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    • ]]>     “And so it begins.  An Apple user has filed suit against Google over the alleged bypassing of privacy settings on the Safari web browser.  The story broke late last week when Google and several other web companies were accused of bypassing the privacy settings on Apple’s Safari browser on the iPhone and other Apple devices.  Google had previously said that it would follow privacy settings that Safari uses”

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  • Blackberry users served by a UK data centre cut off the net
    • ]]>     “On Feb. 27, a diplomatic process will begin in Geneva that could result in a new treaty giving the United Nations unprecedented powers over the Internet.  Dozens of countries, including Russia and China, are pushing hard to reach this goal by year’s end. As Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said last June, his goal and that of his allies is to establish ‘international control over the Internet’ through the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), a treaty-based organization under UN auspices. If successful, these new regulatory proposals would upend the Internet’s flourishing regime, which has been in place since 1988.  That year, delegates from 114 countries gathered in Australia to agree to a treaty that set the stage for dramatic liberalization of international telecommunications.  This insulated the Internet from economic and technical regulation and quickly became the greatest deregulatory success story of all time”

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    • ]]>     “The UN nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran’s suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of confrontation with the West.  In a defiant response, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran’s nuclear policies would not change despite mounting international pressure against what the West says are Iran’s plans to obtain nuclear bombs. As sanctions mount, ordinary Iranians are suffering from the effects of soaring prices and a collapsing currency. Several Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed over the past two years in bomb attacks that Tehran has blamed on its arch-adversary Israel”

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    • ]]>     “President Nicolas Sarkozy has accused his far-Right election rival Marine Le Pen of creating an artificial controversy over her claim all meat in the Paris region is prepared using Islamic halal traditions”

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  • “German parliament approves expanded bailout fund”
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    • ]]>     “A battle over an increased eurozone bail-out fund and International Monetary Fund support for the European Union’s single currency threatens to derail the latest Greek bailout”

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    • ]]>     “Authorities have regained control of Bali’s notorious Kerobokan jail, home to Australian drug traffickers Schapelle Corby and the Bali Nine, following a riot which forced guards to retreat to the streets.  About 100 heavily-armed police entered the jail early on Wednesday morning to put down the riot which was linked to the stabbing at the weekend of one prisoner and the arrests of three other inmates”

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    • ]]>     “Two Western journalists have been killed in the Syrian city of Homs when shells hit the building they were in.  They have been named as Marie Colvin, the highly respected American Sunday Times reporter, and Remi Ochlik, an award-winning French photographer.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    • ]]>     “The International Committee of the Red Cross said  that it was holding a meeting with Syria’s main opposition group in Geneva, a day after the humanitarian agency called for temporary cease-fires so it can bring in emergency aid and evacuate the wounded and sick from affected areas.  Russia, which has opposed harsher international measures to end Syrian President Bashar Assad’s crackdown on anti-government protests, voiced support Wednesday for a daily two-hour humanitarian cease-fire in Syria”

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    • ]]>     “Whitney Houston has been laid to rest in a brief private ceremony in New Jersey, the end of a weekend in which the pop star’s family and friends gathered at a star-studded funeral to mourn her loss while celebrating her career.  Fans and onlookers gathered in several places along the route the motorcade took from the Newark funeral home to the cemetery in Westfield, where Houston was buried next to her father, who died in 2003″

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    • ]]>     Martha Lott of Holden Street Theatres becomes South Australia’s biggest Fringe producer once again in 2012 programming comedy, music, film and theatre across ten venues at three main locations; The Adelaide Town Hall, Holden Street Theatres at Hindmarsh and Thebarton Theatre.  In all she will umbrella thirty nine productions from around Australia, the UK, Canada, New Zealand, Russia and the USA including a number of Australian and South Australian premieres.  Five-star, award-winning theatre productions from the UK again lead Martha’s charge in Holden Streets’ Hindmarsh program this Fringe.

    When his friend is stabbed, a young lad falls in with a gang. The terrible revenge he takes brings disaster on himself and the victim’s family. Inspired by The Iliad and Glasgow’s ‘knife culture’, Fleeto, by Paddy Cunneen, is a hard hitting contemporary Scottish re-invention of the classic Greek tragic form, performed in a rich, flexible Shakespearian style verse. Fleeto’s Australian premiere season plays from 22 Feb – 18 March in The Studio at Holden Street.

    ‘Powerful and beautifully-produced …stunningly fine’ **** The Scotsman

    ***** British Theatre Guide

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    In Wee Andy, also by Paddy Cunneen it’s another day, another tragic knife attack and another life shattered. Here audience witness the fallout for those left picking up the pieces – the surgeon who stiches up the victim and the mother who tries to protect him – and Wee Andy who tries to imagine a different life. Wee Andy (Australian premiere) plays from 21 Feb – 17 March in The Studio at Holden Street.  Fleeto and Wee Andy answer one another and yet stand alone as two incredible pieces of theatre. Together they are the joint winners of the Holden Street Theatres’ Edinburgh Award for 2011.  ‘Cunneen uses and rich flexible iambic pentameter to create and new kind of verse drama …emphasising the truly tragic dimension of the carnage’.

    Its Roald Dahl meets Tim Burton in The Terrible Infants by UK’s Les Enfant Terribles Theatre Company a family friendly work of puppetry, live music, performance, storytelling and physicality blended into a highly sensory theatrical feast with narration by Dame Judi Dench. Meet such characters as Tumb, the boys who eats his mum; Thingummyboy, with a face even his mother forgets; Little Linena the material girl; Manky Mingus and Little Tilly with her terrible tail. The Terrible Infants’ Australian premiere season plays from 21 Feb- 18 March in The Arch at Holden Street.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ‘Modern theatre at its best’ ***** ONE4REVIEW

    ‘Magical, this is what storytelling should be’ ***** Fringe Review Edinburgh

    The Origin of Species … by means of natural selection or the survival of (R)evolutionary theories in the face of scientific and ecclesiastical objections; being a musical comedy about Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882) is a smash hit show (with a very long title!) which has enjoyed sell-out success in Europe.

     

     

     

     

     

    ‘Remarkably inventive, thoroughly entertaining …extraordinarily effective …19th-century science can rarely have been so much fun’ The Stage

    ‘Witty, clever, absurd … Comic Genius …Grown-ups will love it, kids will adore it . A Gem.’ ***** British Theatre Guide

    Set in 1858 Charles Darwin is slaving away at his latest book, a treatise on the reproductive organs of barnacle. The Australian premiere of The Origin of Species plays from 22 Feb – 18 March in The Studio at Holden Street.

    His Ghostly Heart is a new play by UK writer Ben Schiffer (lead writer on the BAFTA Award winning TV series Skins) to be directed by Martha Lott for its Australian premiere season at The Manse, Holden Street from 22 Feb – 18 March.

    The play, a two hander set entirely in the dark, allows the audience to eavesdrop on an intimate and unnerving moment between lovers and to become the walls … breathing reactions as the twists unfold.

    ***** Three Weeks (EdFringe)

    Other Holden Street Fringe attractions comprise; Be Your Age (The Studio 22 Feb – 3 March) The Royal Adelaide University Old Footlighters Club (sell-outs at the ‘06, ‘08 and ‘10 Fringe) and back for the last time … again! And no politician or institution is safe; Funny Business – There’s a Galah in the Town Hall (Adelaide Town Hall Auditorium 9, 10 March) comedians from across the Fringe program and the world gather in the name of silliness.

    Then in alphabetical order…

    Aladdin and his Magic iPod (25 Feb – 3 March The Arch) Aladdin trades his lamp for an iPod; Angels Eyes (9-11 March The Studio) the premiere of a new work by Melbourne Dance Theatre; Autobahn (14- 18 March David Spence Room Adelaide Town Hall) a series five vignettes that take place with in the confines of a car; Back of the Bus (24 Feb – 11 March Adelaide Town Hall – pick up point) physical comedy and dance on a bus ride through the streets of Adelaide; Bon Iver (6 March Thebarton Theatre); Craig Annis is a Knob Jockey (24 Feb – 3 March David Spence Room) a variety hour of stand-up, song and abundant stupidity; Drowning in Veronica Lake (2- 11 March The Studio) 40 years after her death Veronica is still trapped between Paramount and Purgatory; Echoes (16 March Meeting Hall Adelaide Town Hall) SA’s Pink Floyd Concept Band; Frank Woodley (24 Feb Thebarton Theatre) funny man Frank performs Bemusement Park; Hudsie Herman (2-5 March Meeting Hall Adelaide Town Hall) presents his damn funny melancholy songs; Judith Lucy (24 Feb Thebarton Theatre) performs Nothing Fancy … just gags about everything; Lahara (1-18 March Meeting Hall Adelaide Town Hall) lives loops of World/Funk/Dub music presented in an electronic visual environment; Legacy of the Tiger Mother (4-10 March David Spence Room) east meets west in this funny and moving story of tough love Asian style; Light Relief (24 Feb – 18 March Meeting Hall Adelaide Town Hall) fast moving comedy sketches, stand-up, news, sport and song with some special guests; Lords of Luxury (29 Feb – 17 March Prince Alfred Room Adelaide Town Hall) demented sketch comedy from Nova;s Matt Sarceni and Dan Debuf with JJJ’s Paul Verhoeven and Luke Ryan; Luke Escombe-Chronic (24-26 Feb Prince Alfred Room Adelaide Town Hall) comedy musicianship, with Luke Escombe MC and pimp; Nostalgia for Reality (24 Feb – 18 March David Spence Room) from Russia a funny and touching journey in the world of theatre holiday and dreams; Opening Night Party (24 Feb Adelaide Town Hall); One Flesh (4-11 March)…;Reflections of the Unseen (15-17 March…; Road Movie (25 Feb – 3 March)…; Rough Trade (25-28 Feb The Studio) savagery the commodified body and identity intertwine, in the name of Reality Entertainment; Ross Noble (9-13 March Thebarton Theatre) Ross performs his new show Nonsensory Overload; Squidboy (24 Feb -18 March The Arch) physical comedy about the power of a squids imagination; Trailer Park Boys (18 March Thebarton Theatre) Australian premiere tour based on the Canadian cult hit TV show; Triptych (24 Feb – 18 March The Box) a new dance film by Emma Taylor; The Farce of Sodom (28 Feb – 17 March The Arch) Sodom must burn but before it does comedians and burlesque artists will breathe life into the city; The Magic Hat (25 -Feb 4 March The Studio) Mem Fox’s text told through puppetry, song and movement; Two Points of Reality (10, 11 March The Studio) reality depicted through the eyes of a person with dementia; What if we Ran the World? (27 Feb and 10,11 March The Studio) Australian and overseas children give their answers; Wispa and the Golden Dragon (24 Feb- 18 March The Studio) a magical tale about Wispa the flying unicorn and a child fairy princess; Wyrd … with Grace (13-15 March The Studio) a collaboration of contemporary dance, visual art and music;

    Tickets for all Holden Street productions are available from FringeTIX
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    – now its Adelaide’s turn

    Performances from October 2012 at the Festival Theatre

    “Oh, what a night . . a theatrical triumph . . in a class of its own

    – Sunday Herald Sun

    “Entertainment with a capital E” – The Sunday Age

    “Looking forward to seeing a first-class musical in Adelaide!”  –  Global Media Post

    The Hon. John Hill MP, South Australian Minister for Health and Ageing, Minister for Mental Health and Substance Abuse, and Minister for the Arts announced that the world-wide smash hit production of JERSEY BOYS – The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons will open at the Festival Theatre in October 2012.

    John Hill said “Jersey Boys is a rolled-gold blockbuster that I’m sure will be a huge hit here, as it has been around the world. I wish everyone involved in this production a really successful season at the Adelaide Festival Centre.”

    JERSEY BOYS opened in Melbourne in July 2009 and played for 13 months before transferring to Sydney’s Theatre Royal opening in September 2010 for a 15 month season. Over 1,000,000 people have seen the show in Melbourne and Sydney and over 14 million around the world.

    JERSEY BOYS – The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons is the story of how four blue collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop sensations of all time. Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Tommy DeVito and Nick Massi joined forces to become The Four Seasons, writing their own hits and developing their unique sound to sell over 175 million records before they were 30!

    Broadway Producer, Michael David, from Dodger Theatricals said – “We are thrilled to bring JERSEY BOYS to Adelaide. This story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons has captivated nearly 14 million fans in productions worldwide, and now it is our fondest hope that Adelaide will embrace JERSEY BOYS in the same way. The show is chock full of classic Four Seasons showstopping songs and a story that is all the more riveting because it’s true. With an extraordinary cast, we believe JERSEY BOYS will engage theatergoers and send them dancing out of the Festival Theatre! The remarkable partnership of Frankie Valli and Bob Gaudio indelibly sealed by a handshake agreement over 40 years ago will resonate with Adelaide audiences who will identify with the importance of honour and integrity in this touching tribute to the power of loyalty between friends.”

    JERSEY BOYS features 20 Four Seasons hit songs including “Sherry”, “Big Girls Don’t Cry”, “Rag Doll”, “Oh What a Night” and “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”.

    Written by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, choreography by Sergio Trujillo and directed by two-time Tony Award winner Des McAnuff, JERSEY BOYS – The Story of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons won four 2006 Tony Awards® including Best Musical and the Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 2009.

    In Australia JERSEY BOYS won two Helpmann Awards being Best Musical and Best Music Direction of a Musical and seven Victorian Green Room Awards. The JERSEY BOYS Original Cast Recording also received a 2006 Grammy Award® for Best Musical Show Album.

    Producer, Rodney Rigby said “We are delighted to announce the Adelaide season of JERSEY BOYS. Adelaide will join Broadway, London, Las Vegas, and two US National tours in hosting this blockbuster hit musical. South Australia — have we got a story for you!”

    “JERSEY BOYS is a great theatrical event with enormous universal appeal” said Paul Dainty, Producer. “A true story about four guys who rose to fame creating some of the best loved music ever heard is the reason why JERSEY BOYS is such an international hit”.

    Bob Gaudio, original member of the Four Seasons said “Our people were the factory workers, the truck drivers. The pretty girls with circles under their eyes behind the counter at the diner. They were the ones who really got us, who pushed us over the top. The Four Seasons hit the emotional nerves in ways that no other group did because the Seasons were as one with their fans. They moved in a tough world, the world of Bruce Springsteen, of The Sopranos, of the young Sinatra, a world where the Mafia controlled the night clubs, those who supplied them with food and drink, those who served in the clubs and those who performed in them. And if you fell out with them – as Tommy DeVito did – you were in trouble.”

    JERSEY BOYS will feature the performances of Dion Bilios as Frankie Valli, Declan Egan as Bob Gaudio, Anthony Harkin as Tommy DeVito, and Glaston Toft as Nick Massi – The Four Seasons.

    DION BILIOS is Frankie Valli
    Dion has been involved in stage and performance since the age of four, training in all aspects of performing arts. His stage credits include the roles of Gavroche in Les Miserable, Sammy in Jolson and Captain in Oliver. In 2008, he toured with the Australian production of Altar Boyz, where he performed the role of Mark and has most recently been part of the award winning Australian production of Mary Poppins. Dion has also featured in numerous television commercials and series including his role as “Bud” in the AFI Award winning film Soft Fruit. He has also had the chance to work with many of Australia’s finest Choreographers including Kelley Abbey, Matt Lee, Leah Howard, Cameron Mitchell, William A Forsythe and The Squared Division.

    DECLAN EGAN is Bob Gaudio
    Declan is thrilled to be making his professional theatre debut as Bob Gaudio in Jersey Boys. In 2010 he graduated from the Diploma of Music Theatre course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). Declan also graduated from the Talent Development Project in 2011 and performed in the TDP-Start Me up Concert at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. Since graduating Declan has performed with the corporate act Boys in the Band with SMA productions. Prior to NIDA, Declan studied Voice at the Newcastle Conservatorium of Music and performed in the 2010 season of Encore at the Sydney Opera House.

    ANTHONY HARKIN is Tommy De Vito
    Anthony Harkin graduated from the Western Australia Academy of Performing Arts in 1999 and has since gone on to a successful career in Theatre and Television. Anthony’s recent theatre credits include Rock of Ages (Newtheatricals), Avenue Q (Arts Asia), Shane Warne the Musical and Wind in the Willows (Australian Shakespeare Company). Other theatre credits include the A Month in the Country (Sydney Theatre Company), The Last Five Years (Echelon Productions), Cabaret (IMG), and The Internationalist (The Practical Theatre Company). Anthony also toured Australia nationally with Miss Saigon. Television and Film credits include The Alice, Network Seven’s All Saints and Mark Lee’s feature film The Bet. Anthony recently directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Sydney’s Centennial Park for WildRumpuS Productions.

    GLASTON TOFT is Nick Massi
    Glaston graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 2005. Prior to WAAPA, he studied Classical Voice at the Queensland Conservatorium and trained in Commercial Dance and Music Theatre at DLDC Studios. In 2008, he performed in TML Enterprises’ production of SHOUT- the Legend of the Wild One (Peewee understudy- the Delltones’ iconic frontman). Glaston then commenced the national tour of Opera Australia’s My Fair Lady (The Cockney & Servant Quartets). His other performance highlights include Little Me and Camelot for The Production Company.

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  • Eurozone’s debt crisis: “Sarkozy and Merkel to meet over plan to protect Europe’s banks”
  • “Sarkozy warns France of new economic reality”
  • “Leaders of Germany, France, Italy meet amid growing fears about Europe’s finances”
    • ]]>     “Greece may be scrambling for revenue, but the French treasury has just banked some 550 million euros for doing nothing – simply letting the French franc, created in 1360, finally perish. Friday was the last day that French francs could be turned into the Bank of France, the central bank, in exchange for the common European currency, the euro, a little more than a decade after it was introduced as bills and coins.  The approximately 550 million euros represents the francs still outstanding, somewhere, which are now worthless, and which will be registered as revenue for the French state.  As the franc died, it is the future of the euro that seems at question now, an irony that hardly escaped some of those waiting in line at the bank to exchange the francs they had found stashed away in drawers, coat pockets and old purses (only bills were exchangeable; coins went out of circulation in 2005)”

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    • ]]>     “Syrian security forces maintained their crackdown against opponents of President Bashar al-Assad’s rule after China urged an end to the violence.
    At least 13 people were killed yesterday, following a toll of 31 on Feb. 17, the UK-based opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in an e-mailed statement. The Syrian army resumed shelling residential districts of Homs, Al Jazeera reported, citing opposition groups. A fuel storage depot at the refinery in the besieged city was bombed overnight by ‘an armed terrorist group’, the official Syrian Arab News Agency said.  China’s vice-foreign minister, Zhai Jun, visited Damascus yesterday, where he urged Syria to halt the fighting and restore stability. Zhai, speaking in the capital after a meeting with Assad, backed the Syrian leader’s proposed referendum on a new democratic constitution, set for Feb. 26, according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua”

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    • ]]>     “Egypt on Sunday recalled its ambassador to Syria, as pressure mounts on the military-led government to expel the Syrian envoy over Damascus’s continuing crackdown on dissent. The decision was made by the Foreign Minister, Mohamed Amr, following a meeting with the Egypt’s ambassador to Damascus, who is currently in Cairo, a spokesman for the ministry, Amr Rushdi, said… Egypt’s decision follows moves by Tunisia, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other Arab nations to reduce ties with Damascus”

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  • “Syria targets Homs as UN chief calls for international action”
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  • “Arab League says Syria monitors helping, activists”
    • ]]>     “At least 22 people have been killed as Syrian armour moved on protest hubs, while prominent blogger Razan Ghazzawi and other leading activists were arrested, monitors said ahead of a UN vote on the crisis”

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    • ]]>     “Security forces on Thursday arrested blogger Razan Ghazzawi, icon of the 11-month uprising in Syria, along with rights activist Mazen Darwish and 12 others, opposition figures said”

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    • ]]>     “The Arab League’s monitoring mission to Syria is coming under increasing pressure: the UN says killings have increased since the arrival of monitors; protesters have been repeatedly shot during observer visits, monitors themselves have been attacked; and a observer has resigned claiming the mission is a farce”

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  • “UK students protest rising tuition fees”
    • ]]>     The Minister for Immigration and Citizenship, Chris Bowen MP, announced the Australian Government will make the visa application process easier for students from 29 countries by reducing assessment levels across a range >of student visa subclasses from 24 March, 2012.

    The changes are in response to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship’s (DIAC) 2011 review of student visa assessment level settings, which recommended that a number of assessment levels be changed.

    ‘While it was recommended that some assessment levels be increased, I have decided to only implement the reductions in order to best support Australia’s international education sector,’ Mr Bowen said.

    ‘Lowering the minimum evidentiary requirement for the grant of a student visa for selected countries and visa subclasses is expected to help around 10 500 prospective students.

    ‘These changes will particularly benefit the postgraduate research sector, English Language Intensive Courses for Overseas Students (ELICOS) and vocational education and training (VET) providers.’

    For example, South Koreans studying VET and ELICOS courses and postgraduate research students from China, India and Indonesia will now find it easier to apply for visas.

    ‘The reduction in assessment levels builds on the measures implemented as a result of the Strategic Review of the Student Visa Program, undertaken by the Hon Michael Knight AO, to ensure Australia remains an attractive study option for overseas students,’ Mr Bowen said.

    Assessment levels are an important tool in managing the student visa program, as they ensure the efficient delivery of services to a diverse range of students while supporting the integrity of Australia’s immigration program.

    Assessment levels align visa requirements to the immigration risk posed by students from every country and in each education sector. They are regularly reviewed and amended to accurately reflect the risk posed by a student cohort.

    Those countries and sectors that were recommended to be subject to an increase in assessment levels will be placed on notice and reviewed as part of any future reforms to the risk management framework.

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  • ‘Second earthquake in a day shakes northern Japan’
  • “Japan hit by magnitude 7.0 earthquake”
    • ]]>     “Japan’s Meteorological Agency reported a magnitude-6.2 earthquake has struck eastern and north-eastern Japan.  There are no immediate reports of casualties or damage”

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    “The Tokyo Electric Power Company said the temperature in one of the damaged reactors at its Fukushima nuclear station rose above safety limits yesterday, even as it injected increased amounts of cooling water.  One of three thermometers indicated the temperature at the bottom of the No.2 reactor pressure vessel rose to 93.7 degrees, , exceeding the 80 limit, said Ai Tanaka, a spokeswoman for the utility known as Tepco….   [The company] Tepco and Japan’s government announced on December 16 that they had succeeded in bringing the reactors into a safe state known as cold shutdown nine months after the March 11 earthquake and ensuing tsunami caused the worst release of radiation since the Chernobyl accident in 1986″

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  • America asked to help protect Israeli embassy in Cairo…
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    • ]]>     “The wife of an Israeli diplomat in New Delhi and her driver were injured when the car they were traveling in was bombed, officials said. A second attempted bombing was defused outside the Israeli embassy in Tblisi, Georgia, at about the same time.  There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately blamed Iran, which has vowed revenge for the recent assassinations of several scientists involved in Iran’s controversial nuclear program”

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    • ]]>     Vice President Xi Jinping of China is scheduled to meet with President Obama on Tuesday at the White House.  In advance of his visit, the Chinese government invited The Post to submit written questions to the vice president.  Following is a transcript of his written answers, as translated and provided to The Post by the Chinese government:

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • “What is the US going to do about Iran to show it’s serious?
  • “How Burma can show it’s really changed”
  • China faces a series of daunting internal challenges
    • ]]>     “Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit this week is an opportunity for the man who is likely to lead China from late 2012 to late 2022 to begin to develop the agenda for that decade with a president who may well serve until January 2017. Yet this visit comes at a time of growing strategic distrust between China and the United States. China, despite me problems, “remains on a roll. Its economy has rapidly expanded to second-largest in the world, with gross domestic product continuing to advance annually in the high single digits. Its military budget has grown 10-plus percent a year for more than a decade, growth that is likely to continue for years”

    Opinion by Kenneth Lieberthal, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution. J. Stapleton Roy is director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center.

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  • Disaster: “More than 100 dead or missing after Japan’s typhoon”
  • “Fukushima towns struggle to store radioactive waste”
  • “After earthquake, Japan can’t agree on the future of nuclear power”
    • ]]>     “Temperature readings at one of the crippled Fukushima nuclear reactors rose above Japan’s stringent new safety standard but there was no immediate danger, its operator said.   Tokyo Electric Power said one of three thermometers on the No.2 reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant indicated gradual heating this month and reached 179.6F (82C) Sunday.  The temperature was above the 176F (80C) safety standard newly employed by Japan’s nuclear safety authority, prompting the utility to publicize the reading and notify public agencies.  But it remains below the 212F (100C) level that the government says is needed to maintain the safe state of ‘cold shutdown’ ”

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  • “Six months after tsunami, killer typhoon brings more destruction, misery to Japan”
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    • ]]>     “Faced with the greatest reconstruction task since World War II, Japan is asking difficult questions about the future of its energy supply and just what sort of society should emerge from the ruins.  So far, rebuilding efforts have focused on construction of temporary housing, restoration of crippled infrastructure and clearing the estimated 25 million tonnes of debris created by the destructive force of the tsunami.  Officials say it could take ten years to completely rebuild the affected areas.  In the coming months, even years, there is a catchphrase familiar in disaster recovery that we can expect to hear a lot of in Japan:  ’Build back better’.”

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    • ]]>     “Japanese Emperor Akihito will undergo heart bypass surgery this week after a detailed examination found a heart problem had worsened, the Imperial Household Agency was quoted as saying… Kyodo news agency, quoting the Imperial Household Agency, said the emperor, 78, would have the surgery on February 18″

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    • ]]>     “Prince Harry has joined a group of injured British servicemen in central London at the launch of the Walking With The Wounded Everest 2012 challenge.  By June, five injured British servicemen hope to be at the top of Mount Everest.  Prince Harry will support them as patron of the Walking With The Wounded charity”

     

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    • ]]>     “The president shared a Spotify playlist on his Facebook page Thursday: 29 tunes that he’ll be pumping on the campaign trail between now and Nov. 6. There are songs from artists you’d expect (Bruce Springsteen), artists you wouldn’t (Ricky Martin) and artists that are actually from Canada (Arcade Fire)”

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