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* Mittal wraps up first part of its US$41B takeover of rival Arcelor SA
* Merge has created the world's largest steel company
* company will control 10 percent of the world's steel market

Mittal Steel Co. NV wrapped up the first part of its $41 billion takeover of rival Arcelor SA by combining with ArcelorMittal.

When the second phase of the deal is completed, it will create the world's largest steel company with about 10 percent of the global steel market.

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* NEW: Democratic aide says Bush trip changes nothing
* Bush to dine with troops at fortified air base; speaks at 12:30 p.m. ET
* Bush to meet with Iraqi prime minister, provincial tribal leaders, U.S. troops
* White House says surprise Iraq visit due to "remarkable turnaround" in Anbar

President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq Monday, shortly before a White House deadline to report to Congress on the U.S. troop increase there.

Air Force One touched down under a blazing sun at Al Asad Air Base, for a six-hour presidential visit to tout a "remarkable turnaround" in the mostly Sunni Anbar province west of Baghdad.

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* UK PM Gordon Brown defends withdrawal of UK troops from Iraqis base
* Move from Basra Palace consolidates British troops at Basra's airport
* Brown: Troops can still intervene in the city in "certain circumstances"

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has dismissed a suggestion that a withdrawal by UK troops from their base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra was a defeat, insisting it was an "organized" move.

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* 32 suspects arrested in Italian crackdown on organized crime clans
* Feud believed to have led to killings of 6 Italians in Germany this month
* Police carry out 40 arrest warrants, mostly in tiny Calabrian town of San Luca
* Arrested suspects not believed to be directly involved in German killings

Hundreds of police raided a small town in southern Italy on Thursday and arrested 32 suspected members of organized crime clans believed to be involved in a feud that killed six Italians in Germany earlier this month.

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* Madeleine McCann's parents suing Portuguese newspaper
* Tal & Qual claimed police believe McCann's killed their daughter
* Madeleine disappeared on May 3 from a holiday flat in Praia da Luz, Portugal
* Thursday would have been her first day at school

The Oporto-based Tal & Qual published two articles last Friday saying "police believe" Kate and Gerry McCann were responsible for the death of the four-year-old, and put forward the theories that she was killed either in an accident or with a fatal dose of a drug.

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* Ten years exactly since Diana, Princess of Wales' death, Britain remembers
* A special thanksgiving ceremony held in the Guards' Chapel in London
* Princess's son Harry asks that she be remembered for the way "she made us and so many other people happy."
* Service attended by Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth and about 500 guests

Exactly a decade to the day since Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed in a car crash in Paris, her youngest son Prince Harry said Friday he wants his mother to be remembered for the way "she made us and so many other people happy."

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* European Commission president Cardoso tours Greek areas ravaged by fire
* EU says Greece to receive $237m in emergency aid; could get another $546m
* Firefighters still battling blazes as temperatures rise on Saturday

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso toured fire-damaged southern Greece by helicopter Saturday and promised aid for areas where 64 people died and an estimated 469,000 acres of mostly forest and farmland were destroyed.

Though largely contained, fires forced the evacuation of two villages and the helicopter rescue of firefighters surrounded by flames, according to the Fire Service, which also said high temperatures and strong winds continued to plague its efforts.

Nasdaq has given potential suitors for its stake in the London Stock Exchange until Friday to state their interest, according to reports.

Nasdaq Stock Market has given potential bidders for its 31 percent stake in the London Stock Exchange until Friday to express interest in the stake, according to media reports Monday.

Nasdaq has asked for suitors to express interest by the end of the business day Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The deadline isn't firm, the paper said. The stake is worth about $1.71 billion.

The government is focusing its efforts on restoring the devastation caused by the fires in the Peloponnese, while the Fire Brigade is tackling fire rekindling. Meanwhile, a meeting was held under Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis’ chairmanship in Tripolis on Monday on the relief measures for the fire afflicted and the reconstruction of the burnt regions. "The state’s obligation does not stop with the measures we have taken for the relief of our fellow citizens and the fire hit regions. We have a lot to do to heal the wounds caused by the fires and transform the present state to a faster and more efficient," stressed Mr Karamanlis after the meeting.

Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis on Monday briefed Greece's president Karolos Papoulias on the heavy toll in lives and damage inflicted up to this time by wildfires that have swathed roughly one-third of the country since late Thursday.

Addressing Papoulias before the cameras, Karamanlis stressed that "we are shocked at this great tragedy. We all feel that we are losing our own people. The battle is still on and the task is difficult."