Verbatim: May 3, 2004

"I told him, 'In our first meeting three years ago I accepted your request not to physically harm Arafat ... [That] commitment does not stand anymore.'" ARIEL SHARON, Israeli Prime Minister, recounting what he told President Bush at their recent meeting in Washington regarding an earlier pledge not to harm Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat

"People were in every posture ... Some were crying and screaming. They all looked scared." UNNAMED WITNESS of the rail-yard explosion in North Korea that left at least 154 dead and 1,300 injured, prompting the secretive North Korean government to take the unusual steps of acknowledging...

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