Media test tunnel's emergency systems
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A wind deflector installed in the ceiling of the Hsuehshan Tunnel for ventilation purposes is pictured yesterday. The 13km-long tunnel, which is part of the Taipei-Ilan Freeway, was completed recently after 15 years of construction.
PHOTO: CHU PEI-HSIUNG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Do not believe Chiu Yi's hype, DPP lawmaker says
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Democratic Progressive Party Legislator Hsu Kuo-yung speaks about media financed by Chinese capital and their role in China's ambition to annex Taiwan at the Cardinal Tien Educational Center in Taipei yesterday.
PHOTO: CHEN TSE-MING, TAIPEI TIMES
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Ma blasts government over flood control
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Seventy-year-old Lin Feng-tien is rescued by helicopter after a car accident caused by a mudslide in Taichung County yesterday.
PHOTO: OU SU-MEI, TAIPEI TIMES
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Attacks injure eight in the Philippines
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A member of the Philippine police force inspects damages caused by a bomb on a bus used as a mobile police outpost in northern Manila yesterday. Eight people were injured after a pair of explosions on the eve of Philippines Independence Day. Nobody was arrested and investigators refused to speculate on who was behind the attack.
PHOTO: AFP
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Police battle protesters with tear gas in Dhaka
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A boy looks at a police van burnt by protesters in Kanchpur, on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, yesterday. Riot police fired tear gas at thousands of stone-throwing protesters demanding Prime Minister Khaleda Zia resign.
PHOTO: AP
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Israeli strike kills two militants
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Israeli peace activists demonstrate opposite the house of Israeli military chief of staff Dan Halutz in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The protesters were demonstrating against an Israeli army artillery strike that killed seven people and wounded more than 30 when it hit a Palestinian family picnicking on a Gaza Beach on Friday.
PHOTO: AP
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Spaniards protest talks with ETA
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Hundreds of white balloons are released in Madrid on Saturday at the end of a rally to try to halt government talks with Basque separatist group ETA. Tens of thousands of survivors of terror attacks, relatives of those affected by terrorism and their supporters demonstrated, aiming at pressuring the government to halt planned peace talks with ETA.
PHOTO: AP
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Klan demonstrates at Civil War battlefield site
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Reporters interview Grand Wizard of the World Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Gordon Young, center, at a KKK rally on Saturday at the Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland. Other fringe racists were also in attendance such as Kevin Swift, left, of the National Socialist Movement of America.
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Conservatives will gain from Labour's market state
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Piracy still strong in Beijing markets, despite IPR deals
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Customers look at a fake Gucci handbag in Beijing's famous Silk Alley market on Saturday. Fake bags and other goods can are still on sale in Beijing's markets despite China's recent agreement not to sell fake versions of big brand-name products.
PHOTO: AFP
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Soccer set to affect global markets
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Brazilian Mercantile & Futures Exchange stockworkers are pictured in Sao Paulo last month, where the Brazilian markets were shaken and nervous due a the possible increase of interest rates in the US.
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Finding refuge in music
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Deserts Chang launched her debut album My Life Will ... at The Wall last weekend.
PHOTOS: HU HSUNG-SIANG
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A different way to cook 另類烹調
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A man makes tandur ovens at his shop in Kabul, Afghanistan.
阿富汗喀布爾一名男子在他的店內製作「罈肚」
PHOTO : AFP
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Elephant warming up to treadmill
大象在跑步機上熱身
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Elephants enjoy the warm climate at their facility in the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park.
大象在聖地牙哥野生動物園的象園享受溫暖的氣候。 (照片：法新社)
PHOTO: AFP
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World Cup: Size doesn't matter, Japan says
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Japanese head coach Zico, right, listens to defender Alessandro Santos during a training session at the Sports Park North stadium in Bonn on Saturday.
PHOTO: AFP
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World Cup: Italy to sacrifice flair for points against Ghana's `Black Stars'
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Ghanaian players gather in a circle to pray before the start of training at The Kickers Stadium, Wurzburg, Germany, on Saturday.
PHOTO: AFP
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World Cup: US have to beat ghosts of 1990 to overcome Czechs
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Czech coach Karel Bruckner reacts during a press conference after a closed practice session in Westerburg, Germany, on Saturday.
PHOTO: AFP
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World Cup: Line-up was no gamble: Eriksson
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England's Rio Ferdinand, left, celebrates with captain David Beckham after England scored its single goal during the Group B match against Paraguay in the World Cup stadium in Frankfurt, Germany, on Saturday.
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An England supporter shows his St George underwear in Frankfurt's city center after the first-round Group B World Cup soccer match between England and Paraguay in the German city on Saturday.
PHOTO: AFP
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World Cup: Tiny Trinidad and Tobago `put the big boys in their place'
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Trinidad and Tobago's Dennis Lawrence, left, and Sweden's Henrik Larsson go airborne during their Group B World Cup soccer match at the World Cup stadium in Dortmund, Germany, on Saturday.
PHOTO: AP
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World Cup: Argentina wins `savage' Ivory Coast battle
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Ivorian Kolo Toure, left, Argentines Gabriel Heinze, second left, and Nicolas Burdisso, second right, and Ivorian Arouna Kone fight for an aerial ball during the Group C soccer game between Argentina and Ivory Coast on Saturday in Hamburg, Germany.
PHOTO: AFP
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