Three killed as Dujuan drenches south
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A ferry is grounded on the shore in Taitung County in the wake of Typhoon Dujuan yesterday.
PHOTO: HUANG MING-TANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Utility poles lie on the road in Pingtung County's Hsinpi Township afterTyphoon Dujuan struck yesterday.
PHOTO: KUO CHING-HUI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Yu allays professors' concerns
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Premier Yu Shyi-kun shakes hands with university presidents and board members during a meeting yesterday to discuss government plans to take back the public housing of faculty members.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Family ties bind Muslim militants together
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Yazid Sufaat, left, sits with his wife, Sejarahtul Dursina, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, before Yazid's arrest in December 2001. Once students in the US, upon their return to Malaysia they were wooed by charismatic preachers and were drawn into Jemaah Islamiyah. An apartment they owned was used as a meeting place for al-Qaeda operatives.
PHOTO: AP
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World News Quick Take
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PHOTO: REUTERS
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Israel gunning for Hamas
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A young Palestinian man remonstrates while shouting on a destroyed car after an Israeli helicopter missile attack in Gaza City on Monday. Hundreds of Palestinians gathered at the scene of the attack that killed a Hamas military-wing activist. Another 20 people were injured in the attack.
PHOTO: EPA
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Papers say Hoon is in big trouble
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The wife of the government weapons expert David Kelly, Janice Kelly, arrives at the High Court in London on Monday to give evidence before the Hutton Inquiry into her husband's death.
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Liberians cheer Nigerian leader
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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, center, in blue outfit, and his Liberian counterpart Moses Blah, right, wave to the crowd shortly after Obasanjo's arrival in Monrovia on Monday. Thousands of Liberians thronged the streets of Monrovia to give a rousing welcome to Obasanjo, who was on a one-day working visit to Liberia. Liberians attribute the level of calm among the warring factions to Nigeria's early deployment of its troops.
PHOTO: AFP
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Mexico demands better, president Fox tells Congress
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Police officers in Mexico City detain some of 300 students from Michoacan, Chiapas and Hidalgo states who had kidnapped 25 buses in Toluca city when they tried to enter Congress on Monday, a day before Mexican President Vicente Fox presented his Annual Government Report.
PHOTO: AP
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Beware the UN bluewash
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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China considers HK yuan center
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A Chinese teller counts 100 yuan notes at a bank in Shanghai yesterday.
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Divides deepen in Bangalore
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A worker carries bricks at a sewage construction site on Mission Road in Bangalore, India.
PHOTO: AP
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Vehicles pile up on Brigade Road. Infrastructure has collapsed in many places in the city, with a non-functioning public transportation system, potholed roads and hours-long traffic jams.
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A construction worker welds a signboard atop a high rise building.
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A woman covers her face to protect herself from car smoke.
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Converting China to taste of coffee
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Trainer Karen Cheung, 28, teaches Starbucks recruits how to make espressos in Guangzhou, China.
PHOTO: DPA
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Scott runs away with tournament
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Australian Adam Scott studies the green under an umbrella in the rain on the eighth hole in the final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship at the Tournament Players Club of Boston in Norton, Massachusetts, Monday. He finished 20 strokes under par.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Tiger Woods, right, of the US and his caddie Steve Williams look over the second hole during the final round of the Deutsche Bank Championship on Monday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Halladay win 18th game for Blue Jays
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Joe McEwing of the Mets is out at second as the Braves' Rafael Furcal turns a double play in the fifth inning at Shea Stadium in New York, Monday. Timo Perez was out at first.
PHOTO: AP
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Rain dampens action at US Open
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Jennifer Capriati hits a return during her 6-2, 7-5 win over Elena Dementieva of Russia during the US Open in Flushing Meadows, New York, Monday.
PHOTO: AP
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