A teenager got an unexpected, terrifying ride down the Mississippi River on a giant slab of ice that broke off as he stood along the shoreline. Amos Benjamin Cohen, 19, stood frozen with fear as the 6-foot-by-15-foot ice chunk swirled in the water, floating toward shore then drifting back to the middle of the river, witnesses and rescuers said. "He stood there so still," like the Statue of Liberty, said Sue Hillberg who spotted him from her mother's kitchen window. Ellie Ghostley said she yelled to the boy that she was calling 911, then hopped in her car to see if he would get out all right."I don't want to ever see that again," she said....
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 Million-dollar homes rented for $150 a month |
Japanese billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto has selected the first four of eight Native Hawaiian families that will each rent one of his multimillion-dollar homes in the exclusive oceanside Kahala area for $150 a month.The low-income families could move into the furnished Kahala Avenue homes, purchased in 2005 for $2 million to $3.4 million each, as soon as this weekend."They will be living in heaven now," said Kawamoto, a 75-year-old real estate tycoon.Among Kawamoto's four rental homes is one with five bedrooms and 5½ bathrooms. The 6,489-square-foot home was built in 1989 and is more than three times the size of the average house on Oahu. It was purchased by Kawamoto in August 2005 for $3.4 million.The families were selected from 3,000 people who wrote him in response to his plan announced in October to rent to low-income Hawaiians....
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| Russia reportedly exits Iran nuke site |
Russia is pulling out its experts from the Iranian nuclear reactor site they were helping build, U.S. and European officials said Tuesday. The move reflected a growing rift between Iran and Russia that could lead to harsher U.N. sanctions on the Islamic republic for its refusal to stop uranium enrichment.The representatives — a European diplomat and a U.S. official — said a large number of Russian technicians, engineers and other specialists have returned to Moscow in the past week, at about the same time senior Russian and Iranian officials tried unsuccessfully to resolve financial differences over the Bushehr nuclear reactor. They spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because their information was confidential....
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| Somalia tops minority threat list |
Somalia has overtaken Iraq as the world's most dangerous country for minority groups, a study has found. Sudan, Afghanistan and Burma followed in the global survey by the Minority Rights Group International (MRG). It alleges the US ignored abuses of minorities in countries supporting the US "war on terror" including Pakistan, Turkey and Israel. Sri Lanka saw the highest rise in persecutions with renewed fighting between government and rebel forces. "A new government in Somalia has raised hopes for democracy, but it is also a uniquely dangerous time," said MRG's director Mark Lattimer. "There is the spectre of a return of large-scale clan violence - and groups that supported the old order are now under tremendous threat." MRG said the Darood, Hawiye and Issaq clans are under threat as well as the Bantu group. ...
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| Most Britons Say Iraq Invasion a Mistake |
Nearly six in 10 people in Britain believe it was a mistake to invade Iraq, according to a BBC poll published Tuesday. Fifty-five percent of respondents said they felt the war in Iraq has made Britain less safe, and only 5 percent said it left them feeling safer, according to the British Broadcasting Corp. poll commissioned to mark the invasion's fourth anniversary. "Four years on from the war, most people in the country have now come to the view that the United States and Britain were wrong to take military action against Iraq in 2003," said Nick Sparrow from ICM Research, which conducted the poll. More than half of respondents, 51 percent, said they would not trust the British government if it said military action was needed elsewhere because a country posed a threat to national security. Thirty-two percent said they would trust the government. ...
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| Senate votes to cut Gonzales’ power to appoint |
The Senate voted overwhelmingly Thursday to end the Bush administration’s ability to unilaterally fill U.S. attorney vacancies as a backlash to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ firing of eight federal prosecutors. Amid calls from lawmakers in both parties to resign, Gonzales got a morale boost with an early-morning call from President Bush, their first conversation since a week ago, when the president said he was unhappy with how the Justice Department handled the firings. With a 94-2 vote, the Senate passed a bill that canceled a Justice Department-authored provision in the Patriot Act that had allowed the attorney general to appoint U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation. Democrats say the Bush administration abused that authority when it fired the eight prosecutors and proposed replacing some with White House loyalists. “If you politicize the prosecutors, you politicize everybody in the whole chain of law enforcement,” said Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt....
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