million gain, or 11 cents a share, from the sale of one million Conner shares. \n\n   Net for the nine months was $254 million, or $5.94 a share, up 56% from $163 million, or $4.06 a share, a year earlier. \nSales rose 50% to $2.1 billion from $1.4 billion. \nNet for the year-earlier nine months also included a gain of $9.7 million, or 15 cents a share, in the carrying value of the Conner investment. \n\n   Michael Swavely, president of Compaq's North America division, attributed the company's third-quarter performance to continued increases in international sales, which accounted for 43% of the company's sales, a 74% increase from a year earlier. \n\n   \"Over the next couple of years we would not be surprised to see Europe and international {sales} represent 50% of the company's revenues,\" he said. \n\n   During the third quarter, Compaq purchased a former Wang Laboratories manufacturing facility in Stirling, Scotland, which will be used for international service and repair operations. \nMr. Swavely said the new space will allow Compaq to increase the manufacturing capacity of its plant in Erskine, Scotland. \n\n   In New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, Compaq shares fell $1.625 to $108.625.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 202, "end_char": 210, "tid": "t50", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 395, "tid": "t106", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t50"}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 636, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t58", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t106"}, {"text": "The latest quarter", "start_char": 709, "end_char": 727, "tid": "t64", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t50"}, {"text": "the nine months", "start_char": 991, "end_char": 1006, "tid": "t68", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 1087, "end_char": 1101, "tid": "t72", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t64"}, {"text": "the year-earlier nine months", "start_char": 1163, "end_char": 1191, "tid": "t247", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t50"}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 1392, "end_char": 1405, "tid": "t82", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t50"}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 1533, "end_char": 1547, "tid": "t83", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t82"}, {"text": "the next couple of years", "start_char": 1560, "end_char": 1584, "tid": "t86", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 1714, "end_char": 1731, "tid": "t87", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t50"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 2065, "end_char": 2074, "tid": "t91", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-25", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t50"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0904.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0315\n\nRIGA, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Hang Seng index records biggest single-day drop\n\n\n\n\nby Xinhua Writer Pan Xiaoyan\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 28 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong's Hang Seng index Tuesday slipped 2.94 percent, the largest single-day drop since the \"9.11\" attack in 2001, dampening the market's enthusiasm promoted by the bull trend for over one month.\n\nDragged by the falling down of Asian markets and Wall Street, Hang Seng index dived 564.48 points to close at 18,639, with a turnover of 58.9 billion HK dollars (7.59 U.S. dollars). The index of H-shares fell 380 points to close at 8,133 due to the selling pressure on financial stocks.\n\nHang Seng Index opened 207 points lower in the morning session at 18.996, lost its position above 19,000 bench mark. H-shares followed the trend by starting 143 points lower at 8,370 and continued falling down until the end of the trading.\n\nChinese financial stocks, which took the lead of going up, sunk the most, with financial index of H-shares declining 207 points, or 2 percent, wiping out the previous gains in one session.\n\nEven the successful land auction by the Hong Kong government Tuesday can not suspend the going down of the stock market. One of the land was sold at a price of 75 percent higher than the base price but only sees the stocks of real estate falling down at larger pace.\n\nCheung Kong, the property giant of Hong Kong's tycoon Li Ka-shing, fell 5.08 percent after the company gained one of the auctioned land. However, Li said he believed the successful land auction Tuesday reflects the property industry's confidence in Hong Kong's economy.\n\nFinancial analyst Lee Wei-shing said though the plummeted markets in Asia and the United States are part of the reason for the fall of Hong Kong stocks, the selling of hedge funds is considered the main factor enlarging the scope of decline.\n\nHe believed the market needs a consolidation after a bull run of 4,200 points up, starting from 15,205 in June. Lee said the property stocks did not take the advantage of land auction because the auction's price is much higher than the market's expectation.\n\nCo-director of Friedmann Pacific Investment Holdings Limited Haung De-ji said a series of fresh stocks to be listed in next two weeks, which draw a large part of the capital from the market, speeded up the falling.\n\nHowever, he believed the market will rebound after a period of consolidation due to the healthy development of both Hong Kong and Chinese Mainland's economy in the long run.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 28", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 211, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one month", "start_char": 365, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the trading", "start_char": 881, "end_char": 903, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1558, "end_char": 1565, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1984, "end_char": 1988, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 2261, "end_char": 2270, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0315.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0256\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambia to enforce law on speed limit\n\n\n\n\nThe Zambian government would soon enforce a law to limit the speed of public transportation vehicles, local media reported on Wednesday.\n\nThe law would demand all public transport operators to equip their vehicles with a speed limiter, reports said.\n\nEsther Nkandu, chairman of the Road Transportation and Safety Agency, told a meeting on Tuesday that the government was currently in the process of implementing the law.\n\nThe law would be enforced with the help of 500 newly recruited traffic police officers who are about to be deployed around the country, Nkandu said.\n\nThe public transportation operators, however, argued that the law should not be imposed only on public transportation vehicles, insisting that it must be extended to all vehicles on the road.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 223, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 436, "end_char": 443, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0256.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0472\n\nCAIRO, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nEgyptian dancer gets 15-percent belly depreciation\n\n\n\n\nEgypt's most famous belly dancer, Fifi Abdu, has received a 15-percent tax cut from the government for wear and tear on her most exposed asset, her midriff.\n\n\"As we do for all belly dancers, we granted Fifi Abdu a 15-percent reduction in taxes every year for wear on her stomach, which is the tool of her work,\" an Egyptian tax official told AFP.\n\n\"But the reduction offered to her is much greater than that of her colleagues because of the great amount of money she earns,\" said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.\n\nFifi Abdu took in 4.5 million Egyptian pounds (1.32 million dollars) between 1993 and 1996, according to the Egyptian government weekly Al- Mussawar.\n\nShe dances in extravagant costumes backed by a large orchestra, usually for select audiences willing to pay top dollar.\n\nEgyptian singers such as Amr Diab also have received tax breaks of 10 to 15 percent for wear and tear on their voices.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "year for", "start_char": 358, "end_char": 366, "tid": "t1", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 717, "end_char": 721, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 726, "end_char": 730, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0472.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0194\n\nBANGKOK, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMoody's downgrades three Thai banks, calls for stricter regulation by Matthew Pennington\n\n\n\n\nMoody's Investors Service Friday lowered the long-term debt ratings of three major Thai banks and called for tougher regulation amid concerns over deteriorating asset quality.\n\nThe New York-based ratings agency said in a statement announcing the downgrades that more rigorous requirements and enforcements were needed \"to restore confidence in the regulation and supervision of Thai banks.\"\n\nBank of Ayudhya had its long-term senior debt and deposit ratings lowered from Baa1 to Baa2, while Thai Military Bank and Siam City Bank were downgraded from Baa2 to Baa3.\n\nMoody's said the action reflected the \"anticipated impact that Thailand's weakening financial fundamentals, declining property and stock markets, deepening crisis in the finance company sector and continuing economic slowdown will have on the three banks' asset quality, capital levels and profitability.\"\n\nIt follows Moody's downgrading of Thailand's long term sovereign debt rating from A2 to A3 two weeks ago.\n\nThai regulators had moved in \"the right direction\" to encourage mergers and more stringent disclosure and provisioning requirements in the troubled financial company sector, Moody's said.\n\nBut the transparency of Thai financial statements was \"generally poor.\"\n\n\"Thai banks are allowed a great deal of regulatory forbearance in such items as the need to create loan loss reserves and regarding non- accrual of loans,\" the statement said.\n\nThe central Bank of Thailand had disclosed that the level of non- performing loans at Thai banks was 7.7 percent in June 1996 but individual banks do not currently disclose this information, Moody's said.\n\nHowever the central bank had announced that information disclosure on asset quality would be necessary with financial statements from June 30, it added.\n\nUnofficial estimates have put the level of bad debt in the financial system at more than 700 billion baht (27 billion dollars).\n\nFriday's downgradings had been widely expected following an announcement from Moody's in March that it was reviewing the three banks' ratings and the decision was largely discounted in trading on the bourse, which closed down 0.6 percent, analysts said.\n\nMoody's also lowered the short-term ratings of Bank of Aduyhya and Thai Military Bank from Prime-2 to Prime-3, while confirming Siam City's Prime-3 rating. The financial strength ratings and subordinated debt of all three banks were lowered.\n\nThe agency said it expected the levels of non-performing assets for the three banks to rise by another 50-to-100 percent over levels at the end of 1996 levels.\n\nThe impact on banks of problems in the property sector would be likely to continue for several years, due to oversupply and the effect of high domestic interest rates used by the central bank to defend the baht, the statement said.\n\nThe banks would also suffer a \"contingent liability\" for the troubled finance company sector suffering funding and capital deficiencies.\n\nOn the positive side, Moody's pointed to the good lending margins of Thai banks -- with a system wide average of more than 3.5 percent -- and a supportive regulatory environment.\n\n\"These factors will help the banks generate the core profits to absorb the potential losses which may materialize as well as maintain confidence in the banking sector,\" Moody's said.\n\nAlso, Thailand still enjoys strong underlying fundamentals and a robust rate of economic growth, it said.\n\nA dealer with Adkinson Securities said the Moody's action had not compounded the underlying weakness in the stock market.\n\n\"The market is struggling more on the expectation of broadly weaker first quarter earnings and news that the economy was still performing badly,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 1111, "end_char": 1124, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 1996", "start_char": 1682, "end_char": 1691, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 30", "start_char": 1906, "end_char": 1913, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2055, "end_char": 2061, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 2144, "end_char": 2149, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 1996 levels", "start_char": 2689, "end_char": 2711, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several years", "start_char": 2801, "end_char": 2814, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0194.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0303\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nOil prices drop over stronger US crude inventories\n\n\n\n\nWorld oil prices fell on Wednesday over stronger US crude inventories, which helped to offset concerns about shortfalls in heating fuel supplies this winter.\n\nNew York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in January, fell 13 cents to close at 58.71 dollars a barrel.\n\nIn London, the price of Brent North Sea crude for January delivery lost 20 cents to end at 56.21 dollars a barrel.\n\nUS inventories of crude oil, gasoline and distillate products all rose over the past week, the Department of Energy said.\n\nThe higher inventory levels suggest that US oil companies have been able to rebuild their stocks thanks to milder weather, after their operations were battered by hurricanes in August and September.\n\nAt Wednesday's price levels, crude futures have shed almost 18 percent since striking historic highs of 70.85 dollars in New York on August 30 after Hurricane Katrina tore through US Gulf Coast energy facilities.\n\nPrices have since dropped owing in part to unusually warm weather during October and much of November across the northern hemisphere.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 138, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this winter", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-WI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 332, "end_char": 339, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 442, "end_char": 449, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past week", "start_char": 584, "end_char": 597, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August and September", "start_char": 808, "end_char": 828, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 834, "end_char": 843, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 30", "start_char": 964, "end_char": 973, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1118, "end_char": 1125, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0303.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0169\n\nHARARE, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nZimbabwean opposition MDC bars leader from all activities\n\n\n\n\nThe pro-senatorial poll faction of the Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe's largest opposition, rebuffed leader Morgan Tsvangirai's claims that there was no quorum when the party suspended him on Sunday.\n\nFaction spokesperson Gift Chimanikire said there was a quorum when the party barred Tsvangirai from all party activities.\n\n\"Only one person who was not well was not available when the quorum sat and as such Tsvangirai remains suspended from all party activities until such time when a decision about his future is taken,\" said Chimanikire.\n\nChimanikire said \"he can go and hang. We held the disciplinary meeting in his absence because he disregarded it. We will soon give him the last chance to appear under the same disciplinary committee.\"\n\nShould he fail to respond, Chimanikire said, this would be his last chance after which necessary measures would be taken.\n\nHe, however, refused to elaborate on the action Tsvangirai would face.\n\n\"He is barred from all party activities until further notice and should not represent the party in any capacity,\" he said.\n\nChimanikire said the latest move meant that Gibson Sibanda, the second in command, had assumed the presidency and overall control of the party.\n\nHe said that the faction would not attend the emergency meeting that Tsvangirai called.\n\n\"If he goes ahead with his decision, he will not get a quorum. This is what happened when he convened the last meeting.\"\n\nHe claimed that Tsvangirai's bodyguards were made members of the national council at this meeting.\n\nTsvangirai's spokesperson William Bango refused to comment on the latest developments.\n\n\"I don't comment on those issues. In fact I have no comment,\" Bango said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 320, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0169.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0363\n\nSTOCKHOLM, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSwedish protestors urge Dutch to release environmentalist\n\n\n\n\nSwedish environmentalists rallied outside the Dutch embassy here on Friday to urge the Netherlands to release the founder of their group, Paul Watson, wanted in Norway for illegal protest actions against whaling, police said.\n\nHalf a dozen environmentalists of the Sea Shepherd group brandished banners outside the embassy urging \"Please Holland, free Paul Watson.\"\n\nWatson, a 46-year old Canadian citizen who is also the co-founder of Greenpeace, was arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on April 2 under an international arrest warrant.\n\nHe is wanted by Norwegian authorities, who have requested his extradition in connection with a collision in July 1992 between his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society boat and a whaler during an operation by environmentalists against whale-hunting.\n\nWatson had been sentenced in Norway to 120 days imprisonment for damage to the whaling ship Nybraenna. He is also wanted in Norway for two other illegal protest actions against whaling.\n\nIn July 1994, a Sea Shepherd boat rammed a Norwegian coast guard vessel during an operation by environmentalists against whale-hunting, and in January 1994 he sabotaged the whaler Senet.\n\nDutch diplomat Rienko Wilton told AFP that Friday's demonstration was \"very peaceful.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 187, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2", "start_char": 615, "end_char": 622, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1992", "start_char": 771, "end_char": 780, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1994", "start_char": 1100, "end_char": 1109, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1994", "start_char": 1240, "end_char": 1252, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1328, "end_char": 1334, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0363.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0186\n\nHARARE, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZimbabwe tractor firm in deal with China counterparts\n\n\n\n\nSaltlakes Holdings (Private) Limited, a predominantly Zimbabwean agricultural investment company, has ramped up its ties with the Chinese market by signing an exclusive dealership agreement with JiangSu Changfa Group (JCG), The Sunday Mail reported on Sunday.\n\nThe deal entails the distribution of farming equipment and implements, among them tractors under the Changfa brand, Saltlakes chief executive Temba Mliswa revealed. Apart from the co-operation of his Chinese partners, Mliswa said they (Saltlakes) were thankful for the unstinting support and open-door policy of personnel at the Zimbabwean embassy in Beijing.\n\nUnder the arrangement, Saltlakes would not only sell or restrict itself to the Zimbabwean market, but also target four other Southern African countries, such as Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia and Zambia. The services can also be extended to Angola, Kenya, Malawi, South Africa and Tanzania.\n\nThis distribution channel not only gives the Zimbabwean firm access to a wider Southern Africa Development Community market, but is also one of the largest deals in the region.\n\nBased in Jiangsu Province, JCG is an integrated industrial group specializing in the manufacture of agricultural equipment, cooling systems, internal combustion engines and real estate investments.\n\nJCG produces high-calibre tractors of pulling power or capacities exceeding 80 horsepower, with engines comparable to the world-renowned Perkins brand.\n\nThe group also features among China's top five tractor producers or companies that its tie-up with Saltlakes will provide the latter's contracted farmers, under an agriculture ministry- backed tobacco outgrower scheme, with a one-stop shop for procuring necessary equipment such as tractors.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 372, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0186.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0478\n\nMELBOURNE, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES to tea ///\n\n\n\n\nMatthew Hayden hit his first century of the series and 27th of his Test career to wrest control of the fourth Ashes Test away from England on Wednesday.\n\nHayden combined with Andrew Symonds to get Australia off the hook after England had the home side on a shaky 84 for five in the morning session.\n\nBut as has happened so often in the series already wrapped up by the Aussies, England's bowlers failed to deliver the knockout blow.\n\nHayden and Symonds shared in an unbroken 142-run stand for the sixth wicket to take the game away from the tourists.\n\nHayden continued his love affair with the Melbourne Cricket Ground, scoring his fifth century in eight Tests to join Allan Border as Australia's fourth-highest century-maker behind current captain Ricky Ponting (33).\n\nOnly Ponting, Steve Waugh (32) and Don Bradman (29) have scored more Test centuries than Hayden, who with Border ranks as the top-scoring left-hander of Test hundreds for his country.\n\nAt tea, Australia were sailing along at 226 for five, a lead of 67, with Hayden unconquered on 109 off 189 balls with 11 boundaries and a six. Symonds was not out 61.\n\nDefending a modest first innings 159, England shook up Australia before lunch taking the wickets of the three top-averaging batsmen, Ricky Ponting (7), Mike Hussey (6) and Michael Clarke (5) to have the home side under rare pressure.\n\nAll three went into the Melbourne Test boasting century-plus averages in the series -- Ponting (104.80), Hussey (138.33) and Clarke (124.33).\n\nBut Hayden and Symonds regained command of the innings, scoring 115 runs in the middle session.\n\nSymonds, who went to the crease with a Test average of just 18 in 11 matches, took 21 balls to get off the mark but unleashed the full range of his trademark one-day international shots to drain England's confidence.\n\nEarlier, skipper Andrew Flintoff removed Ponting cheaply in the seventh over of the day.\n\nThe Aussie skipper attempted to pull from well outside the off-stump only to sky a catch to Alastair Cook at mid-wicket.\n\nHussey was bowled between bat and pad by Matthew Hoggard with one that straightened on him.\n\nIt was the third time in the series that Hussey has been bowled in the series, twice by Hoggard and once by Flintoff.\n\nSteve Harmison, who has failed to recapture the form of last year's Ashes series in England, produced a gem of a delivery to remove Clarke in the next over.\n\nHarmison found extra bounce with his second ball to get an edge off Clarke's prodding bat for wicketkeeper Chris Read to take the catch and leave the Aussies at 84 for five and trailing England at that stage by 75 runs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "first century", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 126, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1C", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 232, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning", "start_char": 368, "end_char": 379, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 1986, "end_char": 1993, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2386, "end_char": 2395, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "84", "start_char": 2649, "end_char": 2651, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0478.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0050\n\nNEW DELHI, April 20 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENTGujral stakes claim to form new Indian government\n\n\n\n\nUnited Front coalition leader Inder Kumar Gujral on Sunday staked claim to form India's new government, a leader of the alliance said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 20 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0050.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0013\n\nSINGAPORE, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFinancing curbs seek to stem speculation in Singapore public housing\n\n\n\n\nSingapore is to fine-tune its much-envied public housing system by tightening financing procedures to curb speculation on the heavily subsidised flats which are home to nine out of 10 citizens.\n\nThe new rules unveiled Saturday are aimed at deterring the use of subsidised loans to buy and sell the simple but comfortable flats to reap capital gains.\n\nThe regulations also intend to endure that flat-buyers borrow within their means, officials and analysts said.\n\n\"The basic policy of public housing is to provide a roof over your head, not to help you make a profit,\" Chan Hiap Kong, senior director of the property consultancy Colliers Jardine, told the Sunday Times.\n\n\"It will introduce more prudence into the market and extract the speculative element,\" Chan said of the measures announced by National Development Minister Lim Hng Kiang.\n\nThe new mortgage financing policy will make flats built by the Housing and Development Board (HDB) more expensive for those who already own property.\n\nThe government said a \"credit assessment\" criteria would be imposed on buyers to ensure that they are not tempted by low interest rates and rising resale prices to borrow beyond their means.\n\nBuyers of HDB flats will now be entitled to only two subsidised mortgage loans which come with an interest rate of 3.5 percent per annum, below the market rate of 5.75 percent.\n\nThe loan amount will depend on the age and household income of borrowers. Buyers will have to use up the money in their pension-fund accounts before they are granted mortgage loans.\n\nThe maximumn loan amount will be worked out in such a way that borrowers' monthly repayments do not exceed 40 percent of the household income.\n\nBuyers of resale flats will have to pay market interest rates if they earn more than 8,000 Singapore dollars (5,714 US) a month, or if they own private property.\n\n\"The objective of this latest revision in mortgage financing policy for HDB flats is to bring it closer to market practice and to rationalise the subsidies for the purchase of HDB flats,\" the ministry of national development said.\n\nThe measures would check rampant \"upgrading\" by Singaporeans who put pressure on their budgets by seeking to move to more spacious flats, analysts said.\n\nThe steps come on the top of credit-tightening and tax measures introduced in May last year against excessive speculation in private property which have softened real-estate prices.\n\nMarket speculation Friday sent property stocks reeling, with the Stock Exchange of Singapore Property Index ending down five percent -- the largest one-day fall since the May curbs.\n\nAnalysts said the steps were less stringent than had been speculated about in the market.\n\n\"The new measures will not affect the selling prices of new flats. There might be some downward pressure on the resale flat prices. However the impact is difficult to assess at this moment,\" a government spokesman said.\n\n\"I think definitely the home market will be affected but to what extent nobody can tell,\" said a property agent, adding that property stocks were expected to stabilise Monday given the week-end selling bout.\n\nThe HDB, set up in 1960 as the sole public housing authority in the island state of three million people, has built some 650,000 subsidised flats that house about 90 percent of Singaporeans.\n\nMost of them were able to buy their own flats by drawing on hefty compulsory social security savings in the Central Provident Fund and low-interest mortgage loans.\n\nBut demand for new HDB flats and financing has risen sharply since 1993 following measures which made it easier for owners to sell their units on the open market, causing resale prices to increase.\n\nAnnual demand has since averaged at 70,000 new HDB flats, compared to the 30,000 the HDB builds.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 13 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 348, "end_char": 356, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday Times", "start_char": 785, "end_char": 797, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May last year", "start_char": 2447, "end_char": 2460, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2571, "end_char": 2577, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 3215, "end_char": 3221, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1960", "start_char": 3275, "end_char": 3279, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1960", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 3680, "end_char": 3684, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0013.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0276\n\nCHANGSHA, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ncases in central China\n\n\n\n\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) experts who came to probe a case of \"pneumonia of an unknown cause\" in central China Monday said they are satisfaction with the report on the case.\n\nThe WHO experts also affirmed to the technology and salvations to deal with the three cases after they listened to the report made by the provincial health department of Hunan with their Chinese counterparts from the Ministry of Health on Monday afternoon.\n\n\"Everything is going well. What we heard about are all good things. And we're satisfied with the preventative measures of Hunan. But we still need farther investigation.\" said a WHO expert.\n\nThe experts will carry out investigations on Tuesday and Wednesday in cities of Changsha and Xiangtan, where three cases of the mysterious pneumonia occurred in October, according to the provincial health department.\n\nThe experts will visit the Hunan Provincial Children's Hospital where the sister and brother were treated, the village where the bird flu epidemic broke out, and medical institutions in Xiangtan, according to the department.\n\nThe three cases involved a 12-year-old girl who died on Oct. 17, her 9-year-old brother, who was discharged from hospital last Friday after 25 days of treatment, and a 36-year-old school teacher, who is still in hospital. They were all diagnosed as suffering from \"pneumonia of an unknown cause.\"\n\nThe WHO experts are expected to return to Beijing on Thursday, according to local authorities.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 206, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday afternoon", "start_char": 509, "end_char": 525, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 764, "end_char": 771, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 776, "end_char": 785, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 880, "end_char": 887, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 17", "start_char": 1219, "end_char": 1226, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Friday", "start_char": 1285, "end_char": 1296, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25 days", "start_char": 1303, "end_char": 1310, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P25D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1514, "end_char": 1522, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0276.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0537\n\nMOGADISHU, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(GRAPHIC+PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nEthiopian troops backing Somali government forces were closer to the capital Mogadishu Thursday as the UN Security Council failed to reach consensus on a statement calling for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign forces from Somalia and an end to military operations.\n\n\"We could not reach consensus\" on the non-binding statement, said Mutlaq al-Qahtani, a UN delegate from Qatar, which chairs the 15-member council and drafted the text.\n\nIt was the second day in a row that the 15 members failed to reach common ground and they finally decided to give up their attempt as it became clear there was no hope of a consensus.\n\nMeanwhile the UN braced for tens of thousands of refugees flooding into neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia.\n\nOn Wednesday pro-government forces seized Jowhar, about 90 kilometres (55 miles) north of Mogadishu and rolled south, with the Islamists carrying out what they described as a \"tactical retreat\" under air attacks.\n\nA pro-government army commander told AFP late Wednesday that his troops were now in the town of Balad, just 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of the capital.\n\nA spokesman for the Somali transitional government said earlier Mogadishu would not be taken by force.\n\n\"There is a fear among the population in the capital that the government will force its way into Mogadishu but we are not going to do that,\" said Information Minister Ali Ahmed Jamah.\n\nJamah said government troops would surround Mogadishu to leave time for negotiations and force the Islamists to take part in dialogue.\n\n\"There are negotiations underway between the leaders of various groups in Mogadishu, so that the people of Mogadishu, those who have chased away the warlords, we want them to convince the extremists to leave the country peacefully so that nothing bad happens there,\" he said.\n\nEthiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has also said he was not interested in capturing Mogadishu.\n\nIn Kenya, whose government helped shape Somalia's interim regime in 2004, diplomats said the Islamists had agreed to attend talks in Nairobi on Thursday to contain the situation.\n\nAs concern mounted worldwide of an impending bloodbath and massive displacement of civilians, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) urged parties to spare the city due to the potential for \"enormous human losses\".\n\n\"To carry the battle to the capital is likely to force thousands of civilians... to flee and exacerbate the humane catastrophe,\" said OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu.\n\nThe Islamists, meanwhile, vowed to maintain security in Mogadishu.\n\n\"The security we are enjoying is very important and we cannot let violent people destabilize our city,\" Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the chairman of the Islamist executive committee, told a press conference in Mogadishu.\n\nThe African Union and the Arab League urged Ethiopia to pull out and for the rivals to observe a truce, while the OIC warned fighting could worsen \"the humanitarian tragedy already unfolding\".\n\nBut Somali Information Minister Jamah said: \"The Ethiopians have a limited objective. They came at the invitation of a legitimate government to rout out these extremist elements from Somalia. It is limited in scope and limited in time.\n\n\"They will go back very soon, almost 80 percent of our mission is completed ... There were common interests, they (the Islamists) were threatening us and also threatening Ethiopia.\"\n\nIn June, the Islamists seized Mogadishu and much of Somalia, leaving the US-backed transitional government only in control of the town of Baidoa.\n\nBut as the Islamists advanced on Baidoa, Ethiopia moved to shore up the government. Heavy fighting then erupted last week after the Islamists made good on a vow to launch attacks if Ethiopian troops failed to pull out within a week.\n\nThe office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) meanwhile warned that as many as 50,000 refugees could pour into neighbouring countries.\n\n\"Although no large-scale refugee movements from Somalia have yet been recorded in neighbouring countries, UNHCR is immediately positioning relief items in the region for up to 50,000 people...\" it said.\n\nUNHCR said from its Geneva headquarters it was mobilising staff and resources.\n\n\"In addition to the immediate pre-positioning of relief items, UNHCR will also increase its existing stockpiles in the region by purchasing enough supplies for a further 100,000 people, refugees as well as internally displaced people,\" a statement said.\n\nEritrean President Issaias Afeworki, meanwhile, blamed arch-rival Ethiopia for the escalating conflict.\n\nIssaias said the \"current situation in Somalia is the result of the intervention of foreign forces, particularly Ethiopia,\" according to a statement published in the country's information ministry website.\n\nAnalysts have accused the two Horn of Africa nations, still at odds over the unresolved border row that sparked their 1998-2000 war, of fighting a proxy war in Somalia.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 174, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second day", "start_char": 527, "end_char": 541, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 814, "end_char": 823, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1071, "end_char": 1080, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 2051, "end_char": 2055, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2127, "end_char": 2135, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 3474, "end_char": 3478, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 3730, "end_char": 3739, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 3843, "end_char": 3849, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0537.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0217\n\nULAN BATOR, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nInterview: Mongolia willing to further cooperation with China, PM\n\n\n\n\nMongolia is willing to further cooperation with China, said Mongolian Prime Minister Miegombyn Enkhbold here on Tuesday.\n\nEnkhbold, who will pay an official visit to China from Nov. 22 to 27, said during an interview with Xinhua that Mongolia and China had enjoyed sound relations and cooperation in every field.\n\nChina and Mongolia established a good-neighborly partnership of mutual trust in 2003 when Chinese President Hu Jintao paid a state visit to the country.\n\nHigh-level visits have become regular and leaders of the two countries also often meet during international occasions, Enkhbold said, adding that these meetings had enhanced relations in other fields.\n\nThe two countries had no disputes and pendent issues, in fact on the contrary, they held the same or similar views on bilateral and international affairs, he said.\n\nThe two countries had many treaties and agreements on dealing with bilateral relations and last year they jointly inspected borderlines and signed documents, he said.\n\nEconomic relations between the two countries had also developed well, the prime minister said.\n\nStatistics from China's General Administration of Customs show that trade volume between China and Mongolia from January to September hit 1.13 billion U.S. dollars.\n\nEnkhbold said trade volume in the same term of 2005 was only 551.7 million dollars, among which export volume was 333.1 million dollars.\n\nChina had become the largest investor and trade partner with Mongolia, and sound economic cooperation had enhanced Mongolia's economy, the prime minister said.\n\nHe suggested that the two countries should make good use of the natural resources in Mongolia and make cooperation in power a top priority.\n\nDuring his visit, Enkhbold will meet Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress Wu Bangguo and Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Jia Qinglin. He will also hold talks with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.\n\nIn addition to Beijing, Enkhbold will visit Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.\n\nEnkhbold said Mongolia would make suggestions on economic cooperation and exchange views with the Chinese side on bilateral relations and regional and international issues of common concern.\n\nHe believed his visit could enhance bilateral relations and cooperation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 249, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 22", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 524, "end_char": 528, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1056, "end_char": 1065, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1342, "end_char": 1349, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0217.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0006\n\nMANILA, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPhilippine stocks close lower\n\n\n\n\nPhilippine stock prices closed lower Friday with composite index dropping 13.55 points or 0.64 percent to 2,106.10.\n\nTurnover volume was 1.09 billion shares valued at 783.03 million pesos (14.2 million US dollars), while all-shares index fell 6.18 points to 1,274.42.\n\nGainers narrowly beat losers 42 to 38, while 43 stocks were unchanged.\n\nThe Philippine stock market will be closed Monday, a local public holiday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 127, "end_char": 133, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 474, "end_char": 480, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0006.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0392\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ndispute, Iraq issue\n\n\n\n\nMalaysia has urged the United States to play a greater role in solving the Israeli-Palestinian dispute and the problem in Iraq as soon as possible, local media reported Friday.\n\nThe United States should take advantage of its influence to help bring an immediate solution to these issues in a firmer yet fair way, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was quoted as saying by the New Straits Times.\n\nOn the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, the United States seems to be selective in the way it deals with this issues, Badawi told reporters after meeting with US President George W. Bush in Busan, South Korea.\n\n\"There seems to be unfairness (in the US treatment) in this issue, That's why problems related to Palestine can not be settled, \" said the prime minister who arrived in the port city on Thursday to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit.\n\nOn the problem in Iraq, Badawi said he had stressed to Bush the importance of Malaysia assisting in the capacity-building in Palestine and Iraq by providing their youth with an opportunity to acquire knowledge and skills in Malaysia.\n\n\"By doing so, we will enable them to contribute to the development of their countries,\" said Badawi at a press conference held with Malaysian reporters there.\n\nMeanwhile, Badawi said Bush had given an assurance that Washington would not intervene in the selection of Iraq's future leader.\n\nBadawi added that his talks with the US president were \"very smooth and free flowing.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 255, "end_char": 261, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 887, "end_char": 895, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0392.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0052\n\nTOKYO, Dec 21 , 2005\n\nPassenger tackle kills Japan train groper\n\n\n\n\nA businessman was tackled by passengers and later died after molesting a young woman on a packed rush-hour train in Japan, where groping is a chronic problem, police said Wednesday.\n\nThe 40-year-old businessman groped the 20-year-old student during morning rush hour Tuesday in Osaka and then tried to run out at busy Tennoji Station.\n\nBut he was followed by a 32-year-old off-duty police officer and three other male passengers who tackled him on the platform. The man lost consciousness and died later in the day in a nearby hospital, a police spokesman said.\n\n\"We are looking into the cause of death and details about how he was overpowered by the passengers,\" he said. Police did not immediately identify the man.\n\nJapan has begun cracking down on groping after legions of stories of men getting away with fondling and groping on busy trains.\n\nIn 2001, Tokyo raised penalties for groping and rail operators began running all-women carriages. But Tokyo police last year reported a record high 2,201 cases of groping on the metropolis's trains.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 271, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "morning rush hour", "start_char": 340, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 358, "end_char": 365, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 942, "end_char": 946, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1054, "end_char": 1063, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0052.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0077\n\nKAMPALA, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUganda to seal potholes in capital city\n\n\n\n\nThe local authority of Uganda's capital city of Kampala has decided to release 7,000 U.S. dollars every week to seal potholes in the city centre.\n\nThe acting town clerk of Kampala City Council (KCC) Ruth Kijjambu was quoted by New Vision on Tuesday as saying the KCC engineering department would carry out the works \"as long as funds are available.\"\n\nShe said major roads like Jinja Road, which have gigantic potholes, would be considered first.\n\n\"We have decided to have a weekly monitoring of potholes to avoid their accumulation and enlargement,\" Kijjambu said. KCC budgeted over 1 million dollar to repair its broken-down roads.\n\nLast week, KCC started sealing the pothole at Old Port Bell Road, which recently felled at least three heavy trucks in one week.\n\nMeanwhile, Kampala mayor Nasser Sebaggala said negotiations were going on with the Chinese government to supply KCC with road construction equipment worth 10 million dollars through a long- term loan.\n\nSebaggala said the city council expects 35 million U.S. dollars from the World Bank, part of which would be used on road repairs.\n\nHe said the central government also promised to repair some of the roads in preparations for the Commonwealth summit in November next year.\n\n\"If we succeed with the funding, we hope we shall not fail to do away with the potholes, and improve on the traffic flow,\" he said.\n\nDue to lack of financial support in maintenance and repair, most of the major roads in and outside of Kampala city were damaged with potholes, which considerably constrained the traffic flow in the country.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every week", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 208, "tid": "t1", "type": "SET", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 341, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 734, "end_char": 743, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 806, "end_char": 814, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one week", "start_char": 853, "end_char": 861, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November next year", "start_char": 1317, "end_char": 1335, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0077.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0287\n\nBAMAKO, April 19 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nRuling party wins one-horse race in Mali elections\n\n\n\n\nMali's ruling party is leading the first round of legislative elections, officials said Saturday, but the abandonment of the second deciding round by opposition parties crying foul has cast a cloud over the whole process.\n\nOf the 55 electorates, the Alliance for Democracy in Mali party has won 14 outright, has a favourable situation in 37 and unfavourable in three.\n\nIt did not file a candidate in the 55th electorate.\n\nThat result gives the party an initial 24 seats in the 147-seat future national assembly as a result of the first-round polling which took place on April 13. The second -- and far more controversial -- round will take place on April 27.\n\nA total of 34 parties out of 62 officially registered in Mali are taking part, but only three can claim to have a national audience.\n\nFourteen opposition parties have withdrawn their candidates from the second round, saying they would not recognise the outcome of what they are calling a \"fraudulent\" election \"tainted with irregularities.\"\n\nCalling for a suspension of the elections, these parties have said they would also boycott the May presidential elections, leaving incumbent President Alpha Oumar Konare as the only candidate on the ballot.\n\nHowever a report issued Wednesday by a team of international observers said the elections had been \"secret and fair.\"\n\nThursday, Konare hinted at changes to the electoral agenda \"within the framework of the constitution,\" admitting irregularities had occured which were \"neither wanted nor desirable.\"\n\nHe called on Malians to \"never use violence\" after a clash Wednesday between protesting opposition supporters and police left 20 people injured according to an opposition party count.\n\n\"This initial failure of the first round mustn't disorient us,\" he said.\n\nVoter participation stood at 32 percent, significantly higher than the 22 percent recorded at the date of the last Malian elections five years ago.\n\nAfter the two rounds of legislative elections, then the presidential election, Malians will be asked to turn out once more in June for council elections -- a marathon three-month exercise for one of the poorest countries in the world, where only one percent of the population can read and write.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 19 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 205, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "37", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 449, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1937", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 55th", "start_char": 509, "end_char": 517, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 13", "start_char": 679, "end_char": 687, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 27", "start_char": 758, "end_char": 766, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1343, "end_char": 1352, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1438, "end_char": 1446, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1681, "end_char": 1690, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years ago", "start_char": 2013, "end_char": 2027, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2156, "end_char": 2160, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0287.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0112\n\nMANILA, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua summary of Asia-Pacific stocks news at 1100 GMT, Nov. 20\n\n\n\n\nPhilippine stock prices Monday closed flat as the market consolidated after recent gains in the absence of fresh leads, dealers said.\n\nThe main composite index was up just 0.77 point at 2,843.31, but it was its best level since June 20, 1997 when it settled at 2, 881.73. It moved between 2,833.88 and 2,848.37.\n\nThe broader all-share index rose 3.47 points to 1,762.96.\n\nSEOUL -- The benchmark Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) dropped 10.01 points to 1,402.21 on Monday.\n\nThe volume of the KOSPI was moderate at 227 million shares worth 2.73 trillion won (2.92 billion U.S. dollars).\n\nSHENZHEN -- The Component Stock Index on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange closed at 5,177.97 points on Monday, up 110.46 points from the previous close.\n\nSHANGHAI -- The Composite Stock Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange closed at 2,017.28 points on Monday, up 45.49 points from the previous close.\n\nTOKYO -- Tokyo stocks nosedived Monday on heavy selling by foreign investors, sending the key Nikkei stock index to a two- month low below the 16,000 mark.\n\nExtending its losing streak to four trading days, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average lost 365.79 points, or 2.27 percent, to end at 15,725.94, the lowest finish since Sept. 26.\n\nThe Tokyo Stock Price Index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange saw an even bigger decline, falling 39.60 points, or 2.52 percent, to close at 1,533.94.\n\nCANBERRA -- The Australian stock exchange market closed much lower Monday as the benchmark S/ASX200 plunged 97.3 points to 5, 322.4, while the all ordinaries dumped 88.1 points to 5,303.4.\n\nMarket turnover reached 2.1 billion worth a total value of 8 billion Australian dollars (6.15 billion U.S. dollars) with 492 stocks moving up, 677 moving down and 319 unchanged.\n\nSINGAPORE -- The shares prices in Singapore closed sharply lower on Monday with the benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) reducing 41.8 points to end at 2,771.4 points.\n\nThe overall volume stood at 1,390.8 billion shares worth 1.3421 billion Singapore dollars (about 861.8 million U.S. dollars).\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Stock Exchange of Thailand ( SET) index on Friday moved down 7.55 to close at 726.37 points.\n\nTAIPEI -- Share prices on the Taiwan Stock Exchange closed higher Monday, with the weighted index moving up 1.94 points to close at 7,261.48.\n\nThe bourse opened at 7,266.4 and fluctuated between 7,270.28 and 7,228.97 during trading. A total of 4.12 billion shares changed hands on a market turnover of 98.09 billion new Taiwan dollars (2.98 billion U.S. dollars).\n\nHONG KONG -- Hong Kong stocks plunged 228.08 points, or 1.19 percent to close at 18,954.63 on Monday.\n\nJAKARTA -- Share prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange ended higher Monday on last week's report of continued economic growth and gains in cigarette and telecommunication shares.\n\nThe composite index rose 11.9 points to close at 1,684.01 points.\n\nCOLOMBO -- Share prices on the Colombo Stock Exchange closed lower on Monday, with the key Colombo All Share Price Index decreasing by 16.19 points to close at 2,669.81 points.\n\nThe highly capitalized Milanka Price Index also decreased by 24. 03 points to close at 3,539.83 points.\n\nKUALA LUMPUR -- Share prices on Malaysia stock market closed lower Monday on profit-taking activities.\n\nAt the closing bell, the 100-quality Kuala Lumpur Composite Index fell 7.27 points to close at 1,033.52 points. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0189\n\nLOS ANGELES, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nThick fog delays 88 flights to LA\n\n\n\n\nEighty-eight flights to Los Angeles were postponed because of thick fog in the area Saturday night, said the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).\n\nThick fog along the coast caused delays of up to an hour and a half at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) for planes from around the country, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said on Sunday.\n\nVisibility at the airport was reduced to 0.25 mile to 1.25 miles, and the fog was not expected to lift until this morning, according to the National Weather Service.\n\nThere is only one operational runway at LAX that is equipped with an instrument landing system that can guide arriving airplanes in thick fog, said Gregor.\n\n\"Normally, around this time, we'd have an arrival rate of 58 to 60 planes an hour. Right now the arrival rate is 32 to 42,\" Gregor said.\n\nBy 9:30 p.m., conditions had improved and the landing rate had increased to about 52 an hour, he said.\n\nThe heavy fog was triggered by a combination of warm temperatures Saturday and the cooler moist air coming from the ocean, said Jamie Meier, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.\n\nVisibility was expected to remain less than 2 miles overnight.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday night", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-18TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 428, "end_char": 434, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this morning", "start_char": 546, "end_char": 558, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1069, "end_char": 1077, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0189.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0092\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS Marine killed in bomb attack in western Iraq\n\n\n\n\nA US Marine was killed when a roadside bomb struck his vehicle west of Baghdad, the US military said on Sunday.\n\n\"The Marine assigned to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing was killed Saturday in an explosion near Camp Taqaddum, 75 km west of Baghdad, \" the military said in a brief statement.\n\nThe name of the soldier was withheld pending notification of next of kin, it added.\n\nThe death has brought to more than 2,100 the number of US military personnel who have died in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003, according to media reports.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 213, "end_char": 219, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 610, "end_char": 620, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0092.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0337\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRussia urges Georgia, West not to belittle South Ossetia referendum\n\n\n\n\nRussia on Monday called the referendum on independence for Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia a \"milestone\" and urged Georgia and Western countries not to underestimate its importance.\n\nPreliminary results showed that 99 percent of the voters in Sunday's referendum backed independence for South Ossetia, the Itar-Tass news agency quoted the local election chief as saying on Monday.\n\n\"Like it or not, we face the expression of the free will of South Ossetians through democratic procedures. No matter how hard Georgia or some Western countries may try to scale down the importance of the event, it is nevertheless a milestone,\" the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said in a statement.\n\n\"It would be short-sighted, to say the least, to ignore the event,\" the statement said.\n\nSouth Ossetia broke away from Georgia's central government in the early 1990s. The region previously held referenda on independence in 1992 and 2001, but their results were not recognized by the international community.\n\nGeorgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has vowed to bring South Ossetia and another breakaway region Abkhazia back under Tbilisi's control. The Georgian Foreign Ministry has said the presidential election and the referendum in South Ossetia were unlawful.\n\nThe European Union (EU) said on Monday that the EU does not recognize the outcome of the referendum in South Ossetia.\n\nThe EU's current presidency Finland issued a statement saying Sunday's referendum \"contradicts Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity.\"\n\n\"The European Union considers that the referendum and the elections did not contribute to efforts for peaceful conflict resolution,\" the statement said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 138, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 383, "end_char": 389, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 513, "end_char": 519, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the early 1990s", "start_char": 970, "end_char": 985, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "199", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1043, "end_char": 1047, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1052, "end_char": 1056, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1418, "end_char": 1424, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current presidency", "start_char": 1514, "end_char": 1532, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1567, "end_char": 1573, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0337.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0247\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFrench foreign trade minister due in Kenya Friday\n\n\n\n\nFrench Minister for Foreign Trade Christine Lagardo is due in Kenya on Friday for a two-day visit to discuss trade and development issues, officials disclosed here Thursday.\n\nDuring her visit to Kenya, which comes just six weeks before the World Trade Organization's (WTO) ministerial conference to be held in Hong Kong in December, Lagardo will emphasize the key priorities that France attaches to the development aspect of the global trade negotiations, said a statement from the French Embassy in Nairobi.\n\n\"Lagardo will discuss trade and development issues. She will also stress the important priority that France attaches to the development aspect of the WTO negotiations and especially the issues of access to medicines in African countries,\" the statement said.\n\nThe French minister, who arrives from west Africa where she visited Benin and Nigeria, will hold talks with Kenyan authorities and the relevant stakeholders as well as representatives of the private sector and nongovernmental organizations.\n\nShe is also expected to visit a factory producing generic drugs in Nairobi, as well as a coffee firm in the outskirts of the Kenyan capital.\n\nThe WTO talks in Hong Kong are part of the four-year-old Doha Round talks which aims to expand free trade in a way that benefits poor countries.\n\nAfrican nations have remained adamant that no deals would be struck on the agricultural fronts during the talks because of the huge agricultural subsidies given by the United States and the European Union.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six weeks", "start_char": 330, "end_char": 339, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 434, "end_char": 442, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0251\n\nMOGADISHU, Dec 26 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES throughout ///\n\n\n\n\nEthiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Tuesday said more than 1,000 people have been killed in fighting between his troops backing Somali government forces against Somalia's Islamist movement.\n\n\"We got reports of more than 3,000 wounded in a Mogadishu hospital. Those who died are well over 1,000,\" Meles told a press conference in Addis Ababa, two days after Ethiopia acknowledged military intervention in the neighbouring and lawless Horn of Africa nation.\n\nThe Islamists acknowledged that they had been forced to withdraw from many front-line positions but vowed to dig in for a long war with Ethiopia, which has denied intentions of taking the Islamist stronghold Mogadishu.\n\n\"Our forces and that of the (transitional federal government) have broken the back of the international terrorist forces around Baidoa and they are in full retreat now,\" Meles said in the wake of air strikes on Islamist targets and artillery battles on several fronts.\n\nEarlier, the International Committee of the Red Cross said more than 800 wounded were reported at hospitals the agency was in contact with. Thousands have fled their homes, the agency's spokeswoman Antonella Notari said in Geneva.\n\nThe weak transitional government holds only one major town, Baidoa, in the southern central region, while the Islamic Court Union forces in June seized the capital Mogadishu from warlords and then extended their control over south and central Somalia.\n\nGovernment fighters began to advance on the powerful Islamist movement after Ethiopian warplanes bombed Mogadishu airport and other airfields held by the Islamists to cut supply lines.\n\n\"We are only 100 kilometres (60 miles) away from Mogadishu and are heading to it,\" Somalia's ambassador to Ethiopia, Abdelkarin Farah, told journalists in Addis Ababa.\n\nMeles, who said he had deployed between 3,000 to 4,000 troops, denied the Ethiopian forces planned to take Mogadishu or any other town. UN reports had said Addis Ababa deployed 8,000 troops, while its regional foe Eritrea sent 2,000 to back the Islamists.\n\n\"Liberating towns is not our agenda. Our troops have not entered any town,\" the prime minister added. Mainly Christian Ethiopia justified its intervention on the grounds that the Islamists represent a direct threat to its own security and sovereignty, and has aligned with Washington in linking their radical leaders with the Al-Qaeda network.\n\nIslamist fighters withdrew from two front lines near Baidoa, the government seat northwest of the capital, and in central Somalia, witnesses and officials said.\n\n\"There is a lot of pressure from every front line,\" an Islamist commander told AFP on condition of anonymity, explaining that Islamist forces had pulled back from several posts including Burhakaba and Dinsoor.\n\n\"We have decided to change our tactics,\" Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, the head of the Islamist executive committee, told a press conference in Mogadishu. \"We are ready to start long-lasting war with Ethiopia.\"\n\nHeavy fighting began last week after the Islamists demanded the departure of Ethiopian troops backing the internationally recognised but largely powerless government in a country of 10 million people wracked by conflict since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.\n\nEthiopia's government said its forces had inflicted \"heavy human and material losses\" on the Islamists, while the air force would \"intensify pounding selected targets.\"\n\nMeles said the enemy included \"many Eritrean troops, international jihadists and Shebab (youth militias)\" while the information ministry said two Ethiopian separatist groups were also involved.\n\n\"We ask all the foreign fighters to pull out of the country and allow Somalis to seek ways of reconciling and establishing peace,\" Somali government spokesman Abdirahman Dinari told AFP in Baidoa. \"We strongly appeal to the Islamic courts to put down arms because the government has made a decision to give them complete amnesty.\"\n\nThe Islamists have steadily gained ground, often imposing strict Sharia law on territory in their hands, since they in June routed a US-backed alliance in Mogadishu of the warlords who support the interim adminstration.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 26 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 142, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1,000", "start_char": 387, "end_char": 392, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1418, "end_char": 1422, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 3092, "end_char": 3101, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 4162, "end_char": 4166, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0251.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0141\n\nLONDON, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n30 terror plots being planned in Britain: MI5\n\n\n\n\nThe British security service has identified 30 major terrorist plots being planned in Britain and is tracking more than 1,600 individuals actively engaged in promoting attacks here and abroad, according to local media reports on Friday.\n\nAddressing to a small audience of academics at Queen Mary College in London on Thursday evening, British MI5 Director General Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller said the 30 plots are the most serious of many more planned by some 200 British-based \"networks\" involved in terrorism, the reports said.\n\n\"We are aware of numerous plots to kill people and damage our economy. What do I mean by numerous? Five? Ten? No, nearer thirty -- that we know of,\" Manningham-Buller said.\n\n\"These plots often have links back to Al-Qaida in Pakistan and through those links Al-Qaida gives guidance and training to its largely British foot soldiers here on an extensive and growing scale,\" she added.\n\nShe also said that five further major conspiracies in Britain had been thwarted since the 7 July terror bombings in London in 2005.\n\n\"Today, my officers and the police are working to contend with some 200 groupings or networks, totaling over 1,600 identified individuals who are actively engaged in plotting or facilitating terrorist acts here and overseas,\" she said.\n\nManningham-Buller warned that the terrorist threat was \"serious\" and \"growing,\" and would be \"with us for a generation.\"\n\nThe number of cases being pursued by security services had risen by 80 percent since January, she said.\n\n\"Today we see the use of home-made improvised explosive devices. Tomorrow's threat may include the use of chemicals, bacteriological agents, radioactive materials and even nuclear technology,\" she said.\n\n\"More and more people are moving from passive sympathy towards active terrorism through being radicalized or indoctrinated by friends, families or organized training events here and overseas,\" she added.\n\nShe said television and Internet have played a part in attracting greater numbers of terrorist recruits.\n\n\"It is the youth who are being actively targeted, groomed, radicalized and set on a path that frighteningly quickly could end in their involvement in mass murder of their fellow UK citizens,\" she said.\n\n\"Chillingly, we see the results here. Young teenagers groomed to be suicide bombers,\" she said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 335, "end_char": 341, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 423, "end_char": 439, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 7 July", "start_char": 1108, "end_char": 1118, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1148, "end_char": 1152, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 1156, "end_char": 1161, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1599, "end_char": 1606, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 1620, "end_char": 1625, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0141.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0046\n\nLAGOS, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nScores of Italian oil workers kidnapped on vessel  in Nigeria\n\n\n\n\nGunmen have kidnapped several people from an Italian oil vessel off the Nigerian coast, according to industry and security officials on Wednesday.\n\nThe exact number and the nationalities of the hostages were not immediately known. One security source asked for anonymity said the incident occurred overnight on a vessel belonging to a subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni.\n\nOther sources said about 25 foreign workers and 60 Nigerian employees were taken overnight on the vessel, which has not been confirmed officially.\n\nThe vessel was about 50 kms off the coast of Nigeria's Rivers State at the time, officials said.\n\nThe kidnappings were the latest in a series of attack on oil installations in the volatile Niger Delta, where most of the country's oil is produced.\n\nSince the beginning of the year, militant groups have constantly attacked oil facilities and taken oil workers as hostages.\n\nNigeria, Africa's largest oil producer and the sixth largest oil exporter in the world, has a daily crude oil output of 2.6 million barrels.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 266, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the beginning of the year", "start_char": 896, "end_char": 921, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0046.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0110\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nastronauts\n\n\n\n\nChina's spacemen Yang Liwei, Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, together with another 11 Chinese astronauts, have enrolled in China's prestigious Tsinghua University as graduate students, China Central Television reported on Monday.\n\nGiven permission by the Ministry of Education, the university's School of Aerospace has given the astronauts an offer of admission at a two-year program on astronautic engineering, according to the report.\n\nAuthorities said the university will not compromise their graduating qualifications for astronaut's standing, noting that the astronauts must pass exams and oral defense to acquire degrees.\n\nThe university will arrange an opening ceremony of the astronauts' graduate curriculum and release the specific courses of the program at the ceremony.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0110.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0055\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nIraq PM slams Annan, rejects conference idea\n\n\n\n\nPrime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has become the latest Iraqi leader to angrily reject UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's call for an international conference to resolve the crisis in Iraq.\n\nMaliki also bitterly criticised Annan for likening the situation in Iraq to a civil war and accused him of polishing \"the image of the former regime known for its crimes against humanity\", in statement received by AFP on Tuesday.\n\nOn Sunday, Annan said in a BBC interview that he understood why some Iraqis might regret the fall of former dictator Saddam Hussein.\n\n\"If I were an average Iraqi obviously I would make the same comparison, that they had a dictator who was brutal but they had their streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back home,\" Annan said.\n\nAnnan had earlier proposed that an internation conference might be a way to end the fighting in Iraq, where Maliki's government faces both an insurgency and mounting conflict between the Sunni and Shiite communities.\n\nBut Maliki rejected this idea out of hand.\n\n\"The Iraqi government, erected on a constitutional base, can not accept the idea of holding an international conference about Iraq which would reverse all the political developments that have taken place and impose international guardianship on the Iraqi people,\" said the statement.\n\nMaliki's rejection of the conference came in the wake of similar rejections by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and top Shiite cleric Abdel Aziz Hakim, and left the idea dead on arrival.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 508, "end_char": 515, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 521, "end_char": 527, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0055.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0150\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNo landmark to be built for Expo 2010 Shanghai China\n\n\n\n\nShanghai will not build a landmark architecture for the 2010 World Expo but will bequeath a huge spiritual legacy to later generations, said Zhou Hanmin, deputy director of the expo's coordination committee.\n\nHe said the expo will perform three major functions of reshaping of cities and countries, displaying of world cultural diversity and innovation in science and technology, and the enlightenment of future generations.\n\nZhou made the remarks on Saturday at an international symposium held by the Japanese Research Center of Shanghai-based Fudan University.\n\nHe emphasized that the city will not construct any buildings with the intention of creating a landmark for the expo, sharing the same opinion with Fukui Shohei, the chief designer of Expo 2005 Aichi Japan.\n\n\"In departure from previous expos, the coming expo will highlight man's attitudes towards the nature, society and the future,\" said the deputy director.\n\nWith the theme of \"Better City, Better Life,\" the expo will be held from May 1 to October 31, 2010, in east China's Shanghai Municipality. It will be located on the banks of the Huangpu River, the \"Mother River of Shanghai,\" between the Lupu Bridge and the Nanpu Bridge.\n\nThe predicted number of participant countries and international organizations is 200 and more than 70 million visitors are expected.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 566, "end_char": 574, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1000, "end_char": 1010, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1 to October 31, 2010", "start_char": 1113, "end_char": 1138, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0150.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0147\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina, U.S. agree to enhance cooperation in law enforcement effort\n\n\n\n\nChina and the United States should promote bilateral cooperation between their law enforcement organs, a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official said here Friday.\n\n\"The Chinese government hopes the two sides will make substantial progress in their cooperation of arresting and repatriating criminal suspects, anti-terrorism, and drug prohibition in a bid to promote constructive and cooperative relationship in the 21st century,\" said Luo Gan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, during a meeting with Alberto Gonzales, attorney general of the US department of Justice.\n\nChina and the U.S. have enjoyed effective cooperation and coordination with a frequent exchange of high-level contacts, he said. US President George W. Bush will start his visit to China on Nov. 19th.\n\nBilateral cooperation between the two nations on anti-terrorism, law enforcement, non-proliferation, trade and economics, as well as on the Korean nuclear issue, conforms to the interests of both nations, and is conducive to safeguarding world peace, stability and development in the Asia-Pacific region and world at large, he said.\n\nCalling the law enforcement cooperation as an important component part of Sino-US relations, Luo said the Chinese government will continue to give support to such cooperation.\n\nGonzales said the U.S. attaches great importance to its relations with China, and that the Department of Justice would like to work with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security to push forward their cooperation in their law enforcement effort.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 290, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 21st century", "start_char": 546, "end_char": 562, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov.", "start_char": 949, "end_char": 953, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0147.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0016\n\nMANILA, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSoldier killed in heavy exchange of fire between military, Abu Sayyaf\n\n\n\n\nOne soldier was killed during an encounter between the government troops and about 100 suspected Abu Sayyaf militants in the southern Philippines, the military said Wednesday.\n\nThe military's counter-terrorism task force commander Brig. Gen. Alexander Aleo told reporters that the heavy fire was exchanged after the soldiers ran into the Abu Sayyaf group in the mountains of Jolo Island.\n\nAlthough losing a soldier, the government troops also gave a big blow to the Abu Sayyaf group by killing an unknown number of rebels, he said.\n\nAccording to the military, five soldiers have been killed and 25 others wounded since the government troops and the Abu Sayyaf began a new round of clashes in the south.\n\nAn estimated 25 rebels have also been killed, and almost 5,000 residents in the area were forced to flee their homes as a result of the clashes, it added.\n\nThe Abu Sayyaf, which is suspected of links with al-Qaida terrorist network and the regional terrorist network Jemaah Islamiah, has been blamed for a wave of bombings in the south and Manila since 2002.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1187, "end_char": 1191, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0016.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0230\n\nJAKARTA, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJakarta shares close 0.2 percent higher\n\n\n\n\nJakarta shares closed 0.2 percent higher Tuesday on the back of late interest in bank stocks and selective third-liners, with the broader market mostly sidelined, dealers said.\n\n\"I think the news that BNI has cut its deposit rates by 0.5 percent attracted some interest in it, as well as some of the other banks,\" Usaha Bersama Sekuritas institutional sales manager Alastair Bruce said.\n\nThe Jakarta Stock Exchange composite index closed up 1.58 points at 638.22.\n\nEstimated turnover was 181.4 million shares worth an estimated 354 billion rupiah (146.2 million dollars).\n\nDealers said volumes were dominated by speculative buying in third- line Bank Pikko and BNI.\n\nBruce said although the \"braver investors\" may wish to beat an \"inevitable rush into the market, post-elections,\" most are being very cautious.\n\nHe said continued news of riots in Pekalongan, Central Java province, \"looks bad\" and \"makes people extrapolate on the likelihood of it happening in Jakarta.\"\n\nA dealer with a European brokerage said the market was partly supported by buying in Telkom early on and then by banks. But excluding two crossings in Matahari and Bimantara, volumes were otherwise very thin, he said.\n\nTelkom closed unchanged at 3,575 rupiah, while Indosat was down 75 rupiah at 6,350 rupiah.\n\nBNI closed up 50 rupiah at 1,350 rupiah, BII was 50 rupiah higher at 1,754 rupiah and BDNI gained 100 rupiah to 2,225 rupiah.\n\nBank Pikko was up 2,700 rupiah at 4,000 rupiah before dealing was suspended at 2:24 pm.\n\nDealers said the sharp gain in the stock remains unexplained, although there has been a rumour that a \"prominent businessman\" is seeking an interest in the company.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 139, "end_char": 146, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0230.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051220.0007\n\nTOKYO, Dec 21 , 2005\n\nwith TV\n\n\n\n\nJapan's NTT DoCoMo said Wednesday it was in talks with Fuji Television Network for a possible tie-up which could pave the way for new innovation such as TV programs for cellphone users.\n\nThe mobile phone giant aims to reach an agreement by the end of the month to take a three percent share in Japan's most-watched network for 20 billion yen (170 million dollars), the Nihon Keizai Shimbun business daily reported.\n\nDoCoMo would become the first telecom firm to invest in a terrestrial broadcasting station here, opening the way to integrate communications and broadcasting.\n\nThrough the tie-up, the two companies would seek to combine their expertise by launching TV programs especially for cellphone users from early next year, the newspaper said, quoting a company source.\n\nAn NTT DoCoMo spokesman confirmed the telecom firm was in talks with Fuji but declined to give further details.\n\nDoCoMo believes teaming up with TV stations is crucial to expansion and would use the tie-up to establish similar partnerships with other broadcasters, the Nihon Keizai said.\n\nFor Fuji Television, which has been fending off takeover bids, the tie-up with such an established company would bring some welcome stability to its shareholder base.\n\n\"If we tie up with some telecommunications firm, that would be the NTT group in which we can place much confidence,\" said a Fuji Television senior official quoted by the business daily.\n\nUpstart Internet firm Livedoor launched an unusually aggressive takeover bid in February for a crucial Fuji unit, Nippon Broadcasting System radio, in a bid to win control of the television giant.\n\nInternet giant Rakuten also targetted broadcaster TBS for an aggressive takeover.\n\nBoth Internet firms, facing strong resistance from the broadcaster, ended up settling with limited capital tie-ups.\n\nNTT DoCoMo, seeking to expand its operations in Asia, agreed Thursday to purchase a 10 percent stake in South Korea's second-largest mobile carrier KTF for about 560 million dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 81, "end_char": 90, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the month", "start_char": 297, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 770, "end_char": 785, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1558, "end_char": 1566, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1937, "end_char": 1945, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051220.0007.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0159\n\nRAMALLAH,  West Bank, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nworkers ///\n\n\n\n\nStriking Palestinian justice ministry employees, including 140 judges, will return to work after reaching a deal with the Palestinian Authority Saturday, the head of the Palestinian judges' council said.\n\nAbout 530 courthouse aides and 140 judges will return to work Sunday in exchange for half a month's salary, Eissa Abu Sharar told a press conference in the West Bank town of Ramallah.\n\nThe justice ministry staff are the third group of key public sector employees to call off industrial action that has paralyzed Palestinian government in the West Bank since September.\n\nSome 12,000 hospital employees, including doctors, nurses and administrators, will also return to work Sunday after the government agreed last Monday to pay them two months salary.\n\nPalestinian teachers called off their strike last month. The employees of at least 20 other government ministries remain on strike.\n\nSharar said that an estimated 48,000 court cases were postponed as a result of the strike.\n\nThe European Union and the United States imposed a crippling aid freeze on the Islamist-led government when it took power in March after an upset parliamentary election victory, leaving it unable to pay its own staff.\n\nThe Palestinian leadership is now meeting in Ramallah to decide on its next move after declaring an end to talks with Hamas on forming a government of national unity acceptable to Western donors.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 225, "end_char": 233, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 348, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 644, "end_char": 653, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 759, "end_char": 765, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Monday", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 805, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 883, "end_char": 893, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1188, "end_char": 1193, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1312, "end_char": 1315, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0159.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0002\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n500-km walk usher in peace in Nepal\n\n\n\n\nA total of 30 pilgrims embarked Friday on a 500-km march for world peace from central to western Nepal, the leader of the pilgrims' team said here.\n\n\"The team began their journey from Namobuddha hill of Kavre district and will finally pray for world peace at the sacred garden of Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, after walking for 25 days,\" Lam Ty Ni, leader of the pilgrims' team, told reporters.\n\nThe team included 15 Nepalese, 10 Vietnamese, three Indians, one Japanese and a Korean, said Lam, who came to Lumbini in 1969 in search of peace from war-torn Vietnam and started working for the development of the holy shrine.\n\nThe pilgrimage has a spiritual as well as a symbolic meaning, Lam noted, adding, \"The prayer will lead to an atmosphere for peace and hoped after seeing young and old people walking for peace, the Nepali authorities will feel the necessity to do something for the peace.\"\n\nThe team includes the eldest member 62-year-old monk and the youngest 17-year-old nun, Lam revealed.\n\n\"All the concerned including the political parties, the king and the anti-government guerrillas of Nepal should sit together for resolving the decade-long war and let people live in peace and happiness,\" he added.\n\nOver 12,000 Nepalese people have been killed since the anti- government insurgency took place in the Himalayan kingdom in February 1996.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 137, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25 days", "start_char": 437, "end_char": 444, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P25D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1969", "start_char": 626, "end_char": 630, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1969", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 1996", "start_char": 1445, "end_char": 1458, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0002.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0347\n\nLONDON, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\nEuropean exchanges close mixed; London down 0.07 percent\n\n\n\n\nEuropean stock exchanges closed mixed on Thursday, with the London FTSE 100 finishing down 0.07 percent at 6,240.90 points.\n\nIn Paris the CAC 40 fell 0.12 percent to finish at 5,533.36, while in Frankfurt the Dax gained 0.04 percent to close at 6,611.81.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0347.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0168\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 20 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCritics cry foul as Kibaki urges for huge voter turnout in referendum\n\n\n\n\nCritics of Kenya's proposed new constitution on Sunday accused President Mwai Kibaki of breaching electoral laws by campaigning for the draft hours after campaign time elapsed ahead of the Monday balloting.\n\nPresident Kibaki, in a televised address late Sunday called on his countrymen to vote for the proposed constitution, sparking protests from his rivals and lawyers, who accused him of breaching electoral laws by campaigning after the campaign period elapsed.\n\n\"We do not expect him (Kibaki) to indulge in campaigns. The law says campaigns should have ended on Saturday (48 hours) before the material voting day but should he go ahead and campaign, we shall demand a similar opportunity,\" said Roads Minister Raila Odinga.\n\nIn a televised address to the nation, Kibaki urged Kenyans to come out and vote so that the outcome of the referendum will reflect their real wishes.\n\nHe expressed confidence that the new constitution creates a good environment for faster growth countrywide.\n\n\"As we go to vote tomorrow, we will be making a critical decision that will impact on the current and future generations. I urge you, therefore, not to let this historic opportunity pass without your participation,\" Kibaki said.\n\nBut Odinga, who is leading the \"No\" campaign opposing to the adoption of the new constitution, said his criticism of the Kibaki should not be construed to mean disrespect for him as the head of state.\n\nThe Law Society of Kenya (LSK) also criticized the move by the president to campaign for the draft constitution hours after the campaign period elapsed.\n\n\"In respect of free choice, we ask the president to exercise reason,\" said LSK Chairman Tom Ojienda.\n\nPresident Kibaki, while addressing the nation, recalled that the journey to a new constitutional dispensation has been long and torturous.\n\n\"We have been seeking a constitution that would unify our country and enable us to realize our aspirations for a more prosperous and peaceful country,\" the Kenyan leader said in Kiswahili.\n\nHe reiterated that the government has put in place all the necessary measures to ensure the safety and security of all Kenyans during the referendum.\n\nHe urged citizens to shun violence and respect the rights of others to have differing opinions, saying Kenya was a great country that has overcome many challenges in the past.\n\nAfter several weeks of highly charged, divisive campaigns between those supporting the new constitution and those against, 11.6 million Kenyans will finally vote in the referendum on Monday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 320, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 385, "end_char": 391, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 698, "end_char": 706, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "tomorrow", "start_char": 1139, "end_char": 1147, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 1211, "end_char": 1218, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 2456, "end_char": 2464, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several weeks", "start_char": 2473, "end_char": 2486, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2650, "end_char": 2656, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0168.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0221\n\nTHE HAGUE, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nDutch annual growth comes to 2.7 percent in third quarter\n\n\n\n\nThe Dutch economy grew at an annual rate of 2.7 percent in the third quarter compared with output in the same period last year and gained 0.7 percent from the second quarter, the central statistics office said Thursday.\n\nThe office said growth in exports and household spending was slightly below that of the previous six months while investment was stronger.\n\nThe pace of Dutch growth has practically doubled in the course of a year, the agency added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 176, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 243, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 290, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 327, "end_char": 335, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous six months", "start_char": 422, "end_char": 445, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-21T06:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 544, "end_char": 550, "tid": "t6", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0221.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0050\n\nKUNMING, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nflowers\n\n\n\n\nSouthwest China's Yunnan Province, praised as a flora paradise, sold abroad 9.16 million U.S. dollars worth of fresh cut flowers in the first 10 months of this year, a year-on-year increment of 2.66 million U.S. dollars, or 88.1 percent.\n\nAccording to local customs sources, the exports quantity went up 8.7 percent to 3,858 tons, with average price per kilogram up 73 percent to reach 2.37 U.S. dollars.\n\nMost of the exports were carnations, roses and lilies, the sources said.\n\nBetween January and October, Hong Kong surpassed Japan to become the top target market of Yunnan flowers with an import volume of 2.51 million U.S. dollars, up 400 percent. Japan ranked second with the import value at 2.5 million U.S. dollars, up 23.8 percent.\n\nThe two were followed by Singapore, Thailand, Australia, Malaysia and the Republic of Korea, the local customs sources said.\n\nOver the 10 months, foreign-funded businesses accounted for 54.6 percent of Yunnan's total fresh cut flower exports, up from 26.1 percent a year earlier. They exported five million U.S. dollars worth of fresh cut flowers, up 290 percent, the sources added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first 10 months", "start_char": 201, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 233, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 557, "end_char": 564, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 569, "end_char": 576, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 10 months", "start_char": 942, "end_char": 955, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 1075, "end_char": 1089, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0050.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0164\n\nGENEVA, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nwith US\n\n\n\n\nA United Nations (UN) inspection of the Guantanamo Bay US military prison has been abandoned after access to detainees was denied by the American authorities, human rights experts announced here on Friday.\n\nIn a joint statement, five UN experts who had planned to carry out the visit expressed regret over the US's refusal to their demand for an \"objective and fair assessment\" of the Guantanamo Bay prison.\n\n\"We deeply regret that the United States government did not accept the standard terms of reference for a credible, objective and fair assessment of the situation of the detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility,\" said the statement.\n\n\"Under the circumstances, we will not be traveling to Guantanamo Bay Naval Station, as doing so would undermine the principles\" governing UN fact-finding missions,\" the statement added.\n\nThe United States had previously set the date for the five experts to visit Guantanamo on Dec. 6, to investigate alleged violations of human rights at the prison.\n\nThe United States insists, however, it will not agree to the UN request for free access to detainees held there, although it is open to international inspectors.\n\nThe UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Manfred Nowak, rebuffed the US stand on Tuesday, saying UN inspectors will not visit the Guantanamo prison as scheduled unless Washington agrees to unrestricted access without conditions.\n\nFor the past three and half years Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has been used to house nearly 500 prisoners, who have been held without charge or access to lawyers. Most of the detainees were captured in the Afghanistan war of 2001 over suspected ties to the al-Qaida network or the Taliban regime.\n\nDespite frequent criticism by human rights advocates, the United States says it has provided regular access to the International Committee of the Red Cross and has consulted with governments over cases of their nationals detained at the base. The approach was described as \"sufficient\" by US State Department deputy spokesman Adam Ereli at a news briefing Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 266, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 6", "start_char": 997, "end_char": 1003, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1312, "end_char": 1319, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three and half years", "start_char": 1465, "end_char": 1494, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-18T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2110, "end_char": 2117, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0164.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0197\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMalaysia's key stock index ends 1.4 percent lower\n\n\n\n\nMalaysia's key stock index fell 1.4 percent Tuesday despite news of February trade surplus and a central bank assurance that there were ample funds for share and property financing.\n\n\"We have obviously not hit the bottom yet. The damage has already been done and it will take months before investors' confidence is restored to previous levels,\" a dealer said.\n\nThe market is likely to be quiet for the rest of the holiday-shortened week, he added.\n\nThe Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange's 100-share weighted composite index tumbled 15.35 points to 1,059.51. The lesser second board index dropped 6.94 points, or 1.3 percent, to 547.62.\n\nTurnover rose to 246.363 million shares worth 1.55 billion ringgit (62O million dollars) from 193.416 million units valued at 1.22 billion ringgit a day earlier.\n\nFalling stocks outnumbered those rising 553 to 85, with 120 unchanged and 90 not traded.\n\nMining counter Rahman Hydraulic Bhd. led trading for the second consecutive day, with 30.742 million shares changing hands before losing 1.10 ringgit to 5.05 ringgit.\n\nAmong blue chips, Telekom Malaysia gained 10 sen to 17.40 ringgit but power giant Tenaga Nasional dipped 40 sen to 10.90 ringgit.\n\nTop bank Maybank shed 35 sen to 24.90 ringgit while gaming company Genting eased 30 sen to 13.40 ringgit.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "holiday-shortened week", "start_char": 528, "end_char": 550, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a day earlier", "start_char": 892, "end_char": 905, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second consecutive day", "start_char": 1051, "end_char": 1077, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0197.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0318\n\nDOHA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIt will be very difficult for us: Qatari tennis coach\n\n\n\n\nQatari tennis team will face an uphill battle but never give up easily at the upcoming Asiad tennis tournament, said Qatar's Portuguese tennis coach Luis de Sousa on Tuesday.\n\n\"It will be very difficult for us. The team is very young. We have three players under 16. Our goal is to represent Qatar and to dignify the name,\" Sousa said after the team had a training session at the Khalifa Tennis Courts.\n\n\"We have two teenage players who live in Barcelona and go to the tennis academy. The other two boys went to Spain three weeks ago for preparation.\n\n\"The surface at Khalifa Courts is perfect for us because we train here practically every day.\"\n\nThe 15th Doha Asian Games tennis tournament will be held from December 4 to 14.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "16", "start_char": 375, "end_char": 377, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1916", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three weeks ago", "start_char": 630, "end_char": 645, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 4 to 14", "start_char": 822, "end_char": 838, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0318.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0034\n\nHANOI, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUpdate: APEC senior official's meeting concludes in Hanoi\n\n\n\n\nSenior officials from 21 member economies of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) wrapped up their two-day meeting here Monday afternoon, paving way for the coming ministerial meeting and economic leaders' meeting slated for later this week.\n\nThe meeting covered a wide range of issues including economics, trade, investment, human security, counter-terrorism, disaster and pandemic management, cultural cooperation, tourism, anti- corruption and APEC reform, Le Cong Phung, Vietnam's deputy foreign minister and chair of the Concluding Senior Officials Meeting (CSOM), told a press conference after the meeting.\n\nHe said the officials reached consensus on all important reports to be submitted to ministers and leaders of the economies when they meet on Nov. 15-16 and Nov. 18-19 respectively.\n\nThe senior officials endorsed the annual report by the APEC Committee on Trade and Investment that includes a second-phase trade facilitation action plan in which member economies agree to a 5 percent reduction in business transaction costs between 2006- 2010, said a press release issued after the meeting.\n\nNegotiations are still going on among member economies on nine model measures for developing regional trade agreements and free trade areas (RTAs/FTAs), said the release. A number of these measures are expected to receive consensus soon and will then be submitted to ministers for endorsement.\n\nThe officials also endorsed a Technology Choice Principles Pathfinder for submission to the ministers. Annual reports by the Economic Committee and Budget and Management Committee were also approved.\n\nAccording to the release, the meeting unanimously agreed to propose that ministers and leaders endorse the Outcomes Report of APEC Pandemic Response Simulation Exercise conducted on June 7-8 this year.\n\nThe senior officials also approved SOM Chair's Summary Report on improvements in the individual action plans in 2006 and another report on the results of economic and technical cooperation this year.\n\nPrior to the current concluding meeting, the senior officials held three meetings on the implementation of the programs worked out at the APEC leaders' meeting in Busan, South Korea, in November 2005, and preparations for the current APEC meetings.\n\nAPEC currently has 21 members: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, China's Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0008\n\nKAMPALA, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSeven people killed in road accident in southern Uganda\n\n\n\n\nSeven people have been killed in a road accident in southern Uganda, according to a local report on Saturday.\n\nUgandan police were quoted as saying that five people died on the spot and two others died in Masaka Hospital when a truck had a tyre burst and rammed into a group of people in a bus-stop shelter and road side market at Kyabakuza trading center in southern Uganda.\n\nMasaka district police commander Martin Amoru said 21 people were taken to Masaka Hospital, seven of them were in critical condition.\n\nHe said the truck veered off the road after one of its tyres burst and crushed into a busy shelter at about 7:40 a.m. (0440 GMT) .\n\nThe truck crushed the shelter, a newspaper stall, a telephone booth and plowed into women roasting bananas and meat, many of whom were severely burnt.\n\nHe added that the unidentified driver fled after the incident.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 225, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "7:40 a.m.", "start_char": 737, "end_char": 746, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0008.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "NYT19980206.0460 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/06/1998 22:19:00 \n\nA6974 Cx1f tta-z\nu f Cx13  Cx11  BC-ECON-REPORT-ART-NYT LR      02-06 0974\n\n\n BC-ECON-REPORT-ART-NYT \n\n(REPEATING to correct coding)\n\nUR JANUARY JOB TOTALS UP AT A ROBUST CLIP LR  QL\nUR (ART ADV: Graphic is being sent to NYT graphic clients.\nNon-subscribers can make individual purchase by calling\n212-556-4204.) LR  QL\nUR (JT LR ) QL\nUR By RICHARD W. STEVENSON LR  QC   QL\nUR c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service LR  QC   QL\n\n\nWASHINGTON _ The economy created jobs at a surprisingly robust\npace in January, the government reported on Friday, evidence that\nAmerica's economic stamina has withstood any disruptions caused so far by the financial tumult in Asia.\nThe Bureau of Labor Statistics said the economy added 358,000\njobs last month, far above the 235,000 forecast by economists.\nIt was the third consecutive month that job generation has been\nexceptionally strong. With growing opportunities for work drawing\nmore people into the labor force, the unemployment rate remained at\n4.7 percent last month, just a notch above its quarter-century low.\nThe demand for workers also led employers to raise wages again\nlast month. Average hourly earnings of production and\nnonsupervisory employees rose 4 cents, to $12.51. The gain left\nwages 3.8 percent higher than a year earlier, extending a trend\nthat has given back to workers some of the earning power they lost\nto inflation in the last decade.\nBut economists said the wage increase was not enough to raise\nany concerns about higher inflation. And because the Federal\nReserve has made clear that it expects the economy to slow in\ncoming months as ripple effects from Asia reach the United States,\ninvestors disregarded the large jobs gains, betting that neither a\nrise in interest rates nor resurgent inflation is looming.\nStocks rose, pushing the Dow Jones industrial average up 72.24\npoints, to 8,189.49, leaving the index within 70 points of its\nrecord high set on Aug. 6. In the bond market, a sensitive\nbarometer of inflation anxiety, prices edged up , pushing down the\nyield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury bond to 5.92 percent from\n5.93 percent.\n``Job creation is sturdy and we have effective price\nstability,'' said Paul McCulley, an economist at UBS Securities.\n``The bottom line is that we've got a lovely economy.''\nWith potential inflation counterbalanced by worries about\npossible price declines, the Fed and its chairman, Alan Greenspan,\nhave suggested that they intend to keep interest rates unchanged\nuntil the economy tilts clearly in one direction or another.\nThe job figures for January extended a surge in employment gains\nthat began last fall, just when the labor market had showed signs\nof cooling. After accounting for a small downward revision Friday\nto December's figures, the economy has been creating jobs at a rate\nof 358,000 a month for the last four months _ and 381,000 over the\nlast three months _ after averaging 242,000 for the first nine\nmonths of 1997.\nThe surge in jobs reflects a remarkable confluence of positive\nand self-reinforcing economic forces. Inflation has been almost\nnonexistent, and consumer confidence has been extremely strong.\nAfter a short, sharp drop when Asia's financial problems first\nbecame clear, the stock market has rebounded and corporate profits\nhave remained healthy.\nLong-term interest rates, an important indicator of economic\nstability, have fallen in the last few months. Lower rates have helped invigorate housing and other interest-sensitive sectors of\nthe economy by making loans more affordable, and have allowed\ncompanies to continue investing heavily in more efficient\nequipment.\nThe likelihood that the federal budget will soon move from\ndeficit into surplus has further improved the outlook. The less\nmoney the government needs to borrow, the more is freed for private\ninvestment.\nPresident Clinton welcomed the job figures at a news conference\nFriday. His advisers said the results reflected not just from\nbalancing the budget, but also initiatives like improved access to\neducation and training and the opening of foreign markets to trade.\n``There are enormous economic and social benefits from our\nnation's high-employment economy,'' said Janet Yellen, the\nchairwoman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers.\nSome of the biggest employment gains came in the construction\nindustry, which added 92,000 jobs in January. The increase\nreflected the strength of the housing industry, which has been helped not just by declining interest rates but also by unusually\nwarm weather.\nService industries also showed solid job gains, as did\nmanufacturers, two areas expected to be hardest hit when the\neffects of the Asian crisis hit the American economy. The major\nharm from Asia is likely to come from the plunge in the value of\nmany Asian currencies relative to the dollar, a situation that is expected to lead to a surge of inexpensive imports into the United\nStates, hurting American competitors. And the weakness of the Asian\neconomies is also likely to lead to decreased demand for American\nexports.\n``The economy has been running on the fumes of the strength from\nbefore the Asia shock,'' McCulley said. ``Those fumes will exhaust\nthemselves, and the manufacturing sector is going to start getting\nbeat up in the spring.''\nThe figures showed the unemployment rate for adult men declined\nto 3.8 percent last month from 4.1 percent in December, the lowest\nfigure for almost two decades. The rate for adult women rose 0.4\npercent, to 4.4 percent.\nFor the first time, the Labor Department broke out unemployment\nby education level as well as gender, age and race. The analysis\nshowed unemployment rates dropped steadily with higher levels of\neducation. Among people with less than a high school education, the\nrate in January was 7.2 percent.\nAmong high school graduates, the rate was 3.9 percent, and\ncollege graduates, 1.9 percent.\n\n\n\nNYT-02-06-98 2219EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "02/06/1998 22:19:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t190", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-06T22:19:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 547, "end_char": 554, "tid": "t191", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t190"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 583, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t193", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t190"}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 776, "end_char": 786, "tid": "t195", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0003\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nofficial\n\n\n\n\nA Pakistani government minister rejected the charge the Communist Party of Nepal (CPN) (formerly known as guerilla) chairman Prachanda claimed that Pakistani intelligence once offered CPN assistance, local nepalnews.com reported Tuesday.\n\nPakistan's Deputy Minister for Information Tariq Azim told BBC Nepali Service on Monday that Prachanda's remarks were \"baseless.\"\n\nAzim said that Prachanda might have said so \"perhaps in an attempt to make some people happy.\"\n\nOn Nov. 18, in an interview he gave to The Hindustan Times, Prachanda who had visited New Delhi to attend the Leadership Summit organized by the daily, disclosed that when he decided \"to take the movement to the streets\", back in 1996, he was offered \" assistance\" in the form of arms and money from representatives claiming to be from the ISI.\n\nThe ISI (Inter Service Intelligence) is an intelligence agency of Pakistan. Indian government routinely accuses ISI of indulging in anti-India activities by using the soil of Nepal as well as Bangladesh. It has also frequently accused ISI of masterminding terrorist attacks within Indian territory.\n\nPrachanda had also claimed that with the growth in his party's movement, the activities of ISI in Nepal have declined. \"With our movement gaining people's consensus, the anti-India ISI activity\" is almost non-existent.\n\nPrachanda had said, \"ISI-type people offered us money and arms assistance. I resisted and our council agreed to refuse the assistance because we felt our movement would lose its Nepali- people-centric approach.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 308, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 392, "end_char": 398, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18", "start_char": 541, "end_char": 548, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 768, "end_char": 772, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0003.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0230\n\nANKARA, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS with FM remarks ///\n\n\n\n\nTurkey on Tuesday urged EU leaders to avoid \"a historic mistake\" when they discuss the country's membership bid next week and warned that a German proposal to set a deadline for Ankara to grant trade priviliges to Cyprus would have a \"very negative impact.\"\n\nPrime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he telephoned German Chancellor Angela Merkel hours before she was to meet French President Jacques Chirac in Mettlach, Germany, to seek backing for Berlin's proposal.\n\n\"I reminded her what the costs of a wrong step could be,\" Erdogan told the parliamentary group of his Justice and Development Party.\n\n\"I told her that we hope such a historic mistake will not occur at the summit of EU leaders on December 14-15,\" he said.\n\nEU foreign ministers meet in Brussels on December 11 to discuss a European Commission recommendation to partially freeze membership talks with Turkey because of its refusal to open its sea and air ports to Cypriot vessels under a customs union pact with the bloc.\n\nIf they fail to reach a unanimous decision, the issue is expected to go on the agenda of an EU summit three days later.\n\nMerkel wants the EU to give Turkey an 18-month deadline to open its ports to Cyprus as a condition for resuming full membership talks.\n\nForeign Minister Abdullah Gul said the German proposal would make things worse.\n\n\"With the Commission's recommendations unacceptable as they are, such a proposal will make things even worse,\" Gul said after talks here with his Swedish counterpart Carl Bildt.\n\n\"It would have a very negative impact on the negotiation process... (but) I do not believe that this will happen,\" he said.\n\nTurkey says its ports will remain closed to Cyprus unless the 25-nation bloc keeps promises mqde in 2004 to ease the economic isolation of the divided island's breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, recognized only by Ankara.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 105, "end_char": 112, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 14-15", "start_char": 793, "end_char": 807, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 11", "start_char": 861, "end_char": 872, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days", "start_char": 1187, "end_char": 1197, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1827, "end_char": 1831, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0230.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0217\n\nMECCA,  Saudi Arabia, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, background ///\n\n\n\n\nAround two million Muslim faithful were heading Thursday from Mecca to the valley of Mina as the annual hajj pilgrimage got under way in Saudi Arabia amid heavy security.\n\nDraped in white robes, the pilgrims walked or boarded buses to Mina, five kilometers (three miles) east of the holy city of Mecca, to begin tracing the journey made by Prophet Mohammed more than 1,400 years ago.\n\n\"Everything is proceeding according to plan,\" Saudi interior ministry spokesman General Mansur al-Turki told AFP.\n\nTurki said the final number of pilgrims would not be known until the hajj climaxes on Friday, when the faithful move to Mount Arafat where they will spend the day praying and asking for God's forgiveness at the summit, in a symbolic waiting for the last judgment.\n\nMore than 1.6 million people from across the world have arrived in Saudi Arabia, and their numbers have been swelled by Saudis and other Muslim residents in the country to above two million.\n\nOver two thirds of the pilgrims are expected to spend the day known as \"Yawm at-Tarwiya\" at Mina, an optional ritual, while others will head straight to Mount Arafat on Friday, Turki said.\n\nPilgrims spend the day in prayers and meditation in Mina, sleeping at night in tents before heading further south to Mount Arafat.\n\nThousands of Saudi security forces have been deployed along the routes to be used by the pilgrims and official media said security and health authorities are mobilized to ensure the safety of the faithful during often risky rituals, with dozens of field hospitals and clinics set up in the area.\n\nThe last hajj in January was marred by a deadly stampede which killed 364 people in Mina during a ritual which involves casting stones at pillars representing Satan.\n\nA similar stampede in 2004 saw 251 people trampled to death during the stoning ceremony.\n\nBoth tragedies occurred at the entrance to the Jamarat bridge, from where pilgrims cast their stones at three pillars that are supposed to symbolize the powers of evil.\n\nImmediately after the last hajj's stampede, religious leaders ordered the dismantling of the bridge, which created a dangerous bottleneck.\n\nSaudi authorities, who have been fighting a wave of violence by suspected Al-Qaeda extremists since May 2003, have warned that they will crack down on any attempt to undermine security during the hajj.\n\nThe warning comes against a backdrop of daily Sunni-Shiite violence in Iraq which has prompted some commentators to express concerns about the risks of a proxy conflict between Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia and Shiite-majority Iran.\n\nSince the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran has insisted on holding a rally during the hajj to denounce Israel and the United States, defying the Saudi ban on political activity during the religious occasion.\n\nPilgrims will begin moving towards Mount Arafat at dawn Friday. They will then return to Mina to sacrifice an animal, usually a sheep, for Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, on Saturday.\n\nThe pilgrims will spend another two days there for the stoning ceremony that symbolizes a willingness to renounce evil.\n\nThe Hajj Commission said Thursday that 252 pilgrims had died of natural causes since arriving in the kingdom this month, generally those suffering from heart problems.\n\nThe pilgrimage, which ends on Monday, is one of the five pillars of Islam and is an obligation for all able-bodied Muslims at least once during their lives if they can afford it.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 58, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 1,400 years ago", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 492, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 696, "end_char": 702, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1236, "end_char": 1242, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1703, "end_char": 1710, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2003", "start_char": 2353, "end_char": 2361, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "dawn Friday", "start_char": 2946, "end_char": 2957, "tid": "t10", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 3078, "end_char": 3086, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 3235, "end_char": 3243, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 3319, "end_char": 3329, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 3409, "end_char": 3415, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0217.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0265\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 29 , 2006, 2006\n\nProbe 'finds Israeli army deficient in summer war'\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli military preparations for the summer war in Lebanon and the way troops were used on operations were deficient, a probe into the conduct of staff headquarters found, state radio reported on Friday.\n\nIn its conclusions, the inquiry apportions no blame to individual staff officers for these deficiencies, it added.\n\nThe probe was handed in mid-October to reserve general Dan Shomron, 69, a former chief of staff between 1987 and 1991, by the man who currently holds the post, General Dan Halutz.\n\nFriday's delivery of Shomron's conclusions marks the end of the internal inquiry into the heart of the Israeli military.\n\nFrom next week Halutz and his senior staff officers will examine the lessons to be learnt from Israeli failures in the 34-day summer war with the Shiite Lebanese militia Hezbollah, state radio said.\n\nSince the war ended in a UN-brokered ceasefire on August 14, there have been calls by many protesters, including army reservists who took part in the conflict, for a state commission of inquiry into the war's failures.\n\nThere have also been demands for Halutz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defence Minister Amir Peretz to resign.\n\nThe Olmert government finally opted under domestic pressure on September 17 to establish a five-member government commission headed by retired judge Eliyahu Winograd.\n\nOlmert said at the time the government commission would have the same powers as a state commission -- Israel's most powerful type of public inquiry which many government critics had wanted.\n\nThe difference between the two bodies hangs on their composition: the supreme court, as the highest legal authority, names members of a state commission of inquiry, while those politicians in power name the members of a government commission.\n\nFailures of the July 12-August 14 Lebanon war have been the subject of two other probes -- one headed by the state comptroller and the other by the foreign affairs and defence committees in parliament.\n\nThe Olmert government came under intense criticism over the Lebanon war, which saw more than 160 Israelis killed but which failed to achieve its main objectives -- to stop Hezbollah from being able to fire nearly 4,000 rockets into Israel and to secure the release of two soldiers seized by militants in the July 12 cross-border raid that sparked the conflict.\n\nIsrael was also slammed abroad for the devastating use of its firepower in Lebanon, where more than 1,200 people -- mostly civilians -- were killed, and thousands of homes and infrastructure targets were bombed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 29 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 313, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1987", "start_char": 536, "end_char": 540, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 545, "end_char": 549, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 566, "end_char": 575, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 613, "end_char": 619, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week Halutz", "start_char": 740, "end_char": 756, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 14", "start_char": 985, "end_char": 994, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 17", "start_char": 1331, "end_char": 1343, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1887, "end_char": 1891, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 12", "start_char": 2382, "end_char": 2389, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0265.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0704\n\nBRUSSELS, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nEU deplores Rafah rampage\n\n\n\n\nEU foreign policy chief Javier Solana deplored the deadly violence at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza on Thursday in which one of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya's bodyguards was killed and his son and political adviser hurt.\n\n\"We hope very much that the situation will get clarified and the Rafah crossing will be open to everybody in the coming hours,\" he told a press conference during an EU summit in Brussels.\n\n\"We deplore the events that are taking place in Rafah,\" he added.\n\nHamas gunmen went on the rampage waiting for Haniya to cross back into the strip after being detained by an Israeli closure, an AFP correspondent said.\n\nThe gunmen, mostly youths, smashed windows and furniture inside the terminal -- Gaza's only border crossing that bypasses Israel -- while shots were fired into the air and at the building itself.\n\nIsrael had closed Rafah earlier Thursday to prevent Haniya from returning to the coastal strip with a reported 35 million dollars in cash.\n\nHaniya returned safely but \"the money he was carrying is not across the border, it is now in a bank in Egypt,\" Solana said.\n\nFive people were injured in the shoot-out, one of them seriously, which occurred as the Palestinian premier left the Gaza border terminal where he had been blocked for several hours, a government source said.\n\nHamas called the incident an assassination attempt by the Palestinian presidential guard.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 199, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the coming hours", "start_char": 439, "end_char": 455, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 968, "end_char": 976, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1162, "end_char": 1165, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0704.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0253\n\nKHARTOUM, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAU says Darfur rebels plan to attack its fuel convoys\n\n\n\n\nThe African Union (AU) accused on Thursday a Darfur rebel group of attempting to attack its fuel convoys, saying such action will hinder peace efforts in the region.\n\nIn a statement received by Xinhua, the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) said it had received creditable information on a planned ambush against its fuel tankers travelling in the areas of Um Kadada and El Nahud near al-Fashir.\n\nThe statement said some elements of the National Redemption Front (NRF) were behind this potential attack.\n\n\"Such actions constitute flagrant violation of the ceasefire and negate current efforts of broadening the peace process and making it more inclusive,\" the statement stressed.\n\nThe pan-African body urged the NRF leadership to refrain its elements from undertaking such action.\n\nAttacks against AU troops and aid workers in Darfur are now part of the shaky security in the region.\n\nLast week, The AU slammed an attack by unidentified group against an AU monitor team near the Chadian border, in which the attackers seized a vehicle and communication radio.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 957, "end_char": 960, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 1004, "end_char": 1013, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0253.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0403\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndia to build 240MW reservoir hydropower in Nepal\n\n\n\n\nIndia has agreed principally to build a 240-megawatt storage type hydropower project in mid- western Nepal on grant basis for Nepal, the local daily Kathmandu Post reported on Thursday.\n\n\"The Naumure hydro-project planned to build in the West Rapti River, some 500 km west of Kathmandu, will help in fulfilling increased demands of electricity in the winter,\" the newspaper quoted K.P. Sharma Oli, deputy prime minister, as saying.\n\nNepal has only one reservoir type hydropower project that is Kulekhani project in the southern Nepal.\n\nHe told the media after returning from India visit on Wednesday that the Indian government was also positive to encourage Indian investment in Nepal's hydropower sector.\n\nOli also made it clear that steps are already being taken to renew the Nepal-India commerce treaty, which is expiring in March next year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the winter", "start_char": 460, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-WI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 703, "end_char": 712, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March next year", "start_char": 941, "end_char": 956, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0403.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0024\n\nBANGKOK, April 17 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFirst Thai ambassdor to WTO dies\n\n\n\n\nThe first Thai ambassdor to the World Trade Organization (WTO), Danai Tulalampa, has died of cancer, a foreign ministry official said Thursday.\n\nDanai, 61, who died Monday, was appointed in early 1995 as the first Thai ambassdor to the WTO, where he chaired the agriculture committee before retiring at age 60.\n\nBefore working at the WTO, he held posts as deputy permanent secretary of the commerce ministry and director-general of the foreign ministry's economic department.\n\nHe also served as ambassdor to Belgium and to the European Union for four years from 1988.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 17 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 226, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 263, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 1995", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 292, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years", "start_char": 638, "end_char": 648, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 654, "end_char": 658, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0024.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0193\n\nPORT VILA, Vanuatu, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nVanuatu FM reiterates one-China policy\n\n\n\n\nVanuatu Deputy Prime Minister Sato Kilman on Thursday reiterated his country's one- China policy, expressing satisfaction over the development of Vanuatu-China relations.\n\nKilman, also the South Pacific island country's foreign minister, told Xinhua here that all major political parties in Vanuatu support the one-China policy.\n\nHe said the Chinese government's endeavor towards a peaceful reunification of the country is not only conducive to the well- being of the peoples across the Taiwan Straits, but also to the peace in the region at large.\n\n\"The Chinese government has done a lot in this regard,\" he said.\n\nHe expressed his appreciation over China's assistance to Vanuatu, saying the Chinese medical teams, agricultural teams and sports coaches have earned respect from the Vanuatu people.\n\nKilman welcomed Chinese tourists to his country as one of the ways to further boost the bilateral cooperation.\n\nHe spoke highly of the role of the Chinese community, which is about 400 to 500 out of the country's 200,000 population, in the local social and economic life.\n\n\"It is the Chinese business people who helped Vanuatu's development,\" he noted, adding the country values very much the Chinese community's contribution to the economy.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0193.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0416\n\nOTTAWA, April 12 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nLebanese PM alter Canadian visit, on doctor's advice\n\n\n\n\nLebanese Prime Minister Rafik Al-Hariri canceled a planned visit to Alberta on doctor's advice to rest in Ottawa, the Canadian foreign ministry said Saturday.\n\nHariri was to have traveled to Edmonton Saturday for a meeting with the provincial premier, Ralph Klein, and other meetings with business leaders.\n\nCanadian officials said Hariri had a hectic schedule following his arrival here Thursday directly from Moscow.\n\nThe Lebanese prime minister will resume his normal activities Sunday, flying to Montreal for talks on economic cooperation and meetings with members of the Lebanese community, officials said.\n\nHe is to leave Monday for Lebanon.\n\nAl-Hariri is the first Lebanese prime minister ever to visit Canada while in office.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 12 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 499, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 593, "end_char": 599, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 739, "end_char": 745, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0416.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0399\n\nQUITO, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChavez accused of \"interference\" in Ecuador's elections\n\n\n\n\nEcuador's President Alfredo Palacio on Wednesday denounced Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's \"interference\" in Ecuador's presidential elections.\n\n\"This is unacceptable. There cannot be such outside interference,\" said Palacio, referring to Chavez's remarks that banana tycoon Alvaro Noboa used his vast wealth to exert influence in the elections.\n\nNoboa finished first \"in a somewhat strange fashion\" in the first round, Chavez told foreign correspondents in Caracas on Wednesday. \"He showed up in the first place and started spreading money around all over the place.\"\n\nEcuadorean Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion said he had summoned Venezuelan Ambassador to Ecuador, Oscar Navas, on Wednesday morning to lodge a complaint about Chavez's comments.\n\nAfter the meeting, Navas told reporters that \"there is no interference\" as Chavez \"said nothing against the Ecuadorean government.\"\n\nAccording to Ecuadorian law, a candidate needs 50 percent, or at least 40 percent and a 10-percentage-point lead over the rest of the field, to avoid a runoff.\n\nAs the Oct. 15 Ecuadorian elections failed to produce an outright winner, Noboa and Rafael Correa, a leftist candidate favored by Chavez, will face each other in a runoff on Nov. 26.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 153, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 585, "end_char": 594, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 803, "end_char": 820, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 15", "start_char": 1169, "end_char": 1176, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 26", "start_char": 1336, "end_char": 1343, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0399.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0156\n\nLONDON, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBritish stocks trade higher at midday\n\n\n\n\nBritish stocks traded higher at midday on Tuesday on the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThe FTSE 100-share index was up 21.00 points, at 6,226.10 at noon.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 140, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0156.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0071\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nawards\n\n\n\n\nChinese film director Chen Kaige, who received a controversial nomination for a \"Green Chinese\" award, didn't make the short list for the awards which was released on Sunday.\n\nChen Kaige's 340-million-yuan (42 million US dollars) film, \"The Promise\" damaged the environment near a pristine lake shore in Shangri-la in southwest Yunnan Province, according to the State Environmental Protection Administration (SEPA).\n\nAnother controversial nominee, director Zhang Jizhong, who was accused of damaging the Jiuzhaigou National Park during filming also didn't make the short list.\n\nWang Panpu, secretary-general of the award's organizing committee, said Chen and Zhang were ranked well down on the list of 235 nominees and were quickly eliminated from the 24-person short list.\n\nChen and Zhang's nominations announced a month ago stirred a hot debate on the Internet and in the media.\n\nThe \"Green Chinese\" annual award is co-sponsored by seven government departments and supported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), which selects five to ten Chinese who have made a significant contribution to protecting the environment.\n\nInternet users were encouraged to submit their own nominations which are checked for eligibility by the organizing committee, said a spokeswoman for the awards.\n\nMany netizens described the nomination of the directors as an outrageous irony.\n\n\"Most Internet users wrote that Chen was a negative example but if it wasn't for his movie there wouldn't have been such a huge debate about environmental protection,\" the spokeswoman said.\n\nZhang Jizhong apologized for damaging the environment during the shooting of his film.\n\nChen Kaige's film production company was fined 90,000 yuan for damaging the lake near Shangrila.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month ago", "start_char": 882, "end_char": 893, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0071.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0159\n\nLONDON, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nDame Kelly hangs up spikes\n\n\n\n\nDouble Olympic champion Kelly Holmes has announced her retirement from athletics and will not now bow out at next year's Commonwealth Games in Melbourne as planned.\n\nThe 35-year-old former army sergeant said Tuesday she had been badly affected by the death of a man she met while visiting her physiotherapist in Ireland.\n\nAnd she admitted she lacked the motivation to continue in the sport after winning gold in the 800 metres and 1,500m in Athens last year.\n\nHolmes' double gold in Athens was the highlight of a career peppered with injury and disappointment.\n\nShe had battled an Achilles tendon injury to make the team for Melbourne.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 284, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 524, "end_char": 533, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0159.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0472\n\nBRUSSELS, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nBickering EU leaders to fill up on Cullen Skink\n\n\n\n\nEuropean Union leaders were to discover the pleasures of Cullen Skink when they sit down to dinner Thursday to haggle over EU financial perspectives.\n\nIt's a hearty smoked-haddock soup from Scotland -- Cullen is a coastal town and skink comes from the Gaelic word for essence -- that British Prime Minister Tony Blair hopes can help warm the mood.\n\nAnyone wanting to spoil the mood could point out that Scotland's fisheries have been hit hard by EU fisheries policy, with tough quotas now in place after years of overfishing in the North Sea.\n\nThe two-day summit in Brussels is dominated by intense wrangling over the bloc's budget for 2007 to 2013, but the dinner itself is likely to be a more harmonious occasion.\n\nThe main course, a European diplomat told AFP, would be \"carre d'agneau\" -- that reads better on a menu than \"lamb chops\" -- from Northern Ireland, accompanied with cabbage and mushrooms.\n\nA selection of British cheeses and oatcakes was to follow, together with coffee and, in a return to things Scottish, shortbread.\n\nTo wash it all down, there was to be Sharpham Beenleigh red wine from Devon, southwest England, and Tintern Parva white from Wales, as well as mineral water from Shropshire, in the north of England.\n\nCoffee and shortbread was to round out the evening.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 199, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 585, "end_char": 588, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "years", "start_char": 604, "end_char": 609, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 736, "end_char": 740, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0472.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0044\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nShenzhen stock index up -- Nov. 6\n\n\n\n\nThe Component Stock Index on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange closed at 4,785.37 points on Monday, up 94.94 points from the previous close.\n\nA Share Index: 5,024.66 points, up 99.68 points;\n\nB Share Index: 2,817.62 points, up 61.12 points;\n\nTotal Turnover: 14,619,420,000 yuan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 186, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0044.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0117\n\nLONDON, Dec 4 , 2005\n\nRedknapp rues quitting Pompey\n\n\n\n\nHarry Redknapp admitted Sunday that he made a \"monumental mistake\" in leaving Portsmouth for Southampton a year ago.\n\nRedknapp quit Saints Saturday claiming his position was untenable after chairman Rupert Lowe refused an approach by Pompey counterpart Milan Mandaric to speak to his former manager.\n\nAnd Redknapp said that despite his very public fall-out with Mandaric last season he would welcome a return to Fratton Park.\n\n\"The last year has been the worst of my life and that is no exaggeration,\" he told the Sunday Mirror.\n\n\"I don't know what possessed me to leave Portsmouth in the first place. I'm an emotional man at the best of times but I made a monumental mistake walking out of Fratton Park and a day hasn't passed since I left the ground for the last time that I didn't regret my decision.\n\n\"The truth is I have had my rows with chairman Milan Mandaric but they were petty and the vast majority were my fault.\"\n\nRedknapp added: \"The only reason I remained at the club (Southampton) following relegation was I felt I owed it to the fans to get them back up but I would be a liar if I said my heart was in the job.\n\n\"Events this season have simply increased my desire to get away and once Portsmouth asked permission to speak to me this week I knew I had to go back.\n\n\"I have no intention of signing a long-term deal at Pompey. If and when I can get round a table with Milan I will make it clear that I will work without a contract for the rest of the season.\"\n\nLowe's decision to bring former England rugby world cup-winning coach Clive Woodward into the backroom staff was one of the reasons for his unhappiness.\n\n\"As a bloke I got on with him but I have to say the decision to bring him in was bizarre. The relationship between me and Clive was never going to work because there were too many people undermining the structure Rupert Lowe wanted at the club,\" he added.\n\nIn an open letter by Mandaric published in the Sunday Mirror the Pompey chairman said: \"If I'm honest I never wanted Harry to leave in the first place.\n\n\"Of all the candidates Harry is the one which that stands out. The supporters have to trust me.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 103, "end_char": 109, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 226, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "The last year", "start_char": 507, "end_char": 520, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 593, "end_char": 599, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1323, "end_char": 1332, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0117.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0620\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nAnnan hails major Spanish donation for UN poverty-reduction goals\n\n\n\n\nOutgoing UN chief Kofi Annan on Tuesday praised Spain for donating 700 million dollars (550 million euros) to help the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at halving extreme poverty around the world by 2015.\n\n\"This is the largest contribution yet made to the UN for this purpose by any country, and I believe it is a splendid example of international solidarity which I hope other members will follow,\" Annan told a press conference, his last before he steps down on December 31 after 10 years in office.\n\nAnnan was on hand along with visiting Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero at a signing ceremony for the donation here Monday.\n\nThe deal, signed between Spanish Secretary of State for International Cooperation Leire Pajin and Kemal Dervis, the UN Development Program (UNDP) Administrator, sets up the UN Fund for the Achievement of the MDGs, which will be managed by Spain and UNDP.\n\nThe MDGs call for 500 million people to be \"lifted out of extreme poverty\" in the next decade, putting 115 million children put in school, and halting the spread of HIV/AIDS.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 169, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2015", "start_char": 341, "end_char": 345, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2015", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 31", "start_char": 606, "end_char": 617, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 years", "start_char": 624, "end_char": 632, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 779, "end_char": 785, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next decade", "start_char": 1122, "end_char": 1137, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0620.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0257\n\nPARIS, Dec 17 , 2005\n\nDon't be fooled by 'democratic marriage': Al-Qaeda in Iraq\n\n\n\n\nThe Iraqi branch of Al-Qaeda on Saturday urged the country's Sunni Arabs not to be fooled by the apparent success of this week's landmark elections.\n\n\"We say to our (Sunni) brothers: do not be fooled by what you have heard of the propaganda from the crusaders and their footmen.\n\n\"The coming days will show you the fate of this 'democratic marriage' and the marriage of prostitution that it celebrated,\" the group said in a statement on a frequently used Islamist website.\n\n\"Their armed forces (of the Iraqi government) will be useless. Know that the decision of the crusaders to pull out of Iraq has already been taken,\" reads the statement, whose authenticity could not be verified.\n\nThe group, led by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, is threatening to continue its attacks in Iraq and says it did not halt them during last Thursday's elections for a full-term parliament.\n\n\"The Mujahedeen (holy warriors) succeeded in striking the positions of the crusader forces and the apostate government,\" it said.\n\nOn the eve of the election, during which the Sunnis flocked to the polls, the group declared it was launching a large-scale offensive against \"the apostate's bastions\" in order to disrupt the polls.\n\nHowever this offensive did not materialise and the rare outbreaks of violence on polling day left four people dead.\n\nLeading Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi on Saturday called for a coalition to protect national unity in a new parliament as he thanked insurgents for not attacking polling stations during the vote.\n\n\"The resistance announced it would protect polling stations and not allow a single group to attack them and it respected its promise,\" he said, referring to another militant group.\n\n\"In the name of National Concord Front, we thank them,\" said Dulaimi referring to the electoral coalition of which he is a leader.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 140, "end_char": 148, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 225, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Thursday", "start_char": 928, "end_char": 941, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1481, "end_char": 1489, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0257.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0023\n\nDHAKA, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st Ld: At least 16 people killed in bus accident in Bangladesh\n\n\n\n\nAt least 16 people were killed and 62 others injured when two passenger buses collided head on in Bangladesh's northwestern Sirajganj district Wednesday, police said.\n\nPrimary report said the accident occurred when a bus from capital Dhaka lost control and crushed into another bus at about 11:15 am local time (5:15 GMT). Local people said the casualty figure may go up as conditions of some of the injured were critical.\n\nThe injured passengers were rushed to different hospitals and clinics nearby.\n\nPolice said most passengers of the two buses were returning to their work places after Muslim's Eid festival and subsequent political agitation that disrupted communications late last month.\n\nThe accident on highway is a regular feature in the country where bus drivers do not take much care of traffic rule while the traffic department does not monitor the speed limit of vehicles on roads.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "11:15 am local time (5:15 GMT", "start_char": 413, "end_char": 442, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01T15:00Z", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 804, "end_char": 814, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0023.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0399\n\nGUANGZHOU, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSlump continues for Guangdong's Christmas commodities exports\n\n\n\n\nExports of Christmas commodities made in south China's Guangdong Province are still in the slump that hit the industry in 2004, a local Customs spokesman said.\n\nThe officer of the Huangpu Customs of Guangdong said the province's Christmas commodities exports were only 550 million U.S. dollars in the first nine months, just 1.7 percent up on the same period last year.\n\nJuly, August and September, the mid-season for Christmas commodities, had passed, and the province's exports were unlikely to rise in the final three months, he said.\n\nGuangdong exported 640 million U.S. dollars of Christmas commodities in 2002, a rise of 22.3 percent year-on-year, and its exports in 2003 edged up by 25.2 percent to reach 790 million U.S. dollars.\n\nHowever, in 2004, Guangdong just exported 630 million U.S. dollars of Christmas commodities, down by 20.1 percent from 2003. The figure last year was 620 million U.S. dollars, down 1.8 percent year-on-year.\n\nExports of Chinese-made Christmas commodities had been hindered by rising costs of raw materials and increased competition for the foreign markets, said the Customs spokesman.\n\nAs Christmas gained in popularity among Chinese, especially young people, many manufacturers have focused on the domestic market and reduced their exports.\n\nMany Chinese Christmas commodities also failed to meet quality and safety standards in the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries, said the official.\n\nCustoms officers were advising domestic manufacturers to diversify their products and improve quality to sharpen their competitiveness on the international market.\n\nChina's total export value of Christmas commodities was about 1.07 billion U.S. dollars each year in 2004 and 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 246, "end_char": 250, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 421, "end_char": 442, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period last year", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 492, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 551, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the final three months", "start_char": 629, "end_char": 651, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-04T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 735, "end_char": 739, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 797, "end_char": 801, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 875, "end_char": 879, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 982, "end_char": 986, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 999, "end_char": 1008, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1856, "end_char": 1860, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1865, "end_char": 1869, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0399.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0553\n\nKINSHASA, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMobutu, Kabila to meet Friday on ship: US envoy\n\n\n\n\nZairean President Mobutu Sese Seko will meet Friday for historic face- to-face talks on board a South African ship, US envoy Bill Richardson announced here.\n\nThe meeting will take place under UN auspices in international waters on a ship that will set sail from the Gabonese capital of Libreville, he added.\n\n\"I am pleased to announce that President Mobutu and Mr. Kabila have agreed to face-to-face talks,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a historic occasion that hopefully will lead to a peaceful transition in Zaire. \"There are no pre-conditions.\"\n\nThe breakthrough announcement came after Richardson met Mobutu for the second time in two days. In between, he met Kabila in the rebel-held city of Lubumbashi in southeast Zaire.\n\nAsked about the possibility of a ceasefire while the meeting is held, he replied: \"It is our hope that there will be a ceasefire while these talks take place.\"\n\nMobutu did not appear after the 90-minute meeting, although he was briefly seen at the window of his palatial residence here.\n\nInformed Zairean sources said that Mobutu would leave Kinshasa on Thursday to head to the talks.\n\nKabila's rebels have captured more than half this country since they launched their offensive to topple Mobutu more than six months ago.\n\nThe ailing Mobutu, 66, who is recuperating after prostate cancer surgery, has ruled over Zaire for 32 years.\n\nEarlier Wednesday, the president's son and spokesman Nzanga Mobutu said his father did not want to meet Kabila on board the South African vessel.\n\nRichardson said other African leaders would also take part in the encounter. He did not say who they would be, but went out of his way to praise South African President Nelson Mandela and his Gabonese counterpart Omar Bongo.\n\nMandela is expected to chair the talks.\n\nThe US envoy will also be present at the start of the talks, but the agenda itself will be up to Mobutu and Kabila, he added.\n\nFrance said it could \"only welcome\" the development if the meeting were indeed to take place.\n\nThe foreign ministry said the meeting \"should coincide with a defintive halt to hostilities.\" The venue was immaterial: \"the important thing is that the meeting should take place.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 153, "end_char": 159, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two", "start_char": 733, "end_char": 736, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1181, "end_char": 1189, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months ago", "start_char": 1334, "end_char": 1348, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "32 years", "start_char": 1450, "end_char": 1458, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P32Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier Wednesday", "start_char": 1461, "end_char": 1478, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0553.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0166\n\nMANILA, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPhilippines to seek agreement with US over custody of US marines accused of rape\n\n\n\n\nThe Philippines said Monday it cannot ask the US government to hand over the six US marines accused of raping a 22-year-old Filipino woman early this month, but will seek an agreement with the US side to solve the issue.\n\nPhilippine Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs Zosimo Paredes said that the government can arrange for a bilateral agreement with the United States regarding custody of the suspects before a warrant of arrest is issued by a Filipino court.\n\n\"Considering that they will agree that it is an extraordinary case. Any disagreement regarding custody shall be resolved at the diplomatic level. So it has to be bilateral,\" said Paredes, who is executive director of the US-Filipino Visiting Forces Agreement Committee (VFACOM), which is tasked to cope with cases of alleged offenses by US servicemen visiting the Philippines.\n\nAccording to the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) signed by the United States and the Philippines in 1999, cases considered extraordinary include heinous crimes such as rape, offenses punishable under the Dangerous Drug Act, and offenses punishable under the Child Abuse Law.\n\nBut Paredes said that the US authorities may transfer the soldiers to any US military facility abroad to start serving their sentences if they are found guilty by a US court martial.\n\n\"The provision of VFA is clear. Custody shall immediately reside with the US military if they so request. So we can't do anything about it,\" he said.\n\nThe US embassy in Manila said the US military is making a separate investigation into the case.\n\nThe six US marines were accused by a Filipino young woman of raping early this month at the former US navy base in Subic Bay. The marines, who are reportedly staying in the US embassy in Manila, have been subpoenaed by a Filipino prosecutor to appear later this month.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1080, "end_char": 1084, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early this month", "start_char": 1756, "end_char": 1772, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1945, "end_char": 1955, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0166.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0394\n\nLOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nThree U.S. cities to convene on bid for 2016 Olympic Games\n\n\n\n\nThe United States Olympic Committee (USOC) said on Wednesday that three U.S. cities will meet to discuss how to bid for the the 2016 Olympic Games.\n\nRepresentatives from the candidate cities of Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco will meet in Orange County, California on Nov. 7-9, the USOC said in a statement e-mailed to Xinhua.\n\nThe two-day seminar, to be hosted by USOC, will brief the U.S. candidate cities on the USOC's long term vision and strategy, provide the cities with more practical insight on the future bid process and coordinate specific requirements for the remainder of the evaluation process, said the statement.\n\nUSOC president Peter Ueberroth will provide the keynote address, entitled \"The Promise of the Olympic Movement for Our World\", while Chief Executive Officer Jim Scherr will speak about \"Vision of the USOC Toward Beijng and Vancouver and the USOC Game Plan,\" according to the statement.\n\n\"This seminar is the latest step in our pragmatic, but engaged approach to the domestic bid process,\" said U.S. IOC Member and USOC Vice President Bob Ctvrtlik, who will be kicking off the seminar with an overview of the process and the USOC's expectations of the cities moving forward.\n\n\"We are very pleased with the level of effort and commitment demonstrated by the cities thus far, and while there is still much work to do, we want to offer the cities the opportunity to delve more deeply into the relevant themes. Our ultimate goal remains to find a city with the best chance to win internationally.\"\n\nThe USOC will decide whether to move forward with a 2016 bid by the end of year. If the organization moves forward with the process to submit a bid city for the Games, the USOC Board of Directors will make a choice on the USOC's candidate city in April, 2007.\n\nThe Domestic Candidate City Seminar will include a variety of topics, including: history of the Modern Olympic Games, an overview of the bid process, International Relations vision and programs, communications guidelines, marketing opportunities, Olympic venues, building the budget and framework, and bid city partnership with the USOC, according to the statement.\n\nDuring the second day of the seminar, the USOC will meet individually with each city's representatives to provide feedback on previous questions and to conduct a general question-and-answer session regarding their bids.\n\nFor the next phase of the evaluation, the USOC delivered guidelines to each of the cities last week for producing a domestic set of bid books. The requirements are based on the International Olympic Committee's Candidate City Questionnaire and include questions on all 17 themes in the international candidature city files. The bid books will be due back to the USOC on Jan. 22, 2007.\n\nFollowing an analysis of the bid book content, the USOC will send an Evaluation Commission to each city for an on-site review. The USOC reserves the right to eliminate any city from consideration at that time or at any point in the process.\n\nFinal presentations by each of the remaining cities will be made to the USOC Board of Directors in April.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 7-9", "start_char": 398, "end_char": 406, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of year", "start_char": 1717, "end_char": 1732, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April, 2007", "start_char": 1900, "end_char": 1911, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second day", "start_char": 2288, "end_char": 2302, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next phase", "start_char": 2506, "end_char": 2520, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 2592, "end_char": 2601, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 22, 2007", "start_char": 2872, "end_char": 2885, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 3229, "end_char": 3234, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0394.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0236\n\nROME, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nItaly's centre-left coalition hangs on in local polls by Suzette Bloch\n\n\n\n\nItaly's centre-left coalition appears to have just held its ground against the right in the first round of partial local elections, and looks more dependent than ever on its Marxist allies.\n\nThe Olive Tree coalition had hoped for a vote of confidence from the Sunday poll, in which one-fifth of the electorate voted in around 1,000 municipalities, including the major northern cities of Milan, Turin and Trieste.\n\nCounting began Monday morning and final results will be published later in the day.\n\nHowever, exit polls gave an indication of the overall trends, which suggested a left-right polarisation in Italian politics.\n\nThe Refounded Communist Party, the Marxist party which supports the government without participating in it, made a particularly strong showing.\n\nAlso notable was a disastrous performance by the secessionist Northern League.\n\nIn Milan, Italy's economic powerhourse, and the only city controlled by the league, outgoing mayor Marco Formentini was soundly defeated.\n\nFormentini came in in third place and will not take part in a second round of voting on May 11.\n\nLeading the poll was centre-right Freedom Alliance candidate Gabriele Albertini while Olive Tree hopeful Aldo Fumagalli came in second, exit polls indicated.\n\nThe Refounded Communist Party candidate won 9.2 percent.\n\nThe coalition was more hopeful of holding onto Turin and Trieste.\n\nHowever in Turin, capital of the automobile industry, outgoing Olive Tree mayor Valentino Castellani was forced into second place by right- wing candidate Raffaele Costa. Costa took around 43.5 percent of the vote to Castellani's 34 percent.\n\nIn Trieste, centre-left mayor Ricardo Illy came in well in front with 38 percent of the vote, but will face one of two centre-right candidates who each took about 21.7 percent in the second round.\n\nElsewhere, the left won the central cities of Sienna and Ravenna outright, as well as the northern town of Belluno.\n\nIn the south, in Reggio di Calabria, outgoing centre-left mayor was leading and also likely to win in a single round. In Catanzaro, the outgoing right-wing mayor was ahead, but will face a centre-left candidate in the second round.\n\nThe polls also chose local councillors according to lists submitted by the parties.\n\nAccording to exit polls, both the Refounded Communist Party and the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), the main party in the ruling coalition, made gains.\n\nHowever centrist parties suffered a major defeat.\n\nItalian newspapers highlighted the success of the Refounded Communist Party and advances by the right.\n\nLa Stampa noted the Marxists' \"spectacular ability to lead the dance\" and said this would \"complicate the task of the government.\"\n\nLa Repubblica said Olive Tree was \"a minority without the Refounded Communists,\" while noting it would \"govern with difficulty\" with the Marxists.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 387, "end_char": 393, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday morning", "start_char": 556, "end_char": 570, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 616, "end_char": 623, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 11", "start_char": 1204, "end_char": 1210, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0236.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0054\n\nSAN FRANCISCO, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nUS city to set safety standards for nanoparticles\n\n\n\n\nLeaders of the famed college town of Berkeley in California voted on Tuesday to monitor manufactured nanoparticles as potentially hazardous materials.\n\nCity council members unanimously endorsed what they hoped would be trend setting regulation of sub-atomic particles created or used by businesses or research laboratories.\n\n\"This stuff needs to be tracked and monitored to ensure it is safe,\" said Berkeley hazardous materials manager Nabil Al-Hadithy.\n\n\"It appeared governments were afraid of being perceived as anti-business. Since this was seen as the newest goose about to lay the golden egg no one wanted to set standards for safety.\"\n\nThe ordinance calls on businesses within the city limits to report whether they use nanoparticles and, if so, to provide details regarding storage, handling, tracking, disposal and emergency plans for accidental releases.\n\nSimilar regulation was recommended in Britain by the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2004 in a report titled \"Nanoscience and Nanotechnologies: Opportunities and Uncertainties,\" Al-Hadithy said.\n\n\"We thought Britain was going to be first but the government denied the proposal,\" Al-Hadithy told AFP.\n\n\"These are world renowned scientific bodies and to have bureaucrats say they are not going to do it is shocking.\"\n\nDetailed regulations will be crafted in Berkeley after the ordinance becomes law at the end of the week. Letters asking for accountings of nanoparticles will be sent to local businesses in January.\n\n\"It is unlikely we will find much, given the small industrial sector in Berkeley,\" Al-Hadithy said.\n\n\"But the fact is this is not only an ordinance for Berkeley. It clearly appeared to us someone needed to break the ice and start a regulation and maybe others would follow.\"\n\nThere are nanotechnology laboratories at the University of California at Berkeley and at a newly-built Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in the hills above the college.\n\nBoth facilities are exempted from local regulation because they are federally funded and regulated.\n\n\"We are not really that scared of laboratories,\" Al-Hadithy said. \"They use small quantities of material and have lots of scientists on board. Production facilities are our concern.\"\n\nLawrence Berkeley Laboratory officials endorsed the ordinance, getting the city to amend it to call on elected political leaders to lobby for more money to pay for health and safety research.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1085, "end_char": 1089, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the week", "start_char": 1500, "end_char": 1519, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1605, "end_char": 1612, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0054.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0044\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nup\n\n\n\n\nChina-Africa Joint Chamber of Commerce will be formally set up on Sunday, Wan Jifei, Chairman of the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade, said at the High-level Dialogue and 2nd Conference of Chinese and African Entrepreneurs on Saturday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 311, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0044.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0056\n\nKABUL, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAfghan, coalition forces kill 3 suspected terrorists\n\n\n\n\nAfghan and the U.S.-led coalition forces killed three suspected terrorists and arrested another in Afghanistan's eastern Khost province, a coalition press release said Wednesday.\n\n\"Three armed terrorists were killed and another detained during an early Wednesday morning operation by Afghan and coalition forces near the town of Taranli in Khost province,\" it said.\n\nThey were inside a compound and intelligence information led to their location and finally their elimination, it added.\n\nNo civilians were harmed during the operation. There were no casualties on Afghan and coalition forces, it further said.\n\nKhost, a mountainous region, has been a hotbed of Taliban and other militants, who clash with foreign and government forces frequently.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "an early Wednesday morning", "start_char": 355, "end_char": 381, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0056.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0254\n\nGUIYANG, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese workers dead\n\n\n\n\nSeven people were killed in a colliery accident in Southwest China on Monday, bringing the death toll in coal mine tragedies to 85 over the past three days across the country.\n\nEleven workers who were sorting impurities from a coal heap were buried when the heap collapsed at 9:47 a.m. at the Shuicheng Coal Mine Group colliery, in mountainous province of Guizhou.\n\nSeven workers died and four were rescued, said the work safety administration in Liupanshui city, where the mine group is located.\n\nThe cause of the accident is being investigated.\n\nThe past weekend has been tragic with three mine disasters leaving at least 78 people dead. Investigations show coal miners continued production even after government ordered to halt production at the three mines amid safety concerns.\n\nTwenty-two miners were confirmed dead and five others missing in Saturday's gas blast in Yuanhua Coal Mine in Jixi, a city in northeastern Heilongjiang Province.\n\nThree managers responsible for the blast have been arrested, said local police. An investigation shows at the end of August, the mine was forced by local government to halt production due to outdated work safety license, but the owners continued production.\n\nIn another tragedy, 32 miners were killed and 28 injured in a colliery gas explosion at Changyuan Coal Mine in Fuyuan, a county in southwestern Yunnan Province.\n\nInvestigation shows the mine owners started production at the Chuangyuan mine before they got all the required licenses.\n\nA third gas blast on Sunday hit Luweitan Colliery in Linfen city, North China's coal-rich province of Shanxi, killing all 24 miners underground, the local government said on Monday.\n\nIt added the mine's production permit and safety license have both expired.\n\n\"We can't put up with the owner's illegal production with no consideration to miners lives,\" said Liang Jiakun, vice director of the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS), in Jixi. He has earlier arrived at there to coordinate rescue effort and investigation.\n\nLiang said the disaster also highlighted the local government's insufficient efforts to crack down on illegal mining.\n\nChen Qiwen, a county official in Guizhou, was jailed Monday for a ten-year term on taking 730,000 yuan (93,000 U.S. dollars) in bribes from coal mine owners. He offered them safety licenses after their mines were ordered to halt production amid safety concerns.\n\nChinese coal mines suffer frequent explosions, flooding and cave-ins, claiming about 6,000 lives a year.\n\nUnsafe small coal mines account for two-thirds of the total fatalities in mine accidents, government figures show.\n\nThe SAWS said earlier China will seal off 2,652 small mines with an annual output of less than 30,000 tons this year and another 2,209 next year.\n\nAmid efforts to avoid huge fatalities, China will allow no more than 100 miners to work underground per shift in state-owned coal mines, said Zhao Tiechui, director of the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0251\n\nDOHA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFactbox: Rowing in Asian Games\n\n\n\n\nRowing is a traditional sport that has been practiced competitively since the 18th century. Rowers sit in a narrow boat, facing backwards, and use oars or sculls to move the boat forward.\n\nThere are two basic types of competitions: regatta and head-of- the-river races. The regatta is decided by knockout, with a final being held to determine the winning crew.\n\nHead-of-the-river races are decided by the crew that achieves the fastest time over a set course.\n\nRowers have some of the highest power outputs of any athletes in the world and must develop both as endurance and sprint athletes. They also have to tailor their breathing, as the rowing motion compresses rowers' lungs, limiting the amount of available oxygen.\n\nHistory:\n\nRowing was a means of transport in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome, but rowing as a sport began in Victorian England in the 19th century.\n\nRowing was first recorded as a competitive sport in 1716 when boats raced five miles between two different pubs on the River Thames, an event that still takes place. In 1829 the annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge universities was established.\n\nAs rowing became more competitive, races and equipment changed. In 1846 Oxford developed outriggers, oars that were secured away from the side of the boat to give more leverage, while fixed seats were changed to sliding ones by Yale oarsmen in 1870.\n\nModern rowing boats are called shells and are made from composite materials rather than wood.\n\nMen's rowing was included as an Olympic sport in 1896, while women competitors were admitted to the Games at Montreal in 1976.\n\nRowing has been in the Asian Games program since the 9th Asian Games in Delhi, India, in 1982.\n\nSources: Doha Asian Games Organizing Committee, Xinhua Database", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 18th century", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "P18C", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 19th century", "start_char": 962, "end_char": 978, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1716", "start_char": 1033, "end_char": 1037, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1716", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1829", "start_char": 1150, "end_char": 1154, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1829", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1846", "start_char": 1303, "end_char": 1307, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1846", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1870", "start_char": 1480, "end_char": 1484, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1870", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1896", "start_char": 1631, "end_char": 1635, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1896", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1976", "start_char": 1703, "end_char": 1707, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1976", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 9th", "start_char": 1759, "end_char": 1766, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1982", "start_char": 1799, "end_char": 1803, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1982", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0251.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0033\n\nDOHA, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Dave James\n\n\n\n\nThey're the not so magnificent seven, the countries who came to Doha with no expectations and spectacularly lived down to them.\n\nOf the 45 countries who took part in the 15th Asian Games, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Maldives, Oman and the Palestinian territories went home with not as much as a bronze between them.\n\nFor Brunei and Palestinian territories, it marks a decline. Four years ago in Busan, they picked up a bronze each.\n\nPalestinian footballers lost all three games they played without scoring.\n\n\"There are players in the side who I only saw for the first time when we arrived in Doha,\" said coach Hasan Aabed.\n\n\"They live in Gaza and I can't get there from where I live. It's not an excuse but it made our preparations difficult.\"\n\nThe Maldives also went home without a medal, but they claimed a moral victory after only losing 3-1 to mighty Iran in the football first round.\n\nNine years ago, they went down to a record 17-0 defeat against the same opponents in a World Cup qualifier.\n\n\"It was a great challenge,\" said coach Ivanov Stoikov. \"We have improved a lot since Iran beat us 17-0.\"\n\nOman are the only Gulf nation to go home without a medal despite bringing a team of 82 on the short trip to Qatar.\n\nThey failed to make the second round of the football tournament and veteran coach Milan Macala blamed the set-up.\n\n\"There are six professional players in this team, they were tired from club league matches and we didn't get enough time to prepare,\" said Macala.\n\n\"Sixteen of our national players are out of the country to play club league matches.\"\n\nIts best hope in Doha had been with shooter Saleem Al Nasri who finished just outside the top 20 in the double trap at the 2004 Athens Olympics.\n\nBut here, he was 23rd.\n\nFurthermore, their hockey team also went home in disgrace when player Hossam Hassan was thrown out after he assaulted Bangladesh's Mamunur Rahman with his hockey stick.\n\nFor the continent's other no-hopers, there were similar tales of woe.\n\nThe Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, strong in archery, saw both their men's and women's team lose in the first round while oil-rich Brunei fared little better with three bowlers finishing in 87th, 93rd and 97th places respectively.\n\nEddie Johari had the country's best showing with a quarter-final place in karate. Four years ago, they won their only medal ever - a bronze in karate.\n\nCambodia put two athletes on the track and lived to regret it as sprinter Lun Chhay was sixth in his heat in 11.42sec while 5000m runner Bunting Hem was 13th, almost two minutes behind the champion James Kurui of Qatar.\n\nEast Timor, who made their Games debut in Busan in 2002, are still waiting for a medal breakthrough but it won't come from Alain Soares who finished a huge 46 minutes behind winner, Qatar's Hassan Shami, in the marathon.\n\nLaos would have also suffered a similar feeling had it not been for Phoxay Aphailath who picked up a wushu silver on the penultimate day.\n\nIt could have been better had injury not forced the 21-year-old to withdraw from his final against China's Li Teng.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 15th", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 242, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Four years ago", "start_char": 455, "end_char": 469, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nine years ago", "start_char": 968, "end_char": 982, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Four years ago", "start_char": 2372, "end_char": 2386, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "11.42sec", "start_char": 2551, "end_char": 2559, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "almost two minutes", "start_char": 2601, "end_char": 2619, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 2714, "end_char": 2718, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "huge 46 minutes", "start_char": 2814, "end_char": 2829, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the penultimate day", "start_char": 3002, "end_char": 3021, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0033.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0202\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's cabinet tightens controls on social security funds\n\n\n\n\nChina's cabinet moved to tighten controls on social security funds on Wednesday after hearing how parts of the country were plagued by embezzlement.\n\nMisappropriated funds must be paid back in full within strict time limits and the officials involved should be punished, the State Council agreed at a meeting presided over by Premier Wen Jiabao.\n\nThe misappropriation of social security funds was highlighted in September by the Shanghai scandal, involving 3.2 billion yuan of city funds, which brought down Chen Liangyu, secretary of local committee of Communist Party of China (CPC).\n\nThe National Audit Office delivered a report to the council on the results of a nationwide audit of social security funds in the past two months.\n\nThe funds were growing with the expansion of coverage expansion, but policies regarding management were not strictly implemented in some regions, the council heard.\n\nIt ordered the responsible departments to coordinate and ensure funds were kept in special accounts with separate management over collection and expenditure.\n\nThe social security framework includes five main insurance programs: pensions, unemployment, medical, injuries at work, and pre-natal and post-natal care for women workers.\n\nBy the end of 2005, China's social security funds totaled 1.84 trillion yuan (233.35 billion US dollars).\n\nCouncilors called for enhanced transparency in fund management and public supervision.\n\nThey ordered government bodies to draw up measures to improve fund investment returns.\n\nState councilors also discussed and approved in principle the draft of the law on urban and rural planning.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 199, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 532, "end_char": 541, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two months", "start_char": 832, "end_char": 851, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2005", "start_char": 1356, "end_char": 1371, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0202.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0005\n\nTAIPEI, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTaipei shares finish 0.6 percent higher\n\n\n\n\nShare prices in Taiwan closed 0.6 percent higher Thursday amid strong buying of financial issues, dealers said.\n\nThe Taiwan Stock Exchange weighted price index gained 52.29 points to 8,629.23.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0005.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0160\n\nSINGAPORE, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nMarch start for Singapore Airlines Moscow flights\n\n\n\n\nSingapore Airlines (SIA) will start flying to Russia in March with the launch of a service to the capital Moscow, the flag carrier said Thursday.\n\nThe airline will fly three times a week via Dubai using the Boeing 777-200 aircraft, SIA said in a statement.\n\nThe service will enhance already emerging business and leisure ties between Russia and Singapore, the airline said.\n\n\"Russia is a growing trading partner with the region,\" SIA said.\n\nAnnouncing plans for the Russian service last October, SIA's general manager in Russia, Jayaraj Shanmugam, said Russians are increasingly drawn to exotic Asian holiday spots such as Phuket and Hanoi, routes already served by the SIA group.\n\nSIA flies to 90 destinations worldwide.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 159, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 239, "end_char": 247, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 289, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last October", "start_char": 585, "end_char": 597, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0160.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0263\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRussia open for energy security cooperation with APEC: Putin\n\n\n\n\nRussia is open for cooperation with the APEC members in energy security, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a written interview published on the presidential official website on Friday.\n\n\"As one of the leading providers of energy to global markets, Russia is open for cooperation in this sphere. We deem it important in this respect to establish mutually beneficial conditions for partnership,\" Putin said ahead of the 14th APEC ( Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) summit meeting in Hanoi.\n\n\"They should be based on mutual responsibility of producers and users of energy resources, fair distribution of risks between them, the exchange of assets in the energy sector,\" he added.\n\nAccording to Putin, a plan of action adopted at the Group of Eight summit in St. Petersburg this July \"envisages measures for increasing transparency, predictability and stability of energy markets, and improving the investment climate as a whole.\"\n\nBesides, \"it is important to develop energy-saving technology and diversify types of energy and routes of its transportation.\" Substantial steps are also \"needed in such directions as ensuring energy infrastructure security, overcoming energy poverty and solving ecological problems.\"\n\nAll these issues are especially important \"considering the growing need for creating in the Asia Pacific Region a new, more reliable energy configuration. Russia is ready to actively participate in the implementation of this large-scale initiative,\" Putin said.\n\n\"Moreover, we are going to propose and implement several concrete infrastructure projects. The talk is about the construction of oil and gas pipelines for delivery of carbohydrates to the Asia Pacific Region from the eastern part of our country,\" Putin said.\n\nFounded in 1989, APEC is a major regional forum acting as the primary regional vehicle for promoting open trade and practical economic and technical cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.\n\nIt represents the most economically dynamic region in the world, with its 21 member economies accounting for more than one third of the world's population, approximately 60 percent of world GDP, and about 47 percent of world trade.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 305, "end_char": 311, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 905, "end_char": 909, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 1878, "end_char": 1882, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0263.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0342\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nEgypt wins women's 100m hurdle in under-21 Arab athletics\n\n\n\n\nEgypt grabbed the gold medal of the women's 100m hurdle at the 12th under-21 Arab track and field championship here on Thursday, MENA news agency reported.\n\nSalma Emam Abul-Hasan came first in the race. Syria's Fadwa Ibrahim trailed second while Egyptian Nagla Khalifa finished third.\n\nThe four-day Arab Junior Athletics Championship, which began on Wednesday, drew some 500 Arab athletes representing 15 Arab nations.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 243, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 466, "end_char": 475, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0342.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0171\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAbe, Bush to hold 1st summit in Hanoi\n\n\n\n\nJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President George W. Bush will hold their first talks in mid-November on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Hanoi, Kyodo News reported on Wednesday.\n\nThe two leaders agreed on the schedule through a telephone conversation the day after Abe stepped onto the post of prime minister on Sept. 26, Japanese government sources said.\n\nTheir topics of discussion are likely to include the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, the realignment of U.S. military presence in Japan, and the reinforcement of the Japan-U.S. alliance, the report quoted sources as saying.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "mid-November", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 208, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 26", "start_char": 451, "end_char": 459, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0171.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0221\n\nROME, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nProdi says his fate up to president if parliament rejects Albania force\n\n\n\n\nPrime Minister Romano Prodi told the Italian parliament Wednesday that if his government loses a vote on sending troops to Albania he would put its future in the hands of President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro.\n\nProdi made the statement at the start of a day-long debate on Italy's planned leadership of a multinational force to protect aid supplies to Albania.\n\nThe Refounded Communists, allies of the government in parliament, have withdrawn their support ahead of the vote on the force for Albania.\n\n\"If the opposition of the Refounded Communists continues I will immediately go to the head of state to officially inform him of the situation, and leave the decision up to him,\" Prodi said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0221.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0341\n\nKHARTOUM, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\n200 Darfur rebels killed in fresh attack: Sudan army\n\n\n\n\nThe Sudanese army said Thursday it had killed 200 rebels and lost four of its own men while repelling an attack in the war-torn western region of Darfur.\n\nIn a statement quoted by the state-run SUNA news agency, the army also said that 20 of its troops were wounded during the fighting, which took place in northern Darfur on Wednesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 134, "end_char": 142, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 437, "end_char": 446, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0341.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0112\n\nHARBIN, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n39 injured in NE China traffic accident\n\n\n\n\nEight primary school children were killed and 39 injured in a traffic accident in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province on Tuesday, said local traffic police.\n\nThe accident occurred at about 6:40 a.m. in Zhoujia township, Shuangcheng City, 50 kilometers from the provincial capital of Harbin, when a bus carrying 50 students plunged off a six-meter-high bridge.\n\nThe police said the students were all from the Zhoujia town central primary school.\n\nThe injured, including seven in critical condition, were rushed to a nearby hospital and all except one was out of danger, according to the Harbin city government, which administers Shuangcheng.\n\nHowever, an earlier press release from the provincial educational commission said nine were seriously injured.\n\nLocal government has called in senior pediatricians and surgeons from another hospital for emergency medical treatment.\n\nAn initial investigation showed the owner of the bus had no licence to operate a school bus service.\n\nPolice have detained Guan Jingquan, the driver. They claimed he was not licensed to drive a bus, holding only a type B driver's license for trucks. Bus drivers require type A licenses.\n\nOverloading and speeding were suspected causes of the accident. Police said the bus, supposed to carry 26 people, carried 52 passengers.\n\n\"The bus was going too fast,\" said third-grader Zhao Wenwen at the No. 242 Hospital in Harbin. Hours after the accident, she was still very shaken.\n\nThe cause of the accident is being investigated.\n\nThe Harbin city government has launched a city-wide crackdown on unlicensed school buses, overloading and speeding. It is also trying to raise safety awareness among drivers.\n\nAccording to the Ministry of Public Security, traffic accidents killed 98,738 people in China last year, and 73,955 in the first 10 months of this year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 225, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1874, "end_char": 1883, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first 10 months", "start_char": 1899, "end_char": 1918, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1922, "end_char": 1931, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0112.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0406\n\nHANOI, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese joint venture to build power plant in northern Vietnam\n\n\n\n\nA joint venture between Vietnam and China will invest 28 million U.S. dollars in constructing a hydroelectric plant in northern Lao Cai province, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Wednesday.\n\nThe plant to be built by the joint venture between the Power Company No. 1, affiliated to the state-owed Electricity of Vietnam, and China's Yunnan Power Grid Company is expected to contribute around 98.5 million kWh to the national grid annually when it goes online at the end of next year.\n\nThe two companies have recently agreed to extend their two existing contracts on purchasing Chinese electricity via the 110- kV power grid for the next four years, ensuring power supplies for the five Vietnamese provinces of Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Ha Giang, Yen Bai and Tuyen Quang.\n\nVietnam has purchased 588 million kWh each year under the contracts since they were signed in 2004, said the report.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of next year", "start_char": 588, "end_char": 608, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next four years", "start_char": 754, "end_char": 773, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each year", "start_char": 929, "end_char": 938, "tid": "t4", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 985, "end_char": 989, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0406.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0186\n\nKABUL, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: Flood kills 47, leaves 50 missing in W. Afghanistan\n\n\n\n\nA flash flood killed at least 47 residents and left 50 others missing in Badghis province of western Afghanistan, Health Minister Mohammad Amin Fatimi told Xinhua on Friday.\n\nThe flood caused the casualties in Balamurghab district on Thursday night, he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday night", "start_char": 353, "end_char": 367, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0186.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0399\n\nTHE HAGUE, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nCroatian warcrimes suspect to plead not guilty\n\n\n\n\nZlatko Aleksovski, extradited to The Hague to stand trial at the international warcrimes tribunal here, said Tuesday he would plead not guilty to the charges against him.\n\nAleksovski, a former officer in the Bosnian Croat militia (HVO), is charged with involvement in the massacre of dozens of Moslems in the central Bosnian village of Ahmici during Moslem-Croat fighting in 1993.\n\n\"I am innocent of everything\" I have been accused of, he said at a public hearing.\n\nHe said he had read the charge list over night after being transfered to The Hague by Croatia on Monday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 483, "end_char": 487, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 671, "end_char": 677, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0399.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0186\n\nROME, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS further reax ///\n\n\n\n\nItalian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said Saturday he was \"concerned\" over tensions fanned in Iraq by the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.\n\n\"From the first hours, we've seen that the consequences have been an increase in tensions and violence, as you could have predicted,\" Prodi said outside his home in Bologna, the ANSA news agency reported.\n\n\"I hope it won't continue,\" he added.\n\nWithin hours of Saddam's dawn hanging in Baghdad, a car bomb exploded in a fish market in the central Iraqi Shiite city of Kufa, killing at least 31 people, but it was not immediately clear whether the attack represented the first reprisal from his supporters.\n\nProdi on Friday had issued a final plea against Saddam's execution, calling for \"wisdom and magnanimity to prevail\".\n\n\"No fault can determine one man to be the bearer of death to another. This is a principle that unites all civilizations and all religions. And it is the only principle that can allow the building of solid and lasting peace,\" he said.\n\n\"The decision to go ahead with the execution of Saddam Hussein fills us with horror. We had hoped that human pity and political sense would inspire wiser decisions,\" he added.\n\nOther Italian left-wing commentators also denounced the execution, calling it \"barbaric\" and \"a new political mistake.\"\n\nRight-wing politicians echoed the left's opposition to the death penalty, but a Forza Italia official, Fabrizio Cicchitto, lamented that capital punishment practiced routinely in China and Cuba does not elicit such a vocal reaction.\n\nOnly the far-right Northern League hailed the execution, with former reforms minister Roberto Calderoli saying Saddam \"had to pay for the barbarisms and crimes he committed.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 137, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 759, "end_char": 765, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0186.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0309\n\nDOHA, Dec 10 , 2006, 2006\n\nThailand beat Malaysia to win men's sepaktakraw regu gold\n\n\n\n\nThailand overcame Malaysia 21-19, 22-20 to win the Asian Games men's sepaktakraw regu gold medal here Sunday.\n\nMyanmar and Indonesia shared bronze.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 214, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0309.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0389\n\nMUNICH, Germany, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nSign Kaka now urges Bayern's Sagnol\n\n\n\n\nFrench international defender Willy Sagnol has urged Bayern Munich to get the cheque book out in the winter break and sign AC Milan's Brazilian international playmaker Kaka.\n\n\"Having a player like Kaka - who I know wants to leave AC Milan - at Bayern would be a dream,\" Sagnol said in an interview with the Munchner AZ. \"Of course he would not be cheap but it would be a great idea for us to sign a playmaker in the winter break.\"\n\nAC Milan are in the bottom half of the Serie A table but would be reluctant to part with midfield maestro Kaka particulary after losing Ukraine international Andrei Shevchenko to Chelsea in the summer.\n\nBayern watched German international captain Michael Ballack join Chelsea on a free transfer in the summer themselves and have struggled without him, lying third in the league heading into the six-week winter hiatus.\n\nThe 29-year-old Sagnol, who signed from Monaco in 2000, plans to end his career at Bayern and dreams of repeating the 2001 Champions League win.\n\n\"I am here until 2010 and I hope to win the Champions League again,\" added Sagnol.\n\nBayern have reached the last 16 of this season's Champions League where they will face Real Madrid.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the summer", "start_char": 723, "end_char": 733, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1003, "end_char": 1007, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1116, "end_char": 1120, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 16 of this season", "start_char": 1203, "end_char": 1229, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20T16:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0389.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0341\n\nISLAMABAD, Dec 14 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nEngland lived up to their top billing and favourites tag by defeating Egypt 2-0 in the final to lift the World Team squash title here on Wednesday.\n\nLed by world number two James Willstrop and former world number one Peter Nicol, they annihilated the Egyptians who despite having the services of reigning world champion Amr Shabana failed to pose any challenge.\n\nEngland, who won the team titles in 1995 and 1997, were pre-tournament favourites and compensated for their semi-finals loss against France in the last championship held in Vienna, Austria in 2003.\n\n\"It is a fantastic win and something to cherish about. It will further help lift the sport back home,\" said Nicol.\n\nEngland were given a flying start by Willstrop who overcame the first game loss to defeat Shabana 4-9, 9-6, 9-3, 9-1 in 57 minutes.\n\nNicol, a former world and British open champion brushed aside Mohammad Abbas 9-0, 9-2, 9-1 in under half-an-hour to give England an unassailable 2-0 lead.\n\nEgypt, whose only title came in 1999, conceded without playing the third match of the tie.\n\nNumber three seeds France had the consolation of third place after seeing off a tough challenge from Canada and winning in the end 2-1.\n\nWorld number one Thierry Lincou of France upstaged Jonathon Power of Canada 9-4, 9-2, 9-2 to give France a 1-0 lead, but Canadian Shahier Razik upset Renan Lavigne of France 9-7, 7-9, 9-7, 6-9, 9-3 to draw level.\n\nWorld number eleven Gregory Gaultier sealed the tie for France by beating Graham Ryding of Canada 9-2, 9-4, 9-1.\n\nDefending champions Australia, upset by Canada in the quarter-finals, finished fifth by defeating Malaysia 2-0. Malaysia finished sixth.\n\nHosts Pakistan, winners on six occasions, downed Wales 2-1 to finish seventh.\n\nWales finished eighth, South Africa ninth and Germany were 10th in the 22-nation event.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 471, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 480, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 623, "end_char": 627, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "57 minutes", "start_char": 866, "end_char": 876, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT57M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1067, "end_char": 1071, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0341.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0184\n\nKABUL, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Taliban copies Iraqi style militants' attacks in Afghanistan\n\n\n\n\nRemnants of the former Taliban regime have resorted to Iraqi style militants activities in the post-Taliban Afghanistan as the rebels conducted three suicide attacks over the past three days leaving at least 10 killed and over a dozen wounded.\n\nThe militias in their latest wave of violence rammed a car laden with explosives in a US military convoy in Kandahar, the former stronghold of Taliban Wednesday morning killing at least four and injuring four others.\n\nThough the authorities denied any casualties to the US military, the locals said the explosion inflicted loses to the occupants of the US army vehicle.\n\nKandahar is the second military base of some 20,000-strong US- led coalition troops in Afghanistan after Bagram, 50 km north of Kabul, where a Bagram-bound transport plane crashed last Friday and Taliban claimed to shoot it down for carrying communities equipment to the US troops Headquarters.\n\nIn the previous double deadly attacks which shocked the war- weary capital city on Monday, at least six people including a German soldier of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed and 11 others including two Germans and one Greek were wounded.\n\nWednesday's suicide bomb attack is the ninth of its kind over the past two months, a phenomenon rarely reported in the conservative Muslim society of Afghanistan.\n\nRemnants of the former fundamentalist regime in mine attack carried out near a US military base in the southeast restive Paktika province on Tuesday killed one US soldier and wounded another. Two Afghan troops were also wounded in the attack.\n\nSimilar mine attack in the same province, according to officials claimed the lives of five police officers and injured two others on the same day while the police have taken two suspected Taliban fighters in this case so far.\n\nThe new tactics of violence the suicide attack, which is forbidden in Islam, has been taking place in the post-Taliban nation amid reported appointment of two Arab nationals by Osama- led al-Qaida network as the commanders of foreigners' fighters in Afghanistan.\n\nThe newly appointed militants' commanders, according to media, including Abdul Hadi Iraqi and Khalid Habib, have come from the insurgency-plaguing Iraq to conduct activities in Afghanistan.\n\nAyman Al-Zawahir, the second in command of al-Qaida hierarchy and a wanted man by Washington, in a message some months back warned to intensify militancy against the US military in both Afghanistan and Iraq and tried to prove both the lands as quagmire for the US and allies.\n\nBoth the Arab nationals have been tasked to command anti- government militants in the south and southeast of the war- shattered Afghanistan.\n\nAfghan Defense Ministry has also admitted last month that reported penetration of terrorists suicide attackers in big cities including the capital and said the law enforcing agencies have taken all necessary and precautionary measures to foil the terrorists designs.\n\nFurthermore, a Taliban commander Mullah Ahmadullah from his unknown location told media that the radical movement had prepared some 300 volunteers suicide bombers to mount pressure on Afghan and foreign forces stationed here.\n\nSpokesman of the ousted regime Qari Yusuf Ahmadi also claimed that three Afghans loyal to the movement carried out the bloody suicide bomb explosions in the capital city on Monday.\n\nTaliban's fugitive supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar whose regime was ousted by US military in late 2001 in a recent message on the eve of Eidul Feter, the religious festival, to mark the end of the Muslim fasting month called on his loyalists and compatriots to continue Jihad or holy war until the withdrawal of US-dominated foreign troops from Afghanistan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three days", "start_char": 300, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 525, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Friday", "start_char": 925, "end_char": 936, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1124, "end_char": 1130, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1319, "end_char": 1328, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two months", "start_char": 1381, "end_char": 1400, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1624, "end_char": 1631, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 2870, "end_char": 2880, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 3496, "end_char": 3502, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2001", "start_char": 3602, "end_char": 3611, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0184.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0291\n\nATHENS, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGreece rules out withdrawal from Afghanistan amid protests\n\n\n\n\nThe Greek government ruled out on Tuesday the withdrawal of its troops stationed in Afghanistan, noting that they were there at the request of the United Nations and that Greece \"has obligations that it must observe\".\n\nGovernment spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos said that Greece had sent one company of 128 men from the army engineers' corps to support road building networks and provide humanitarian and public benefit services and, since August this year, an additional 45 troops to provide services to the 291st mobile hospital.\n\nFrom Dec. 1, meanwhile, another 44 Greek Air force officers will be sent to the area to take over the rotating command of Kabul airport.\n\nAlso in the day, members of the \"Stop the War\" coalition held a protest outside the Greek defense ministry in Athens over the presence of Greek troops among the NATO mission in Afghanistan.\n\nThe protest was organized only one day after two Greek soldiers stationed in Afghanistan were injured during an attack on a Greek convoy outside Kabul.\n\nAlexandros Magakis, a former minister under main opposition PASOK, told reporters that the injury of the two soldiers highlighted in the most dramatic way the dangers of escalating Greece's involvement in the US war on Afghanistan.\n\nOne anti-war activist accused the Greek government of sending troops to Afghanistan, saying that the government shared the guilt and responsibility for Bush's crimes.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 153, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August this year", "start_char": 560, "end_char": 576, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1", "start_char": 658, "end_char": 664, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 1013, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0291.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0016\n\nYONGZHOU, Hunan, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPoultry culling ends in central China's bird flu-hit area\n\n\n\n\nThe newly reported bird flu-hit city of Yongzhou in central China's Hunan Province has finished poultry culling to prevent the spread of the epidemic, the local government said Wednesday.\n\nBy 0:00 a.m. Wednesday, Lingling District, where a bird flu outbreak was reported on Nov. 18, more than 108,000 fowls had been killed and another 140,000 vaccinated, said He Ningsheng, a local disease prevention and control official.\n\nLocal farmers will be compensated 10 yuan (1.2 US dollars) for each poultry killed, he said.\n\nThe provincial vets department has shipped 500,000 ml of bird flu vaccine and 2,500 exposure suits to Lingling District to aid its vaccination and disease control efforts.\n\nChina's Ministry of Agriculture confirmed on Monday that 390 chickens and 12 ducks died of the H5N1 strain of the highly pathogenic avian flu in Laobutou village, Qilidian town on Nov. 18.\n\nNo human infection cases have been detected in the bird flu-hit area, said He.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 304, "end_char": 313, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "0:00 a.m.", "start_char": 319, "end_char": 328, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 329, "end_char": 338, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18", "start_char": 401, "end_char": 408, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 863, "end_char": 869, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18", "start_char": 998, "end_char": 1005, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0016.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0266\n\nSOWETO, South Africa, Dec 12 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nHaving carved a niche as South Africa's first black showjumper in a sport traditionally reserved for rich whites, Enos Mafokate has now taken his love for horses to the heart of Soweto township.\n\nHere in the sprawling city southwest of Johannesburg, Mafokate is cultivating the hope that township children will one day too fly high the colours of South Africa's rainbow nation.\n\n\"I was born with a horse in me!\" he laughs when he explains the passion which drove him to open an equestrian school in the sprawling township, with virtually no funding.\n\nChampion showjumper and teacher, the 61-year-old Mafokate is also responsable for the township's \"horse unit\" at the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA).\n\nBetween two classes, \"free of course, otherwise nobody would come\", he looks after the many horses which draw carriages in the chaotic traffic of Soweto, where they are used to deliver coal and other living materials.\n\n\"People trust us and come to us when a horse is hurt,\" explains Mafokate as he gets ready to go into one of the township slums to look after an old workhorse suffering from tickbite fever.\n\nWhen he gets there, he has a long discussion in Zulu with the horse's owner, who balks at sending his livelihood to the dispensary.\n\n\"He will not be able to work anymore. But he realised that if the horse died, it will be worse,\" says Mafokate afterwards.\n\nThe inhabitants of Soweto can bring their pets to be cured for free at the PDSA, a veterinary clinic which runs on private donations.\n\nAt the back, 15 riders between the ages of five and 19 are getting their horse-riding gear ready: on old waste ground large drums painted white and three poles are the showjumping obstacles.\n\nThe equipment available does nothing to dampen the riders' spirits.\n\n\"I love jumping. I can jump 80 centimetres!\" says an enthusiastic nine-year-old Anele Maholwana.\n\nEnos wants to offer these children the facilities he didn't have, having to wait 44 years before he could buy his own steed.\n\n\"I had to borrow 700 rand (100 dollars, 90 euros),\" he remembers. \"It was a township horse and he did not live long,\" said a rueful Mafokate said who has now bought 12 horses and ponies for his students.\n\nMafokate's story starts in Alexandra, Johannesburg's slum township in the north, where he was born and then grew up on a farm where his father worked.\n\n\"There was a white boy John. He had a pony, I had a donkey. We used to ride pony to donkey. His parents didn't like it. But us, we never saw the colour,\" he told AFP.\n\nTo get some pocket money, he used to open the gate to visitors: \"I loved holding their horses but was always asking: 'Why do only whites ride?'\"\n\nAs a teenager he realised that the only way was to become a stable boy and participate in competitions among black grooms.\n\nIn 1975, the College of the Marist Brothers revolutionised South Africa's racially segregated environment by opening its horse competitions for people of all colours.\n\n\"They had to struggle to get authorisation from the government,\" says Mafokate.\n\n\"In 1978, I was the first black rider in 127 years to compete in the Pietermaritzburg Royal Agricultural Horse Show,\" he remembers.\n\nHe went to London in 1980 with then British champion David Broom and competed at Wembley. Nine years later he opened his school even as apartheid still prevailed in South Africa.\n\nSince then, four of his ten grand children and dozens of kids in Soweto have followed his example.\n\nBut he is not resting on his laurels.\n\n\"I have a dream that one day, that one of them compete for South Africa in the Olympic games,\" he says.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 58, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 397, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "44 years", "start_char": 2034, "end_char": 2042, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P44Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2233, "end_char": 2236, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1975", "start_char": 2877, "end_char": 2881, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1975", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1978", "start_char": 3127, "end_char": 3131, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1978", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "127 years", "start_char": 3164, "end_char": 3173, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P127Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980", "start_char": 3277, "end_char": 3281, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nine years", "start_char": 3346, "end_char": 3356, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0266.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0288\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS shares edge up as oil prices plummet\n\n\n\n\nUS shares edged up Monday while crude oil prices plummeted below 60 dollars.\n\nGuidant sued Johnson  Johnson to complete the 25.4 billion dollars purchase of Guidant after J missed the Nov. 4 deadline for closing the transaction. Guidant, the heart-device maker facing US probes and New York state fraud claims, is seeking an order for J to consummate the transaction. Guidant fell 1.40 dollars to 57.52 dollars, while J rose 55 cents to 61.43 dollars.\n\nAt the close of trading, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 55.47, or 0.53 percent, to 10,586.23, its highest close since Sept. 16.\n\nBroader stock indicators were also higher. The Standard  Poor' s 500 index was up 2.67, or 0.22 percent, at 1,222.81, and the Nasdaq composite index advanced 8.81, or 0.41 percent, to 2,178.24.\n\nAdvancing issues led decliners by about 9 to 4 on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume of 1.47 billion shares lagged the 1. 53 billion shares traded on Friday.\n\nNew York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, fell 1.11 dollars to 59.47 dollars per barrel in closing deals, after hitting an intraday low of 58.60 dollars a barrel, the lowest price for a front-month contract since July 26.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 120, "end_char": 126, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 16", "start_char": 689, "end_char": 697, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1052, "end_char": 1058, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 1121, "end_char": 1129, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 26", "start_char": 1302, "end_char": 1309, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0288.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0516\n\nLONDON, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIrish inquiry hears of two-million-dollar payment to ex-premier\n\n\n\n\nA leading businessman testified Monday that he arranged payments to help former Irish prime minister Charles Haughey over financial problems while he was in office.\n\nIn the latest development of a scandal that has poisoned Irish politics for months, Ben Dunne, former chief executive of Ireland's Dunnes Stores chain, told a Dublin inquiry he was asked in 1987 to contribute 700,000 punts (1.2 million dollars) to aid the ex-premier.\n\nDunne has claimed he ended up handing over a total of 1.3 million punts (2.1 million dollars) to benefit Haughey over a period of years.\n\nAnd he said he received thanks from the now-retired politician after personally handing over three drafts totalling 210,000 punts (342,000 dollars).\n\nThe tribunal was set up in February to trace who received 3.5 million punts of a total 5.63 million punts (nine million dollars) paid out by Dunne.\n\nThe payments controversy first came to light in November when then transport minister, Michael Lowry, resigned after it emerged that Dunne had paid for an extension worth 400,000 punts (650,000 dollars) to his home.\n\nThe court heard the money had been solicited to help \"overcome business problems relating to Mr. Haughey.\"\n\nSpeculation over Haughey's involvement in the payoff scandal had been intense, although until Monday the name of the man referred to as a \"very prominent former member of parliament\" had never been officially disclosed.\n\nLike the \"sleaze\" scandal which has dogged the Conservative party during the British general election campaign, the allegations and the inquiry threaten to overshadow Fianna Fail's bid to win power from the ruling coalition in general elections that could be held as early as next month.\n\nBut unlike in Britain, the sums involved are much larger, the accusations go right to the top of the party and the inquiry could run in tandem with the election campaign as any decision to suspend it is for the judiciary alone.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "months", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 370, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1987", "start_char": 478, "end_char": 482, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a period of years", "start_char": 675, "end_char": 692, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 872, "end_char": 880, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 1042, "end_char": 1050, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1413, "end_char": 1419, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 1816, "end_char": 1826, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0516.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0375\n\nBUENOS AIRES, Dec 3 , 2005\n\nThree-try Samoa see off Pumas\n\n\n\n\nSamoa ran in three tries to record an impressive 28-12 win against Argentina in a one-off rugby union Test here on Saturday.\n\nPaul Tupai (10), Semo Sititi (14) and Sailosi Tagicakibau (57) all scored tries with Roger Warren kicking two conversions, two penalties as well as a drop goal.\n\nJuan Fernandez Lobbe (four) and Horacio Agulla (24) were Argentina's try scorers with Juan Fernandez Miranda adding one converison for the Pumas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 200, "end_char": 208, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0375.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0041\n\nSEOUL, April 5 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSKorean stocks expected to fare well in week ahead\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korean stocks are expected to fare well in the near term after rising 3.0 percent over the past week amid expectations that an economic downturn has bottomed out, brokers said.\n\n\"We are likely to see a strong market for this month,\" providing there are no unexpected outside developments, said a broker at Shinyoung Securities here on the last trading day Friday.\n\nThe Korea Stock Exchange's composite index rose 20.23 points to 687.42 points over the week before closing for a holiday Saturday.\n\nShares rallied 1.5 percent Monday after the government announced plans to bolster the economy and stabilize financial markets,.\n\nDismal trade figures led to a 0.6 percent decline Tuesday but foreign investors helped the market index climb 0.9 percent the following day as they awaited an increase in the foreign shareholding limit on May 1.\n\nThe market eased marginally Thursday amid rumours about a probe into price rigging of selected stocks but it rebounded 1.3 percent Friday as investors hunted for bargains among petrochemical and steel shares, brokers said.\n\nOver week, shares in Pohang Iron and Steel rallied 5,500 won (62 US cents) to 52,300 won (5.88 dollars) and Samsung Electronics rose 2,800 won to 62,000 won.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 5 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the near term", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 169, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 333, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 469, "end_char": 475, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 599, "end_char": 607, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 637, "end_char": 643, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 789, "end_char": 796, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 944, "end_char": 949, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 980, "end_char": 988, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1083, "end_char": 1089, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Over week", "start_char": 1176, "end_char": 1185, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970405.0041.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0132 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0132. \n Unisys' $648.2 Million 3rd-Period Loss\n@  Shows Intensified Fight for Turnaround\n@  ----\n@  By Paul B. Carroll\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n UIS \n EARNINGS (ERN)\nCOMPUTERS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CPR) \n\n   Unisys Corp.'s announcement Friday of a $648.2 million loss for the third quarter showed that the company is moving even faster than expected to take write-offs on its various problems and prepare for a turnaround next year. \n\n   At the same time, the sheer size of the loss, coupled with a slowing of orders, made some securities analysts wonder just how strong that turnaround will be at the computer maker and defense-electronics concern. \n\n   \"Unisys is getting clobbered. \nJust clobbered,\" said Ulric Weil, an analyst at Weil amp Associates who had once been high on the company. \n\"The quarter was terrible, and the future looks anything but encouraging.\" \n\n   Unisys, whose revenue inched up 3.7% in the quarter to $2.35 billion from $2.27 billion in the year-earlier quarter, had an operating loss of about $30 million. \nOn top of that, the Blue Bell, Pa., concern took a $230 million charge related to the layoffs of 8,000 employees. \nThat is at the high end of the range of 7,000 to 8,000 employees that Unisys said a month ago would be laid off. \nUnisys said that should help it save $500 million a year in costs, again at the high end of the previously reported range of $400 million to $500 million. \n\n   The company also took a write-off of $150 million to cover losses on some fixed-price defense contracts, as some new managers took a hard look at the prospects for that slow-growing business. \nIn addition, Unisys set up an unspecified reserve -- apparently $60 million to $70 million -- to cover the minimum amount it will have to pay the government because of its involvement in the defense-procurement scandal. \nUnisys also noted that it paid $78.8 million in taxes during the quarter, even though tax payments normally would be minimal in a quarter that produced such a big loss. \n\n   The tax payments will leave Unisys with $225 million in loss carry-forwards that will cut tax payments in future quarters. \nIn addition, Unisys said it reduced computer inventories a further $100 million during the quarter, leaving it within $100 million of its goal of a reduction of $500 million by the end of the year. \n\n   Still, Unisys said its European business was weak during the quarter, a worrisome sign given that the company has relied on solid results overseas to overcome weakness in the U.S. over the past several quarters. \n\n   The company also reported slower growth in another important business: systems that use the Unix operating system. \nThat would be a huge problem if it were to continue, because Unisys is betting its business on the assumption that customers want to move away from using operating systems that run on only one manufacturer's equipment and toward systems -- mainly Unix -- that work on almost anyone's machines. \n\n   In addition, Unisys must deal with its increasingly oppressive debt load. \nDebt has risen to around $4 billion, or about 50% of total capitalization. \nThat means Unisys must pay about $100 million in interest every quarter, on top of $27 million in dividends on preferred stock. \n\n   Jim Unruh, Unisys's president, said he is approaching next year with caution. \nHe said the strength of the world-wide economy is suspect, and does n't see much revenue growth in the cards. \n\n   He also said that the price wars flaring up in parts of the computer industry will continue through next year. \nHe said the move toward standard operating systems means customers are n't locked into buying from their traditional computer supplier and can force prices down. \nThat, he said, is why Unisys is overhauling its whole business: It needs to prepare for a world in which profit margins will be lower than computer companies have been used to. \n\n   \"We've approached this not as a response to a temporary condition in the industry but as a fundamental change the industry is going through,\" Mr. Unruh said. \n\"The information-systems industry is still going to be a high-growth business, and we're confident that we have tremendous assets as a company. \nBut we do n't minimize the challenges of the near term.\" \n\n   Securities analysts were even more cautious, having been burned repeatedly on Unisys this year. \nSome had predicted earnings of more than $4 a share for this year, up from last year's fully diluted $3.27 a share on earnings of $680.6 million. \nBut the company said Friday that it had losses of $673.3 million through the first nine months, compared with earnings a year earlier of $382.2 million, or $2.22 a share fully diluted, as revenue inched up 1.4% to $7.13 billion from $7.03 billion. \nAnd Unisys is expected to do little better than break even in the fourth quarter. \n\n   So Steve Milunovich at First Boston said he is cutting his earnings estimate for next year to $2 a share from $3. \n\"I was feeling 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0764\n\nRAFAH, Gaza Strip, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nThe ruling Palestinian party Hamas has accused the presidential guard of trying to assassinate prime minister Ismail Haniya after an attack on his convoy that left his son injured and a bodyguard dead.\n\nThe shoot-out occurred as the convoy crossed into the Gaza Strip from Egypt late Thursday after waiting for hours at a border checkpoint that Israel had closed to keep him from returning home after a fundraising tour of Arab states.\n\nOne of Haniya's bodyguards was killed and five people were wounded including his son, who serves as the prime minister's political advisor, a government source said.\n\n\"We know who opened fire,\" Haniya told journalists after arriving safely home in Gaza.\n\nHamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum said the shots were \"a planned attempt by Force 17 (the presidential guard) to assassinate brother Ismail Haniya.\"\n\n\"We want (President) Mahmud Abbas to order that those responsible be found,\" he added.\n\nThe closure of the Rafah crossing earlier sparked the storming of the border terminal by dozens of Hamas gunmen, which caused panic among travelers and sent European Union observers running from the building.\n\nAt least 13 Palestinians were wounded by gunfire after the militants went on a rampage inside the terminal building, smashing windows and furniture and firing into the air and at the building itself.\n\nIsrael had wanted to prevent Haniya entering Gaza with \"tens of millions of dollars\" he was carrying after his fund-raising trip because, according to an Israeli source, it believed the money would be used to finance terrorism.\n\nEU foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who deplored the deadly violence, said Haniya had deposited the money at an Egyptian bank.\n\n\"The money he was carrying is not across the border, it is now in a bank in Egypt,\" Solana told journalists in Brussels.\n\nAn Egyptian security source in Gaza said earlier that Israel and Cairo had reached a compromise under which Haniya would be allowed to pass, but that the 35 million dollars that he was reported to be carrying would be deposited into an Egyptian bank to be transferred later to a Palestinian Authority account.\n\nHaniya had cut short his first foreign trip to deal with rising internecine tensions in Gaza ahead of a speech by President Mahmud Abbas on Saturday on resolving months of political deadlock and crisis.\n\nGaza has been gripped by rising friction between supporters of the ruling Islamists of Hamas and Abbas's Fatah party after a series of killings and threats of retaliation over the past several days.\n\nBut when Haniya's convoy reached Rafah -- Gaza's only border crossing that bypasses Israel -- the Jewish state closed the terminal.\n\n\"Defense Minister Amir Peretz ordered the closing of the Rafah crossing in order to prevent tens of millions of dollars from entering Gaza together with Haniya,\" an Israeli security source said on condition of anonymity.\n\nDuring his tour, Haniya secured promises from Iran to provide 250 million dollars of aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian government and from Qatar to pay the salaries of health and education ministry staff. Sudan also pledged 10 million dollars in emergency aid.\n\nIn his Saturday speech, Abbas is expected to lay out his plans for resolving a months-long standoff with Hamas.\n\nAbbas aides say the president is likely to call for early presidential and parliamentary elections, following the collapse of talks with Hamas over forming a unity government.\n\nHamas, which took power after a stunning election win over Fatah in January, has warned that such a move would amount to a coup. The current Palestinian parliament is due to remain in place until 2010.\n\nThe moderate Palestinian president and the ruling Islamists have tried for months to form a coalition, but their talks collapsed over Hamas's refusal to bend to Western conditions and disagreement over key ministerial posts.\n\nThe European Union and the United States, which consider Hamas a terrorist organization, froze direct aid to the Palestinian government after the Islamists formed a cabinet in March, demanding that they renounce violence and recognize Israel and past peace deals.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2006", "start_char": 42, "end_char": 55, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 363, "end_char": 371, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1834, "end_char": 1837, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 2348, "end_char": 2356, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past several", "start_char": 2588, "end_char": 2604, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 3239, "end_char": 3247, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 3590, "end_char": 3597, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 3718, "end_char": 3722, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 4127, "end_char": 4132, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0764.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0053\n\nCARACAS, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nInt'l observers to oversee Venezuela's presidential elections\n\n\n\n\nA total of 205 international observers will begin to arrive in Venezuela on Tuesday to monitor the South American country's presidential elections scheduled for Dec. 3, the National Electoral Council said on Monday.\n\nIncumbent President Hugo Chavez, who is running for re-election, is favored to beat opposition candidate Manuel Rosales.\n\nThe observers will inspect the voting stations and supervise the counting and the process of announcing the voting results.\n\nThey will release their conclusions at a press conference after exchanging views with the National Electoral Council on Dec. 5.\n\nThe international groups watching the elections include the European Union, the Organization of American States and the Common Market of the South (Mercosur).\n\nAbout 130 representatives from the European Union have already arrived in Venezuela. In addition, eight to 10 observers from the Carter Center will also oversee the elections.\n\nNearly 16 million voters have registered to vote in the upcoming elections.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 199, "end_char": 206, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 3", "start_char": 284, "end_char": 290, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 331, "end_char": 337, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 5", "start_char": 707, "end_char": 713, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0053.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0270\n\nWUHAN, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina to set up 18 patented technology exhibition, trade centers\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinese government has announced plans for 18 patented technology exhibition and trade centers, to promote patent application and implementation.\n\nThe centers will be set up in cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Wuhan and Chongqing. They will conduct exhibitions, trade and promotions of patented technology, daily patent management and carry out training in patent brokerage, and intellectual property protection.\n\n\"The centers will form a trade platform for amateur inventors, medium-sized and small enterprises and investors,\" said Zhang Qin, deputy director of the State Intellectual Property Office, on Friday.\n\nThe slow development of a patented technology market and lack of trustworthy agencies led to difficulties in the application and implementation of patents in China, said Zhang.\n\nThe non-profit centers were backed by the government and would help protect inventors, said Zhang.\n\nLast year, the country handled more than 470,000 patent applications.\n\nThe 18 centers open for trade from Monday to Friday.\n\nBy 2010, the State Intellectual Property Office will build another 80 to 100 regional patented technology exhibition and trade centers in key cities.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 738, "end_char": 744, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 1025, "end_char": 1034, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday to Friday", "start_char": 1131, "end_char": 1147, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1153, "end_char": 1157, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0270.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0394\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUN chief alarmed by recent violence in Tonga\n\n\n\n\nUN Secretary-General Kofi Annan is alarmed by the recent violence in the Kingdom of Tonga, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.\n\n\"He urges the parties to persevere with inclusive national consultations to support the democratic reform process, and to overcome their disagreements through dialogue,\" the spokesman said in a statement.\n\n\"The secretary-general stands ready to support national and regional efforts aimed at facilitating a broad political consensus, \" the statement said.\n\nRiots erupted in Tonga on Nov. 18 when hundreds of pro- democracy rioters destroyed around most of the capital Nuku'alofa' s business district. Nearly 30 Chinese-owned stores were set afire or looted by the mobs.\n\nThe South Pacific country, halfway between Australia and Tahiti, has a population of about 108,000. Its economy depends on pumpkin and vanilla exports, fishing, foreign aid and remittances from Tongans abroad.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 231, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18", "start_char": 617, "end_char": 624, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0394.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0433\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nGanguly survives pace onslaught on Indian top order\n\n\n\n\nThe recalled Sourav Ganguly was the only Indian top order batsman to survive a sustained pace onslaught by South Africa on the first day of the first Test at the Wanderers Stadium Friday.\n\nIndia were 156 for five after a day shortened by a damp pitch, the threat of lightning and bad light. Only 56.5 overs were bowled.\n\nGanguly was unbeaten on 14 at the close which came because of bad light immediately after VVS Laxman was caught behind by Mark Boucher off Makhaya Ntini.\n\nAll-rounder Jacques Kallis struck two crucial blows for South Africa on either side of tea when he claimed the crucial wickets of Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid after India's most experienced pair had staged a painstaking recovery following the early loss of both their opening batsman.\n\nTendulkar was caught at second slip for 44 after he and Dravid put on 61 for the third wicket. Dravid followed when he edged a drive to first slip after making 32.\n\nLaxman and Ganguly put on 46 for the fifth wicket before Ntini was called back into the South African attack late in the day and induced an edge from Laxman, pushing away from his body.\n\nGanguly was struck on the chest by a lifting ball from Andre Nel and then played and missed at the next ball but otherwise batted solidly for 72 minutes during which he faced 42 balls.\n\nKallis finished the day with two for 37, while Ntini took two for 34.\n\nFast bowler Dale Steyn left the field after bowling one ball of his eleventh over because of a left thigh strain, which appeared to be a recurrence of an injury which caused him to miss two domestic first-class matches leading up to the Test.\n\nThe morning's play was restricted to an hour. The start was delayed by 90 minutes because of damp patches, which the Gauteng Cricket Board said were caused by wet hessian placed on the pitch overnight because groundsman Chris Scott was concerned that the surface was too dry and that it might break up on the fourth and fifth days.\n\n\"After removing the covers this morning, there was a lot more moisture on the wicket than anticipated,\" officials explained.\n\nDespite the late start, the pitch looked good for batting on a hot, cloudless day and although there was grass cover it had a brown tinge.\n\nBatting proved awkward, however, with South Africa's all-seam attack able to extract plenty of bounce from the surface and India limped to lunch at 19 for two. Tea was taken early and extended by 44 minutes because of an approaching thunderstorm, with lightning flashing near the ground.\n\nDravid was particularly watchful, eking out his runs in 151 minutes off 83 balls. Tendulkar was also cautious but his innings was interspersed with some sparkling strokes, including a cover drive off Ntini that raced to the boundary. He faced 89 balls and hit seven boundaries before edging an out-swinger from Kallis.\n\nDravid and Tendulkar came together after opening batsmen Wasim Jaffer and Virender Sehwag fell within the space of six balls.\n\nJaffer was leg before wicket to Ntini for nine when he padded up to a ball just outside his off stump which was slanting in.\n\nSehwag was caught behind off Shaun Pollock in the next over when he was squared up by a lifting delivery. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0319\n\nTOKYO, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapanese parliament seeks US base cut in Okinawa\n\n\n\n\nJapan's lower house adopted a resolution Tuesday calling on the government to make \"its utmost effort\" to slash US military bases in Okinawa.\n\nThe vote comes three days before the summit between Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto and President Bill Clinton in Washington.\n\nIt was the first Diet resolution on Okinawa US military bases since parliament passed a similar resolution in 1971 when Japan and the United States signed an accord on the return of the southern island.\n\n\"The House of Representatives will urge the government to make its utmost effort to consolidate, realign, reduce and relocate the US military bases in Okinawa,\" the resolution said.\n\nThe resolution asked the government to consult with the United States on military postures, including the structure of the US military force in the Asia-Pacific region.\n\nIt also urged the government to take \"comprehensive and effective\" measures to boost the Okinawa economy.\n\nLast week, the Japanse parliament passed legislation allowing the US military to keep using land in Okinawa amid protest from landowners and their supporters.\n\nOkinawa has been a major headache for successive governments following the rape of a 12-year-old girl by three American servicemen in 1995. The rape triggered outrage among locals and prompted the prefectural governor, Masahide Ota, to seek the complete withdrawal of American troops by 2015.\n\nThe southern island prefecture is home to more than half of the 47,000 American troops in Japan and also accounts for about 75 percent of US military facilities on the entire archipelago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days", "start_char": 264, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1971", "start_char": 487, "end_char": 491, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1971", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 1041, "end_char": 1050, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1335, "end_char": 1339, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2015", "start_char": 1488, "end_char": 1492, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2015", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0319.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0457\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nNew study suggests prostate cancer treatment helps elderly\n\n\n\n\nElderly men with early prostate cancer live significantly longer if they receive treatment than those who adopt a wait-and-see approach, as commonly recommended, according to a new study released Wednesday.\n\nThe study of 44,630 men age 65 to 80 years found that those who sought treatment for their prostate cancer with radiation or surgery had a 31 percent lower risk of death than those who waited.\n\nEven the oldest men between the ages of 75 and 80 benefitted from treatment, the study found.\n\n\"Even though prostate cancer commonly is considered an indolent (slow to develop and painless) disease, this observational study suggests a reduced risk of mortality associated with active treatment for low- and intermediate-risk prostate cancer in the elderly (...) population examined,\" the authors of the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association said.\n\nDr Yu-Ning Wong of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philidelphia, who led the study, told AFP that the findings challenge the commonly held notion that early prostate cancer in elderly patients evolves so slowly that there is no need to treat them as they will probably die of something else first.\n\n\"The treatment of prostate cancer in older men (...) has been controversial because the concern about side effects is an important one,\" Wong said. \"I think our study suggests there may be a benefit to treatment in this patient population but that of course needs to be weighed against other concerns.\"\n\nWong also acknowledged that the study's design had limitations and would need to be confirmed by further research.\n\nPostate cancer is the most common cancer found in American men, along with skin cancer, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS).\n\nACS estimates that 234,460 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2006 and some 27,350 will die of the disease.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 324, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "80", "start_char": 568, "end_char": 570, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 1926, "end_char": 1930, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0457.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0498\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - INCORPORATES -warcrimes-Iraq-immigration ///\n\n\n\n\nAustralia has developed a reputation for being a safe haven for war criminals attempting to avoid prosecution, a former war crimes investigator said Monday amid media reports that as many as 30 people accused of crimes against humanity have lived here freely.\n\nFormer deputy prosecutor at the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal at The Hague, Graham Blewitt, said some \"perpetrators are being allowed to roam free in this country without any fear.\"\n\n\"I believe that Australia has a reputation amongst those who have been involved in war crimes as a safe haven,\" he told ABC radio.\n\n\"You are not going to be prosecuted and frankly that is a reputation that Australia should not be prepared to wear.\"\n\nBlewitt, formerly the head of an Australian unit investigating Nazi war criminals, was responding to a report in the Sydney Morning Herald that a member of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's family and personal security force, had been given temporary residency here.\n\nOday Adnan Al Tekriti, 38, was initially refused a visa after he arrived in the country six years ago because immigration officials found serious reasons to believe he had committed crimes against humanity.\n\nBut the visa refusal was overturned and he has been given temporary safe haven in the southern city of Adelaide where he lives with his wife, an Australian doctor.\n\nBlewitt said there had been previous instances where Canberra had allowed some people into the country because of the potential for them to give Australian authorities valuable intelligence information.\n\n\"It could well be that this chap is also involved in supplying information and intelligence,\" he said.\n\nBlewitt said he had enough anecdotal evidence to suggest that there were mass murderers, torturers and other criminals living in Australia.\n\n\"There are some nasty people out there,\" he said.\n\n\"They put on a cloak of respectability when they get here and just subsume themselves into the Australian way of life. We shouldn't allow that to happen.\"\n\nThe Sydney Morning Herald reported that as many as 30 war criminals from Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey and India had been investigated by Australian immigration officials over the past 10 years and refused asylum but lived here freely until their appeals were heard.\n\nThe whereabouts of several are not known.\n\nThere was no evidence any of the men found to be war criminals by Australian authorities had ever had to stand trial overseas, the Herald said.\n\nAmong the cases cited by the Herald were a former Maoist rebel from Nepal now working as an accountant in Sydney, a one-time member of the Lebanese security service who reportedly admitted torturing detainees and a Sri Lankan naval officer who allegedly told immigration officials he participated in a 1993 massacre of civilians in a refugee camp.\n\nOther countries where immigration officers found that visa applicants allegedly committed atrocities included Bangladesh, Algeria, Myanmar and the former Yugoslavia, it said.\n\nBlewitt said because of a lack of publicity, many asylum seekers are allowed to live freely in Australia until they have exhausted the appeals process and are often able to blend into society where they take jobs, study and marry, thus strengthening their claims for residency.\n\n\"I would suspect that if the government knew what their background was, and it was so bad, then they just would not allow those people to come into Australia. That's the end of it,\" he said.\n\n\"But people who slip through the net, once they arrive here, nothing absolutely nothing, is being done to investigate them for the crimes they had committed.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 255, "end_char": 261, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six years ago", "start_char": 1167, "end_char": 1180, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 10 years", "start_char": 2321, "end_char": 2338, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2675, "end_char": 2678, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 2903, "end_char": 2907, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051204.0498.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "PRI19980306.2000.1675 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n For The World, this is Pamela McCall in the BBC news room in London.\n More heavy gunfire in the Serbian province of Kosovo. It's the second day\n of an offensive by the security forces against villages populated by ethnic\n Albanians. BBC correspondent Karyn Coleman reports from Kosovo.\n\n\n There were more accounts of people fleeing from the villages near where the\n offensive  was taking place. They were too afraid  to stay, fearing the\n forces may  also move their operations further afield. By mid afternoon,\n official Serb sources  were saying the operation was over, but\n that has not  yet been confirmed from Belgrade, the capital of Serbia,\n which is where the whole attack  is thought  to  have been planned. The ethnic\n Albanians here in Kosovo  are  considerably worried about the future and\n fear they  are witnessing the beginnings of a much wider conflict.\n Karyn Coleman, BBC news, Pristina.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980306", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": " the second day", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t31", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}, {"text": "mid afternoon", "start_char": 539, "end_char": 552, "tid": "t18", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-03-06TAF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 829, "end_char": 839, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "PRI19980306.2000.1675.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0442\n\nWASHINGTON, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\n\"President\" Marsalis would make Mardi Gras national holiday\n\n\n\n\nPulitzer Prize-winning jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, responding to George magazine's \"If I were president\" questionnaire, says he would bring a sense of rhythm to the White House.\n\n\"The people would never see me clapping on one and three,\" he says when asked to name a reason to elect him.\n\nHis first official act would be to make Mardi Gras \"a national celebration.\"\n\n\"I'd also have a big computer called the Match Maker, with everybody's name in it. You could call it up and find your perfect match,\" he said.\n\nHis running mate would be TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey, and his closest adviser would be Danny Sheridan, the oddsmaker.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0442.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0090\n\nBEIJING, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS background, quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nNorth Korea insisted Monday that UN sanctions imposed after its nuclear test must be lifted before it would discuss dismantling its nuclear programs, according to a source present at the six-nation talks with Pyongyang.\n\nNorth Korea's chief delegate to the talks, Kim Kye-Gwan, also said in his keynote address that US financial sanctions imposed last year on the Stalinist state on allegations of money laundering must also be removed before talks on disarmament could begin.\n\n\"The North Koreans said they would take measures to keep strengthening their nuclear deterrent as long as sanctions and pressure continues to exist,\" the source said.\n\nThe six-nation talks resumed after a 13 month break with Kim repeating a list of his nation's long-standing demands and said Pyongyang was \"satisfied\" with having nuclear weapons, a South Korean official told reporters earlier.\n\nNorth Korea pulled out of the talks in November last year in protest at US financial sanctions and then stunned the world with its first ever nuclear test on October 9.\n\nThe talks bring together China, the two Koreas, the United States, Japan and Russia.\n\nThe speech by Kim, North Korea's vice foreign minister, represented a shopping list of long-standing North Korean demands with no new offers, the South Korean official said.\n\n\"They (North Koreans) presented a maximum list of their demands. It was like a summary of all of their previous demands,\" the official said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 118, "end_char": 124, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 444, "end_char": 453, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "13 month", "start_char": 780, "end_char": 788, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P13M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November last year", "start_char": 1011, "end_char": 1029, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 9", "start_char": 1130, "end_char": 1139, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0090.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0389\n\nKAMPALA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUNICEF warns of escalating violence in northeastern Uganda\n\n\n\n\nThe United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned of increasing violence in northeastern Uganda, noting the violence could have a lasting impact on the civilians, especially children.\n\nThe UNICEF said in a statement issued here on Wednesday that the violence in areas of northern Kotido district linked to the ongoing disarmament exercise of armed warriors by the Ugandan military could pose both short and long term effects on the children due to sustained exposure to violence.\n\n\"Violence can keep children out of school and rob them of the chance to fulfill their potential. Multiplied many times over, violence robs the community of its potential for development,\" said Martin Mogwanja, the UNICEF representative in Uganda.\n\nThe UN's agency again called for restraint of all arms carriers in the region to avoid further escalation of insecurity and to minimize the impact of innocent civilians, especially on the lives of children and families.\n\nOf late the Ugandan military has been carrying out lethal offensives against armed warriors following several attacks by the warriors on the military and civilians.\n\nThe latest reports from UN staff in the area confirm that 13 women and nine children have died in connection with the ongoing disarmament operations in the past month.\n\nFollowing the increasing mayhem in the region, UNICEF, through CARITAS and the Church of Uganda and in coordination with district authorities, has provided emergency humanitarian support in the form of non-food items and first-aid kits to displaced persons in Kotido District.\n\nThe UNICEF also supported OXFAM to provide emergency water and sanitation services to provide relief to approximately 1,500 people.\n\n\"There must be a redoubling of efforts to enable all children and women in Uganda to have unhindered access to protection, as well as health, education, safe water, shelter and other essential services,\" said Mogwanja.\n\nThe Ugandan military embarked on the disarmament exercise in the region in 2001, following the continued cattle rustling by the warriors.\n\nSince the exercise was launched the military has so far collected over 10,000 guns out of the estimated amount of 40,000 illegal weapons scattered in northeastern Uganda.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 356, "end_char": 365, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past month", "start_char": 1393, "end_char": 1407, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 2116, "end_char": 2120, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0389.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0132\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMubarak, Abbas hold talks on Mideast peace process\n\n\n\n\nEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak Wednesday held talks with visiting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the latest developments in the Palestinian territories and efforts to form a Palestinian national unity government, the official MENA news agency reported.\n\nThe two leaders also dealt with efforts to revive the stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace track and halt repeated Israeli attacks on the Palestinians, MENA said.\n\nAccording to Egyptian presidential spokesman Suleiman Awad, Mubarak expressed support to Abbas as leader of the Palestinian National Authority and support for efforts to form a Palestinian national unity government and revive the peace march.\n\nMubarak said that Egypt hoped the coming period would witness the formation of a Palestinian national unity which will help reactivate the peace process and end sufferings of the Palestinians, according to Awad.\n\nAbbas arrived in Cairo on Tuesday to brief Mubarak on the latest developments of the ongoing consultations to form such a government, the spokesman said.\n\nPalestinian officials said that Abbas' Fatah movement has reached an initial deal with the Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas) on portfolios of a new coalition government.\n\nBroader talks among all Palestinian factions on forming a national unity government are expected to start early next week.\n\nHamas, bent on Israel's destruction, formed a government in late March. But a boycott by Israel, Europe and the United States has caused political and economic crises in the Palestinian territories.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1018, "end_char": 1025, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next week", "start_char": 1427, "end_char": 1442, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late March", "start_char": 1505, "end_char": 1515, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0132.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0295\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS rates on 30-year mortgages rise to highest level in over two years\n\n\n\n\nRates on 30-year mortgages in the United States increased this week to the highest level in more than two years, mortgage company Freddie Mac reported Thursday in its weekly nationwide survey.\n\nIn the week ending Nov. 10, rates on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.36 percent, up from 6.31 percent last week, the survey showed. That was the highest level since 30-year mortgages were at 6.44 percent in early September 2003.\n\nThis week's rates on 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages, a popular choice for refinancing a home mortgage, averaged 5.89 percent, up from 5.85 percent last week.\n\nThe survey also found that rates on one-year adjustable rate mortgages(ARMs) rose to 5.12 percent this week from 5.09 percent last week. Rates on five-year hybrid adjustable rate mortgages nudged up to 5.81 percent from 5.76 percent.\n\nA year ago, 30-year mortgages averaged 5.76 percent, 15-year mortgages were at 5.16 percent and one-year ARMs averaged 4.16 percent. Freddie Mac began tracking on the five-year ARMs this year.\n\nThe increases in mortgage rates this week came as financial markets grew more concerned about inflation, according to analysts.\n\n\"News that wages grew faster than had been expected in October reinforced fears of inflation in the financial markets and that bumped up interest rates again this week,\" Freddie Mac's chief economist Frank Nothaft said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than two years", "start_char": 226, "end_char": 245, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 293, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the week", "start_char": 331, "end_char": 339, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 10", "start_char": 347, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 439, "end_char": 448, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early September 2003", "start_char": 544, "end_char": 564, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This week", "start_char": 567, "end_char": 576, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 713, "end_char": 722, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 823, "end_char": 832, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 851, "end_char": 860, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "A year ago", "start_char": 960, "end_char": 970, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1142, "end_char": 1151, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1186, "end_char": 1195, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1338, "end_char": 1345, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1441, "end_char": 1450, "tid": "t25", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0295.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0015\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n30 pct\n\n\n\n\nThe net profit of China's listed companies is expected to grow by more than 30 percent year on year in 2006, according to Peng Yan, economist with Guotai Junan Securities.\n\nChina's listed companies in the first three quarters this year saw growth of about 21 percent in net profits, two percent higher than that of the revenues of their major operations.\n\nAnalysts say the figures reflect the companies' tighter cost controls which grew 9.93 percent in the first three quarters, 1.22 percentage points higher than the same period last year.\n\n\"The performance of the listed companies is expected to grow steadily in next two or three years to reflect the less cyclic fluctuations of the micro economy and the businesses,\" said Peng.\n\nStatistics with the China Merchants Securities show the profit margin declined steadily from 22.11 percent in 2002 to 17.69 percent in the first three quarters this year, 5.14 percent lower than the same period last year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 174, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first three quarters this year", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first three quarters", "start_char": 520, "end_char": 544, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 597, "end_char": 606, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next two or three years", "start_char": 682, "end_char": 705, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 910, "end_char": 914, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 960, "end_char": 969, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1011, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0015.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0228\n\nLUANDA, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPortuguese-speaking countries discuss political tensions in Guinea-Bissau\n\n\n\n\nPresidents of five Portuguese- speaking countries have held discussions in the Angolan capital on the simmering political tensions in Guinea-Bissau.\n\nThe meeting took place Thursday night on the sidelines of celebrations marking the 30th anniversary of Angola's independence from Portugal on Friday.\n\nAccording to reports quoting diplomatic sources, the unscheduled gathering lasting more than one hour focused on issues related to the consolidation of democracy and economic development in Guinea-Bissau.\n\nBesides Guinea-Bissau's newly elected president, Joao Bernardo \"Nino'' Vieira, other participants were Presidents Jorge Sampaio of Portugal, Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, Pedro Pires of Cape Verde and Fradique de Menezes of Sao Tome and Principe.\n\nRepresentatives of the Brazilian, Mozambican and East Timorese presidents, who are not attending the Angolan festivities, also took part in the talks that ended without any public statement.\n\nThe eight nations make up the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries that is headquartered in Lisbon.\n\nMeanwhile in Bissau, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) which Vieira dismissed from government on October 28 reiterated its charges that the country's new government was \"illegal\" and \"unconstitutional.\"\n\nThe PAIGC party is loyal to former prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior, whom Vieira sacked also on October 28.\n\nAccording to sources from Bissau, the PAIGC would continue to challenge the legitimacy of the new government of Prime Minister Aristides Gomes, a PAIGC dissident who was suspended from party functions last May for backing Vieira's successful presidential election bid, before the Supreme Court and in parliament.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday night", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 321, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 426, "end_char": 432, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 28", "start_char": 1328, "end_char": 1338, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 28", "start_char": 1533, "end_char": 1543, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last May", "start_char": 1747, "end_char": 1755, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0228.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0048\n\nDHAKA, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTrial of alleged Bangladesh 1975 coup plotters to open\n\n\n\n\nThe trial of the alleged plotters of a 1975 coup in which Bangladesh's founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was killed was set to open Monday in a tightly guarded courthouse, officials said.\n\nDistrict and Session Judge Kazi Golam Rasul are hear witnesses to the killing of Sheikh Mujib, slain with most of his family in the August 15, 1975 putsch.\n\nThe case was reopened last year after the election victory of Rahman's daughter, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed, who led his Awami League party back to power last June for the first time since the coup.\n\nPast laws granting amnesties to those accused of involvement in the coup have been repealed to allow the trial to go ahead.\n\nRiot police were deployed around the court inside the Dhaka Central Jail ahead of the opening of the hearing. Only reporters and lawyers were allowed inside after a police security check.\n\nTwenty people have been indicted in the case under Bangladesh's penal code, but only six will be present at the trial. Of those five are in jail and one out on bail, while the remaining 14 are still on the run.\n\nThe arrests were made soon after Sheikh Hasina's election victory last year.\n\nSheikh Hasina and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana were abroad at the time of the coup and are the only surviving members of the former first family.\n\nPolitical analysts have said the coup was a conspiracy by a small group of army officials and a few right-leaning politicians.\n\nThey wanted to establish a rightist administration close to the Islamic world by overthrowing the secular and centrist Awami League government of Sheikh Mujib, analysts say.\n\nIn November 1996, parliament scrapped an indemnity act which until then had protected the alleged coup plotters from legal action. They had been given diplomatic assignments by successive governments to protect them abroad.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 248, "end_char": 254, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 15, 1975", "start_char": 437, "end_char": 452, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1975-08-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 484, "end_char": 493, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last June", "start_char": 624, "end_char": 633, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1262, "end_char": 1271, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1996", "start_char": 1731, "end_char": 1744, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0048.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0165\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 29 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES on talks ///\n\n\n\n\nBelarus dispatched a senior energy official Friday to Moscow to join talks on defusing a row over Russian natural gas imports that threatened to disrupt energy supplies to the European Union from Monday.\n\n\"An additional delegation is flying to Moscow, headed by Eduard Tovpenets, first deputy energy minister,\" Andrei Zhukov, an aide to Belarus' energy minister, told AFP in Minsk. \"We are flying to reach final agreement. I think the issue will be resolved.\"\n\nRussian state gas monopoly Gazprom is threatening to switch off natural gas supplies to Belarus at 10:00 am (0700 GMT) Monday, New Year's day, if the ex-Soviet republic fails to agree to a more than doubling of price.\n\nBelarus, which lies between Russia and the European Union, threatens to retaliate by refusing to allow transit of Russian gas to Europe, potentially hitting supplies in Germany, Lithuania and Poland.\n\nBelarus says that without a contract for its own supplies, there can be no contract on transit.\n\nGazprom vice-president Alexander Medvedev told France's Le Figaro daily on Friday that this amounted to \"grotesque blackmail\" and warned that European clients could face shortfalls.\n\nAlthough daily talks have so far ended without compromise, both sides on Friday expressed cautious optimism as Gazprom executives in Moscow met with Dmitry Kazakov, the head of Belarus' gas pipeline company Beltstransgaz.\n\nThe situation is \"tense, but there is still a chance, of course,\" Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said.\n\nIf no deal is struck, the stage will be set for a New Year's crisis similar to a cut-off of Russian gas 12 months ago to Ukraine during a similar pricing dispute, with knock-on effects through western Europe.\n\nGazprom insists that its price increases -- already imposed on Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova -- are part of a legitimate move to end Soviet-era subsidies and charge accepted international rates.\n\nHowever the Kremlin-connected gas giant's rough tactics against Russia's smaller neighbours has damaged Moscow's image abroad and caused alarm in Europe about what the European Union sees as overreliance on Russian energy supplies.\n\nThe EU Commission says it is following the situation \"very closely\" and has called for a rapid settlement.\n\nBelarus serves as the transit point for roughly 20 percent of Russian gas flowing to Europe, amounting to about five percent of Europe's total gas needs. The other 80 percent of westward Russian exports are piped via Ukraine.\n\nUkraine announced on Thursday its readiness to increase the transit of Russian gas through its territory in case of possible disruptions on the Belarus route.\n\n\"We could increase transit with the volume needed to ensure stable functioning of the economies of our European neighbours,\" Ukraine's Energy Minister Yury Boyko said.\n\nCurrently, Belarus pays Gazprom 46.68 dollars per 1,000 cubic metres of gas.\n\nGazprom originally demanded an increase to 200 dollars, which is closer to western European prices, unless Belarus agreed to sell 50 percent of its domestic pipeline operator Beltransgaz.\n\nGazprom has since reduced that demand to 105 dollars per 1,000 cubic metres -- 75 dollars per 1,000 cubic metres in cash payments, plus the equivalent of another 30 dollars in shares of Beltransgaz.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 29 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 133, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 285, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 669, "end_char": 675, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1142, "end_char": 1148, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1323, "end_char": 1329, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12 months ago", "start_char": 1686, "end_char": 1699, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2577, "end_char": 2585, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0165.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0295\n\nGAZA CITY, Dec 16 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES toll, ADDS details, color ///\n\n\n\n\nAt least 13 Palestinians were wounded in the Gaza Strip as supporters of the ruling Hamas movement and the rival Fatah faction traded fire during protests over president Mahmud Abbas's call for early elections, medics and witnesses said.\n\nThe clashes followed Abbas's call for early presidential and parliamentary elections as a way to resolve a months-long standoff with the ruling Hamas movement, which has left the Palestinian administration paralyzed and broke.\n\nHamas has rejected Abbas's call for elections, warning that it amounted to a call for \"civil war\" and vowed to fight the measure by bringing its supporters into the streets.\n\nThousands of armed Hamas and Fatah supporters staged competing protests in central Gaza City late Saturday. Demonstrations were also underway in the south and the north of the coastal strip. Several smaller protests were also staged in the occupied West Bank.\n\n\"Oh, Abu Mazen, oh spy!\" chanted Hamas supporters, some of them masked and carrying the green flags of the Islamist movement and portraits of prime minister Ismail Haniya, in Gaza City. \"No, a hundred times not to early elections!\"\n\n\"Abu Mazen's call is a provocation and a coup d'etat against legitimacy and democracy,\" a Hamas spokesman, Ismail Radwan, cried to the crowd, referring to Abbas by his widely-used monicker.\n\n\"The government is not responsible for the boycott\" of the international community, he said.\n\nThe West, which considers Hamas a terrorist organization, froze all direct aid to the Palestinian government after the Islamists formed a cabinet in March, and is demanding that the movement recognize Israel, renounce violence and agree to past peace deals for the badly-needed funds to resume.\n\n\"We will neither recognize Israel nor the (peace) agreements,\" Radwan cried. \"We demand a return to the negotiations table\" to form a government of national unity.\n\nIn calling for early elections, Abbas left the door open to forming a coalition government with Hamas and avoiding the polls.\n\nAbbas's call came after a week of rising tensions and violence between his Fatah party and Hamas, and followed the collapse of months-long talks on forming a national unity government.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Saturday", "start_char": 844, "end_char": 857, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1679, "end_char": 1684, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 2142, "end_char": 2148, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0295.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0239\n\nATHENS, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGreece's top athletes sworn in as armed forces officers\n\n\n\n\nGreek athletes, who finished in the top eight of their event in the 2004 Olympic Games or in world championships, were sworn in as officers of the three branches of the Greek Armed Forces in a ceremony held at the War Museum amphitheatre on Tuesday.\n\nAn honorary officer's post and salary is traditionally given to all top athletes that get medals or finish up to eighth place in major international competition.\n\nAttending the swearing-in ceremony were Alternate Culture Minister Fani Palli-Petralia, Deputy Defence Minister Vassilis Mihaloliakos, the leadership of the armed forces and friends and relatives of the athletes.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 357, "end_char": 364, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0239.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0096\n\nDHAKA, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCountrywide hartal called in Bangladesh to protest against court bombings\n\n\n\n\nA countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal for Thursday was called in Bangladesh to protest against Tuesday's court bombings simultaneously in southeastern Chittagong and northeastern Gazipur by Islamic militant outfit, killing at least seven and injuring scores.\n\nAccording to private news agency UNB, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA), led by its President Mahbubey Alam, announced the hartal after holding an emergency general meeting at the Supreme Court Tuesday noon.\n\nThey sought support of all classes of people, including political parties and civil society, to Thursday's hartal.\n\nA suicide bomber of Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) led the bomb attack near a police check-post at Chittagong court building at about 9:05 a.m. (3:05 GMT) Tuesday, killing the bomber and two policemen, and injuring 16 others.\n\nIn another explosion thereafter at about 9:45 a.m. (GMT 3:45) at bar library on the Gazipur district court premises, four people were killed on the spot and 50 injured.\n\nOne of the four dead might be the suicide bomber, whose body was wrapped up with wire of bombs.\n\nAgitated lawyers of different district bars boycotted courts in an instant protest against the bomb attacks in Chittagong and Gazipur.\n\nLawyers in Dhaka, Chittagong, Gazipur, Sylhet and other districts staged wildcat strike through boycott of courts and brought out protest march in the court compounds.\n\nOn Nov. 14, a JMB suicide squad bombed a court microbus in southern Jhalakati district, killing two senior assistant judges.\n\nEarlier, the activists of the banned JMB staged serial bombings simultaneously at court and government establishments in 63 district headquarters on Aug. 17, leaving two people dead and hundreds wounded.\n\nOn Oct. 3, court bombings carried out by the militants in three districts left two people dead.\n\nFor last few days, the JMB, calling for establishment of Islamic rule replacing the man-made law, has been issuing warnings to judges and officials along with death threats if they failed to execute Islamic law in Bangladesh.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 231, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 590, "end_char": 597, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 701, "end_char": 709, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "9:05", "start_char": 877, "end_char": 881, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 898, "end_char": 905, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "9:45 a.m.", "start_char": 1011, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "(GMT 3:45", "start_char": 1021, "end_char": 1030, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 14", "start_char": 1545, "end_char": 1552, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 17", "start_char": 1817, "end_char": 1824, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 3", "start_char": 1876, "end_char": 1882, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last few days", "start_char": 1974, "end_char": 1987, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0096.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0262\n\nPRAGUE, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nCzech President Klaus criticises British EU budget proposal\n\n\n\n\nCzech President Vaclav Klaus lined up Tuesday with opponents of the British proposal for a European Union budget, saying that it had been drawn up \"to the detriment of new countries\" of the EU.\n\n\"The main thing is not that Tony Blair has put forward a proposal to cut the budget. The main thing is to what extent this share out of the budget ... is just,\" Klaus commented on a visit to Pardubice, 100 kilometers east of Prague.\n\n\"I think this has been rather been done to the detriment of new countries [of the EU] and this is not fair,\" he added.\n\nKlaus's comments are much more critical of the British budget proposal than those of social democrat prime minister Jiri Paroubek. Paroubek said on Monday that the British proposal \"was at least worth very good consideration.\"\n\nThe British proposal includes a reduced EU budget for the 2007-2013 period with a cut in the British rebate accompanied by a reduction in regional aid targeted at new member states.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 806, "end_char": 812, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007-2013", "start_char": 944, "end_char": 953, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0262.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0057\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nIsraeli army told to avoid 'unnecessary friction' in West Bank\n\n\n\n\nThe Israeli army has been ordered to avoid \"unneccessary friction\" with the Palestinians while operating in the occupied West Bank, Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh said Monday.\n\n\"Instructions have been issued to avoid unnecessary frictions and to abstain from actions that could serve as a pretext\" for Palestinian militants to break a tentative week-old truce between the Israelis and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Sneh told army radio.\n\nSneh said \"the army has not always paid enough attention to avoid such frictions\" in the past.\n\nThe statement came after 15 Palestinians were arrested overnight in the West Bank by the army on suspicion of belonging to armed groups.\n\nFive people, including a 15-year-old boy throwing stones at Israeli tanks, have been killed in the West Bank since a fragile truce took effect between armed groups and Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip on November 26.\n\nSneh said the overnight arrests were aimed at preventing attacks and said the army would continue to operate in the West Bank \"to prevent suicide attacks.\"\n\nPalestinians want the truce to be extended to the occupied West Bank and on Sunday, the al-Aqsa Brigades, a group loosely affiliated with president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah party, gave Israel two weeks to enact such a measure or risk renewed rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip.\n\nUnder the terms of the truce, Israeli forces withdrew from Gaza and militants were supposed to stop firing rockets into the Jewish state from the coastal strip.\n\nAlthough a handful of such rockets have been fired since in violation, without causing damage or casualties, the truce has held.\n\nOn Sunday Israel's security cabinet decided to continue a policy of restraint in the face of the violations, although Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned that the policy could be scrapped if rocket fire continued.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 301, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 652, "end_char": 660, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 26", "start_char": 1005, "end_char": 1016, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1252, "end_char": 1258, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 1364, "end_char": 1373, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1746, "end_char": 1752, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0057.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0349\n\nCARACAS, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFIFA to hold S.America soccer seminar\n\n\n\n\nFIFA, the world soccer ruling body, will hold a seminar next week to educate South America's officials of the sport about how to use funds and facilities properly, local press said on Thursday.\n\nHarold Mayne Nichols, the official representative of FIFA's president, will run the seminar in Venezuelan tourist resort Margarita from Tuesday to Wednesday during which officials from across South America will be taught how to make the best use of the funds provided for financial aid, sports facilities and high yielding centers across the continent.\n\nLast month, FIFA officials inspected Margarita Island's High Yield Center; a training facility for the Venezuelan team, which received a donation from FIFA's Goal Project funding.\n\nFIFA is paying the all the expenses of the 35 attendees to Margarita Island, so it can show off the High Yield Center, because it is a good example of what can be achieved if officials use funds properly, Mayne said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 430, "end_char": 437, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 441, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last month", "start_char": 648, "end_char": 658, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0349.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891031-0006 \n = 891031 \n 891031-0006. \n International Brief -- Ratners Group PLC:\n@  British Jeweler's U.S. Unit\n@  Agrees to Buy Weisfield's \n 10/31/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n RATNY WEIS \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   Ratners Group PLC's U.S. subsidiary has agreed to acquire jewelry retailer Weisfield's Inc. for $50 a share, or about $55 million. \n\n   Weisfield's shares soared on the announcement yesterday, closing up $11 to close at $50 in national over-the-counter trading. \n\n   Ratners and Weisfield's said they reached an agreement in principle for the acquisition of Weisfield's by Sterling Inc. \n\nThe companies said the acquisition is subject to a definitive agreement. \nThey said they expect the transaction to be completed by Dec. 15. \n\n   Weisfield's, based in Seattle, Wash., currently operates 87 specialty jewelry stores in nine states. \nIn the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, the company reported sales of $59.5 million and pretax profit of $2.9 million. \n\n   Ratners, which controls 25% of the British jewelry market, would increase the number of its U.S. stores to about 450 stores from 360. \nIt has said it hopes to control 5% of jewelry business in the U.S. by 1992; currently it controls about 2%.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/31/89", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t41", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 436, "tid": "t42", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "Dec. 15", "start_char": 765, "end_char": 772, "tid": "t45", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-12-15", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "the fiscal year", "start_char": 884, "end_char": 899, "tid": "t47", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 31", "start_char": 906, "end_char": 913, "tid": "t48", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-01-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1204, "end_char": 1208, "tid": "t60", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1210, "end_char": 1219, "tid": "t62", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0505.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0232\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nS. Africa buries apartheid-era president amid calls for burying the past\n\n\n\n\nSouth Africa on Wednesday held a high-profile funeral for late P.W. Botha, apartheid South Africa 's last hard-line president reviled for his regime's atrocity in the 1980s, amid calls for burying the bitter past for national reconciliation.\n\nSouth African President Thabo Mbeki, as well as former president and Nobel peace prize winner F.W. de Klerk, attended a public memorial service for Botha, who died at 90 last week, in George, Western Cape.\n\nBut former president Nelson Mandela, who Botha kept in prison despite enormous international pressure to free him, as well as Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, who won the Nobel peace prize for his contribution to post-apartheid reconciliation, were unable to attend the funeral.\n\nWhile mourners including a cabinet minister who served under Botha were packing the NG Mother Church in George, where the funeral service of Botha was held, a group of protesters gathered outside the gates of the church, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) reported.\n\nThe protesters said they witnessed many atrocities under Botha' s rule, and they wanted to make sure that the former state president is buried. Security around the church remains tight, said the national broadcaster.\n\nBotha was prime minister and then president from 1978 to 1989, and oversaw the murder and torture of thousands of black activists, army crackdowns and raids into neighboring countries that backed the anti-apartheid movement.\n\nHis death opened old wounds in South Africa, which is healing from the brutality of apartheid 12 years after the country, 80 percent of whose population are blacks, held the first democratic elections.\n\nHowever, politicians gave him some credit for helping to pave the way for multiracial democracy.\n\nIn the late 1980s Botha initiated secret talks with the now ruling African National Congress (ANC), a bold step that ultimately led to the 1994 democratic elections, from which Mandela became the first black president.\n\nAfter Botha's death, the government had ordered that flags at state institutions fly at half mast in honor of him and President Mbeki had offered condolences to his family. These were seen as the black government's efforts to achieve further reconciliation from the country's bitterly-divided past but it has also caused widespread resentment.\n\nNofatu Vywer, a protester, told SABC that Botha should be happy that he died of natural causes when many black families lost their loved ones.\n\n\"It seems it's the best day for us because some families don't have their families because of this big crocodile,\" Vywer said.\n\nHowever, inside the church, the mourners were told that South Africans should bury the past to move towards national building and reconciliation.\n\nJordanian Christian missionary Dr. Bahjat Batarseh said at the funeral that having bitterness by remembering the past all the time was \"like a worm that eats the root of a tree and then the tree collapses,\" according to the SAPA news agency.\n\n\"Bury the past or the past will bury you,\" Batarseh told the funeral, which was broadcast live on national television.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1980s", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 310, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "198", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "90 last week", "start_char": 548, "end_char": 560, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1978", "start_char": 1418, "end_char": 1422, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1978", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12 years", "start_char": 1689, "end_char": 1697, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the late", "start_char": 1899, "end_char": 1907, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1952, "end_char": 1955, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0232.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "CNN_20130322_1003\n\nMarch 22, 2013\n\nNew York man admits faking his death\n\n\n\n A New York man who was accused of faking his death last summer pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge Thursday, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced.\n\nRaymond Roth, 48, of Massapequa, New York, was first reported missing in the waters off Jones Beach late last July by his 22-year-old son, Jonathan Roth. Several days into an extensive search involving multiple agencies, New York State Park Police said, authorities learned the missing man was in South Carolina, where he had been pulled over for speeding.\n\nThe day before Raymond Roth was pulled over, his wife, Evana, showed authorities e-mails she had discovered that appeared to detail a plan between him and his son to fake his death. Raymond Roth wanted his wife and son to collect at least $410,000 in life insurance benefits while he started a new life in Florida, Rice said.\n\nState police arrested both men in early August on charges of insurance fraud, conspiracy and filing a false report. Raymond Roth on Thursday agreed to plead guilty to the conspiracy charge in exchange for a sentence of 90 days in jail and five years' probation, the district attorney's office said. He also must pay restitution for the cost of the search -- $27,445 to the U.S. Coast Guard and $9,109 to the Nassau County Police Department.\n\nEvana Roth told CNN in August she thought her husband devised the plan after he was fired from his job in July. Her attorney, Lenard Leeds, said she had been unaware of the ruse before she uncovered the e-mail correspondence.\n\n\"There needs to be a way for me to find out how things are going. Call me Sunday night at 8 PM at the resort,\" Raymond Roth wrote in an e-mail to his son the day before the son reported him missing.\n\nThe son's case is still pending, the district attorney said. Jonathan Roth's attorney, Joey Jackson, defended his client after his arrest, saying, \"There was abuse here, manipulation here, coercion here\" from the father.\n\nRaymond Roth's attorney, Brian Davis, denied in August that Roth had involved his son in the scheme.\n\n\"We had issues concerning the facts people had whether (Roth) had an agreement with his son,\" Davis told CNN on Thursday. \"He's admitted it now. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0184\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBeijing Declaration calls for use of more renewable energy\n\n\n\n\nMinisters and government representatives from 78 countries on Tuesday called for urgent efforts to increase the global share of renewable energy in the total energy supply.\n\nThey made the call in the Beijing Declaration on Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development, adopted at the conclusion of the Beijing International Renewable Energy Conference 2005.\n\nAccording to the declaration, increasing energy efficiency and the use of renewables boast multiple benefits.\n\nThe benefits include accelerating the eradication of poverty, increasing job opportunities, improving air quality and public health, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, combating climate change and enhancing energy security.\n\nThe declaration points out that the doubling of oil prices in less than two years has increased the economic risk of relying primarily on imported energy.\n\nBy developing renewable energy such as wind power, hydropower and solar energy, countries can create diversified energy portfolios that are less vulnerable to wide price fluctuations.\n\nThe document says that the participating countries have agreed to accelerate the research and development of renewable energy. They will also strengthen support for the transfer of technologies through North-South and South-South cooperation.\n\nThe developing countries will enhance capacity building, says the document, including establishing markets for renewable energy and increasing access to finance.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 181, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 471, "end_char": 475, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "less than two years", "start_char": 876, "end_char": 895, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0184.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0458\n\nNOORDWIJK, Netherlands, April 7 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nEU ministers make little progress on reform by Jean Burner\n\n\n\n\nEuropean Union foreign ministers made little progress on wide-ranging reform of Europe's institutions during a two-day meeting which ended Monday.\n\nThe lack of progress prompted German Foreign Minister Klaus Kinkel to say after the summit that there were \"plenty of things which point to the need for a special summit on reform of the institutions\" at the end of May.\n\nTalks expected to take place in Maastricht on the Dutch-German border have been pencilled in for May 23.\n\nThey would be aimed at assessing whether it will be possible to reach a deal on revamping EU policies and institutions -- judged vital if the Union is to bring in up to 10 eastern European countries and Cyprus over the next decade -- in time for the Amsterdam summit on June 16-17.\n\nThat summit is due to wind-up the work of the long-running Intergovernmental Conference (IGC), launched at the Turin summit in March last year.\n\nThe May meeting would take place after the British general election on May 1, cited as one of the main reasons why so little progress was made here.\n\nMinisters openly admitted here that progress in the negotiations was proving difficult because of the uncertainty created by the looming election.\n\nBritain's current Conservative government stands alone among the 15 EU administrations in its across-the-board opposition to any reduction in the scope of national vetoes in policy decisions.\n\nIt is also isolated on plans to transfer responsibiilty on immigration, asylum and border policies and the fight against cross- border crime from national capitals to Brussels, its demands for the power of the European Court of Justice to be curtailed and in its fervent opposition to a common EU social policy.\n\nEU diplomats are optimistic that if, as expected, Labour leader Tony Blair triumphs on May 1, Britain will adopt a more flexible approach.\n\nBut while Labour has committed itself to ending Britain's opt-out from EU social policy, the party has otherwise given few indications that it will radically change Britain's approach to Europe.\n\nIt also became clear here that Britain is far from being the only major obstacle to a deal being concluded at Amsterdam.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Herve de Charette insisted that Paris would not sign up for a new treaty unless the EU's executive arm, the commission, was reduced from 20 to between 10 and 12 members.\n\nThis is fiercely opposed by small EU states like Ireland and Luxembourg as it would mean some of them not having a commissioner. Although commissioners are supposed to act in the interests of Europe, countries regard them as an important voice in Brussels' corridors of power.\n\nAt present the five biggest countries have two commissioners (Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain) and the other 10 one each.\n\nBritish foreign office minister David Davies said the big countries could not be expected to give up one of their commissioners without getting something in return.\n\n\"It is not just for large countries to make sacrifices,\" he said. If Britain lost a commissioner it would expect its remaining representative to have a bigger say in decisions or to be given one of the more important portfolios, he said.\n\n\"If we give up a commissioner that has to be reflected in some other way.\"\n\nBritain, France and Germany also want voting in the EU Council of Ministers reweighted to bring it more into line with population sizes.\n\nUnder the present system, tiny Luxembourg has two votes for a population of 400,000 while Germany has 10 for a population of 79 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 7 , 1997", "start_char": 47, "end_char": 61, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 277, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of May", "start_char": 484, "end_char": 498, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 23", "start_char": 598, "end_char": 604, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next decade", "start_char": 822, "end_char": 837, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 16-17", "start_char": 877, "end_char": 887, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March last year", "start_char": 1017, "end_char": 1032, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1039, "end_char": 1042, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 1106, "end_char": 1111, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 1926, "end_char": 1931, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10", "start_char": 2472, "end_char": 2474, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0458.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0342\n\nBRASILIA, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBrazil arrests 33 for illegally exploiting land reservations\n\n\n\n\nBrazil's Federal Police arrested 33 people in a joint operation with the Environment Agency on Thursday, and charged them with illegally exploiting indigenous people's land.\n\nThe detainees had taken part in illegal logging operations in Brazil's permanent reserves, and had occupied land reserved for the Kayabi, Mundukuru and Apiaka indigenous groups in the east-central state of Mato Grosso, the police said.\n\nThe indigenous reserves cover an area of nearly 1 million hectares, and were created in Oct. 2002 through a decree from the Justice Ministry.\n\nThe police began investigations in December 2005 following a request from the Federal Prosecution Office, and found that the illegal seizure of indigenous reserves became more frequent after the 2002 decree.\n\nUp to now, 300,000 square km of indigenous reserves have been deforested and replaced by agriculture and cattle pastures.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 218, "end_char": 226, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 2002", "start_char": 623, "end_char": 632, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2005", "start_char": 713, "end_char": 726, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 873, "end_char": 877, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0342.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0243\n\nJINAN, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen visits east China\n\n\n\n\nCambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday visited east China's Shandong Province.\n\nHe said it is great to pay a visit to the hometown of Confucius and he would like to see more enterprises from the province to invest in Cambodia.\n\nHun Sen made the remarks in a meeting with Zhang Gaoli, head of the Shandong provincial committee of the Communist Party of China.\n\nHun Sen said Shandong is the home to many great philosophers, mentors and strategists in ancient times and is now home to lots of big business tycoons.\n\nCambodia is looking forward to their investment, he added.\n\nZhang said Cambodia has developed rapidly under the leadership of Hun Sen.\n\nHun Sen visited the memorial temple, mansion and cemetery of Confucius in Qufu, a central city in Shandong and an agricultural hi-tech zone in Jinan, capital of Shandong.\n\nThe Cambodian prime minister arrived in Shandong on Tuesday after a commemorative summit on the 15th anniversary of China-ASEAN dialogue relations in Nanning, capital of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.\n\nHe will leave here on Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 989, "end_char": 996, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1178, "end_char": 1186, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0243.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0222\n\nHANGZHOU, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nE. China city to hold 5th Forum on China Internet Media\n\n\n\n\nThe fifth Forum on China Internet Media is to open Tuesday in Hangzhou, capital city of east China's Zhejiang province, involving more than 200 officials and experts nationwide.\n\nWith the theme of 'Internet Media and Harmonious Society', the forum will include discussions on the development of China's Internet media, next-generation Internet technology and the application of Rich Media.\n\nOfficials and experts from the State Council Information Office, Ministry of Information Industry and the All-China Journalists Association, will attend the three-day forum together with the presidents of state-owned and commercial Internet media.\n\n\"The Internet media are bracing for the second surge of development. China-based Websites can only outdo their global competitors by providing high quality services,\" said Zhou Xisheng, president of the state-owned Xinhua Online.\n\nEstablished in 2001, the annual forum is among the most authoritative and influential activities in China's Internet media industry.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 176, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1004, "end_char": 1008, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0222.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0047\n\nMACAO, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDelegation of Shenzhou-6 space mission starts Macao tour\n\n\n\n\nThe delegation of Shenzhou-6 manned space mission arrived in Macao Wednesday for a three-day visit and academic exchange at the invitation of Edmund Ho Hau Wah, chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR).\n\nThe 30-strong delegation, including taikonauts Fei Junlong and Nie Haisheng, disembarked the ferry jetboat at the Macao Ferry Terminal at noon.\n\nA large crowd waving China's miniature national flags and MSAR flags welcomed the space heroes.\n\nThe taikonauts smiled, accepted bouquets, shook hands with fans and signed autographs.\n\nThe delegation was greeted by Wang Jinxiang, deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the MSAR and Ao Man Long, secretary for transportation and public works.\n\nDuring its stay, the delegation is to meet local students, give lectures and attend a grand evening gala hosted by the MSAR government.\n\nFei Junlong, 40, and Nie Haisheng, 41, went into space on Oct. 12 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and returned to Earth on Oct. 17. They conducted a series of unprecedented experiments on the spacecraft.\n\nChina's maiden space flight in 2003, conducted by taikonaut Yang Liwei, made the nation the third to put human into space following Russia and the United States.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 12", "start_char": 1065, "end_char": 1072, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 17", "start_char": 1139, "end_char": 1146, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1252, "end_char": 1256, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0047.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0108\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nColombo stocks close down\n\n\n\n\nShare prices on the Colombo Stock Exchange closed down Thursday with the key Colombo All Share Price Index moving down 18.12 points to close at 2438.67 points.\n\nOn the other hand, the highly capitalized Milanka Price Index lost 37.17 points to close at 3199.05 points.\n\nA total turnover of 223 million rupee (2.23 million US dollars) was recorded during the day with a volume of 9.82 million shares being traded.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 441, "end_char": 448, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0108.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0397\n\nLONDON, Dec 17 , 2006, 2006\n\nPolonium that killed Litvinenko cost 10 million dollars: report\n\n\n\n\nBritish detectives believe that the radioactive substance used to kill former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko cost in excess of 10 million dollars (7.6 million euros), The Times reported in an early edition of its Monday newspaper.\n\nAccording to the newspaper, preliminary results from the post-mortem on Litvinenko's body have shown that he was given more than ten times the lethal dose of polonium-210, large quantities of which were found in his urine.\n\nLitvinenko fell ill on November 1, and died on November 23. Several of his friends have blamed the Kremlin for the murder, but Russia has repeatedly denied that it had any involvement in the ex-spy's death.\n\n\"You can't buy this much off the internet or steal it from a laboratory without raising an alarm so the only two plausible explanations for the source are that it was obtained from a nuclear reactor or very well connected black market smugglers,\" an unidentified British security source told the daily.\n\nUnited Nuclear Scientific Supplies, based in New Mexico and one of the few companies allowed to sell polonium-210 over the Internet, told The Times that it would take at least 15,000 units of the isotope to kill someone.\n\nWith each unit costing 69 dollars, that would mean that it would cost more than 10 million dollars to deliver the fatal dose, the newspaper said.\n\nThe Times also said that British detectives currently in Moscow continuing their investigation are due to return to Britain in the coming week.\n\nAccording to The Times, citing unnamed security sources, Russian officials refused to ask questions of Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitri Kovtun -- both of whom met with Litvinenko on the day he fell ill -- which British detectives wanted answered.\n\nThey have not complained publicly, the newspaper added, because of the importance of the case to diplomatic relations between Britain and Russia.\n\nWhen contacted by AFP, a spokeswoman for London's Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the investigation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 335, "end_char": 341, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1", "start_char": 601, "end_char": 611, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 23", "start_char": 625, "end_char": 636, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the coming week", "start_char": 1586, "end_char": 1601, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "day", "start_char": 1783, "end_char": 1786, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0397.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0281\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMerkel says Germany still stands by EU constitution\n\n\n\n\nNew German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that her country still stands by the European Union (EU) constitution after the charter was turned down by France and the Netherlands in referendums.\n\n\"We stand by the constitution. The pause for reflection is not an excuse for putting it aside,\" Merkel, who is in Brussels for a get-to-know-each-other tour, told reporters after brief talks with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.\n\nShe refused to take a stand on whether Britain should give up its annual rebate from the coffers of the EU, a focal issue blocking a long-term budget for the 25-nation bloc.\n\nAsked what message she would send to Britain, who hold the EU's rotating presidency, during her trip to London on Thursday, Merkel said the rebate issue should be addressed together with other outstanding issues.\n\n\"We need to address concerns of everybody,\" she said. \"My message will be I support an economically strong Europe,\"she added.\n\nMerkel pledged support for the work of the EU. She said her visit to Brussels is a signal of the German federal government to support European integration. \"Whatever I can do, I will do,\" she said.\n\nBut she stressed that Europe needs economic reforms to keep itself competitive in a globalized world.\n\nBarroso pledged to work closely with Merkel. \"Europe needs a strong Germany, and we can do a lot for Europe together,\" he said.\n\nBarroso also expressed the hope that Merkel can help persuade Britain in striking a deal on pricky issues like the 2007-13 EU budget.\n\n\"In the coming weeks, we will be discussing the financial perspective (the budget) ... The commitment and determination of the chancellor will help us convince the (EU) presidency,\" said Barroso in German.\n\nHe asked Britain to act, saying the key to many issues is in the hands of Britain. \"There is a special responsibility for our UK friends,\" he said.\n\nAt an EU foreign ministers' meeting on Monday, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said his country would present budget proposals shortly before an informal foreign ministers' meeting on Dec. 7. The last chance for a deal during Britain's EU presidency would be the mid-December EU summit in Brussels.\n\nBudget talks are stuck as Britain conditions the cancellation of its annual rebate on something France is vehemently against -- cuts in EU's spending on farm subsidies, of which France is a major beneficiary.\n\nMerkel, as his predecessors, Gerhard Schroeder and Helmut Kohl, chose France as destination of her first foreign trip, obviously in an attempt to emphasize the special ties between the two European giants.\n\nIn Brussels, before her meeting with Barroso, he visited the NATO headquarters and met NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer as well as European Parliament President Josep Borrell.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 853, "end_char": 861, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "coming weeks", "start_char": 1654, "end_char": 1666, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2041, "end_char": 2047, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 7", "start_char": 2191, "end_char": 2197, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0281.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0088\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHong Kong shares close almost flat -- Nov. 3\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong shares closed almost steady Thursday with blue-chip Hang Seng Index edged up 4.11 points, or 0.03 percent, to 14601.59 after trading between 14546. 88 and 14649.86 during the session.\n\nTurnover totaled 14.94 billion HK dollars, little changed from 15.02 billion HK dollars Wednesday.\n\nThe HSI Property Index fell 0.4 percent Thursday to 17,707.61. New World Development dropped 1 percent to 9.65 HK dollars, Cheung Kong fell 0.5 percent to 81.75 HK dollars and Sino Land slipped 1. 2 percent to 8.60 HK dollars.\n\nIn contrast, HSBC gained 0.2 percent to 122.40 HK dollars and Hang Seng Bank rose 0.3 percent to 101.70 HK dollars,\n\nPC maker Lenovo was the day's biggest blue-chip decliner, slumping 4.9 percent to 3.40 HK dollars on profit-taking and disappointment after the company said earlier this week its gross margins declined in its fiscal second quarter.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 390, "end_char": 399, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 442, "end_char": 450, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 912, "end_char": 921, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "fiscal second quarter", "start_char": 956, "end_char": 977, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0088.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0239\n\nPARIS, Dec 26 , 2006, 2006\n\nEnglish Premiership results\n\n\n\n\nEnglish Premiership results on Tuesday:\nChelsea 2 (Drogba 38, 72) Reading 2 (Lita 67, Essien 85-og)\n\nTottenham 2 (Defoe 58, 77) Aston Villa 1 (Barry 81)\n\nWest Ham 1 (Sheringham 81) Portsmouth 2 (Primus 16, 38)\n\nPlaying later (1500 GMT unless stated)\n\nManchester United v Wigan Athletic\n\nEverton v Middlesbrough\n\nBlackburn v Liverpool\n\nBolton v Newcastle\n\nSheffield United v Manchester City\n\nWatford v Arsenal (1730)\n\nWednesday\n\nCharlton v Fulham", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 26 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday:", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Chelsea 2 (Drogba 38, 72", "start_char": 123, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0239.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0165\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAfrica's private equity funds drop in 2005\n\n\n\n\nAfrica's private equity funds drop in 2005\n\nLUSAKA, Nov.3 (Xinhua) -- Total amounts of private equity funds raised in Africa and overall private equity investments on the continent both declined in 2005, The Post reported on Friday.\n\nThe Zambian newspaper quoted the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA) as reporting the amount of private equity funds dropped to 557 million U.S. dollars from 971.8 million dollars in 2004.\n\nThe level of overall private equity investment in Africa fell by 27 percent to 948.3 million dollars in 2005.\n\nSouth Africa recorded the highest level of investment activity accounting for 81.6 percent of the total volume of investment.\n\nAlmost two thirds of funds raised were for later stage investment. Later stage funds raised 352.1 million dollars representing 63.2 percent of total funds raised in Africa, and early stage funds saw a significant decline in 2005.\n\nCommenting on the research, Barbara James, AVCA managing director, said \"whilst early stage investment has dominated the volume of investment activity in Africa in 2005, the amount of funds raised to focus on early stage has declined significantly. This highlights a growing funding gap, which we believe needs to be addressed to help sustain economic improvement in Africa.\"\n\nExcluding South Africa, the total value of private equity investment in Africa increased by 50.4 percent to 174.6 million dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 145, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 328, "end_char": 334, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 527, "end_char": 531, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 638, "end_char": 642, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 996, "end_char": 1000, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1167, "end_char": 1171, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0165.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0054\n\nNEW DELHI, April 7 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFood for India's poor fed to cows: report\n\n\n\n\nA retired Indian police officer has been caught feeding free food provided by the government for the rural poor to his cows, a newspaper reported Monday.\n\nGovernment officials in the eastern state of Bihar made the discovery when they paid a surprise visit to the officer's village, The Statesman said.\n\nLakhan Lal Mishra, a voluntary activist, was quoted as saying food intended for village children and pregnant women was being sold illegally.\n\n\"We do not like this kind of misuse,\" one official said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 7 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 248, "end_char": 254, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0054.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0687\n\nTOKYO, April 5 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nQuake jolts southern Japan\n\n\n\n\nA fairly strong earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale rocked southern Japan Saturday, the meteorological agency said.\n\nThere were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.\n\nAn agency official said the quake, which struck at 1:24 p.m. (0424 GMT), was believed to be an aftershock of a strong quake on March 26, which had a magnitude of 6.2, injured at least 20 people and caused landslides.\n\nThe epicenter of the quake was located in Kagoshima prefecture, the agency said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 5 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 26", "start_char": 395, "end_char": 403, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0687.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0115\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 1 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nparliamentary guests\n\n\n\n\nXu Jialu, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress (NPC), met here Tuesday separately with Belgian Defence Minister Andre Flahaut and his party, and a delegation of Secretary Generals of Party Groups in European Parliament led by Vula Tsetsi.\n\nThe two groups of guests are invited by the Chinese Ministry of National Defense, and the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, respectively.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0115.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0386\n\nKHARTOUM, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nregular meetings\n\n\n\n\nThe Conference of Sino-Arab Friendship concluded here on Wednesday with a decision of holding regular meetings on the Chinese-Arab relations every two years, the final communique of the conference said.\n\nThe communique also announced the establishment of the permanent secretariat of the Sino-Arab Friendship Conference in Khartoum under the sponsorship of the Arab League.\n\nAhammed Abdul Rahman, Secretary General of the Sudanese Association of World Peoples' Friendship, hailed the conference's decision of selecting Khartoum as the location of its permanent secretariat, describing the decision as \"the pride of Sudan\".\n\nThis year's conference also called for exchanging visits, holding exhibitions, conducting dialogue between China and the Arab countries and establishing sister twinship between the Chinese and Arab cities, universities and regions.\n\nThe next Sino-Arab Friendship Conference will be held in Syria, according to the communique.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 145, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every two years", "start_char": 220, "end_char": 235, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-29T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0386.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0243\n\nMANILA, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nManila confirms Chinese frigates in Spratlys\n\n\n\n\nThree Chinese warships have entered territory claimed by the Philippines in the Spratly islands and Manila will file a diplomatic protest to Beijing, Press Secretary Hector Villanueva said Tuesday.\n\nArmed forces chief General Arnulfo Acedera has reported to President Fidel Ramos that the warships were monitored near two South China Sea islands, he said in a statement.\n\nChina and the Philippine are among six countries which claim all or part of the Spratlys, which are believed to sit atop oil deposits and command strategic shipping lanes.\n\nAcedera said a military reconaissance plane monitored the three Chinese frigates \"in the immediate vicinity\" of Kota and Panata islands, which are among eight islands occupied by Filipino troops in the South China Sea chain.\n\nVillanueva said the frigate-type vessels, armed with deck guns, were sighted on April 25. The plane also discovered a \"new hut-like structure\" built on a reef six miles northeast of Kota island.\n\nHe did not say if this structure was manned by Chinese troops.\n\nOne of the vessels as \"positively identified\" as belonging to the Shuguang 04 class with bow number 427. It was \"observed to be accompanied by two small fishing boats and was towing two other boats,\" Villanueva said.\n\nAnother vessel, with bow number 420, was identified as belonging to the Hai class, Villanueva said but did not give a description of the third vessel.\n\n\"The Department of Foreign Affairs is sending a diplomatic protest to its counterpart in Beijing and will inform its ASEAN counterparts of these developments,\" Villanueva said.\n\nThe Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) groups Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. All but Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand are Spratly claimants. Taiwan also is a claimant.\n\nVillanueva said Acedera has instructed the commander of the Western Command which covers the Spratlys \"to undertake continous surveillance of the area.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 292, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 25", "start_char": 954, "end_char": 962, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0243.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0309\n\nKUWAIT CITY, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nKuwait congratulates Margaret Chan nominated as next WHO chief\n\n\n\n\nA senior Kuwaiti official congratulated on Wednesday the nomination of Dr. Margaret Chan, former health chief of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the next director-general.\n\nDharar Abdul-Razzak Razzooqi, head of the Kuwait mission to the United Nations in Geneva, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that his country would support the work of Dr. Chan so that she could successfully fulfill her mandate.\n\nKazem Behbehani, a senior WHO official from Kuwait, also became one of the five finalists to run for the nomination, but he was eliminated in an earlier voting by the UN agency's decision-making body Executive Board.\n\n\"Though Dr. Behbehani did not come out as a winner in the final race, he had solicited the support of 28 countries out of 34 when the short list was chosen on Monday\", Razzooqi was quoted as saying.\n\nMargaret Chan's nomination on Wednesday came after four rounds of secret balloting by the UN agency's 34-nation Executive Board, during which four other heavyweight competitors were eliminated.\n\nChan, 59, joined the WHO in 2003 and has since been the agency' s top official for pandemic influenza, as well as the assistant director-general for communicable diseases.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 962, "end_char": 968, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1033, "end_char": 1042, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1226, "end_char": 1230, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0309.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0453\n\nSANYA, China, Dec 11 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nIceland's Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir began her year-long reign as Miss World 2005 on Sunday after beating 101 other girls in a global pageant staged in this sleepy resort town.\n\nThe 21-year-old Reykjavik student and daughter of Miss Iceland 1983 expressed delight and astonishment at winning the title and thanked her mother for her advice.\n\n\"It came as a big shock but the feeling is incredible -- I am numb,\" said the green-eyed brunette. \"I did not hear my name at first. I just heard it echo around the room. I only knew it was me because nobody else moved.\n\n\"My mum gave me some advice for how to behave, and it seems to have worked,\" Vilhjalmsdottir said. \"She told me to be myself, not be fake in any way, and to relax. I am so pleased that she was able to be here to see me win the title.\"\n\nVilhjalmsdottir will serve as a goodwill ambassador and charity fund-raiser for children's causes throughout next year and is likely to profit from a host of modelling and acting contracts.\n\nOrganisers said Saturday night's pageant, in its 55th edition, reached an estimated audience of two billion.\n\nRunner-up was Miss Mexico Dafne Molina Lona, representing the Americas, while the third place went to Miss Puerto Rico Ingrid Marie Rivera Santos, representing the Caribbean zone.\n\nVilhjalmsdottir' mother Unnur Steinsson represented Iceland in 1983 and came in the top five in the global contest.\n\n\"I am just speechless,\" Steinsson said. \"There are simply no words to describe my feelings right now. I am now totally beside myself with joy to see her as Miss World.\"\n\nVilhjalmsdottir is a student from Reykjavik who has interned as a policewoman during her summer holidays while studying anthropology and aspiring toward a career in law.\n\nWinning the coveted title is likely to change her life, as she embarks on a rigorous year of charity appearances and advocating humanitarian causes.\n\n\"In the coming year I want to do just as much as I can to help,\" she said. \"I would love to do what I can do for charity and for the children of the world.\"\n\nVilhjalmsdottir beat finalists from six zones, including Miss Italy Sofia Bruscoli, awarded the title of Miss South Europe, Miss Tanzania Nancy Abraham Sumary, who was named Miss Africa, and Miss Korea Eun-Young Oh, who was crowned Miss Asia Pacific.\n\nThe cherished title \"Beauty With A Purpose\" also went to Miss Korea, an award commemorating her humanitarian fund-raising and charity work.\n\nMiss Russia Yulia Ivanova won the bathing suit section, while Miss America Virgin Islands Kmisha-Victoria Counts won the talent contest with her soul singing.\n\nThis year, for the first time, all nine judges were former Miss World title holders, including Miss World 1953 Denise Perrier Lanfranchi of France.\n\nVilhjalmsdottir takes over from Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, who in a year of globetrotting visited tsunami-hit Banda Aceh in Indonesia as well as Russia, Tibet and her native Peru, where she worked to improve children's education.\n\nSanya, a quiet tropical resort on the southern tip of China's Hainan Island began holding the Miss World Pageant in 2003.\n\nThe venue of next year's contest has not yet been announced, but hopes here are that the event returns to this tropical island that is set to become booming China's top vacation spot.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 980, "end_char": 989, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1078, "end_char": 1086, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1983", "start_char": 1416, "end_char": 1420, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1983", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1567, "end_char": 1570, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "rigorous year", "start_char": 1887, "end_char": 1900, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the coming year", "start_char": 1965, "end_char": 1980, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 2672, "end_char": 2681, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 2889, "end_char": 2895, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 3170, "end_char": 3174, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 3190, "end_char": 3199, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0453.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0154\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nban lifted\n\n\n\n\nThailand's national security will remain under close surveillance following the revocation of the ban on political gatherings, Supreme Commander Boonsang Niempradit said on Friday.\n\nThe agencies responsible for security will continue to monitor the national situation closely because the nation's returning to stability will be the major reason the Council for National Security (CNS) to consider lifting martial law, the next move after agreeing to the proposed lifting of the ban on political gatherings.\n\nThe CNS and the interim government it installed revoked the No. 7 Announcement issued on September 20 by the military Council for Democratic Reform (CDR), now known as the CNS, which prohibited gatherings of over five people for political purposes. The National Legislative Assembly (NLA) unanimously voted to endorse lifting the ban when it convened on Thursday.\n\nThe supreme commander conceded that he was concerned over the national security after the political gatherings ban was lifted.\n\n\"Regarding the security issue, I must take care of it all the time. No matter in the past or present we can't forget about security,\" Boonsang said. \"National security is the same as oxygen. When we're well, we don't think about it. But when we have trouble or lack oxygen, we realize that we badly need it.\"\n\nAs for the lifting of martial law imposed throughout the kingdom since the September 19 coup, Boonsang said he could not give a specific time when it will be revoked since the matter must be discussed and decided by various parties.\n\nNLA Speaker Meechai Ruchuphan said that although the CDR Order No.7 has been revoked, political parties remain unable to perform their political activities because other two relevant announcements also issued by CDR, namely Orders No. 15, and No. 27 prohibiting political parties' political activities remain in effect.\n\n\"The revocation of the Order No.7 will allow only the general public to gather or talk politically but political activities carried out by political parties themselves or others supported by political parties are not allowed yet,\" the assembly speaker explained.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 245, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 20", "start_char": 669, "end_char": 681, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 735, "end_char": 738, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 934, "end_char": 942, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 19", "start_char": 1458, "end_char": 1470, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0154.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061224.0227\n\nLOS ANGELES, Dec 24 , 2006, 2006\n\nSchwarzenegger faces surgery to repair leg broken on ski slopes\n\n\n\n\nCalifornia Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger faces surgery to repair his fractured leg, his office said Sunday, one day after the former action hero's Christmas holiday skiing accident.\n\n\"Saturday morning while skiing with his family in Sun Valley, Idaho, Governor Schwarzenegger suffered a fracture to his right femur,\" said Adam Mendelsohn, Schwarzenegger's Deputy Chief of Staff, in a statement.\n\n\"After the accident the governor was taken to a local hospital for x-rays and was soon discharged. He is currently at his home in Sun Valley, Idaho with his family.\"\n\nMendelsohn said no one else was involved in the accident.\n\n\"When the Governor returns to Los Angeles from his scheduled Christmas trip, he will have surgery to repair his femur,\" the spokesman said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 24 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday, one day", "start_char": 226, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas holiday", "start_char": 273, "end_char": 290, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday morning", "start_char": 310, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 809, "end_char": 818, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061224.0227.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0449\n\nBONN, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nGermans put magnetic train project back on rails\n\n\n\n\nA costly and controversial project to link Hamburg and Berlin with a magnetically-suspended high-speed train has been put back on the rails under revised plans presented Friday.\n\nTransport Minister Matthias Wissmann said a revamped consortium would be in charge of realising the \"Transrapid\" link by 2005 and that the plans had received the blessing of Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Finance Minister Theo Waigel. Parliament approved the original project last year.\n\nAdtranz, a specialist subsidiary of Germany's Daimler-Benz and the Swiss-Swedish group Asea Brown Boveri (ABB), will join with Germany's Thyssen and Siemens, and a fourth member who entered following the pullout of construction firms Philipp Holzmann, Hochtief and Bilfinger + Berger.\n\nSiemens boss Heinrich von Pierer said initial talks were taking place with the Anglo-French group GEC Alsthom. In Paris, the constructors of the French TGV (High Speed Train) said they were ready to consider any interesting proposal.\n\nThe German rail corporation Deutsche Bahn will play a central role in running the link, on which work is planned to start next year.\n\nThe train is supposed to 'float' at up to 450 kilometres (280 miles) an hour on a T-shaped mono-rail, cutting travelling time between the two north German cities to about an hour for a journey of 292 kilometres (180 miles).\n\nThe cost of the project is 10 percent up on original plans.\n\nTotal investment is now put at 9.8 billion (5.7 billion dollars), comprising 6.1 billion marks for the track and 3.7 billion marks for the operating system. In 1993 the cost was put at 8.9 billion marks -- with 5.6 billion marks of this coming from the federal state.\n\nMeanwhile, the expected returns have been revised downward. According to German railways boss Heinz Duerr, the new estimates indicated a \"modest but reasonable\" economic viability. Opposition to the project is based both on the high cost to the public purse and environmental considerations.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 405, "end_char": 409, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 556, "end_char": 565, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1211, "end_char": 1220, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1529, "end_char": 1532, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 1669, "end_char": 1673, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0449.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0332\n\nALGIERS, Dec 10 , 2006, 2006\n\nURGENT  Algerian attack on US buses leaves one dead\n\n\n\n\nOne person was killed and another injured Sunday in an attack in Algeria on two buses carrying employees from a US company, witnesses told AFP.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0332.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0069\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: Hill arrives in Beijing for Korean Peninsular nuclear talks\n\n\n\n\nThe U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill arrived here Monday afternoon to continue efforts on resuming the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsular nuclear issue.\n\nJust a week ago, Hill came to the Chinese capital and met with vice foreign minister Wu Dawei. The two agreed to make joint efforts for the restart of the talks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday afternoon", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week ago", "start_char": 312, "end_char": 322, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0069.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0442\n\nMANAGUA, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNicaragua president-elect meets U.S. officials\n\n\n\n\nNicaragua's president-elect, Daniel Ortega, met on Tuesday with Thomas Shannon, the visiting United States deputy secretary of state for the western hemisphere, who had strongly opposed him as a presidential candidate.\n\nPresent at the meeting were also Paul Trivelli, the United States ambassador to Nicaragua, and the secretary general of Ortega's party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front.\n\nU.S. embassy official Cristin Stewart told media that the meeting was the first step in building relations between the U.S. government and Ortega's future government.\n\nDuring Nicaragua's election campaign, Trivelli worked to form a coalition that included all the country's right-wing parties, in a bid to strengthen the anti-Ortega vote, while several senior U.S. officials spoke against Ortega The Organization of American States twice condemned the United States for interfering in the election.\n\nOn Nov. 5, after winning the election, Ortega told the press he would work with Washington within a framework of mutual respect.\n\nThe United States had backed a different right-winger, Eduardo Montealegre, for president, and distanced itself from the right- wing Liberal Constitutionalist Party (PLC). Arnoldo Aleman, the PLC president of Nicaragua from 1997 to 2002, is currently in jail for corruption.\n\nShannon arrived in Nicaragua on Monday on his way from El Salvador, and will leave for Panama later on Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 159, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 5", "start_char": 1010, "end_char": 1016, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 1361, "end_char": 1365, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1445, "end_char": 1451, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1516, "end_char": 1523, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0442.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0250\n\nAMMAN, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nZarqawi says Amman attacks not target Muslims\n\n\n\n\nThe al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said on Friday that the suicide bomb attacks in three Amman hotels didn't target Muslims.\n\nZarqawi, the Jordanian-born militant, said in an audiotape released by a website often used by militant groups, that the Nov. 9 attacks on three luxury hotels in the Jordanian capital were intended to target a gathering of US and Israeli intelligence agents.\n\nHowever, a roof collapsed in the attacks and killed many Muslims who were attending a wedding ceremony in one of the hotels, he said in the tape.\n\nThe attacks killed at least 57 people, mostly Jordanians, and wounded over 110 others.\n\nZarqawi, the top militant wanted in Iraq by the United States with a 25-million-dollar bounty on his head, also vowed in the tape more attacks on foreign targets and apostates.\n\nThe al-Qaida in Iraq, a driving force behind a bloody insurgency against US forces and the US-backed government in Iraq, has claimed responsibility for many deadly attacks in the violence- ravaged country.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 9", "start_char": 368, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0250.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0103\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina, Sudan to further exchanges, cooperation between armed forces\n\n\n\n\nChina attaches importance to the traditional friendship with Sudan and is ready to increase military exchanges and cooperation with the African country, a senior Chinese military officer said here Monday.\n\nThe profound traditional friendship between people of the two countries has a solid foundation and a great potential for further development, said Vice-Chairman of China's Central Military Commission Xu Caihou during a meeting with Mohamed Ismail, deputy chief of general staff of the Sudanese armed forces.\n\nXu appreciated Sudan's consistent position in adhering to the one-China principle and its firm support to China on human rights and other major international issues.\n\nMohamed said the exchanges between the two countries and the two armed forces have enhanced mutual understanding and trust.\n\nHe stressed that Sudan would continue to stick to the one-China policy and develop the friendly and cooperative relationship with China.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 326, "end_char": 332, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0103.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0271\n\nKAMPALA, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUgandan army starts withdrawal from southern Sudan as peace talks progress\n\n\n\n\nThe Uganda People's Defense Force (UPDF) has started withdrawing its troops from parts of southern Sudan as the ongoing peace talks between the government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) progress, a statement said here on Wednesday.\n\nThe statement signed by the army spokesman Maj. Felix Kulayigye said the troops have started withdrawing from areas neighboring Owiny-Ki-Bul, one of the two assembly points in southern Sudan, where the LRA are supposed to gather.\n\nAccording to the statement, the withdrawal was ordered by the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, which the UPDF has effective November 13 withdrawn from Magwi, Palutaka and Tibika.\n\nThe UPDF said the move is to prove the government and the army is committed to the peace talks in Juba, southern Sudan, to bring an end to the 20 year conflict in northern Uganda.\n\nAccording to the cessation of hostilities agreement between the government and the rebels, the LRA fighters are supposed to assemble at Owiny-Ki-Bul and Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. But the rebels refused to assemble at Owiny-Ki-Bul, citing the UPDF's presence as a threat to their safety.\n\nKulayigye said the army has withdrawn from the areas which are in a radius of about 30 to 40km from Owiny-Ki-Bul to facilitate the Juba talks.\n\n\"We shall continue to fully support the peace process going on in Juba, for the sake of our people in northern Uganda. This is continued testimony to our serious resolve to end the conflict in northern part of our country,\" said the statement.\n\n\"It remains our hope that the LRA will conform to the agreement and assemble in Ri-Kwangba and Owiny-Ki-Bul,\" it concluded.\n\nKulayigye noted that the army shall continue to maintain its other positions as per the 2002 understanding with Sudanese government, which allowed the UPDF to enter southern Sudan to flush out the LRA fighter who had their bases there.\n\nThe government of southern Sudan is currently mediating the talks, which are seen as the best chance to end the insurgency in northern Uganda that has left tens of thousands of people dead and over 1.4 million displaced.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 369, "end_char": 378, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 13", "start_char": 738, "end_char": 749, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20 year", "start_char": 937, "end_char": 944, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0271.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0181\n\nLUANDA, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAngola inaugurates government to heal wounds of war\n\n\n\n\nAngola spruced up its battered capital for the inauguration Friday of a new government to heal the wounds after 19 years of civil war which devastated the oil-rich country.\n\nSouth African leader Nelson Mandela headed for Luanda to join 30 other heads of state at the long-delayed inauguration, but former rebel leader Jonas Savimbi stayed away, citing security reasons.\n\nFriday's ceremony follows a vote early this week approving the special status of Savimbi, the leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), and recognising him as leader of the country's main opposition party.\n\nThat removed the last major obstacle to installing the government of national unity and reconciliation as provided for by the 1994 Lusaka peace accords and including 11 UNITA members.\n\nMandela's spokesman Parks Mankahlana announced on Wednesday that the South African president would be in attendance on Friday which has been declared a national holiday in Angola.\n\nLuanda, meanwhile, rushed to tidy up its neglected and overpopulated capital, and deployed a hefty contingent of anti-riot forces.\n\nUNITA representative in Abidjan John Marques Kakumba said Savimbi -- who has not appeared in Luanda since 1992 when his party lost elections and civil war resumed -- would not be attending the inauguration.\n\n\"Mr. Savimbi will not be in Luanda on Friday. He will not take part,\" Kakumba said, adding that the former rebel leader was currently in Bailundo, his stronghold in central Angola.\n\nSpeaking after a telephone conversation with Savimbi, Kakumba said the UNITA leader had been surprised to see his name listed on the official programme.\n\nFor Kakumba, the programme was a \"falsehood\" and the government was \"fully aware\" that Savimbi would not travel to Angola.\n\nUNITA considers \"conditions are not in place for him to travel to Luanda in the immediate future,\" he said, although he continued: \"reconciliation is well underway, lets say 99.9 percent.\"\n\nDeputies of the former rebel UNITA movement took up their seats in parliament Wednesday, a day after the assembly approved special status for Savimbi and five years after their election in a vote carried by the ruling Angolan People's Liberation Movement (MPLA).\n\nAlso on Wednesday, President Jose Eduardo dos Santos appointed outgoing premier Fernando de Franca Van-Dunem as head of Angola's new government and on Thursday named the other members of the 84-member government.\n\nFollowing the 1994 peace accords which ended the war which pitted UNITA against the MPLA, the formation of a national reconciliation government had been initially scheduled for January 25, but was indefinitely delayed as UNITA then argued there were still outstanding problems.\n\nDespite signs of ongoing distrust, the remaining difficulties were ostensibly swept away by Tuesday's vote which gave Savimbi the right to regular consultations with the president and members of the government and the right to publish messages in the official press.\n\nSeveral deputies from the ruling MPLA have criticised the \"excessive powers\" granted to Savimbi although they followed the party's advice to approve the law.\n\nA UN source said the situation would only fully return to normal after the next general elections are held in two or three years time.\n\nPolitical commentators in Luanda further 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0405\n\nANTANANARIVO, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nMadagascan opposition chief arrested over bribe claims\n\n\n\n\nAuthorities in Madagascar have arrested an opposition leader suspected of involvement in an extortion racket, police said Thursday amid claims the detention is political.\n\nJean-Eugene Voninahitsy, the leader of the Indian Ocean island's Rally for Social Democracy (RSPD) party and a member of parliament, was arrested after being accused of receiving bribes from a motor vehicle importer, police said.\n\nHe was detained Wednesday when police said they caught him and a customs official taking cash from the car dealer as part of a scam to defraud the state of import duties.\n\n\"This MP was arrested in flagrante delicto extorting money in a bribery deal involving the customs service,\" police spokesman Justin Ratsimbazafarison told AFP.\n\nHe said Voninahitsy was found with the equivalent of 960 dollars (800 euros) in cash allegedly taken from the car dealer.\n\n\"This was just part of the money he was demanding,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe RSPD said Voninahitsy's arrest was the result of politically motivated entrapment and aimed at scuppering a weekend rally planned by opposition groups on the island.\n\n\"This is a political move to try and stop Saturday's meeting,\" said Jose Rakotomavo, a party official. \"We think they wanted to set him up, this is too obvious.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 233, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 530, "end_char": 539, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1257, "end_char": 1265, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0405.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0276\n\nLONDON, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nnext year\n\n\n\n\nBritish Defense Secretary Des Browne said on Monday that British troops in Iraq would be \"significantly lower by thousands\" at the end of next year.\n\nAddressing at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a leading think tank in UK, Browne said, \"by the end of next year, I expect numbers of British forces in Iraq to be significantly lower by a matter of thousands.\"\n\n\"The planning for this has been going on for some months, and I have been pressing our planners to look at all the options, to make sure we do not ask a single soldier to remain in Iraq longer than is necessary,\" he said.\n\n\"In the end of course, it must depend on conditions on the ground, including the level of threat and the capacity of Iraqis to deal with it, and the final decision will be down to our commanders,\" he said.\n\nCurrently, Britain, a major U.S. ally in Iraq, has some 7,000 troops in southern Iraq, most in the Basra area and about 800 in Maysan province. Since 2003, there are 126 British soldiers killed in Iraq.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 115, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of next year", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of next year", "start_char": 325, "end_char": 345, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "some months", "start_char": 489, "end_char": 500, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1024, "end_char": 1028, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0276.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0072\n\nDHAKA, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd lead: 13th SAARC summit opens in Dhaka\n\n\n\n\nThe much awaited 13th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) opened here Saturday with a vision to address major issues of the region, including poverty alleviation, environmental hazards, disaster prevention and terrorism.\n\nThe summit, postponed twice, was declared open at about 11:30 a. m.(05:30 GMT) in the Bangladesh China Friendship Conference Center by Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister of Pakistan, the current chair country of SAARC.\n\nAfter delivering a speech, Aziz handed over the chair of SAARC to Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia.\n\nIn her speech, Zia stressed the need for mobilizing all necessary human and material resources of South Asian nations for poverty alleviation in the region and proposed declaring the coming 2006-2015 as \"the SAARC Decade for Poverty Alleviation.\"\n\nZia said that in the last SAARC summit held in Islamabad in 2004, all member states recognized alleviation of poverty as the overarching goal of all SAARC activities. \"We must mobilize all necessary human and material resources\" to address the poverty on a regional scale, she said.\n\nWidespread incidence of poverty continues to be a major concern for the South Asian nations. Intra-regional trade in South Asia still accounts for just 4 percent of the region's combined trade with the rest of the world. Foreign direct investment in the region accounts for a mere 1 percent of the global total.\n\nTerming accelerating economic growth as major SAARC objective, the prime minister said all member states must ensure that the SAFTA (South Asia Free Trade Area) Agreement enters into force as agreed upon with effect from Jan. 1, 2006.\n\nShe also called for a common investment strategy to generate investment flows from within and outside the region.\n\nTerming South Asia as an emerging economic giant with unlimited potential, the prime minister said, \"Realizing South Asia's true potential is the challenge facing us today.\"\n\nThe prime minister said the ongoing 13th SAARC Summit enables the South Asian nations \"to look to the future and forge a blueprint for the next phase of SAARC activities.\"\n\nLeaders from Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka arrived in Dhaka on Friday to join the two-day summit to push the regional grouping into the third decade termed as the decade of implementation.\n\nThe summit is expected to give an outline of a \"new vision\" for addressing major issues and charting a road map for economic integration of South Asian nations to improve the lot of nearly 1. 5 billion people inhabiting the region.\n\nSAARC was launched in 1985 with a pledge to ensure peace, strengthen the regional cooperation and adopt common strategies and programs to bring about a positive change into the lives of nearly 1.5 billion people in South Asia.\n\nHowever, some analysts say that in the last 20 years, SAARC has failed to materialize its vision because of political and territorial disputes among some member countries.\n\nWith the improvement in the relationship between the two key players of the region, India and Pakistan, it is expected that from this summit SAARC would get a fresh momentum and ultimately become an effective regional grouping.\n\nThe Bangladeshi government has beefed up security to an unprecedented level by deploying over 30,000 security personnel and closing some artery roads ahead of the summit.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 215, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 987, "end_char": 991, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 1, 2006", "start_char": 1745, "end_char": 1757, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 2041, "end_char": 2046, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next phase", "start_char": 2185, "end_char": 2199, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2315, "end_char": 2321, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third decade", "start_char": 2384, "end_char": 2400, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1985", "start_char": 2697, "end_char": 2701, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 20 years", "start_char": 2938, "end_char": 2955, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0072.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0504\n\nVIENNA, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAlbania to hold elections \"before summer\": OSCE\n\n\n\n\nThe OSCE's troubleshooter on Albania, Franz Vranitzky, said Wednesday he believes general elections will take place in the troubled country \"before summer.\"\n\nThe exact date should be fixed \"in the next 10 days,\" he said.\n\nUp to now, plans for the elections -- to be organised and supervised by the Organisation for Security and Coorperation in Europe -- have been stuck on whether votes should be counted on the current majority basis, as President Sali Berisha wants, or on a proportional basis, as wished by Prime Minister Bashkim Fino.\n\nVranitzky, who has headed the European security body's mission to Albania since its inception March 27, said he believed the present, majority system can be applied again, with a little \"perfecting.\"\n\n\"Whether the elections take place June 29 or July 6 is not important,\" Vranitzky told Austria's APA news agency in Vienna.\n\nHe also added that the way food aid was being handed out, under the protection of soldiers from the multinational protection force, was penalising the poor in Albania.\n\nThe country itself \"isn't suffering from a shortage of food or other products, but from a bad distribution system,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "summer", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 260, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 10 days", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 337, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 27", "start_char": 740, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 29 or July 6", "start_char": 881, "end_char": 898, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30T29:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0504.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0087 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0087. \n New Securities Issues \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n SUNW T.CM EUROP F \n BOND MARKET NEWS (BON) \n\n   The following were among Friday's offerings and pricings in the U.S. and non-U.S. capital markets, with terms and syndicate manager, as compiled by Dow Jones Capital Markets Report: \n@ CORPORATES \n\n   Sun Microsystems Inc. -- $125 million of 6 3/8% convertible subordinated debentures due Oct. 15, 1999, priced at 84.90 to yield 7.51%. \nThe debentures are convertible into common stock at $25 a share, representing a 24% conversion premium over Thursday's closing price. \nRated single-B-1 by Moody's Investors Service Inc. and single-B-plus by Standard amp Poor's Corp., the issue will be sold through underwriters led by Goldman, Sachs amp Co. \n\n   Hertz Corp. -- $100 million of senior notes due Nov. 1, 2009, priced at par to yield 9%. \nThe issue, which is puttable back to the company in 1999, was priced at a spread of 110 basis points above the Treasury's 10-year note. \nRated single-A-3 by Moody's and triple-B by SampP, the issue will be sold through underwriters led by Merrill Lynch Capital Markets. \n@ EUROBONDS \n\n   Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (Canada) -- 10 billion yen of 5.7% bonds due Nov. 17, 1992, priced at 101 1/4 to yield 5.75% less full fees, via LTCB International Ltd. Fees 1 3/8.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 67, "end_char": 75, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t29", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "Oct. 15, 1999", "start_char": 441, "end_char": 454, "tid": "t32", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999-10-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 597, "end_char": 605, "tid": "t33", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "Nov. 1, 2009", "start_char": 850, "end_char": 862, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "2009-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 944, "end_char": 948, "tid": "t44", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 17, 1992", "start_char": 1260, "end_char": 1273, "tid": "t47", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0612.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0281\n\nKAMPALA, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nProfile: Ramsar Award for Science receiver Cai Shuming\n\n\n\n\nCai Shuming from China received on Tuesday the Ramsar Wetland Conservation Award for Science at the ninth meeting of the conference of the contracting parties on wetland (COP9) in Kampala, capital of Uganda.\n\nCai, from the Chinese Academy of Science, is being recognized for his research studies on the Yangtze River, as well as for his in-depth research on the effects of the Three-Gorges dam project on the environment, and the assessment and mitigation of natural disasters (e.g. flood and water logging in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River.)\n\nWhen asked about the importance of the Yangtze River, Cai said that \"the (Yangtze) River is the most important water resources of China and its runoff accounts for 35 percent of the whole water amount in China.\"\n\nSince the 1960s, Cai has been mainly engaged in the study of limnology in the Yangtze River valley, wetlands ecology, use and conservation of natural resources and the overall development of regional agriculture.\n\nA respected figure and twice a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Congress, Cai has used his scientific achievements to reach practical results for wetland conservation, defending the idea that \"wetlands are closely linked to human survival and development.\"\n\nCai also stressed the importance of wetlands for sustainable economic development and human well-being, especially in their function as the \"kidneys of nature.\"\n\nWith more than 120 publications, Cai's work has provided a basis for the formulation of laws, regulations and management policies in China, as well as contributing to international projects in cooperation with Japan, the United States and Britain.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1960s", "start_char": 887, "end_char": 896, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "196", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0281.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0352\n\nKATHMANDU, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS gives Nepal 30 million dollars for agriculture, health, forestry\n\n\n\n\nThe US government has given Nepal 30 million dollars for a range of projects including agriculture, forestry development and health, the US Information Service (USIS) said Friday.\n\nThe USIS said a grant of 25 million dollars would be used for expanding the participation of farmers, traders and agro-enterprises in high-value crop markets, the sustainable management of the productive resource base and privatization of state-owned agricultural and forest based enterprises.\n\nThe agreement, which was signed by the two governments Thursday, \"demonstrates USAID/Nepal's continuing commitment to development activities in agriculture and forestry,\" it said in a press release.\n\n\"These two sectors provide income and employment opportunities for almost 80 percent of Nepal's population,\" it added.\n\nA further grant of five million dollars will be provided as part of incremental funding to reduce fertility and improve maternal and child health, it said.\n\n\"Funds are being provided in support of a 35 million dollar nationwide programme which will increase the availability, quality and use of voluntary family planning reproductive health services; help control diarrhoeal diseases, acute respiratory infections and vitamin A deficiency in children,\" it said.\n\n\"The programme will also reduce maternal mortality, reduce transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STD) and HIV/AIDS,\" it said.\n\n\"The assistance is expectd to result in a reduction in the total fertility rate from 4.5 in 1996 to 4.0 by 2002, and a reduction in the under five child mortality rate, from 118 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1996 to 85 by the year 2002,\" it said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 660, "end_char": 668, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 1616, "end_char": 1620, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 1734, "end_char": 1738, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year 2002", "start_char": 1748, "end_char": 1761, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0352.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0072\n\nLOS ANGELES, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nKobe scores 42 points to lead Lakers past Knicks\n\n\n\n\nKobe Bryant scored a season-high 42 points to help the Los Angeles Lakers beat the New York Knicks 97-92 Wednesday night at Staples Center after a three-game loss.\n\nBryant took a whopping 36 shots, hitting 15, and making 12-of-14 free throws.\n\n\"I went after it a little bit more aggressively and the team did a good job looking for me,\" Bryant said. \"I felt we had to get something going in the third quarter.\"\n\n\"It has to be a balance for us,\" said center Chris Mihm, who scored 14 points and added nine rebound. \"Kobe is a special player, but there is no way that he can shoulder the load himself. We played well together in spurts, but Kobe really was the man.\"\n\nThe Knicks were led by rookie Channing Frye with 21 points. Eddy Curry added 17 points.\n\nStephon Marbury was held to a season-low four points -- 12 below his average, and had 10 assists. He had 45 points last season against the Lakers.\n\n\"I have changed a lot of my game,\" the point guard said. \"Forty-five points is so far away. My game is different now.\"\n\nIt was also the first meeting for Phil Jackson and Larry Brown after two of the NBA's greatest coaches began to oversee rebuilding jobs.\n\n\"You saw the apparent schizophrenia of these teams,\" Jackson said. \"They play great for a while and then they have trouble operating. What you see is young teams learning to play a consistent game. No quality in the direction of their discipline.\"\n\nJackson improved to 26-13 in head-to-head games against Brown, whose Philadelphia team lost to Jackson's Lakers in the 2001 NBA Finals. Brown's Detroit Pistons eliminated the Lakers in the 2004 Finals.\n\n\"I admire and respect him, but I have that feeling for anybody that sits down at that end,\" Brown said. \"But you realize what he's done and that's pretty special.\"\n\nBrown took the New York job, and got off to an 0-5 start before the Knicks won at Sacramento and Utah.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 219, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 505, "end_char": 522, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last season", "start_char": 984, "end_char": 995, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1130, "end_char": 1133, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a while", "start_char": 1363, "end_char": 1370, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0072.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0155\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details ///\n\n\n\n\nThe body of former President Gerald Ford will be flown to the US capital Saturday as part of a nationwide programme of memorials, which got underway with a simple family ceremony in California.\n\nFord, a Republican president from August 1974 to January 1977 who led the United States out of the turbulent Watergate era after Richard Nixon stepped down in disgrace in 1974, died late Tuesday aged 93.\n\nThe body will lie in state at the US Capitol until early next Tuesday when a memorial service will take place at the National Cathedral here.\n\nOn Wednesday, Ford's remains are finally laid to rest at the Gerald Ford Museum in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan.\n\nFlags on federal buildings have been flying at half mast since Ford's death was announced, and President George W. Bush has declared January 2 as a national day of mourning.\n\nHundreds of Washington-based police officers have been mobilized for the New Year's weekend as part of a plan to bolster security at key locations throughout the city.\n\nFriday's prayer service in Palm Desert, California, was held for family and friends of the 38th US president at St Margaret's Episcopal Church, which Ford and his wife Betty had attended for decades.\n\nIn accordance with Ford's wishes and in keeping with his down-to-earth, self-effacing image, there was little of the pomp and circumstance which have been the hallmark of other presidential funerals.\n\nA motorcade carrying Ford's remains was greeted by an honour guard at around 12:30 pm (2030 GMT) Friday with members of the military carrying his casket -- draped with the Stars and Stripes -- into the church.\n\nA military band played \"Hail to the Chief\" as the casket arrived at the church, awaited by former first lady Betty Ford, 88, and her children at the top of the church steps as it was carried into the building.\n\n\"We receive the body of our brother, Gerald, for burial,\" said the church's rector, Reverend Robert Certain.\n\nBetty Ford, escorted by an army general, stood silently as the casket was laid before a wooden altar and three wreaths of white flowers before joining other family members at the President's Pew.\n\nThe funeral arrangements are taking place under blanket security, with an estimated 500 military and Secret Service officials descending on Palm Desert to oversee Friday's leg of the ceremonies.\n\nThousands of members of the public queued for the chance to pay their respects to Ford as his casket lay in repose in Palm Desert on Friday.\n\nOn Wall Street, the major stock exchanges said they would close next Tuesday as a mark of respect for Ford, who is best remembered for pardoning Nixon, a decision for which he was vilified.\n\nSome historians have since said that the move was a brave political act by Ford, necessary to help Americans draw a line under the trauma of Watergate.\n\n\"My NYSE Group colleagues and I join all Americans in mourning the loss of president Ford, a man of great integrity and vision, and a dedicated public servant,\" NYSE Group chief executive John Thain said in a statement.\n\n\"He assumed a troubled presidency in a critical time, and thoughtfully and skillfully restored credibility and confidence in the presidency.\n\n\"President Ford also made significant contributions to the stability and vitality of the US economy and financial markets. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0624\n\nUNITED NATIONS, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUN envoy's departure unlikely to break momentum on Cyprus by Anne Penketh\n\n\n\n\nThe resignation of the UN special envoy for Cyprus is unlikely to break the momentum toward the first direct talks between the two communities in almost three years, diplomats say.\n\nHan Sung Joo of South Korea made the surprise announcement late Monday that he was stepping down after a year in the post which is at the centre of efforts to end the eastern Mediterranean island's 23-year division.\n\n\"Given the growing level of intensity ... I thought it would be in the best interests of the parties concerned for the UN to have someone who can devote more time to handling the Cyprus issue,\" he said.\n\nHan, who has academic commitments in his native South Korea where he has been based, reported progress in efforts to resume direct peace talks between Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides and the breakaway Turkish-Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash.\n\nThe two leaders have not met since October 1994.\n\nBoth Cypriot and Turkish diplomats at the United Nations said that Han's departure should not make a difference to the negotiating process in which UN chief Kofi Annan has taken a personal interest since taking office in January.\n\nAnnan's representative in Cyprus, Gustave Feissel, has been mediating proximity talks since March between the Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot leaders, in a bid to lay the groundwork for direct talks by the middle of the year.\n\nAnnan, in a statement issued in Rome on Monday, praised Han's contribution and stressed that he was \"determined to press ahead with an intensified effort to bring about a comprehensive settlement in the island.\"\n\nHe repeated that he hoped for direct talks \"within the next two or three months.\"\n\nThe United Nations is leading international efforts to build a bi- zonal, bi-communal federation in Cyprus.\n\nThe island has been divided since 1974 when Turkish mainland troops invaded the northern third of Cyprus in the wake of a coup in Nicosia backed by the right-wing junta then ruling Greece.\n\nWestern diplomats said that Annan would have the difficult task of finding a replacement for Han who is familiar with the issues while being acceptable to both the Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot communities.\n\nAnd in the light of ethnic unrest which has hit the island since last summer, \"things could be disrupted\" along the road to a summit, one diplomat said.\n\nThe five permanent members of the UN Security Council -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- are expected to discuss Cyprus at Russia's suggestion later this month.\n\nBut diplomats cautioned that the Security Council was unlikely to take any initiatives on the issue.\n\n\"The next qualitative step will be when the (UN) secretary-general issues invitations to the direct talks,\" one western diplomat said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 293, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 386, "end_char": 392, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 425, "end_char": 431, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 1994", "start_char": 1021, "end_char": 1033, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1257, "end_char": 1264, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1359, "end_char": 1364, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the middle of the year", "start_char": 1464, "end_char": 1486, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1529, "end_char": 1535, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next two or three months", "start_char": 1753, "end_char": 1781, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 1928, "end_char": 1932, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last summer", "start_char": 2354, "end_char": 2365, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "later this month", "start_char": 2610, "end_char": 2626, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0624.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0324\n\nROME, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAC Milan close to Italian Cup quarters\n\n\n\n\nAC Milan came close to a berth to the quarterfianls of Italian Cup after beating Serie B side Brescia 3-1 in their fourth round first-leg match on Tuesday.\n\nPortuguese midfielder Rui Costa scored one goal and laid on another to steer Milan to the home victory.\n\nMilan, playing without a number of first-team regulars, opened the scoring at 26 when Rui Costa fired home from the edge of the area after being set up by Georgian defender Kakha Kaladze.\n\nItalian striker Alberto Gilardino headed in the second as he converted a corner from Rui Costa five minutes before the break.\n\nLithuanian Marius Stankevicius brought Brescia back into the tie with a 48th-minute header from a cross by former Inter Milan midfielder Luigi Di Biagio.\n\nCarlo Ancelotti's Milan restored their two-goal advantage in the 69th minute after a well-taken shot from inside the area by Christian Vieri.\n\nOther first leg matches of Italian Cup fourth round kick off on Wednesday when Parma host Inter Milan and Serie B side Atalanta are at home to Udinese\n\nAnd on Thursday, third-placed Serie A side Fiorentina take on champions Juventus before the remaining four ties take place next week with the return legs in the second week of January.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "26", "start_char": 437, "end_char": 439, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1926", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 69th minute", "start_char": 891, "end_char": 906, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "well-taken", "start_char": 915, "end_char": 925, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1037, "end_char": 1046, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1132, "end_char": 1140, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 1248, "end_char": 1257, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second week of January.", "start_char": 1282, "end_char": 1309, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0324.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0420\n\nYANGON, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMyanmar punishes over 1,200 service personnel for malpractices in 2 years\n\n\n\n\nThe Myanmar government has punished 1,247 service personnel for malpractices in 2005 and 2006 as part of its measures to turn the administrative mechanism into a clean one, the official newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported Friday.\n\n\"In order to make administrative mechanism more effective, the government remarkedly increased the salaries of the service personnel and reconstituted or dissolved the organizations as necessary after making thorough reviews on constitutions and functions of the governmental department and enterprises,\" Prime Minister General Soe Win was quoted by the report as saying.\n\n\"The government is taking measures constantly to ensure effective and clean administrative mechanism to serve the interest of the nation and the people and to win respect and reliance of the people,\" Soe Win told an annual general meeting of the Union Solidarity and Development Association in the new capital of Nay Pyi Taw Thursday.\n\nHe urged service personnel on their part to safeguard the people without discrimination against or in favor of them in accordance with the law, rules and regulations, anticipating that the people will extend a helpful hand to the service personnel in return.\n\nHe maintained that by so doing then only will it be possible to set up a discipline-flourishing and genuine democracy to ensure harmony between administrative mechanism and the people.\n\nIn the first half of this year, there also existed some cases with high-ranking customs officials in connection with corruption, earlier reports said.\n\nMeanwhile, the Myanmar government announced for the first time on Thursday allowing of the country's people to make complaints of malpractice by service personnel of any rank of the Ministry of Home Affairs in a bid to remove such practice and improve the image of the government mechanism.\n\nThe phone numbers of some high-ranking officials of the ministry and the e-mail address of the office of the ministry at the new capital of Nay Pyi Taw were published by official media for the public to dial or e-mail such complaints.\n\nThe announcement said \"If any service personnel of any rank who are from the Ministry of Home Affairs commit malpractices involving money, property and opportunity and oppress the people in administrative and economic and social affairs, making improper use of the rights which are not in conformity with the existing laws and procedures can complain to the minister, deputy minister and deputy director-general\".", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 214, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 360, "end_char": 366, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1067, "end_char": 1075, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1545, "end_char": 1554, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1742, "end_char": 1750, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0420.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0408\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBombs hit southern Thailand, 14 injured\n\n\n\n\nThree bomb explosions rocked Thailand's southern border province Narathiwat Friday morning, injuring three soldiers and 11 civilians, the Thai news network The Nation reported.\n\nA unit of soldiers was on their routine patrol duty in the province's Sungai Padi district when the first bomb exploded at about 7 a.m. (0000 GMT). Three soldiers were injured and they were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.\n\nOne hour later, two bomb blasts occurred at a coffee shop in the province's capital seat, injuring 11 civilians who were drinking coffee and chatting there. The injured were transported to Narathiwat Rachanakarin Hospital, the report said.\n\nThe insurgency-related unrest continued unabated in Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani, the three southernmost provinces of Thailand with a majority population of Thai-Malay ethnic group. Over 1,700 peoples have been killed in a new wave flared there since January 2004.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 191, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "7 a.m.", "start_char": 408, "end_char": 414, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "One hour", "start_char": 513, "end_char": 521, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT1H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2004", "start_char": 1005, "end_char": 1017, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0408.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0201\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSoutherners protest insurgent violence; policeman shot dead in Yala\n\n\n\n\nSuspected insurgents gunned down a policeman in Thai violence-plagued province of Yala today, while demonstrators were calling for the cessation of violence in nearby Songkhla.\n\nSgt. Sophon Maichan, 55, was shot three times in the chest while riding his motorcycle to work in the Yala municipality. Seriously wounded, he nonetheless returned fire, but apparently missed his assailants, according to the official Thai News Agency.\n\nPolice investigators said that two men dressed as university students followed and opened fire on the police officer. Sgt. Sophon returned fire, but missed. The gunmen escaped and the police officer was rushed to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.\n\nPolice believe the attackers were insurgents wishing to extend the atmosphere of fear by shooting government officials, said the report.\n\nMeanwhile, about 500 demonstrators gathered at Songkha's city hall to submit a petition to the governor, denouncing the murder of a former militant and his family in Narathiwat on Wednesday.\n\nPeople in Songkhla condemned the family massacre as being \" inhumane and barbaric\", according to the statement, which said \" the persons who did the attack could not be true believers in any religion, or they would not have committed the killings. They killed even children, women, and the innocent.\"\n\nThe statement called for persons from all walks of life to join forces to quell the violence and create peace in the three southernmost provinces.\n\nThe petitioners said they hoped the brutal killings would never be done again. Friday's gathering in Songkhla follows a mass protest at Yala municipality's youth center Thursday.\n\nAbout 10,000 people in Yala had protested against the killers who systematically gunned down former militant Sudeng Awaebusa and eight members of his household, including a baby.\n\nThe demonstrators included the community grouping Network of People, women's groups, government officials, traders, students, and member of the general public.\n\nPlacards condemning the insurgent attack were displayed at the site. One said Yala residents opposed the insurgency, while pamphlets denouncing violence by insurgents were also distributed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 216, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1132, "end_char": 1141, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1673, "end_char": 1679, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1763, "end_char": 1771, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0201.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0239\n\nLONDON, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFears of strong pound's damage to exporters rise after ICI profits slump\n\n\n\n\nFears of damage to British exporters caused by the pound's large gains heightened on Thursday after Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) reported a dramatic slide in profits, which it blamed partly on sterling's strength.\n\nThe British chemicals group said that the strong pound, as well as intense competition, had caused pre-tax profits (before exceptional costs) in the first quarter of 1997 to slump almost 68 percent to 65 million pounds (105.3 million dollars), from 202 million in the same period of 1996.\n\nTurnover in the three-month period fell five percent to 2.44 billion pounds.\n\nICI's chairman, Sir Ronald Hampel, said: \"Sales volumes were generally strong and we achieved further productivity savings, but profits were reduced by intense price competition and the strong pound.\"\n\nThe rise in the value of the pound had wiped 40 million pounds off the company's profits in the first three months of 1997, ICI said, warning that this squeeze would continue into the second quarter of the year.\n\nThe disappointing news led financial analysts to downgrade their full- year profit forecasts for one of Britain's major companies, and provoked a slide of over three percent in ICI's share price, which fell 24 pence to 696.5.\n\nSince last August, the British currency has risen 22 percent against the German mark and more than five percent against the dollar. A rise in the value of the pound makes British exports more expensive for overseas buyers.\n\nDealers said that London-based investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort Benson had downgraded its full-year profit forecast for ICI to 500 million pounds, from the previous estimate of 590 million pounds.\n\nAnother major exporter, British Steel, has also suffered from the gains of the pound, particularly because much of its exports are destined to Germany.\n\nThe company, which last month said it had decided to accelerate job cuts in Britain because of sterling's sharp rise, has had its profit forecasts for the year to March 1998 slashed by over half.\n\nGlaxo-Wellcome, the world's largest drugs company, for its part has warned that if the pound remained at its current high levels, this would have a \"significant impact\" on sales and profits.\n\nOn Wednesday, the main employers' organisation, the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), said it was \"concerned\" about sterling's steep rise, after releasing a survey that showed deepening pessimism among exporters.\n\nIt called for the next British government after May 1 general elections to raise taxes, rather than tighten monetary policy, which would further strengthen the pound.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 216, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter of 1997", "start_char": 497, "end_char": 522, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period of 1996", "start_char": 616, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first three months", "start_char": 1014, "end_char": 1036, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 1040, "end_char": 1044, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second quarter of the year", "start_char": 1102, "end_char": 1132, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last August", "start_char": 1368, "end_char": 1379, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1958, "end_char": 1968, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 2090, "end_char": 2098, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 1998", "start_char": 2102, "end_char": 2112, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2331, "end_char": 2340, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 2597, "end_char": 2602, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0239.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0306\n\nMADRID, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBenQ-Siemens agrees to sponsor Real Madrid from 2006 to 2010\n\n\n\n\nBenQ Mobile has agreed to become the main sponsor of Spanish football club Real Madrid, the team's official website said on Tuesday.\n\nJose Angel Sanchez, head of marketing at Real said the club was \"very happy with its new main sponsor\": a joint venture between Chinese Taipei-based BenQ Corporation and German technology firm Siemens AG.\n\nClemence Joos, president of BenQ said that Real Madrid's most important and attractive features were its professionalism, quality and teamwork.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0306.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0151\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina expected to become second largest trade country by 2010\n\n\n\n\nChina's foreign trade volume is expected to reach 2.5 trillion US dollars by the year 2010, making it the second largest trade country in the world, said Zhang Lichuan, director of the statistical division of the General Administration of Customs (GAC) here Friday.\n\nIf trade continues to grow at the annual rate of 7 percent after 2010, the figure will hopefully rise to 5 trillion in 2020, 10 times that of 2001, predicted Zhang at an on-going international forum on productivity development in China.\n\nChina's export already ranked third in the world by the end of 2004. In the next 15 years foreign trade is to grow in a more favorable macroeconomic environment with the positive impact of China's entry into the WTO, she said.\n\nChina will continue to attract foreign investments, and domestic enterprises will explore more opportunities for investing overseas in such areas as resource development, information transmission, and computer services, she said.\n\nShe also listed several unfavorable factors. Export growth may be constrained by the slowdown of world economy and the possible stagnation of market expansion, and export tax rebate may further add to the country's fiscal burdens, she said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year 2010", "start_char": 200, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 381, "end_char": 387, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 455, "end_char": 459, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2020", "start_char": 509, "end_char": 513, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2020", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 532, "end_char": 536, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2004", "start_char": 680, "end_char": 695, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 15 years", "start_char": 700, "end_char": 717, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0151.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0061\n\nHANOI, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nVietnam's stock market posts highest point since early 2005\n\n\n\n\nVietnam's stock market index, VN- Index, increased 1.44 points, or 0.45 percent, to 322.59, the highest point so far this year, on Monday with 126,660 million Vietnamese dong (VND) (8 million US dollars) worth of shares, bonds and investment certificates being traded.\n\nA total of 606,760 shares worth 22,953 million VND (nearly 1.5 million dollars), and 993,740 bonds totaling 101,984 VND (over 6.4 million dollars) changed hands at the Ho Chi Minh City Securities Trading Center on Monday. Meanwhile, 162,600 investment fund certificates valued at 1,723 million VND (109,000 dollars) were traded.\n\nNow, Vietnam has 30 kinds of listed shares, 289 kinds of listed bonds, mostly government bonds, and one listed investment fund, with combined face value of more than 36,432 billion VND (2.3 billion dollars).", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 602, "end_char": 608, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0061.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0003 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0003. \n International:\n@  Finland, Big Creditors\n@  To Set Up Company\n@  To Complete Ships \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n EUROP CCL \n BANKRUPTCIES (BCY)\nTRANSPORTATION, TRUCK AND SHIP LINES, RAILROADS (TRA) \n STOCKHOLM  \n\n   The Finnish government and major creditors of bankrupt shipyard Waertsilae Marine Industries Oy agreed in principle  to form a new company  to complete most of the troubled shipyard's backlog of 15 ships. \n\n   The new company  will attempt  to limit the shipyard's losses, participants said. \n\"The situation is that the bankruptcy court  will get out of the shipbuilding business. \nEverything  will  be taken over by the new company,\" said Christian Andersson, executive vice president of Oy Waertsilae, former parent of Waertsilae Marine. \n\n   Once its ownership  is finalized, the new company will open talks with state-appointed receivers  to buy or lease Waertsilae Marine's shipyard facilities. \nSubcontractors  will  be offered a settlement and a swift transition to new management  is expected  to avert an exodus of skilled workers from Waertsilae Marine's two big shipyards, government officials said. \n\n   Under an accord signed yesterday, the government and Union Bank of Finland would become major shareholders in the new company, each injecting 100 million Finnish markkaa ($23.5 million). \nOy Waertsilae is  to contribute 200 million markkaa, most of it as subordinated debt, and take a minority stake in the new company. \n\n   Customers holding contracts for Waertsilae Marine's undelivered ships  are expected  to subscribe most of the remaining 170 million markkaa in share capital, government officials said. \n\n   Waertsilae Marine's biggest creditor is Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines Inc. Carnival, which has three ships on order from Waertsilae Marine, presented claims for $1.5 billion damages in the bankruptcy court this week. \n\n   Waertsilae Marine's bankruptcy proceedings began Tuesday in a Helsinki court.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 128, "end_char": 136, "tid": "t33", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 1207, "end_char": 1216, "tid": "t35", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t33"}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1909, "end_char": 1918, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-W44", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t33"}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1974, "end_char": 1981, "tid": "t36", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t33"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0187.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0066\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES with second attack ///\n\n\n\n\nA suicide attacker ploughed a car bomb into a police checkpoint protecting Baghdad University on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 30 more, medical officials said.\n\nShortly afterwards another car bomb killed four people and wounded seven when it exploded outside a government passport office in the Kasr neighbourhood in the north of the city, according to a security official.\n\nMedics at the war-torn Iraqi capital's Yarmuk and Ibn Nafis hospitals said most of the casualties in the campus attack were students, while a security official said three national police officers were killed and seven wounded.\n\n\"People were hopping over and treading on bodies as they scattered to get away,\" said a young man who fled the scene.\n\nThe explosion took place on a major road leading through the Karrada area, a once prosperous part of Baghdad which was known as one of the most mixed areas of the city but is now increasingly dominated by Shiites.\n\nBaghdad's universities have come increasingly under attack from Sunni extremist groups, and last week an Internet statement purportedly from the Ansar al-Sunna militant organisation explicitly threatened students.\n\nBoth attacks came as Baghdad remained trapped in a vicious cycle of sectarian killings led by warring Sunni insurgent groups and Shiite militias.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 206, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1018, "end_char": 1021, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1150, "end_char": 1159, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0066.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0264\n\nADDIS ABABA, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\ndelay'\n\n\n\n\nThe African Union on Wednesday told Ethiopia to pull out thousands of its troops from Somalia \"without delay.\"\n\n\"We are calling for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops without delay,\" AU Commission chairman Alpha Omar Konare said in the body's headquarters in Addis Ababa.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 89, "end_char": 98, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0264.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0309\n\nLONDON, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEriksson to stay beyond World Cup, his assistan says\n\n\n\n\nEngland assistant coach Tord Grip has hinted Sven-Goran Eriksson will stay as head coach after next summer's World Cup finals.\n\nThe England boss has a contract until 2008 but many believe he will quit the job immediately after Germany 2006.\n\nHowever Grip was quoted by BBC Radio Five Live as saying that Eriksson is in no rush to leave and added: \"I can see him staying.\n\n\"I think so because he likes his job, that's for sure. For me, it would be absolutely perfect, I love my job.\"\n\nGrip's also revealed that he expects John Terry to be the England skipper one day, although Beckham will almost certainly retain the captain's armband next summer.\n\n\"I see him as a very good player, very good defender, and he's a very good captain for Chelsea, so why shouldn't he be captain of the England team?\" added the Swede.\n\n\"He is the captain in Chelsea and Rio (Ferdinand) is sometimes the captain at Manchester United, so we just have David Beckham for us and he will be the captain in the World Cup, that's for sure.\"\n\nEriksson has guided England to three successive major tournaments but has received criticism for not showing emotion on the sidelines during games.\n\nCommenting on the manager's approach in the dressing room, Grip said: \"He is not screaming. He is just calm and telling people what to do, it's not necessary to scream and shout.\"\n\nLast week Eriksson insisted there is no get-out clause in his England contract as he declared he had never considered leaving his post after the finals in Germany.\n\nAsked about the existence of any clause in his current deal, he said: \"Absolutely not. My contract runs until 2008. It's not true.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next summer", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 282, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Germany 2006", "start_char": 339, "end_char": 351, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "armband next summer", "start_char": 739, "end_char": 758, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 1456, "end_char": 1465, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 1668, "end_char": 1675, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1731, "end_char": 1735, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0309.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0165\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: Israeli president inks decree to dissolve parliament\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli President Moshe Katsav inked a decree on Wednesday to dissolve the Knesset (Parliament) and call a snap election.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0165.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0111\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nVietnam's sugar output to rise in 2007\n\n\n\n\nHANOI, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) Vietnam is expected to produce nearly 1.26 million tons of sugar in the 2006-2007 sugarcane crop, up from 970,000 tons in the previous crop, according to the Vietnam Sugarcane Association on Monday.\n\nThe country's sugar demand is estimated at 1.37 million tons in the 2006-2007 crop, which will end next July, posting a year-on- year rise of 1.48 percent, said the association.\n\nUnder Vietnam's commitments to the World Trade Organization ( WTO), the country will place a quota of 55,000 tons on sugar imports in 2007, which annually increases by five percent in the following years.\n\nMeanwhile, the country will impose import tax of 25 percent on brown sugar and 40 percent on white sugar. However, the tariffs will gradually decrease to six percent at most by 2012.\n\nVietnam will also lower sugar tariffs to 30 percent in 2007 and 5 percent in 2010 under the roadmap of the ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Free Trade Area.\n\nVietnam imported nearly 80,000 tons of sugar in the first five months of this year, increasing 15 times over the same period last year, said the sugarcane association.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 27", "start_char": 109, "end_char": 116, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 317, "end_char": 323, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next July", "start_char": 425, "end_char": 434, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 639, "end_char": 643, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the following years", "start_char": 689, "end_char": 708, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2012", "start_char": 888, "end_char": 892, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 950, "end_char": 954, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 972, "end_char": 976, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first five months", "start_char": 1119, "end_char": 1140, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1144, "end_char": 1153, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period last year", "start_char": 1180, "end_char": 1205, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0111.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0344\n\nRIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPortugal beats Uruguay 5-4 in beach soccer World Cup\n\n\n\n\nPortugal beat Uruguay 5-4 on Thursday in the Group C opener of the second World Cup for beach soccer, which runs until Nov. 12 on Copacabana Beach, in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro.\n\n\"The Uruguay team played a typically South American game and knows how to neutralize our moves efficiently. But my men showed their patience and waited for the best moments to launch decisive attacks,\" Ze Miguel, Portugal's manager told media after the game.\n\nPortugal had to fight hard for the three championship points: opening scoring with an Alan goal in the second minute, only to see their advantage evaporate as Uruguay's Ortiz struck back.\n\nAlan scored again, but Matais and Oli scored one each to put Uruguay ahead. Madjer equalized for Portugal just before the first half whistle, but Uruguay opened the second half with Saranasi Sobral's scorpion kick to goal.\n\nHernani and Madjer fought back with a goal each to secure a 5-4 victory for the Portuguese.\n\nThe next Group C games are Portugal versus Cameroon and Uruguay versus the Solomon Islands, both on Saturday.\n\nPortugal finished second at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and the last European Cup.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 149, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 12", "start_char": 239, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second minute", "start_char": 656, "end_char": 673, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1163, "end_char": 1171, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0344.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0134 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0134. \n Dominion Textile Rights Plan \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n T.DTX \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n MONTREAL  \n\n   Dominion Textile Inc. holders adopted a shareholder-rights plan at the annual meeting. \n\n   The so-called poison pill took effect Aug. 9 pending ratification by holders. \nRights attached to the company's common shares were issued that are triggered if a hostile bidder acquires more than 20% of the shares outstanding. \nOnce triggered, the rights allow holders to buy additional shares at 50% of the then current market price or, at the board's discretion, to receive securities or assets. \n\n   Separately, Dominion Textile posted net income of 4.7 million Canadian dollars ($4 million), or 12 Canadian cents a share, for the fiscal-first quarter ended Sept. 30. \nThe company had a net loss of C$2.3 million, or 14 Canadian cents a share, a year ago. \nSales were C$348.2 million compared with C$307.2 a year earlier.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 74, "end_char": 82, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 9", "start_char": 281, "end_char": 287, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-08-09", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "then current", "start_char": 551, "end_char": 563, "tid": "t34", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fiscal-first quarter", "start_char": 773, "end_char": 797, "tid": "t36", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q1", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "Sept. 30", "start_char": 804, "end_char": 812, "tid": "t38", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 890, "end_char": 900, "tid": "t42", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q1", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t36"}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 952, "end_char": 966, "tid": "t43", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q1", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t36"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0924.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0298\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. military charts movement of conflict in Iraq toward chaos: report\n\n\n\n\nA classified briefing prepared two weeks ago by the U.S. Central Command portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos, in a chart that the military is using as a barometer of civil conflict, The New York Times reported Wednesday.\n\nA one-page slide shown at the Oct. 18 briefing provides a rare glimpse into how the military command that oversees the war is trying to track its trajectory, particularly in terms of sectarian fighting, the report said.\n\nThe slide includes a color-coded bar chart that is used to illustrate an \"Index of Civil Conflict.\" It shows a sharp escalation in sectarian violence since the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra in February, and tracks a further worsening this month despite a concerted American push to tamp down the violence in Baghdad.\n\nIn fashioning the index, the military is weighing factors like the ineffectual Iraqi police and the dwindling influence of moderate religious and political figures, rather than more traditional military measures such as the enemy's fighting strength and the control of territory.\n\nThe conclusions the Central Command has drawn from these trends are not encouraging. The slide shows Iraq as moving sharply away from \"peace,\" an ideal on the far left side of the chart, to a point much closer to the right side of the spectrum, a red zone marked \"chaos.\" As depicted in the command's chart, the needle has been moving steadily toward the far right of the chart, according to the Times, which obtained a copy of the slide.\n\nAn intelligence summary at the bottom of the slide reads \"urban areas experiencing 'ethnic cleansing' campaigns to consolidate control\" and \"violence at all-time high, spreading geographically. \"\n\nAccording to a Central Command official, the index on civil strife has been a staple of internal command briefings for most of this year. The analysis was prepared by the command's intelligence directorate.\n\nJohn Abizaid, who heads the command, warned publicly in August about the risk of civil war in Iraq, but he said then that he thought it could be averted.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 165, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W42", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 345, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 18", "start_char": 387, "end_char": 394, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 779, "end_char": 787, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 820, "end_char": 830, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1949, "end_char": 1958, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 2086, "end_char": 2092, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0298.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0355\n\nGLASGOW, Dec 31 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Martin Stirling\n\n\n\n\nUnder-fire Rangers manager Paul Le Guen says he would rather take the flak for the Ibrox side's dreadful run of form instead of his players.\n\nThe Frenchman's team followed up their shock 2-1 loss away to Inverness Caledonian Thistle last Wednesday with a lame 1-1 draw at home to St Mirren on Saturday.\n\nThese results enabled Celtic to stretch their advantage over Rangers to 17 points - who are one behind second placed Aberdeen - despite drawing their last two games against Dundee United and Motherwell.\n\nAnd the Rangers fans made their feelings known at the end of the St Mirren game by booing their side off the pitch.\n\nHowever, Le Guen has called on the Gers support to direct their displeasure at him while giving their support to the players.\n\nThe former Lyon manager said: \"There was too much pressure on the players on Saturday after the Inverness game and you could see it affected some of them against St Mirren.\n\n\"I feel the pressure and I'm aware of it but I'm ready to take the criticism as I know our results are not good enough.\n\n\"I would prefer the pressure to be on me rather than on the players.\n\n\"Of course there are problems as we are so far behind in the league but I can cope with the criticism.\"\n\nOn Tuesday Rangers will play away to Motherwell, who drew at home to Celtic on Saturday after Darren Lee Smith cancelled out Derek Riordan's first goal for the Parkhead club, and Le Guen acknowledged his side would find it hard.\n\nHe said: \"Any game is hard for us now the way we are playing so we know it will be difficult.\n\n\"Motherwell had a good result against Celtic and played very well but each point is important for us and we will be trying our best to get a victory.\"\n\nRangers' Croatian striker Dado Prso was missing from the Inverness and St Mirren games due to a groin injury but Le Guen is hopeful he will be fit to face Motherwell.\n\nHe said: \"I hope Dado will be back. He was an important player for us in our victories over Hibs and Aberdeen, and in the draw against Celtic, so it would be useful to have him available.\"\n\nIn Saturday's game Rangers fell behind to St Mirren in the 14th minute after Richard Brittain's first-time strike from 22-yards rocketed past Allan McGregor into the roof of the net.\n\nBut five minutes later Rangers were back on level terms when Charlie Adam's corner was headed home by Kris Boyd from six-yards out.\n\nEarlier in the day Celtic had drew 1-1 at Motherwell and the home side's manager Maurice Malpas believed his team should have won.\n\n\"My players were magnificent today,\" Malpas told Setanta Sports 1.\n\n\"I was delighted. We told them before the game that they had to get the ball and do something with it.\n\n\"I think at the end we deserved the goal. I'll be greedy and say we should have got the win.\"\n\nDespite the draw Celtic still managed to stretch their lead at the top of the SPL to 16 points over Aberdeen, who lost 3-1 away to Dundee United, and 17 over Rangers.\n\nAnd they will be further boosted by the news new signing Steven Pressley is set to make his debut on January 2 in the home match against Kilmarnock.\n\nCeltic manager Gordon Strachan confirmed: \"He's got a good chance. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0194\n\nPARIS, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nofficial\n\n\n\n\nChina Focus: China's oil import growth continues to fall in 2006, official\n\nBy Xinhua writer An Bei\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- China will import less oil and oil products in 2006 than previous years, an official with the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said recently.\n\nLu Jianhua, Director of Foreign Trade Department of the MOC, told the Asian Business Forum held recently, that it is unfair to blame China for rising international oil prices.\n\nAccording to statistics, China imported 105 million tons of crude oil in the first ten months of this year, rising 5.7 percent year on year, and 25.69 million tons of refined oil, down 16 percent from a year ago.\n\nIt is estimated that China will import 130 million tons of crude oil in 2005, rising only six percent year on year. This means the rate of growth of oil imports has dropped 30 percent, said Lu.\n\nThe price of crude oil on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) closed at 56.35 dollars per barrel Thursday, it's lowest since July.\n\nIt is reasonable for the price of oil to fall and there's room for it to drop even further, Lu predicted.\n\nThis summer the world saw crude oil prices hovering at 60 US dollars per barrel and even surge to a record of 70 US dollars.\n\nSuch high oil prices can be attributed to financial speculation rather than the normal market forces of supply and demand.\n\nAccording to statistics released by BP this year, 2004 witnessed a growth in global oil demand of 3.4 percent, which was lower than that year's growth in production capacity of 4.5 percent. This indicates that China should not be blamed for rising oil prices.\n\n\"The world's capacity to supply is still greater than the demand and that has not changed,\" said Zhou Dadi, Director of the Research Institute of Energy, National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) at a forum on petroleum held last week.\n\n\"So it is not valid to say that China's oil imports are the cause of rising international oil prices,\" said Zhou.\n\nIn 2004, China accounted for 11 percent of that year's global energy output, according to statistics of the NDRC. The country produced 1.956 billion tons of coal. Adding its oil, natural gas, and other energy output, it produced a total of 1.85 billion tons of primary energy in terms of standard coal.\n\nChina's primary energy consumption in 2004 was 1.97 billion tons of standard coal equivalent and its domestic energy supply capacity reached as high as 94 percent, which is among the highest in the world.\n\nIn order to enhance China's security of oil supply it should try to reduce its dependency on oil imports to about 30 percent and not exceed more than 50 percent, said Xu Shoubo, an academic of Chinese Academy of Engineering.\n\nChina imported 120 million tons of crude oil in 2004, accounting for 40 percent of its oil consumption.\n\nThe Chinese government says reducing the country's energy demand and improving energy efficiency is extremely important.\n\nIn the proposal for the 11th Five Year Program, the blueprint for the economic and social development of the country from 2006 to 2010 issued last month, the government made clear the goal to reduce its per unit GDP energy consumption by 20 percent at the end of 2010.\n\nChina will continue to make coal it main method of producing energy allowing it to meet its energy demand from domestic sources, said the proposal.\n\nCurrently nearly 70 percent of China's energy demand is met by coal. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0508\n\nVIENNA, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, details, background ///\n\n\n\n\nIran is ready to hide its uranium enrichment and continue with the sensitive nuclear work if threatened with military attack, a senior Iranian official said Friday.\n\n\"We have a large country, 1 million 600 thousand square kilometres and for centrifuge machines (which enrich uranium) the room of this size is enough,\" Iran's ambassador to the UN watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh told a seminar in Vienna in a medium-sized conference room.\n\nCentrifuge machines \"could be done, could be performed, could be installed anywhere and could be protected,\" he told a gathering at the Austrian Institute for International Affairs.\n\nSoltanieh was speaking as the UN Security Council debates in New York whether to impose sanctions on Iran for failing to honor a Council ultimatum to suspend uranium enrichment, which makes what can be fuel for civilian nuclear reactors or the raw material for atom bombs.\n\nIran insists on its right to enrich uranium as part of a peaceful drive to generate electricity but the United States charges that Tehran is hiding secret work on making nuclear weapons.\n\nExperts have warned that attacking Iran's known atomic facilities might only drive the Iranian program underground and Soltanieh's comments were among the first from Iranian officials that they would do exactly that.\n\n\"Iran has got the technology, the know-how of enrichment and it is authorized by the IAEA. If therefore the Americans say hurry up, pass resolutions, let's have a military attack to stop Iran they are making a mistake,\" Soltanieh said.\n\n\"Iran is not a small island that with a Katrina (referring to the hurricane that devastated New Orleans) would disappear,\" he said.\n\nIn Tehran, Iran's top nuclear official warned Western powers they would face \"painful measures\" by the Islamic republic if sanctions were imposed.\n\n\"If the aim of the West is to erode our will by depriving us of our nuclear rights, we will have to employ painful measures against the West,\" Ali Larijani told reporters.\n\n\"If they want to use the weapon of threats, they will have to expect pressure in return,\" he added.\n\nThe head of parliament's foreign affairs committee, Alaedin Boroujerdi earlier said Tehran could curb IAEA inspections of its atomic facilities if sanctions were imposed.\n\nSoltanieh said: \"Is it not wise (to maintain) the situation... that all centrifuge machines (at Iran's enrichment facility in Natanz) are under 24 hours cameras of the IAEA and almost every week or two weeks the inspectors are there and everything is full transparent.\"\n\n\"Let this course of action continue,\" Soltanieh said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every week or two weeks", "start_char": 2595, "end_char": 2618, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0508.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0275\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIran to cede state companies' shares to poor\n\n\n\n\nThe Iranian government on Wednesday approved a plan to cede shares of state-owned companies to the poor people, the official IRNA news agency reported.\n\nThe newly approved bylaw stated that the government would cede state-owned companies' stocks to the poor strata of the society and pay off the cost of the shares under a 20-year installment, the report said.\n\nIt added that the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance was assigned to draw up practical procedure for the ceding, while the Ministry of Welfare and Social Security would be responsible for identifying the beneficiaries in two months.\n\nAccording to official statistics, nearly 15 percent of the Iranians live under the poverty line, but some unofficial estimates were fixed around 40 percent.\n\nIranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad promised during his election campaign to improve social welfare to provide a better life for the poor, which greatly contributed to his win.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 130, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months", "start_char": 693, "end_char": 703, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0275.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0600\n\nLONDON, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nQueen Elizabeth II celebrates 71st birthday\n\n\n\n\nBritain's Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 71st birthday with a quiet day at Windsor Castle Monday.\n\nNever one to make a fuss, the queen spent the day in private with members of the royal family.\n\nAt noon in London's Hyde Park, the King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery fired a 41-gun salute. An hour later, a 62-gun salute was fired by the Honourable Artillery Company at the Tower of London.\n\nCeremonies for the sovereign's birthday will take place this year on Saturday June 14.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "An hour", "start_char": 393, "end_char": 400, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT1H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 551, "end_char": 560, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday June 14", "start_char": 564, "end_char": 580, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0600.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0052\n\nDAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZanzibar attracts more investment this year\n\n\n\n\nThe Indian Ocean archipelago of Zanzibar has witnessed increased investment as both foreign and local investors have enhanced their inputs in the first 10 months of this year.\n\nThirty-one investment projects worth 93 million U.S. dollars have been registered with the Zanzibar Investment Promotion Agency (ZIPA), according to reports reaching here on Saturday.\n\nZIPA Director Salum Khmis Nassor said 21 of the investment projects had been signed up by companies from such countries as Belgium, Britain, Kenya, Norway and South Africa while the remaining 10 investment projects had been signed by local investors from mainland Tanzania and from the isles.\n\nThe new investment projects cover areas including agriculture, fisheries, industries, tourism and air and marine transport.\n\nTourist hotels and restaurants drew the largest share of investment with 71 million dollars followed by industries (2.79 million dollars), air and marine transport (2.78 million dollars), fisheries (1.41 million dollars) and agriculture (910,004 dollars).\n\nZIPA is a government agency specializing in promoting foreign and local investment in the development of the Indian Ocean archipelago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first 10 months", "start_char": 253, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 276, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 462, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0052.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0326\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBush meets with panel on Iraq strategy\n\n\n\n\nU.S. President George W. Bush met on Monday with a bipartisan panel reviewing the administration 's Iraq strategy, and said he was looking forward to seeing the group's recommendations.\n\nBush said he was not sure what the report the Iraq Study Group was expected to submit next month was going to say, but he was \" looking forward to seeing it.\"\n\n\"I'm not going to prejudge\" the report, he told reporters after meeting with the group at the White House.\n\nThe president said the U.S. goal in Iraq remained \"a government that can sustain, govern and defend itself and serve as an ally in this war on terror,\" and he was impressed by the questions the panel asked.\n\nThe group, headed by former secretary of state James A. Baker III, a Republican, and Lee Hamilton, a Democratic former congressman, was to meet Bush and members of his foreign policy team, including Vice President Dick Cheney, the president's national security adviser, secretaries of the state and defense departments, and the national intelligence chief and the CIA chief, to begin its final round of interviews.\n\nThe group would also interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair by videoconference and meet with Democratic foreign policy leaders on Tuesday, and was expected to make recommendations on the government's Iraq policy next month or early next year.\n\nDemocratic leaders in the Senate have vowed to use their new congressional majority to press for troop reductions in Iraq within months.\n\nDemocratic Senator Carl Levin, who was to become chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee when the 110th Congress convenes early January next year, said on Monday that group's report would have \"an impact on whatever action might be possible in this Congress and in the next Congress.\"\n\nThe first priority for the Armed Services Committee would be to find a way forward to \"change the course in Iraq,\" he said at a news conference.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 140, "end_char": 146, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 376, "end_char": 386, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1317, "end_char": 1324, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month or early next year", "start_char": 1399, "end_char": 1428, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January next year", "start_char": 1705, "end_char": 1722, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1732, "end_char": 1738, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0326.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0094\n\nMANILA, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPhilippine police attack Abu Sayyaf Group, killing one\n\n\n\n\nA member of the Abu Sayyaf Group was killed while his brother, who is also linked to the terrorist group, was arrested in two separate operations by Philippine authorities on Thursday night, the police said on Friday.\n\nA report by Western Mindanao police office head Chief Supt. Jaime Caringal identified the killed Abu Sayyaf man as Joselito Nazara, alias Abu Sufian or Kirrs, while the arrested brother of Nazara was Jayrold, alias Kobe.\n\nCaringal said operatives of the Regional Intelligence and Investigation Division swooped down at the village of Ayala in Zamboanga City to serve an arrest warrant against a group of terrorists.\n\nThe Abu Sayyaf members resisted arrest and resulted in a brief gunfight and the killing of Joselito Nazara, said Caringal.\n\nJayrold Nazara was arrested by the same operatives in a follow- up operation at an Abu Sayyaf safe house at the village of Pamucutan, also in Zamboanga City, the officer said, adding that Jayrold Naraza did not resist arrest.\n\nAlso seized in the Pamucutan operation were ammunition and group documents, SIM cards, and several pieces of the police's Special Action Force camouflage uniform, according to the police report.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday night", "start_char": 290, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 325, "end_char": 331, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0094.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0156\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHang Seng China Enterprises Index higher -- Nov. 15\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong's Hang Seng China Enterprises Index rose 44.84 points, or 0.91 percent, to close at 4,979.88 on Tuesday.\n\nThe index, initiated in August 1995 and re-based on Sept. 6, 2004, tracks the overall performance of 40 Chinese mainland state- owned enterprises listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.\n\nHang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index rose 8.92 points, or 0.48 percent, to close at 1,880.28.\n\nThe index tracks the performance of 30 locally listed companies with a significant equity interest held by entities in the Chinese mainland.\n\nHang Seng Mainland Composite Index rose 11.36 points, or 0.63 percent, to close at 1,819.47.\n\nIntroduced on Oct. 3, 2001, Hang Seng Mainland Composite Index gauges the performance of 95 Hong Kong-listed companies with principal places of business in Hong Kong and the mainland.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1995", "start_char": 255, "end_char": 266, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 6, 2004", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-09-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 3, 2001", "start_char": 772, "end_char": 784, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001-10-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0156.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0070\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nForeign-funded Banks (10)\n\n\n\n\nArticle 34 An operational foreign-funded bank applying to engage in the types of RMB businesses within the scope of business as prescribed in article 29 or 31 of these regulations, shall satisfy the following requirements and be subject to the approval by the banking regulatory agency of the State Council:\n\n(1) having opened business within the territory of the People's Republic of China for at least three years prior to the application;\n\n(2) having been profitable for two consecutive years prior to the application; and\n\n(3) other prudential requirements prescribed by the banking regulatory agency of the State Council.\n\nWhere a foreign bank branch changes into a wholly foreign-funded bank solely funded by its parent bank, the time limit as prescribed in subparagraph (1) or (2) of the preceding paragraph shall be calculated starting from the date when the foreign bank branch is established.\n\nChapter IV Supervision\n\nArticle 35 An operational foreign-funded bank shall, in accordance with relevant provisions, develop the operating rules, improve management systems for risk management and internal control, and ensure the compliance with such rules, policies and procedures.\n\nArticle 36 An operational foreign-funded bank shall comply with the unified accounting rules of the State and the provisions of the banking regulatory agency of the State Council on information disclosure.\n\nArticle 37 An operational foreign-funded bank shall comply with the relevant provisions of the State when issuing external debts.\n\nArticle 38 An operational foreign-funded bank shall determine its deposit and loan interest rates and the rates of various service fees in accordance with the relevant provisions.\n\nArticle 39 An operational foreign-funded bank to engage in deposit-taking business shall deposit required reserves in accordance with the provisions of the People's Bank of China.\n\nArticle 40 A wholly foreign-funded bank or Chinese-foreign joint venture bank shall comply with the asset/liability ratio requirement prescribed in the Law of the People's Republic of China on Commercial Banks. A wholly foreign-funded bank changed from a foreign bank branch and solely owned by its parent bank, or a wholly foreign-funded bank or Chinese-foreign joint venture bank established before these regulations take effect shall, where its asset/liability ratio fails to meet the requirement, satisfy such requirement within the time frame prescribed by the banking regulatory agency of the State Council.\n\nThe banking regulatory agency of the State Council shall have the power to require a wholly foreign-funded bank or Chinese-foreign joint venture bank identified with high risks or weak risk management to increase its capital adequacy ratio.\n\nArticle 41 An operational foreign-funded bank shall draw loan loss reserves in accordance with relevant provisions.\n\nArticle 42 A wholly foreign-funded bank or Chinese-foreign joint venture bank shall comply with the provisions of the banking regulatory agency of the State Council on corporate governance. (more)", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "at least three years", "start_char": 481, "end_char": 501, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two consecutive years", "start_char": 560, "end_char": 581, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0070.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061224.0239\n\nLIVERPOOL, England, Dec 24 , 2006, 2006\n\nCahill pledges to return fitter and stronger\n\n\n\n\nHobbling Everton midfielder Tim Cahill believes he will return from his lengthy, injury-enforced absence a better player.\n\nThe Australian international, who is expected to return to the first-team in January, is stepping up his rehabilitation from a knee injury suffered against Aston Villa on November 11, and has kicked a ball again for the first time.\n\n\"I've not had one down moment throughout this injury, I've worked hard and looked at the positives,\" said Cahill.\n\n\"I've spent a lot of time with my family and with my boys because (in the past couple of years) I've not had the chance to have a proper holiday.\n\n\"There's a lot to my game that I need to think about and I've been working on other areas.\n\n\"Obviously it's hard being injured but you have to have high spirits for the lads.\"\n\nDespite his absence, Cahill remains Everton's top scorer with seven goals and was playing a crucial role for the Merseysiders when he suffered the injury which was caused by a challenge from team-mate Lee Carsley.\n\n\"I want to come back fully fit and start where I left off,\" he told the Liverpool Daily Post.\n\n\"I scored a few goals and was playing well but the biggest thing was that I got injured.\n\n\"I have to look at the pluses and the plus is that I've had a bit of a rest and when I get back hopefully I'll be revived for the start of the New Year - I hope to be buzzing and scoring more goals.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 24 , 2006", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 313, "end_char": 320, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 11", "start_char": 407, "end_char": 418, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061224.0239.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0103\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua Middle East news advisory -- Nov. 3\n\n\n\n\nThe following are some of major Mideast news stories due to be covered or pursued by Xinhua News Agency on Friday.\n\n-- Monitoring the situation in the Palestinian territories as the Israeli army launched a large-scale operation in the Gaza Strip.\n\n-- Monitoring the security situation in Iraq amid mounting violence in the country.\n\n-- Monitoring the course of formation of a Palestinian national unity government.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0103.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0020\n\nMANILA, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPhilippines searches for reportedly crashed plane\n\n\n\n\nPhilippine police and navy started the search on Friday for a reportedly crashed light plane in Ballesteros, Mindanao, south of the country.\n\nBallesteros police chief Joel Cumlad said a composite team from the police, fire department and navy has been searching the sea and shore for the plane, but authorities have yet to recover any aircraft debris that would confirm the crash.\n\nSearch and rescue operations are ongoing in the area with vessels and airplanes dispatched early Friday morning for the operations, officials said.\n\nLocal residents of Santa Cruz village in Ballesteros said that the plane, believed to be a two-seater Cessna, was cruising at a low altitude over the village when it suddenly hit treetops and then plunged into the sea at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday night, according to the police.\n\nHowever, Air Transportation Office (ATO) on Friday said no plane was flying at the time when the aircraft reportedly crashed at the supposed spot.\n\nATO chief Nilo Jatico said that the agency's records showed that all aircraft had been accounted for as of Friday morning.\n\n\"We have checked on our general aviation aircraft in Mindanao and no plane was flying at that particular time, including those that are privately owned,\" he said.\n\nLocal police earlier said they could not launch a thorough search at the coast due to strong waves.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 588, "end_char": 602, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-28TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "7:30 p.m. on Thursday night", "start_char": 861, "end_char": 888, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03T07:30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 960, "end_char": 966, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 1171, "end_char": 1185, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-28TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0020.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0001\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Dec 29 , 2006, 2006\n\nAirAsia tips record quarterly profits on strong ringgit, low oil\n\n\n\n\nBudget carrier AirAsia tips record profits for the three months to December on the back of the strengthening ringgit and lower fuel prices.\n\n\"There are two major things going in favor of AirAsia: one is oil, the other is the ringgit, which has had a phenomenal appreciation,\" chief executive officer Tony Fernandes told Friday's The Edge daily.\n\n\"It is our best ever quarter and I want to stress that this is the first quarter that AirAsia has operated really on a level playing field.\"\n\nAirAsia announced in November that its net profits fell by almost 35 percent in its first quarter to September to 5.65 million ringgit (1.5 million dollars) on lower average fares.\n\nFernandes said many industry analysts had failed to pick up on the fact that the ringgit had appreciated 6.0-7.0 percent and that this factor combined with lower oil costs had produced substantial savings.\n\nMalaysia's currency is this month trading at its highest levels since the peg to the dollar was removed in 2005.\n\n\"About 70 percent of our cost is in US dollars and 6.0-7.0 percent makes a huge impact to our bottom line,\" Fernandes told the financial daily.\n\n\"We also never hedged our currencies because we felt the ringgit would strengthen and we are now benefiting from a stronger ringgit,\" he said.\n\nFernandes said AirAsia had hedged almost 100 percent of its fuel requirements for the rest of the financial year ending June 2007.\n\n\"We believe fuel will oscillate between 55 and 65 US dollars (a barrel) and, no matter what OPEC is doing, oil is going down,\" he added.\n\nThe AirAsia chief said the airline's strategy for next year would be to focus on consolidation rather than expansion, particularly on improving its services, driving down costs and increasing flight frequencies.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 29 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the three months", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 453, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "daily", "start_char": 465, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "ever quarter", "start_char": 489, "end_char": 501, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 636, "end_char": 644, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "first quarter to September", "start_char": 699, "end_char": 725, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1027, "end_char": 1037, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1111, "end_char": 1115, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1356, "end_char": 1359, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "financial year", "start_char": 1505, "end_char": 1519, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2007", "start_char": 1527, "end_char": 1536, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "55", "start_char": 1579, "end_char": 1581, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1955", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1727, "end_char": 1736, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0001.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0367\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nOlowokandi out of Boston's NBA games for at least two weeks\n\n\n\n\nNigerian star Michael Olowokandi will be out for the next two to four weeks due to an abdominal strain.\n\nThe 2.10 metre (7 feets) Boston Celtics centre Olowokandi has averaged 3.3 points and 2.7 rebounds in 12.5 minutes over Boston's first six National Basketball Association games.\n\nHe had a season-high eight points in a 110-108 victory over Charlotte on Nov. 8 for one of only two wins on the season for the Celtics (2-6).\n\nThe first overall pick in 1998, 31-year-old Olowokandi has averaged 8.5 points and 7.0 rebounds in 482 games with the Los Angeles Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves and the Celtics.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next two to four weeks", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 199, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12.5 minutes", "start_char": 331, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT12.5M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 8", "start_char": 481, "end_char": 487, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 577, "end_char": 581, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0367.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0066\n\nNEW DELHI, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNew Indian coalition will only last six months: Hindu nationalists\n\n\n\n\nIndia's Hindu nationalists said Monday a new coalition forged by its rivals would be \"absurd\" and was doomed to fall within six months.\n\nSushma Swaraj, spokesman of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, Indian People's Party), said: \"This is another experiment and the fate will be the same. The previous arrangement was an absurd one, whose value was zero. Now it will be worse.\n\n\"How long will this stave off fresh general elections? For another six months. As the tradition of Congress is to pull down governments, this will last for not for more than six months.\"\n\nThe comment came after H.D. Deve Gowda, who resigned as prime minister at the weekend after losing a confidence vote, said he was willing to quit as head of the United Front alliance to avoid new elections.\n\nHis departure has been demanded by the Congress (I) party as the price of their renewed support in parliament.\n\nThe Congress brought down the United Front minority coalition Friday, ending 10 months of support by voting with the BJP.\n\nSwaraj said Deve Gowda's decision was \"a victory for the Congress\" and said it had won \"a war of nerves\" with the Front.\n\nBoth were intent on keeping the nationalists out of power, she added, but the BJP would win out in the end.\n\n\"After the new government fails, people will have a clear alternative. We will win any elections,\" she said. \"It is a win-win position. Whatever the new arrangement, we will gain.\"\n\nIndia's 545-seat lower house is almost evenly split between the BJP, the single largest party with 162 seats, the Congress and the United Front, an alliance of 13 leftist, centrist and regional parties.\n\nBoth the Congress and the Front refuse to work with the BJP, accusing it of mixing religion with politics.\n\nThe BJP still harbours faint hopes of forming a coalition of its own despite Monday's announcement.\n\nWhile expected to make the major gains in new elections, the BJP said it could still try to form a government if regional parties from the United Front as well as small independent groups offered their backing.\n\nSwaraj said this option was still open. \"Any new ally is welcome to join the BJP in a new front, \" she said, but conceded no one had yet responded to the offer.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 166, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 252, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "another six months", "start_char": 563, "end_char": 581, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-14T06:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than six months", "start_char": 668, "end_char": 688, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1074, "end_char": 1080, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 months", "start_char": 1089, "end_char": 1098, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1937, "end_char": 1943, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0066.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0031\n\nLANZHOU, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's 16th medical team leaves for Madagascar\n\n\n\n\nA 30-strong medical team on Saturday left Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, for a two-year mission in Madagascar.\n\nIt is China's 16th medical detachment to the east African country since 1975.\n\nZhong Liangting, leader of the team and three-time veteran of Madagascar, said the members were chosen from medical organizations across Gansu, and included specialists in internal medicine, surgery, orthopaedics and gynecology.\n\nThe team would provide services to local people in four hospitals.\n\nGansu has sent 444 medical workers to work in Madagascar in the past 31 years, of whom 51 have been awarded national honors by Madagascar.\n\nChina has sent a total of 15,000 medical personnel to 47 African nations and regions since the dispatch of its first medical team to Algeria in 1963, according to the Foreign Ministry.\n\nAbout 950 Chinese medical staff are currently working in 36 African nations.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1975", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1975", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 31 years", "start_char": 680, "end_char": 697, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P31Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1963", "start_char": 904, "end_char": 908, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1963", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0031.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0096\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nThai bourse down 3.99 points\n\n\n\n\nThe Stock Exchange of Thailand ( SET)index on Friday moved down 3.99 points to close at 690.45 points.\n\nSome 2.29 billion shares worth 11.21 billion Thai baht (about 280.250 million US dollars) changed hands.\n\nSET index lost 2.41 points to close at 694.44 points on Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 142, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 356, "end_char": 364, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0096.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0054\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBeijing\n\n\n\n\nThe fifth-round of the six-party talks will begin on Nov. 9 in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Kong Quan announced at a regular press conference here Thursday.\n\nKong did not say how long the negotiation would last, but said that \"holding the talks by phases in the new round could have a better result\" as the chief negotiators of the six parties might also attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit slated for mid November in Pusan of the Republic of Korea (ROK).\n\nThe experience in the last round of the talks has proved that it is a \"good idea\" to hold the talks by phases, the spokesman added.\n\n\"We hope the participants in the new round of negotiation could have an in-depth exchange of views on the consensus reached in the last round,\" said Kong.\n\nThe six-party talks, aiming at resolving the nuclear issue in the Korean Peninsula, group China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), the United States, the Republic of Korea, Russia and Japan. The first round was held in August 2003 in Beijing.\n\n\"If all parties could take commitment to commitment and action to action based on the joint statement reached during the fourth round of the talks, and earnestly push forward the discussion and agree to take further steps, there would be positive result,\" Kong said.\n\nThe fourth-round six-party talks ended on Sept. 19 with the adopting of the first joint statement. The DPRK pledged in the statement to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and return, at an early date, to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.\n\nThe United States affirms that it has no nuclear weapons in the Korean Peninsula and has no intention of attacking or invading the DPRK with nuclear or conventional weapons, says the statement.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 9", "start_char": 121, "end_char": 127, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 2003", "start_char": 1080, "end_char": 1091, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 19", "start_char": 1415, "end_char": 1423, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0054.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0231\n\nLANZHOU, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina\n\n\n\n\nRising temperatures have exacerbated shrinkage of glaciers in western China in the past 50 years, Chinese scientists have found.\n\nChina's glaciers are mainly distributed on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and neighboring areas. These areas boast 46,377 glaciers.\n\nAbout 82 percent of the glaciers in west China have been shrinking in the past 50 years as the temperature rose by 0.2 degrees Celsius per 10 years, according to the research results published by the Cold and Dry Zone Environment and Engineering Research Institute under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.\n\nScientists with the institute selected 5,000 glaciers in the region and used remote sensing and geographic information system methods to monitor their changes in the past 50 years, said Liu Shiyin, an expert with the institute, who participated in the monitoring program.\n\nThe 5,000 glaciers account for one-fourth of the total acreage of glaciers in western China.\n\nLiu said only a small number of glaciers were expanding and about 82 percent of the monitored glaciers shrank by 4.5 percent in the past 50 years.\n\nGlaciers in the central and northwestern parts of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau shrank slowly and those in the neighboring areas were shrinking faster, Liu said.\n\nLiu said, 95 percent of the 170 glaciers on the northwestern slope of the Qilian Mountains have shrunk by 4.9 meters each year on average, and only 10 glaciers expanded during the 1956-2000 period.\n\nAlmost all the glaciers on the northern slope of and 69 percent of glaciers on the southern slope the Tianshan Mountains, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, are receding, and the glacier acreage shrank by 10 percent on the Pamirs in the past 50 years.\n\nGlaciers on the northern slopes of the Kunlun Mountains and the Himalayas were also shrinking, Liu said.\n\nMonitoring results show that water flow in some rivers in northwest China's dry regions has been increasing, a result possibly brought about by melting glaciers, Liu said.\n\nHowever, Liu warned, if glaciers continued to melt fastly, water sources for local rivers would reduce and that would impose serious impact on local production and the life of local people.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 50 years", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 50 years", "start_char": 395, "end_char": 412, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 years", "start_char": 464, "end_char": 472, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 50 years", "start_char": 792, "end_char": 809, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 50 years", "start_char": 1125, "end_char": 1142, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each year", "start_char": 1421, "end_char": 1430, "tid": "t6", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1956-2000 period", "start_char": 1480, "end_char": 1500, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1956", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 50 years", "start_char": 1753, "end_char": 1770, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P50Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0231.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0061\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 19 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Kenyans to vote in disputed constitutional referendum\n\n\n\n\nAfter several weeks of highly charged, divisive campaigns between those supporting the new constitution and those against, Kenyans will finally vote in the referendum this coming Monday.\n\nAccording to the Electoral Commission of Kenya, 11.6 million registered voters are expected to turn out at 19,134 polling stations across the country.\n\nECK Chairman Samuel Kivuitu said polling centers across the country will open at 7 am (0400 GMT) until 5 pm (1400 GMT) during Monday's constitution referendum.\n\n\"We don't want people to vote at night. We want counting to be done during the day when voters can see,\" said Kivuitu.\n\nHe has however expressed concern that referendum committees have not submitted names of agents and is worried that this could open up the process to possible rigging.\n\n\"Even our officers may take sides. The dead might vote. Double voting might take place. That's why we want agents everywhere,\" said Kivuitu.\n\nREFERENDUM UNDER DISPUTE\n\nThe referendum campaigns have been marked by tribalism, belligerent rhetoric, sporadic violence and the deaths of at least eight people, and is being widely viewed as a referendum on the government and a battle for power between the political elite.\n\nPresident Mwai Kibaki says a new constitution is long overdue, but critics say the document perpetuates the immense powers of the president of the east African nation of 32 million people.\n\nThe document represents the first overhaul of Kenya's constitution since the current version, which was drawn up on the eve of independence from Britain in 1963.\n\nViolence is dogging the debate, and each side is blaming the other. Protesters from both camps have taken to the streets and there have been clashes in recent months.\n\nThe government is leading the \"Yes\" campaign under the symbol of a banana while the opposition and a party in the ruling coalition are championing the \"No\" cause with their symbol of an orange.\n\nThe contest is expected to be tense and, whichever side wins, the country will bare divisions, with the process leaving a stain on a nation many hoped would take strides forward after historic 2002 elections.\n\nIn the run-up to the referendum, the Yellow Movement, a civil- society group allied to the \"No\" camp, challenged the proposed constitution in court.\n\nThey sought a declaration on whether the constitution-making process, including the November 21 referendum, was valid.\n\nThe constitutional court ruled on Tuesday in favor of the referendum, arguing that neither parliament nor the courts had the authority to stop the referendum because it involved the constituent power of the people to make a constitution.\n\nThe divisive campaigns have prompted church leaders to hold prayer services for a peaceful outcome with some diplomatic community in Nairobi also fear that the country might plunge into chaos after the vote.\n\nThe referendum is perceived to pitch two major ethnic communities against each other, with the Kikuyu largely behind the \"Yes\" vote and the Luo supporting the \"No\" vote.\n\nNone of the other ethnic groups are allied as solidly to a specific side, and many people now see the referendum as a popularity contest between Kibaki and his Roads Minister Raila Odinga.\n\nTEST FOR GOVERNMENT\n\nAnalysts say the campaign could be a defining moment for Kibaki 's ruling National Rainbow Coalition (NARC).\n\nThe coalition won in 2002 on a wave of euphoria after 24 years of rule by Daniel Arap Moi, but now is in a precarious position because of growing public dissatisfaction.\n\nBoth camps agree that the existing constitution is outdated and oppressive but have failed to reach consensus on the new one, which has been the subject of debate since 1997.\n\nA sharp rift, exposed early this year, over a new constitution seeking to curb President Kibaki's power, has now cast fresh doubts over whether the battered coalition will survive its current political crisis.\n\nThe most obvious split has been within Kibaki's shaky coalition, with at least seven ministers joining ranks with the opposition to campaign for a \"No\" vote, while the president and his supporters promote the \"Yes\" vote.\n\n\"The constitution process was supposed to bring us together but it has divided us further,\" says Maina Kiai, chairman of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights.\n\nCritics say Attorney General Amos Wako incorporated the amendments introduced by parliament in July which sparked three days of violent demonstrations by Kenyans outraged at the handling of the constitution writing process.\n\nBut Wako has defended the proposed constitution, saying it captures the views of wananchi (citizens) as manifested in the Bomas draft, the former draft of the new constitution.\n\n\"My role was to use Bomas draft as a benchmark and incorporate some amendments passed by parliament and that is what I did,\" he said on Wednesday.\n\nContentious issues in the draft constitution, including reduction of presidential powers and creation of an executive prime minister's post, have been the reason for the split and political infighting within the ruling coalition.\n\nMembers of the \"No\" camp said that the document does not reflect the wishes of the people of Kenya as manifested in the Bomas Draft.\n\nIn particular, they say, the draft has glorified the powers of the president, making him a \"king\".\n\nThey are also unhappy with the devolution of powers, the conditions and voter thresholds for electing a president, the powers of the prime minister and the appointment of the cabinet.\n\nThe \"Yes\" camp argued that the presidential powers to prorogue and dissolve parliament have been taken away and that parliament will control its calendar. The authority to allocate land has also been handed over to an independent National Lands Commission. Presidential appointments under the new constitution will be subject to parliamentary approval.\n\nDisillusion is already running deep among the majority of Kenyans who -- fed up with rising unemployment, crime and graft -- voted successfully for the first time for change and not for their ethnic group in the 2002 polls.\n\nSome analysts warned that Kenya could be plunged into a dangerous political crisis whatever the outcome. But the ECK boss has appealed to Kenyans to respect each other during the campaigns, noting that the differences could tear the country apart if not checked.\n\n\"We are one nation. Whichever side wins we will still remain one nation,\" Kivuitu said.\n\n\"We have survived many national crises which could have torn us apart. But we resisted. Let that resilience remain our hallmark. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0250\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFIFA probes Kenyan referees list\n\n\n\n\nWorld football governing body FIFA has suspended a list of international referees submitted by Kenya last month after allegations of graft in their recruitment and ordered immediate investigations.\n\nIn a letter to Kenya Football Federation (KFF), FIFA deputy general secretary Michael Schallhart said the football world governing body had launched immediate probe into the exercise.\n\n\"The FIFA Referees Committee has decided to suspend the lists of nominations submitted by Kenya Football Federation (KFF) until further notice,\" Schallart said in a letter to KFF.\n\nAn investigation has been started. The graft allegations were revealed last month by Kenya Football Referees Association secretary-general G.M.T. Ottieno, a week after FIFA suspended the east African nation from international competition indefinitely.\n\nThe government dissolved the federation 10 days later and set up a caretaker committee to run the sport. FIFA has also dismissed the caretaker committee appointed by the government last week to oversee the running of the football.\n\nThe world's soccer governing body indefinitely suspended Kenya from international competition on October 24 for failing to respect signed agreements and for recurrent problems in the KFF.\n\nWhile dissolving the federation, Sports Minister Maina Kamanda said he was compelled to take the radical action to restore order and normalcy in the management of football.\n\nThe seven man committee which comprises former lawmakers, journalists and sports administrators will oversee the country's football \"re-birth\".", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 205, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 730, "end_char": 740, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "week", "start_char": 816, "end_char": 820, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the federation 10 days", "start_char": 937, "end_char": 959, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-10T10:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1093, "end_char": 1102, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 24", "start_char": 1241, "end_char": 1251, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0250.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0217\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nsuppliers\n\n\n\n\nA Beijing court on Friday rejected a Chinese netizen's lawsuit against a software producer and its supplier for alleged \"hooligan software\" in the country's first verdict on this issue.\n\nThe Chaoyang District People's Court of Beijing rejected Dong Haiping's claim for an apology and compensation of 1,094 yuan (138 U.S. dollars) from Inter China Network Software (Beijing) Co., Ltd and the Beijing Alibaba Information Technology Co., Ltd, after he found he could not completely remove their software from his computer.\n\nDong said he downloaded and installed Yahoo Assistant, software designed to assist the running of Internet Explorer developed by the Inter China (Beijing) from the Yahoo China website and provided by Beijing Alibaba, last August.\n\nDong claimed that the software could not be fully uninstalled and it always started up automatically when he turned on his computer.\n\nThe remaining part of the software damaged the hard disk of his computer and affected its normal use, according to Dong.\n\nThe court ruled that Dong did not provide evidence that the software had resulted in the damage of his computer.\n\nDong's lawyer said they would appeal.\n\nDong has set up the China Anti-hooligan Software Federation to fight against \"hooligan software\", including adverts, spyware and malicious software like pornographic information, all of which may pop up uncontrollably and provide backdoors for viruses.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 90, "end_char": 96, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last August", "start_char": 809, "end_char": 820, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0217.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0052\n\nBUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBy Huang Xingwei\n\n\n\n\nThe Pacific Rim leaders will send a \"short but strong\" political message at their annual gathering to bolster the stalled global trade talks, said South Korea's APEC Ambassador Kim Jong-hoo here Sunday\n\n\"We agree that the forthcoming APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting may be the last chance to provide impetus to the ministerial conference of the World Trade Organization in Hong Kong next month, \" Kim Jong-hoo told a press conference after ending the two-day Concluding Senior Officials' Meeting (CSOM ) for 2005.\n\nThe senior officials of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation ( APEC) forum have reached an understanding on sending the political message backing the WTO Doha Development Agenda, said the ambassador.\n\nThe wording of joint statement has not been finalized, but it will be \"strong\" and \"powerful,\" said the APEC SOM chair.\n\nThe Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations, first introduced at the fourth WTO biannual ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar in 2001, collapsed in 2003 due to deep differences between the developed and developing members on market access, agriculture subsidies and tariff structures. The push by APEC leaders to keep the momentum going is seen as important because the region represents nearly half of the world trade.\n\nBut experts were not optimistic about the outcome of the WTO ministerial conference in Hong Kong next month.\n\n\"I don't think there is much hope for the Doha Round meeting in Hong Kong as there is no real movement on agricultural subsidies by the developed countries,\" Michel Yahuda, an expert on Asia- Pacific affairs at London School of Economics, told Xinhua.\n\nIn addition to advancing free trade, the two-day working-level meeting also focused on anti-corruption, natural disasters and steps to combat the potential bird flu pandemic.\n\nAPEC will hold a ministerial meeting on bird flu pandemic in Vietnam in the early part of next year and a symposium on containing the new contagious disease in China in April, said South Korea's APEC ambassador.\n\nThe APEC officials also agreed that member economies will come up with a model for the establishment of a free trade agreement by 2008, he added.\n\nThe statements prepared by the senior officials will be handed to the APEC ministers for discussion on Tuesday and Wednesday, before submitting to their leaders.\n\nThe CSOM is the final meeting of Senior Officials before the 17th APEC Ministerial Meeting on Nov. 15-16 and the 13th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting that will take place on Nov. 18-19.\n\nAPEC, established in 1989, currently has 21 members: Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, China, China's Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Peru, the Philippines, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, the United States and Vietnam. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0031\n\nTOKYO, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nDollar moves narrowly in mid-afternnon Tokyo trade\n\n\n\n\nThe dollar moved in a narrow range against the yen in mid-afternoon trading here Wednesday, as activity slowed ahead of a long weekend in Japan.\n\nAt 2 p.m. (0500 GMT), the dollar was quoted at 126.97 yen, slightly up from 126.84 yen earlier in the day and 126.88 yen in New York Tuesday afternoon.\n\nThe dollar also traded at 1.7238, down from 1.7245 earlier and 1.7259 in New York Tuesday.\n\nThe US unit was lower against the mark on stop-loss dollar selling activated at the 1.7220-25 mark level, but with the declines likely to be recouped in European trading, dealers said.\n\nThe dollar's falls against the mark was also due to buying of the German unit against the yen as investors covered positions following the mark's recent falls against the yen, dealers said.\n\nActivity was focused on the mark-yen cross with investors reluctant to take fresh positions in dollar-yen trading ahead of the long weekend through Monday in Japan, they said.\n\n\"Investors were encouraged to accelerate buying of the mark against the yen after the mark broke through technical upside resistance at the 73.60 yen level,\" said Tokai Bank dealer Masahiro Yamaguchi.\n\nThe mark traded at 73.66 yen mid-afternnon here.\n\n\"I think the mark will continue rising close to the 74 yen level and the dollar, in turn, is expected to continue falling against the mark,\" Yamaguchi said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "mid-afternoon trading here Wednesday", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday afternoon", "start_char": 387, "end_char": 404, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1024, "end_char": 1030, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0031.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0325\n\nNAIVASHA, Kenya, Dec 29 , 2006, 2006\n\nTrial for renowned environmentalist's murder opens in Kenya\n\n\n\n\nThe murder trial of four suspects accused of killing a world-renowned British environmentalist and wildlife filmmaker in her bed in Kenya earlier this year opened in Naivasha on Friday.\n\nDavid Chege, Joseph Ndung'u, Philip Mutuku and Allan Githenji face charges of murdering and attempting to rob Joan Wells Root, 69, the daughter of a colonial-era British settler, in the Kenyan Rift Valley where she was raised and lived for many years promoting environmental causes.\n\nThe guardsman on duty during the January 13 incident in Naivasha, 90 kilometers (55 miles) northwest of Nairobi, told magistrate Nicholas Njagi that none of the men on trial were among those he witnessed killing the filmmaker.\n\nAccording to the guard, Abdi Aziz Diba, two men carrying a gun and a machete approached Root's home before midnight in an attempt to rob the daughter of coffee farmer and photo safari guide Edmund Thorpe of 57,500 US dollars (43,600 euros).\n\nRoot was well known for her conservation efforts and kept several species of animals, including waterbucks, dik diks and birds, on her compound where hippos were known to gather, residents said.\n\nWith her ex-husband, Alan, she made several acclaimed nature documentaries in the 1960s, 70s and 80s including \"Balloon Safari\", in which they used innovative aerial techniques to capture Kenya's stunning wildlife and landscape.\n\nNaivasha has been rife with animosity between foreign investors, mainly flower farmers, and the local population over access to resources, and has been the scene of several violent attacks on European residents, although Root's murder is the first in several months.\n\nAt least three other Europeans have been slain in violent robberies in the Rift Valley since September 2004, prompting great unease and major security fears in the expatriate community.\n\nThe magistrate adjourned the trial until January 23 next year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 29 , 2006", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 263, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 309, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "many years", "start_char": 552, "end_char": 562, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 13", "start_char": 629, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1960s", "start_char": 1340, "end_char": 1349, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "196", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several months", "start_char": 1743, "end_char": 1757, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 2004", "start_char": 1853, "end_char": 1867, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 23 next year", "start_char": 1988, "end_char": 2008, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29T23:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0325.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0041\n\nPERTH, Australia, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Scott Coghlan\n\n\n\n\nThe Ashes are gone but England captain Andrew Flintoff said his side would be out to regain lost pride in the last two Tests of the series.\n\nA disappointed Flintoff said the England camp were hurting deeply after the 206-run loss in Perth that handed Australia an unbeatable 3-0 lead just three Tests into the most anticipated Ashes series ever.\n\nWhile Flintoff said Australia undoubtedly deserved to win the series, he urged the Barmy Army and fans at home to stick with the side and he dismissed the need for wholesale changes to the team.\n\nHaving enjoyed the highs of the 2005 upset win, Flintoff found it hard to describe his emotions after the loss, but vowed his side would bounce back in the Melbourne and Sydney Tests.\n\n\"It hurts, it's hurting a lot for the lads, but we have to get over it because we have got two more Test matches to play,\" he said.\n\n\"We can't mope around, we've got two big Test matches still and we want to give a good account of ourselves.\n\n\"It is going to be a tough couple of days, but there is a lot of pride and character in our dressing room.\n\n\"There are a lot of lads who want to prove they can win a Test match in Australia and prove they can play against Australia.\"\n\nWhile much has been made of the pressure he is under and his own indifferent form, Flintoff said he wanted to retain the captaincy for as long as possible.\n\n\"I am so proud to be England captain and I always will be,\" he said.\n\n\"It has its moments, but no regrets whatsoever -- as long as I get the opportunity to do so, I always will be.\"\n\nHaving needed to bat for more than two days to save the match or score 557 to record an unlikely win, Flintoff admitted there were times he thought they could achieve the impossible as they defied the Australian attack.\n\n\"We decided to go out there positive,\" he said.\n\n\"It was working for period and you dare to dream.\"\n\nFlintoff said the English had played better than three straights defeats suggested, but hadn't been able to maintain pressure on the Australians at key stages of each Test.\n\n\"At the 'Gabba, Australia came out strong and put us on the back foot and it was hard to come back,\" he said.\n\n\"Adelaide was bitterly disappointing. In this game we bowled them out for 240, we were hoping to score at least 350 and try and apply some pressure to Australia, but fair play to them they didn't allow us to.\n\n\"They hit us hard, had the lead, and then (Adam) Gilchrist took the game away from us.\"\n\nDespite the defeat, Flintoff said there were plenty of positives the English could take from the tour.\n\n\"At times, we have shown on the field how talented we are,\" Flintoff said.\n\n\"There have been some great things come out of this trip so far. The young lads have emerged, the likes of Alastair Cook scoring hundreds, Ian Bell, Paul Collingwood, Kevin Pietersen, the bowling of Matthew Hoggard and Monty (Panesar).\n\n\"But we've not been able to apply the pressure as much as we would have liked to have done.\n\n\"Every time we have had our foot in the door, they have closed it on us.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last two Tests", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than two days", "start_char": 1654, "end_char": 1672, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "240", "start_char": 2310, "end_char": 2313, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "240", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0041.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0210\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS retail sales down slightly in October\n\n\n\n\nThe retail sales in the United States declined by 0.1 percent in October mainly because of the falling gasoline prices and the drop of car sales, the Commerce Department reported on Tuesday.\n\nThe slight decline of overall US sales was significantly better than the 0.7 percent drop many economists had expected.\n\nThe report showed that the decline was led by a big 3.6 percent drop in auto sales, which have weakened with the removal of attractive discounts automakers had used during the summer.\n\nAlso working to hold back the US retail sales in October was a 0.8 percent decline in sales at gasoline stations, a drop that reflected a big retreat in pump prices.\n\nHowever, excluding auto sale, US retail sales rose by a solid 0.9 percent last month as a result of big gains at specialty clothing stores and department stores, lifting the outlook for the upcoming holiday sales season.\n\nConsumer spending is closely watched because it accounts for two-thirds of total US economic activity and retail sales account for about an half of the consumer spending in the country.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 287, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the summer", "start_char": 590, "end_char": 600, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 652, "end_char": 659, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 844, "end_char": 854, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0210.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0387\n\nCRAWFORD, Texas, Dec 26 , 2006, 2006\n\ndetail ///\n\n\n\n\nThe United States on Tuesday called Saddam Hussein's confirmed death sentence \"a milestone\" for Iraqis and said the \"tyrant\" had received a fair trial.\n\n\"Today marks a milestone for Iraqi people's efforts to replace the rule of a tyrant with the rule of law,\" Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman, said.\n\n\"Saddam has received due process and the legal rights that he denied the Iraqi people,\" he said.\n\n\"The Iraqis deserve praise for continuing to utilize the institutions of democracy to pursue justice,\" the spokesman told reporters traveling with President George W. Bush aboard the presidential jet Air Force One to Texas.\n\nBush was to spend the final days of the year at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.\n\nEarlier Tuesday an Iraqi appeals court judge announced that Saddam would be hanged within 30 days, after confirming the former strongman's sentence for crimes against humanity.\n\nSpeaking to reporters in Baghdad, Judge Arif Shaheen said the verdict was final and legally binding on Iraq's government, which now has a month to get Saddam and two co-defendants to the gallows.\n\n\"This is an important day for the Iraqi people,\" Stanzel said without commenting on the sentence itself.\n\nStanzel said a written judgment against Saddam should be available \"soon.\" \"So we look forward, as does the rest of the world, to seeing that written judgment,\" he said.\n\nThe Iraqi confirmation of the death penalty for Saddam came as Bush, under pressure from surging violence in Iraq and rising American opposition to the war, prepared a new way forward for the country as it sinks closer to civil war.\n\nBush was due to announce a new US strategy for Iraq after January 1, the White spokesman reminded reporters.\n\n\"He continues to ask questions of his advisors and ... trying to make sure that all options and all ideas are given the due consideration they need, trying to think through the consequences of any actions and of those options.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 26 , 2006", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 97, "end_char": 104, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 742, "end_char": 750, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier Tuesday", "start_char": 785, "end_char": 800, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "30 days", "start_char": 875, "end_char": 882, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P30D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1091, "end_char": 1094, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 1099, "end_char": 1106, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1", "start_char": 1729, "end_char": 1738, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0387.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0158\n\nLAGOS, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPolio epidemic stops in 10 African countries: UNICEF\n\n\n\n\nPolio has been kicked out of 10 west and central African countries as a result of mass immunization drives reaching as many as 100 million children across much of the region, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said.\n\nThe previously polio-free countries, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Mali and Togo, were reinfected by an outbreak in northern Nigeria following a vaccine boycott.\n\n\"The epidemic has paralyzed nearly 200 children for life since mid-2003, but no new cases have been reported in these countries since early June,\" according to a UNICEF statement made available on Saturday.\n\n\"At the same time, polio eradication efforts are intensifying in Nigeria, where extensive disease transmission continues, as part of a mass polio campaign across 28 African countries\" beginning early this week, it added.\n\nBut a 200 million US dollars funding gap for 2006 must urgently be filled, and 75 million US dollars of which is needed by December, to ensure activities in the first quarter of next year can proceed, it said.\n\nSince 1988, global eradication efforts have reduced the number of polio cases by more than 99 percent, from 350,000 annually to 1, 469 cases in 2005, but the target of wiping out the disease globally by 2005 will not be realized due to the ongoing polio transmission in part of Nigeria.\n\nThe northern Nigerian state of Kano and neighboring states stopped the immunization of their children for 10 months in 2003- 2004 on the allegation that the vaccine contained infertility agents purportedly planted by western nations to depopulate the area.\n\nExperts say that at least a further year will be needed to finish the job in Nigeria, following the 10-month suspension. Five other countries, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Niger and Egypt, also remain polio endemic.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "mid-2003", "start_char": 641, "end_char": 649, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early June", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 722, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 775, "end_char": 783, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 986, "end_char": 995, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 1131, "end_char": 1139, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter of next year", "start_char": 1165, "end_char": 1195, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 1225, "end_char": 1229, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1363, "end_char": 1367, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 months", "start_char": 1613, "end_char": 1622, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003-", "start_char": 1626, "end_char": 1631, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0158.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0648\n\nHOUSTON, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nUS jury convicts driver in deaths of illegal immigrants\n\n\n\n\nA US federal jury on Monday found a Jamaican man guilty in the deaths of 19 illegal immigrants who perished in the truck he was driving in sweltering temperatures near the US-Mexico border.\n\nConvicted on 58 counts of smuggling, Tyrone Williams now faces a possible death sentence under a 1994 law. The legislation allows for the death penalty if an illegal immigrant dies during a smuggling operation.\n\nDuring the trial, US District Attorney Daniel Rodriguez said the 35-year-old Williams -- a Jamaican national living in the United States -- was a \"vile and heartless truck driver who has no regard for human life.\"\n\nHe said Williams treated the 85 Hispanic immigrants in the sealed, refrigerated trailer he was hauling like cargo.\n\nWitnesses said they pleaded for air and water and pounded on the sides as many suffocated and succumbed to heat stroke amid sweltering temperatures.\n\nA five-year-old boy was among the 19 victims who died.\n\nWilliams' defense lawyer, Craig Washington, said he was \"deeply disappointed\" by the verdict.\n\nWashington said he will argue to save his client's life when the sentencing phase of the trial begins on Wednesday.\n\n\"He was guilty of transporting. We admitted that from the very beginning but he's not the kind of person that would intentionally kill people,\" he said.\n\nWashington said Williams did not know how many people were crammed inside the trailer, which he picked up at Mexico's border with the US state of Texas.   He said this was his client's second smuggling attempt and previously had transported only 17 people.\n\nWilliams abandoned the trailer in Victoria, Texas after discovering the dead bodies but was later arrested in Houston.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 133, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 356, "end_char": 359, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 400, "end_char": 404, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1252, "end_char": 1261, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0648.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0016 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0016. \n Dividend News:\n@  Oneida Ltd. \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n OCQ \n DIVIDENDS (DIV) \n\n   ONEIDA Ltd. declared a 10% stock dividend, payable Dec. 15 to stock of record Nov. 17. \nThe Oneida, N.Y., maker of consumer, food-service and industrial products also declared a quarterly cash dividend of 12 cents a share, with the same payable and record dates. \nThe cash dividend paid on the common stock also will apply to the new shares, the company said. \nThe move rewards shareholders and should improve the stock's liquidity, Oneida said. \nThe company has about 8.8 million shares outstanding. \nIn New York Stock Exchange composite trading yesterday, Oneida's shares closed at $18.375 a share, unchanged.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 75, "end_char": 83, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 15", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-12-15", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t15"}, {"text": "Nov. 17", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-17", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t15"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 686, "end_char": 695, "tid": "t63", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-25", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t15"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_1040.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "WSJ_20130322_159\n\nMarch 22, 2013\n\nNetanyahu Apologizes to Turkey for Deadly Ship Raid\n\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized on Friday to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for a raid on a Turkish flotilla ship, a move that will help restore strained ties between the countries.\n\nThe call, which happened as President Barack Obama wrapped up his first presidential visit to Israel, was an unexpected outcome from a Mideast trip that seemed to yield few concrete steps.\n\nMr. Netanyahu's office confirmed that the Israeli leader, in a conversation with Mr. Erdogan, \"agreed to restore normalization between Israel and Turkey, including the dispatch of ambassadors and the cancellation of legal steps against [Israeli Defense Forces] soldiers.\" Mr. Erdogan accepted the Israeli apology, the prime minister's office said.\n\nMr. Erdogan has long sought an apology for the raid in May 2010 on the Mavi Marmara, which was part of a flotilla that sought to break Israel's blockade of Gaza. An Israeli raid on the ship left nine passengers dead, all of them Turkish or of Turkish descent.\n\n\"In light of the Israeli investigation into the incident, which pointed out several operational errors, Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized to the Turkish people for any errors that could have led to loss of life and agreed to complete the agreement on compensation,\" the statement said.\n\nMr. Netanyahu told Mr. Erdogan that what happened on board the Mavi Marmara was \"unintentional and Israel expresses regret over injuries and loss of life,\" according to the statement.\n\nMr. Obama said later at a news conference in Amman that he had spoken to both leaders over the past two years about how it was in the interests of both countries to restore normal relations.\n\nHe said he discussed the issue with Mr. Netanyahu during his visit to Israel this week, and that they agreed the timing was good for a discussion with the Turkish leader.\n\nThe incident was a subject of talks between Mr. Netanyahu and President Barack Obama during the president's trip to Israel this week, officials said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "March 22, 2013", "start_char": 18, "end_char": 32, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2010", "start_char": 902, "end_char": 910, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two years", "start_char": 1673, "end_char": 1691, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1851, "end_char": 1860, "tid": "t2000", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-W12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 2069, "end_char": 2078, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-W12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "WSJ_20130322_159.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0342\n\nBELGRADE, Dec 12 , 2005\n\n14 Serbs jailed for to up to 20 years over Croatia massacre\n\n\n\n\nA judge at Serbia's war crimes court on Monday jailed 14 former soldiers for to up to 20 years over the massacre of more than 200 prisoners after the siege of the Croatian town of Vukovar in 1991.\n\nThe judge gave eight of the 16 defendants the maximum available sentence of 20 years in prison for murdering \"at least 200 prisoners of war\" in the hamlet of Ovcara near Vukovar after the three-month siege of the northeastern Croatian town.\n\nThe 16, including a woman, were charged with taking prisoners from Vukovar's hospital and executing them on a farm at Ovcara after Serb troops overwhelmed Croat defenders at the Danube River town.\n\nTwo defendants were cleared of all charges, the woman received a nine-year sentence and the remaining men were jailed for between five to 15 years.\n\n\"They are guilty as they, acting as members of the territorial defence from November 20 to November 21, 1991 at the Ovcara farm, tortured, inhumanly treated and murdered at least 200 prisoners of war,\" Judge Vesko Krstajic told the court in handing down the verdict.\n\nSentenced to 20 years in jail were Miroljub Vujovic, Stanko Vujanovic, Milan Lancuzanin, Predrag Dragovic, Predrag Milojevic, Ivan Atanasijevic, Djordje Sosic and Miroslav Djankovic.\n\nThose jailed for 15 years were Jovica Peric, Vujo Zlatar Milan Vojnovic, while Predrag Madjarac got 12 years, Nada Kalaba nine years and Goran Mugosa five years.\n\nThe special prosecutor plans to appeal the two acquittals and some of the short sentences, according to spokesman Bruno Vekaric.\n\nStill, he welcomed the guilty verdicts because \"the crime (massacre), which had previously been denied, has been confirmed and proven.\"\n\nThe defence said it would also mount appeals.\n\nRelatives of the victims were at Monday's ruling in Belgrade along with representatives of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, the US and Croatian embassies in the Serbian capital, and human rights activists.\n\nForeign observers have been attending the trial in Serbia's special war crimes court since it opened in March last year. It was the first major war crimes case to be heard in the former Yugoslav republic.\n\nSerbia set up the special war crimes prosecutor's office in 2003, backed by police and detention units, to deal with allegations arising from the wars of the 1990s in Bosnia, Croatia and the province of Kosovo.\n\nOnly six people were initially indicted over the Vukovar massacre; charges against another 11 were filed in March 2004. One of the accused died in custody earlier this year.\n\nThe defendants were all members of local territorial defense units, as well as volonteer units fighting along the soldiers.\n\nVukovar was captured by the Yugoslav army and Serb rebels in November 1991, at the end of the siege, in some of the most brutal fighting of Croatia's 1991-1995 war of independence from the former communist federation.\n\nThe town was razed and more than 1,000 civilians were killed, including those at Ovcara, 192 of whom have been identified.\n\nThe victims were machine-gunned in groups of about 10 and their bodies were buried in pits at a pig farm outside town, according to the prosecution. The massacre started on November 20 and finished early the next day.\n\nAfter the war ended, the Vukovar region was put under UN administration and was reintegrated into Croatia in 1998.\n\nThe Hague-based UN war crimes tribunal has been trying three Serb officers -- Veselin Sljivancanin, Miroslav Radic and Mile Mrksic -- for suspected war crimes committed in Vukovar.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20 years", "start_char": 386, "end_char": 394, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five to 15 years", "start_char": 880, "end_char": 896, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 20", "start_char": 975, "end_char": 986, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 21, 1991", "start_char": 990, "end_char": 1007, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 years", "start_char": 1368, "end_char": 1376, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12 years", "start_char": 1451, "end_char": 1459, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 1501, "end_char": 1511, "tid": "t15", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1861, "end_char": 1867, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March last year", "start_char": 2169, "end_char": 2184, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 2331, "end_char": 2335, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990s", "start_char": 2429, "end_char": 2434, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "199", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2004", "start_char": 2591, "end_char": 2601, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this year", "start_char": 2638, "end_char": 2655, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1991", "start_char": 2844, "end_char": 2857, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 20", "start_char": 3299, "end_char": 3310, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next day", "start_char": 3330, "end_char": 3342, "tid": "t25", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 3454, "end_char": 3458, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0342.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0321\n\nMUNICH, Germany, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nBayern confirm lucrative Dubai tournament\n\n\n\n\nBayern Munich have confirmed their participation in a lucrative four-team tournament in Dubai from January 5-14.\n\nThe German champions will be on a six-week winter break from the Bundesliga but have been given the chance to keep trim against some quality opposition over the festive period, and make some money into the bargain.\n\nBayern will face Portuguese side Benfica on January 8 with the winner facing Brazilian giants FC Santos or Italian outfit Lazio for the two million dollar prize money.\n\nBayern vice-chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge said: \"We didn't have the best preparation in the summer but now we've found what we have been looking for for the past three years - two serious matches in the winter break that combine our sporting and economic interests.\"\n\nBayern lie fourth in the Bundesliga table, three points behind joint leaders Werder Bremen and Schalke 04, with just one game remaining before the winter break.\n\nThe Bundesliga resumes on January 26, with Dortmund's home game against Bayern kicking off the second half of the season.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 5-14", "start_char": 206, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the festive period", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 8", "start_char": 481, "end_char": 490, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the summer", "start_char": 695, "end_char": 705, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 710, "end_char": 713, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three years", "start_char": 760, "end_char": 780, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 26", "start_char": 1063, "end_char": 1073, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0321.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0007\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNEWSMAKER: Tie Ning: First woman to head China's literary world\n\n\n\n\nby Xinhua Writer Chang Ai-ling\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 15 (Xinhua) -- As the first woman writer elected as president of the Chinese Writers Association, 49-year-old Tie Ning broke the stereotype of the government-sponsored organization.\n\n\"It ends the era of a literary world dominated by great masters and ushers in the age of common people,\" fellow writer Sun Yunxiao wrote in his blog, commenting on Tie's election.\n\nBorn in 1957, Tie was elected president of the association on Sunday at the seventh congress of the association in Beijing, becoming China's top literary official.\n\nThe association, founded in 1949, is a non-government body made up of outstanding Chinese writers to encourage Chinese literary activities and promote exchanges between the Chinese and foreign literary circles.\n\nCompared with predecessors -- Mao Dun (1896-1981) and Ba Jin (1904-2005) -- who made their names before the founding of New China with works attacking the feudal society, Tie comes from another age.\n\n\"I belong to the generation of writers who grew up with China's economic reform and opening up process,\" Tie said in an interview with China's major news website sina.com.cn, before the election.\n\nChina's literary world has become increasingly diversified since the 1980s, leaving behind the era when the literary landscape was dominated by several great masters who were admired by an awestruck public.\n\nTie published her first story in 1975. At the age of 25, she won a national acclaim for her prize-winning short story \"Ah, Xiangxue,\" which relates the adventures of a country girl who yearns to know about the outside world and gets on a train by mistake.\n\nHer novel \"The Red Shirt Without Buttons\" and short story \"June's Big Topic\" won her another two national awards in 1984. Since the 1980s, Tie has published a number of collections of short stories and novels and become one of China's most well-known writers.\n\nIn 1996, 38-year-old Tie was elected vice president of the Chinese Writers Association. Meanwhile, she also served as president of the Hebei Provincial Writers Association.\n\nTo many of her colleagues, Tie, who has never been married, is a smart and nice-looking lady, who \"has a positive attitude towards life and literature\". Her election seemed to be warmly welcomed by Chinese writers, especially of her generation.\n\n\"First of all, she is a real writer. Her books demonstrate her talents and creativity. Secondly, she is of good character and is influential among writers,\" Sun said.\n\nOther writers hope the woman president will introduce \"new vitality\" into the 57-year-old association.\n\n\"Some people may think that a writer of our generation is less weighty than the literary masters as Mao Dun and Ba Jin. But I personally support the election of a young, capable and vigorous writer as the new president,\" writer Hai Yan was quoted as saying by the China News Service.\n\n\"The president of the writers association should not be viewed as a figurehead,\" Hai said.\n\nThe Chinese Writers Association has been criticized for its \"officialdom\" by writers in recent years and is under huge pressure for institutional reform. Chinese writers have also frequently been chastised by the public for their lack of social responsibility, shallow understanding of social changes, ignorance of history and deliberate avoidance of social conflicts.\n\nThe Southern Metropolis Daily commented that compared with Mao Dun and Ba Jin, who either held too many titles to focus on the association or were too old and weak to deal with the association's affairs, Tie was subject to much higher expectations.\n\nThe newspaper said it expected that Tie, after the promotion, will continue to write good novels and use her position to reinforce Chinese writers' professional consciences.\n\nAlthough Tie has turned down all media requests for interviews since the appointment this week, her position in both the literary and political arena, as well as her earlier words and deeds, might still belie her would-be agenda for the organization with more than 7,600 member writers.\n\nIn 2002, Tie was elected to the powerful Central Committee of the Communist Party of China as an alternate member at the Party's 16th National Congress.\n\nResponding to questions on her \"dual identity\", Tie said early this year that she dosen't think that being an official limits her freedom of writing.\n\n\"First of all, I personally don't put them at opposite sides. Secondly, being a writer is my job, my duty and my focus,\" she said. \"As a writer, my soul is free. My writing is independent. Nobody forces me to write, neither am I restricted by anyone.\"\n\nWhile serving as president of the Hebei Provincial Writers Association, Tie was said to have devoted great efforts to help young writers and create more opportunities for them. She also successfully raised enough money to build a provincial literature center and set up a provincial institute for literature.\n\nBut she admitted that being an official is a challenge because she had to get used to mixing administrative issues and writing. \"I deal with the issues in the most efficient way and then get back to writing. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0366\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nVoluntary HIV tests on the rise in S. Africa\n\n\n\n\nMore South Africans are voluntarily getting counseled and tested for HIV with figures rising annually, the country's health ministry said on Tuesday.\n\nA total of 1.715 million people in South Africa, one of the world's hardest hit countries by HIV/AIDS, utilized the free pre- HIV test counseling and 80 percent of them volunteered for HIV tests between April 2005 and March 2006, the ministry spokesman Sibani Mngadi said.\n\n\"The trend is that it seems to be doubling every year,\" he said.\n\nAbout 35 percent, or 479,086 people, of those who tested were found to be HIV positive. But Mngadi said this did not reflect prevalence within the general population.\n\nMore than 5.5 million South Africans, or 12 percent of the population, are infected with HIV. This number is the second largest in the world, only after India.\n\nMngadi said the government has launched a nationwide awareness campaign which encourages people to know their HIV status.\n\n\"The progress in increasing the uptake into VCT (Voluntary Counseling and Testing) is largely attributed to the campaign,\" he said.\n\nIn 2004-05 one million participants were counseled and 866,000 tested. In the 2003-2004 period 690,000 people were counseled and 511,000 tested.\n\nThe uptake was also enhanced by the wide accessibility of VCT service across the country, Mngadi said. A total of 4,172 VCT service points are operational in both medical and non-medical sites in all nine provinces, and VCT is available in more than 90 percent of clinics.\n\nA draft program for the World AIDS Day event on Dec. 1, issued by the health ministry on Tuesday, suggested that the South African government would launch a new HIV/AIDS-combating strategy in 2007-2011.\n\nLocal media revealed earlier this month that the strategy aims to halve the HIV-infection rate and provide treatment to 750,000 patients within the next five years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 252, "end_char": 259, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2005", "start_char": 465, "end_char": 475, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2006", "start_char": 480, "end_char": 490, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 579, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t4", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004-05", "start_char": 1190, "end_char": 1197, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 2003-2004 period", "start_char": 1261, "end_char": 1281, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1", "start_char": 1655, "end_char": 1661, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1696, "end_char": 1703, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007-2011", "start_char": 1799, "end_char": 1808, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1840, "end_char": 1850, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next five years", "start_char": 1955, "end_char": 1974, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0366.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0303\n\nTOKYO, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapan's troubled nuclear plant operator to privatise major work\n\n\n\n\nThe chief of Japan's scandal-hit state-run nuclear plant operator said Tuesday it planned to privatise its uranium enrichment and nuclear fuel reprocessing operations following a series of accidents.\n\nToshiyuki Kondo, president of Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corp. (Donen), announced the plan during the House of Councillors Budget Committee.\n\nKondo said the plan was part of its restructuring scheme following the emergence of a scandal sparked by a string of nuclear leaks which officials kept secret.\n\n\"We are thinking of transferring our uranium enrichment operation to Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd.,\" Kondo said. Japan Nuclear Fuel is a private entity owned mainly by Japan's nine major electric power companies.\n\nKondo also said Donen planned to transfer its nuclear fuel reprocessing functions now undertaken at a reprocessing plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, into private hands.\n\nKyodo News said the uranium enrichment and nuclear reprocessing operations were Donen's main functions, making it likely their transfer to the private sector would strengthen the argument that Donen be dissolved.\n\nBut the president denied the possibility of the complete disbandment of Donen, saying the state-run nuclear operator must continue its research into nuclear fuel cycle technology based on fast-breeder reactors and disposal of highly radioactive waste.\n\n\"Private entities cannot handle the two operations because they will cost a lot of time and money,\" Kondo said. \"Therefore, the country would continue undertaking these two operations.\"\n\nLast week, a special commission headed by Riichiro Chikaoka, minister in charge of the science and technology agency, began talks on measures to reform Donen.\n\nCalls for revamping Donen mounted after a fire and explosion at its nuclear reprocessing plant in Tokai, northeast of Tokyo, which came 15 months after a massive sodium leak at its fast-breeder Monju reactor in the western city of Tsuruga.\n\nThe March 11 accident exposed 37 workers to low-level radiation and is considered to be Japan's worst nuclear accident.\n\nDonen faced another crisis as heavy water leaked at the Fugen advanced thermal converter reactor in Tsuruga, boosting the air density of radioactive tritium to 18 times the normal level and leaving 11 workers exposed to low-level radiation.\n\nThe nuclear power plant operator has also come under fire for covering up incidents at Monju and Tokai.\n\nDonen admitted last week that it had also failed to report \"11 very low levels of leaks\" at Fugen in the past three years.\n\nEarlier in the day, the lower house voted to kill an opposition- sponsored no-confidence motion against the science and technology agency chief Chikaoka over the incidents involving Donen.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 199, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 931, "end_char": 934, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 1699, "end_char": 1708, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 months", "start_char": 1995, "end_char": 2004, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 11", "start_char": 2104, "end_char": 2112, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 2583, "end_char": 2592, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three years", "start_char": 2669, "end_char": 2689, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0303.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0259\n\nCAIRO, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nArafat in Cairo to ask Egypt's help (picture)\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian President Yasser Arafat arrived here Monday determined to ask Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to make \"more\" efforts to save the peace process from collapse.\n\n\"I will ask President Mubarak for more efforts and I will thank him for what he is doing to protect the peace process,\" Arafat told reporters before heading into talks with the Egyptian leader at the Ittihadiya presidential palace outside Cairo.\n\nThe Palestinian president said he will discuss with Mubarak ways of \"saving\" the peace process from collapse because of Israel's \"persistence in violating the accords which were signed.\"\n\nThe talks are focused on Israel's settlement policy as well as the closure of Palestinian territories, Arafat said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0259.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0072\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNepali government endorses SPA-guerillas latest pact\n\n\n\n\nNepali government endorsed Thursday the latest six-point agreement between the Seven Party Alliance (SPA) and guerrillas.\n\nThe meeting of council of ministers was held on Thursday morning approving the pact singed on Wednesday midnight.\n\nPrime Minister Koirala, on the occasion, briefed about the agreement to the ministers and sought their commitments to implement the pact.\n\nMeanwhile, Koirala also informed about the agreement to the parliament on Thursday noon.\n\nIn his speech to the parliament he said that the pact had added extra responsibility to all parties involved and stressed on the need to work united.\n\nHe also warned of conspiracy that the reactionary forces might hatch to destroy the historic pact.\n\nKoirala urged the guerrillas to create fearless environment as earliest as possible.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 332, "end_char": 341, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday noon", "start_char": 566, "end_char": 579, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0072.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0208\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNew method to ban bully giant retailors\n\n\n\n\nSupermarkets and chain store giants who used to default payment to goods suppliers or bullied them into forking out unnecessary charges have to be careful as a new method took effect on Wednesday.\n\nThis first-ever method to secure fair trade between retailers and suppliers will empower suppliers, especially small and medium-sized ones,to defend their legitimate interests and report offense to relevant authorities.\n\nThe instrument came after nine high-ranking managers from bankrupt supermarket chain PriceSmart China were put on trial in October for allegedly stealing and defrauding a total of 120 million yuan from the corporation and individual stores and banks.\n\nWhile a key chain warehouse of the PriceSmart Membership Shop in Beijing was shut last January to evade suppliers demanding delayed payment, protests culminated after nearly 100 suppliers picketed the shop gates and a drove of shoppers asked for refunds on their membership cards.\n\nThe verdicts are yet to come. Assistant Minister of Commerce Huang Hai said the document was tailor-made against such bully retailer.\n\nThe method jointly issued by the Ministry of Commerce and other four departments covering pricing, taxation, public securities and industrial and commerce forbids retailers, either local or foreign-invested, to solicit kickbacks from suppliers or force them to pay for the wear and tear of goods on shelf.\n\nIt provides detailed rules on the charges retailers may impose and suppliers and prohibits retailers from demanding unreasonable withdraw of goods by suppliers.\n\nSong Ze, researcher of the China Academy of Social Sciences, said that the contradiction between retailers and suppliers have existed for a long time.\n\n\"The deep-rooted cause is that foreign large retailers took lead to use their distribution and capital advantages to withhold their payment to suppliers, which hindered the latters' cash flow and eventually sour the relationship,\" said he.\n\nA survey from the Ministry of Commerce revealed that payment default by retailers has actually evolved into an industrial practice. And domestic retailers do not stay clean. In some cases, payment of goods can be delayed five to six months behind the schedule.\n\nIn China, the world's largest market boasting of a population of 1.3 billion, a saying widely spread in the business circles is that who controls the distribution channels is the King.\n\nThere are quite a number of \"Distribution Kings\" in China, the U.S-based Walmart, France-based Carrefour, UK-based B, Lotus Supermarkets from Thailand and local ones like Merrymart and Hualian.\n\nA supplier said that it was right time to rectify their malpractice. Describing the method as \"only a first move\", he said that dethroning the Kings would be \"difficult\".\n\n\"If we reported offenses, who guaranteed the problematic retailers would be immediately punished and what are the other options to sell our products?\" he asked.\n\nSong Ze said the supplier's concern reflects the next move Chinese authorities must take-- to tighten supervision and strenghthen enforcement.\n\nAs five different departments are involved, he suggested officials of trade, public securities, taxation, pricing and industry and commerce establish a regular coordination mechanism to share information and launch joint crackdown on major transgression.\n\n\"Suppliers are not the only victims of the unfair trade---People working for suppliers, banks extending loans and shoppers having to pay higher prices for the extra costs that cash-strained producers refused to pay.\" Song said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 287, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 643, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last January", "start_char": 854, "end_char": 866, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five to six months", "start_char": 2272, "end_char": 2290, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0208.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0141\n\nBINH DUONG, Vietnam, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDong Tam Long An Tile, Binh Duong from Vietnam enter soccer final\n\n\n\n\nVietnam's Dong Tam Long An Tile downed Singapore's Tamin Rovers 2-0 here Saturday, while hosts Binh Duong beat Da Nang 8-7 at the semifinals of the International Binh Duong Television Cup.\n\nLocal half-backer Ly Lam Huy and Brazilian striker Antonio of Dong Tam Long An Tile, defending champion of Vietnam's professional league, scored one apiece in the 74th and 84th minute, respectively, offering their team a final triumph of 2-0 over Tamin Rovers, defending champion of the Singapore league.\n\nBinh Duong from Vietnam's southern Binh Duong province had a hard-earnt victory over Da Nang from the country's central Da Nang city with the final score being determined by penalty shots. They tied a draw of 2-2 after full time with the first goal scored by a Da Nang striker in the 25th minute, the equalized goal in the 32nd minute, the third by Binh Duong in the 41st minute, and the fourth by Da Nang in the 75th minute.\n\nWith penalty kicks, Binh Duong took the lead of 6-5, grabbing the rights to clash with Dong Tam Long An Tile in the final game on Monday.\n\nThe International Binh Duong Television Cup, taking place from Nov. 5 to 14, features eight teams from China, Thailand, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam. The champions will get a cash prize of 20,000 US dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 58, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 74th and 84th minute", "start_char": 488, "end_char": 512, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 75th minute", "start_char": 1044, "end_char": 1059, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1192, "end_char": 1198, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 5", "start_char": 1264, "end_char": 1270, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0141.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0340\n\nWARSAW, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPoland to set timetable to join euro zone in two or three years: PM\n\n\n\n\nPolish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said here Tuesday his country would decide on its schedule to join the euro zone in two or three years.\n\nTo set the date now is \"unrealistic\" and could bring about much negative impact, said the leader at a symposium on Poland's investment environment, adding this could be \"bravely\" done in two or three years' time.\n\nMarcinkiewicz said his government would primarily ensure the stability of public finance, be more dedicated to reducing budgetary deficit and strive to meet, in four years' time, the criteria set by the Maastricht Treaty for the adoption of the European Union's common currency, the euro.\n\nThe so-called Maastricht convergence criteria require euro candidates to meet strict macroeconomic targets including low inflation and interest rates and a public spending deficit limit of lower than 3 percent of GDP.\n\nPoland is the only country among the 10 new EU members that has not set the schedule for joining the euro zone.\n\nEarlier this month, the European Commission, the executive arm of the EU, expressed unease over Poland's uncertainty on the single currency and urged it to set a deadline for adopting the euro.\n\nMarcinkiewicz responded that it would be unnecessary for Poland to join in the euro zone within four years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 191, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two or three years", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 298, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two or three years", "start_char": 466, "end_char": 484, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years", "start_char": 654, "end_char": 664, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this month", "start_char": 1115, "end_char": 1133, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years", "start_char": 1406, "end_char": 1416, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0340.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0334\n\nKAMPALA, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nAustralian cardiologist acquitted of wife's murder in Uganda\n\n\n\n\nA Ugandan court on Monday acquitted a Ugandan-born Australian physician of murdering his estranged lawyer wife last year at the end of a long-running high-profile trial.\n\nKampala High Court Justice Opio Aweri said prosecutors had failed to prove their case against Aggrey Kiyingi, 51, a Sydney cardiologist, who had vehemently denied any role in the July 2005 killing of his wife, Robinah.\n\nThe judge also found two other suspects in the murder -- a police officer and a businessman, along with a soldier who was later found dead in prison -- not guilty in the shooting death of Robinah Kiyingi, a well-known Kampala attorney.\n\n\"Taking the prosecution evidence in totality, my mind is left nagging,\" Aweri said. \"The evidence was not established and court needs to be certain beyond reasonable doubt of the evidence to convict the accused persons.\"\n\n\"I find the accused persons not guilty of the offence and they are accordingly acquitted,\" he said, adding that while Kiyingi may have been the prime suspect \"suspicion alone cannot a basis on which to convict a person.\"\n\nThe suspects could have faced the death penalty if convicted.\n\nKiyingi, 51, was arrested after attending the funeral of his 54-year-old wife, a prominent anti-corruption advocate, who was shot several times in her car in the driveway of her home.\n\nHe and the co-defendants had been accused of conspiring to have Robinah Kiyingi killed.\n\nThe trial had been filled with surprise allegations and witness testimony, as well as the death in custody of the accused soldier.\n\nLast month, Ugandan trial \"assessors,\" who function like jurors but whose rulings are not binding on the court, recommended that Kiyingi be acquitted, citing insufficient evidence.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 137, "end_char": 143, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 229, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 2005", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 477, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last month", "start_char": 1659, "end_char": 1669, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0334.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0338\n\nRENNES, France, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nFrench police, youth clash over party ban\n\n\n\n\nPolice clashed with youths in this northwestern French city on Saturday after authorities banned a rave party due to be held on the sidelines of a rock music festival.\n\nYouths set fire to rubbish bins, smashed car windows and hurled bottles at police after authorities banned the party due to a lack of security, witnesses said.\n\nNo one was injured in the mid-afternoon melee which police said involved some 500 youths and 200 officers. Ten people were held for questioning.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0338.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0359\n\nMACAO, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMacao's retail sales rises year-on-year in Q3\n\n\n\n\nMacao recorded an estimated value of 2.2 billion patacas (275 million US dollars) in retail sales in the third quarter, a year-on-year rise of 23 percent, according to official statistics issued here on Wednesday.\n\nThe figures from the government-run Statistics and Census Service (SCS) showed that motor vehicles sales accounted for 16 percent of the total estimated value of retail sales in the quarter,followed by sales of goods in supermarkets (11 percent) and in department stores (11 percent) and sales of watches, clocks and jewelry (10 percent).\n\nThe SCS attributes the rocketing retail sales growth mainly to \"the marked increases\" in the sales of motor vehicles.\n\nAround 85 percent of the local retailers forecast increased or flat sales prices for the fourth quarter, according to the SCS statistics.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 206, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth quarter", "start_char": 864, "end_char": 882, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q4", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0359.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0161\n\nLONDON, Dec 10 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - INCORPORATES Britain-Russia-spy-wife ///\n\n\n\n\nThe widow of former Russian secret agent Alexander Litvinenko on Sunday accused Moscow of involvement in his murder, as the probe into who administered the fatal dose of radioactivity widened.\n\nIn her first public interviews since her husband's death on November 23, Marina Litvinenko backed his apparent death-bed accusation that he was killed by a Russian \"hit squad\" because of his openly critical views of the Kremlin.\n\n\"Obviously it was not (Russian President Vladimir) Putin himself, of course not,\" the 44-year-old told the Mail on Sunday. \"But what Putin does around him in Russia makes it possible to kill a person on British soil.\n\n\"I believe that it could have been the Russian authorities.\"\n\nAlexander Litvinenko, who according to his wife became a British citizen on October 13 this year, died in a central London hospital on November 23.\n\nLarge quantities of the highly radioactive isotope polonium 210 were found in his urine.\n\nMarina Litvinenko told British Sunday newspapers that he immediately suspected he had been poisoned when he first fell ill on November 1, the sixth anniversary of their arrival in Britain.\n\nAnti-terrorism officers from London's Metropolitan Police said this week they were treating the death of the former lieutenant-colonel in the Federal Security Services (FSB) as murder.\n\nLitvinenko and his father Valter's accusations of Putin were supported Sunday by the former agent's friend, Vladimir Bukovsky, who told the BBC he was convinced of \"clear\" Russian involvement.\n\nMeanwhile, the Sunday Telegraph said a jailed Russian dissident, Mikhail Trepashkin, had named a serving FSB colonel as a key figure in Litvinenko's poisoning, but Moscow had refused to allow British police to question him.\n\nA parallel Russian inquiry has been launched into Litvinenko's death and according to the Sunday Times, investigators there want to interview the exiled billionaire Boris Berezovsky and Chechen leader Akhmed Zakayev.\n\nLitvinenko had close contacts with both men, who are also strongly critical of Russia and Putin. On the day he fell ill, Litvinenko was said to have been told that he and Berezovsky were on a Russian \"hit list\".\n\nBut Marina Litvinenko told the Mail on Sunday she had more faith in the British investigation.\n\nThe British government has not directly accused Russia of involvement. Prime Minister Tony Blair reportedly told senior ministers last week he feared the affair had the potential to cause a long-term diplomatic fall-out with Moscow.\n\nBukovsky said Sunday that Britain should take a stronger line, describing the death as a \"direct challenge to (British) sovereignty\" and a \"casus belli\" because of the involvement of a foreign state.\n\n\"A British citizen was cowardly and brutally murdered on British soil,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMarina Litvinenko told the Sunday Times she and her husband thought they would be safe from their Russian enemies in Britain and that the man she called \"Sasha\" never felt he would become a target because of his outspoken views.\n\nA British Channel 4 television report this week quoted a senior British police source as saying that they believed the radiation was poisoned at the central London hotel where Litvinenko met three Russian contacts on November 1.\n\nThe Russian authorities have said that one of the men, businessman Dmitry Kovtun, was also suffering from radioactive poisoning, while another former agent Andrei Lugovoi was undergoing tests in Moscow.\n\nTraces of polonium were found on a number of planes the men used to travel between London and Moscow before and after Litvinenko fell ill, while German investigators have found traces of polonium 210 at two flats linked to Kovtun.\n\nKovtun has been interviewed by Scotland Yard detectives but the questioning of Lugovoi has been put back indefinitely.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 180, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 23", "start_char": 363, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 648, "end_char": 654, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 13 this year", "start_char": 889, "end_char": 909, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 23", "start_char": 948, "end_char": 959, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1", "start_char": 1178, "end_char": 1188, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1305, "end_char": 1314, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1499, "end_char": 1505, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday Times", "start_char": 1937, "end_char": 1949, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 2165, "end_char": 2172, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2317, "end_char": 2323, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 2504, "end_char": 2513, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2622, "end_char": 2628, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday Times", "start_char": 2926, "end_char": 2938, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 3167, "end_char": 3176, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W49", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1", "start_char": 3346, "end_char": 3356, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061210.0161.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0036\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\nAustralian share boosted by resources to fresh record highs\n\n\n\n\nAustralian share prices closed at fresh record highs Thursday, as firmer base metal and gold prices boosted major mining stocks, dealers said.\n\nThe benchmark SP/ASX 200 rose 17.3 points or 0.31 percent to 5,660.5, beating the previous record closing high of 5,643.2 struck Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile the broader All Ordinaries Index advanced 17.7 points to a record 5,634.0, beating Wednesday's record of 5,616.3.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 389, "end_char": 398, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 494, "end_char": 503, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0036.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0142\n\nTOKYO, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nJapan's Avex to invest in China's priciest film\n\n\n\n\nJapanese entertainment group Avex Group Holdings said Friday it will invest in John Woo's \"Battle of Red Cliff,\" which is set to be China's most expensive ever film.\n\nAvex, a music label that has expanded its business to movies, said it would invest 20 million dollars with China's Chengtian Entertainment International in the latest film by Woo, who directed the second \"Mission Impossible\" movie.\n\n\"Battle of Red Cliff\" will narrate the fiercest battle of the Three Kingdoms, the turbulent era in the third century AD that was turned into a classic of Chinese literature.\n\nAt a total estimated cost of 50 million dollars, the film would be the most expensive ever made by the Chinese film industry, Avex said.\n\nAvex, which will obtain exclusive distribution rights to the movie, said in a statement it expected the \"Battle of Red Cliff\" to be \"the biggest masterpiece of Chinese film history\".\n\nThe state-run China Film Group would produce the movie, which would begin production in the spring, it said.\n\nThe film will star Hong Kong actors Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung, and South Korean actor Jeong U-Seong.\n\nWoo, 60, became one of the first Asian directors to win success in Hollywood with his 1997 action film \"Face/Off\" starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage.\n\nHe also directed \"M:I-2,\" the second film in the \"Mission Impossible\" series starring Tom Cruise.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 22 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third century", "start_char": 602, "end_char": 619, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P3C", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the spring", "start_char": 1088, "end_char": 1098, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-SP", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061222.0142.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0219\n\nQITAIHE, Heilongjiang, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nN. China coal mine blast\n\n\n\n\nThe death toll of the northeast China coal mine blast rose to 134 as of 8:00 p.m. Monday, while the rescuers are sparing no efforts in searching for the other 15 missing.\n\nAltogether 221 miners were working underground when the blast went off at 9:40 p.m. Sunday at Dongfeng Coal Mine run by the Qitaihe branch of the Longmei Mining (Group) Co., Ltd. in Heilongjiang province, said Zhang Chengxiang, director of the provincial coal mine safety bureau.\n\nA 380-member rescue team has been going all-out to search for the miners trapped beneath the coal mine shaft after the blast.\n\nSeventy-two miners were rescued, among whom 38 are still receiving medical treatment in local hospitals.\n\nInvestigators said the tragedy was caused by coal-dust explosion, which knocked out all ventilation systems in the pit. The main ventilation system resumed operation Monday morning.\n\nThe disastrous coal mine blast aroused great attention of the central government.\n\nSenior officials of the Communist Party of China's Central Committee and the State Council ordered relevant departments to save the trapped miners at all costs and carefully treat the injured.\n\nLi Yizhong, head of the National Bureau of Production Safety Supervision Administration, and the major senior officials of the province are organizing the rescue operation at the accident site.\n\nLi urged the rescuers to quicken their search operation and asked the local government to carefully examine all the coal mines in the province so as to remove all the hidden dangers.\n\nThe Heilongjiang provincial government held an emergent videophone conference on Monday afternoon, which ordered production safety checkup in all the mines.\n\nThe mines which do not meet the criteria of production safety will be immediately closed down.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 46, "end_char": 60, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "8:00 p.m.", "start_char": 172, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "9:40 p.m.", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 355, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 356, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday morning", "start_char": 952, "end_char": 966, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday afternoon", "start_char": 1706, "end_char": 1722, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-21TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0219.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0216\n\nBELGRADE, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCroatian, Libyan leaders pledge to revitalize economic ties\n\n\n\n\nCroatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met his Libyan counterpart, Shukri Ghanem, in Zagreb on Friday and the two leaders pledged to revitalize economic ties between the two countries, the Croatian news agency HINA reported.\n\nGhanem, secretary of the General People's Committee of Libya, arrived in the Croatian capital Zagreb on Thursday as the first Libyan head of government to visit Croatia.\n\n\"While it was a part of Yugoslavia, Croatia particularly developed relations with Libya and Croatian companies were involved in major business projects in Libya. We want this to happen again in the future,\" Sanader said at a joint press conference after the talks.\n\n\"Today there is great interest on Croatia's part, because Libya has launched numerous infrastructure projects, and we want to take part in them,\" he said.\n\nCroatian construction company INGRA and petrochemical company DIOKI are already present in Libya and many companies want to join them, including shipyards which are interested in building ships for Libya, Sanader said.\n\nThe talks also focused on cultural and scientific cooperation.\n\nGhanem said that his visit was a follow-up to Croatian President Stjepan Mesic's visit to Libya in August 2003.\n\nHe said that it was in the interests of both countries to maintain good relations because Croatia could serve as Libya's gateway into Europe and Libya as Croatia's gateway into Africa.\n\nGhanem said that possibilities for cooperation between Libya and Croatia were great, both on the political and economic level, citing the possibility of creating joint ventures.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 214, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 449, "end_char": 457, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 710, "end_char": 720, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 783, "end_char": 788, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 2003", "start_char": 1321, "end_char": 1332, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0216.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0276\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUN chief shocked at murder of Lebanese senior official\n\n\n\n\nUN Secretary-General Kofi Annan was shocked at the murder of a senior Lebanese official, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday.\n\nIn a statement released by his spokesman, Annan said he was shocked to learn the assassination of Pierre Gemayel, the Minister of Industry of Lebanon and one of the leaders of the March 14 movement, who believed strongly in an independent, democratic and united Lebanon.\n\nThe Secretary-General strongly condemns this murder, which happened one day after the Security Council considered the report on the establishment of the special tribunal for Lebanon, Dujarric told reporters at the UN headquarters in New York.\n\n\"Such acts of terrorism undermine Lebanon's stability, are unacceptable and have no place in a democratic and open society,\" Annan was quoted as saying by his spokesman.\n\n\"The perpetrators and instigators of today's attack must be brought to justice to ensure an end to impunity,\" Dujarric said, adding that the UN chief calls upon all parties to maintain national unity at this critical moment.\n\nGemayel was shot dead on a street in the suburb of Beirut on Tuesday. The 34-year-old Gemayel was a Christian leader in Lebanon and son of former president Amin Gemayel. He was a supporter of the anti-Syrian parliament majority.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 248, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 14", "start_char": 438, "end_char": 446, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1232, "end_char": 1239, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0276.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0172\n\nTEHRAN, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIran warns Bonn over Kurd trial but pledges to protect German interests by Mehrdad Balali\n\n\n\n\nIran warned Wednesday of a threat to relations with Germany over the outcome of a trial of five men accused of the murder of Iranian Kurd opposition leaders in Berlin, but pledged to protect German lives and interests here regardless.\n\nOn Tuesday, the German foreign ministry advised its nationals against travelling to Iran because of anxiety over a possible negative verdict Thursday in the trial of one Iranian and four Lebanese accused of killing four Kurd leaders in a Berlin restaurant in 1992.\n\nBut Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati told a press conference here: \"Any speculation on such threats is pure fantasy.\n\n\"Iran has always demonstrated a dignified attitude in its foreign relations, even if subjected to hostile acts,\" Velayati said.\n\n\"In our foreign policy, we always take into account our interests and Islamic dignity and decency,\" he added. \"They are suffering from illusions to think the whole world is going to crumble down because of this affair.\"\n\nAround 500 German nationals, including diplomats, live in Iran.\n\nGerman prosecutors have linked Iranian political and spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani with the 1992 assassinations.\n\nA warrant has already been issued for Iranian intelligence minister Ali Fallahian, who is accused of ordering the killings.\n\nThe affair has deeply strained ties between Iran and its main trade partner Germany, and the prosecutors' charges provoked angry reactions in Iran, including massive protests in front of the German embassy last November.\n\nReferring to the trial, Velayati said his country would \"wait and see\" the outcome of the \"unfortunate situation.\"\n\nApparently forecasting problems with Bonn in the event Tehran is condemned by the court, he said Iran had \"no need\" of relations with a country which makes it trample on its Islamic dignity and principles.\"\n\n\"Future relations depend on Germany. We want good relations based on mutual respect and equal rights. But a friendship can not be one- sided, or it can not last,\" he said.\n\nBut Velayati acknowledged that the German government is \"independent\" of its judiciary. \"This we know. What we have objections to is why the Berlin court has not preserved its independence and become politicized.\"\n\n\"How can they use some fugitive and criminals like Bani Sadre as a witness? A witness should be unbiased\" he said, referring to exiled former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani Sadre.\n\n\"This is a malicious political act. The court is tainted with political considerations,\" he said.\n\nIran, meanwhile, is taking its own measures against Germany, planning to sue 24 German firms which allegedly supplied Iraq with chemical weapons technology during its 1980-1988 war with the Islamic republic and \"certain\" German officials who approved such exports.\n\nThe Iranian judiciary said Monday the defendants would be called to appear in a Tehran court shortly following complaints from more than 1,000 relatives of victims of chemical attacks during the war.\n\nIn an unexpected move, the Iranian parliament's foreign relations subcommittee discussed late Tuesday prospects for future relations with Bonn, but postponed any decision pending more information.\n\nThe German government said Monday the outcome of the trial could lead to a complete review of relations with Iran.\n\nIranian newspapers have also stepped up pressure on Germany, warning its judiciary against issuing any verdict biased against Iran.\n\n\"Iranian workers are following the case with special sensitivity. In case of a biased verdict, we won't remain silent,\" warned Kar-va- Kargar, a radical daily representing the state labor union.\n\nThe union staged street protests against Germany in November.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 159, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 386, "end_char": 393, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 524, "end_char": 532, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 642, "end_char": 646, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last November", "start_char": 1691, "end_char": 1704, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980-1988", "start_char": 2869, "end_char": 2878, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2995, "end_char": 3001, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 3263, "end_char": 3270, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 3394, "end_char": 3400, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 3864, "end_char": 3872, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0172.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0277\n\nBEIJING, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nChina warns countries backing human rights motion\n\n\n\n\nBeijing warned Tuesday that all countries supporting an anti-China motion submitted by Denmark to the UN Commission on Human Rights would \"adversely affect\" their relations with the Asian giant.\n\n\"Supporting this resolution will not be beneficial to any nation's ties with China,\" said foreign ministry spokesman Shen Guofang.\n\n\"We hope that these European countries can look at overall bilateral relations and not continue with confrontation on the human rights issue.\"\n\nDenmark sparked sharp criticism from China on Monday after it announced plans to sponsor a motion condemning Beijing at the annual sitting of the human rights commission in Geneva.\n\n\"If the Danish government does not listen to China's advice and continues with its motion, this will definitely deteriorate bilateral relations and will affect all areas of exchange and cooperation,\" Shen said.\n\n\"This issue can only be solved through discussion, and confrontation is not a solution. Whoever proposes this motion will in the end be the greatest loser,\" he added.\n\nDenmark announced Saturday it would put forward a motion critical of China's human rights record after the European Union was unable to agree on a joint position.\n\nThe EU had previously sponsored a critical resolution on China in Geneva every year since the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing in 1989, but the common stance this year was blocked by France.\n\nFrance was supported by at least four of other European nations, prompting criticism that they were putting trade with China before moral considerations.\n\n\"France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece and Japan have decided not to support the anti-China resolution at the United Nations human rights commission. We think this decision is sensible,\" Shen said.\n\n\"We hope that those countries that continue to support the anti-China resolution will carefully examine the majority view in the commission or they will adversely affect their China ties,\" he warned.\n\nThe Danish motion is expected to have the backing of at least 11 EU states as well as the United States.\n\nBeijing showered Paris and Rome with compliments Monday for their stance, and in a bid to show that dialogue was the way forward, announced to visiting French Defence Minister Charles Millon that China would sign at least one UN human rights convention before the end of the year.\n\nPresident Jiang Zemin committed China to sign the UN convention on economic, social and cultural rights before the end of the year, and said a second UN convention on civil and political rights was under consideration.\n\nHuman rights groups reacted guardedly Tuesday to Jiang's reported promise.\n\n\"One has to see it as positive, but at the same time note that they (China) said the same thing at the same time last year. ... We would first like to see it happen,\" said Robyn Kilpatrick, Amnesty International's spokesperson in Hong Kong.\n\nKilpatrick also cautioned that China had already signed up to other covenants, covering the rights of the child and elimination of discrimination against women and of the use of torture, but had still been repeatedly accused of abuse.\n\nPaul Harris, chairman of the Hong Kong Human Rights Monitor, said he felt \"total skepticism.\"\n\n\"The timing is obviously designed to influence thinking at the human rights commission. I'm extremly doubtful as to whether it will happen,\" he said. \"I think this is just a statement designed to fool a few gullible people.\"\n\nBoth Kilpatrick and Harris agreed, however, that if Jiang did carry out his promise, it would be good news for Hong Kong.\n\nIt would oblige Beijing to follow the British tradition of reporting to the convention's committee every two years on the situation in the territory, they said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 123, "end_char": 130, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 626, "end_char": 632, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1160, "end_char": 1168, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 1379, "end_char": 1389, "tid": "t4", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 1440, "end_char": 1444, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1468, "end_char": 1477, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2212, "end_char": 2218, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 2423, "end_char": 2442, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 2556, "end_char": 2575, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2703, "end_char": 2710, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2854, "end_char": 2863, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every two years", "start_char": 3762, "end_char": 3777, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-08T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0277.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0389\n\nRIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's water pricing urged to hold water (2)\n\n\n\n\nThus, pricing and demand management now plays a growing role in water governance in China. \"Citizens should pay more money for the water they use. So should they for the cost of treating the wastewater they produce and the cost of building facilities for exploring water resources,\" said Zhang Kunmin, vice-president of Chinese Association on Sustainable Development.\n\nHe said the water price in Shanghai in the 1970s was 0.5 yuan (6 U.S. cents) per cubic meter against the average 50 yuan (6 U.S. dollars) monthly income. \"So my mother-in-law valued each drop of water by mopping the floor with the water used to wash face,\" he said. However in Beijing, the water price by then was 0.05 yuan (0.6 cents) per cubic meter, \"it is common to see water dripping from the pipes in the public.\"\n\nWhile the authority believes the NDRC pricing regulation can help to supervise the water cost and save water, the public doubts about what is behind the rises.\n\n\"I am wondering the relation between the rise of my water bill and that of the staff salary of water utilities,\" said Kuang Fei, a 37-year-old civil servant in Beijing. \"Although the welfare and hospitality cost are imposed quotas in the regulation, I am afraid those 'swollen costs' are not truly necessary for water supply and maybe shifted secretly to other costs, which in the end are shouldered by us consumers,\"he said.\n\nAverage wage income of workers in China's monopoly sectors, such as telecom, finance, tobacco and water industries, has reached three times the national average, while non-wage income of workers in these sectors enlarged the gap with the national average up to 10 fold as much, according to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.\n\nDr. Shen Dajun, research fellow with China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, agreed that the consumers need transparency for the money collected from their water bills.\n\n\"They need to be told that the fees they have paid for treating the wastewater have indeed been used for that purpose and the money to build facilities for the more efficient use of water resources has really been used in that area,\" he said.\n\nHe noted that a good regulation alone would not solve all the problems. An independent auditing is indispensable and cost information should be made available to the public to prevent water suppliers from manipulating pricing, he said.\n\nMa Jun, an environmental consultant and the author of the book \"China's Water Crisis, believes most people could afford water at a realistic price, and they would use the resource more prudently and efficiently if it came at a higher cost.\n\nBut these solutions presuppose vast expenditures of capital, and such solutions \"do not automatically address the needs of the poor, who are unable to pay for that capital,\" he said.\n\nHis worry was echoed in the 2006 Human Development Report, which emphasizes an increased financing and a reorientation of public spending to find viable ways of getting potable water to those who can least afford to pay.\n\nThe report advocates for all governments to go beyond vague constitutional principles in enabling legislation to ensure the human right to a secure, accessible and affordable supply of water. At a minimum, this implies a target of at least 20 liters of clean water a day for every citizen -- and at a very low price or at no cost for those too poor to pay.\n\nDr. Li Yuanhua with the Ministry of Water Resources was glad to see 67 million rural populations had been provided with clean water by the end of 2005, with a government assistance of 402 yuan (50 US dollars) for each.\n\n\"In 2006, the government plans to invest 12 billion yuan (1.5 billion US dollars) to solve the water shortage problem of more than 29 million rural population. In 2007, the target population is 32 million. In 2015, the situation for all the 379 million rural population who suffered from water shortage will be improved,\" Dr. Li said.\n\nIn the urban areas, the water price may continue to rise by 50 to 100 percent over the next five years to curb the squandering of scarce water resources, according to Qiu Baoxing, vice construction minister.\n\nBut Qiu said the rise of water prices would be gradual. He noted that water costs of 5 U.S. dollars per cubic meter in Boston, or 2.5 euros in France, would not work in China.\n\n\"People's income in China is very low, and we have to think about their ability to accept (a price rise),\" Qiu said. \"We are not preparing for a large price increase.\"\n\nNevertheless, the work has paid off, at least from a consumption standpoint. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0193\n\nFELIXSTOWE, Britain, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nWorld's largest container ship arrives in UK with tons of China-made Christmas gifts\n\n\n\n\nThe world's largest container ship, loaded with nearly 45,000 tons of China-made Christmas presents and fare for the holiday season, arrived Saturday in Felixstowe in southeastern Britain's Suffolk.\n\nThe Emma Maersk, 400 meters long (1,300 Ft), 56 meters wide and 60 meters high, cruised into the UK's biggest deep-water harbor. The ship, dubbed the SS Santa, will unload more than 3,000 containers for supermarkets and stores before heading to Netherlands for its mainland Europe Christmas gifts tour.\n\nThe SS Santa, loaded with 11,000 containers of crackers, DVD players, toys, puzzles, lamb meat, clothes and even pet food, was greeted by hundreds of British from the harbor town and other parts of the country.\n\n\"It's like a dream to see such a mountain-like ship floating on the sea, and all the more incredible to learn that the ship is bringing Europeans with Christmas made mainly in China,\" a man who gave his name as David said on the beach.\n\n\"Everybody seems to be talking about economic globalization, and this may be a great example,\" the man who waited over two hours on the beach to see the huge ship said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the holiday season", "start_char": 270, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 298, "end_char": 306, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two hours", "start_char": 1229, "end_char": 1238, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT2H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0193.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0116\n\nCHENGDU, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ncubs in one year\n\n\n\n\nA record 28 pandas have survived so far this year after being born using artificial insemination techniques, a Chinese panda expert said here Tuesday.\n\nA total of 31 panda cubs were born via artificial insemination this year, including 11 pairs of twins and one born to mother panda Lun Lun at the Atlanta Zoo of the United States, said Zhang Zhihe, director of the China Giant Panda Breeding Technical Committee.\n\nDespite the early deaths of three cubs, this is the biggest baby boom for the endangered species since China's first attempt to artificially breed giant pandas in the 1960s, he said.\n\n\"We expected to get 10 cubs this year, but, as you can see, we were too conservative,\" he said.\n\nTwenty-six of all the surviving panda cubs were bred by zoologists in southwest China's Sichuan Province: 17 were born at the Wolong Giant Panda Protection and Research Center and nine at the Chengdu Research Base.\n\nFive-year-old Ya Ya gave birth to two cubs at Chongqing Zoo in neighboring Chongqing Municipality in September, but the careless mother crushed one in her sleep. The other one was sent to Wolong and is healthy, said Li Desheng, an expert at the Wolong Center.\n\nMore than 30 female pandas nationwide were inseminated in spring, including one at Beijing Zoo and one in northwest China's Shaanxi Province,said Zhang Zhihe.\n\nA panda cub born at Beijing Zoo but died prematurely and no pregnancy occurred in Shaanxi, he said.\n\nChina's forestry administration said about 1,590 giant pandas are living in the wild, mainly in China's Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces. But Chinese and British scientists announced in June that there could be as many as 3,000, after a survey that used a new technology to profile DNA from giant panda feces.\n\nMore than 180 pandas have been bred in captivity at zoos worldwide.\n\nGiant pandas have a very low fertility rate because they are sexually inactive. Female pandas become pregnant only once every year and deliver two cubs at most each time.\n\nThe fertility of captive giant pandas is even lower because they do not move much, experts said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 118, "end_char": 127, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 220, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 293, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1960s", "start_char": 656, "end_char": 665, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "196", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 705, "end_char": 714, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1091, "end_char": 1100, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "spring", "start_char": 1309, "end_char": 1315, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-SP", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1695, "end_char": 1699, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 2009, "end_char": 2019, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0116.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0236\n\nHARARE, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZimbabwe issues long-term land lease agreements to farmers\n\n\n\n\nZimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has presented 99-year land lease agreements to 125 large-scale commercial farmers, confirming the government's commitment to ensure that lands return to the hand of its rightful owners, the majority Zimbabweans, Newsnet reported on Friday.\n\nThe historic development has received widespread applause from interest groups across the country as it comes to make a strong statement to the international community about Zimbabwe's seriousness on the land issue, the official media said.\n\nThe issuance of the agreements to the commercial farmers known as A2 farmers is a legal and constitutional development which brings land ownership to farmers while at the same time ensures confidence in the farming industry, the report said.\n\nIt added that the lease agreements stipulate and guarantee land ownership to farmers and provide collateral security to them while ensuring that lands remain a state property.\n\nShadreck Chipanga, chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on justice legal and parliamentary affairs, highlighted the major difference between a lease agreement and a title deed.\n\n\"The 99-year lease agreement is an agreement that has been entered between the government and a farmer while a title deed is a document which shows proof of ownership after buying certain items,\" Chipanga said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 386, "end_char": 392, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0236.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0707\n\nWASHINGTON, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNorth Korea wants more missile talks with US\n\n\n\n\nThe State Department said Tuesday it would hold a second round of talks \"quite soon\" on North Korea's missile exports, to be held at Pyongyang's request.\n\n\"The North Koreans have indicated to the United States their willingness to hold a second round of United States-North Korean missile talks very soon,\" State Department spokesman Nicholas Burns said.\n\n\"We are currently working on the exact date and location for such a meeting, but I think it will be held quite soon,\" he said.\n\nThe first such talks occurred in Berlin last April. Curbing the spread of North Korean missile technology remains a top US condition before Washington will ease its 47-year-old embargo against Pyongyang.\n\nDeputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert Einhorn will lead the US delegation to the upcoming missile talks, Burns said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 132, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last April", "start_char": 630, "end_char": 640, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0707.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0384\n\nROME, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nItalian troops stay in Iraq for final hours\n\n\n\n\nThe Italian flag was scheduled to be lowered on Friday at the American military base near Nassiriya in Iraq, signaling the definitive withdrawal of the nation's peacekeeping contingent from Iraq.\n\nThe red, white and green flag was due to return to Italy on Saturday, along with Gen. Carmine De Pascale, commander of the last 60 Italian soldiers to serve in the Iraq mission, according to reports on Thursday.\n\nItalian Prime Minister Romano Prodi was expected to be at Rome' s Ciampino airport, along with other top government officials, on Saturday for a ceremony marking the troops' return.\n\nAt its height, the Italian contingent numbered 3,200, most of whom were based in the southern Iraqi town of Nassiriya.\n\nItaly, which did not take part in the United-States-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, sent a contingent afterwards to help reconstruction, perform peacekeeping duties and contribute to the training of Iraqi security forces.\n\nDuring the run-up to spring elections, Prodi promised the withdrawal of Italian forces from Iraq, arguing that they should not have been sent in the first place.\n\nThe previous government of Silvio Berlusconi, which sent the troops, had also planned to withdraw soldiers by the end of the year.\n\nProdi said earlier this week he had informed U.S. President George W. Bush about the return of Italian troops. \"He said he was sorry but that he knew we were leaving because I said so in the election campaign.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 359, "end_char": 367, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 501, "end_char": 509, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 642, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 891, "end_char": 895, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 1309, "end_char": 1328, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1350, "end_char": 1359, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0384.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0213\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS EU comment, Belarus analysts ///\n\n\n\n\nThe tense countdown to Russia's threatened cutting of gas supplies to Belarus, which could also hit deliveries to western Europe, entered its final hours of confrontation over pricing on Thursday.\n\nNegotiations continued in Moscow, said Sergei Kupriyanov, spokesman for Russia's state-controlled monopoly Gazprom.\n\nHe refused to give details of the talks, slightly more than three days before a deadline laid down by Russia which is causing concern in the European Union.\n\nGazprom chairman Alexei Miller has warned that gas supplies to Belarus will be turned off at 10:00 am in Moscow (0700 GMT) on Monday if Belarus, an ex-Soviet republic, does not agree to a more than doubling of price.\n\nWith Gazprom and Belarus both warning of a knock-on effect for western European customers who rely on Belarus as a transit point for Russian gas, the crisis increasingly resembles the showdown between Russia and Ukraine at New Year's 2006.\n\n\"A second gas war has been declared,\" said the respected Vedomosti business daily in Moscow. \"Belarus will be cut off, like Ukraine.\"\n\nThe European Union, where Russian imports accounted for 24 percent of total gas requirements in 2005, is watching closely.\n\n\"I call on the two parties to reach as soon as possible a satisfactory agreement that does not put in question gas transits to the EU,\" Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs said in a statement.\n\n\"The Commission is following the situation very closely since it may affect gas supplies to the European Union.\"\n\nGazprom accuses Belarus of preparing to siphon off gas destined for Europe in the event of a cut to its domestic supplies and has warned that compensation for a loss in volumes might be impossible.\n\nBelarus argues that if it is unable to agree with Gazprom on a new contract for its domestic supplies in 2007, then the contract governing transit of Russian gas westward will also become void.\n\nGazprom says the price increase would bring Belarus' fee closer to international standards and away from Soviet-style subsidies, while critics accuse the giant company of using energy as a weapon to bring neighbouring countries under Kremlin dominance.\n\nIronically, the dispute pits Belarus' President Alexander Lukashenko against the one major country that supports his authoritarian regime.\n\nIn contrast, Gazprom's strong-arm tactics in Ukraine 12 months ago, culminating with the brief cut-off in gas, were widely seen as part of a Kremlin strategy to weaken strongly pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko.\n\nThe current crisis is on a smaller scale than the Ukraine episode, since just 20 percent of Russian gas exports to Europe go through Belarus, compared to 80 percent through Ukraine.\n\nLast winter was also one of the coldest recorded in Europe.\n\nSo far, this winter is one of the mildest and so demand for energy is lower. According to the European Union, reserves are big enough to deal with any temporary shortfall.\n\nRussia's media predicted that Belarus, a country of 10.3 million people sandwiched between Russia and the European Union, will find the cost too high to maintain defiance for long.\n\n\"Unpredictable he may be, but Lukashenko will not continue the conflict with Russia for long,\" Vedomosti quoted an unnamed Kremlin official as saying, suggesting that Lukashenko might accept a compromise in which Belarus took a loan from Moscow that covered the increased gas price.\n\nHowever, commentators in Belarus said the country was ready to stand firm.\n\n\"In the end they will come to a deal. Belarus has its own cards in this fight -- transit, Russian military bases stationed on its territory, political relations,\" said analyst Andrei Fyodorov.\n\nBelarus currently pays Gazprom a highly subsidised 46.68 dollars per 1,000 cubic metres of gas and Gazprom originally demanded an increase to 200 dollars, which is closer to western European prices, unless Belarus agreed to sell 50 percent of its pipeline operator Beltransgaz.\n\nThis would give the Russian state-owned giant an important strategic foothold on the European Union's eastern border.\n\nGazprom has since reduced that demand to 105 dollars per 1,000 cubic metres -- 75 dollars per 1,000 cubic metres in cash payments, plus the equivalent of another 30 dollars in shares of Beltransgas.\n\nBelarus is so far refusing to accept the deal.\n\n\"Russia is not only after extra revenues, but wants to take under control certain parts of the property in neighbouring countries,\" Belarussian parliament deputy Anatoly Krasutsky said. \"The government should have diversified its energy sources earlier, but you learn by your mistakes.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 293, "end_char": 301, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days", "start_char": 481, "end_char": 491, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10:00", "start_char": 672, "end_char": 677, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 705, "end_char": 711, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1269, "end_char": 1273, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 1909, "end_char": 1913, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Ukraine 12 months ago", "start_char": 2438, "end_char": 2459, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28T12:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last winter", "start_char": 2795, "end_char": 2806, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-WI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 3773, "end_char": 3782, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0213.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0217\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDeLay informed about campaign fund transfers leading to his indictments: report\n\n\n\n\nFormer US House Majority Leader Tom DeLay was informed about and expressed his support in 2002 for transfers of 190,000 US dollars in mostly corporate funds from his Texas political committee to an arm of the Republican National Committee in Washington and then back to Texas, The Washington Post reported Friday.\n\nDeLay, who has been indicted on three charges - conspiracy concerning campaign finance, money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering, made the acknowledgment during a meeting on Aug. 17 this year with Texas persecutor Ronnie Earle, the Post quoted anonymous sources as saying.\n\nIn late September, the Post reported, DeLay's lawyers tried unsuccessfully to head off felony criminal indictments against him on charges of violating Texas campaign law by signaling that DeLay might plead guilty to a misdemeanor.\n\nThe lawyer's principal aim was to try to preserve DeLay's leadership position under House Republican rules that bar lawmakers accused of felonies from holding such posts. DeLay was forced to step down as the House majority leader on Sept. 28 after the first of two grand jury indictments.\n\nThe last-minute negotiations between the lawyers and Earle were arranged after DeLay made what Earle considered a seriously damaging admission about his fund-raising activities during the Aug. 17 meeting, the report said.\n\nThe transfers were at the heart of the prosecutor's investigation of the alleged use of corporate funds in the 2002 Texas elections, in violation of state law. In the prosecutor's view, DeLay's admission put him in the middle of a conspiracy not only to violate that law but also to launder money, the report said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 450, "end_char": 456, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 17 this year", "start_char": 651, "end_char": 668, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late September", "start_char": 754, "end_char": 768, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 28", "start_char": 1216, "end_char": 1224, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 17", "start_char": 1461, "end_char": 1468, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0217.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0232\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nTorcetrapib\n\n\n\n\nCiting the \"interests of patient safety,\" US drug manufacturer Pfizer said it was stopping all clinical trials of the cholesterol-controlling drug Torcetrapib.\n\nIn a statement released Saturday, the company said it was in the process of notifying all clinical investigators and regulatory authorities, including the Food and Drug Administration.\n\nThe decision came after Pfizer officials were informed that the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) reviewing a morbidity and mortality study for Torcetrapib recommended terminating the trial \"because of an imbalance of mortality and cardiovascular events.\"\n\nThe company is in the process of asking all clinical investigators involved in the program to inform patient participants to stop taking the medication immediately.\n\n\"While the DSMB information we received today was both surprising and disappointing, our focus is on the best interests of patients and making sure all this information is communicated to appropriate medical and regulatory authorities as quickly as possible,\" said Pfizer chief executive officer Jeffrey Kindler.\n\nHe added the drug maker understood \"the challenge that this represents and we will respond quickly and aggressively to it.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 893, "end_char": 898, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0232.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0009\n\nMANILA, April 17 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nManila shares close 1.1 percent lower\n\n\n\n\nPhilippine share prices fell 1.1 percent Thursday on fears of further US interest rate hikes, analysts said.\n\nThe Philippine Stock Exchange composite index fell 33.1 points to close at 2,927.87 points.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 17 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 137, "end_char": 145, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0009.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0100\n\nBUSAN, South Korea, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nS. Korean president protests Koizumi's visits to war shrine\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korean President Roh Moo-hyun on Friday met with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, strongly protesting the latter's repeated pilgrimages to a controversial war shrine.\n\nThe meeting took place on the sidelines of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum here.\n\nKoizumi, however, defended his position that the visits to Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese war dead, including war criminals, are not aimed at paying homage to the war criminals but to repent for the past.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 43, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0100.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0001\n\nBOGOTA, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nColombian cyclist to receive Olympic medal in special ceremony\n\n\n\n\nColombian cyclist Maria Luisa Calle, who has been cleared of doping charges following an appeal with a sports arbitration body, will get back the bronze medal she won at the Athens Olympics in a special ceremony, her lawyer Andres Charria told reporters on Wednesday.\n\nThe bronze medal arrived in Colombia on Wednesday, Charria said, adding that a ceremony will be held for the medal presentation according to a fax from the International Olympic Committee(IOC).\n\n\"The IOC fax that I saw said there will be an Olympic ceremony... I believe it will be a large ceremony,\" he said.\n\nThe IOC has asked Mario Vasquez, president of the Pan-American Sports Organization to deliver the medal. Colombian president Alvaro Uribe is also expected to attend the medal presentation.\n\nIn October the Court or Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reinstated Calle as the bronze medalist from the women's point race in Athens and overturned her disqualification by the IOC, saying the headache medication she took did not contain banned substances. The IOC had ratified the decision by the CAS.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 380, "end_char": 389, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 432, "end_char": 441, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 896, "end_char": 903, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0001.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0185\n\nGENEVA, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nmisunderstanding: WHO expert\n\n\n\n\nRaising public awareness of bird flu need eliminate misunderstanding: WHO expert\n\nby Li Xing\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Raising public awareness of bird flu need to eliminate people's misunderstanding on this epidemic, said an expert with the World Health Organization (WHO) here on Friday.\n\n\"There was a high degree of fear of H5 bird flu virus both in animals and humans.\" said Dr. Julie Hall, coordinator of epidemic alert and response in WHO Beijing office, when referring to WHO's mission in central China's Hunan Province.\n\nThere were misunderstandings that the people may remain infectious after they recover from bird flu, which they don't, and fears if the disease would spread very quickly between people, which no evidence can prove at the moment, Hall said in an interview by Xinhua.\n\nTherefore these things need to be addressed, such as giving people accurate information, telling people very clearly what to look for in terms of early finding of the symptoms, what to do to protect themselves, and what to do if animals are getting sick, she said.\n\n\"So on the trip to Hunan, we recommended a good public education campaign and suggested the authority give people actual, practical and mutual information and help them reject misunderstandings,\" she said.\n\nBased on her observation, Hall also noted that when someone has died, there appeared to be misconception that the body itself might be infectious and pose risk to people so it must be cremated quickly.\n\n\"We believe that it is important to address the people of those misunderstandings so the families can go through proper graving and burial process or cremation. There is no need to cremate body too quickly,\" she said.\n\nWHO will be working with the Ministry of Health (MOH) on developing some guidelines on this issue, Hall said, \"hopefully it will be culturally sensitive and acceptable to the relatives, enable some samples to be taken to make a correct diagnosis, and enable the families to grave and bury the dead in a way they would like.\"\n\nEarlier this month, five WHO experts went to central China's Hunan Province to look into three pneumonia cases at invitation of MOH. MOH later announced one of the three cases -- a nine-year-old boy -- was a confirmed human case but he has recovered, and his sister who died was a suspected case.\n\nSo far, China has reported three confirmed human cases of bird flu, including two fatalities and one recovered case.\n\nWHO experts has been invited again to take part in a joint mission to probe the two confirmed human deaths from bird flu in east China's Anhui Province, which will set off fairly soon, according to WHO Beijing office.\n\nMOH has reported all confirmed cases of bird flu to WHO because of the potential significance of the disease, as other countries do, but they are actually reporting more than they need to and doing more than they have to. \"That we feel is very encouraging,\" said Hall.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 25", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 199, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 375, "end_char": 381, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this month", "start_char": 2110, "end_char": 2128, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0185.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0059\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHushen index down -- Nov. 22\n\n\n\n\nThe Hushen 300 Index reflecting the whole fluctuation of China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges closed at 869.62 points on Tuesday, down 14.25 points from the previous close.\n\nAbout one fifth of the total shares listed in the two markets have been chosen as samples of the Hushen 300 Index, accounting for 60 percent of the market value in China's stock market.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 220, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0059.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891031-0138 \n = 891031 \n 891031-0138. \n International:\n@  Courtaulds PLC\n@  Plans to Spin Off\n@  Textiles Business\n@  ----\n@  By Craig Forman\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/31/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n COU \n DIVIDENDS (DIV)\nSTOCK MARKET, OFFERINGS (STK)\nTEXTILES AND APPAREL (TEX) \n LONDON  \n\n   Courtaulds PLC announced plans to spin off its textiles operations to existing shareholders in a restructuring to boost shareholder value. \n\n   The British chemical and textile company's plan, which requires shareholder approval, would create a new, listed U.K. stock with a probable market capitalization between #300 million ($473 million) and #400 million, analysts said. \nThe establishment of the separate company, to be called Courtaulds Textiles, could be effective as early as next year's first quarter. \n\n   Investors welcomed the move. \nCourtaulds' shares rose 15 pence to 362 pence, valuing the entire company at about #1.44 billion. \n\n   Courtaulds' spinoff reflects pressure on British industry to boost share prices beyond the reach of corporate raiders. \nCourtaulds' restructuring is among the largest thus far in Britain, though it is dwarfed by B.A.T Industries PLC's plans to spin roughly off #4 billion in assets to help fend off a takeover bid from Anglo-French financier Sir James Goldsmith. \nThe divested Courtaulds textile operations had operating profit of #50 million on #980 million in revenue in the year ended March 31. \n\n   Some analysts have said Courtaulds' moves could boost the company's value by 5% to 10%, because the two entities separately will carry a higher price earnings multiple than they did combined. \nIn addition, Courtaulds said the moves are logical because they will allow both the chemicals and textile businesses to focus more closely on core activities. \n\n   Courtaulds has been under pressure to enhance shareholder value since takeover speculators -- including Australian financier Kerry Packer -- surfaced holding small stakes last year. \nThough Mr. Packer has since sold his stake, Courtaulds is moving to keep its institutional shareholders happy. \nEven without a specific takeover threat, Courtaulds is giving shareholders \"choice and value,\" said Julia Blake, an analyst at London stockbrokers Barclays de Zoete Wedd. \n\n   In a statement, the company said: \"Both parts can only realize their full potential and be appropriately valued by the market if they are separately quoted companies. \nThe sharper definition and the autonomy which each will thereby gain will benefit shareholders, customers and employees.\" \n\n   Courtaulds Chairman and Chief Executive Sir Christopher Hogg will remain in both posts at the surviving chemical company after the spinoff.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/31/89", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t89", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year's first quarter", "start_char": 807, "end_char": 832, "tid": "t90", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-Q1", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t89"}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1445, "end_char": 1453, "tid": "t99", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 31", "start_char": 1460, "end_char": 1468, "tid": "t100", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-03-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t89"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2003, "end_char": 2012, "tid": "t108", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t89"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0376.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0376\n\nLONDON, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nWorld Cup lineup complete\n\n\n\n\nAll the 32 teams for next year's World Cup finals in Germany have been known after the qualifying campaign finally came to the end on Wednesday.\n\nAustralia, Spain, Trinidad  Tobago, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic completed the 32-team lineup for the World Cup finals.\n\nAustralia reached the World Cup for the first time in 32 years by beating Uruguay 4-2 from the spot after a 1-0 extra time win saw the playoff end 1-1 on aggregate.\n\nIt was also a historic day for the Czechs, who beat Norway 1-0 in Prague for a 2-0 aggregate to qualify for their first ever World Cup finals.\n\nTrinidad  Tobago will also make their debut in the premier soccer tournament after pulling off a spectacular comeback in the qualifying campaign with a 1-0 win over Bahrain in Manama for a 2-1 aggregate victory.\n\nSwitzerland, who had won 2-0 in the first leg in Bern, lost 4-2 in Istanbul to Turkey to level the tie at 4-all on aggregate, but still qualified for the World Cup on away goals, ending a 12-year absence from the finals.\n\nSpain reached their eighth successive World Cup since 1978 with a 1-1 draw in Slovakia for a 6-2 aggregate win.\n\nThe 2006 World Cup will kick off on June 9 in Munich and ends on July 9 in Berlin. The draw takes place in Leipzig on December 9.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 107, "end_char": 116, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 220, "end_char": 229, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "32 years", "start_char": 414, "end_char": 422, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P32Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1978", "start_char": 1159, "end_char": 1163, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1978", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 9", "start_char": 1254, "end_char": 1260, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 9", "start_char": 1283, "end_char": 1289, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 9", "start_char": 1336, "end_char": 1346, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0376.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0310\n\nLONDON, April 12 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nLondon marathon runners warned to beware of terrorist attack\n\n\n\n\nRunners and spectators at this weekend's London marathon were warned Saturday by police to be vigilant against terrorist attack.\n\nUp to 27,000 runners are expected to take part in Sunday's race around London, with a crowd of 500,000 lining streets to cheer them on.\n\nThe warning comes in the wake of last weekend's alert when the Grand National horse race had to be postponed and a 70,000 crowd cleared from the course at Aintree in northwest England after hoax bomb warnings by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).\n\nA terrorist expert said it was clear the IRA had embarked on a policy of causing maximum disruption and intimidation on the British mainland in the run-up to the general election on May 1.\n\nBut neither Scotland Yard nor the organisers of Sunday's race would comment on whether security had been increased to take into account the IRA's apparent switch to targeting sporting events.\n\nA spokeswoman for Scotland Yard said: \"We always ask people to be vigilant. If they see anything suspicious they should report it.\"\n\nProfessor Paul Wilkinson, a terrorist expert in the International Relations department at Saint Andrew's University in Scotland, said: \"It would be wrong to assume that the IRA has switched tactics. We cannot discount any target.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 12 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this weekend", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 305, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last weekend", "start_char": 419, "end_char": 431, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1", "start_char": 814, "end_char": 819, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 870, "end_char": 876, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0310.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0393\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 18 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesia's missing aircraft found but no survivals\n\n\n\n\nA Twin Otter aircraft which had been missing since Friday morning in Papua province of Indonesia, have been found on Saturday morning with 12 passengers and crew seems to have died, a police officer said.\n\nThe plane was found broken to pieces in a deep ravine by a group of missionaries while traveling from Wamena regency to Mulia regency, all people on board predicted to have died, said provincial police spokesman Kartono Wangsa Disastro.\n\n\"The plane has been found, the missionaries said logically no one safe from the accident,\" Disastro told Xinhua by telephone from the province.\n\nBad weather and mountainous field were the cause of the accident, he said.\n\n\"After the plane lower its height preparing for landing, the weather changed to dark, afterwards, the plane crashed to a mountain,\" he said.\n\nDisasto said that evacuation still can not be done, due to a poor weather condition.\n\n\"We wait for favorable weather for moving to the site,\" he said.\n\nThe plane belonging to Trigana Air Service lost contact with the airport 15 minutes after it departed from Mulia, the capital of Puncak Jaya regency on its way to Ilaga district on Friday, he said.\n\nMountainous terrain has been a serious threat for flight in the province, which has frequently caused accidents, the type of Twin Otter aircraft for instance has been four times smashed to the mountains.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday morning", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 minutes", "start_char": 1145, "end_char": 1155, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT15M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1253, "end_char": 1259, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0393.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0050 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0050. \n Provigo Will Sell Non-Food Operations\n@  To Concentrate on Grocery Business\n@  ----\n@  By G. Pierre Goad\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n T.PGI WNEWS \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n MONTREAL  \n\n   In a stunning shift in direction, Provigo Inc. said it will sell all its non-food operations to concentrate solely on its retail and wholesale grocery business. \nThe non-food operations accounted for about 27% of Provigo's 7.38 billion Canadian dollars (US$6.3 billion) in sales in the latest fiscal year. \n\n   In a related move, Pierre Lortie, chairman and chief executive, resigned. \nMr. Lortie joined Provigo in 1985 and spearheaded the company's drive to grow outside its traditional food business. \nHe could n't be reached for comment. \n\n   Bertin Nadeau, newly appointed chairman and interim chief executive of Provigo, would n't say if Mr. Lortie was asked to leave. \n\"Mr. \nLortie felt less pertinent,\" Mr. Nadeau said, given the decision to dump Provigo's non-food operations. \n\"At this stage it was felt I was perhaps more pertinent as chief executive.\" \nMr. Nadeau also is chairman and chief executive of Unigesco Inc., Provigo's controlling shareholder. \n\n   At a news conference, Mr. Nadeau said the sale of the three non-food businesses, which account for nearly half the company's C$900 million in assets, should be completed in a \"matter of months.\" \nThe three units are a nationwide pharmaceutical and health-products distributor, a small sporting-goods chain, and a combination catalog showroom and toy-store chain. \n\n   Investors and analysts applauded the news. \nProvigo was the most active industrial stock on the Montreal Exchange, where it closed at C$9.75 (US$8.32), up 75 Canadian cents. \n\n   \"I think it's a pretty positive development,\" said Ross Cowan, a financial analyst with Levesque Beaubien Geoffrion Inc., of the decision to concentrate on groceries. \nMr. Lortie's departure, while sudden, was seen as inevitable in light of the shift in strategy. \n\"The non-food operations were largely Mr. Lortie's creation {and} his strategy did n't work,\" said Steven Holt, a financial analyst with Midland Doherty Ltd. \n\n   Provigo's profit record over the past two years tarnished the company's and Mr. Lortie's reputations. \nFor the six months ended Aug. 12, Provigo posted net income of C$6.5 million, or eight Canadian cents a share, compared with C$18.1 million, or 21 Canadian cents a share, a year earlier. \nSales were C$4.2 billion compared with C$3.7 billion. \nLast month, Canadian Bond Rating Service downgraded Provigo's commercial paper and debentures because of its lackluster performance. \n\n   Analysts are skeptical Provigo will be able to sell the non-food businesses as a group for at least book value, and are expecting write-downs. \nMr. Nadeau said he could n't yet say if the sale prices would match book values. \nHe said all three non-food operations are profitable. \n\n   Mr. Nadeau said discussions are under way with potential 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0207\n\nCAIRO, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nEgypt reports tenth bird flu death\n\n\n\n\nA 26-year-old Egyptian man died Wednesday from the H5N1 strain of bird flu, the health ministry in Cairo said.\n\nReda Abdel Halim Farid, from the central Nile Delta region of Zifta, is the tenth person to have died in Egypt after contracting the deadly strain, the ministry said.\n\nH5N1 was first diagnosed in birds in Egypt in February, and the first case in humans was announced on March 18. In its most aggressive form, it has killed more than 150 people worldwide, the World Health Organization has said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 122, "end_char": 131, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 416, "end_char": 424, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 18", "start_char": 472, "end_char": 480, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0207.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0285\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nInterest rates mixed at weekly US Treasury bill auctions\n\n\n\n\nInterest rates on short-term US Treasury bills were mixed in auctions held on Monday with six- month bills rising to the highest level since March 2001.\n\nThe US Treasury Department auctioned 17 billion dollars in six- month bills at a discount rate of 4.155 percent, up from 4.125 percent last week. The rate was the highest since these bills brought 4.22 percent on March 19, 2001.\n\nThe department also sold 19 billion dollars in three-month bills at a discount rate of 3.870 percent, down from 3.890 percent last week.\n\nSeparately, the US Federal Reserve said Monday that the average yield for one-year Treasury bills, a popular index for making changes in adjustable rate mortgages, rose to 4.32 percent last week from 4.26 percent the previous week.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six- month", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2001", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 271, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 409, "end_char": 418, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 19, 2001", "start_char": 487, "end_char": 501, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001-03-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 630, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 682, "end_char": 688, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 827, "end_char": 836, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous week.", "start_char": 855, "end_char": 873, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0285.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0158\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 19 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNew guidelines on public toilet unveiled in Singapore\n\n\n\n\nSingapore women will benefit from the new guidelines on public toilet unveiled by the National Environment Agency, Channel NewsAsia said on Saturday night.\n\nUnder the new guidelines, there will be five toilet cubicles for women in medium-sized establishments such as bars, equaling the total number of urinals and cubicles for men.\n\nWomen will have more toilet cubicles than men do in such places as convention halls and cinemas where a large number of people tend to use toilets concurrently in certain periods of time.\n\nThe new guidelines, as part of Singapore's celebration of the World Toilet Day on Saturday, are expected to change the situation of insufficient female toilets in some facilities in the city state.\n\nIn late August this year, Singapore announced the set up of the world's first Toilet College, which plans to offer courses like ecological sanitation, restroom maintenance, as well as toilet design and architecture.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday night", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 271, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 721, "end_char": 729, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August this year", "start_char": 846, "end_char": 862, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0158.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0574\n\nBEIJING, April 24 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENTFirst Taiwanese freighter docks in mainland port\n\n\n\n\nA Taiwanese frighter docked in the southwestern Chinese port of Xiamen on Friday, the first to make the direct journey across the Taiwan Straits in nearly five decades, port authorities said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 24 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five decades", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0574.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0029\n\nCHONGQING, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCities along Yangtze vows to safeguard interests of migrant workers\n\n\n\n\nRepresentatives of 29 city governments along the Yangtze River, China's longest, have gathered in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality to discuss and likely sign an agreement on the protection of rights of migrant workers.\n\nThe cities include Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuhan and Chongqing.\n\nAt the two-day conference which opened on Monday, the cities said they will put an end to regulations and employment practices that discriminate against migrant workers. They also plan to improve the social welfare system for migrant workers which will include covering medical services and providing injury insurance, according to an official with the Chongqing Development and Reform Commission.\n\nThe official said talks will be held on how to provide unified services to migrant workers who move from province to province. The 29 cities have vowed to do a better job in developing labor contracts, ensuring payment and providing community services for migrant workers.\n\n\"We work toward providing legal aid and schooling for their children,\"the official was quoted by the local Chongqing Morning Post as saying.\n\nThe agreement to be signed will require each of the 29 cities to provide information about its labor force requirements on Internet which will be available to migrant workers from other cities.\n\nUnder the accord, training bases will be jointly built by the 29 cities and employment records will be kept.\n\nThe goal of the cities is to build a fair, unified labor force market for both urban and rural areas and establish an employment system based on fair competition.\n\nEmployers who treat migrant workers unfairly will be penalized, the official added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 461, "end_char": 467, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0029.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0357\n\nJERUSALEM, April 20 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIsraeli opposition demands Netanyahu's resignation\n\n\n\n\nOpposition Labor Party leader Shimon Peres called Sunday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to resign because of continuing suspicions over his role in the \"Bibigate\" scandal.\n\n\"The prime minister must draw the necessary conclusions and hand in his resignation,\" Peres told Israel radio.\n\nPeres's statement came after attorney general Eliakim Rubinstein said corruption charges would not be pressed against Netanyahu because of lack of evidence.\n\nThe opposition leader demanded early elections and announced a national petition campaign.\n\nYossi Sarid and several other left-wing opposition MPs announced that they will file an appeal to the supreme court to force the attorney general's office to review its decision to close the file on Netanyahu.\n\nAlthough the prime minister was not charged, Rubinstein said: \"The very fact that these allegations have been sounded creates a cloud of suspicion and an unhealthy atmosphere, but one that does not amount to grounds for filing an indictment.\"\n\n\"There are certain grounds for bewilderment,\" he said, referring to Netanyahu's actions.\n\nRubinstein said that Justice Minister Tzahi Hanegbi, who also faced police recommendations that he be charged over alleged influence- peddling in the appointment of an attorney general, would not be indicted.\n\nThe prime minister's chief of staff Avigdor Lieberman however, will face further investigation, the attorney general added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 20 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970420.0357.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "VOA19980303.1600.0917 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n Nigerian security forces clashed in Lagos with anti-government\n demonstrators who  were protesting calls for military leader Sani Abacha  to run for\n president.\n Meanwhile, as VOA West Africa Correspondent Purnell Murdock\n reports, General Abacha's supporters began a two day rally in the capital,\n Abuja,  to urge him  to compete in this year's election.\n\n\n Nigeria state radio says thousands of people began gathering in the capital\n Abuja early Tuesday for the two day rally supporting General Sani Abacha's\n candidacy.\n Organizers state the two days of music, dancing, and speeches  is expected  to draw some two million people.\n But as supporters of the military leader gathered in the north, riot\n police deployed in Nigeria's southern commercial capital Lagos,  to break up a\n protest rally called by the political opposition.\n Although General Abacha had not  publicly announced his candidacy, many\n people believe an Abacha presidency is a foregone conclusion.\n Some analysts say the outcome of a face off between the police and anti Abacha\n political groups will be a test of the opposition's resolve.\n Purnell Murdock, VOA News.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980303", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t2078", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-03", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two day", "start_char": 310, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t25", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 376, "end_char": 385, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t2078"}, {"text": "early Tuesday", "start_char": 484, "end_char": 497, "tid": "t2221", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-03-03", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t2078"}, {"text": "two day", "start_char": 506, "end_char": 513, "tid": "t28", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days", "start_char": 587, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t29", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "VOA19980303.1600.0917.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0286\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: Iraq's Talabani decides to postpones Iran visit\n\n\n\n\nIraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Friday that he decided to postpone his planned visit to Iran due to airport close under curfew in Baghdad.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0286.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0458\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 10 , 2006, 2006\n\nURGENT  Second Russian hospital fire kills eight\n\n\n\n\nAt least eight people were killed by a fire Sunday in a clinic in southern Siberia, Russia's second lethal hospital blaze of the weekend, the Interfax news agency reported.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 149, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0458.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "NYT19980424.0421 \n NEWS STORY \n 04/24/1998 21:49:00 \n\nA3813 Cx1f taf-z\nu k Cx13  Cx11  BC-EDIT-GENDER-STEREOTYP     04-24 0430\n\n\n BC-EDIT-GENDER-STEREOTYPES-NYT \n\nEDITORIAL: THE COURT RETREATS ON STEREOTYPES\n\nUR (af) LR  QL\nUR c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service QC  LR  QL\n\n\nThe New York Times said in an editorial on Saturday, April 25:\nThe Supreme Court took a detour this week from the core\nprinciple of gender fairness it vindicated two years ago in its\nruling invalidating the use of sexual stereotypes  to justify\ndenying women admission to the Virginia Military Institute. By a\n6-3 vote, the court upheld a discriminatory immigration law that\ngives a child born overseas to an unmarried American woman a better\nchance at citizenship than a child born to an unmarried American\nman.\nUnder the statute, a child born abroad to an unwed American\nmother  is  automatically considered a U.S. citizen. But the child of\nan unwed American father has no citizenship rights unless the\nfather takes the affirmative step of acknowledging paternity and\nformally agrees  to provide support until the child turns 18.\nThe majority's views  were expressed in three separate opinions,\nthe most disquieting of which  was written by a liberal member,\nJustice John Paul Stevens, and joined by a conservative, Chief\nJustice William Rehnquist. The opinion, which found the gender\ndistinction reasonable, relied heavily on outmoded generalities\nabout family roles, including the flawed presumption that mothers\nhave a closer relationship to their children than fathers do. As\nJustice Stephen Breyer asked in a strong dissent, ``what sense does\nit make''  to apply citizenship barriers ``only to fathers and not\nto mothers in today's world _ where paternity can  readily be proved\nand where women and men both are likely  to earn a living in the\nworkplace?''\nJustices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy seemed to agree\nthat the law amounted to unconstitutional sex discrimination. Butinstead of providing the votes  to strike it down, they chose  to uphold it on the flimsy ground that because the sex of the parent\nand not the child made the difference under the law, the plaintiff\ndid not have standing  to bring the case. The Justice Department,\nwhich supported the statute, did not cover itself with glory\neither. The department retreated from its position in the VMI case\nwhen it argued that the government could not make policy based on\nstereotypes ``even when those stereotypes reflect current\nrealities.''\nAs for the court, it managed with its splintered ruling  to cast\ndoubt both on the constitutionality of the immigration provisions\nit upheld and on its true commitment to fighting gender\nstereotypes.\n\n\n\nNYT-04-24-98 2149EDT", "time_expressions": [{"text": "04/24/1998 21:49:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t73", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-04-24T21:49:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday, April 25", "start_char": 314, "end_char": 332, "tid": "t74", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-04-25", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t73"}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 375, "tid": "t75", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-W17", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t73"}, {"text": "two years ago", "start_char": 433, "end_char": 446, "tid": "t76", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t73"}, {"text": "current", "start_char": 2474, "end_char": 2481, "tid": "t77", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t73"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "NYT19980424.0421.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0104\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTwo policemen wounded in explosion in central Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nTwo policemen were injured when a homemade bomb planted near three bodies found in central Baghdad on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry source said.\n\n\"Our police patrols received information about three bodies in Haifa Street. A patrol headed to the scene to retrieve the bodies, but a homemade bomb went off, wounding two policemen,\" the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.\n\nElsewhere, another body for a government employee was found in the southeastern Baghdad district of Amin, the source added.\n\nViolence rages in Iraq as kidnappings, sectarian killings, car bombings, roadside bombs claim dozens of Iraqi lives daily.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 226, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "daily", "start_char": 740, "end_char": 745, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0104.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0280\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nThai PM urges early completion of flood rehabilitation\n\n\n\n\nThailand's Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont Monday ordered that assistance and rehabilitation work for the flood victims must be completed in all flood-ravaged areas within three months.\n\nDuring a three-hour meeting with Cabinet ministers and 15 central province governors at a Monday videoconference, the premier ordered government agencies to speed up assistance to flood victims and disburse compensation as appropriate.\n\nFarmers whose lands carried excess waters to relieve Bangkok's flood threat will be given a high priority. He set a deadline to finish the task within three months, starting from November 15.\n\nSurayud suggested to adopt raft-building techniques for houses in flood-prone areas so that in case of future floods the houses can float during high water periods.\n\nThe prime minister instructed the Armed Forces Development Command (AFDC) to apply its engineering expertise to major projects, and told officials to publicize governmental assistance so the public knows the government is serious about helping the people.\n\nPermanent Secretary for Interior Pongpayom Wasaputi said his ministry will ask the Cabinet Tuesday to urgently pay 25 percent of compensation money to villagers affected by the floods.\n\nIf the Cabinet gives the go ahead, the government can proceed to pay the first round of compensation to flood victims immediately.\n\nPrime Minister Surayud also set up a committee to direct and follow-up assistance to flood victims, Government Spokesman Yongyuth Mayalarp told the Thai News Agency after the meeting.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 393, "end_char": 399, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 691, "end_char": 703, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 15", "start_char": 719, "end_char": 730, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0280.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0126\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesian share index touches 1,600 level\n\n\n\n\nThe composite index in the Jakarta Stock Exchange breached the 1,600 points level for the first time ever Thursday supported by significant gains in banking shares.\n\nThe index rose by 17.8 points or 1.1 percent to close at 1,607. 7 points.\n\nTurnovers totaled 1.8 billion shares worth 2.26 trillion rupiah (248.5 million U.S. dollars).\n\nGainers led losers 80 to 40, with 70 other issues left unchanged.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 209, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0126.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0351\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS, ADDS commentary ///\n\n\n\n\nUS inflation made a surprise comeback in November with a surprising 2.0 percent rise in wholesale prices, the biggest monthly jump in 30 years, the government reported Tuesday.\n\nThe Labor Department's producer price index (PPI) was far ahead of Wall Street expectations of a 0.5 percent rise and showed strong increases in a wide range of goods.\n\nThe core index, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, was up 1.3 percent -- the largest increase in more than 25 years -- against expectations of a 0.2 percent rise.\n\nThe surprise jump in prices challenges expectations from economists and the Federal Reserve that inflation is under control.\n\nBut some analysts said the increase may be a one-month quirk.\n\n\"The November increases in producer prices should not be viewed with alarm, because of past monthly declines,\" said Peter Morici, economist at the University of Maryland.\n\n\"Over the last year, producer prices, including food and energy, have risen only 0.9 percent, and consumer price inflation is likely to moderate through the early months of 2007.\"\n\nBecause the PPI fell 1.6 percent in October, some said the latest report simply smoothes out the bumps.\n\n\"The two months are best viewed as a net 0.4 percent increase, or about 0.2 percent per month,\" said analysts at Briefing.com. \"This doesn't change the overall outlook for consumer inflation.\"\n\nThe latest report showed energy prices rose 6.1 percent in the month, the sharpest gain since February 2003, just before the US-led invasion of Iraq. Within the sector, gasoline prices rose 17.9 percent, the biggest increase since June 2000.\n\nLight truck prices rose a record 13.7 percent, shattering the prior record set in July 1980, when truck prices rose 4.9 percent.\n\nIntermediate goods, which are partially processed materials, rose 0.7 percent in the month, the sharpest rise since May.\n\nThe PPI report is one factor considered by the Federal Reserve, which has held its base rate steady since August but has warned it may hike rates again if inflation remains a problem.\n\nSome analysts say the Fed is in a bind because inflation remains troublesome despite soft economic growth.\n\nBut Stephen Gallagher at Societe Generale said that the PPI report was skewed by energy costs and auto prices at the wholesale level that may not affect consumers.\n\n\"Auto and light truck prices are soft at the consumer level and will remain soft for some time as auto companies work down currently excessive inventory positions,\" he said.\n\n\"The core we should be watching is ex-motor vehicles at 0.2 percent,\" he said. \"This is what the Fed will consider and the Fed will view auto prices as tame.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "30 years", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 243, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P30Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last year", "start_char": 992, "end_char": 1005, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the early months of 2007", "start_char": 1139, "end_char": 1163, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1203, "end_char": 1210, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months", "start_char": 1277, "end_char": 1287, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the month", "start_char": 1525, "end_char": 1534, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2003", "start_char": 1560, "end_char": 1573, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2000", "start_char": 1697, "end_char": 1706, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1980", "start_char": 1791, "end_char": 1800, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the month", "start_char": 1920, "end_char": 1929, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1955, "end_char": 1958, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 2067, "end_char": 2073, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0351.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0196\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd lead: Iran test fires three new models of missiles in drills\n\n\n\n\nIran's Revolutionary Guards test fired three new models of missiles in the ongoing military exercises in the Gulf region, the state-run television reported on Friday.\n\nThe television footage showed the missiles were fired from mobile launching carriers on the shore and from warships, and the missiles hit the targets successfully.\n\nAccording to the report, the new types of missiles, dubbed Nasr, Noor and Kowsar, had been extended of their range and now could cover a range of 170 km.\n\nThe missiles are made by Iran itself and could be used in land- to-sea or sea-to-sea warfare, and due to the extension of their range, the missiles are able to hit all potential targets anywhere in the Gulf region and in the sea of Oman, said the report.\n\n\"The missiles are suitable to cover all the Strait of Hormuz, the Gulf and the sea of Oman,\" said Admiral Sardar Fadavi, the deputy navy chief of the Revolutionary Guards.\n\nIran started a new round of military maneuvers Thursday, during which the Revolutionary Guards also test fired ballistic Shahab-3 missiles with a range of more than 2,000 km.\n\nMajor General Seyed Yahya Rahim Safavi, commander-in-chief of the Revolution Guards, said on Wednesday that the 10-day military maneuvers, dubbed \"The Great Prophet 2,\" would be carried out in the Gulf waters, the sea of Oman and 14 provinces of the country.\n\nBut he did not disclose the number of Iranian troops participating the drills.\n\nIran's maneuver was carried out shortly after the U.S.-led naval forces staged a two-day maneuver in the Gulf waters aimed at blocking smuggling of nuclear weaponry material and arms proliferation.\n\nIranian government spokesman Gholam-Hossein Elham said on Monday that foreign military forces should not damage Gulf peace, saying durable peace and security would be restored through collective cooperation of all countries of the region.\n\nThis is the third round of military exercise in Iran this year, the country launched a large-scale military maneuver named \" Zolfaghar Blow\" in August, and the other drill named \"The Great Prophet 1\" was also staged in April, during which Iranian army said that it tested advanced weapons including missiles and torpedoes.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 289, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 576, "end_char": 579, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1088, "end_char": 1096, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1310, "end_char": 1319, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1814, "end_char": 1820, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 2049, "end_char": 2058, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 2140, "end_char": 2146, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 2215, "end_char": 2220, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0196.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0372\n\nLONDON, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS Annan quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nThe unrest in Iraq is \"much worse\" than a civil war, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan told the BBC in an interview to be broadcast Monday.\n\nHe said some Iraqis rightly thought they were worse off than under dictator Saddam Hussein, ousted from power after US-led forces invaded in March 2003.\n\nThe UN chief voiced his regrets over the invasion, saying it could have been stopped had UN weapons inspectors been given more time to conduct their work, and he added that the wounds had still not healed in the UN.\n\nTurning to Iran, Annan said the UN needed to do whatever it could to resolve the stand-off over Tehran's nuclear programme through negotiations.\n\nAnd the Ghanaian vowed to prioritise Darfur in his final month in office, even though the international community had neither \"the resources or the will\" to confront the crisis in the western region of Sudan.\n\nOn the sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq, Annan said: \"When we had the strife in Lebanon and other places, we called that a civil war -- this is much worse,\" he said.\n\nLast Tuesday, Annan had suggested that the international community hold a broad-based international peace conference to find a way out of the vicious struggle that has plunged Iraq into bloodshed.\n\nBut Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Sunday rejected the idea, apparently leaving it dead in the water.\n\n\"It is an extremely dangerous situation and I think we all are interested in getting Iraq right and we would want to get it right, but the Iraqis will have to come together and make it happen,\" Annan said.\n\n\"They are going to need help; given the killings and the bitterness I'm not sure they can do it alone. They would need help from the international community and their neighbours.\"\n\nHe added: \"I really believed that we could have stopped the war and that if we had worked a bit harder, given the inspectors a bit more time, we could have.\"\n\nCitizens who say conditions were better under president Saddam \"are right in the sense of the average Iraqi's life\", he said.\n\n\"If I were an average Iraqi obviously I would make the same comparison, that they had a dictator who was brutal but they had their streets, they could go out, their kids could go to school and come back home without a mother or father worrying, 'Am I going to see my child again?'\n\n\"And the Iraqi government has not been able to bring the violence under control. The society needs security and a secure environment for it to get on -- without security not much can be done -- not recovery or reconstruction.\"\n\nAsked about the impasse in negotiations over Iran's nuclear programme and the chances of military action, Annan said he did not think the Middle East could \"take another crisis\".\n\n\"It's in a very precarious and delicate state at this moment and I have indicated quite clearly that on the Iranian issue we need to do whatever we can to get a negotiated solution and that, in my mind, is the only one.\"\n\nA military solution would be \"extremely unwise for that country and for the world and everything should be done to stop it.\"\n\nTurning to Darfur, where ethnic violence has killed hundreds of thousands of people and left millions homeless, Annan said the situation was \"deeply disappointing\" as Khartoum has rejected a plan to allow UN peacekeepers in.\n\n\"It's tragic but we do not have the resources or the will to confront the situation -- as in, if you did it, would you make the situation worse, or would it be better?\"\n\nHe said the Sudanese government would be held \"individually and collectively responsible for what is happening and what happens\".\n\nAnnan's second term in office expires at the end of the year, when former South Korean foreign minister Ban Ki-Moon will take over.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 381, "end_char": 391, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "final month", "start_char": 808, "end_char": 819, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last Tuesday", "start_char": 1161, "end_char": 1173, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1397, "end_char": 1403, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 3745, "end_char": 3764, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0372.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0454\n\nMOSCOW, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nItochu to build electricity, gas plants for Caspian oil project\n\n\n\n\nJapanese trading house Itochu Corp. will soon start building an electricity generating plant and gas compressor station at two Azerbaijani oilfields in the Caspian Sea region, the Azerbaijani news agency Turan reported Tuesday.\n\nThe generating plant at the Neft Dashlary offshore field will cost some 60 million dollars, which will be covered by a Japanese government credit, a senior manager at the Azerbaijani national oil company SOCAR said.\n\nThe gas compressor station at the Bakhare field will cost around 100 million dollars, covered by a Japanese Export-Import Bank credit.\n\nIn March 1996 Itochu announced it would take a 2.45 percent stake in a multi-billion-dollar international project to develop Azerbaijani offshore oilfields.\n\nBritish Petroleum and Amoco hold the largest stakes in the contract, worth more than 10 billion dollars, which was signed in September 1994.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 341, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 1996", "start_char": 707, "end_char": 717, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 1994", "start_char": 987, "end_char": 1001, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0454.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0206\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nYunnan\n\n\n\n\nChina's Ministry of Agriculture on Tuesday confirmed bird flu outbreaks in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and southwest China's Yunnan Province.\n\nIt said in a statement that 38 fouls died last Wednesday in the Dabancheng district of Urumqi city in Xinjiang and they were confirmed by a state avian flu lab as H5N1 subtype highly pathogenic bird flu cases.\n\nSeparately, the same kind of bird flu killed 2,500 poultry in Chuxiong city of Yunnan on Thursday.\n\nThe disease also killed 230 poultry on Thursday in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia.\n\nThe Ministry of Agriculture has sent teams of experts to help control the disease, and local veterinary departments have culled the poultry within three kilometers of the affected area. They have culled 8,388 fouls in Xinjiang, 99,400 in Yunnan and 66,800 in Ningxia respectively, the statement said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 103, "end_char": 110, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Wednesday", "start_char": 329, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 587, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 637, "end_char": 645, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0206.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0248\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nDemocrats to push for troop cuts within months: report\n\n\n\n\nU.S. Democratic leaders in the Senate have vowed to use their new congressional majority to press for troop reductions in Iraq within months, U.S. media reported Monday.\n\nThe Democrats - the incoming majority leader, Senator Harry Reid; the incoming Armed Services Committee chairman, Senator Carl Levin; and the incoming Foreign Relations Committee chairman, Senator Joseph R. Biden - said Sunday that a phased redeployment of troops would be their top priority when the new Congress convenes in January, even before an investigation of the conduct of the war.\n\n\"We need to begin a phased redeployment of forces from Iraq in four to six months,\" Levin said in an appearance on the ABC News program \"This Week.\"\n\nReid also said on CBS television that U.S. troop redeployment from Iraq should start within the next few months.\n\nThe White House has said President George W. Bush was open to \" fresh ideas,\" but chief of staff Joshua Bolten said he could not envision the White House signing on to a plan setting a timetable for the withdrawal of troops.\n\n\"I don't think we're going to be receptive to the notion there' s a fixed timetable at which we automatically pull out, because that could be a true disaster for the Iraqi people. But what we've always been prepared to do, and remain prepared to do, is indeed what Senators Levin and Biden were talking about, is put pressure on the Iraqi government to take over themselves,\" he told the ABC television.\n\nOn Monday, a bipartisan panel, the Iraq Study Group, headed by former secretary of state James A. Baker III, a Republican, and Lee Hamilton, a Democratic former congressman, would meet Bush and members of his foreign policy team to begin its final round of interviews.\n\nThe group, which will also interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair by videoconference and meet with Democratic foreign policy leaders, is expected to make recommendations on the government's Iraq policy, probably next month or early next year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "months", "start_char": 253, "end_char": 259, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 281, "end_char": 287, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 510, "end_char": 516, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 616, "end_char": 623, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four to six months", "start_char": 745, "end_char": 763, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This Week", "start_char": 819, "end_char": 828, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next few months", "start_char": 924, "end_char": 943, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1580, "end_char": 1586, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month or early next year", "start_char": 2064, "end_char": 2093, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0248.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0360\n\nPERTH, Australia, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFormer Australian health minister charged with perjury: report\n\n\n\n\nFormer Australian health minister Carmen Lawrence has been charged with three counts of perjury, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported here Monday night.\n\nThe charges arise out of evidence Lawrence, one of Australia's best known female politicians, gave to a royal commission examining the circumstances surrounding a controversial petition tabled in the Western Australian state parliament in 1992. Lawyer Penny Easton, who was named in the petition, committed suicide four days after it was tabled.\n\nLawrence was premier of the state before entering federal politics.\n\nThe ABC reported Lawrence was deeply distressed by the decision to charge her and maintained she had done nothing wrong.\n\nIt quoted her as saying that since she was innocent she had every confidence of being vindicated in court.\n\nLawrence said she would stand down from her Labor Party's opposition front bench in Canberra but would not resign from parliament, it added.\n\nA Western Australian state member of parliament, John Halden, has also been charged with one count of perjury arising from the royal commission, the report said.\n\nLawrence and Halden will appear at the Perth Court of Petty Sessions Thursday.\n\nIt was not clear whether Lawrence had been arrested or charged by summons and no further details were immediately available.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 546, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four days", "start_char": 618, "end_char": 627, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1323, "end_char": 1331, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0360.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0357\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPlease withdraw the \" Dutch-Household-Consumption\" story\n\n\n\n\nPlease withdraw the Dutch story headlined \"Dutch household consumption keeps rising amid economic recovery.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0357.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0247\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBriton Mansell wins S. Africa's Grand Prix Masters\n\n\n\n\nBritain's former Formula 1 racer Nigel Mansell edged out Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi by a fraction of a second to win the inaugural South African Grand Prix Masters at the Kyalami race track in Johannesburg on Sunday.\n\nMansell was pushed all the way by his fellow former Formula 1 World Champion and crossed the line in a time of 50 minutes 55.154 seconds, reported the SAPA news agency.\n\nFittipaldi, who won the F1 Championship in 1972 and 1974, followed just 0.408 seconds later. Italy's Ricardo Patrese completed the podium when he was next past the chequered flag in 51 minutes 15.816 seconds.\n\nMansell, the pre-race favourite, was clearly overjoyed at his success.\n\n\"It was unbelievable, I tried to pull away from Emerson but he kept coming at me,\" Mansell said.\n\n\"I didn't have the traction around the corners to pull away. What a race, what a race. He almost got me at the end but I hung on.\"\n\nFittipaldi, who also won the Indycar Series in 1989 and 1993, was full of admiration for Mansell's drive.\n\n\"Nigel made no mistakes. It was a fantastic display of driving, \" he said.\n\nSunday's Grand Prix Masters race was the first race of its kind for former F1 drivers over the age of 45 and there were more than 70,000 fans in attendance.\n\nWhile Mansell and Fittipaldi were the only world champions taking part -- Australia's 1980 winner Alan Jones withdrew on the eve of the event -- the 14 drivers in the race were some of the true legends of the sport and the performance they put on was appreciated by all, the SAPA said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 328, "end_char": 334, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1972", "start_char": 550, "end_char": 554, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1972", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 559, "end_char": 563, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "0.408 seconds later", "start_char": 579, "end_char": 598, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "51 minutes 15.816 seconds", "start_char": 689, "end_char": 714, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 1066, "end_char": 1070, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 1075, "end_char": 1079, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1202, "end_char": 1208, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0267\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nOver 96 percent Pakistani quake victims get housing compensation: official\n\n\n\n\nMore than 96 percent of quake affectees in northern Pakistan's quake-hit areas have been given compensation for housing, a senior official of Pakistan's Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority (ERRA) said Thursday.\n\nThe construction of over 200,000 houses was under progress in various quake affected areas while the reconstruction work of all the 600,000 damaged houses would be completed by 2008, said Nadeem Ahmed, Deputy Chairman of ERRA, while addressing newsmen in Islamabad.\n\nERRA has prepared a comprehensive plan for the quake survivors living in 41 camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and three camps in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) to provide them best possible protection during the coming cold season, Nadeem said, while answering a question.\n\nA 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck South Asia on Oct. 8, 2005, leaving over 73,000 people dead and some 3.5 million homeless in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and NWFP.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 358, "end_char": 366, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 8, 2005", "start_char": 966, "end_char": 978, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0267.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0192\n\nRAMALLAH, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBeijing unveils 2008 Olympic mascots (updated 3)\n\n\n\n\nby Sportswriter Gao Peng\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- To the surprise of all, Beijing unveiled a set of five doll mascots for the 2008 Olympic Games Friday evening, exactly 1,000 days before the event's opening ceremony.\n\nThe long-anticipated mascots, which embody the natural characteristics of four of China's popular animals -- the Fish, the Panda, the Tibetan Antelope, the Swallow -- and the Olympic Flame,\n\nwere presented at a televised grand ceremony inside the Workers' Gymnasium.\n\nIt is the first time that more than three images share Summer Olympic mascot duty. The 2000 Sydney Games featured three animal mascots -- Olly the Kookaburra, Syd the Platypus and Millie the Spiny Anteater.\n\n\"We decided to produce five mascots instead of one, because we think no single figure can embody China's profound and diversified\n\nculture,\" said Han Meilin, chief of the mascto designers' group.\n\nEach of the Beijing Olympic mascots has a rhyming two-syllable name -- a traditional way of expressing affection for children in China. Beibei is the Fish, Jingjing is the Panda, Huanhuan is the Olympic Flame, Yingying is the Tibetan antelope and Nini is the Swallow.\n\nWhen their names are put together -- Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni -- they say \"Welcome to Beijing\".\n\nThe five elements of nature -- the sea, forest, fire, earth and\n\nsky -- can be found in their origins and headpieces, all stylistically rendered in ways that represent the deep traditional\n\ninfluences of Chinese folk art and ornamentation.\n\nEach of the mascots also symbolizes a different blessing -- prosperity, happiness, passion, health and good luck.\n\nInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge sent a letter of congratulation to the BOCOG.\n\n\"China is lucky to have so many beautiful animals to represent the Olympic spirit,\" said Rogge in the letter.\n\n\"I love them all. And I am delighted that they will carry traditional Chinese blessings all over the world.\n\n\"I believe that this little group of friends -- the carp, the panda, the flame, the antelope and the swallow -- will be extremely popular and will help to spread Olympic messages throughout the world,\" he added.\n\nMany ordinary citizens expressed their surprise at the number of the mascots.\n\n\"I didn't expect that there will five mascots. It's a big surprise,\" said Henry Mok, a Candian-Chinese who works in Beijing.\n\n\"It's a bit surprising (to have five mascots), but if you look at them as a whole, they are more complete than any single image,\"\n\nsaid Li Xiang, a public servant.\n\nThe unveiling of the Beijing Olympic mascots also ended a year- long race of hundreds of candidates.\n\nSince the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) launched a worldwide solicitation in August last year, competition was hot as a handful of areas were vying to have their\n\nlocal symbols picked.\n\nThe country's western Qinghai province was pushing the endangered Tibetan antelope. Fujian province presented the South China tiger. Gansu favored the mythical dragon and Jiangsu promoted the legendary Monkey King.\n\nDozens of artists and designers were called to cut the initial list of mascot entrants from 662 to 56 and finally to six, with the final choice selected by the BOCOG. The IOC approved the choice in\n\nAugust.\n\nThe first mascot to appear at an Olympics was in the 1968 Winter Games in Grenoble, France. But Schuss the skier was not official. The first official mascot was Waldi the Dachshund, who appeared at the Munich Summer Games in 1972.\n\nMascots are the most marketable symbols in the Olympics business. The choice is important as sales of licensed products and helps organizers defray costs.\n\nMore than 300 kinds of licensed products bearing the mascot will go on sale at 188 authorized shops across China the day after the announcement, with prices ranging from one US dollar for a pen to thousands of dollars for a medal.\n\n\"The launch of the mascot will push sales of Olympic products to new heights,\" said Lai Ming, deputy director of BOCOG's marketing\n\ndepartment.\n\n\"We believe the sales volume will be bigger than the previous Olympic Games.\"\n\nPhevos and Athena, the big-footed sibling mascots of last year's Athens Olympics, generated profits of over 200 million US dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 11", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday evening, exactly 1,000 days", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 295, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a", "start_char": 2694, "end_char": 2695, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August last year", "start_char": 2851, "end_char": 2867, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 3375, "end_char": 3381, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1968 Winter", "start_char": 3437, "end_char": 3448, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1968", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1972", "start_char": 3609, "end_char": 3613, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1972", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 4281, "end_char": 4290, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0192.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0204\n\nWASHINGTON, April 10 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNASA delays launch of space station for one year\n\n\n\n\nNASA has decided to delay the launch of a future international space station for one year and needs an extra 200 million dollars to replace a key Russian component that has fallen behind.\n\nThe new target date for the first launch is \"no later than October 1998,\" NASA Space Flight Director Wilbur Trafton told the space subcommittee of the House of Representatives on Wednesday.\n\nThe additional 200 million dollars to build a backup for the missing Russian service module, he said, will come from the US shuttle program, but a decision to build the substitute component will not be made until mid-May.\n\nThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had planned to launch the first module of the 43 billion dollar space station Alpha in November of this year.\n\nBut the first sign the project would have to be delayed came in February when the Russian space agency announced it was postponing the launch of its part of the station for six or seven months.\n\nThe Russian \"cargo\" module was going to transport construction equipment to build the international station, a project between Russia, the United States, Japan and several European countries.\n\nCommittee members were angered by Trafton's announcement. Republican representative Dana Rohrabacher called Russian officials \"dunderheads\" and \"nincompoops\" for causing the year-long delay.\n\nThe lawmakers were also displeased at Trafton's plan to transfer money from the shuttle program for Alpha's component, but the NASA official explained that it was necessary to avoid further delays.\n\n\"To keep from shutting down the program today we need some additional funds today,\" Trafton said. \"For the lack of 200 million today, we could end up costing ourselves several hundred million down the road.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 10 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one year", "start_char": 192, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 1998", "start_char": 359, "end_char": 371, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 479, "end_char": 488, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November of this year", "start_char": 858, "end_char": 879, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 946, "end_char": 954, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six or seven months", "start_char": 1055, "end_char": 1074, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1701, "end_char": 1706, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1737, "end_char": 1742, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1788, "end_char": 1793, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0204.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0269\n\nBERLIN, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGerman stocks end higher\n\n\n\n\nGerman stocks ended higher on Tuesday on the Frankfurt market.\n\nThe 30-share benchmark DAX Index surged 0.49 percent or 31.31 points to 6,361.96.\n\nThe MDAX index of medium-sized companies gained 0.16 percent or 14.17 points to 8,815.42.\n\nThe TecDAX index of technologies and science firms rose 1.80 percent or 12.50 points to 705.24 points.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0269.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0647\n\nBRUSSELS, Dec 15 , 2005\n\n///\n\n\n\n\nEU leaders agreed Thursday on the urgent need for a budget deal, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said after a first day of negotiations on the issue dividing the bloc.\n\n\"We're talking about money, we're talking about very serious issues for a lot of countries and it's going to be a difficult and tough negotiation,\" Blair said after chairing a first round of talks at a two-day summit.\n\n\"I think that everybody realises that if we are going to do a deal on the budget, it's now,\" he added.\n\nWrangling over the EU's budget broke off late Thursday with European leaders eagerly awaiting fresh proposals from the EU's British presidency to break the gridlock.\n\nBlair indicated that Britain would present a set of fresh proposals, so long as there was a point in doing so.\n\n\"Obviously we have anticipated doing that and said to people that we will, but there's got to be a basis for agreement otherwise there's no point in putting forward proposals.\"\n\nLeaders had what some have called a \"blunt\" discussions over Britain's existing proposals on Thursday, even though they did not get into nitty-gritty haggling over concrete figures.\n\nA British source said: \"It was a pretty tough discussion. The good thing is that people want to do a deal at this summit,\" said a British source, speaking on condition of anonymity.\n\nBlair is under particularly fierce pressure to come up with new proposals that would cut down Britain's jealously guarded annual rebate budget contributions.\n\nBut the British leaders is refusing to give ground without guarantees notably on reforms to the EU's long-disputed farm subsidy system, of which France is the main beneficiary.\n\n\"It's looking difficult but not impossible,\" said the British source, adding: \"There isn't an awful lot of room to play with.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 74, "end_char": 82, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 533, "end_char": 536, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 596, "end_char": 604, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1100, "end_char": 1108, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0647.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0231\n\nBANGKOK, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS to go it alone on Burma sanctions\n\n\n\n\nBurmese authorities on Wednesday criticized the United States for imposing economic sanctions on the military-ruled country, while its trading partners declined to follow the US example.\n\nA Burmese official accused the US government of using economic sanctions, announced by Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in Washington on Tuesday, to boost its political stock at home.\n\n\"The sanctions imposed by the US on Myanmar (Burma) is for the domestic political consumption,\" the military official said in a short and terse statement received here in response to questions from AFP.\n\nThe official also accused the United States of trying to use democracy and human rights as a means of boosting its influence in the region, and said the move would not alter the course being taken by the Burmese government.\n\n\"From Myanmar, we have our own set aims and objectives for the good of the nation,\" he said. \"Since Myanmar is working on a straight line towards our goal, we do not have any reason to deviate from our original path.\"\n\nAlbright said the investment ban was due to severe restrictions imposed by the military on the activities of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD).\n\nThe Burmese official's comments were echoed by China, long a critic of the linking of human rights and trade issues by Washington.\n\n\"China is always against interference in other countries' internal affairs by making use of economic means,\" a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said.\n\n\"Isolating and excluding (Burma) will only increase tensions and aggravate confrontation, and will benefit no side,\" the spokesman said.\n\nMany of Burma's leading trade partners said they would not follow the US example and that Rangoon's bid to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) would be unaffected by the sanctions.\n\n\"We understand what the US has done, but ASEAN will stick to its agreements and our decision will not depend on other countries,\" Thai Prime Minister Chaowalit Yongchaiyudh told reporters in Bangkok.\n\nHe said that ASEAN -- which groups Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam -- was committed to its decision taken last year to admit Burma at the same time as Cambodia and Laos.\n\nAlthough the grouping failed to give a date for the entry of the three countries, analysts believe that they will be admitted before the end of the year to mark ASEAN's 30th anniversary.\n\nChaowalit said ASEAN would discuss the issue further at a special foreign ministers meeting in Kuala Lumpur next month.\n\nMalaysia also voiced its intention to have Burma brought on board.\n\n\"We are going to work very hard to get Myanmar into ASEAN,\" the Bernama news agency quoted Malaysian Premier Mahathir Mohamad as saying.\n\nJapan and Australia issued statements saying they would not follow the US example in slapping sanctions on Burma, although both have criticized Rangoon for its human rights record.\n\n\"We have no plan for any sanctions at this moment,\" a foreign ministry official said in Tokyo. \"Our stance has not been changed.\"\n\nAustralian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said through a spokesman that Canberra had already imposed a number of restrictions on dealings with Burma and had consistently condemned the Burmese junta.\n\nBut he added: \"I don't believe that the imposition of similar measures by Australia against new investment in Burma would make any significant difference to the situation.\"\n\nMeanwhile, a leading Burmese dissident group called on the international community to launch a coordinated effort to follow the US initiative.\n\nThe All Burma Students Democratic Front (ABSDF) said in a statement that a multilateral approach with regard to economic sanctions was needed to force Burma's ruling junta into bringing about political reform.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi has repeatedly called for international sanctions on Burma, a stance which has been backed by most Burmese dissident groups.\n\nThe United States, thanks largely to the involvement of Unocal Corp. in a 1.2 billion dollar gas pipeline project, is currently the fourth largest investor in Burma in terms of approved investments.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 119, "end_char": 128, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 426, "end_char": 433, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2290, "end_char": 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0037\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 11 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nEmergency broadcasts to help public during disasters\n\n\n\n\nThe public needs to be warned about extreme weather and dangerous conditions and be advised of how to reduce damage caused by disasters, according to the health ministry.\n\nThe Ministry of Health (MOH) and China Meteorological Administration (CMA) plan to jointly make special broadcast reports providing information about extreme heat, carbon monoxide levels and epidemics, according to an agreement signed recently by the two agencies.\n\nThe expert advisory information will focus on helping people cope and protect themselves during bad weather and public health emergencies, according to the MOH.\n\nThe MOH and the CMA will jointly conduct research on how the weather influences people's health and will set up a mechanism for monitoring, forecasting and emergency warning.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0037.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0203\n\nPARIS, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: Tension looms in Somalia as peace talks collapse\n\n\n\n\nRoundup: Tension looms in Somalia as peace talks collapse\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- Tension looms in Somalia as talks aimed at averting an all-out war between the transitional government and increasingly powerful Islamists have collapsed in Khartoum, Sudan.\n\nThe Arab-League mediated peace talks collapsed on Wednesday night after the Supreme Council of Islamic Courts (SCIC) and transitional government refused to meet face-to-face, the mediators said in a statement received here Thursday.\n\nAnalysts say a war between the militarily superior Islamists and the government could draw in neighboring countries -- Ethiopia and its arch rival Eritrea -- igniting existing regional bitterness over boundary.\n\nThe analysts also fear a conflict which could engulf the entire region is imminent but in a move to avert the looming war, the mediators called for restraint and said further consultations were needed to move the dialogue forward.\n\nEye witnesses and local reports from Somalia said Islamist forces have taken control of another key Somali port. Residents of Hobyo on the central Somali coast, about 500 km from the capital Mogadishu, say there was no fighting as Islamists entered the town Tuesday.\n\nThe transitional government's Foreign Minister Ismail Hurreh had earlier denounced the Islamists as no longer partners for peace. The foreign minister said there was a danger of all-out conflict in the Horn of Africa.\n\nHe said his government hoped to avoid war but warned that conflict would become inevitable if the Islamists continued on their current path. The minister said countries in the region were deeply concerned about the SCIC's declaration of \"jihad\" on their neighbors.\n\nAnd as talks stalled in Khartoum, Islamist forces remain positioned near the interim government's base of Baidoa, prompting officials there to prepare for a possible attack.\n\nThe militia groups loyal to Somalia's Islamic courts have seized control of much of the country's south since winning a battle for the capital Mogadishu in June.\n\nSomalia's interim government has international support but virtually no power outside Baidoa.\n\nThe Islamists had indicated before the talks that they will not negotiate until Ethiopian soldiers leave Somali territory. The Islamists say Ethiopia has sent thousands of troops across the border to protect the weak but United Nations backed Somali interim government.\n\nHowever, Addis Ababa denies this, saying it has sent only a few hundred military instructors.\n\nWith neither side willing to accept the other's preconditions for talks, international mediators have called on both parties to exercise restraint.\n\n\"The parties are urged to commit themselves to previous agreements reached in Khartoum,\" a mediators statement issued after the talks collapse, said.\n\n\"After long consultations with the two sides and the international community, it was decided that the meeting should be postponed and that (the talks) be held as soon as possible after more meticulous preparations,\" said Samir Hosny, who heads the African section of the Cairo-based Arab League.\n\nHosny said neither party was to blame for the failure of the peace talks, and expressed hope that both sides would return to the negotiating table in the future.\n\n\"We did not set a date or venue for any upcoming meetings, but the sooner the meetings take place the better -- in a week or two. But we did not set a date,\" he said.\n\nHe added that the decision to call off the talks indefinitely was reached after the Arab League's consultations with both sides, as well as with the United Nations, the African Union and a number of European countries.\n\n\"Let us hope that this step does not reflect negatively on the situation on the ground,\" Hosny said.\n\nThere has been no sign of reconciliation on the ground in Somalia, where the Islamic courts seek to impose an Islamic state and the internationally recognized government lacks the force to assert its authority beyond Baidoa, the only town it controls.\n\nThe head of the Islamist team, Ibrahim Hussein Adow, praised the postponement and denied his side was planning any attack.\n\n\"There was a gap between the parties and substantial issues, so it was necessary to adjourn,\" he told reporters. \"We are not preparing nor planning for any confrontation. We want peace.\"\n\nBut whether the collapse of the talks will give the rival groups ' time to prepare for counter attacks in the Horn of African nation remains to be seen.\n\nSomalia has been in the grip of warlords and militias for years and has not had a functioning national government since 1991.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 2", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 428, "end_char": 443, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 601, "end_char": 609, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1314, "end_char": 1321, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 2140, "end_char": 2144, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 3355, "end_char": 3365, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 3483, "end_char": 3489, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "years", "start_char": 4635, "end_char": 4640, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 4697, "end_char": 4701, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0203.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0295\n\nLONDON, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nIraq unrest 'worse than civil war': UN chief\n\n\n\n\nThe unrest in Iraq is \"much worse\" than a civil war, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan told the BBC in an interview to be broadcast Monday.\n\nHe said some Iraqis were right to think that they were worse off than under dictator Saddam Hussein, ousted from power after US-led forces invaded in March 2003.\n\nThe UN chief voiced his regrets over the invasion, saying it could have been stopped had UN weapons inspectors been given more time to conduct their work, and he added that the wounds had still not healed in the UN.\n\nTurning to Iran, Annan said the UN needed to do whatever it could to resolve the stand-off over Tehran's nuclear programme through negotiations.\n\nAnd the Ghanaian vowed to make Darfur a priority in his final month in office, even though the international community has neither \"the resources or the will\" to confront the crisis in the western region of Sudan.\n\nOn the sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq, Annan said: \"When we had the strife in Lebanon and other places, we called that a civil war -- this is much worse,\" he said.\n\nHe described Iraq as being in an extremely dangerous situation and raised concerns about the Iraqis' ability to solve these problems by themselves.\n\nBut Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Sunday rejected Annan's idea of an international peace conference on Iraq, apparently leaving the idea dead in the water.\n\nLast Tuesday, Annan had suggested that the international community hold a broad-based peace conference to find a way out of the vicious sectarian struggle that has plunged Iraq into bloodshed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 401, "end_char": 411, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "final month", "start_char": 833, "end_char": 844, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1373, "end_char": 1379, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last Tuesday", "start_char": 1496, "end_char": 1508, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0295.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0191\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMoscow expects Tehran to freeze uranium enrichment: lawmaker\n\n\n\n\nRussia expected Iran to freeze uranium enrichment and confirm that its nuclear program will remain exclusively civilian, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Thursday.\n\n\"Russia will expect Iran to pledge to freeze its current (uranium) enrichment program until all queries are clarified,\" Konstantin Kosachyov, Chairman of International Affairs Committee of Russia's lower parliament, said in a commentary posted on the United Russia Party's website.\n\n\"We expect Tehran to provide exhaustive confirmation that Iran's nuclear program is not military, that Iran does not plan to transform the current civilian program into a military one, and that it will abide by the nuclear weapons nonproliferation regime, \" Kosachyov said.\n\nRussia wanted Tehran to provide detailed confirmation that \"it will continue cooperating fully with the International Atomic Energy Agency and ultimately seek a regime of interaction with the world community that would dispel all suspicion regarding its nuclear program,\" Kosachyov said.\n\nIranian Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani will visit Moscow on Friday for talks in the Russian Security Council and the Foreign Ministry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said here Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1219, "end_char": 1225, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1343, "end_char": 1351, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0191.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0555\n\nWADI KELT, West Bank, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTwo Israelis found murdered in West Bank\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli police on Friday found the bodies of two young Jewish women stabbed to death on the West Bank, police sources said.\n\nThe bodies of the women, one a 23-year-old Israeli settler, were hidden near a stream in Wadi Kelt close to her settlement of Kfar Adumim, northeast of Jerusalem, they said.\n\nThe settler was on an excursion in the desert with a friend.\n\nThey were reportedly raped before being stabbed several times in the throat, and the murders were believed to have been carried out between 24 and 48 hours before the discovery of the bodies.\n\nEarlier, police sources identified the victims as two teenage girls who went missing several days ago.\n\nIsraeli police and the army supported by helicopters combed the area, as the investigation focused on an attack by Palestinian nationalists while not ruling out rather a criminal act.\n\nThe security forces have warned against attacks by Palestinian militants to coincide with this week's Jewish Passover holidays.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 60, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 137, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24", "start_char": 615, "end_char": 617, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1924", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "48 hours", "start_char": 622, "end_char": 630, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT48H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "several days ago", "start_char": 753, "end_char": 769, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1047, "end_char": 1056, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Passover holidays", "start_char": 1066, "end_char": 1083, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0555.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0127\n\nGUATEMALA CITY, APRIL 7 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMore than 30 injured in concert in Guatemala City\n\n\n\n\nMore than 30 people, including 16 policemen, were injured here Sunday when rioting broke out at a concert by the British rock group Def Leppard.\n\nPolice officials said that the violence was triggered when some 3,000 inebriated youths attacked security forces, some throwing stones and bottles, trying to get into the concert without paying.\n\nVolunteer firefighters treated 17 concert-goers, three of them teenagers who were sent to hospital, while municipal aid teams tended to the 16 policemen, including the head of the city's emergency response unit.\n\n\"It was like an avalanche ... They were all crowded together. Some tried to force their way in and others behind began throwing stones,\" said national police chief Angel Comte.\n\nPolice issued a \"red alert,\" fearing a replay of the rampage last October in which 79 people were crushed to death in the city's national stadium.\n\nMobilizing in large numbers around the square where the concert was held, police and emergency-response teams quashed the outbreaks of violence.\n\nAn hour before the five-man group was scheduled to appear, police decided the situation was under control and allowed the show to go on.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "APRIL 7 , 1997", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last October", "start_char": 909, "end_char": 921, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0127.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0293\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nXinjiang\n\n\n\n\nChina has strengthened supervision and monitoring on the bird flu as new cases of the epidemic outbreak were reported in two counties of northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Tuesday.\n\nChina's National Avian Flu Reference Laboratory confirmed the virus , which was found in the dead fowls sent from some family farms in Zepu Country and Urumqi County, both in southern Xinjiang, the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, said the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) on Tuesday.\n\nIn the two bird flu-hit counties, a total of 322,500 family birds within a radius of three kilometers have been culled, and poultry and products markets within ten kilometers have been closed, the ministry said\n\n\"The epidemic is basically put under control,\" said Qian Zhi, Vice chairman of Xinjiang, adding the two county have bought a large quantity of vaccine, protective suits and disinfectors to prevent the spread of the disease.\n\nThe local government in Xinjiang launched its quick-response mechanism timely, blockading the epidemic zone immediately and disinfecting the people, vehicles and relevant goods going in and out.\n\nAll the poultry in the epidemic zone have been killed and disposed of innocuously, and all the poultry markets within 10 kilometers from the epidemic zone have been closed.\n\nXinjiang's new cases have aroused great attention across the country as just one day ago the MOA announced another highly pathogenic bird flu outbreak at a village near Huainan city of east China's Anhui Province, which involved nearly 130,000 fowls killed.\n\nThe ministry has sent expert panels and supervision teams to Anhui and Xinjiang to assist epidemic control.\n\nOther provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities have strengthened monitoring on poultry farms and the migrant birds, which are said to be carriers of the deadly disease virus.\n\nSouth China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region has set up special monitoring stations at its eight counties bordering Vietnam, which is also suffering from bird flu.\n\nIn addition, Guangxi's health departments have resumed the monitoring on fever cases in hospitals and started to vaccine the disease-vulnerable population, such as the old, children, medical workers and poultry farmers, traders and butchers.\n\nIn eastern province of Fujian, the provincial forestry department has set up 24 monitoring stations for migrant birds in their major habitats.\n\nThe stations are required to make a daily report on whether there are abnormal death of migrant birds.\n\nIn Changchun, provincial capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, the government has started to vaccine pigeons in the city in fear of spreading of the disease by the bird.\n\nAmid the uneasy atmosphere caused bird flu, the news that the quarantine on the epidemic was lifted in Tianchang City of Anhui and Xiangtan County of central China's Hunan Province on Tuesday injected 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0038\n\nHONG KONG, Dec 13 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nThe luxury car showrooms are shuttered, the shoppers have been replaced by phalanxes of police and many offices have been temporarily relocated.\n\nCentral Hong Kong, some of the most expensive real estate in the world, has been spooked by fear of anti-globalisation violence.\n\nThe conspicuous displays of wealth characteristic of a city that revels in its status as one of Asia's consumer capitals were hidden behind metal shutters and wooden hoardings as the World Trade Organisation meeting began.\n\nAfter violent protests at previous WTO meetings in the United States and Mexico, companies and retailers operating in the Wan Chai district surrounding the meeting venue were taking no chances.\n\nMany workers were advised to operate from home and some companies, such as telecoms firm Reach, temporarily relocated operations to outlying districts, leaving only a skeleton staff for the duration of the six-day meeting.\n\nInstead of office workers crowding the sidewalks of Wan Chai's Gloucester Road, groups of police stood ready in case protests turned violent, part of a massive security operation involving 9,000 officers staged for the WTO meeting.\n\n\"Everyone is tense, lots of people stay away,\" waitress Maya Thapa told AFP at a Wan Chai cafe.\n\n\"We had no customers at all yesterday, normally we would be crowded now,\" she added, gesturing around the empty eatery.\n\nNearby, luxury car showrooms stood empty, their vehicles garaged in case prestige brands such as Lamborghini and Maserati acted as magnets for demonstrators.\n\n\"Sorry for any inconvenience caused,\" said a note plastered on metal cyclone shutters protecting the Alfa Romeo dealership.\n\nJewellers and art galleries removed their eye-catching displays, while some banks closed cash dispensing machines along the route of Tuesday's planned protest march.\n\nThe management company of one city office block, which houses a major international finance firm, even gave workers in the building supplies of noodles in case protests left them stranded in the workplace for long periods.\n\nItems of street furniture were removed to prevent demonstrators using them as missiles, while the closure of an entire city district discouraged motorists, reducing traffic to a trickle.\n\nHuge golden Christmas decorations remained on display outside the Dah Sing Financial Centre, watched by a large contingent of security guards.\n\n\"No one's worried about the locals -- Hong Kong people are very peaceful and have shown they can protest in a non-violent way,\" expatriate British bar owner Ken Cheshire told AFP.\n\n\"We're worried about the people who've been flown in, we know they've caused trouble before.\"\n\nCheshire said custom at his bar, The Junk Pub, was down by 50 percent.\n\n\"Part of that's seasonal, expats going home for Christmas, but there's definitely been an atmosphere created by the WTO and people are staying away,\" he said. \"You just have to look at the amount of businesses around here that are not opening.\"\n\nAll along the march route, including a section that runs through Causeway Bay, one of the world's busiest shopping areas, stores were shuttered.\n\nJapanese department store Sogo, locked its doors and rolled down its shutters as marchers gathered in the nearby Victoria Park.\n\nAnd guests at neighbouring hotels suddenly found their digs swathed in yards of green mesh, as hoteliers sought to protect their businesses.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1385, "end_char": 1388, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1855, "end_char": 1862, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "march", "start_char": 1881, "end_char": 1886, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 2841, "end_char": 2850, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0038.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0264\n\nGOMA, Zaire, April 13 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nHopes rise for face-to-face talks between Mobutu and Kabila by Christophe Parayre\n\n\n\n\nHopes of face-to-face talks between Zairean President Mobutu Sese Seko and rebel leader Laurent Kabila rose Sunday after the two adversaries indicated they were prepared to meet.\n\nThe rebels' top foreign affairs official said Kabila was to give a fresh impetus to peace talks with Mobutu's regime, probably with a visit to South Africa where negotiations have been taking place on a junior level.\n\nRebel \"foreign minister\" Bizima Karaha told a news conference that Kabila will travel \"very soon, probably to South Africa, to boost the negotiations\" there.\n\nAsked if this meant the leader of the Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo-Zaire would be meeting Mobutu, Karaha said: \"If necessary, he will meet him.\"\n\nHe reiterated the rebel demand that Mobutu quit power and that no ceasefire could be considered before negotiations take place.\n\nOn Saturday, Mobutu offered for the first time to meet Kabila, although he dismissed as impertinent a rebel ultimatum to quit power by Sunday.\n\n\"If he asks politely, I cannot refuse to speak to a Zairean compatriot,\" the president said of Kabila.\n\nHis offer was a major step forward, a diplomat said. \"He puts the ball in Kabila's court by opening the door to a meeting. This is significant.\"\n\nOn Friday, in an interview with AFP, Kabila said he wanted a face-to- face meeting with Mobutu as a \"short cut\" to end the fighting.\n\nBut he said \"Mobutu is ashamed to meet me. They don't know what they would say to me.\"\n\nKabila was talking from a position of strength, unlike the cancer- stricken president who is desperately trying to salvage his corrupt 32-year regime.\n\nThe rebels now control nearly half of Zaire, including its second and third cities and the vast majority of its huge mineral resources, as a result of the six-month-old offensive against Kinshasa.\n\nMobutu also has problems in Kinshasa, where the main political opposition, led by sacked prime minister Etienne Tshisekedi, has called a mass strike for Monday.\n\nDeputy interior minister, Lumuna Ndubu, said soldiers would be deployed on the streets of Kinshasa from early Monday to counter the day of inaction, and he urged people to go about their normal daily business.\n\n\"The soldiers will be deployed in the streets to ensure the security of the population,\" he told state television.\n\nMobutu declared a state of emergency across Zaire on Tuesday.\n\nKaraha, speaking at the news conference in rebel-held Goma, on the border with Rwanda, said a ceasefire before negotiations \"will prolong the agony of our people and allow Mobutu to stay in power even longer. We want him to go. If Mobutu goes, that will be the end of the war.\"\n\nHe rejected the idea of immediate elections, arguing they would not be free and fair.\n\nAfter a rebel victory, he added, a \"transition\" government comprising only Alliance leaders would be formed, and it would remain in office for a year to organise general elections.\n\nAsked if the rebels favoured military means to take power above talks, he said: \"Negotiations can be used to achieve the objectives of the Alliance.\"\n\nKarah also denied that the rebels considered France as an enemy because of its long-standing support for the Mobutu regime, although Paris has suggested that the president should resign.\n\n\"We are not France's enemies. We never have been and perhaps never will be. We have no enemies apart from the dictatorship in Kinshasa.\"\n\nMeanwhile some 300 displaced Zaireans were flown Sunday from the rebel-held eastern city of Kisangani to their home region of Goma on board a UN plane, UN High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman Peter Kessler said in Nairobi.\n\nUN agencies have already airlifted several hundred Rwandans from eastern Zaire to Goma and Kigali in the past few weeks.\n\nThe 80,000 Rwandans near Kisangani are emaciated and ill after fleeing the rebel advance, usually without access to relief food or medical care.\n\nMore than 600 of the refugees died of diseases and malnutrition last week, a UNHCR spokesman said Saturday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 13 , 1997", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 253, "end_char": 259, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1009, "end_char": 1017, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1141, "end_char": 1147, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1403, "end_char": 1409, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1785, "end_char": 1788, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2125, "end_char": 2131, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Monday", "start_char": 2238, "end_char": 2250, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2514, "end_char": 2521, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 3033, "end_char": 3039, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 3598, "end_char": 3604, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past few weeks", "start_char": 3878, "end_char": 3896, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 4109, "end_char": 4118, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 4143, "end_char": 4151, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970413.0264.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0277\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMavericks waives Christie\n\n\n\n\nDoug Christie was waived by the Dallas Mavericks on Friday, reports from Miami said.\n\nChristie, 35, left the team last week to have his surgically repaired left ankle examined by a personal physician. The team signed Christie to a three-year contract this past offseason, but only $3.15 million in salary was guaranteed.\n\n\"We appreciate the effort Doug gave us,\" Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was quoted said Friday by e-mail. \"He went through a lot to get back. Unfortunately, it didn't work out.\"\n\nChristie's agent, Bradley Marshall, did not immediately comment after the team announced its move.\n\nChristie averaged 3.7 points and 2.0 assists in seven games, all starts, this season for Dallas, who was in Miami to play the Heat Friday night. He joined the team after Orlando waived him in August.\n\nChristie missed the final 24 games of last season after having bone spurs removed from the ankle. He averaged only 6.6 points in 52 games with Sacramento and Orlando -- his lowest scoring average since being a reserve for the New York Knicks in 1995-96.\n\nHe's averaged 11.3 points, 4.1 rebounds and 3.6 assists in parts of 14 NBA seasons.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 148, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 496, "end_char": 502, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday night", "start_char": 818, "end_char": 830, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 879, "end_char": 885, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last season", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 937, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "52", "start_char": 1017, "end_char": 1019, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1952", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995-96", "start_char": 1133, "end_char": 1140, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0277.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0416\n\nMANILA, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNet foreign investments in Philippines fall 34 percent\n\n\n\n\nNet foreign investments in the Philippines fell 34.43 percent from a year earlier to 1.055 billion dollars in 1996, figures from the Central Bank of the Philippines showed Tuesday.\n\nGross foreign investments rose 58.3 percent from a year earlier to 9.414 billion dollars in 1996, but this was offset by the outflow of foreign investments which totalled 8.359 billion dollars, it said.\n\nThe difference accounted for the net figure.\n\nForeign portfolio investments amounted to 8.006 billion dollars while direct equity investments were placed at 1.408 billion dollars, it added.\n\nDebt service payments rose 37.2 percent to 3.639 billion dollars in 1996, with 1.226 billion dollars going to the payment of international bonds which were due last year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 222, "end_char": 226, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 284, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 343, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 386, "end_char": 390, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 757, "end_char": 761, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 849, "end_char": 858, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0416.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0334\n\nTOKYO, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFirst Japanese hostage returns home\n\n\n\n\nA 59-year-old electronics company executive arrived in Osaka Friday to become the first of 24 Japanese hostages to return home after being held hostage for four months in the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima.\n\nShigeru Taki, the president of the Peruvian subsidiary of Osaka-based Matsushita Electric Industrial Corp., arrived at Kansai International Airport with his 60-year-old wife Tetsuyo.\n\nConfined to a wheelchair, Taki was greeted at the airport by his two daughters, aged 27 and 24, along with officials from Matsushita and the Japanese foreign ministry.\n\nTaki said he sprained his right ankle after jumping from the roof of the residence Tuesday when Peruvian troops stormed the compound, rescuing all but one of the 72 hostages and killing all 14 rebels.\n\n\"I am home, free at last after 127 days of captivity,\" he told a news conference at an airport hotel, thanking the Peruvian and Japanese governments, the Red Cross and the panel of guarantors for their efforts to find a solution.\n\nTaki also paid tribute to two soldiers and one hostage who died in the raid Tuesday.\n\n\"I sincerely express my regret over the death of Supreme Court Justice Carlos Giusti, with whom I shared every moment, and over the deaths of two soldiers who sacrificed their lives,\" he said.\n\nHis wife travelled to Lima in mid-January for the painful vigil and recalled the moment when the 140 crack troops stormed the residence in broad daylight.\n\n\"When I saw the smoke coming out, I thought I would never see him again,\" she said.\n\n\"I was really glad to learn that my husband was safe and sound. I am happy, indeed, that he is back alright.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four months", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 260, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 588, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1924", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 746, "end_char": 753, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "127 days", "start_char": 896, "end_char": 904, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P127D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1172, "end_char": 1179, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "mid-January", "start_char": 1406, "end_char": 1417, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "broad daylight", "start_char": 1515, "end_char": 1529, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0334.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0092\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesian shares end firmer\n\n\n\n\nShare prices on the Jakarta Stock Exchange ended higher Friday with the composite index up by 4.6 points to close at 1,664.8 points.\n\nTurnovers totaled 1.3 billion shares worth 1.8 trillion rupiah (193.6 million U.S. dollars).\n\nDecliners narrowly led advancers 54 to 51, with 86 other issues left unchanged.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0092.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0048\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSchools reopen amid teachers' lingering fear in Thai south\n\n\n\n\nFifty schools in Thailand's insurgency-plagued southern border province Narathiwat reopened Wednesday following a one-week closure after a local woman teacher was shot dead last week.\n\nThai News Agency reported that the majority of the 62 schools in Ruso and Srisakorn districts of Narathiwat reopened Wednesday morning, except a few schools including the Lamoh School, where the female victim Kulthida Injumpha had worked as an assistant school principal. The thirty-three-year old teacher was gunned down by a suspected insurgent while she was on her way home on November 15.\n\nThough most schools have reopened Wednesday, only less than half the enrolled students came to classes. In Ruso district, of 186 students enrolled at Sawo school, only 50 students turned up at school, presumably because most students and parents didn't know that the school had reopened.\n\nMeanwhile in nearby province Yala, over 30 schools in Yaha district were closed Wednesday with no schedule for reopening as teachers fear that local people would take them hostages, according to news network The Nation.\n\nSomchai Ronglua, deputy director of Yala's Education Zone II, was quoted as saying that teachers feared for their safety after local villagers protested on Tuesday to pressure border patrol police and troops to pull out from their temporary bases in two schools in the district.\n\nSomchai said although most of the protesting villagers dispersed, teachers believed that they were still dissatisfied so they could stage violent protests, including holding teacher hostages.\n\nHe said teachers would not resume teaching until the situation got improved or the authorities could guarantee their safety.\n\nInsurgency-related violence has been on the rise in recent weeks in the three southern border provinces Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani, where over 1,700 people have been killed in the past three years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 221, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "dead last week", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 422, "end_char": 439, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 15", "start_char": 685, "end_char": 696, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 733, "end_char": 742, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1068, "end_char": 1077, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1365, "end_char": 1372, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent weeks", "start_char": 1860, "end_char": 1872, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three years", "start_char": 1986, "end_char": 2006, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0048.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0490\n\nDOHA, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nMiyashita of Japan wins men's 100m backstroke gold medal\n\n\n\n\nJunichi Miyashita of Japan won the men's 100m backstroke gold medal at the Asian Games here Tuesday in a time of 54.67.\n\nOuyang Kunpeng of China took the silver and Masafumi Yamaguchi of Japan won the bronze.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 202, "end_char": 209, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "54.67", "start_char": 223, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0490.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0608\n\nABU DHABI, Dec 7 , 2005\n\nIraq not satisfied with German police training\n\n\n\n\nIraqi Interior Minister Bayan Baqer Sulagh has criticised the training of Iraqi police recruits by German experts in the United Arab Emirates and said they would no longer participate in the programme.\n\n\"We aren't convinced by the level of training of the Iraqi police officers by the German experts, nor by their barely seriously manner\" the minister said Tuesday during a press conference here, the UAE news agency Wam reported.\n\nSulagh said he had expressed his dissatisfaction to the German ambassador to the UAE, adding they were seeking \"training programmes which were more serious and more effective\".\n\n\"Iraq now needs men trained with seriousness and intent, because they are engaged in a real confrontation with terrorism,\" the minister said.\n\nSulagh said Baghdad \"won't be sending any more Iraqis\" to the next training programme starting in March.\n\nGermany was opposed to the US and British invasion of Iraq in 2003 and refused to send German troops to the country, even as part of NATO forces.\n\nIt did, however, agree to train Iraqi security forces, police and soldiers outside the Iraqi territory.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 7 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 456, "end_char": 463, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 715, "end_char": 718, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 950, "end_char": 955, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1020, "end_char": 1024, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0608.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0285\n\nRIYADH, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nURGENT  Arab world waiting to explode: Saudi king\n\n\n\n\nSaudi King Abdullah opened the annual summit of Gulf leaders Saturday with a warning that the Arab world was like a powder keg waiting to explode, citing the situation in the Palestinian territories, Iraq and Lebanon.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 174, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0285.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0039 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0039. \n Business Brief -- Dow Jones amp Co.:\n@  Offer for Telerate Common\n@  Is Extended Until Nov. 9 \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n DJ TLR \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nMEDIA, PUBLISHING, BROADCASTING, ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING (MED) \n\n   Dow Jones amp Co. said it extended its $18-a-share offer for Telerate Inc. common stock until 5 p.m. EST Nov. 9. \n\n   The offer, valued at about $576 million for the 33% of Telerate that Dow Jones does n't already own, had been set to expire Nov. 6. \n\n   Dow Jones, which owns about 64 million of Telerate's 95 million common shares outstanding, said that about 24,000 shares have been tendered under its offer. \n\n   Telerate's two independent directors have rejected the offer as inadequate. \nIn composite trading on the New York Stock Exchange, Telerate shares closed at $19.50, up 12.5 cents. \n\n   Telerate provides an electronic financial information network. \nDow Jones publishes The Wall Street Journal, Barron's magazine, and community newspapers and operates financial news services and computer data bases.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 139, "end_char": 147, "tid": "t25", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5 p.m. EST Nov. 9", "start_char": 388, "end_char": 405, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-09T17:00", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t25"}, {"text": "Nov. 6", "start_char": 536, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t25"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0152.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0055\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGrenada parliamentary leaders to visit China\n\n\n\n\nGrenada President of the Senate Kenny Lalsingh and Speaker of the House of Representatives Lawrence Joseph will pay an official goodwill visit to China from Dec. 3 to 9.\n\nThe Grenada parliamentary leaders will pay the visit at the invitation of Wu Bangguo, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, according to sources with this top legislature of China Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 3", "start_char": 263, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 489, "end_char": 497, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0055.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0236\n\nMEXICO CITY, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nGrenade attack injures 2 police officers in Mexico\n\n\n\n\nA grenade lobbed from a moving car at a police post injured two police officers in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, Mexico, on Sunday.\n\nThe attack took place at a police barricade outside Tres Vidas, where conflict between a private hotel and farming interest has sparked a series of conflict.\n\nFarmers who originally lived in the area claimed that they never agreed to sell their territory. Groups of peasants stormed the area in and around Tres Vidas in recent days, seizing land they claim was stolen from them.\n\nThe Tres Vidas police post is located in the city's Diamante beach section, a district popular with well-heeled tourists.\n\nAcapulco was hit by a string of violence this year and grenade as well as shooting attacks have killed at least eight officials and injured six others.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 247, "end_char": 253, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent days", "start_char": 576, "end_char": 587, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 800, "end_char": 809, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0236.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0075\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 25 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nexam\n\n\n\n\nChina ushered candidates into examination rooms on Saturday as the national civil servant recruitment examination got underway, with on average 42 people competing for each government job in 2007.\n\nThe exam is held simultaneously in 31 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions nationwide where more than 530,000 people will compete for about 12,700 jobs, said a spokesman of the Ministry of Personnel, the exam organizer.\n\nThe ministry said the administrative aptitude test (AAT) in the morning is followed by an essay test in the afternoon.\n\nNationwide, north China's Liaoning Province has about 18,000 exam takers, the coastal province of Jiangsu registered 30,000, while the northwestern province of Shaanxi and the southern province of Guangdong have each enrolled about 40,000 people for the exam.\n\nSince 1994, China has organized 13 consecutive civil servant recruitment examinations for central and regional government bodies.\n\nStatistics show 4.13 million college students graduated this year, three quarters of a million more than last year. The number of college graduates in 2007 will be close to 5 million.\n\n\"The examination is popular because it provides a level playing field for those competing to become civil servants,\" said Vice Minister of Personnel Yin Weimin.\n\nHe said the examination's popularity is also due to the prestige of civil servants and increasing competition on the job market.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 117, "end_char": 125, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 261, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the afternoon", "start_char": 601, "end_char": 614, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-25TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 884, "end_char": 888, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year, three quarters", "start_char": 1065, "end_char": 1090, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1114, "end_char": 1123, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 1160, "end_char": 1164, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061125.0075.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0131 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0131. \n Who's News:\n@  U.S. Trust Names\n@  Schwarz Chief,\n@  Maurer President\n@  ----\n@  By James T. Areddy\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n USTC WNEWS \n NEW YORK  \n\n   H. Marshall Schwarz was named chairman and chief executive officer of U.S. Trust Corp., a private-banking firm with assets under management of about $17 billion. \n\n   Mr. Schwarz, 52 years old, will succeed Daniel P. Davison Feb. 1, soon after Mr. Davison reaches the company's mandatory retirement age of 65. \nMr. Schwarz, who is president of U.S. Trust, will be succeeded in that post by Jeffrey S. Maurer, 42, who is executive vice president in charge of the company's asset-management group. \n\n   U.S. Trust, a 136-year-old institution that is one of the earliest high-net worth banks in the U.S., has faced intensifying competition from other firms that have established, and heavily promoted, private-banking businesses of their own. \nAs a result, U.S. Trust's earnings have been hurt. \n\n   But Mr. Schwarz welcomes the competition in U.S. Trust's flagship businesses, calling it \"flattery.\" \nMr. Schwarz says the competition \"broadens the base of opportunity for us.\" \nOther firms \"are dealing with the masses. \nI do n't believe they have the culture\" to adequately service high-net-worth individuals, he adds. \nU.S. Trust recently introduced certain mutual-fund products, which allow it to serve customers with minimum deposits of $250,000. \nPreviously, the company advertised at the $2 million level. \n\n   \"We have always taken smaller accounts, but now we are looking for smaller accounts that will grow,\" Mr. Schwarz says. \n\"Our bread and butter is still the $2 million to $20 million account,\" he says. \nThe new services allow U.S. Trust to cater to the \"new wealth,\" Mr. Schwarz says. \n\n   Quarterly net income this year has risen just over comparable periods in 1988, when year-end net was below the 1987 level. \nIn this year's third quarter, for example, net was $10.5 million, or $1.05 a share, compared with $10.3 million, or $1.02 a share, a year earlier. \nAssets as of Sept. 30 fell to $2.46 billion from about $2.77 billion. \n\"We  will have a reasonably flat year this year,\" Mr. Schwarz says. \nMr. Schwarz also said costs associated with U.S. Trust's planned move to midtown Manhattan from Wall Street will continue to be a drag on earnings through 1990. \n\n   Mr. Schwarz's great-grandfather founded the New York toy store F.A.O. Schwarz, but his family no longer has ties to the company. \nMr. Schwarz's father was a U.S. Trust trustee until 1974. \n\n   U.S. Trust also created a four-member office of the chairman, effective Feb. 1. \nIt  will include Messrs. \nSchwarz and Maurer. \nDonald M. Roberts, 54, treasurer, and Frederick S. Wonham, 58, who takes responsibility for the funds-service group, were named vice chairmen and will serve in the office of the chairman. \nMr. Roberts continues as treasurer, and Mr. Wonham remains responsible for the offices of comptroller, planning, marketing and general services. \n\n   Frederick B. Taylor, 48, also was named a vice chairman and chief investment officer, a new post. \nHe previously held similar responsibilities. \nMr. Taylor also was named a director, increasing the board to 22, but is not  part of the new office of the chairman. \n\n   James E. 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{"text": "AP900816-0139 \nAP-NR-08-16-90 2041EDT\nu i AM-GulfRdp 3rdLd-Writethru a0723 08-16 1350\nAM-Gulf Rdp, 3rd Ld-Writethru, a0723,1392\nGulf Showdown Takes More Personal Tack: Saddam Calls Bush a `Liar'\nEds: LEADS throughout to RECAST, ADDS background on oil reserves,\nfood imports, UPDATES with State Department reax to Saddam, EDITS\nto trim. No pickup\nLaserPhotos\nBy ROBERT DVORCHAK\nAssociated Press Writer\n\n   The Persian Gulf showdown between Iraq and the United States\ntook a more personal turn Thursday when Iraq's Saddam Hussein\ncalled President Bush a liar and said the outbreak of holy war\ncould bring thousands of Americans home in coffins.\n   Bush, commenting on the two-week-old gulf crisis from his\nvacation home in Maine, said he saw little reason to be optimistic\nabout a settlement of the dispute, which stems from Iraq's invasion\nof oil-wealthy Kuwait and its subsequent military buildup on the\nborder of Saudi Arabia.\n   After a two-hour meeting at his Kennebunkport home with King\nHussein of Jordan, Bush said, ``I did not come away with any\nfeeling of hope'' that Iraq would withdraw its army from Kuwait.\n   Bush also said Thursday that King Hussein assured him Jordan\nwould close the last remaining free port to most Iraqi trade as the\neconomic embargo on materials to Iraq continued unabated.\nFoodstuffs are among the goods  being blocked from entry; Iraq\nimports about three-quarters of its food.\n   Pentagon sources in Washington meanwhile said the Bush\nadministration plans  to deploy 45,000 Marines to the region to back\nup the thousands of Army, Navy and Air Force troops already in\nplace in the gulf and the Saudi desert.\n   At a news conference, Secretary of State James A. Baker III said\nJordan `` is seeking some guidance'' about a provision in the\nU.N.-backed trade embargo that allows food for humanitarian\npurposes.\n   Worries however grew about the safety of Americans and other\nWesterners trapped in Kuwait. Iraqi military authorities ordered\nall Americans and Britons in Kuwait  to assemble at a hotel,\nofficials said.\n   ``Very few'' of the 2,500 Americans in occupied Kuwait complied\nwith the order, a senior U.S. official told The Associated Press.\n   Iraq said the roundup was  to protect them from unspecified\nthreats; British Foreign Office minister William Waldegrave called\nthe order ``grave and sinister.''\n   ``What we fear is that they  will  be interned somewhere, most\nlikely in Iraq,'' Waldegrave said.\n   A total of about 3,000 Americans, 3,000 Britons and more than\n450 Japanese are in Iraq and Kuwait. Overall, more than 2 million\nforeigners are in both countries. Iraq  has called them\n``restrictees.''\n   In addition to the estimated 45,000 Marines to ultimately be\npart of Operation Desert Shield, Stealth fighter planes and the\naircraft carrier John F. Kennedy  are  also headed to Saudi Arabia  to protect it from Iraqi expansionism.\n   In Washington, Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams said Iraq  has continued  to increase its armed forces in Kuwait and they now\nnumber about 160,000.\n   Saddam has been under international quarantine since his Aug. 2\npower-grab, or what he calls an ``eternal merger'' with Kuwait.\n   In a long verbal attack read on Iraqi television Thursday,\nSaddam repeatedly called Bush ``a liar'' and said a shooting war\ncould produce body bags courtesy of Baghdad.\n   ``We continue  to pray and pray hard to God so that there will be\nno confrontation whereby you  will receive thousands of Americans\nwrapped in sad coffins after you  had pushed them into a dark\ntunnel,'' Saddam said.\n   He called U.S. soldiers massing in Saudi Arabia the real\noccupiers in the Persian Gulf.\n   Replied State Department deputy spokesman Richard Boucher, ``We\nhave n't  really analyzed the statement in detail but it appears to\nbe just another example of his outlandish rhetoric and his attempts\n to distort the truth.\n   ``We believe that his words cannot distract the world from the\nfacts of Iraqi aggression.''\n   An international land, sea and air force  has mobilized since\nIraq's invasion, which  was sparked by disputes over oil, land and\nrepayment of war loans.\n   In the largest U.S. military operation since Vietnam, an\nestimated 20,000 American GIs  have  already massed  to defend Saudi\nArabia.\n   ``We  do n't  just arrive,'' said four-star Gen. John Dailey,\nassistant commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps. ``We're there to stay for a fairly lengthy period.''\n   Egypt, Syria, Morocco and Bangladesh also committed ground\ntroops, to a much lesser degree.\n   The U.S. Navy has 27 ships in the maritime barricade of Iraq.\nThey  are aided by Britain, West Germany, Australia, Canada, the\nNetherlands and Belgium. Bush  was expected  to authorize naval\ncommanders  to use ``the minimum force necessary''  to interdict\nshipments to and from Iraq, a U.S. official said. That \ncould    include firing across the bow to halt a ship.\n   In the air, U.S. Air Force fliers say they  have engaged in ``a\nlittle cat and mouse'' with Iraqi warplanes, which  have retreated\nwhen weapons radar locks onto them. ``They  do n't want  to play with\nus,'' one U.S. crew chief said.\n   In Kuwait, the Iraqis  have rimmed the capital city with an\nair-defense system, according to a U.S. official who spoke on the\ncondition of anonymity. He declined to say if the weapons included\nmissiles, but the Iraqis have them in their arsenal. The Iraqis\nalso possess chemical weapons.\n   The combined operations  are designed  to isolate and strangle\nIraq until it retreats from Kuwait. The quarantine hopes  to staunch\nthe flow of Iraqi oil, which is Iraq's economic lifeblood, and\nclamp down on food and supplies going in.\n   Iraq now controls 20 percent of the world's oil reserves with\nits conquest of Kuwait. Only Saudi Arabia has more oil reserves.\n   The economic chokehold appears  to  be working.\n   The Lloyd's List International newspaper, which monitors\nworldwide shipping, said Iraq's fleet of 80 tankers and cargo ships\n has stopped regular trading.\n   John Prescott, a shipping correspondent, said there was no\nshipping in Kuwaiti or Iraqi ports and that activity  was trailing off in the Jordanian port of Aqaba.\n   Bush's chief objective in his meeting with Hussein was to press\nthe king  to shut down Iraq's food and oil supply route from Aqaba\non the Red Sea.\n   Aqaba is Iraq's only outlet now that an international noose  has tightened. Bush  has indicated the U.S. Navy  will barricade the port\nfrom Iraqi ships. The president also has offered  to help offset\nJordan's costs because 40 percent of its exports go to Iraq and 90\npercent of its oil comes from there.\n   ``It's our only outlet to the sea and the rest of the world,''\nHussein said. He also said of trade with Iraq: ``There are no\nshipments at the moment.''\n   A day earlier, scores of trucks, many with Iraqi license plates,\nstreamed north out of Aqaba to Amman and onto the desert highway\nbound for Iraq.\n   The Jordanian monarch met this week with Saddam, but he told\nreporters he had no message from Baghdad. ``I am not talking on\nbehalf of anyone in the area ... but myself,'' Hussein said.\n   In the United Nations, Libya called for the replacement of U.S.\nforces in the Persian Gulf with Arab League forces and U.N.\nsoldiers.\n   Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, in a letter to the U.N.\nSecretary-General, also called for an emergency Security Council\nmeeting in Geneva  to remove U.S. forces. There was no decision on a\nmeeting.\n   Thirty-two of the 159 U.N. members  had filed compliance reports\nby Wednesday, and all  were honoring the sanctions Iraq.\n   Also Thursday, Saudi Arabia called for an emergency conference\nof the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries  to discuss how\nmuch oil  to pump.\n   The minister denied the kingdom had notified notified any of its\ncustomers of any cutbacks in oil supply. Reports attributed to the\nJapanese foreign ministry said Saudi Arabia told U.S., European and\nJapanese oil companies of a 15-20 percent cutback in its oil supply\nin September.\n   Meanwhile, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency said\nThursday that Saddam was the target of an assassination attempt,\nwhich led to ``large-scale'' arrests, including some close\nassociates of the Iraqi strongman.\n   The agency quoted witnesses as saying tanks and armored cars are\npatrolling the streets of Baghdad. There was no independent\nconfirmation of the report by the government-run news agency, which\ndid not say when the reported attempt occurred.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "08-16-90 2041EDT", "start_char": 21, "end_char": 37, "tid": "t287", "type": "TIME", "value": "1990-08-16T20:41", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 492, "end_char": 500, "tid": "t288", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-08-16", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "two-week", "start_char": 670, "end_char": 678, "tid": "t289", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two-hour", "start_char": 939, "end_char": 947, "tid": "t290", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT2H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1136, "end_char": 1144, "tid": "t291", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-08-16", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 3011, "end_char": 3014, "tid": "t316", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "Aug. 2", "start_char": 3097, "end_char": 3103, "tid": "t292", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-08-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 3220, "end_char": 3228, "tid": "t293", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-08-16", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "a fairly lengthy period", "start_char": 4403, "end_char": 4426, "tid": "t339", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 5670, "end_char": 5673, "tid": "t295", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 6347, "end_char": 6350, "tid": "t299", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "the moment", "start_char": 6764, "end_char": 6774, "tid": "t1326", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "A day earlier", "start_char": 6781, "end_char": 6794, "tid": "t352", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 6956, "end_char": 6965, "tid": "t300", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-W33", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 7525, "end_char": 7534, "tid": "t301", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-08-15", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 7587, "end_char": 7595, "tid": "t302", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-08-16", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 8007, "end_char": 8016, "tid": "t303", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-09", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 8078, "end_char": 8086, "tid": "t304", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-08-16", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t287"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AP900816-0139.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0284\n\nOTTAWA, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCanada's NDP withdraws support for government\n\n\n\n\nCanada's small New Democratic Party (NDP) said on Monday it will withdraw its support for the minority Liberal government in future no-confidence vote, raising the chances of a Christmas election.\n\nNDP Leader Jack Layton said his party will not support the Liberal government in any new non-confidence vote as he rejected a Liberal proposal to protect public health.\n\n\"What the government is proposing is unacceptable. There's no basis for our party to express confidence in this government,\" said Layton in Toronto in a televised speech.\n\n\"We cannot express confidence in a government that is under the leadership of a party that cannot be trusted to clean up the politics that it tainted,\" he said.\n\nThe time to let Canadians judge the Liberals is approaching \" sooner, not later,\" said Layton, who, however, did not give any further indication of a time frame.\n\nAccording to local media reports, since the Parliament is in recess this week, a non-confidence vote is possible as early as the week of Nov. 14, although some speculate a vote might not happen until Dec. 8, when an estimates vote is to be held.\n\nIf the government is defeated at the earliest possible time, a vote could be scheduled for Dec. 27. If the government fell on Dec. 8, a vote would likely take place in mid-January, the reports said Sunday.\n\nLayton had said his decision whether to support the Liberals in a future confidence vote rested on the Liberal response to an NDP call for increased protections for public health care.\n\nLast week, Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh provided Layton with a proposal on promoting public health care, which was criticized by Layton as \"disappointing\" Friday. Layton said on that day he would consider the proposal carefully over the weekend.\n\nThe Health Minister reacted to Layton's Monday speech by saying that \"I'm actually disappointed that Jack Layton is playing politics with some very important issues in health care.\"\n\n\"Mr. Layton has made general comments, but not once has he said what specific change he'd like to see to this package that will strengthen public health care,\" the minister said.\n\nConservative Leader Stephen Harper, who spoke moments after Layton's speech, said he believes the NDP leader still has not made up his mind and is still negotiating with the Liberals.\n\n\"It's the same soap opera. We will continue to assume that Mr. Layton is still bargaining with the Liberal government,\" said Harper.\n\nThe Tory leader said his party will not introduce a confidence motion before Christmas because he does not believe Layton will follow through with a three-party opposition attack.\n\nAs for the Bloc Quebecois, leader Gilles Duceppe said Monday that the Liberals can not count on his party to keep them in power.\n\nHe said it was up to the NDP and the Conservatives to take action and that the Bloc would go along with whatever they decided.\n\nThe leftist New Democrats have been the only group keeping the minority Liberal government in power. Layton propped up the Liberals in a budget vote in May after reaching a deal worth 4.6 billion Canadian dollars (3.7 billion US dollars) in extra spending.\n\nLast week, Justice John Gomery's report laid blame for the flawed running of the sponsorship program with the government of former prime minister Jean Chretien.\n\nWhile the report cleared Martin of blame in the mismanagement of the 332-million-Canadian-dollar (256 million US dollars) program, all three opposition leaders blasted the Liberal party as riddled with corruption.\n\nMartin has promised to call an election within 30 days after the final sponsorship report is delivered on Feb. 1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1038, "end_char": 1047, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the week of Nov. 14", "start_char": 1095, "end_char": 1114, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 8", "start_char": 1170, "end_char": 1176, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 27", "start_char": 1308, "end_char": 1315, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 8", "start_char": 1343, "end_char": 1349, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1415, "end_char": 1421, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 1610, "end_char": 1619, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1774, "end_char": 1780, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "that day", "start_char": 1797, "end_char": 1805, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 1852, "end_char": 1863, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1906, "end_char": 1912, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 2625, "end_char": 2634, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2783, "end_char": 2789, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 3139, "end_char": 3142, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 3245, "end_char": 3254, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "30 days", "start_char": 3669, "end_char": 3676, "tid": "t18", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P30D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Feb. 1", "start_char": 3728, "end_char": 3734, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0284.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0004\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ntrafficker clemency\n\n\n\n\nSingapore's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement on Thursday that the city state is unable to change its decision of not granting clemency to Nguyen Tuong Van.\n\nNguyen, a 25-year-old Australian, had been sentenced to death by a Singapore court last year after being found guilty of smuggling almost 400 grams of pure heroin from Cambodia to Australia via Singapore.\n\nThe statement said that Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo had written to his Australian counterpart Alexander Downer on Wednesday, stressing that the decision is unable to be changed because of \"the seriousness of the offense and the need to hold firm the national position against drug trafficking\".\n\nHe noted that the city state had carefully considered all relevant factors of this case including Nguyen's sad personal circumstances and his value as a potential source of information.\n\nYeo added that the Singapore government has the responsibility to protect its people from the scourge of drug addiction and to prevent the country from becoming a conduit for the trafficking of illicit drugs in the region.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 337, "end_char": 346, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0004.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0170\n\nHANOI, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese president satisfied with Sino-Australian ties\n\n\n\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao on Friday expressed satisfaction over the development of Sino- Australian relations.\n\n\"The relations between China and Australia have maintained good momentum,\" Hu said when meeting with Australian Prime Minister John Howard before the economic leaders' informal meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).\n\nSince the two countries agreed to develop comprehensive and cooperative ties for mutual benefit in the 21st century, they have conducted exchanges actively in the fields of trade and economy, culture, science and technology as well as education and tourism, Hu said.\n\nThe Chinese president said both countries should cement their cooperation in energy, push forward talks on China-Australia free trade agreement (FTA), and intensify consultation on international and regional issues.\n\nHoward said Australia hoped to advance the FTA talks with China through further discussions, and expected closer cooperation in energy security, climate changes and exchanges of personnel.\n\nHe said his country supported China to play a critical role in solving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, and both countries will make efforts to achieve the peaceful settlement of the issue by strengthening consultation and coordination.\n\nPresident Hu is in Hanoi for a state visit, where he will also attend the Nov. 18-19 APEC economic leaders' informal meeting.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 21st century", "start_char": 561, "end_char": 577, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P21C", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 18-19", "start_char": 1459, "end_char": 1469, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0170.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0135\n\nHONG KONG, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPillar of Hong Kong colonial society wrestles with royal legacy\n\n\n\n\nThe Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, a watering-hole for yachties throughout the British colonial period, has launched a fresh bid to settle the problem of its royal connections as the territory's handover to China looms.\n\nLess than a year after the club was wracked by internal debate about whether to scrap the \"Royal\" from its name, the organisation told members in a letter received Tuesday that it was floating other proposals to present a less British image.\n\nIdeas put forward \"to reflect the change of status of Hong Kong on July 1\" include removal of the crown from the logo and club flag, and its replacement by the bauhinia flower, the emblem of the future Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China.\n\nThe present club insignia, which sells well on T-shirts, bags and other merchandise, comprises a Chinese dragon topped by the British crown.\n\nOther proposals are that the club \"look to the sovereign power for patronage,\" the letter said, adding future SAR chief executive Tung Chee-Hwa would be solicited for his views.\n\nThe letter, from club commodore David Kong, added the club's general committee had resolved \"the club will not take any action, or fail to take any action, which may be viewed as inappropriate by the incoming and outgoing government.\"\n\nIn January, club sources said the club was poring over a proposal to ask Chinese President Jiang Zemin to become patron and Tung vice- patron, replacing Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Governor Chris Patten respectively.\n\nBut, despite the comfort and famous setting of the club on Hong Kong's harbour-front, it is unclear whether Jiang, as head of a communist state, would wish to become patron of a club that still has \"Royal\" in its title.\n\nIn May 1996, a bitter internal debate broke out about dropping the word, with some members arguing at a special meeting that the club faced a range of problems, ranging from help from the Chinese navy to administrative hurdles, if it maintained this verbal legacy.\n\nUnder the club's statutes, any name change has to be supported by 75 percent of those voting in a ballot.\n\nThe motion to drop the royal patronage garnered 2,542 votes, with 1,719 against, or just under 60 percent support. A similar vote in 1995 won 73 percent support for the name change.\n\nThe letter said an extraordinary general meeting would be held on June 12 to choose a Chinese name for the club. This was because \"Chinese will become the official language of the SAR, (so) it is necessary for our club to register its name in Chinese as part of our proper business title.\"\n\nKong could not be reached immediately for further comment.\n\nThe royal row has been repeated in clubs and institutions throughout the territory, which returns to Chinese rule on July 1 after more than 156 years as a British colony.\n\nThe Royal Hong Kong Golf Club and the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club, which runs the local horse racing and betting industry, have already dropped the \"Royal\" tag, as has the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), which followed suit on New Year's Day 1997.\n\nThe Royal Hong Kong Police Force will become simply the Hong Kong Police Force on July 1, complete with a new cap badge.\n\nIn 1994, Hong Kong's currency-issuing banks began replacing the effigy of the Queen with the bauhinia.\n\nIronically, the full name of the pink five-pistilled flower -- bauhinia blakeana -- is named after Sir Henry Blake, a former colonial governor.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 507, "end_char": 514, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1", "start_char": 653, "end_char": 659, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1405, "end_char": 1412, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 1996", "start_char": 1849, "end_char": 1857, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 2352, "end_char": 2356, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 12", "start_char": 2468, "end_char": 2475, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1", "start_char": 2870, "end_char": 2876, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 156 years", "start_char": 2883, "end_char": 2902, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P156Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "New Year's Day 1997", "start_char": 3184, "end_char": 3203, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1", "start_char": 3288, "end_char": 3294, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 3331, "end_char": 3335, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0135.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0263\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 1 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIsraeli army rejects drafting five anti-withdrawal youths\n\n\n\n\nFive Israeli right-wing youths have been rejected from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) draft due to suspicions they were involved in violence against security personnel during the Gaza withdrawal, local newspaper Yedioth Aharonoth reported on Tuesday.\n\nThe recruitment date of the youths, initially set for this month, has been indefinitely delayed, a senior IDF Personnel Directorate officer was cited as saying.\n\nThe decision is in accordance with a policy established by IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, according to which the IDF will refuse to draft youths convicted of violence against soldiers and police during the pullout, according to the report.\n\nCurrently, more than 100 youths are under examination on possible involvement in anti-withdrawal violence before the IDF decide on whether to enlist them.\n\nIsrael withdrew settlers and troops from the entire Gaza Strip and parts of the West Bank in September.\n\nThe pullout, designed to \"disengage\" from violence with the Palestinians, has met with fierce opposition from rightists and some settlers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 363, "end_char": 370, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 437, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1025, "end_char": 1034, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0263.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0057\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nyears\n\n\n\n\nChina aims to keep the registered urban unemployment rate below 5 percent in the coming five years, with additional 45 million people being employed.\n\nChina's Minister of Labor and Social Security Tian Chengping said recently that to achieve the goal, adjustments will be made to enlarge the scope of employment.\n\nChina will provide preferential policies in loans to encourage people starting their own businesses. Comparing with current policies, the new loan policies will permit guaranteed micro-credits to laid-off workers, unemployed people in urban areas and military officers transferred to civilian work.\n\n\"In the following five years, we'll take measures to enlarge the coverage of basic old-age pension. More efforts will be spent to draw more people into the system, such as people working in private enterprises and the self-employed,\" said Tian.\n\nThe total number of skilled workers is expected to exceed 100 million by 2010, with the number of technicians and senior technicians reaching 5.5 million. Various vocational trainings will be provided to help urban and rural labors take a job or start their own businesses, Tian added.\n\nChina reported a 4.2 percent registered urban unemployment rate by the end of September. The rate has been kept below 5 percent in recent years, which was 3.6 percent in 2001, 4 percent in 2002, 4.3 percent in 2003 and 4.2 percent in 2004, according to statistics of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 699, "end_char": 709, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1000, "end_char": 1004, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of September", "start_char": 1281, "end_char": 1301, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1345, "end_char": 1357, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1384, "end_char": 1388, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1403, "end_char": 1407, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1424, "end_char": 1428, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1448, "end_char": 1452, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0057.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970426.0106\n\nDUSSELDORF, Germany, April 26 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nKurds demonstrate in favour of peace with Ankara\n\n\n\n\nSome 50,000 Kurds calling for a peaceful resolution to the bloody battle with Ankara for an independent Kurdish homeland, were expected Saturday in Dusseldorf, western Germany, organisers said.\n\nThe Kurds were converging here on Saturday from all over Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium for the demonstration, in 450 coaches and two special trains.\n\nAt least 10,000 had arrived early Saturday morning, police said. They were due Saturday afternoon to stage a rally at a public space on the banks of the river Rhine.\n\nSome 1,000 police were called in to Dusseldorf to monitor the demonstration.\n\nNo incidents were signalled by police.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 26 , 1997", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 264, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 349, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Saturday morning", "start_char": 500, "end_char": 522, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday afternoon", "start_char": 551, "end_char": 569, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-05-03TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970426.0106.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0517\n\nLONDON, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nEBRD warns of fragility of economic reforms in eastern Europe By Henry Meyer\n\n\n\n\nThe annual conference of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) held here Monday and Tuesday warned of the fragility of economic reforms in some parts of the former Communist bloc, pointing to events in Albania and Bulgaria.\n\nBut the more advanced countries of the region, such as Hungary and the Czech Republic, which have sped away from the others on the road towards capitalism, complained that the bank was giving them the cold shoulder as it swung eastwards.\n\nEBRD President Jacques de Larosiere said that the chaotic events in Albania -- where the collapse of pyramid investment schemes in January sparked near civil war -- were \"a tragic illustration of how hard-won progress in transition can be lost with frightening speed.\"\n\nDenouncing the situation there as a \"disaster,\" de Larosiere warned that serious obstacles to a market economy remained in many countries, referring in particular to the ex-Soviet republics such as Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.\n\nThe EBRD president criticized the uncertain legal and taxation systems in the region, and the problem of corruption, crime and bureaucratic meddling in the private sector.\n\n\"The conduct of good business requires a level playing field, and the rules of the game must be universally known, transparent and fairly applied,\" de Larosiere said.\n\nHe said this unstable business environment was discouraging long-term foreign investment and prompting massive capital flight of billions of dollars a year.\n\nIn the background of the meeting, though, a dispute simmered over the downgrading in the bank's role in the top-performers of eastern and central Europe.\n\nThe EBRD was set up in 1991 to assist the transition to a market economy in eastern and central Europe and the former Soviet Union.\n\nThe Czech Republic, which has been one of swiftest in the region to implement free-market reforms, complained bitterly about the EBRD's lack of activity in the country during 1996.\n\n\"Unfortunately, we were rather disappointed with the bank's achievements last year... not a single new project was signed in my country in 1996,\" said the governor of the Czech central bank, Josef Tosovsky.\n\nHungary also joined her voice to the protests. The Hungarian Secretary of State for Finance, Tibor Draskovics, said that his country \"expects further support from the EBRD during this challenging phase,\" as Budapest prepares for membership of the European Union around the year 2000.\n\nAccording to EBRD figures, new projects approved for Hungary plunged from 406 million ECUs (485 million dollars) in 1995 to 133 million ECUs in 1996. The Czech Republic's financing dropped by half, and Slovenia's allocation fell almost as much.\n\nThe EU and some European countries made it clear they supported a continued strong role for the EBRD in these richer eastern European countries, as they prepare for EU membership around the turn of the century.\n\nThe EU's commissioner for economic affairs, Yves-Thibault De Silguy, said the EBRD could still fill serious financing gaps in infrastructure and in the small and medium-sized business sector.\n\nBut the United States, which a year ago advanced the concept of \"graduation\" -- the staged withdrawal of the EBRD from the most prosperous ex-Communist states, which already have access to private capital -- firmly reiterated this viewpoint.\n\nAll joined, however, in urging de Larosiere, whose term expires in September, to stay on at the helm of the bank, especially since the vice-president, American Ron Freeman, is leaving the EBRD in June.\n\nDe Larosiere, 67, who has been asked by the board of governors to serve a second four-year term, said he was \"still hesitating\" because of the health problems of his wife, injured in an accident a year and a half ago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 236, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 752, "end_char": 759, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 1609, "end_char": 1615, "tid": "t4", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1796, "end_char": 1800, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 2081, "end_char": 2085, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 2227, "end_char": 2231, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year 2000", "start_char": 2565, "end_char": 2578, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 2697, "end_char": 2701, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 2725, "end_char": 2729, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the century", "start_char": 3025, "end_char": 3036, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 3261, "end_char": 3271, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 3542, "end_char": 3551, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 3671, "end_char": 3675, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year and a half ago", "start_char": 3873, "end_char": 3894, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0517.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0381\n\nAACHEN, Germany, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAachener + Muenchener reports steady annual profit\n\n\n\n\nGerman insurance company Aachener + Muenchener Versicherung (AMV) announced Tuesday that it had scored a net profit of 47.3 million marks (27.3 million dollars) last year, little changed from 47.1 million marks in 1995.\n\nA fourth of that amount (11.8 million marks) wil be used to pay dividends, the announcement said, and 18 million marks will be added to the reserves.\n\nThe company, part of Aachener + Muenchener Beteiligungs-AG, also announced a capital increase to 140.22 million marks from the current 116.85 million, put through via a transfer of 23.37 million marks from its capital reserves.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 55, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 332, "end_char": 336, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0381.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0001\n\nABU DHABI, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS urges OPEC members to raise oil output\n\n\n\n\nUS Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman urged OPEC on Saturday to take measures to increase production at its next meeting on Dec.12 in Kuwait, hoping that the Gulf countries would expand their output capacity.\n\nHigh oil prices appeared to have caused \"some dampening in demand.\" \"I would hope that the (OPEC) ministers would see fit to continue supplying the market,\" Bodman told reporters in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).\n\nHe is on a tour of the Gulf members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).\n\n\"We encourage producers -- both members of OPEC members and non members -- to make maximum product available to the market,\" he said.\n\nHe urged Gulf states to issue a joint statement detailing plans to increase oil output and refining capacity.\n\n\"The goal is to have a more stable pricing environment where you do not get big spikes, either up or down,\" Bodman added. \"That enables companies or countries to make more rational decisions on whether they should expand and if so how rapidly.\"\n\nHe lauded the UAE for taking steps toward increasing capacity, revealing the Emirates had briefed him about new plans for raising production.\n\n\"There seems to be evidence that certainly here (UAE) there is significant investment in and interest in expanding capacity ... and I hope that this is what we find when we visit other countries,\" he said.\n\nBodman said that signing free trade agreements with the UAE and other countries of the energy-rich Gulf Cooperation Council would help US oil and gas companies make more investment in the energy sector of the region.\n\nAt its last meeting, OPEC maintained its official production quota at 28 million barrels per day (bpd). The UAE is currently OPEC's fifth largest producer, with output of just under 2.4 million bpd.\n\nOil prices fell to below 58 US dollars per barrel Friday, the lowest since July, as swelling fuel stocks eased consumer fears of tight winter supplies.\n\nUS oil prices are more than 13 dollars below a late-August record of 70.85 dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 153, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1934, "end_char": 1940, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1959, "end_char": 1963, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0001.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891101-0024 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0024. \n International Brief -- Cie. de Navigation Mixte:\n@  Credit Lyonnais Unit Buys\n@  Stock to Help Defeat Bid \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n F.CNM F.CLC F.CFP \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nINSURANCE (INS)\nFOOD PRODUCTS (FOD) \n\n   The portfolio unit of the French bank group Credit Lyonnais told stock market regulators that it bought 43,000 shares of Cie. de Navigation Mixte, apparently to help fend off an unwelcome takeover bid for the company. \n\n   Earlier yesterday, the Societe de Bourses Francaises was told that a unit of Framatome S.A. also bought Navigation Mixte shares, this purchase covering more than 160,000 shares. \n\n   Both companies are allies of Navigation Mixte in its fight against a hostile takeover bid launched last week by Cie. \nFinanciere de Paribas at 1,850 French francs ($297) a share. \nNavigation Mixte's chairman had suggested that friendly institutions were likely to buy its stock as soon as trading opened Monday. \n\n   The Credit Lyonnais purchase, for 33,000 regular common shares and 10,000 newly created shares, is valued at about slightly more than 80 million French francs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 159, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier yesterday", "start_char": 515, "end_char": 532, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-31", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t22"}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 797, "end_char": 806, "tid": "t61", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-WXX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t22"}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1002, "end_char": 1008, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t22"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0340.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0023\n\nPERTH, Australia, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Scott Coghlan\n\n\n\n\nDespite another failure with the bat as he continues his comeback, Michael Vaughan is expected to return to England's one-day squad later this week and may regain the captaincy.\n\nIn his fourth match since knee surgery, Vaughan was dismissed for 14 here Tuesday playing for the England Academy, just hours after England coach Duncan Fletcher had given his rehabilitation a glowing endorsement.\n\nVaughan had made a duck and nine in his two previous appearances for the England Academy here over the last fortnight, and did not bat in the two-day game England played against WA.\n\nThere were mitigating circumstances for Tuesday's failure, as the ball was seaming about prodigiously in overcast and muggy conditions ideal for swing bowling.\n\nVaughan lasted 32 balls and showed signs of his form returning with a couple of elegant boundaries, before again falling to a mistimed pull shot that was skied to mid-on, as he had done in his previous innings.\n\nDespite his indifferent form, the 2005 Ashes skipper is expected to be recalled when England announces its squad for the triangular one-day series, starting in mid-January, later this week.\n\nFletcher again ruled out Vaughan playing in the last two Ashes Tests and said the selectors were yet to make a final decision on the form and fitness of the former skipper with regards to a one-day recall.\n\nHowever, the tone of Fletcher's response suggested the 32-year-old was very much on target to play in the triangular series.\n\n\"It is very positive and it is pleasing to see,\" he said.\n\n\"Vaughan has been training with (fitness trainer) Nigel Stockill and he is moving around very freely.\n\n\"In fact, he says he hasn't felt so good for some time.\"\n\nFletcher confirmed Vaughan was being considered as captain for the one-dayers.\n\n\"We'll have to make that decision when we meet with the other selectors,\" he said.\n\n\"The 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0191\n\nLONDON, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFulham beat Bolton 2-1 in English Premier League\n\n\n\n\nBrian McBride scored a brace to earn Fulham a 2-1 win over Bolton in the English Premier League on Sunday.\n\nFulham went ahead with only four minutes into play as McBride stole in to stab home Tomasz Radzinski's cross.\n\nThe American doubled the hosts' lead after 18 minutes with a crisp volley straight from Mark Crossley's goalkick.\n\nBolton scored through a late Sylvain Legwinski own goal but a frustrating day ended when El-Hadji Diouf was red-carded after full-time for dissent.\n\nThe high-flying Wanderers might have started the match as marginal favorites but they looked jaded after their midweek Uefa Cup trip.\n\nFulham, on the other hand, made a vibrant start.\n\nSteed Malbranque and Radzinski were in inspired form, the latter's pass causing indecision in the Bolton defence and allowing McBride to nip in and score.\n\nRadhi Jaidi might have cut out Radzinski's pass and the Tunisian defender was again at fault for McBride's second when he failed to connect with Crossley's clearance.\n\nIn between, Radzinski went close with a deflected shot that span just wide.\n\nBolton boss Sam Allardyce's response was to haul off Jaidi after just half an hour and Bruno N'Gotty's introduction did seem to shore up the visitors' defence.\n\nHowever, Bolton struggled in attack too, with only Kevin Davies' aerial threat causing Fulham any problems.\n\nCrossley had a rare save to make in the second half when Davies shot low and hard straight into the keeper's arms.\n\nBolton's unhappy day was summed up when Joey O'Brien became the seventh Wanderers' player to go in referee Graham Poll's book, meaning the club will be fined.\n\nFulham were briefly rocked when Sylvain Legwinski scored a strange own goal after Nolan muscled his way into the box but it turned out to be a consolation Bolton barely deserved.\n\nDiouf's second yellow card came after full-time as he allowed his annoyance with the officials to boil over.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "18 minutes", "start_char": 371, "end_char": 381, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT18M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second half", "start_char": 1484, "end_char": 1499, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0191.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0163\n\nNEW DELHI, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMNC executive key conspirator in Delhi blasts: Indian police\n\n\n\n\nAn executive with a multinational company arrested in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir was a key conspirator in the Oct. 29 bombings in the Indian capital that were carried out by four terrorists, the Delhi Police chief said Sunday.\n\nTariq Ahmed Dar, who was arrested in Srinagar, capital of Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir, was described by Delhi Police Commissioner K.K. Paul as \"one of the key conspirators\" behind the blasts that killed over 60 people and injured more than 200.\n\nPaul said his force had also identified the four terrorists who carried out the bombings in the busy Paharganj and Sarojini Nagar markets and in a bus. \"Two of the bombers could be foreigners,\" Indo-Asian News Service quoted Paul as saying.\n\nDelhi Police confirmed the use of RDX in the blasts and said they had found crucial clues from the blast sites that pointed to the involvement of the outlawed Lashker-e-Taiba.\n\nDar was not in Delhi on the day of the blasts but had visited the capital in the first week of October to select the targets for the attacks.\n\nPaul also claimed Dar had functioned as a spokesman for the Lashker, saying that soon after the blasts, Dar had contacted a news agency in Srinagar and denied the Lashker's involvement in the bombings.\n\nDar reportedly joined the Hizbul Mujahideen, the most powerful Kashmiri guerrilla group, in 2003 but later teamed up with the Lashker.\n\nHe was helped by two other terrorists to hatch the conspiracy behind the Oct.29 bombings, police said.\n\nPaul said Dar worked as a sales representative for Johnson and Johnson in Srinagar. Dar had obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1995 and also wrote for the \"Mount Valley Magazine\" in Srinagar.\n\nOfficials said Dar's role in the attacks came to light after a special team of Delhi Police was sent to Kashmir Nov.1 and was asked to probe links between guerrilla groups in that state and the bombings, the worst terror attack in the Indian capital.\n\n\"We suspected that the terrorists were from Kashmir and we were hopeful of making a breakthrough,\" said Paul, noting that around 500,000 rupees was transferred to Dar's bank account just before the blasts.\n\nPolice officials said Dar was taken to the blast sites to identify the targets and to confirm his involvement.\n\nAccording to them, Dar was arrested by the Indian Army on Nov. 10 and handed over to Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir Police for questioning. Police said Dar was brought to Delhi on Nov. 11 and was interrogated by senior officials of the Special Cell and intelligence agencies.\n\nPolice said Dar was arrested after the army intercepted his telephone conversations.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 29", "start_char": 243, "end_char": 250, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 352, "end_char": 358, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first week of October", "start_char": 1111, "end_char": 1136, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1472, "end_char": 1476, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1757, "end_char": 1761, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 10", "start_char": 2452, "end_char": 2459, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 11", "start_char": 2579, "end_char": 2586, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0163.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0342\n\nATHENS, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nEurope backs timetable for Albanian aid, elections\n\n\n\n\nEurope threw its weight Thursday behind a timetable for getting stricken Albania back on to its feet, firming up its support for an aid operation and early elections.\n\nIn return, Albanian Premier Bashkim Fino, meeting here with top EU and OSCE officials, pledged to step up dialogue with the armed rebels who have held the south of the country for more than a month in their bid to oust President Sali Berisha.\n\n\"We are convinced that the June elections can be held with being hampered by the armed groups,\" said Greek Foreign Minister Theodore Pangalos, referring to the polls which, it is hoped, will drag Albania out of crisis and into compromise.\n\n\"We must support our Albanian friends so that they can get back on their feet\" by the time of June elections, said Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe envoy Franz Vranitzky, after talks with Fino, Pangalos and EU envoy Hans van Mierlo.\n\nA key element of efforts to pull Albania back from the brink involves the dispatch of a multinational force of up to 5,000 troops to shore up security while aid is brought into the chaotic Balkan state.\n\nBut Vranitzky warned that a launch date of April 12 proposed for the military mission could be optimistic.\n\n\"April 12 is a date we're all working toward. Perhaps it's optimistic, but if it is delayed by five days it won't be a catastrophe,\" he said. \"What we want now is to work as closely together as possible.\"\n\nIn Paris, a French foreign ministry spokesman said a steering committee of representatives of nations contributing to the force -- Austria, France, Greece, Italy, Spain and Turkey -- would meet Friday in Rome.\n\nPangalos said for his part that the force, due to comprise between 700 and 800 Greek troops, \"will not be tasked with disarmament.\" Instead the Italian-led mission is expected to secure roads, junctions, airports and warehouses and help aid deliveries.\n\nFino, who later returned to Tirana, said after Thursday's talks that the dispatch of the force marked a key stage in the preparations for the June elections.\n\nAnd he stressed that he would increase dialogue with the southern rebels and the self-styled committees which are currently running a string of southern towns in a bid to restore \"peace and calm\" after a month of anarchy.\n\nAlbania descended into chaos after protests over the collapse of bogus investment schemes boiled over into a full-blown rebellion. Duped investors and criminal elements armed themselves and called for the resignation of President Berisha, whom they blamed for the financial implosion.\n\nVranitzky, a former Austrian chancellor, said the OSCE and EU help would be based around three pillars.\n\nThe European Union would provide economic and humanitarian aid, the OSCE would help restore democracy, and Italy would lead the multinational force.\n\nVranitzky said: \"None of these pillars can stand by themselves, they are inter-dependent.\"\n\n\"We must restore a decent life, otherwise there can't be public order, and if public order is not restored, elections and democracy won't be possible, and all that must be protected by the very prudent action of a multinational force,\" Vranitzky said.\n\nMore than 13,000 refugees have crossed the Adriatic for Italy, though scores were feared drowned last week when a refugee boat collided with an Italian naval ship.\n\nOn Thursday, the first refugees arrived in Italy since that calamity, as a boat with 53 escapees docked in the southern port of Brindisi. Meanwhile, a Russian cargo vessel in the southern Adriatic picked up around 20 Albanian refugees navigating the waters in a rubber dinghy.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 132, "end_char": 140, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than a month", "start_char": 456, "end_char": 473, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 854, "end_char": 858, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 12", "start_char": 1260, "end_char": 1268, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 12", "start_char": 1326, "end_char": 1334, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five days", "start_char": 1420, "end_char": 1429, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1481, "end_char": 1484, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1725, "end_char": 1731, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "700", "start_char": 1809, "end_char": 1812, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "700", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2043, "end_char": 2051, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "drowned last week", "start_char": 3353, "end_char": 3370, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 3432, "end_char": 3440, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0342.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0247\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAlcohol poisoning kills over 400 across Russia\n\n\n\n\nA total of 406 people have died from drinking illicit liquor in a wave of alcohol poisoning in numerous Russian regions over the past few months, the head of the country's consumer rights watchdog agency said on Tuesday.\n\nGennady Onishchenko, chief of the Federal Service for Consumer Rights Supervision, said some 10,000 cases of toxic hepatitis caused by toxic alcohol substitutes have been registered in 18 regions, according to the Itar-Tass news agency.\n\nThe hardest hit were the Irkutsk, Chelyabinsk and Belgorod regions, where 107 people have been affected and 16 of them died in the past 24 hours alone, Onishchenko said.\n\nA total of 406 deaths from toxic alcohol substitutes have occurred in Russia over the past several months, he added.\n\nThe massive wave of poisoning has raised alarm in the country, with top lawmakers calling for state monopoly over alcohol products to help crack down on fake vodka and toxic alcohol substitutes.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past few months", "start_char": 232, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 319, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 24 hours", "start_char": 694, "end_char": 711, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT24H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past several months", "start_char": 820, "end_char": 843, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0191\n\nBANGKOK, April 18 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPolish FM says seeking more exports to Thailand, including arms\n\n\n\n\nPoland is seeking to boost political ties and exports of military hardware, engineering and chemical products to Thailand and other southeast Asian countries, the Polish foreign minister said here Friday.\n\nDariusz Rosati told reporters Poland's broad industrial base stood the former Warsaw Pact nation in good stead for a regional market in Asia that holds \"enormous potential and economic prospects.\"\n\n\"We should have much more trade and political cooperation with the (southeast Asian) region,\" he said, midway through a three-day official visit to Thailand.\n\nRosati noted Poland has a strong armament sector and discussions with Thailand would cover possible exports of Polish-made military hardware, which included tanks, guns, boats and helicopters.\n\nHe added Poland was also open for investment \"in every field\" from Thailand, including tourism, garment industries and electronics. Foreign investment in Poland was between six and seven billion dollars in 1996.\n\nPart of Poland's regional strategy for reaching into southeast Asia was to join the Asian Development Bank (ADB), he said.\n\nThis had been discussed with bank officials in Manila in an earlier stop on the minister's current swing through southeast Asia. He was hopeful of Poland joining the ADB next year.\n\nThe foreign minister said he was \"very satisfied\" with discussions with Thai Prime Minister Chaowalit Yongchaiyudh Thursday, which included an exchange of views on the political situation in southeast Asia and the prospects for Poland's entry into NATO and the European Union.\n\nHe was holding talks Friday at the ministry of industry and trade and on Saturday was scheduled to meet with his Thai counterpart Prachuab Chaiyasarn.\n\nThey would sign an agreement on cooperation between the Thai and Polish justice ministries, regarding the enforcement of court sentences and the transfer of prisoners, Rosati said.\n\nThere are currently eight Poles serving sentences or awaiting trial in Thai prisons on narcotics charges.\n\nRosati's visit, which included earlier stops in Indonesia and the Philippines, is the foreign minister's first in southeast Asia. It follows a visit to Thailand by the Polish Premier Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz last year.\n\nTwo-way trade between the two countries in 1996 was worth 9.58 billion baht (369 million dollars), with the balance of trade more than one billion baht in Poland's favour, a Thai official said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 18 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 320, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 1086, "end_char": 1090, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1387, "end_char": 1396, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1514, "end_char": 1522, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1698, "end_char": 1704, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2325, "end_char": 2334, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 2380, "end_char": 2384, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0191.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0297\n\nBERLIN, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nWerder Bremen warmed up for Tuesday's titanic Champions League tussle with Barcelona by moving to the top of the Bundesliga with a 3-1 win over Hertha Berlin on Saturday.\n\nBremen need a point against Barcelona on Tuesday but three were required against Hertha and the title hopefuls delivered thanks to a stellar display from German international Miroslav Klose.\n\nKlose, top-scorer at the World Cup, scored twice (32, 40) to take his season's tally to ten and show Barca he is in top form.\n\nBrazilian playmaker Diego had opened the scoring with a penalty after Josip Simunic, who also scored Hertha's goal, had handled in the area.\n\nBremen replaced Schalke 04 at the summit but the latter, now one point behind, can reclaim top spot with victory over FC Nuremberg on Sunday.\n\nChampions Bayern Munich lost ground on Bremen after a 1-1 home draw with lowly Borussia Monchengladbach and now trail the leaders by three points.\n\nArgentine Martin Demichelis headed Bayern ahead on 23 minutes but Michael Delura equalised ten minutes later.\n\nGladbach held on for the point to delight manager Juup Henyckes, who won the German title as Bayern coach in 1989 and 1990.\n\nBayern now turn their attention to Tuesday's match with Inter Milan in the Champions League where they aim to secure top spot in the group.\n\nBut most neutral fans in Germany will be tuning in to the Bremen match with the 2004 champions needing a point at Barcelona's intimidating Nou Camp stadium to eliminate the holders and join Chelsea in the last 16 phase of the competition.\n\nAs it stands four teams - Bremen, Schalke, Bayern and Stuttgart, who drew 0-0 with Mainz 05 on Friday, all have the chance to go into the six-week winter break as league leaders.\n\nIn the last 12 seasons the 'winter champions' have gone on to win the Bundesliga with the two exceptions being Schalke in 2001 and Bayer Leverkusen in 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0308\n\nSOFIA, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBulgaria informs allies over Iraq withdrawal plans\n\n\n\n\nThe Bulgarian battalion in Iraq will begin its withdrawal right after Iraqi parliamentary elections planned for Dec. 15, the press office of the Bulgarian Defense Ministry has announced.\n\nThe office released a piece of news that the country's Defense Minister Vesselin Bliznakov had sent a letter to the allies in \" Central-South\" Iraq under Polish command thus officially informing them of Sofia's plans for withdrawal.\n\nIn the letter Minister Bliznakov also informed the partners that the Bulgarian Parliament has authorized Council of Ministers to negotiate the \"appropriate forms\" in future participation in the coalition under the UN solutions and EU and US position on Iraq.\n\nThe biggest local newspaper \"TRUD\" revealed earlier that the Bulgarian government is planning to resend to Iraq a team of 300 soldiers for non-military task.\n\nThe National Assembly (Parliament) of Bulgaria approved in May a government plan to withdraw the country's 400 troops in Diwaniya, Iraq by the end of the year after a long mandate of more than 2 years. Thirteen Bulgarian soldiers have already died there by now.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 15", "start_char": 222, "end_char": 229, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1010, "end_char": 1013, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 1090, "end_char": 1109, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 2 years", "start_char": 1134, "end_char": 1151, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1208, "end_char": 1211, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0308.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "ABC19980108.1830.0711 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n On the other hand, it's turning out to be another very bad financial week\n for Asia. The financial assistance from the World Bank and the\n International Monetary Fund are not helping. In the last twenty four hours, the\n value of the Indonesian stock market has fallen by twelve percent. The Indonesian\n currency has lost\n twenty six percent of its value. In Singapore, stocks hit a five year low. In the\n Philippines, a four year low. And in Hong Kong, a three percent drop. More\n problems in Hong Kong for a place, for an economy, that many experts thought was\n once invincible. Here's ABC's Jim Laurie.\n\n\n Not that long ago, before the Chinese takeover, the news about real estate\n here was that the sky was the limit the highest prices in the world. So\n when Wong Kwan\n spent seventy million dollars for this house, he thought it was a\n great deal. He sold the property to five buyers and said he'd double his\n money.\n\n\n In Hong Kong, is always belongs to the seller's market.\n\n\n Now with new construction under way, three of his buyers have backed out.\n And Wong Kwan will be lucky to break even. All across Hong Kong, the\n property market has crashed. Pamela Pak\n owns eight condominiums here.\n Pak ca n't find buyers. She estimates her properties, worth a hundred thirty million dollars in October, are worth only half that now.\n\n\n They believe ah it will be always up going up and up ah forever. Nobody believe\n this any more.\n\n\n Of all of Asia's economies, Hong Kong is the most robust. But in the past\n three months, stocks have plunged, interest rates have soared and the\n downturn all across Asia means that people are not spending here.\n\n\n Hotels are only thirty percent full. You can get seventy percent discounts at the\n shopping malls. Three thousand dollar pearls for eight hundred dollars. A two hundred dollar wool jacket for fifty dollars.\n Still, there are few buyers. And at the big brokerage houses, after ten\n years of boom, they're talking about layoffs.\n\n\n I think that the mood is fairly gloomy, and I think it's not going to\n change for a couple of years.\n\n\n So for Hong Kong, it's time, as investment bankers like to say, to reposition. To either hold on tight or get out, as much of Asia goes into\n recession. Jim Laurie, ABC News, Hong Kong.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980108", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t82", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "week", "start_char": 111, "end_char": 115, "tid": "t83", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last twenty four hours", "start_char": 229, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t85", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t82"}, {"text": "five year", "start_char": 424, "end_char": 433, "tid": "t86", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four year", "start_char": 462, "end_char": 471, "tid": "t87", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 1025, "end_char": 1028, "tid": "t196", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t82"}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1338, "end_char": 1345, "tid": "t89", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t82"}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1372, "end_char": 1375, "tid": "t90", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t82"}, {"text": "the past\n three months", "start_char": 1544, "end_char": 1566, "tid": "t98", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t82"}, {"text": "ten\n years", "start_char": 1970, "end_char": 1980, "tid": "t99", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a couple of years", "start_char": 2106, "end_char": 2123, "tid": "t100", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "ABC19980108.1830.0711.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0140\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNational Exhibition held in Beijing to show Russia's progress\n\n\n\n\nThe National Exhibition on Russia was held in Beijing on Friday to show Russia's progress in high-tech industry, aviation, forestry and other fields.\n\nChinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov attended the opening ceremony.\n\nWen said the exhibition enabled the Chinese people to learn about Russia's economic development, scientific advances and cultural progress.\n\nHe said the exhibition reflected the aspirations of both China and Russia to further economic and trade cooperation, saying that he hoped more areas could be explored to facilitate cooperation between the two countries.\n\nWen vowed to hold a successful exhibition on China in Russia in 2007.\n\nFradkov said the exhibition was the largest one held by Russia in China, which showed the great potential for Russia-China cooperation and would promote mutual understanding between the two peoples.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 186, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 802, "end_char": 806, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0140.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0099\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nall-round way: FM spokesman\n\n\n\n\nChina hopes US President George W. Bush's imminent visit to the country will advance Sino-US relations in an all-round day, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Thursday\n\n\"We expect that Bush's visit, slated for Nov. 19 to 21, will increase consensus, step up mutual trust, expand exchange and cooperation, and promote Sino-US constructive and cooperative relations in 21st century in an all-round way,\" Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao told the regular briefing Thursday afternoon.\n\nWhen asked to comment on President Bush's remarks in Kyoto Tuesday,which touched upon Sino-US relations, human rights and religion, Liu said that China pursues a path of peaceful development.\n\nNoting that China has made remarkable, important progress in the field of human rights, Liu said the Chinese people, in accordance with laws, enjoy all various kinds of democracy and freedom, including the freedom in religious belief.\n\n\"All countries should hold exchanges and dialogues on human rights on the principled basis of equality, mutual respect and non-intervention in internal affairs,\" the spokesman said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 250, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 19", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 308, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "21st century", "start_char": 458, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "P21C", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday afternoon", "start_char": 559, "end_char": 577, "tid": "t5", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0099.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0288\n\nRIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFire forces closure of Brazil's two nuclear power stations\n\n\n\n\nA fire in an electrical transformer forced the closure of Brazil's Angra I and Angra II nuclear power stations early Friday morning, state-owned nuclear electricity company Eletronuclear said.\n\nThe fire triggered the automatic protection system, which immediately shut down the nuclear electricity generation units of the two nuclear power stations, located in Rio De Janeiro state, Eletronuclear said.\n\nThe accident happened outside the Angra II plant and was not related to the nuclear generators, said the company, adding that no abnormalities have been recorded inside the plant.\n\nAngra II will remain closed until investigators find the cause of the fire.\n\nThe automatic system disconnected Angra I automatically, although it has no problems inside or outside. It will resume electricity generation straight away, Eletronuclear said.\n\nThe southeast of Brazil will not have access to the 1,350 megawatts of electricity generated by the two plants, but other generation sources will make up for the loss, it said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0288.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0239\n\nMADRID, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nSpanish giants Barcelona will be looking to bounce back, after the disappointment of losing the World Club Cup final to Internacional, by beating Atletico Madrid in La Liga on Thursday.\n\nThe game brings an end to the Spanish first division for the year and, having started 2006 on top of the league, Barcelona will want to end it on a high note.\n\n\"We've got this game to make sure that we forget about what happened against Internacional,\" said the Catalan side's star striker Ronaldinho.\n\n\"Now we've got to hold our heads up high and get on with fighting for the league and the Champions League,\" added Barca goalkeeper Victor Valdes in the wake of their 1-0 loss to the Brazilians in Yokohama on Sunday.\n\nBarcelona are currently second in La Liga, one point behind Sevilla who took over at the top after a 3-1 win at Recreativo Huelva on Sunday, but the reigning Spanish champions have one game in hand over last season's UEFA Cup winners.\n\nThe problem for Barca is that they face Atletico at a time when they are having a good run of form.\n\nThey lie in fourth place, the highest position they have been for nearly two seasons.\n\nAtletico have also turned recently into Barca's Black Beast', the Spanish phrase for a bogey team that always haunts you.\n\nLast year, Atletico were the only team to beat Barca in their Nou Camp stadium and also hammered them in the Spanish capital.\n\n\"We've done well in the Nou Camp in recent years but we are well aware that things can always change. However, we are going to Barcelona with lots of confidence. We are not afraid of them anymore,\" said Atletico's Spanish international striker Fernando Torres.\n\nTorres certainly has no reason to be nervous. He has scored against Barcelona on the last four occasions the two teams have met.\n\nAtletico coach Javier Aguirre was also licking his lips, despite Sunday's lacklustre 1-0 win over local rivals Getafe, at the possibility the Beast' can put the bite on Barca once more.\n\n\"If we are fourth playing like this then, if we can play well again at Barca, we can take them apart,\" said Aguirre.\n\nSevilla can ensure they end the year on top of the Spanish first division if they beat struggling Deportivo La Coruna at home on Wednesday.\n\nThe Andalusia side won their one and only previous championship in 1946 but they are starting to feel that the La Liga trophy might come south after a 61 year absence.\n\n\"First place is the only place this team should be,\" said Sevilla coach Juande Ramos on Sunday.\n\nThe big problem for Sevilla is suspensions. They will lose Aitor Ocio, Antonio Puerta and Jose Luis Marti for the visit of Deportivo, who languish in 15th, just three places above the relegation zone, after their 2-0 home defeat by Athletic Bilbao on Saturday.\n\nThere have been widespread calls for the sacking of Deportivo coach Joaquin Caparros but at least he will be assured a warm welcome in Sevilla.\n\nCaparros was the Sevilla coach for five years before moving to Deportivo in 2005 and he steered the club out of the second division in 2001.\n\nReal Madrid are third, just two points in arrears of Sevilla and one behind their bitter rivals Barca.\n\nThe 29-times Spanish champions play host to Recreativo Huelva on Wednesday and hope to have Italy's World Cup captain and central defender Fabio Cannavaro available to play.\n\nCannavaro was sent off after receiving a second yellow card during Real's 1-0 win at Espanyol on Sunday because the referee judged that he had handled the ball but television pictures support the player's 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0110\n\nGENEVA, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS background ///\n\n\n\n\nSwitzerland's central bank said Thursday it was raising its key interest rate for the first time since June 2004 by 0.25 percentage points in response to the accelerating growth of the Swiss economy.\n\nThe three-month Libor rate would be allowed to vary in a range from 0.50 percent to 1.50 percent, instead of 0.25 percent to 1.25 percent, the Swiss National Bank said in a statement.\n\nThe SNB also raised forecasts for Swiss economic growth less than two months since an earlier official revision, predicting 1.5-percent growth of gross domestic product (GDP) for 2005 instead of the previous estimate of 1.3 percent from the Swiss economics ministry.\n\nGrowth was expected to be \"a little more than two percent\" in 2006, according to the bank.\n\n\"By raising its target range, the Swiss National Bank is adjusting its monetary policy to economic developments, which are proceeding as expected,\" the SNB said\n\n\"This ensures that the inflation outlook remains favourable,\" it added.\n\nAnnual inflation was forecast to reach 1.2 percent this year, before dropping back to 0.8 percent in 2006 and rising again to 1.2 percent in 2007.\n\nDespite the rate increase announced on Thursday, the SNB said it was maintaining an expansionary monetary policy and would continue to support the recovery.\n\nThe bank intended to keep the Libor rate in the middle of the range at about one percent \"for the time being\".\n\n\"If the Swiss franc were to appreciate rapidly, the National Bank would react appropriately,\" it added.\n\nSwiss economic growth accelerated during the third quarter to reach 2.3 percent over the figure for the equivalent period last year, amid strong consumer spending, according to official data.\n\nSNB chairman Jean-Pierre Roth had signalled on November 2 that a rate rize was on the cards for the end of the year, despite some concerns about the potential longer term impact of higher oil prices on economic growth.\n\nRoth acknowledged in a speech to businessmen that the price of oil had probably made a durable shift to new higher levels but its wider inflationary impact was cushioned.\n\nHowever, he insisted that interest rates were still at unsustainably low levels.\n\n\"It is clear that the generous monetary environment we created in 2001 to 2003, in the wake of the difficulties of the world economy and geopolitical tension, is not adapted to a normalised situation. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0323\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nWall Street rebounds as oil dips; Dow lifts 0.33 percent\n\n\n\n\nUS stocks opened higher Tuesday as year-end rally sentiment returned after a pullback in crude oil futures.\n\nThe Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 35.54 points (0.33 percent) to 10,870.55 and the Nasdaq composite pushed higher by 11.69 points (0.52 percent) to 2,269.33 in the first exchanges.\n\nOn Monday, the main indexes ended lower, hurt by a rise in oil prices and a jump in long-term interest rates. However, the stock market in general has been rallying during the last five weeks, benefiting from data pointing to economic strength and oversold conditions.\n\nThe positive trend was in force once again at Tuesday's opening.\n\nSteve Goldman, chief market strategist at Weeden and Co., said, \"There was some skittishness yesterday about oil and bond prices. But that has dissipated a bit. We still have seasonal factors in the back of every trader's mind.\"\n\nBob Dickey at RBC Dain Rauscher said the market has held at key levels despite profit taking in recent sessions, suggesting the rally remains intact.\n\n\"Any further dips in the market over the next few days are regarded by us as being great buy points for the continuation of the year-end rally,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 132, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 406, "end_char": 412, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last five weeks", "start_char": 575, "end_char": 594, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 719, "end_char": 726, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0323.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0096\n\nMELBOURNE, Nov. 19 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSchedule of Artistic Gymnastics Worlds\n\n\n\n\nFollowing is the competition schedule of the 2005 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships to kick off here on Tuesday:\nNovember 22: Men's qualifications\n\nNovember 23: Women's qualifications\n\nNovember 24: Men's all-around final\n\nNovember 25: Women's all-around final\n\nNovember 26: Apparatus finals, Men's - Floor, Pommel horse, Rings\n\nWomen's - Vault, Uneven bars\n\nNovember 27: Apparatus finals, Men's - Vault, Parallel bars, Horizontal bars; Women's - Balance beam, Floor", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday:", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 22", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 23", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 267, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 24", "start_char": 293, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 25", "start_char": 330, "end_char": 341, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 26", "start_char": 369, "end_char": 380, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 27", "start_char": 466, "end_char": 477, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0096.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0334\n\nDOHA, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nStarting line-up of Qatar against Jordan at Asian Games\n\n\n\n\nFollowing is the starting line-up of hosts Qatar against Jordan at the second-round of football events at Doha Asian Games here on Tuesday:\n\nForwards: Abdulrahman Hussain Ya, Quintana Sebastian, Rajab Bilal Mohammed\n\nMidfielders: Mohd Adel Lamy, Al Hamad Mesaad Ali, Abdulmajid Wesam Rizik, Rahmati Younes Ali\n\nDefenders: Saleh Ali Nasser, Koni Abdulla Obaid, Siddiq Majdi Abdulla\n\nGoalkeeper: Ahmed Mohamed Saqr", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 245, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0334.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980322.0749 \n NEWS STORY \n 03/22/1998 14:57:00 \n\nw1834 Cx1f wstm-\nr i Cx13  Cx11  BC-NorthernIreland 1stLd-Writethru   03-22 0720\n\n\n BC-Northern Ireland, 1st Ld-Writethru \n\nPolice find bomb on eve of Sinn Fein's return to peace talks\n\nUR Eds: NEW throughout; RAISES reference to bomb; UPDATES with protest\nagainst Protestant marches, comment from Sinn Fein leader; trims\npvs QL\nUR By SHAWN POGATCHNIK QC\nUR Associated Press Writer QC\n\n\nBELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) _ Police seized a car bomb under\nconstruction Sunday in a town bordering Northern Ireland on the eve\nof the return to peace talks by the IRA-allied Sinn Fein party.\nChief Superintendent Al McHugh said the bomb discovered in the\nIrish Republic was destined for an unknown target in Northern\nIreland and ``would have caused massive destruction.''\nThe discovery appeared to be the latest attempt by extremists\nopposed to the IRA's 8-month-old truce to undermine the peace\nprocess, set to resume Monday in Belfast.\nExtremists have bombed two predominantly pro-British Protestant\ntowns and fired mortar shells at a police station since Sinn Fein\nwas expelled from peace talks on Feb. 20 in punishment for two\nkillings blamed on the Irish Republican Army.\nPolice found more than 1,300 pounds (600 kgs) of\nfertilizer-based explosives Sunday in a shed in Dundalk, 50 miles\n(80 kms) south of Belfast.\nThey arrested two men in connection with the bomb factory, which\nalso contained circuitry, detonating cord and the Mitsubishi truck\nthat would have carried the bomb.\nThe British and Irish governments, which cosponsor the\nmulti-party talks that are supposed to conclude by May, invited\nSinn Fein to rejoin two weeks ago.\nBut Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams kept his party out pending\nmeetings with British Prime Minister Tony Blair 10 days ago and\nPresident Clinton last week.\n``We were unjustly pushed out of the talks in February but we\nare back,'' Adams said Sunday.\nHe said the north's substantial Catholic minority demanded a\nsettlement that would promote Northern Ireland's eventual\nunification with the Irish Republic.\n``Nationalists in the north are not  a minority in someone else's\ncountry. We are Irish citizens, living in our own country,'' Adams\nsaid, adding: ``Nationalists want to move towards Irish unity and\nsee this process as a bridge in that direction.''\nBut the north's pro-British Protestant majority is bitterly opposed to uniting Ireland and instead wants a strong government\nfor Northern Ireland, which has been ruled directly by London since\n1972.\nNorthern Ireland's biggest Protestant party, the Ulster\nUnionists, is threatening to push for Sinn Fein's expulsion once\nagain. They say IRA commanders are responsible for the recent bomb\nattacks.\nAlso Sunday, more than 2,000 Catholic protesters rallied in\nPortadown against the annual parades by the Orange Order, Northern\nIreland's dominant Protestant fraternal group.\nConfrontations among Catholic protesters, Protestant marchers\nand the police have provoked widespread violence in Northern\nIreland for the past three summers. The crucible is Portadown, 30\nmiles (50 kms) southwest of Belfast, where Orangemen march each\nJuly from their rural church back downtown _ through the town's\nmain Catholic area.\nProtesters from several Catholic communities crowded into\nPortadown's Catholic Garvaghy Road to hear speakers demand\nnegotiations with Orange Order leaders, and pledge to participate\nin each others' road-blocking protests this summer.\n``Small nationalist communities are not going to be left on\ntheir own this summer,'' said Gerard Rice, a former IRA prisoner\nwho leads anti-Orange protests in a Catholic neighborhood of south\nBelfast.\nRiot police in armored cars, shields and helmets prevented a few\nhundred Protestants, many waving British and Ulster flags, from\ninterfering with the Catholics as they marched within Portadown's\nfew Catholic streets.\nEarlier Sunday, police and militant Protestants clashed in a\nreligiously polarized part of north Belfast.\nPolice said an unmarked police car was hit with gasoline bombs\nfrom the Protestant side. Riot police responded with a volley of\nplastic bullets that scattered a 50-strong mob.\nAn elderly Catholic man was hospitalized from cuts after a\nProtestant gasoline bomb landed in his back yard. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0333\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nIraq polls close\n\n\n\n\nPolls closed on Thursday in Iraq's historic general election for the first full-term government since the fall of Saddam Hussein, the electoral commission said.\n\nElectoral official Hussein al-Hindawi told AFP people still waiting at polling stations would be allowed to cast their ballots until the last man, even after the doors shut at 5:00 pm (1400 GMT).\n\nIraqis flooded polling stations during the 10-hour election for a 275-member parliament set to put in place a government that will return the country to full sovereignty following the 2003 US-led invasion.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 84, "end_char": 92, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051215.0333.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0308\n\nSTOCKHOLM, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nSwedish unemployment benefit reforms\n\n\n\n\nThe Swedish parliament was on Wednesday set to adopt the centre-right government's plans to raise premiums for unemployment insurance while decreasing payouts to the jobless.\n\nUnder existing rules, Sweden's unemployed who previously earned less than 20,075 kronor (2,945 dollars, 2,220 euros) a month, receive eighty percent of their former salary for 300 days, a period which can be extended a further 300 days.\n\nFor those whose previously earned more than 20,075 kronor per month, benefits amount to 80 percent of their salary up to a pre-tax ceiling of 16,060 kronor a month for a maximum of 100 days.\n\nThis group is also entitled to a pre-tax maximum of 14,960 kronor per month for a further 200 days.\n\nUnder the proposed changes all unemployed workers are to receive 80 percent of their salary for 200 days, 70 percent of their salary for the next 100 days and 65 percent for an unlimited period thereafter.\n\nFrom the 301st day unemployment benefits would be subject to stricter controls, however.\n\nEmployees currently contribute on average 100 kronor per month to unemployment insurance.\n\nUnder the new legislation their contributions would rise on average by 238 kronor.\n\nIf approved on Wednesday, the law will take effect on January 1, although the reduction in payments would take effect in March.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 126, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 389, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "300", "start_char": 499, "end_char": 502, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P300D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "100", "start_char": 691, "end_char": 694, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P100D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "200", "start_char": 792, "end_char": 795, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "P200D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "200 days", "start_char": 899, "end_char": 907, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P200D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 100 days", "start_char": 940, "end_char": 957, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P100D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 301st day", "start_char": 1015, "end_char": 1028, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "P301D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1290, "end_char": 1299, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1", "start_char": 1329, "end_char": 1338, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1396, "end_char": 1401, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0308.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0165\n\nDAR ES SALAAM, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTanzania starts monitoring bird flu via special team\n\n\n\n\nA national team composed of multi-sectoral specialists has started monitoring bird flu so as to assist in the prevention of the fatal epidemic in Tanzania.\n\nThe 18-member team is assessing and reviewing the epidemiological status of the disease, undertaking risk analyses and preparing contingency and emergency measures.\n\nThe team has already worked out a three-phase operational plan that consists of pre-pandemic, pandemic and post-pandemic stages.\n\nThe team will also coordinate epidemic surveillance and bio- security operations and form a national command post in the event of the disease breakout in the country.\n\nVirological studies have so far pinpointed to the probability of wild birds spreading the disease, known by its scientific term as Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.\n\nSevere winters in Europe this year might lead to an increase of wild migratory birds to East Africa. Europe is experiencing its severest winter in the past 70 years.\n\nDr. Meta Grasford Yongolo from the virology department of the Animal Diseases Research Institute, predicted that as many as 15 million birds are coming to Tanzania from Europe for warmer and wetter weather conditions.\n\nThe bird flu virus is easily transmitted through air from migratory birds to such house fowls as chickens and ducks.\n\nThe country has already banned imports of chicken or poultry products while the East African Community has set up a special body and a special fund of 54 million US dollars to coordinate efforts by member states of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in the prevention of bird flu.\n\nThe coordination body not only consists of public health officials from the EAC member states but also advisors from international institutions like the World Health Organization.\n\nThe United Nations has warned the east African countries that there is a serious risk that the scenario of a potential spread of the bird flu through migratory birds to northern and eastern Africa may become a reality.\n\nThe East Africa Rift Valley hosts many bird species that relocate seasonally to and from Europe for hot-wet weather conditions. Birds that migrate to Europe return to the rift valley during summer in the southern hemisphere.\n\nThe United Nations issued the warning after the H5N1 strain of virus or bird flu virus had been detected in Romania and Turkey in October this year.\n\nThe virus has ravaged poultry in East Asia and has spread to Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and now eastern Europe.\n\nThe bird flu epidemic is fatal to human beings as it causes deaths if untreated. In 2003, it killed more than 60 people in Asia alone.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 70 years", "start_char": 1055, "end_char": 1072, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P70Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "summer", "start_char": 2277, "end_char": 2283, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October this year", "start_char": 2443, "end_char": 2460, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 2662, "end_char": 2666, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0165.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0075\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nResults from Hong Kong Open badminton\n\n\n\n\nFollowing are the results from the 250,000 US dollar Hong Kong Open badminton championship here Saturday (prefxi number denotes seeding):\n\nMen's singles\n\nSemi-finals\n\n1-Lin Dan, China, bt 4-Lee Chong-wei, Malaysia, 15-4, 15-6.\n\nWomen's singles\n\nSemi-finals\n\n1-Zhang Ning, China, bt 4-Pi Hongyan, France, 11-3, 13-11", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "13-11", "start_char": 410, "end_char": 415, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0075.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0331\n\nSOFIA, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBulgarian approves new constitutional amendments\n\n\n\n\nBulgarian lawmakers on Tuesday approved the new constitutional amendments needed to raise accountability in the judiciary ahead of European Union membership on Jan. 1 next year.\n\nThe state-owned BTA reported that in a vote at the National Assembly, the parliament, 203 of 240 deputies backed amendments to end blanket immunity held by judges, prosecutors and investigators and to set up a special parliament-elected inspectorate to monitor the judiciary.\n\nThis is the fourth amendment to the 1991 constitution and also the second amendment in 2006.\n\nChanges in the country's basic law are regarded as important steps for Bulgaria's bid for EU membership.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 138, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 1 next year", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 651, "end_char": 655, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0331.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0274\n\nQINGDAO, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nPhilippines\n\n\n\n\nA fleet of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy ended a 79-day voyage and arrived this port city in east China's Shandong Province on Tuesday, after visiting four ports in the United States, Canada and the Philippines.\n\nAt 10:00 am, a grand ceremony was held at the Navy port, to welcome the fleet, composing the missile destroyer, \"Qingdao\", and the depot ship, \"Lake Hongze\", with 506 officers and men on board.\n\nOn Aug. 21, the fleet left Qingdao Port, since then, it traveled 17,000 sea miles and successfully passed through three typhonic centers.\n\nDuring the journey, Chinese and the U.S. navy held their first joint maritime exercise.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 21", "start_char": 501, "end_char": 508, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0274.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0422\n\nWASHINGTON, April 18 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nOn diplomatic tightrope, Clinton meets Hong Kong democrat Lee by Gretchen Cook\n\n\n\n\nUS President Bill Clinton walked a delicate line Friday as he met Hong Kong's Democratic party chief amid warnings from the territory's future China-appointed leader about meddling in the upcoming handover.\n\nThe White House downgraded the talks with Martin Lee to a casual drop- in by Clinton in order to avoid angering China, which views Lee's visit as an attempt to win Washington's sympathies to his protests over the July 1 takeover of Hong Kong.\n\nBut Hong Kong's chief executive-designate Tung Chee-hwa said he was \"disappointed\" with Lee Friday and warned him \"to please bear in mind that whatever he says it will be carefully read and interpreted.\n\n\"The worst thing is, at this juncture, to give people in the United States a wrong impression. So far I have to tell you I am disappointed,\" he said.\n\nLee said at the UN headquarters in New York Tuesday that he plans to press Clinton to consider the transition of Hong Kong as an \"international\" affair rather than the domestic matter China insists it is.\n\nIn a specially choreographed arrangement, Vice President Al Gore held an official meeting with Lee which Clinton visited while it was \"in progress,\" the White House said.\n\nBut China's kid glove treatment by the White House also comes with a warning.\n\nThursday, spokesman Michael McCurry said that the US administration will watch the handover anxiously and be ready to pounce on any sign that democratic freedoms are being yanked.\n\nHe evoked the 1984 Joint Declaration agreement between Britain and China which calls for the continuation of civil rights in the former British colony and said: \"We will assert an interest in preserving that formula into the future.\"\n\nThe United States has already protested China's plans to dissolve the elected legislature and its proposals to clamp down on freedoms of expression and assembly.\n\nAs part of the US vigilance, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright will attend the ceremony for the transition of Hong Kong, where there are 40,000 American citizens and some 13 billion dollars in investments.\n\nClinton agreed to the Lee meeting after pressure from the Republican- led Congress, which is highly supportive of the Hong Kong Democratic leader and often charges the president's handling of China is weak- kneed.\n\nThe \"drop-by\" formula is one often used by the White House in delicate diplomatic situations.\n\nIf the Dalai Lama comes to the White House as expected, McCurry said he will likely be greeted here as he was last year.\n\n\"In the past, it's been similar to the procedure for Lee today,\" he said.\n\nTung said Wednesday that he had scrapped plans to visit the United States.\n\nMedia reports in Hong Kong said it was to avoid possible embarrassment should he be refused a White House visit.\n\nMcCurry declined to comment on whether the president would meet with Tung, saying that as there were no plans for his visit such meeting would be hypothetical.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 18 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1", "start_char": 562, "end_char": 568, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 685, "end_char": 691, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1405, "end_char": 1413, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2615, "end_char": 2624, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 2684, "end_char": 2689, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2712, "end_char": 2721, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970418.0422.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0301\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAfrican leaders want EU aid instead of interference\n\n\n\n\nLeaders from African countries told the European Union (EU) on Friday that Africa needs aid, but not interference in their reforms and policies.\n\n\"Stop interfering in the decision-making process of African states,\" Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni told a conference on state governance in Africa hosted by the European Commission (EC) in Brussels.\n\nThe conference was attended by World Bank director Paul Wolfowitz, more than 15 African leaders and EU ministers. Museveni said his country risked an electricity shortage because donors had pressured it to stop building dams on the Nile.\n\n\"Do not use your wealth and power to try to create us in your image,\" said Botswana's President Festus Mogae, adding that governance \"cannot be a one-way street, an instrument to be used by the strong against the weak.\"\n\nThe EU dubs itself the biggest aid donor in the world, saying it provided 43.3 billion euros (around 55 billion U.S. dollars) in 2004, of which half went to Africa.\n\nFor 2008-2013, some 3 billion euros (around 3.8 billion U.S. dollars) will be allocated to reward countries for applying reforms that the EU calls good governance.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1053, "end_char": 1057, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008-2013", "start_char": 1094, "end_char": 1103, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0301.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0008\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEnhancing creative capabilities vital for Singapore: minister\n\n\n\n\nSingapore Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang said here on Tuesday that enhancing the creative capabilities is important for Singapore which is reinventing its economy to cater for the changing international economic landscape.\n\n\"Apart from its high growth potential and direct economic contribution in the form of GDP (gross domestic product) growth and jobs, the creative industries harness cultural creativity to differentiate products and services across the entire economy,\" Lee said at the Global Summit for Creative Industries.\n\nHe added that growing the creative industries, which include the arts, design and media sectors in Singapore, will also enhance the city state's image and its attractiveness to talent and enterprises, as well as broadening the definitions of success in the society.\n\nHaving invested more than 1 billion Singapore dollars (about 588 million US dollars) on cultural hardware and software in recent years, according to the minister, Singapore will continue to develop its creative human resource, anchor more international creative enterprises and organizations, and forge strong industry engagement and ownership.\n\nCiting the numerous opportunities for trade and collaboration lying in the rise of China's and India's economies and the continued growth throughout Asia, Lee said that Singapore will \" reinforce the spirit of Asian cooperation\" in the development of its creative economy.\n\nThe inaugural Global Summit for Creative Industries is one of a series of events which Singapore organizes under the banner of \" Creative 2005 - Reinvent your Future\" to promote its creative industries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 216, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1082, "end_char": 1094, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0008.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980626.0364 \n NEWS STORY \n 06/26/1998 07:07:00 \n\nw2640 Cx1f wstm-\nr i Cx13  Cx11  BC-Germany-RightistsFine     06-26 0198\n\n\n BC-Germany-Rightists Fined \n\nGerman far-right party fined for violating donor laws\n\n\n\nBONN, Germany (AP) _ A phony address listed on disclosure forms\nfor a French donor  will cost the far-right German People's Union\nabout 549,000 marks (dlrs 305,000), parliament said Friday.\nParliamentary president Rita Suessmuth said the People's Union\ncorrectly listed Jacques de Mathan as  having donated about 274,500\nmarks in 1995, but gave a false address for him.\nGerman law requires parties  to publish the name and address of\nanyone who donates more than 20,000 marks (dlrs 11,000).\nThe anti-foreigner party said it wanted  to protect the donor\nfrom possible attacks.\nSuessmuth  said , however, that the law  does not allow for\nproviding a false address for any reason. The fine is twice the\ndonation, as provided for under German party financing laws.\nParty spokesman Bernd Droese said the People's Union would challenge the fine in court.\nThe extremist party recently took a surprising 13 percent of the\nvote in elections in a depressed eastern German state, and hopes  to win its first seats in the federal parliament this September.\nUR (pfg-xx)\n\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-Germany-Rightists Fined; CT:i;\n(REG:EURO;)\n(REG:BRIT;)\n(REG:SCAN;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-06-26-98 0707EDT", "time_expressions": [{"text": "06/26/1998 07:07:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t39", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-06-26T07:07:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 398, "end_char": 404, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-06-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t39"}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 546, "end_char": 550, "tid": "t41", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 1085, "end_char": 1093, "tid": "t42", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t39"}, {"text": "this September", "start_char": 1245, "end_char": 1259, "tid": "t43", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-09", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t39"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980626.0364.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0389\n\nLONDON, Dec 11 , 2005\n\nby Julian Guyer\n\n\n\n\nLawrence Dallaglio wrote off Wasps's European Cup campaign after the English champions went down to a 21-13 defeat away to Llanelli on Sunday that left his side bottom of Pool Six.\n\nThere is still a mathematical chance for the European champions of two seasons ago to make it through to the quarter-finals if they win their remaining three games, including a clash with tournament favourites and reigning champions Toulouse in France.\n\nBut after Sunday's match, Dallaglio was adamant Wasps had already scuppered their hopes of reaching the last eight.\n\n\"I am very disappointed and very angry with everyone, including myself,\" the former England back-row forward said\n\n\"With the quality in our group it was going to be very difficult but we just weren't good enough today.\n\n\"At the moment, one or two are putting it in, and one or two aren't. We got what we deserved today. We are out of Europe yes, and we are desperately disappointed because we want to win trophies.\"\n\nAll six Pool winners and the two best runners-up overall will qualify for the knockout stages of European club rugby union's premier competition.\n\nAnd at a fog-enshrouded Stradey Park, Llanelli boosted their hopes by moving into second place in the Pool, three points behind Toulouse.\n\nSecond-half tries from centre Dafydd James and wing Mark Jones saw the Scarlets on their way to victory, while fly-half Gareth Bowen kicked three penalties and a conversion.\n\nWasps replied with a Tom Rees try, converted by Mark van Gisbergen, and Alex King landed two penalties for the Londoners but there was no denying Llanelli.\n\nElswehere, Leicester were forced to overturn a 12-6 half-time deficit at home to Neath-Swansea Ospreys before seeing off the Welsh side 30-12 at Welford Road to go top of Pool Three.\n\nWales centre Gavin Henson, in his first appearance of the season for the Ospreys since sustaining a groin injury during the British and Irish Lions tour of New Zealand, was a lively presence in the first-half.\n\nBut Leicester rallied and even came away with a bonus point after tries from Brett Deacon, Harry Ellis, George Chuter and Austin Healey.\n\nHenson's fellow Wales centre Sonny Parker and Adrian Cashmore crossed for the Ospreys who were left bottom of the Pool. Like Wasps, they too must win their three remaining games to have any chance of staying in the competition.\n\nHenson, almost as well-known for his distinctive spiky hair and relationship with Welsh singer Charlotte Church as his rugby, courted controversy with a book published after the Lions tour in which he slammed several of his Wales team-mates.\n\nBut having come through the full 80 minutes against the Tigers unscathed, Henson said he was happy to be back playing ahead of Six Nations Grand Slam holders Wales's 2005 tournament opener away to England at Twickenham on February 4.\n\n\"It is difficult when you have been off the pace. But it's the first time in a year that I've felt no pain in my groin.\"\n\nThere was controversy at Headingley where Leeds only beat French visitors Perpignan 21-20 after fly-half Gordon Ross's re-taken conversion.\n\nHe missed with his first effort to goal fellow Scotland international Gordon Bulloch's injury-time try but Welsh referee Nigel Owens ordered a retake because several Perpignan players had charged too early and shouted, both offences, as they tried to block the kick.\n\nPerpignan finished the day on top of Pool Two but were left level on 10 points with Cardiff and only a point ahead of Leeds.\n\nIn the day's other match French giants Biarritz thrashed Italy's Treviso 34-7 to top Pool Four ahead of next week's fourth round Pool matches, which will see all this weekend's fixtures reversed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 201, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two seasons ago", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 512, "end_char": 518, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 831, "end_char": 836, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 932, "end_char": 937, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the full 80 minutes", "start_char": 2683, "end_char": 2702, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 4", "start_char": 2881, "end_char": 2891, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 2971, "end_char": 2977, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 3655, "end_char": 3664, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0389.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0274\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUN chief hails resumption of peace talks on conflict in Sudan's Darfur region\n\n\n\n\nUN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday welcomed the resumption of peace talks in Nigeria between the Sudanese government and rebel groups in western Sudan' s Darfur region.\n\nWith the mediation of the African Union, Khartoum and the two rebel groups -- the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement -- started the long-delayed seventh round of peace talks in the Nigerian capital of Abuja earlier in the day.\n\n\"The secretary-general strongly appeals to the parties to the Abuja peace process ... to immediately stop all violence and atrocities on the ground,\" said a statement issued by UN spokesman Stephanie Dujarric.\n\n\"He calls on the parties to negotiate a just and comprehensive peace agreement. Individual leaders will be judged on their immediate action to stop the bloodshed in Darfur,\" the statement said.\n\nThe secretary-general urged the parties to the conflict and all other armed groups in Darfur to cooperate fully with the African Union Mission in Sudan and with the United Nations Mission in Sudan.\n\nAnnan also appealed to donors to continue supporting both the crucial work of the AU mission in this long suffering region and critical humanitarian assistance for millions of war-affected civilians in Darfur, the statement said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 181, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0274.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0111\n\nWUHAN, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBird flu quarantine lifted in central China county\n\n\n\n\nThe quarantine of the bird flu-hit spots, one poultry farm and one village in Jingshan County of Hubei Province, has been lifted after all signs of the epidemic there were eradicated, the local government announced Wednesday.\n\nTests on blood samples of domestic birds within 10 kilometers outside the poultry farm and Qibaoshan village, which reported the bird flu outbreak on Nov. 2, show the poultry have been satisfactorily immunized, said sources with the provincial animal husbandry authorities.\n\nNo new bird flu cases were reported in the last 21 days in the area, which is the longest incubation period for the H5N1 avian flu virus.\n\nNine live poultry markets were allowed to reopen after the 28-day quarantine.\n\nAlthough the quarantine was lifted, veterinarians will continue to monitor the areas, said an official with the provincial agricultural department.\n\nMore than 30,000 birds had been culled within a three-kilometer radius of the spots and the local live poultry markets shut down after the national bird flu lab diagnosed the cases of the H5N1 bird flu on Nov. 11.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 325, "end_char": 334, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 2", "start_char": 487, "end_char": 493, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 21 days", "start_char": 651, "end_char": 667, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "P21D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 11", "start_char": 1184, "end_char": 1191, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0111.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0145\n\nDURRES, Albania, April 19 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFirst distribution of aid by UN World Food Programme\n\n\n\n\nFlour, beans and vegetable oil from the UN World Food Programme were handed out for the first time Saturday to over 20 institutions caring for hungry Albanians across the lawless republic.\n\nTrucks and vans from hospitals, orphanages and homes for the handicapped drove to Albania's main port from around the country to collect their quota.\n\nHowever, they will make the journey back to their institutions without escorts from the eight-nation protection force which is currently being deployed in Albania.\n\nThe UN agency has stockpiled more than 400 tonnes of wheat flour, beans and vegetable oil in warehouses at the delapidated port, enough to feed 7,500 people for three months.\n\nEurope's poorest state has been gripped by unrest and banditry for over a month following street protests over the collapse of bogus investment schemes snowballed into armed insurrection.\n\nThe aid is part of a package of measures aimed at restoring stablity to the country which must prepare for elections at the end of June. The protection force is in Albania to help safeguard the aid. French troops have secured Durres port and are guarding the WFP shipment.\n\nWFP's Laura Boldini said: \"This is not an operation where you could have a military escort. It's to meet the needs of the institutions which are without food. It's a low profile operation.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 19 , 1997", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 55, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 219, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 588, "end_char": 597, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 787, "end_char": 799, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 874, "end_char": 881, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of June", "start_char": 1111, "end_char": 1126, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0145.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0009\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 16 , 2006, 2006\n\nNuggets rout Knicks in brawl-marred game\n\n\n\n\nCarmelo Anthony scored 34 points before being ejected with nine other players for throwing a punch as the Denver Nuggets routed the New York Knicks, 123-100 in a game marred by a wild melee.\n\nMarcus Camby had 24 points and nine rebounds for the Nuggets, who angered Knicks coach Isiah Thomas as they kept all their starters on the floor with the game in hand, which may have triggered the brawl.\n\nWith the Denver leading, 117-100, with 1:29 remaining, New York rookie Mardy Collins tackled J.R. Smith as he was attempting a transition layup.\n\nTempers flared and bodies careened into the first row of the stands underneath the Knicks' basket.\n\nKnicks guard Nate Robinson and Smith wrestled, while Knicks guard Jared Jeffries was being restrained by team security.\n\nAs the situation was being sorted out, Anthony landed a punch on Collins. All 10 players on the court were ejected.\n\nThere is some bad blood between the National Basketball Association teams. Thomas and Nuggets coach George Karl had an argument during a summer league meeting.\n\nBefore the fight, Anthony had a remarkable game, demoralizing the Knicks with easy drives to the basket. He shot 15-of-29 from the floor.\n\nStephon Marbury scored 31 points for New York, which shot 43 percent (41-of-95).", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0009.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0045 \n = 891027 \n 891030-0045. \n Business Brief -- Rally's Inc.:\n@  Investor Group Is Seeking\n@  More Than 50% of Stock \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n GPO RLLY \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   A group of investors led by Giant Group Ltd. and its chairman, Burt Sugarman, said it filed with federal antitrust regulators for clearance to buy more than 50% of the stock of Rally's Inc., a fast-food company based in Louisville, Ky. \n\n   Rally's operates and franchises about 160 fast-food restaurants throughout the U.S. \nThe company went public earlier this month, offering 1,745,000 shares of common stock at $15 a share. \nGiant has interests in cement making and newsprint. \n\n   The investor group includes Restaurant Investment Partnership, a California general partnership, and three Rally's directors: Mr. Sugarman, James M. Trotter III and William E. Trotter II. \nThe group currently holds 3,027,330 Rally's shares, or 45.2% of its commmon shares outstanding. \nGiant Group owned 22% of Rally's shares before the initial public offering. \n\n   A second group of three company directors, aligned with Rally's founder James Patterson, also is seeking control of the fast-food chain. \nIt is estimated that the Patterson group controls more than 40% of Rally's stock. \n\n   Rally officials weren't available to comment late yesterday. \n\n   For the year ended July 2, Rally had net income of $2.4 million, or 34 cents a share, on revenue of $52.9 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 132, "end_char": 140, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 596, "tid": "t79", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t27"}, {"text": "late yesterday", "start_char": 1351, "end_char": 1365, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t27"}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 1376, "end_char": 1384, "tid": "t39", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 2", "start_char": 1391, "end_char": 1397, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-07-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t27"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0695.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0302\n\nOTTAWA, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCanadian PM says Quebec \"nation within Canada\"\n\n\n\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Wednesday he would introduce a motion recognizing that \"Quebecers form a nation within a united Canada.\"\n\n\"Our position is clear. Do the Quebecois form a nation within Canada? The answer is yes. Do the Quebecois form an independent nation? The answer is no and the answer will always be no,\" Harper told the House of Commons on Wednesday.\n\nHarper's motion was prompted by a Bloc Quebecois motion to be debated Thursday. It calls for Quebec to be recognized as a nation but does not include the words \"in Canada.\"\n\nHarper said the issue of Quebec's nationhood should not be decided by the federal government but by the Quebec legislation. However, he said the Bloc has forced the government to take a position.\n\nThe Bloc motion, which will be debated in the House of Commons on Thursday, states simply: \"That this House recognizes that Quebecers form a nation.\"\n\nFrancophone Quebec has previously held two referendums on separation, in 1980 and 1995, but rejected the idea.\n\nThe word \"nation\" is often used in Quebec to describe the province as a distinct cultural entity, even by anti-separatist politicians such as former Premier Jean Charest.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 482, "end_char": 491, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 564, "end_char": 572, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 931, "end_char": 939, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980", "start_char": 1089, "end_char": 1093, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1098, "end_char": 1102, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0302.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0519\n\nLONDON, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBritish opposition Labour holds its leads in latest poll\n\n\n\n\nBritain's opposition Labour party has maintained a 24 percent lead over the Conservatives, according to the latest newspaper opinion released on Thursday.\n\nThe Independent/Harris poll, to be published in the paper Friday, put Labour on 52 percent and the Conservatives on 28 percent, a drop of two percent for both parties, but still the same margin as last week.\n\nSupport for the centrist Liberal Democrats was up three percent, from 11 percent to 14 percent, and anti-European Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum party scored 3.2 percent.\n\nHarris interviewed 1,091 adults face-to-face in their homes between March 27 and 31.\n\nA survey for The Times on Thursday suggested Labour had an unprecedented 27-point lead, five points up, at 55 percent, and the Tories down one percent.\n\nThe new polls dash Tory hopes that Labour's lead was beginning to narrow and are in stark contrast to an ICM poll in the The Guardian on Wednesday that showed the Tories cutting the gap from 18 points to 14.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 259, "end_char": 267, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 328, "end_char": 334, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 476, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 27", "start_char": 721, "end_char": 729, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "31", "start_char": 734, "end_char": 736, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1931", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 765, "end_char": 773, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1029, "end_char": 1038, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0519.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0292\n\nZAGREB, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details on rallies ///\n\n\n\n\nThousands of people protested Saturday in the Croatian coastal town of Zadar to express their anger over the jailing of war crimes suspect Ante Gotovina at the UN court at The Hague.\n\nThe protests came after a night of unrest in which police made more than a dozen arrests and angry demonstrators set fire to cars and displayed the insignia of Croatia's World War II pro-Nazi Ustasha regime.\n\nThe 50-year-old former general was arrested in Spain on Wednesday after four years on the run. He was detained at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague on Saturday pending the start of his trial.\n\nGotovina, who was born near Zadar, is considered a hero by many in Croatia for repelling Serb forces toward the end of the country's 1991-1995 inter-ethnic war of independence from Yugoslavia.\n\n\"We demand the government provide general Gotovina and his lawyers all documents (needed for his defence). We also demand that general Gotovina be tried in his country,\" protest organizer Ante Martinac told a crowd waving Croatian flags and portraits of Gotovina in Zadar's central square.\n\nGotovina has been presented with the keys to the city and until recently his portrait hung over the main gate in its medieval walls.\n\nMore protests are expected Sunday after a veterans' association called a demonstration in the southern coastal town of Split, saying some 100,000 people would attend.\n\nAn association of some 20 mostly retired generals has backed the gathering.\n\n\"We call all Croatian patriots, all honest Croatians, to be in Split tomorrow at noon to voice support to Gotovina,\" retired general Ljubo Cesic-Rojs told journalists.\n\nAnother retired general, Markica Rebic, stressed however that the protests should not be hijacked by \"extremists\".\n\n\"We want to condemn in advance any attempt to use tomorrow's gathering for any extremist or political goals,\" he said.\n\nOn Friday some 200 high-school pupils chanted insults against the authorities in a protest in Zadar. Some had the insignia of Croatia's World War II Ustasha fascist regime, sang Ustasha songs and used the Nazi salute.\n\nThey also burned the flag of the European Union, which had held up talks on Croatia's membership due to Zagreb's failure to arrest the fugitive.\n\nPrime Minister Ivo Sanader said he understood that Gotovina's arrest was an emotional issue but called for people to \"show common sense and trust the government\".\n\nGotovina is accused of failing to prevent the massacre of about 150 ethnic Serb civilians during a Croatian offensive to retake the rebel-held Krajina region in August 1995.\n\nThe indictment says his troops went on a rampage of looting and destruction in Serb-held areas. The war claimed 20,000 lives with rebel Serbs occupying one-third of the country at one stage.\n\nPro-Gotovina rallies were also announced for Sunday in neighboring Bosnia, in areas with a majority ethnic Croat population.\n\nMeanwhile, the foreign ministry said that Gotovina asked local media not to disturb his family.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 120, "end_char": 128, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 539, "end_char": 548, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four years", "start_char": 555, "end_char": 565, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 675, "end_char": 683, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 1266, "end_char": 1274, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1363, "end_char": 1369, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1989, "end_char": 1995, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1995", "start_char": 2676, "end_char": 2687, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one stage", "start_char": 2870, "end_char": 2879, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2927, "end_char": 2933, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0292.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0098\n\nMONROVIA, Nov. 12 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nLiberia's court rejects Weah's allegation of fraud in presidential runoff\n\n\n\n\nThe Supreme Court in Liberia has rejected football star George Weah's allegation of fraud in the presidential runoff and referred them to the National Elections Commission (NEC), Weah's spokesman Sam Quiah told Xinhua on Saturday.\n\nWeah had protested to the NEC that Tuesday's run-off that pits him against Harvard-trained Iron Lady Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.\n\nHe alleged that pre-marked ballot papers intended to be stuffed in ballot boxes in favor of his challenger were intercepted by his supporters and presented photo copy of same to the NEC as evidence to prove his claims.\n\nBut while ruling into the case was pending before the NEC, Weah 's party took flight to the Supreme Court, seeking a writ of prohibition on the NEC from announcing the results in which Johnson-Sirleaf has won with 59.4 percent as 97 percent of all polling places has been counted.\n\n\"The Supreme Court did the right thing because it cannot go into the case in the absence of a ruling from the NEC,\" a Liberian legal expert told Xinhua.\n\nInternational observers including the European Union, regional bloc ECOWAS and the Carter Center were unanimous in their observation that the election was free, fair and transparent.\n\nCalm has returned to Liberian capital of Monrovia following Friday's demonstration in which at least two people were injured when thousands of supporters of the football star took to the streets in what they described as a \"peaceful demonstration to show to the international community that there were fraud in the presidential run-off election.\"\n\nThe UN police used tear gas to disperse some of the demonstrators at the diplomatic enclave of Mamba Point in Monrovia, when, according to Liberian police sources, the demonstrators began \"throwing stones and attempted to go beyond police lines.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 357, "end_char": 365, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 403, "end_char": 410, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1393, "end_char": 1399, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051112.0098.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0360\n\nBRATISLAVA, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nEconomic, trade links top agenda as Russian PM visits Slovakia\n\n\n\n\nVisiting Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin gave a thinly veiled warning to Slovakia on Monday that its drive towards NATO membership could affect its relations with Moscow.\n\nAccording to the spokesman of Slovakian President Michal Kovac, with whom Chernomyrdin met, the Russian premier said that former Warsaw Pact states seeking NATO membership \"risked affecting their relations\" with Moscow.\n\nSlovakia, itself a former Warsaw Pact member, is the central European country with which Moscow enjoys the best relations. However, its readiness to seek membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation is worrying the Russians who remain strongly opposed to NATO expansion.\n\nKovac said that Slovakia's desire to join NATO, which is favoured by the government and will be put to voters in a referendum in May, was not \"directed against Russia\" nor motivated by a \"threat\" from the east.\n\nThe two men met during Chernomrydin's 48-hour visit to Bratislava which will coincide with the signature of a dozen commercial and military accords on Tuesday.\n\nThe Russian premier has frequently voiced Moscow's opposition to NATO's eastward expansion, most recently during a visit to the neighbouring Czech Republic last week.\n\nThe Czech Republic is expected to be among the first former Warsaw Pact states to be offered membership at a NATO summit in July.\n\nThe 12 accords due to be signed Tuesday cover a long-term gas contract for Slovakia, barter arrangements and permission for Bratislava to use Russian military technology.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 227, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 938, "end_char": 941, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1172, "end_char": 1179, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1338, "end_char": 1347, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1474, "end_char": 1478, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0360.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0255\n\nSTOCKHOLM, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAid Agencies in Denmark raises 1.3 million euros for Pakistan quake victims\n\n\n\n\nAid agencies in Denmark have managed to collect 1.3 million euros to help earthquake victims in Pakistan, Ritzau news bureau reported on Wednesday.\n\nFive major aid organizations in Denmark, including Danchurch Aid, Save the Children, Unicef, the Red Cross, and Doctors Without Borders, have joined forces to raise the funds.\n\nThe result was \"impressive\", according to secretary general of Danchurch Aid, Henrik Stubkjoer, who acknowledged difficulty in getting relief efforts underway.\n\n\"The catastrophe grew slowly and we had difficulty obtaining information,\" said Stubkjoer.\n\nMeanwhile, members of Doctors Without Borders expressed frustration at the Foreign Ministry's decision to postpone sending a well-equipped field hospital to the region.\n\n\"Denmark should play a more active role in relief efforts. Getting as much help to the area as quickly as possible should be the priority,\" said Soeren Brix Christensen, chairman of the Danish division of Doctors Without Borders.\n\nDanish-Pakistani doctors returning from the stricken areas also expressed their confusion about the decision to postpone delivery.\n\n\"The Danish hospital is equipped with x-ray equipment and suited to helping people with injuries from the earthquake. There are other field hospitals in the area, but not of the same high quality that Denmark can offer,\" said Khurran Jamil, a doctor who recently returned from a mission to the area.\n\nThe Foreign Ministry explained that other countries had deployed field hospitals, but that there could be an additional need for the Danish field hospital in the coming months.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 284, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "coming months", "start_char": 1713, "end_char": 1726, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0255.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0095\n\nXI'AN, Nov. 26 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMongolian prime minister visits historical city in NW China\n\n\n\n\nMongolian Prime Minister Miegombyn Enkhbold on Sunday visited Xi'an, a historical city and capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province.\n\nIn Xi'an, he paid a visit to a local economic and industrial development zone, Terra-cotta Warriors of Qin Dynasty, Shaanxi Provincial History Museum and the Dayan Tower (or the Big Goose Pagoda) which is a famous cultural relics of Tang Dynasty built more than 1,300 years ago.\n\nIn his meeting with Shaanxi Governor Yuan Chunqing on Sunday evening. The two sides expressed the hope to cement cooperation in tourism.\n\nThe Mongolian prime minister arrived in Xi'an on Nov. 25 after visits to Beijing and Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.\n\nEnkhbold started his official visit to China on Nov. 22.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 166, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 1,300 years ago", "start_char": 510, "end_char": 535, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday evening", "start_char": 592, "end_char": 606, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 25", "start_char": 725, "end_char": 732, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 22", "start_char": 881, "end_char": 888, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0095.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "CNN_20130322_314\n\nMarch 22, 2013\n\nObama gets diplomatic coup before heading to refugee-flooded Jordan\n\n\n\n\n\nPresident Barack Obama arrived in refugee-flooded Jordan on Friday after scoring a diplomatic coup just before leaving Israel when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Turkey for a 2010 commando raid that killed nine activists on a Turkish vessel in a Gaza-bound flotilla.\n\nThe apology, long sought by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, eased strained feelings between Turkey and Israel, two vital U.S. allies in the Middle East.\n\nIt happened in a phone call to Erdogan during a final meeting between Obama and Netanyahu at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv minutes before Air Force One departed for Jordan to complete the president's Middle East swing. It is the first foreign trip of his second term.\n\nA statement from Netanyahu's office said the apology included an offer of compensation. However, there was confusion later when the Israeli government dropped a reference in its original statement to normalized relations between the countries with a return of ambassadors.\n\nThere also was no word on whether the once-close nations would resume the joint military exercises that were suspended after the flotilla raid.\n\nTurkey had been prosecuting four Israeli soldiers in absentia and Israel initially said the two leaders agreed to the cancellation of legal steps against the troops. Later, however, its amended statement omitted that action as well.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "March 22, 2013", "start_char": 18, "end_char": 32, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 167, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 303, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "minutes", "start_char": 690, "end_char": 697, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "second term", "start_char": 822, "end_char": 833, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "CNN_20130322_314.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0101\n\nPHNOM PENH, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambian peasants to grow bio-diesel crop in large scale\n\n\n\n\nZambian peasants to grow bio-diesel crop in large scale\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) -- About 300,000 small-scale Zambian farmers are this year expected to grow more than 150,000 hectares of jatropha from which bio-diesel could be produced, local media cited the National Association for Peasant and Small-Scale Farmers of Zambia as saying on Friday.\n\nAssociation president Rodger Phiri has thus called on the government to quickly develop policy framework for the bio-diesel production, according to Zambia Daily Mail.\n\nPhiri said there was need to develop sustainable agriculture that demonstrates steps towards poverty alleviation and self- empowerment for farmers, noting that the cultivation of jatropha would help rural farmers living in poverty.\n\nHe said if agriculture was to be the engine of Zambia's economic development, there was need to increase funding to the sector from the present figures.\n\n\"Bio-diesel farming should be encouraged with a road map and targets to be achieved over a number of years,\" Phiri said.\n\nHe also called on the Zambian government to provide training and technological support for farmers to develop jatropha if production of bio-diesel is to be sustained.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 3", "start_char": 184, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 458, "end_char": 464, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a number of years", "start_char": 1112, "end_char": 1129, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0101.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0171\n\nNEW DELHI, April 1 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTake back 'Rao bribe money', former Indian MP tells court\n\n\n\n\nA former Indian member of parliament Tuesday offered to forego what remained of 114,300 dollars in bribes allegedly paid to him during a vote-buying scandal materminded by former prime minister P.V. Narasimha Rao.\n\nAjay Burman, counsel for Shailendra Mahato, a leader of a tribal party, told a New Delhi court: \"Since it is bribe money paid to my client to get his support for the government during the 1993 no- confidence motion and does not belong to him, it can be confiscated.\"\n\nMahato, accused with three other Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM, Jharkhand Liberation Front) politicians of accepting bribes in return for voting for the government in a no-confidence motion in 1993, has agreed to act as a prosecution witness in the affair.\n\nPolice found 62,800 dollars in Mahato's account when they froze it in July last year.\n\nEarlier he said that current Congress president Sitaram Kesri, who replaced Rao as party chief and who is currently trying to form a coalition government, knew about the bribes.\n\nMahato said members of parliament were promised five million rupees (143,000 dollars) each for their votes and three million rupees (85,700 dollars) if they abstained.\n\nThe JMM leaders also claimed that Rao promised to back their demand for a tribal homeland in eastern India if they sided with his government.\n\nThe prosecution Tuesday said Mahato was unreliable and only making a confession to try and avoid a prison sentence.\n\nRao, 75, was charged in the case in October. The former prime minister, who held office between 1991 and 1996, currently faces trial in two other corruption cases.\n\nHe quit as Congress president and parliamentary leader last year after pressure from his colleagues.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 1 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 792, "end_char": 796, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July last year", "start_char": 927, "end_char": 941, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1050, "end_char": 1059, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1451, "end_char": 1458, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1588, "end_char": 1595, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1648, "end_char": 1652, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 1657, "end_char": 1661, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1663, "end_char": 1672, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1772, "end_char": 1781, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0171.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0137\n\nMANILA, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPilot killed when training plane crashes in northern Philippines\n\n\n\n\nA light trainer plane crash off on Wednesday in the northern Philippines, killing the pilot and injuring his student, the military said.\n\nAir Force spokesman Lt. Col. Restituto Padilla told a press briefing that the Cessna trainer jet, with tail No. RPC-727, crashed at around 1:30 p.m. in Alabat island in Quezon for still unknown reasons.\n\nThe ill-fated aircraft is owned by Master Flying School, said Padilla.\n\nAccording to Padilla, this was the third crashed Cessna planes this year in the country.\n\nIn May, an aircraft hit a coconut tree and burst into flames after taking off from a private airstrip in Tanauan town in Batangas province, killing four people.\n\nIn March, another Cessna plane crashed into the sea off Jomalig Island in Quezon while transporting fish products from Palawan to Manila.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 169, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "around 1:30 p.m.", "start_char": 395, "end_char": 411, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23T01:30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 602, "end_char": 611, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 632, "end_char": 635, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 799, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0137.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0088\n\nKABUL, April 27 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTaliban slam communists on 19th anniversary of coup d'etat by Terence White\n\n\n\n\nThe Afghan communist party which came to power 19 years ago in a coup d'etat was condemned for bringing ruin to Afghanistan by the Taliban in a special seminar in Kabul Sunday.\n\n\"We don't condemn the 27th of April, but the black incident and shameful catastrophe which was imposed on our people,\" declared Mullah Abdurrahman Hotaki, a speaker at the Interior Ministry gathering.\n\nOn April 27, 1978 Prime Minister Mohammad Doaud was murdered by the communists and their People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) came to power under the leadership of Nur Mohammad Taraki.\n\nThe PDPA's so-called Saur (April) Revolution marked the beginning of what they termed a \"class struggle\" between \"feudals and workers\" in order to inprove the living conditions of the common Afghan.\n\nInstead due to internal power struggles and badly implemented reforms the PDPA stirred up popular armed uprisings which led to the invasion of Afghanistan by the then Soviet Union in December 1979.\n\n\"In order to challenge (the communists), 1.5 million of our people laid down their lives,\" said Abdurrahman, of the Taliban Shariat weekly newspaper.\n\nHe said the advent of communism created a \"stain of shame\" on the Afghan people which was washed clean by the sacrifice of mujahedeen freedom fighters and their civilian supporters.\n\nAfter 10 years of occupation the Russians were kicked out of Afghanistan but the PDPA hung on with Soviet support until April 1992 when the former communist president Najibullah was finally overthrown.\n\n\"Thanks to the bravery of our people the super-power ran away and their puppets were defeated,\" said Haji Mullah Khaksar, deputy interior minister.\n\nUnfortunately the gains of this victory against the communists were nullified by the mujahedeen, who fought among themselves for supremacy from April 1992 until September 1996, when the Taliban seized control of Kabul, Khaksar said.\n\nHe said due to \"despotism and terrorism\" under the former mujahedeen the Taliban movement came into being to bring true Islamic law (Shariat) to Afghanistan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 27 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "19 years ago", "start_char": 180, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1978", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 302, "end_char": 308, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 341, "end_char": 346, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 27, 1978", "start_char": 516, "end_char": 530, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1978-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 1979", "start_char": 1093, "end_char": 1106, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1979-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 years", "start_char": 1449, "end_char": 1457, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1992", "start_char": 1563, "end_char": 1573, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1992", "start_char": 1939, "end_char": 1949, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 1996", "start_char": 1956, "end_char": 1970, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0088.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0321\n\nBELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPresidents of Croatia, Slovenia agree to cooperate in solving border dispute\n\n\n\n\nThe presidents of Croatia, Slovenia on Thursday agreed to cooperate in solving the border dispute between the two former Yugoslav countries, the Croatian news agency reported.\n\n\"I believe a solution could be found if experts from both countries sat down at the negotiating table and, unburdened by politics, determined the land border with the help of existing documents, if our government accepts that way of dealing with this issue,\" Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said.\n\nMesic and his Slovenian counterpart Janez Drnovsek had an informal meeting on Thursday in the Croatian border town of Miljana. This is the second informal meeting between the two presidents this year.\n\nThe border dispute can be solved by freezing the current situation, finding a transitional solution, or having it settled before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Mesic said.\n\n\"Once the land border is identified, the sea border can be identified with mathematical precision by applying international conventions,\" Mesic said, reiterating that this would be the best solution.\n\nIf this approach fails, the matter should be settled by an international court or through arbitration, Mesic added.\n\nPresident Drnovsek said that a bilateral agreement on the border issue would be the best solution, but that the two countries should turn to the International Court of Justice if they proved unable to solve the dispute bilaterally\n\n\"We don't want to be part of the problem, we want to be part of the solution and help the EU solve some other issues in Southeast Europe which are much more complex,\" Drnovsek said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 52, "end_char": 66, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 205, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 720, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 824, "end_char": 833, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0321.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0246\n\nRAMALLAH,   West Bank, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS Hamas reax, quotes, details, background ///\n\n\n\n\nThe executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization recommended Saturday that president Mahmud Abbas call early parliamentary and presidential elections to resolve a spiraling political crisis, PLO officials said.\n\n\"The executive committee, chaired by Abbas, decided to call on Abbas to hold early parliamentary and presidential elections,\" executive committee member Saleh Rafaat told AFP.\n\n\"This decision came after the failure of the dialogue to form a national unity government with the Hamas movement and is the result of the ongoing political and economic siege against the Palestinian people,\" he added.\n\nThe ruling Islamist Hamas movement, which won a stunning upset in a parliamentary vote less than a year ago, slammed the decision, calling it \"a clear coup against democracy.\"\n\n\"The goal of this decision is to kick Hamas out of the Palestinian political scene,\" the chief of the Hamas bloc of lawmakers, Khalil al-Hiyya, told AFP. \"This decison is not in the national interest and will only make the situation more tense.\"\n\nOfficials said Abbas would formally announce his decision to call for early elections in an address to the Palestinian people in the coming days.\n\nBut Abbas said that if Hamas were to soften its stance and agree to form a unity government, early elections would not be necessary, according to PLO executive committee member Mustapha Barghuti.\n\n\"If they form a national unity government they can end the siege against the Palestinian people, and in that case there will be no need for early elections,\" Barghuti told AFP.\n\nPalestinian basic law does not address the issue of early elections.\n\nHamas in recent days has said the absence of such a provision prohibits holding early polls, while Abbas's entourage says that such an election can be held since there is no passage specifically prohibiting it.\n\nThe European Union and the United States have frozen aid to the Palestinian Authority ever since the Hamas-led government took power in March two months after its upset parliamentary election victory.\n\nAbbas's Fatah faction and Hamas labored for months to reach a power-sharing agreement that would meet international conditions to lift the siege and end the spiraling crisis, but those talks failed late last month.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 46, "end_char": 58, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 853, "end_char": 863, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent days", "start_char": 1781, "end_char": 1792, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March two months", "start_char": 2120, "end_char": 2136, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late last month", "start_char": 2384, "end_char": 2399, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061209.0246.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0184\n\nKARACHI, April 12 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPakistan's new government vows to double exports in three years\n\n\n\n\nThe new Pakistani government hopes to double the country's exports in the next three years, Finance Minister Sartaj Aziz said Sunday.\n\nThe aim will be achieved by increasing production, improving product quality and ensuring timely shipments, Aziz told reporters.\n\nExporters and manufacturers are being encouraged to adhere strictly to international quality standards, he said.\n\nPakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who took power in February after the national elections, has made the economy his top priority and announced incentives including tax cuts for industry.\n\nThe country faces a trade deficit of around 3 billion dollars and a budget deficit of 4 billion dollars during the fiscal 1996-97 ending June 30 next, the finance minister said.\n\nOver the past nine months, of the current fiscal year, the exports stood at 6.129 billion dollars, up from 5.928 billion dollars in the corresponding period last year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 12 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next three years", "start_char": 193, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 559, "end_char": 567, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fiscal 1996-97", "start_char": 806, "end_char": 824, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 30", "start_char": 832, "end_char": 839, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past nine months", "start_char": 879, "end_char": 899, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the current fiscal year", "start_char": 904, "end_char": 927, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the corresponding period last year", "start_char": 1006, "end_char": 1040, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0184.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0268\n\nGENEVA, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nSwiss seize 2.7 mln dollars from US drug traffickers\n\n\n\n\nSwiss authorities have confiscated more than 3.3 million Swiss francs (2.7 million dollars, 2.0 million euros) held in a local bank by cocaine traffickers who ferried Colombian drugs to the United States, a magistrate said Wednesday.\n\nThe funds were seized from the accounts at a bank in the western city of Lausanne during a probe that was launched in 1994 on a request from US authorities, regional investigating magistrate Jacques Antenen said in a statement.\n\nA first deposit of 1.7 million Swiss francs belonging to an American pilot who organised flights carrying Colombian cocaine from Belize to the US state of Alabama was seized in September 2000.\n\nAnother 400,000 Swiss francs from the trafficking ring's radio operator was confiscated later. The operation was completed with the seizure of 1.2 million Swiss francs on December 6 from a Cuban-American who organised money laundering for the network.\n\nAll three accused, who were not named, were prosecuted and sentenced in the United States, Antenen said.\n\nNo charges were retained against the bank, he added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 332, "end_char": 341, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 462, "end_char": 466, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 2000", "start_char": 750, "end_char": 764, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 6", "start_char": 938, "end_char": 948, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0268.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0204\n\nLONDON, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNewcastle's Nigerian defender Babayaro banned for three games\n\n\n\n\nNewcastle United's Nigerian defender Celestine Babayaro was banned for three games on Wednesday for a brawl with Everton's Australian midfielder Tim Cahill.\n\nBoth players were charged with the same offence on Wednesday and given until 1800 GMT to respond by the Football Association. Babayaro admitted the charge shortly afterwards.\n\nThe cases were due to be heard by a disciplinary commission on Thursday.\n\nThe pair appeared to lash out after tangling in Everton's 1-0 Premier League victory at Goodison Park on Sunday. Referee Howard Webb, who had not initially seen the entire incident, did not book either player.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 331, "end_char": 340, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1800 GMT", "start_char": 357, "end_char": 365, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1800", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 519, "end_char": 527, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 635, "end_char": 641, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0204.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0420\n\nHANOI, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAPEC CEO summit kicks off in Hanoi\n\n\n\n\nOver 1,100 representatives from leading multi-national corporations of the Asia-Pacific region gathered in Hanoi Friday, kicking off the two-day Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum's CEO Summit.\n\nThe summit is considered the biggest event of the business community of the region in 2006.\n\nThe event, annually organized along with the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting since 1996, has become an important forum for leaders, businessmen, policy makers and researchers to share experiences and propose suggestions and solutions for strengthening economic cooperation within the region and between the APEC member economies with the rest of the world.\n\nThis year's summit is held under the theme of \"Towards One Community: Creating New Opportunities for Shared Development.\"\n\nPresidents and prime ministers of the APEC economies have been invited to attend the event of business executives. Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet, Chinese President Hu Jintao, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong are among the guests scheduled to speak on the first day of the event.\n\nFounded in 1989, APEC is a major regional forum acting as the primary regional vehicle for promoting open trade and practical economic and technical cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region.\n\nIt represents the most economically dynamic region in the world, with its 21 member economies accounting for more than one third of the world's population, approximately 60 percent of world GDP, about 47 percent of world trade.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 387, "end_char": 391, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 480, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 751, "end_char": 760, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first day", "start_char": 1192, "end_char": 1205, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 1232, "end_char": 1236, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0420.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0071\n\nMELBOURNE, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Scott Coghlan\n\n\n\n\nIn 2000, good mates Matthew Hayden and Andrew Symonds found themselves in the water struggling for survival, after their boat capsized while fishing near Queensland's North Stradbroke Island.\n\nOn that occasion the determined pair swam more than a kilometre to shore and safety.\n\nAt the MCG on Wednesday, they again found themselves thrown together under duress, but this time it was Australia's first innings in the fourth Ashes Test that needed rescuing.\n\nAnd once again the pair toughed it out and overcame the odds, first defying a buoyant England attack and then eventually tearing it apart as they put on a match-turning 279 for the sixth wicket.\n\nSymonds' life was not at stake this time, but his Test career certainly was, and the all-rounder responded with his second timely batting performance in as many Boxing Day Tests.\n\nHe came to the crease at 84-5 and with his own place in the side under intense scrutiny after two more failures with the bat in the third Test in Perth, but finished the day an Ashes hero after posting a memorable maiden Test century in front of 75,770 fans.\n\nDespite his belligerent 72 from 54 balls in the corresponding game against South Africa 12 months ago, Symonds averaged a modest 18 with the bat and 40 with the ball in his previous 11 Tests.\n\nWith the England bowlers pressing, the powerful right-hander looked uncomfortable early as he tried to survive a testing period directly before lunch, and took much longer than normal to get off the mark.\n\nArguably playing only because of Shane Watson's injury woes, as Australia looks for its answer to Andrew Flintoff, Symonds was also quite fortunate to survive an lbw appeal by Monty Panesar shortly after the spinner was introduced into the attack, with Rudi Koertzen again failing to raise the finger despite the evidence in front of him.\n\nHowever, Symonds blossomed as the innings developed and started to play some of the imperious strokes that have made him a one-day matchwinner.\n\nSymonds brought up his first Test century in remarkable fashion, smashing part-time seamer Paul Collingwood way over long on for his first six.\n\nIt sparked wild celebrations from Symonds, who leapt high into the air and into the arms of Hayden, before punching the air in jubilation.\n\nFor the first time in his Test career, he had mixed aggression and caution with success, facing 151 balls in 221 minutes at the crease, hitting nine fours and the six.\n\nAt stumps, Symonds had gone on to be 154 not out and the innings had been chanceless, although he survived another confident lbw appeal, this time turned down by Aleem Dar, from the bowling of a bemused Flintoff when on 142.\n\nHayden and Symonds had come together with their side trailing by 75 runs and facing a possible first innings deficit.\n\nBy the time Hayden fell to Sajid Mahmood for 153, the pair had batted for most of the day and given Australia a lead of 204.\n\nThis time it was a shattered England that was all at sea and the possibility of a 5-0 series whitewash was becoming very real.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 79, "end_char": 83, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 369, "end_char": 378, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "century", "start_char": 2087, "end_char": 2094, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1C", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "221 minutes", "start_char": 2447, "end_char": 2458, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT221M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "153", "start_char": 2897, "end_char": 2900, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "153", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0071.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0225\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina to encourage more tourists to Kenya: Hu Jintao\n\n\n\n\nChina will encourage more tourists to Kenya in an effort to boost the African country's economic growth and enhance exchanges, President Hu Jintao told visiting Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Friday.\n\n\"We should expand exchanges between our governments, legislatures, parties and peoples to enhance understanding and trust,\" Hu told Kibaki who is in Beijing for a two-day summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation opening here Saturday.\n\nThe Chinese side is willing to train more management and technical professionals for Kenya and will encourage more people to visit Kenya, said Hu.\n\nThe number of Chinese visitors to Kenya has been on rise in the last four years, especially after China granted Kenya the Approved Destination Status for outbound Chinese tourist groups in 2004.\n\nThe World Tourism Organization has predicted that China will become the world's largest tourist market by 2020.\n\nAt the meeting, Hu also called on the two countries to expand trade and overall economic cooperation and enhance collaboration in international affairs.\n\nRecalling his visit to Kenya in April, Hu said he reached extensive consensus with Kibaki on furthering Sino-Kenyan friendly cooperation.\n\n\"Our relevant departments are working to implement the consensus and have achieved positive results,\" he said. \"Bilateral trade has continued to rise rapidly and new progress has been made in our cooperation in cultural, education and health sectors.\"\n\nThe development of Kenya-China relations is inspiring, said Kibaki, adding that his country is willing to explore ways to expand cooperation with China and enhance collaboration in international and regional affairs.\n\nChina established diplomatic relations with Kenya on Dec. 14, 1963. Kibaki's last visit to China was in 2005. Bilateral Trade totaled 475 million U.S. dollars in 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 309, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 544, "end_char": 552, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last four years", "start_char": 763, "end_char": 782, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 892, "end_char": 896, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2020", "start_char": 1005, "end_char": 1009, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2020", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 1198, "end_char": 1203, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 14, 1963", "start_char": 1829, "end_char": 1842, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1963-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1880, "end_char": 1884, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1938, "end_char": 1942, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0225.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0298\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBush's job approval rating hits new low\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush's job approval rating hit a new low of 35 percent, according to a CBS News poll released Thursday.\n\nIt is the lowest level since he took office in 2001 and one of the worst for any president.\n\nThe survey found that only 35 percent of Americans thought Bush was doing a good job compared with 37 percent in a previous CBS poll in October.\n\nPollsters attributed the decline partially to a five-count indictment of US Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide Lewis \"Scooter\" Libby last Friday.\n\nThe CBS poll compared Bush's job approval rating with some other presidents at about the same point in their second term.\n\nIn November 1997, in the first year of his second term, 57 percent of Americans approved of Bill Clinton.\n\nThe job approval rating of Ronald Reagan in November 1985 was 65 percent.\n\nA Gallup poll in November 1957 found 58 percent approval for Dwight Eisenhower.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 220, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 282, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 460, "end_char": 467, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Friday", "start_char": 613, "end_char": 624, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "second term", "start_char": 736, "end_char": 747, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1997", "start_char": 753, "end_char": 766, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first year", "start_char": 771, "end_char": 785, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1985", "start_char": 901, "end_char": 914, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1957", "start_char": 949, "end_char": 962, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1957-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0298.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0281\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAnnan urges restraint after exchange of fire across Israel-Lebanon border\n\n\n\n\nUN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday lamented Monday's exchange of fire across the Israel-Lebanon border and called on Lebanon's Hezbollah militias and Israel to exercise utmost restraint.\n\nAnnan \"deplores in the strongest terms the exchange of fire across the Blue Line yesterday, which resulted in the reported deaths of several Hezbollah fighters and an unconfirmed number of wounded on both sides,\" a UN spokesman told reporters.\n\nThe Blue Line was the withdrawal line for Israeli troops who left southern Lebanon in May 2000 and is a temporary border between Israel and Lebanon.\n\n\"The secretary-general appeals to all parties to respect the Blue Line in its entirety,\" spokesman Stephanie Dujarric said. \"He also calls on the government of Lebanon to extend its authority over all of its territory in accordance with Security Council resolutions.\"\n\n\"The secretary-general appeals for a return to calm and calls on all parties to exercise utmost restraint.\"\n\nThe spokesman said the UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon has brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon to prevent further escalation of the latest hostilities.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 177, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 419, "end_char": 428, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2000", "start_char": 669, "end_char": 677, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0281.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0576\n\nKISANGANI, Zaire, April 17 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUNHCR delays repatriation of refugees until Saturday\n\n\n\n\nThe UN refugee agency on Thursday said it was putting off the start of repatriation operations for Rwandan Hutu refugees in eastern Zaire until Saturday.\n\nThe UN High Commissioner for Refugees earlier announced that the airlift from Kisangani to Rwanda via Goma was scheduled to begin Friday with 80 refugee children from the Biaro camp, which is free of the cholera epidemic reportedly flaring in the nearby Kasese camp.\n\nUNHCR spokesman Paul Stromberg told AFP in rebel-held Kisangani that the governor of the Upper Zaire region feared the epidemic could spread outside the camp.\n\n\"We had a two-hour meeting with the governor, during which we tried to explain our point of view,\" Stromberg said.\n\n\"By transporting people in good health, there would be no risk of disease spreading,\" he said. \"But by delaying their departure, they would remain in a haven of cholera.\"\n\n\"There will be a meeting on Friday between health experts. They should find a consensus. We are optimistic, and have postponed the operation by a day,\" Stromberg said.\n\nAt Kasese, 303 cases of cholera have been recorded in the last 10 days, and 19 people have died, while 42 have been treated and released from hospital, the UNHCR has reported.\n\nSome 700 children without adult company have been registered among the refugees in the camps, but UNHCR puts their true figure closer to 4,000.\n\nUp to 100,000 refugees are staying at the two camps.\n\nThe Zairean rebel alliance, which seized Kisangani a month ago, on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for their repatriation, which could take two to three months.\n\nThe UN agency has three Russian Ilyushin transport planes and one Hercules C-130 at its disposal, but must use the smaller, local airstrip because the international runway had been mined by retreating Serb mercenaries fighting on behalf of the Zairean government.\n\nDespite the obstacles, the UNHCR plans to repatriate more than 1,000 refugees a day once the operation gets underway.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 17 , 1997", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 273, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 406, "end_char": 412, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1020, "end_char": 1026, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a day", "start_char": 1136, "end_char": 1141, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 10 days", "start_char": 1215, "end_char": 1231, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "P10D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month ago", "start_char": 1588, "end_char": 1599, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1604, "end_char": 1613, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 1680, "end_char": 1692, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0576.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0393\n\nBADEN-BADEN, Germany, April 17 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nRussia-NATO deal to be signed in Paris May 27: Yeltsin\n\n\n\n\nPresident Boris Yeltsin said Thursday that Russia and NATO will sign an agreement defining their future relations at a summit meeting in Paris on May 27.\n\nSpeaking at a joint news conference with Chancellor Helmut Kohl, with whom he had several hours' talks in this western German spa town, Yeltsin said: \"We will now have to hurry up.\"\n\nKohl for his part said that \"there still remains a lot to do, but I see a good chance of success.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 17 , 1997", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 60, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 27", "start_char": 273, "end_char": 279, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 441, "end_char": 444, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0393.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0206\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nCoach fined by NHL despite referee's wrong call\n\n\n\n\nEdmonton Oilers coach Craig MacTavish was fined 10,000 U.S. dollars Saturday for ripping NHL referee Mick McGeough after a loss to Dallas, in which a mistaken call erased an equalizer.\n\nMcGeough admitted he made a mistake in disallowing the tying goal with 4.1 seconds remaining following a 3-2 Dallas road victory Friday but the outcome stood and MacTavish was irate at the official after the defeat.\n\n\"I can't help but think that ... he feels like he's the show out there,\" MacTavish said of McGeough.\n\n\"You would think that if (Shawn) Horcoff knocked it back with his glove that the linesman would be able to see that. He's one person of 17,000 in the building that saw it that way. It's ridiculous.\"\n\nThat sparked the fine imposed by NHL vice president Colin Campbell.\n\n\"The NHL acknowledges the fact that referee Mick McGeough made the wrong call on a play late in the game, which he later admitted,\" Campbell said.\n\n\"While the NHL regrets the missed call, Craig MacTavish's comments after the game regarding the call were totally inappropriate and crossed the line.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 426, "end_char": 432, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0206.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0499\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nAsh continuing to spew from Vanuatu volcano\n\n\n\n\nThousands of tonnes of ash are continuing to spew from a volcano in Vanuatu, but officials said Monday the activity on the South Pacific nation was not likely to result in a major deadly eruption.\n\nSome 5,000 people have been evacuated to safer areas on Vanuatu's Ambae island since the crater lake on top of Mount Manaro began erupting with gas, steam and ash on November 27.\n\nThere were fears that a major eruption could send a deadly torrent of water, ash and lava down the sides of the volcano, but experts said Monday the volcanic activity was likely to continue at the same moderate level for one to two weeks before gradually abating.\n\n\"The level of activity has remained steady for the last six or seven days,\" Lucas Merrigan of the Vanuatu National Disaster Management Office in Port Vila told AFP.\n\n\"It's still at level two. Level three is when we start evacuating people off the island -- the scientists don't expect it will get to that.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for aid agency Oxfam said about 2,000 tonnes of ash were continuing to land on the island daily.\n\n\"The information that we've got from the scientists and the vulcanologists on the island is that there's less seismic activity and gas emissions than there used to be... but it could be the calm before the storm,\" she said.\n\nThe eruptions could continue at the same level for another fortnight but were unlikely to become worse, she said.\n\n\"They are not predicting a major eruption, they are not predicting that people are going to have to move off the island.\"\n\nThere are fears that ash and acid rain will continue to fall on homes and food crops, leading to the contamination of water supplies and respiratory problems for inhabitants.\n\nThe Vanuatu government has not declared a state of emergency but has taken precautions in case the eruptions become worse. Ships are standing by off Ambae in case some of the population of about 10,000 people need to be evacuated.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 27", "start_char": 458, "end_char": 469, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 610, "end_char": 616, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one to two weeks", "start_char": 693, "end_char": 709, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last six or seven days", "start_char": 784, "end_char": 810, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-12-12T06:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "daily", "start_char": 1149, "end_char": 1154, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0499.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0181\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHang Seng China Enterprises Index closes higher -- Nov. 28\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong's Hang Seng China Enterprises Index rose 37.73 points, or 0.74 percent, to close at 5,110.03 on Monday.\n\nThe index, initiated in August 1995 and re-based on Sept. 6, 2004, tracks the overall performance of 40 Chinese mainland state-owned enterprises listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.\n\nHang Seng China-Affiliated Corporations Index rose 3.75 points, or 0.19 percent, to close at 1,976.92.\n\nThe index tracks the performance of 30 locally listed companies with a significant equity interest held by entities in the Chinese mainland.\n\nHang Seng Mainland Composite Index also went up 5.91 points, or 0.31 percent, to close at 1,899.44.\n\nIntroduced on Oct. 3, 2001, Hang Seng Mainland Composite Index gauges the performance of 95 Hong Kong-listed companies with principal places of business in Hong Kong and the mainland.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 228, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1995", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 6, 2004", "start_char": 289, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-09-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 3, 2001", "start_char": 784, "end_char": 796, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001-10-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0181.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0182 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0182. \n Dresdner Bank Acquisition \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n EUROP DRSDY F.SGF \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nBANKS (BNK) \n FRANKFURT, West Germany  \n\n   West German and French authorities have cleared Dresdner Bank AG's takeover of a majority stake in Banque Internationale de Placement (BIP), Dresdner Bank said. \n\n   The approval, which had been expected, permits West Germany's second-largest bank to acquire shares of the French investment bank. \n\n   In a first step, Dresdner Bank will buy 32.99% of BIP for 1,015 French francs ($162) a share, or 528 million francs ($84.7 million). \nDresdner Bank said it will also buy all shares tendered by shareholders on the Paris Stock Exchange at the same price from today through Nov. 17. \nIn addition, the bank has an option to buy a 30.84% stake in BIP from Societe Generale after Jan. 1, 1990 at 1,015 francs a share.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 71, "end_char": 79, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 774, "end_char": 779, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t26"}, {"text": "Nov. 17", "start_char": 788, "end_char": 795, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-17", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t26"}, {"text": "Jan. 1, 1990", "start_char": 891, "end_char": 903, "tid": "t29", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0713.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0294\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUN Security Council calls for calm in post-election DRC\n\n\n\n\nThe UN Security Council on Friday called on all parties in the run-off presidential election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to remain calm and avoid violence as they wait for the final results.\n\n\"The members of the Security Council appealed to the sense of civic responsibility of the Congolese people, so that the electoral process could continue in a calm and peaceful climate,\" the 15-nation council said in a press statement read out by Jorge Voto-Bernales, Peru's UN ambassador and the council president for this month.\n\nStressing that electoral disputes should be settled only through legal procedures, the council urged the parties not to challenge the outcome of the polls by force.\n\nThe statement condemned the violent incident that took place in Kinshasa on Nov. 11, in which four people lost their lives, calling on all political actors to refrain from any provocation, incitement to hatred or recourse to violence.\n\nThe council \"stressed that neither the Congolese people nor the international community would understand or accept a return to violence following the election,\" it said.\n\nIncumbent President Joseph Kabila had won the presidential run- off held on Oct. 29, defeating Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, according to results announced by the country's electoral commission Wednesday.\n\nIn a three-month-long electoral process meant to cement the country's transition to stability from a six-year civil war, the Congolese people also voted to elect a 500-seat National Assembly and provincial assemblies.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 652, "end_char": 662, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 11", "start_char": 907, "end_char": 914, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 29", "start_char": 1314, "end_char": 1321, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1436, "end_char": 1445, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0294.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0038\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUrgent: IDF confirm large operation in Gaza\n\n\n\n\nJerusalem, Nov. 1 (Xinhua) -- A spokesman of Israel Defense Force confirmed on Wednesday morning that the IDF is conducting a large operation in Beit Hanoun, in northern part of the Gaza Stripe.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 115, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 200, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-25TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0038.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0072\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nIsrael downplays chance of conflict with Syria\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli officials downplayed the chance of armed conflict with Syria Monday, a day after a senior intelligence officer said Damascus was preparing for war with the Jewish state.\n\n\"Syria is constructing military apparatus to try and counter the supremacy of (Israeli) air, ground and naval forces, but nothing indicates that it intends to attack us,\" Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh told public radio.\n\nThe chief of parliament's influential foreign affairs and defense committee, Tsahi Hanegbi, told the radio: \"No one in Israel has precise information on Syria's intentions and we are examining all possibilities.\n\n\"The army takes into account these estimates and adapts them on the ground,\" he said.\n\nOn Sunday, General Yossi Beidetz, the head of the military intelligence research division, told a cabinet meeting that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was \"preparing his forces for a military conflict\" with Israel.\n\n\"Syria has accelerated the production of long-range missiles and has deployed anti-tank rockets on its border with Israel,\" a senior intelligence official quoted Beidetz as saying, referring to the armistice line on the occupied Golan Heights.\n\nIn a later statement, a spokesman said: \"The army does not have any information indicating offensive intentions (by Syria) on the border.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 816, "end_char": 822, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0072.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0248\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nconsecutive year\n\n\n\n\nWorld number one Roger Federer and nemesis David Nalbandian, who joined hands to advance into semifinals here last year, repeated history by making the semifinals at this year's edition on Thursday.\n\nThe duo, who were also grouped in Red and joined to make last four in 2005 finale, got through to the semifinals for the second consecutive year here after beating respective enemies with straight sets in the final round-robin matches.\n\nFederer eased through Ivan Ljubicic of Croatia 7-6 (7-2), 6-4 in one hour and 48 minutes while Argentine Nalbandian needed only one hour and 37 minutes to edge past Andy Roddick 7-2, 7-6 (7-4) in an earlier match.\n\nThus, Federer finishes first in the Red Group with wins and Nalbandian, who are tied with Ljubicic and Roddick on one win and two losses, places second with set winning advantage by claiming four out of eight sets in total.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 245, "end_char": 254, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second consecutive year", "start_char": 396, "end_char": 423, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one hour", "start_char": 581, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT1H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0248.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0141\n\nSEOUL, April 4 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSou Korea's dependence on foreign loans at 16-year high\n\n\n\n\nThe share of foreign debt in South Korean companies' total liabilities soared to a 16-year high of 10.2 percent last year, reflecting a credit squeeze here, the Bank of Korea (BOK) said Friday.\n\nThe overseas debt totalled 12.1 trillion won (13.6 billion dollars) in 1996, compared with 8.4 trillion won in 1995 when the ratio stood at 8.4 percent of the total.\n\nSlowing exports and a slump in domestic sales that aggravated credit conditions were blamed for the increase in the foreign debt ratio, a bank official said.\n\nThe central bank said in a statement the companies' total liabilities rose 18.2 percent from a year before to 118.2 trillion won last year, following a 12.3 percent expansion in 1995.\n\nSouth Korean firms took out 37 trillion won, or 31.3 percent of the total liabilities, from local financial institutions in 1996, while raising funds totalling 55.6 trillion won through issuing corporate bonds and stocks, the bank said.\n\nEarlier this week, the finance and economy ministry said it would ease regulations governing the inflow of foreign funds and its heavily protected bond market to stabilize the ailing capital market here.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 4 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 233, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 298, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 382, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 418, "end_char": 422, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 762, "end_char": 771, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 811, "end_char": 815, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 942, "end_char": 946, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this week", "start_char": 1056, "end_char": 1073, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0141.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0014\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMarket value of China's securities market over 786 bln U.S.dollar\n\n\n\n\nThe market value of companies listed on China's securities market exceeded 6.29 trillion yuan (786 billion U.S. dollars) by the last trading day of this week.\n\nShanghai Stock Exchange figures show the market value of the Shanghai securities market, including yuan-denominated A shares and foreign-currency B shares, was 4.9 trillion yuan by Friday.\n\nThe Shanghai bourse carries 844 stocks with more than one trillion shares. The market value of circulating stocks on the Shanghai securities market is 1.25 trillion yuan.\n\nThe market value of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange rose by 2.06 percent in the past week to 1.39 trillion yuan by the last trading day on Friday.\n\nThe total market value of circulating stocks on the Shenzhen securities market is 664 billion yuan, 2.43 percent up from a week ago.\n\nThe Composite Stock Index on the Shanghai Stock Exchange opened at 1804.37 last week and closed at 1866.36 on Friday, peaking at 1873.66 on Friday.\n\nThe Composite Stock Index on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange closed at 4690.43 on Friday, with a weekly rise of 2.9 percent. The total turnover this week of the Shenzhen securities market was almost 65.7 billion yuan, 5.06 percent down from the week before.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last trading day of this week", "start_char": 250, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 473, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past week", "start_char": 720, "end_char": 733, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 783, "end_char": 789, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week ago", "start_char": 913, "end_char": 923, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1001, "end_char": 1010, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1036, "end_char": 1042, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1066, "end_char": 1072, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1153, "end_char": 1159, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1215, "end_char": 1224, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0014.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0082\n\nGAZA, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nPalestinian official says talks on crossing operation make progress\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Tuesday that clear progress has been achieved over the operation of the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border.\n\n\"It is agreed that Palestinians who carry Palestinian ID cards can cross the Rafah crossing in both directions without any conditions,\" Erekat told Palestinian radio \"Voice of Palestine.\"\n\nThe agreement was made at an Israeli-Palestinian-European meeting held on Monday night, which was also attended by James Wolfensohn, the Quartet Committee envoy, he said.\n\n\"We also agreed on transporting goods abroad via Rafah,\" Erekat said, adding that goods into the Gaza strip will be transported through the Kerem Shalom crossing.\n\nIsrael's security cabinet approved last week an agreement with Egypt to reopen the Rafah crossing under the supervision of European inspectors.\n\nHowever, Israelis and the Palestinians are at odds over the role of the European inspectors as the Palestinians consider them advisers while Israel wants them to have veto power over security enforcement.\n\nErekat said more three-party meetings are scheduled in the coming days to discuss the inspectors' role and the installation of observation cameras at the crossing, another outstanding dispute between Israel and the Palestinians.\n\nMeanwhile, Palestinian Chief of Crossings Nazmi Mhanna announced that Rafah will be open for 24 hours for Palestinians as of Tuesday midnight.\n\nThe Rafah crossing, the only exit of Gaza to the outside world, was shut down for security reasons shortly before Israel completed withdrawing settlers and troops from the coastal strip in September.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 181, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 551, "end_char": 563, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 848, "end_char": 857, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 hours", "start_char": 1487, "end_char": 1495, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PT24H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1519, "end_char": 1526, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1727, "end_char": 1736, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0082.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0394\n\nLONDON, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIrish corruption inquiry hears of 2m dollar payment to ex-premier\n\n\n\n\nA leading businessman arranged to pay 1.3 million punts (two million dollars) to former Irish prime minister Charles Haughey while he was still head of government, a corruption inquiry was told Monday.\n\nThe tribunal was set up in February to trace who received 3.5 million punts of a total 5.63 million punts (nine million dollars) paid out by millionaire supermarket boss Ben Dunne.\n\nThe payments controversy first came to light last November when the then transport minister, Michael Lowry, resigned after it emerged that Dunne had paid for an extension worth 400,000 punts (650,000 dollars) to his home.\n\nThe tribunal heard Monday that Dunne himself would later tell the court of the 1.3 million punt payment to Haughey, who resigned as premier and leader of the Fianna Fail party in 1992.\n\nThe court heard there would be evidence that the money had been requested to \"overcome business problems relating to Mr. Haughey.\"\n\nSpeculation over Haughey's involvement has been intense, although until Monday the name of the man referred to as a \"very prominent former member of parliament\" had never been officially disclosed.\n\nLike the \"sleaze\" scandal which has dogged the Conservative party during the British general election campaign, the allegations and the inquiry threaten to overshadow Fianna Fail's bid to win power from the ruling coalition in general elections that could be held as early as next month.\n\nBut unlike in Britain, the sums involved are much larger, the accusations go right to the top of the party and the inquiry could run in tandem with the election campaign as any decision to suspend it is for the judiciary alone.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 318, "end_char": 324, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 354, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last November", "start_char": 554, "end_char": 567, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 751, "end_char": 757, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 911, "end_char": 915, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1122, "end_char": 1128, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 1525, "end_char": 1535, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0394.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0292\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIsrael facing physical, moral threats from Iran: Olmert\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday evening that his country is facing dual threats of physical and moral from Iran, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.\n\n\"Israel's main problem is threat that comes from those who openly talk about wiping us off the map,\" Olmert was quoted as saying in Orthodox Union convention in Jerusalem.\n\nNot only the physical one, the moral threat from Iran also plagued Israel, the prime minister added.\n\nHe vowed to react to those threats imposed on Israel, saying that \"We have heard these voices in the past. We can't afford to listen and not to react.\"\n\nHe also urged the world to take seriously the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program.\n\nThere are considerable speculations about the possibility that Israel might attack Iranian nuclear facilities if Iran insists on developing its nuclear program.\n\nOn Monday, Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA) reported that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Israel would not attack the Islamic Republic as \"its regime is weak and it has many problems.\"\n\nAhmadinejad reiterated that Iran's nuclear plan is solely peaceful, saying \"Iran is peace loving country and has never attacked another country.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday evening", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 179, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 658, "end_char": 666, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 966, "end_char": 972, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0292.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0147\n\nTOKYO, April 4 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSouth Korean foreign minister to visit Japan\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korean Foreign Minister Yoo Chong-Ha will visit Japan for talks with Japanese leaders, a foreign ministry official said Friday.\n\n\"Japan is arranging his visit, but the schedule is yet to be fixed,\" the ministry spokeswoman said.\n\nJapan's Foreign Minister Yukuhiko Ikeda offered the invitation in February when the two met in Singapore, she said. Ikeda visited South Korea in January.\n\nJiji Press said the South Korean minister would visit Japan for three days from April 14 to meet with Ikeda and Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.\n\nYoo will exchange views with Japanese politicians on food aid to North Korea, a new fishery pact between Tokyo and Seoul and other topics, the news agency quoted a foreign ministry source as saying.\n\nKyodo News, meanwhile, quoted a South Korean foreign ministry source as saying the two countries had \"almost reached an agreement for April 17-19.\"\n\nKyodo said topics would include a Japanese fund's compensation payment to Asian women who had been forced into sexual slavery for Japanese soldiers during World War II.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 4 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 233, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 403, "end_char": 411, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 482, "end_char": 489, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days", "start_char": 556, "end_char": 566, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 14", "start_char": 572, "end_char": 580, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 17-19", "start_char": 973, "end_char": 984, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970404.0147.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0093\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 21 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURE) =\n\n\n\n\nIsrael voiced fears of a potential explosion of Palestinian violence ahead of next month's parliamentary election and said Wednesday it would not allowing any voting in occupied east Jerusalem.\n\nDefence Minister Shaul Mofaz was reported to have told a meeting of his top lieutenants that Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas was losing control and that the radical Islamist movement Hamas was likely to resume its campaign of attacks, particularly from the Gaza Strip.\n\n\"The Palestinian Authority is not functioning in the Gaza Strip, there is no guiding hand,\" Mofaz was quoted as saying by the Yediot Aharonot daily.\n\n\"The Palestinian security forces are not obeying the instructions of the PA chairman (Abbas). We have to be prepared for Hamas's return to terror activity.\"\n\nHamas, which is participating in the elections for the first time on January 25, is currently observing a moratorium on its campaign of attacks against Israel but that is due to expire at the end of the year.\n\nKhaled Meshaal, Hamas's Damascus-based overall leader, said earlier this month that the truce would not be renewed as \"our people are surrounded and are preparing for a new round of conflict.\"\n\nYuval Diskin, the head of Israel's Shin Beth internal security service, told the meeting with Mofaz that the weakening of Abbas's Fatah movement would diminish the Palestinian security services' ability to prevent attacks.\n\n\"As soon as Fatah is very weak, and it is weak, the security services that are controlled by the old guard have no legitimacy or motivation to act to prevent terrorism, and without internal legitimacy there is no chance that this will happen,\" he was quoted as saying by Yediot.\n\nFatah has been riven by divisions to such an extent that faction rebels have submitted a rival list of candidates to the official slate which will compete against each other in voting on January 25.\n\nHamas has been trailing Fatah in the polls but managed to win control of three major West Bank municipalities in local elections last week, in areas which had traditionally been Fatah strongholds.\n\nIsrael has strongly objected to Hamas taking part in what is only the second ever parliamentary polls, arguing that the 1993 Oslo autonomy accords bar anyone who advocates violence to stand in Palestinian Authority elections.\n\nHamas has been behind the majority of anti-Israeli attacks over the course of the five-year uprising and does not recognise Israel's right to exist.\n\nThe movement's participation in the elections was one of the reasons cited by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's office for not allowing Palestinians living in occupied east Jerusalem from participating in January's election.\n\n\"We will not allow there to be any polling booths in Jerusalem for the Palestinian elections,\" an official told AFP on condition of anonymity.\n\n\"In the past, we have allowed Palestinians to vote in post offices but not this time.\"\n\nIsrael captured and then annexed east Jerusalem after the 1967 war but the international community still regards the area, home to nearly 200,000 Palestinians, as occupied territory.\n\n\"We will not tolerate any political activity and we are also determined to prevent any attack against our sovereignty over our capital Jerusalem, especially as Hamas is taking part in the election,\" said the official.\n\nThe chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat condemned the decision, calling it part of an Israeli design to sabotage the whole election.\n\n\"This is clear evidence that they are trying to destroy the election in general so they can say they have no Palestinian partner\" in the peace process, said Erakat.", "time_expressions": 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0523\n\nCAPE TOWN, South Africa, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nCrayfish invade beaches of Northern Cape\n\n\n\n\nMore than a thousand tonnes of crayfish have invaded Elands bay, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) north of Cape Town, since the weekend, the second invasion in three weeks.\n\nPolice have been forced to set up barriers and scoop up the crayfish with excavators to prevent people from collecting the highly-sought after shellfish.\n\nThe crayfish have been heading to the beaches to escape a toxic red tide -- a concentration of micro-organisms which depletes oxygen levels in the water.\n\nThousands of people have flocked to the coast to collect the crustacea. However South African legislation has strict fishing laws concerning the delicacy. Excepting those holding a special permit, the law limits fishermen to four crayfish per day during the fishing season.\n\nCape Attorney-General Frank Kahn warned on Tuesday that people collecting crayfish without a permit or those caught in possession of more than four crayfish would be prosecuted, irrespective of whether the crayfish were dead or alive.\n\nResidents in the surrounding areas have nevertheless asked permission to collect and sell the crayfish to raise funding to improve their communities.\n\nEven though the environmental affairs and tourism ministry considered suspending the law, they said it would be \"irresponsible to allow communities to access to untested crayfish which may not be fit for consumption.\"\n\nFishing authorities have called the red tide an ecological disaster.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 48, "end_char": 62, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 238, "end_char": 249, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W14-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three weeks", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "season", "start_char": 864, "end_char": 870, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 916, "end_char": 923, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970409.0523.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0328\n\nMBUJI-MAYI, Zaire, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENT Kinshasa next target of Zairean rebels\n\n\n\n\nZairean rebel leader Laurent Kabila said Tuesday in this diamond centre held by his forces that his next \"target\" was the capital Kinshasa.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 42, "end_char": 56, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0328.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0245\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd Ld: China confirms first human cases of bird flu\n\n\n\n\nChina's Ministry of Health on Wednesday confirmed two human cases and one suspected case of H5N1 bird flu.\n\nThe two confirmed cases involve a nine-year-old boy in Xiangtan County of Hunan Province, central China, and a 24-year-old woman farmer in Zongyang County of Anhui Province in the east.\n\nEarlier Wednesday, the ministry said three human cases had been confirmed.\n\nThe boy surnamed He had fever and showed pneumonia-like symptoms on Oct. 10. There was an outbreak of H5N1 bird flu occurred in his village.\n\nLab tests on the boy's blood serum samples show his H5 antibodies rose by more than four times, which indicates that he was infected by the H5N1 bird flu virus.\n\nBased on clinical and lab tests, experts from the ministry and the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the boy as a human case of H5N1 bird flu. He was discharged from hospital on Nov. 12 after recovery.\n\nThe woman farmer in Anhui developed fever and pneumonia-like symptoms on Nov. 1 and died of prostration of breathing on Nov. 10. Chickens and ducks at her home died one to two weeks before she fell ill and she had contacts with sick and dead chickens and ducks, the ministry said.\n\nMeanwhile, the boy's 12-year-old sister, who had similar symptoms as her brother and died on Oct. 17, was reported as a suspected human case according to WHO standards, said the ministry.\n\nThe experts from the ministry suspected the girl of being a human case of H5N1 bird flu, but cannot confirm it by WHO standards due to insufficient evidence from laboratory tests, according to the ministry.\n\nThe ministry has reported the cases to the WHO and related authorities in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as some countries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 417, "end_char": 426, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 10", "start_char": 553, "end_char": 560, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 12", "start_char": 975, "end_char": 982, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 1073, "end_char": 1079, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 10", "start_char": 1120, "end_char": 1127, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 1172, "end_char": 1181, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 17", "start_char": 1375, "end_char": 1382, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0245.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0121\n\nBEIJING, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nChina's elderly deserted by own families: report\n\n\n\n\nIn China, the case of a 71-year-old homeless man who committed arson to get a place to live -- jail -- has highlighted the plight of millions of desperately poor elderly, state media said Sunday.\n\nLi Zhaokun was detained in November after starting a forest fire on a mountainside in south China's Guangdong province, the Xinhua news agency reported.\n\nInvestigators were startled to find that he had only just completed a five-year term for arson, but wanted to return to prison, which at least promised food and shelter, according to Xinhua.\n\nHe had attempted suicide twice, but each time he was saved and told to seek help in his home town.\n\nBut Li, who had moved from place to place as a child and lost his parents before he was 10, had one problem: \"I don't know where I'm from.\"\n\nLi's case may be extreme, but it reflects growing social pressures in China, as the number of elderly without family networks explodes.\n\nChina's modernization is partly to blame, because old customs like the obligation to venerate and care for the elderly are breaking down.\n\nBut economic factors are also at work, as millions of young farmers move to the cities in hopes of finding jobs, leaving their parents behind, many with little financial support.\n\nA recent survey covering 10,400 peasants over the age of 60 in 31 provinces showed 45 percent were not living with their children and five percent did not know where their next meal would come from, according to Xinhua.\n\nSixty-nine percent had just one set of clothes and 67 percent could not afford medicine.\n\nYoung farmers were also surveyed, and at least half did not care about their parents' situation, said Zhai Yuhe, a coal mine owner from northeast China's Heilongjiang province, who financed the survey.\n\n\"I know a man in his 90s. His six children collectively give him 30 to 50 yuan (3.8 to 6.3 dollars) a month,\" Zhai told Xinhua.\n\n\"But no one offers to accept him in their home. No one would be there to help him if he had an accident or fell ill.\"\n\nSome elderly are under so much strain that they seek court action to force their children to provide help.\n\nIn Beijing, more than 2,000 rural parents sued their children for support last year, according to the city's Intermediate People's Court, Xinhua reported.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 293, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 329, "end_char": 337, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2289, "end_char": 2298, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0121.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0073\n\nVLORE, Albania, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nItalians dock at rebel held port in southern Albania\n\n\n\n\nItalian forces from the multinational protection force for lawless Albania prepared to dock at the rebel-held port of Vlore early Monday, witnesses said.\n\nThe boats arrived off-shore around dawn and were sitting several hundred meters (yards) from the quayside where the troops and their equipment will unload. There were two vessels, an amphibious craft, the San Giusto (eds: correct) and the Vitorio Veneto.\n\nWhen the troops unload they will be the first to deploy in a rebel- held area of the country which has been gripped by lawlessness and banditry for nearly two months.\n\nItaly leads the 6,000-strong force, half of which has already been deployed in the country. Additional Italian troops and a Greek force of some 130 men and equipment are due to meet up with the soldiers aboard the ships later Monday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 255, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly two months", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 695, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 924, "end_char": 930, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0073.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0360\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua international news advisory -- Nov.9\n\n\n\n\nThe following are some of the major international news stories scheduled to be covered or pursued by Xinhua on Thursday.\n\n-- As many as 508 schoolchildren in central Peru poisoned after eating government-provided breakfast.\n\n-- Britain supports Macedonia's bid to join the European Union.\n\n-- Donald Tsang, chief executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), meets Belgian and European political leaders.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 215, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0360.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0676\n\nPARIS, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nWeapons buyback massively cut gun deaths: Australian study\n\n\n\n\nA weapons buyback in Australia dramatically ended gun massacres and sharply reduced the number of firearms deaths overall, a study published on Thursday says.\n\nThe initiative was launched in 1996, within days of a massacre of 35 people in Port Arthur, Tasmania, by a gunman using semi-automatic weapons.\n\nUnder the new law, the federal government banned semi-automatics and pump-action rifles and shotguns and offered to buy these weapons from gunowners, using a levy on income tax.\n\nTens of thousands of gunowners also voluntarily surrendered non-prohibited weapons, without compensation.\n\nIn all, more than 700,000 guns were destroyed in a country with a population of 12 million adults.\n\nLooking back at the effects that this measure has had over the past decade, Australian public-health experts say the benefits have been enormous.\n\nIn the 18 years prior to the Port Arthur massacre, Australia experienced 13 mass shootings; there has been none since then, they say.\n\nThe rate of homicides, suicides and fatal accidents involving firearms had been declining in the 18 years preceding the new gun law.\n\nAfter that, the decline doubled, with the biggest fall occurring among the tally of suicides.\n\n\"Removing large numbers of firearms from a community can be associated with a sudden and ongoing decline in mass shootings and accelerating declines in total firearm-related deaths, firearm homicides and firearm suicides,\" says the paper.\n\nIt appears in Injury Prevention, a journal of the British Medical Association (BMA). Lead author is Simon Chapman, a professor at the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 266, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 305, "end_char": 309, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past decade", "start_char": 864, "end_char": 879, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 18 years", "start_char": 955, "end_char": 967, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 18 years", "start_char": 1180, "end_char": 1192, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0676.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0457\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 11 , 2005\n\nAustralians relish the chance to play Brazil in World Cup\n\n\n\n\nAustralians were Sunday coming to terms with drawing champions Brazil in the 2006 World Cup finals, with press reports upbeat that the Socceroos could match the favourites.\n\nUnder a frontpage headline of 'We're ready to do battle', The Sunday Telegraph quoted star striker Harry Kewell as saying the Socceroos were excited about the prospect of playing.\n\n\"I'm not fussed about who we are playing. We're just looking forward to it,\" the Liverpool player told the paper.\n\n\"Look what happened at the last World Cup with the top countries like France and Argentina. They were knocked out in the first round.\n\n\"Look what Greece did when they won the Euro (European Championship) in 2004. No one gave them a chance.\"\n\nBut a photograph of soccer fans watching the draw live early Saturday morning Sydney time published in The Sun-Herald told a different story -- all pictured had their heads in their hands or looks of anguish on their faces.\n\n\"It's not the 'group of death.' But it feels like it,\" soccer journalist Michael Cockerill wrote in the same paper.\n\n\"Brazil, the best team in the world. Croatia, the most motivated team in the world. And Japan, the best resourced,\" he wrote in describing Australia's companions in Group F.\n\nBut while Brazil were certain to win the group, Australia had the benefit of having beaten all three teams previously, and Brazil had gone down 1-0 at the 2001 Confederations Cup in South Korea, he said.\n\nThe optimism was backed by Australian goalkeeper Mark Schwarzer who, in an article published in The Sun-Herald, said the Socceroos would go into the World Cup believing they were world-beaters.\n\n\"Playing Brazil in the World Cup is going to be massive,\" he wrote in a column for the paper. \"They are justifiably rated No. 1 in the world, but anything is possible in the World Cup.\n\n\"Even though people might say we are crazy and have no chance of beating Brazil, I think that if we don't hold that belief and that mentality before we play then there is something wrong.\"\n\nThe Australians, who are ranked 49th in the world, also won some support from an unusual quarter with Brazilian legend Pele telling The Sun-Herald that Australia could pose a threat to the boys from Brazil.\n\nAsked if Australia had a chance of beating Brazil in their group match in Munich, Pele replied: \"I think yes. They beat Uruguay, so why not?\"\n\nBut he added: \"I think it will be a little bit different here though.\"\n\nThe Socceroos earned their first spot at the World Cup in 32 years in November when they beat Uruguay in a dramatic 4-2 penalty shoot-out win after extra time.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 785, "end_char": 789, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Saturday morning", "start_char": 875, "end_char": 897, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "32 years", "start_char": 2594, "end_char": 2602, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P32Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 2606, "end_char": 2614, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0457.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0222\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGaza\n\n\n\n\nArab League (AL) Secretary General Amr Moussa on Saturday regretted the U.S. veto against a United Nations Security Council draft resolution condemning the Israeli attacks against the Palestinian civilians.\n\nExpressing anger and astonishment over the U.S. veto, Moussa said in a statement that the veto would fuel anger over the U.S. protection to the Israeli practices against the Palestinian civilians.\n\nThe Arabs would urge the UN General Assembly to take actions to provide protection for civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories and call for respect for the international law, he stressed, adding that the U.S. veto would encourage Israel to continue its aggression.\n\nArab foreign ministers will discuss the latest developments at an emergency meeting on Sunday, Moussa added.\n\nThe United States on Saturday vetoed the UN Security Council draft resolution that would have condemned an Israeli attack in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza that killed at least 19 Palestinian civilians, and urging a quick withdrawal of Israeli forces from the area.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 833, "end_char": 839, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 877, "end_char": 885, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0222.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0247\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina marks Journalist Day\n\n\n\n\nChina issued the 16th China Journalism Awards and the 7th Changjiang Taofen Awards on Wednesday, to celebrate the 7th China Journalist Day.\n\nLi Changchun, member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau, attended the gathering and handed out the top awards.\n\nLiu Yunshan, member of both of the Politburo and Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, delivered a key-note speech at the gathering, calling on journalists to give top priority to studying the essence of the recent Sixth Plenary Session of the 16th CPC Central Committee.\n\nHe called on journalists to \"give powerful ideological and public support for building a harmonious society.\"\n\nPresent at the meeting were State-councilor Chen Zhili and Vice-Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Chen Kuiyuan.\n\nTian Congming, president of the Xinhua News Agency and chairman of the All-China Journalists Association, also delivered a speech.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 173, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0286\n\nBANGKOK. Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n30,000 Thais to rally on Constitution Day to demand election\n\n\n\n\nA pro-democracy group of Thailand Wednesday threatened to organize a mass protest on Dec. 10 demanding the government to call a general election within 90 days.\n\nChanapat na Nakhon, chairman of Democracy Lover Network was Wednesday quoted by Thai news group The Nation as saying that laborers from Bangkok, farmers from ten northeast provinces, five southern provinces and six northern provinces totaling 30,000 people will join the protest at the Democracy Monument.\n\nHe denied that his group is pro-Thaksin Shinawatra saying that some members of group was once duped by Thaksin government but they have left his group. \"We are purely democracy lovers and we want to restore democracy to the country,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 156, "end_char": 165, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 10", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "90", "start_char": 274, "end_char": 276, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P90D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 344, "end_char": 353, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0286.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0173\n\nHAIKOU, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSenior CPC official calls for nurturing harmonious culture\n\n\n\n\nA high ranking official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has stressed the importance of nurturing a harmonious culture compatible with the theme of the country's development.\n\nAfter a four-day tour of the southernmost island of Hainan, Li Changchun, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, ordered local officials to push forward cultural reforms with a focus on rural cultural life.\n\nHe urged that a publicity campaign be launched to let people know the significance of building a harmonious society, which should be based on the creation of a core value system.\n\nTo achieve this goal, the nation should be armed with Marxism that fits the concrete situations of China, he said.\n\nHe visited rural areas in Qionghai city and paid special attention to the development of ecology-friendly villages.\n\nLi said it was important to improve public culture services, to popularize knowledge of modern farming, and to enrich cultural activities for people living in the countryside.\n\nResidential communities, schools, families, and factories should also launch a drive to build a harmonious culture, Li said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0173.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0174\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nVice president of DR Congo arrives in Beijing\n\n\n\n\nVice President of Democratic Republic of Congo Abdoulaye Yerodia Ndombasi arrived here Thursday evening for the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.\n\nForty eight African countries that have diplomatic relations with China are to participate in the two-day summit scheduled to start on Nov. 4.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday evening", "start_char": 193, "end_char": 209, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-10-26TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4.", "start_char": 411, "end_char": 418, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0174.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0303\n\nNICOSIA, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAnkara ties\n\n\n\n\nCyprus promised Thursday its continued efforts for the Finnish initiative on Nicosia-Ankara ties after the rotating EU presidency decided to call off consultations with all parties concerned with a view to avert any crisis in EU-Turkish relations.\n\nIn a statement, Government Spokesman Christodoulos Pashiardis noted that Nicosia has been officially informed by Finland that no proximity consultations will take place on the Finnish initiative though it will continue its efforts.\n\n\"We understand that this development (the cancellation of consultations) is due to the positions and the terms presented by the Turkish side, which with its whole stance has rendered the holding of proximity consultations unachievable,\" Pashiardis said.\n\n\"The Cypriot government will continue to hold consultations with the Finnish Presidency, observing the same constructive stance and attitude that it has maintained so far,\" he added.\n\nFinland, as the rotating EU presidency, has been working on a draft proposal, providing for opening of Turkish occupied port of Famagusta under the EU administration for 24 months in combination with the opening of Turkish ports to ships carrying the Cypriot flag and the transfer of Famagusta to the UN.\n\nFor the purpose, it has been focusing on preparing the ground for a possible meeting over the weekend in Helsinki between Cyprus and Turkey.\n\nHowever, Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja announced earlier on Thursday that the consultations in Finland were cancelled, but \"efforts to find a solution that will enable the uninterrupted continuation of Turkey's accession negotiations and improve the situation of both communities in Cyprus will continue. \"\n\nThe Finnish presidency is trying to avert any possible derailment of Turkey's EU accession course, following Ankara's refusal to meet its EU obligations and Cyprus' position that Turkey must do exactly that before accession negotiations are allowed to move further on, said Tuomioja.\n\nCyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkey militarily intervened and occupied the north of Cyprus following a coup by a group of Greek officers.\n\nTurkey, a country aspiring to become an EU member state, does not recognize the Republic of Cyprus and has failed so far to implement the EU-Turkey Customs Union Protocol, which provides for opening of its ports and airports to Cyprus.\n\nThe EU formally launched talks with Turkey over the country's accession last October. The negotiations are expected to last at least a decade and Ankara is required to meet a number of criteria spelled out by the EU before entry.\n\nThe Republic of Cyprus, which entered the EU on behalf of the whole island in May 2004, is able to block Turkey's entry talks with its veto.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 88, "end_char": 96, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 months", "start_char": 1163, "end_char": 1172, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P24M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 1389, "end_char": 1400, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1511, "end_char": 1519, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 2074, "end_char": 2078, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last October", "start_char": 2503, "end_char": 2515, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2004", "start_char": 2740, "end_char": 2748, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0303.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0230\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRussia\n\n\n\n\nThe U.S. Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a tsunami warning on Wednesday for northern Japan and Russia after a major earthquake hit near the Kurile Islands north of Japan.\n\nThe center said it was not known if a tsunami was generated and the warning was based only on the evaluation of the earthquake, which has been upgraded to magnitude 8.1 from the previously reported 7.7.\n\n\"An earthquake of this size has the potential to generate a destructive tsunami that can strike coastlines in the region near the epicenter within minutes to hours,\" it said.\n\nSmall tsunami wave of 40 centimeters has been reported by Japan's Meteorological Agency.\n\nThe small tsunami wave hit Nemuro, a port in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, at 9:29 p.m. (1229 GMT), the agency said, warning that larger waves could follow. But TV footage of Nemuro has so far shown no signs of any larger tsunami.\n\nThe quake, which struck about 390 km east of the Etorofu islands, north of Japan, at 1115 GMT, could generate a tsunami of about 2 meters or more, Japan's Meteorological Agency said earlier. No injuries or damage have been reported so far.\n\nThe agency also issued a tsunami warning 15 minutes after the quake, causing authorities to demand the residents living along the northern and eastern coasts of Hokkaido to evacuate to higher grounds.\n\nIn Tokyo, roughly 1,700 km southwest of the quake scene, the Japanese government has set up a special office to collect information about tsunami.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 149, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 minutes", "start_char": 1254, "end_char": 1264, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT15M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0230.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0712\n\nHARARE, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Fanuel Jongwe\n\n\n\n\nZimbabwe's veteran ruler Robert Mugabe may be handed two extra years in power this weekend during the annual meeting of his ruling party which is set to recommend he remain at the helm until 2010.\n\nMugabe, who has led his country since its 1980 independence from British colonial rule, completes his sixth term in 2008, when presidential elections are due.\n\nBut his ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) supporters have held a series of meetings to set the agenda for the conference and agreed to pass a resolution to defer presidential elections to 2010.\n\n\"There is a feeling in the party that it would be a good thing to merge the parliamentary and presidential elections in order to save money,\" party spokesman Nathan Shamuyarira was quoted by the state-run Herald daily.\n\n\"It makes commonsense that we should do so, but the item is not on the agenda of the conference, but it could come up from the floor again or from the provinces.\"\n\nMugabe opens the conference on Friday in the obscure rural centre of Goromonzi although preparatory meetings were beginning on Thursday.\n\nThe ruling party's mouthpiece The Voice said in its latest edition that although simultaneous elections were \"not on the agenda, it might end up being partly discussed if the provinces raise it in their reports.\"\n\nLast year, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa said the government was considering amending the constitution to merge parliamentary and presidential elections before Mugabe's current term expires.\n\nHe said ZANU-PF was considering bringing forward the end of the current parliamentary term from 2010 to 2008 to hold both presidential and parliamentary elections that year or stage the presidential elections in 2008 but allow the winner two years and hold presidential polls again two years later.\n\nThe third option was for the president to serve seven years from 2008 to 2015 and have concurrent elections from then onwards.\n\nThe newspaper said three-day congress, which will debate the theme of \"consolidating our independence\" will also discuss Zimbabwe's 1,000-percent-plus inflation rate and ravaged economy.\n\nThe meeting is also to take stock of the controversial seizure of white-owned farms for redistribution to landless blacks, which critics say has turned the former regional breadbasket into a food-hungry state.\n\nThe party conference last year was held against the backdrop of its sweep in elections to a new parliamentary Senate.\n\nThe main opposition Movement for Democratic Change split over a decision on whether to contest the polls to the newly created upper chamber.\n\nSince then the MDC, which once posed the biggest threat to Mugabe's rule, has become a pale shadow of its former self with supporters divided between the two factions.\n\nThis year's party meeting comes as the country is reeling 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0006\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 20 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: China's peaceful development inevitable, Hu says\n\n\n\n\nChina's path of peaceful development is \"an inevitable choice\" based on its national conditions, its historical and cultural traditions and the current development trend in today's world, Chinese President Hu Jintao said here Sunday.\n\nHu made the remarks when meeting the press after his talks with visiting US President George W. Bush.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 344, "end_char": 350, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051120.0006.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0330\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nEU clears acquisition of Intermagnetics by Philips\n\n\n\n\nThe European Commission has cleared the proposed acquisition of U.S.-based Intermagnetics by Philips, said the commission on Tuesday.\n\nThe commission concluded that the transaction would not significantly impede effective competition in the European Economic Area (EEA) - the 25 European Union (EU) member states plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway - or any substantial part of it.\n\nPhilips markets a wide range of electrical and electronic products, such as lighting products, domestic appliances, consumer electronics, semiconductors and medical systems, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems.\n\nIntermagnetics manufactures magnets and radio-frequency used in MRI, as well as patient monitors, computer-aided detection systems and so-called functional MRI.\n\nIn particular, Intermagnetics currently supplies radio- frequency coils to Philips and several other MRI system manufacturers. Thus, the commission analyzed whether the proposed transaction would enable the new entity to disrupt the supply of coils and to hinder its competitors to compete effectively on the market for MRI systems.\n\nThe market investigation has shown that these risks are minimal, mainly due to economic incentives and the presence of several other suppliers of coils for MRI systems, said the commission.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 237, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0330.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0136\n\nMANILA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMetro Manila to suspend classes due to typhoon threat\n\n\n\n\nThe Philippine government announced the suspension of classes in all levels Thursday in Metro Manila and nearby provinces of Rizal, Cavite and Laguna, due to the threat of typhoon Durian, local media reported on Wednesday.\n\nThe suspension was issued as the typhoon is expected to bring rains and strong winds to Luzon, according to a report by ANC TV.\n\nWeather bureau PAGASA said Durian has intensified further and increased its threat to Luzon. Storm Signal 3 was hoisted over Catanduanes province in the Bicol region, while storm Signals 1 and 2 were also hoisted over 10 other provinces.\n\nResidents in areas under Public Storm Warning Signal 1, 2 and 3 are alerted against possible flashfloods and landslides.\n\nAs of 11 a.m. local time, Durian was located 400 kilometers east southeast of Virac, Catanduanes or 360 kilometers east northeast of Catarman, Northern Samar. It was moving west northwest at 26 kilometers per hour (kph) with maximum sustained winds of 150 kph and gustiness of up to 185 kph.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 326, "end_char": 335, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0136.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0475\n\nPARIS, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFrench unemployment rate unchanged at 8.8 percent in October\n\n\n\n\nThe French unemployment rate was 8.8 percent in October, unchanged from September, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin told media on Wednesday.\n\nThe number of registered unemployed people who are \"immediately available\" for work rose by just 400 during October and the jobless rate remained stable at 8.8 percent of the workforce, the Labor Ministry said.\n\n\"This month, the figures are stable. We remain at 8.8 percent but with the firm intention of re-starting the fall,\" Villepin told the Europe 1 radio station.\n\nFighting unemployment has been a priority of the center-right government of Villepin and the number of unemployed has been steadily falling since March 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 168, "end_char": 175, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 263, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 374, "end_char": 381, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This month", "start_char": 479, "end_char": 489, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2005", "start_char": 783, "end_char": 793, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0475.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0225\n\nMAR DEL PLATA, Argentina, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS to push for reviving trade talks at summit\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush is expected to push for re-activitating the stalled talks on establishing a Free Trade Zone for the Americas at the Nov. 4-5 Summit of the Americas.\n\nPresident Bush, while acknowledging plans for the comprehensive free trade zone in the Western Hemisphere were stalled, has insisted that the free trade zone is needed for the Americas.\n\nBush departed Washington early Thursday for Mar del Plata to attend the summit and will visit Brazil and Panama subsequently.\n\nThe president's father, former president George Bush, first proposed the establishment of the Free Trade Zone for the Americas in the 1990's and at the first Summit of the Americas in the United States in 1994, leaders and heads of governments from 34 countries who attended the summit agreed to set up such a free trade zone with January 2005 as the deadline.\n\nHowever, talks on the Free Trade Zone for the Americas have been bogged down because of disagreements between the United States and countries like Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 49, "end_char": 62, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4-5", "start_char": 267, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 519, "end_char": 527, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 820, "end_char": 824, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2005", "start_char": 946, "end_char": 958, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0225.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061225.0195\n\nLONDON, Dec 25 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS detail of broadcast, quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nQueen Elizabeth II on Monday called for the bridging of the generation gap between young and old when she delivered her annual Christmas message to Britain and the Commonwealth.\n\nIn a pre-recorded speech, which was broadcast on television and radio and for the first time this year as a podcast, the queen, 80, spoke of how parents, grandparents, the wider family and community all help children grow up.\n\nBut, she said, modern life was loosening familial ties and the traditional bonds between the generations.\n\n\"The pressures of modern life sometimes seem to be weakening the links which have traditionally kept us together as families and communities,\" she said.\n\n\"As children grow up and develop their own sense of confidence and independence in the ever-changing technological environment, there is always the danger of a real divide opening up between young and old, based on unfamiliarity, ignorance and misunderstanding.\"\n\nThe broadcast Christmas speech -- a tradition started by her grandfather king George V in 1932 -- was recorded this year at Southwark Cathedral on the south bank of the River Thames in London.\n\nIt included a montage of some of her many engagements this year and again had a strong religious theme, with footage showing people of all faiths in worship.\n\nIt included images of men praying at London Central Mosque, scenes from the opening of Europe's largest Hindu temple in the English West Midlands, and a Jewish reception involving the country's chief rabbi.\n\nWearing a spring green outfit, the queen -- who has seven grandchildren by her four children -- is also seen talking to schoolchildren as she helps them make a collage of a Christian nativity scene.\n\nThe queen, who is head of the Church of England, said all faiths encouraged the bridging of the age divide and had in common the need to help the young become 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0203\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMalaysia-US \"open skies\" deal to be signed in June\n\n\n\n\nMalaysia and the United States are to sign an \"open skies\" agreement liberalising bilateral aviation traffic in June, Malaysian Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik said Wednesday.\n\nThe national news agency Bernama quoted Ling as saying that the cabinet approved the signing of the pact at its weekly meeting Wednesday.\n\nLing said the signing would take place after he attended the meeting of transport ministers from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum from June 22-24 in Victoria, Canada.\n\nMalaysia would be the second Asian country after Singapore to sign such an aviation agreement with the United States, which is pushing for an end to protected aviation markets.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 231, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 421, "end_char": 430, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 22-24", "start_char": 586, "end_char": 596, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970430.0203.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0459\n\nMOSUL, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\n14 Kurds found murdered in northern Iraq\n\n\n\n\nIraqi police found 14 Kurdish farmers murdered in a field near the Syrian border, a government official said Friday.\n\nThe farmers from the town of Sinjar were shot dead and their bodies were first found by their relatives, said Dakheel Karim, administrator of Sinjar some 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the Syrian border.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 210, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0459.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0533\n\nTRIPOLI, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Afaf Gueblaoui\n\n\n\n\nIt's still possible that the death sentence given to five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor for the infection of hundreds of Libyan children with HIV-AIDS will never be carried out.\n\nLibya's supreme court could call off the execution, legal experts in Tripoli said Wednesday. Or it could be averted if a deal on financial compensation is struck with the families of the affected children.\n\nThe six condemned to death Monday had been accused of deliberately infecting 426 children with HIV while they were working at Al-Fateh hospital in Benghazi, Libya's second city on the Mediterranean coast, in the late 1990s.\n\nMore than 50 of the youngsters have since died.\n\nThe so-called Benghazi Six -- in detention for the past seven years -- had previously been tried and sentenced to die before a firing squad, before a retrial was ordered.\n\nA Libyan lawyer explained Wednesday: \"The case now will be automatically referred to the supreme court, which will re-examine it in depth, enabling the defence to present its arguments once more.\n\n\"That would be a positive thing,\" he said.\n\nIf the supreme court upholds the verdict, the case would go on to a superior judicial council where a panel of judges would have the power to \"reduce, uphold or annul\" the harsh sentence, he added.\n\nIn addition, Libya and Bulgaria have an extradition agreement that could see the nurses serving time in prison at home in lieu of execution in Libya, the lawyer said.\n\nDefence lawyer Othman al-Bizanti confirmed to AFP on Wednesday that his side would be going to the supreme court to lodge an appeal.\n\n\"The court considers that they are guilty. We consider that they are innocent. It was for that reason that the supreme court was established, to judge such cases,\" he said.\n\nMonday's verdict triggered an international outcry, with Germany -- which takes over the presidency of the European Union on January 1, the day Bulgaria joins the block -- vowing to maintain pressure on Tripoli.\n\nSupporters of the Benghazi Six argue that hygiene at the hospital was poor before the accused started work there, and that the children were likely infected with unsterilized and previously used medical instruments.\n\nBesides judicial procedures, the question of compensation could result in the lives of the medics being spared.\n\nSaleh Abdelsalam, director of the Kadhafi Foundation, a benevolent group headed by a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, stressed the need to \"reactivate Europe's contribution\" to a compensation fund that would enable a deal with families of the affected children.\n\nBulgaria, in partnership with the European Union, the United States and Britain, created in December 2005 an international fund to help Libya combat AIDS, improve standards at the Benghazi hospital and compensate families.\n\n\"Reactiving the fund has become very urgent, now that the verdict has come down, because it will be a tool to meet the goals (treatment and compensation) concerning the children and their families,\" he said.\n\nAccording to a judicial source, a deal with the families would mean that they accept \"blood money\" in lieu of the execution of the accused.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 348, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 500, "end_char": 506, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the late 1990s", "start_char": 681, "end_char": 695, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "199", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past seven years", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 814, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P7Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 945, "end_char": 954, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 966, "end_char": 969, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1580, "end_char": 1589, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1835, "end_char": 1841, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1", "start_char": 1960, "end_char": 1969, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 1971, "end_char": 1978, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2005", "start_char": 2737, "end_char": 2750, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2914, "end_char": 2917, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0533.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0165\n\nLOS ANGELES, April 27 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSecond moderate quakes rattle Los Angeles area\n\n\n\n\nA moderate earthquake rattled Los Angeles early Sunday for the second day in a row, spiking at 4.9 on the open-ended Richter scale, a spokeswoman with the US Geological Survey said.\n\nThere were no immediate reports of damage.\n\nPat Jurgenson said the quake hit at 4:09 a.m. (1109 GMT) with the center at Val Verde about 48 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Los Angeles.\n\nShe said it was yet another in a series of aftershocks from the January 1994 Northridge quake and that it would probably be followed by other minor ones through the morning.\n\nShe said they are all aftershocks of the 6.7 Northridge quake in January 1994 that claimed 61 lives and devastated parts of Los Angeles.\n\nOn Saturday, the largest temblor that was centered in the same region hit 5.0 on the open-ended Richter scale. That initial quake was followed by another temblor measuring 4.0 and then several smaller ones.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 27 , 1997", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Sunday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second day", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 183, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "4:09 a.m.", "start_char": 373, "end_char": 382, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1994", "start_char": 545, "end_char": 557, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning", "start_char": 642, "end_char": 653, "tid": "t6", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-27TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1994", "start_char": 721, "end_char": 733, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 797, "end_char": 805, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970427.0165.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0062\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nfrom post\n\n\n\n\nYong Zhansheng has been ousted from his post as deputy procurator-general of Beijing Municipal People's Procuratorate for alleged \"serious irregularities\" of official disciplinary codes.\n\nYong has been replaced by another person identified as Lu Xi, according to a decision made at the 32nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 12th Beijing Municipal People's Congress held on Friday.\n\nInformation from the congress gave no further details about the nature of Yong's alleged breach of discipline.\n\nYong was formerly a member of the elite Party group of the Municipal People's Procuratorate and director of the political affairs section of the procuratorate. He was promoted to the post of deputy procurator-general in July 2003.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 451, "end_char": 457, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 2003", "start_char": 792, "end_char": 801, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0062.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0001\n\nHAVANA, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCastro meets senior Chinese military official\n\n\n\n\nCuban leader Fidel Castro met with Liang Guanglie, chief of general staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), here Friday on bilateral ties and relations between the two armed forces.\n\nCastro said the Cuban armed forces attaches great importance to developing relations with the Chinese side, and hoped that the two sides will enhance exchanges and cooperation in the future.\n\nLiang, who is also member of China's Central Military Commission, said he was pleased to see the achievements Cuba has made under the leadership of Castro.\n\nLiang said he had reached broad consensus with Cuba's top military leaders and the PLA is confident of forging friendly and cooperative ties with Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces.\n\nLiang arrived here Friday for a three-day visit. He also met with Raul Castro Ruz, vice-president of the Council of State and minister of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces, on Friday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 480, "end_char": 490, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 851, "end_char": 857, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1008, "end_char": 1014, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0001.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0054\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTyphoon Durian to reach South China Sea on Friday\n\n\n\n\nTyphoon Durian is moving west towards the Philippines and the eastern part of the South China Sea, according to China's Central Meteorological Station.\n\nIt was located to the east of the Philippines (13.5 north latitude, 124.6 east longitude) at 08:00 with winds of up to 216 kilometers per hour (kph) at its epicenter, reported the station.\n\nThe station said Durian was moving west at 15 kph to 20 kph but its strength is set to weaken. It forecast that Durian would reach the South China Sea at noon on Friday with winds of more than 61.6 kph.\n\nThe station said northeasterly winds had reached speeds of up to 61.6 kph in the East China Sea, the Korea Strait, the northeast of the South China Sea, Bashi Channel and Balintang Channel.\n\nThe station forecast fog in the Bohai Sea, the west Yellow Sea, the north Gulf of Thailand and Strait of Malacca with vision of no more than 10 kilometers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 616, "end_char": 622, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0054.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0652\n\nAUCKLAND, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNZ Women's Affairs minister bans strip shows in her bar\n\n\n\n\nNew Zealand Women's Affairs Minister Christine Fletcher rected angrily Tuesday to news that a bar she owns has staged a raunchy Australian strip show.\n\n\"I'm quite horrified,\" Fletcher said. \"Some may call it entertainment -- I reject that. It's exploitation not only of women's bodies but of men's bodies.\"\n\nFletcher with husband Angus own the Whitianga Hotel on the Coromandel coast, east of here.\n\nA standing-room only, all-male audience paid 10 New Zealand dollars (seven US) a head to watch the five-woman 'Seductions Australia' group strip themselves naked.\n\nFletcher said she had known nothing about the show and they would now reconsider the contract of their hotel manager, Hugh Rhodes.\n\nShe said they had wanted the hotel to be a place for families and a strip show was \"entirely inconsistent with our vision\".", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 187, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 746, "end_char": 749, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0652.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0124\n\nSTOCKHOLM, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS share price, details ///\n\n\n\n\nThe Swedish telecommunications giant Ericsson said Tuesday that it had signed a big contract to run the entire network of British mobile phone operator 3.\n\nEricsson said the deal was its largest managed-services contract ever and one of the largest such deals in the telecommunications industry.\n\nThe company gave no figures for the value of the contract, but its largest single contract previously was a five-year managed-services deal with 3 in Italy for 15 billion kronor (1.9 billion dollars, 1.6 billion euros).\n\nThe agreement announced on Tuesday, which gives Ericsson responsibility for the management of the 3 network and its IT infrastructure, runs over seven years, it said.\n\nEricsson said it would also be in charge of 3's ongoing radio network rollout, the maintenance of 6,300 existing radio sites and the management of the operator's core network and operations centre.\n\n3 was to retain ownership of the network and its IT assets as well as responsibility of the strategic direction of the network.\n\nSome 1,000 staff would be moved from 3 to Ericsson as part of the accord.\n\nEricsson shares rose 3.4 percent to 27.70 kronor on the Stockholm stock exchange following the announcement, having been suspended just ahead of the statement.\n\n3, the first company to have launched third-generation mobile services in Britain, has 3.2 million customers in Britain and 10 million worldwide, Ericsson said.\n\nEricsson, which claims to have the industry's most comprehensive managed services offerings, currently has such agreements with 55 operators worldwide, representing 50 million customers.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 639, "end_char": 646, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "seven years", "start_char": 757, "end_char": 768, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P7Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0124.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0010\n\nBEN GURION AIRPORT, Israel, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nFrance's Royal arrives in Israel\n\n\n\n\nThe presidential candidate of France's Socialist Party, Segolene Royal, arrived in Israel Sunday, three days after kicking off a Middle East tour in neighboring Lebanon.\n\nRoyal, who is aiming to become France's first woman head of state, will be going \"to make the necessary contacts,\" party spokesman Julien Dray had told French radio station Europe 1 last week.\n\nHer trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories was to show her support for \"dialogue,\" Dray said.\n\n\"She wants to show that her presidency will be effective and useful for our fellow citizens and for peace in the world,\" he said.\n\nThe spokesman added, however, that a visit to Syria during the trip \"was not on the agenda\".\n\nA top Israeli official speaking on condition of anonymity has said that Royal was expected in Israel for a 48-hour stay.\n\nShe was due to meet with Palestinian youths at the French cultural center in Gaza City Sunday morning and hold talks with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas.\n\nIn the late afternoon Royal was expected to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.\n\nA meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz was scheduled for Monday.\n\nRoyal, 53, is currently leading in polls in France ahead of the presidential elections to be held in April.\n\nFrench President Jacques Chirac, who turned 74 on Wednesday, is considered unlikely to seek a third term in office.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 51, "end_char": 63, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday, three days", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-26T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 461, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday morning", "start_char": 1010, "end_char": 1024, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the late afternoon", "start_char": 1085, "end_char": 1103, "tid": "t5", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1268, "end_char": 1274, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 1378, "end_char": 1383, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1436, "end_char": 1445, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0010.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0187\n\nHIROSHIMA, Japan, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nResults of men's volleyball world championship (update 1)\n\n\n\n\nFollowing are the results from the second round matches of 2006 men's volleyball world championships in Japan on Tuesday:\n\nGroup E in Sendai:\n\nPuerto Rico lost to Tunisia, 2-3 (40-38, 26-28, 25-16, 22-25, 11-15);\n\nArgentina lost to Canada, 2-3 (25-19, 25-18, 21-25, 20-25, 13- 15);\n\nPoland bt Serbia Montenegro, 3-0 (28-26, 25-19, 25-19);\n\nJapan vs Russia;\n\nGroup F in Hiroshima:\n\nBrazil bt Bulgaria, 3-1 (25-22, 20-25, 25-22, 25-16);\n\nCuba lost to United States, 0-3 (22-25, 17-25, 22-25);\n\nGermany lost to Czech Republic, 1-3 (23-25, 27-25, 21-25, 13-25)\n\nFrance vs Italy;", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 55, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "40-38, 26-28, 25-16, 22-25, 11-15", "start_char": 305, "end_char": 338, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25-19, 25-18, 21-25, 20-25", "start_char": 373, "end_char": 399, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "28-26, 25-19, 25-19", "start_char": 445, "end_char": 464, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25-22, 20-25, 25-22, 25-16", "start_char": 534, "end_char": 560, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "22-25, 17-25, 22-25", "start_char": 597, "end_char": 616, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "23-25, 27-25, 21-25, 13-25", "start_char": 657, "end_char": 683, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0187.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0222\n\nKUWAIT CITY, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nKuwait stock exchange index down\n\n\n\n\nKuwait Stock Exchange index closed at 11,777.6 points on Wednesday, 77.9 points down from Tuesday's finish.\n\nThe turnover was 188 million Kuwaiti dinars (639.2 million US dollars) as 329 million shares were traded in 13,385 deals.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0222.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0368\n\nPARIS, Dec 7 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS comment, background ///\n\n\n\n\nFrench Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin told the French parliament on Wednesday that \"the (French) government wants to get an overall agreement on reduced rates of VAT (sales tax)\" in the European Union.\n\nEU finance ministers, meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, had failed to agree on a list of services to benefit from an exceptionally low sales tax.\n\nFrance is seeking to reduce sales tax on hotels and restaurants to 5.5 percent from the current 19.6 percent.\n\nReferring to promises made to reduce the tax burden on restaurants and hotels, Villepin told the French National Assembly (parliament): \"A commitment was taken by the president of the Republic by my predecessor (Jean-Pierre Raffarin) and I will fight to ensure it is honoured.\"\n\nHe added: \"The (French) government wants to get an overall agreement on reduced rates of VAT because it is for us about creating jobs and defending the purchasing power of French people.\"\n\nThe issue of VAT tax harmonisation is to be discussed by European heads of state during a summit on December 15-16.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 7 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 343, "end_char": 350, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 15-16", "start_char": 1122, "end_char": 1136, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0368.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0183\n\nBALAKOT, Pakistan, Nov. 6 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesia's Telkom-2 sattellite ready for launching\n\n\n\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) --After it was delayed for several times, Indonesia's Telkom-2 satellite will be launched on Nov. 9, 2005, a senior official of PT Telcom has said.\n\n\"Cuttently, Talcom-2 satellite had been located at the launching site since September 23, 2005 to undergo several tests,\" the Business News magazine quoted Vice President Director of PT Telcom, Garuda Sugardo, as saying in its latest edition.\n\nThe launching will be done by Ariene-5ECA blasting rocket Flight No.167, owned by France, he said.\n\nTelcom-2 satellite will be located at 118 BT above Indonesian territory replacing Palapa B4, which term of operation had ended in 2004.\n\nThe satellite, made since 2002 by the Orbital Science Corp. of the United States, was a Star-2 Bus type satellite with a capacity of 24 transponder, and the total cost for launching of the satellite is 170 million US dollars.\n\nThe satellite will operate for 15 years with scope of area including ASEAN and the surrounding areas.\n\nIndonesian President Susilo Bambang Yodhoyono is scheduled to witness the seconds of the launching of telcom-2 satellite from the main controlling station in Cibinong, said Garuda.\n\nSo far, Indonesia has launched eight satellites, namely Palapa A-1, Palapa A-2, Palapa B-1, Palapa B-2, Palapa B2P, Palapa B2R, Palapa-B4 and Telcom-1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2005", "start_char": 42, "end_char": 55, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 6", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 137, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 9, 2005", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 23, 2005", "start_char": 372, "end_char": 390, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 770, "end_char": 774, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 803, "end_char": 807, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "15 years", "start_char": 1035, "end_char": 1043, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P15Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0183.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0193\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - UPDATES tolls, ADDS dead US soldier ///\n\n\n\n\nShell-shocked Baghdadis on Sunday cleared the bloody wreckage from the latest deadly bomb attack on their city, as the United States sought a new strategy to pull Iraq back from the abyss.\n\nThe death toll from Saturday's triple car bombing rose to 60 overnight as more men, women and children succumbed to wounds suffered when the blasts tore through a crowded shopping street at nightfall, medics said.\n\nMeanwhile, at least 23 Iraqis were killed in violence Sunday.\n\nAfter more than three-and-a-half years of mounting sectarian conflict, the attack, while vicious, was neither unexpected nor especially deadly; more than 1,800 Iraqi civilians were slaughtered in November alone.\n\nBut each new massacre hammers a wedge deeper between Iraq's Sunni and Shiite communities and chips away at the credibility of the country's beleaguered unity government and the US-led coalition force propping it up.\n\nThe bombers were back at work Sunday, when an insurgent wearing an explosive belt detonated himself next to a police station near the northern oil city of Kirkuk, killing three officers, Major General Torhan Yussef told AFP.\n\nFurther south, at least 16 people were murdered in and around the restive town of Baquba, according to security and medical sources.\n\nA sniper killed a civilian in Sinea, an insurgent stronghold in northern Iraq, police Captain Saad Nuri told AFP, while three civilians were gunned down in a mixed area just south of Baghdad, according to a security official.\n\nAmerican soldiers killed six suspected insurgents, two women and a child when they called in an air strike to dislodge gunmen from a safehouse west of Baghdad late Saturday, the US military said in a statement.\n\nA US soldier was killed by a roadside booby trap on Saturday, US headquarters said, bringing the death toll since the March 2003 invasion to 2,885, according to an AFP tally based on Pentagon figures.\n\nBritish troops, meanwhile, clashed with Shiite militia during a search operation in the southern city of Basra, Iraqi police said.\n\nAmid the carnage, there is a growing realisation in Washington that the current US strategy is failing and pressure is mounting for either a major change of course or rapid pullout of the 138,000 US troops deployed in theatre.\n\nAttention has focused on the Iraq Study Group -- a high-level bipartisan panel of experts headed by former secretary of state James Baker -- which is due to pass its recommendations to President George W. Bush this week.\n\nBut on Sunday a leaked memo from former defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, written in his last few days in office before resigning last month, revealed the administration has long known of the need for a change in the Iraq plan.\n\nRumsfeld's rambling three-page memo cites a shopping list of possible tactical and strategic changes, some of them mutually exclusive, but admits: \"In my view it is time for a major adjustment.\n\n\"Clearly, what US forces are currently doing in Iraq is not working well enough or fast enough,\" Rumsfeld wrote, in a document passed to the New York Times and later confirmed as genuine by the Pentagon.\n\nThe former secretary's main ideas have been much discussed in recent weeks and may well figure among Baker's recommendations, or those of a parallel Pentagon review of the operation also expected imminently.\n\nIn particular, Rumsfeld favours placing more US trainers directly with Iraqi units, withdrawing other American troops from combat into five large bases by July next year, and sending commandos to hunt down Al-Qaeda and Iranian agents.\n\nHe also implicitly criticises other US government departments when he says the Pentagon should \"give up\" asking them for help and hire retired soldiers to advise Iraqi ministries.\n\nInstead of spending money rebuilding cities like Fallujah that rebelled and were recaptured by US forces -- \"rewarding bad behaviour\" --- Rumsfeld suggests paying off political and religious leaders \"as Saddam Hussein did\".\n\nJudging by leaks to the US media, Baker will also recommend increasing the number of US army trainers, while withdrawing troops from combat and by early 2008 leaving only 70,000 in Iraq in a support role.\n\nThe White House may well be receptive to this idea, but seems opposed to another: that of reaching out to US foes Iran and Syria to persuade them to use their influence to calm the unrest in neighbouring Iraq.\n\nHowever Tehran's role in Iraqi affairs will come up for 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0053\n\nMACAO, Nov. 5 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nJapan picks 3 golds in karatedo\n\n\n\n\nJapan claimed three gold medals from its national sport of karatedo at the East Asian Games on Saturday.\n\nKasuga Wakabayashi won the women's individual kata title for her two straight wins in the three-people field. Macao's Cheung Pui Sui picked the silver with one win and Yip Ching Yee from Hong Kong got the bronze for her two losses.\n\nTakashi Katada triumphed in the men's individual kata and Vong Ka Seng of Macao finished runner-up. The only other participant - Mallada Vicent Patrick Pablo - fouled out, losing a sure bet medal.\n\nNatsuki Fujiwara walked away with a gold medal from the women's 53kg kumite and Macao's Kou Ma Ni grabbed the silver.\n\nDPR Korean Ha Ryon-bok and South Korean Kim Jin were joint third.\n\nChinese Taipei landed two titles through Hsieh Cheng-kang in the men's 55kg-kumite and Huang Hsiang-chen in the men's 60kg kumite.\n\nThe host struck gold too, with Pereiracarion Paulacristina winning the women's 60kg kumite.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051105.0053.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0094\n\nMECCA, Saudi Arabia, April 19 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nHajj draws to close, as relatives await news of fire victims\n\n\n\n\nThe annual pilgrimage to Mecca drew to a close on Saturday as frantic relatives awaited news of the 343 pilgrims killed in a huge blaze four days earlier.\n\nSome two million pilgrims who spent a week praying at Islam's holiest sites began to leave Mecca, birthplace of the Prophet Mohammad, for the western city of Jeddah to catch planes, buses and boats home.\n\nThey spent their last day here walking round the Kaaba from dawn. The Kabaa is a square building constructed around a black stone, traditionally brought to earth from paradise by the Archangel Gabriel.\n\nSaudi officials said 343 pilgrims were killed in an enormous fire Tuesday which swept through their camp at Mina, just south of Mecca.\n\nMost were from India and other Asian countries, Indian officials said.\n\nThe Saudi authorities announced Saturday that another 1,537 pilgrims were injured in the inferno which incinerated 70,000 tents, with 25 of them still in hospital and some in a coma.\n\nHowever, they were yet to announce the identities of the victims.\n\nAn advisor to the Saudi interior ministry, Saed al-Arabi al-Harshi, said Saturday that \"the fire destroyed everything\" in the pilgrims' camp.\n\n\"Identification is difficult and will take time because some bodies are badly charred,\" he said, quoted by the official Qatari News Agency.\n\nThe victims' plastic identity badges, which they are given in exchange for their passports during the week-long pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, were destroyed in the inferno, the official said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 19 , 1997", "start_char": 44, "end_char": 59, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four days earlier", "start_char": 268, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "week", "start_char": 326, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last day", "start_char": 510, "end_char": 518, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 762, "end_char": 769, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 936, "end_char": 944, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1228, "end_char": 1236, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0094.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0397\n\nSARAJEVO, April 17 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSteiner blasts Serbs for \"travesty\" trial of Zvornik Seven\n\n\n\n\nThe trial of a group of Bosnian Moslems dubbed \"The Zvornik Seven\" accused of murdering four Serbs began Thursday with a senior international mediator dismissing it as a \"travesty of justice\" because defence lawyers had been barred from the court.\n\nDeputy High Representative Michael Steiner said the trial of the seven, who were arrested in May last year, was unconstitutional because Serb officials had refused to let the defence lawyers for the Moslems into the court Thursday morning to represent their clients.\n\n\"This trial can only be judged to be a travesty of justice,\" said Steiner, adding that the case could result in sanctions against the Serbs.\n\n\"This is one typical case to which we must refer when the (Serb Republic) complains about getting less financial assistance than\" the Moslem-Croat Federation, the other entity that makes up post-war Bosnia.\n\nBosnian Serb justice minister, Branko Petric, announced on Monday that the lawyers would be barred from the court because they came from the federation, and hence were not subjects of the Serb Republic.\n\nThe lawyers were told they could act only as \"assistants\" to court- appointed lawyers.\n\nBut Steiner said that in banning the officials, Petric had \"violated the constitution of Bosnia-Hercegovina.\"\n\nThe trial opened in the eastern Bosnian town of Zvornik, in Serb- controlled territory, which was the scene of some of the most brutal \"ethnic cleansing\" of non-Serbs during Bosnia's 43-month war.\n\nThe case of the Zvornik Seven has mystified observers ever since the men turned themselves in to US peacekeepers last May after running into a group of Serbs on the road between Zvornik and Tuzla, in the Moslem-Croat Federation.\n\nThe men told the troops they were Moslem refugees from the former enclave of Srebrenica and asked for protective custody, but the US commander handed them to the Serb police.\n\nA US colonel later failed to secure the men's release from a Serb jail, and UN officals said the men were beaten by their Serb captors.\n\nThe Serb authorities allege that the men killed four Serb woodcutters, whose mutilated bodies were shown to UN investigators soon afterwards in a forest nearby.\n\nSome of the men were found to be on a list of thousands of persons who went missing from Srebrenica after Bosnian Serb forces overran it in July 1995. Most of the missing are believed to have been massacred.\n\nThree of the men are charged with the murders of the four woodcutters, one is charged with murdering a Moslem person, and the remaining three are charged with illegal possession of weapons.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 17 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 224, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May last year", "start_char": 461, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 590, "end_char": 606, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1045, "end_char": 1051, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last May", "start_char": 1700, "end_char": 1708, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1995", "start_char": 2432, "end_char": 2441, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0397.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0086\n\nBEIJING, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nUS, North Korea hold first direct talks in six-party forum\n\n\n\n\nThe United States and North Korea Tuesday held their first direct talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons since multilateral disarmament negotiations resumed here after a 13-month break, officials said.\n\n\"The US and North Korean delegations are meeting this afternoon,\" a spokesman at the Chinese press center for the six-nation talks told AFP.\n\nA South Korean official confirmed that chief US envoy Christopher Hill had met directly with his counterpart from North Korea, Kim Kye-Gwan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this afternoon", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 380, "tid": "t3", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0086.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ_20130318_731\n\nMarch 18, 2013\n\nA New Game for Microsoft's Kinect\n\n\n\n\n\nMicrosoft Corp. broke sales records in 2010 when it released its Kinect - a movement-tracking device that enabled Xbox users to play their favorite games through gestures alone, without need of a controller.\n\nNow, with the help of outside developers, the software giant is hoping to move the Kinect beyond gaming.\n\nMicrosoft is expanding into China with a company-funded incubator program for outside developers to build products based on Kinect technology for a range of industries including health care and retail.\n\nIn the U.S., 11 companies were selected last year for the accelerator's first three-month class in Seattle, out of nearly 500 applicants. Microsoft said it has identified three companies for the China program to run through June.\n\nThe company gives each participating startup in the Seattle program $20,000 to create software that can be used with Kinect for Windows, but it is isn't asking for any ownership stakes or intellectual property rights. Microsoft also doesn't have any veto power over the ideas.\n\nWhat Microsoft gets are developers around the world working on ideas that could potentially open up Kinect for Windows' technology to new markets - and convince consumers and businesses to buy the company's hardware and make use of the potential apps.\n\nThe Windows-ready Kinect sensor, which would be necessary for any business that wants to use these potential new technologies, is currently selling for $250 through Microsoft, more than twice what Microsoft charges for the gaming-only Xbox version.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "March 18, 2013", "start_char": 18, "end_char": 32, "tid": "t0", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-03-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 112, "end_char": 116, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t1000", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 631, "end_char": 640, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three-month", "start_char": 669, "end_char": 680, "tid": "t100", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 815, "end_char": 819, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2013-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1483, "end_char": 1492, "tid": "t1001", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "WSJ_20130318_731.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_platinum"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0059 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0059. \n International Brief -- N.V. DSM:\n@  Third-Period Net Rose 63%\n@  Because of Lower Charges \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n EUROP N.DSM \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   N.V. DSM said net income in the third quarter jumped 63% as the company had substantially lower extraordinary charges to account for a restructuring program. \n\n   The Dutch chemical group said net income gained to 235 million guilders ($113.2 million), or 6.70 guilders a share, from 144 million guilders, or 4.10 guilders a share, a year ago. \n\n   The 32% state-owned DSM had eight million guilders of extraordinary charges in the latest quarter, mainly to reflect one-time losses in connection with the disposal of some operations. \nThe charges were offset in part by a gain from the sale of the company's construction division. \n\n   Last year, DSM had 71 million guilders of extraordinary charges for the restructuring program and other transactions. \n\n   The earnings growth also was fueled by the company's ability to cut net financing spending by half to around 15 million guilders. \nAlso, substantially lower Dutch corporate tax rates helped the company keep its tax outlay flat relative to earnings growth, the company added. \n\n   Sales, however , were little changed at 2.46 billion guilders, compared with 2.42 billion guilders.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 143, "tid": "t33", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 251, "tid": "t36", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t33"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 548, "tid": "t43", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t33"}, {"text": "the latest quarter", "start_char": 634, "end_char": 652, "tid": "t45", "type": "TIME", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t33"}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 842, "end_char": 851, "tid": "t49", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t33"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0132.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0328\n\nBEIRUT, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS reax ///\n\n\n\n\nA vocal anti-Syrian newspaper boss and lawmaker was killed in a massive car bombing in Lebanon Monday, the latest in a wave of attacks targeting critics of Damascus.\n\nPolice said the car bomb blew up near Gibran Tueni's armoured four-wheel drive vehicle, blasting it off the road into a ravine 100 metres (yards) away and engulfing it in flames.\n\nThree other people were killed in the attack which came just a day after Tueni returned to Lebanon from France, where he had taken refuge fearing his life could be in danger.\n\nThe bombing also followed the handover of a report by UN chief investigator Detlev Mehlis to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on his probe into the murder of Lebanese ex-premier Rafiq Hariri, an attack blamed on Syria.\n\nTueni, the 48-year-old director of the top-selling An-Nahar newspaper, was killed as well as his driver Nicolas Flouti and two other people.\n\nInternational condemnation was swift, with the US embassy in Beirut branding it a \"barbaric\" murder of one of Lebanon's \"greatest champions for liberty and freedom\".\n\nPro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud said he was \"outraged\" by the killing, describing Tueni as Lebanon's \"symbol of freedom\".\n\n\"His death only serves the enemies of Lebanon who have been exerting all efforts to weaken the country.\"\n\nAbout 30 other people were wounded in the attack in the Christian suburb of Mkalles as Tueni was heading in a convoy to his Beirut office at around 9 am (0700 GMT).\n\nA dozen cars were turned into charred shells by the powerful blast, some flung into neighbouring woodland, and windows were shattered as far as 500 metres away.\n\nTueni's wife Siham rushed down into the ravine where teams from the Red Cross dragged her husband's body from the smouldering wreckage while police experts searched for clues.\n\nDruze leader and fellow MP Walid Jumblatt pointed the finger at Syria over the bombing, the 13th such attack since the blast that killed Hariri in February and plunged Lebanon into chaos not seen since the 1975-1990 civil war.\n\nThe attacks have created a climate of fear in Lebanon, with several anti-Syrian figures such as Hariri's MP son Saad spending much of their time out of the country.\n\n\"The terrorist message has come to us... the person who threatened on television to make the whole world pay the price,\" Jumblatt said, alluding to remarks by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Russian television on Sunday.\n\nAssad, referring to possible UN sanctions against Damascus, said that if the situation in Syria and Iraq was not good, the Middle East would be unstable and the whole world would pay.\n\nBut Syrian Information Minister Mehdi Dakhlallah denied any role, and blamed \"foreign interference.\"\n\n\"Syria denounces all attacks whoever the victims,\" he told LBC television. \"Whatever the differences between this or that person, Syria does not subscribe to these methods, which are used by the numerous enemies of Lebanon.\"\n\nMany Lebanese blame Damascus for Hariri's death and the other attacks, charges Syria denies.\n\nBut the Hariri killing threw the spotlight on to Syria's dominant role in its smaller neighbour and in April Damascus pulled out the last of its troops from Lebanese soil after a 29-year military presence.\n\nThe UN Security Council, which has threatened international sanctions agains Syria, was due to receive the Mehlis report later Monday.\n\nHis first report in October concluded that top Syrian and Lebanese security officials were implicated in the killing and chided Damascus for failing to cooperate with the probe.\n\nLebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora was due to hold a cabinet meeting later Monday, where ministers were expected to call for an international tribunal to look into the attacks.\n\n\"I want an inquiry under the supervision of the Security Council on all the crimes committed by Syria,\" said Druze Telecommunications Minister Marwan Hamadeh, who is Tueni's uncle and himself escaped an attempt on his life in October.\n\nTueni, a Greek Orthodox who turned An-Nahar (Today) into a veritable anti-Syrian tribunal, became an MP after elections in May and June which gave anti-Syrian parties a majority.\n\nAnother An-Nahar journalist, Samir Kassir, was killed in June and one reporter with the paper said Monday: \"We are all afraid.\"\n\nThe last attack was on September 25 when May Chidiac, 40, a Christian news presenter and political talk show host, was maimed by a bomb in her car.\n\nMarried twice, Tueni was father of four girls, including twin daughters born just a few months ago.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 171, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0691\n\nBEIJING, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nMan attacks schoolchildren in northwest China, kills two\n\n\n\n\nA man attacked a group of schoolchildren with a knife in northwest China, killing two of them and injuring three others plus their teacher, state media reported Thursday.\n\nThe man dashed towards the pupils and their teacher when they were about to cross the street in front of their school in the Xinjiang autonomous region on Wednesday afternoon, Xinhua news agency reported.\n\nOne pupil died on the spot and another died in hospital, it quoted police as saying, adding they were aged nine or 10 years old.\n\nAnother three children and the injured teacher were in stable condition, Xinhua reported.\n\nPolice arrested a 38-year-old man but said the motive for the attack was still unknown.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 275, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday afternoon", "start_char": 441, "end_char": 460, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0691.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "APW19980418.0210 \n NEWS STORY \n 04/18/1998 06:07:00 \n\nw1416 Cx1f wstm-\nr i Cx13  Cx11  BC-Hungary-Astronaut     04-18 0248\n\n\n BC-Hungary-Astronaut \n\nFirst and only Hungarian astronaut moving to the United States\n\n\n\nBUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) _ Tired of  being sidelined, Hungarian\nastronaut Bertalan Farkas  is leaving for the United States  to start\na new career, he said Saturday.\n``Being 48 is too early  to  be retired,'' a fit-looking Farkas\nsaid on state TV's morning talk show.\nWith American astronaut Jon McBride, Farkas set up an\nAmerican-Hungarian joint venture called Orion 1980, manufacturing\nspace-travel related technology.\nFarkas  will move to the company's U.S. headquarters.\nFarkas, an air force captain,  was sent into space on board the\nSoyuz 36 on May 26, 1980. He spent six days aboard the Salyut 6\nspacecraft with three Soviet astronauts, Valery Kubasov, Leonid\nPopov and Valery Riumin.\nMcBride, 54, of Lewisburg, West Virginia, was part of a\nseven-member crew aboard the Orbiter Challenger in October 1984 and\nlater served as assistant administrator for congressional relations\nfor NASA.\nFarkas expressed the hope he  one day follow in the\nfootsteps of fellow astronaut John Glenn, who at 77 is about  to go\ninto space again.\nOn May 22, 1995, Farkas  was made a brigadier general, and the\nfollowing year he  was appointed military attache at the Hungarian\nembassy in Washington.\nHowever , cited by District of Columbia traffic police in\nDecember for driving under the influence of alcohol, Farkas  was ordered home and retired.\n(ab/dc)\n\n(PROFILE\n(WS SL:BC-Hungary-Astronaut; CT:i;\n(REG:EURO;)\n(REG:BRIT;)\n(REG:SCAN;)\n(REG:ENGL;)\n(LANG:ENGLISH;))\n)\n\n\nAP-NY-04-18-98 0607EDT", "time_expressions": [{"text": "04/18/1998 06:07:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t28", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-04-18T06:07:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 369, "end_char": 377, "tid": "t31", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-04-18", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "May 26, 1980", "start_char": 764, "end_char": 776, "tid": "t33", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980-05-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six days", "start_char": 787, "end_char": 795, "tid": "t34", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6D", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 1984", "start_char": 1012, "end_char": 1024, "tid": "t35", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one day", "start_char": 1137, "end_char": 1144, "tid": "t36", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "May 22, 1995", "start_char": 1248, "end_char": 1260, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-05-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the\nfollowing year", "start_char": 1304, "end_char": 1322, "tid": "t38", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t37"}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 1456, "end_char": 1464, "tid": "t39", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-12", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "APW19980418.0210.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0238\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNamibian president visits Singapore\n\n\n\n\nNamibian President Hifikepunye Pohamba is in Singapore for a four-day state visit.\n\nBeing a small island with no natural resources, Singapore's most important resource is people and this is an area where it has shared the experience with Namibia, Singaporean President S.R. Nathan on Wednesday said at a state banquet hosted in honor of his counterpart Pohamba.\n\nSingapore has trained 140 Namibian officials in a wide range of areas including civil aviation, productivity management, public administration and urban development to date, according to a statement issued by the Foreign Ministry.\n\nPohamba and his delegation arrived here on Tuesday and met Nathan earlier on Wednesday, the statement said.\n\nHe also met Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and some of Singapore's cabinet members.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 382, "end_char": 391, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 736, "end_char": 743, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 770, "end_char": 779, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0238.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970426.0390\n\nSEOUL, April 27 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNorth Korean defector walks into South Korea across DMZ\n\n\n\n\nA North Korean defector walked into South Korea early Sunday across the heavily armed demilitarized zone (DMZ) dividing the two Koreas, the Defense Ministry said.\n\nThe ministry identified the defector as Jang Yong-Kwan, 38, a civilian who was found seeking asylum in the eastern section of the DMZ by South Korean border guards at 4:00 a.m. Sunday (1900 GMT Saturday).\n\n\"The defector was guided safe into our region and put under protective custody,\" a ministry spokesman told AFP.\n\nHe was the first defector since North Korea's top ideologue Hwang Jang-Yop arrived in Seoul on April 20, 67 days after he sought asylum in Beijing.\n\nThe defense ministry said details on the latest defector would be withheld pending an investigation into the motive for his defection and background in the North.\n\nOn February 27, a barefoot 25-year-old North Korean woman crossed the DMZ into South Korea in a daylight defection bid.\n\nThe woman from the Yongbyon district of Pyongbuk province, north of Pyongyang, told investigators she crossed the border because of hunger and discontent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 27 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Sunday", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "4:00 a.m.", "start_char": 444, "end_char": 453, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday (1900 GMT Saturday", "start_char": 454, "end_char": 479, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1900", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 20", "start_char": 691, "end_char": 699, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "67 days", "start_char": 701, "end_char": 708, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P67D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 27", "start_char": 912, "end_char": 923, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970426.0390.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0248\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSouthern Africa to draft plan against bird flu\n\n\n\n\nAlthough there is no immediate threat from avian influenza in Southern Africa, countries in the region will set up a regional plan on dealing with the contagious disease, officials said here on Thursday.\n\nSouth African Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang confirmed that a committee had been mandated to establish a plan for 14 member states of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).\n\nAlthough the flu has not broken out in the region, there was concern that wild birds, which are the main carriers of the virus, were migrating to the sub-continent for summer.\n\nAfter a meeting of the SADC health ministers in Johannesburg, Tshabalala-Msimang said people in the region, especially the elderly, should have flu vaccinations because if they were infected with avian flu, it would be severe.\n\nAfrican countries have been warned of the bird flu given their fragile public health systems have already been heavily burdened by other diseases including HIV/AIDS and malaria, as well as poverty and staff shortage.\n\nBird flu has aroused extraordinary concerns around the world, especially in Asia and Europe, since more than 60 people have been killed and scientists fear that the virus could be more deadly if it mutates to become transferable between humans.\n\nA South African newspaper reported on Thursday that migrant bird droppings collected at the Durban harbor last month tested negative for avian flu.\n\nSo far about 4,300 samples have been collected, including 67 from migratory birds captured in Durban harbor. All the samples examined have been negative, KwaZulu-Natal provincial agricultural ministerial spokesman Vusi Zuma told the witness.\n\nHe said the department would continue its surveillance, focusing on indigenous and commercial poultry and in some cases migratory birds.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "summer", "start_char": 682, "end_char": 688, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-SU", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1421, "end_char": 1429, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1489, "end_char": 1499, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0248.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0316\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSingaporean president due to visit Egypt Tues.\n\n\n\n\nSingaporean President Sellapan Rama Nathan is due to arrive in Egypt on Tuesday on a four-day official visit, to coincide with the occasion marking the 40th anniversary of establishing diplomatic ties between Egypt and Singapore, Egyptian news agency MENA reported on Monday.\n\nDuring his visit, President Nathan is scheduled to meet Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, in which the two top leaders will discuss various issues on economy, politics and trade.\n\nAnother main topic of their talks will be ways to promote an Asian-Middle East dialogue which Singapore hosted last year, said the report.\n\nSingaporean President will also have talks with Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif and other officials during his stay in Egypt.\n\nSingaporean President will be accompanied by a delegation comprising the minister of Information  Communication, minister of state for foreign affairs and a number of other officials and businessmen.\n\nDuring their visit, Singaporean businessmen will discuss with their Egyptian counterparts a string of trade-related issues.\n\nEgypt and Singapore set up diplomatic relations in November 1966, and Egypt is the second trade partner for Singapore in North Africa, the volume of trade exchanges of the two countries increased within the past five years. However, the report did not give the exact statistics of the two countries in their trade exchanges.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 374, "end_char": 380, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 674, "end_char": 683, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1966", "start_char": 1211, "end_char": 1224, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1966-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past five years", "start_char": 1363, "end_char": 1382, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0316.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0199\n\nLONDON, Nov. 27 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChelsea to face Premier League probe\n\n\n\n\nChelsea face a Premier League probe after their former striker Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink claimed that players received unauthorized cash bonuses, BBC reported on Sunday.\n\nHasselbaink says Blues players received 100,000 pound for reaching the Champions League last four in 2003/04 rather than the 50,000 pound written into their deals.\n\nPremier League rules state bonuses cannot be changed during a season, and Chelsea have denied any wrong-doing.\n\nBut the Premier League insists it is \"duty bound\" to investigate the claims.\n\nHasselbaink, now at Middlesbrough, said in his book: \"At the beginning of the season he (Roman Abramovich) had promised us 50,000 per player if we reached the semi-finals of the competition.\n\n\"At the end of the month instead of the promised 50,000 there was 100,000 in our accounts.\"\n\nA Premier League spokesman said: \"We've received assurances from Chelsea that there is no case to answer regarding alleged extra payments to players. We have no reason to doubt these assurances.\n\n\"However, given recent comments by Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink we are duty bound to investigate those comments and assess their factual basis.\"\n\nChelsea have once again moved to insists they are innocent, and a spokesman said: \"Chelsea has already made it publicly clear on two occasions that is has not made any payments to players in breach of Football Association or Premiership regulations.\n\n\"The club stands by those statements totally.\n\n\"Moreover, two weeks ago, Chelsea invited the Premier League to look at any relevant documentation on this issue before any investigation was considered.\n\n\"The Premier League has not taken up that invitation. Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink has made false statements that potentially bring the game, and Chelsea, into disrepute. These should be investigated fully, not Chelsea.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 263, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 634, "end_char": 637, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "season", "start_char": 699, "end_char": 705, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the month", "start_char": 817, "end_char": 837, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 1552, "end_char": 1565, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051127.0199.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0480\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nenvironments\n\n\n\n\nA new type of stethoscope was set to enable doctors to hear the sounds of the body in extremely loud situations, such as during the transportation of wounded soldiers in Blackhawk helicopters, American Institute of Physics reported on Tuesday.\n\nUsing ultrasound technology, the new stethoscope design will be presented later this week at the Fourth Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, which will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii.\n\nResearchers at Active Signal Technologies, Inc., in collaboration with the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, have developed the ultrasound stethoscope that is almost impervious to loud noise and is capable of making accurate readings during noise levels of up to 120 decibels, similar to the volume experienced at the front row of a rock concert.\n\nCurrent acoustic stethoscope technology picks up and amplifies vibrations that let doctors hear the heart and lungs. These models become difficult to use effectively at around 80 decibels, a noise level comparable to an alarm clock or a busy city street. When noise levels reach 90 decibels, these types of stethoscopes are rendered useless.\n\nModern electronic stethoscopes have raised the maximum tolerable noise level of 90 decibels to 95 decibels by replacing the ear pieces with loudspeaker inserts that provide a better seal with the ear canal and by replacing the tubing with electrical cables that do not pick up acoustic noise.\n\nThe challenge to build a better stethoscope originated from the Army's Small Business Innovation Research program. For soldiers wounded in combat, the first hour after sustaining an injury is known as the \"critical hour,\" when diagnoses and emergency treatment must take place to give them the best chance of recovery. These soldiers are often transported by helicopter, where noise levels prohibit the use of traditional stethoscopes.\n\nAuscultation is an important tool in assessing the integrity of the heart muscle, valves and major arteries.\n\nLead researcher Adrian Houtsma said traditional stethoscopes transmitted and amplified sound that was within the range of human hearing, from about 20 hertz to 20,000 hertz. Most audible sound, including that of the heart and lungs, takes place at around 100 hertz to 200 hertz.\n\nThe ultrasound models transmit a sound signal at 2.3 megahertz into the patient's body. This sound is reflected back to the stethoscope at a slightly different frequency because of the velocity of the internal organs. This is called the Doppler effect.\n\nThe difference in frequencies between the sound wave that is transmitted and the sound wave that is received can be computed to determine the motion of the internal organs. This different frequency is then converted into audible sound.\n\nBecause they are based on different physical principles to conventional stethoscopes, ultrasound models produce a markedly different sound. Where an acoustic stethoscope yields a \"lub-dub\" sound from a heartbeat, with the first beat being the strongest, an ultrasound stethoscope will yield a \"ta-da-ta\" pattern, with the second beat being the strongest.\n\nHoutsma expects this invention to save many lives that otherwise might have been lost.\n\nThe ultrasound stethoscopes are nearly ready to begin the process of FDA approval, which is likely to take two to three months. Active Signal Technologies will then begin manufacturing the devices to sell to the armed forces.\n\nThe company's chief executive officer, Arthur Cooke, said the commercial release of the stethoscopes would likely be very small at first, since the cost could be anywhere between 250 dollars and 700 dollars.\n\nHe hoped that positive feedback from the armed forces would generate widespread interest.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 312, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 402, "end_char": 411, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 3425, "end_char": 3437, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0480.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0222\n\nGENEVA, April 1 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nChina humans rights record attacked by US official\n\n\n\n\nChina's human rights record received a grilling Tuesday by a top US official here who told the Human Rights Commission that abuses in the country were still widespread.\n\nUS permanent representative to the UN, Ambassador William Richardson acknowledged that two decades of economic growth had dramatically improved the lives of millions of Chinese.\n\n\"However, China's government continues to commit widespread and well- documented human rights absues and to severely restrict fundamental freedoms of speech, the press, assembly, association and religion,\" he told the 53rd commission session.\n\n\"We do not seek confrontation over this issue, but we firmly believe that (China) should be held accountable...to the international standards that China itself has endorsed.\"\n\nA Chinese delegate interrupted Richardson's address in protest, but was told he would be given a chance to respond later in the day.\n\nAn official censure of China at this year's human rights gathering appears a more remote possibility than ever before.\n\nFrance last weekend announced it would not support the annual resolution condemning China's human rights record, effectively ruling out EU sponsorship of the motion.\n\nJapan on Saturday also indicated it would not sponsor such a measure.\n\nWhile resolutions have been tabled every year in Geneva since the Tiananmen pro-democracy demonstrations were quashed by the army in 1989, China has managed to pull in a majority of votes to defeat the motion.\n\nDissident sources and human rights groups said in Beijing Tuesday that treatment of Chinese dissidents was worsening, following a report from China's Justice Ministry on Monday proclaiming \"remarkable achievements\" last year in judicial guarantees of Chinese citizens' rights.\n\nThe UN representative also harshly critized Burma, Cuba, Iran and Iraq for gross human rights violations.\n\n\"Despite the efforts of legitimate democratic leaders like Aung San Suu Kyi, the despotic rulers of that poor, beleaguered land insist that their own need for power must take precedence over the rights and choices of the Burmese people.\"\n\nRegarding Cuba, Richardson said \"human rights are the last thing on Havana's mind at the Human Rights Commission.\"\n\nCuba was always ready to champion \"exotic\" rights, but was never ready to move forward on basic human rights -- freedom of speech or assembly for example, he said.\n\nRichardson said the death sentence, or fatwa, pronounced by an Iranian foundation on British writer Salman Rushdie for a book it claims blashpemes Islam, was a \"stark\" demonstration of Iran's contempt for the international community's commitment to human rights.\n\nIn neighbouring Iraq, Saddam's Hussein's massive violations of international human rights law against the city of Irbil and its civilian population \"are but one recent example of the 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0410\n\nMILAN, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nmanagement to resign ///\n\n\n\n\nThe Italian government said Friday it would sell half of its controlling interest in flag carrier Alitalia, inviting investors to bid for about 25 percent of the loss-making airline.\n\nItaly currently owns 49.9 percent of Alitalia and had previously pledged not to reduce its holding below 30 percent.\n\nBut a government statement said: \"The decision was taken in accordance with intentions to seek strategic international alliances, with a possible final decision regarding Alitalia's future to be taken by January 2007.\"\n\nShares in the airline jumped sharply higher, provoking two suspensions but showing a gain of 11.15 percent to 0.944 euros in afternoon trades on the Milan stock exchange, where the SP/Mib index had gained 0.38 percent overall.\n\n\"At first glance this is a radical change for Alitalia and a positive event for its shareholders,\" said a Milan-based trader, who asked not to be named.\n\nThe statement said the sale would be carried out through \"a competitive procedure and direct negotiations\".\n\nA senior aide to Prime Minister Romano Prodi quoted Environment Minister Alfonso Scanio as saying that around 25 percent of Alitalia would be put up for sale, bringing the state's stake below 30 percent.\n\nThe sale represents \"finalisation of the company's privatisation,\" the government's statement said.\n\nIt had reduced its holding from 62.3 percent to 49.9 percent in late 2005 as the result of a one-billion-euro (1.32-billion-dollar) capital increase but pledged at the time to retain at least 30 percent of the national flag carrier.\n\nAlitalia chief executive Giancarlo Cimoli told lawmakers Wednesday however that the airline's future depended on forming an alliance with an international group.\n\n\"The only strategic direction for Alitalia is to integrate itself in a big international group,\" he told a parliamentary commission.\n\n\"The board has given me a mandate to explore (possible alliances),\" Cimoli added.\n\nAir France-KLM and Alitalia last week revealed that they had begun tentative talks on a possible tie-up, but the French airline has laid down restructuring of Alitalia as a condition for any deal.\n\nAlitalia said in November that its losses this year would surpass the 167 million euros (214 million dollars) it reported for 2005.\n\nIn the first nine months of the year, it recorded a pre-tax loss of 276 million euros, against 168 million in the same period of 2005.\n\nAlitalia and Air France-KLM have already exchanged two percent of the shares in each of their companies, but Cimoli told lawmakers he would also consider options with other partners.\n\nThe Italian government has appeared divided on whether to favor a European partner or an Asian carrier, but Prodi has promised to define a strategy for the Italian airline by the end of January.\n\nA spokeswoman for the German carrier Lufthansa indicated Friday that it 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0295\n\nUNITED NATIONS, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAnnan appoints adviser for UN management reforms\n\n\n\n\nUN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Wednesday appointed Rajat Kumar Gupta, the former managing director worldwide of MacKinsey, a global consulting firm, as his special adviser for UN management reforms.\n\nGupta will act as a personal adviser to the secretary-general on overall strategy and participate in a committee led by Deputy Secretary-General Lousie Frechette to implement the decisions of the September World Summit on UN management reforms, UN spokesman Stephanie Dujarric told reporters.\n\nGupta will help to ensure that the overall management reform program is in line with best global practice and provide focused, specialist assistance on key issues of concern, Dujarric said.\n\nGupta was managing director of McKinsey  Company from 1994 to 2003 and is currently a senior partner of the firm. He will receive a symbolic annual salary of one dollar from the United Nations.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 859, "end_char": 863, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0295.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051213.0637\n\nBRUSSELS, Dec 14 , 2005\n\nby Lorne Cook\n\n\n\n\nThe European Union's budget impasse is fueling growing questions about the entire enlargement process barely 18 months after the \"big bang\" expansion into eastern Europe, officials admit.\n\nEU leaders, meeting at a summit in Brussels from Thursday, will try again to end the dispute over the 2007-2013 spending plans, the first to take into account the 10 newest members.\n\nBut two old issues are still blocking accord: Britain;s refusal to give up its annual budget rebate, dating from 1984 and France's refusal to cut the bloc's long-disputed farm subsidy system.\n\nThe question increasingly debated in the EU corridors of power is, if the EU can't even overcome these two key issues with 25 member states, how on earth can it expect to resolve them with even more?\n\n\"Everyone knows that the European Union does not yet have the solutions to respond to the challenges posed by the enlargement already underway,\" French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said on Monday.\n\n\"The problem is knowing whether we should launch a new wave of enlargement.\"\n\nOnly last year the expanding Europe's future had seemed so rosy.\n\nTen countries, many of them former communist states from central and eastern Europe, joined the then 15-member EU in great fanfare in its biggest-ever expansion on May 1, 2004.\n\nBut that euphoria gave way to despair just over a year later, after voters in France and the Netherlands rejected the Union's painstakingly prepared constitution and plunged it into its deepest political crisis.\n\nPart of the reason for the \"no\" vote, was the perceived threat among the public of foreign workers or immigrants flooding into a Europe ill-prepared to absorb more member states, most of them poor by comparison.\n\nOnce publicly voiced, those doubts about enlargement gained momentum and have surfaced again as the Union approaches a second major summit still struggling to resolve its financial problems.\n\nThe budget is worth more than 800 billion euros (944 billion dollars) and contains much-needed funds for the EU's relatively poor new members from further east.\n\nIn London on Friday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair warned that if a deal is not done soon it would leave the last lot of EU newcomers with a vast shortfall in funds and could threaten expansion.\n\n\"It would cast a real shadow, not just over the European Union, but over the future of enlargement too,\" said Blair, whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency until the end of the month.\n\nRomania and Bulgaria are scheduled to join the EU in January 2007, but Macedonia may become the first casualty of the budget dispute.\n\nThe tiny Balkan state had hoped to be given the official status of a candidate for EU membership this week, especially given the pace of its drive on reform since the end of an ethnic Albanian uprising in 2001.\n\n\"Macedonia is in danger of becoming a little victim of circumstances, but we are going to try to make sure that it is as small a victim as possible,\" said one European official on condition of anonymity.\n\nFrance is its most vocal opponent.\n\n\"We asked ourselves if the conditions are right today, in December 2005, to officially give Macedonia the status of a candidate. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0404\n\nBKERKE, Lebanon, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nMaronite patriarch hopes pope's visit will unite Lebanon\n\n\n\n\nMaronite Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir, head of Lebanon's largest Christian community, said Friday he hopes Pope John Paul II's visit will help the country's recovery from its 1975-1990 civil war.\n\n\"I hope this visit will bring the Lebanese together so their wounded country can heal,\" Sfeir told AFP at his Bkerke residence north of Beirut.\n\nBut he painted a bleak picture of the current situation in Lebanon, saying it was \"unenviable.\"\n\nLebanon's \"sovereignty and independence are flouted and it doesn't have the freedom to decide for itself,\" he said. But \"the solidarity of all Lebanese will yield positive results in the long term.\"\n\nThe pope's visit on May 10-11, \"while pastoral, will have political connotations because we can't dissociate the spiritual from the social and the political.\"\n\nSfeir said the pope \"will not directly mention the Syrian or the non- Syrian presence in Lebanon ... even if he was the first to demand that Lebanon recovers its independence and sovereignty.\n\n\"But this will occur at the opportune time, because regional and international conditions don't permit it at the present time.\"\n\nSome 35,000 Syrian soldiers are stationed on two-thirds of Lebanese territory, while the Israeli military occupies a strip of south Lebanon just north of Israel's border.\n\nA synod on Lebanon, which met in November 1995 in Rome at the pope's request, called for the \"end of the Israeli occupation\" and \"the departure of the Syrian troops.\"\n\nThe second point has been criticized by several Lebanese Moslem leaders who said the Syrian military presence does not affect Lebanon's sovereignty.\n\nThe cardinal also said the Christian opposition would not be able to meet the pope as it has requested. \"Like others, it can always send him a written petition,\" Sfeir added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 55, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 10-11", "start_char": 779, "end_char": 788, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1995", "start_char": 1446, "end_char": 1459, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0404.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "CNN19980227.2130.0067 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n Live from Atalanta, good evening Lynne Russell, CNN headline news.\n New evidence is suggesting that a series of bombings in Atalanta and last month's\nexplosion at an Alabama women's clinic might be related.\n Pierre Thomas has the latest.\n\n\n Atlanta nineteen ninety-six. A bomb blast shocks the Olympic games.\n One person is killed.\n\n\n January nineteen ninety-seven. Atlanta again.\n This time a bomb at an abortion clinic.\n More people are hurt.\n And just last month, an off duty policeman is killed when a bomb explodes\n at another abortion clinic.\n Location, Birmingham, Alabama.\n\n This man, Eric Rudolph has already been charged in the Birmingham bombing.\n Now officials are investigating whether, Rudolph, who remains at large, is linked to all three attacks.\n The reason, authorities have discovered tantalizing new evidence.\n\n Steel plates recovered at the Olympic park bombing appear to match those\n found at the abortion clinic bombing in Atlanta.\n Those plates may have come from a machine shop in north Carolina, where a\n friend of Rudolph worked.\n\n And nails found in the Atlanta abortion clinic bombing are identical to\n those discovered at Rudolph's storage shed in north Carolina.\n A senior law enforcement source tells CNN, there is a lot of\n circumstantial evidence and it would be extraordinary to have all these\n bits and pieces and there not be a connection.\n\n And law enforcement sources say they ca n't ignore letters penned under the\n name army of god.\n Army of god is a secret organization that hates abortion providers,\n homosexuals and the US government.\n\n Army of god letters claim responsibility for the Atlanta abortion clinic\n bombing, a nineteen ninety-seven attack on a gay lounge and the Birmingham assault.\n\n An intense manhunt conducted by the FBI and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco\n and firearms continues for Rudolph in the wilderness of western north\n Carolina.\n And this week, FBI director Louie Freeh assigned more agents to the\n search.\n\n Freeh also ordered the investigation consolidate information under the\n Atlanta task force, another indication officials suspect a link between all\n the bombings.\n Privately, authorities say Rudolph has become a focus of their\n investigation.\n Publicly, they are unwilling to make any sweeping assertion.\n The reason, they remember Richard Jewell.\n pierre thomas, CNN, Washington.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "19980227", "start_char": 3, "end_char": 11, "tid": "t92", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t93", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t92"}, {"text": "nineteen ninety-six", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 310, "tid": "t95", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January nineteen ninety-seven", "start_char": 377, "end_char": 406, "tid": "t96", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 497, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t97", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t92"}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 701, "end_char": 704, "tid": "t178", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t92"}, {"text": "nineteen ninety-seven", "start_char": 1708, "end_char": 1729, "tid": "t107", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1945, "end_char": 1954, "tid": "t108", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-WXX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t92"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "CNN19980227.2130.0067.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0491\n\nLISBON, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nNaval name Barreto as new coach\n\n\n\n\nPortuguese first division side Naval have secured the services of Mariano Barreto as their new coach on a 18 month contact, club officials said Wednesday.\n\nBarreto resigned as assistant coach of Russian side Dynamo Moscow on Monday. He will take over from interim coach Fernando Mira who has been in charge of Naval since Rogerio Goncalves left to join Sporting Braga in November.\n\n\"I want to work to project Naval to a different level,\" Barreto told a news conference in the port town of Figueira da Foz where Naval is based.\n\nBarreto's past includes a stint as the coach of Ghana's national team as well as time as an assistant coach of German side Borussia Dortmund and Russian side Lokomotiv Moscow.\n\nNaval lie in 10th place in the 16-team Portuguese premier league with 17 points from 13 matches, 17 points behind leaders FC Porto.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "18 month", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 232, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 313, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 467, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0491.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970406.0012\n\nTOKYO, April 6 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFord, Mazda unifying parts purchases: report\n\n\n\n\nMazda Motor Corp. of Japan and Ford Motor Co. of the United States plan to unify their parts procurement systems in order to reduce production costs, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun said Sunday.\n\nThe move follows the two companies' earlier accord to share basic designs of motor vehicles, the leading economic daily said. The move may be implemented by 2002, the report said.\n\nThe automakers' business links have grown since Ford took effective control of Mazda by raising its equity stake from 24.4 percent to 33.4 percent in May last year.\n\nUnder Japanese law, if Ford were to increase its stake in Mazda beyond this level it would have been obliged to launch a full takeover bid.\n\nThe two companies will select parts suppliers on the basis of international competitiveness, with no preferential treatment given to traditional parts makers in Mazda's \"keiretsu\" corporate group, the daily said.\n\nSupplier candidates among Japanese firms include car electronic parts maker Denso Corp. and oil seal producer NOK Corp., it said. Both suppliers have capital ties with Japan's auto giant Toyota Motor Corp.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 6 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 281, "end_char": 287, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 451, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May last year", "start_char": 621, "end_char": 634, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970406.0012.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0264\n\nDHAKA, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBangladeshi president hopes to present clean general elections\n\n\n\n\nBangladeshi President Prof. Iajuddin Ahmed said Wednesday night he hoped he would be able to present the country a clean general election with the help of people and all political parties.\n\nIn a televised speech, Ahmed said, \"I am before you for the second time after I took the charge of the office of Chief Advisor of a neutral caretaker government on October 29. I am committed to discharge the responsibility given on me to hold a free and fair election.\"\n\nAhmed, 76, said some political parties questioned about the neutrality of Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) MA Aziz. \"Since I cannot sack him constitutionally, I had sent three of my advisors to him with a request to Aziz to go on a long leave or resign. Moreover, I had telephonic talks with Aziz. He honoring my request agreed to go on a leave for three months.\"\n\nAhmed, a former university teacher, said a political stalemate was created as CEC was sticking to his stand not to resign despite the political parties was wanting. He hoped the political standoff will now come to an end.\n\nThe president also said since CEC has gone on leave, he will appoint two more election commissioners for holding a free, fair and acceptable election.\n\nHe said he hoped all political parties and the people will maintain restraint, and extend all out cooperation in staging the desired election within the time frame of three months.\n\nAhmed also called upon the all concerned officials having link with the elections to remain above fear and work with honesty and neutrality for discharging their duties in presenting the nation clean and acceptable election.\n\nAhmed called upon his advisory council to work to return the normalcy of all activities.\n\n\"Our holy responsibility is to present the nation a free and election and we will have to do it for the sake of people of the country,\" he said.\n\nIn Bangladesh a non-partisan caretaker government organizes the general election in line with the country's constitution and hands over power to elected government since 1996.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 29", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 486, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 933, "end_char": 945, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1151, "end_char": 1154, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 1491, "end_char": 1503, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1996", "start_char": 2138, "end_char": 2142, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0264.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "ea980120.1830.0456 \n NEWS STORY \n\n\n\n\n\n The Pentagon said today it  will re-examine the question are the remains inside the Tomb of the Unknown from the Vietnam War, in fact, known?\n\n CBS News first reported last night that the tomb may contain the remains of Air Force pilot Michael Blassie.\n\n There was a suspicion the body was Blassie because his uniform and ID card  were found near the body in Vietnam. But subsequently, they  were lost. Blassie's mother now wants the remains in the tomb tested for DNA.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "980120", "start_char": 2, "end_char": 8, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 57, "end_char": 62, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-01-20", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "last night", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t15", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-01-19TNI", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 462, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t13"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "ea980120.1830.0456.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0102\n\nLISBON, Dec 31 , 2006, 2006\n\nPortuguese paper names Ronaldo sportsman of the year\n\n\n\n\nManchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo was named by leading Portuguese sports daily A Bola on Sunday as the country's sportsman of the year.\n\nA Bola chose the player for his \"important contribution to the expansion of Portuguese football across the world\".\n\nThe 21-year-old international finished ahead of Benfica striker Nuno Gomes, the winner of the award last year, and Chelsea coach Jose Mourinho, who won in 2004.\n\n\"I'm very happy with what I've managed to succeed up until now,\" Ronaldo told A Bola after scoring two goals in Manchester United's 3-2 win over Reading in the English Premiership on Saturday.\n\n\"I've scored foals and helped my team win. I want to continue at this level in 2007.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 31 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 471, "end_char": 480, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 526, "end_char": 530, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 592, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 716, "end_char": 724, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 806, "end_char": 810, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061231.0102.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0124\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n1st lead: Blasts at Shiite mosques kill 56 in eastern Iraq\n\n\n\n\nTwo suicide bombing attacks on Shitte mosques in eastern Iraq killed at least 56 people and wounded scores of others on Friday, CNN reported.\n\nTwo suicide bombers blew themselves up in two Shiite mosques in the town of Khanaqin in eastern Iraq, when people were conducting their Friday prayers, the police said.\n\nKhanaqin is a Shiite-dominated town in the northeast of Baghdad, with Sunnis and Kurds living there.\n\nReports reaching here from Khanaqin said that local authorities have immediately imposed a curfew in the town near the Iranian border.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 399, "end_char": 405, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0124.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0253\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nVideo released on hostages in Iraq: al-Jazeera\n\n\n\n\nFour hostages were shown on a video released by an insurgent group in Iraq, the al-Jazeera reported on Tuesday.\n\nThe previously little known group, calling itself the Swords of Righteousness, said the four peace activists were spies working for occupying forces.\n\nThe hostages were shown sitting on the ground and one passport was also shown on the video which seemed to belong to a British national.\n\nMeanwhile, two Iranian Shiite pilgrims and an Iraqi female guide were released north of Baghdad shortly after they were taken hostage by gunmen Monday night.\n\nInsurgents often kidnap foreigners in an attempt to force the occupation forces to pull out. Some hostages were killed and many released, in some cases after ransoms paid.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 654, "end_char": 666, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0253.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0523\n\nDOHA, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nIndia take tennis mixed doubles gold over Japan\n\n\n\n\nIndia's Leander Paes and Sania Mirza combined to win gold in the tennis mixed doubles at the Asian Games on Wednesday.\n\nThe pair defeated seventh seeds Satoshi Iwabuchi and Akiko Morigami from Japan 7-5, 5-7, 6-2.\n\nThey won bronze together at the 2002 Asian Games.\n\nPaes returned to the court for the gold medal match just minutes after winning the men's doubles title with team-mate Mahesh Bhupathi.\n\nMirza won silver earlier in the day, losing to China's Zheng Jie in the women's singles final.\n\nTaiwan's Lu Yen Hsun and Hsieh Su Wei and China's Yu Xinyuan and Sun Tiantian share bronze.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 219, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Japan 7-5, 5-7, 6-2", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0523.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0255\n\nKUWAIT CITY, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nKuwait opens to any proposal to bolster oil prices: official\n\n\n\n\nA senior Kuwaiti official said on Tuesday his country was ready to consider any proposal that might bolster the international oil market, Kuwait News Agency ( KUNA) reported.\n\nEissa al-Oun, Undersecretary of Kuwaiti Ministry of Energy and Oil, made the remarks in an interview with KUNA on the oil-rich Emirate's position towards the coming meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).\n\nThe OPEC is set to discuss further measures to balance the global crude oil prices in Abuja, capital of Nigeria, in mid December.\n\nAccording to KUNA, the average price of OPEC crude basket since the beginning of 2006 till the end of last week was 55.74 U.S. dollars per barrel (dpb), up from 50.64 dpb in 2005.\n\nIn October, OPEC's average price dropped to 54.97 dpb from 59. 34 dpb in September.\n\nIn the last ministerial meeting in Doha of Qatar last month, OPEC oil ministers decided to cut the cartel's daily crude oil output by 1.2 million barrels as of Nov. 1, without excluding possibility of further cut when necessary.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 160, "end_char": 167, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 657, "end_char": 665, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the beginning of 2006", "start_char": 732, "end_char": 753, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 770, "end_char": 779, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 842, "end_char": 846, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 852, "end_char": 859, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 922, "end_char": 931, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last ministerial", "start_char": 937, "end_char": 957, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 983, "end_char": 993, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 1", "start_char": 1094, "end_char": 1100, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0255.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0368\n\nABUJA, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAbuja carnival ends with colorful parade\n\n\n\n\nThe four-day Abuja carnival has ended in pomp and ceremony with colorful parade, fireworks and musical display, News Agency of Nigeria reported on Monday.\n\nOn behalf of Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Malam Nasiru el-Rufai declared the closing of the carnival at the weekend in Abuja.\n\nDescribing the carnival as a huge success, the chairman of the organizing committee Olusegun Runsewe hoped that next year's carnival would be bigger and would afford Nigeria another opportunity to present its culture and tradition to the world.\n\nAwards were given to all states that participated at the carnival while Kaduna State with the largest contingent of 500 got a special award as well as the best durbar award.\n\nSome of the participants called on the government to work in collaboration with the private sector for a better carnival next year.\n\nThis year's carnival, started from Nov. 23-26, was aimed at repositioning the country in the world tourism map.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 247, "end_char": 253, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 414, "end_char": 425, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W47-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 979, "end_char": 988, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 991, "end_char": 1000, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 23-26", "start_char": 1026, "end_char": 1036, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0368.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0058\n\nPERTH, Australia, Dec 16 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nAustralia recovered from the early loss of Matthew Hayden to reach 173-3 at tea on day one of the first Test against South Africa on Friday.\n\nCaptain Ricky Ponting hit a half-century while Brad Hodge (37) and Michael Hussey (20) were the not-out batsmen at the break.\n\nMakhaya Ntini had dismissed opener Hayden for a duck with his second ball to leave Australia on 0-1.\n\nBut Ponting and Justin Langer were looking in ominous form as Australia reached 96-1 at lunch.\n\nThe visitors then grabbed two quick wickets in the second session to stem the flow of runs.\n\nNtini dismissed Langer for 37 as the diminutive left-hander botched a pull shot, sending the ball skywards to captain Graeme Smith at mid-off.\n\nShaun Pollock then trapped Ponting lbw for 71 with a ball which nipped back from the off side, ending the Australian captain's 12-boundary knock.\n\nSouth Africa then missed a great opportunity to gain the ascendancy when wicketkeeper Mark Boucher missed a thick top-edge Brad Hodge when he was on three.\n\nHad Boucher taken the catch, the Proteas would have had the Australians at 117-4. But the ball went to the boundary instead.\n\nThe tourists went into the match without key all-rounder Jacques Kallis who failed a last-minute fitness test on his left elbow.\n\nIt was the first time in two years that Kallis has missed a Test match.\n\nJacques Rudolph was brought into the side while orthodox spinner Nicky Boje was left out in favour of a pace attack on a wicket known for it's speed and bounce.\n\nFor Australia, seamer Nathan Bracken was named in their bowling attack.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 214, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "37", "start_char": 662, "end_char": 664, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1937", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years", "start_char": 1364, "end_char": 1373, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0058.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0182\n\nAFGOYE, Somalia, Dec 29 , 2006, 2006\n\nSomali government plans martial law with parliament backing\n\n\n\n\nSomalia's government plans to impose martial law now that its Ethiopia-backed forces have arrived in Mogadishu, which has been abandoned by Islamist forces, government officials said Friday.\n\n\"We need three months' martial law in order to disarm all the militias,\" Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi said earlier in Afgoye, about 20 kilometres (13 miles) outside the capital.\n\nDeputy Prime Minister Hussein Mohamed Aidid, a Somali clan warlord who has rallied to the transitional administration, said the parliament based in the south central town of Baidoa is expected to endorse the laws on Sunday.\n\n\"We need a parliament approval of the martial law for three months. It has been decided already by the cabinet,\" Aidid told AFP.\n\n\"We will go back to Baidoa to present and discuss our laws to the parliament on Sunday,\" he added.\n\nSomalia has been embroiled in heavy fighting since Islamist fighters launched an attack against the government near their base in Baidoa after a deadline for Ethiopian troops to withdraw.\n\nEthiopia refused to pull out its forces and launched a heavy attack against the Islamists, forcing them to retreat from front line townships in the south and centre of the country to Mogadishu, which was abandoned on Thursday.\n\nIslamist leaders have fallen back on the port town of Kismayo, where one of their military commanders said Friday that they will never surrender to the Ethiopians and government forces, but carry out guerrilla attacks.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 29 , 2006", "start_char": 40, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 715, "end_char": 721, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 778, "end_char": 790, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 934, "end_char": 940, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1360, "end_char": 1368, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1478, "end_char": 1484, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0182.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0123\n\nHEFEI, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nprovince\n\n\n\n\nThe last 28 of the 41 people who had close contact with the second victim of bird flu in east China's Anhui Province have been were released from a week-long medical observation, a local health official said Wednesday.\n\nAll the 41 people have been declared symptom free, and they will receive follow-up checkups for another week, said Ye Zhonggang, director of the Health Bureau of the Xiuning County.\n\nThe other 13 people held for observation were released on Nov. 24, the official said.\n\nA 35-year-old female farmer surnamed Xu in Xiuning developed fever and pneumonia-like symptoms on Nov. 11 after contact with sick and dead poultry. She died on Nov. 22 and test results showed the woman was H5N1 positive. She was the second human cases of bird flu in the province.\n\nThe first victim of the province was a 24-year-old woman farmer surnamed Zhou in Zongyang County, who died on Nov. 10.\n\nSo far, China has reported approximately 30 outbreaks of bird flu in 11 provinces and autonomous regions and reported three confirmed human cases of bird flu.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 276, "end_char": 285, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "another week", "start_char": 384, "end_char": 396, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 24", "start_char": 529, "end_char": 536, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 11", "start_char": 656, "end_char": 663, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 22", "start_char": 718, "end_char": 725, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 10", "start_char": 950, "end_char": 957, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0123.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0170\n\nTIANJIN, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\njoint statement\n\n\n\n\nA four-day conference for young political leaders in Asia and Europe concluded here Thursday with the adoption of a joint statement featuring agreements on youth issues in the two continents.\n\nThe conference, jointly-hosted by the All China Youth Federation and Asia Europe Foundation, was aimed at implementing the proposals from Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao at the fifth Asia Europe Meeting (ASEM).\n\nIt was also the first of such activities among young political leaders in the history of the ASEM.\n\nMore than 100 young delegates from 34 countries and regional youth organizations attended the conference which started in Beijing on Monday and then moved to the neighboring port city of Tianjin.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 169, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 710, "end_char": 716, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0170.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0580\n\nMIAMI, Florida, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nJapanese star Iwamura signs with Tampa\n\n\n\n\nThe Tampa Bay Devil Rays agreed to terms on Friday with Japanese infielder Akinori Iwamura on a three-year contract with a team option for 2010.\n\nFinancial terms were not disclosed, but Major League Baseball's website reported Friday that the contract is worth 7.7 million dollars while the fourth-year option would pay 4.25 million dollars.\n\nThe move came one day after the Boston Red Sox made international headlines by signing Japanese pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka to a six-year contract reportedly worth 52 million dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 52, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 242, "end_char": 246, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 330, "end_char": 336, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061215.0580.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0109 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0109. \n American Medical\n@  International Bought\n@  By IMA Holdings \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n AMI Z.CSU WNEWS \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nHEALTH CARE PROVIDERS, MEDICINE, DENTISTRY (HEA) \n LOS ANGELES  \n\n   IMA Holdings Corp. completed its $3 billion acquisition of American Medical International Inc., purchasing 63 million shares, or 86%, of the Los Angeles-based health-care services concern for $26.50 a share. \nThe price also includes assumption of about $1.4 billion in debt. \n\n   IMA is a group that includes First Boston Corp. and the Pritzker family of Chicago through the leveraged buy-out fund Harry Gray Melvyn Klein amp Partners. \nHarry J. Gray and Melvyn N. Klein, along with five other IMA designees, were named to join American Medical's 10-member board. \n\n   The completion of the merger agreement follows months of twists and turns. \nIn January, American Medical brought in a new chief executive officer, Richard A. Gilleland, 45, who will remain as chairman, president and chief executive. \nA few days later, American Medical announced sharply lower earnings, taking charges of $24 million for insurance reserves and canceled real estate leases. \n\n   In March, American Medical received a $24-a-share offer to take the company private from an investor group including large holder M. Lee Pearce. \nIt also was considering a restructuring to help boost the stock price. \nA group including several members of the the Bass family of Texas urged the company to take some steps to maximize shareholder value. \n\n   The following month, the company put itself up for sale. \nIt received more offers, but the auction was surprisingly won by IMA, which bid $28 a share and asked Mr. Gilleland to stay on as an equity participant. \nHe indicated that some assets might be sold off to service the debt. \n\n   Then, after extending its offer four times waiting for a congressional tax ruling, IMA early this month lowered its offer to $26.50 a share amid turbulence in the junk bond market. \nAmerican Medical accepted the offer, meanwhile indicating it had heard from two other suitors. \nBut they never materialized and IMA completed the purchase yesterday. \n\n   Other new board members include John S. Harrison and Mark A. Adley of First Boston, James F. Lyons, William S. Goldberg and Harold S. Handelsman.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 105, "end_char": 113, "tid": "t92", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "months", "start_char": 888, "end_char": 894, "tid": "t91", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 920, "end_char": 927, "tid": "t93", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t92"}, {"text": "A few days", "start_char": 1075, "end_char": 1085, "tid": "t96", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1238, "end_char": 1243, "tid": "t97", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-03", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t92"}, {"text": "The following month", "start_char": 1592, "end_char": 1611, "tid": "t98", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-04", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t97"}, {"text": "early this month", "start_char": 1965, "end_char": 1981, "tid": "t99", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t92"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 2215, "end_char": 2224, "tid": "t100", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t92"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0786.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0456\n\nNEW YORK, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nNBA banishes Sonics' Fortson for one game\n\n\n\n\nSeattle SuperSonics forward Danny Fortson was suspended one game by the National Basketball Association here Saturday for a series of violations during a victory Friday at Utah.\n\nFortson was banished for verbally abusing a referee, failing to leave the court in a timely manner after being ejected and knocking over a water cooler while leaving.\n\nThe incident came with nine minutes and 13 seconds to play in the fourth quarter of Seattle's 106-90 victory.\n\nFortson was whistled for a loose ball foul after having been whistled for three fouls and a technical foul in seven minutes. He argued the call and was ejected.\n\nTeammates restrained Forston as he pressed his case to referee Matt Boland. Fortson, who tossed a chair that nearly hit a fan following an ejection last season, dumped a water cooler on his way into the locker room.\n\nFortson forfeited 71,277 dollars in salary by missing Seattle's game Saturday against Sacramento. He averages 3.5 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3.6 fouls a game.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 203, "end_char": 211, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 262, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the fourth quarter", "start_char": 503, "end_char": 521, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q4", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last season", "start_char": 862, "end_char": 873, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1000, "end_char": 1008, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0456.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0020 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0020. \n What's News --\n@  Business and Finance \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n\n   PROGRAM TRADING is being curbed by more securities firms, but big institutional investors are expected to continue the practice, further roiling the stock market. \nBowing to criticism, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer joined PaineWebber in suspending stock-index arbitrage trading for their own accounts. \nStill, stock-index funds are expected to continue launching big programs through the market. \n\n   Several Big Board firms are organizing to complain about program trading and the exchange's role in it. \nThe effort is being led by Contel. \n\n   ---\n\n   Personal spending rose 0.2% in September, the smallest gain in a year. \nThe slowdown raises questions about the economy's strength because spending fueled much of the third-quarter GNP growth. \nMeanwhile, personal income edged up 0.3%. \n\n   Factory owners are buying new machinery at a healthy rate this fall, machine-tool makers say. \nBut weak car sales raise questions about future demand from the auto sector. \n\n   ---\n\n   Southern's Gulf Power unit may plead guilty this week to charges it illegally steered company money to politicians through third parties. \nThe tentative pact would resolve part of a broad investigation of the Atlanta-based company in the past year. \n\n   ---\n\n   LIN Broadcasting and BellSouth sweetened their plan to merge cellular phone operations, offering LIN holders a special $42-a-share payout. \nBut the new pact will force huge debt on the new firm and could still fail to thwart rival suitor McCaw Cellular. \n\n   ---\n\n   Unisys posted a $648.2 million loss for the third quarter as it moved quickly to take write-offs for various problems and prepare for a turnaround. \nBut some analysts wonder how strong the recovery will be. \n\n   ---\n\n   RJR Nabisco agreed to sell three candy businesses to Nestle for $370 million. \nThe accord helps RJR pay off debt and boosts Nestle's 7% share of the U.S. candy market to 12%. \n\n   ---GM and Ford are expected to go head to head in the markets to buy up rival 15% stakes in Jaguar. \nGM confirmed it received U.S. antitrust clearance to boost its holding. \n\n   ---\n\n   Sansui Electric agreed to sell a 51% stake to Polly Peck of Britain for $110 million. \nStill, analysts said the accord does n't suggest Japan is opening up to more foreign takeovers. \n\n   ---\n\n   Kellogg suspended work on a $1 billion cereal plant, indicating a pessimistic outlook by the cereal maker, which has been losing market share. \n\n   ---\n\n   Insurers could see claims totaling nearly $1 billion from the San Francisco earthquake, far less than the $4 billion from Hurricane Hugo. \n\n   ---\n\n   Nashua strengthened its poison-pill plan after announcing a Dutch firm is seeking to buy up to 25% of the New Hampshire copier company. \n\n   ---\n\n   Mobil is cutting back its U.S. oil and gas exploration and production group by up to 15% as part of a restructuring of the business. \n\n   ---\n\n   Markets --- \n\n   Stocks: Volume 170,330,000 shares. \nDow Jones industrials 2596.72, off 17.01; 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0153\n\nMACAO, Nov. 1 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nS. Korea, DPRK meet in Macao\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korean and DPR Korean officials met on the sidelines of the East Asian Games for three hours on Tuesday, discussing a joint team to the 2006 Asian Games and 2008 Olympic Games.\n\n\"Two sides have reached consensus on sending a joint team to the Asian Games and the Olympics, but a lot of work needs to be done before the final decision is made,\" said a South Korean official who asked not to be named.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three hours", "start_char": 174, "end_char": 185, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT3H", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0153.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0202\n\nCHANGCHUN, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ninvestigation\n\n\n\n\nThe chemical plant blasts which left five workers dead and one missing on Sunday in Jilin Province were caused by the incorrect operation by a worker, said investigators on Thursday.\n\nAfter a five-day probe, experts agreed that the operator forgot to close the valve of the raw material providing system, leaving the temperature much higher than the normal standard.\n\nThe longtime overheating then led to a blowout and the cold air went into the T101 aniline processing tower, which was run under negative pressure and triggered the blast at about 1:45 p.m., and other blasts happened afterwards.\n\nThe blasts also left more than 60 injured, 23 of who are still in hospital but in safe condition.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 151, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 250, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1:45 p.m.", "start_char": 625, "end_char": 634, "tid": "t4", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0202.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0019\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBurundi\n\n\n\n\nChina and Burundi have deep traditional friendship, and should enhance cooperation in investment, infrastructure, telecommunications and agriculture, said Chinese President Hu Jintao here Tuesday when meeting with Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza, who is in China for the Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held on Nov. 4-5.\n\nIn recent years, the two countries boosted their exchanges and cooperation in fields of politics, judicature, economy, trade, culture and international affairs, said Hu, suggesting the two sides continue exchanges in all fields and at all levels.\n\nChina will continue to support the peace process in Burundi, and urges the international society to enhance attention and assistance to the reconstruction in Burundi, he said.\n\nNkurunziza appreciates China's long-time assistance to Burundi in areas of education, public health, agriculture, power and infrastructure, saying the political and security situation is basically stable in Burundi.\n\nThe Burundian government is making efforts for national reconciliation and economic, social development, he said. Burundi is expecting further assistance from China, and wishes to enhance cooperation with China, he said.\n\nNkurunziza arrived in China last Friday. He and other 47 leaders and representatives of African countries attended the two- day Beijing summit, which is believed to be the largest diplomatic event between China and Africa since 1949.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 263, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4-5", "start_char": 401, "end_char": 409, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 415, "end_char": 427, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Friday", "start_char": 1304, "end_char": 1315, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1949", "start_char": 1504, "end_char": 1508, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1949", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0019.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0314\n\nWELLINGTON, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAircraft lift NZ imports\n\n\n\n\nNew Zealand's imports of merchandise goods for October 2005 increased 316 million NZ dollars (221 million US dollars), up 10.4 percent compared with October 2004, and are provisionally valued at 3,341 million NZ dollars (2339 million US dollars), Statistics New Zealand said Friday.\n\nIt said driving the increase were higher values for aircraft and parts, valued at 330 million NZ dollars (232 million US dollars). This value is due primarily to the import of two aircraft.\n\nExports of merchandise goods for October 2005 are provisionally valued at 2,459 million NZ dollars (1721 million US dollars), which is 30 million NA dollars (21 million US dollars) lower than for October 2004. The main contributors to the reduced exports value were wood and wood articles; aircraft; and ships and boats. Partly offsetting these was a higher value for meat.\n\nThe trade balance for the October 2005 month is a deficit of 882 million (617 million US dollars), or 35.9 percent of exports. The size of the deficit has decreased for two consecutive months.\n\nThe average trade balance for an October month for the past 10 years is a deficit of 462 million NZ dollars (323 million US dollars), 20.2 percent of exports, said the Statistics New Zealand.\n\nExports to China in October 2005 valued 140 million NZ dollars (98 million US dollars), and are provisionally valued at 1,559 million NZ dollars (1091 million US dollars), and imports from China valued in October 2005 at 388 million NZ dollars (271 million US dollars), and are provisionally valued at 3,945 million NZ dollars (2761 million US dollars), up 21.9 percent compared with last year, thus put China the number two country of New Zealand imports from the third last year, said Statistics New Zealand.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2005", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 148, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2004", "start_char": 238, "end_char": 250, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 370, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2005", "start_char": 597, "end_char": 609, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2004", "start_char": 760, "end_char": 772, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2005 month", "start_char": 965, "end_char": 983, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two consecutive months", "start_char": 1108, "end_char": 1130, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October month", "start_char": 1166, "end_char": 1179, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 10 years", "start_char": 1184, "end_char": 1201, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2005", "start_char": 1346, "end_char": 1358, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2005", "start_char": 1531, "end_char": 1543, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1710, "end_char": 1719, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1797, "end_char": 1806, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0314.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0064 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0064. \n International Brief -- Reed International PLC:\n@  Net Income for 6 Months\n@  Fell 5% to $141.9 Million \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n U.REE \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   Reed International PLC said that net income for the six months ended Oct. 1 slipped 5% to #89.7 million ($141.9 million), or 16 pence a share, from #94.8 million ($149.9 million), or 17.3 pence a share. \n\n   The British paper, packaging and publishing concern, said profit from continuing lines fell 10% to #118 million from #130.6 million. \n\n   While there were no one-time gains or losses in the latest period, there was a one-time gain of #18 million in the 1988 period. \nAnd while there was no profit this year from discontinued operations, last year they contributed #34 million, before tax. \n\n   Pretax profit fell 3.7% to #128 million from #133 million and was below analysts' expectations of #130 million to #135 million, but shares rose 6 pence to 388 pence in early trading yesterday in London. \n\n   Reed  is paying an interim dividend of 4.6 pence, up 15% from 4 pence a year earlier. \n\n   Sales fell 20% to #722 million. \n\n   Earnings  were hurt by disposal of operations in its restructuring, Reed said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the six months", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 275, "tid": "t31", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 1", "start_char": 282, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t25", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "the latest period", "start_char": 607, "end_char": 624, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 674, "end_char": 678, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 718, "end_char": 727, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 758, "end_char": 767, "tid": "t29", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 997, "end_char": 1006, "tid": "t30", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "a year earlier", "start_char": 1093, "end_char": 1107, "tid": "t2127", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-11-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0127.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0364\n\nMEXICO CITY, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMexico seeking to boost trade with China: official\n\n\n\n\nTrade between Mexico and China is growing fast, and Mexico is seeking to further boost its trade with China, a Mexican offcial said on Tuesday.\n\nRoberto Zapata Barradas, director general for multilateral and regional negotiations at the Economy Secretary, told Xinhua that Mexico is seeking to balance its trade with China, due to a large surplus in favor of China.\n\nChina has also expressed the willingness to allow more Mexican exports, especially in mining and chemicals, according to Zapata, who said Mexico was drawing up a list of companies that could meet Chinese demand.\n\nMexico is seeking agricultural hygiene agreements with China so that it can export limes, mangos and beef. It has already reached agreements to export grapes and avocados to China, he said.\n\nHe said that Chinese authorities had already authorized a Mexican pavilion for the Latin American Commercial Fair in the first half of 2007 in Beijing.\n\nChina-Mexico trade tops eight billion U.S. dollars a year, with China exporting 6.8 billion more goods than Mexico.\n\nSenior officials from the two countries discussed bilateral trade last week in Beijing during the third meeting of the High Level Group.\n\nZapata said Mexico is seeking deals on steel and electronics, as well as considering possible ways to boost trade between the two nations.\n\nMeanwhile, Mexico is working to set up two forums, one in China and one in Mexico, to promote investment in automobile, and is considering importing Chinese-made cars, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 250, "end_char": 257, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 1090, "end_char": 1096, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1222, "end_char": 1231, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W44", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0364.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0086\n\nBEIJING, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nURGENTChinese foreign minister to visit US next week\n\n\n\n\nChinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen will visit the United States next week to meet with President Bill Clinton and top-level US officials, foreign ministry spokesman Cui Tiankai said Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 296, "end_char": 303, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0086.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "NYT19980206.0466 \n NEWS STORY \n 02/06/1998 22:29:00 \n\nA6982 Cx1f taf-z\nu w Cx13  Cx11  BC-CLINTON-CURRIE-NYT LR      02-06 0277\n\n\n BC-CLINTON-CURRIE-NYT \n\nSTATEMENTS CONCERNING MRS. CURRIE\n\nUR (bl) LR  QL\nUR c.1998 N.Y. Times News Service LR  QC   QL\n\n\nWASHINGTON _ Following are statements made Friday and Thursday\nby Lawrence Wechsler, a lawyer for the White House secretary, Betty\nCurrie; the White House; White House spokesman Mike McCurry, and\nPresident Clinton in response to an article in The New York Times\non Friday about her statements regarding a meeting with the\npresident:\nWechsler on Thursday\n``Without commenting on the allegations raised in this article,\nto the extent that there is any implication or suggestion that Mrs.\nCurrie was aware of any legal or ethical impropriety by anyone,\nthat implication or suggestion is entirely inaccurate.''\nWhite House on Thursday\n``For the past few weeks we 've  been subjected to false leaks\ndesigned  to mislead both reporters and the American public. We're not going  to dignify the latest false leak with a response.''\nMcCurry on Friday\n``I want to be absolutely clear, to the extent there is any\nimplication or the slightest suggestion that Mrs. Currie believes\nthat the President or anyone else tried  to influence her\nrecollection, that is absolutely false and a mischaracterization of\nthe facts. I  am shocked and dismayed by the numerous leaks\nregarding Mrs. Currie's grand jury testimony.''\nClinton on Friday.\n``Once again, I never asked anybody  to do anything but tell the\ntruth. I know about the stories today. I was pleased that Ms.\nCurrie's lawyers stated unambiguously this morning _ unambiguously\n_ that she's not aware of any unethical conduct.\n\n\n\nNYT-02-06-98 2229EST", "time_expressions": [{"text": "02/06/1998 22:29:00", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t28", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-06T22:29:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 296, "end_char": 302, "tid": "t30", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t31", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-05", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 518, "end_char": 524, "tid": "t32", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 598, "end_char": 606, "tid": "t33", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-05", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 875, "end_char": 883, "tid": "t34", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-05", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "the past few weeks", "start_char": 890, "end_char": 908, "tid": "t35", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXW", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t34"}, {"text": "latest", "start_char": 1040, "end_char": 1046, "tid": "t36", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t34"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1088, "end_char": 1094, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1466, "end_char": 1472, "tid": "t38", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1571, "end_char": 1576, "tid": "t39", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-02-06", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t38"}, {"text": "this morning", "start_char": 1639, "end_char": 1651, "tid": "t40", "type": "TIME", "value": "1998-02-06TMO", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t38"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "NYT19980206.0466.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0287\n\nLONDON, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nnext year\n\n\n\n\nBritish Defense Secretary Des Browne said on Monday that British troops in Iraq would be \"significantly lower by thousands\" at the end of next year.\n\nAddressing at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a leading think tank in UK, Browne said, \"by the end of next year, I expect numbers of British forces in Iraq to be significantly lower by a matter of thousands.\"\n\nIn Rome, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi said earlier Monday that Italy will complete its troop withdrawal from Iraq by Dec. 2 after the last soldiers turn over their base in southern Iraq to Iraqi forces.\n\nBrowne, whose country is a close ally of the United States in operations in Iraq, said \"the planning for this (troop reduction in Iraq) has been going on for some months, and I have been pressing our planners to look at all the options, to make sure we do not ask a single soldier to remain in Iraq longer than is necessary.\"\n\n\"In the end of course, it must depend on conditions on the ground, including the level of threat and the capacity of Iraqis to deal with it, and the final decision will be down to our commanders,\" he said.\n\nDuring the speech, Browne expressed hope that local Iraqi troops would take control of Basra in the south of the country in the spring, and he also restated Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett's statement that British-controlled Maysan province could transfer to Iraqi control in January, followed by Basra shortly afterward.\n\nBut he stressed that a handover of troops did not mean a withdrawal because the Iraqis would still need back-up.\n\n\"We need to be clear that handover does not mean withdrawal,\" the secretary said, adding \"even when all of the provinces are handed over we will still be providing a force to mentor and back up the Iraqi army and police, and to protect Coalition supply routes.\"\n\nCurrently, Britain has some 7,000 troops in southern Iraq, most in the Basra area and about 800 in Maysan province. Since 2003, there are 126 British soldiers killed in Iraq.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 115, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of next year", "start_char": 197, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of next year", "start_char": 325, "end_char": 345, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 502, "end_char": 508, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 2", "start_char": 568, "end_char": 574, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "some months", "start_char": 813, "end_char": 824, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 1468, "end_char": 1475, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 2014, "end_char": 2018, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0287.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0252\n\nHONG KONG, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapanese consul calls for more Chinese military transparency (picture)\n\n\n\n\nJapan's consul general here called on China Tuesday to be more transparent in its military strategy, and stressed the importance of the US military presence in the region to maintain stability.\n\nHideaki Ueda called on Beijing to issue defence White Papers in order to make its defence strategy clear.\n\n\"We are arguing with the Chinese side to issue defence White Papers to make the issue more transparent. I think they are trying to improve their transparency in this respect,\" he told a lunch meeting here.\n\nLast November, Ieda's Consulate General was besieged by protesters backing Chinese claims to a Japanese-occupied island chain in the East China Sea.\n\nThe dispute over the islands known as Senkaku to the Japanese and Daioyu to the Chinese has been a long-running bone of contention between the Asian giants, and seen by both sides as a potential regional flashpoint.\n\nUeda defended the US military role in Asia, and specifically Japan, despite a growing chorus of protest back home against US bases there.\n\nThe anger at the presence of 47,000 US troops in Japan has been fuelled by the alleged assault on a Japanese woman by a US navy petty officer and the 1995 rape of a 12-year-old schoolgirl by US troops in Okinawa in 1995.\n\nThe United States wants written assurances that its troops and aircraft will be able to use Japanese facilities and move through the country in the event of a crisis on the Korean peninsula, or other conflicts.\n\n\"The US military presence in Asia is a very important factor to stabilise the situation,\" Ueda said.\n\n\"It is Japan's security agreement (with the United States) which is responsible for our security and secondly the security of Asia.\"\n\nWhile not mentioning the islands row, Ueda said that possible tension was easily visible in the region; \"You only have to look at the Korean peninsula.\"\n\nHe said China was, understandably, modernising her military capacity,\n\nBilateral,and regional meetings through the ASEAN regional foum and other bodies, were useful for increasing mutual understanding between the regional powers, he added.\n\n\"Japan welcomes advances in Sino-US relations, and as Japan sees the US and China as the key to peace in Asia, we all depend on China's emergence as a constructive member of the international community and a continued US military presence,\" Ueda said.\n\nHe voiced confidence over Hong Kong's future under Chinese rule and said Japan urged China and Britian \"to work together to achieve the smooth handover that will ensure Hong Kong's future prosperity and stability.\"\n\n\"We are ready to support a Hong Kong governed by Hong Kong people, an autonomous Hong Kong backed by the one country, two systems\" policy devised for its future, he added.\n\nHong Kong returns to Chinese rule in July after more than 150 years as a British colony.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 182, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last November", "start_char": 640, "end_char": 653, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1361, "end_char": 1365, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 2890, "end_char": 2894, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 150 years", "start_char": 2901, "end_char": 2920, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P150Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0252.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0225\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRussian official denies reports of human cases of bird flu\n\n\n\n\nRussian Health and Social Development Minister Mikhail Zurabov on Thursday denied reports of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the country.\n\n\"I don't have any information about the mass contagion of bird flu in the Ulyanovsk region,\" Zurabov was quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency as saying.\n\n\"The data I have lead me to assume this information is somewhat distorted,\" the minister said.\n\nIsolated instances of humans contracting bird flu have been registered worldwide. They all involved the spread of the virus from birds to humans, not from humans to humans, Zurabov said.\n\nThe world community is racing to prevent a bird flu pandemic by various means, including vaccination, he added.\n\nSo far, eight Russian regions have been affected by bird flu since its outbreak in July. The virus, strains of which can spread to humans and can be fatal, has claimed the lives of more than 60 people in Southeast Asia since 2003.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 193, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 904, "end_char": 908, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1046, "end_char": 1050, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0225.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0273\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 12 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nDengue death toll rises to 41 in Pakistan\n\n\n\n\nPakistani Health Ministry Monday said mosquito-borne dengue fever so far has caused 41 deaths across the country since early October and the patients declared positive for dengue virus reached 1,576.\n\nAs many as 4,397 patients with symptoms similar to dengue fever have been admitted to hospitals across Pakistan till Monday evening, said the health ministry, quoted by the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan (APP).\n\nAmong the 41 deaths, 39 are from south province Sindh and two others from North West Frontier Province, said the APP.\n\nA total of 664 patients with suspected dengue fever symptoms have so far been admitted to hospitals in federal capital Islamabad and the garrison city Rawlapindi, where positive cases of dengue virus stands at 247, it added.\n\nDengue fever is an acute, infectious tropical disease caused by an arbovirus transmitted by mosquitoes, and characterized by high fever, rash, headache, and severe muscle and joint pain, according to experts of the disease.\n\nAuthorities have launched a nationwide campaign to create public awareness about the disease, and local government bodies have been directed to take precautionary measures to avoid spread of the virus, like spraying mosquitocide, the APP said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 12 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday evening", "start_char": 423, "end_char": 437, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0273.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0360\n\nATHENS, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSurvey shows Greeks pessimistic about economy\n\n\n\n\nThe majority of Greeks, along with other Europeans, are pessimistic about the state of the economy and their purchasing power, according to a survey by Deloitte released on Wednesday.\n\nIn Greece, 59 percent of respondents saw their economy as being in recession, with almost a quarter believing that the financial status of their households will improve.\n\nThe remainder either believes that their circumstances will worsen or stay the same, said the report entitled Year-End Holiday Survey 2006.\n\nIn addition, Greece belongs to a group of countries that are showing a strong inclination to spend more on gifts on the holiday period this year. The other countries in the group were Cyprus, North Africa and Ireland.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 738, "end_char": 747, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0360.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0577\n\nWASHINGTON, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIMF call for study of impact of EMU\n\n\n\n\nThe top policy-making body of the IMF Monday ordered a broad study of the implications of European Monetary Union (EMU) for the world monetary system.\n\nThe committee, grouping finance ministers and central bankers of 24 countries representing the entire IMF membership said in a statement it \"welcomed the progress made toward establishing conditions for EMU.\"\n\nIt said the creation of EMU was \"one of the most important international monetary developments in the post-Bretton Woods period.\"\n\nThe statement said the IMF's Executive Board \"will undertake a broad programme to assess the implications of EMU for the international monetary system and for the Fund.\"\n\nIMF Managing Director Michel Camdessus earlier told the committee that IMF surveillance of the new euro area, due to come into being in 1999, would be \"a challenge for the Fund\" because of the weight in the monetary system of the countries likely to take part.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 898, "end_char": 902, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0577.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0287\n\nDOHA, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nSouth Korea swept the four golf gold medals at the Asian Games here Monday as Kim Kyung-Tae came from behind to powered the country to its first men's team title in 20 years.\n\nGoing out one stroke off Taiwan's 15-year-old Pan Cheng-Tsung, Kim rolled in three birdies against one bogey to finish the 72-stroke men's individual event on 12-under-par 276.\n\nPan double-bogeyed on the par-4 13th hole where Kim, a 20-year-old university student, birdied and passed him by one stroke. an birdied the 17th hole as desert winds began to blow but could not catch Kim.\n\n\"I started one shot over Pan. I focused on our team's win but this gold medal is a big bonus for me,\" Kim said.\n\nHe said his best play of the day was a tee shot on the crucial 13th hole.\n\n\"I watched the first and second players shoot and I adjusted accordingly. I changed my club to a five iron and that's how I made it,\" he said.\n\nAnother South Korean Kin Do-Hoon Sr., Singapore's Choo Tze-Huang and Michael Eric Bibat of the Philippines finished tied at 279.\n\nKorea's Kang Sung-Hoo was sixth at 281.\n\nLed by the two Kims, South Korea finished atop the team table, comprising the three best scores in each round, at 836. India finished second at 849 and Taiwan third at 850.\n\nRyu So-Yeon won the women's title and South Korea retained the women's team title which they wrested from Taiwan at the last 2002 Asian Games in Busan. They carded a total of 534 strokes with Japan second at 547 and Taiwan third at 550.\n\nThe 16-year-old Ryu shot six-under-par 67 to finish the 72-hole event with 29-under 263 on a short course for women, followed by Japan's Mika Miyazato at 272 and fellow Korea Cho He-Yong at 273.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 134, "end_char": 140, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20 years", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 239, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last 2002", "start_char": 1419, "end_char": 1432, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0287.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0062\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nForeign-funded Banks(4)\n\n\n\n\nArticle 13 A foreign bank that has already established an operational foreign-funded bank within the territory of the People's Republic of China shall not establish a new representative office if it has already maintained a representative office, with the exception of establishment of a representative office in the areas covered by the regional development strategy or other related policies of the State.\n\nIf a representative office is changed with approval into an operational foreign-funded bank, the foreign bank shall go through the procedures for cancellation of registration of the original representative office in accordance with law.\n\nArticle 14 Where applying for establishing an operational foreign-funded bank, the applicant shall first apply for the preparation of the bank and submit the following application documents to the banking regulatory agency in the place where the proposed bank is to be established:\n\n(1) an application letter, including the name, location, registered capital or operating capital, the business scope of the proposed bank;\n\n(2) a feasibility study report;\n\n(3) the draft articles of association of the proposed wholly foreign-funded bank or Chinese-foreign joint venture bank;\n\n(4) the business contract signed by all shareholders of the proposed wholly foreign-funded bank or Chinese-foreign joint venture bank;\n\n(5) articles of association of the shareholder of the proposed wholly foreign-funded bank or Chinese-foreign joint venture bank or of the foreign bank applying to establish a branch;\n\n(6) the organizational chart, name-list of major shareholders, overseas establishments and associated enterprises of the shareholder of the proposed wholly foreign-funded bank or Chinese-foreign joint venture bank or of the foreign bank applying to establish a branch and its parent group;\n\n(7) annual reports for the most recent three years of the shareholder of the proposed wholly foreign-funded bank or Chinese-foreign joint venture bank, or of the foreign bank applying to establish a branch;\n\n(8) anti-money laundering systems adopted by the shareholder of the proposed wholly foreign-funded bank or Chinese-foreign joint venture bank, or by the foreign bank applying to establish a branch;\n\n(9) photocopies of the business licence or the financial services permit, and the written opinions on the application issued by the financial regulatory authority of the home country or region of the shareholder of the proposed wholly foreign-funded bank, or of the foreign shareholder of the proposed Chinese-foreign joint venture bank, or of the foreign bank applying to establish a branch; and\n\n(10) other documents specified by the banking regulatory agency of the State Council.\n\nThe banking regulatory agency in the place where the proposed bank is to be established shall submit the application documents together with its examination opinion to the banking regulatory agency of the State Council in due time. (more)", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent three years", "start_char": 1952, "end_char": 1970, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-17T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0062.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061223.0310\n\nSYDNEY, Dec 24 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Neil Sands\n\n\n\n\nForecasters have tipped rough conditions for this year's Sydney to Hobart yacht race, where the \"supermaxis\" are again expected to dominate the Australian bluewater classic beginning December 26.\n\nInitial warnings that gale force winds would buffet the 78-strong fleet have eased but crews will still have to contend with gusts of 30 knots as they make their way down Australia's east coast.\n\nConditions mean Australian supermaxi Wild Oats' record time of one day, 18 hours, 40 minutes and 10 seconds set last year is not expected to come under threat in the 62nd running of the 628-nautical mile race.\n\nThe Bureau of Meteorology said the weather was expected to be \"uncomfortable\" rather than \"dangerous\", as originally forecast.\n\nThe easing weather will also lessen organisers' fears of a catastrophe like 1998, when six sailors drowned in mountainous seas, although Quantum Racing skipper Ray Roberts said race-goers would still be wary.\n\n\"Everybody's saying the winds are lightening off but I still think 30 knots is not light,\" Roberts said. \"To win this race you've got to finish the race.\"\n\nHe said many people thought Bass Strait, between the Australian mainland and the island state Tasmania, was the toughest part of the race but failed to appreciate the difficulty of sailing the New South Wales coast.\n\n\"You've got a relatively shallow continental shelf and a hard southerly breeze pushing against a strong current so you've got very steep waves,\" he said.\n\n\"You could see a few boats damaging their gear in the first 24 hours and that's the trick -- you've got to be nursing the boat in the first 24 hours so that you can take advantage later.\"\n\nOnline bookmaker Centrebet has last year's winner Wild Oats as the favourite for line honours, with the 98 footer (30 metres) supermaxi paying 1.55 dollars for a 1.00 bet.\n\nNext are the supermaxis Maximus from New Zealand, paying 5.00 dollars, and Australia's Skandia, paying 5.50.\n\nWild Oats won convincingly in a preliminary race on Sydney Harbour earlier this month.\n\nMaximus co-owner Charles St Clair Brown said the race's record keepers would not be troubled if the current forecast held true.\n\n\"The sad thing is it's decidedly not a record-breaking forecast and our goal for this boat was to create race records,\" he said. \"We're not going to have a chance to do that.\"\n\nEd Psaltis, skipper of AFR Midnight Rambler, said the weather may prevent the supermaxis dominating the early stages of the event.\n\n\"The weather forecast is for a slow start and a relatively fast finish which normally suits the smaller style boat,' Psaltis said.\n\n\"That's good news for us that no-one's going to get too far away from us in the first day and a half.\"\n\nHowever, David Kent, the skipper of Gillawa, the yacht that came last in the 2005 event, four day behind the winner, said merely finishing the race was an achievement for his inexperienced crew.\n\n\"I've got a little bit of competitive spirit and I don't like the word last, but in reality, where else are we going to be positioned?\" he said.\n\n\"I take on the rookies. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0331\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nURGENT: Six-party talks begins in Beijing\n\n\n\n\nThe fifth round of the six-party talks on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue began at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at Beijing's Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.\n\nThe talks involves China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the United States, Republic of Korea, Russia and Japan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10:00 a.m.", "start_char": 188, "end_char": 198, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 199, "end_char": 208, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0331.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0358\n\nGAZA, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st Lead: Two Italians released shortly after abduction in Gaza\n\n\n\n\nTwo 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\n\"Then the two walked towards the police station,\" they said, adding that security members who arrived the scene shortly after receiving the report from the police station have taken the two to a hotel in Gaza.\n\nHowever, the kidnappers' identity is still unknown as no one had claimed responsibility for the abduction, said the officials.\n\nFor fear of more such abduction of its members, the local Red Cross office announced to suspend its activities in the area shortly before their release.\n\nThe two Italians were abducted by unknown militants in an area between the towns of Khan Younis and Deir el-Ballah in the afternoon.\n\nThe kidnapping was the latest in a spate of abductions of foreigners and journalists in Gaza in recent months.\n\nIn October, two Spanish citizens, one was the photographer of the Associated Press and the other works for a humanitarian organization, were also abducted. They were freed shortly after the abduction.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 221, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent months", "start_char": 1214, "end_char": 1227, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1233, "end_char": 1240, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0358.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0126\n\nGAZA, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHamas, Jihad reject Palestinian-Israeli deal on Gaza crossings\n\n\n\n\nThe Islamic Resistance Movement ( Hamas) and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) rejected on Wednesday a US- brokered agreement reached between the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Israel on Gaza border crossings.\n\nThe two groups said in two separate statements that the agreement reached under the sponsorship of the United States has harmed the Palestinian sovereignty and despised the Palestinian dignity.\n\nHamas condemned the PNA's approval of the agreement that was reached on Tuesday after intense mediation by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.\n\n\"The Israelis have the ability to observe the Palestinians or any visitors via the Rafah crossing through cameras and through the joint control room,\" the Hamas statement said.\n\nJihad echoed Hamas' criticism, saying the Israeli-Palestinian joint monitoring of the Rafah crossing indicated that the Gaza Strip was still under the Israeli control.\n\nJihad also rebuked the US for interfering into the Gaza border issue for the sake of Israel while neglecting other important issues such as the Israeli settlement expansion in the West Bank and the building of a separation barrier.\n\nUnder the deal, the key Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border will be re-opened as of Nov. 25 under the presence of European Union security monitors. All Palestinian identification card holders can travel through the crossing in both directions.\n\nThe Rafah crossing is the only exit for Palestinians living in Gaza to travel abroad. The terminal has remained closed since Israel withdrew from the entire strip in September.\n\nFearing that the Rafah crossing might be used by Palestinian militants to smuggle weapons, Israel had insisted on monitoring goods and people through the terminal, but Palestinians asserted that no Israelis should be at Rafah.\n\nThe two sides finally reached a compromise that Israeli and Palestinian security officers will co-monitor the traffic at Rafah by remote-control cameras in a control room a few kilometers away from the crossing.\n\nMeanwhile, the agreement says a seaport can be constructed in Gaza, the Karni crossing on the eastern Gaza border will be expanded and that Palestinians can travel between Gaza and the West Bank in bus and truck convoys within months.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 604, "end_char": 611, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 25", "start_char": 1348, "end_char": 1355, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1675, "end_char": 1684, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0126.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0326\n\nDOHA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBadminton schedule fixed one day before competition\n\n\n\n\nThe team competition schedule of badminton at the Doha Asian Games was fixed here on Wednesday, just one day before the beginning of the events.\n\nArccording to chief umpire Moham Dharan, the schedule was changed in demands of some teams who were not satisfied with playing twice a day.\n\n\"The schedule has been decided already. We don't call it a ' problem' but an 'issue'. All was right in format,\" said Dharan.\n\nSince there must be a team in each group playing twice a day, the final schedule sets the team lowest in rankings in each group to \"suffer\" it. \"They have to accept it,\" said Dharan, who refused to call those teams the weakest but the \"third teams\".\n\nIn men's team event, India, Vietnam and Japan are slated to play twice in Nov. 30. Indonesia, Singapore and Chinese Taipei are pitted against two rivals each in Dec. 2.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 30", "start_char": 848, "end_char": 855, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 2", "start_char": 935, "end_char": 941, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0326.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0212\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: WB praises Africa's progress in poverty eradication\n\n\n\n\nRoundup: WB praises Africa's progress in poverty eradication\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 2 (Xinhua) -- World Bank says Africa has shown tangible progress in the effort to uplift millions of people out of poverty line.\n\nThe World Bank's annual study of the continent found that 16 African states had managed to maintain annual economic growth of more than 4.5 percent since the 1990s.\n\nThe report released in Nairobi Thursday said many African countries, including Senegal, Mozambique, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Uganda, Ghana and Cape Verde, have lifted significant percentages of their citizens above the poverty line and might well be on course to meeting the income poverty Millennium Development Goal ( MDG) target of halving poverty by 2010.\n\nThe annual World Bank publication, African Development Indicators (ADI) 2006, depicts diverse continent, with several countries making remarkable progress, some stagnating and others lagging seriously behind.\n\n\"Africa today is a continent on the move, making tangible progress on delivering better health, education, growth, trade and poverty-reduction outcomes,\" said Gobind Nankani, the bank's vice- president for the Africa region.\n\nThe bank's report highlighted the extreme diversity of economic achievement in Africa.\n\nThe report says the full spectrum of achievers and laggards stretches from Zimbabwe, which recorded a negative growth rate of 2. 4 percent -- the only country with a negative growth rate in 2004 on the continent.\n\n\"While economic outcomes are increasingly diverse, Africa has made near uniform progress in social outcomes, notably education and health,\" explained John Page, the bank's chief economist for the Africa region, adding that Africa's per capita income is now increasing in tandem with other developing countries.\n\nThe report also noted that inflation on the continent was down to historic lows, and that the region had managed to weather the impact of higher oil prices in recent years.\n\nOn a more negative note, the bank said foreign investment in the continent was just 10.1 billion U.S. dollars in 2004 -- only 1.6 percent of global foreign investment -- and that more than 50 percent of the funds were spent in Nigeria and Sudan.\n\nThe report also highlighted the difficulty of starting a business in many parts of Africa -- taking, across the continent, an average of 64 days.\n\nIn its latest Africa report, the World Bank said that many countries had made good progress in meeting some of the other MDGs, such as getting more young children into primary education and improving child mortality.\n\nLooking forward, it said improved governance and management of natural resources was a key requirement, particularly with African nations due to receive a 200 billion dollars windfall from oil revenues between 2000 and 2010.\n\nIt said it was seeing signs that African leaders were taking more responsibility for improving governance and assisting the private sector in attracting foreign investment and boosting trade with growing markets like those in China and India.\n\n\"The good news includes confirmation that primary enrollment rates have risen significantly across the continent. HIV/AIDS prevalence and child mortality rates have started to fall and the gender gap has started to shrink in several countries.\"\n\n\"Gross primary enrollment rates as a share of the relevant age group -- a standard indicator of investment in the poor -- shot up to 93 percent in 2004 from 72 percent in 1990, contributing to a rise in literacy rates from 50 percent in 1997 to 65 percent in 2002,\" explained Page.\n\nHe regretted that success increasing primary enrollments from 70 percent in 1991 to above 90 percent in 2004 has not been mirrored in secondary and tertiary education.\n\nDespite the tangible progress, ADI 2006 highlights the numerous challenges facing Africa, the lone region of the world where the number of the poor continues to rise.\n\nThe ADI 2006 calls for the lifting of burdensome rules of origin through reforms in the U.S. African Growth and Opportunity Act and the EU's Everything But Arms initiative, but also for reforms \" behind the border\" (within African 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0246\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMalaysia holds grand fashion festival\n\n\n\n\nMalaysia on Thursday started to hold a grand fashion festival in Asia, which it called the largest fashion marathon in the region.\n\nThe four-day event entitled \"Kuala Lumpur-Asia Fashion Week 2005\" was opened at Avenue K, a shopping plaza in downtown city, bringing together more than 90 fashion designers from 17 countries and regions, including Australia, Japan, India, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar, the Republic of Korea.\n\nThe fashion week will unroll at several places in the city, where people can watch 12 group day shows, including model parades, and four gala nights entitled \"Asia Magic,\" \"KL Six,\" \"Tribute to Fashion,\" and a final award presentation ceremony.\n\nThe fashion week will feature a unique trade opportunity for local and international designers, buyers and people in the fashion trade, according to the event organizer Kuala Lumpur-Asia Fashion Week Co.\n\nIt also will provide a platform for fashion professionals and the public to network and find good bargains, including fashion goods from bags to folk clothes and handicrafts, the organizer said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 116, "end_char": 124, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "week", "start_char": 572, "end_char": 576, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0246.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0120\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nAn Iraqi court published its formal written condemnation of Saddam Hussein on Thursday, putting in motion the legal machinery which will lead to his execution, as bombs rocked Baghdad.\n\nThe confirmation of the ousted dictator's death sentence came as his foe US President George W. Bush convened a meeting of his top security advisers to find a way to stem the rising tide of bloodshed in Iraq.\n\nMore than three-and-a-half years after a US-led invasion deposed Saddam's totalitarian regime, the country remains in the grip of a vicious conflict that claims more than 100 Iraqi lives per day.\n\nAmerican soldiers are also still dying in near record numbers; the military confirmed the deaths of three more on Thursday, bringing December's toll to 99, and keeping it on course to be the bloodiest month for US troops this year.\n\nSaddam's imminent demise -- on December 26 a court ordered his execution within 30 days -- has been welcomed by Washington, but US forces are nevertheless braced for a backlash from his remaining supporters.\n\nMeanwhile, sectarian and insurgent violence continues to claim scores of lives every day and make a mockery of promises by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government to put in place a new Baghdad security plan.\n\nSeven people were killed and 25 wounded when two booby traps exploded in a popular Baghdad market during the busy morning shopping rush, military officials and medics at the Al-Kindi hospital said.\n\nThe devices exploded in the Baab al-Sharki neighbourhood in the centre of the Iraqi capital, they said.\n\nAnother 10 people were killed and 35 wounded in east Baghdad near the Shaab stadium when a bomb exploded among a crowd queuing for heating fuel, according to a security official and medics at the Ibn-Nafis hospital.\n\nSouth of the capital, three more civilians were killed in two bomb attacks, according to the defence ministry and the Yarmuk hospital.\n\nMeanwhile, north of Baghdad, two Iraqi soldiers were killed when a booby trap exploded on the highway between the oil refinery depot of Baiji and Saddam's hometown Tikrit, said the local Iraqi-US coordination centre.\n\nAnother three soldiers were wounded in the explosion, which destroyed an Iraqi military vehicle, the source said.\n\nIn Diyala province north of the capital, a police captain and two civilian women were killed by unidentified gunmen in separate attacks, said Lieutenant Ali Khaled of the Baquba police.\n\nThe violence raged on as the Iraqi High Tribunal published a formal written judgement rejecting Saddam's appeal against his death sentence.\n\nThe official release of the judgement, signed by Judge Arif Abdulrazzak Shaheen of the Iraqi High Criminal Court in Baghdad, set in motion procedures which should lead to Saddam being executed within days or weeks.\n\n\"The court decided to endorse the condemnation and punishment of the condemned, Saddam Hussein, Barzan Ibrahim Hassan and Awad Ahmed al-Bandar, by hanging, for committing a deliberate crime against humanity,\" it said.\n\nThe 17-page ruling was published on the website of the Iraqi High Tribunal, which on November 5 convicted Saddam, his half-brother and intelligence chief Hassan and former judge Bandar of ordering the deaths of 148 Shiite villagers.\n\nFollowing the formal release of the judgement, the responsibility for organising the execution of the defendants passes to Iraq's government, court officials said. Iraq's cabinet was in session Thursday morning.\n\nLater in the day, in the calmer surroundings of Bush's Texas ranch, the US president was to assemble his top aides to review his Iraq strategy and the role of America's 129,000 troops deployed in the country.\n\n\"That will be a meeting of all the members ... of the National Security Council,\" said Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman.\n\n\"This is a time for the president to be talking with his advisers about all the potential options, making sure that due consideration is given to the next steps, making sure that we're thinking through the new way forward in Iraq.\"\n\nBush is expected to deliver a speech announcing a new way forward in Iraq sometime early in the New Year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 147, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 776, "end_char": 784, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 795, "end_char": 803, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 883, "end_char": 892, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 26", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 937, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "30 days", "start_char": 975, "end_char": 982, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P30D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every day", "start_char": 1183, "end_char": 1192, "tid": "t8", "type": "SET", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the busy morning", "start_char": 1421, "end_char": 1437, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "days or weeks", "start_char": 2834, "end_char": 2847, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 5", "start_char": 3154, "end_char": 3164, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 3497, "end_char": 3513, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the New Year", "start_char": 4179, "end_char": 4191, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0120.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0175\n\nZHANGJIAKOU, North China, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nJapan wins men's title of FIS Alpine ski competition in China\n\n\n\n\nJapan won the first gold medal awarded in the 2005 International Ski Federation (FIS) Alpine Ski Competition in China which opened here on Tuesday.\n\nTakeda Ryu clocked a total of two minutes 26.85 seconds in the two runs of the men's giant slalom event to win the gold, followed\n\nby Kim Min-Sung of South Korea with 2:27.13.\n\nThe bronze medal went to Hur Seung-Wook of South Korea at 2:27. 14.\n\nIn the women's event, South Korean Oh Jae-Eun claimed the title\n\nwith 2:34.77 and Yamazaki Yurie of Japan won the silver with 2:36. 50.\n\nChina's Dong Jinzhi won the bronze medal with 2:38.35.\n\n\"This is the best result of Chinese skiiers in the international competitions.\" said Tian Younian, vice-president of the China Ski Association, \"It is very encouraging for all Chinese skiers.\"\n\nThe competition, runs from November 29 to December 2, featured 120 skiers from seven countries and regions including Japan, South\n\nKorea, Chinese Taipei and France.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 49, "end_char": 63, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two minutes 26.85 seconds", "start_char": 319, "end_char": 344, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2:27.13", "start_char": 456, "end_char": 463, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29T13:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2:27. 14", "start_char": 524, "end_char": 532, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29T14:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 29", "start_char": 949, "end_char": 960, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2", "start_char": 964, "end_char": 974, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0175.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0521\n\nROME, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nItaly's local polls a boost for Communists by Alain Jean-Robert\n\n\n\n\nItaly's weekend municipal elections were a shot in the arm for the Refounded Communists, whose support is crucial to the survival of the centre-left coalition which governs the country.\n\nThe particularly strong showing by the Refounded Communist party emboldened its leader Fausto Bertinotti to serve notice that it wants a more prominent role in the country's political life.\n\nThe Marxist party's performance in the polls, in which one-fifth of the electorate voted in around 1,000 municipalities, made it \"unthinkable\" to ignore \"a political force that is winning support from a growing proportion of the voters,\" Bertinotti told reporters.\n\nHe promptly suggested \"a formal government agreement on a programme (of action) between the Refounded Communist and the parties of the current government coalition,\" which is dominated by the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS), itself formerly communist.\n\nThe daily La Stampa commented that the Marxists had a \"spectacular ability to lead the dance,\" but warned that their victory \"could complicate the task of the government,\" adding that the ruling coalition would be forced to lean further to the left.\n\nThe Corriere Della Sera daily described the situation as a \"serious problem\" for Prime Minister Romano Prodi and PDS leader Massimo D'Alema.\n\nUndaunted, D'Alema on Monday said he would go ahead with institutional reforms necessary for Italy's membership in the single European currency, despite the Communists' opposition to social spending cuts.\n\n\"The government should make its decision in accordance with the general interests of the country and not the Refounded Communists,\" he said.\n\nThe centre-left coalition's dependence on the Communists' support in the lower house was amply demonstrated early this month when their opposition to the deployment of Italian troops in Albania nearly brought down the government.\n\nThe big loser in the municipal polls was the Northern League, which has paid for its secessionist aspirations with Milan's city hall, whose mayor was voted out Sunday.\n\nThe League's Marco Formentini came in third behind two business leaders, Gabriele Albertini for the right, with 40.2 percent of the vote, and Aldo Fumagalli for the left, who garnered 27.4 percent.\n\nAt least Formentini won enough support -- 20 percent -- to swing the second round, scheduled for May 11.\n\nThe PDS announced in Rome that talks were taking place between centre- left parties and the communists to reach an accord on presenting a single candidate, with the less well-placed candidate standing down, against centre-right candidates in the second round of elections scheduled to take place on May 11.\n\nParty official Marco Menitti said the logic of the second round was \"to enlarge the alliance so as to reach a different result from the first round.\"\n\nThe Northern League's decline became irreversible last September, when party leader Umberto Bossi solemnly proclaimed the independence of Padania, the League's name for the northern region.\n\nThe celebration on the banks of the River Po was a fiasco, failing to attract the huge crowds that Bossi had predicted.\n\nIn Turin, the hub of Italy's automobile industry, outgoing Olive Tree Mayor Valentino Castellani is hoping for a better showing in the runoff, after being forced into second place by right-wing candidate Raffaele Costa. Costa took around 43.5 percent of the vote to Castellani's 34 percent.\n\nIn Trieste, centre-left Mayor Ricardo Illy came in well in front with 38 percent of the vote, but will face one of two centre-right candidates who each took about 21.7 percent in the second round.\n\nElsewhere, the left won the central cities of Siena and Ravenna outright, as well as the northern town of Belluno.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "daily", "start_char": 1295, "end_char": 1300, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1435, "end_char": 1441, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early this month", "start_char": 1869, "end_char": 1885, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2152, "end_char": 2158, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 11", "start_char": 2457, "end_char": 2463, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 11", "start_char": 2765, "end_char": 2771, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-05-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last September", "start_char": 2975, "end_char": 2989, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0521.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0115\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nDaimlerChrysler to cut thousands more jobs: report\n\n\n\n\nDaimlerChrysler, the German-US auto giant, plans to axe several thousand more jobs on top of the recent job cuts announced at its prestigious Mercedes brand, the regional daily Stuttgarter Zeitung reported on Friday.\n\nDaimlerChrysler's supervisory board was scheduled to examine a working paper drawn up by the management board that entailed big job cuts between 2006 and 2008, the newspaper said, without revealing its sources.\n\nHowever, a formal decision was not expected to be announced after the meeting, it added.\n\nDaimlerChrysler was not immediately available to comment on the report.\n\nBut the car maker recently embarked on a restructuring at its Mercedes division that would entail the loss of 8,500 jobs in Germany over the next 12 months.\n\nStuttgarter Zeitung said the new job cuts would affect the heavy trucks divsion, which has hitherto been spared any blood-letting.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 313, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 471, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 12 months", "start_char": 834, "end_char": 852, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P12M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0115.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0174\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nFew Chinese college students remember parents' birthdays: survey\n\n\n\n\nOnly one tenth of college students remember their parents' birthdays, while nearly half of them have never done anything to move their father and mother, according to a recent survey conducted in central China's Henan Province.\n\nTwo hundred students from four local universities were questioned on a number of issues prior to the Thanksgiving Day, an American festival which is gaining acceptance among Chinese young people.\n\nAccording to the survey, only 10 percent of the students are capable of writing down their parents' birthdays, 33 percent want to celebrate their birthday with their parents, and 16 percent said they had moved their parents when they presented birthday gifts.\n\n\"When I filled out the survey, I suddenly realized how little I had done for my parents,\" said Yang Bo, a student from the Henan University of Industry.\n\nLike Yang, many students found it very difficult to fill out the form, even though the questions looked simple.\n\nYang Jie, a girl student from the Henan University of Agriculture, said many students hold a big birthday dinner with their classmates, forgetting to thank their parents on the day. \"Everyone's birthday is a day of suffering for their mother, so people should at least call their parents to express their gratitude on that special day,\" she said.\n\nMost Chinese parents, however, prefer to see their children get a good exam score rather than receive a birthday call. \"An excellent school report is better than anything else,\" said a local woman named Fu, whose son is an 18-year student.\n\nChinese students, mostly from one-child families, are the focus of the family and are growing up to be careless of others, said Peng Yi, a licensed psychiatrist.\n\nPeng said that, traditionally, Chinese parents never demand anything from their children, and the children believe they deserve everything their parents have done for them.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thanksgiving Day", "start_char": 456, "end_char": 472, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 1253, "end_char": 1260, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "that special day", "start_char": 1398, "end_char": 1414, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0174.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0370\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNepal forwards 100-item list for duty free access to China\n\n\n\n\nNepal forwarded on Wednesday a list of over 100 items to the Chinese government for the purpose of acquiring duty free market access to China, a Nepali official said here.\n\nThe list has been forwarded after China agreed to consider positively on providing zero tariff facility to certain products of Nepali in bilateral ministerial-level meeting held in August this year, said Naindra Prasad Upadhyaya, joint secretary of Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies.\n\n\"We have identified over 100 products which could help Nepali export volume to rise and to bridge the widening trade deficit in preferential trading regime,\" Upadhyaya noted.\n\nThe list includes all major items which are already enjoying good growth in export and possess further growth potential in the Chinese market, and also the ones which are subjected to higher customs duty by China, said Upadhyaya.\n\nHandicrafts, incense sticks, vegetable ghee, biscuits, noodles, cosmetics, cement, iron rod, paint, refined wheat flour, rice, vegetables, fruits and processed meat are among the major products included in the list.\n\nWhile handicrafts, vegetable ghee, noodles, wheat flour, vegetables and fruits are among the products whose export volume has been increasing fast in recent years, cement and other construction materials have been included considering their future export potential.\n\nItems such as cosmetics, processed meat and other fast-moving consumer goods are also identified as products which can post robust growth in export if taxes imposed on them are waived off, Upadhyaya said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August this year", "start_char": 476, "end_char": 492, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1364, "end_char": 1376, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0370.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0269\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 17 , 2006, 2006\n\nIraq peace talks end in broad-based proposals\n\n\n\n\nLeaders of Iraq's bitterly divided political parties unveiled a series of reform ideas Sunday after two days of peace talks aimed at ending the bloodshed engulfing the country.\n\nBut a conference spokesman told AFP that delegates had managed to make only one practical suggestion amid various declarations of good intent, an apparent sign that the much-hyped event had ended in disappointment.\n\n\"The only important practical measure recommended by the conference is paying sizeable pensions to former soldiers,\" Naseer al-Ani told AFP.\n\nOn Saturday, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki invited some Saddam Hussein-era servicemen to join his armed forces and offered pensions to the others in an olive branch to a community that has filled the ranks of the insurgency.\n\n\"Other than that, participants reiterated slogans about national unity and expressed good intentions for reforms that will have to be approved (by government and parliament),\" said Ani.\n\nThe four committees that compiled the string of recommendations, after two days of talks that Maliki had hoped would isolate insurgents, will now work on implementing their suggestions with government and parliament.\n\nOne recommendation would see Iraq reinstate compulsory military service, another suggests independent deputy ministers to be appointed alongside political appointees, and a third wants the Iraqi constitution reviewed.\n\nYet participants still reaffirmed the principle of articles in the constitution that bans the Baath Party as a political entity.\n\nTens of thousands of Baathists and Saddam-era military officers were purged from the public service in the aftermath of the March 2003 US-led invasion, with many going on to swell the ranks of groups fighting the new Shiite-led government.\n\nThere is now a growing consensus that more junior party members not proven to have supported Saddam-era atrocities or the post-invasion rebellion should be allowed into the political process as a gesture of reconciliation.\n\nThe conference marked the first attempt by the coalition government to draw former members of Saddam's army and Baath party into the political process.\n\nBut while a small number of former Baathists attended, delegates were disappointed that few representatives of insurgent groups turned up.\n\nIraq is in the grip of a dirty war between rival Sunni and Shiite factions battling for turf and political power in the chaos that has descended on the country as the government and US military battle Sunni insurgents.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 190, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days", "start_char": 203, "end_char": 211, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 642, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days", "start_char": 1129, "end_char": 1137, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 2003", "start_char": 1749, "end_char": 1759, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1875, "end_char": 1878, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061217.0269.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0231\n\nBUENOS AIRES, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nColon ends Boca Juniors' winning run\n\n\n\n\nColon, the Santa Fe team, beat soccer giant Boca Juniors, bringing the team's seven-match winning streak to an end, Argentine media reported on Sunday.\n\nThis weekend's results changed the leader board of Argentina's Apertura 2005 tournament dramatically: Boca now finds itself sharing the lead with Gymnasio and Esgrime La Plata, following wins by those two teams. All three have 28 points.\n\nSpanish mid-fielder Ivan Moreno y Fabianesi, a Badajoz native, scored Colon's winning goal in the 82nd minute, beating a Boca Juniors team that had been weakened by a busy schedule of league, and Copa SudAmerica commitments.\n\nIndependiete and Velez Sarsfield share second place with 26 points, with five playing days to go in the competition.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 247, "end_char": 253, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 363, "end_char": 366, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 82nd minute", "start_char": 589, "end_char": 604, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0231.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0292\n\nNAIROBI, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nUN envoy calls on donors to help flood-hit Somalis\n\n\n\n\nThe United Nations envoy for Somalia on Tuesday called on the international community to respond generously to the needs of Somali communities affected by rising flood waters.\n\nIn a statement issued in Nairobi, UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Somalia Francois Lonseny Fall said during his visit to Baidoa on Monday, Somali leaders expressed concerns that too little relief was being offered to people in dire need.\n\n\"It was also clear to me that the extent of flooding is beyond anything seen in Somalia in many years,\" Fall said in the statement issued after his visit to the flood-hit Horn of African nation.\n\nIn the past six weeks, most parts of the country have already received more than 300 percent of their normal rainfall. UN agencies and non-governmental organizations are delivering food relief, shelter materials and other emergency support, but more will be needed.\n\nThe UN estimates that about 1.1 million in southern Somalia are already facing a humanitarian emergency and the rainy season will still last several weeks.\n\nFall flew to Baidoa on Monday to emphasize the need for Somalia 's Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs) to remain united.\n\nHe sought assurances from President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi that they were committed to the unity of the TFIs and a resumption of dialogues with the Islamic Courts following the postponement of the third round of the Khartoum peace talks early this month.\n\nThe UN envoy was accompanied to Baidoa by several representatives from the International Advisory Contact Group for Somalia, which was set up earlier this year to assist the peace process.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 159, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 438, "end_char": 444, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "many years", "start_char": 637, "end_char": 647, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past six weeks", "start_char": 745, "end_char": 763, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1189, "end_char": 1195, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 1571, "end_char": 1581, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1734, "end_char": 1743, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0292.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0184\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd ACMECS Summit ends with agreements on expanded regional cooperation\n\n\n\n\nLeaders from five Mekong Delta countries ended a summit meeting Thursday, agreeing on the importance of a joint forward-looking approach in inter-country cooperation to lay a strong foundation for meeting regional needs and achieving regional goals in various areas in the future.\n\nThai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra joined the heads of governments of four other member states of the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Cooperation Strategy (ACMECS), including Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam, in signing the Bangkok Declaration on the agreed cooperation at the end of the Second ACMECS Summit, according to the Thai News Agency.\n\nThe agreements include deepening regional cooperation in areas of high priority, collectively addressing regional threats posed by newly-emerging and re-emerging diseases in a timely manner, bringing more advanced technology to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of ACMECS wherever possible and appropriate and taking collective measures to strengthen the five-nation ACMECS grouping.\n\nAreas of high priority include trade, investment, as well as agricultural, industrial, transport and energy cooperation, in which the five member countries have agreed to reduce tariff barriers, further promote cross border trade by all means and jointly study on alternative energy programs and jointly push for regional transport links.\n\nThe member states recognized the potential threat to human lives as well as to economic development posed by newly emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and diseases related to water, hygiene and food quality and the need to enhance regional preparedness for and effectiveness in tackling such threats.\n\nThey have agreed to endorse the establishment of public health as a new sector of cooperation under ACMECS, undertake concrete collective measures to prevent a regional pandemic of avian influenza as outlined in the ACMECS Leaders' Declaration on Partnership in Combating Avian Influenza and Other Infectious Diseases.\n\nThey also agreed to establish a network of public health agencies to promote information sharing, provide early warning and cooperate on capacity building, identify areas of cooperation and necessary measures to contain trans-border diseases and mitigate their impact.\n\nThailand has also pledged to contribute 100 million baht (2.5 million US dollars) to a regional fund on combating avian flu and preventing its mutation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 401, "end_char": 411, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0184.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0475\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nBush tells of pain over dead soldiers\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush spoke Wednesday of his heartbreak and pain at the deaths of US soldiers in Iraq, but said the best way to honor their sacrifice was to ensure it was not in vain.\n\n\"(The) most painful aspect of my presidency has been knowing that good men and women have died in combat,\" Bush said during a year-end news conference.\n\n\"I read about it every night. I -- my heart breaks for a mother or father or husband and wife or son and daughter,\" he said gravely.\n\n\"I reach out to a lot of the families. I spend time with them. I am always inspired by their spirit.\n\n\"Most people have asked me to do one thing, and that is to make sure that their child didn't die in vain. And I agree with that -- that the sacrifice has been worth it. We'll accomplish our objective.\"\n\n\"You know, my heart breaks for them. It just does -- on a regular basis.\"\n\nHis remarks came after a reporter asked whether he lay awake at night second guessing his decisions, as former US president Lyndon Johnson reputedly did, during the Vietnam War.\n\nThe US death toll in Iraq has now reached 2,947, according to an AFP count based on Pentagon figures. In December alone, at least 64 soldiers have been killed.\n\nBush has been harshly criticized in some quarters for not attending funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq, but frequently holds private meetings with families of the fallen.\n\nThe president also said he was also at peace with the decision to invade Iraq in 2003.\n\n\"I haven't questioned whether or not it was right to take Saddam Hussein out. I mean, I've questioned it -- I've come to the conclusion that it was the right decision.\n\n\"It's the right decision for America to stay engaged, and to take the lead, and to deal with these radicals and extremists, and to help support young democracies.\n\n\"It's the calling of our time, and I firmly believe it is necessary.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 132, "end_char": 141, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every night", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 470, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 1240, "end_char": 1248, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1550, "end_char": 1554, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0475.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0415\n\nSEOUL, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNorth Korea's Kim reviews massive military parade to mark army day by Kate Webb\n\n\n\n\nNorth Korea's uncrowned leader Kim Jong-Il on Friday reviewed a massive military parade in Pyongyang to mark the twin anniversaries of army day and the late leader Kim Il-Sung's birthday.\n\nNorth Korea's mouthpiece Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said the son and heir of Kim Il-Sung reviewed the marchpast from a platform.\n\n\"When Supreme Commander of the KPA (Korean People's Army) comrade Kim Jong-Il appeared on the platform a storm of cheers burst forth,\" KCNA said.\n\nAlso present in his first public appearance in some 16 months was Kang Song-San, 66, believed to have been sacked as North Korea's prime minister.\n\nKCNA in its Korean-language service, did not specify Kang's title, however, making it impossible to confirm whether he remained prime minister, the Jiji Press and Kyodo News agencies said.\n\nThe KCNA's English service did not mention Kang's name.\n\nKang, who reportedly suffers from diabets and other health problems, became premier in the diehard Stalinist state in 1992, but was widely believed to have been dismissed as premier when North Korea's official media referred to Hong Song-Nam as acting premier in late February.\n\nKang's name was absent from a list of members commissioned to prepare for the funeral of the then armed forces minister, Choe Kwang, who died in February.\n\nThe Korean-language KCNA report said that sharing the reviewing platform with the junior Kim at the parade were Vice Presidents Ri Jong-Ok, Pak Song-Chol and Kim Yong-Ju as well as Kang and Kim Pyong- Sik, another vice president.\n\nIt also said they were accompanied by such military officers as Li Ul- Sol, chief of the secret service, and Cho Myong-Rok, head of the general political bureau of the People's Army, the Jiji and Kyodo agencies said.\n\nColumns of guard units, military academies, worker-peasant red guards and young red guards took part in the march, after Kim Jong-Il had taken a salute from Kim Yong-Chun, chief of the general staff of the KPA, and waved to the parade participants, it said.\n\nFriday is marked in North Korea as the official 65th anniversary of the people's army, which traces its birth to the fight against Japanese occupation before the two Koreas were divided after Japan's defeat in World War II.\n\nKim Il-Sung, the country's sole leader until he died in 1994, would have been 85 on April 15 .\n\nKCNA said Kim Il-Sung's portrait, escorted by the colors of the three services, preceded the flag of the \"Supreme Commander of the armed forces,\" the only top official post held by his son.\n\nThe country's presidency, and the key post of Workers' (Communist) party general secretary, have remained vacant since the elder Kim's death.\n\nKCNA said that the junior Kim went on one of his trademark field trips to a KPA unit on Thursday to congratulate it on the anniversary.\n\n\"He noted with great satisfaction that the soldiers (of Unit 969) have grown into invincible combatants able to smash any enemy in one stroke, as taught by the president during his personal visits,\" it said.\n\nOther mass events marking the twin anniversaries were listed by KCNA as the laying of wreaths at the giant statue of Kim Il-Sung in Pyongyang and at the Mount Taesong martyrs cemetery and the unveiling of busts of Korean War heroes.\n\nNo mention was made by the agency of the drastic food shortages facing North Korea which have forced it to call on the international community for the third straight year for massive food aid.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 189, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-02", 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0139\n\nANKARA, Nov. 1 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nFour killed in armed clash in southeastern Turkey\n\n\n\n\nTwo Turkish soldiers and a village guard were killed and four soldiers wounded in a clash between the Turkish security forces and the members of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in southeastern Turkey, an official statement said on Tuesday.\n\nOne PKK member was also killed in the shootout on Monday night as the security forces realized that the PKK members were trying to infiltrate in Uludere town in Sirnak province, Sirnak governor' s office said.\n\nThe PKK has intensified landmine and remote-control bomb attacks in Turkey over the past few months.\n\nAt least 200 Turkish soldiers have been reportedly killed in clashes with PKK this year.\n\nMore than 37,000 people have been killed since the rebel group took up arms against the government forces for an independent Kurdish state in the mainly Kurdish southeastern area in 1984.\n\nViolence resurged after the group called off a unilateral five- year ceasefire in 2004.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 350, "end_char": 357, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday night", "start_char": 410, "end_char": 422, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past few months", "start_char": 651, "end_char": 670, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 751, "end_char": 760, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1984", "start_char": 945, "end_char": 949, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1984", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "year", "start_char": 1016, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1034, "end_char": 1038, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0139.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061229.0474\n\nPARIS, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nSaddam hung despite global condemnation of capital punishment\n\n\n\n\nFrom Sao Paulo to London to New Delhi, governments worldwide have spoken out against the execution of Saddam Hussein, with the Vatican too lending a voice of moral authority to the anti-capital punishment camp.\n\n\"We don't think a crime should be avenged by another crime,\" Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, who heads the Vatican's Justice and Peace department, said this week.\n\nEven Britain, whose Prime Minister Tony Blair has been a staunch US ally since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, reiterated its opposition to capital punishment while saying the decision to execute Saddam rested with Baghdad.\n\n\"We are opposed to the death penalty as a matter of principle but the decision is one for the Iraqi authorities\" a foreign office spokesman told AFP.\n\nThat position was much in line with Washington's own, however.\n\nAsked whether the US government had a hand in deciding when Saddam was to be hanged, a White House spokesman said last week that that \"was a matter for the Iraqi people, and we are observers to that process. They are a sovereign government.\"\n\nBraving the US stand of non-interference, defence lawyers for the convicted former Iraqi chief made a last-ditch bid on Friday and asked a US judge to stop the US military from handing over Saddam to Iraqi authorities for execution.\n\nHours before Saddam was taken to the gallows, the US Justice Department said the attorneys had filed a request for an immediate \"temporary stay of execution\", arguing that as a prisoner of war, he deserved protection under the Geneva Conventions.\n\nA US federal judge rejected the request, CBS news reported.\n\nItaly meanwhile, echoing strong opposition to the execution in European Union countries, issued yet another plea for generosity.\n\n\"No fault can determine one man to be the bearer of death to another,\" said Prime Minister Romano Prodi.\n\n\"This is a principle that unites all civilisations and all religions. And it is the only principle that can allow the building of solid and lasting peace,\" he said.\n\n\"I issue a final and sad plea for wisdom and magnanimity to prevail\", he said, according the ANSA news agency.\n\nBrazil and Chile, both opposed to the US-led war in Iraq, agreed.\n\nSantiago argued against carrying out the hanging after the sentence was confirmed. \"The application of the death penalty in such a swift manner is contrary to our principles,\" a junior minister said Friday.\n\nBrazil added in an official statement that it \"does not believe the execution of the sentence contributes to the pacification of Iraq.\"\n\nIn the United States, two major newspapers also wondered what impact the execution of Saddam would have on Iraq and the world.\n\nThe New York Times took a critical tone, warning that hanging the deposed Iraqi leader would not solve Iraq's ills. \"Toppling Saddam Hussein did not automatically create a new and better Iraq. Executing him won't either.\"\n\nThe Washington Post was more circumspect, saying that the execution came on the heels of an \"imperfect\" trial for Saddam.\n\n\"For those who oppose the death penalty, as we do, any execution is regrettable -- and this one, should it come to pass, will follow highly imperfect judicial proceedings and may, in the short term, inflame sectarian divisions,\" the daily said.\n\nNot unexpectedly, Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi was far harsher, calling Saddam's execution illegal and he was still a prisoner of war.\n\n\"The court which tried him is illegal. Iraq is an occupied country. It is the American and British forces (in Iraq) that judged him and, in this case, decided to execute him, and they bear the responsibility,\" Kadhafi said Friday.\n\nAlthough the condemned man himself has said he would go to the gallows as a potential \"martyr\", India, which enjoyed close ties with Iraq, too appealed for leniency for Saddam this week.\n\n\"India hopes the death sentence against... Saddam Hussein will not be carried out,\" a foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying.\n\nIn a letter penned in his cell and released Wednesday, the 69-year-old former leader convicted for crimes against humanity wrote: \"I sacrifice myself. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0329\n\nAMMAN, Nov. 14 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRice visits Jordan to back anti-terror campaign\n\n\n\n\nUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived here Monday evening to show support to Jordan's anti- terror campaign following last Wednesday's deadly suicide bombings in the Jordanian capital.\n\n\"There is no justification for the wanton killing of innocents and we stand in solidarity with the people of Jordan,\" Rice told reporters during a visit to Radisson SAS hotel, one of three attacked hotels, where at least 20 people were killed.\n\n\"We will all stand until terrorism is defeated and until those who simply want to live a normal life and to live in peace can return to the days when this sort of tragedy, this sort of outrage does not happen,\" she added.\n\nMeanwhile, Jordan's state-run Petra news agency reported that King Abdullah II reaffirmed in his meeting with Rice that the bombings will not \"dissuade Jordan from its active role in supporting peace and security to prevail in the region.\"\n\n\"Terrorism does not only target Jordan, but the whole international community and this requires efforts of all to fight it,\" Abdullah was quoted as saying.\n\nRice also discussed the Mideast peace process with the king and briefed him on talks she held earlier in the day with Palestinian and Israeli leaders, the report said.\n\nRice flew into Amman from Jerusalem.\n\nAl-Qaida branch in Iraq claimed responsibility for the suicide bombings on three Amman hotels, which killed 57 people and wounded over 100.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday evening", "start_char": 159, "end_char": 173, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Wednesday", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 248, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051114.0329.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0040\n\nNEW DELHI, April 16 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndian FM stunned by Mecca fire, sends sympathy to Pakistan, Bangladesh\n\n\n\n\nIndia's Foreign Minister Inder Kumar Gujral expressed grief here Wednesday after an inferno near Mecca killed 217 Moslem pilgrims, including an estimated 100 Indians.\n\nGujral told AFP: \"It's a tragedy, it's very. very sad. So many lives have been lost.\n\n\"These were humans. It's not just Indians. There were people from Pakistan and Bangladesh. I share their grief.\"\n\nA spokesman from the Indian foreign ministry here said earlier: \"We have no means of knowing accurately how many Indians have died.\n\n\"We fear the number will be slightly below 100. That is what we suspect.\"\n\nThe Saudi authorities Wednesday increased the overall toll from the blaze in Mina, near Mecca, to 217. Another 1,290 people were injured, many seriously.\n\nThe inferno was sparked by a gas cooking bottle. Thousands of tents in camps housing pilgrims from Pakistan, India, Jordan and Palestine were burnt down.\n\nGujral said around 60 Indian doctors working in the region had been alerted while India's junior home minister, Maqbool Dhar, was already on the spot to supervise assistance.\n\n\"We have set up a control office here and in Jeddah to co-ordinate the operation -- I hope we can provide some help.\"\n\nThe foreign ministry spokesman, however, added: \"We will have to wait for the pilgrims to return to Mecca from Arafat to know exactly how many are missing ... it is not an easy job.\"\n\nEarlier, the Press Trust of India (PTI), quoting India's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, estimated the Indian dead at around 100. He said another 37 Indians had been hospitalised.\n\nAmbassador M.H. Ansari said: \"We are in a crisis situation.\"\n\nAround 4,000 Indian pilgrims were housed in a camp near the site of the tragedy. The foreign ministry spokesman said there had been 80,000 Indians among the two million pilgrims.\n\nA prominent Indian Moslem cleric, meanwhile, said it was \"highly regrettable\" that there had not been better safety measures and called for a ban of cooking inside Hajj pilgrim camps.\n\n\"When a fire starts in the tents housing the pilgrims, it tends to spread very fast because of strong winds,\" said Mohammed Mouzzam Ahmed of the Fatehpuri mosque, one of India's biggest Islamic shrines.\n\n\"While the Saudi authorities make excellent arrangements, their fire- fighting measures are somewhat lacking. This is highly regrettable.\n\n\"There should be a centralised cooking system, and that place should be heavily protected against fires.\"\n\nIndia's population of 950 million is made up of a majority of Hindus, but includes around 120 million Moslems.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 16 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 731, "end_char": 740, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970416.0040.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0297\n\nHAVANA, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTrinidad, Bahrain play World Cup play-off on Saturday\n\n\n\n\nTrinidad and Tobago will play the first leg of the two-match play-offs against Bahrain for a place in the 2006 German World Cup, in Port of Spain, capital of the Caribbean island nation, local media said on Friday.\n\nTrinidad wants to achieve its first ever World Cup apperance, with the help of stars from the British football league Dwight Yorke, formerly of Manchester United, and Russell Latapy.\n\nThe team has won three of the last four matches, boosted by new coach Leo Beenhakker of the Netherlands, who was hired after the Caribbeans suffered a painful 5-1 defeat at the hands of Guatemala.\n\n\"This is our biggest ever effort to qualify for the World Cup yet and we are going to grab it with both hands,\" said Trinidad's sports minister.\n\nBahrain, managed by Luka Peruzovic, was in the third place in the Asian region finals. Among its star players are Hussain Ali and Mohammed Hubail, from the Qatari league, rated the strongest in its region.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 321, "end_char": 327, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last", "start_char": 544, "end_char": 548, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0297.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0192\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina to double land use fees on construction sites\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinese government is to double the land use fees on new sites for construction from January 1, 2007.\n\nThe Finance Ministry, the Ministry of Land and Resources and the People's Bank of China have issued a notice adjusting the land use fees.\n\nThe notice requires 30 percent of the collected land use fees to be handed over to the central revenue, while 70 percent is to be retained by the provincial-level government.\n\nThe notice said both are to be used specifically for the development of cultivated land.\n\nPan Ming, of the Ministry of Land and Resources, said the new standards would have a positive impact on the protection and development of cultivated land.\n\nThe country had made great efforts to stop excessive use of land for construction and industrial projects, checking violations of laws and regulations in land requisitions, and banning the illegal requisition of farmland.\n\nThe current land use fees were set in 1999 and have 15 classes with the highest class at 70 yuan (8.75 U.S. dollars) per square meter and the lowest at five yuan.\n\nPan said the current standards failed to match actual earnings on the land use and had failed to discourage the blind expansion of land use for construction.\n\nCollected land use fees in 2005 were only 21.45 billion yuan, compared with 76.3 billion yuan of net earnings on newly added land for construction.\n\nThe notice said the supervision of the collection of land use fees would be strengthened.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1, 2007", "start_char": 202, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 1042, "end_char": 1046, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1354, "end_char": 1358, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0192.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0183\n\nANKARA, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\nminister\n\n\n\n\nTurkey's 4.0-percent inflation target for 2007 remains within reach despite the government's failure to rein in price increases this year, Economy Minister Ali Babacan said on Thursday.\n\n\"We believe the 4.0 percent target for 2007 is achievable,\" Babacan told a news conference, pledging that Ankara would stick to tight fiscal policies under an IMF-sponsored economic program.\n\nAnnual inflation in consumer prices stood at 9.86 percent in November, almost double the official target of 5.0 percent for the year-end.\n\nInflation in Turkey has been rising since the beginning of the year, pushed up by higher oil prices and a depreciation of the Turkish lira triggered by domestic political tensions and global capital flight from emerging markets.\n\nFar-reaching IMF-backed reforms aiming to heal the scars of a severe economic crisis in 2001 have helped Ankara beat its inflation targets over the past three years, bringing the rate from 29.7 percent in 2002 to 7.7 percent in 2005.\n\nBabacan dismissed concerns that the government would sacrifice fiscal discipline for populist policies ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections next year.\n\n\"Fiscal discipline will be maintained in 2007 with determination and with no concessions,\" he said.\n\nThe government, he said, will maintain its 6.5 percent target for the primary budget surplus, or surplus excluding debt repayments -- a key IMF condition.\n\nFighting inflation is a key element in a three-year economic stability program Turkey is implementing with the support of a 10-billion-dollar IMF loan.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 193, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 249, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 505, "end_char": 513, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 642, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 901, "end_char": 905, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three years", "start_char": 957, "end_char": 977, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1018, "end_char": 1022, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1041, "end_char": 1045, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1201, "end_char": 1210, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 1254, "end_char": 1258, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0183.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0460\n\nMOSCOW, Dec 21 , 2006, 2006\n\nprisoners\n\n\n\n\nMedia watchdog Reporters Without Borders on Thursday called on Turkmenistan to free journalists and political prisoners from the country's jails after the death of president Saparmurat Niyazov.\n\nThe authoritarian Turkmen president's death \"revives the hope of a liberalization of the country\", Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a statement.\n\n\"RSF calls on Turkmen transitional authorities to free journalists and political prisoners without delay.\"\n\nIn its 2006 world press freedom rankings, RSF placed Turkmenistan in 167th place out of 168, just behind North Korea.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 110, "end_char": 118, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0460.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0096\n\nCANNES, France, Dec 7 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS details ///\n\n\n\n\nChinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao was due to tour a hi-tech satellite facility Wednesday as he wraps up a four-day visit to France, during which he has secured a huge Airbus plane deal and stressed his country's nuclear energy ambitions.\n\nThe focus of his trip has been clearly strategic business-making, shown by his involvement in a contract Monday to purchase 150 mid-range Airbus planes worth nearly an estimated 10 billion dollars (8.3 billion euros).\n\nOn Tuesday, he inspected a site in southern France that is to host a future experimental nuclear reactor which China is participating in.\n\nOn Wednesday, he was to tour a satellite facility in Cannes, on the French Riviera, belonging to Alcatel. One of several deals he signed Monday in Paris was for the French firm to make a Chinasat 6B telecommunications satellite.\n\nWen was to continue his European tour by flying to Slovakia later Wednesday before he heads to the Czech Republic and Portugal.\n\nThe biggest announcement by far during his stay in France was the Airbus order for jets from its single-aisle A320 family -- the largest contract ever received by the European plane-maker, which is fighting US rival Boeing for Chinese market share.\n\nIn an indication of the deal's importance, Wen began his trip by visiting the headquarters of the European plane-maker in France's southwestern city of Toulouse on Sunday.\n\nThere, he highlighted China's goal to master its own economic development by having a memorandum signed that commits Airbus to exploring the feasibility of building an aircraft assembly plant in China.\n\nWith Western companies seriously courting China -- which boasts a burgeoning economy and a population of 1.3 billion people -- Wen and his government are ensuring that any big deals come with strings attached, namely the transfer of knowhow and technology so China can be a heavy manufacturing powerhouse of the future.\n\nExperts say the transfer of technology is often a clincher in negotiations.\n\nThat interest in technology was also at the forefront of Wen's visit to the site of the planned International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in southern France.\n\n\"The energy issue elicits great attention in the whole world, and the ITER site also attracts great attention in the world,\" Wen said at Cadarache, north of Marseille.\n\nNuclear energy is seen as a key component behind China's economic expansion, filling a demand created by the multiplication of Chinese industries.\n\nAlthough ITER is a joint research project by the European Union, Japan, the United States, China, Russia, South Korea and India and will not be operational for another decade, Beijing is seeking to extend its current nuclear energy programme.\n\nTo that end, Wen told his French hosts Tuesday that more effort was needed if they wanted to win an eight-billion-dollar (6.8-billion-euro) tender to construct four third-generation nuclear energy reactors in China.\n\n\"China hopes that France will offer more attractive conditions on technology transfer as well as price so that Franco-Chinese cooperation in this field can develop,\" he said just before visiting the ITER site.\n\nFrench company Areva is vying for that contract but faces stiff competition from Westinghouse of the United States and Russia's AtomStroyExport.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 7 , 2005", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 165, "end_char": 174, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 430, "end_char": 436, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 547, "end_char": 554, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 686, "end_char": 695, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 820, "end_char": 826, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 979, "end_char": 988, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1456, "end_char": 1462, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "another decade", "start_char": 2716, "end_char": 2730, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2839, "end_char": 2846, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051207.0096.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0244\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRussian communists commemorate anniversary of 1917 Revolution\n\n\n\n\nOver 10,000 members and supporters of the Russian Communist Party Monday held rally in downtown Moscow to commemorate the 88th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution.\n\nEarlier in the day, the Communists brandishing red flags of the party and slogans scroll marched across the central streets in the capital of Russia.\n\nThe slogans that were carried by the communist-demonstrators read \"A National Status to the Great October Holiday!\", \"Lenin! October! Socialism!\" \"November 7 was, is and will be the Holiday of People!\", \"State Television for the People and not for Bureaucracy!\".\n\nAccording to the Russian media, the rallies and demonstrations organized by the Russian communists and the left parties were also held on Monday in other regions and cities, such as St. Petersburg, Krasnojarsk, Ulyanovsk, Kurgan, Kirov and Tula.\n\nToday -- a former holiday marking \"the October Revolution\" -- has become an official working day for the first time in decades, according to a presidential decree.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on July 21 canceling the Nov. 7 holiday and replacing it with the Day of People's Unity, a Nov. 4 celebration of the end of Polish intervention in 1612.\n\nBefore 1991, Nov. 7 was a major holiday in Soviet Union. From 1991 to 1996 the Russian authorities no longer celebrated the day, but which still remain a holiday. In 1996, Nov. 7 was renamed the Day of Reconciliation and Accord in accordance with a presidential decree.\n\nOn Monday morning, over 3,000 people, including 500 veterans, 500 soldiers and cadets, also marched on Red Square to mark the anniversary of a parade of thousands of 8,000 Soviet troops heading off to the front in 1941, when the German invaders were just a few dozen kilometers from Moscow.\n\nAbout 3,400 local policemen were engaged in safeguarding security and social order. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0011\n\nDHAKA, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nBangladesh to cut double taxation with 14 more countries\n\n\n\n\nBangladesh is going to sign agreements with 14 more countries in a row for withdrawal of double taxation to boost trade and investment in the country and abroad.\n\nAs part of a move towards clearing the way for enhanced business, Bangladesh already has struck agreements with 23 countries, local daily The Bangladesh Observer reported on Wednesday.\n\nAccording to the daily, the countries now under process of signing the deal are Norway, the United States, Indonesia, Mauritius, Qatar, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, Russia, Nepal, Iran, Uzbekistan, South Africa and Morocco.\n\nFormalities for the accord with Norway, the United States and Indonesia have completed on Bangladesh's part. As soon as the governments of these countries endorse the agreement in their parliament, Bangladesh will be able to avoid double taxation with these countries in doing business at lesser costs.\n\nMeanwhile, officials said, the agreements that were signed with Mauritius and Qatar are awaiting approval from the cabinet body of Bangladesh. The deals with Myanmar, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland are under vetting for further checkup from the law ministry.\n\nThe second-round talks with Russia and Nepal completed and were being sent to the cabinet while the second round of talks with Iran is underway.\n\nBesides, preliminary talks with Uzbekistan, South Africa and Morocco have already finished and further negotiations are ahead.\n\nThe daily quoted Jahir Muhammad, member of the National Board of Revenue, as saying that in the first quarter of the next year they are expecting to start the process of signing agreement with one or two countries. Spain may be one of them as they already showed their interest in signing a deal with Bangladesh to withdraw double taxation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 453, "end_char": 462, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 503, "end_char": 506, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first quarter of the next year", "start_char": 1625, "end_char": 1659, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0011.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0274\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nparliamentary polls\n\n\n\n\nEgypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) and the Muslim Brotherhood, a powerful opposition group, have showed their political strength as the first phase of Egypt's parliamentary elections ended.\n\nAfter the first round of voting held last Wednesday and Tuesday 's run-offs, the NDP won a total of 112 seats out of 164, up for grab in the first phase of the three-stage legislative polls, according to the latest results announced by elections officials Thursday.\n\nThe number included some 30 NDP renegades, who failed to appear on the party-sanctioned candidates list and ran as independents, but rejoined the party before the final results came out.\n\nThe Muslim Brotherhood took 34 seats, while other opposition parties and groups won just five seats. The remaining 13 seats went to independents.\n\n\"Results of the first phase of the parliamentary elections are quite interesting,\" Hassan Nafi'a, an Egyptian political analyst, said, adding \"there are some surprising things but they are not too far beyond expectation.\"\n\n\"The NDP confirmed its grip to power and the Muslim Brotherhood showed its strength,\" he said, \"meanwhile, the so-called secular opposition groups fared rather poorly.\"\n\nEgypt's traditional opposition parties, including the newly- formed National United Front for Change and the Al Ghad party, are both losing their ground after failing to score major wins.\n\nThe NDP, the largest political party in Egypt, holds 404 seats in the outgoing 454-member People's Assembly. Its dominance in the legislative polls is widely expected given to its highly organized party machine and vast resources at its disposal.\n\nThe party has been implementing an internal restructuring plan in the past years, making itself appear to be more like a modern ruling political party.\n\nCampaigning under the slogan \"new thinking, across into the future,\" the NDP promises comprehensive political and economic reforms in the coming years.\n\nThe Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's de facto largest opposition group, has also achieved some major gains in the first phase of the parliamentary elections.\n\nWith two other phases of elections yet to open, the group has already doubled its representation of 17 seats in the outgoing 454- member People's Assembly.\n\nThe Muslim Brotherhood, founded in 1928, was outlawed as Egypt' s constitution banned political parties based on religion, but the group renounced violence decades ago and has been largely tolerated by the government.\n\nThe first phase of Egypt's three-stage parliamentary election kicked off last Wednesday in 82 constituencies across eight governorates, including Cairo.\n\nThe second and third stages will be held on Nov. 20 and Dec. 1 respectively. Any run-offs, if necessary, will be held six days after each round of voting.\n\n\"The first phase of the parliamentary elections only confirms perceptions of many Egypt's politics will be increasingly polarized by the competition between the ruling party and its strong Islamist challenger,\" Nafi'a analyzed.\n\n\"Small fish have to fight hard for survival,\" he added, referring to traditional and small opposition parties.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Wednesday", "start_char": 319, "end_char": 333, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 338, "end_char": 345, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 546, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past years", "start_char": 1780, "end_char": 1794, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the future", "start_char": 1923, "end_char": 1933, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the coming years", "start_char": 2001, "end_char": 2017, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the outgoing", "start_char": 2286, "end_char": 2298, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1928", "start_char": 2366, "end_char": 2370, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1928", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "decades ago", "start_char": 2487, "end_char": 2498, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Wednesday", "start_char": 2623, "end_char": 2637, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "82", "start_char": 2641, "end_char": 2643, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1982", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 20", "start_char": 2748, "end_char": 2755, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1 respectively", "start_char": 2760, "end_char": 2779, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six days", "start_char": 2822, "end_char": 2830, "tid": "t14", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0274.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0311\n\nBERLIN, April 7 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nGerman writer Stephan Hermlin dies aged 81\n\n\n\n\nThe controversial German writer Stefan Hermlin died overnight in Berlin at the age of 81, his publisher announced Monday.\n\nHermlin was one of the leading figures of official Communist literature in the former East Germany, and was awarded the National Prize several times by the state.\n\nHe was a Communist militant from his youth, and was active in the struggle against fascism. He also spoke out for East German dissidents like singer and writer Wolf Biermann.\n\nIn 1937, Hermlin emigrated to Palestine, then moved to France in 1940 before moving to Switzerland in 1943.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 7 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "81", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1981", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 214, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1937", "start_char": 566, "end_char": 570, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1937", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1940", "start_char": 628, "end_char": 632, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1940", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1943", "start_char": 665, "end_char": 669, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1943", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0311.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0505\n\nBONN, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nGermany: 109 fires in asylum-seekers' homes in 1996\n\n\n\n\nA total of 109 fires broke out in asylum-seekers' homes in Germany last year, killing 12 people and injuring 107, the German government announced Monday.\n\nSome fires were deliberately set while others were started accidentally, caused by dropped cigarettes or faulty wiring, the government told the lower house of parliament. The interior ministry did not detail how many were of criminal origin.\n\nThe issue of fires that target asylum seekers or other foreigners is emotive in Germany where in 1992 and 1993 fires killed eight women and young girls. The fires were believed to have been started by xenophobes.\n\nIn March, a deliberately set fire killed three people of Turkish origin at Krefeld in eastern Germany. The father of the family was charged with starting the fire after his wife said she wanted a divorce.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 175, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 260, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 603, "end_char": 607, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 723, "end_char": 728, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0505.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0477\n\nNAIROBI, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nrepetition ///\n\n\n\n\nKenyan athletics officials Tuesday allayed fears by foreign athletes over the risk of contracting malaria during next year's World cross country championships in Mombasa.\n\nBritian's former European title holder Jon Brown said he had cancelled plans to run in the March 24 championships because the Kenyan venue is located in a region prone to malaria outbreaks.\n\nBut Athletics Kenya (AK) spokesman Peter Angwenyi said precautions had been taken to ensure the hotels where the athletes will be sleeping were free from malaria-carrying parasites.\n\n\"There is no cause of alarm,\" said Angwenyi told AFP. \"Our medical authorities are working in conjunction with the IAAF medical commission to ensure the health of all the competitors will be safeguarded. This includes making sure that Mombasa is a complete malaria-free zone,\" he added.\n\n\"Mombasa is a top tourist destination. We cannot accept to take the athletes to a place where their health will be at a risk. In fact the month of March is a very hot season when there are no mosquitoes,\" he said.\n\nMalaria is one of the country's top killer diseases.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 194, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 24", "start_char": 335, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the month", "start_char": 1040, "end_char": 1049, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1053, "end_char": 1058, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0477.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0137\n\nHARARE, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nHome-based care reduces HIV prevalence rate in Zimbabwe\n\n\n\n\nZimbabwe's National AIDS Council ( NAC) has attributed the decline in the AIDS prevalence rate to various projects such as the home-based care system which deals with people living with the HIV/AIDS virus, local media reported on Friday.\n\nThe Zimbabwe Independent quoted NAC board chairman Murombedzi Kuchera as saying that the awareness campaigns being carried out by various stakeholders nationwide were helping reduce the prevalence rate.\n\nThe prevalence rate for the HIV virus is now down at 18.1 percent from the previous 20.1 percent, while projections point to a reduction to a single digit rate by 2010, he said.\n\n\"Home-based care is one of the very important strategies in national efforts to address challenges faced by AIDS victims at home,\" he said.\n\nZimbabwe has over 300,000 people who require anti-retroviral drugs, but only 42,000 of them are receiving treatment. The remainder have to be catered for through home-based care initiatives.\n\nThe NAC said it was receiving 250,000 US dollars for anti- retroviral drugs every month from the central bank to cater for those who cannot survive without the drugs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 352, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 600, "end_char": 603, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 722, "end_char": 726, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every month", "start_char": 1147, "end_char": 1158, "tid": "t4", "type": "SET", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0137.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0678\n\nBEIJING, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nXinhua denies dead journmalist wanted to defect\n\n\n\n\nChina's official Xinhua news agency on Thursday denied that its former Washington bureau chief had killed himself after plans to defect were found out.\n\n\"I read the New York Times article about the death of Wei Guoqiang. Their story is ridiculous and baseless,\" Chen Boliang the head of the agency's foreign affairs department said.\n\n\"It could even be said that it is totally made up,\" he added.\n\nThe US newspaper said Wednesday that Wei, 47, had been recalled to Beijing in late March after a colleagues in Washington discovered that he was preparing to ask for political asylum for himself, his wife and his 17-year-old daughter.\n\nChinese journalists and diplomats are not allowed to leave the country with their children, although sources here say that rule may soon be changed.\n\nChen conceded that Wei had commited suicide but insisted the death had \"nothing to do with poltics.\"\n\n\"He had come back to Beijing before going on to a new post in Singapore,\" he said. \"He was preparing the paperwork for the move, following the course of an absolutely standard transfer.\n\n\"Sadly he killed himself at home in the meantime.\"\n\nThe New York Times said Wei had been under close watch at home, but was left briefly alone over the weekend. He then chose that moment to hang himself in the bathroom of his apartment, a colleague was quoted as saying.\n\nWei held degrees from Beijing's Foreign Languages University and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.\n\nA specialist in US affairs, he was appointed Washington bureau chief in early 1996, during an especially stormy period in Sino-American relations.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 525, "end_char": 534, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late March", "start_char": 581, "end_char": 591, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the weekend", "start_char": 1326, "end_char": 1337, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W13-WE", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 1996", "start_char": 1628, "end_char": 1638, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0678.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0033\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ncopying\n\n\n\n\nUnauthorized copies of foreign textbooks have been banned from Chinese universities in a move to protect intellectual property rights (IPR).\n\nA Ministry of Education circular has instructed universities to conduct thorough checks for unauthorized foreign textbook copies and to stop IPR violations by the end of this year.\n\nThe circular came amid one of the government's moves to wipe out the country's rampant illegal copying of music, films and publications.\n\nChinese universities have witnessed a growing demand for quality foreign textbooks as the country's education undergoes reforms to embrace globalization and face competition from overseas.\n\nOriginal copies and authorized editions are too expensive for many college students and photocopying is the only way acquire foreign textbooks recommended by teachers.\n\nThe circular bans publishing houses affiliated to Chinese schools from publishing domestic editions of foreign textbooks without the permission of the foreign publisher.\n\n\"School leaders will be penalized if illegal copies of foreign books are found in Chinese schools,\" the circular warns.\n\nIt also stipulates that the selection of foreign textbooks should be recommended by teaching faculties and subject to the examination of school administrations.\n\nThe New Oriental School (NOS), the biggest private English teaching network in China, was sued by U.S.-based Educational Testing Service (ETS) for publishing and selling ETS's test materials in 2001.\n\nThe Higher People's Court of Beijing ordered the NOS pay 450,000 U.S. dollars to ETS in compensation in 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of this year", "start_char": 370, "end_char": 390, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1538, "end_char": 1542, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1649, "end_char": 1653, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0033.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0084\n\nGAZA/RAMALLAH, Nov. 11 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ndecease\n\n\n\n\nThe Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip marked on Saturday two-year anniversary of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's decease.\n\nA ceremony attended by President Mahmoud Abbas, ministers of the Hamas-led government and faction leaders was held on Saturday morning in the West Bank city of Ramallah.\n\nPalestinian official television and radio broadcasted the mourning ceremony lively.\n\n\"If Yasser Arafat was present, the Palestinian scene would never have witnessed feuds and disagreements,\" said Ahmed Abdel Rahman, former advisor of Arafat and the spokesman of Fatah movement which is now led by Arafat's successor Mahmoud Abbas.\n\nSaeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator who accompanied Arafat after the latter signed Oslo peace accords in 1993, also delivered speech at the ceremony, saying that \"the deteriorating condition of the Palestinian cause on Arab and international levels along with Israeli daily offensives are killing Arafat in his grave.\"\n\nApart from the West Bank, the poor enclave Gaza Strip which is under Israeli siege also witnessed the commemorating activities for their historic leader.\n\nThe posters with Arafat's pictures on it were posted all over the Gaza streets, including the street where the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) locates.\n\nA huge Arafat picture with a word \"My dreams won't be achieved without Jerusalem\" was hung in front of the PLC building.\n\nThe Palestinians yearn for their late historic and symbolic leader today much more than ever before, especially after they experienced a cluster of changes and blows.\n\nPalestinians faced formidable difficulties after the decease of Arafat, who used to lead the Palestinians out of crisis.\n\nTwo months after Arafat's death, the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) defeated Arafat's Fatah movement and won the legislative elections in January and thus given the mandate to replace Fatah to form the current Hamas-led government.\n\nDeviating from Arafat's steps, Hamas rejected former peace deals signed by Arafat and refused to recognize Israel.\n\nHamas' refusal to the international demands pushed the fledging government and the Palestinians into dual plights of economy and politics immediately after its coming to power.\n\nIsrael and the international donors cut off the direct aid to the Palestinian government led by Hamas, which was subsequently unable to pay its 160,000 civil servants for months.\n\nFurthermore, Israel restored its military operation in the Gaza Strip on June 28, three days after three Palestinian militant groups, headed by a Hamas armed wing, abducted Israeli Corporal Gilad Shalit in a cross-border raid on an Israeli post in southern Gaza Strip.\n\nThe operation that caused huge Palestinian civilian casualties continued so far as the abducted soldier has been held hostage since this June.\n\nInternational siege and Israeli offensives 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0025\n\nXI'AN, Nov. 17 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChinese man undergoes face rebuilding surgery\n\n\n\n\nChinese doctors performed an operation Wednesday to rebuild the face of a man severely disfigured by a construction site accident, in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.\n\nThe nine-hour operation on Wednesday, which is said to be the first step in a one-year face rebuilding project, was \"more successful than we expected\", according to the stomatological hospital of the Fourth Military Medical University in Xi'an, the provincial capital of Shaanxi.\n\nChen Yong, a 36-year-old villager from the southwestern municipality of Chongqing, was repairing a concrete mixer at a construction site this July in Chongqing when his head became trapped in the machine.\n\nNearly three fifths of his face was destroyed. Several bones were broken and he was no longer able to chew, swallow or speak.\n\n\"Today we repositioned the broken bones on the left part of his faces and rebuilt his right eye socket. In a couple of months, we will repair soft facial tissue, like muscles, in another operation,\" said He Lisheng, Chen's surgeon.\n\n\"After that, we will repair his chin and lower jaw and mend the lost part of his face with bones and skin from his own body,\" said He.\n\n\"I hope the operation will be successful and my husband will get his face back,\" said Li Xiuqing, Chen's wife, who waited outside the surgery room throughout the operation.\n\nChen's boss will cover the surgical expenses of more than 100,000 yuan (about 12,700 U.S.dollars), according to Li.\n\nXi'an was home to China's first face transplant surgery in April this year when doctors helped rebuild the face of a 30-year-old farmer attacked by a bear.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 312, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this July", "start_char": 694, "end_char": 703, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 891, "end_char": 896, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 1609, "end_char": 1614, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061117.0025.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0054\n\nISLAMABAD, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nPakistan\n\n\n\n\nThe World Bank has approved a 400 million dollars emergency credit for Pakistan to help rehabilitation and reconstruction work in the country's quake-devastated regions, a bank statement said Friday.\n\nThe is the second credit under a one billion-dollar assistance announced by the Bank following the October 8 earthquake which killed more than 73,000 people and made some three million homeless mainly in the Pakistan zone of Kashmir.\n\nIn October the Bank's board approved the first credit of 475 million dollars.\n\nThe statement said the new package included 220 million dollars support for housing reconstruction, 85 million dollars each for livelihood support and import financing and 10 million dollars for capacity building.\n\n\"This credit will allow people to put their lives and homes back together,\" the World Bank's Pakistan Director John Wall said in the statement.\n\nHe said the poor people living in inaccessible mountain areas bore the brunt of the 7.6 magnitude quake losing family members, their homes, assets and work.  \"This project will support these people rebuilding their houses and restore their livelihood through income transfer.\"\n\nThe credit carries a 10-year grace period and a maturity of 35 years.\n\nThe bank said reconstruction in quake hit regions could take many years and it would continue to provide assistance and support.\n\nPakistan has received aid pledges of more than six billion dollars, of which two billion dollars is in the form of grants.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 254, "end_char": 260, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 8", "start_char": 362, "end_char": 371, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 501, "end_char": 508, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a maturity of 35 years", "start_char": 1261, "end_char": 1283, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0054.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0421\n\nTOKYO, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nBuchwald to leave Urawa Reds, return to Germany: report\n\n\n\n\nGuido Buchwald, who has just guided Urawa Reds to their first J-League championship title, said Monday he would leave the club at the end of the season and return to Germany, Kyodo News reported.\n\nUrawa offered Buchwald a new contract, but the 45-year-old turned it down because he wants to spend more time with his family in Germany.\n\n\"Private commitments have played a part in this decision but also I feel that I have achieved all I can over three years at one club,\" Buchwald said.\n\n\"This has been a very difficult decision for me to make. I have been working with a team I enjoy working with and delivered results, so it hurts to be leaving.\"\n\nWhen asked if he plans to work with Jurgen Klinsmann, Germany's World Cup coach and his close friend, Buchwald said: \"We have been close friends since childhood and have a great understanding but we have not talked about working together.\"\n\nBuchwald, a member of West Germany's World Cup-winning squad in 1990, played for Urawa from 1994-1997 and became their manager in 2004, when he led the team to the J-League second-stage title and the final of the league cup.\n\nUrawa beat defending champions Gamba Osaka 3-2 on Saturday to secure the league crown.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 206, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the season", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 261, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 555, "end_char": 566, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "childhood", "start_char": 910, "end_char": 919, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 1064, "end_char": 1068, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994-1997", "start_char": 1092, "end_char": 1101, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1130, "end_char": 1134, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1276, "end_char": 1284, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0421.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0130\n\nABIDJAN, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nCote d'Ivoire given rough deal say the press\n\n\n\n\nCote d'Ivoire press on Saturday reported they had been handed a rough deal by the World Cup draw in Leipzig.\n\nFraternite Matin newspaper said: \"The Cote d'Ivoire are in the toughest group,\" while headlines in dailies Le Jour Plus and Le Patriot read \"The Elephants are in the Group of Death.\"\n\nLe Jour Plus said Cote d'Ivoire were up against it against \"top drawer opponents\" in twice World Cup winners Argentina, twice World Cup finalists Holland and Serbia-Montenegro in Group C.\n\nThe paper noted Cote d'Ivoire played Argentina in 1992 in the Confederations Cup and were thrashed 5-2.\n\nLe Nouveau Reveil reported that the Elephants were in a \"complicated\" group for their first World Cup finals.\n\n24 Heures said that the hands of football legends Johan Cruyff, Lothar Matthaus, and Roger Milla, who were involved in doing Friday's draw, had not been kind to Cote d'Ivoire who were in the worst position of the five African nations at next year's finals in Germany.\n\n\"But do we have to despair?\" asked the newspaper who set an optimistic tone that perhaps Henri Michel's players might just again surprise the world as they had done by qualifying for the tournament.\n\nNord Sud set a similarly optimistic tone, suggesting there were \"glorious uncertainties in football\" although they did admit they had not been fortunate with the draw.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 119, "end_char": 127, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 629, "end_char": 633, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 920, "end_char": 926, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1032, "end_char": 1041, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0130.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0070\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's high earners to report income\n\n\n\n\nEmployees earning more than 120,000 yuan (about 15,000 U.S. dollars) annually must file individual income declarations to tax authorities starting next year, according to a newly released regulation from the State Administration of Taxation.\n\nThe regulation issued on Wednesday said that anyone working in China, including foreigners, who meets any of the following criteria -- people with a yearly income of more than 120,000 yuan, people with income from more than one organization, those with income from overseas, those whose employer does not pay tax, or those in other particular situations defined by the State Council -- must report their income to the taxation authorities.\n\nContributions to endowment insurance, medical insurance, unemployment insurance and housing accumulation fund paid by companies or individuals are not counted as yearly income.\n\nAn official with the State Administration of Taxation said many high income individuals in China obtain income through different channels, some of which are not made public. This creates difficulties for the tax authorities and leaves space for loopholes.\n\nThis is the first time that the State Administration of Taxation has required high-income earners to report their earnings. However, their taxes will continue to be deducted at source by employers.\n\nHigh income earners will be subject to fines ranging from 2,000 to 10,000 yuan if they fail to report their income by the 31 March deadline, and those who file false reports will face fines of up to 50,000 yuan.\n\nThe new regulation will improve tax collection among high income individuals and help narrow the gap between the rich and the poor, the official said.\n\nA study shows China's Gini Coefficient, a measure of income inequality, has reached 0.46, reflecting a big and expanding wealth gap.\n\nIn another move to reduce the country's widening income gap, China's legislature, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), doubled the personal income tax exemption threshold in late 2005 to 1,600 yuan a month. This halved the number of people required to pay tax.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 245, "end_char": 254, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 375, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 31 March deadline", "start_char": 1534, "end_char": 1555, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2005", "start_char": 2116, "end_char": 2125, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 2140, "end_char": 2147, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0070.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0504\n\nKINSHASA, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nZaire accuses Angola of attacking its territory\n\n\n\n\nThe Zairean presidency accused Angolan troops of attacking its southwestern Bas-Zaire province, sending 1,400 troops to aid Zaireans rebels led by Laurent Kabila.\n\nIn a statement broadcast on state radio the presidency said the troops had crossed into the Yema municpality near the border with Angola.\n\n\"Today, everyone knows that Angolan troops are attacking Zaire for no reason and without declaring war,\" the statement said.\n\nAngolan troops were also in the area of Tshipaka, in Western Kasai province, a city some 650 kilometres (400 miles) southeast of the capital Kinshasa which Kabila's forces said Wednesday they had captured.\n\nAccording to the presidency statement the Kinshasa authorities will raise the Angolan incursions with the United Nations, and ask UN envoy Alioune Blondin Beye to visit the zones currently occupied by Angolan forces.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 412, "end_char": 417, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 714, "end_char": 723, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0504.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0595\n\nBRUSSELS, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nInternational Crisis Group urges EU unity over Kosovo\n\n\n\n\nThe European Union should show unity over Kosovo to avoid a long-awaited decision on the Serbian province's final status being delayed further into 2007, the International Crisis group said Wednesday.\n\nThe warning came amid election campaigning in Serbia for January 21 polls, in which Kosovo's aspirations for independence are playing an important role.\n\n\"A number of EU states are showing signs that they are reluctant to change Kosovo's status in the face of continued Serbian opposition,\" the Brussels-based thinktank said in a statement.\n\n\"If Brussels fails to coalesce quickly around a strong internal consensus, it risks inheriting a major new crisis,\" it said, noting that Germany faces an \"urgent challenge\" as it takes over the EU presidency next month.\n\nKosovo has been run by a United Nations mission since 1999, when a NATO bombing campaign ended a crackdown by Belgrade on separatist ethnic Albanian rebels in the province.\n\nThe UN envoy to Kosovo, Martti Ahtisaari, began negotiations in February with Serbian and Kosovo authorities to define the future status of the province.\n\nHe was due to make recommendations to the UN by the end of the year, but has now said that he will reveal his plans for the future of the majority ethnic-Albanian region after the Serbian elections.\n\n\"It is a fact of life that the risk of implosion does become greater the deeper Kosovo goes into 2007 without its status settled,\" the group said.\n\nIt said Ahtisaari's proposals are not likely to explicitly use the term \"independence\" for Kosovo, but that it expects him to build a strong case for such a future.\n\n\"The incoming German presidency should make uniting member states behind the Ahtisaari proposals a top priority,\" it said.\n\nIt noted that Germany and Italy appeared to prefer to wait until Serbia has formed a new government, while Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Romania were also listed as close to Serbia's position.\n\nOn Friday, EU leaders sent a signal to Belgrade that its future lies in Europe.\n\nBut they encouraged it to cooperate with the United Nations war crimes court seeking former Bosnian Serb military chief Ratko Mladic, believed to have been in hiding in Serbia.\n\nThe EU froze talks on closer ties with Serbia in May over its failure to cooperate fully with the Hague-based tribunal, but a number of countries have been pushing for negotiations to resume.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 264, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 302, "end_char": 311, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 21", "start_char": 371, "end_char": 381, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 864, "end_char": 874, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1999", "start_char": 931, "end_char": 935, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1115, "end_char": 1123, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the year", "start_char": 1254, "end_char": 1273, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2037, "end_char": 2043, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 2342, "end_char": 2345, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0595.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891025-0157 \n = 891025 \n 891025-0157. \n Advanced Medical Makes Purchase \n 10/25/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n AMA HENG \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nMEDICAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGY (MTC) \n SAN FRANCISCO  \n\n   Advanced Medical Technologies Inc. said it purchased 93% of a unit of Henley Group Inc. \n\n   Advanced Medical paid $106 million in cash for its share in a unit of Henley's Fisher Scientific subsidiary. \nThe unit makes intravenous pumps used by hospitals and had more than $110 million in sales last year, according to Advanced Medical.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/25/89", "start_char": 77, "end_char": 85, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 516, "end_char": 525, "tid": "t31", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t11"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_1073.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0067\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nJapan beat Australia 1-0 in Asian Games warm-up\n\n\n\n\nShinobu Ono scored the only goal to give Japan women's team a 1-0 win over Australia on Sunday in a warm-up soccer match for the Asian Games next month in Doha.\n\nThe decisive goal came in the 51st minute when Yuki Nagasato sent a cross into the area, which Ono fired in with a right-footed shot.\n\nThe Japanese women missed good chances afterwards, but they showed tight defence to fend off the Australian attacks.\n\nJapan will play Germany in another warm-up game next Thursday before heading to the Asian Games a week later.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 195, "end_char": 201, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 248, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 51st minute", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 310, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next Thursday", "start_char": 570, "end_char": 583, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 618, "end_char": 624, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0067.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0089\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS recess for technical problem ///\n\n\n\n\nThe gripping trial of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein over a Shiite massacre 23 years ago made a shaky restart Tuesday with the court due to hear testimony from witnesses with protected identities.\n\nAs in three previous hearings, Saddam was the last to enter the courtroom. Apart from his usual Koran, he carried files and papers, after his protests to the judge Monday that he had been forced to take notes on his hands.\n\n\"Good morning to all those who respect the law,\" the deposed president said, greeting his co-defendants.\n\nShortly after the audience began, the court, which defence lawyers have accused of being chaotic, cut the audio feed to journalists, allowing a woman witness to speak without her voice being identified for security reasons.\n\nPresiding judge Rizkar Mohammed Amin then ruled a 10-minute break in order to decide how the woman, sitting behind a curtain, would be able to speak and be understood in the heavily-defended courtroom of the Iraqi High Tribunal.\n\n\"Everyone has to hear,\" Amin said.\n\nA US official close to the proceedings said witnesses would on Tuesday give testimony without their faces appearing on delayed television footage and with their voices disguised for security reasons.\n\nMesmerising the world with chilling accounts of torture from witnesses and angry tirades from Saddam blasting the legality of the proceedings, the Iraqi courtroom drama has been hailed the \"trial of the century\" by the local media.\n\nSaddam, for decades one of the most feared leaders in the Middle East before being ousted by invading US-led troops in 2003, is on trial with seven henchmen for the massacre of 148 people from the Shiite village of Dujail in 1982.\n\nHe and his seven deputies, who have pleaded not guilty, face the death penalty by hanging if convicted over the killings, which followed an assassination bid against Iraq's former strongman during a visit to the town.\n\nThe trial has been plagued by a range of problems since its inception, most notably serious security issues.\n\nTwo defence lawyers have been killed and Iraqi security forces said Sunday they foiled an insurgent group's plot to fire rockets at the court building.\n\nAt a marathon session on Monday, Saddam insisted he was unafraid of execution as the court was subjected to tearful accounts of murder and torture -- including the use of a meat grinder and electric shocks -- from one witness.\n\n\"I am not afraid of being executed\" if found guilty, Saddam vowed, after an earlier outburst in which he shouted, \"Long live Iraq.\"\n\nAhmed Mohammed Hassem al-Dujaili on Monday was the first witness to testify in person at the trial and be cross-examined just metres (yards) from Saddam, who contested his testimony.\n\nA second witness, Jawad Abdul Aziz, recalled how Saddam's presidential guard \"bombarded his village\" before Amin adjourned the first marathon session.\n\nIraq's newly empowered Shiite majority has heavily criticised the slow start of the trial, which is anyway likely to be adjourned ahead of landmark general elections on December 15.\n\nCommentators have accused Saddam of trying to hijack the trial with his repeated tirades, mirrored by similarly theatrical interjections from his co-defendant and half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti, who is suffering from cancer.\n\nUS former attorney general Ramsey Clark, who is among those representing Saddam, has claimed it will be very difficult for his client to receive a fair trial and on Monday criticised the proceedings as \"chaotic\".\n\n\"I think it's going to be very, very difficult,\" he told CNN, also questioning the impartiality of the presiding judge, a Kurd.\n\n\"If you don't have an impartial judge, why have a trial?\" Ramsey asked. \"You have to probe the prejudice. You have to find out if there is something in their background that makes it difficult for them to be fair.\"\n\nSaddam is facing charges in this trial over the killing of Shiite villagers, but his regime also launched the bloody Anfal campaign against the Kurds, killing more than 180,000 people over the past two decades.\n\nClark, who with other defence lawyers briefly walked out of proceedings on Monday, has also demanded better protection for the defence lawyers.\n\nA second member of Saddam's defence team said the court set up under US occupation was forbidden by international law, and called for his client to be tried in an international tribunal.\n\nAmong the other defendants are Taha Yassin Ramadan, Saddam's former vice president, and Awad Ahmed al-Bandar, the head judge of the scrapped revolutionary court.\n\nThe process began with a brief opening on October 19, followed by a 40-day delay and a two-hour session on November 28 before a week-long adjournment until Monday's hearing.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "23 years ago", "start_char": 183, "end_char": 195, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1982", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 217, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 469, "end_char": 475, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1189, "end_char": 1196, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1679, "end_char": 1683, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1982", "start_char": 1785, "end_char": 1789, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1982", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2189, "end_char": 2195, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2299, "end_char": 2305, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2671, "end_char": 2677, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 15", "start_char": 3140, "end_char": 3151, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 3545, "end_char": 3551, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two decades", "start_char": 4128, "end_char": 4148, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 4226, "end_char": 4232, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 19", "start_char": 4689, "end_char": 4699, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 28", "start_char": 4754, "end_char": 4765, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 4803, "end_char": 4809, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0089.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0452\n\nLONDON, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nMcCarthy happy to see justice done over racist abuse\n\n\n\n\nBenni McCarthy has praised UEFA for dishing out a five-match ban to Wisla Krakow's Nikola Mijailovic, the Serbian defender who was found guilty of racially abusing him during a UEFA Cup match in October.\n\n\"I was pleased with the way the situation was handled,\" Blackburn's South African forward said.\n\n\"Every club and every league is against racism - and football is trying hard to fight against it, but you still get people - players, coaches or fans - who will use offensive terms.\n\n\"Sport should unite people, not divide them, so I am glad an example was set.\"\n\nMcCarthy, speaking to www.fifa.com, added: \"Maybe the next person who is considering using a racist term during a match will think twice.\"\n\nBlackburn's South African striker Benni McCarthy has admitted he has found life in the Premiership tougher than he had expected.\n\nMcCarthy, who joined Blackburn in a 2.5-million-pound summer transfer from FC Porto, admitted he was finding English football physically challenging, although his nine goals in a struggling side suggest he has not had that many problems adapting.\n\n\"It's so physically demanding and every game is like a cup final,\" he said. \"I've played in Holland, I've played in Spain, I've played in Portugal, and not every game is so fast and so difficult.\n\n\"Even if you're playing against the bottom team in the league, it's as difficult as playing Manchester United, Arsenal or Chelsea. In Holland, Spain and Portugal only a few teams made you really work hard and concentrate for 90 minutes. Here you have to be in top form in every game.\"\n\nThe 29-year-old also revealed that he had been drawn to Blackburn because of his admiration for manager Mark Hughes, a Manchester United star when the South African was growing up.\n\n\"He used to be my hero,\" said McCarthy. \"He was a player who I always wanted to be like. I have so much respect for him - and I love learning from him.\n\n\"It's a little bit strange actually because I have gone from being a big fan to standing next to him on the training pitch.\n\n\"In South Africa I used to watch a lot of English football - everyone likes to see winning teams and I think that's why I adopted Manchester United. I used to know everything about them, but now I'm Blackburn through and through.\n\n\"I couldn't have come to a better club. It may be a smaller club than United, but it has a big heart. I'm feeling loved and very welcome.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 304, "end_char": 311, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "90 minutes", "start_char": 1614, "end_char": 1624, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT90M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2326, "end_char": 2329, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0452.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0077\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 19 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSri Lankan president vows to tackle terrorism\n\n\n\n\nSri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, who was celebrating his first year in office, said Sunday that his government would pursue its struggle in tackling the threat of terrorism posed by the Tamil Tiger rebels and would not be cowed down by it.\n\nRajapakse made the remarks while addressing a public gathering at the launching of the construction of the island's second international airport at Weerawila, 255 kms from the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo, in the deep southern district of Hambantota.\n\nRajapakse, who was also celebrating his first year in office on Sunday, said \"A terrorist group who claimed all powerful has now been limited to 4 or 5 villages in the eastern province\", referring to the military victories against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels.\n\nThe president said that he has kept the pledge made at last November's presidential election not to lower the esteem of the country's security forces.\n\nRajapakse in his election campaign was critical of the Norwegian-backed peace process with the Tiger rebels, which he claimed was giving in too much to the Tigers and the forces have been humiliated by it.\n\nThe Sri Lankan President said in his address that despite action against the Tiger rebels in the battle fields of north and east, the rights of the peace-loving Tamil people must be safeguarded.\n\nRajapakse's first year in office was dominated by its military campaign against the LTTE who accuse the Sri Lankan president of leading a secret war against them while saying that his government was supportive of the Norwegian-backed peace process to end the island's long drawn out separatist armed conflict.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 198, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 672, "end_char": 678, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 733, "end_char": 736, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last November", "start_char": 947, "end_char": 960, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061119.0077.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0139\n\nGENEVA, Nov. 20 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAnnan calls for global safeguards against biological weapons\n\n\n\n\nU.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday urged 155 countries to make more efforts to intensify safeguards against biological weapons and address the threat posed by terrorists and criminal groups seeking to obtain such weapons.\n\n\"The horror of biological weapons is shared by all,\" Annan told a meeting in Geneva to review the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, which has been ratified by 155 countries.\n\n\"Now it is time for countries to build on results, and take further steps to ensure that the Convention will continue to serve as an effective barrier against biological weapons,\" Annan told the conference, which began on Monday and will end on Dec. 8.\n\nAnnan said global circumstances had changed and risks had evolved since the Convention was last reviewed five years ago.\n\n\"We see today a strong focus on preventing terrorism, as well as renewed concern about naturally occurring diseases such as SARS and avian flu,\" he said.\n\nOver the past five years, advances in biological science and technology continued to accelerate, promising enormous benefits for human development, but also posing potential risks, he added.\n\nThe outgoing UN chief highlighted terrorism and crime and urged countries to address these threats \"to ensure that peaceful uses of biological science and technology can safely reach their potential.\"\n\nThe Convention, which bans the development, use and stockpiling of germ-based weapons, has never been seriously enforced because the threat of biological warfare was seen as minimal when it was drafted at the height of the Cold War.\n\nEfforts to strengthen the treaty have been largely fruitless due to divisions among countries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 20 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 158, "end_char": 164, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 752, "end_char": 758, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 8", "start_char": 775, "end_char": 781, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years ago", "start_char": 889, "end_char": 903, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past five years", "start_char": 1066, "end_char": 1085, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061120.0139.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0168\n\nADDIS ABABA, Nov. 19 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nEthiopia registers 8.9 percent GDP growth last fiscal year\n\n\n\n\nEthiopia said Saturday an 8.9 percent growth in gross domestic product (GDP) was registered during the previous budget year that ended on July 7.\n\nFantahun Belew, head of Macroeconomic Policy and Management Department of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development ( MoFED), told journalists that the rapid growth was registered for the second time in a row.\n\nFantahun said the government has been exerting efforts to equitably distribute resources by undertaking the construction of roads and health facilities as well as expanding the provision of electric power and telecommunications services.\n\nOut of the growth registered during the period, 12.3 percent was registered by the agriculture sector, while the share of the industry and service sectors stood at 6.3 and 5.3 percent, he said.\n\nFantahun said agriculture continues to play the leading role to the growth of the national economy, and added that the volume of agricultural export during the period has shown a 36.2 percent growth from that of the preceding year.\n\nThe growth in agricultural produces export is attributed to the rise of the coffee price in the international market, as well as the increase in the volume of other exportable produce, according to the official.\n\nFantahun said due to the better performance in the agriculture sector and the decline in the price of food items, inflation registered during the budget year was only 6.8 percent.\n\nMeanwhile, Fantahun said, the import trade has shown a 4 percent increase during the budget year due to the rise in fuel price and increase in the volume and price of imported capital goods and construction materials.\n\nThe government has been engaged in various activities aimed at further developing the agriculture sector, including supply of agricultural inputs, expansion of extension services and irrigation development, among others, he added.\n\nExpansion of small-scale agro-industries and expansion of investment that create job opportunities would also be strengthened, Fantahun said.\n\nHe said a large sum of budget was allocated during the current fiscal year in a bid to efficiently implement the poverty reduction efforts in the various regional states.\n\nEthiopia is an extremely poor and overwhelmingly agricultural country, with farm products accounting for over half of the country's GDP and 90 percent of its exports.\n\nOfficials say 46 percent of Ethiopia's 71 million people live below the poverty line, with many peasant farmers in the rural areas trapped in abject poverty.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 19 , 2005", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 138, "end_char": 146, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "year", "start_char": 243, "end_char": 247, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 7", "start_char": 262, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the budget year", "start_char": 1511, "end_char": 1526, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the current fiscal year", "start_char": 2195, "end_char": 2218, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051119.0168.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0360\n\nMACAO, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nNumber of vehicles hits new high in Macao\n\n\n\n\nThe number of licensed vehicles in Macao, a region with a population of nearly 470,000, reached 151, 000 in September, a year-on-year rise of 20 percent.\n\nStatistics issued by the government-run Statistics and Census Service (SCS) Wednesday showed 51 percent of the registered vehicles are motorcycles and 45 percent light vehicles.\n\nThe SCS figures showed that there were 9,966 cases of traffic accidents reported in the first three quarters of 2005, a year-on-year increase of 7 percent.\n\nThe accidents led to 3,216 casualties, according to the figures.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 208, "end_char": 217, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 331, "end_char": 340, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first three quarters of 2005", "start_char": 518, "end_char": 550, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051101.0360.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0270\n\nLONDON, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Lachlan Carmichael\n\n\n\n\nA British military probe has found insufficient proof to back charges that British troops raped hundreds of Kenyan women while on training missions in Kenya going back decades, officials said Thursday.\n\nThe Ministry of Defence (MoD) published the findings of the military police inquiry after a team of up to 20 officers investigated more than 2,000 claims of rape over a 55-year period.\n\n\"In terms of a criminal investigation, there is no corroborative evidence that would lead to the successful prosecution of a named individual in a UK (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) court,\" the MoD said.\n\nThe ministry released the findings by the Royal Military Police's (RMP) Special Investigations Branch (SIB) following what it said was an external review by Devon and Cornwall Police, a civilian force in southwest England.\n\nThe army's main personnel officer Lieutenant General Freddie Viggers said the findings were properly vetted.\n\n\"The British Army has taken these allegations extremely seriously and they have been extensively and sensitively examined,\" Viggers said in the MoD statement.\n\n\"It has been a complex and detailed investigation which has been subject to rigorous internal and external reviews and all viable lines of inquiry have been pursued,\" he said.\n\nThe Times's newspaper said the RMP's investigation involved a team of between 12 and 18 investigators interviewing all 2,187 claimants, most of them Masai and Samburu tribeswomen from some of the remotest areas of the country.\n\nThey had demanded 20 million pounds (30 million euros, 39 million dollars) in compensation from the British Army for the the alleged rapes.\n\nThe newspaper said the investigators deemed just 281 of the total set of allegations worthy of closer inspection, all of which fell apart during follow-up interviews with local people and former members of the British Army and upon further scrutiny.\n\nThough several women with mixed-race babies staged demonstrations outside the British High Commission when the allegations surfaced in 2003, The Times said that it now appears that the children resulted either from consensual sex or rapes by other men.\n\nOne woman told the newspaper that she only took part in the protest because she had been told that there was a chance of large payouts.\n\nThe MoD said that each claim was carefully examined by the SIB, working with Home Office specialists and the Kenyan authorities.\n\nIt was reported that the team uncovered large numbers of forged entries in the Kenyan police files about the alleged rapes -- some of them described as \"astonishingly clumsy\".\n\n\"A large amount of the information provided by the Kenyan police and medical authorities appears to have been fabricated,\" an MoD spokeswoman said.\n\nSince Kenya gained independence in 1963, the British Army has maintained a permanent garrison there, known as the British Army Training Unit Kenya (BATUK), with up to 4,000 British troops training there annually.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 270, "end_char": 278, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a 55-year period", "start_char": 448, "end_char": 464, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P55Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Times", "start_char": 1370, "end_char": 1375, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12", "start_char": 1444, "end_char": 1446, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 2121, "end_char": 2125, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2150, "end_char": 2153, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1963", "start_char": 2868, "end_char": 2872, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1963", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0270.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0301\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nS. Africa confirms over 300 cases of killer TB\n\n\n\n\nA total of 303 cases of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) have been confirmed across South Africa, the country's Health Ministry said on Thursday.\n\nThis form of TB was first identified in South Africa at Tugela Ferry region in KwaZulu-Natal province earlier this year and showed a high mortality rate, with 52 of the first 53 patients dying.\n\nThe disease has raised intensive concerns in South Africa because it can be complicated by the presence of HIV/AIDS. More than 5.5 million South Africans, or 11 percent of the population, are infected with HIV. This number is the second largest in the world, only after India.\n\nThe World Health Organization has defined XDR-TB as tuberculosis that is resistant to the main first-line TB drugs and to three or more of the six second-line drugs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 269, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 382, "end_char": 391, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0301.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0062\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIraqi governor survives suicide attack\n\n\n\n\nAbdul-Rahman Mustafa Fattah, governor of Iraq's northern province of Kirkuk, escaped unscathed a suicide bombing attack on Tuesday that killed one person and wounded 20 others, local police said.\n\n\"A suicide bomber wearing an explosive-belt threw himself at the convoy of Abdul-Rahman Mustafa Fattah, the governor of Kirkuk, who escaped unhurt in the center of the city,\" Brigadier Burhan, police chief of Kirkuk City told Xinhua by telephone.\n\nHowever, one civilian was killed and 20 others, including one of the governor's bodyguards, were wounded in the attack, Burhan said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 223, "end_char": 230, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0062.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0783\n\nSEOUL, Dec 15 , 2006, 2006\n\nminister\n\n\n\n\nNorth Korea may stage a second nuclear weapons test to strengthen its hand during upcoming negotiations on scrapping its nuclear programme, South Korea's new defence minister warned Friday.\n\nKim Jang-Soo, a former army chief of staff, ordered the 650,000-strong military to step up combat-readiness to deter possible aggression from the North, the defence ministry said.\n\n\"We have to be thoroughly prepared to counter the possibility of a second or third nuclear test by North Korea and a possible hostile act by it in the process of negotiations over its nuclear weapons programme,\" Kim said in a message to troops.\n\nThe six-nation nuclear talks are set to resume in Beijing on Monday, 13 months after the North walked out. They involve the two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia.\n\nThe North staged its first nuclear test on October 9, sparking international condemnation and United Nations sanctions.\n\nLater that month North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il told China that he had no plans for a second test but that increased international pressure could trigger \"further measures\".\n\nDefence minister Kim issued his letter after a closed-door meeting of 130 senior commanders, including General Kim Kwan-Jin, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the army, navy and air force chiefs of staff.\n\nThe defence minister also urged no further delay in the planned relocation of US bases to Pyeongtaek south of Seoul.\n\nThe defence ministry said this week that South Korea would not be able to complete a major relocation of US military bases by 2008 as scheduled, due to protests by residents and a dispute over cost-sharing.\n\nThe US forces want to consolidate 35 US bases scattered across the nation into two hub bases by 2008, including one at Pyeongtaek.\n\nSome 29,500 troops are stationed in the country, a legacy of the Korean War. The number is set to drop to 25,000 by 2008.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 246, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday, 13 months", "start_char": 743, "end_char": 760, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18T13:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 9", "start_char": 906, "end_char": 915, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Later that month", "start_char": 984, "end_char": 1000, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1519, "end_char": 1528, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1619, "end_char": 1623, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1797, "end_char": 1801, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 1949, "end_char": 1953, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0783.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0120\n\nZHENGZHOU, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's most populous province rules out second child restrictions\n\n\n\n\nThe government of China's most populous province has rejected proposals to ease the one-child rules and allow couples who were themselves single children to have a second child.\n\nThe huge population prevented Henan province from loosening the birth control restrictions, said Deputy Governor Wang Jumei.\n\nThe population of Henan reached 97.68 million at the end of 2005. Henan had entered a fourth birth peak, with 1.1 million babies born each year, said Wang.\n\nThe net increase in the population was more than 500,000 a year, equal to the population of a medium-sized county, added Wang.\n\nHenan avoided a 32.6-million population increase between 1971 and 2004 due to the birth control policy, according to the provincial family planning and birth control committee.\n\nSome local authorities in China have enacted regulations allowing couples who were themselves only children to have a second child.\n\nDeputy head of Beijing Municipal Population and Family Planning Committee Li Yunli said in September that she hoped all \"only child\" couples would have a second child to help solve labor shortages and deal with challenges represented by the aging population.\n\nEast China's Jiangsu province had such a policy as early as 1985.\n\nAccording to the 11th five-year plan (2006-2010) on aging, China's senior population will top 174 million by 2010, accounting for 12.78 percent of the total population, compared with 143 million at present.\n\nChina could not rely on more births to solve aging population issues, said Yu Xuejun with the State Population and Family Planning Commission.\n\nThe best solutions were to boost economic development and build an effective social security system, especially in rural areas, Yu said.\n\nChina's family planning policy encourages couples, apart from those of ethnic minority groups, to have only one child to restrain population expansion. Couples that meet certain conditions can have a second child.\n\nThe central authorities have delegated policy-making power on the issue to local governments.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2005", "start_char": 484, "end_char": 499, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "each year", "start_char": 569, "end_char": 578, "tid": "t2", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 649, "end_char": 655, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1971", "start_char": 777, "end_char": 781, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1971", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1122, "end_char": 1131, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1985", "start_char": 1351, "end_char": 1355, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1467, "end_char": 1471, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0120.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0160 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0160. \n Automatic Data Processing \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n AUD \n BUYBACKS, REDEMPTIONS, SWAP OFFERS (BBK) \n ROSELAND, N.J.  \n\n   Automatic Data Processing Inc. plans to redeem on Nov. 16 its $150 million of 6.5% convertible subordinated debentures due March 1, 2011. \n\n   The computing-services concern will pay $1,059.04 for each $1,000 face amount of debt. \nThe conversion price for the debentures is $41.725 a share. \nIn New York Stock Exchange composite trading Friday, Automatic Data closed at $46.50 a share, down $2.25. \n\n   If all the debt is converted to common, Automatic Data will issue about 3.6 million shares; last Monday, the company had nearly 73 million shares outstanding. \n\n   Automatic Data is redeeming the bonds because the after-tax cost of the interest on the bonds is higher than the dividend yield on the common, a spokesman said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 71, "end_char": 79, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 16", "start_char": 228, "end_char": 235, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-16", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}, {"text": "March 1, 2011", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "2011-03-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 515, "end_char": 521, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}, {"text": "last Monday", "start_char": 673, "end_char": 684, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-23", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t17"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0541.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0366\n\nLUSAKA, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZambian president nods predecessor's evacuation to S. Africa for medical treatment\n\n\n\n\nZambian President Levy Mwanawasa issued on Monday a letter giving green light to former leader Frederick Chiluba for him to travel to South Africa where he is expected to receive medical treatment for heart problem.\n\nIn the letter delivered by chief government spokesperson Vernon Mwaanga, Mwanawasa said arrangements should be made immediately for Chiluba's evacuation to South Africa to receive medical treatment at government expense.\n\nThe president has however instructed that Chiluba should surrender his passport to Zambia's High Commissioner to South Africa upon arrival in that country.\n\nHe further noted that Chiluba's wife Regina would not accompany him to South Africa as she was facing criminal charges at home.\n\nChiluba was supposed to leave for South Africa two weeks ago after the government okayed his trip, which was however suspended later.\n\nMwaanga, who is also Minister of Information, explained that the suspension of Chiluba's trip was because of the contradictory medical recommendations issued by a local experts team and Chiluba 's doctors in South Africa.\n\nChiluba however accused that the government was blocking his trip in a bid to fail his health, an accusation denied by the Zambian government.\n\nChiluba, who ruled Zambia between 1992 and 2001, has been under investigation since 2003 after president Mwanawasa appointed a task force to investigate his theft of 488,000 U.S. dollars public funds during his tenure.\n\nHe has previously been denied to go abroad as the government feared that he would not come back to face charges.\n\nChiluba first left for South Africa for medical treatment in March this year after the Zambian government lifted the ban on his trip abroad.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 186, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 915, "end_char": 928, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1404, "end_char": 1408, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2001", "start_char": 1413, "end_char": 1417, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1454, "end_char": 1458, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "tenure", "start_char": 1581, "end_char": 1587, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March this year", "start_char": 1765, "end_char": 1780, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0366.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0184\n\nANKARA, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTurkish police seize 160 kg of heroin in Istanbul\n\n\n\n\nTurkish police confiscated 160 kg of heroin stashed in two trucks in an operation in Turkey's largest city of Istanbul on Friday, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.\n\nFour suspects were arrested in the operation in Avcilar district of Istanbul, facing charges of dealing illicit drugs.\n\nIn another operation on the same day, gendarmerie officers, acting on a tip-off, found 30 kg of heroin hidden in a car in Baskale town of Van province in eastern Turkey, Anatolia said.\n\nThe report said that the gendarmerie forces received help from a sniffer dog in finding the heroin in Baskale, adding that a full- scale manhunt is underway to arrest the owner of the car.\n\nTurkey is on a key transit route for gangs smuggling drugs from Asia and the Middle East to markets in western Europe.\n\nIn 2005, Turkish security forces seized 6,663 kg of heroin, 140 kg of morphine, 34 kg of opium, 6,002 kg of hashish, 40 kg of cocaine, some 1.23 million captagon pills and 5.76 million ecstasy pills, official figures showed.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 908, "end_char": 912, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0184.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0271\n\nLANZHOU, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nyears\n\n\n\n\nChina experienced little change in its average precipitation over the past three decades, according to an analytical report released recently by Chinese scientists.\n\nExperts with the Research Institute of Cold and Arid Regions Environment and Engineering under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) analyzed observatory data from 385 meteorological stations nationwide.\n\nAccording to the report, the nation's average precipitation reached its minimum in the 1970s and has since remained basically unchanged.\n\nHowever, the development trend of precipitation varied in different regions.\n\nPrecipitation in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Qilian Mountain, northeast China, the southeastern part of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and east China tended to increase noticeably.\n\nMeanwhile, precipitation in the central part of northwest China, the southwestern part of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and most stretches of central and north China tended to decrease obviously.\n\nZuo Hongchao, who took part in the precipitation investigation, said the research was of great importance, as changes in precipitation would impact water resources, agricultural production and the ecological system in China.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past three decades", "start_char": 133, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-26T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1970s", "start_char": 521, "end_char": 530, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "197", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0271.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0409\n\nRIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBrazilian vice president recovering after tumor-removing operation\n\n\n\n\nThe surgery to remove a malignant tumor from the abdomen of Brazilian Vice President Jose Alencar was successful, said a medical team on Tuesday.\n\nAlencar felt well after the six-hour operation, said his spokesman, noting the vice president was still at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the United States, undergoing after-surgery medical procedures. The center is regarded as one of the best oncology institutes in the world.\n\nAlencar is expected to be off duty till Dec. 7, but he planned to return to Brazil on Nov. 25.\n\nThe tumor was detected on Oct. 30 shortly after he was elected vice president along with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for another four-year term.\n\nThe 75-year-old vice president had gone through several surgical operations to remove tumors. In 1997, two tumors were removed from his kidney and his stomach respectively. In 2000, he underwent a surgery to remove a tumor from his prostate. In July 2006, doctors removed a four-centimeter tumor from his rectum.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 279, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 7", "start_char": 626, "end_char": 632, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 25", "start_char": 672, "end_char": 679, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 30", "start_char": 708, "end_char": 715, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 933, "end_char": 937, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1012, "end_char": 1016, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 2006", "start_char": 1081, "end_char": 1090, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0409.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0214\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina to increase education spending: Premier\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinese government will raise the proportion of annual government expenditure on education to 4 percent of the country's GDP, Premier Wen Jiabao has announced.\n\nHe said government would help further spread and consolidate compulsory education, speed up occupational education, improve education at higher institutes and deepen education reforms.\n\nFrom July to November, Wen presided over four forums on education development with teachers, educational experts, middle school masters, university presidents and officials.\n\n\"China's economy has maintained high-speed growth for 28 consecutive years and become the fourth largest economy of the world. The country's sustainable development and prosperity hinge on education,\" Wen said.\n\nThe government always paid great attention to education. Compulsory education has been launched in rural areas and universities and colleges had enrolled a larger number of students. \"The public education demand has been satisfied to some extent.\n\n\"But we should realize that some problems still exist in education development. We shall promote sustainable and healthy educational development by increasing investment, deepening reform and strengthening management,\" Wen said.\n\nHe said the nine-year compulsory education, which was important for promoting social equity and building a harmonious socialist society, should be vigorously extended.\n\nSchools should reduce student assignments and encourage them to attend more extracurricular activities, so that they will have time to learn more about society and enhance their sense of social responsibility, he said.\n\nWen said more efforts should be put into developing occupational education, as it would help alleviate the shortage of skilled workers and help more migrant workers and urban unemployed obtain jobs.\n\nEducational reform should be deepened in universities and colleges so as to train more university graduates to think of innovation.\n\n\"China needs high-quality teachers. The government will intensify support for education so as to attract the best people into teaching,\" he said.\n\nHe ordered local governments to raise salaries and benefits for teachers in rural areas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July to November", "start_char": 463, "end_char": 479, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "28 consecutive years", "start_char": 687, "end_char": 707, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0214.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0429\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\npolicy committee\n\n\n\n\nChina's central bank has removed the country's former statistics chief Qiu Xiaohua from its monetary policy consulting body, said the General Office of the State Council, or China's cabinet, on Wednesday.\n\nQiu Xiaohua was dismissed from the top job at the National Bureau of Statistics on Oct. 12 for his suspected involvement in the 10 billion-yuan (1.25 billion U.S. dollars) Shanghai social security fund fraud.\n\nXie Fuzhan, the newly appointed NBS head, has replaced Qiu as one of the 13 commissioners on the Monetary Policy Committee of the People's Bank of China, said the Office.\n\nXie had been deputy director of the Development Research Center of the State Council before taking up the NBS post.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 271, "end_char": 280, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 12", "start_char": 366, "end_char": 373, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0429.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0126\n\nKABUL, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n7 arrested in Kabul for possessing explosives\n\n\n\n\nSeven persons were arrested on Saturday along with their two cars full of explosives in Afghan capital Kabul, the spokesperson of Ministry of Defense said.\n\n\"This afternoon at about 3:30, Afghan National Army (ANA) seized two cars full of explosives in the city of Kabul, and arrested four persons in the car. The third car was also seized by ANA after finding the direct relation with the first two cars although there is no explosive inside, and the three persons in the car were arrested afterwards,\" spokesperson Zahir Azimi told Xinhua.\n\nThe spokesperson refused to comment about if there is any suicide attack attempts behind it.\n\nTaliban militants in Afghanistan have intensified attacks against Afghan and foreign troops this year, especially by use of suicide attacks.\n\nA people was arrested in eastern Nangarhar province on Friday for taking many explosives in his body and the suicide explosion attempt. On the same day, another suicide attacker in the province exploded the bomb in his body and injured one passerby.\n\nThe Afghan government has sent more troops for further investigation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 834, "end_char": 843, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 939, "end_char": 945, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same day", "start_char": 1023, "end_char": 1035, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0126.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0393\n\nPARIS, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nThe AFP world news agenda at 2100 GMT\n\n\n\n\nWhat's coming up around the world:\n\n+ Ethiopian, Somali troops near capital\n\n+ Iraq prepares for rapid Saddam execution\n\n+ Israel to resume Gaza strikes\n\n-- TOP STORIES --\n\nMOGADISHU: Covering developments after Ethiopian troops backing government forces ousted Islamist fighters from a key southern town and moved closer to the capital, amid calls from African and Arab nations that they withdraw. (SOMALIA-UNREST-ETHIOPIA)\n\nBAGHDAD: Reporting as Iraqis brace for the execution of former dictator Saddam Hussein and a possible backlash from his supporters, amid controversy over the US detention of Iranian agents. (IRAQ)\n\nJERUSALEM: Reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to order resumption of strikes against rocket-firing militants in Gaza after a Palestinian rocket wounded two Israeli teenagers. (MIDEAST-CONFLICT-GAZA-CEASEFIRE)\n\n-- OTHER AGENDA ITEMS --\n\nCRAWFORD, Texas: Reporting as President George W. Bush welcomes his top aides to his Texas ranch for final consultations on his planned strategy change in Iraq. (US-IRAQ-BUSH)\n\nHONG KONG: Covering developments after Internet and phone services were disrupted across much of Asia after an earthquake damaged undersea cables, leaving the region in a virtual blackout. (ASIA-QUAKE-INTERNET)\n\nJAKARTA: Reporting from Aceh on relief and rescue efforts after flash floods and landslides on Sumatra island which have killed more than 100 people and forced more than 400,000 to flee their homes. (WEATHER-INDONESIA-FLOODS)\n\nMINA, Saudi Arabia: Around two million Muslim faithful converge on Mina near Mecca to begin the annual hajj pilgrimage. (SAUDI-RELIGION-ISLAM-HAJJ)\n\nMOSCOW: Reporting as Russia and Belarus have just four days to agree on a price for natural gas exports before Russian giant Gazprom cuts off supplies to the ex-Soviet republic, with a possible knock-on effect for western Europe. (BELARUS-RUSSIA-ENERGY-GAS-DIPLOMACY-COMPANY-GAZPROM)\n\nNEW YORK: Covering as mourners gather to pay their respects to late soul legend James Brown, who will lie in state at Harlem's Apollo Theater from 1800 GMT. (AFPENTERTAINMENT-MUSIC-US-BROWN)\n\nTEHRAN: Following developments after Iran's parliament approves a bill obliging the government to \"revise its cooperation\" with the UN nuclear watchdog in retaliation for sanctions imposed on Tehran. (IRAN-NUCLEAR-POLITICS-IAEA)", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four days", "start_char": 1791, "end_char": 1800, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061227.0393.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0276\n\nBEIRUT, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUN investigators meet Lebanese president over Hariri's killing\n\n\n\n\nTwo UN investigators met with Lebanese President Emile Lahoud Friday night over the killing of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and took a statement from Lahoud, according to the presidential office.\n\nThe investigators came to the presidential palace in Baabda to take the statement.\n\nA UN commission said in an interim report last month that Lahoud was not a suspect in the Feb. 14 killing, but a suspect made a call to the president's phone minutes before the blast.\n\nThe report claimed that investigations found \"converging evidence\" of both Syrian and Lebanese involvement in Hariri's killing.\n\nSyria has denied any role in the murder and dismissed the findings as politically motivated.\n\nThe UN Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Oct. 31, demanding Syria cooperate fully with the UN probe or face possible \"further action.\"\n\nChief UN investigator Detlev Mehlis is scheduled to present a final report to the United Nations on the probe on Dec. 15.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday night", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 452, "end_char": 462, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Feb. 14", "start_char": 500, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 31", "start_char": 878, "end_char": 885, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 15", "start_char": 1086, "end_char": 1093, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0276.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0017\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMongolian PM refutes reports on receiving refugees from DPRK\n\n\n\n\nMongolian Prime Minister Miegombyn Enkhbold on Thursday refuted news reports claiming that Mongolia was setting up refugee camps for people from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).\n\n\"There are some news reports or rumors that Mongolia is preparing to receive refugees or setting up refugee camps in Mongolia, but these reports are groundless,\" Enkhbold told reporters at the Mongolian Embassy in Beijing.\n\nMongolia and the DPRK have longstanding relations and Mongolia has always supported a nuclear weapon-free Korean Peninsula, Enkhbold said.\n\n\"Our position is to solve the nuclear issue through political dialogue and cooperation,\" the prime minister said. \"The Mongolian government is willing to implement the UN resolution on Korean nuclear issue.\"\n\n\"We hope for the success of the six-party talks and we support the initiatives and activities of the six parties,\" Enkhbold said.\n\nAs part of the UN refugee commission, Mongolia will treat refugees from a humanitarian point of view, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0017.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0023\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nMOR official\n\n\n\n\nNo specific timetable is now available for work to begin on the 1,320-km-long high-speed railway connecting China's capital with the country's economic hub of Shanghai, an official with the Ministry of Railways said on Wednesday.\n\nThe statement was a response to an earlier report carried by a Shanghai-based business newspaper saying that construction would likely start at the end of this year.\n\nThe MOR source added that no official data is available either for investment needed by the railroad project.\n\nAccording to China Business News, the budget for the project has been revised up from the initial estimate of some 130 billion yuan (16.5 billion U.S. dollars) to more than 170 billion yuan (21.5 billion U.S. dollars). If another three independent projects are taken into account, the total investment will likely rise to approximately 200 billion yuan (25.3 billion U.S. dollars).\n\nThe revised cost estimate takes account of funds required for land appropriation.\n\nA feasibility report on the railroad project is now awaiting approval, and preparations have entered the final stage, the newspaper said.\n\nOne of the three independent projects related to the high-speed railway, Dashengguan Yangtze River Bridge, is now under construction, with investment estimated at 4.8 billion yuan (607.6 million U.S. dollars). The bridge design includes six railtracks, two for the Beijing-Shanghai railroad, two for the Shanghai-Wuhan-Chengdu railway and two more for subway services in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, the newspaper added.\n\nIn general, the Ministry of Railways -- via its investment vehicle China Railway Construction Investment Co. -- takes a stake of at least 51 percent in railway construction projects in China, local governments along the route account for 20%, and the remaining 29 percent or so comes from the public.\n\nThis month the railway construction investment company will have talks with the governments of Hebei, Jiangsu, Shandong and Anhui provinces and Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai cities on jointly establishing a company to run the project, the newspaper revealed.\n\nThe insurance sector also intends to invest in the high-speed railway, with a possible input of 40 billion yuan (5.1 billion U.S. dollars), the paper said.\n\nThe Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway will stretch 1,320 kilometers and trains will be designed to travel at speeds of 350 kilometers per hour. The project will shorten the travel time between the two cities from 14 hours to five hours. Construction will take five years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 98, "end_char": 101, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 292, "end_char": 301, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of this year", "start_char": 448, "end_char": 468, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1096, "end_char": 1099, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1297, "end_char": 1300, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This month", "start_char": 1938, "end_char": 1948, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 2617, "end_char": 2627, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0023.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0289\n\nPRISTINA, Serbia, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nViolence would derail Kosovo status process, US warns\n\n\n\n\nAny violence in Kosovo could derail the nearly completed process to give the UN-administered province a new status, a senior US diplomat warned on Monday.\n\n\"We want to reiterate our desire to see this process, which is now in the concluding stages, completed without delay,\" US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Rosemary DiCarlo told local reporters.\n\n\"To do so, we all need to ensure that the people of Kosovo move forward according to the terms set by the process, that there will be no violence which will hurt considerably the aspiration of the people of Kosovo to see this process to conclusion.\"\n\nSpecial UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari is expected to reveal his proposal early next year on the future status of Kosovo, whose ethnic-Albanian majority is seeking independence from Serbia, a demand Belgrade strongly opposes.\n\nThe UN-run province remains tense more than seven years since the end of its 1998-1999 conflict between Serbian forces and separatist ethnic Albanian guerillas.\n\nFrustrations over the wait for determining Kosovo's status have occasionally turned violent among ethnic Albanians, who comprise around 90 percent of the province's two million population.\n\n\"Unilateral actions will be counterproductive,\" said the EU representative to the Kosovo talks, Stephan Lehne.\n\n\"You have to show the maturity and commitment to help the international community partnership with you to bring this process to its essential conclusion,\" said Lehne.\n\nDiCarlo and Lehne made the statements after meeting with Kosovo Albanian leaders and their negotiating team.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 41, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 266, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 793, "end_char": 808, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998-1999", "start_char": 1023, "end_char": 1032, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0289.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0214\n\nSHANGHAI, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nwin over Ljubicic\n\n\n\n\nWorld number one Roger Federer kept in low status Tuesday as the two-time defending champion of the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup was pulled into tiebreaker of decider before avoiding a defeat at just the second match in Shanghai.\n\nIt took two hours and 17 minutes of the 24-year-old Swiss to defeat the in-form Croatian Ivan Ljubicic 6-3, 2-6, 7-6(4), with a forehanded shot out of Ljubicic's reach for the tiebreaker win.\n\nAfter Sunday's stumble win from Federer against Argentina's David Nalbandian, the last man having qualified for the elite eight-man field, nothing wrong from the tennis super star could be more shocking, even another rare fightback and a tiebreaker.\n\nWith all the embarrassments of backhand errors, weak returns and slow paces, Federer just repeated his sluggish form shown in Nalbandian's match, being broken twice in the second set after taking the first using an advantage of serving first.\n\nForced the decider, the superlative, who has compiled another outstanding season with an ATP-best 11 titles including two Grand Slam and a record four ATP Masters Series crown, should have shortened his work of Ljubicic in the ninth game before his two match points in hand were denied by the Croatian with some placement shots.\n\nLjubicic, who enjoyed his best season by winning two ATP titles in eight finals and broke into top ten for first time, then continually moved Federer to play close to the net and transferred errors from the Swiss to his own benefit before holding on to force tiebreaker.\n\nWith the victory, Federer saved his near-perfect record at the Tennis Masters Cup, increased his winning streak to 33, and extended his season-best match record to 79-3.\n\nThe Shanghai match was the first in six weeks for Federer, who has already clinched the world No. 1 year-end ranking for the second year in succession. He last competed in Bangkok, winning his 11th title of the season on October 2.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 130, "end_char": 137, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 514, "end_char": 520, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six weeks", "start_char": 1812, "end_char": 1821, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second year", "start_char": 1897, "end_char": 1912, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2", "start_char": 1997, "end_char": 2006, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0214.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0042\n\nHARBIN, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nChina to build gene bank for Siberian tigers\n\n\n\n\nChinese zoologists plan to establish a gene bank for the endangered Siberian tigers within three years to ensure heredity diversity for the large cats.\n\n\"By 2009, we will have established a DNA bank from samples of more than 750 tigers at the park,\" said Liu Dan, chief engineer of the Harbin-based Heilongjiang Siberian Tiger Park in northeast China, the world's largest Siberian tiger breeding base.\n\nHe said nearly half of the tigers with high genetic quality will be selected for further reproduction, while the others will be sent to zoos.\n\n\"The move aims to expand heredity diversity by reducing inbreeding among the tigers,\" he said.\n\nExperts believe inbreeding of the tigers is partly blamed for apparent genetic degeneration, which includes slow physical development, blurred stripes, deformities and underdeveloped organs.\n\nSiberian tigers, among the world's 10 most endangered species, mostly live in northeast China and the Far East area of Russia. Of the 400 estimated to live in the wild, only 10 to 17 live in northeast China.\n\nThe center is home to more than 750 Siberian tigers, up from just eight when it was founded in 1986.\n\nMore than 90 of the 100 or so tigers born at the park every year survive and the park's tiger population is expected to exceed 1,000 by 2009, according to the park.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three years", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 207, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1986", "start_char": 1243, "end_char": 1247, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1986", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 1304, "end_char": 1314, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2009", "start_char": 1386, "end_char": 1390, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2009", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0042.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0027 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0027. \n National Intergroup\n@  To Report Charge\n@  For Third Quarter \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n NII \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n PITTSBURGH  \n\n   National Intergroup Inc. said it expects to report a charge of $5.3 million related to the sale of its aluminum unit's extrusion division for the third quarter. \n\n   The company said it has agreed to sell the extrusion division for $15 million to R.D. Werner Co., a closely held firm based in Greenville, Pa. \n\n   The charge is offset by an after-tax gain of about $30 million in the quarter from the previously announced pact to sell National Aluminum's rolling division. \n\n   National Intergroup in the year-ago third quarter earned $22.5 million, or 97 cents a share, including a gain of $18 million from the sale of a steel tube company. \nRevenue was $778.6 million. \n\n   The company also said it continues to explore all options concerning the possible sale of National Aluminum's 54.5% stake in an aluminum smelter in Hawesville, Ky. \n\n   The sale of the extrusion division is subject to audit adjustments for working capital changes through the closing. \n\n   The agreement also provides for potential payments of additional proceeds to National Aluminum over the next two years, depending on the plant's shipping levels. \n\n   The extrusion unit produces bare and painted custom extrusions for building products and construction industries. \nIn fiscal 1989, it had sales of about $40 million and an operating loss of $1.5 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 106, "end_char": 114, "tid": "t51", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 353, "end_char": 370, "tid": "t52", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t51"}, {"text": "the quarter", "start_char": 591, "end_char": 602, "tid": "t53", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t52"}, {"text": "the year-ago third quarter", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 738, "tid": "t59", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t52"}, {"text": "the next two years", "start_char": 1277, "end_char": 1295, "tid": "t220", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "fiscal 1989", "start_char": 1462, "end_char": 1473, "tid": "t68", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0670.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0078 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0078. \n Thursday's Markets:\n@  Earnings\n@  Data Cause\n@  Stock Fall\n@  ---\n@  Industrials Sink 39.55;\n@  Bonds Slip, but Dollar\n@  Soars Against Pound\n@  ----\n@  By Douglas R. Sease\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n MONETARY NEWS, FOREIGN EXCHANGE, TRADE (MON)\nSTOCK INDEXES (NDX)\nSTOCK MARKET, OFFERINGS (STK)\nFINANCIAL, ACCOUNTING, LEASING (FIN)\nBOND MARKET NEWS (BON)\nFOREIGN-EXCHANGE MARKETS (FRX) \n TREASURY DEPARTMENT (TRE) \n\n   Some lousy earnings reports whacked the stock market, but bond prices fell only slightly and the dollar rose a little against most major currencies. \n\n   The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 39.55 points, to 2613.73, in active trading. \nLong-term Treasury bonds ended slightly higher. \nThe dollar rose modestly against the mark and the yen, but soared against the pound following the resignation of Britain's chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson. \n\n   Analysts have complained that third-quarter corporate earnings have n't been very good, but the effect hit home particularly hard yesterday. \nCompaq Computer nose-dived $8.625 a share, to $100, and pulled other technology issues lower after reporting lower-than-expected earnings after the stock market closed Wednesday. \nLater yesterday the nation's major auto makers added to the gloom when they each reported their core auto operations were net losers in the third quarter. \n\n   The less-than-robust third-quarter results came amid renewed concern about the volatility of stock prices and the role of computer-aided program trading. \nTaken together, the worries prompted a broad sell-off of stocks. \nThe number of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange that fell in price yesterday exceeded 1,000, a key measure of underlying sentiment among technical analysts. \n\n   Although the government said the economy grew an estimated 2.5% in the third quarter, in line with expectations, analysts are increasingly predicting much more sluggish growth -- and therefore more corporate earnings disappointments -- for the fourth quarter. \n\n   \"There are a lot more downward revisions of earnings forecasts than 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0191\n\nALGIERS, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAlgerian president flies to Paris for medical treatment\n\n\n\n\nAlgerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika went to Paris for medical treatment on Saturday after experiencing digestive disorder, his office said in a statement.\n\nBouteflika received a medical check-up the same day in the capital Algeria \"due to digestive disorder\" and was later sent to Paris for further treatment on the advice of the doctors who examined him, the statement said.\n\nThe statement also quoted the doctors as saying \"the president's condition is not a source of concern.\"\n\nBouteflika's office said he would now not attend the Euro-Mediterranean summit in Barcelona on Sunday as planned.\n\nBouteflika, born in March 1937, was elected president in 1998 and secured a second term in office in April 2004.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 196, "end_char": 204, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 698, "end_char": 704, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 1937", "start_char": 738, "end_char": 748, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1937-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 775, "end_char": 779, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 2004", "start_char": 819, "end_char": 829, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0191.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0348\n\nROME, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nNazi officer Hass was spy for Italians, Americans: lawyer\n\n\n\n\nKarl Hass, who is being tried along with fellow ex-Nazi officer Erich Priebke for the massacre of 335 civilians in 1944, went on to work as a spy for the Italians and the Americans, a lawyer for the victims' families said Tuesday.\n\nGiancarlo Maniga told a court here that Hass, who remained in Italy after the end of the war, \"in 1951 ... passed into the service of the Americans and in 1953 of the Italian interior ministry and in 1955 he supplied Italian documents to the Soviets.\"\n\nManiga also said that Hass, 84, was involved in a number of bloody attacks carried out by right-wing extremists during the 1970s.\n\nHe asked that documents from the trials held over the attacks -- one in Milan in 1969 that left 16 people dead and another in Brescia in 1974 that killed eight people -- be included in the current proceedings.\n\nThe trial of Hass and Priebke opened on April 14 before a military tribunal in the top security prison in Rebibbia.\n\nPriebke, who was extradited from Argentina in 1995, has already been tried once before in connection with the killings. He was found guilty of murder last August, but the military tribunal ruled that the crime was covered by Italy's 20-year statute of limitations.\n\nPriebke was freed, but the verdict sparked an outcry and he was immediately rearrested.\n\nHass, Priebke's former commander, confessed while testifying in the earlier trial to taking part in the massacre. He admitted shooting two of the hostages \"to set an example to his men.\"\n\nThe Ardeatine Cave massacre in the southern suburbs of Rome was one of most notorious crimes committed in Italy during World War II.\n\nFollowing the deaths of 33 Nazi soldiers in an attack by resistance fighters, the SS commander for Rome Herbert Kappler, who was later jailed for his role, ordered that 10 Italian hostages should be killed in retaliation for every German death. He delegated the task to Priebke, his deputy.\n\nEarlier in Tuesday's hearing, a lawyer for the Jewish community in Rome asked that documents from Kappler's trial be included in the current proceedings.\n\nKappler took responsibility for the killings, thus ensuring that Priebke and Hass would go free.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1944", "start_char": 229, "end_char": 233, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1944", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 336, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1951", "start_char": 444, "end_char": 448, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1951", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1955", "start_char": 546, "end_char": 550, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1955", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1970s", "start_char": 718, "end_char": 727, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "197", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1969", "start_char": 811, "end_char": 815, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1969", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 867, "end_char": 871, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 14", "start_char": 981, "end_char": 989, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1104, "end_char": 1108, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last August", "start_char": 1208, "end_char": 1219, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2038, "end_char": 2045, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0348.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0429\n\nCOLOMBO, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd Ld: Sri Lankans head to polls for new president\n\n\n\n\nSri Lankan presidential election started Thursday morning as 13.3 million men and women began to cast their ballots to choose their new president from 13 contenders.\n\nA grand of 13,327,160 people aged over 18 are eligible to vote on Thursday during a nine-hour polling period from 7:00 a.m. (0100 GMT) to 4:00 p.m. (1000 GMT).\n\nThe election is staging at 10,486 polling stations islandwide including 233 cluster polling stations set up in the government controlled areas for the voters residing in the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebel controlled areas.\n\nAmong the 13 candidates, Sri Lanka's main opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and Sri Lankan Prime Minister and the ruling party's candidate Mahinda Rajapakse are two of front runners.\n\nAn independent poll survey had shown that the issue of cost of living and the peace process with Tamil Tigers were the two main issues in the election.\n\nRajapakse has pledged a tough line on the Tamil rebels as he forged election pacts with the leftist JVP (People's Liberation Front) and the Sinhalese nationalist party JHU (National Heritage Party).\n\nIn his manifesto, Rajapakse said the ceasefire agreement signed in 2002 between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was short-sighted and national security was compromised by that pact.\n\nRajapakse proposed to critically examine the merits and demerits of the steps taken so far to deal with the ethnic issue and consider a fresh approach.\n\n\"The ceasefire agreement will be amended so as to ensure that acts of terrorism would not be permitted in any way. The ceasefire monitoring mechanism would also be reviewed and new steps taken,\" said Rajapakse.\n\nBy contrast, the opposition United National Party leader Wickremesinghe vowed to bring about a permanent resolution to the ethnic problem through a political solution based on the current framework.\n\n\"The agreement arrived between the government and the LTTE and the Oslo and Tokyo Declaration, which guarantees the unity, democratic character and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka, has created the framework of a solution acceptable to all communities of the country,\" Wickremesinghe said.\n\nRajapakse and Wickremesinghe also have different opinions on economic policy. Rajapakse vowed to build up a \"national economy\" by attributing the positive attributes of free market economy with domestic aspirations. Wickremesinghe put more emphasis on free market policies and foreign investment.\n\nMeanwhile, the LTTE has reiterated Wednesday that it will advise Tamil people not to vote and denied newspaper reports that the LTTE was now actively encouraging people to vote in the presidential elections, a pro-Tigers Website TamilNet said.\n\n\"Tamils cannot place our trust on either of the parties or their candidates in the presidential election,\" Head of the LTTE's Peace Secretariat S. Pulidevan was quoted as saying.\n\nA neck and neck campaign race and fine weather are expected to have more voters to the election booths.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday morning", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 354, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "7:00 a.m.", "start_char": 394, "end_char": 403, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1282, "end_char": 1286, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2620, "end_char": 2629, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0429.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0172\n\nSINGAPORE, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nEvening rubber prices\n\n\n\n\nMonday's evening rubber prices in Singapore cents per kilo provided by the Singapore Commodity Exchange:\n\nBuyers    Sellers\n\nInt 2 RSS May         156.50    157.50 Nominal (N)\n\nInt 3 RSS May         156.50    157.50 N\nInt 4 RSS May         151.25    152.25 N\n\nInt 5 RSS           147.50    148.50 N\n\nNo. 1 Air Dried Sheet     176.50    178.50 N", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 83, "end_char": 89, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May         156.50    157.50 N", "start_char": 270, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Int 4 RSS May         151.25", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 329, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0172.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0278\n\nCAIRO, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nEgypt, Pakistan discuss military cooperation\n\n\n\n\nA Pakistani military chief arrived here Wednesday for talks on military cooperation with Egypt.\n\nFarooq Feroze Khan, chairman of Pakistan's joint chiefs of staff committee, went straight into talks with President Hosni Mubarak and said he invited him to visit Pakistan.\n\nKhan also told reporters he would meet later with his Egyptian counterpart Magdi Hatata to discuss military cooperation between the two countries.\n\nEgypt and Pakistan already cooperate in the fight against terrorism and signed an extradition treaty in 1995.\n\nEgyptian Interior Minister Hassan al-Alfi said Tuesday that Cairo is seeking the extradition of an Islamic militant arrested recently in Pakistan.\n\nLast week, sources close to security agencies in the Pakistani city of Peshawar said they had arrested an Egyptian and six other foreigners suspected of having links to Islamic extremists.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 141, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 624, "end_char": 628, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 678, "end_char": 685, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last week", "start_char": 779, "end_char": 788, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0278.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0024\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina reports rising number of entries and exits in 3rd quarter\n\n\n\n\nChina reported rising number of entries and exits in the third quarter of this year, with that of foreign nationals up 16.1 percent year-on-year to 10.63 million.\n\nThe number of entries and exits of Chinese mainland people amounted to 16.51 million in the third quarter, up 7 percent.\n\nAnd entries and exits by Hong Kong and Macao residents rose by 8.9 percent to 49.76 million and the figure of Taiwan residents increased by 9 percent to 2.25 million, according to a briefing made by the Ministry of Public Security Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter of this year", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 208, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 377, "end_char": 394, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 642, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0024.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0657\n\nTOKYO, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapan to respond 'appropriately' to dollar's rise: Mitsuzuka\n\n\n\n\nJapan's Finance Minister Hiroshi Mitsuzuka said his ministry would respond \"appropriately\" to the dollar's gains against the yen, hinting at measures to check the US unit's rapid rise to a 51-month high.\n\nThe impact of an excessively low yen is the same as the impact of an excessively strong yen, Mitsuzuka told a regular press conference.\n\n\"Our stance in the February G7 meeting was to respond appropriately to the dollar's gains, and that an excessively low yen means (the same as) an excessively high yen\" in terms of the adverse impact, Mitsuzuka said.\n\n\"We will take the same stance in line with this policy,\" he said.\n\nThe dollar was quoted at 125.74-76 yen in Tokyo at 10 a.m. (0100 GMT), up from 124.68-71 yen late Monday and in line with 125.73 yen in New York late Monday.\n\nThe dollar climbed to as high as 125.85 yen here Tuesday, the highest level since January 18, 1993, when the US unit hit 125.86 yen.\n\n\"The dollar is likely to test the upper limit today, with the psychological ceiling seen at around 126.20 yen,\" a dealer at a European bank said.\n\n\"The dollar's advance since last Friday is too fast, but the US unit is supported by a wide gap between US and Japanese interest rates,\" he said.\n\n\"Japanese investments in foreign bonds will be unstoppable for the time being, resulting in a higher dollar.\n\nMore political leaders in Japan are likely to voice concern over the higher dollar, as the financial authorities are uncomfortable with the US unit at above 125 yen,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 a.m.", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 801, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 841, "end_char": 847, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 893, "end_char": 899, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 951, "end_char": 958, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 18, 1993", "start_char": 984, "end_char": 1000, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993-01-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1082, "end_char": 1087, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Friday", "start_char": 1211, "end_char": 1222, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970407.0657.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0329\n\nLIMA, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nJapan\n\n\n\n\nThe Peruvian government signed several deals on Tuesday with China and Japan on cooperation in the fields of mining, geology and energy, local press reported on Tuesday.\n\nPeru's official Institute of Geology, Mining and Metallurgy (IGMMP) signed a memorandum of understanding on exchanging scientists and cooperating with China's geological service in the fields of mining and geology.\n\nThe Ministry of Energy and Mines signed a deal with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency to boost rural electrification, particularly with resort to renewable energies like solar energy, wind power, hydro-electric power and geothermal energy.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 112, "end_char": 119, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 225, "end_char": 232, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0329.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0236\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 9 , 2006, (Xinhua)\n\nmarket\n\n\n\n\nWarner Brothers International Cinemas (WBIC), a subsidiary of the U.S. media giant Time Warner, has decided to pull out from six theatres it currently runs with Chinese partners, according to Thursday's Beijing News.\n\nThe news report quoted a media announcement by WBIC, saying that \"it has ceased investment in China's movie theater market due to major regulatory changes\".\n\nThe Chinese government in 2005 barred foreign investors from holding majority stakes in joint ventures in the entertainment sector.\n\nWBIC will pull out of six theaters in six cities including Shanghai and Nanjing. \"The final plan is under discussion,\" said the announcement.\n\nThe company has plans in 2004 to build 40 movie theatres in China by 2008 through local partners.\n\nIn 2003 China allowed seven cities to open theatres with 75 percent foreign investment on a trial basis.\n\nThe Shanghai Film Group Corp. has shown interest in buying stakes in the six theaters.\n\nIn 2005, eight theaters invested or managed by WBIC in China had total box office revenues of 120 million yuan (15 million U.S. dollars).", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 209, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 268, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 470, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 745, "end_char": 749, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2008", "start_char": 789, "end_char": 793, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 822, "end_char": 826, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1016, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0236.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0618\n\nTOKYO, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUnarmed Peruvian rebels were executed: Japanese hostages\n\n\n\n\nThe hostages freed from the Japanese ambassador's residence in Lima Friday reiterated claims elite Peruvian troops executed rebels captured alive and unarmed during the assault, according to press reports here.\n\nAccording to several ex-hostages held for four months by the Tupac Amaru (MRTA) revolutionary movement, at least two rebels were executed by the soldiers after being taken prisoner.\n\nOne of the two was first led into a building next to the Japanese ambassador's residence in the assault in Lima Tuesday, according to a front page report in the Mainichi Shimbun daily.\n\nThe former hostages, whose names have not been given, said the two rebels were disarmed when they were captured. When the assault started one of the two, Ernesto \"Tito\" Cruz, took off his jacket, which had attached to it several handgrenades.\n\nHe then lay on the floor alongside the hostages as the elite troops stormed the residence. He was taken prisoner and his hands were tied with cord as he was taken away, according to the former hostages.\n\nA young female rebel was also captured alive on the first floor of the residence.\n\nShe shouted \"Don't shoot him!\" but the hostages said those around her did not understand what this meant.\n\nOn Thursday the freed hostages told the daily Asahi Shimbun they saw rebels killed by the Peruvian forces after they had given themselves up.\n\n\"I saw a murder,\" one of the hostages said. He told how one rebel put his hands in the air but was nevertheless shot.\n\nAnother hostage said he saw a rebel captured alive by the Peruvian forces who led him away.\n\n\"I realised the rebel they had taken had been shot when I heard all 14 rebels died in the assault,\" he said.\n\nAll 14 rebels, two soldiers and one hostage died during the assault.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four months", "start_char": 368, "end_char": 379, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 621, "end_char": 628, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1336, "end_char": 1344, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970424.0618.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0513\n\nPARIS, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Barnaby Chesterman\n\n\n\n\nSochaux and Lille joined Lens in second place on Sunday as the battle for the 'other two' Champions League places hots up in France.\n\nSochaux beat ailing giants Marseille 1-0 while Lille won 3-1 at Nancy.\n\nWith champions Lyon running away with the league again this season, the real race is for second and third place and a spot in next season's money-spinning Champions League competition.\n\nRabiu Afolabi scored the winner for Sochaux with 13 minutes left to play against the increasingly troubled Marseille, who now have only two wins in their last 10 league matches.\n\nBut despite their lofty position, Sochaux coach Alain Perrin, formerly of Portsmouth, is not getting carried away.\n\n\"If we start to let things happen, or start thinking we can rely on team-mates and each person can relax a little, all those are things that can pull the rug from under the feet of a successful team,\" said Perrin.\n\n\"Our work is psychological now to keep the pressure on this team to continue to perform.\"\n\nNancy took the lead early in the second half at home to Lille through Benjamin Gavanon.\n\nBut just past the hour mark Mathieu Bodmer restored parity and minutes later Mathieu Debuchy gave the visitors the lead before Souleymane Youla's injury time clincher.\n\nOn Saturday, Lyon broke another French record after a 1-0 win at Le Mans gave them their 14th win from the first 16 matches this season.\n\nThat win bettered the mark of 13 wins from the opening 16 contests set by Paris St Germain in the 1985/86 season. And incredibly it was Lyon's coach Gerard Houllier who was in charge of that team as well.\n\nThe victory moved Lyon on to 43 points but was due more to industry than flair as former Arsenal forward Sylvain Wiltord headed home a free-kick from Brazil midfielder Juninho just before the hour mark.\n\nHoullier was not interested in his team's record-breaking feat, preferring to concentrate on improving another record they broke last season.\n\nThat was when Lyon won a record fifth title in a row and they now look almost certain to add a sixth to that run with their nearest challengers already 14 points off the pace.\n\n\"We have taken a giant step towards the title,\" said a beaming Houllier when interviewed by Canal Plus.\n\n\"What pleased me was that we cleared the ball when we had to, when you're under the cosh, you're under the cosh. Today we controlled the game. This was a victory for hard work. Solidarity and control paid off.\"\n\nHoullier may have been letting himself get carried away by a narrow victory at one of the league's minnows, but Le Mans coach Frederic Hantz had a more sobre assessment of the situation.\n\n\"Football is a game played by 11 players and at the end, Lyon win,\" Hantz said.\n\nLyon's next league game is away to PSG whose Sunday match against Toulouse had to be postponed for security concerns.\n\nIn it's place, around 1,200 fans marched in protest at the killing of a fan by an off-duty police officer the previous month after a UEFA Cup tie.\n\nThe fan was among a mob attacking a French-Israeli fan and chanting antisemitist and racist slogans.\n\nLens won 3-0 at home to last seasons runners-up Bordeaux. Vitorino Hilton opened the scoring on 40 minutes and Daniel Cousin made the points safe on 57 minutes before Issam Jemaa's late cherry on the cake.\n\nStruggling Monaco gave their beleaguered fans something to cheer about with a 3-0 coasting against Valenciennes.\n\nSt Etienne are fifth after a 2-0 win over Lorient, in which both sets of fans demonstrated their support for PSG's ultras.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 125, "end_char": 131, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this season", "start_char": 337, "end_char": 348, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 590, "end_char": 593, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1005, "end_char": 1008, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1330, "end_char": 1338, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1985/86 season", "start_char": 1559, "end_char": 1577, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last season", "start_char": 2004, "end_char": 2015, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2080, "end_char": 2083, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 2413, "end_char": 2418, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the previous month", "start_char": 3006, "end_char": 3024, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "40 minutes", "start_char": 3246, "end_char": 3256, "tid": "t15", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT40M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "57 minutes", "start_char": 3299, "end_char": 3309, "tid": "t16", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT57M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0513.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061208.0111\n\nBERLIN, Dec 9 , 2006, 2006\n\nGerman police search for polonium 210 in Hamburg flat\n\n\n\n\nGerman police said Saturday they had drawn a blank with a first search of a flat in Hamburg used by Dmitry Kovtun, a contact of the poisoned former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko, for traces of the radioactive substance polonium 210.\n\n\"Hamburg police are taking every measure to check if polonium 210 is present in the apartment,\" they said in a statement.\n\nA police spokesman said early Saturday the initial examination of the flat had come up with \"no convincing result,\" but more in-depth tests would be needed.\n\nInvestigators believe Kovtun, a 41-year-old businessman, could have been in contact with the highly radioactive substance which killed Litvinenko on November 23.\n\nKovtun, one of three Russians who met Litvinenko in London on November 1, shortly before the former intelligence agent fell ill, was reported Friday to be suffering from radiation sickness.\n\nRussia's Interfax news agency quoted an unnamed medical official in Moscow as saying that Kovtun had briefly fallen into a coma Thursday but had since recovered consciousness.\n\nThe death of Litvinenko from polonium poisoning, which British authorities are treating as murder, has prompted a media outcry, heightened by allegations from the dead agent's friends that he was killed on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin.\n\nHamburg police appealed to \"people who had any contact\" with Kovtun to come forward. A special telephone number was available for concerned members of the public to call.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 9 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 128, "end_char": 136, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Saturday", "start_char": 493, "end_char": 507, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 23", "start_char": 776, "end_char": 787, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 1", "start_char": 852, "end_char": 862, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 932, "end_char": 938, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1109, "end_char": 1117, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061208.0111.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0385\n\nTOKYO, April 20 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nJapanese firms develop chip to connect automation equipment\n\n\n\n\nFuji Electric Co. Ltd., Kawasaki Steel Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. have jointly developed a universal intermediate semiconductor aimed at helping connect factory automation equipment, a newspaper said Sunday.\n\nThe three companies said introduction of the new application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) would lead to a cut in production costs by simplifying connections in factory automation systems, Nihon Keizai Shimbun said.\n\nThe new chip incorporates a central processing unit and a memory device to transmit input and output signals and data among factory automation equipment.\n\nThe newly developed integrated circuit is designed to enable connections among robots, numerically-controlled machine tools and sensors, the paper said.\n\nThe daily said the three Japanese companies would introduce the semiconductor, which could be used to link automated factory equipment regardless of its manufacturer, to their factories.\n\nThe firms would also sell the chip to other companies, it said.\n\nNissan was in charge of providing technology for connecting factory automation equipment and conducted tests, while Kawasaki Steel provided chip technology, with Fuji Electric developing software for the project.\n\nKawasaki will produce the ASIC with plans to begin a sample shipment in June and supply 1.3 million units annually by 2000.\n\nFuji will develop and sell ASIC-equipped factory automation equipment.\n\nNihon Keizai said that use of the semiconductor was likely to standardize factory automation equipment connections and lead to improvement in productivity.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 20 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 322, "end_char": 328, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1401, "end_char": 1405, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1447, "end_char": 1451, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0385.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0282\n\nDOHA, Nov. 24 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBahrain advances into second round at Asiad basketball tournament\n\n\n\n\nBahrain advanced into the second round of the 2006 Doha Asian Games men's basketball tournament after beating Macao, China 91-56 here on Friday.\n\nMahmood Ghuloom scored 30 points to lead Bahrain to its second win in two days.\n\n\"Ghuloom was excellent, scoring 30 points in just 30 minutes,\" said Bahrain head coach Salman Ramadan. \"In the second half we were in the driving seat so I rested my players.\"\n\nBahrain established a comfortable 71-39 lead after three quarters and Ramadan rested his big shooters in the final quarter.\n\nBahrain, who was awarded a 20-0 victory over India on Thursday following the opponent's withdrawal, has secured a top finish in Group A and a berth in the next round where it will face Qatar, South Korea, Iran, Jordan and Group C winner from the first round.\n\nDespite the loss, Macao, China's head coach Zeng Zhaozhong wasn 't too disappointed.\n\n\"We have nothing to be ashamed of, our team is so young,\" he said.\n\nLater on Friday, Mongolia held off a strong late surge from Palestine to claim its first victory at this tournament 78-70.\n\nTrailing 59-45 amid the third quarter, Palestine fought hard to pull within 73-70, but that's the closest they could get.\n\nIn Friday's other action, Afghanistan, 65-57 winner over Hong Kong, China on Thursday, lost to Syria 84-66 while Kazakhstan beat the United Arab Emirates 89-71.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 267, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two", "start_char": 340, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "30 minutes", "start_char": 401, "end_char": 411, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT30M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second half", "start_char": 458, "end_char": 473, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three quarters", "start_char": 579, "end_char": 593, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Q", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the final quarter", "start_char": 633, "end_char": 650, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 707, "end_char": 715, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1076, "end_char": 1082, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 1211, "end_char": 1228, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "73-70", "start_char": 1267, "end_char": 1272, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1317, "end_char": 1323, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1391, "end_char": 1399, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061124.0282.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0263\n\nBAGHDAD, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nGunfire and the squeal of tires echoed through downtown Baghdad on Thursday as gunmen in military uniforms sealed off a commercial street and snatched dozens of merchants in yet another brazen kidnapping.\n\nAt first, said witnesses, people were too stunned to move as around 20 silver sports utility vehicles without registration plates swooped down on the street and disgorged some hundred gunmen in camouflage fatigues.\n\nThe gang brandished waving assault rifles and the US-issued Glock pistols issued by the United States to Iraq's government security forces.\n\n\"They told people 'We are on official business, don't panic',\" said Mohammed al-Motaie, a tea seller who witnessed the events.\n\nA masked man selected individuals from the crowd and the gunmen hurled them into the waiting vehicles.\n\n\"One of the people being taken shouted he was from (Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's) Dawa Party,\" said Sami Mirza, a guard at one of the stores. \"They said, 'Welcome, come with us, we were looking for you'.\"\n\nHe added that the gunmen stole money from the shops as well.\n\n\"They broke into the store of the building's owner and I wanted to open fire, but I was afraid they would kill him inside the shop,\" added the frightened guard.\n\nPanic soon broke out as suspicions swept the street, one of the most important centers for autoparts in the city, that this was not an official venture at all.\n\n\"Then they started grabbing people haphazardly -- Sunnis, Shiites,\" said al-Motaie.\n\n\"I left my son for five minutes to have a nap at my house nearby, when I came back he was gone,\" said Sabah Abbu, a 50-year-old Christian with a small restaurant in the area.\n\n\"I contacted him immediately but his mobile was switched off.\"\n\nQassim Mohammed Ibrahim, a Shiite store owner, kept dialing numbers over and over on his phone. \"They took away my three brothers,\" he said his eyes brimming with tears. \"I have no one left.\"\n\nPeople in the street said they called authorities who said they had no knowledge of any type of operation taking place in that area.\n\n\"Their response came very late,\" an official from a Shiite party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), said in disgust.\n\nOne policeman who was there, guarding a bank, said he felt helpless even though he was armed.\n\n\"How can I fight people in military or government uniforms?\" he asked. \"I have only 30 bullets in my gun while they had enough weapons and ammunition to face down an army.\"\n\nTheir cars full, the gunmen left after about half an hour, firing a fusillade of shots into the air as they drove away from the site, sending cars reversing across Baghdad's bridges to get out of their way.\n\nPedestrians could also be seen running away along the banks of the Tigris and scurrying for safety across the bridges.\n\nKidnappings in broad daylight have become just another deadly feature of daily life in Baghdad as lawlessness increasingly takes over the battered city.\n\nThe kidnappings are believed to be the work of shadowy gangs and are largely done for profit, although in some cases they result in the execution of the victims for apparently sectarian motives.\n\nA new wave of panic swept the traumatized people of Rashid street when army forces pulled up to the site a little while later. People were terrified that they too were fakes.\n\n\"After this, I don't think anyone would dare open their shop in this place, especially after the government didn't defend them,\" said Mirza.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 144, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five minutes", "start_char": 1562, "end_char": 1574, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT5M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "half an hour", "start_char": 2572, "end_char": 2584, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-14T01:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0263.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0137\n\nNICOSIA, Nov. 26 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ndeadlock\n\n\n\n\nCyprus' Foreign Minister George Lillikas left for Finland on Sunday for negotiations on Turkey's EU entry bid but said he was not optimistic about the outcome concerning Cyprus issue.\n\n\"We are going with readiness, good will and positive spirit,\" Lillikas told Cyprus News Agency (CNA) at Larnaca airport, adding that the information they got from different sources didn't show any optimism.\n\nTurkey, aspiring to become an EU member, refuses to implement the EU-Turkey Customs Union Protocol by opening its ports and airports to Cypriot vessels and aircraft.\n\nAs the holder of the EU rotating presidency, Finland is launching a last-ditch initiative to avert a possible EU-Turkey crisis regarding its EU course.\n\nFinland's Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja has invited his Turkish and Cypriot counterparts to the Finnish city of Tampere, to work out a possible solution at the sideline of the Euro- Mediterranean Conference.\n\nCyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkey militarily intervened and occupied the north of Cyprus following a coup by a group of Greek officers.\n\nIn 2004, the internationally-recognized Republic of Cyprus entered the EU in the name of the whole island and now has EU veto powers over its rival Turkey.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 131, "end_char": 137, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 1024, "end_char": 1028, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1147, "end_char": 1151, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1254, "end_char": 1257, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061126.0137.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0053\n\nHARARE, Nov. 11 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nZimbabwe-Botswana ties under spotlight\n\n\n\n\nThe 24th session of the Botswana- Zimbabwe Joint Permanent Commission on Defense and Security ended in south Zimbabwe city of Masvingo on Friday after intensive deliberations on critical bilateral issues, The Herald reported on Saturday.\n\nThe four-day meeting discussed bilateral issues of mutual interest in areas of defense and state and public security between Zimbabwe and Botswana, the newspaper said.\n\nIn a statement issued at the end of the meeting held at Great Zimbabwe, the Minister of State for National Security, Lands, Land Reform and Resettlement Didymus Mutasa said the commission discussed a wide range of issues that were pertinent to Botswana and Zimbabwe and also of concern to the region.\n\nThese included wildlife matters, stock theft, illicit trafficking of drugs, gold, diamonds, firearms and the containment of general crime along the common border, immigration and customs issues.\n\nThe commission also applauded the co-operation and communication that exists at provincial and operational levels and urged this interaction to continue, said Mutasa.\n\nZimbabwe and Botswana's co-operation in wildlife management including the establishment of the Shashe/Limpopo and Kavango/ Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation areas was greatly appreciated by the commission which hailed the move as an indication of close cooperation.\n\nTo this end, the commission also hailed the donation of a male black rhino to Botswana by Zimbabwe as a gesture of goodwill that sought to further strengthen existing cordial relations.\n\nMutasa said the commission also expressed satisfaction at the conclusion of the memorandum of understanding on the construction of Kazungula Bridge by Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, especially as the bridge was going to play a pivotal role in the region's socio-economic development.\n\nIn response, Botswana Minister of Presidential Affairs and Public Administration Phandu Skelemani hailed the joint permanent commission on defense and security between the two countries which he said had been a successful platform to amicably solve any sticking problems between the two countries.\n\nSkelemani said the commission was a platform to come up with developmental initiatives that could benefit the people of Botswana and Zimbabwe. He also extended an invitation to the Zimbabwean delegation to attend the 25th session that will be hosted by Botswana next year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 237, "end_char": 243, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 327, "end_char": 335, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 2474, "end_char": 2483, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0053.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0006\n\nHANOI, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nVietnam athletes to SEA Games cautious about bird flu\n\n\n\n\nVietnam has taken precautions against bird flu, instructing local athletes at the upcoming Southeast Asian Games (23rd SEA Games) not to eat poultry, and supplying them with the bird flu medicine Tamiflu.\n\nVietnam's Sports and Physical Culture Committee has recently asked all athletes not to have dishes made from poultry and relevant products to prevent potential bird flu infection, the committee said Thursday, adding that the country's Ministry of Health has supplied a sufficient amount of Tamiflu to local athletes at the 23rd SEA Games slated for between late November and early December in the Philippines.\n\nUp to 92 Vietnamese people have been infected with bird flu virus strain H5N1 since the disease started to appear in the country in late 2003. Of them, 42 have died, the Health Ministry announced early this week.\n\nLocal media on Thursday reported that a 43-year-old man from northern Hai Phong city died on Nov. 2 due to infection of bird flu virus strain H3N0.\n\nAt the approaching event, Vietnam has eyed 60-70 gold medals or the third place. \"We pin greatest hope on our wrestlers and martial arts athletes,\" Nguyen Hong Minh, head of the country's 23rd SEA Games delegation, told Xinhua recently.\n\nAmong sports, Vietnam has aimed 6-8 golds at wrestling, 5-6 at pencak silat, 4-5 at judo, 5-6 at shooting, and 3-4 at taekwondo, he said.\n\nAt the 22nd SEA Games in 2003, hosts Vietnam topped the medal table with 158 golds, 97 silvers and 91 bronzes, far ahead of second-placed Thailand on 90-93-98.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 518, "end_char": 526, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late November and early December", "start_char": 676, "end_char": 708, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2003", "start_char": 862, "end_char": 871, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early this week", "start_char": 926, "end_char": 941, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 959, "end_char": 967, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 2", "start_char": 1037, "end_char": 1043, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "H3N0", "start_char": 1086, "end_char": 1090, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10T03:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1495, "end_char": 1499, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "90-93-98", "start_char": 1620, "end_char": 1628, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0006.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0463\n\nPARIS, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBardot slams Moscow \"massacre\"\n\n\n\n\nFormer film star Brigitte Bardot on Monday attacked city fathers in Moscow over what she called the \"massacre\" of stray animals in the Russian capital ahead of celebrations for its 850th birthday.\n\nIn an open letter to Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov she said she was \"shocked and horrified\" at the killings of animals in a clean-up of the streets ahead of the celebrations in September.\n\n\"The millions spent in particular on poison for animals .. could be used to help less well off people who make sacrifices every day,\" said the former screen idol turned animal rights activist.\n\nShe called on the Moscow mayor to launch a program of sterilization for animals instead of killing them \"to make your city's name shine when it celebrates in (the anniversary) September.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 124, "end_char": 130, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "850th birthday", "start_char": 269, "end_char": 283, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 468, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the anniversary) September", "start_char": 824, "end_char": 850, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0463.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0180\n\nDAR ES SALAAM, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nFactfile on Tanzania\n\n\n\n\nPresident Benjamin Mkapa of Tanzania has been in power for 10 years and is due to stand down after presidential and legislative elections on Wednesday.\n\nGEOGRAPHY: Mainland Tanganyika merged with the Indian Ocean islands of Zanzibar and Pemba to form the nation of Tanzania in 1964. The east African country of 945,000 square kilometres (364,900 square miles) shares borders with Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique.\n\nPOPULATION: Estimated 35.9 million in 2003 (World Bank figures). Tanzania hosts some 400,000 Burundian and Congolese refugees.\n\nCAPITAL: Dodoma (administrative). Dar es Salaam (economic).\n\nLANGUAGES: Swahili and English (official languages). Many local languages are spoken.\n\nRELIGION: Christian (40 percent), Muslim (40 percent), Animist. Of Zanzibar's one million inhabitants, 98 percent are Muslim.\n\nHISTORY: The British established a protectorate on Zanzibar in 1890 and the Germans took control of the mainland in 1891. German East Africa became British territory in 1920 and took the name Tanganyika. This became independent in 1961, under the Commonwealth, with Julius Nyerere as prime minister. The founding father of Tanzania and follower of African-style Socialism was elected president one year later.\n\nZanzibar and Pemba -- which both became independent in 1963 -- joined Tanganyika in 1964 to form the United Republic of Tanzania. Nyerere handed power to Ali Hassan Mwinyi in 1985. Zanzibar and Pemba kept a semi-autonomous status with a separate president and government.\n\nAfter three decades with one political party, a multi-party system was adopted in Tanzania in 1992. Benjamin Mkapa won the first multi-party general elections in October 1995, as candidate for the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM Revolutionary Party), in a poll with \"serious irregularities\" according to international observers. In Zanzibar, outgoing President Salmin Amour, of the CCM, narrowly won the election.\n\nMkapa was reelected in 2000 with 71.1 percent of the vote. The CCM won an absolute majority in parliament. In Zanzibar's elections, the opposition and international observers denounced massive fraud, and CCM candidate Amani Abeid Karume won after the main opposition party refused to take part.\n\nECONOMY: Coffee, cotton, tobacco, sisal and tea are the main exports. The economy of Zanzibar depends mainly on spices, particularly cloves from Pemba island, trade and tourism.\n\nThe mining sector has developped considerably in the past 10 years, after the adoption of a liberal economic policy in the middle of the 1980s.\n\nGDP: 220 dollars per inhabitant in 2003 (World Bank).\n\nFOREIGN DEBT: 7,901 billion dollars (6,532 billion euros) in 2004 (World Bank). Tanzania was one of the 18 poorest countries on the planet that saw their debts cancelled by the Group of Eight (G8) leading industrial countries in June 2005.\n\nARMED FORCES: Estimated at 27,000 soldiers, according to the International Institute of Strategic Studies (2004/2005).\n\nThe US embassy in Dar es Salaam was the target of a bomb attack on August 7, 1998 that killed 11 Tanzanians and injured 72.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 years", "start_char": 137, "end_char": 145, "tid": "t1", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 219, "end_char": 228, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1964", "start_char": 355, "end_char": 359, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1964", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 594, "end_char": 598, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1890", "start_char": 1022, "end_char": 1026, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1890", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1891", "start_char": 1075, "end_char": 1079, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1891", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1920", "start_char": 1128, "end_char": 1132, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1920", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1961", "start_char": 1190, "end_char": 1194, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1961", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one year", "start_char": 1353, "end_char": 1361, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1963", "start_char": 1425, "end_char": 1429, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1963", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1964", "start_char": 1454, "end_char": 1458, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1964", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1985", "start_char": 1545, "end_char": 1549, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three decades", "start_char": 1649, "end_char": 1662, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1992", "start_char": 1737, "end_char": 1741, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 1995", "start_char": 1805, "end_char": 1817, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 2081, "end_char": 2085, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 10 years", "start_char": 2582, "end_char": 2599, "tid": "t17", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 1980s", "start_char": 2666, "end_char": 2675, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "198", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 2713, "end_char": 2717, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2005", "start_char": 2962, "end_char": 2971, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 7, 1998", "start_char": 3161, "end_char": 3175, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998-08-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0180.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0800\n\nBEIJING, April 9 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nChina, Vietnam start talks on sea dispute in Beijing (repetition, correcting date)\n\n\n\n\nExpert-level delegations from China and Vietnam started discussions early Wednesday on a territorial dispute in the oil-rich South China Sea.\n\nHeld at the Foreign Ministry in Beijing, the talks are aimed at solving a potentially troublesome dispute over waters contested between Beijing and Hanoi.\n\nThey were arranged at Vietnam's request after the China National Offshore Oil Corp. deployed an exploratory oil rig in the disputed area on March 7.\n\nThe Kantan III rig was finally withdrawn on April 1.\n\nThe disputed zone lies south of the Gulf of Tonkin, almost equidistant from the central-Vietnamese coast and the Chinese island of Hainan. The area is believed to be rich in natural gas.\n\nIt is not covered by regular bilateral talks on contested areas in the South China Sea.\n\nChina and Vietnam have twice run into territorial disputes in the South China Sea, first in 1974 over the Paracel islands and again in 1988 over the Spratly Islands.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 9 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early Wednesday", "start_char": 209, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 7", "start_char": 580, "end_char": 587, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1", "start_char": 634, "end_char": 641, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 1013, "end_char": 1017, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1988", "start_char": 1056, "end_char": 1060, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0800.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0200\n\nSAIHAN, Inner Mongolia, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina\n\n\n\n\nThe white characters \"Xingxing Breeding Farm\" can still be seen on the red brick wall, but there is no poultry there.\n\nOn Oct. 14, chickens suddenly dropped dead by the dozen in the farm in Tengjiaying Village in Saihan District of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. On Oct. 19, the State Bird Flu Reference Lab confirmed that they died of H5N1 bird flu.\n\nAfter being sprayed with disinfectant at two checkpoints, 24 reporters, in protective suits and masks, were allowed to enter the village Thursday.\n\nThe road to the Xingxing Breeding Farm in the village was covered by lime, a kind of white, chalky disinfectant powder.\n\nCoving nearly one hectare of land, the farm had some 7,000 poultry, including chickens, ducks, geese, peacocks and pigeons.\n\nBefore the outbreak of the bird flu, owner of the farm Qin Zhijun, 44, had an average income of more than 100,000 yuan (12,340 US dollars) every year.\n\n\"I have been raising chickens for 20 years, but I had never seen chickens dying like that,\" Qin said.\n\nOn Oct. 14, Qin found his chickens dead for no apparent reason and made a report to the local government. When the dead chickens were proved to have died of bird flu, all the 7,000 poultry and birds were killed in two days. Meanwhile, the local government ordered closure of the farm and a three kilometers radius around it.\n\nThe area within five to eight kilometers radius from the farm was considered \"bird-flu-threatened\" and all poultry in the area should receive vaccination.\n\n\"At first, it was hard to bear,\" said Qin. ``I did not feel like eating, nor sleeping. I was frustrated.\"\n\n\"Now I have thought it over and over again. I believe the government will not leave us alone. We could still start from scratch again.\"\n\nQin said his wife and he himself are fortunate enough to stay healthy. Nevertheless, the couple are still under medical monitoring and not allowed to leave the courtyard. Doctors come to take their temperatures every week.\n\nAfter the outbreak of bird flu in the region, a total of 25 people in close contact with dead poultry and their dejecta received medical monitoring and 11 of them have been relieved of monitoring. The other 14 are in good condition, said a local government official.\n\nChina has not reported any human infection of bird flu so far.\n\nThere are 380 households in Tengjiaying Village. Only Qin has a poultry farm. Many other households in the village breed cows, a backbone industry in the region.\n\nQi Xiuzhi, 50, is a neighbour of Qin. Qi has raised two chickens herself. But they had been killed together with other poultry in the village after the outbreak of the disease.\n\n\"Every one knows there is something wrong with Qin's poultry,\" said Qi.\n\nQi said there were days when panic hung over the village and relatives outside the village dared not come for visit. \"It's over now,\" Qi said.\n\nApart from checkpoints, the ground covered with lime powder, and a notice of closure on the wall, the village is not different from any other small village in China.\n\nSeeing so many people with protective suits coming in, especially some foreigners with blue eyes and big noses, villagers stood far away, watching, chatting with each other in dialect, and laughing loudly. No one wore protective suits like reporters.\n\nAs the village has been under closure, villagers have to pass checkpoints after being disinfected and registered every day when they go out and come back.\n\n\"It's troublesome,\" said a villager who declined to give his name, \"But what else can we do? We know it's a contagious disease.\"\n\nQin said he knew he would lose a lot of money this time, even though the government had promised to pay compensation. But he said he wants to raise chickens after the disease dies out.\n\n\"What else can I do?\" said Qin.\"It's all I know how to do.\"\n\nThe local government has promised to help farmers like Qin recover production by providing interest-free or low-interest loans to them and helping them build new coops.\n\nCompensation will be paid to farmers, at an average of 30 yuan per chicken. The central government will cover 10 yuan while the local governments will cover the remainder.\n\nSince Autumn this year, China has reported four cases of bird flu outbreaks in Anhui, Hunan, Inner Mongolia and the latest Liaoning province.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 47, "end_char": 60, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 14", "start_char": 203, "end_char": 210, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 19", "start_char": 364, "end_char": 371, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 587, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every year", "start_char": 983, "end_char": 993, "tid": "t4", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20 years", "start_char": 1030, "end_char": 1038, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 14", "start_char": 1102, "end_char": 1109, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two", "start_char": 1313, "end_char": 1316, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 1689, "end_char": 1692, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every week", "start_char": 2036, "end_char": 2046, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 2923, "end_char": 2926, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Autumn this year", "start_char": 4240, "end_char": 4256, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0200.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0299\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n2nd Lead: exiled Hamas leader arrives in Cairo on unexpected visit\n\n\n\n\nThe exiled leader of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) Khaled Meshaal arrived in the Egyptian capital of Cairo on Wednesday night on a surprise visit, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.\n\nMeshaal and his accompanying delegation would hold talks with senior Egyptian officials on the latest developments in the Palestinian territories, means to revive the stalled peace process and the forming of a Palestinian unity government, MENA said in a short dispatch, without giving more details.\n\nHowever, Contacts with the Egyptian foreign ministry failed to confirm the report.\n\nReports on Meshaal's visit to Egypt were abundant since late October.\n\nOn Oct. 29, a senior Egyptian official told Xinhua that Meshaal would visit Egypt soon, but failed to give an exact date.\n\nThe official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said at that time that Meshaal, now in exile in Syria, would visit Cairo in four or five days.\n\nBut Meshaal didn't come to Egypt in the end. Instead, he sent a delegation, which was led by Hamas representative in Syria Imad al- Alami, to Cairo on Oct. 31.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 258, "end_char": 273, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late October", "start_char": 781, "end_char": 793, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 29", "start_char": 799, "end_char": 806, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four or five", "start_char": 1045, "end_char": 1057, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 31", "start_char": 1216, "end_char": 1223, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0299.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0083\n\nKUALA LUMPUR, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMalaysia Stock Exchange sinks lower on selling pressure\n\n\n\n\nThe Malaysia Stock Exchange closed lower on further selling of some key bluechip shares on Monday, the first day after a four-day festival holiday in the country.\n\nThe benchmark Composite Index slipped 2.39 points throughout the day to end at 911.53, the Emas Index eased 0.40 of a point to 207.80 and the Second Board Index declined 0.17 of a point to 84. 14.\n\nLosers beat gainers 343 to 303, 271 counters were unchanged, 408 counters untraded and 40 counters suspended.\n\nTurnover was higher at 330.52 million shares worth 920.62 million ringgit (245.50 million US dollars) from 226.08 million shares worth 548.59 million ringgit (146.29 million US dollars) last Wednesday.\n\nMeanwhile, turnover on the Main Board rose to 257.10 million shares worth 885.14 million ringgit (236.04 million US dollars) from 171.59 million shares worth 523.36 million ringgit (139.56 million US dollars) last Wednesday.\n\nThe Second Board volume increased to 20.20 million shares worth 12.65 million ringgit (3.37 million US dollars) from 18.45 million shares worth 10.98 million (2.93 million US dollars).\n\nVolume on the Mesdaq market rose to 52.11 million shares worth 21.14 million ringgit (5.64 million US dollars) from 35.54 million shares from 13.68 million ringgit (3.65 million US dollars).\n\nDealers said the market this week will be cautious of developments in external factors such as the spread of the bird flu, and indications of funds flowing out of Asia with the hike in US interest rates.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 212, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 353, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Wednesday", "start_char": 780, "end_char": 794, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Wednesday", "start_char": 1006, "end_char": 1020, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1425, "end_char": 1434, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0083.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "nyt_20130321_women_senate\n\n2013-03-21\n\nOnce Few, Women Hold More Power in Senate\n\n\n\nAn hour before her colleagues gathered for their first vote of a new Congress, Senator Kelly Ayotte slipped into an empty Senate chamber to savor the grandeur of her legislative home. As Ms. Ayotte, a freshman Republican from New Hampshire, sat down at the wooden desk where generations of lawmakers from her state had cast their votes, a doorman marched toward her with purpose.\n\nThe desks, he sternly told her, were for senators only.\n\nMs. Ayotte's induction that January day in 2011 into the most rarefied ranks of the nation's political class, female senators, had begun. \"The desk thing really stuck with me,\" Ms. Ayotte said. \"There still just aren't that many of us.\"\n\nIn the 90 years since Rebecca Felton of Georgia became the first woman in the United States Senate - sworn in for a mere 24 hours - women remain an anomaly in the upper chamber. But with 20 female senators now in office, an all-time high, women have morphed from the curiosity they were for much of the 20th century into an important new force on key committees and legislation.\n\nA record nine women now lead committees, including some of the most powerful ones. For the first time there is a woman - Senator Barbara A. Mikulski, a Maryland Democrat - in charge of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which dispenses billions of dollars annually throughout the government and has long been particularly dominated by men. Senator Patty Murray, a Washington Democrat, is the first chairwoman of the Budget Committee and is charged with shaping the Democratic strategy in the fiscal battle dominating Capitol Hill.\n\nOne of the biggest bills to pass the Senate last year was farm legislation led by Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat who presides over the agriculture committee. Senator Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat who is chairwoman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, shepherded the highway bill.\n\n\"We are growing in number,\" said Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota. \"But more importantly, we are growing in our power. When I first started just six years ago, it was unusual to have a woman managing a bill.\"\n\nJust as important, even male senators say, is the potential the women hold for changing the tenor of the Senate and pushing for compromise in the highly partisan atmosphere on Capitol Hill.\n\n\"I don't want to generalize, because this isn't true of all of them, but they tend to be interested in finding common ground,\" said Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio. \"So I think it's going to have, and is having, a positive impact on the Senate.\"\n\nWhile partisan division is the central characteristic of the modern Congress, women have begun to crack away at the gridlock by forming coalitions that have surprised leaders of both parties. Senator Kirsten E. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0384\n\nKATHMANDU, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNepal Workers' and Peasants' Party declares to be an opposition\n\n\n\n\nNepal Workers' and Peasants' Party (NWPP) decided not to join the interim government, but play a \"strong role\" as an opposition in the interim legislature, local newspaper The Himalayan Times reported Thursday.\n\nPresident of NWPP Narayan Man Bijukchhe said that since Nepal is currently at its \"weakest stage\" in history, political parties should exercise extreme caution and see to it that foreigners don' t intervene in its affairs.\n\nA meeting of the party's central council held in Bhaktapur on Wednesday also agreed that the king's fate should be decided through a referendum. However, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement ( CPA) signed on Nov. 21 stipulated that, \"to decide the issue of whether or not to retain the monarchy by simple majority in the first meeting of constituent assembly\".\n\nIt demanded that a government with independent personalities be formed to ensure free and fair constituent assembly elections. In a statement, the party further demanded \"stern action\" against those found guilty by the Rayamajhi Commission, and the commission 's report \"must be strongly implemented\".\n\nThe party has drawn the attention of the concerned to adopt the interim constitution at the earliest.\n\nIt further demanded that India withdraw its army personnel stationed at Kalapani, dismantle the Laxmanpur Bund and repatriate Bhutanese refugees.\n\nWhen the CPA was signed on Nov. 21, Narayan Man Bijukhchhe of NWPP was the only Seven Party Alliance leader who was not present in the stage.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 328, "end_char": 336, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 625, "end_char": 634, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 21", "start_char": 768, "end_char": 775, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 21", "start_char": 1502, "end_char": 1509, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0384.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0291\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 23 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS mortgage rates decline this week\n\n\n\n\nMortgage rates in the United States declined this week after having increased for 10 consecutive weeks, mortgage giant Freddie Mac reported Wednesday in its weekly nationwide survey.\n\nDuring the week ending Nov. 23, rates on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.28 percent, the survey showed. That was down sharply from last week's rate of 6.37 percent, the highest level in more than two years.\n\nThe survey also showed that rates on 15-year, fixed-rate mortgages, a popular choice for refinancing a home mortgage, fell to 5.81 percent this week from 5.90 percent.\n\nMeanwhile, rates on one-year adjustable rate mortgages(ARMs) dropped to 5.14 percent from 5.20 percent last week. Rates on five- year hybrid adjustable rate mortgages went down to 5.75 percent from 5.86.\n\nA year ago, 30-year mortgages averaged 5.72 percent, 15-year mortgages were at 5.15 percent and one-year ARMs averaged 4.27 percent. Freddie Mac began tracking five-year ARMs this year.\n\nAnalysts say that mortgage rates declined this week because investors had been less worried about inflation than before.\n\n\"Lower oil prices -- at least compared to the last several months -- have helped to alleviate some of the inflation fears that the market has been experiencing lately,\" Freddie Mac's chief economist Frank Nothaft said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 145, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 consecutive weeks", "start_char": 182, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 249, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the week", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 23", "start_char": 307, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 424, "end_char": 433, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than two years", "start_char": 479, "end_char": 498, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 640, "end_char": 649, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 773, "end_char": 782, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five- year", "start_char": 793, "end_char": 803, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "A year ago", "start_char": 875, "end_char": 885, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1050, "end_char": 1059, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1104, "end_char": 1113, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051123.0291.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0082\n\nDOHA, Dec 2 , 2006, 2006\n\nChinese women win Trap team gold\n\n\n\n\nChina bagged the women's Trap team event of the Asian Games with a tally of 195 points at the Lusail shooting ranges here on Saturday.\n\nNorth Korea won the silver with 186 points and South Korea the bronze with 174 points after the individual qualification rounds which also decides the winner of the team event.\n\nThe individual Trap final will be held later on Saturday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 2 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 41, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 211, "end_char": 219, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 448, "end_char": 456, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061202.0082.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0251\n\nMARSEILLE, France, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nTapie granted day-release jail\n\n\n\n\nJailed politician Bernard Tapie left prison Monday after a judge granted his request for day-release custody, 10 weeks after he was jailed over a football match-rigging scandal.\n\nTapie, who was jailed for eight months in February, is expected to resume working during the day after granted the part-time regime under regulations which allows such leniency for first-time offenders jailed for under a year.\n\nOn Monday he was released from the Luynes prison near Aix-en-Provence to be transferred by prison van to the day-release prison at Baumettes in Marseilles, an AFP correspondent said.\n\nTapie is expected to work for an old Marseilles business colleague, Michel Bigoin, as a representative for his shipbuilding and defence group SECNA. No contract has yet been signed, but Bigoin said Tapie will \"be trying to renew links with potential clients.\"\n\nUnder the terms of his custody, he will have to return to the Baumettes prison by 7:00 p.m. every evening.\n\nThe day-release regime will be suspended from May 12-30 during a trial involving Tapie's role in illegal funding of his former footbal club Olympique de Marseille (OM).\n\nTapie, a former French MP and Euro-deputy, has faced a string of legal actions in recent years which have reduced him from a succesful businessman-turned-politician to a prison inmate.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 42, "end_char": 57, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 144, "end_char": 150, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 weeks", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight months", "start_char": 305, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 321, "end_char": 329, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a year", "start_char": 498, "end_char": 504, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 510, "end_char": 516, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "7:00 p.m. every evening", "start_char": 1034, "end_char": 1057, "tid": "t7", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 12-30", "start_char": 1106, "end_char": 1115, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1312, "end_char": 1324, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0251.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0437\n\nOSAKA, Japan, Dec 4 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURE) =\n\n\n\n\nJapan's ace Miki Ando has vowed to bounce back for a qualification for the Olympics after her disastrous performance at the Grand Prix series NHK Trophy figure skating competition here.\n\nThe 17-year-old Ando, the only female skater to have performed a quadruple in competition at the 2004 world junior championships, fell twice in her free skating to finish fourth Saturday.\n\nAndo was behind fellow Japanese Yukari Nakano, who captured her first Grand Prix win, and Fumie Suguri, the runner-up.\n\nBut Ando, as well as Nakano, earned a place in the Grand Prix Final later this month in Tokyo and she is likely to be chosen for the Olympics by the Japan Skating Federation if she finishes among the top three.\n\nJapan has three tickets in the women's competition for the Olympics.\n\nMao Asada also reached the elite six-women Grand Prix Final with her victory at Paris and runner-up finish at Beijing, but at age 15 she is ineligible for the Olympics.\n\n\"I'm really glad that I reached the Grand Prix Final, because I thought I failed to qualify. It's wonderful that three of us from Japan qualified for the Final,\" said Ando, who will be 18 on the last day of the GP Final.\n\n\"I really want to take part in the Olympics. Until last season, I felt just happy whenever I skated my own performance, but now I feel like I cannot win unless I try to win. I want to smile on the podium next time.\"\n\nNakano, a 20-year-old from Tokyo, said she was surprised with her first victory as well as a place in the Grand Prix Final despite a fall at landing a triple axel in the free skating.\n\n\"I'm not going to think about the Olympics, because I'm sure I will be under heavy pressure if I think about it. It is important to always perform solid and try to do as well as I usually do in practice,\" Nakano said.\n\nSuguri, who was fifth in the Salt Lake City Olympics, the 2004 world champion Shizuka Arakawa and Yoshie Onda have to wait until the national championships for their chances to qualify for Torino.\n\n\"I feel as if it has cast a gleam of hope upon my way towards the Olympics,\" said two-time world bronze medallist Suguri, 24, who put an end to her injury-affected season with the runner-up finish in Osaka.\n\n\"I'm not in good form physically, so I just tried to do what I was able to do at this moment,\" she added. \"When I think about how far I've completed my programme, it's less than 80 percent.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "fourth Saturday", "start_char": 427, "end_char": 442, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 639, "end_char": 649, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last day", "start_char": 1208, "end_char": 1220, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last season", "start_char": 1290, "end_char": 1301, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1363, "end_char": 1366, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0437.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0398\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nfor African Union\n\n\n\n\nChina will build a conference center for the African Union to support African countries in their efforts to strengthen themselves through unity and support the process of African integration.\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao made the remarks here Saturday when addressing the opening ceremony of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC).\n\n\"To strengthen unity and cooperation with Africa is a key principle guiding China's foreign policy. China will continue to support Africa in implementing the new partnership for Africa's Development and in its effort to strengthen itself through unity, achieve peace and stability and economic revitalization in the region and raise its international standing,\" Hu said.\n\nForty-one heads of state or government and senior officials of 48 African countries that have diplomatic ties with China, including Prime Minister of Ethiopia which co-chairs FOCAC, Alpha Oumar Konare, chairman of the Commission of the African Union (AU) and representatives from regional and international organizations attended the landmark gathering highlighting \"friendship, peace, cooperation and development\".", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 321, "end_char": 329, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0398.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0062\n\nKAMPALA, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUgandan gov't licenses private firm to recruit countrymen for foreign jobs\n\n\n\n\nThe Ugandan government has issued a license to a private firm, Job Potential and Property Markets ( JPPM) to recruit Ugandans who want to work abroad.\n\nAn official from the External Employment Unit (EEU) in the Ministry of Labor, Nava Nabagesera was quoted by local media on Tuesday as saying that the license issuance to JPPM brought a new era for Ugandans who will now be able to work without fear of being deported.\n\n\"A number of companies applied, we verified the requirements of the companies and among them was that they had to have over fifty jobs ready. They can start work and what remains for us is to supervise and monitor them. It is a big break through as Ugandans will not have to work under pressure. It will help build the economy,\" said Nabagesera.\n\nJPPM's Managing Director, Paul Muhumuza said they were ready for recruitment.\n\n\"We are going to recruit people for professional and casual jobs. We have already signed agreements with different corporate bodies and were only waiting for the license to start work. Now that we have been licensed, we are going to start the recruitment.\n\nHe said their target so far was Britain, the United States, South Africa, Canada and China, which is in need of English teachers.\n\n\"We have about 15,000 jobs and the gates are open. We will be getting particulars of personalities, train them and process the papers including work permits and visas. We will then connect then to factories and other corporate companies,\" said Muhumuza.\n\nIn August this year, the Ugandan government launched the EEU to help Ugandans officially get jobs outside the country.\n\nThe move followed an increase in the number of unemployed youths in the country. Recent statistics indicate that at least 10, 000 students graduate annually from universities and other institutions of higher learning in the country but cannot access jobs.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 410, "end_char": 417, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 502, "end_char": 505, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Now", "start_char": 1166, "end_char": 1169, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August this year", "start_char": 1627, "end_char": 1643, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0062.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0306\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nS. Africa, India, Brazil to cooperate on tax, customs\n\n\n\n\nSouth Africa, India and Brazil have agreed to enhance their cooperation on tax and customs to boost trade and economic development in the countries, South African Revenue Services (SARS) said on Tuesday.\n\nIndia's revenue secretary, Brazil's federal revenue secretary and SARS Commissioner Pravin Gordhan signed the joint declaration in Pretoria on Tuesday, committing their organizations to closer ties across a wide range of areas on both the revenue and customs fronts, the SAPA news agency reported.\n\n\"The move also seeks to thwart smuggling, drug trafficking, fraud and tax avoidance in the three nations,\" said Logan Wort, a SARS spokesman.\n\nCentral to the declaration was an agreement to exchange information between the three revenue authorities to help identify high-risk transactions and speed up the processing of imports and exports. The officials also agreed to share information on tax, the SAPA said.\n\n\"Where appropriate, they agreed to perform simultaneous tax audits on common business entities,\" said Wort.\n\nAnother area for further cooperation will be working together to develop common positions for trade facilitation negotiations.\n\nThe declaration was part of outcomes of a three-day inaugural meeting of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Heads of Revenue Administrations.\n\nThe meeting was conducted under the auspices of the IBSA Dialogue Forum established between the three countries to further economic cooperation, following the first IBSA heads of government summit in Brazil in September.\n\nThe heads of revenue administrations also agreed to establish an IBSA Revenue Administration Working Group to further expedite links between their organizations.\n\nTrade between South Africa, Brazil and India had risen sharply over the past few years and was expected to grow even more significantly once a formal trade agreement was in place between the IBSA partners, said Wort.\n\nTrade between Brazil and South Africa rose to more than 10 billion rand (1.4 billion U.S. dollars) in 2005 from 6.6 billion rand (0.9 billion dollars ) two years earlier.\n\nBetween India and South Africa the trade totaled more than 14 billion rand (1.96 billion U.S. dollars) last year, more than doubling that of 2003, Wort said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 315, "end_char": 322, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 475, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1628, "end_char": 1637, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past few years", "start_char": 1871, "end_char": 1889, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 2123, "end_char": 2127, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years earlier", "start_char": 2173, "end_char": 2190, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 2296, "end_char": 2305, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0306.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891026-0066 \n = 891026 \n 891026-0066. \n Total Assets Protection Inc. \n 10/26/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n TAPP \n ARLINGTON, Texas  \n\n   Total Assets Protection Inc., rebounding from its earlier loss, expects to report earnings from operations of about $200,000 for the third quarter, J.C. Matlock, chairman, said. \n\n   Net income includes an extraordinary gain of about $100,000 from the reversal of bad debt and interest income. \nRevenue was about $4.5 million. \nIn the 1988 third quarter, the company posted a net loss of $876,706, or 22 cents a share, on revenue of about $5.1 million. \n\n   Total Assets plans and designs computer centers, computer security systems and computer backup systems.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/26/89", "start_char": 74, "end_char": 82, "tid": "t19", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 270, "end_char": 287, "tid": "t20", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t19"}, {"text": "the 1988 third quarter", "start_char": 472, "end_char": 494, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0991.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0273\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nKMT, PFP table anti-Chen bills for Friday's legislative session\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinese Kuomintang Party (KMT) and the People First Party on Tuesday put forward their own bills, respectively, for Friday's session of Taiwan's \"legislative yuan\", to oust Chen Shui-bian who has been implicated in corruption, according to reports by Taiwan media.\n\nIt has been the third such bill ever since Chen's family came under fire for alleged involvement in corruption early this year.\n\nBut the Democratic Progress Party (DPP) said all its members will not participate in the legislative meeting to cast their votes, same to what it did during the two previous votings.\n\nThe previous anti-Chen votings failed to succeed, due to the opposition by the DPP and the abstaining by the Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU).", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 250, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early this year", "start_char": 505, "end_char": 520, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0273.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0257\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRoundup: HIV prevalence in S. Africa \"levels off\", dire situation persists\n\n\n\n\nA study in South Africa, a country worst hit by HIV/AIDS, showed the epidemic may have been leveling off but dire situation could persist as millions of HIV- positive people remain unaware of their risk of potentially infecting others, given a wide existence of unsafe sex and ignorance.\n\nAn estimated 4.8 million South Africans, or 10.8 percent of the country's total population, are living with HIV/AIDS, according to the national survey conducted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).\n\nThe results were published in Johannesburg on Wednesday, one day ahead of the annual World AIDS Day that once again singles southern Africa out as \"epicenter\" of global AIDS pandemic.\n\nHIV prevalence among young adults in the 15-49 age group increased slightly from 15.6 percent in 2002 to 16.2 percent in 2005, which \"may be an indication that the epidemic in the general population of South Africa has entered a phase of leveling off,\" said Olive Shisana, principal investigator and CEO of HSRC.\n\nThe HSRC figure was less than the South African health department's estimate of 6.3 million infections last year and some 5 million estimated by the United Nations (UN) most recently.\n\nShisana told a press briefing on Wednesday that the population- based HSRC survey was different from studies only among pregnant women, whose data could be limited by over-representation of poorer African females.\n\nThe UN AIDS agency UNAIDS said almost 30 percent of women attending antenatal clinics in South Africa were tested HIV positive in 2004.\n\nIn its 2005 AIDS report released recently, UNAIDS said the epidemic in South Africa has evolved at an \"astonishing\" speed, with national adult HIV prevalence of less than 1 percent in 1990 soaring to almost 25 percent within 10 years.\n\nYoung females, Africans and residents in poverty-stricken informal settlements run much higher risks of being infected with HIV than males, whites and those living in formal settlements, the HSRC study found.\n\nMORTALITY INCREASES, IGNORANCE PERSISTS\n\nThomas Rehle, a health expert with HSRC, said while the HIV infection level may keep steady in next several years after a steep rise, AIDS-related mortality will continue to increase.\n\nThe estimate of HIV positive population by Actuarial Society of South Africa, from last year's 5 million to 5.2 million this year, also suggested HIV prevalence is leveling off in South Africa.\n\nBut Rob Dorrington, the society's AIDS committee member, said this was not because new infections were falling, but rather that the number of infected people dying was approaching the number of people who were getting infected, national newspaper Business Day reported.\n\nThe society estimated 530,000 South Africans were newly infected between mid-2004 and mid-2005 while 340,000 AIDS patients died during the same period, reducing the average life expectancy down to a mere 51 years.\n\nThe HSRC estimated 2.5 million children in South Africa were orphaned by HIV/AIDS and other diseases.\n\nShisana said the HSRC survey has nevertheless raised some concerns, particularly high HIV infection rate among young girls.\n\n\"Of great concern is the finding that young women in the 15-24 age group are up to four times more likely to be HIV positive than young men in the same group,\" she said.\n\nFemales in this group were almost 17 percent likely to get infected in 2005, compared with 12 percent in 2002. HIV prevalence could be as high as some 33 percent among women aged 25-29.\n\nHaving sex at young age, multiple sexual partnerships and having older sexual partners increased their risk of HIV infection.\n\nShisana said half of the respondents in the study who were tested HIV positive did not think they were at risk of HIV infection.\n\nPut it in another way, more than two million South Africans walking on street are HIV positive but think they are not, which can be a big risk of potentially infecting others, she said.\n\nAlthough overall basic HIV/AIDS knowledge is high, many South Africans are still uncertain about HIV causing AIDS, condoms preventing HIV infection or HIV transmission from mother to child, she said.\n\nACCEPTING HIV/AIDS AS REALITY\n\nThe HSRC study discovered nearly half of South Africans aged 15 and older finding nothing wrong with marrying an HIV-positive person and would not have a problem having sex with them.\n\n\"These results suggest that South Africans are 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0167\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAIDS blamed for 40 percent child deaths in South Africa\n\n\n\n\nHIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death of South African children under the age of five, the Children's Institute said in Cape Town on Tuesday.\n\n\"Forty percent of deaths of children under the age of five years are directly attributable to AIDS and a further 30 percent to diseases of poverty,\" CI Director Marian Jacobs said.\n\nThe HIV/AIDS pandemic is first among a number of factors that are standing in the way of realizing child rights in South Africa, and the country needs a comprehensive response to children infected and affected by the disease.\n\nThis is the message from the Children's Institute, as it launched a publication on the situation of South Africa's children to coincide with World AIDS day on December 1.\n\nThis year's edition, the South African Child Gauge 2005, focuses on the theme of children and HIV/AIDS.\n\nThe professor said: \"The second major obstacle to the realization of child rights is the ongoing income inequality and widespread poverty that continue in the country.\"\n\n\"The unemployment rate is rising alongside the HIV infection rate and this is of great concern, because poverty deepens the effects of HIV/AIDS on households, while the disease in turn aggravates already existing poverty,\" she added.\n\nWith a total population of 47 million, an estimated 5.2 million South Africans, or 11 percent of the population, are infected with HIV, according to a report the Actuarial Society of SA in local daily here on Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 263, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 320, "end_char": 330, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 1", "start_char": 834, "end_char": 844, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1566, "end_char": 1573, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0167.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0029\n\nSINGAPORE, Nov. 30 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAsia Media Festival trade events opens in Singapore\n\n\n\n\nThe Asia Media Festival (AMF) trade events opened in Singapore Wednesday with participation of 4, 500 foreign trade delegates and 200 international sellers from 40 countries.\n\nWith the AMF events for the public including film screenings on display for two weeks, half a million participants for both consumer and trade events are expected this year.\n\n\"The Asia market with its diverse culture and flavor offers tremendous opportunities to the media industry,\" Singapore Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang said at the opening ceremony.\n\nHe announced that Discovery Networks Asia, the Media Development Authority (MDA) of Singapore and a local production company will jointly adapt Asian-made documentaries for international audiences.\n\nSingapore will be capable of transferring films to high- definition (HD) format by early 2006 while a trial to test HD television services will be carried out by the middle of next year, according to the minister.\n\nOrganized by Reed Exhibitions and hosted by the MDA, the Asia Media Festival is an annual fiesta in the media and entertainment industry, and will last until Dec. 2.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks", "start_char": 367, "end_char": 376, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 454, "end_char": 463, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2006", "start_char": 966, "end_char": 976, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 1059, "end_char": 1068, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 2", "start_char": 1256, "end_char": 1262, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051130.0029.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0371\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 22 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS seeks to update quarantine rules\n\n\n\n\nThe United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday announced updates to quarantine regulations in order to better prepare for possible outbreaks of infectious diseases such as bird flu.\n\nThe stricter regulations were proposed at a time when global concerns are increasing about a potential outbreak of a bird flu pandemic as the bird flu virus strain is feared to mutate to become easily transmissible among humans quickly.\n\nThis is the first substantial overhaul of federal quarantine rules in at least 25 years, officials said.\n\nThe rules focus on early discovery and control of infectious diseases that may result from international transportation and interstate movement.\n\nThe rules include expanding the definition of ill passengers, allowing the CDC easier access to airline and ship passenger lists, and facilitating the CDC ability to offer vaccinations and medical treatment to quarantined people.\n\nThe changes are part of the CDC efforts to enhance its capacity to protect Americans from infectious agent from abroad. In the past 18 months, the CDC has set up 10 new quarantine stations at airports, ship ports and land-border crossings. It originally had only eight.\n\nThe proposed regulations are open for public comment for two months as of Nov. 30.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 177, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "at least 25 years", "start_char": 622, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P25Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past 18 months", "start_char": 1158, "end_char": 1176, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two months", "start_char": 1363, "end_char": 1373, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 30", "start_char": 1380, "end_char": 1387, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051122.0371.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0028\n\nMANILA, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nby US\n\n\n\n\nJose Maria Sison, the exiled founder of the Philippines' decades-old communist insurgency, said Monday he fears he could be abducted by the United States in its fight against international terrorism.\n\nThe US State Department and western allies have designated the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), which Sison established in 1968, and its armed wing the New People's Army (NPA), as \"foreign terrorist organizations\".\n\nSison, who lives in exile in the Netherlands where he is seeking political asylum, accused President Gloria Arroyo's government of implicating the CPP-NPA in terrorism to justify his arrest by Washington, Manila's top military ally.\n\nArroyo has suspended peace talks with the CPP-NPA after the rebels refused a government demand for a nationwide ceasefire. The insurgent leadership also wants Manila to get the group off the West's terrorist watchlist.\n\n\"My Philippine, European and American lawyers are looking into the possibility that the US and Arroyo governments are fabricating stories and intelligence dossiers against me in order to lay the ground for my 'rendition' by the CIA and other operatives of the US,\" Sison said in a statement.\n\nSison equated the term \"rendition\" with \"kidnapping\".\n\nThe term \"rendition\" refers to allegations that the US government is flying terrorist suspects to secret bases and third countries for interrogation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1968", "start_char": 389, "end_char": 393, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1968", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051212.0028.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0260\n\nANKARA, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nrecommendations: Annan\n\n\n\n\nVisiting UN Secretary General Kofi Annan revealed Monday that the world body had decided to establish a suitable mechanism for implementing the recommendations by the high-level group of the Alliance of Civilizations.\n\nAnnan made the remarks at a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luiz Rodriguez Zapatero after the alliance's high-level group meeting held in Istanbul, the largest city of Turkey.\n\nThe alliance, launched in November 2005 by Spain and Turkey, aims to encourage dialogue between Western and Islamic societies.\n\nAnnan told the reporters that the Alliance of Civilizations could be activated as soon as the difficult situations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine were resolved.\n\nExisting foreign troops in Iraq and Afghanistan would not remain there forever, which would have to leave after a certain time, Annan said.\n\nFor his part, Zapatero highlighted significance of the meeting for both Muslim and Western worlds, saying the participates had reached an important agreement that everyone should be respectful to different religions by acknowledging their importance and existence.\n\n\"People from different cultures have waged a war against fanaticism and intolerance. We will fight against fanaticism and intolerance through tolerance and dialogue. We will prevent acts of fanatics,\" he vowed.\n\nZapatero left Turkey after the press conference.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 133, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 2005", "start_char": 576, "end_char": 589, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0260.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0113\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nTwo Chinese taikonauts meet HK youths\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong's young people on Tuesday questioned two taikonauts of China's second manned space mission, trying to find a personal image of the two, who have been hailed as \"heroes\" by local press.\n\n\"Most Hong Kong youth are very practical when choosing profession, how can you make up minds to be a taikonaut when China 's aerospace industry still at the beginning?\" asked a young female accountant at a forum.\n\nThe one-hour session was attended by the two taikonauts, Fei Junlong and Nie Haijun, and more than 100 Hong Kong young professionals from all walks of life.\n\nBoth Fei and Nie encouraged the young people to devote to their careers even the results not clear. \"The commitment is achievement itself,\" said Fei.\n\nCompared to the glorious titles such as \"Space Hero Duet\" given by Hong Kong press, the young people preferred to know the two taikonauts from a more personal prospect.\n\nMany questions focused on how the two designed their career development and how they dealt with stress coming from life and work.\n\n\"I've never felt more stress than now. I'm so nervous to know what is the next question,\" said Fei, whose answer triggered out laughter and applause from the audience.\n\nAmong 15 people asking questions, most were curious about how the two taikonauts maintain good relations with their families while pursuing their career of being a taikonaut, one of the 14 in whole China.\n\n\"I couldn't have made today's achievement without the support of my families. I thank them for their unselfish support,\" Nie answered.\n\nNie, who orbited the Earth in mid-October with Fei, spent his 41st birthday while exploring the space. A live TV broadcast then showed an overwhelmed Nie with tears when his daughter sang him a Happy Birthday Song by satellite telephone.\n\nNie and Fei are on a three-day visit to Hong Kong with engineers of the Shenzhou-6 manned space mission, named after the capsule.\n\nDuring their stay in Hong Kong, the two taikonauts attended variety show, gave science presentations and communicated with the public at various forums. They will leave for Macao on Wednesday morning.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 136, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now.", "start_char": 1155, "end_char": 1159, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1518, "end_char": 1523, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 2184, "end_char": 2201, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0113.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0131\n\nKAMPALA, April 29 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nAncestral spirits aiding Sudanese rebels: Museveni\n\n\n\n\nUgandan President Yoweri Museveni is claiming that it is ancestral spirits -- not Ugandan soldiers -- who are aiding south Sudanese rebels fighting the military regime in Khartoum.\n\nMuseveni, not a man known for strong religious or superstitious beliefs, told parliamentarians Monday that the spirits had been invoked by Ugandan prayers.\n\nTongue firmly in cheek, he went on: \"I don't want to go into details, because if you expose them, they may be unhappy. Once the spirit prays, practical help comes from other sources.\"\n\nSpirits seem to be at work in the army, too.\n\nMuseveni said hundreds of \"ghosts\" were drawing army pay and food allowances, costing the barracks in the northern town of Gulu 40,000 dollars a month.\n\nMeanwhile, local newspapers reported that the Ugandan army has paraded 114 Sudanese prisoners in war before a crowd at a stadium of 3,000 in Gulu on Monday.\n\nThe military said the Sudanese prisoners were captured while fighting alongside Lord's Resistance Army rebels in northern Uganda.\n\nSudan accuses Uganda of backing rebels who hav been fighting Khartoum since 1983.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 29 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 387, "end_char": 393, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a month", "start_char": 823, "end_char": 830, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 982, "end_char": 988, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1983", "start_char": 1198, "end_char": 1202, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1983", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0131.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0007\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 1 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nHouse roof collapse kills 1, injures 5 in Pakistan\n\n\n\n\nA house roof collapsed in Pakistan's largest port city Karachi, killing a baby and injuring five persons of the family that included her parents and two sisters, local private Geo TV reported on Wednesday.\n\nPolice said that the roof and walls of the dilapidated house of a junk dealer at Gharibabad of Liaquatabad area in Karachi came crashing with a bang to bury the whole family sleeping therein under the debris.\n\nThe neighbors hearing the thud of the collapsing roof came out rescuing six persons and shifted them to local hospital, where the doctors pronounced the five-month-old baby dead, according to the report.\n\nTwo girls were in serious conditions, the report said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 1 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 308, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061101.0007.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0142 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0142. \n Aetna Life amp Casualty\n@  Profit Decreased 22%\n@  In the Third Quarter \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n AET \n EARNINGS (ERN)\nINSURANCE (INS) \n HARTFORD, Conn.  \n\n   Aetna Life amp Casualty Co.'s third-quarter net income fell 22% to $182.6 million, or $1.63 a share, reflecting the damages from Hurricane Hugo and lower results for some of the company's major divisions. \n\n   Catastrophe losses reduced Aetna's net income by $50 million, including $36 million from Hugo. \nLast year catastrophe losses totaled $5 million, when net was $235.5 million, or $2.07 a share. \nThe year-earlier results have been restated to reflect an accounting change. \n\n   The insurer has started processing claims from the Northern California earthquake nearly two weeks ago. \nBut because these claims are more difficult to evaluate and have been coming in more slowly, the company has no estimate of the impact of the earthquake on fourth-quarter results. \n\n   In New York Stock Exchange composite trading Friday, Aetna closed at $60, down 50 cents. \n\n   In the latest quarter, Aetna had a $23 million loss on its auto/homeowners line, compared with earnings of $33 million last year. \nProfit for its commercial insurance division fell 30% to $59 million, reflecting higher catastrophe losses and the price war in the property/casualty market for nearly three years. \n\n   However, Aetna's employee benefits division, which includes its group health insurance operations, posted a 34% profit gain to $106 million. \n\n   Third-quarter results included net realized capital gains of $48 million, which included $27 million from the sale of Federated Investors in August and a $15 million tax credit. \n\n   In the nine months, net rose 4.3% to $525.8 million or $4.67 a share, from $504.2 million, or $4.41 a share, last year.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 117, "end_char": 125, "tid": "t43", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 245, "end_char": 258, "tid": "t44", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 521, "end_char": 530, "tid": "t49", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "year-earlier", "start_char": 622, "end_char": 634, "tid": "t52", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "nearly two weeks ago", "start_char": 782, "end_char": 802, "tid": "t57", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-WXX", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "fourth-quarter", "start_char": 961, "end_char": 975, "tid": "t61", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q4", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1035, "end_char": 1041, "tid": "t63", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "the latest quarter", "start_char": 1087, "end_char": 1105, "tid": "t65", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1203, "end_char": 1212, "tid": "t69", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t65"}, {"text": "nearly three years", "start_char": 1376, "end_char": 1394, "tid": "t73", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Third-quarter", "start_char": 1547, "end_char": 1560, "tid": "t75", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 1688, "end_char": 1694, "tid": "t80", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-08", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}, {"text": "the nine months", "start_char": 1733, "end_char": 1748, "tid": "t81", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1839, "end_char": 1848, "tid": "t85", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t43"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0558.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0479\n\nADDIS ABABA, April 14 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSupermarket hit in new Ethiopia bomb attack\n\n\n\n\nUnidentified attackers exploded a device in a supermarket in central Addis Ababa on Monday, the third such attack in the Ethiopian capital in three days, witnesses said.\n\nAn unspecified number of injured were taken to hospital as police cordoned off the area following the blast in the large Le Tana supermarket which went off at around 5:00 p.m. (1400 GMT).\n\nIt was not immediately known if there were any deaths.\n\nOn Saturday, an Ethiopian barmaid was killed and 42 other people injured, including four Britons and two French nationals, when attackers threw grenades into two restaurants.\n\nThose attacks have not yet been claimed.\n\nIn January last year, three people were killed and some 20 others injured when a bomb exploded in the capital's luxury Ghion hotel.\n\nThat attack was claimed by Al-Itihad Al-Islam, a group of ethnic Somalis fighting for the independence of Ethiopia's southeastern Ogaden region.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 14 , 1997", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 191, "end_char": 197, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 259, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 526, "end_char": 534, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January last year", "start_char": 744, "end_char": 761, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1996-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970414.0479.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0368\n\nABUJA, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS more quotes, background ///\n\n\n\n\nSaudi Arabian Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi said Wednesday that OPEC had \"a little more work to make the market even more stable\", a hint the oil exporters' group needed to reduce its output further.\n\nHis comments could mean a further cut in OPEC production target, currently at 26.3 million barrels per day, or greater compliance from OPEC members, some of whom are suspected of producing more than their allocated amount.\n\n\"The fundamentals of the market are much better than they were in October and I think the market is moving towards better stability.\n\n\"We probably have a little more work to make the market even more stable,\" he said as he arrived here.\n\nThe Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, whose members regulate their oil exports to control the price of oil, took a decision in Qatar in October to cut their output by 1.2 million barrels per day.\n\nThe cut has helped to lift prices since, but analysts believe that actual production has been cut by far less, with the real reduction estimated at between 500,000-800,000 barrels per day.\n\nOPEC members have appeared uncertain in recent days about the need for another cut in the production target, with Nigeria, Algeria and Iran seemingly in favour of a further reduction. Libya has shown more reticence.\n\nThe comments by Nuaimi, the most influential of the 11 OPEC representatives, indicate that he believes the market is still over-supplied.\n\nAnalysts had suggested before the start of the meeting that the issue of overproduction and quota cheating would figure at the gathering.\n\n\"We made a good decision in Doha,\" Nuaimi said, referring to the decision to cut production at the OPEC meeting in the Qatari capital in October.\n\nHe added: \"I think the market is in much better situation than it was in October, but we need to do a little more.\"\n\nThe high level of oil stocks in OECD countries, the biggest oil consuming nations in the world, was one of the reasons given for falling oil prices in September and October.\n\nCommenting on developments since Ocotober, Nuaimi said: \"Already 50 (million barrels) has been taken out of the market.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 155, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 588, "end_char": 595, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 909, "end_char": 916, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent days", "start_char": 1200, "end_char": 1211, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1792, "end_char": 1799, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1875, "end_char": 1882, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 2070, "end_char": 2079, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 2084, "end_char": 2091, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0368.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0681\n\nWELLINGTON, April 30 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nOpening round of battle for toothfish in Antarctic by Michael Field\n\n\n\n\nA strange metre (yard) long fish may have sparked a long-feared resources battle in the wild and rugged Antarctica which for decades has been dismissed as little more than a scientific playground with no global strategic significance.\n\nToothfish (Dissostichus) was only identified as a rich commercial catch two years ago but in the last couple of months at least 40 large fishing ships mainly from Spain and Norway have headed into the Southern Ocean to take it.\n\nFrance has sent three warships to its Southern Ocean territory of Kerguelen Island to combat what diplomatic sources here say is \"extreme\" illegal fishing which is plundering the fish worth between 5,000 and 7,000 US dollars a tonne.\n\nNew Zealand Associate Foreign Minister Simon Upton warned Tuesday they would be taking action to protect the Ross Dependency in Antarctica from the armada and official sources said the message had gone out to fishing nations that New Zealand defence forces would be watching.\n\nAustralia has a profound problem as its polar waters are likely to be the next major target, but the area is at the maximum extreme of its fisheries protection services.\n\nThe struggle comes ahead of a 43 nation conference next month in Christchurch on setting up environmental controls in the continent and re-defining the 1961 Antarctic Treaty which covers the area south of 60 degrees South latitude.\n\nThe treaty, originally signed by 12 countries, demilitarised Antarctica, promoted scientific research and suspended the territorial claims over the region by Australia, Argentina, Chile, France, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Forty three countries have now signed the treaty.\n\nIn the early 1980s Malaysia launched an assault on the treaty system and called for Antarctica to be transferred to United Nations jurisdiction.\n\nA Victoria University's Centre for Strategic Studies paper published last month said the treaty would be always prone to challenge as it was based on a remarkable assumption -- that a small group of countries could unilaterally set in place a system of governance for such a vast continent.\n\nThe paper was written by Stuart Prior, head of the government's Antarctic Policy Unit.\n\n\"While the treaty is open to signature by any state, the treaty parties must acknowledge that the basis of the treaty regime is still not wholly accepted internationally,\" he wrote.\n\nAny military protection of the region is handicapped by the vast distances involved and influenced by the role of the gateway countries, New Zealand, Australia, Chile, Argentina and South Africa.\n\nThe United States Navy has played a key role in the continent from a base in Christchurch. But Washington, for budget reasons, has said the US Navy will withdraw by 2000.\n\nThe oceans around the continent are protected by the 1980 Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) which is an annex of the treaty. But conflicting international rules, including the Law of the Sea, mean CCAMLR's role is difficult.\n\n\"The jurisdictional regime applying in Antarctic matters is complex,\" Prior wrote. \"Enforcement relies solely upon member states.\"\n\nCountries which have signed the treaty agree to higher standards than the Law of the Sea, but those who have not signed can regard polar waters as high seas and thus fish without controls.\n\nThe UN Straddling Stocks rules might apply but scientists do not know yet whether toothfish is a migratory species covered by the new convention.\n\nNot much at all is known of the fish, first named five years ago as the \"Patagonian toothfish\".\n\nIt is a long fish with a large mouth and is believed to be bottom dwelling, living off cod. It lives for up to 25 years.\n\nUpton said Tuesday that at least 40 ships re-flagged to countries including Vanuatu had in the last couple of months taken 30,000 tonnes of toothfish. Diplomatic sources here say the sudden emergence of so much fish on world markets had depressed prices in the short term and much of the catch has been stockpiled.\n\nBut the rewards are apparently so great that New Zealand will legally, under CCAMLR regulations, send a fishing expedition into the Ross Dependency next month -- the height of the polar winter.\n\nFishermen have occasionally pulled up toothfish and regarded them as an oddity. But recently declassified United States satellite photos have revealed Southern Ocean bathometry. To the trained eye the photos show where fish are likely to be and thus European boats, struggling in the face of the collapse of North Atlantic fishing, have gone south in a new gold rush.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 30 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years ago", "start_char": 438, "end_char": 451, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last couple of months", "start_char": 459, "end_char": 484, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1997-04-30T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5,000", "start_char": 793, "end_char": 798, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 888, "end_char": 895, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 1329, "end_char": 1339, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the early", "start_char": 1796, "end_char": 1805, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 2008, "end_char": 2018, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 2864, "end_char": 2868, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980", "start_char": 2924, "end_char": 2928, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years ago", "start_char": 3659, "end_char": 3673, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1992", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "25 years", "start_char": 3817, "end_char": 3825, "tid": "t12", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P25Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 3839, "end_char": 3846, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last couple of months", "start_char": 3919, "end_char": 3944, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0681.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0435\n\nBRUSSELS, Dec 4 , 2006, 2006\n\nEU agrees to recognize previous convictions in other states\n\n\n\n\nEuropean Union justice ministers agreed Monday that courts in EU countries should take into account a person's previous convictions anywhere in the bloc when they are being tried.\n\nUnder the agreement, a criminal court in a member state will have to take into account previous rulings when someone is held in detention, convicted or punished in another of the 25 EU countries.\n\nThe ministers decided the reform was necessary because some states only take into account convictions made within their own jurisdictions, which has allowed some criminals to slip through the legal cracks in other countries.\n\nThe aim is to avoid a repeat of incidents such as that involving French serial killer Michel Fourniret, who was able to work in a Belgian school kitchen without Belgian authorities being aware of his previous convictions in France for raping minors.\n\nEU members linked up their criminal records networks last year making the practical implementation of the decision much easier.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 4 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1025, "end_char": 1034, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061204.0435.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0269\n\nHONG KONG, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBritish army holds last HK exercise as Chinese soldiers settle in by Paul Harrington\n\n\n\n\nBritish troops held their final field exercise in Hong Kong on Tuesday as an advance party of China's army settled in at the barracks here as the handover of sovereignty nears.\n\nSoldiers of the elite Scottish regiment the Black Watch set up positions on the banks of streams, in bushes and in the hillsides, firing blanks from SA-80 assault rifles to repulse an imaginary invasion from eastern Hong Kong.\n\nThe day before, 40 unarmed Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers drove into the British army headquarters to prepare for the changing of the guard on midnight June 30 after 156 years of British rule.\n\nThe PLA's arrival revived memories here of the 1989 crackdown on the mainland pro-democracy movement, but the Black Watch's commanding officer voiced confidence in the incoming Chinese troops.\n\n\"The PLA, when they move in here, know it's a window on the world and they've been training very hard and very seriously for it and I think they are going to have very good troops here,\" said Lieutenant-Colonel Alasdair Loudon, leading the exercise in the forest land of the New Territories.\n\n\"I don't think people in Hong Kong have anything to fear from the sort of people and the command element that is coming here,\" he told AFP.\n\n\"They know how important it is, a mirror on the world. They know that the profile they set here in Hong Kong is going to be highly visible and how China and the army are judged in general.\"\n\n\"They are very pragmatic. I think it's going to be fine,\" Loudon said.\n\nThe Chinese troops are obviously well drilled.\n\n\"They've been walking around in single file, and in their buses on the way in yesterday they were all sitting at attention,\" said one British army official.\n\nThe advanced party's arrival Monday was the most tangible sign yet of the change of sovereignty on July 1.\n\nThe British troops on display Tuesday admitted they would miss Hong Kong, one of the choice postings in the shrinking foreign circuit of the British Army.\n\n\"It's a historical event and a great honour to be the last ones here. But it's very sad as well,\" said Captain James Houghton, daubed in camouflage paint.\n\n\"I'll miss it greatly,\" said Corporal John Lyon, 28.\n\nThe consensus was that the Chinese troops, housed alongside their British counterparts at the Prince of Wales Barracks and on the former British naval base at Stonecutters Island, would keep a lower profile.\n\n\"We'll find out how good they are on whisky, but we don't expect to see them up Lan Kwai Fong,\" one captain said, referring to the raucous club and bar area in central Hong Kong.\n\nThe troops will be paid a pittance compared to the British, with the commanding officer on a reported salary of just over 1,000 Hong Kong dollars (130 US), little more than a quarter of the monthly earnings of local maids.\n\n\"I don't think that they are going to mix in with the civilian community as the British Army has done,\" Loudon said.\n\n\"I suspect that they will be much more low-profile and probably not meet as many people, but I would expect them to be efficient, high quality troops.\"\n\n\"They are going to be very self-contained, they are going to be sharing the recreational facilities and any help that we can give in terms of letting them use our facilities, talking to them, answering questions we'll do.\"\n\n\"It's in everybody's interests to have that kind of relationship.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 209, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "midnight June 30", "start_char": 712, "end_char": 728, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "156 years", "start_char": 735, "end_char": 744, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P156Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 810, "end_char": 814, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 1780, "end_char": 1789, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 1889, "end_char": 1895, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1", "start_char": 1959, "end_char": 1965, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-07-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1998, "end_char": 2005, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0269.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0439\n\nLONDON, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nBBC defends interview with Ipswich murders suspect\n\n\n\n\nThe BBC on Tuesday defended their decision to broadcast an interview with a man suspected of murdering five British prostitutes.\n\nMedia lawyers said the broadcast could prejudice a jury trial if the man was charged and went to court, but the deputy director of BBC News, Adrian Van Klaveren, said it was \"in the public interest\" to play the tapes.\n\nTwo men have been arrested on suspicion of murdering the prostitutes from the eastern English port town of Ipswich in a case which has gripped the nation since the first naked corpse was found in the countryside earlier this month.\n\nThe police have not named the suspects but the first one nabbed has been widely reported in national media as supermarket worker Tom Stephens, who spoke to the Sunday Mirror newspaper and the BBC before his arrest Monday.\n\nThe BBC recorded the interview for background but once Stephens was arrested, the corporation decided to broadcast the footage.\n\nThe BBC considered whether the transmission \"could be prejudicing any potential legal action\" but decided that this was \"not the case\", explained Van Klaveren.\n\n\"We then had to think about the ethical issues around actually deciding to release a conversation which had been done on a different basis.\n\n\"We felt in these very extraordinary and very rare circumstances there was actually a justification for doing that.\"\n\nLawyer Christopher Sallon branded the decision to broadcast \"absolutely wrong\" on the grounds that it was \"contrary to the Contempt of Court Act\" and \"contrary to the spirit\" of that legislation.\n\n\"It can only encourage speculation and in my view, having seen the interview, prejudice the trial,\" he told BBC television.\n\nDefence lawyer Julian Young added: \"The ultimate public interest must be a fair trial.\"\n\nThe Daily Telegraph newspaper's legal editor Joshua Rozenberg said juries were always told to forget anything they read in the press about the case and most take up to a year to reach the courts.\n\n\"But if there has been a huge amount of publicity, cumulative publicity, and something unusual like an interview, or lots of photographs, then it might be quite difficult for the jury to ignore that and the impression it creates,\" he told BBC radio.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 19 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 118, "end_char": 125, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "earlier this month", "start_char": 668, "end_char": 686, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 903, "end_char": 909, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0439.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0073\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's heat supply price starts to float with coal price\n\n\n\n\nThe State Development and Reform Commission (SDRC) and the Ministry of Construction jointly issued a circular recently allowing the heat supply price to fluctuate with the coal price change, an SDRC source announced on Monday.\n\nDespite China's general evolution from a planned economy to a market economy, the prices of some resource products monopolized by state-owned enterprises, including electricity, water, oil and heat supply, are still set by the government and do not fluctuate according to the supply and demand relations in the market.\n\nIn recent years, although China's coal price has been rocketing, the price of electricity and heat supply did not follow such changes, making many power and heat enterprises witness serious deficits due to increasing costs and stable sales prices.\n\nAccording to the recent circular, when the coal price rises over 10 percent, heat suppliers have the right to adjust their heat factory price accordingly, the SDRC said.\n\nPreviously the government issued a circular to let electricity prices fluctuate with coal prices, which is decided mainly by market supply and demand.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 337, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 669, "end_char": 681, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0073.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0405\n\nLIMA, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAndean Community chief calls for Latin American unity\n\n\n\n\nAllan Wagner, secretary general of the Andean Community of Nations (CAN), called for unity among Latin American nations on Tuesday.\n\nHe said the unity among Latin American nations, a legacy left by South America's liberator Simon Bolivar, is a \"great challenge\" for the regional bloc.\n\n\"The great challenge for our nations is to obey Simon Bolivar's instruction to maintain the unity of Latin American people: nearly two centuries after he left it as a legacy,\" he said.\n\nWagner made the remarks in response to the statements made by Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez during his weekend radio and television show on Sunday. Chavez said his country had more in common with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur) than the Andean Community, where Venezuela is a full member.\n\nMercosur, in which Venezuela is an associate member, is made up of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.\n\nHeadquartered in Lima, the Andean Community groups Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. Chile, which helped found the organization in 1969, quit in 1976.\n\nLatin American countries are confronting a grave dilemma over how to solve the deep socio-economic divide, Wagner noted.\n\n\"This represents a serious situation: poverty, exclusion and inequality, far from improving, have worsened,\" the secretary general added.\n\nWagner said he is in favor of a new kind of international relations that will respond to development targets with \"social equality.\"\n\n\"We should all be united in this task, because it is an enormous challenge,\" he said.\n\nWagner added that it is necessary to deepen the integration of the Andean countries with Mercosur and Chile to promote the development of the South American Community of Nations (CSN).\n\n\"We will all meet in the CSN and there we will grow in strength so that we can reach the targets, in terms of development and well-being, that our people are crying out for.\"\n\nThe CSN, established on Dec. 8, 2004, in the Peruvian city of Cuzco, groups Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela.\n\nIts establishment was considered as an important step toward South American integration.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 242, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "nearly two centuries", "start_char": 522, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2C", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 727, "end_char": 733, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1969", "start_char": 1141, "end_char": 1145, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1969", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1976", "start_char": 1155, "end_char": 1159, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1976", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 8, 2004", "start_char": 2030, "end_char": 2042, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0405.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0471\n\nBEIJING, Dec 27 , 2006, 2006\n\nChina's number four bank may get 100 billion dollar cash injection\n\n\n\n\nThe Agricultural Bank of China, the country's fourth largest lender, may get a 100-billion-dollar cash injection in 2007 in preparation for an overseas listing, state media reported Wednesday.\n\nLiu Mingkang, chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, the industry watchdog, told reporters at a finance forum there will be \"good news\" next year in terms of restructuring the bank, the China Daily reported.\n\nThe bank is the last of the four major banks to undergo a joint stock reform that may include, apart from the capital injection from the government, spinning off losses and setting up a joint stock company, the report said.\n\nAgricultural Bank of China is widely seen as the most troubled of China's four state-owned commercial banks.\n\nAn official with a central government investment arm was quoted by the newspaper as saying the bank's massive bad loans may push reform costs up to 100 billion dollars.\n\nThis is a significantly larger amount than the cash injections received by the three other top state-owned commercial lenders before listing overseas.\n\nThe Bank of China and the China Construction Bank got 22.5 billion dollars each, while the Industrial Bank of China received 15 billion dollars.\n\nA final decision on the bank's reform plan will not be confirmed until the Central Financial Work Conference expected to take place before next February's Chinese New Year holiday, the newspaper said.\n\nLast year, 26.2 percent of the bank's 2.8 trillion yuan (356 billion dollars) loans were non-performing, the report said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 240, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next year", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 477, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next February", "start_char": 1483, "end_char": 1496, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Year holiday", "start_char": 1511, "end_char": 1523, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last year", "start_char": 1546, "end_char": 1555, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0471.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0063\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\neconomic growth: Algerian president\n\n\n\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 (Xinhua)--- Africa and China need to expand trade and increase investment in order to boost their common economic growth, said Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika Saturday.\n\nWhile expanding trade is one of the prior goals in Africa-China cooperation, investment is crucial in achieving these goals, particularly investment in agriculture, infrastructure, energy and new technology sectors, Bouteflika told Chinese and African delegates attending the High-level Dialogue and 2nd Conference of Chinese and African Entrepreneurs, held on the sidelines of a historic China-Africa summit.\n\nIn contrast with China's rapid economic growth, Africa still faces challenges and obstacles in its own development, he said.\n\nAs a result of unbalanced economic growth and regional differences, some African regions have difficulties in employment, education, social security and health care, said Bouteflika, adding that African countries need Chinese companies' technologies, capital and management expertise.\n\nThe president marveled at China's reform and rapid economic growth, saying that China's experience is exemplary. He also called African and Chinese business people to play a larger role in boosting bilateral exchanges and serving their mutual best interest.\n\nChinese Premier Wen Jiabao proposed at the entrepreneurs' conference that China and Africa should bring their trade volume to 100 billion U.S. dollars by 2010.\n\nIn the first nine months of this year, China-Africa trade surged to 40.6 billion U.S. dollars, up 42 percent over the same period of 2005.\n\nAt the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation that opened Saturday morning, Chinese President Hu Jintao said China will provide 3 billion U.S. dollars in preferential loans and 2 billion U.S. dollars of preferential buyer's credits to Africa over the next three years and establish a special fund of 5 billion U.S. dollars to encourage Chinese investment in Africa.\n\nBouteflika is among 41 African heads of state or government, senior officials from 48 African countries and delegates from regional and international organizations to attend the two-day summit, the largest gathering between Chinese and African leaders.\n\nPrior to his departure for China, Bouteflika said the summit will become an effective platform for enhancing mutual understanding among the developing countries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4", "start_char": 105, "end_char": 111, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1526, "end_char": 1530, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first nine months", "start_char": 1536, "end_char": 1557, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 1561, "end_char": 1570, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same period of 2005", "start_char": 1647, "end_char": 1670, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday morning", "start_char": 1748, "end_char": 1764, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-28TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next three years", "start_char": 1937, "end_char": 1957, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0063.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051103.0161\n\nMACAO, Nov. 3 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nJapan outshines China on Day Three of athletics in EAG\n\n\n\n\nJapan bounced back to outshine its arch rival China Thursday on Day three of the athletics competition at the East Asian Games, pocketing 10 out of 13 gold medals at stake.\n\nChina, which bagged 18 gold medals over the last two days against Japan's four, picked up the three other, in the men's javelin, men's long jump and women's 1,500m.\n\nIn a demonstration of its depth in sprinters, Japan swept both 4x100m relay events.\n\nChina had to replace Jin Ke with triple jumper Gu Junjie in the men's relay team after Jin injured his leg in Tuesday's 100m final.\n\nThe makeshift Chinese team finished a disappointed third in 39. 90 seconds, just 0.01 second behind runners-up Chinese Taipei. Japan crossed the line in 39.61.\n\n\"The four of us never ran a relay together,\" said Hu Kai, who was crowned the EAG fastest man Tuesday.\n\n\"We tried our best, so we don't really regret for it,\" added the 23-year-old student in China's prestigious Tsinghua University.\n\nIn the women's relay, Japan came from behind to win in 44.88 seconds, while China surrendered its lead in the third leg before crossing the line in 45.37.\n\n\"I feel great pains in my right leg, so I couldn't run fast,\" said Ni Xiaoli, who ran China's third leg.\n\n\"But I tried my best,\" she added.\n\nEarly in the morning, Doi Hiroaki started the flurry of Japanese gold in the men's hammer throw, winning with a toss of 70. 35 meters. South Korea's Lee Yoon-chul was second with 66.40m. Hou Fei grabbed the bronze for Macao with a distant 37.14m throw.\n\nToshinari Fumimoto then narrowly beat South Korean Huh Jang-kyu in the men's half marathon, clocking 1 hour 08 minutes 14 seconds. Huh was just three seconds behind.\n\nAnother South Korean Eom Hyo-seok finished third in 1:08.38.\n\nYoshiko Ichikawa won the women's half marathon in a time of 1: 16:31, ahead of South Korean Lim Kyung-hee in 1:16:33 and DPR Korean Jong Yong-ok in 1:18:48.\n\nYoshitaka Iwamizu led a 1-2 Japanese finish in the three-man 3, 000m steeplechase, winning in 8:40.16. Teammate Yasunori Uchitomi came second in 8:45.47 and Wu Wen-chien of Chinese Taipei was third in 8:50.41.\n\nJapanese Takuro Mori won the weirdest pole vault in the world as he cleared 5.00 meters with the other two competitors scoring no mark, which means no medal for them.\n\nMori, whose personal best is 5.30 meters, flew over the 5-meter bar in his first attempt and failed three times at 5.20.\n\nZhang Hongwei of China and Satoru Yasuda of Japan, who both have a better record than Mori, skipped the 5m mark and faced up to 5.20.\n\nBoth failed, and thus no medal.\n\nAsami Tanno grabbed another gold for Japan by winning the women ' s 400m final in 52.69.\n\nChina's Tang Xiaoyin and Xie Qing finished second and third respectively.\n\nJapan also won the men's 400m and 1,500m, which Chinese competitors didn't enter.\n\nThree-time Asian champion Hi Rongxiang underscored his No. one status in men's javelin as the 33-year-old Chinese veteran threw 79.75 meters to win the title. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0270\n\nTEHRAN, Nov. 18 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nchief Iranian nuclear negotiator voices optimism about IAEA meeting\n\n\n\n\nIran's chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said on Friday that he was optimistic that a coming UN nuclear watchdog meeting will yield a favorable outcome for Iran.\n\n\"If the Europeans want to make a wise decision, they have to respect Iran's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). I think the result of this meeting will be positive and favorable for Iran,\" Larijani was quoted by the semi-official Mehr news agency as saying.\n\nLarijani referred to the IAEA's Board of Governors meeting due on Thursday, during which the governors will discuss Iran's nuclear program based on a report submitted by the agency's chief Mohamed ElBaradei.\n\nLarijani said that he assumed ElBaradei will deliver a \" rational and clear report\" on Iran because the IAEA was \"taking positive steps\" recently on the Iranian nuclear case.\n\nHowever, Larijani warned that Iran will \"resort to other means\" if the European Union (EU) \"wants to waste opportunities\" by prompting a resolution against Iran at the IAEA meeting.\n\nIran resumed uranium conversion activities, a preparatory step for uranium enrichment, in early August, a move scuttling nuclear negotiations with the EU which started after Tehran suspended all activities related to uranium enrichment in November 2004.\n\nIn response, the IAEA in late September urged Tehran to re- suspend all enrichment-related activities in a EU-drafted resolution, saying Iran's refusal will risk a referral of its case to the UN Security Council.\n\nLarijani in early November forwarded a letter to foreign ministers of the European trio of Britain, France and Germany, calling for resuming bilateral nuclear negotiations, but the EU insists that Iran implement the IAEA resolution before the reopening of nuclear talks.\n\nThe United States accuses Iran of developing nuclear weapons secretly, a charge rejected by Tehran as politically motivated.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 181, "end_char": 187, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 648, "end_char": 656, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early August", "start_char": 1240, "end_char": 1252, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 2004", "start_char": 1389, "end_char": 1402, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late September", "start_char": 1430, "end_char": 1444, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 1637, "end_char": 1645, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051118.0270.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0209\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 30 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n\"Colorful Africa\"\n\n\n\n\nGao Qiufu, former vice president of Xinhua News Agency, recently published his prose collection, titled \"Colorful Africa-- A Mysterious Continent written by Xinhua journalist\".\n\nThe collection, published by the Xinhua Publishing House, is one of the a few Chinese-language writings focusing on Africa.\n\nThe collection, in 240,000 words, consists of more than 70 prose, written by Gao during 1980 to 2003, on the natural conditions, social customs and history of the Sub-Sahara Africa.\n\nGao worked in Africa for more than seven years. He traveled and made reports in numerous African places. As a journalist and expert specialized in African issues, he presents his experiences and understanding on Africa's culture and social customs in his prose.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 30 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 143, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980", "start_char": 470, "end_char": 474, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than seven years", "start_char": 590, "end_char": 611, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P7Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061130.0209.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0163\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 22 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nsystem after duck egg contamination scandal\n\n\n\n\nThe Chinese government should encourage food processing and logistics firms to set up systems for the recall and traceability of problem food, said a senior National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) official on Wednesday.\n\nNDRC deputy director Zhang Guobao said China should continue the food safety market access system to build consumer confidence in food safety.\n\nThe 11th Five-Year plan on the national food industry highlighted an urgent need to improve the country's food safety.\n\n\"The fact that some food processing enterprises use illegal additives and raw materials cannot be neglected and downplayed. Food chains from farm fields to table are polluted from time to time and environmental pollution has a bad impact on food sources, \" according to the plan.\n\nHis call follows a scandal this month in which red-yolk salted duck eggs were found containing the carcinogenic industrial dye, Sudan-IV, raising nationwide concern over food safety. The country's food watchdog traced to the source of the contaminated eggs, destroyed the contaminated eggs and ducks, and tightened food safety supervision.\n\nChina has yet to establish a clearly defined food recall system, but some big cities are considering their establishment.\n\nShanghai started a food recall system on Aug. 1.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 22 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 324, "end_char": 333, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 908, "end_char": 918, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Aug. 1", "start_char": 1386, "end_char": 1392, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061122.0163.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0230\n\nBUENOS AIRES, Nov. 13 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nArgentine press bemoans soccer loss to England\n\n\n\n\nEngland's surprise 3-2 victory over Argentina in a pre-World Cup friendly played in Geneva roiled the Argentine press on Sunday.\n\nArgentina was leading 2-1 in the 88th minute, when England international Michael Owen, scored two goals from two headers in the last two minutes of the game.\n\nBuenos Aires sports paper Ole howled in disappointment.\n\n\"It was like bedding the woman of your dreams, closing your eyes for a moment and waking up to find you have been talking to your pillow all along,\" said the paper in an editorial.\n\nEngland's Swedish manager Sven Goran Eriksson \"demonstrated intelligence and maturity by attacking when it had to do so; neither too early nor too late. And that is a quality we have not seen in Argentina in any way,\" the paper said.\n\nDaily paper La Nacion said that the score was a \"harsh punishment\" because Riquelme and Ayala had not cleared the ball from Argentina's goalmouth effectively.\n\nArgentina had deserved a win until the final \"accident\", the paper argued.\n\n\"There was a battle of style between the English tradition of long balls...and the closely woven football of Argentina's old school. And ours was clearly superior. Until the last minute accident,\" said La Nacion, before heaping praise on match-winner Michael Owen.\n\n\"Michael Owen, who had gone unnoticed for nearly all the game, suddenly became the man of the night. That is how good goalscorers are: cold, lethal and merciless with careless rivals,\" the paper said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 240, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 88th minute", "start_char": 272, "end_char": 287, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT88M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last two minutes", "start_char": 367, "end_char": 387, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT2M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last minute", "start_char": 1282, "end_char": 1297, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12T23:59", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051113.0230.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0387\n\nABUJA, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nDarfur talks restart in bid to solve power-sharing dispute\n\n\n\n\nThe African Union was due to bring all the delegates to peace talks on the crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur back together Monday after a 72-hour break to allow the parties to resolve a dispute over a power-sharing deal to end the conlfict.\n\nMediators said they hoped the plenary session would find a solution to the row, which has pushed the seventh session of the talks close to collapse, but rebel representatives warned that they were still not ready to compromise on certain key issues.\n\n\"The government of Sudan does not want to concede the vice presidency to the south nor to Darfur. It also does not want Darfur to be considered a single region,\" said Ahmed Hussein Adam, spokesman for the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).\n\n\"This is the crux of the matter as these are the issues that are of paramount importance to our people,\" he added.\n\nGovernment spokesman Omar Amin conceded that these issues were \"difficult ones\" but expressed confidence that the plenary talks session would resolve the issue.\n\nThe row over the power-sharing agreement comes just a week after the long-running talks restarted and is the first sign that this round could fall into the same stalemate as all previous attempts to resolve a 33-month-old crisis which has left 300,000 civilians dead.\n\nPrevious negotiations were undermined by regular ceasefire violations, and the United Nations has warned the Darfur region is falling into chaos, with murder, robbery and rape on the increase.\n\nWar broke out in February 2003 when the rebels began fighting what they say is the political and economic marginalisation of the region's black African tribes by the Arab-led regime in Khartoum.\n\nThe African Union has deployed a small peacekeeping force to monitor a shaky ceasefire, but a series of peace conferences over the past year has made little progress towards a settlement.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 242, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 1185, "end_char": 1191, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2003", "start_char": 1613, "end_char": 1626, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past year", "start_char": 1919, "end_char": 1932, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0387.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0336\n\nJAKARTA, Dec 5 , 2005\n\nATTENTION -  RECASTS with reshuffle ///\n\n\n\n\nIndonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Monday announced a cabinet reshuffle, dismissing three ministers, shifting three others including his top economy minister and bringing in three new faces.\n\nFormer finance minister Budiono was installed as coordinating minister for the economy, replacing Aburizal Bakrie, who has shifted to be coordinating minister for people's welfare, Yudhoyono said in Yogyakarta, Central Java.\n\nThe president had last week announced the inclusion of Budiono, who served as finance minister under former president Megawati Sukarnoputri, in his new cabinet -- a move welcomed by financial markets.\n\nYudhoyono said Friday he had asked Budiono, 62, to help him \"rearrange\" his economic team, whose performance has been heavily criticised by analysts since his government came to power in October 2004.\n\nIndonesia's economy has taken a beating this year, with soaring global fuel prices putting a major dent in public coffers and pushing down the rupiah as the government scrambled to keep paying out expensive domestic fuel subsidies.\n\nIn other changes, national development planning minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati replaced finance minister Yusuf Anwar, while Indrawati's place was taken by Paskah Suzetta.\n\nSuzetta is a Golkar party MP who heads the parliamentary commission dealing with finance, development planning, banking and non-banking financial institutions.\n\nIndustry minister Andung Nitimihardja was replaced by manpower minister Fahmi Idris, while Idris was replaced by Erman Suparno, another MP who is currently deputy chair of the parliamentary commission dealing with transportation, telecommunications, civil work and housing.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 5 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 136, "end_char": 142, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 537, "end_char": 546, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W48", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 736, "end_char": 742, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2004", "start_char": 908, "end_char": 920, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 963, "end_char": 972, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1635, "end_char": 1644, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051205.0336.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0049\n\nGUANGZHOU, South China, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nWorld's top mixed doubles pair ousted from China Open badminton\n\n\n\n\nNon-seeded Zheng Bo/Zhao Tingting from China upset world No.1 Widianto Nova/Natsir Liyana of Indonesia 15-9, 17-15 for the semi-finals at the China Open badminton here on Friday.\n\n\"It's very normal for us to win or lose,\" said Zhao Tingting, \"The key point is the actual pefermance and luck on court.\"\n\nZhao Tingting used to pair with veteran Chen Jiqiu, and it's first time for Zhao and Zheng to be partners after Chen retired from national team.\n\nThe winning Chinese duo will next meet England's fifth-seeded Nathan Robertson/Gail Emms, who beat Anthony Clark/Kenneth Kellogg of Denmark in the third round.\n\nSecond-seeded Lee Jae Jin/Lee Hyo Jung of South Korea beat Daniel Shirley/Runesten-Petersen of New Zealand 13-15, 15-4 and 15-4.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 47, "end_char": 61, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 311, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0049.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0233\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 8 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. media hails Democrats' control of House\n\n\n\n\nU.S. media hailed on Wednesday the Democrats' control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994 and meanwhile urged the Democrats to \" provide a clear idea.\"\n\n\"Six years of nearly unbroken one-party rule have not been healthy for the country. The apparent Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives yesterday is a good thing,\" the Washington Post said in its editorial.\n\n\"Voters yesterday expressed their anger at President Bush and their frustration with the war in Iraq, as well as their disgust with the arrogant misbehavior of House Republicans,\" the editorial said.\n\nNonetheless, the editorial said that the Democrats won not because voters necessarily agreed with their program but because of the missteps of the Republicans. \"Democrats do not have capital from voters; at most, they enjoy a line of credit,\" the editorial said.\n\nThe New York Times, in its editorial, said the result showed that \"a government that performs badly is supposed to be punished by the electorate.\"\n\n\"And this government has performed badly on so many counts,\" the editorial said, adding that the Democrats \"won a negative victory, riding on the wave of public anger\" about the Republicans.\n\nThe House Democrats will have to shift from the role of tactical opposition to show government, and also provide a clear idea of what their party will do if it were really in control, the editorial said.\n\nThe Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives in Tuesday's midterm legislative elections, but it still needs several seats to take control of the Senate from the Republicans.\n\nThe unpopular Iraq war, the Republicans' scandals in the Capitol Hill and the declining approval rating for U.S. President George W. Bush are considered the main factors to drive voters to turn to the Democrats, according to polls conducted by U.S. media.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 138, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 219, "end_char": 223, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Six years", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 297, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 436, "end_char": 445, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 516, "end_char": 525, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1582, "end_char": 1589, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061108.0233.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0134\n\nDOHA, Dec 12 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - REFILES to fix typo in headline ///\n\n\n\n\nChina's Olympic diving champion Guo Jingjing was revelling Tuesday in becoming the most successful female diver in Asian Games history.\n\nGuo, who has already announced she will retire after the Beijing Olympics, took the women's 3-metre synchronized springboard title here with Li Ting to add to the three golds from previous Asian Games.\n\n\"I have never thought about beating any record,\" said the 25-year-old, who is the reigning Olympic champion in the 3m springboard and 3m synchronised springboard and a multiple world champion.\n\n\"The Asian Games means a lot to me.\"\n\nBut Guo, whose private life has caused as much of a splash as her performances in the pool, will not defend her 3m springboard title here.\n\n\"I don't feel sorry for giving up a third consecutive title. I have competed a lot this year and I need a rest. I'd like younger teammates to have more chances,\" she said.\n\nHer next goal is the world swimming championships in Melbourne in March.\n\n\"We have less than three months to go for the worlds, I hope to defend my titles there,\" she said.\n\nThe photogenic Guo started training in competitive diving at the age of seven, winning a place on the national team when she was 11, and has competed in three Olympic Games.\n\nShe hit the headlines last year when she was romantically linked with former diving team-mate Tian Liang. Tian was later thrown off the national team for pursuing too many commercial endorsements.\n\nChina has dominated the diving competition in Doha, winning all four titles so far.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 161, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 897, "end_char": 906, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1053, "end_char": 1058, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three months", "start_char": 1080, "end_char": 1092, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1358, "end_char": 1367, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0134.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0197\n\nBERLIN, Dec 10 , 2005\n\nGermany delighted by World Cup draw\n\n\n\n\nThe German media all agreed Saturday that the 2006 World Cup hosts could not have asked for a kinder finals draw after being paired with Costa Rica, Ecuador and Poland in Group A.\n\nGermany host minnows Costa Rica in the opening World Cup match on June 9 in Munich and manager Jurgen Klinsmann was pictured with a broad grin in the press.\n\n\"Klinsmann is right to smile after that draw,\" said the Kolner Express. \"There is no real major obstacle to the last sixteen.\"\n\nBild daily, the country's biggest selling newspaper, concurred: \"Klinsmann you are certainly lucky!\"\n\nKlinsmann, who won the 1990 World Cup with West Germany, admitted the draw could have been much worse but insisted his team would not underestimate anyone.\n\n\"Of course we could have a had a much more difficult group,\" explained Klinsmann. \"But every opponent will provide a challenge for us and the onus will be on us to attack as hosts.\"\n\nKlinsmann has set the target of lifting the World Cup on July 9 in Berlin despite not defeating a recognised top nation since a 1-0 win over England in 2000.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 10 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 9", "start_char": 333, "end_char": 339, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 9", "start_char": 1052, "end_char": 1058, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1147, "end_char": 1151, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051210.0197.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0343\n\nBEIRUT, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTop Lebanese leaders resume crucial dialogue\n\n\n\n\nRival Lebanese leaders resumed roundtable talks on Monday to discuss possible government changes amid an abyss between Shiite Hezbollah group and the anti-Syrian parliamentary majority that could lead to street protests.\n\nLebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, describing Monday's session an \"ice breaker,\" said Lebanon's top leaders would meet again on Tuesday morning, Lebanon's local media reported.\n\n\"We agreed to a news media truce,\" Berri told the local reporters after the four-hour meeting at parliament building in downtown Beirut which began at 11:00 a.m.(0900 GMT).\n\nThis was a reference to the political bickering between Hezbollah and its allies from one side and the Lebanese parliament majority, or March 14 Forces on the other, which was highlighted by threats from both sides to take to streets.\n\nAll 13 \"first-rank\" politicians attended the dialogue amid tight security, except for Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for safety reasons.\n\nHowever, Nasrallah was represented by cabinet minister Mohammed Fneish as well as parliament members Mohammed Raad and Hussein Hajj Hassan.\n\nEarlier, Berri has called for the resumption of the stalled national talks among Lebanon's rival leaders to consider a national unity government and the adoption of a new electoral law to end the political stalemate.\n\nThe dialogue, launched in early March, was last scheduled for July 25. But the outbreak of the 34-day Israel-Hezbollah conflict on July 12 has prevented the resumption of the talks, said the report.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 155, "end_char": 161, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 384, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday morning", "start_char": 460, "end_char": 475, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-31TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "11:00", "start_char": 661, "end_char": 666, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 14", "start_char": 820, "end_char": 828, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 1459, "end_char": 1464, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 25", "start_char": 1489, "end_char": 1496, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 12", "start_char": 1558, "end_char": 1565, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-07-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0343.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0200\n\nLINGSHI, Shanxi, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st Ld-Writethru: 34 confirmed dead in north China colliery fire\n\n\n\n\nAll 34 miners trapped in Sunday's coal mine fire in north China's Shanxi Province were confirmed dead after rescuers recovered eight more bodies on Wednesday.\n\nThe eight bodies were found in a pond close to the mine shaft, where rescuers assumed the victims had tried to shelter from fire and smoke.\n\nAnother 26 bodies were retrieved from the pit Tuesday night.\n\nThe miners either suffocated or drowned at Nanshan Colliery in Wangyu Village of Lingshi County, where explosives illegally stored in a shaft caught fire at 7:40 p.m. Sunday.\n\nSixty-six people were in the pit when the fire broke out, according to the latest statistics released by the emergency rescue headquarters. Thirty escaped and two were saved in the search-and-rescue operation.\n\nRescuers found two storage sites in the shaft. One of them caught fire and the other, about 20 meters from the first, contained about four tons of explosives, all of which were ignited by the flames, said Feng Kaicheng, vice head of Lingshi County and head of the rescue operation.\n\nBy Tuesday noon, the flames in the shaft had been put out and toxic gas levels dropped by midday on Wednesday.\n\nThe State Council set up an investigation task force, headed by Zhao Tiechui, director of the State Administration of Coal Mine Safety Supervision, on Wednesday to investigate the tragedy.\n\nZhao blamed poor management of the coal mine and slack supervision of the local government for the accident.\n\nThe production licence of the village-run Nanshan Coal mine expired at the end of last year and rescuers found it had neither a gas monitoring system nor a lifesaving appliance in the shaft.\n\nZhao also found it was designed to produce 90,000 tons a year but its actual annual production was around 30,000 tons, and the mine employed 139 people, instead of 120 according to a management declaration.\n\nAccording to the province's regulation on coal mine management issued last year, coal mines whose annual production is lower than 90,000 tons should be closed, said Zhao.\n\n\"How could this coal mine be in operation illegally for nearly one year?\" said Zhao.\n\n\"Those who are found to be responsible for the accident will receive due punishment,\" he said.\n\nZhao ordered the local government to strengthen its management and supervision of the production of medium and small coal mines and to publicize a \"black list\" of the collieries which should be closed by the end of November.\n\nPolice are chasing several of the coal mine managers, including the mine head Geng Runyu who fled after the accident.\n\nMost of the miners were migrant workers from eastern Shandong Province and southwestern Sichuan Province and some of their families have arrived at the coal mine.\n\nFamilies of each of the dead will be given at least 200,000 yuan (25,440 U.S. dollars) in compensation.\n\nWednesday also saw the death toll climb to 41 in another coal mine tragedy, also in the coal-rich province of Shanxi Province, which occurred on Nov. 5 at Jiaojiazhai Colliery in Xinzhou. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0376\n\nMADRAS, India, April 27 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndian regional party decides to join government\n\n\n\n\nAn Indian regional party Tuesday joined the country's minority government, which would pave way for former finance minister Palaniappan Chidamabram to be back in his finance post.\n\nThe Tamil Manila Congress' (TMC) decision was taken by the party chief, G.K. Moopanar, in the southern city of Madras after the party's think-tank met late Tuesday.\n\n\"The decision was taken in the national interest and in view of the expectations of the people,\" Moopanar told reporters.\n\n\"The earlier decision to stay away from the coalition was also reversed by me after considering the part TMC played in the preparation of the federal budget. The budget needs to be implemented,\" Moopanar said.\n\nChidambaram, one of the architects of India's free-market reforms, was forced to quit his post after TMC leader G.K. Moopanar lost a bitter leadership battle in the ruling United Front coalition to Gujral and pulled the party out of the Front.\n\nGujral, who decided not to hand out the finance portfolio when he named his cabinet, had urged Moopanar to reverse his decision.\n\nChidambaram drew up the previous United Front government's Indian budget for 1997-98 which is to be approved by parliament this week. Gujral has adopted the same budget.\n\nBusiness leaders have also pleaded for Chidambaram, regarded as a key architect of the country's free-market economic reforms, to return to the helm.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 27 , 1997", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 53, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 139, "end_char": 146, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late Tuesday", "start_char": 446, "end_char": 458, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 1293, "end_char": 1302, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970429.0376.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0026\n\nBAGHDAD, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCar bomb kills two policemen in Baghdad\n\n\n\n\nA car bomb attacked a Iraqi police patrol east of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing two policemen, police source said.\n\n\"A car bomb hit a police patrol consisting of three cars at the al-Mashetal crossing in the morning. Two policemen were killed and another six were injured,\" the source told Xinhua.\n\nA police car was also damaged in the blast, the source added.\n\nInsurgents frequently target Iraqi police and government officials in a bid to topple the Shiite-dominated government.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 162, "end_char": 169, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the morning", "start_char": 303, "end_char": 314, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0026.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0578\n\nDUBLIN, Dec 16 , 2005\n\nby Andrew Bushe\n\n\n\n\nA senior member of Sinn Fein, the Irish Republican Army's political wing and the biggest Catholic party in Northern Ireland, caused shock Friday by admitting he had been a British agent for two decades.\n\nDenis Donaldson's admission drew an incredulous reaction from Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern, and could complicate Irish and British efforts to broker the restoration of Catholic and Protestant power-sharing government in Belfast.\n\nDonaldson, 55, a Sinn Fein member for more than 30 years, told Irish state RTE television that British intelligence had begun paying him in the 1980s after he had compromised himself during a \"vulnerable time\" in his life.\n\n\"I deeply regret my activities with British intelligence and RUC/PSNI (Royal Ulster Constabulary/Police Service of Northern Ireland) Special Branch,\" said a gaunt-looking Donaldson, reading a statement at a Dublin hotel accompanied by his solicitor.\n\nSinn Fein President Gerry Adams said earlier that Donaldson, who has now been expelled from the party, had confessed to two Sinn Fein members after police told him his life was in danger.\n\n\"He was going to be outed,\" Adams said.\n\nThe admission by Donaldson -- a respected party member who was Sinn Fein's head of administration during the brief life of the now suspended Northern Ireland Assembly -- sent shock waves across the British province and beyond.\n\nIt came barely a week after Domaldson and two other men were acquitted of charges of spying for the IRA on the British government at Stormont, the seat of the power-sharing government in Belfast.\n\nThe charges were dropped when, due to lack of evidence, the trial was no longer seemed in the public interest.\n\nThat spying scandal, known as \"Stormontgate\", led to the suspension in 2002 of the devolved Northern Ireland Assembly, where power was shared between Protestants and Catholics, and the restoration of direct rule from London.\n\nIn his brief statement, Donaldson said: \"I was not involved in any republican spy ring in Stormont. The so-called Stormontgate affair was a scam and a fiction, it never existed, it was created by Special Branch.\"\n\nAhern, speaking to RTE television from the European Union summit in Brussels, was nonplussed by the developments.\n\n\"Stortmongate never made much sense to me and the dropping of the charges made less,\" he told RTE.\n\n\"This is just a bizarre twist. If what we are being asked to believe is that the senior administrator in Stormont turns out to be an agent of the British security services that takes some twist of even my imagination,\" Ahern said.\n\nIn parliament earlier this week, British Prime Minister Tony Blair categorically denied that the decision not to prosecute Donaldson and the other two was politically motivated.\n\nAdams said he would be shocked if Blair \"was part of any plot to take down a power-sharing executive he had spent a considerable amount of time along with the rest of us putting in place.\"\n\nHowever, Adams said he had been suspicious at the way Donaldson was acquitted at a special Belfast court hearing along with his son-in-law Ciaran Kearney and another Catholic public servant, William Mackessy.\n\n\"The collapse of the power-sharing government was blamed on allegations of a Sinn Fein spy ring at Stormont,\" said Adams in a statement.\n\n\"The fact is that this was a carefully constructed lie created by the (British police) Special Branch in order to cause maximum political impact.\"\n\nAdams blamed the failure of the political institutions, where Catholics and Protestant deputies shared power from December 1999 to October 2002, on those in charge of British intelligence and policing.\n\n\"The fact is that the key person at the centre of those events was a Sinn Fein member who was a British agent,\" said Adams.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 210, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two decades", "start_char": 256, "end_char": 267, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXX", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 30 years", "start_char": 543, "end_char": 561, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P30Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980s", "start_char": 649, "end_char": 654, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "198", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1049, "end_char": 1052, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1337, "end_char": 1340, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 1453, "end_char": 1459, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 2656, "end_char": 2665, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W50", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 1999", "start_char": 3613, "end_char": 3626, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1999-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2002", "start_char": 3630, "end_char": 3642, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0578.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0211\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nSix parties gather in Beijing for nuclear talks\n\n\n\n\nWith the arrival of the US delegation in Beijing, all negotiators to the fifth round of six-party talks converged here Tuesday for a peaceful solution to the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.\n\nThe delegation of the Republic of Korea (ROK) arrived here Monday, and other delegations, including the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), Russia, Japan and the United States arrived here successively on Tuesday.\n\nUS chief negotiator Christopher Hill told reporters upon his arrival in Beijing that the first step in the way ahead is to look at the issue of the denuclearization in the Korean Peninsula and begin to see how the agreements and the principles can be put into practices.\n\nROK chief negotiator Song Min-soon said in Beijing Monday afternoon that the upcoming fifth round of the six-party talks will lay the groundwork for carrying out the first joint statement reached during the fourth round of the talks.\n\n\"There will be intensive consultations in this round of the six-party talks,\" Song told Xinhua. He and his delegates were the first to arrive in Beijing for the talks, scheduled for Nov. 9.\n\nAiming at resolving the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, China hosted four rounds of six-party talks with the latest one adopting the first joint statement in September this year.\n\nThe DPRK pledged in the statement to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs and return, at an early date, to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for energy aid and security guarantees.\n\nThe fifth round of the six-party talks is expected to discuss how to follow through on the statement.\n\nKim Gye-gwan, head of the DPRK delegation to the six-party talks, said at Pyongyang's Sun-an Airport before departure to Beijing earlier Tuesday morning that his country is willing to make sincere efforts to fulfil the joint statement at the upcoming fifth-round talks.\n\n\"The DPRK cherishes the joint statement formed in the previous round. We are willing to make sincere efforts at this round of the talks to fulfil the spirit of the joint statement,\" he said.\n\nThe DPRK delegation head said the talks have already had a clear direction, which guides the six parties all the way forward like a lighthouse.\n\n\"But the lighthouse is too far away from the DPRK and becomes less visible sometimes as the sea is always full of fogs,\" Kim said.\n\nHowever, he said, all the parties involved could pool their wisdom and work together for further progress.\n\nRussia's chief negotiator Alexander Alexeyev said Tuesday upon arrival in Beijing that Russia will cooperate with the DPRK in a bid to make substantial result in the new round of the six-party talks.\n\nSasae Kenichiro, head of the Japanese delegation, said here Tuesday that Japan is particularly interested in the implementation of the agreement already reached by all sides, especially the process of denuclearization.\n\nJapan will also express its views on future actions in the talks, he noted.\n\nThe fifth round of six-party talks will open on Nov. 9 and is expected to last for three days as the first phase. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Kong Quan said earlier that \"holding the talks by phases in the new round could have a better result,\" as the chief negotiators of some parties might also attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit slated for mid-November in Pusan, ROK.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 234, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 358, "end_char": 364, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 514, "end_char": 521, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday afternoon", "start_char": 847, "end_char": 863, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 9", "start_char": 1213, "end_char": 1219, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September this year", "start_char": 1387, "end_char": 1406, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday morning", "start_char": 1886, "end_char": 1901, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-01TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2647, "end_char": 2654, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2858, "end_char": 2865, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 9", "start_char": 3143, "end_char": 3149, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three days", "start_char": 3178, "end_char": 3188, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "mid-November", "start_char": 3462, "end_char": 3474, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051108.0211.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0455\n\nCHICAGO, April 17 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nReports that Indiana man died of \"mad cow\" disease unfounded: officials\n\n\n\n\nGrain and cattle prices bounced back on Chicago's future markets here Thursday a day after slumping on an unsubstantiated report that the death of an Indiana man was linked to \"mad cow\" disease.\n\nWednesday's market plunge had been sparked by a newspaper report that Joseph Gabor, a 62-year-old farmer from Schererville, a small Indiana town just south here, had died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD).\n\nIndiana veterinary officials insisted that CJD, a fatal brain-wasting disease that afflicts humans, is not the same disease as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or \"mad cow\" disease.\n\nAn epidemic of BSE in Britain last year sparked worldwide concern about beef consumption and led to a European Union ban on British beef imports.\n\n\"There are those who have alleged the two are connected, but scientific research has never positively established a link,\" said Indiana State Veterinarian Bret Marsh.\n\n\"We hope the market gets some logic back because it was purely overreaction and emotional hype. There was no scientific basis for this to happen,\" Denise Derrer, a spokeswoman for the Indian State Board of Animal Health, told AFP.\n\nChicago's futures market seemed to agree Thursday. \"The scare is over, Grain and cattle prices are back up,\" said Chicago Mercantile Exchange spokeswoman Annette Wallace.\n\n\"We had the same situation last year when (talk-show queen) Oprah Winfrey did a show on the mad cow scare in Britain.\"\n\nVictor Lespinasse, vice president of the Chicago brokerage firm Dean, Witt Reynolds, dismissed the mad cow link as a \"ridiculous story\" and an \"overblown thing.\"\n\nThe report carried by the Times newspaper in Hammond, Indiana, said Gabor, a retired electrician who used bone meal to help fertilize his rose garden, had been diagnosed with CJD three weeks before his death.\n\nThere has been speculation that prions, a distorted protein molecule, could be transmitted from sheep or cows to humans through bone meal made from infected animals.\n\n\"Regardless of what Gabor died from, he could not be BSE, because humans do not get that disease and it (BSE) does not exist in the United States, let alone Indiana,\" Derrer said.\n\nDr. Danae Bixler of the Indiana State Department of Health meanwhile pointed out that a human dying of CJD in Indiana was not unheard of.\n\n\"Indiana has experienced about five deaths per year from CJD in the last few years. The case rate (for the disease) worldwide is about one case per million people.\"\n\nIndiana officials said state statistics showed that since 1933 all but one CJD death had occurred in individuals over 55 years age and therefore the death of 62-year-old Gabor did not arouse suspicion.\n\nUS federal officials confirmed that extensive monitoring of the US cattle population had not identified a single case of BSE in the United States.\n\nAnd since 1989, strict import rules on live animals and animal products have been implemented to protect the country's beef and dairy industries.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 17 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 201, "end_char": 209, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 327, "end_char": 336, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 754, "end_char": 763, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1312, "end_char": 1320, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1470, "end_char": 1479, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Times", "start_char": 1752, "end_char": 1757, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three weeks", "start_char": 1905, "end_char": 1916, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P3W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last few years", "start_char": 2487, "end_char": 2505, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1933", "start_char": 2647, "end_char": 2651, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1933", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "55 years", "start_char": 2707, "end_char": 2715, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "P55Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 2950, "end_char": 2954, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970417.0455.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0322\n\nNEW YORK, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nWorld oil prices plummet as demand drops\n\n\n\n\nWorld oil prices plummeted as the International Energy Agency cut its forecast for world oil demand for a fourth straight month.\n\nNew York's main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in December, shed 1.13 dollars to 57.80 dollars a barrel, its lowest close since July 21.\n\nIn London, the price of Brent North Sea crude for December delivery dived 1.20 dollars to end at 55.68 dollars a barrel.\n\nThe Paris-based IEA, which coordinates energy policy for many European governments, revised downward its forecast of global oil demand for 2005 from 83.4 million barrels per day to 83.3 million barrels per day. The agency also cut its estimate for 2006 world oil demand to 85.01 million barrels a day, down 140,000 barrels. Consumption is expected to rise 1.5 percent this year and 2 percent in 2006.\n\nIEA said global oil supply rose by 865,000 barrels per day to 84.4 million barrels per day on increases from North America, the North Sea, countries in the former Soviet Union and Brazil.\n\nThe restart of storm-damaged refineries in the Gulf of Mexico continues. The US Minerals Management Service, which manages offshore oil and gas exploration, said Thursday 49.09 percent of daily oil production in the Gulf of Mexico was still not operating, which amounts to 736,279 barrels per day. Less than 50 percent of the gulf's gas production still remained offline, at 40.16 percent or equal to 4.016 billion cubic feet per day.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a fourth straight month", "start_char": 207, "end_char": 230, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 293, "end_char": 301, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 21", "start_char": 371, "end_char": 378, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-07-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December", "start_char": 431, "end_char": 439, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 871, "end_char": 880, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 898, "end_char": 902, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1256, "end_char": 1264, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0322.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0325\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 1 , 2006, 2006\n\nxxx as sent. Here is a corrected repetition: ///\n\n\n\n\nUS President George W. Bush warned against expectations he will lay out plans for \"a graceful exit\" from Iraq, as news reports Friday said the independent commission looking into Iraq policy will call for a 2008 withdrawal of US combat troops.\n\nThe White House has ordered a government-wide reassessment of US policy in Iraq amid soaring sectarian violence, fears of all-out civil war, and mounting domestic pressure to bring US troops home after opposition Democrats took control of the US Congress in the November 7 elections.\n\nHigh hopes for designing an exit strategy are being placed on a bipartisan commission created by the US Congress known as the Iraq Study Group, a 10-member panel of Washington notables co-chaired by former US secretary of state James Baker.\n\nThe panel's advice is a major chance for the president to overhaul his Iraq policy, even though the recommendations are nonbinding.\n\nThe panel -- which also includes former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, former top Clinton aide Leon Panetta, and until recently defense secretary nominee Robert Gates -- have written a report to be delivered to the president on December 6. Details however have been leaking to the press for days.\n\nThe report will call for a withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq by early 2008, while leaving behind soldiers for training and support, the Washington Post reported Friday.\n\nThe date is not firm, but rather a goal based on circumstances on the ground, according to the Post, citing sources familiar with the proposal.\n\n\"It's really about transitioning from a combat to a support role, and basically making very clear that this is no longer an open-ended commitment and we're going to get this done whether the Iraqis like it or not,\" one of the sources told the Post. \"Everybody understands that we're at the end of the road here.\"\n\nThe Post also said the document calls for embedding US soldiers directly with Iraqi security units as early as January to improve their efficiency.\n\nIt will also recommend withdrawing 15 US combat brigades in Iraq -- the bulk of the US fighting presence -- but leaving 70,000 or more American trainers, logistics experts and members of a rapid reaction force, the New York Times reported Thursday.\n\nThe United States currently provides the vast majority of the 160,000-strong multinational force in Iraq.\n\nAsked when Bush would reach a decision on implementing the advice, US national security adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters on Thursday: \"It's going to be weeks rather than months,\" but offered no further details.\n\nSeparately, the Washington Post reported that US officials are looking into ending reconciliation efforts with Sunni insurgents -- a move strongly opposed by US ambassador in Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad and top military commanders, who believe that bringing the Sunni insurgents into the political process is key to stabilizing the country.\n\nThe proposal, presented by the State Department, follows an internal review that says US efforts to reach out to Sunni dissidents have failed, and perhaps even backfired and alienated Iraqi Shiites, the Post reported.\n\nOfficially US policy is to support a unified Iraq. Washington would not drop the goal, but instead would let the Iraqis take leadership in reconciliation efforts, the Post reported.\n\nSunnis, favored during Saddam Hussein's regime and for centuries the backbone of the ruling elite and middle class, make up about 20 percent of Iraq's population.\n\n\"We'll be in Iraq until the job is complete,\" Bush said Thursday after talks in Amman, Jordan, with embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.\n\n\"There's a lot of speculation that these reports in Washington mean there's going to be some kind of graceful exit out of Iraq. We're going to stay in Iraq to get the job done, so long as the government wants us there,\" he said.\n\n\"This business about 'graceful exit' just simply has no realism to it at all. We're going to help this government,\" said Bush.\n\nMaliki told ABC television Thursday that Iraqi forces will be ready to take charge of security in the country in June 2007.\n\n\"I can say that Iraqi forces will be ready, fully ready, to receive this command and to command its own forces, and I can tell you that by next June our forces will be ready,\" Maliki said, speaking through a translator.\n\nSenator Carl Levin, in line to chair the Senate Armed Services Committee, said US moves toward withdrawal will alleviate the violence in Iraq, contrary to Bush's assessment.\n\n\"I believe the announcement of a date to begin the redeployment of US forces from Iraq would increase the pressure on Iraqis to reach the political settlement that is essential to ending the sectarian violence,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 1 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 7", "start_char": 615, "end_char": 625, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 1144, "end_char": 1152, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 6", "start_char": 1253, "end_char": 1263, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early 2008", "start_char": 1394, "end_char": 1404, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2008", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1491, "end_char": 1497, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 2070, "end_char": 2077, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2347, "end_char": 2355, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 2376, "end_char": 2385, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2594, "end_char": 2602, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 3640, "end_char": 3648, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 4117, "end_char": 4125, "tid": "t16", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 2007", "start_char": 4203, "end_char": 4212, "tid": "t17", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next June", "start_char": 4354, "end_char": 4363, "tid": "t18", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061201.0325.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0057\n\nJERUSALEM, Dec 12 , 2006, 2006\n\nIsrael minister urges silence on nuclear capability\n\n\n\n\nAn Israeli minister on Tuesday urged silence on the country's nuclear capability one day after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's remark placing the Jewish state among the world's nuclear powers.\n\n\"I would suggest that all those who want to talk about the issue, for God's sake and for the sake of Israel's security, stop it,\" Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben Eliezer told army radio.\n\nOn Monday, Olmert said in an interview to German television station N24 Sat1 that Israel was among the states that possess an atomic bomb, breaking a decades-long silence from Israeli officials on the issue.\n\n\"Iran openly, explicitly and publicly threatens to wipe Israel off the map. Can you say that this is the same level, when they are aspiring to have nuclear weapons, as France, America, Russia and Israel?\" he asked.\n\nBen Eliezer said he did not believe that Olmert's slip broke the country's \"policy of nuclear ambiguity.\"\n\n\"I support the policy of ambiguity and I don't see Olmert's statement as a declaration that Israel has nuclear weapons,\" he said.\n\nIsrael is nevertheless believed to be the only nuclear power in the Middle East, and according to some estimates possesses some 200 nucealr warheads.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 134, "end_char": 141, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 498, "end_char": 504, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "N24", "start_char": 563, "end_char": 566, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12T24:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061212.0057.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0324\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 4 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nWorld's largest brain research center inaugurated\n\n\n\n\nThe world's largest neuroscience research center, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research (MIBR), formally opened Friday at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), reports reaching here said.\n\nThe center is founded with an aim of exploring human learning and communication through interdisciplinary research, it was reported.\n\n\"I am hopeful that the scientific research done at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research can make significant contributions to advancing human learning and communication within the next 20 years,\" said Patrick McGovern Jr., founder and chairman of the International Data Group.\n\nIn 2000, he and his wife, entrepreneur Lore Harp McGovern, pledged 350 million US dollars over 20 years for the creation of the new institute and its operation.\n\nThe research at the new institute will combine and extend the results of recent breakthroughs in three major, interrelated areas: systems and computational neuroscience, imaging and cognitive neuroscience, and genetic and cellular neuroscience.\n\nThe 140,000 square feet (13,006.42 square meter) institute houses the world's largest collection of magnetic systems to study the brain. One system is operational and the two others are planned.\n\nThe research center is led by Prof. Robert Desimone, former director of The National Institutes for Mental Health's Intramural Research Program, the largest mental health research center in the world. He is also a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts of Sciences.\n\nThe faculty of the institute includes two Nobel laureates and one National Medal of Science winner. As put by Desimone, it boasts \"the talent and teamwork of 16 world-class scientists. This is scientific collaboration at the highest level.\"\n\nDesimone said the institute has \"a mandate to lead the world into a new era of systems neuroscience, the study of brain systems and behavior.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 229, "end_char": 235, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 20 years", "start_char": 632, "end_char": 649, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 737, "end_char": 741, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "20 years", "start_char": 829, "end_char": 837, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P20Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051104.0324.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0162\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nGold price lower in Hong Kong -- Nov. 7\n\n\n\n\nThe gold price in Hong Kong went down 7 HK dollars to 5,764 HK dollars per tael on Tuesday, according to Bank of China (Hong Kong).\n\nThe price is equivalent to 622.02 U.S. dollars a troy ounce, down 1.20 U.S. dollars at Tuesday's exchange rate of one U.S. dollar against 7.7785 HK dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 185, "end_char": 192, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 322, "end_char": 329, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0162.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891101-0008 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0008. \n Business Brief -- Rally's Inc.:\n@  Shareholder Rights Program\n@  Is Set by Fast-Food Firm \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n RLLY \n\n   Rally's Inc. said it adopted a shareholders rights plan to protect shareholders from an inadequately priced takeover offer. \n\n   The plan provides for the distribution of one common stock-purchase right as a dividend for each share of common outstanding. \nEach right entitles shareholders to buy one-half share of common for $30. \n\n   Earlier this month, a group led by three of the company's directors, Burt Sugarman, James M. Trotter III and Willam E. Trotter II, indicated it had a 45.2% stake in the Louisville, Ky., fast-food company and that it planned to seek a majority of seats on Rally's nine-member board. \n\n   The company said it was \" concerned about the announced intent to acquire control of the company\" by a Sugarman-led group.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 143, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Earlier this month", "start_char": 517, "end_char": 535, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t22"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0356.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0374\n\nBERLIN, Dec 16 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURE) =\n\n\n\n\nUS boxing legend Muhammed Ali arrived in Berlin on Friday to receive a major German peace prize for his efforts to promote civil rights and the work of the United Nations.\n\nThe former world heavyweight champion will on Saturday accept the Otto Hahn peace medal, named for a German nuclear physicist, the German Society for the United Nations said.\n\nAli has been selected \"for his lifelong engagement in the American civil rights movement and the global cultural emancipation of blacks as well as his work as a UN Goodwill ambassador,\" Christine Kalb, the regional president of the society, told a press conference.\n\nThe 63-year-old Ali, who suffers from Parkinson's disease, attended the conference but left it to his wife Lonnie to speak to journalists.\n\n\"Boxing allowed him to travel the world. Even then he was already an ambassador for peace,\" she said, adding that her husband was doing well.\n\nThe prize is awarded every two years. Previous winners include former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.\n\nOtto Hahn (1879-1968) won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944 and after the war became a vocal nuclear arms control advocate.\n\nAfter receiving the prize, Ali was due to attend a boxing match in Berlin pitting his daughter, unbeaten boxer Laila Ali, against Sweden's Asa Maria Sandell.\n\n\"He is very proud of his daughter, even though as a Muslim and a man, he has reservations about female boxing,\" his wife said.\n\n\"He will be happy if Laila claims her 22nd victory,\" she added.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 115, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 283, "end_char": 291, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "every two years", "start_char": 984, "end_char": 999, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-12-16T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1944", "start_char": 1162, "end_char": 1166, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1944", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051216.0374.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0213\n\nSARAJEVO, April 12 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPolice foil apparent attempt to kill pope\n\n\n\n\nPolice in Sarajevo on Saturday foiled an apparent attempt to kill Pope John Paul II, discovering 23 landmines wired to explode under a bridge the pope was set to cross later in the day.\n\nThe apparent attempt on the pope's life was found hours before the pope was set to arrive in the Bosnian capital for an historic two-day visit aimed at boosting reconciliation in Bosnia.\n\nOn arrival at the bridge on the main road into the city, \"Bosnian police and the (UN) International Police Task Force found 23 mines connected to a detonator with additional plastic explosives and a remote control,\" said UN spokesman Alexander Ivanko.\n\nThe mines had apparently been planted there Friday night.\n\nPolice said they had arrested a man Saturday claiming he wanted to kill the pope. The pontiff was due to arrive in the city at around 5:30 p.m. (1530 GMT).\n\nIt was not clear whether the arrest of the man, whose name was not immediately released, was linked to the discovery of the explosives.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 12 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 124, "end_char": 132, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday night", "start_char": 774, "end_char": 786, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 825, "end_char": 833, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5:30 p.m.", "start_char": 923, "end_char": 932, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970412.0213.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0456\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nNuggets' Martin ends NBA season for surgery\n\n\n\n\nDenver Nuggets' forward Kenyon Martin underwent season-ending surgery on his right knee, the National Basketball Association club announced Wednesday.\n\nArthroscopic surgery had revealed more significant damage than was indicated on an earlier MRI, signaling an end to Martin's season and the loss of a key teammate for Carmelo Anthony.\n\nMartin collected 19 points and 20 rebounds in the first two games of the season, but swelling in the right knee forced him to miss last Wednesday's game against the New York Knicks.\n\nLast season, Martin was limited to 56 games due to soreness in the left knee and averaged 12.9 points and 6.3 rebounds.\n\nObtained from New Jersey for three first-round picks, Martin signed a seven-year contract worth 90 million dollars in July of 2004. Martin helped the Nets reach the NBA Finals twice in his first four NBA season.\n\nMartin underwent microfracture surgery on his left knee after averaging 15.5 points and 7.3 rebounds in his first season with the Nuggets.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 248, "end_char": 257, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first two games of the season", "start_char": 491, "end_char": 524, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15T02:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 581, "end_char": 590, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last season", "start_char": 628, "end_char": 639, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July of 2004", "start_char": 867, "end_char": 879, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "four NBA season", "start_char": 944, "end_char": 959, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0456.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0073\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nRussia wants Georgia's \"concrete deeds\" to mend ties: FM\n\n\n\n\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that Georgia must back up its desire to mend relations with Russia with \"concrete deeds.\"\n\nThe Russian top diplomat said Georgian Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili spoke about Georgia's desire for normalization of relations with Russia at their meeting on Wednesday.\n\n\"We accepted these assurances, as we already have for the past two years. But we want to see concrete deeds,\" Lavrov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.\n\nBezhuashvili's meeting with Lavrov was seen as a bid to mend ties that nose-dived in late September after the Caucasus nation briefly detained four Russian officers on spying charges.\n\nMoscow, infuriated by the arrests, has imposed an economic blockade on Tbilisi by cutting transport and postal links, and has deported Georgians accused of staying in Russia illegally.\n\nTies between Moscow and Tbilisi have been strained by tensions over Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and the country's bid to join NATO since President Mikhail Saakashvili came to power in 2003.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 429, "end_char": 438, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two years", "start_char": 495, "end_char": 513, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late September", "start_char": 694, "end_char": 708, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1194, "end_char": 1198, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0073.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0270\n\nTOKYO, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS relief group questions lavish ceremonies in North Korea\n\n\n\n\nA US-based Christian relief group, just back from famine-hit North Korea, appealed here Friday for prompt food aid to save the Stalinist state but questioned its lavish spending on state memorials.\n\nDean Hirsch, president of World Vision, told a news conference here that unless food aid reaches North Korea's 2.4 million children under age six within the next 30-60 days \"the future of North Korea is very grim.\"\n\n\"We must respond now. We are running out of time. If North Korea does not receive massive humanitarian assistance between now and July, it will be too late,\" Hirsch said.\n\nHirsch said, \"we saw only two dogs during the entire trip. Through our conversations with our guide, we were convinced that most of the animals, including pet dogs, had been eaten.\"\n\nHis mission returned Thursday from a five-day visit to North Korea, hit by two years of floods, with video and still pictures of the devastatation and starvation.\n\nWorld Vision claims to work in 103 countries including North Korea where it has provided 4.2 million dollars in food aid, seeds and medicines since 1995.\n\nBut Hirsch's group also watched Pyongyang's week-long preparations for Friday's \"massive celebration\" marking the founding of its million- strong military.\n\n\"I could not help but wonder how this major event would be seen by the people in the light of the scarcity of food in the country,\" he said.\n\nHirsch also noted he saw some 50,000 children from 30 schools taking part in mass gymnastics last Sunday, as part of ceremonies marking the 85th birthday of the late president Kim Il-Sung.\n\nHowever, he said he was convinced that massive starvation would take place within 90 days based on government accounts that children had been surviving on only 100 grams 3.5 ounces of rice a day.\n\nWorld Vision Vision along with the World Food Programme (WFP), a UN agency, were two of relief organizations appealing for a total of 126 million dollars worth of emergency aid to alleviate North Korea's acute food shortage.\n\nHirsh said that his group did not see starving children during their \"limited visit.\"\n\nIn early April, North Korea said that 134 children died of malnutrition, an admission that belyed propaganda about the country of 20 million being the \"workers paradise.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 210, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next 30-60 days", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 487, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXD", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 548, "end_char": 551, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 653, "end_char": 656, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 661, "end_char": 665, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 907, "end_char": 915, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two years", "start_char": 961, "end_char": 970, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1198, "end_char": 1202, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1276, "end_char": 1282, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Sunday", "start_char": 1597, "end_char": 1608, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "85th birthday", "start_char": 1644, "end_char": 1657, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "90 days", "start_char": 1776, "end_char": 1783, "tid": "t13", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P90D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a day", "start_char": 1883, "end_char": 1888, "tid": "t14", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early April", "start_char": 2207, "end_char": 2218, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0270.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891027-0144 \n = 891027 \n 891027-0144. \n Dime Savings Bank Purchase \n 10/27/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n DME STPT \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nSAVINGS AND LOANS, THRIFTS, CREDIT UNIONS (SAL) \n GARDEN CITY, N.Y.  \n\n   Dime Savings Bank of New York was cleared by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. to acquire Starpointe Savings Bank of Somerset, N.J., the banks said. \n\n   Starpointe holders, who approved the plan last April, will receive $21 in cash a share, or a total $63 million. \nThe FDIC cleared the move yesterday, and the banks must wait at least 30 days before closing the purchase. \nA closing date has n't been set. \nThe thrifts agreed to the transaction in August 1988.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/27/89", "start_char": 72, "end_char": 80, "tid": "t23", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last April", "start_char": 435, "end_char": 445, "tid": "t24", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-04", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 532, "end_char": 541, "tid": "t25", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t23"}, {"text": "at least 30 days", "start_char": 567, "end_char": 583, "tid": "t26", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P30D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 1988", "start_char": 689, "end_char": 700, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0751.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0056 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0056. \n Business Brief -- Elco Industries Inc.:\n@  Fastener Maker Expects Net\n@  In '90 to Be Below Forecast \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n ELCN \n\n   Elco Industries Inc. said it expects net income in the year ending June 30, 1990, to fall below a recent analyst's estimate of $1.65 a share. \n\n   The Rockford, Ill., maker of fasteners also said it expects to post sales in the current fiscal year that are \" slightly above\" fiscal 1989 sales of $155 million. \nThe company said its industrial unit continues to face margin pressures and lower demand. \n\n   In fiscal 1989, Elco earned $7.8 million, or $1.65 a share. \nThe company's stock fell $1.125 to $13.625 in over-the-counter trading yesterday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t22", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the year", "start_char": 244, "end_char": 252, "tid": "t28", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June 30, 1990", "start_char": 260, "end_char": 273, "tid": "t27", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-06-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the current fiscal year", "start_char": 417, "end_char": 440, "tid": "t30", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "fiscal 1989", "start_char": 468, "end_char": 479, "tid": "t32", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t30"}, {"text": "fiscal 1989", "start_char": 602, "end_char": 613, "tid": "t35", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t32"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 731, "end_char": 740, "tid": "t37", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t22"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0135.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0266\n\nSTOCKHOLM, Nov. 21 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nSudan shuts Danish minister out\n\n\n\n\nThe Sudanese government has pulled the plug on the Danish minister of development co-operation 's week-long visit to the Darfur province, said reports reaching here from Copenhagen on Tuesday.\n\nIn an apparent tit-for-tat measure after comments made by Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen last week, the Sudanese government has abruptly withdrawn its permission to allow a Danish fact-finding mission to war-torn Darfur province, the Copenhagen Post reported.\n\nThe minister of development co-operation, Ulla Toenaes, was scheduled to depart at the end of this week. She said she was blindsided by the last minute announcement.\n\n\"I'm surprised about this turnaround so soon before departure,\" she said. \"We haven't received any reason for the cancellation.\"\n\nToenaes had expected to meet with government leaders about the escalating humanitarian crisis in Darfur and visit a camp for internally displaced persons. Some 200,000 people have been killed in the Darfur province in recent years.\n\nSome observers suggested that Sudanese officials were angered by Rasmussen's comments last week that military intervention in Darfur might be necessary in order to bring the conflict under control.\n\nRasmussen told parliament that he felt it was a \"disgrace\" that the international community had done little to prevent violence in the region.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 21 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 391, "end_char": 400, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of this week", "start_char": 646, "end_char": 666, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W47", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 1078, "end_char": 1090, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1179, "end_char": 1188, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W46", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061121.0266.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0032 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0032. \n Business Brief -- Dunkin' Donuts Inc.:\n@  DD Acquisition Extended\n@  Its $45-a-Share Takeover Bid \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n UNI.A DUNK T.CAO \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nRESTAURANTS, SUPERMARKETS AND DRUGSTORES (RFD) \n\n   DD Acquisition Corp., a partnership of Unicorp Canada Corp.'s Kingsbridge Capital Group and Cara Operations Ltd., extended to Nov. 20 its $45-a-share offer for all Dunkin' Donuts Inc. shares outstanding. \n\n   The offer, which was due to expire yesterday, is conditional on 50.1% of Dunkin' common shares, on a fully diluted basis, being tendered and on the withdrawal of the company's poison pill rights plan. \n\n   Acquisition has launched a suit in a Delaware court seeking the withdrawal of Dunkin's poison pill rights and employee stock ownership plans, which it claims were put in place to deter bidders. \nAcquisition said 2.2 million shares, or about 38.5% of the shares outstanding, have been tendered under its offer. \nThe partners said they already hold 15% of all shares outstanding. \n\n   Dunkin' has set Nov. 10 as the deadline for the receipt of any competing bids. \nDD Acquisition said the extension is to allow this process to be completed. \nDunkin' is based in Randolph, Mass. \nCara, a food services chain operator and Unicorp, a holding company, are based in Toronto.", "time_expressions": [{"text": " 11/02/89", "start_char": 142, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t39", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 20", "start_char": 420, "end_char": 427, "tid": "t41", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-20", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t39"}, {"text": "yesterday", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 547, "tid": "t44", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t39"}, {"text": "already", "start_char": 1043, "end_char": 1050, "tid": "t51", "type": "TIME", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t39"}, {"text": "Nov. 10", "start_char": 1108, "end_char": 1115, "tid": "t52", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t39"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0159.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0018\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 13 , 2006, 2006\n\nKucinich joins 2008 presidential race\n\n\n\n\nUS Representative Dennis Kucinich, an outspoken opponent of the Iraq war, has entered the already-crowded field of possible contenders for the 2008 presidential election, announcing he will vie for the Democratic party nomination.\n\nKucinich was a candidate for the 2004 nomination, which was won by Democratic Senator John Kerry. Then as now, the centerpiece of his presidential bid is his strong opposition the the Iraq war.\n\nConsidered on the left flank of his party, the avowed pacifist is calling on Congress to cut off funding for the war.\n\n\"This is a moment for me to stand up, to show leadership,\" he told CNN television Tuesday.\n\nA dark horse candidate, Kucinich did not win any primary states in 2004, but raised his profile in Congress and garnered a platform for his antiwar message.\n\nWith public disaffection for the Iraq war at an all time high, Kucinich said he believes his antiwar candidacy will resonate with a large number of Americans.\n\n\"It's easy in hindsight for candidates so say we shouldn't have gone there. I was right at the forefront,\" he said.\n\n\"People want someone who has that foresight and that's what a leader is about. I can say we can get out of Iraq right now,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm taking a strong stand on this and putting it on the line because I believe the American people want those troops brought home.\"\n\nThe five-time Ohio representative becomes the second Democrat to officially throw his hat in the ring, afer an announcement last month by Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack that he is seeking the nomination.\n\nSeveral other leading figures are deemed possible candidates, but have yet to declare, including on the Democratic side, Senators Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Evan Bayh, Chris Dodd and Joe Biden.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 13 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 436, "end_char": 439, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 726, "end_char": 733, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 803, "end_char": 807, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1289, "end_char": 1292, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last month", "start_char": 1563, "end_char": 1573, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061213.0018.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0128\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nfriendship\n\n\n\n\nA performing gala themed on \"Ode to Friendship\" was staged here Saturday evening to mark the Beijing Summit of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) and facilitate cultural exchanges.\n\nIn one hour and a half, performers serve up a real feast to both eyes and ears for state and government leaders and high- ranking officials from more than 40 African countries, who are here for the two-day landmark gathering.\n\nFrom traditional Peking opera, upbeat tropical dance and drum to acrobatics, African and Chinese artists demonstrated their exquisite skills and profound culture.\n\nThe summit, themed on \"friendship, peace, cooperation and development\", is regarded as the largest diplomatic event ever held between China and Africa.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday evening", "start_char": 135, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-10-28TEV", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0128.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0266\n\nNEW DELHI, April 21 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIndian budget saga set for April 30 climax\n\n\n\n\nA long-running saga over India's national budget edged towards its climax Monday when India's newly-elected United Front coalition government pledged to push the tax-cutting proposals through at the end of the month.\n\nPrime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, sworn into office earlier in the day, told a government committee meeting here that the widely acclaimed budget, proposed by the previous Front coalition, would be re-introduced on April 30.\n\nIt is likely to become law a few days after that date.\n\nThe budget was unveiled at the end of February by the previous United Front coalition headed by H.D. Deve Gowda. The government, however, was voted out of office before the finance bill could be ratified.\n\nIts proposed measures won widespread support both from industry and political parties.\n\nBut India's stock markets and industry feared they could die with Deve Gowda, particularly if new general elections were called.\n\nGujral's rise to power, however, at the head of a virtual carbon-copy of the previous Front administration backed by Congress, ensured the measures would go through.\n\nIronically, the architect of the budget, former finance mininster Palaniappan Chidambaram, will not be at the helm when the budget debate begins.\n\nHe has been forced to quit his post after his regional party decided to withdraw from the new United Front government.\n\nHis budget slashed taxes, widened the tax net and promised to reduce the fiscal deficit. Personal taxes were cut from 40 to 30 percent and corporate taxes from 40 to 35 percent.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 21 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of the month", "start_char": 299, "end_char": 319, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 30", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 546, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of February", "start_char": 632, "end_char": 651, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970421.0266.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0278\n\nDUBAI, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes on talking to Islamists ///\n\n\n\n\nAl-Qaeda's second in command Ayman al-Zawahiri vowed in a videotape aired Wednesday that the terror group will not stop attacks on US soil as long as the United States strikes Muslims on their land.\n\n\"If we are hit in our countries, we will not stop striking you in your country,\" Zawahiri said in the video broadcast on pan-Arab television station Al-Jazeera.\n\nHe said US President George W. Bush was deceiving Americans by telling them he was going after terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq in order to keep them away from the United States.\n\nHe also said the United States will ultimately talk with \"the real forces\" in the Islamic world in order to extricate itself from Iraq and Afghanistan, in a reference to Islamist extremists.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 20 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 181, "end_char": 190, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0278.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0227\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 16 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndia: FM\n\n\n\n\n\"China insists on seeking a just and rational solution to the China-India border issue,\" said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu on Thursday.\n\n\"China maintains its stance that both sides should seek a rational solution through friendly consultation,\" Jiang said at a press briefing.\n\nThe two countries appointed special envoys in 2003 to draw up a resolution to the dispute. Since then, frequent diplomatic efforts on the border issue have been carried out, which led to an agreement on the \"guiding principles\" on how resolve the dispute signed by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 214, "end_char": 222, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 412, "end_char": 416, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 702, "end_char": 706, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061116.0227.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0300\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nEgypt's Mubarak to visit three European nations\n\n\n\n\nEgyptian President Hosni Mubarak would start from Dec. 6 a five-day European tour which would take him to Ireland, France and Germany, presidential spokesman Suliman Awwad announced here Monday.\n\nDuring the European tour, President Mubarak would hold talks with leaders of the three countries on bilateral and regional issues of common concern, Awwad told the official MENA news agency.\n\nAccording to the spokesman, Mubarak is scheduled to meet with Irish President Mary Mcaleese and Prime Minister Bertie Ahern during his visit to Ireland.\n\nWhile in France, Mubarak would discuss the latest Middle East developments with French President Jacques Chirac and inaugurate the exhibition of \"Egypt's Sunken Treasures\" to be kicked off in Paris on Dec. 8.\n\nIn Berlin, President Mubarak would hold intensive talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said Awwad.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 6", "start_char": 157, "end_char": 163, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 294, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 8", "start_char": 850, "end_char": 856, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0300.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0515\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 12 , 2005\n\nbeef\n\n\n\n\nUS Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns on Sunday voiced satisfaction after Japan gave the final go-ahead to resume imports of some US beef after a two-year ban.\n\n\"I'm very pleased to announce that the Japanese market is now open to US beef products,\" Johanns said in a statement. \"Resuming beef trade with Japan is great news for American producers and Japanese consumers, as well as an important step toward normalized trade based on scientifically sound, internationally recognized standards.\"\n\nJapan barred imports of US beef in December 2003 after cases of mad cow disease, formally known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), were discovered in cattle in the country.\n\nIt was a devastating blow to the US farming industry as Japan was the number one overseas market for its beef, buying 1.7 billion dollars worth in 2002. Japan had imposed a similar ban on Canadian beef in May 2003.\n\nThe row with Washington turned bitter in October 2004 when Japan promised to exempt US cows aged 20 months or younger from screening if high-risk parts were removed. Washington interpreted the agreement as a breakthrough but Tokyo said it needed more time to verify how to test the age of the cattle.\n\nJapan now was to send inspectors to North America to ensure compliance with the Japanese safety guidelines.\n\nJohanns said that \"reopening the Japanese market to US beef has been a top priority for me since becoming Secretary... Japan's action today sets an excellent example for other countries in Asia whose markets remain closed.\n\n\"Now is the time for Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore and others to open their markets to US beef. I urge all countries to take a science-based approach and adopt OIE standards for allowing beef trade from 30-month animals,\" Johanns added.\n\nUS farm-state senators had even pressed for sanctions worth 3.1 billion dollars unless Tokyo opened up again by the year-end.\n\nIt is still unclear, however, if the lifting of the ban will appease disgruntled US farmers and politicians, with Japan expected only to import a fraction of the beef it once took in.\n\nThe United States in 2001 banned Japanese beef imports -- mostly the niche market of luxury Kobe beef -- after Japan became the only Asian country to report mad-cow disease in a herd.\n\nJapan exported 800,000 dollars worth of beef to the United States in 2000.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 12 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 100, "end_char": 106, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two-year", "start_char": 205, "end_char": 213, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 278, "end_char": 281, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 2003", "start_char": 590, "end_char": 603, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 884, "end_char": 888, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2003", "start_char": 942, "end_char": 950, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 2004", "start_char": 994, "end_char": 1006, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1261, "end_char": 1264, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1498, "end_char": 1503, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 2404, "end_char": 2408, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051211.0515.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0298\n\nMONTEVIDEO, Nov. 11 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUruguay seeks home victory against Australia in World Cup playoff\n\n\n\n\nThe Uruguayan national football team will meet Australia in Montevideo on Saturday, hoping to win the first of two World Cup play-off games and set themselves up for Sydney's return match.\n\nThe winner of the two-leg playoff will go through to the 2006 Germany World Cup.\n\nThe match takes place in the historic Centenario Stadium, which will be filled with 60,000 Uruguay fans.\n\nThe play-offs are being held in a tense atmosphere thanks to statements made by both teams, and also because both countries have met before at this stage.\n\nUruguay won the ticket to the 2002 World Cup held in Seoul and Tokyo, losing its first game 1-0 but winning the re-match 3-0. That year, a group of violent Uruguayan fans spat on and insulted the Austrian team at Montevideo airport, trying to intimate them on the way to the match.\n\nThis year, Australia has asked for security guarantees and has begun its training in Buenos Aires, the Argentine capital, so that they can arrive a day before the game.\n\nUruguay has played in 10 World Cups and won two, while Australia has only taken part in the World Cup once, in Germany in 1974.\n\nAustralia made the play-offs for the last three World Cups, but was beaten each time, by Argentina in 1994, by Iran in 1998 and last time by Uruguay.\n\nUruguay will take on an offensive strategy with three forwards: Marcelo Zalayeta of Italy's Juventus, Richard Morales of Spanish league team Malaga and either Forlan or Silva as the third.\n\nAustralia is expected to exploit a conservative strategy with only one forward Mark Viduka of English league team Middlesborough.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 204, "end_char": 212, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "That year", "start_char": 790, "end_char": 799, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "This year", "start_char": 947, "end_char": 956, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 1239, "end_char": 1243, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1994", "start_char": 1348, "end_char": 1352, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 1365, "end_char": 1369, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051111.0298.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0022 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0022. \n Business Brief -- Meridian National Corp.:\n@  McAlpines Acquire 10.2%\n@  Of Common for $1 Million \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n MRCO \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n\n   Meridian National Corp. said it sold 750,000 shares of its common stock to the McAlpine family interests, for $1 million, or $1.35 a share. \nThe sale represents 10.2% of Meridian's shares outstanding. \n\n   The McAlpine family, which operates a number of multinational companies, including a London-based engineering and construction company, also lent to Meridian National $500,000. \nThat amount is convertible into shares of Meridian common stock at $2 a share during its one-year term. \nThe loan may be extended by the McAlpine group for an additional year with an increase in the conversion price to $2.50 a share. \n\n   The sale of shares to the McAlpine family along with the recent sale of 750,000 shares of Meridian stock to Haden MacLellan Holding PLC of Surrey, England and a recent public offering have increased Meridian's net worth to $8.5 million, said William Feniger, chief executive officer of Toledo, Ohio-based Meridian.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t21", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "one-year term", "start_char": 708, "end_char": 721, "tid": "t23", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "an additional year", "start_char": 775, "end_char": 793, "tid": "t25", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0168.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0270\n\nISLAMABAD, Nov. 5 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIran to provide electricity to Pakistan\n\n\n\n\nIran has offered to provide cheap electricity to Pakistan that could also be extended to India like the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline, local newspaper Dawn reported on Sunday.\n\nThe offer was made by Iranian Ambassador in Pakistan Masha Allah Shakeri in his meeting with Pakistani Federal Minister for Water and Power Liaquat Ali Jatoi.\n\nDuring the meeting, the two countries agreed to extend cooperation in water and power sectors and to establish a joint investment company for achieving the objectives in the near future.\n\nRegional and global situation along with bilateral trade relations particularly investment opportunities in power sector were also discussed in the meeting, according to the report.\n\nInvestment procedure in the power sector had been simplified which attracted foreign investment in power sector, Jatoi said, adding that the demand for electricity in Pakistan had crossed 18, 000 megawatt while the existing availability of power was 13,500 megawatt.\n\nJatoi invited the Iranian government to come forward and participate in the mega hydro power projects through International Competitive Bidding (ICB), including the Basha dam project.\n\nThe Iranian ambassador appreciated the growing economic development of Pakistan and offered Iranian investment in water and power sectors, particularly in the dams' construction.\n\nHe also suggested the establishment of a joint investment company to look into the exchange of expertise to pave way for investment opportunities in water and power sectors.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 5 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the near future", "start_char": 627, "end_char": 642, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0270.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0201\n\nLAGOS, Dec 26 , 2006, 2006\n\nAt least 200 killed in fire at vandalised pipeline in Nigeria\n\n\n\n\nA blast and fire at a vandalised oil pipeline Tuesday in Nigeria's commercial capital Lagos killed at least 200 people and left dozens more badly burned, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.\n\nScores of bodies lay in the foam and water that firefighters were using to bring the blaze in the city's northern Abule Egba district under control.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 26 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 170, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061226.0201.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0265\n\nZAGREB, April 15 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSerbs still voting at one polling station in Eastern Slavonia\n\n\n\n\nSerbs in Eastern Slavonia, the last Serb-held part of Croatia, were still voting Tuesday at one polling station in the region after problems with ballot papers Sunday and Monday, a UN spokesman said.\n\nUN spokesman Douglas Coffman told AFP that the polling station in the village of Klisa was open from 10 a.m. (0800 GMT) to 2 p.m. (1200 GMT) to allow the 250 people there to vote.\n\nHe said that incorrect ballot papers had been delivered the day before. Aside from this polling stations, all others closed on Monday, some staying open late, he said.\n\nProblems with late arrival of ballot papers and incomplete voter registration lists dogged the UN-organised local, regional and upper house polls in the region.\n\nVoting had been due to end Sunday, as in the rest of Croatia, but had to be extended in the light of the chaos.\n\nThe vote will be a key step in returning Eastern Slavonia, captured by Serbs in bitter fighting in 1991, to Croatian control.\n\nCoffman said that UN was pleased at the way the vote had gone.\n\n\"We were pleased with the extremely high turnout and the conditions of calm, quiet and security which prevailed throughout the two days of voting,\" he said, speaking by telephone from Vukovar, the main town of the region.\n\n\"We are glad that we believe that everyone who became eligible to vote was able to vote,\" he said.\n\nCoffman said that he hoped counting would be finished by Wednesday, but said the vote would not be certified until later in the week.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 15 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 201, "end_char": 208, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 280, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10 a.m.", "start_char": 422, "end_char": 429, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day before", "start_char": 558, "end_char": 572, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 629, "end_char": 635, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 860, "end_char": 866, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1991", "start_char": 1045, "end_char": 1049, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1991", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the two days", "start_char": 1260, "end_char": 1272, "tid": "t11", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1517, "end_char": 1526, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the week", "start_char": 1584, "end_char": 1592, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970415.0265.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0038\n\nCAIRO, Nov. 18 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nXinhua Middle East news advisory -- Nov. 18\n\n\n\n\nThe following are some of major Mideast news stories due to be covered or pursued by Xinhua News Agency on Saturday.\n\n-- Monitoring development in negotiations between Fatah and Hamas on the formation of a national unity government in Palestine.\n\n-- Foreign Ministers from countries of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) hold an emergency meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to probe the fallout of Israeli offensive in Beit Hanoun.\n\n-- Monitoring the restive situation in Iraq as roadside bombs, group kidnappings and sectarian violence continue.\n\n-- Keep watching Iran's nuclear file as a top Iranian official indicated that Tehran would respond decisively to any act of aggression by the United States or Israel.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 18 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 210, "end_char": 218, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061118.0038.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061221.0593\n\nLIVERPOOL, England, Dec 22 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Neil Johnston\n\n\n\n\nLiverpool manager Rafa Benitez has played down suggestions by his captain Steven Gerrard that the club can still pip Manchester United and Chelsea to the title.\n\nBenitez's side host bottom club Watford at Anfield on Saturday seeking to cement their position in the top three by securing a fourth successive league win.\n\nAfter a slow start to the season, the Merseyside club enter the busy Christmas period on the back of their best domestic form of the campaign prompting England midfielder Gerrard to suggest that the title is still possible despite trailing leaders United by 13 points.\n\nBenitez has masterminded Champions League and FA Cup triumphs since he arrived at Anfield in 2004. But he has endured too many setbacks in the league to get carried and is taking a more cautious approach as he prepares to celebrate his third Christmas in England.\n\n\"If Steven was talking about this then it means he has confidence and he is positive,\" said Benitez.\n\n\"But as an experienced manager it is better to talk about one game at a time and think about the next three points.\n\n\"We have four games in the space of a few days over Christmas and we will see after these four games where we are in the table. But I am not thinking about the title race. I'm not looking at the table every week, I promise you.\"\n\nLiverpool are unbeaten in their last six league outings since last month's tame 3-0 surrender at Arsenal which appeared to have killed off their hopes of catching the top two.\n\nBut Benitez insisted that he never doubted his players when the critics wrote them off, and has saluted his team for the way they have responded in recent weeks.\n\n\"We still had confidence when everyone was talking about us being in mid-table and struggling,\" added Benitez.\n\n\"We said to the players 'listen, we will move closer to the top if we carry on doing the same things'.\n\n\"One of the best things about my players is that they are really good workers. They train really well and as a manager you know that when your team trains hard, they will be near the top of the table because they have enough quality.\"\n\nWatford arrive at Anfield six points adrift of safety at the foot of the table and still seeking a first league win of the season.\n\nManager Adrian Boothroyd has been optimistic about his side's survival chances throughout the season, but has admitted for the first time that his players are in a relegation battle.\n\n\"I set our sights high, but I know we are in a relegation battle,\" said the 35-year-old handler.\n\n\"We need to add new players in January, but I am convinced we can go on a little run.\n\n\"But even so, I am not a realist - I refuse to be. When you believe in conventional wisdom, you have a problem.\n\n\"We are bottom of the league, and we need to fight for everything we can. 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0036\n\nWARSAW, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAll trapped miners killed in Poland's mine explosion\n\n\n\n\nAll 23 miners trapped in a mine explosion in southern Poland were confirmed dead, the official PAP news agency reported on Thursday.\n\nThe confirmation came after the last body of the trapped miners was recovered by rescue teams, the report said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 236, "end_char": 244, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0036.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0349\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. commander says troops in Iraq should not be reduced\n\n\n\n\nThe top U.S. commander for the Middle East said Wednesday that American troops in Iraq should not be reduced, and that he would not recommend troop withdrawals.\n\n\"Under current circumstances, I would not recommend troop withdrawals,\" General John Abizaid, commander of the Central Command, told the Senate Armed Services Committee.\n\nSpecific timetables \"limit that flexibility,\" he said.\n\nAbizaid also said he did not see the need to increase the number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq. \"I do not believe that more American troops right now is the solution to the problem,\" he said.\n\nThe United States has about 141,000 troops in Iraq at present.\n\nAbizaid said levels of sectarian violence in Iraq were still dangerously high, but he was \"optimistic\" that American forces could stabilize Iraq.\n\nAsked by lawmakers how long it would take to quell the ongoing sectarian violence in Iraq, Abizaid said the U.S. military and Iraqi forces had four to six months to get the levels of sectarian violence down before it tipped into civil war.\n\nThe key to stabilize Iraq was \"effective, loyal, non-sectarian Iraqi security forces coupled with an effective government of national unity,\" he said.\n\nAbizaid said American commanders believed that Iraqi security forces could take control of security responsibilities faster if the U.S. military beefed up training teams embedded with the Iraqis, speeded up the delivery of equipment, and helped Iraqi authorities to root out militias.\n\nAbizaid's testimony before the Senate committee came after last week's congressional elections, in which Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress largely due to American voters' dissatisfaction with the situation in Iraq.\n\nPresident George W. Bush has faced enormous pressure for a major change in his Iraq policy.\n\nBush formally launched a sweeping internal review of the Iraq policy on Tuesday, pulling together studies underway by various government agencies, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.\n\nThe initiative paralleled the effort by the bipartisan Iraq Study Group, which had conducted interviews with the president, his foreign policy team, military leaders and Democrats, and was expected to make recommendations on the government's Iraq policy next month.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 169, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 1060, "end_char": 1070, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1647, "end_char": 1656, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W45", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1986, "end_char": 1993, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2090, "end_char": 2099, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next month", "start_char": 2356, "end_char": 2366, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0349.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0256\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 7 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nEconomic Leaders' Meeting\n\n\n\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao will pay successive state visits to Vietnam, Laos, India and Pakistan from Nov. 15 to 26, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu announced here Tuesday.\n\nWhile in Vietnam, Hu will also attend the 14th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting to be held in Hanoi from Nov. 17 to 19, Jiang said.\n\nHu is to pay the state visits as guest of Vietnamese Communist Party leader Nong Duc Manh and its State President Nguyen Minh Triet, Lao President Choummaly Sayasone, Indian President Abdul Kalam and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.\n\nVietnam, Laos, India and Pakistan are good neighbors of China and the bilateral ties between China and the four countries kept good momentum, Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Cui Tiankai said here Tuesday.\n\nThe upcoming visits will be of great significance and exert far-reaching influences on pushing ahead relations between China and the four nations, Cui said at a news conference on Hu's visits.\n\nHu's four-nation Asian tour will first take him to Vietnam. Cui said the two leaders will have an in-depth exchange of views on relations between two countries and parties from strategic perspective and overall concern.\n\nThrough this visit, Cui said, China hopes to deepen traditional friendship, increase political mutual trust, expand mutually-beneficial cooperation and layout future development trend of bilateral relations.\n\nThe year of 2006 marks the 45th anniversary since China and Laos forged diplomatic ties. As second leg of his visit, Hu will visit Laos from Nov. 19 to 20, after conclusion of the APEC meeting.\n\nCui said the visit will beef up the bilateral relations, friendship and cooperation.\n\nHu will visit India from Nov. 20 to 23, which will be the first visit by top Chinese leaders in ten years.\n\nThe visit will demonstrate to the world that the common development of China and India will make positive contributions to peace, stability and development of the world, Cui said.\n\nThe last leg of Hu's visit will take him to Pakistan from Nov. 23 to 26, which is also will be the first visit by top Chinese leaders to this South Asian country in ten years.\n\nChina hopes to promote political relations with Pakistan and expand bilateral cooperation in various fields through this visit, Cui said.\n\nHe believed that the visit will become a milestone in consolidating the China-Pakistan traditional friendly relations of cooperation.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 15", "start_char": 189, "end_char": 196, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 272, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 17", "start_char": 378, "end_char": 385, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 844, "end_char": 851, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 19", "start_char": 1619, "end_char": 1626, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 20", "start_char": 1784, "end_char": 1791, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "ten years", "start_char": 1855, "end_char": 1864, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 23", "start_char": 2106, "end_char": 2113, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "ten years", "start_char": 2213, "end_char": 2222, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P10Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061107.0256.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0312\n\nCANBERRA, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAustralian police arrest 17 terror suspects\n\n\n\n\nSeventeen people have been arrested in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia's largest and second largest cities, as a result of a counter-terrorism operation.\n\nThe joint operation involved the Australian Federal Police (AFP) ,Australian Security Intelligence Organization and police from the states of New South Wales (NSW) and Victoria, and the NSW Crime Commission.\n\n\"The men have been charged with a range of offenses including sections of Commonwealth legislation that have not been previously used, relating to being a member of a terrorist group, conspiring to commit a terrorist act and directing a terrorist organization,\" said the AFP in a statement Tuesday.\n\nWhile executing 22 search warrants across Sydney and Melbourne Tuesday morning, police officers also seized a range of material including unidentified substances, firearms, travel documents, computers and backpacks.\n\n\"By working collaboratively Australia's law enforcement and intelligence agencies have managed to disrupt the alleged activities of this group and therefore protect the Australian community from a potential terrorist threat,\" AFP Deputy Commissioner John Lawler said.\n\nAll have been charged under the Criminal Code Act 1995. The charges include Acts in Preparation of a Terrorist Act, being a member of a Terrorist Group, Conspiracy to Commit a Terrorist Act and one man has been charged with Directing a Terrorist Organization.\n\n\"Today's arrests follow a lengthy operation where law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been monitoring and investigating the activities of a group allegedly intent on carrying out what we assess as some sort of terrorist act in Australia,\" said NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney.\n\n\"It will be alleged in court that following months of discussion individuals had moved to the point of planning some sort of activity including the purchase of potentially dangerous materials,\" he said.\n\nThose charged are expected to appear in Sydney and Melbourne courts later on Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 759, "end_char": 766, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday morning", "start_char": 832, "end_char": 847, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Act 1995", "start_char": 1301, "end_char": 1309, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2090, "end_char": 2097, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0312.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061225.0135\n\nLONDON, Dec 25 , 2006, 2006\n\nby Phil Hazlewood\n\n\n\n\nThe leader of the world's Anglicans on Monday urged the international community not to ignore the problems in the Middle East amid continued stalemate in the peace process and intra-Palestinian violence.\n\nIn his Christmas Day sermon, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams spoke of his recent visit to the region with other senior British Christian leaders and likened the troubles there to those facing all humankind.\n\nHe said it was \"chilling\" that neither Palestinians nor Israelis were hopeful of an imminent political settlement, despite a meeting this week of Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.\n\nBut he said the world should put politics to one side in determining who deserved support, saying both sides were impoverished in different ways.\n\nFor Israel, that meant the continuing legacy Jewish people's troubled history as persecuted \"largely unwelcome guests among other nations\" and the effects of the severe economic crisis gripping the Palestinian territories.\n\n\"As soon as we try to sort out which we give the advantage to we shall be deciding to some extent who we're against; and that will undoubtedly create another round of poverty and anger and bitterness...\n\n\"Both deserve the best. And the best we can give them in such circumstances is at least the assurance of friendship.\n\n\"Go and see, go and listen; let them know, Israelis and Palestinians alike, that they will be heard and not forgotten,\" he told the congregation at Canterbury Cathedral in southeast England.\n\nWilliams, the Church of England's most senior cleric, said both communities dreaded the prospect of the world turning its back on them, likening the problems there to those closer to home.\n\n\"The tragedies of the Holy Land are not the problems of exotic barbarians far away. They are signs of the underlying tragedies that cripple all human life, individual and collective,\" he said.\n\n\"Every wall we build to defend ourselves and keep out what may destroy us is also a wall that keeps us in and that will change us in ways we did not choose or want.\n\n\"Every human solution to fears and threats generates a new set of fears and threats.\"\n\nWilliams said whether it was Israel's controversial security barrier in the West Bank, Britain's planned renewal of its Trident missile nuclear deterrent system or tactics to protect oneself against harm, defences were destructive.\n\n\"Defences do something terrible to us as well as to our real and imagined enemies,\" he said.\n\nWilliams's sermon comes after a visit to the West Bank town of Bethlehem -- a place of pilgrimage for Christians because of its significance as the birthplace of Jesus -- to see at firsthand the lives of ordinary Palestinians.\n\nDuring the trip, he described the Israeli-built security barrier that surrounds the town as symbolising what was \"deeply wrong in the human heart\".\n\nOn Saturday, he launched a strongly worded attack in The Times newspaper against Britain and its allies' \"short-sighted\" and \"ignorant\" policy in Iraq, which he said was putting Christians in the Middle East at risk.\n\nHe warned that Christians could be chased out of the region because they were now being viewed by their countrymen as \"supporters of the crusading West\".\n\nHis comments were backed by the Muslim Council of Britain umbrella group but the British government said it was not its policies, but \"intolerant extremism\" of those bent on causing pain, suffering and chaos which was to blame.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 25 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 119, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas", "start_char": 286, "end_char": 295, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this week", "start_char": 628, "end_char": 637, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W52", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 2943, "end_char": 2951, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Times", "start_char": 2997, "end_char": 3002, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 3236, "end_char": 3239, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061225.0135.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0244\n\nROME, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nVenice's 'vaporetti' water buses to hike fares in February\n\n\n\n\nThe cost of a single ride on a \"vaporetto\" -- the water bus that is Venice's main form of public transport -- will rise 20 percent to six euros (eight dollars) on February 1, the ANSA news agency reported Saturday.\n\nAn all-day ticket will cost 15 euros, and the three-day fare will rise to 30 euros, the agency said, quoting a statement from the Venice transport authority.\n\nThe hikes will not affect card-bearing Venice residents, it noted.\n\nFare increases are also in store for travellers on Italy's train network Trenitalia.\n\nFrom Monday, fares will be up an average of nine percent on inter-city and high-speed routes, the company said.\n\nThe increases are Trenitalia's first in five years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 1", "start_char": 276, "end_char": 286, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-02-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 318, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 647, "end_char": 653, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five years", "start_char": 795, "end_char": 805, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0244.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0109\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 21 , 2005\n\nGerman court orders new Mannesmann case\n\n\n\n\nThe German Federal Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a new trial over huge bonuses paid to executives in the takeover of telecoms giant Mannesmann, reversing acquittals by a lower court against six accused including the head of Deutsche Bank, Josef Ackermann.\n\nThe case concerns allegations that the accused received big payments in exchange for giving their approval for the acquisition of Mannesmann by British telephone operator Vodafone in 2000.\n\nA lower court had decided that the payments, although against Mannesmann's interests and therefore inadmissable under German stock law, did not amount to criminal abuse of confidence.\n\nThe case was seen as raising controversial issues of corporate governance and commission payments for performance.\n\nA re-trial is considered by many observers to put the future of Ackermann at the head of Deutsche Bank in question.\n\nAs head of the bank, he counts as the most powerful private banker in Germany, but during the first trial he had to attend court twice a week for six months.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 129, "end_char": 138, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "week", "start_char": 1100, "end_char": 1104, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "six months", "start_char": 1109, "end_char": 1119, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0109.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0046\n\nNARITA, Japan, Dec 16 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes on \"hostile policy\", sanctions ///\n\n\n\n\nUS chief negotiator Christopher Hill said Saturday he will meet with his North Korean counterpart in Beijing ahead of the opening of next week's six-way nuclear disarmament talks.\n\nHill, arriving in Japan for an overnight stop, said he will meet with North Korean envoy Kim Kye-Gwan in Beijing on Sunday.\n\n\"I believe I will be meeting with Kim Kye-Gwan bilaterally tomorrow,\" Hill told reporters at Narita International Airport near Tokyo.\n\n\"I look forward to seeing him tomorrow and exchanging views with him,\" he said.\n\nKim, speaking earlier Saturday, warned he was not optimistic about the six-way talks due to the \"hostile\" US stance.\n\nHill responded that the US was opposed to North Korea's nuclear program, not the regime itself.\n\n\"I have made very clear that the United States has hostile policies to the DPRK's nuclear policy,\" he said, using the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.\n\n\"I'm not going to negotiate with Mr. Kim through the media,\" he added, saying the two would have \"ample opportunity\" to talk in Beijing.\n\nThe negotiations -- which include the two Koreas, China, Japan, Russia, the United States -- are resuming after a 13-month hiatus during which North Korea tested an atom bomb.\n\nThe US has repeatedly met with North Korea on the sidelines of the talks but has refused to hold full-fledged bilateral talks outside the framework of six-way talks.\n\nNorth Korea walked away from the six-way talks in November 2005, demanding that the US lift financial sanctions on a Macau-based bank accused of laundering and counterfeiting money on behalf of the impoverished regime.\n\nThe United Nations Security Council passed a resolution slapping new sanctions on North Korea after its October 9 nuclear test.\n\nAsked if Washington was ready to lift sanctions, Hill said: \"I think Mr. Kim knows well what the status of the UN sanctions are and he knows very well what the resolution is.\"\n\n\"I think he also knows very well that what we are trying to achieve is the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula,\" Hill said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 16 , 2006", "start_char": 38, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next week", "start_char": 255, "end_char": 264, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-W51", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 419, "end_char": 425, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "tomorrow", "start_char": 487, "end_char": 495, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "tomorrow", "start_char": 593, "end_char": 601, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 666, "end_char": 674, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November 2005", "start_char": 1576, "end_char": 1589, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 9", "start_char": 1850, "end_char": 1859, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061216.0046.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0060\n\nKABUL, Nov. 10 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nby Yu Zhixiao, Zhang Haibo\n\n\n\n\nThe Afghan government is taking various tough measures including the sacking of governors, possible ground chemical spraying, to prevent the rocketing poppy cultivation in this country, a senior Afghan officer said Friday.\n\n\"If governors and district chiefs are not able to reduce poppy cultivation, at least they will lose their jobs,\" Said Mohammad Azam, director of Public Relation and Public Information of Afghan Counter Narcotics Ministry, told Xinhua in an exclusive interview.\n\nDistrict and police chiefs of Daryam in the northeastern Badakhshan province had been sacked for incapability in fighting drug, he added.\n\nAzam said an eight-member anti-narcotics committee, grouping district and police chiefs, has been established in 108 districts of 11 provinces where poppy cultivation is rife.\n\nThe committee would supervise poppy crops closely and find ways to reduce it, he added.\n\nIn 2006, poppy cultivation in Afghanistan reached a record 165, 000 hectares, up 59 percent from last year, according to a report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime issued in September.\n\nOpium production reached 6,100 tons, witnessing a 49 percent rise over 2005 and accounting for 92 percent of the world's total supply, the report said.\n\nThe Afghan government has been severely criticized by the international community, especially Western countries for its failure to curb the booming opium industry.\n\nAzam said \"Ground chemical spraying would be the last option if all other options do not work. But no decision of using chemical spraying has been made.\"\n\nIt is the first time that the Afghan government accepted that chemical spraying could be considered to curb poppy cultivation.\n\nBut Azam said aerial spraying is out of the choice, as it would do great harm to water resources, cattle, human being, etc.\n\nThe number of 6,100 tons of opium is \"not acceptable and not tolerable,\" and it \"brings a bad name for the country,\" said Azam, adding Afghanistan is pushing the national anti-drug campaign led by President Hamid Karzai.\n\nHowever, analysts say it is a daunting task to curb opium production in Afghanistan as insecurity, official corruption and poverty there are providing fertile soil for the industry.\n\nMoreover, as Azam said the government would not provide job opportunities, crop seeds, and other compensation for those who are forced or persuaded out of planting poppy, it is extraordinarily difficult for farmers to abandon the industry, which many tightly tie their lives to.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 301, "end_char": 307, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006", "start_char": 980, "end_char": 984, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1074, "end_char": 1083, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 1153, "end_char": 1162, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2005", "start_char": 1236, "end_char": 1240, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061110.0060.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0127\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHong Kong share prices close almost flat -- Nov. 15\n\n\n\n\nHong Kong shares ended almost flat Tuesday with Hang Seng Index falling 2.08 points, or 0.01 percent, to 14,627.41 after trading between 14,518.75 and 14,671. 02 during the session.\n\nTurnover totaled 16.11 billion HK dollars, down from 17.1 billion HK dollars Monday.\n\nProperty shares fell. Sun Hung Kai Properties slipped 0.5 percent to 72.3 HK dollars while Henderson Land Development lost 0. 4 percent to 34.75 HK dollars.\n\nMid-tier developer New World Development fell 0.5 percent to 9.45 HK dollars and Sino Land dropped 2.4 percent to 8.25 HK dollars. The Hang Seng Properties sub-index shed 0.4 percent to 17,265.36.\n\nHSBC Holdings also weighed on the benchmark share index, ending down 0.1 percent at 124.4 HK dollars.\n\nThe declines of HSBC and property stocks offset the slim gains of other index heavyweights.\n\nCheung Kong and Hutchison Whampoa, two blue chips owned by tycoon Li Ka-shing, rebounded slightly from recent falls.\n\nHutchison shares rose 0.3 percent to 73.25 HK dollars, while Cheung Kong edged up 0.1 percent to 78.35 HK dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 157, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "14,518.75", "start_char": 252, "end_char": 261, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 375, "end_char": 381, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0127.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0255\n\nOTTAWA, Nov. 24 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nCanadians one step closer to winter election\n\n\n\n\nCanadians are one step closer to a rare winter election as the opposition Conservatives tabled a motion of non-confidence on Thursday in the parliament, setting the stage for toppling the Liberal minority government led by Prime Minister Paul Martin.\n\nStephen Harper, Leader of the Conservative Party, spoke widely about the sponsorship scandal and corruption of the Liberal governments in his address to the House when introducing the motion.\n\n\"The Liberal culture of entitlement goes on. The public must be given a chance to put it to an end,'' he said.\n\nHarper said the Liberal party has had no moral authority to govern since April when testimony at the inquiry into the sponsorship program alleged kickbacks.\n\nIt would be impossible to bring down the government without the support of the New Democratic Party (NDP) which withdrew its support for the Liberals early this month, he said.\n\nThe NDP chose to back the Conservatives and the Bloc Quebecois following failed talks with the Liberals over health care following the initial investigation report on the sponsorship scandal confirmed former Liberal government was responsible for the scandal.\n\nThe three opposition parties hold the majority of the 308 seats in the House. If the motion passes, Prime Minister Paul Martin is widely expected to ask Governor General Michaelle Jean to dissolve Parliament on Tuesday, leading to an election on Jan. 16 or Jan. 23.\n\nIn response to Harper's motion, Liberal House Leader Tony Valeri cited eight straight balanced federal budgets, the lowest unemployment in 30 years and the lowest interest rates in a generation.\n\n\"The opposition calls it arrogance. Canadians call it achievement,\" Valeri said. \"We will work to make the best country in the world even better.\"\n\nThursday's non-confidence motion is being tabled on the same day as the start of a two-day historic first ministers' meeting including aboriginal groups.\n\nThe Martin government are expected to announce a commitment of 4 billion Canadian dollars (about 3.2 billion US dollars) in Federal cash for aboriginal housing, education and health, at the conclusion of the summit in Kelowna, British Columbia on Friday.\n\nOn Wednesday, Alberta Premier Ralph Klein predicted Canada would be left with another minority Liberal government if the opposition forces an election in the new year.\n\nSpeaking in Halifax on Wednesday as part of a cross-Canada speaking tour, Klein said he saw no many changes in the political landscape after an expected federal election in January.\n\nThe outspoken Conservative premier said it was unlikely the federal Conservatives will gain much ground because they would not be able to win enough support in vote-rich Ontario.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 24 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 238, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 735, "end_char": 740, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this month", "start_char": 976, "end_char": 986, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1470, "end_char": 1477, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 16 or Jan. 23", "start_char": 1505, "end_char": 1523, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24T16:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "30 years", "start_char": 1665, "end_char": 1673, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P30Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 1870, "end_char": 1878, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same day", "start_char": 1922, "end_char": 1934, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2272, "end_char": 2278, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2284, "end_char": 2293, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the new year", "start_char": 2435, "end_char": 2447, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2473, "end_char": 2482, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 2623, "end_char": 2630, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051124.0255.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0342\n\nNEW YORK, April 19 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS, S. Korea still hope for peace talks despite North's no-show (new series) by Carole Landry\n\n\n\n\nThe United States and South Korea failed to get a keenly awaited reply from North Korea on their joint proposal for peace talks, but hopes lingered that a response may still come, possibly on Monday.\n\nThe top US envoy to talks between North and South Korea returned to Washington Saturday after Pyongyang's emissaries twice failed to show up for meetings here -- scheduled Friday and Saturday -- to hear their reply.\n\nBoth times the North Koreans said they were awaiting instructions from Pyongyang.\n\nSaturday US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Charles Kartman left a few aides behind in New York to consult with the North Koreans on the possibility of a meeting on Monday, a US official said.\n\n\"We are working on trying to obtain a response from the North Koreans to our proposal, which we hope will be an acceptance of that proposal and that's what we are working towards,\" said the official, who asked not to be named.\n\nNorth Korea's refusal to deliver its response confounded US and South Korean officials, who optimistically began the discussions Wednesday at North Korea's request.\n\nThe North Koreans called the meeting to give their answer to a year- old offer from the United States and South Korea to hold four-party negotiations on a peace treaty that would replace the armistice that ended the 1950-53 Korean War.\n\nUnder the proposal offered by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-Sam, the two Koreas would be joined by the United States and China as intermediaries at the peace table.\n\nChina, the North's ideological ally and now an economic partner with South Korea, accepted the proposal in November.\n\nAfter predicting \"good results\" from the talks on Wednesday, North Korean Vice Foreign Minister Kim Gye Gwan, who heads Pyongyang's delegation, refused to resume discussions.\n\nNorth Korean spokesman Kim Myong Gil told AFP the delegation was awaiting final instructions from Pyongyang. Asked whether the message could arrive Sunday, he replied: \"I think so.\"\n\nSeoul's envoys, also hopeful that the meeting could be held Monday, decided to remain in New York city, a South Korean diplomat said.\n\nSouth Korean officials did not hide their frustration with the North's unpredictable behavior, but they also appeared to keep a cool-headed approach to the turn of events.\n\n\"If they aren't prepared, we won't push,\" said one South Korean diplomat.\n\nCommunist North Korea and capitalist South Korea have been locked in a tense truce under the 1953 armistice agreement that divided the Korean peninsula.\n\nAt Wednesday's meeting, the delegation from Pyongyang repeatedly raised the food crisis in their country in an apparent bid to gain more pledges of assistance, according to US and South Korean diplomats.\n\nBut US and South Korean officials reiterated that there would be no further pledges of food aid until Pyongyang said yes to peace talks.\n\nThe United States last week announced an additional 15 million dollars in food aid to help North Korea avoid famine after 1995-96 flooding that devastated farmlands.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 19 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 346, "end_char": 352, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 527, "end_char": 533, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 538, "end_char": 546, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 824, "end_char": 830, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1210, "end_char": 1219, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1720, "end_char": 1723, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 1787, "end_char": 1795, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1848, "end_char": 1857, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2217, "end_char": 2223, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2697, "end_char": 2706, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 3055, "end_char": 3064, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970419.0342.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0445\n\nLOS ANGELES, California, April 1 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFood in Heaven's Gate mansion shows followers had a sweet tooth\n\n\n\n\nMembers of the Heaven's Gate cult who committed suicide apparently had a sweet tooth, if the contents of the kitchen of their Rancho Santa Fe mansion is any indication.\n\nSan Diego County officials searching the mansion outside San Diego the bodies of 39 men and women were discovered March 26 found candy, cookies and ice cream -- along with 5,400 dollars in cash.\n\n\"These weren't people who ate rocks,\" said county official Susan Jamme. \"That was what impacted me: the normalcy.\"\n\nTheir refrigerator contained everything from frozen pizza to sodas, authorities said, along with food cult members had purchased in bulk. Stickers on the pantry shelves identified neatly organized boxes and cans of food.\n\nAuthorities found stickers with cult members' initials on clothes, shoes and vitamin containers. The members also kept a detailed schedule showing when sect members had to cut their hair. Male and female cult members all had the same cropped haircut.\n\n\"We considered ourselves as part of an astronaut training program in preparation to be given membership in a completely separate level of existence,\" former sect member Frank Lyford told the San Diego Union Tribune in a telephone interview from Canada.\n\nLyford quit the sect in 1993 after being a member for 18 years. He originally joined the group with friend Erika Ernst, who was among the cult members who committed suicide.\n\nAuthorities said they will eventually auction off the cult household items, including a gold ring found at the mansion.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 1 , 1997", "start_char": 48, "end_char": 62, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 26", "start_char": 422, "end_char": 430, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1993", "start_char": 1372, "end_char": 1376, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1993", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "18 years", "start_char": 1402, "end_char": 1410, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P18Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0445.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0130 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0130. \n Crane Co. Holds 8.9%\n@  Of Milton Roy Corp.,\n@  May Seek Control \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n CR MRC \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n NEW YORK  \n\n   Crane Co. said it holds an 8.9% stake in Milton Roy Corp., an analytical-instruments maker, and may seek control of the company. \n\n   Crane, a maker of engineered products for aerospace, construction, defense and other uses, made the disclosure in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. \n\n   In the filing, Crane said that in the past it considered seeking control of Milton Roy, of St. Petersburg, Fla., through a merger or tender offer and that it expects to continue to evaluate an acquisition from time to time. \nCrane officials did n't return phone calls seeking comment. \n\n   Crane holds 504,200 Milton Roy shares, including 254,200 bought from Sept. 14 to Thursday for $15.50 to $16.75 each. \nIn New York Stock Exchange composite trading Friday, Milton Roy shares leaped $2, to $18.375 each, while Crane sank $1.125, to $21.125 a share. \n\n   John M. McNamara, chief financial officer of Milton Roy, said the company has no comment on Crane's filing. \n\n   Milton Roy recently fended off unsolicited overtures from Thermo Electron Corp., a Waltham, Mass., maker of biomedical products. \nMilton Roy disclosed in May that it was approached for a possible acquisition by Thermo Electron, which agreed to purchase Milton Roy's liquid-chromatography line for $22 million in February. \nThermo Electron acquired some 6% of Milton Roy's common stock before throwing in the towel and reducing its stake in early September. \n\n   Gabelli Group began raising its Milton Roy stake in July, and holds 14.6%, according to a recent SEC filing. \nIt has n't made merger overtures to the board. \n\n   Earlier this month, Milton Roy signed a letter of intent to acquire Automated Custom Systems Inc., Orange, Calif., and its sister operation, Environmental Testing Co., in Aurora, Colo. \n\nThe companies are automotive-emissions-testing concerns. \n\n   Under the terms, Milton Roy will pay an initial $4 million for the operations and additional payments during the next four years based on the earnings performance of the businesses. \n\n   In the nine months, Milton Roy earned $6.6 million, or $1.18 a share, on sales of $94.3 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "10/30/89", "start_char": 110, "end_char": 118, "tid": "t85", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 548, "end_char": 556, "tid": "t84", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "from time to time", "start_char": 719, "end_char": 736, "tid": "t88", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "Sept. 14", "start_char": 873, "end_char": 881, "tid": "t91", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09-14", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 885, "end_char": 893, "tid": "t92", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-26", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 967, "end_char": 973, "tid": "t94", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10-27", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "recently", "start_char": 1195, "end_char": 1203, "tid": "t100", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "May", "start_char": 1338, "end_char": 1341, "tid": "t101", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-05", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1496, "end_char": 1504, "tid": "t104", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990-02", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "early September", "start_char": 1624, "end_char": 1639, "tid": "t105", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "July", "start_char": 1698, "end_char": 1702, "tid": "t108", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-07", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "recent", "start_char": 1736, "end_char": 1742, "tid": "t110", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "Earlier this month", "start_char": 1808, "end_char": 1826, "tid": "t113", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-10", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t85"}, {"text": "the next four years", "start_char": 2166, "end_char": 2185, "tid": "t114", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4Y", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the nine months", "start_char": 2247, "end_char": 2262, "tid": "t115", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P9M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0570.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0055\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 25 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nDollar rises to lower 119 yen level in Tokyo\n\n\n\n\nThe US dollar rose to the lower 119 yen level Friday in Tokyo as the yen faced selling after Japan's tame inflation data dimmed prospects that the Bank of Japan would abandon its ultra-loose monetary policy in the near future.\n\nAt 5 p.m., the dollar was quoted at 119.26-28 yen, up from Thursday's quotes of 118.75-85 yen at 4 p.m. in London and 118.76- 79 yen at 5 p.m. in Tokyo. US financial markets were closed Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday.\n\nThe dollar moved between 118.90 yen and 119.32 yen during the day, trading most frequently at 119.27 yen.\n\nThe euro was quoted at 1.1752-1754 dollars and 140.16-20 yen against 1.1780-1790 dollars and 140.05-10 yen at 4 p.m. Thursday in London and 1.1812-1815 dollars and 140.31-35 yen at 5 p.m. Thursday in Tokyo.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 25 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 156, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the near future", "start_char": 314, "end_char": 329, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 391, "end_char": 399, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 518, "end_char": 526, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 616, "end_char": 623, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "4 p.m.", "start_char": 775, "end_char": 781, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 782, "end_char": 790, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "5 p.m.", "start_char": 846, "end_char": 852, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 853, "end_char": 861, "tid": "t15", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051125.0055.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0212\n\nWASHINGTON, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nU.S. trade deficit down in September\n\n\n\n\nThe U.S. trade deficit declined by 6.8 percent to 64.3 billion U.S. dollars in September, a Commerce Department report said on Thursday.\n\nThe drop of 4.7 billion dollars in September, down from a revised record estimate of 69 billion dollars in August, was the biggest one-month decline since February 2001.\n\nThe report said the sharp drop was due to the fact that oil import prices fell for the first time in five months and U.S. exports edged higher to a new record.\n\nIn September, the goods and services deficit was down 0.7 billion dollars from September 2005. Exports were up 16.8 billion, or 15.8 percent, to a record estimate of 123.2 billion dollars.\n\nMeanwhile, U.S. imports in September were up 16.2 billion dollars, or 9.4 percent, to 187.5 billion dollars.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 179, "end_char": 188, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 227, "end_char": 235, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 273, "end_char": 282, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August", "start_char": 345, "end_char": 351, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 2001", "start_char": 393, "end_char": 406, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2001-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "five months", "start_char": 510, "end_char": 521, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 573, "end_char": 582, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 2005", "start_char": 649, "end_char": 663, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September", "start_char": 787, "end_char": 796, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0212.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0059\n\nTOKYO, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSex assault fuels new controversy over US bases in Japan by Miwa Suzuki\n\n\n\n\nThe Japanese cabinet on Thursday approved measures to force Okinawa landowners to renew US base leases as a new sex attack blamed on a US Navy officer threatened to cause a fresh controversy over the US military presence in Japan.\n\nThe cabinet approved a bill to revise a special law so US military forces can continue using land on the southern island of Okinawa despite the angry refusal of landowners to renew leases.\n\nThe bill was sent to parliament with debate expected to start Friday, parliament officials said. Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto hoped to enact the bill on April 18 before he leaves for the United States on April 24 for key talks, Jiji press said.\n\nHashimoto said he would not ask US President Bill Clinton to reduce the number of troops in Japan at their summit on April 25.\n\n\"It is not a time for discussing a reduction in US troops,\" he told a parliament committee.\n\nOkinawa Governor Masahide Ota issued a statement saying the cabinet decision was \"very regrettable,\" while a landlords' group denounced the government move as \"an outrageous, fascist act.\"\n\nA new controversy over the US military presence was expected after a US Navy petty officer was taken into custody by US military authorities Wednesday accused of sexually assaulting a Japanese woman.\n\nAnti-US sentiment was heightened in Okinawa after the rape of a local schoolgirl by three US servicemen in September 1995.\n\nThe latest assault allegedly took place at a navy enlisted quarters in Yokosuka, near Tokyo. It also came just ahead of a visit to Japan by US Defense Secretary William Cohen.\n\nJapanese police are leading the investigation. After the 1995 rape, an accord on US personnel in Japan was revised to enable Japanese authorities to question accused US military even before they are formally charged.\n\nThe law change would allow the US military to continue running 12 Okinawa facilities on land owned by some 3,000 people who have refused to renew leases which expire on May 14.\n\nThe bill stipulates the government can continue using land for the US military by providing compensation to landlords, even if it fails to gain approval for new leases.\n\nAround 27,000 of the 47,000 US troops in Japan are in Okinawa, which accounts for only 0.6 percent of Japan's land area, but accommodates three-quarters of US military facilities in the country.\n\nThe move to revise the 1952 land expropriation law has been strongly opposed by Okinawans and the Social Democratic Party (SDP) which has generally allied itself to Hashimoto's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in parliament.\n\nBut calls to reduce the number of troops in the island have been rejected by the United States because of tensions on the Korean peninsula.\n\nThe base issue has also shaken the ruling alliance in which the LDP has teamed up with the SDP and centrist New party Sakigake against the main opposition New Frontier Party (NFP).\n\nThe SDP is under growing pressure over the bases. The Sankei Shimbun quoted a senior LDP official as saying the socialists were \"too selfish\" in seeking a continued alliance with the LDP while opposing the law revision.\n\nSDP chairman Takako Doi voiced opposition to the revision bill.\n\n\"The bill is far from a minimum measure ... It would enpower the government to do whatever it wants, and I am opposed to it,\" Jiji quoted Doi as telling reporters.\n\nNFP leader Ichiro Ozawa is reportedly ready to cooperate with Hashimoto.\n\nThe two failed to reach an accord on the law revision at meeting which went into the early hours of Thursday, but Hashimoto told reporters after that the two had \"a common view in many points.\"\n\nAn NFP official said Ozawa was to meet Hashimoto again on Thursday or later.\n\nThe Nihon Keizai Shimbun said Ozawa's contact with Hashimoto had made a future conservative alliance between his party and the LDP look \"more realistic.\"\n\nThe LDP and NFP have a combined 385 votes in the 500-seat lower house.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 152, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 612, "end_char": 618, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 18", "start_char": 707, "end_char": 715, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 24", "start_char": 758, "end_char": 766, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 25", "start_char": 917, "end_char": 925, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1352, "end_char": 1361, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "September 1995", "start_char": 1519, "end_char": 1533, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1770, "end_char": 1774, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 14", "start_char": 2100, "end_char": 2106, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-05-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 3654, "end_char": 3662, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 3807, "end_char": 3815, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0059.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0427\n\nNICOSIA, April 28 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nIraq says deals with foreign oil firms in final stages: report\n\n\n\n\nIraq says it is close to agreement on upstream oil deals and their implementation with several foreign companies, thanks in part to a more favorable international atmosphere, an economic review published here reported Monday.\n\nIraqi Oil Minister Amer Rashid said his country has reached an understanding with interested oil companies on the plan for implementing the contracts, given the international sanctions against Iraq, the Middle East Economic Survey (MEES) reported.\n\nThe United Nations imposed sanctions on Iraq after it invaded Kuwait in 1990. The sanctions are to be lifted after verification that Iraq has destroyed its weapons of mass destruction.\n\nThe international political atmosphere is more positive toward Iraq and continues to change gradually in Baghdad's favor, Rashid told MEES by telephone from Rome.\n\nThe minister was in the Italian capital for talks with the Italian energy group ENI and its subsidiary Agip and said they are close to signing a 23-year agreement on the development of the Nasiriyah oil field in southern Iraq.\n\nThe field has a production capacity of about 300,000 barrels a day, and Agip would invest two billion dollars to develop it.\n\nRashid also held talks with senior political officials in Italy, where the Senate voted last week in favor of a gradual lifting of UN sanctions against Iraq.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 28 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 340, "end_char": 346, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 670, "end_char": 674, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 1390, "end_char": 1399, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970428.0427.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891101-0051 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0051. \n Business Brief -- Murphy Oil Corp.:\n@  Ocean Drilling Unit to Sell\n@  Contract-Drilling Operation \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n ODR MUR \n TENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM)\nEARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   Ocean Drilling amp Exploration Co. will sell its contract-drilling business, and took a $50.9 million loss from discontinued operations in the third quarter because of the planned sale. \n\n   The New Orleans oil and gas exploration and diving operations company added that it does n't expect any further adverse financial impact from the restructuring. \n\n   In the third quarter, the company, which is 61%-owned by Murphy Oil Corp. of Arkansas, had a net loss of $46.9 million, or 91 cents a share, compared with a restated loss of $9 million, or 18 cents a share, a year ago. \nThe latest period had profit from continuing operations of $4 million. \nRevenue gained 13% to $77.3 million from $68.5 million. \n\n   Ocean Drilling said it will offer 15% to 20% of the contract-drilling business through an initial public offering in the near future. \nIt has long been rumored that Ocean Drilling would sell the unit to concentrate on its core oil and gas business. \n\n   Ocean Drilling said it wo n't hold any shares of the new company after the restructuring.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 151, "tid": "t61", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 392, "end_char": 409, "tid": "t62", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t61"}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 613, "end_char": 630, "tid": "t63", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t61"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 817, "end_char": 827, "tid": "t65", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t63"}, {"text": "The latest period", "start_char": 830, "end_char": 847, "tid": "t66", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t61"}, {"text": "the near future", "start_char": 1080, "end_char": 1095, "tid": "t67", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t61"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0313.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0286\n\nNICOSIA, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ninitiative on Ankara-Nicosia ties\n\n\n\n\nCyprus here Monday denied any responsibility for a possible failure to Finland's initiative on Ankara-Nicosia ties in order to avert any possible derailment of Turkey's EU accession course.\n\nCyprus government spokesman Christodoulos Pashiardis told the press that the failure will be an unpleasant development which the Republic of Cyprus would not be responsible for in the least and the responsibility cannot be allocated to all involved to provide a sense of balance.\n\nFinland, which holds the rotating EU presidency, has been working on a draft proposal, providing for opening of Turkish occupied port of Famagusta (Varosha) under the EU administration for 24 months in combination with the opening of Turkish ports to ships carrying the Cypriot flag and the transfer of Famagusta to the UN.\n\nFor the purpose, The EU presidency had prepared the ground for a possible meeting in Helsinki between Cyprus and Turkey before cancelling the consultations on Nov. 2, following Ankara's refusal to meet its EU obligations and Cyprus' position that Turkey must do exactly that before EU accession negotiations are allowed to move further on.\n\nBut Finnish Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja, meanwhile, promised that \"efforts to find a solution that will enable the uninterrupted continuation of Turkey's accession negotiations and improve the situation of both communities in Cyprus will continue. \"\n\nPashiardis said that \"we don't know at the moment of any change of the presidency's original ideas. However, it is aware of our firm position on Varosha, which is a precondition for the successful outcome of the Finnish presidency initiative.\"\n\n\"Our side is demanding something which is logical and rejects the irrational. The Turkish side is demanding irrational things and rejects the logical,\" he added.\n\nCyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkey militarily intervened and occupied the north of Cyprus following a coup by a group of Greek officers.\n\nTurkey, a country aspiring to become an EU member state, does not recognize the Republic of Cyprus and has failed so far to implement the EU-Turkey Customs Union Protocol, which provides for opening of its ports and airports to Cyprus.\n\nThe EU formally launched talks with Turkey over the country's accession last October. The negotiations are expected to last at least a decade and Ankara is required to meet a number of criteria spelled out by the EU before entry.\n\nThe Republic of Cyprus, which entered the EU on behalf of the whole island in May 2004, is able to block Turkey's entry talks with its veto.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 107, "end_char": 113, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "24 months", "start_char": 756, "end_char": 765, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P24M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 2", "start_char": 1051, "end_char": 1057, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1974", "start_char": 1926, "end_char": 1930, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1974", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last October", "start_char": 2355, "end_char": 2367, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "May 2004", "start_char": 2592, "end_char": 2600, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0286.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0115\n\nFRANKFURT, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\nLower Saxony seeks allies in battle with Porsche for VW: report\n\n\n\n\nIn the escalating battle for control of German auto giant Volkswagen, the regional state authorities of Lower Saxony are seeking support from other shareholders versus luxury sports car maker Porsche, the Financial Times reported on Monday.\n\nLower Saxony's regional premier Christian Wulff is to meet leading institutional investors early next year to gauge whether to fight Porsche's increasing influence over VW, the newspaper said, quoting shareholders.\n\nPorsche has recently become VW's largest shareholder and is seeking three or four seats on the car maker's supervisory board, including the chairmanship, instead of two.\n\nThe meetings with investors are likely before a supervisory board meeting in February, the last sitting before board nominations are made at the group's annual meeting in April, FT said.\n\nIf Wulff secures key investor support, the simmering conflict between Lower Saxony, VW's second-biggest shareholder, and Porsche, could escalate further, the newspaper said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 356, "end_char": 362, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early next year", "start_char": 456, "end_char": 471, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 829, "end_char": 837, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April", "start_char": 923, "end_char": 928, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0115.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0268\n\nBANGKOK, Nov. 27 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTax cuts, investment promotion proposed for Thai southern provinces\n\n\n\n\nThe Thai government plans to reduce taxes on both personal income and corporate tax, as well as insurance fee for entrepreneurs in five southern provinces, the state-run news agency Monday announced.\n\nThai Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Pridiyathorn Devakula announced the future preferential policies for southern provinces after a Monday meeting entitled \"A Special Economic Zone in Southern Thailand.\"\n\nThe main purpose of the meeting was to find out measures to materialize the government's plan to set up a special development zone in the country's five southern border provinces: Yala, Narathiwat, Pattani, Songkhla and Satun, the Thai News Agency said.\n\nPridiyathorn said that the government is considering reducing corporate tax from 30 percent to 25 percent. Tax incentives will also be extended to cover personal income. He will hold talks with Deputy Prime Minister and Industry Minister Kosit Panpiemras about the possibility for the Board of Investment under the supervision of the Industry Minister to come with other forms of incentive to promote more investment in the violence-plagued region.\n\nOther incentives may include insurance fee reductions and permission for foreign laborers to work in some areas in the restive provinces.\n\nDetails of the plan will be submitted for Cabinet approval on Dec. 6.\n\nThe interim government expressed hope that the project will serve as a measure to help solve the problem of violence in this border region, the report said.\n\nMore than 1,700 people have been killed since the violence reemerged in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand in January 2004. Since being appointed as Prime Minister after the Sept. 19 coup, Gen. Surayud Chulanont has listed the violence in the south as one of his top priorities. He has been promoting reconciliation and apologized for the previous government's mistreatment to the people in the South.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 27 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 311, "end_char": 317, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 474, "end_char": 480, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 6", "start_char": 1453, "end_char": 1459, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2004", "start_char": 1740, "end_char": 1752, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sept. 19", "start_char": 1804, "end_char": 1812, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-09-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061127.0268.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0055\n\nHONG KONG, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nUS immigration official acquitted of forged passport charge\n\n\n\n\nA former US diplomat was charged Friday with possession of forged instruments after being earlier acquitted of possessing forged passports.\n\nJerry Wolf Stuchiner, 45, a top immigration official at the US consulate in Honduras was immediately rearrested Friday by anti-graft officers after winning an appeal against his conviction and 40-month jail term for possessing forged passports.\n\nHe appeared in court under the new charge but no plea was taken and the case was adjourned until next Tuesday.\n\nStuchiner was remanded under the custody of the anti-graft body, the Independent Commission Against Corruption.\n\nHe was convicted last August of possessing five blank Honduran passports.\n\nIn his appeal, lodged last week, he admitted holding the passports but pleaded not guilty because they were blank.\n\nUnder Hong Kong immigration law, forged passports must carry a photograph for a crime to be committed.\n\nIn 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.\"\n\nStuchiner's application for the court to pay legal costs was rejected.\n\nStuchiner was arrested at Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport on July 15 last year carrying the passports he allegedly planned to sell to allow people from China, Macau and Taiwan to get into the United States.\n\nHe was sentenced to three years and four months in jail on August 16 last year.\n\nStuchiner was head of the US immigration service in Honduras at the time of his arrest. Before that, he held a similar position at the US consulate in Hong Kong between 1989-1994.\n\nLast month another US diplomat was suspended from work over a case of suspected visa fraud.\n\nJames DeBates, 45, acting officer-in-charge of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service in Hong Kong, and his wife, Heddy, a US citizen of Chinese origin, were detained for questioning by Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in mid-March.\n\nDeBates was suspended after being released without charge. He claimed diplomatic immunity and his wife was released on bail.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 154, "end_char": 160, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 374, "end_char": 380, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "next Tuesday", "start_char": 605, "end_char": 617, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last August", "start_char": 750, "end_char": 761, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 830, "end_char": 839, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 15 last year", "start_char": 1320, "end_char": 1337, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25T15:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "August 16 last year", "start_char": 1526, "end_char": 1545, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25T16:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989-1994", "start_char": 1717, "end_char": 1726, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Last month", "start_char": 1729, "end_char": 1739, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0055.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0112\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAfrican leaders\n\n\n\n\nChinese President Hu Jintao held here Saturday a welcoming banquet at the Great Hall of the People for the leaders and representatives of 48 African countries, who are here for the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.\n\nThe Summit, themed on \"friendship, peace, cooperation and development\", is regarded as the largest diplomatic event ever held between China and Africa.\n\nAt the opening ceremony on Saturday morning, Hu announced a package of measures covering assistance, investment, trade and social development for Africa in an effort to forge a new type of strategic partnership and strengthen cooperation in more areas and at a higher level.\n\nTwo documents -- a declaration and an action plan for 2007-2009 -- are expected to be adopted at the summit, due to conclude on Sunday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 114, "end_char": 122, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday morning", "start_char": 495, "end_char": 511, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-28TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday.", "start_char": 872, "end_char": 879, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0112.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0237\n\nRIYADH, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nURGENT  Saudi 'dismayed' by Saddam hanging on Eid\n\n\n\n\nSaudi Arabia said on Saturday that the hanging of Saddam Hussein on the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha festival caused \"surprise and dismay\", the official Saudi Press Agency reported.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 127, "end_char": 135, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0237.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0353\n\nHANOI, Nov. 8 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nHalf of Vietnam's urban population face water shortage\n\n\n\n\nNearly half of Vietnam's urban population currently have no or little access to water supply, according to the Water Resources Management Department under the country's Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.\n\nTotal capacity of water plants in urban areas can supply urban residents with nearly 150 liters per head a day, but they only receive around 50 liters, partly due to scarcity of water input and losses of water supply, the department said Tuesday.\n\nThe fact that waterfalls and river flow distribute unequally in Vietnam, and that two-thirds of the country's water flows in from outside its territory are major causes for droughts.\n\nWater shortage in dry seasons is also a factor. The country has average annual rainfall of 1,690 millimeters, a high level in the world, but only 10-30 percent is in the dry season lasting 7-8 months, the department noted.\n\nWater supply losses of 240 water plants with combined daily design capacity of more than 3.2 million cubic meters stood at 35 percent in late 2004, down from 40 percent in 2002. Over 75 percent of populations of major cities accessed running water at that time.\n\nVietnam has aimed to establish water supply systems in all cities and towns nationwide by 2010. The country has also planned to supply safe water to 85 percent of its rural population by that year.\n\nAs of early this year, Vietnam had a population of some 82.1 million, with 26 percent residing in urban areas.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 8 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 568, "end_char": 575, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "late 2004", "start_char": 1123, "end_char": 1132, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 1158, "end_char": 1162, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2010", "start_char": 1339, "end_char": 1343, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2010", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "that year", "start_char": 1436, "end_char": 1445, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early this year", "start_char": 1454, "end_char": 1469, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0353.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0182\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 16 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nAbbas, Israeli FM hold talks in Tunis\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom met on the sidelines of a world information summit in the Tunisian capital Tunis on Wednesday, local newspaper Ha'aretz reported.\n\nThe newspaper quoted Israeli officials as saying that the two met by accident and held 30-minute-long talks.\n\nAbbas said he was satisfied about a US-brokered agreement reached on Tuesday between the Palestinians and Israel to re-open the Rafah crossing on the Gaza-Egypt border on Nov. 25, according to the report.\n\nThe Palestinian leader also voiced hope that the agreement, lauded by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a \"big step forward\", can lead to renewed peace negotiations, it added.\n\nShalom, on his part, re-asserted Israel's displeasure over the participation of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Jan. 25 Palestinian parliamentary elections.\n\nHamas has vowed to destroy Israel and staged rocket and suicide attacks on Israel in the past.\n\nThe meeting between Abbas and Shalom, who are both in Tunis for a UN-sponsored three-day summit on information, was the highest- level contact between the two sides since a conference between Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in June.\n\nA recent upsurge of violence has prompted Israel to freeze high-level contacts with the Palestinians.\n\nShalom is the first Israeli foreign minister to visit the Arab country of Tunisia.\n\nIsrael has recently exerted more efforts to improve its relations with the Arab world fretted by the decades-long Israeli- Palestinian conflict.\n\nCurrently, only two Arab countries, Egypt and Jordan, have inked peace agreements with the Jewish state.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 16 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 270, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 487, "end_char": 494, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 25", "start_char": 589, "end_char": 596, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004-11-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Jan. 25", "start_char": 936, "end_char": 943, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-01-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past", "start_char": 1067, "end_char": 1075, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1319, "end_char": 1323, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051116.0182.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0117\n\nMEXICO CITY, Nov. 29 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nMexican soccer championship quarterfinal fixtures\n\n\n\n\nFollowing ar ethe fixtures from the Mexican championship Quarterfinal first leg soccer matches on Tuesday:\n\nQuarterfinal Apertura, first leg\n\nWednesday, November 30 (GMT)\n\nPachuca v Necaxa\n\nUAG   v Monterrey\n\nQuarterfinal Apertura, first leg\n\nThursday, December 1 (GMT)\n\nTigres  v America\n\nToluca  v Cruz Azul", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2005", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 213, "end_char": 220, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday, November 30", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 279, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday, December 1", "start_char": 358, "end_char": 378, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051129.0117.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061129.0222\n\nDHAKA, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBangladesh to hold fair elections: president\n\n\n\n\nBangaldeshi President and Chief Advisor Professor Iajuddin Ahmed told a visiting UN special envoy here Wednesday that all steps are taken to hold free, fair, neutral and peaceful parliamentary elections, private news agency UNB reported.\n\nIajuddin urged the UN to send election observers to Bangladesh.\n\nUN Secretary General Kofi Annan's special envoy, Craig Genness, arrived here Wednesday morning carrying his message for the caretaker government and the political leaders of Bangladesh that the world organization is concerned over the political situation stemming from electoral issues here.\n\nHe called on Ahmed in the afternoon in the first instance before talks with the political parties on both sides of the political division concerning the contentious electoral issues.\n\nListing to the measures taken to remove hurdles to the polls, Professor Ahmed told the envoy that the Chief Election Commissioner MA Aziz went on leave, two new Election Commissioners were appointed in view of some political parties' demand for creating congenial atmosphere for the elections while the EC announced the election schedule.\n\nBesides, he said, contract jobs at different levels have been canceled and necessary reshuffles in the administration done for impartial elections.\n\nThe President pointed out that, as a constitutional body, the Election Commission has initiated all steps to hold free and fair elections. He assured the envoy of fair polls going to be held in the country, following such comprehensive groundwork.\n\n\"The party who will secure electoral mandate will form the next government,\" he told the UN emissary.\n\nReiterating country's commitment to the United Nations, the president said Bangladesh has been playing a lead role in various programs of the world body, including the UN peacekeeping mission.\n\nHe thanked the UN secretary general for extending cooperation in advancing democratic process in Bangladesh.\n\nIn response, the special envoy said the UN does not like to see any political violence in Bangladesh and noted that all problems can be resolved through the holding of peaceful elections.\n\n\"The United Nations is concerned at the violence on street,\" Genness was quoted by a President House spokesman as saying during the meeting with the President. He thanked the chief advisor for taking the initiatives for holding free and fair polls.\n\nThe envoy requested the chief advisor to take steps for establishment of peace in the country.\n\nGenness informed the president that he would convey the UN Secretary General's concern about \"political violence\" during his meetings with the leaders of major political parties.\n\nBoth the President and the envoy observed with unanimity of views that all parties should come forward, realizing the reality, for maintaining peace and advancing democracy in the country.\n\nSince the former ruling BNP-led 4-party alliance government led by former prime minister Khaleda Zia ended its tenure on Oct. 27, the former main opposition Awami League (AL)-led 14-party combine had staged three rounds of countrywide blockade demanding reconstitution of Election Commission paving way for fair elections due in January next.\n\nAwami League announced Monday if their demands are not met, they will stage another round of blockade from Sunday.\n\nDuring the blockades, there were dozens of people killed and thousands wounded in clashes between supporters of BNP and AL. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0639\n\nTOKYO, Dec 15 , 2005\n\nJapanese shares open lower\n\n\n\n\nJapanese share prices opened lower Thursday, with the benchmark Nikkei-225 index down 88.31 points, or 0.57 percent, to 15,376.27 in the first minutes of trading.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 15 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 111, "end_char": 119, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0639.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0110\n\nRAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Dec 21 , 2005\n\n= (PICTURES) =\n\n\n\n\nA reshuffled Pakistan team restricted a struggling England to 206-9 in the fifth and final day-night limited overs international at Pindi cricket stadium here on Wednesday.\n\nVikram Solanki top-scored with 49 while Andrew Flintoff (39) and Paul Collingwood (33) were other notable contributors after England won the toss and decided to bat on a slow pitch which assisted spin.\n\nEngland have already lost the five-match series 3-1 and were playing for pride and for an opportunity to improve their international one-day rankings.\n\nMarcus Trescothick, leading England in the absence of the injured Michael Vaughan, continued his run of poor form. He played on to debutant Mohammad Asif in the second over after scoring just one.\n\nAsif, who turned 23 on Tuesday and was one of three changes Pakistan made to rest their players, then accounted for Matthew Prior (nine) in his third over as the batsman flicked straight into the hands of square-leg.\n\nEngland had crawled to 52 by the 18th over as their batsmen found the going tough against some tight Pakistan bowling, especially by the spinners.\n\nOff-spinner Arshad Khan deceived Andrew Strauss in the air and had him stumped by wicket-keeper Kamran Akmal for 26, leaving England struggling on 52-3.\n\nSolanki steadied the faltering innings with a 65-run fourth wicket stand with Flintoff, before he miscued a drive off leg-spinner Shahid Afridi and was caught in the covers. He hit six boundaries during his 86-ball knock.\n\nNaved-ul-Hasan then claimed Flintoff and Ian Blackwell off successive deliveries before Geraint Jones (three) and Collingwood further added to the tourists' misery with sloppy run outs.\n\nFlintoff, who played only as a batsman due to a sore ankle, hit three boundaries and a six in his 73-ball knock.\n\nIn a late-order charge Liam Plunkett hit three boundaries and a six in his 12-ball 24 to take England past 200.\n\nAsif finished with 2-14 off seven overs before being surprisingly replaced by super-sub Danish Kaneria.\n\nPakistan rested their captain Inzamam-ul-Haq after he strained his groin during Pakistan's 13-run win in the fourth match here on Monday.\n\nYounis Khan, who led Pakistan to victory against the West Indies in his only one-day match as captain early this year, took over the captaincy. Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Sami (both rested) made way for Asif and Yasir Hameed.\n\nEngland were forced to omit Kabir Ali, who hurt his back in practice, and batsman Ian Bell. But bowling spearhead Steve Harmison returned after missing Monday's match with sore throat and flu.\n\nOff-spinner Shaun Udal was brought in for batsman Bell.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 21 , 2005", "start_char": 45, "end_char": 58, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 241, "end_char": 250, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 829, "end_char": 836, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-20", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the 18th", "start_char": 1053, "end_char": 1061, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "26", "start_char": 1285, "end_char": 1287, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1926", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12-ball 24", "start_char": 1925, "end_char": 1935, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-21T24:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "200", "start_char": 1957, "end_char": 1960, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "200", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2198, "end_char": 2204, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-19", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early this year", "start_char": 2309, "end_char": 2324, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2586, "end_char": 2592, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051221.0110.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0366\n\nDOHA, Dec 14 , 2006, 2006\n\nAsian Games tennis results\n\n\n\n\nAsian Games tennis results on Thursday (x denotes seeding):\n\nFinals\n\nMen\n\nSingles\n\nDanai Udomchoke (THA x3) bt Lee Hyung Taik (KOR x1) 7-5, 6-3\n\nWomen\n\nDoubles\n\nZheng Jie/Yan Zi (CHN x1) bt Chan Yung Jan/Chuang Chia Jung (TPE x4) 6-1, 7-6 (7/5)", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2006", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 111, "end_char": 119, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-21", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061214.0366.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0476\n\nBEIJING, April 8 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nBeijing to promote less-polluting unleaded fuel\n\n\n\n\nChina's capital city plans to lead the country to use of less- polluting unleaded fuel, the official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday.\n\nBeginning July 1, unleaded petrol will be available at 300 filling stations across the city, the report said.\n\nIt cited Machinery Ministry efforts to develop catalytic converters -- which allow existing vehicles to use unleaded petrol -- but did not specify whether measures would be taken to compel use of the cleaner- burning fuel.\n\nChina's four other main cities, Shanghai, Tianjin, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, will gradually adopt similar measures, Xinhua said.\n\nHeavy air pollution in Beijing caused by use of coal in factories and households has worsened in recent years as the number of vehicles on the road has grown.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 8 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 235, "end_char": 242, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "July 1", "start_char": 255, "end_char": 261, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-07-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "recent years", "start_char": 805, "end_char": 817, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXY", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970408.0476.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0091\n\nHONG KONG, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nUS information services provider sets up office in HK\n\n\n\n\nUS-based premier information aggregating and integrating services company, OneSource Information Services, announced Tuesday the official open of its office in Hong Kong.\n\nAt the launching ceremony, Vice President of Europe and Asia Pacific of OneSource Paul Brown, said that the Hong Kong office was primarily a sales and support operation responsible for growing OneSource's business and servicing clients in the region.\n\nIt also oversaw business activities in the Mainland market and served as a base for expanding the company's business network in this part of the world.\n\n\"The free flow of information in the city is also crucial for business intelligence companies like us. And more importantly, Hong Kong provides a natural base for our entry into the Mainland market with its proximity and enormous experience of doing business with Mainland enterprises,\" said Brown.\n\n\"The opening of OneSource in Hong Kong has once again shown that Hong Kong is the preferred location for world-class business services providers to operate in the region,\" said Director-General of Investment Promotion at Invest Hong Kong Mike Rowse.\n\nOneSource is a subsidiary of the NASDAQ-listed infoUSA. In addition to its headquarters in Massachusetts, US, and the new Hong Kong office, OneSource also has offices in London, Sydney and Singapore.\n\nThe company helps clients to increase productivity and effectiveness by distilling, combining and organizing business information, including industry profiles, executive biographies, business press coverage and financial data.\n\nInvest Hong Kong is the Hong Kong government department charged with encouraging and facilitating inward investment into the city by providing all the support needed to establish a business presence here.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 234, "end_char": 241, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0091.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0313\n\nMOSCOW, Nov. 15 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nRussia-India military ties help maintain global stability, says defense chief\n\n\n\n\nRussia-India military cooperation contributes to maintaining global stability, Russian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday.\n\nRussian-Indian military-technical cooperation \"is one of the key factors in maintaining peace and stability not only in South Asia but also in the world as a whole,\" Ivanov said at the start of a session of the two countries' intergovernmental commission for military-technical cooperation in Moscow.\n\nRussia is No. 1 supplier of arms to India, with about 40 percent of its arms exports going to the South Asian nation. India says its weapons contracts with Russia have totaled 9 billion US dollars in value.\n\nIn a separate meeting with Indian Defense Minister Pranab Mukerji, Ivanov said similar stances on contemporary threats foster the development of military cooperation between the two countries.\n\n\"The important thing is Russian and Indian stances on contemporary threats and challenges are similar. This is the reason behind the joint military maneuvers in October on Indian territory,\" Ivanov said.\n\n\"The issue of terrorism is very acute today, and many states face the threat. Unfortunately, Russia and India are among these states,\" he said.\n\nIvanov said earlier that India has voiced its intention to buy Tunguska rocket systems and Smerch salvo systems and wanted its T- 72 tanks modernized.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 287, "end_char": 294, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 1162, "end_char": 1169, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "today", "start_char": 1244, "end_char": 1249, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051115.0313.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0471\n\nDUBAI, Dec 11 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS background ///\n\n\n\n\nPalestinian prime minister Ismail Haniya said Monday that Iran has pledged about 250 million dollars in aid to his cash-strapped Hamas-led government.\n\n\"My visit to the Islamic republic achieved (a pledge of) aid of nearly a quarter of a billion dollars,\" Haniya told Dubai-based Al-Arabiya satellite television in remarks broadcast Monday.\n\nTehran has allocated 120 million dollars to the Palestinian government for 2007, in addition to committing to pay the salaries of civil servants in three ministries for the coming six months, said Haniya, who has just made a four-day visit to the Islamic republic.\n\nIran has also \"adopted\" 100,000 Palestinian workers, who will receive 100 dollars a month each for the next six months, a total of 60 million dollars.\n\nIran will also disburse 100 dollars a month over the next six months to 3,000 Palestinian fishermen who have been unable to work for a long time, added Haniya, who is now in Sudan.\n\nHamas is seeking to bolster ties with its regional allies as it desperately tries to replenish Palestinian coffers after Western countries froze aid when the party took office after an upset January election win.\n\nHaniya, on his first trip to Iran as prime minister, met on Sunday with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\n\nHis visit came after the collapse of talks between Hamas and the secular Fatah faction of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on forming a government of national unity that would lead to ending the aid blockade.\n\nIran, like Haniya's Islamist Hamas party, refuses to recognize Israel.\n\nIn November, Palestinian foreign minister Mahmud Zahar said during a visit to Tehran that Iran had already donated 120 million dollars to the Palestinians.\n\nHamas is at odds with the Fatah party of moderate Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, who said he plans to call early parliamentary and presidential elections to resolve the crisis.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 11 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 133, "end_char": 139, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 420, "end_char": 426, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 504, "end_char": 508, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the coming six months", "start_char": 598, "end_char": 619, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-11T06:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next six months", "start_char": 794, "end_char": 813, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the next six months", "start_char": 896, "end_char": 915, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P6M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1014, "end_char": 1017, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1303, "end_char": 1309, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November", "start_char": 1642, "end_char": 1650, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061211.0471.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0397\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 6 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nJapan, S. Korea to enhance cooperation on Korean Peninsula nuclear issue\n\n\n\n\nJapanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and visiting South Korean foreign minister Ban Ki Moon agreed on Monday to enhance cooperation in having the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) stop its nuclear plan.\n\nAbe and Ban exchanged ideas over the resumption of six-party talks on Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. The premier said that dialogues under the six-party talks framework and pressure sent through the implementation of the UN Security Council resolution are equally important.\n\nDuring their meeting, the two also touched on the reforms of the United Nations. Ban, who is to assume the post of UN secretary general in January, said that he is willing to discuss issues in the United Nations with the Japanese government.\n\nBan arrived in Japan on Sunday and held talks with his Japanese counterpart Taro Aso later in the day. Their talks also centered around the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue.\n\nThe six-party talks on the Korean Peninsular nuclear issue, which involves the DPRK, China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States, were last held in November, 2005.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 6 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 231, "end_char": 237, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January", "start_char": 760, "end_char": 767, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 888, "end_char": 894, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 958, "end_char": 965, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "November, 2005", "start_char": 1197, "end_char": 1211, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061106.0397.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0473\n\nPRAGUE, April 25 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPope arrives in Prague to uncertain welcome\n\n\n\n\nPope John Paul II arrived in Prague Friday afternoon for a three-day visit to a country which has largely eschewed God for materialism in its post-Communist daily life.\n\nMet at Ruzyne airport by Czech President Vaclav Havel and Havel's former-actress wife, Dagmar, the pontiff said the head of state was \"one of great artists in the renaissance of this country.\"\n\nIt is the pope's third trip to Prague. The first time, in 1990, half-a-million people greeted him for his first visit to an eastern European capital after the 1989 collapse of Communism.\n\nIn 1995, however, he was mostly met with indifference by the country's 10.5 million inhabitants, half of whom are atheist.\n\nApparently remembering that, the pope said Friday that he hoped the spiritual motive of his current visit would \"find an echo in people who, for different reasons, consider themselves distant from the Church and from religion.\"\n\nThe pope will hold a non-denominational service Sunday for non- Catholic Christians.\n\nIn his welcome, Havel raised the modern challenges faced by the Czech Republic since the end of Communism.\n\n\"Today we have the chance to live in a country where, unlike other parts of our continent, evil doesn't take a brutal and tragic form. But there are other menaces, more subtle, and perhaps even more dangerous, facing our civilisation. Together and separately we must confront these, and we haven't yet shown ourselves to be very capable,\" he said.\n\nThe two men also paid hommage to St Adalbert, a bishop of Prague martyred in 997 and the patron saint of Poland. The 1,000-year celebration of the saint is one of the main reasons for the pope's visit.\n\nOn arriving in Prague itself, the pontiff was greeted by the ringing of the city's church bells. After the official welcoming ceremony, he headed to the Breznov monastery where his bullet-proof \"Popemobile\" awaited him. From there he was taken to a religious residence in the city centre where he will stay during his visit.\n\nThe pope's message is expected to focus on denouncing western habits largely adopted here and on downplaying the centuries-old schism between the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox church.\n\nThe Czech Catholic church for its part is facing its own identity crisis as it tries to find its place in a heavily secular society. It is also smarting from a year-old scandal at the Prague school of theology which was accused of employing teachers suspected of having collaborated with the communist era secret police.\n\nPope John Paul is likely to stress the importance of both churches working together and to reject fiery accusations against the Vatican, mainly by the Greek Orthodox Church, of proselytism.\n\nBefore the service late Sunday commemorating St Adalbert, the pope will hold two other ceremonies: a mass Saturday in front of 50,000 young people, and another Sunday which is expected to attract 120,000 faithful.\n\nNationwide, only 50,000 people attend church.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 25 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday afternoon", "start_char": 138, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-18TAF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 524, "end_char": 528, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1989", "start_char": 625, "end_char": 629, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 657, "end_char": 661, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 821, "end_char": 827, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1055, "end_char": 1061, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 1202, "end_char": 1207, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "997", "start_char": 1627, "end_char": 1630, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 2803, "end_char": 2809, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-27", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970425.0473.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891102-0019 \n = 891102 \n 891102-0019. \n Business Brief -- Valley Federal SampL:\n@  California SampL Had Charge,\n@  Loss in the Third Quarter \n 11/02/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n VFED \n EARNINGS (ERN) \n\n   Valley Federal Savings amp Loan Association took an $89.9 million charge as it reported a third-quarter loss of $70.7 million, or $12.09 a share. \n\n   The Van Nuys, Calif., thrift had net income of $132,000, or three cents a share, a year ago. \n\n   The bulk of the pretax charge is a $62 million write-off of capitalized servicing at the mobile home financing subsidiary, which the company said had been a big drain on earnings. \nThe company said the one-time provision would  substantially eliminate all future losses at the unit. \nValley Federal also added $18 million  to realestate loan reserves and eliminated $9.9 million of good will. \n\n   The thrift said that \"after these charges and assuming no dramatic fluctuation in interest rates, the association expects  to achieve near record earnings in 1990.\" \n\n   Valley Federal  is  currently being examined by regulators. \nNew loans continue  to slow; they were $6.6 million in the quarter compared with $361.8 million a year ago. \nThe thrift has assets of $3.2 billion.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/02/89", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 154, "tid": "t26", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "PUBLICATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "third-quarter", "start_char": 300, "end_char": 313, "tid": "t28", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t26"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 442, "end_char": 452, "tid": "t29", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t28"}, {"text": "future", "start_char": 715, "end_char": 721, "tid": "t30", "type": "DATE", "value": "FUTURE_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t26"}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 1015, "end_char": 1019, "tid": "t31", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 1047, "end_char": 1056, "tid": "t2003", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t26"}, {"text": "the quarter", "start_char": 1143, "end_char": 1154, "tid": "t32", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t26"}, {"text": "a year ago", "start_char": 1184, "end_char": 1194, "tid": "t33", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t32"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0171.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0247\n\nBEIJING, April 10 , 1997 (AFP)\n\n500,000 Dutch tulips deck out Beijing park\n\n\n\n\nMore than 500,000 Dutch tulips will deck out a park next to Beijing's Tiananmen Square from April 12, China's official Xinhua news agency reported Thursday.\n\nThe tulips, provided by the Dutch Euro-Asia Flower Group, will be arranged in ten large floral mozaics in Zhongshan park and are aimed at giving Beijingers a taste of the Netherlands in Spring.\n\nThe one-month display will also feature 6,000 blooming peonies, azaleas, and orchids.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 10 , 1997", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 12", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-04-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 249, "end_char": 257, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Spring", "start_char": 446, "end_char": 452, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-SP", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970410.0247.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0074\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 3 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nBusiness deals come ahead of historical China-Africa summit\n\n\n\n\nDuring a whirlwind visit on Friday morning to China's first national corporation on international engineering projects, Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira rapped the gavel on two proposed projects: electric power development and water reservoir construction.\n\n\"Please draft out the cooperation plans immediately. What Guinea-Bissau needs most is development, especially better infrastructure facilities,\" said the 67-year-old at the China Machinery and Equipment Import and Export General Corporation ( CMEC)\n\n\"My biggest wish is to make power supply accessible across the whole country,\" said Vieira who was here to attend the Beijing Summit of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation slated for Nov. 4-5.\n\nHis visit to CMEC, which established its name in Africa after winning a contract to construct four units of 30 MW hydro-power stations there in 1990s, came two days after an economic and technical cooperation agreement was signed in the presence of Chinese President Hu Jintao. Both sides have yet to disclose the details of the agreement.\n\nVieira seems very enthusiastic about bringing in Chinese capital and technology into the west African country. He said priorities for bilateral cooperation could expand to ports, roads, bridges and mineral resources.\n\nInspired by Vieira's enthusiasm, CMEC vice president Zhou Li promised that a special team would fly to Guinea-Bissau to discuss the details.\n\nVieira reminded her that apart from Guinea-Bissau, other west African countries such as Senegal and Guinea also need power- generation facilities badly.\n\nRegarding China as a strategic friend who offers aids without political strings, many African countries impressed with the country's two-digit economic growth are seizing time to explore cooperative opportunities during their stay in Beijing to boost domestic economy.\n\nVieira said after the summit, he would visit Shanghai and Nanjing, both of which are economically advanced in China.\n\nVice Commerce Minister Wei Jianguo said earlier that more than 2,500 business deals would be under discussion at the summit, without revealing specifics.\n\nThe China Southern Airlines announced on Wednesday a new air route linking Beijing with Lagos, the commercial and industrial center of Nigeria in western Africa would be launched soon.\n\nAnother double-track railway, about 1,400-km-long and involving an investment of 8.3 billion U.S. dollars, will be jointly built by the Nigerian government and the China Civil Engineering Construction Cooperation, the Nigerian Railway Corporation has announced.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 3 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday morning", "start_char": 148, "end_char": 162, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-10-27TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 4-5", "start_char": 821, "end_char": 829, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990s", "start_char": 976, "end_char": 981, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "199", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two days", "start_char": 988, "end_char": 996, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2271, "end_char": 2280, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061103.0074.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0440\n\nPARIS, Dec 6 , 2005\n\nURGENT Chirac calls on Blair to make new budget proposals\n\n\n\n\nFrench President Jacques Chirac called on British Prime Minister Tony Blair to \"make new proposals\" for the EU's disputed budget, and said Britain should \"play its full part\" in funding the bloc's enlargement, Chirac's office said Tuesday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 6 , 2005", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 42, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 337, "end_char": 344, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051206.0440.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0127\n\nANKARA, Dec 17 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS Erdogan quotes, FM comments, background ///\n\n\n\n\nTurkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan defended Saturday author Orhan Pamuk's right to free speech, but rejected European Union pressure on Ankara to halt the controversial trial of the internationally renowned novelist.\n\n\"My stance on freedom of thought is clear because I myself have become a victim (of restrictions) in this context,\" Erdogan was quoted as saying by Anatolia news agency in the central city of Konya.\n\nHe said, however, that the EU, which sees Pamuk's trial as a test for Turkey's commitment to democracy and human rights, \"is trying to put our judiciary under pressure,\" Anatolia reported.\n\n\"This is wrong,\" Erdogan said. \"Either right or wrong, the case is now before the justice... Let's see the outcome and then make comments.\"\n\nPamuk, Turkey's best-known writer and winner of many international awards, appeared before court in Istanbul Friday on charges of denigrating Turkish national identity for telling a Swiss magazine that \"one million Armenians and 30,000 Kurds were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares talk about it.\"\n\nThe case was adjourned to February to await a decision by the justice ministry, whose authorization is needed to proceed with the trial.\n\nEuropean Parliament members, who attended the hearing, criticized the government for having squandered the opportunity to demonstrate its respect for freedom of speech by failing to halt the trial.\n\nTurkey began membership talks on October 4, but critics say the country has yet to fully embrace the EU's democarcy norms despite the far-reaching reforms it has already undertaken.\n\nErdogan has defended freedom of speech citing his own conviction for \"inciting religious hatred\" by reciting a poem with Islamic messages during a political rally in 1997, which earned him a four-month stint in prison.\n\nForeign Minister Abdullah Gul called on the EU not to judge Turkey's record by a single case.\n\n\"Let's not be unfair towards Turkey,\" he told the Sabah daily. \"There is no conviction (in the Pamuk case) yet. There is no one in jail in Turkey because of (exercising) freedom of expression.\"\n\nGul pledged more efforts to ensure that the reforms Turkey undertook to boost its EU bid are properly implemented on the ground.\n\n\"It's our duty to strengthen the reform process,\" he said. \"The changes adopted so far are not cosmetic, but there is still more to be done.\"\n\nErdogan said he had also asked the interior minister to investigate the apparent security lapses at Friday's trial, which was marred by nationalist militants heaping abuse on the writer and foreign observers.\n\nSlogans accusing Pamuk of being a \"traitor\" followed him to the courtroom, and along the way a woman hit him on the head with a file. His car was pelted with eggs as he left.\n\nBritish parliamentarian Denis MacShane, a former Europe minister, said he had been punched in the face by a hostile lawyer inside the courthouse.\n\nErdogan denounced the scenes as \"ugliness\" and said the police had committed \"a serious mistake\" by allowing such incidents.\n\nThe Turkish press accused the authorities of damaging Turkey's image by failing both to stop the trial and to ensure security at the hearing.\n\n\"Orhan Pamuk's trial and the scenes at the courthouse leave me with the impression that some people within the state favour such incidents in order to undermine (Turkey's) EU membership bid,\" a Sabah columnist wrote.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 17 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 164, "end_char": 172, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 795, "end_char": 798, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 978, "end_char": 984, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February", "start_char": 1205, "end_char": 1213, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October 4", "start_char": 1549, "end_char": 1558, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-10-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1997", "start_char": 1865, "end_char": 1869, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 2582, "end_char": 2588, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0127.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0353\n\nLONDON, Dec 18 , 2005\n\nEngland cricketer Gough bowled over by TV dance win\n\n\n\n\nPace bowler Darren Gough has got England cricket back to winning ways -- but only by carrying off top prize on a television ballroom dancing talent contest.\n\nGough, 35, who opted out of England's ongoing tour to Pakistan, danced his way to victory in BBC television's \"Strictly Come Dancing\", beating former 110 metres hurdles world record holder Colin Jackson into second place.\n\nThe hugely popular Saturday night variety show -- last year's final pulled in 10.6 million viewers -- has featured former sports stars, television news readers, actresses and celebrity chefs.\n\nTwelve celebrities with limited or no dance experience are taken through their paces by professional dancers before performing in front of a panel of experienced dance judges.\n\nA weekly public phone vote then decides who stays or goes.\n\nGough, wearing a black shirt and trousers with silver sequinned braces rather than his customary cricket whites, said he was delighted with the win, and praised his partner and teacher Lilia Kopylova.\n\n\"I thought I would be saying this 10 weeks ago but it has been an amazing journey for a guy who has never danced,\" he said.\n\n\"She (Lilia) has turned me into some sort of dancer. I cannot believe I had the confidence to do that tonight. I could not have wished for a better partner.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 502, "end_char": 510, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 533, "end_char": 542, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this 10 weeks ago", "start_char": 1144, "end_char": 1161, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-18T10:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051217.0353.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0343\n\nBRUSSELS, Nov. 9 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nEU condemns attack on displaced people in Sri Lanka\n\n\n\n\nThe European Commission on Thursday condemned the attack on a camp for displaced persons in Sri Lanka.\n\n\"We are deeply shocked by the attack yesterday (Wednesday) on displaced civilians taking refuge in a school in eastern Sri Lanka. We strongly condemn attacks which lead to loss of innocent civilian life,\" said European Union (EU) external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and humanitarian aid commissioner Louis Michel in a joint statement.\n\n\"This is totally unacceptable and cannot be justified under any circumstances. We are deeply concerned by latest events and call on the government of Sri Lanka to take immediate and appropriate precautions to protect civilian life and guarantee the security of SLMM (Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission).\"\n\nThe European Commission calls on the government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam (LTTE) to end violations of fundamental principles of humanitarian law and human rights and guarantee conditions in which humanitarian assistance can be delivered, they said.\n\nThey also urged Sri Lankan government and the LTTE to cease hostilities immediately and return to negotiations for a settlement.\n\n\"There is no military solution to the conflict,\" they said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 9 , 2006", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 140, "end_char": 148, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061109.0343.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061220.0085\n\nBANGKOK, Dec 20 , 2006, 2006\n\ngovernor ///\n\n\n\n\nThai share prices rebounded Wednesday after the military-installed government was forced to dump draconian capital controls that sparked a 15-percent collapse on Tuesday, dealers said.\n\nThe rebound helped the region as a whole recover from Tuesday's shock when Thailand, trying to protect export earnings from a rising baht, required 30 percent of most incoming foreign funds to be effectively impounded for a year.\n\nThe move spooked investors fearful that other regional countries with similar concerns over their export-led economies, might adopt similar measures to Thailand, the epicentre of the devastating 1997-98 Asian financial crisis.\n\n\"Foreign investors cheered the government's decision to backtrack on the currency rules,\" said Sukit Udomsirikul, a senior market analyst at Siam City Securities.\n\n\"With the change, foreign investors can continue to invest in the Thai stockmarket. Sentiment is really positive,\" Sukit said, suggesting stocks could recover the 690 points level.\n\nAmid calls for heads to roll over the debacle, the Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) composite index was up 66.03 points or 10.61 percent in the morning session at 688.17. The market lost 15 percent Tuesday, at 23 billion dollars the biggest one day drop by value in the 31-year history of the bourse.\n\nDespite the losses, central bank governor Tarisa Watanagase defended the capital controls Wednesday and rejected calls for her resignation.\n\n\"I don't want to answer this question,\" Tarisa said when asked by reporters about growing calls for her replacement.\n\nShe took the helm of the central bank in October after Pridiyathorn Devakula left the job to join the government as finance minister.\n\nTarisa, the first woman to head the central bank, also reassured investors that the Bank of Thailand had no plans to introduce new currency rules for now.\n\n\"The Bank of Thailand will not issue any new measure for some peroid of time,\" she said.\n\nPridiyathorn, who was forced to backtrack on the capital controls late Tuesday after the stock plunge, said he was pleased with the rebound Wednesday.\n\n\"We may not recover all of the 108 points but I am happy to see a 65-point rebound with some 500 billion baht of market capitalisation being recovered,\" he told reporters.\n\nWhile the local press lambasted the disaster, with some blaming Pridiyathorn for the worst economic woes since the 1997 financial crisis, the finance minister insisted the measures were necessary to prevent the baht's further rise.\n\n\"If the central bank did nothing (on Monday), we could have seen the baht rising to 34 to the dollar and hurt our exporters' competitiveness,\" Pridiyathorn said.\n\nThe Thai baht, which hit a new nine-year high of 35.12 to the dollar on Monday, was at 35.67-70 in late early Wednesday trade.\n\nKrungthep Thurakit, a leading business daily, said someone in the government, which came to power after a coup in September that ousted the business savvy premier Thaksin Shinawatra, should take responsibility.\n\n\"It was the most expensive economic lesson for Thailand since the financial crisis in 1997 and someone must take responsibility for this lesson,\" the financial daily said in an editorial.\n\nEffective Tuesday, the central bank, under the supervision of the finance ministry, had ordered financial institutions to hold 30 percent of foreign inflows, except those related to exports.\n\nIf incoming funds were kept in Thailand for a year, the depositor would get all their money back but if they withdrew earlier, then they would not.\n\nTuesday's record losses in Bangkok were an unwelcome echo of the Asian financial crisis which was sparked when the government was forced to float the baht in July 1997 in a bid to bolster the country's then flagging exports.\n\nThe baht promptly crashed, took the Thai economy with it and sent a tidal wave of debt and default sweeping across the region which cost billions of dollars to put right.\n\nThe impact was so great that it has taken years for many regional stockmarkets to revisit pre-crisis levels. 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{"text": "WSJ891101-0020 \n = 891101 \n 891101-0020. \n Publishing Firm Hires\n@  Financial Adviser\n@  To Weigh Alternatives \n 11/01/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n PSSP \n EARNINGS (ERN)\nTENDER OFFERS, MERGERS, ACQUISITIONS (TNM) \n LOS ANGELES  \n\n   Price Stern Sloan Inc. said it hired an investment banking firm to assist in evaluating restructuring or merger alternatives and reported a net loss of $8.1 million, or $2.14 a share, for the third quarter ended Sept. 30. \n\n   These results compare with net income of $1.8 million, or 44 cents a share, for the corresponding period last year. \nThis quarter's loss includes pretax charges of $4.9 million on the proposed discontinuation of the company's troubled British subsidiary, and $3.7 million of other write-offs the company said were non-recurring and principally related to inventory, publishing advances and pre-publication costs. \nThe publishing concern said it retained the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin amp Jenrette Securities Inc. to act as its financial adviser, assisting in the evaluation of various financial and strategic alternatives, including debt refinancing, raising capital, recapitalization, a merger or sale of the company. \n\n   The company also retained attorney Martin P. Levin, a director of the company and former head of the Times-Mirror Publishing Group, as an adviser. \n\n   Net sales for this year's third quarter were $14 million, down from $21.4 million last year. \nThe company attributed the decrease in part to the exclusion of the company's British sales from the current year's figures as a result of the subsidiary's status as a proposed discontinued operation and, in part, to lower sales in certain key foreign and domestic accounts. \nU.K. sales for last year's quarter were about $3 million.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "11/01/89", "start_char": 113, "end_char": 121, "tid": "t40", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-11-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the third quarter", "start_char": 423, "end_char": 440, "tid": "t41", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t40"}, {"text": "Sept. 30", "start_char": 447, "end_char": 455, "tid": "t42", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-09-30", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t40"}, {"text": "the corresponding period last year", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 576, "tid": "t46", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "This quarter", "start_char": 579, "end_char": 591, "tid": "t47", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}, {"text": "this year's third quarter", "start_char": 1371, "end_char": 1396, "tid": "t49", "type": "DATE", "value": "1989-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t40"}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1439, "end_char": 1448, "tid": "t53", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t40"}, {"text": "last year's quarter", "start_char": 1742, "end_char": 1761, "tid": "t58", "type": "DATE", "value": "1988-Q3", "temporal_function": true, "function_in_document": "NONE", "anchor_time": "t41"}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "wsj_0344.tml", "dataset": "timebank"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0226\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 30 , 2006, 2006\n\nUS embassies advised to review security after Saddam's execution\n\n\n\n\nThe US State Department has advised its embassies to review their security measures in the wake of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's execution, a spokeswoman said Saturday.\n\n\"We did send a cable to all of our diplomatic missions simply asking them to look at their security stance in light of the execution,\" a State Department spokeswoman told AFP on condition of anonymity.\n\nShe said the message did not call for any \"specific steps,\" noting that each embassy has its own set of security procedures.\n\nAsked whether any threat precipitated the release of the message, the spokeswoman said she was not aware of any such danger.\n\nSaddam was hanged for crimes against humanity for the execution of 148 Shiite civilians following an attempt on the then president's life in the town of Dujail, north of Baghdad, in the early 1980s.\n\nDozens of Iraqis were killed and dozens more wounded in a series of bloody car bombings that caused chaos after the government's pre-dawn execution of the ousted dictator on Saturday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 30 , 2006", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 291, "end_char": 299, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the early 1980s", "start_char": 939, "end_char": 954, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "198", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 1131, "end_char": 1139, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061230.0226.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0128\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 11 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\ncultural relics\n\n\n\n\nA senior Chinese official has urged women's federations of different levels to promote the collection of cultural relics involving women and children and the building of the national museum for women and children.\n\nThis was remarked here on Saturday by Gu Xiulian, vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) and chairperson of the All-China Women's Federation, at a national conference on collection of these cultural relics.\n\nThe museum, which serve as an educational base and a platform for international exchanges, is now being built, and meanwhile, people of different circles are working hard to collect relevant cultural relics under the guidance of experts, Gu said.\n\nShan Jixiang, director of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, also spoke at the meeting, calling on cultural heritage departments of all levels to help gather relics for the museum, which will be the first of its kind in the country.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 11 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 318, "end_char": 326, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 638, "end_char": 641, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061111.0128.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0654\n\nLIMA, April 23 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nPeru's Fujimori surveys aftermath, visits wounded of rebel rout by Sibylla Brodzinsky\n\n\n\n\nPeru's president Wednesday surveyed the aftermath of the spectacular raid on the Japanese ambassador's residence, visiting the wounded hostages and inspecting the grisly scene at the mansion.\n\nFujimori was showered with international praise following Tuesday's bold daylight raid to free the 72 hostages from their four-month ordeal.\n\nAnd he was certain to receive more congratulations from Japanese Foreign Minister Yukihiko Ikeda, who was expected in Lima early Thursday accompanied by the relatives of several former hostages.\n\nThe Peruvian leader visited the military hospital to chat with some of the 25 former hostages wounded in the raid, including Foreign Minister Francisco Tudela.\n\nTudela underwent surgery for a bullet wound to the leg he sustained during the 40-minute operation, according to Fujimori. Two soldiers, one hostage and all 14 Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) hostage-takers were killed in the raid.\n\nAs Fujimori surveyed the scene, the remains of the rebels lay in plastic body bags on the lawn of the residence they had seized December 17. Three of the bodies were mutilated beyond recognition, local television reported.\n\nGaping holes in the residence, shattered windows and splintered doors bore mute testimony to Tuesday's attack.\n\nDetails of the operation that emerged Wednesday showed elite troops secretly dug a network of tunnels and used coded messages as well as the element of surprise.\n\nFujimori said it took between 35 and 50 days to build the tunnels under the compound.\n\nHe also confirmed that the hostages had \"a few minutes\" warning of the attack but declined to say how the message had been passed.\n\nA former agent of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation said security forces tipped off the hostages about the imminent raid by speaking to a captive who was retired officer via a concealed two-way radio.\n\n\"We will free you in three minutes,\" was the message sent to the hostage, Bob Taubert told CNN television.\n\nThe raid started just after 3 p.m. (2000 GMT) Tuesday, with heavily armed soldiers simultaneously emerging from the tunnels, through the main door and through a back entrance.\n\nOne group of soldiers blasted a hole in the ceiling, through which the hostages were freed.\n\nAll the hostages were on the second floor of the residence when the attack was launched, while most of the rebels were on the first floor playing indoor soccer.\n\nAn explosion underneath the living room killed five or six of the rebels immediately, while another group ran to the second floor, Fujimori said.\n\nThere, some of the rebels, including leader Nestor Cerpa, fired back at the troops, killing one soldier. Cerpa and his comrades were then gunned down by the soldiers.\n\nThe mediating team that sought to broker a peaceful end to the standoff was given no prior warning, Roman Catholic Archbishop Juan Luis Cipriani told reporters.\n\nCipriani, along with Michel Minnig of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Canadian Ambassador Anthony Vincent and Japanese envoy Terusuke Terada, told reporters they had not expected the assault.\n\nCipriani wept as he read a joint statement in which the mediators said they \"share the pain of those who lost a life from their family and we share the joy\" of those who were reunited.\n\nFriends, relatives and fellow hostages gathered Wednesday to mourn Supreme Court Justice Carlos Guisti, who died of a heart attack after he was shot.\n\nWorld leaders applauded the end to the standoff, which Fujimori said showed Peru would \"never cave in\" to terrorism.\n\nBut the key praise came from Japan -- Peru's biggest single source of foreign aid -- which hailed the operation.\n\nTwenty-four Japanese nationals, including Ambassador Morihisa Aoki, were among the captives.\n\nFujimori was cautious not to appear overly confident. Asked if the raid wiped out the MRTA, he pointed out that rebel leader Hugo Avellaneda Valdez was still at large, presumably in Peru's central jungle.\n\nFujimori's administration was widely criticized for declaring the fight against guerrillas was all but over just months before the siege at the Japanese ambassador's residence.\n\nTupac Amaru guerrillas elsewhere vowed to continue the fight of their comrades.\n\nThe deadly end to the hostage crisis only served to reaffirm the group's \"decision to continue fighting for a society with peace and social justice,\" according to a statement posted in Spanish on the rebel group's website.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 23 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 159, "end_char": 168, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 393, "end_char": 400, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 17", "start_char": 1205, "end_char": 1216, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-12-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 1394, "end_char": 1401, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1451, "end_char": 1460, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "35", "start_char": 1606, "end_char": 1608, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1935", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "50 days", "start_char": 1613, "end_char": 1620, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "P50D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "three minutes", "start_char": 2023, "end_char": 2036, "tid": "t10", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT3M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 2156, "end_char": 2163, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 3460, "end_char": 3469, "tid": "t14", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "months", "start_char": 4208, "end_char": 4214, "tid": "t15", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PXM", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970423.0654.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0094\n\nKHARTOUM, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSPLA rebel faction fights of attack on its stronghold\n\n\n\n\nA breakaway rebel faction inflicted heavy casualties on the Sudan People's Liberation Army which attacked its Wun Roj stronghold in south Sudan's Bahrel Ghazal state last week, it was reported Wednesday.\n\nFaustino Obanj, spokesman of the SPLA rebel Bahrel Ghazal group, said its forces had \"repulsed the attackers, inflicting heavy casualties, in the form of soldiers and weapons,\" the independent Alwan daily newspaper reported.\n\nWun Roj, about 112 kilometers (70 miles) north of Qoqriyal is held by the rebel faction headed by Kerbino Kuanyen.\n\nObanj said the SPLA unit's commanding officer Silva Metok and his second in command James Lual were both injured. He said his men also captured 100 SPLA soldiers as well as 315 automatic rifles and 17 mortars.\n\n\"Most important of all, our forces seized Ajak airport, outside Wun Roj, which was built by foreign organizations and which is equipped with modern communications devices and lighting systems,\" Obanj said.\n\nThe Kerbino faction broke away from the SPLA in April last year, switched allegiances and signed an agreement with the government in Khartoum. It now fights the SPLA for the government in Bahrel Ghazal state.\n\nHe said the rebels were willing to fight for the government against \"agents and mercenaries\" seeking to destroy Sudanese unity, Obanj said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 47, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last week", "start_char": 279, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-W13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 306, "end_char": 315, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April last year", "start_char": 1126, "end_char": 1141, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "1996-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1224, "end_char": 1227, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970402.0094.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0138\n\nNEW DELHI, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nIndia seeks higher coal imports for power generation\n\n\n\n\nIndia is set to significantly increase its coal imports to match its growing domestic requirement for power generation, a top official said here Monday.\n\n\"We started coal imports last year to meet the requirement for power generation. So far this year we have imported around seven million tons of coal, which is set to reach about 14 million tons by March,\" Indo-Asian News Service quoted Power Secretary R.V. Shahi at the ongoing India Economic Summit 2005 as saying.\n\n\"We are preparing to import 20 million tons of high calorific value coal in 2006-07, when we are expecting about 30 million tons shortage,\" Shahi told the annual summit organized jointly by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).\n\nThough one of the world's largest coal producers, India's coal has a high ash content leading to a growing shortfall in production as against the demand, particularly by the power industry.\n\nThe current requirement of coal for power sector is about 365- 370 million tons.\n\nThe import option is being pushed in addition to the captive coal mining to ensure that shortage does not lead to unutilized power generation capacity, which was witnessed last year.\n\n\"This year with 14 million tons of coal imports, as of now we will not be losing generation due to coal shortage,\" the official said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 261, "end_char": 267, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 295, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 358, "end_char": 367, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March", "start_char": 467, "end_char": 472, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006-07", "start_char": 663, "end_char": 670, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last year", "start_char": 1302, "end_char": 1311, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1369, "end_char": 1372, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0138.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0478\n\nMIAMI, Florida, April 11 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nSpanish executive denies \"trading with the enemy\"\n\n\n\n\nA Spanish businessman charged with illegally exporting US food products to Cuba pleaded not guilty at a hearing here Friday.\n\nThe United States has accused Javier Ferreiro -- a resident of Cuba -- of selling US products in Havana via the Dominicna Republic and Panama between March 1994 and January 1996.\n\nFerreiro has said he bought the US goods directly in the Dominican Republic not the United States, which would free him from the charges.\n\nThe charges against Ferreiro, 49, include five counts of money laundering, one count of conspiracy and eight counts of \"trading with the enemy\" under the embargo Washington has had clamped on Cuba since 1963.\n\nAmong the goods Ferreiro allegedly exported were disposible diapers (nappies), mustard and ketchup.\n\nHe was detained April 1 on a visit here to friends and relatives.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 11 , 1997", "start_char": 39, "end_char": 54, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 233, "end_char": 239, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "March 1994", "start_char": 392, "end_char": 402, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1994-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 1996", "start_char": 407, "end_char": 419, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1996-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1963", "start_char": 764, "end_char": 768, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1963", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "April 1", "start_char": 888, "end_char": 895, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970411.0478.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0091\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 28 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nChina's exhibition industry grows about 20 percent yearly: official\n\n\n\n\nThe total turnover of China's exhibition industry has been growing at an annual rate of about 20 percent for years, said Vice Minister of Commerce Jiang Zengwei here on Monday.\n\nJiang made the remark at the second seminar on China's exhibition economy. China has become an important country in Asia in size of exhibition industry, and will gradually become a regional \"exhibition center\" in Asia, said he.\n\nChina now has over 160 large-sized exhibition halls with exhibition area of 2.8 million square meters, according to Jiang.\n\nEvery year, China holds about 3,000 exhibitions of different types at home, and 800 exhibitions overseas, attracting participation of 5 million enterprises and 20 million visitors, he said.\n\nSome nation-level exhibitions, such as the China Export Commodities Fair in Guangzhou, High-technology Trade Fair in Shenzhen and Investment and Trade Fair in Xiamen, have become well-known and influential exhibitions in the world, he said.\n\nAlthough China has made remarkable progress in developing its exhibition economy, some problems still exist in this area, such as nonstandard market order and overheated exhibition hall construction, he said.\n\nChina's exhibition industry output is about 10 billion yuan (1.2 billion US dollars), accounting for 0.07 percent of the gross national product. In developed countries, this ratio is around 0.2 percent, he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 298, "end_char": 304, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 542, "end_char": 545, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Every year", "start_char": 660, "end_char": 670, "tid": "t3", "type": "SET", "value": "P1Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051128.0091.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0420\n\nAMMAN, Nov. 28 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nJordanian king reiterates support for Lebanon\n\n\n\n\nJordanian King Abdullah II reiterated on Tuesday that Jordan will continue its support for Lebanon, the official Petra news agency reported.\n\nDuring a phone talk with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Seniora, the king said that all Lebanese people should unify their efforts and work to preserve unity of Lebanon in critical circumstances in order to face challenges.\n\nSeniora briefed the king on the latest developments in Lebanon and efforts to surmount the current political crisis, while appreciating Jordan's support.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 28 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 146, "end_char": 153, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0420.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0375\n\nCARDIFF, Dec 28 , 2006, 2006\n\nWales' Williams free for Six Nations\n\n\n\n\nWales flanker Martyn Williams will be available for the start of this season's Six Nations Championship after avoiding a lengthy ban following a disciplinary hearing here Thursday.\n\nThe Cardiff back-row was sent-off for butting Neath-Swansea scrum-half Jason Spice during a Celtic League match last Saturday.\n\nBut Welsh Rugby Union disciplinary officials decided Williams's offence only merited a three-week suspension, which means the 64-times capped Wales forward can play again from mid-January.\n\nHe must now miss Cardiff's Celtic League clashes with Llanelli and the Borders, as well as the European Cup match away to English giants Leicester at Welford Road on January 13. But he will be available for the European tie with French side Bourgoin a week later.\n\nWales begin the 2007 Six Nations at home to Ireland on February 4.\n\n\"It was the first time I have been shown the red card in 12 seasons of playing rugby at senior level,\" said Williams.\n\n\"Consequently, I feel it was out of character and obviously I regret the incident. I would like to apologise to all concerned.\n\n\"I was disappointed with my reaction in the match, but I fully accept the findings of the (WRU) disciplinary sub-committee.\"", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 28 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 265, "end_char": 273, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007-01-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "last Saturday", "start_char": 388, "end_char": 401, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 602, "end_char": 605, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 13", "start_char": 760, "end_char": 770, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "February 4", "start_char": 914, "end_char": 924, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-02-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12 seasons", "start_char": 984, "end_char": 994, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061228.0375.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0529\n\nCARACAS, Dec 3 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - RECASTS; UPDATES with exit poll  ///\n\n\n\n\nVenezuela's firebrand anti-US President Hugo Chavez headed to reelection Sunday, according to an exit poll conducted for the government in voting marked by a large turnout.\n\nEvans/McDonough said the leftist leader's advantage over state governor Manuel Rosales was comparable to the institute's previous voter intention surveys that had Chavez leading by up to 19 percentage points.\n\nThe US pollsters conducted the exit poll on behalf of a company owned by the state-run Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) group, which is headed by the country's energy minister.\n\nChavez underlined the high turnout and said he expected \"democratic results.\"\n\nThe controversial president, who has been in office for eight years, has pledged to consolidate his self-styled revolution and launch a new socialist era in the oil-rich but poverty-plagued South American country.\n\nA former paratrooper who once led a failed military coup, Chavez, 52, has survived a two-day ouster, a recall referendum and a massive oil strike aimed at forcing him to step down.\n\nFlush with petrodollars, he has vowed to boost social programs that have kept him popular among the millions of impoverished Venezuelans who played a key role in giving him a landslide electoral victory in 1998 and again in 2000.\n\nHe has cultivated his image as a virulent critic of US President George W. Bush, whom he called the devil incarnate before the UN General Assembly.\n\nAt the same time, Venezuela exports about half its daily oil production of more than three million barrels a day to the United States.\n\nAfter voting on Sunday, Chavez insisted Venezuela wanted the best relations with all countries, \"including the United States,\" and hailed as a good signal a statement by a US State Department official recognizing that the South American country waged its political battles through democratic institutions.\n\nA close ally of Cuban President Fidel Castro, the leftist leader had accused Washington during his campaign of seeking to sew discord in Venezuela, and denounced his electoral rival as a lackey of the \"US empire.\"\n\nRosales, for his part, claimed Chavez planned to turn Venezuela into a communist state and called him \"a puppet seated on Castro's lap.\"\n\nThe opposition candidate, who temporarily stepped down as governor of Zulia state to run in the election, said he stood for \"a new social democracy, with liberty and social justice\" and wanted to distance Venezuela from US foes, including Iran.\n\nSixteen million people were eligible to vote in the presidential election, which capped a busy electoral year in which five leftist presidents were voted into office or won another term in Latin America.\n\nChavez, who had been accused of meddling in some of the Latin American elections, hailed the recent leftist victories, which he said would give impetus to his plan for regional integration he hopes will further lessen US influence in the region.\n\nVoting concluded in some areas shortly after 4:00 pm (2000 GMT) although by law polling stations cannot shut their doors before the last person in line has voted.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 178, "end_char": 184, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight years", "start_char": 800, "end_char": 811, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1998", "start_char": 1347, "end_char": 1351, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1998", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2000", "start_char": 1365, "end_char": 1369, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2000", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1673, "end_char": 1679, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061203.0529.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0312\n\nLONDON, Nov. 2 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nArsenal into knockout stage after win over Sparta Prague\n\n\n\n\nThanks to goals from Thierry Henry and a Robin van Persie brace, Arsenal beat Sparta Prague 3-0 on Wednesday to qualify for the knockout stage of the Champions League.\n\nHenry added to his back catalogue of spectacular goals with a wonderful curling shot to give Arsenal the lead midway through the first half.\n\nBefore Van Persie's late brace Arsenal were thwarted by some excellent goalkeeping from Jaromir Blazek.\n\nIn the final 10 minutes Van Persie made the game safe, scoring with a powerful shot and then a side-footed finish.\n\nUntil Van Persie's goals Blazek's goalkeeping had ensured the Czech side were always in the game.\n\nArsenal's inability to extend their lead gave them some nervous moments as Sparta pressed for an equaliser, notably when Adam Petrous went close with a header just before Arsenal's second goal.\n\nMartin Petras also hit the bar for Sparta soon after they went 2-0 down.\n\nEarly on Arsenal refused to jettison their short-passing game despite a heavy pitch caused by torrential rain in north London.\n\nOne elaborate move involving Henry, Bergkamp and Pires carved apart the Sparta defence, but the Dutch striker's close-range shot hit the bar.\n\nSoon after Blazek denied Bergkamp by coming out quickly and blocking the Dutchman's shot.\n\nBergkamp had a third chance to score in that promising Arsenal opening period but he miscued, scuffing his shot.\n\nOn 23 minutes Henry showed Bergkamp how do to it, showing pinpoint precision to bend a shot past Blazek.\n\nSparta must be sick of the sight of Henry - a fortnight ago the Frenchman scored twice against them to become Arsenal's all-time leading scorer.\n\nSparta's best first-half effort came from Martin Hasek, whose shot almost surprised Manuel Aluminia as it came through a crowded penalty area.\n\nSoon after Hasek's shot Bergkamp slipped the ball to Jose Antonio Reyes, who cut back inside and hit a curling shot that Blazek tipped past the post.\n\nEarly in the second half Blazek again kept Sparta in the game when he moved quickly to save a Henry free-kick.\n\nHenry, who has missed much of the season with a groin injury and had been rested for Saturday's north London derby against Spurs, was taken off on 65 minutes to be replaced by Van Persie.\n\nOn 81 minutes Van Persie worked some space after picking up a pass from Bergkamp before firing a shot into the roof of the net.\n\nWith four minutes left Van Persie claimed a second, steering the ball home after collecting a pass from Emmanuel Eboue.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 215, "end_char": 224, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the final 10 minutes", "start_char": 535, "end_char": 555, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2005-11-02T10:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "23 minutes", "start_char": 1495, "end_char": 1505, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT23M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a fortnight ago", "start_char": 1642, "end_char": 1657, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the second half", "start_char": 2048, "end_char": 2063, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 2236, "end_char": 2244, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "65 minutes", "start_char": 2298, "end_char": 2308, "tid": "t7", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT65M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "81 minutes", "start_char": 2343, "end_char": 2353, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT81M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051102.0312.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0488\n\nWASHINGTON, Dec 14 , 2005\n\n///\n\n\n\n\nThe US military is mounting a 300 million dollar psychological operations campaign to sway international opinion of the US war on terrorism through messages placed in foreign media, officials said Wednesday.\n\nLawrence DiRita, the chief Pentagon spokesman, said the aim was to \"provide factual, truthful information with some degree of transparency, whatever is appropriate.\"\n\nHe would not say specifically whether the psychological warfare experts charged with running the program have been authorized to place messages in foreign media without disclosing the US government as their source.\n\nHowever, USA Today quoted the deputy director of the Joint Psychological Operations Support Element as saying the source of the material would not always be identified.\n\n\"While the product may not carry the label, Made in the USA,' we will respond truthfully if asked\" by journalists, Mark Furlong was quoted as saying.\n\nThe campaign will target television, radio, newspapers, Internet websites with articles, advertisements and public service announcements, he said.\n\nThe latest disclosure comes amid an ongoing investigation of a military \"information operations\" campaign in Iraq that reportedly planted hundreds of favorable paid-for stories in Iraqi news media without disclosing their source.\n\nThe Lincoln Group, a defense contractor that was used to place the stories, is one of three contractors hired by the US Special Operations Command for the broader international campaign.\n\nThe Lincoln Group, Science Applications International Corp. and SyColeman Inc. were each awarded 100 million dollar contracts in June for the campaign.\n\nThe five-year contract was \"for media approach planning, prototype product development, commercial quality product development, product distribution and dissemination, and media effects analysis for the Joint Psychological Operations Support element and other government agencies,\" an announcement at the time said.\n\nDiRita said the US Special Operations Command has been granted authority to wage the campaign but was still planning how to carry it out, he said.\n\n\"We're in an environment where public information is being thrown out there in countries all around the world that say untruthful, inaccurate, harmful things about the United States, about the global war on terror,\" DiRita said.\n\n\"It is important we counter that, and we have to counter it truthfully, to some significant degree to counter it with transparency, and we are looking at all kinds of ways to do that,\" he said.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 14 , 2005", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 255, "end_char": 264, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "June", "start_char": 1667, "end_char": 1671, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-06", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051214.0488.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0562\n\nPHNOM PENH, April 2 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFunerals for grenade attack victims begin in Cambodia (picture)\n\n\n\n\nCambodian dissident Sam Rainsy said at the funerals of five victims of the weekend grenade attack on an anti-government demonstration that he was \"terribly sad\" but would not give up his political crusade.\n\nFunerals for five of the 16 people killed in Sunday's grenade attack outside parliament were held in the Wat Langka temple in Phnom Penh.\n\nThe families of the five men wept and prayed as the victims were cremated in traditional Buddhist ceremonies. \"Give back my husband,\" screamed Bout Varun, widow of Chhet Duong Daravudh, a journalist and member of the opposition Khmer Nation Party (KNP).\n\nSeveral grenades were thrown into a crowd of about 200 demonstrators across from Cambodia's parliament.\n\nSam Rainsy, the president of the KNP who organized the protest against judicial corruption, told mourners he \"was shocked and terribly sad\" but not \"discouraged.\"\n\n\"I swear that we will continue until the final victory,\" he said. \"One day in the not too distant future we will see justice prevail in Cambodia.\n\n\"Many people have died for this cause but many others are prepared to sacrifice their lives until justice is done,\" Sam Rainsy said as the body of Han Mony, the bodyguard who he credits with saving his life was placed on the bier.\n\nSam Rainsy has blamed Second Prime Minister Hun Sen and his formerly communist Cambodian People's Party (CPP) for the attack which also left at least 119 people wounded. The CPP has denied involvement in the attack.\n\nBut Sam Rainsy continued his allegations against the second prime minister who on Wednesday began celebrations for his 47th birthday on Friday.\n\n\"Today we pray for those who lost their lives, we pray also for those who are still alive including the leaders of Cambodia, all the leaders.\n\nHe said of Hun Sen: \"I pray that god forgives him. I pray that god inspires Hun Sen to stop causing violence that mades innocent people suffer.\"\n\nBecause cremating a body takes several hours and Wat Langka has only one crematorium, the ceremony was expected to last throughout Wednesday.\n\nAbout 200 people, including two representatives of King Norodom Sihanouk, several MPs from the royalist FUNCINPEC party and the Buddhist Liberal Democratic Party, the ambassadors of Australia, Canada and Japan and the charge d'affaires of the US embassy attended.\n\nTwo other victims of the attack were cremated on Monday at the temple. The other victims were expected to be cremated in private family ceremonies.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 2 , 1997", "start_char": 35, "end_char": 49, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 377, "end_char": 383, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-30", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 1673, "end_char": 1682, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1727, "end_char": 1733, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-28", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Today", "start_char": 1737, "end_char": 1742, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 2156, "end_char": 2165, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2482, "end_char": 2488, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-03-31", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970401.0562.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0131\n\nBAMAKO, Dec 3 , 2005\n\nATTENTION - ADDS quotes, details ///\n\n\n\n\nAfrican leaders and French President Jacques Chirac opened a two-day summit here on Saturday, aimed at tackling the problems of Africa's youth, but the continent's conflicts and combatting immimgration were also likely to top the agenda.\n\nAll 53 African states are represented at the biennial gathering, a Malian organising committee official said, in a first for the Africa-France summits since they began in 1973.\n\nAs well as Chirac, about 20 heads of state and government, including South Africa's Thabo Mbeki and recently re-elected Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon were present at the opening.\n\nMali President Amadou Toumani Toure opened the summit, which began about an hour behind schedule at the specially-extended congress hall in the Malian capital, Bamako.\n\nHe called for a meeting between European and African nations on how to tackle immigration, highlighting the need to combat trafficking networks.\n\n\"We have to keep young people here at home,\" he said.\n\nHe was to be followed later by 73-year-old Chirac, who on his arrival late Friday called for greater international effort for development. He also said Africa's youth predominantly wanted peace and democracy.\n\nThe theme of the discussions, which include three closed-door sessions over the two days and continue until about midday on Sunday, is 'African youth, its vitality, its creativity, their hopes'.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 3 , 2005", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 170, "end_char": 178, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1973", "start_char": 496, "end_char": 500, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "1973", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Friday", "start_char": 1126, "end_char": 1132, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the two days", "start_char": 1337, "end_char": 1349, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 1385, "end_char": 1391, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-12-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20051203.0131.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0027\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 10 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nConstruction Bank IPO rises to 9.23 bln US dollars\n\n\n\n\nThe China Construction Bank Corporation (CCB) said Thursday its total initial public offering (IPO) increased to an equivalent of 9.23 billion US dollars after its sponsors issued an additional about 3.97 billion shares, the biggest-ever IPO of any bank.\n\nThe bank issued a combined 30.5 billion shares, accounting for 13.5 percent of its enlarged equities, a bank spokesman said.\n\nThe CCB's IPO is also the biggest-ever of any Chinese enterprise and the biggest in global markets in more than five years.\n\nCCB took the lead among China's Big Four state banks to get listed in the Hong Kong stock exchange two weeks ago. It rose 4.3 percent to 2.45 Hong Kong dollars per share at Wednesday's closing.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 10 , 2005", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 163, "end_char": 171, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than five years", "start_char": 596, "end_char": 616, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P5Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "two weeks ago", "start_char": 718, "end_char": 731, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-W43", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 792, "end_char": 801, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-09", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051110.0027.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0457\n\nTOKYO, Nov. 29 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nTokyo stocks open higher\n\n\n\n\nTokyo stocks opened sharply higher almost across the board Wednesday on optimism about the Japanese economy after the government reported surprisingly strong industrial production in October.\n\nIn the first 15 minutes of trading, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 157.11 points, or 0.99 percent, to 16,012.37.\n\nThe broader Tokyo Stock Price Index of all First Section issues on the Tokyo Stock Exchange gained 14.56 points, or 0.94 percent, to 1,569.67. The Second Section also moved higher.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 29 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 143, "end_char": 152, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "October", "start_char": 267, "end_char": 274, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the first 15 minutes", "start_char": 280, "end_char": 300, "tid": "t3", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PT15M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061128.0457.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0112\n\nJINAN, Nov. 2 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nEast China province reinstates bird flu monitoring\n\n\n\n\nShandong Province, east China, has reinstated round-the-clock bird flu monitoring to prevent possible outbreaks as more and more migratory birds fly over the province on their way further south.\n\nLi Zhanpeng, head of the provincial wildlife protection center, said that all 153 monitoring stations in the province were ordered to report on a daily basis.\n\nLocal people were also called on to report deaths of wild birds to the provincial wildlife protection center. Its telephone hot line number is 0531-88557707, Li said.\n\nWild birds migrate through eight routes around the world, three of which traverse China. Migratory birds flying from East Asia to Australia pass Shandong Province.\n\nChina has reported nine outbreaks of bird flu in poultry this year, in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, north China's Shanxi Province and Inner Mongolia, east China's Anhui Province, southwestern Guizhou and Sichuan provinces and the central province of Hunan.\n\nSince 2003 China has reported 21 human infections of bird flu which have caused 14 deaths. Globally, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recorded 256 human infections including 151 deaths as of Oct. 16.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 2 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 43, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-02", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "daily", "start_char": 451, "end_char": 456, "tid": "t1", "type": "SET", "value": "P1D", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "this year", "start_char": 855, "end_char": 864, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2003", "start_char": 1080, "end_char": 1084, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2003", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Oct. 16", "start_char": 1272, "end_char": 1279, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-10-16", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061102.0112.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061219.0124\n\nTOKYO, Dec 19 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS Fukui quotes ///\n\n\n\n\nJapan on Tuesday forecast slightly faster growth in the next fiscal year on the back of stronger domestic demand, as the central bank kept super-low interest rates in place so as not to take any chances.\n\nThe government predicted 2.0 percent growth in the year to March 2008 in real terms, the sixth straight year of expansion and a notch above the revised 1.9 percent estimated for the current year.\n\nIn an outlook approved by the cabinet, the government expected the economy to continue its gradual recovery in the next fiscal year, led by domestic private demand and strong corporate earnings.\n\nThe study also forecast the first growth in a decade in a key measure of inflation -- the GDP deflator -- showing that the Japanese economy is finally winning its long bout with falling prices.\n\nBut the government revised downward its economic growth forecast for the current fiscal year to a real 1.9 percent from its earlier estimate of 2.1 percent as consumer spending has weakened since the summer.\n\n\"Consumer spending is the key to whether the Japanese economy can achieve the forecast next year,\" said Makoto Ishikawa, a senior economist at the Japan Research Institute.\n\nPrivate consumption, which accounts for the biggest chunk of the economy, is forecast to rise an inflation-adjusted 1.6 percent in the next fiscal year, faster than the 0.6 percent in the current year.\n\nThe Bank of Japan's policy board later Tuesday agreed unanimously to keep the benchmark cost of borrowing at 0.25 percent, declining to raise rates for the first time in six months.\n\nBank of Japan governor Toshihiko Fukui, who has repeatedly signalled he wanted to raise rates at some point, acknowledged that consumer prices and private consumption had been weaker than previously thought.\n\n\"We also found it necessary to make a more careful analysis, given the fact that consumer prices and private consumption have been weak,\" Fukui said.\n\n\"But we maintain our analysis that private consumption is basically in a rising trend, given the continued spill-over of brisk corporate activity to the household,\" he said.\n\nIn its last rate hike in July, the Bank of Japan ended its unorthodox five-year policy of holding borrowing costs at zero in a bid to stimulate the economy and end deflation.\n\n\"The BoJ may need to confirm first that consumer spending has accelerated before hiking rates,\" said NLI Research Institute senior economist Taro Saito, who is looking at a rate increase either in January or February.\n\nThe market had widely expected the decision after the mixed economic data, including just 0.1 percent year-on-year growth in core consumer prices.\n\n\"We need to watch closely if there is any slightest risk that Japan might return to deflation in fiscal 2007,\" Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Hiroko Ota told reporters.\n\nOta blamed rainy weather and slow 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0008\n\nTAIYUAN, Nov. 13 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\n1st LD: Fatal coal mine accident reported in north China, 24 dead\n\n\n\n\nTwenty-four people were confirmed dead and 10 others went missing in a deadly coal mine accident early Monday in north China's Shanxi Province.\n\nThirty-four miners were trapped when the accident occurred at 4:00 a.m. at the Nanshan Colliery in Wangyu Village of Lingshi County, said Gong Anku, head of the provincial administration for work safety.\n\nRescuers had found 24 dead bodies by midday and were continuing to search for the other 10, he said.\n\nA spokesman of the Lingshi county government said the accident was caused by improper use of explosives that led to combustion in the pit.\n\nGong said Nanshan Colliery was a village-run coal mine. The safety watchdog is yet to find out if it holds a production permit.\n\nAlso on Monday, the death toll in another deadly accident in this coal-rich province climbed to 35, with 12 more missing in the pit of the Jiaojiazhai Colliery in Xinzhou, where a gas blast trapped 47 on Nov. 5.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 13 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 230, "end_char": 236, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "4:00 a.m.", "start_char": 334, "end_char": 343, "tid": "t2", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-13T04:00", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 856, "end_char": 862, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-13", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 5", "start_char": 1052, "end_char": 1058, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-05", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061113.0008.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061205.0072\n\nHONG KONG, Dec 5 , 2006, 2006\n\nATTENTION - ADDS comments, background ///\n\n\n\n\nThe Hong Kong government was forced to back down Tuesday on the introduction of a sales tax after it failed to win enough public support for a change in the city's famously low tax environment.\n\nFinancial Secretary Henry Tang said the decision was reached after an ongoing public consultation showed that the controversial plan, which has been widely criticised on all sides, lacked public support.\n\n\"It is clear from the views collected that we have not been able to convince the majority to accept GST (Goods and Sales Tax) as the main option to address the (narrow) tax base problem,\" Tang said in a surprise announcement.\n\n\"So we accepted that at this time we do not have the public support nor the conditions for introducing a GST. For the remainder of the consultation (period), we will not be advocating GST as the only option\" on tax changes.\n\nTang did not take questions nor clarify whether the government would re-visit the issue in the future but he called on people to continue to make their views known on other possible ways to widen the tax base.\n\nHong Kong currently levies a 16 percent personal tax rate with companies paying just 17.5 percent, making it one of the lowest tax regimes anywhere -- a point the government itself promotes in its efforts to attract businesses here.\n\nOfficials said a GST was needed to pay for an ageing population and to provide a more stable revenue base for the city, which depends too much on volatile income streams including land sales and investment returns.\n\nHong Kong leader Donald Tsang said he and the Executive Council, or cabinet, completely supported the decision.\n\n\"We believe that the decision (Tang) has made respects fully the wishes of Hong Kong people that we should seriously consider widening our tax base.\"\n\nThe government hoped the GST would bring in some 30 billion dollars (3.8 billion US) a year in extra revenue, claiming that by 2033, more than a quarter of the population would be retired and need more public services.\n\nThe public almost unanimously denounced the plan from the start of the consultation period in July and all the major political parties opposed it too, making it unlikely to have got through the legislature.\n\nActivists accused Tang of robbing the poor to pay the rich while business interests said a sales tax would decimate the booming tourism industry by making shopping in Hong Kong -- one of its biggest draws -- less attractive.\n\nAnalysts said that against this backdrop, Tuesday's move may have been politically motivated, coming just before Sunday's naming of an 800-member election committee to choose Hong Kong's next leader, widely expected to the Tsang.\n\n\"This is obviously linked to (Tsang's) re-election. He knew that it would be bad if he had so many problems to solve before he even started lobbying for support,\" said James Sung, political scientist at City University.\n\n\"He knew the GST would be the biggest problem to tackle and since he knew it would fail sooner or later, he'd rather end it quickly,\" Sung said.\n\nPaul Chan, president of the Hong Kong Institute of Public Accountants which supports a GST, urged the government to continue to seek alternatives to widen the tax base.\n\n\"There's uncertainty here and something needs to be done. 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{"text": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0111\n\nLONDON, Dec 18 , 2006, 2006\n\n=(PICTURE)=\n\n\n\n\nBritish police were expected Monday to stage a reconstruction of the last known movements of a serial killer's victims, as they seek a breakthrough over the murders of five young prostitutes.\n\nDetectives are also offering an amnesty for drug dealers in the quiet English town of Ipswich, in a bid to persuade them to provide information that could help in the unprecedented manhunt.\n\nTheir bodies were all found naked in countryside on the outskirts of Ipswich, 80 miles (130 kilometres) north-east of London, more than 10 days ago, sparking fears that a serial killer is on the loose.\n\nNone showed signs of having been subjected to significant trauma or serious sexual assault, fueling speculation that the killer might have been a drug dealer who doped them.\n\nAll five women were drug users and police have now offered the amnesty to local dealers in the hope that they will come forward with new information, the Times newspaper quoted the officer leading the probe as saying.\n\n\"Dealing class A drugs is a serious offence. However, our priority remains finding the person responsible for these murders ... I'm not interested in any other offences at this time,\" it cited police chief Stewart Gull as saying.\n\nOfficers spoke to members of the public at local rail stations Sunday night where the last known movements of one of the victims, 24-year-old Anneli Alderton, were captured on closed circuit television (CCTV).\n\nThe pictures show Alderton, who was three months pregnant, a week before the discovery of her strangled body on December 10.\n\nHer boyfriend, Sam Jefford, 21, told the Sun newspaper that the murderer \"has taken away the two most precious things in my life.\n\n\"If we were in the same room and I had a gun, I'd shoot him. It's all that he deserves.\"\n\nPolice also seem to compiling a database of local prostitutes' distinguishing features, including tattoos and jewellery, the Guardian reported.\n\nAn inquest into the death of one of the victims, Gemma Adams, 25, has already been opened and those of the four others -- Alderton, Tania Nicol, 19, Paula Clennell, 24, and Annette Nicholls, 29 -- were slated to get under way Monday.\n\nBut these were cancelled at the last minute by Suffolk Police, prompting media speculation that the investigating team needed to carry out more tests.\n\nNearly 10,000 calls from members of the public have been received by the investigating team, who are also trawling through 10,000 hours of CCTV footage in the hope of piecing together the final movements of all the women.\n\nThey have released footage of Nicol, as well as Alderton, and police are confident that they knew what the women were wearing when they disappeared, which would help determine where they were last seen alive.\n\nAlmost 500 officers are working in one of Britain's biggest-ever manhunts, with 350 being drafted in from 31 police forces around the country, including Northern Ireland, to help Suffolk police.\n\nThere have been no arrests and officers say that there are no suspects in the case as yet.\n\nThe case has triggered comparisons with the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, convicted of the deaths of 13 women between 1975 and 1980, and Jack the Ripper, who murdered five east London prostitutes in 1888.\n\nMany people, especially women, in the usually quiet market town of Ipswich are terrified to go out alone at night.\n\nThe streets of the town are virtually deserted after dark, despite the Christmas party season being in full swing elsewhere in Britain.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Dec 18 , 2006", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 97, "end_char": 103, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-25", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than 10 days ago", "start_char": 578, "end_char": 599, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday night", "start_char": 1343, "end_char": 1355, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "a week", "start_char": 1550, "end_char": 1556, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P1W", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "December 10", "start_char": 1603, "end_char": 1614, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-10", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 2209, "end_char": 2215, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last minute", "start_char": 2246, "end_char": 2261, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-17T23:59", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "10,000 hours", "start_char": 2493, "end_char": 2505, "tid": "t8", "type": "DURATION", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1975", "start_char": 3213, "end_char": 3217, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1975", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1980", "start_char": 3222, "end_char": 3226, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "1980", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1888", "start_char": 3294, "end_char": 3298, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "1888", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Christmas party season", "start_char": 3488, "end_char": 3510, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-18", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_20061218.0111.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0174\n\nCHANGSHA, Nov. 7 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\ncentral China\n\n\n\n\nThe schoolteacher in central China's Hunan Province, whose case was diagnosed as pneumonia of unknown cause, is recovering.\n\nMonday's check showed the 36-year-old patient surnamed Song is recovering and he's reported normal body temperature for ten consecutive days, said Ouyang Fan, a doctor at a Xiangtan hospital.\n\nSong still coughs occasionally, but hemoptysis disappeared, the doctor said.\n\nThe CT screening shows the abnormal symptoms at Song's left lung are disappearing, and Song is gaining confidence on his recovery, said Huang Qiusheng, doctor who is in charge of Song's case.\n\nSome doctors in the hospital said Song's case is rather rare and suggests a great possibility of viral pneumonia.\n\nSong came from Wantang Village in Xiangtan County where a bird flu outbreak was reported. Experts presently diagnosed his illness as pneumonia of unknown cause, but do not rule out a possible human case of bird flu.\n\nChinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention is carrying out further tests for the patient.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 7 , 2005", "start_char": 33, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Monday", "start_char": 200, "end_char": 206, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-07", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051107.0174.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0176\n\nBEIJING, Nov. 4 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nperformance\n\n\n\n\nAgainst a backdrop of Beijing's landmark Temple of Heaven, two African singers in traditional costumes hold hands with Chinese artists in scarlet Chinese-style jackets, singing in chorus a decades-old song in commemoration of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong.\n\nAround them, a group of dancers dance to the music, spreading out butterfly-shaped silk fans that line out a scene of festivity.\n\nNearly 400 Chinese and African artists staged the gala themed on \"Ode to Friendship\" Saturday night at the Great Hall of the People in central Beijing, after a day of handshakes, whirlwind meetings and a welcoming banquet given by Chinese President Hu Jintao and his wife Liu Yongqing.\n\nAn audience of at least 2,000 people applauded when a team of young Chinese artists opened the gala at 8:15 p.m. with red lanterns that lit up, one after another, to spell out in English \" Welcome to China\".\n\nAmong the audience were Hu Jintao, Chairman of the Commission of the African Union Alpha Oumar Konare, and more than 40 African leaders who are in Beijing for the two-day Beijing Summit, the biggest between Chinese and African leaders in history.\n\n\"I know Africa and China have been helping each other like close friends since the time Mao founded New China,\" Augustine Dondo, a 33-year-old singer from the Democratic Republic of Congo, told Xinhua through an interpreter.\n\nFrom the traditional Peking Opera, upbeat tropical dance and drum to acrobatics, African and Chinese artists take turns demonstrating their exquisite skills and profound culture.\n\n\"It's a dialogue between the two ancient civilizations, as well as an exhibition of China-Africa cultural exchanges,\" said Tang Wenjuan, director of the gala.\n\nNine-year-old Sudanese boy Ahmad, the youngest performer at the gala, came to China in 2004 to study acrobatics in Puyang, a cradle of the traditional Chinese art in central Henan Province. \" My folks love acrobatics. I'll show them more about Chinese culture when I grow up,\" he said in fluent Chinese.\n\nYeneneh Tesfaye from Ethiopia said he plans to go home soon to perform in his country what he had learned in China.\n\n\"I'll probably become a superstar when I get back. Few people in Ethiopia can practice rolling bowls and foot juggling the way I do,\" said Helen Yohannes, 18. \"But I'll miss my coaches, classmates and the delicious Chinese dishes.\"\n\nThe Wuqiao International Acrobatics School in north China's Hebei Province, where Tesfaye and Yohannes studied in the past two years, currently has 22 African students aged between 12 and 22.\n\nFounded in 1985, the school has trained nearly 100 acrobats for African countries including Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana since it was authorized by the Chinese government to recruit international students in 2002, said Qi Zhiye, president of the school. \"Ninety percent of them have taken jobs as professional acrobats or coaches in their home countries.\"\n\nPersonnel training has been an important part of China-Africa cooperation in the past decades.\n\nBy the end of 2005, China had offered more than 18,000 governmental scholarships to African students.\n\n\"Let's build up a golden bridge of friendship, peace, cooperation and development,\" prayed Guillaume Moumouni, the proud moderator from Benin, at the end of the gala.\n\nMoumouni, 38, first came to China in 1990 and is pursuing a PhD in international relations at the Beijing University.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 4 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday night", "start_char": 546, "end_char": 560, "tid": "t1", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-10-28TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2004", "start_char": 1858, "end_char": 1862, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2004", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past two years", "start_char": 2540, "end_char": 2558, "tid": "t5", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "currently", "start_char": 2560, "end_char": 2569, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "12", "start_char": 2607, "end_char": 2609, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2012", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "22", "start_char": 2614, "end_char": 2616, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1922", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1985", "start_char": 2630, "end_char": 2634, "tid": "t9", "type": "DATE", "value": "1985", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2002", "start_char": 2834, "end_char": 2838, "tid": "t10", "type": "DATE", "value": "2002", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past decades", "start_char": 3060, "end_char": 3076, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-04", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the end of 2005", "start_char": 3082, "end_char": 3097, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1990", "start_char": 3387, "end_char": 3391, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "1990", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061104.0176.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0181\n\nKABUL, Nov. 14 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nAfghan army kills 1 insurgent, captures 6\n\n\n\n\nTroops of Afghanistan National Army (ANA) killed one suspected militant and arrested six others in the restive southern region, a press release of the Afghan Defense Ministry said Tuesday.\n\n\"Personnel of ANA killed one rebel in Sangin district of Helmand province on Sunday and arrested four others while two more rebels were captured in Trinkot, the provincial capital of Uruzgan on the same day,\" the press release added.\n\nHowever, it declined to say if there were any casualties on ANA 's side.\n\nInsurgency and continued violence in Afghanistan have claimed the lives of 3,700 people including civilians since January 2006.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 14 , 2006", "start_char": 30, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 281, "end_char": 288, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Sunday", "start_char": 368, "end_char": 374, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-12", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the same day", "start_char": 485, "end_char": 497, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-14", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "January 2006", "start_char": 714, "end_char": 726, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061114.0181.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0660\n\nLIMA, April 22 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nFujimori celebrates victory at Japanese embassy residence\n\n\n\n\nPresident Alberto Fujimori took a victory lap of the grounds of the Japanese embassy residence Tuesday, embracing security forces after they ended a protracted hostage standoff.\n\nUnder an hour after about 100 camouflage-clad troops stormed the building where Marxist rebels holed up for more than four months with 72 prominent hostages, Fujimori, wearing a bullet-proof vest and white shirtsleeves, was in a distinctly celebratory mood.\n\nAfter the gunshots, explosions and fire, military marches were blaring, special forces cheered and shouted \"We have won!\" and \"Long Live Peru\" as Fujimori pressed military flesh and enjoyed a round of hugs, before entering the residence.\n\nHis own brother Pedro Fujimori was among the hostages, who were thought to have been freed safely. Peruvian media said all hostages were freed safely but that report had yet to be confirmed.\n\nThe number of rebel casualties was not immediately known and several troops were injured and taken to hospital.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 22 , 1997", "start_char": 29, "end_char": 44, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Tuesday", "start_char": 209, "end_char": 216, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-22", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "more than four months", "start_char": 401, "end_char": 422, "tid": "t2", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P4M", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970422.0660.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "WSJ891030-0089 \n = 891030 \n 891030-0089. \n Kellogg Pours Water on Plans to Build Big Cereal Plant\n@  ----\n@  By Richard Gibson\n@  Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal \n 10/30/89 \n WALL STREET JOURNAL (J) \n K \n FOOD PRODUCTS (FOD) \n\n   This has n't been Kellogg Co.'s year. \nThe oat-bran craze has cost the world's largest cereal maker market share. \nThe company's president quit suddenly. \nAnd now Kellogg is indefinitely suspending work on what was to be a $1 billion cereal plant. \n\n   The company said it was delaying construction because of current market conditions. \nBut the Memphis, Tenn., facility wasn't to begin turning out product until 1993, so the decision may reveal a more pessimistic long-term outlook as well. \n\n   Kellogg, which has n't been as successful in capitalizing on the public's health-oriented desire for oat bran as rival General Mills Inc., has been losing share in the $6 billion ready-to-eat cereal market. \nKellogg's current share is believed to be slightly under 40% while General Mills' share is about 27%. \n\n   Led by its oat-based Cheerios line, General Mills has gained an estimated 2% share so far this year, mostly at the expense of Kellogg. \nEach share point is worth about $60 million in sales. \n\n   Analysts say much of Kellogg's erosion has been in such core brands as Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies and Frosted Flakes, which represent nearly one-third of its sales volume. \nKellogg is so anxious to turn around Corn Flakes sales that it soon will begin selling boxes for as little as 99 cents, trade sources say. \n\n   \"Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios have eaten away sales normally going to Kellogg's corn-based lines simply because they are made of oats,\" says Merrill Lynch food analyst William Maguire. \n\"They are not  a happy group of people at Battle Creek right now.\" \nKellogg is based in Battle Creek, Mich., a city that calls itself the breakfast capital of the world. \n\n   Another analyst, John C. Maxwell Jr. of Wheat, First Securities in Richmond, Va., recently went to a \"sell\" recommendation on Kellogg stock, which closed Friday at $71.75, down 75 cents, in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. \n\"I do n't think Kellogg can get back to 40% this year,\" he said. \n\"Kellogg's main problem is life style. \nPeople are reading the boxes and deciding they want something that's `healthy' for you -- oats, bran.\" \nMr. Maxwell said he would n't be surprised if, over the next two years or so, General Mills' share increased to 30% or more. \n\n   In announcing the plant delay, Kellogg Chairman William E. LaMothe said, \"Cereal volume growth in the U.S. has not met our expectations for 1989.\" \nHe said construction would n't resume until market conditions warrant it. \n\n   Kellogg indicated that it has room to grow without adding facilities. \nThe company has five other U.S. plants, including a modern facility at its Battle Creek headquarters known as Building 100, which is to add bran-processing and rice-processing capacity next year. \n\n   General Mills, meanwhile , finds itself constrained from boosting sales further because its plants are operating at capacity. \nA large plant in Covington, Ga., is to come on line next year. \n\n   A Kellogg officer, who asked not to be named, said the Memphis project was \" pulled in for a reconsideration of costs,\" an indication that the ambitious plans might be scaled back in any future construction. \nInitial cost estimates for the plant, which was to have been built in phases, ranged from $1 billion to $1.2 billion. \n\n   A company spokesman said it was \"possible, but highly unlikely,\" that the plant might never be built. \n\"As we regain our leadership level where we have been, and as we continue to put new products into the marketplace and need additional capacity, we will look at resuming our involvement with our plan,\" he said. \n\n   The new facility was to have been the world's most advanced cereal manufacturing plant, and Kellogg's largest construction project. \nThe company had retained the Fluor Daniel unit of Fluor Corp. as general contractor. \n\n   But in recent weeks, construction-industry sources reported that early preparation work was slowing at the 185-acre site. \nSubcontractors said they were told that equipment orders would be delayed. \nFluor Daniel already has reassigned most of its work crew, the sources said. \n\n   Last Friday's announcement was the first official word that the project was in trouble and that the company's plans for a surge in market share may have been overly 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{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0125\n\nJERUSALEM, Nov. 15 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nattack\n\n\n\n\nIsraeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz Wednesday vowed to revenge an earlier Palestinian militants ' rocket attack that killed a woman in southern Israel, saying the militants behind the attack would \"pay a heavy price\".\n\nPeretz made the warning in a statement, reported the Qatari al- Jazeera TV channel.\n\n\"These organizations will pay a heavy price,\" the statement said, adding \"we will move against those who are involved in the firing of rockets, starting from their leaders and down to the last of their terrorists.\"\n\nIt was reported that Peretz has planned to convene a special meeting of senior security officials later in the day.\n\nAn Israeli woman was killed and another man seriously wounded on Wednesday morning as six Qassam rockets, launched from the Gaza Strip, fell in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, local media reported.\n\nOne of the rockets landed in a residential area of Sderot, a city adjacent to northern Gaza Strip, killing a 57-year-old woman and critically wounding a 24-year-old man, while several other residents of Sderot were treated for shock, added the reports.\n\nSeveral Palestinian militant groups, including armed wings of the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) and the ruling Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have claimed their responsibilities for launching the homemade rockets from northern Gaza Strip at Sderot.\n\nIn early November, Israel unleashed a major military offensive into northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, saying the border town was the launching site of numerous rocket attacks against Israel,\n\nInstead of halting rocket firing by Palestinian militants, Israeli artillery shells killed some 19 civilians in Beit Hanoun on Nov. 8, which is the deadliest single attack on Palestinian civilians in the past several years.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 15 , 2006", "start_char": 34, "end_char": 48, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday", "start_char": 107, "end_char": 116, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the day", "start_char": 698, "end_char": 705, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-15", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday morning", "start_char": 773, "end_char": 790, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08TMO", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "early November", "start_char": 1420, "end_char": 1434, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 8", "start_char": 1743, "end_char": 1749, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-08", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the past several years", "start_char": 1816, "end_char": 1838, "tid": "t6", "type": "DURATION", "value": "PAST_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061115.0125.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0119\n\nKUWAIT CITY, Nov. 26 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\nKuwait, ROK determined to improve economic relations\n\n\n\n\nVisiting Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Lee Hae-chan said on Saturday that the ROK and Kuwait are determined to improve their economic ties.\n\nHighly praising the economic relations between the two countries, Lee was quoted by the official Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) as saying that to enhance the economic ties with the oil-rich Kuwait was high on his agenda.\n\nLee also said he had discussed development of economic relations with his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Salem Al-Sabah and other top Kuwaiti officials during his visit.\n\n\"Ever since the Kuwait-ROK diplomatic relations were started in 1979, they have steadily improved specifically during the last two years, which witnessed a 30 percent improvement in business and trade,\" Lee said.\n\nHe added that two-way trade volume had reached 410 million US dollars per year, consisting mainly of the ROK's exports to Kuwait and oil exports from Kuwait to the ROK.\n\nTalks between the two sides also focused on boosting bilateral relations as well as the latest regional and international developments, according to KUNA.\n\nIn addition, Kuwaiti Finance Minister Bader Al-Humaidhi called on the ROK investors to \"discover the attractive investment opportunities in Kuwait.\"\n\nHe also recalled significant rise of Kuwaiti investments in the ROK, now standing at around 800 million dollars.\n\nEarlier in the day, senior officials of Kuwait and the ROK signed an oil agreement and a final agreement on economic and technical cooperation.\n\nLee, who is currently on a three-day visit to Kuwait, was accompanied by a delegation representing some 40 key ROK companies.\n\nThe Korean premier is on a 12-day tour to five countries in the Gulf area, which has already brought him to the United Arab Emirates and will also bring him on to Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 26 , 2005", "start_char": 36, "end_char": 50, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Saturday", "start_char": 194, "end_char": 202, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1979", "start_char": 742, "end_char": 746, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "1979", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "the last two years", "start_char": 796, "end_char": 814, "tid": "t4", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P2Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "now", "start_char": 1437, "end_char": 1440, "tid": "t5", "type": "DATE", "value": "PRESENT_REF", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051126.0119.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0170\n\nJAKARTA, Nov. 23 , 2006 (Xinhua)\n\nIndonesia, Russia to sign military cooperation accord\n\n\n\n\nIndonesia and Russia will sign an agreement on military cooperation during Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to Russia on Nov. 29, a spokesman said here Thursday.\n\n\"The memorandum of understanding to be signed will cover military cooperation for 2006-2010 and the war on terrorism,\" presidential spokesman Dino Patti Djalal told the press when announcing the president's planned four-day visit to Russia.\n\nDino said, on his way to Russia, the president will visit Tokyo on Nov. 26 at the invitation of Japanese Emperor Akihito. The visit to Japan is primarily aimed at stepping up bilateral economic cooperation, including efforts to increase economic cooperation, cooperation to fight bird flu and a discussion on development of the United Nations Security Council.\n\nIn Tokyo, Susilo is expected to meet new Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Yudhoyono will be the first head of state to be received by Abe since he assumed the Japanese premiership.\n\nDuring staying in Moscow, Susilo will hold a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Dec. 1, 2006.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 23 , 2006", "start_char": 32, "end_char": 46, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 29", "start_char": 257, "end_char": 264, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-29", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 288, "end_char": 296, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-23", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2006-2010", "start_char": 381, "end_char": 390, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Nov. 26", "start_char": 608, "end_char": 615, "tid": "t6", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-11-26", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Dec. 1, 2006", "start_char": 1182, "end_char": 1194, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "2006-12-01", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20061123.0170.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0478\n\nGENEVA, April 3 , 1997 (AFP)\n\nHuman rights commission condemns capital punishment\n\n\n\n\nThe UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva Thursday voted a resolution condemning capital punishment despite opposition from a number of countries, including China, Japan and the United States.\n\nThe resolution, passed by 27 votes to 11, also called on countries still practising state-sponsored execution to spare adolescents less than 18 years old and pregnant women.\n\nThe countries voting against the text were: Algeria, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Korea and the United States.\n\nThe cautiously-worded text, which asked \"all states who still have not abolished the pain of death to limit progressively the number of infractions,\" also produced 14 abstentions. One country was absent.\n\nCountries still using capital punishment were urged \"to contemplate suspending executions with a view to abolishing completely the pain of death,\" limit its application to only the most serious crimes, to exclude people younger than 18 and pregnant women, and to guarantee the right for those condemned to ask for a pardon or to commute the sentence.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "April 3 , 1997", "start_char": 31, "end_char": 45, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 150, "end_char": 158, "tid": "t1", "type": "DATE", "value": "1997-04-03", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "AFP_ENG_19970403.0478.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}
{"text": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0140\n\nJOHANNESBURG, Nov. 17 , 2005 (Xinhua)\n\napproaches\n\n\n\n\nWith just hours left for the International Rugby Board (IRB) to vote for the host of the 2011 Rugby World Cup, South Africans hold their breath in anticipation of winning the second chance to stage the world rugby showpiece.\n\nThe decision by the IRB at its Dublin headquarters in Ireland has been described as a choice between traditional strongholds, South Africa and New Zealand and Japan.\n\nBut in Dublin the word was that it would quickly become a two-way fight because most observers late Wednesday night were predicting that New Zealand would be eliminated in the first round of voting, a South African newspaper said on Thursday.\n\nThis would leave South Africa and Japan to battle for the privilege of staging the sport's seventh world championship.\n\nLocal newspaper The Star said on Thursday that Japan was seen as \"the national likeliest to take the event from us.\"\n\nIf the IRB is determined to get the sport into the Olympic Games, probably at the London Olympics of 2012, pressure could be applied on delegates to back Japan's bid, it said.\n\n\"Reported recent comments by former Olympic supremo Juan Antonio Samaranch that rugby had no chance of gaining entry because it was not a truly global sport would be answered if the decision were made to take the 2011 Rugby World Cup to Japan,\" it said.\n\nKoji Tokomasu, chief executive of the Japanese Rugby Union, has reportedly lobbied that the potential for opening up a vast new market in Asia for the sport was enormous, should his bid prevail.\n\nAsia has 60 percent of the world's population and its economic growth has been phenomenal.\n\nJapan has only 126,000 registered rugby players but its population of 127 million, vast economy and ability to bring rugby to a new Asian audience make it a strong contender, The Star said.\n\nSouth Africa's bid is led by Francois Pienaar, who captained the national squad, the Springboks, to victory in 1995.\n\nHe argued that the event in South Africa should also help spread the sport throughout Africa.\n\nNew Zealand hosted - and won - the first World Cup in 1987, with the event taking place in South Africa eight years later, when the Springboks were victorious.\n\nAustralia hosted the 2003 World Cup, won by England. The quatrennially event will next be held in France in 2007.\n\nMembers of the IRB Council will meet in Dublin on Thursday to hear final presentations of the three bidding countries and cast their vote. The host country is expected to be announced at around 16:00 GMT on Thursday.", "time_expressions": [{"text": "Nov. 17 , 2005", "start_char": 37, "end_char": 51, "tid": "t0", "type": "TIME", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": "CREATION_TIME", "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Wednesday night", "start_char": 570, "end_char": 585, "tid": "t2", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-16TNI", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 703, "end_char": 711, "tid": "t3", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 867, "end_char": 875, "tid": "t4", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1995", "start_char": 1974, "end_char": 1978, "tid": "t7", "type": "DATE", "value": "1995", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "1987", "start_char": 2130, "end_char": 2134, "tid": "t8", "type": "DATE", "value": "1987", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "eight years", "start_char": 2180, "end_char": 2191, "tid": "t9", "type": "DURATION", "value": "P8Y", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "2007", "start_char": 2345, "end_char": 2349, "tid": "t11", "type": "DATE", "value": "2007", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2402, "end_char": 2410, "tid": "t12", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-24", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}, {"text": "Thursday", "start_char": 2559, "end_char": 2567, "tid": "t13", "type": "DATE", "value": "2005-11-17", "temporal_function": false, "function_in_document": null, "anchor_time": null}], "event_expressions": null, "signal_expressions": null, "tlinks": null, "doc_id": "XIN_ENG_20051117.0140.tml", "dataset": "tempeval_3_silver"}