Special session gets off to slow start
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Premier Yu Shyi-kun, left, gestures yesterday during an interpellation session at the legislature as Minister of Finance Lin Chuan listens.
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Poll supports session, referendums
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Representatives of the Alliance to Campaign for Rectifying the Name of Taiwan protest in front of the Legislative Yuan yesterday, demanding that lawmakers pass a proposed referendum law as soon as possible and that a referendum be held on changing the name of the country.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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DPP works with Chai on revised referendum bill
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President Chen Shui-bian, second left, tightly holds You Ying-lung's hands to show his support for the DPP's candidate for the Hualien County commissioner by-election after the party's Standing Committee meeting yesterday.
PHOTO: CHIEN JUNG-FENG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Blast kills two in West Bank house
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An Israeli border policeman is reflected on a car while he checks the ID of a Greek Orthodox priest driving from Bethlehem into Jerusalem at the Gilo checkpoint yesterday.
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Taylor drags his feet over departure
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A Russian-built MI-8 helicopter takes off inside the US embassy compound in Monrovia, where 13 members of a 32-strong team of US military experts arrived from the Sierra Leone. Washington has been under intense international pressure to lead a peacekeeping force to Liberia.
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Liberian President Charles Taylor speaks during an interview at the Executive Mansion in Monrovia on Monday.
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Botswana sees Bush visit as a reward
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The shadow of a pedestrian is cast over a banner for the Tebelopele HIV testing center in Gaborone, Botswana, on Monday. The country has one of the highest HIV infection rates in the world. The US helps sponsor 16 such centers and fund AIDS awareness campaigns.
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Rural Russians drink themselves under the table
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Tear down the walls!
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A girl passes a mural of Bobby Sands, the hunger striker who died in prison in 1981, in Belfast's Falls Road area. In Northern Ireland, the past has always haunted the present. But in a host of infamous murder cases, the past is being exhumed as never before. The British government has at least seven inquiries under consideration or underway.
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Connor McCormack, nine, stops to take a swing while walking home from St. Gall's school with Neil Comerford, also nine, in North Belfast.
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The Yankees edge past Boston 2-1 to split series
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Curtis Pride of the New York Yankees hits the ball to win the game against the Boston Red Sox in the bottom of the ninth at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, on Monday. The Yankees won 2-1.
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Second base umpire Jim Reynolds, right, ejects San Francisco Giants' manager Felipe Alou in the fourth inning at Pacific Bell Park in San Francisco on Monday. Alou was ejected after arguing a called out by Reynolds on a steal attempt by Jose Cruz Jr.
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Lunke wins in playoff
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Hilary Lunke tees off the third hole during the playoff round of the US Women's Open Championship at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in North Ridge, Oregon, on Monday. Lunke shot a 1 under par 70 in this playoff round to beat Angela Stanford and Kelly Robbins in an 18-hole playoff round to win the tournament.
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Young Aussie wins second-stage sprint
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Australian riders Robbie Mc Ewen, left, Baden Cooke, center, winner of the second stage of the Tour de France between La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre and Sedan, and overall leader Bradley Mc Gee stand after the finish in Sedan on Monday.
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