 More than 700,000 homes and businesses began the day Friday without power after a frigid night allowed ice to build from a deadly storm in the South. The ice also left commuters with more tough driving conditions from Georgia to Maryland, and forecasters warned that dense morning fog could create an extra coat of ice in below-freezing weather. "There's a lot of ice still on the roads," said CBS News reporter Pete Combs Friday morning. "I'm sitting right now at an intersection in northeastern Charlotte and I'm watching wheels spin, people driving very gingerly, simply because the road is nothing more than a sheet of ice." Hundreds of accidents were reported Thursday, and utility companies said it would take days to fully restore power. Still in the dark Friday were about 328,000 customers in North Carolina, 358,000 customers in South Carolina and 30,000 in Georgia — numbers that climbed from the night before as temperatures fell and ice built up. ...
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 Iranian president's remarks 'misunderstood’ Interior minister says Ahmadinejad didn't mean to raise views on Holocaust |
The Iranian president’s widely condemned remarks about Israel and the Holocaust were “misunderstood” by Western governments, Iran’s interior minister said Friday.Speaking on the sidelines of an Athens conference on immigration, Mostafa Pur Mohammadi told The Associated Press: “Actually the case has been misunderstood. (President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) did not mean to raise this matter.“He wanted to say that if certain people have created troubles for the Jewish community they should bear the expenses, and it is not others who should pay for that.” Ahmadinejad’s comments Wednesday drew quick condemnations from Israel, the United States and Europe, which warned he is hurting Iran’s position in talks aimed at resolving suspicions about his regime’s nuclear program....
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| Newsnight on trial |
"Newsnight is supposed to be [the BBC's] flagship current affairs programme," howled the Sun's leader column. "Now it threatens to sink to a new low in a cheap bid for viewers." Were we about to feature topless models? Was prize sudoku set to replace the markets? No. The "Beeb's shame" referred to in Tuesday's The Sun Says was this week's Newsnight special, "Allies on Trial". The programme would use a trial format to explore accusations that in the "War on Terror" the Allies have broken international law. "This has all the makings of a show trial," the Sun continued to say. "The outcome is a foregone conclusion - guilty as charged." The reason for all this excitement was that we'd asked the author and commentator William Shawcross to appear on the programme as a witness for the defence. He's a robust and eloquent supporter of the allied approach in Iraq and the War on Terror, who's appeared on Newsnight many times. ...
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| Report: Americans Spied On By NSA |
The National Security Agency has eavesdropped, without warrants, on as many 500 people inside the United States at any given time since 2002, The New York Times reported Friday. That year, following the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush authorized the NSA to monitor the international phone calls and international e-mails of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States, the Times reported. Before the new program began, the NSA typically limited its domestic surveillance to foreign embassies and missions and obtained court orders for such investigations. Overseas, 5,000 to 7,000 people suspected of terrorist ties are monitored at one time. The Times said reporters interviewed nearly a dozen current and former administration officials about the program and granted them anonymity because of the classified nature of the program. ...
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| Afghan killed for teaching girls |
Suspected Taliban guerrillas dragged a teacher from a classroom of teenagers in southern Afghanistan and killed him at the school gate after he ignored their orders to stop teaching girls, police said on Friday.The attack was carried out by two armed men who arrived at the secondary school in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province by motorcycle on Thursday, Helmand police chief Abdul Rahman Sabir told Reuters."They dragged the teacher from the classroom and shot him at the school gate," he said."He had received many warning letters from the Taliban to stop teaching, but he continued to to do so happily and honestly -- he liked to teach boys and girls," Sabir said.He identified the teacher by the single name, Laghmani.The fundamentalist Taliban banned education of girls during their rule before being overthrown by U.S.-led forces in 2001....
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| House approves border fence |
The House voted last night to build nearly 700 miles of fence along the U.S.-Mexico border as it began the first major floor debate in years on enforcing immigration laws. The vote, 260-159, came on an amendment to a border-security and employer-verification bill that is scheduled for a final vote today. Republican leaders appeared to have cleared a remaining hurdle last night by promising to remove language that said there should be a legal means for foreign workers to come and go. Some Republicans had argued that the provision, which was nonbinding, was a place-holder to attach a guest-worker plan in the future and thus was a deal-killer. On the fence construction vote, 49 Democrats joined 211 Republicans in supporting it while 12 Republicans joined the Democrats and one independent in voting against it. Supporters of the fence said stopping the flow of illegal aliens is critical to dealing with illegal immigration. ...
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