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Thousands of people in the New York City region were without power and dozens of school districts — including all New York City public schools — were shut down on Friday morning as a lumbering late-February blizzard lashed the area with driving snow. Librado Romero/The New York Times A lone pedestrian on West 155th St. in Manhattan on Thursday. The slow-moving storm — the third major snowstorm of the winter — was expected to dump as much as 20 inches of snow in New York City by Saturday morning, with forecasts of 30 inches in some of the the city’s northern suburbs in Orange County. The storm left wind-whipped snowdrifts of a foot or more throughout the city,…

AP - A tsunami triggered by the Chilean earthquake raced across the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, threatening Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast as well as hundreds of islands from the bottom of the planet to the top.

Kabul, February 25: Suicide bombers attacked in the heart of Kabul on Friday, triggering a series of explosions and gunbattles that killed at least 17 people in an area that’s home to small residential hotels used by foreigners, police and witnesses said. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying five suicide bombers conducted the early morning attacks on two buildings used by foreign citizens, while police said the attackers numbered at least three. Police said Indians were among those killed. Dr. Surbod…

Colombia’s Constitutional Court has begun its final deliberation on whether to allow President Alvaro Uribe a chance to seek re-election after eight years in office. The court’s nine magistrates on Friday began giving their opinion on whether to approve a referendum asking Colombians if they want to amend the law so Uribe can run for a third consecutive term in the May 30 election. The conservative leader, already re-elected once in 2006, has not confirmed he even wants to run. But his allies have driven hard for a third term.  Time would be tight for authorities to organise any referendum and for Uribe to then register his candidacy for the presidential vote. During…

Associated Press LONDON—A British court on Friday made public a ruling criticizing domestic intelligence agency MI5’s handling of alleged victim of torture overseas, rejecting a government attempt to keep it secret. A three-judge panel at Britain’s Court of Appeal published a paragraph of a judge’s draft ruling that was previously withheld after government lawyer Jonathan Sumption complained it contained…

AP - More than 2,000 people watched killer whales perform Saturday at SeaWorld for the first time since one of the orcas dragged a trainer to her death underwater in front of horrified spectators three days ago.

Reuters - Warren Buffett has said the hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer-funded bailouts of corporate America will eventually pay off.