Taipei County organizes free Mid-Autumn barbecues
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Employees of the Taipei County Government barbecue in a park by a flood-release canal in Erchung during a press conference yesterday promoting the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations organized by the county government there.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Accusations fly as rail misery looms
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Taiwan Railway Administration (TRA) Deputy Director General Hsu Tah-wen yesterday explains the possible impact of a union workers' strike during the Mid-Autumn Festival tomorrow.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Vice president says world must know about people-smuggling
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Vice President Annette Lu visits some illegal Chinese immigrants yesterday. She condemned Beijing's tolerance of people-smuggling across the Taiwan Strait.
PHOTO: HUANG CHI-HAO, TAIPEI TIMES
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Sharon kicks off India trip with tribute
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, left, throws rose petals over the tomb of Mohandas Gandhi in New Delhi yesterday. Sharon is on a four-day visit to India to expand military and political exchanges between the two countries.
PHOTO: AFP
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Arab League opens arms to Baghdad government
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PHOTO: EPA
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Hitler wine leaves a bitter taste in Germans' mouths
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Bottles of red wine with labels depicting German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler are displayed at a wine-bar in Rome last week. These three bottles belong to the Fuehrerwein collection, part of Italian wine-maker Alessandro Lunardelli's special ``historical'' series.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Liberian peace force ready to move in
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West African peacekeeping troops drive through the bush close to the town of Goba, 97km from Monrovia, Liberia. The peacekeepers on Monday put off what would have been their first major deployment into Liberia's countryside, saying they wanted to investigate government claims of new rebel attacks in the interior first.
PHOTO: AP
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FBI seeks two after pizza-man robbery
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James Johnson, of Erie, Pennsylvania, talks about the search of his apartment by US federal agents last week. Johnson, whose tools were seized in the investigation of a pizza deliveryman who died after a bank robbery when a bomb locked to his neck exploded, said he has never met the delivery man and is being wrongly targeted by the FBI.
PHOTO: AP
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Pre-emption revisited
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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Qantas merger rejected
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Gordon Samuel, head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, speaks to a press conference as he holds a report which rejects a revised proposal from Qantas Airways and Air New Zealand to form an alliance, in Sydney yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Beginning of the end for file sharing?
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The recording industry filed 261 lawsuits on Monday against people who share copyrighted music over the Internet, charging them with copyright infrighement in the first broad legal action aimed at ordinary users of file-sharing networks. Vonnie Bassett, pictured, a bookkeeper in Redwood City, California, and mother of a 17-year-old son, is one of 261 people named in the music industry lawsuit for illegally downloading music files from the Internet.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Moving stories at the heart of China's development
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Jin Xuefang, 65, walks amid the ruins of her and her husband Guan Daoli's courtyard home in central Beijing. Guan, 70, whose family have resided here since his Manchu grandfather served as an official during the last days of imperial China's Qing dynasty, and his wife are finding that wars and regime changes are proving no match compared to developers and the current Chinese government's mad rush to cash in on the property boom.
PHOTO: AFP
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Italy's Petacchi wins stage three of the Tour of Spain
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Italian Alessandro Petacchi of Fassa Bortolo team crosses the finish line to win the third stage of the Tour of Spain, Monday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Buccaneers go on raid in Philadelpia
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Tampa Bay Buccaneers' Simeon Rice, left, and Greg Spires, right, combine to sack the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, center, during the second quarter at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Monday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Dolphins are now one and done
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Ricky Williams of the Dolphins breaks the tackle of Eric Brown of the Texans during his 35 yard touchdown reception in the 4th quarter at Pro Player Stadium in Miami, Florida, Sunday. The Houston Texans would prevail 21-20 over Miami.
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