More than 30 dead as Nari hammers northern Taiwan
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People are ferried by boats after being stranded at the intersection of Yungchi Road and Civic Boulevard yesterday, after rains brought by Typhoon Nari caused the worst flooding in the Taipei area in 50 years.
PHOTO: LIAO RAY-SHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Few business owners brave the rains
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Typhoon Nari left many areas in northern Taiwan inundated yesterday, but some people still managed to go out and buy breakfast.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Cleanup tests both man and machine
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Smoke continues to rise from the destroyed World Trade Center on Saturday in New York. Cleaning up the debris, which covers 6.5 hectares and rises 45m high, has been said to rival the building of the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
PHOTO: AFP
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Bush, Cheney chose to shoot down planes
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PHOTO: REUTERS
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Americans show their true colors
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Thousands wave flags in Niagara Square in Buffalo, New York on Sunday during a remembrance rally for victims of last Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington.
PHOTO: AP
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Arizona man arrested in race-targeted shootings
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Mesa police arrest a man identified as Frank Roque in Mesa, Arizona on Saturday.
PHOTO: AP
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Nation rallies to New York's side
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A man places his hand on a wall showing photos of missing people outside Bellevue Hospital in New York on Sunday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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World: US faces serious dearth of intelligence
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Activists from Pakistan's fundamentalist party Jamaat-i-Islami chant anti-American slogans during a protest rally in the eastern city of Lahore yesterday. The US is forging an awkward alliance with Pakistan, the Taliban's closest ally. The protesters are holding banners saying `Agreement between Pakistan and Bush not acceptable.'
PHOTO: AFP
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World: Clerics debate legitimacy of dying for Allah
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A boy looks at a T-shirt with Osama bin Laden written on it in Peshawar, Pakistan. The attacks on the US last week have lent a new urgency to a debate on whether such suicidal actions are ever justified by Islam.
PHOTO: AP
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Business Focus: To spend or not to spend
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A New York City police officer stands guard near the New York Stock Exchange building which sports a huge American flag one day before its reopening, Sunday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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World Business: Voices urge Wall St to help avert sell-off
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An informal coalition of government and business leaders urged investors on Sunday to do what they could to keep the markets from tumbling when they reopen yesterday. On Sunday in Times Square, the NASDAQ Market Site ticker announces it's reopening.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Inner-city lakes
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Kochih Road on Yangmingshan collapsed yesterday, covering the area with mud leaving two people dead and one person missing.
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A family escapes to safety in Chungho, south of Taipei City, which was once again flooded yesterday.
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A couple make their way past the Hsingtien Temple on the corner of Sungkiang Road and Minchuan East Road yesterday.
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Members of the Kaohsiung fire department who traveled to Taipei to assist in disaster relief activities yesterday, steer a boat along Chunghsiao East Road.
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Residents on Hsinglung Road in Taipei's Mucha district erect boards hoping to minimize water entering their homes yesterday.
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Care to join me?
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Cost cutters
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Editorial Cartoon
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