The Justice Department accuses Hakimullah Mehsud of planning the December 2009 attack in which a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a CIA base in Khost, Afghanistan, killing a Jordanian intelligence officer and seven CIA employees. It also placed the Pakistani group on its international terrorism blacklist.
Reuters – Any solution provided by Research in Motion, makers of BlackBerry smartphones, must pass through field trials to satisfy India’s security concerns, a senior government source said on Friday.
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Reuters – The fate of BlackBerry’s encrypted email and messaging services in India will be decided in last-ditch talks starting on Thursday between the smart phone’s maker and security agencies ahead of an August 31 deadline.
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India holds crucial meeting on BlackBerry security
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Reuters – Blackstone Group LP urged a federal appeals court not to revive an investor lawsuit accusing it of hiding bad investments before raising $4.7 billion in its 2007 initial public offering.
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Reuters – Bank of America Corp is considering whether to reduce its stake in asset manager BlackRock Inc , which is viewed as a non-core asset, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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Reuters – Bank of America Corp is considering whether to reduce its stake in asset manager BlackRock Inc , which is viewed as a non-core asset, a source familiar with the situation said on Sunday.
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Reuters – Saudi Arabia will allow BlackBerry’s Messenger service to continue beyond a 48-hour deadline due to “positive progress” made with manufacturer Research In Motion, the regulator said on Tuesday.
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Saudi Arabia and the makers of the BlackBerry have reached a preliminary deal on granting access to users’ data that will avert a ban on the phone’s messenger service in the kingdom, Saudi officials said Saturday.
The Blackberry is a hugely popular device in many countries but it’s unwelcome in the United Arab Emirates. It plans to ban BlackBerry e-mail, instant messaging and web-browsing services in October. Other countries are thinking of doing the same. Margaret Coker, a reporter with The Wall Street Journal talks to Renee Montagne about the reason for the upcoming ban.
The Gulf oil spill has Turks once again examining their own tanker-clogged Bosphorus Strait. Turkey says it wants to avoid collisions and groundings in the narrow entrance to the Black Sea, but the safeguards it can impose are restricted by international treaty. Environmentalists say Turkey’s focus on tanker traffic is fine, but ignores potentially greater dangers from some of its own pet projects — including pipelines and Black Sea offshore wells that are even deeper than the one that caused the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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