A new undersea telecommunications cable to boost Africa’s Internet access will land this month, mobile service provider MTN said Thursday, calling it the continent’s largest data pipeline yet.

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The White House is threatening a veto against a House Republican bill that would overturn new federal rules aimed at ensuring equitable access to the Internet.

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Facebook on Tuesday removed a page calling on Palestinians to take up arms against Israel, following a high-profile Israeli appeal to the popular social-networking site.

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The international coalition’s armed forces have been in action in Libya for over a week now, and the French and American armies are being transparent with information, by uploading daily Operation Odyssey Dawn updates on to their web sites.

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Microsoft denies deliberately blocking access to HTTPS, blaming the problem on a bug

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News of the magnitude 8.9 earthquake that hit northeastern Japan Friday, generating a 10-metre-high tsunami, sent millions of people around the world online in search of information and ways to help. Send your donation via SMS.

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Young Mauritanians pushing for social and political reforms continued a sit-in Saturday in the capital a day after a street protest demanding change.

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Tunisians filled the streets with the help of Twitter. Egypt’s protests were coordinated on Facebook pages like that of internet activist Wael Ghonim. Libyan dissenters spread the word about their “day of rage” last week the same way.

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The Qatar-based news channel Al Jazeera said on Friday its signal was being jammed on several frequencies and its website had been blocked in Libya.

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Mr Lee stood down hours after news and gossip website Gawker.com posted e-mail correspondence it said had been sent between the congressman and a 34-year-old single woman he met on the classifieds site Craigslist.

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