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Exclusive: Widow of slain U.S.-Bangladeshi blogger lashes out at Dhaka

May 11, 2015 publisher assault, hiding-since, indian, maimed-woman, online, pakistan, string-attacks, the-outskirts, works-inside

The maimed woman, Rafida Ahmed, scanned the room nervously. The Atlanta financial executive has been hiding since Islamic militants wielding machetes attacked her on Feb. 26 in her native Bangladesh

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U.S. presidential candidate Fiorina spins web around interviewer

May 10, 2015 admin chief-executive, chuck-todd, freedom-summit, indian, laid-off-during, meet-the-press, online, pakistan, record, speaks-during, string-attacks, the-outskirts, works-inside

Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina apparently has learned something about registering website domain names. Shortly after the former Hewlett-Packard chief executive announced her campaign last week, she found out that a cybersquatter had bought the rights to carlyfiorina.org and was using it to criticize her record. Chuck Todd of NBC News brought up the issue while interviewing Fiorina on “Meet the Press” and showed the website, which features row after row of frowny-face emoticons representing 30,000 people laid off during her Hewlett-Packard tenure from 1999 to 2005

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Texas gunman had happy childhood in Pakistan but struggled in U.S.

May 5, 2015 creative buys-the-fiber, embrace, french, international, italian, orange, pakistan, paris, prophet, said-on-tuesday, united-states

By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Nadir Soofi, a gunman shot dead after opening fire at a Texas exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, was a popular schoolboy in Pakistan but struggled to adjust to the United States after moving there as a teen, friends said on Tuesday. Soofi’s story appeared to trace a familiar arc for some Western Islamists – disappointment, alienation, and a search for belonging that ended with the embrace of militancy. Friends in Pakistan, who studied with Soofi at the elite International School of Islamabad, were stunned to discover that police had identified him as was one of the attackers.

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Russian researchers expose breakthrough U.S. spying program

February 17, 2015 publisher afghanistan, bluffdale, cronulla, data-gathering, documents-nine, figured-out-how, incident-pitted, pakistan, race, racist-flare-up, sally-aitken, security, sydney, yemen

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world's computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives.

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Europe’s airlines race for Wi-Fi in battle for passengers and new revenues

February 16, 2015 admin bluffdale, data-gathering, figured-out-how, incident-pitted, number, pakistan, revenue-through, sarah-young, such-as-seats, their-planes, victoria-bryan

By Victoria Bryan and Sarah Young BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) – Europe’s airlines are racing to add Wi-Fi to their planes, eager to attract Internet-hungry customers in a cut-throat short-haul market and potentially add millions of dollars of revenue through entertainment, services and advertising.