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Imprisoned Saudi blogger on hunger strike, wife says

December 10, 2015 admin australian, billingsgate, ensaf-haidar, hunger-strike, montreal-based, mysterious, news, parliament, saoirse-ronan, televised, the-release, wagstaff, while-singing, wife

By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) – Imprisoned Saudi blogger Raif Badawi has been on a hunger strike since Tuesday after being transferred to a “new isolated” prison, his wife, Ensaf Haidar, said on Thursday. Haidar, who lives in Canada where she and their three children were granted political asylum, confirmed the news by phone after tweeting it. Colette Lelievre, a Montreal-based campaign organizer with Amnesty International, said Thursday the group had been told Badawi was transferred to a different prison for “administrative reasons.” Amnesty had not yet independently confirmed he started a hunger strike.

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg: No tax benefit from philanthropic initiative

December 4, 2015 publisher breach, breakthrough, california, carpet-during, chief-executive, during-the-2nd, facebook, focus-on-areas, its-customers, news-magazine, prize-award, wetherspoon, wife

SAN FRANCISCO/BENGALURU (Reuters) – Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday he and his wife would receive no tax benefit from setting up their new philanthropic endeavor as a limited liability company and hinted at the types of efforts it would support. In a post on his Facebook page, he wrote that “just like everyone else, we will pay capital gains taxes when our shares are sold by the LLC.” While reiterating that the entity, called the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, would focus on areas like education and disease, he indicated the efforts would be similar to philanthropy he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, had already supported.

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Texas investigates ‘affluenza’ teen over beer pong party video

December 4, 2015 admin actions, breakthrough, california, enormous-wealth, focus-on-areas, his-sentence, juvenile-court, people, probation, wealthy-family, wetherspoon, wife, years-probation

Law enforcement authorities launched an investigation on Thursday into a video that allegedly shows the Texas teen from a wealthy family who killed four people while driving drunk among revelers at a party, possibly in violation of his probation.

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Canada police investigate possible murder-suicide after Facebook confession

May 8, 2015 creative daughter, facebook, family, from-the-shame, mounted-police, news, randy-janzen, said-on-friday, sister, wife

By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Canadian police said on Friday they are investigating several deaths in the Vancouver area that may be a murder-suicide linked to a message on Facebook in which a man appeared to confess to killing his daughter, wife and sister.

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EU, U.S. close to data sharing deal for security cases: sources

May 8, 2015 admin edward-snowden, facebook, from-the-shame, julia-fioretti, man-typing, mounted-police, sister, united, wife

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and the United States are close to completing negotiations on a deal protecting personal data shared for law enforcement purposes such as terrorism investigations, three people familiar with the matter said. The two sides have been negotiating since 2011 over the so-called “umbrella agreement” that would protect personal data exchanged between police and judicial authorities in the course of investigations, as well as between companies and law enforcement authorities. The protection of personal data in the United States has been a sore point in the EU since former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed mass U.S.

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Pentagon says security at bases in U.S. highest in four years

May 8, 2015 admin attack, caribbean, colonel, continental, edward-snowden, from-the-shame, islamic-state, united, wife

The U.S. military has ordered security at its bases around the United States to the highest level in nearly four years, Army Colonel Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman, said on Friday. The heightened security level covered everything from recruiting stations to National Guard posts and military bases and camps in the continental United States, Alaska and U.S.