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The North Korea Central News Agency released posters depicting North Korea's military power on January 20, 2003. The letters read, 'U.S. imperialists shouldn't carelessly provoke war.' A Russian envoy held six hours of talks with reclusive North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and described the meeting on the nuclear standoff between Pyongyang and Washington as substantive and successful. (Korean News Service/Reuters)

OK everyone, read the story: BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Palestinian militant group Hamas said it was responsible for a pre-dawn raid in southern Israel Wednesday in which Palestinian gunmen shot dead four Israeli soldiers before being killed themselves. Speaking at a political conference in Beirut, Hamas politiburo head Khaled Meshal identified the gunmen as Hamas members Imad Rizq and Mohammed Jamoos. The attack was the most serious violence since Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, under U.S. and Israeli pressure, last month called a halt to armed attacks on Israelis by Palestinian militants. Hamas, an Arabic acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement, had ...

WASHINGTON -- "I'm not spreading propaganda," George Stephanopoulos' orthodox-nun sister vows, but Israeli soldiers last week "defecated" on the floors of a West Bank medical clinic they raided. They're also looting Palestinians' homes there, claims Sister Maria Stephanopoulos, a nun at the Convent of St. Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem. A Russian Orthodox Christian (she converted from Greek Orthodox), Stephanopoulos runs a school for Palestinian girls there, and is pleading with priests here, via e-mail, to "get on the phone and ask your congressman and senators why the United States government is backing this invasion of Israeli forces into sovereign (Palestinian)...