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		<title>NEW FEATURES GOOGLE, GRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:13:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California &#8211; Google introduced a new feature called Graphic Knowledge or Knowledge Graphs on the search results. These services include a summary of topics related to your search. Topic summary was taken from 500 million items, about people, places, and others, are available in the Google database. »We strive to bring you information that could [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://beemoq.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Google-Graphic-Knowledge.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-763" title="Google Graphic Knowledge" src="http://beemoq.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Google-Graphic-Knowledge-300x172.jpg" alt="Google Graphic Knowledge" width="300" height="172" /></a>California &#8211; Google introduced a new feature called Graphic Knowledge or Knowledge Graphs on the search results.<br />
These services include a summary of topics related to your search. Topic summary was taken from 500 million items, about people, places, and others, are available in the Google database.</p>
<p>»We strive to bring you information that could help solve the task as quickly as possible,&#8221; said Jack Menzel, Product Management Director of Google Search, as quoted by Cnet, Thursday, May 17, 2012.</p>
<p>When you enter a keyword such as Frank Lloyd Wright, on the right side of the screen a summary of search results will be posted on Wringht figure who was an architect.<span id="more-762"></span></p>
<p>There is also a collection of biographies, and links to pictures of buildings ever designed. If you click on Fallingwater, there will be a new box that contains all the information about the building.</p>
<p>But if you include keywords that are too general, search engines and their features Graphic Knowledge will be difficult to understand what you are looking for. So, try to include a more detailed search terms.</p>
<p>With the Knowledge Graphic feature on the search results page, then you need not open a certain link or go to the Knowledge Graph database.</p>
<p>Menzel said that Google is building a database of Graphic Knowledge since 2010. At that time, the company acquired the search engine-maker Metaweb common knowledge services freebase.</p>
<p>In addition, he said, Google is also integrating data from laboratory projects freebase had with Google Squared. Function, for extracting from unstructured data into structured data that can appear on web pages.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, while this new Knowledge Graphic services featured in the Google Search in English.</p>
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		<title>RUSSIAN RESCUE TEAM IS TRAINED SEND TO MOUNT SALAK INDONESIA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia&#8217;s envoy to Indonesia, Alexander Ivanovis, pronounced a Russian supervision will move in 78 experts to Indonesia. Expert is approaching to optimize a routine of questioning a means of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 craft pile-up which strike a wall of Mount Salak, Bogor.  &#8221; There will be dual planes from Russia. The initial aircraft will [...]]]></description>
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<p>Russia&#8217;s envoy to Indonesia, Alexander Ivanovis, pronounced a Russian supervision will move in 78 experts to Indonesia. Expert is approaching to optimize a routine of questioning a means of a Sukhoi Superjet 100 craft pile-up which strike a wall of Mount Salak, Bogor.  &#8221; There will be dual planes from Russia. The initial aircraft will lift 41 experts from Russia tonight. Then a second craft will have 37 people tomorrow,&#8221; Alexander pronounced in a press discussion during Halim Perdana Kusuma airport, Jakarta, Friday (11/5).  Power of Russia, pronounced a ambassador, according to a manners could have worked for a duration of time for twelve years. &#8221; But we&#8217;ll take a monument in a faster time,&#8221; he pronounced by a translator.<br />
<span id="more-749"></span>Meanwhile, associated to team-work of this investigation, a Minister of Transportation Mangindaan EE, reliable a NTSC will sojourn directed towards as a personality of a investigation. &#8221; They have been a member, you sojourn a leading. So here you upheld his investigation,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Regarding a black box of Sukhoi aircraft, Mangindaan said, investigate will be conducted in Indonesia. Of course, he said, after removing capitulation from a Russian side.</p>
<p>&#8221; It will be no complaint though you will make use of a denunciation interpreter (translator),&#8221; he saidRussia&#8217;s Emergency Situations Ministry sent rescue teams to Indonesia to take partial in poke as well as rescue operations during a pile-up site Sukhoi Superjet 100, pronounced method mouthpiece Irina Andrianova told Itar-TassKamis (05/10/2012).</p>
<p>&#8220;Based upon a preference of a state care as well as coordination with Indonesia, a Russian Emergency Situations Ministry sent a group of rescuers as well as a required equipment, together with helicopters, for poke as well as rescue operations,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Andrianova remarkable which a Il-76 aircraft took off upon Friday (11.05.2012) during 02.00 Moscow time. There have been 42 people upon board, which consists Centrospas partial of rescue team, medics, psychologists as well as operational groups.</p>
<p>&#8220;All a rescuers have been lerned in towering rock climbing as well as has finished a required equipment. They will take partial in a poke for a moody tape deck as well as a alternative work,&#8221; pronounced Andrianova.</p>
<p>Plane to Jakarta, a method will take Bo-105 helicopters for poke operations.</p>
<p>Half an hour after nearing group will be ready to fly to a stage of a accident. &#8220;The record is called &#8216;global radius&#8217; used in a operations of poke as well as rescue most times,&#8221; pronounced Andrianova noted.</p>
<p>He pronounced which a alternative aircraft&#8217;s Emergency Situations Ministry will additionally fly to Indonesia prior to noon upon Friday eleven May.<br />
Penyelemat collision review group as well as polite ride aircraft Sukhoi Superjet100 (SSJ-100) has arrived in Jakarta upon Friday.</p>
<p>The group consisting of experts from a Ministry of Industry as well as Trade of Russia, a Interstate Aviation Committee, JSC association (United Aircraft Corporation) as well as SCA (Sukhoi Civil Aircrafts) intends to actively together stakeholders from a Government of Indonesia to control a investigation, pronounced a press matter a Russian Embassy in Jakarta Friday.</p>
<p>Russian Embassy in Jakarta additionally has non-stop a use core an puncture or &#8220;crisis center&#8221; to guard a swell of a depletion of a information.</p>
<p>According to a press statement, a Russian Embassy pronounced which a craft was boarded by 45 people, together with 8 organisation cabin. All passengers, according to report perceived by a Russian Embassy, ​​is a adult of Indonesia, Russia, Italy, a United States as well as France.</p>
<p>Sukhoi&#8217;s initial newcomer craft had mislaid hit after a collision which caused a craft crashed during an rise of 1,500 meters, around a slopes of Mount Salak, Bogor, West Java..</p>
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		<title>ROMNEY RETAINS STRONG LEAD IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AS SANTORUM GAINS IN POLLS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 10:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Harris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rick Santorum's poll numbers on the rise the wake of Iowa finish, but Romney may be unbeatable in the Granite StateAfter a strong performance in the Iowa caucus former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum received a boost in the latest polls in the 2012 ...]]></description>
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<p class="standfirst">Rick Santorum's poll numbers on the rise the wake of Iowa finish, but Romney may be unbeatable in the Granite State</p>
After a strong performance in the Iowa caucus former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum received a boost in the latest polls in the 2012 race for the Republican nomination. However, the surveys still show former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney as the clear frontrunner and firmly cemented as the favourite to win.

The fierce battle for the prize of the right to face off against President Barack Obama for the White House has now switched from Iowa to New Hampshire, whose voters go to the polls on 10 January. With the exception of Texas governor Rick Perry, who has moved ahead to the next state of South Carolina, all campaigns are set to wage an intense fight in the rural New England state.

The latest batch of numbers from New Hampshire show Santorum growing in support. A Zogby poll showed Santorum now on 11% in the wake of his Iowa win, up from just 3% the week before. Romney meanwhile was down three points to a still commanding 38% with Texas libertarian Ron Paul in second on 24%.

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A Suffolk poll showed Santorum jumping from fifth place to third to sit on 8% in New Hampshire while Romney was on 41%, down two points.

However, in national polls the news was more convincing for those conservatives who have flocked to the right-wing Santorum in the hope of forming a viable and unified "anti-Romney" candidate. A Rasmussen national poll put Santorum in second place among Republican voters across the country with 21% of the vote, just eight points behind Romney who was on 29%.

Those numbers show that even a powerful Romney win in New Hampshire, which seems all but certain, will not prevent the race going on to the less Romney-friendly territory of South Carolina and beyond that to Florida.

But for the moment all eyes are on New Hampshire where Santorum criss-crossed the centre of the state carrying out numerous campaign stops attended by a throng of camera crews and reporters. Unlike in Iowa, where his socially conservative views eventually won him strong support, Santorum tried to focus more strongly on economic matters. New Hampshire Republicans tend to be far more concerned with fiscal conservatism rather than hot button issues like abortion or gay marriage.

In a packed public meeting in the small town of Northfield, New Hampshire, Santorum spoke at length about the deficit and the need to cut government spending. Aware of his underdog status in the race, he urged voters not to listen to the polls showing an easy Romney win.

"Don't pay attention to the polls," he said. When asked how his time in New Hampshire was going he responded: "So far, so good."

Romney too put in a full day's campaigning, but, perhaps in a sign of confidence, not all of it was in New Hampshire. After a town hall meeting in the south of the state in the morning, Romney headed to South Carolina for a rally in the port city of Charleston. But leaving New Hampshire did not stop many of his rivals hurling a barrage of negative campaigning in his direction.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was damaged by a barrage of attack ads in Iowa from Romney allies, lambasted the frontrunner. In a TV ad of his own, Gingrich called Romney's economic ideas "timid" and warned he won't beat Obama.

Gringich's campaign is now emerging as one of the main focuses of anti-Romney rhetoric in the race. In the wake of the Iowa results Gingrich took out full page ads in a local New Hampshire newspaper that called Romney a "timid Massachusetts moderate".

Other campaigns have also joined in the Romney-bashing, perhaps sensing that now is the time to try and dent his march to the nomination. Former Utah
governor Jon Huntsman, who ignored Iowa to bet his entire campaign on
a strong showing in New Hampshire, has poured scorn on a string of
recent endorsements for Romney, including that of former Republican
nominee Senator John McCain.

He was joined by a pro-Gingrich "Super Pac", a fundraising group that can support a candidate but has no official links with them. The Winning Our Future group revived an ad that McCain's team ran against Romney in 2008 when the two men were battling for the party's nomination. "Mitt Romney's flip-flops truly are masterpieces," said the ad in a clear attempt to weaken the impact of McCain's endorsement.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>EUROZONE CRISIS LIVE: EURO FALLS TO FRESH 16-MONTH LOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 08:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rupert Neate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All eyes in City on US employment data, which is expected to show 150,000 jobs added in December8.08am: The FTSE 100 has opened up 0.2%. Germany's DAX is  up 0.3%, France's CAC up 0.6%, Spain's IBEX up 0.6% and Italy's FTSE MIB up 0.2%8.00am: Michael H...]]></description>
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<p class="standfirst">All eyes in City on US employment data, which is expected to show 150,000 jobs added in December</p>
<span class="timestamp">8.08am:</span> The FTSE 100 has opened up 0.2%. Germany's DAX is up 0.3%, France's CAC up 0.6%, Spain's IBEX up 0.6% and Italy's FTSE MIB up 0.2%

<span class="timestamp">8.00am:</span> Michael Hewson, market analyst at CMC Markets, reckons the euro could fall to the lowest point of 2010.
<blockquote>The 2010 lows at 0.8065 remain some way off but are by no means out of the question at this stage.

Pullbacks are likely to find resistance around the 0.8305/10 area and old December lows, while above here re-targets 0.8370.

The key resistance remains around the highs for the last three weeks at 0.8425, and only a move beyond here would target a move back towards 0.8450 and even the 200 week MA at 0.8567.</blockquote>
<span class="timestamp">7.53am:</span> Oh dear. The euro has fallen to another fresh low against sterling. The euro is now worth 82.39p - the lowest level since (earlier in) September 2010.

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It could be worth <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/05/euro-plunges-banking-crisis-eurozone">buying your summer holiday cash now</a> (scroll down).

<span class="timestamp">7.30am:</span> Good morning, and welcome to another day of our rolling coverage of the eurozone crisis.

Yesterday the <strong>euro</strong> dropped to 82.5p - <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jan/05/euro-plunges-banking-crisis-eurozone">its lowest against the pound since September 2010</a> - and it could slide even further today as fears about the health of the contintent's banks continue to mount.

The key test will come next week when Spain and Italy issue new bonds. And the spectre of an S&amp;P credit rating downgrade continues to hang over France.

All eyes in the City will be on <strong>US non-farm payroll numbers</strong> due out at 13:30, with trading in Europe expected to be light in anticipation. The number of people in work is expected to have risen by 150,000 in December, which will increase investor confidence in the US economy.

"With the much anticipated core European bond auctions behind us until next week, the market's sole attention now turns to the US payrolls report," says Chris Weston, a dealer at IG Markets. "It has to be said that expectations are elevated given all traditional leading indicators have shown improvement from last month, so we will need to see not only an above-expectation print, but at least an inline unemployment rate and a not-so-dramatic revision to last month."]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>JAMAICA WILL BECOME A REPUBLIC, NEW PRIME MINISTER VOWS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Guardian World News</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After taking office in landslide, Portia Simpson Miller pledges to drop Queen as head of state and restore prosperityPortia Simpson Miller has been sworn in for the second time as Jamaica's prime minister with a pledge to ease poverty, boost the econom...]]></description>
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<p class="standfirst">After taking office in landslide, Portia Simpson Miller pledges to drop Queen as head of state and restore prosperity</p>
Portia Simpson Miller has been sworn in for the second time as Jamaica's prime minister with a pledge to ease poverty, boost the economy, heal political divisions and drop the Queen as head of state.

Simpson Miller, who was prime minister for a year and half until 2007, took the oath of office before roughly 10,000 guests on the grounds of the governor-general's official residence.

The 66-year-old politician scored a dramatic victory in last week's national elections, leading her centre-left People's National party to a 2-1 margin in parliament over the centre-right Jamaica Labour party. Her opposition faction won a dominating 42 seats in the 63-seat legislature, leaving the incumbent party with 21.

Simpson Miller, Jamaica's first female prime minister, takes over from Andrew Holness, a 39-year-old Labour MP who led the government for just over two months.

"After being tested and tempered I stand before you today a stronger and better person prepared to be of service to my country and people," Simpson Miller said at the start of a spirited 45-minute speech.

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She said her government intended to abandon the British monarch as Jamaica's official head of state and instead adopt a republican form of government. Jamaica declared independence from Britain in 1962 but remains within the Commonwealth and has the Queen as head of state.

"I love the Queen; she is a beautiful lady," Simpson Miller said, before declaring to the audience in Jamaican patois: "But I think time come."

Simpson Miller said she could replace the privy council in London with the Trinidad-based Caribbean court of justice as Jamaica's highest court of appeal. She said this would "end judicial surveillance from London".

She vowed her government would "ease the burdens and the pressues of increasing poverty, joblessness and deteriorating standards of living" while also pursuing a tight fiscal policy and forging strong partnerships with the private sector and international partners such as the International Monetary Fund.

"My administration will work tirelessly that while we try to balance the books we balance people's lives as well," Simpson Miller said.

Jamaica has a punishing debt of roughly $18.6bn (£12bn), or 130% of GDP.

In the short and medium term the prime minister said her administration would use "state resources" to stimulate jobs through an emergency employment programme that was the centerpiece of her party's campaign manifesto.

Her People's National party has said it will try to renegotiate roughly 25% of a troubled $400m road programme financed by China in order to transfer some of the money to the employment programme.

The prime minister urged Jamaicans to create a more civil and respectful society and earnestly strive to make the best of themselves.

"We will seek to make this country one of brothers and sisters, not of rivals and victims," she said.

After her speech, Simpson Miller elicited laughter from the audience by dragging a slightly embarrassed-looking Holness, now the leader of the opposition, to the podium and saying she was his "second mother".

Holness had been elected unopposed to succeed Bruce Golding as head of the ruling Jamaica Labour party, becoming prime minister in the process.
Golding, 63, stepped down because of fallout from his handling of the extradition of Jamaican gang leader Christopher "Dudus" Coke last year.

After initially fighting Coke's extradition to New York on drug-trafficking charges, Golding's administration bowed to US pressure in May 2010 and sent police and the military in to arrest him. Seventy-six people died in the ensuing gun battles between government forces and Coke's supporters.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>AFGHAN PRESIDENT DEMANDS CONTROL OF BAGRAM PRISON</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 01:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Boone</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamid Karzai reacts to being sidelined from Taliban talks by ordering US hand over main military prison within one monthHamid Karzai, furious at being sidelined from Afghan peace talks, has thrown his government into yet another dramatic confrontation ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="track"><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.4/76724?ns=guardian&pageName=Afghan+president+demands+control+of+Bagram+prison%3AArticle%3A1684536&ch=World+news&c3=GU.co.uk&c4=Afghanistan+%28News%29%2CWorld+news%2CHamid+Karzai+%28News%29%2CUS+foreign+policy%2CTaliban%2CUS+military+%28News%29%2CUS+news%2CTerrorism+-+international&c5=Not+commercially+useful&c6=Jon+Boone&c7=12-Jan-05&c8=1684536&c9=Article&c10=News&c11=World+news&c13=&c25=&c30=content&h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FAfghanistan" width="1" height="1" /></div><p class="standfirst">Hamid Karzai reacts to being sidelined from Taliban talks by ordering US hand over main military prison within one month</p><p>Hamid Karzai, furious at being sidelined from Afghan peace talks, has thrown his government into yet another dramatic confrontation with the international community by demanding the US hand over control of its main military prison in Afghanistan.</p><p>Officials at the US embassy and Nato headquarters in Kabul scrambled to deal with the unexpected announcement, which comes amid humiliation for Karzai over US efforts to set up an overseas political office for the Taliban despite the minimal involvement of the Afghan government.</p><p>Karzai said a commission had been established to oversee the transfer, within a month, of the detention centre at Parwan, which replaced the old prison at Bagram airbase, north of Kabul. Bagram became infamous during the "war on terror" for holding the most "high-value" Taliban and al-Qaida detainees.</p><p>The shock announcement coincided with the parading at a press conference of two British private security workers who were arrested in Kabul on Wednesday with a car full of undocumented assault rifles. The government said the two men would be charged for illegal gun running and their company, a Canadian organisation called GardaWorld, would be closed.</p><p>Although the US has long agreed in principle to transfer its military prisons to Afghan control, the timetable has repeatedly slipped. The new deadline set by Karzai will be impossible to meet, not least because of grave concerns among the international community about the way Afghanistan treats the prisoners it already has responsibility for.</p><p>A UN report in October found that torture was rife in some Afghan prisons, including of inmates that had been transferred from Nato custody.</p><p>The Afghan government, however, has drawn up its own report on Bagram that Karzai said detailed "many cases of violation of Afghan constitution and other applicable laws of the country, the relevant international conventions and human rights".</p><p>A senior western official closely involved in detention issues said the US was concerned that Afghan guards would have trouble maintaining the equipment at the new Parwan detention facility</p><p>Nonetheless, Karzai has been adamant his government should gain complete control over all Afghan prisons, including Bagram and the issue has been one of the key sticking points in negotiations between Washington and Kabul over a much-delayed strategic pact that will determine the US role in the country after 2014.</p><p>"It's classic Karzai off his meds moment," said one western official in Kabul, alluding to a long track record of behaviour the international community has regarded as highly erratic.Karzai has successfully deployed such brinkmanship before, not least in August when he stunned the diplomatic corps by <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/16/karzai-ends-private-security" title="">ordering that tens of thousands of private security guards should be disbanded</a> within four months. A compromise was eventually reached that will lead to greater government oversight of private security contractors.</p><p>Afghan government officials said Karzai was extremely displeased at being kept out of secret negotiations between the US and the Taliban that look set to lead to the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/03/taliban-open-political-office-qatar" title="">establishment of a political office for the insurgent movement in Qatar</a>.</p><p>Last month Karzai withdrew his Qatari ambassador to express his anger at the plans. Although Karzai has long favoured political efforts to bring the war to an end, he has insisted that it be controlled and organised by his government. The Taliban think otherwise. In a statement released this week announcing its willingness to set up an office the movement made no mention of the Afghan government whatsoever.</p><p>It said the only two parties to the conflict of any importance were the US and the insurgents themselves.</p><p>Nato's International Security Assistance Force and the US embassy declined to comment.</p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/afghanistan">Afghanistan</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/hamid-karzai">Hamid Karzai</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usforeignpolicy">US foreign policy</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/taliban">Taliban</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-military">US military</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa">United States</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/terrorism">Global terrorism</a></li></ul></div><div class="author"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/jon-boone">Jon Boone</a></div><br/><div class="terms"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> &copy; 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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		<title>IRAQ&#8217;S SHIAS TARGETED IN DEADLY BOMB BLASTS</title>
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		<dc:creator>Martin Chulov</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At least 72 killed in co-ordinated wave of attacks in Baghdad and Nasiriyah as sectarian tension resurfacesBombs targeting Shia Muslims have killed 72 people in Baghdad and southern Iraq in a deadly start to a new year already heightened by fast-increa...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="track"><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.4/23417?ns=guardian&pageName=Iraq's+shias+targeted+in+deadly+bomb+blasts:Article:1684504&ch=World+news&c3=GU.co.uk&c4=Iraq+(News),Middle+East+and+North+Africa+(News)+MENA,World+news&c5=Not+commercially+useful&c6=Martin+Chulov&c7=12-Jan-05&c8=1684504&c9=Article&c10=News&c11=World+news&c13=&c25=&c30=content&h2=GU/World+news/Iraq" width="1" height="1" /></div><p class="standfirst">At least 72 killed in co-ordinated wave of attacks in Baghdad and Nasiriyah as sectarian tension resurfaces</p><p>Bombs targeting Shia Muslims have killed 72 people in Baghdad and southern Iraq in a deadly start to a new year already heightened by fast-increasing sectarian tensions.</p><p>Most of the dead were Shia pilgrims walking to the holy city of Karbala from Nasiriyah. A suicide bomber was walking among the men and detonated himself as a soldier tried to tackle him. The blast killed 48 and wounded more than 100.</p><p>In Baghdad, a series of bombs shortly after dawn, all in Shia neighbourhoods, killed another 24 people on Thursday. The bombings hit Sadr City, in the north-east of the city, and Qhadimeyah in the north west.</p><p>They marked the second co-ordinated attacks targeting Shias, or government security forces, in the past three weeks, underscoring yet again the deep divisions that remain in Iraq nine years after Saddam Hussein was ousted.</p><p>The December bombings, which killed more than 60, were claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq, an al-Qaida-inspired Sunni jihadist group that for the past four years has attempted to reignite the sectarian divisions that tore Iraq apart in 2006-07.</p><p>The group is almost certainly also the culprit for Thursday's attacks, which were the latest in at least 15 similar events over the past three years that have taken a heavy toll on Iraq's Shias, and in some cases minorities such as Christians and Yazidis.</p><p>None of the earlier bombings had been successful in their aim of drawing the Shias back into battle. The various Shia militias, such as the Jeish al-Mehdi – a key protagonist during the sectarian war – have remained stood down for almost three years, in which time a Shia majority government has attempted to consolidate its hold on Iraq's fractured political landscape.</p><p>Though not directly related, the latest bombings appear tailored to tap in to new sectarian tensions sparked by Iraq prime minister <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/20/iraq-sunni-leader-goes-on-the-run" title="">Nouri al-Maliki's move last month to charge the country's Sunni vice president, Tariq al-Hashemi, with terrorism</a>.</p><p>Hashemi has since sought refuge in the Kurdish north, and Sunni legislators in Baghdad have been refusing to turn up to parliament. Iraq's parliamentary speaker, Ousama al-Nujaifi, also a Sunni, has released a statement condemning the latest violence.</p><p>However the streets of Iraq's Sunni provinces reportedly remain restive. Sunni heartland areas, such as Anbar and Diyyala, are implacably opposed to Maliki, whom they say is moving to reinforce the post-Saddam dominance of Shias, who are country's majority sect but were widely persecuted under the three-decade rule of the former dictator.</p><p>Increasing sectarian conflict in neighbouring Syria is feeding into tensions in Iraq, with tribal leaders in Anbar confirming last month to the Guardian that local men have sought permission to travel across the border to support Sunni anti-regime demonstrators and defectors in clashes with forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian leader is a member of the Alawite sect, which has ties to Shia Islam.</p><p>Senior US officials, including the CIA director David Petraeus, and US army chief of staff, Ray Odierno, have travelled to Baghdad in recent weeks to meet with Iraqi leaders, who they worked closely with until US forces withdrew in mid-December, formally ending the nine year war.</p><p>The US and much of Europe fear lingering divisions inside Iraq and hardening sectarian positions elsewhere in the region could prove a combsutible mix.</p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iraq">Iraq</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middleeast">Middle East and North Africa</a></li></ul></div><div class="author"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/martin-chulov">Martin Chulov</a></div><br/><div class="terms"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> &copy; 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. | Use of this content is subject to our <a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html">Terms & Conditions</a> | <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds">More Feeds</a></div><p style="clear:both" />]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>IRAN CLAMPS DOWN ON INTERNET USE</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Saeed Kamali Dehghan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Restrictions on cybercafes and plans to launch national internet prompt fears users could be cut off from world wide webIran is clamping down heavily on web users before parliamentary elections in March with draconian rules on cybercafes and preparatio...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="track"><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.4/78000?ns=guardian&pageName=Iran+clamps+down+on+internet+use:Article:1684268&ch=World+news&c3=GU.co.uk&c4=Iran+(News),Middle+East+and+North+Africa+(News)+MENA,Internet,World+news,Technology,Human+rights,Law&c5=Not+commercially+useful,Technology+Gadgets,Corporate+IT&c6=Saeed+Kamali+Dehghan&c7=12-Jan-05&c8=1684268&c9=Article&c10=News&c11=World+news&c13=&c25=&c30=content&h2=GU/World+news/Iran" width="1" height="1" /></div><p class="standfirst">Restrictions on cybercafes and plans to launch national internet prompt fears users could be cut off from world wide web</p><p>Iran is clamping down heavily on web users before parliamentary elections in March with draconian rules on cybercafes and preparations to launch a national internet.</p><p>Tests for a countrywide network aimed at substituting services run through the world wide web have been carried out by Iran's ministry of information and communication technology, according to a newspaper report. The move has prompted fears among its online community that Iran intends to withdraw from the global internet.</p><p>The police this week imposed tighter regulations on internet cafes. Cafe owners have been given a two-week ultimatum to adopt rules requiring them to check the identity cards of their customers before providing services.</p><p>"Internet cafes are required to write down the forename, surname, name of the father, national identification number, postcode and telephone number of each customer," said an Iranian police statement, according to the news website Tabnak.</p><p>"Besides the personal information, they must maintain other information of the customer such as the date and the time of using the internet and the IP address, and the addresses of the websites visited. They should keep these informations for each individuals for at least six months."</p><p>In recent weeks, users in Iran have complained of a significant reduction in internet speed, reported the reformist newspaper, Roozegar, which has recently resumed publication after months of closure. The newspaper said it appeared to be the result of testing the national internet.</p><p>"According to some of the people in charge of the communication industry, attempts to launch a national internet network are the cause of disruption in internet and its speed reduction in recent weeks," Roozegar reported.</p><p>Some government websites, however, cited other reasons for the drop in speed.</p><p>"If the national internet comes into effect, the internet in the country will act like an internal network and therefore visiting the websites needs permission from the people in charge. Users outside Iran also need permission to visit websites running from inside the country," Roozegar's report said.</p><p>Speaking to the Guardian on condition of anonymity, an Iranian IT expert with close knowledge of the national internet project, which he described as a corporate-style intranet, said: "Despite what others think, intranet is not primarily aimed at curbing the global internet but Iran is creating it to secure its own military, banking and sensitive data from the outside world.</p><p>"Iran has fears of an outside cyber-attack like that of the Stuxnet, and is trying to protect its sensitive data from being accessible on the world wide web."</p><p>Stuxnet, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/sep/30/stuxnet-worm-new-era-global-cyberwar" title="">a computer worm designed to sabotage Iran's uranium enrichment project,</a> hit the country's nuclear facilities in 2010. Iranian authorities initially played down the impact of the Stuxnet but eventually admitted the nuclear programme had been damaged by the malware.</p><p>"At the same time, Iran is working on software robots to analyse exchanging emails and chats, attempting to find more effective ways of controlling user's online activities," said the expert.</p><p>A blogger in Tehran said recent news was of significant concern to the country's online community. "I'm addicted to the internet and can't imagine a day without the global internet," said the blogger. "But Iranians have always found ways to bypass the regime's censorship, for example by using illegal satellite dishes to watch banned television channels, and I'm sure in the 21st century we should be able to find alternatives should they opt to pull out of the world wide web."</p><p>The authorities have said for some years that Iran should have a parallel network which would conform to Islamic values and provide "appropriate" services. In April, a senior official, Ali Agha-Mohammadi announced government plans to launch "halal internet".</p><p>For Iranian officials, the need for such a network became more evident after the disputed presidential elections in 2009, when many protesters used social networks.</p><p>Less than two months before the parliamentary elections,- Iran's first national election since 2009, the regime warned against any online efforts to organise a boycott of the vote and said they would be considered a crime. Iran's bloggers have been prohibited from publishing any satirical materials about the elections or encouraging others to participate in a boycott.</p><p>In June, the US was reported to be funding plans to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/world/12internet.html?pagewanted=all" title="">facilitate internet access and mobile phone communications</a> in countries with tight controls on freedom of speech, such as Iran, through a project called "shadow internet" or "internet in a suitcase". Iran responded to the move by stepping up its online censorship by upgrading its filtering system.</p><p>Iran is suspected to have sought the support of China for its online censorship campaign but Huawei, a leading Chinese telecoms company, which has been accused of supplying Iran with equipment to enable censorship, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/04/us-huawei-iran-idUSTRE8030SJ20120104" title="">denied any wrongdoing</a>. More than 5m websites are filtered in Iran, but many Iranians access blocked addresses with help from proxy websites or virtual private network services. An Iranian official said last year that more than 17 million Iranians have Facebook accounts, although the site remains blocked in Iran.</p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/iran">Iran</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middleeast">Middle East and North Africa</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/internet">Internet</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/human-rights">Human rights</a></li></ul></div><div class="author"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/saeedkamalidehghan">Saeed Kamali Dehghan</a></div><br/><div class="terms"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> &copy; 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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		<title>TITANIC ARTEFACTS UP FOR AUCTION, 100 YEARS ON – IN PICTURES</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In April, to mark the 100-year anniversary of when the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, an unprecedented auction of artefacts recovered from the ship's wreckage will be held at Guernsey's in Manhattan. See a preview of some of the sunken treasure...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In April, to mark the 100-year anniversary of when the RMS Titanic set sail from Southampton, an unprecedented auction of artefacts recovered from the ship's wreckage will be held at Guernsey's in Manhattan. See a preview of some of the sunken treasures here</p><br/><p style="clear:both" />]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>BARACK OBAMA SETS OUT PLANS FOR LEANER MILITARY IN HISTORIC STRATEGY SHIFT</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Pilkington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President says armed forces will move away from large-scale ground warfare and focus more on China in wake of budget cutsPresident Barack Obama has unveiled plans for America's military future, outlining a historic shift towards a smaller and leaner fo...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="track"><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.4/22811?ns=guardian&pageName=Barack+Obama+sets+out+plans+for+leaner+military+in+historic+strategy+shi%3AArticle%3A1684516&ch=World+news&c3=GU.co.uk&c4=US+military+%28News%29%2CBarack+Obama+%28News%29%2CUS+news%2CUS+domestic+policy%2CWorld+news&c5=Not+commercially+useful%2CUS+Elections&c6=Ed+Pilkington&c7=12-Jan-05&c8=1684516&c9=Article&c10=News&c11=World+news&c13=&c25=&c30=content&h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FUS+military" width="1" height="1" /></div><p class="standfirst">President says armed forces will move away from large-scale ground warfare and focus more on China in wake of budget cuts</p><p>President Barack Obama has unveiled plans for America's military future, outlining a historic shift towards a smaller and leaner force that will focus on China and move away from large-scale ground warfare that has dominated the post-9/11 era.</p><p>Obama became the first president to announce a strategy change directly from inside the Pentagon – a theatrical gesture designed to underline the significance of the shift. Mindful of the dangers of displaying any weakness over national security in an election year, Obama said he was determined to maintain US military supremacy around the world, but he admitted that the review involved a move to "smaller conventional ground forces" and the removal of "outdated cold war-era systems".</p><p>The immediate incentive for the change in tack, <a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/Defense_Strategic_Guidance.pdf">set out in a Pentagon strategy paper</a>, is the fiscal crisis and the Congress-led drive for spending cuts. Currently, the Pentagon is under orders to slash $487bn from the resources it had expected to receive over the next 10 years, and those cuts could rise to close to $1tn if Congress fails to reach agreement on alternative reductions by January next year.</p><p>Details of the impact of the cuts on military deployments and systems will gradually be rolled out in upcoming budget announcements. For now, Obama and his main advisers, the defence secretary Leon Panetta and general Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, stuck to the highlights.</p><p>Among the casualties of the new-look military will be the two elements of the military that have formed the kernel of American global might over the past decade: the army and the marine corps. But with the Iraq war over and US commanders struggling to draw back from Afghanistan, that emphasis on the long-term massive ground mission is seen as fading as a priority, and both will face reductions in personel likely to involve tens of thousands of troops from the current Army numbers of 570,000.</p><p>There will also be a move away from the decades-old mantra of US military planners that America must be capable of fighting two wars at any one time. "The two-war paradigm has been an anchor in the way we think about the future. That paradigm is a residual of the cold war," Dempsey said.</p><p>That is likely to be siezed upon by Republicans as evidence that the Obama administration is damaging US capability around the world. Obama anticipated that criticism, saying: "Yes our military will be leaner, but the world must know the United States is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats."</p><p>For good measure, he added that the defence budget would continue to be larger than it was at the end of George Bush's term, and larger than the military spending of the next 10 countries put together.</p><p>"Make no mistake, we will have the capability to defeat more than one force at any time," Panetta concurred.</p><p>The dream of a modern military based on speed and stealth rather than overwhelming ground force has long been desired by military strategists. Donald Rumsfeld made a move towards it in the opening months of the Bush era, but was thrown off course by the 9/11 attacks and the angry US reaction to them in Afghanistan and then Iraq.</p><p>Now the Pentagon hopes to get back on that track, with new strategic goals and ambitions. Top of that list, the review has concluded, will be the emerging powers of the Asia-Pacific region amid mounting Pentagon concern about China's growing naval power and investment in high-tech weaponry.</p><p>"All trends are shifting to the Pacific. Our strategic challenges will largely emanate out of the Pacific region," Dempsey said.</p><p>In terms of the fighting force itself, the increasing reliance on technological warfare is certain to be extended, with the unmanned drone as its centrepiece. Critics on the left are likely to focus on that aspect as evidence of the Obama administration's disrespect for international law and civilian lives.</p><p>Panetta said: "As we reduce the overall defence budget, we will protect and in some cases increase our investments in special operations forces, new technologies like unmanned systems, space and in particular cyberspace capabilities and in the capacity to quickly mobilise."</p><p>Panetta and Dempsey both recognised that cuts in the strength of US troops would carry security risks. But they said the risks were preferable to doing nothing.</p><p>Panetta issued a clear and yet unspoken challenge to the Republican majority in the House of Representatives that has led resistance to the administration's budget plans. He said that if Congress continued along its path towards a further $500bn in defence cuts in January, the country's national security would be in jeopardy and there would be demoralisation within what he called a "hollowed" military force.</p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/us-military">US military</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/barack-obama">Barack Obama</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa">United States</a></li><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usdomesticpolicy">US domestic policy</a></li></ul></div><div class="author"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/edpilkington">Ed Pilkington</a></div><br/><div class="terms"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> &copy; 2012 Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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