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" People are morose and it's not the post-holiday period or the budget or company results that are going to lift anyone's spirits, " a broker said. | [] |
* UIC, part of insurer GAN, slid 12.19 percent to 55.1 francs after reporting a net attributable first-half loss of 758 million francs after the close on Monday. | [
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Markets were disappointed by a recapitalisation of 800 million francs which commentators said was larger than expected. | [] |
* Supermarkets group Carrefour gained 2.19 percent to 2,616 francs after brokers Cheuvreux de Virieu confirmed the stock on their buy list, a fund manager said. | [
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* Reinsurance group Scor gained 2.1 percent to 202 francs on news that British insurer Prudential had sold its Mercantile & General reinsurance business to Swiss Re. | [
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* Conglomerate Bollore lost 2.4 percent to 521 francs after a morning trading suspension during which it said it had approved plans to buy out its 73.83 percent owned transport unit Scac Delmas Vileujeux (SDV) and invited shareholders to tender their shares. | [
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* Opthalmic products manufacturer Essilor gained 2.6 percent to 1,328 francs after Oakley Inc of the United States said it had been granted an option to buy the non-prescription lens production unit of Gentext Optics Inc, an Essilor International subsidiary. | [
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-- Paris newsroom +331 4221 5452 | [
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Bomb blast in TELO office in Trincomalee kills one, wounds six. | [
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One officer and a soldier killed in accidental clash between two groups of soldiers near Chavakachcheri in Jaffna. | [
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Army sentries thought a group of soldiers approaching them were Tamil rebels and opened fire. | [
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TULF leader M. Sivasiththamparam says it is meaningless to talk to UNP about peace package and that the government should submit peace plan to parliament very soon. | [
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Bread and flour prices have been raised with immediate effect but government will provide relief to underpriviledged sections of society. | [] |
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Excise Commissioner W.N.F. Chandraratne denies allegations that new guidelines in issue of liquor licences are aimed at forcing large number of liquor licence holders out of business for political reasons. | [
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Cultural Ministry planning to spend large sum of money to buy silver crown believed to have been worn by ancient king and now in Australia. | [
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Government closes Ruhunu University indefinitely after big clash between two groups of students in which eight were wounded and hospitalised. | [
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-- Colombo newsroom tel 941-434319 | [
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Mother Teresa turns 86 but still in danger. | [
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Rupam Banerjee | [
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Mother Teresa spent her 86th birthday in a Calcutta hospital bed on Tuesday as tributes to the legendary missionary poured in from around the world. | [
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Doctors said that later in the day they would try to wean the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from the respirator that has aided her breathing for the past six days. | [
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" Her condition seems to be better, but the danger remains as long as she is on respirator, " an official at Woodlands Nursing Home said . " | [
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She is conscious but her breathing is irregular . " | [] |
The revered Roman Catholic nun was admitted to the Calcutta hospital a week ago with high fever and severe vomiting. | [
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She later suffered heart failure and was diagnosed with malaria. | [] |
Her fever has since abated and the heart failure has been brought under control, but her heart continues to beat irregularly, doctors said. | [] |
" Unless she breathes on her own, I would advise you to keep your fingers crossed, " said a doctor who was familiar with her case but not part of the six-member team treating Mother Teresa. | [
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The nun's birthday prompted greetings, bouquets and prayers from around the world. | [] |
Pope John Paul II and Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy sent her get-well messages, the Press Trust of India said. | [
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" Ask for a miracle. | [] |
Happy Birthday to our Dearest Mother, " read a placard at the Shishu Bhavan children's home in central Calcutta run by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. | [
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Street children, some of them born to prostitutes, held prayers on the street . " | [] |
All of us know about her. | [] |
She is like a goddess, " said Raju, 8, who has a mother but no father. | [] |
The Statesman newspaper quoted 40-year-old Mangala Das, paralysed from her waist down and a resident of the Prem Dan (Gift of Love) home for the destitute, as saying she and her friends had been praying incessantly for Mother Teresa's recovery. | [
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" I do not know who she is. | [] |
I have never seen her, but I can only bless her for what she has done for people like me, " Das told The Statesman. | [
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Mother Teresa's condition improved on Sunday as her fever abated, and on Monday she was able to scribble notes to doctors and nuns. | [
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Thousands in Calcutta, where she founded her Missionaries of Charity religious order in 1949, prayed for her recovery. | [
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Ministers of the communist government of West Bengal state and people of different religions joined Catholics to pray for Mother Teresa's recovery at Mother House. | [
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" We joined the prayer to express our solidarity with her work for the cause of the poor and downtrodden, " said Nanda Gopal Bhattacharya, a communist minister in West Bengal. | [
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Islamists can meet in London, minister. | [
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British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said on Tuesday that his government would only take action against a planned conference of Islamist groups in London if British law was broken. | [
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As long as they obey our laws then that is not something the government would normally interfere with . " | [] |
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British Jewish groups have also protested because they say members of Algeria's Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) and the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas are on the guest list. | [
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Rifkind said it was for the home secretary (interior minister) to act by denying visas to participants if he felt there was reason to believe that they might break the law. | [
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" Our policy has to be fundamentally based on respect for the rule of law and insistence that it be observed, " he said. | [] |
Rifkind was in Pakistan at the start of an Asian tour that will also take him to India, Sri Lanka, Japan and Mongolia. | [
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Afghan leader tells U.S. Congressman of peace plan. | [
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Afghan government military chief Ahmad Shah Masood briefed visiting U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher on Tuesday on a peace plan for his wartorn country. | [
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A spokesman for Masood said he had told the California Republican at a meeting in northern Kabul that President Burhanuddin Rabbani's government favoured talks with all Afghan factions to set up an interim government. | [
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The factions should agree to appoint a transitional leader, draft a new constitution, collect heavy weapons, create a national army and hold free elections in which the transitional leader would be barred from standing, he added. | [] |
Rohrabacher flew into Bagram military airbase north of Kabul in a Red Cross plane on Tuesday after meeting northern opposition militia leader General Abdul Rashid Dostum. | [
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Masood's spokesman Amrollah (one name) said Rohrabacher had recently visited Italy, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan as part of a mission to promote peace in Afghanistan. | [
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" We are certainly serious more than before to find a solution to the Afghan problem and support every U.N. plan, " Amrollah quoted Rohrabacher as saying. | [
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However, a spokesman for Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a long-time rival of Masood, expressed concern at signs of renewed U.S. interest in Afghanistan. | [
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" America wants to block the establishment of a strong Islamic government in Afghanistan and the U.S. intends to neutralise the Afghan peace process initiated by the Afghans themselves, " said the spokesman, Hamid Ibrahimi. | [
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" A great game has been started in Afghanistan as America feels that Tehran and Moscow have got stronger in the Afghan picture--something Washington wants to change, " he said. | [
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Rohrabacher was expected to visit neutral faction leaders in the eastern city of Jalalabad and meet leaders of the rebel Islamic Taleban militia in the southern city of Kandahar. | [
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Afghan guerrilla factions have been locked in a bloody power struggle since the fall of the communist government in April 1992. | [
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Hekmatyar, once Rabbani's main rival, made a peace pact with him and rejoined the government as prime minister in June. | [
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Pakistan state bank sells 1.38 bln rupees of bonds. | [
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The State (central) Bank of Pakistan auctioned three-, five- and 10-year federal investment bonds worth 1.38 billion rupees on Tuesday. | [
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The bank said it had accepted bids of 250 million rupees at par for three-year bonds, 3.5 million rupees at par for five-year bonds and 1.126 billion at par for 10-year bonds. | [] |
The auction is set for settlement on Thursday. | [] |
In the previous auction on July 11, it accepted bids worth 300 million rupees at par for three-year bonds, 44.5 million rupees at par for five-year bonds and 782.6 million rupees at par for 10-year bonds. | [] |
-- Karachi newsroom 9221-5685192 | [
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Nepal offers to talk to Maoist insurgents. | [
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Gopal Sharma | [
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Nepal's centre-right coalition government has offered to meet the country's hardline Maoist communists for talks in a bid to end an insurgency in Nepal's western districts, officials said on Tuesday. | [
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"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
},
{
"content": "Maoist",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 85
},
{
"content": "Nepal",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
The Maoists oppose multi-party democracy and want to establish a communist state. | [
{
"content": "Maoists",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 4
}
] |
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