THE PHOENIX ARRIVES: The Fisheries Agency issued a sea alert yesterday while the Department of Health said six operation centers were activated to deal with crises
By Meggie Lu
Typhoon Fung-wong was approaching Taiwan from the east and was expected to make landfall within the next 24 to 48 hours, the Central Weather Bureau said yesterday, after issuing a sea alert at midday.

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Lebanese tanks were out on the streets of Tripoli yesterday after nine people including a boy were killed in sectarian fighting that raged through the night in the northern port city.

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NAME GAME: KMT chairman refused to comment on claims that negotiations on how Taiwan would be referred to at the Games were held between the KMT and the CCP
By Mo Yan-Chih AND Su Yung-Yao
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Chairman Wu Poh-hsiung (吳伯雄) expressed appreciation yesterday for Beijing’s “goodwill” over the controversy surrounding the title of Taiwan’s Olympic team and said he would attend next month’s Olympics in Beijing.

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that Iran had boosted the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges to up to 6,000, in an expansion of a nuclear drive that defies international calls for a freeze.

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned China yesterday not to use its massive Olympic security apparatus to crack down on legitimate dissent.

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A Uighur separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring threats by extremists on the Internet said late on Friday.

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