Security barrier seen as land grab
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A Palestinian teenager walks past newly placed concrete barricades in Sawahreh village near Jerusalem yesterday. Israel says it is building the wall to keep suicide bombers out of its cities but Palestinians say it causes hardship to ordinary Palestinians.
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DPP sets up Constitution group
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Vice President Annette Lu elaborates on President Chen Shui-bian's proposal for a new Constitution while holding Chen's 2000 inaugural speech document at a press conference yesterday.
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Blair sticks to his guns
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks at the Labour Party Annual Conference at the International Conference Centre in Bournemouth on Tuesday.
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Anti-war protestors demonstrate outside the Bournemouth International Centre as British Prime Minister Tony Blair delivers his keynote speech.
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Leaders want reconstruction cash from US
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A US soldier stands guard after Iraqi police fired in the air to disperse an angry crowd of Iraqi job-seekers who fired back, threw rocks and set cars ablaze yesterday.
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Saddam is gone, but ethnic divisions remain
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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A new China is blowing in the wind
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A Uighur shepherd herds his sheep at the Dabancheng Wind Power Plant in the central part of China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region Sept. 12. The wind power plant, with 172 turbines and capable of producing 9.05 megawatts, is the biggest in Asia. Xinjiang's wind power resources are abundant but wind-generated electricity is still relatively expensive and technical problems need to be solved before wind can contribute more significantly to China's power mix. For about three decades, Turkic-speaking Muslim Uighurs, who form the dominant ethnic group there, have used political and militant activities to work towards independence from China.
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Music industry takes its piracy fight to Capitol Hill
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Jack Valenti, left, president and CEO of the Motion Picture Association looks on as LL Cool J, right, a recording artist, testifies before the US Senate Government Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday. Members on the panel expressed their concerns about the illegal downloading of copyrighted materials, including music and movies, on the Internet.
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Slavery still alive in Brazil
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Brazilian slave laborer Francisco Borges de Souza bleeds from the side of his nose as he cuts down forest with his scythe on the Bom Jesus farm in the Amazon basin, some 1,6000km north of Brasilia. As teams of govermment inspectors and federal police step up their quest to free an estimated 25,000 slave labors, there is no doubt that Brazil's feudal slavery traditions are still alive and well in pockets of its hardscrabble northeast, more than a century after the practice was abolished.
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Brazilian slave laborers stop their work cutting down the forest to listen to a Labor Ministry inspector explain their legal rights, on the Bom Jusus farm in the Amazon basin, where they have been illegally exploited for the past six months.
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Juventus, Inter Milan win
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FC Bayern Munich players Martin Demichelis, bottom, and Thomas Linke duel with RSC Anderlecht Dindane Aruna, right, at the Constant Vanden Stock stade in Brussels, Tuesday. Final score was 1-1.
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Inter's forward Christian Vieri, left, vies with Kiev's defender Sergiy Fedorov, at San Siro stadium in Milan, Tuesday, during the first leg match of the Champions League between Inter Milan and Dynamo Kiev.
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Cubs' Kerry Wood `wanted this badly'
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Christian Guzman of the Twins slides safely into third base ahead of the tag by Yankees' third baseman Aaron Boone in the third inning of Game 1 of their American League Division Series playoff at Yankee Stadium in New York, Tuesday. Guzman went on to score on a sacrifice fly by Luis Rivas.
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Starting pitcher Kerry Wood of the Cubs pitches against the Braves during Game 1 of the NL Division Series at Turner Field in Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday.
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Barry Bonds of the Giants after scoring on a double in the eighth inning against the Marlins in the NL Division Series playoff game in San Francisco, Tuesday.
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LeBron James stirs up excitement
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Cavaliers rookie LeBron James shoots the ball during the opening day of training camp at Gund Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday.
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