Uncle refuses to hand over Iruan
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Wu Huo-yen, left, the uncle of Iruan Ergui Wu, refuses to hand over Iruan to Kaohsiung Judge Liao Cheng-hsiung, center, and Brazil Business Center Director Paulo Pinto, right, yesterday, demanding that Iruan's grandmother travel to Taiwan to fetch the boy.
PHOTO: SU FU-NAN, TAIPEI TIMES
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Death toll rises as pigs test positive for flu
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A chicken burns during a mass cull at Bolangan in Indonesia's Tabanan district, 30km northwest of the Balinese capital of Denpasar, yesterday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Donation skullduggery denied
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Democratic Progressive Party legislators Chao Yung-ching, right, Lo Wen-chia, center, and Tu Wen-ching, left, visited opposition party legislative caucuses yesterday with signature lists asking for the passage of a bill governing political donations.
PHOTO: LUO PEI-TEH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Kinmen authorities to test all poultry imports
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Poultry industry workers yesterday demonstrate the sanitary slaughtering process for chickens. The government has stressed that domestic poultry products are safe and has called upon the public to purchase domestic poultry meat.
PHOTO: CNA
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Stampede at festival near Beijing kills 37
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Blood stains yesterday mark the site of a stampede which left 37 people dead on a bridge in Miyun, north of Beijing.
PHOTO: AP
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The two Koreas pledge to cooperate on nuclear issue
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South Korean Unification Minister Jeong Se-hyun, right, toasts with his North Korean counterpart, Kim Ryong-song, during the inter-Korean talks in Seoul on Thursday.
PHOTO: AP
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Moscow police say subway blast, killing 39, is an act of terrorism
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A casualty of an explosion at Paveletskaya metro station is led away in central Moscow yesterday. At least 39 people were killed in a rush-hour explosion.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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German court gives Sept. 11 acquittal
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Moroccan student Abdelghani Mzoudi waits outside the Hamburg Court on Thursday. The court cleared Mzoudi of being an accessory to the Sept. 11 attacks in the US.
PHOTO: AFP
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CIA never called Iraq threat imminent
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George Tenet, director of the US Central Intelligence Agency, speaks at Georgetown University in Washington Thursday. In his first public defense of prewar intelligence, Tenet said US analysts never claimed before the war that Iraq posed an imminent threat.
PHOTO: AP
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Attack on top Shiite cleric increases tension in Iraq
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A undated photo of Iraqi Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most powerful Shiite cleric, who survived an assassination attempt Thursday when gunmen opened fire on his entourage.
PHOTO: EPA
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When viruses start jumping
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ILLUSTRATION MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Commericial artist by day, flying by night
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Joubert takes Russian scalp on ice
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France's Brian Joubert, center, shows his gold medal after winning the European Figure Skating Championships 2004 free skating program ahead of Russian Evgeni Plushenko, left, and Russian Ilia Klimkin at Budapest's Sport Arena on Thursday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Iverson puts tired Lakers to bed
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Allen Iverson, right, of the Philadelphia 76ers shoots a three-point jump shot over Los Angeles Lakers' Maurice Carter in the fourth period of the NBA game at the Center in Philadelphia Pennsylvania, on Thursday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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LA Lakers' Shaquille O'Neal dunks.
PHOTO: AP
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Lennox Lewis retires from fight game
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World heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, who announced his retirement today, weighs in in this file photo.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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