DISASTER SCENARIO: Although pilots carried off yesterday's exercise without a hitch, a retired army general said there is nothing special about landing on a freeway
By Jimmy Chuang
Two Mirage 2000-5 jet fighters yesterday landed on the Sun Yat-sen Freeway, refueled, loaded up with ammunition and took off within 40 minutes during the annual Han Kuang military exercise in Tainan County.

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SYMBOLIC DECISION: Construction continued despite a General Assembly resolution, adopted by an overwhelming vote, that the wall must be torn down
Israel's construction of its West Bank barrier went ahead full force yesterday, hours after the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution calling for the structure to be torn down in compliance with a world court ruling.

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Saudi security forces killed two militants in a fierce exchange of fire in Riyadh and detained the family of the suspected leader of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Saudi Arabia, officials said yesterday.

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COPYRIGHT: The US trade representative said he was impressed by the enhanced protection of copyright, but that more should be done
By Jessie Ho
Minister of Economic Affairs Ho Mei-yueh (何美玥) said yesterday that both Taiwan and the US are considering resuming trade talks and that the nation could be removed from Washington's "Special 301" priority watch list of intellectual property rights violators.

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A diplomatic spat between China and Singapore deepened yesterday after Beijing delayed an invitation to a Singaporean trade delegation to protest a visit by the city-state's future prime minister to Taiwan.

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