WHO lifts travel warning on Taiwan
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Standing around a makeshift map of Taiwan, the heads of Pingtung County, Kaohsiung County and Kaohsiung City governments hold a vigil with school children yesterday at Kaohsiung's Yuanheng Temple. They said they hoped for an end to disasters in the country as the WHO lifted its travel warning on Taiwan.
PHOTO: CHANG CHUNG-YI, TAIPEI TIMES
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US arrests 400 in raids across Iraq
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A schoolgirl is checked by a female US soldier in Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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Wetland region portrayed as idyllic retreat
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Some Aboriginal children from the Amis tribe in Hualien County play games before their performance at a press conference yesterday to promote the county's tourism industry.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Kao's visit not official: DOH chief
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Some TSU supporters yesterday quarrel with a PFP official during their protest in front of the PFP's headquarters in Taipei against PFP Legislator Kao Ming-chien's participation in a WHO-sponsored conference. Kao was allegedly recommended for an invitation by China.
PHOTO: FANG PIN-CHAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Medical experts gather for SARS talks in Malaysia
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A delegate has his temperature taken during the World Health Organisation Global Conference on SARS in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. More than a thousand scientists, doctors and government officials began a two-day conference in an attempt to find causes and cures for the mysterious and deadly virus.
PHOTO: AFP
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Iranian protests gradually die down
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Students react to a speaker during a sit-in at Tehran's Amir Kabir University on Monday. Iran said it had sent an official protest to the US concerning what it called blatant interference in its internal affairs after Washington cheered six nights of pro-democracy protests.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Neither side progresses at Mideast talks
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Israeli soldiers patrol a field near the Palestinian West Bank town of Ramallah on Monday.
PHOTO: AP
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Americans are winning the peace in Bosnia
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Samira Hasanvasic, left, a Bosnian Muslim girl and her Serb friend Romana Stjepic, right, rest in the shade outside Vasa Pelagic High School in Brcko, where the three main ethnic groups to go to school together.
PHOTO:NY TIMES
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Seoul can kiss Tokyo model goodbye
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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China ups state-led investment amid SARS
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A Chinese migrant worker sits by an anti-SARS poster in Beijing yesterday. China's State Council has approved increased spending on job-creation projects in an attempt to cushion any economic hit from SARS.
PHOTO:REUTERS
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Jaguars caught in conservation's spotlight
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The Wildlife Conservation Society, together with a scattering of Latin American environmental groups, are determined to study the elusive jaguar and raise awareness of what will help in the conservation of the species. Above, a jaguar in a Corcovado National Park is caught in a camera trap near the Sirena Research Station in Costa Rica.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Darrell May finally chalks up Royals win
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Ichiro Suzuki, right, of the Seattle Mariners is tagged out trying to steal second base by Adam Kennedy of the Anaheim Angels at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington, on Monday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Major changes seem to be taking place in PGA
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Tiger Woods hits his tee shot on the third tee during the final round of the 2003 US Open at the Olympia Fields Country Club in Olympia Fields, Illinois, on Sunday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Face of San Antonio Spurs to change
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Spurs' David Robinson, center, celebrates after defeating the Nets 88-77 for the NBA Championship on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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