Video casts doubt on attack story
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Iraqi girl Kholood, 2, lies in a bed in the hospital in Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad, on Sunday. Kholood was injured by shrapnel when US helicopters fired on a wedding party in the remote desert near the border with Syria on Wednesday, killing more than 40 people.
PHOTO: AP
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Mongols impress Taiwan
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A Mongolian caretaker demonstrates a CPR at a press conference in yesterday. The Ulaanbaatar Trade and Economic Representative Office in Taipei and foreign labor agencies together introduce the first group of 11 Mongolian caretakers, adding to the ethnic diversity of Taiwan's labor force.
PHOTO: ROC FOREIGN LABOR AND EMPLOYER HARMONY PROMOTION COMMITTE
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Pan-blues grill Lin in budget meeting
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Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Wang Shu-hui, left, greets GIO Director-General Lin Chia-lung, right, at the Legislative Yuan yesterday.
PHOTO: WANG MIN-WEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chen Chi-mai gets important boost
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Cabinet Spokesman Chen Chi-mai says he has ``zero disadvantages.''
TAIPEI TIMES FILE PHOTO
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North Korea meeting boosts Koizumi's popularity
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Fukie, left, and Yasushi Chimura, right, look on as their children, from second left, O Kyong Ho, O Kyong Ae and O Kyong Sok, receive bouquets of flowers from local officials during a ceremony upon their arrival at Chimura's hometown of Obama in central Japan yesterday. The couple spent two nights with their children in Tokyo after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi brought the children to Japan on Saturday.
PHOTO: AP
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UK haggles with US over extra troops
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A mural by an Iraqi artist in Sadr City, Iraq, Baghdad's largest Shiite neighborhood, depicts the US Statue of Liberty, left, flipping an electrical switch on wires attached to a detainee of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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Iraqi girl Moza Rikad, 14, lies injured in a bed in a hospital in Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad, on Sunday. Moza was injured by shrapnel to her leg during a wedding party that was attacked by US helicopters near the Syrian border last Wednesday. Rikad lost her mother and two of her brothers and sisters.
PHOTO: AP
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Malawi election results spark riots
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Supporters of Gwanda Chakuamba, an opposition presidential candidate, protest near the Malawi Electoral Commission's vote-counting center in Blantyre, Saturday.
PHOTO: EPA
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Canadian elections called for June
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Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin and his wife Sheila leave their residence in Ottawa, Sunday. Martin has called new elections.
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Rights relativism condemns the wretched
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ILLUSTRATION: MOUNTAIN PEOPLE
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Skill games become on-line winners
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Adeo Ressi, chief of Game Trust, a company that conducts tournaments for Web clients, is pictured in his New York office last Friday. The screen shows ``Chain Reactor Duel,'' a popular game.
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Protesters set sights on GOP convention
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In Richmond, Virginia, Jen Lawhorne holds a map of downtown Richmond while Jim Straub points out a good route for a July 3 anti-war protest. They are a band of like-minded activists, many in their 20s, leading a charge to direct protesters from Richmond to New York for the Republican Party convention, Aug. 30 to Sept. 2. Linked by indignation over the war and economic and social issues, protesters from across the US are developing plans to descend on New York for the convention.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Wilson homer lifts Yankees to victory
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New York Yankees' second baseman Enrique Wilson, right, runs past third base coach Luis Sojo during fourth inning action after hitting a home run off Texas Rangers' starting pitcher R.A. Dickey.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Trulli triumphs in Monaco GP thriller
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Italy's Jarno Trulli, center, on the podium after winning the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo on Sunday. Trulli won the race with his Renault ahead of Britain's Jenson Button of BAR-Honda, right, and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello of Ferrari, left.
PHOTO: EPA
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Michael Schumacher of Germany steers his damaged Ferrari towards the pit area after crashing in the tunnel of the Monaco street circuit. Jarno Trulli of Italy on Sunday became the first driver other than Schumacher to win in Formula One this season, in a dramatic Grand Prix that saw the German star retire after a bizarre crash.
PHOTO: EPA
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Wasps take Euro Cup for first time
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The London Wasps celebrate defeating Toulouse to win the Heineken Cup at Twickenham in London.
PHOTO: AFP
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Timberwolves rout Lakers to even the NBA Western Conference finals 1-1
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Latrell Sprewell of the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday slam dunks in the first half of Game Two of the Western Conference Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers.
PHOTO: AFP
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