Welcome to Facebook, Taiwan poll candidate tells Chinese as posts flood in

Tens of thousands of posts apparently from China have flooded Taiwan presidential election front runner Tsai Ing-wen's Facebook account, demanding that the island return to China – and her response on Wednesday was to welcome mainland interest in democracy. The surge in posts, nearing 70,000 by Wednesday, is all the more astonishing because Facebook is generally blocked in Communist Party-ruled China, although there are ways of getting around firewalls.

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U.S. campuses hold race protests after Missouri resignations

Students will hold events to highlight racial issues at a handful of U.S. college campuses this week, spurred by the impact of protests at the University of Missouri that culminated in the resignation of the school's president and chancellor. Peaceful marches or walkouts have been held, or are planned, at Yale University, Ithaca College and Smith College, though none has yet reached the intensity of demonstrations at Missouri, where hundreds of students and teachers protested what they saw as soft handling of reports of racial abuse on campus

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Behind Ben Carson’s rebellious public image, a DC insider is hard at work

By Emily Flitter NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate Ben Carson may be the farthest Republican voters can get from the party's establishment: A retired neurosurgeon with a penchant for inflammatory comments who has never held, much less run, for elected office. While many of his rivals are concentrating on hiring staff and renting offices in key states like New Hampshire and Iowa, Carson is pursuing a more unorthodox campaign, sometimes less visible to the naked eye, that has fueled his rise to the top of the polls.

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TalkTalk hires BAE Systems to investigate cyber attack

By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) – British broadband provider TalkTalk said on Sunday it had hired defense company BAE Systems to investigate a cyber attack that may have led to the theft of personal data from its more than 4 million customers. TalkTalk said on Friday it had received a ransom demand from an unidentified party for the attack, which has led to calls for greater regulation of how companies and public bodies manage personal data. “BAE Systems are supporting us as we investigate this week's cyber attack,” a spokeswoman for TalkTalk said, declining to give further details due to the ongoing investigation

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Social media gaffes claim another candidate in Canadian election

By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) – Social media claimed another victim on Wednesday in Canada’s federal election campaign as the centrist Liberal Party dumped a candidate and denounced online remarks he made that suggested the country’s national police force was the Canadian Gestapo.

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