text stringlengths 1 490 | entities listlengths 0 20 |
|---|---|
AS-SAFIR | [
{
"content": "AS-SAFIR",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
- Parliament Speaker Berri: The occupied south should not be used as a winning card in elections. | [
{
"content": "Berri",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 21
}
] |
- Prices of alimentary goods up 13.4 percent in 1996. | [] |
AL-ANWAR | [
{
"content": "AL-ANWAR",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
- Christian Maronite Patriarch Sfeir: We fear a movement from democracy to dictatorship. | [
{
"content": "Christian Maronite",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 2
},
{
"content": "Sfeir",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 31
}
] |
AD-DIYAR | [
{
"content": "AD-DIYAR",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
- A cabinet minister: " Lebanon First " aims at splitting the Syrian-Lebanese peace tracks with Israel. | [
{
"content": "Lebanon First",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 24
},
{
"content": "Syrian-Lebanese",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 62
},
{
"content": "Israel",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 96
}
] |
NIDA'A AL-WATAN | [
{
"content": "NIDA'A AL-WATAN",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
- Prime Minister Hariri: Elections are the beginning of a long political life which we begin with an incomplete ticket of 17 candidates. | [
{
"content": "Hariri",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 17
}
] |
- The Lebanese Association for the Democracy of Elections cited 51 incidents of violation in the north Lebanon round. | [
{
"content": "Lebanese Association for the Democracy of Elections",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 6
},
{
"content": "Lebanon",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 103
}
] |
PRESS DIGEST - Malta - Aug 26. | [
{
"content": "Malta",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 15
}
] |
VALLETTA 1996-08-26 | [
{
"content": "VALLETTA",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
These are the leading stories in the Maltese press on Monday. | [
{
"content": "Maltese",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 37
}
] |
Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. | [
{
"content": "Reuters",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
THE TIMES | [
{
"content": "THE TIMES",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
- Visitors slam bus and taxi drivers for cheating. | [] |
Tourists interviewed in Malta complain about over-charging. | [
{
"content": "Malta",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 24
}
] |
IN-NAZZJON | [
{
"content": "IN-NAZZJON",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
- Government considering measures for better road discipline. | [] |
Malta, with a population of 365,000, has 195,000 registered vehicles, with 80,000 new cars having been introduced on the congested roads in 10 years. | [
{
"content": "Malta",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
- Five people arrested in Romania after drugs container found in Malta. | [
{
"content": "Romania",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 26
},
{
"content": "Malta",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 65
}
] |
The container, with 7.5 tonnes of cannabis, was found in Malta Freeport in transit from Singapore to Romania. | [
{
"content": "Malta Freeport",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 57
},
{
"content": "Singapore",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 88
},
{
"content": "Romania",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 101
}
] |
L-ORIZZONT | [
{
"content": "L-ORIZZONT",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
- Opposition leader Alfred Sant on steep rise in taxes over 10 years. | [
{
"content": "Alfred Sant",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 20
}
] |
He reiterates promise that a future Labour government will remove VAT. | [
{
"content": "Labour",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 36
}
] |
Tamils demonstrate outside U.N. headquarters. | [
{
"content": "Tamils",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 0
},
{
"content": "U.N.",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 27
}
] |
GENEVA 1996-08-26 | [
{
"content": "GENEVA",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
Thousands of Tamils demonstrated outside the United Nations' European headquarters in Geneva on Monday to appeal for U.N. recognition of their fight for independence from Sri Lanka. | [
{
"content": "Tamils",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 13
},
{
"content": "United Nations",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 45
},
{
"content": "European",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 61
},
{
"content": "Geneva",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 86
},
... |
The demonstrators, said by police to number 6,000, also urged the release of Nadarajah Muralidaran, Swiss-based leader of the the Tamil Tiger guerrillas, who has been held in a Zurich jail since April on charges of extortion. | [
{
"content": "Nadarajah Muralidaran",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 77
},
{
"content": "Swiss-based",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 100
},
{
"content": "Tamil Tiger",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 130
},
{
"content": "Zurich",
"label": "LOC",
"start_in... |
The demonstrators delivered an appeal to the U.N. human rights centre demanding an immediate end to " state terrorism " against Tamils and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). | [
{
"content": "U.N.",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 45
},
{
"content": "Tamils",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 128
},
{
"content": "Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 143
},
{
"content": "LTTE",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index... |
FOCUS - Eurobourses end mixed but London recovers. | [
{
"content": "Eurobourses",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 8
},
{
"content": "London",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 34
}
] |
Leonard Santorelli | [
{
"content": "Leonard Santorelli",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
LONDON 1996-08-27 | [
{
"content": "LONDON",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
European bourses closed mixed on Tuesday with London clawing back most of the day's losses despite an unsteady start on wall Street, hit by inflation worries. | [
{
"content": "European",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 0
},
{
"content": "London",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 46
},
{
"content": "wall Street",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 120
}
] |
The dollar weakened during the day with many dealers sidelined because of uncertainty over Tokyo's monetary direction ahead of the important Japanese Tankan economic survey out on Wednesday. | [
{
"content": "Tokyo",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 91
},
{
"content": "Japanese",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 141
},
{
"content": "Tankan",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 150
}
] |
But it recovered at the close of trade. | [] |
Stocks in London started the week badly after a three-day weekend, slipping 0.3 percent, but bargain-hunters later moved in and the FTSE index recovered most of the lost ground to end only just in negative ground. | [
{
"content": "London",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 10
},
{
"content": "FTSE",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 132
}
] |
Tuesday's patchy showing in London followed a string of records last week, culminating in Friday's trading high of 3,911, fuelled by a wave of European interest rate cuts. | [
{
"content": "London",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 28
},
{
"content": "European",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 143
}
] |
The London bourse drew little help from the unsettled morning on Wall Street, which slipped in and out of positive ground after a stronger-than-expected August consumer confidence report refuelled inflation fears, pulling U.S. Treasuries back from their early peaks. | [
{
"content": "London",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 4
},
{
"content": "Wall Street",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 65
},
{
"content": "U.S. Treasuries",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 222
}
] |
Shortly after the report appeared showing the confidence index rising to 109.4 in August from a revised 107.0 in July, Wall Street relinquished virtually all its morning gains. | [
{
"content": "Wall Street",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 119
}
] |
" Treasuries remain very sensitive to any indication of a strong economy and we're still in that summer doldrum period of light trading, " said Alan Ackerman, market strategist at Fahnestock & Co . " | [
{
"content": "Treasuries",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 2
},
{
"content": "Alan Ackerman",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 144
},
{
"content": "Fahnestock & Co",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 180
}
] |
Consequently, stocks and bonds are both subject to rapid swings . " | [] |
Frankfurt was the one bright spot in Europe. | [
{
"content": "Frankfurt",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
},
{
"content": "Europe",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 37
}
] |
Floor trading ended up 0.25 percent and the computerised IBIS index climbed nearly 0.4 percent, given a push by the performance of chemical shares . " | [
{
"content": "IBIS",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 57
}
] |
The market is trading 100 percent on fundamentals at the moment as interest rate fantasy disappears--it's all company news, " said one trader. | [] |
French shares ended slightly down amid growing unease about a difficult autumn for the government which also weighed on the franc, dealers said. | [
{
"content": "French",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
Bond prices were weaker and the franc was quoted at 3.4210 per mark for the first time since August 13 as worries about the government's autumn budget and a weak U.S. currency lifted the mark and squeezed French investments. | [
{
"content": "U.S.",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 162
},
{
"content": "French",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 205
}
] |
The dollar, which dropped sharply on Monday because of jitters over the Japanese Tankan survey, weakened further in quiet trading but regained losses to end the day close to Monday's levels. | [
{
"content": "Japanese",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 72
},
{
"content": "Tankan",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 81
}
] |
" Besides the Tankan, there's nothing really until the U.S. jobs numbers next week, " said a UK bank corporate dealer . " | [
{
"content": "Tankan",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 14
},
{
"content": "U.S.",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 55
},
{
"content": "UK",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 93
}
] |
There is still the summer malaise hanging over the market . " | [] |
Foreign exchange markets regard the Tankan report as an important indication of the country's future monetary policy direction. | [
{
"content": "Tankan",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 36
}
] |
If it points to weakness in the economy, the report will help the dollar regain some lost ground as speculation of a near-term rise in Japanese interest rates will evaporate. | [
{
"content": "Japanese",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 135
}
] |
The Japanese discount rate is currently at a record low of 0.5 percent. | [
{
"content": "Japanese",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 4
}
] |
The dollar was also pressured by the mark's strength against European currencies amid renewed concerns over Europe's economic and monetary union (EMU) timetable. | [
{
"content": "European",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 61
},
{
"content": "Europe",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 61
},
{
"content": "EMU",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 146
}
] |
CURRENCIES | [] |
The dollar was at 1.4788 marks and 107.74 yen at the close of European trading compared with 1.4789 marks and 107.55 yen on Monday. | [
{
"content": "European",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 62
}
] |
STOCK MARKETS | [] |
The Financial Times-Stock Exchange index of 100 leading British shares ended 1.8 points lower at 3,905.7. | [
{
"content": "Financial Times-Stock Exchange",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 4
},
{
"content": "British",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 56
}
] |
In Paris, the CAC-40 share index finished down 2.43 at 2,017.99. | [
{
"content": "Paris",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 3
},
{
"content": "CAC-40",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 14
}
] |
The 30-share DAX index in Frankfurt closed up 6.48 at 2,558.84. | [
{
"content": "DAX",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 13
},
{
"content": "Frankfurt",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 26
}
] |
PRECIOUS METALS | [] |
Gold closed at $388.55 an ounce, compared with Monday's close of $388.75 on international markets. | [] |
Silver ended up one cent $5.24. | [] |
More hostages freed from hijacked Sudanese plane. | [
{
"content": "Sudanese",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 34
}
] |
STANSTED, England 1996-08-27 | [
{
"content": "STANSTED",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
},
{
"content": "England",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 10
}
] |
Armed hijackers believed to be Iraqis released between 60 and 70 people on Tuesday from a Sudan Airways plane carrying 199 passengers and crew that landed in London after being diverted on a flight from Khartoum to Amman, authorities said. | [
{
"content": "Iraqis",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 31
},
{
"content": "Sudan Airways",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 90
},
{
"content": "London",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 158
},
{
"content": "Khartoum",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 203
},
... |
A spokesman for Stansted airport said that the unidentified hijackers were demanding to see a British-based member of the Iraqi Community Association, called Mr Sadiki, and that police were trying to trace him. | [
{
"content": "Stansted",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 16
},
{
"content": "British-based",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 94
},
{
"content": "Iraqi Community Association",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 122
},
{
"content": "Sadiki",
"label": "PER",
"star... |
Police spokeswoman Kim White said police had already contacted Sadiki and were trying to arrange to bring him to Stansted, 30 miles (48 km) north-east of London, to talk to the hijackers. | [
{
"content": "Kim White",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 19
},
{
"content": "Sadiki",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 63
},
{
"content": "Stansted",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 113
},
{
"content": "London",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 154
}
] |
The airport spokesman said the six hijackers, who police said were armed with grenades and possibly other explosives, were believed to be Iraqi nationals. | [
{
"content": "Iraqi",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 138
}
] |
The hijackers started to release people for the Airbus plane in batches of 10, starting with women and children, in what police described as a " controlled release ". | [
{
"content": "Airbus",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 48
}
] |
Police said most of the passengers were Sudanese but that there were also an unknown number of Iraqis, Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Saudis. | [
{
"content": "Sudanese",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 40
},
{
"content": "Iraqis",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 95
},
{
"content": "Jordanians",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 103
},
{
"content": "Palestinians",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 115
... |
Later they said the number of passengers released from the plane had reached 80. | [] |
FEATURE - " Eco terrorists " target UK builders. | [
{
"content": "UK",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 36
}
] |
Edna Fernandes | [
{
"content": "Edna Fernandes",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
LONDON 1996-08-27 | [
{
"content": "LONDON",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
Ecological warfare has broken out across the British construction industry, striking some of the biggest corporates as activists give up peaceful protests and seek to hit builders where it hurts--their profit margins. | [
{
"content": "British",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 45
}
] |
Described by one British company as " eco-terrorism ", it is seen as the new business risk of the 1990s. | [
{
"content": "British",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 17
}
] |
Famous names like Tarmac Plc, Costain Group Plc and ARC, a unit of conglomerate Hanson Plc, have all been targeted. | [
{
"content": "Tarmac Plc",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 18
},
{
"content": "Costain Group Plc",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 30
},
{
"content": "ARC",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 52
},
{
"content": "Hanson Plc",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 80
}... |
Activist groups are no longer seen by British firms as a harmless, badly organised ragbag of students and hippies. | [
{
"content": "British",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 38
}
] |
" You only have to see them in action at protests, " said David Harding, spokesman at ARC, Hanson's aggregates company . " | [
{
"content": "David Harding",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 58
},
{
"content": "ARC",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 86
},
{
"content": "Hanson",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 91
}
] |
They walk around with mobile phones and camera equipment, they communicate and gather support for demos via the Internet--we're talking about a highly sophisticated organisation . " | [
{
"content": "Internet",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 112
}
] |
One road protestor under the codename Steady Eddie told construction journal " Building " earlier this year, " If it comes down to full-scale economic warfare, we will aim to drive them out of business . " | [
{
"content": "Steady Eddie",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 38
},
{
"content": "Building",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 79
}
] |
As well as financial threats, companies also emphasise the " terror " tactics used. | [] |
Costain's contract to build the controversial Newbury bypass, which runs through a conservation area, has led to violent protests delaying building, bomb threats, staff intimidation and picketing of chief executive Alan Lovell's home. | [
{
"content": "Costain",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 0
},
{
"content": "Newbury",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 46
},
{
"content": "Alan Lovell",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 215
}
] |
A Costain spokesman told Reuters: " We've had all sorts of protests at the head office and the chief executive's house. | [
{
"content": "Costain",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 2
},
{
"content": "Reuters",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 25
}
] |
But it's when it gets to the (employee) families--that it goes across the line . " | [] |
Tactics used by some underground groups including the cryptic Berkshire Wood Elves, which distribute leaflets with instructions on home-made explosives, are now the subject of a police investigation. | [
{
"content": "Berkshire Wood Elves",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 62
}
] |
Other larger activist groups include Earth First, The Land is Ours, Alarm UK and Road Alert. | [
{
"content": "Earth First",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 37
},
{
"content": "The Land is Ours",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 50
},
{
"content": "Alarm UK",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 68
},
{
"content": "Road Alert",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 8... |
The groups have targeted specific projects like the Newbury bypass and the M3 motorway through Twyford Down in the southern county of Hampshire. | [
{
"content": "Newbury",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 52
},
{
"content": "M3",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 75
},
{
"content": "Twyford Down",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 95
},
{
"content": "Hampshire",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 134
}
] |
But they are also campaigning on broader issue such as stopping the government road building programme and out-of-town superstores which they say create more traffic, pollution and damage local communities. | [] |
The government has slashed its road-building spending. | [] |
Although protests may have contributed to the decision it has been seen primarily as economic rather than ecological. | [] |
Graham Watts, chief executive of the Construction Industry Council, said: " I don't think many firms involved in tendering for sensitive projects realise the impact environmental activity has on the cost of running a project. | [
{
"content": "Graham Watts",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 0
},
{
"content": "Construction Industry Council",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 37
}
] |
" But they are more alert than they were 3-4 years ago. | [] |
There's no doubt it's a big issue now . " | [] |
He says the damage comes in two forms: " Tangible--in the form of extra costs, additional security, threats to staff and the more intangible damage caused by negative publicity . " | [] |
Watts said the cost of protesting can be heavy once the company is locked into a contract. | [
{
"content": "Watts",
"label": "PER",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
" I do often hear on the industry circuit of tales where the company tenders at low margins and the demonstrations which follow means they are running the project at a loss . " | [] |
ARC says it's not just contractors in the front line but also suppliers like itself. | [
{
"content": "ARC",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
Its own quarries came under attack after it emerged that it may be a supplier for the Newbury bypass. | [
{
"content": "Newbury",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 86
}
] |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.