Roadside bomb targets Iraqi police
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A relative of two Iraqi Christians killed in Sunday's church bombings faints during a burial near Baquba, north of Baghdad, yesterday. Namir Georgis and his 10-year-old son Rafid were among the 11 people killed in the coordinated car bombings at churches.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Palestinians die in assault on Israeli bulldozer
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Bassam Masoud, a cameraman working for Reuters Television, can be seen with wounds in his head and hand moments after an explosion killed at least three people and wounded several in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah yesterday.
PHOTO: AP
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The nation's best returns a SEAL
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Captain Yu Kuei-lin is pictured in action during US Navy SEAL winter training at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in San Diego, California.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MINISTRY OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
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Captain Yu Kuei-lin displays SEAL equipment at a press conference held at the Ministry of National Defense yesterday. Yu was the only foreigner to complete the 30-week US Navy SEAL course last winter.
PHOTO: CHEN HSIN-TEH, TAIPEI TIMES
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Activists decry driftwood misuse
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A woman yesterday saws off a chunk of valuable nanmu -- a hardwood often used to make furniture. She had traveled from Tali City to Tungshih township in Taichung County to find the driftwood.
PHOTO: TSENG HUNG-JU, TAIPEI TIMES
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Chen denies termination campaign
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President Chen Shui-bian, center, yesterday holds hands with the DPP's four candidates for the third electoral district of Taipei County for the legislative elections, which will take place in December.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Sudan threatens UN over resolution
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Sudanese refugees are pictured at the Kounougo refugee camp in eastern Chad on Sunday.
PHOTO: AP
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Scared Christians prepare to flee a destabilized Iraq
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An Iraqi priest enters a church as relatives carry the coffins of a father and son killed in Sunday's church bombings during their memorial service in Baghdad yesterday.
PHOTO: AFP
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Bush agrees to intelligence chief
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US President George W. Bush, center, makes remarks in the Rose Garden of the White House on Monday about his plans to implement the Sept. 11. Commission's recommendation to create a national intelligence director. Left to right Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and FBI Director Robert Mueller.
PHOTO: AP
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New York reopens Statue of Liberty
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The Statue of Liberty is seen from a tourist ferry in New York on Sunday, one day prior to its reopening with new security measures.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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What the WTO needs is a new Reformation
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ILLUSTRATION: YU SHA
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NYSE chief unveil electronic trade plan
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New York Stock Exchange chief executive officer John Thain, left, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,center, Senator Charles Schumer, second right, and New York Governor George Pataki, right, ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday in New York City. US stocks pared their losses after a heightened terror alert for US financial institutions sparked an opening decline. Thain also announced a plan to increase electronic trading -- a move that could diminish the historic role of floor trader.
PHOTO: AFP
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Crude oil prices surge to new high of US$44/barrel
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Traders in crude oil futures work at the New York Mercantile Exchange on Monday. Crude prices are nearly 35 percent higher than they were a year ago.
PHOTO: AP
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Asians add to the US hot pot
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Top, Japanese-Americans and their children wearing traditional Japanese dress, prepare for Odori dancing at the summer Obon Festival at the Venice Hongwanji Buddhist Temple in Culver City, California. Above, Karo Asakura, left, a student at UCLA, practices with a traditional Japanese Taiko drum group in a rehearsal studio on the campus in Los Angeles in July. .
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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`Svengate' rocks English soccer - again
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A file photo of England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and his long-time girlfriend, Italian Nancy Dell'Olio. The FA had denied reports that England boss Eriksson had an affair with a female member of staff, but were then forced to admit the stories were true.
PHOTO: EPA
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Smarty Jones heads for the breeding shed
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Smarty Jones, who will be retired from racing after sustaining injuries.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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Agassi, Federer aim at US Open while Mary Pierce prevails in Montreal Cup
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Lleyton Hewitt of Australia returns a serve by Alex Bogomolov of Russia during the Masters tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Ohio. Hewitt beat Bogomolov 6-2, 6-4.
PHOTO: AFP
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