Bush urges `strong actions' to combat prisoner abuse
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A pyramid of naked Iraqi prisoners is seen at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad in this undated photo. The US military has reprimanded six senior officers in connection with the abuse of prisoners, a senior US military official said on Monday.
PHOTO: REUTERS/COURTESY OF ``THE NEW YORKER'
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High-speed rail on track
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Workers from the Taiwan High Speed Rail Corp, are busy finishing work at a site in Yenchao township, Kaohsiung County, as the company prepares for the test drive scheduled in September. The company's trains will be delivered to Taiwan on May 25.
PHOTO: CHIEN JUNG-FENG, TAIPEI TIMES
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NTU medical students back nation's latest WHO bid
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Presidential advisor Chen Lung-chu, right -- head of the Taiwan UN Alliance -- and Twu Shiing-jer, the former director-general of the Department of Health, hold a press conference to push for Taiwan's entry to the World Health Assembly.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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KMT legislator blasts Tsai as coward and Lee as fool
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Mark Chen, left, and KMT Legislator John Chang exchange opinions during a meeting yesterday.
PHOTO: LIN CHENG-KUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Poking the US and the Chinese beast
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Doug Bandow says Taiwan needs to pay more attention to the quality of its communication with the US.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Thai officials urge reconciliation
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A Muslim family stops to pray yesterday at the graves of unidentified Muslim fighters in Pattani, Thailand. The dead are suspected to be foreigners because their bodies remained unclaimed by relatives after last Wednesday's assaults on police posts in three southern Thai provinces that killed 107 of the attackers.
PHOTO: AP
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India campaign fighting injures 15
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Election officials check electronic voting machines on Tuesday in Kohima, the capital city of India's northeastern state of Nagaland. Heavy security has been arranged for parliamentary elections which will be held today in the state.
PHOTO: AP
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Sharon seeks pullout-plan compromise
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Palestinians carry a seriously wounded militant to the treatment room at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, yesterday. An Israeli attack helicopter fired a missile early yesterday at a group of armed Palestinians in the Khan Younis refugee camp, killing two and wounding at least 17, witnesses said.
PHOTO: AP
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Bush warns of Kerry's new taxes
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US President George W. Bush shakes hands with the crowd at a rally at the Jerome-Duncan Theater at Freedom Hill in Sterling Heights, Michigan, on Monday.
PHOTO: AFP
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No security, no election aid, UN says
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A US soldier from the Second Armed Cavalry Regiment fires an M-4 assault rifle at insurgents in Najaf, Iraq on Monday. The US soldiers, based in two camps, Golf and Baker, in the city of Najaf, fired back after insurgents attacked US camps with mortars, rocket propelled grenades and other small arms.
PHOTO: AP
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The price for peace that Israel is unwilling to pay
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Taiwansoft sets itself tough target
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Models display Digimaster's first high-end 5-megapixel digital camera, Q-Shot, and digital video camera, Camwalk, at a press conference yesterday. The company aims to take one-fifth of the nation's digital camera market this year by expanding its lineup.
PHOTO: GEORGE TSORNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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China raises young property tycoons
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Zheng Yaluan, 73, cries as she tells how workers from Chinese tycoon Zhou Zhengyi's property company attacked her while trying to evict her family and others from their homes in Shanghai in this photo taken on June 5, 2003. Fearing rampant speculation, the government has ordered banks to curb lending for property investment.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Renaissance man Miller
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The front cover of Shakespeare's Hamlet. Jonathan Miller has directed the play and many other of the bard's works.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Jonathan Miller's quick mind is still just as lively as he approaches his 70th birthday. He was recently knighted.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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A detail from Charles I's copy of the complete works of William Shakespeare.
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AL pitchers in the zone
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Curt Schilling of the Red Sox pitches to the Indians at Jacobs Field in Cleveland, Ohio, Monday. Boston lost their fourth straight as Cleveland won 2-1.
PHOTO: AFP
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Kevin Garnett gets league MVP award
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Tayshaun Prince, right, of the Pistons, drives around Richard Jefferson of the Nets during the first quarter in the Eastern Conference semifinals at the Palace of Auburn Hills, Michigan, Monday. The game had the lowest-scoring first half in NBA playoff history.
PHOTO: EPA
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Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett during a press conference in the Target Center in Minneapolis, Monday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Peter Forsberg may hang up skates
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Flames goalie Mikka Kiprusoff, left, makes a save against Kris Draper, center, of the Red Wings, as Andrew Ference, right, of the Flames helps out during playoff action in Calgary, Monday. The Flames won 1-0 and advanced to the conference finals.
PHOTO: EPA
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