Typhoon Mindulle grows and slows
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Provincial highway No. 9 lies in disrepair after suffering damage from waves generated by Typhoon Mindulle yesterday in Taimali township, Taitung County. Sections of the highway are only open to one-way traffic.
PHOTO: CNA
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TSU sets its sights on a new target: Soong's mother
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A police officer stands outside the home of James Soong's mother as the media gathers to listen to a press conference called by the TSU.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Taiwan Solidarity Union Legislator Chen Chien-ming yesterday brings the media to the house of PFP Chairman James Soong's mother in Taipei, accusing her of illegally occupying government housing for years. The accusation was quickly denied by the Ministry of National Defense, which controls the housing.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Israel launches reprisal attacks
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Itzhak Ohayon, father of the three-year-old child who was killed in a Palestinian rocket atttack on the southern Israeli town of Sderot on Monday, mourns over the body of his son during the funeral at the Sderot cemetery on Monday.
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Palestinian journalist Mustafa Sawaf stands in the rubble of his destroyed office after it was hit in an Israeli helicopter missile strike in Gaza city yesterday.
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Artist can play with Barbie
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A photo by artist and photographer Tom Forsythe that used Barbie dolls in enchiladas is one of the pictures that got him into hot water with toymaker Mattel. The company must pay Forsythe's legal fees after a judge in California tossed out its lawsuit against him, ruling that artists are allowed to play with dolls.
PHOTO: NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE
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Iraqis hate occupying forces, but hope for democracy
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Iraqi National Guardsmen prepare to raise their country's flag above US Army troops of the 1st Cavalry division's 2nd Battalion during a dawn ceremony, in which the Stars and Stripes, right, was lowered to half mast, at a base in south eastern Baghdad yesterday. The US handed over sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government on Monday, formally ending a 14-month occupation two days earlier than expected to try to forestall guerrilla attacks.
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Iraq's fate now rests with Allawi
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Summer of labor unrest looms in S Korea
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Tens of thousands of workers of Hyundai Motor Co take part in a strike yesterday to demand better pay and working conditions. The strike halted operations on the company's assembly line, a spokesman for Hyundai said in Seoul.
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Crisis-stricken Mitsubishi Motors seeks more money
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'No other instrument like it on God's earth'
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Jose Rodriguez blows on a Fender Stratocaster guitar body to remove wood dust as he does the final sanding work before sending the bodies to the paint shop, at the Fender manufacturing facility in Corona, California.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Adan Alcantar polishes the edges of a Stratocaster body, at the Fender manufacturing facility.
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Feliz fills in gaps on Giants' roster
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Pedro Feliz, left, of the Giants congratulates Edgardo Alfonzo after he scored against the Dodgers in the seventh inning at SBC Park San Francsico, California on June 22.
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Federer slays big Croatian
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Seventh seed Lleyton Hewitt of Australia hits a return to ninth seed Carlos Moya of Spain during their fourth-round match on Centre Court at Wimbledon, Monday.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Roger Federer walks to the baseline between points during his match with Ivo Karlovic at Wimbledon, Monday.
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