RED ALERT: Hualien County was on alert over 31 rivers, while the death toll reached two: a man in Taitung fell from a roof and a woman in Tainan County fell into a gutter
By Shelley Shan and Meggie Lu
Typhoon Fung-wong swept across the nation yesterday, weakening dramatically as it crossed the Central Mountain Range before entering the Taiwan Strait at 2:30pm, but still managing to bring torrential rain to most parts of the nation.

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Three women bombers blew themselves up yesterday in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad, one of a string of attacks in Iraq that killed at least 51 people, undermining hopes of a drop in violence.

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Missiles hit a religious school in a village just inside Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan yesterday, killing six people, intelligence officials and state media said.

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UNSETTLING PROFESSIONALISM: A percussion bomb was detonated first to draw an inquisitive crowd, then 10 minutes later a fragmentation bomb exploded
Investigators were trying to determine yesterday who was behind the deadliest attack against civilians in Turkey in nearly five years, a twin bombing that killed 17 people and injured more than 150 others in a crowded Istanbul square.

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By Rich Chang
The Taiwan Solidarity Union (TSU) yesterday rebutted a local news report alleging it had asked Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairwoman Lai Shin-yuan (賴幸媛) — a TSU member — to quit her position.

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