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Scottish first minister believes The Observer hacked his bank account
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond said Wednesday he believed his bank account was accessed by the Observer, a sister paper of the Guardian which helped expose a phone-hacking scandal. Salmond told the Leveson inquiry, a wide-ranging probe into press ethics, he had no evidence that Rupert Murdoch’s now defunct News…
Former British prime minister challenges Murdoch testimony
Former British prime minister John Major told the Leveson inquiryon Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch demanded he change his policy on Europe, directly contradicting the News Corp. chief’s own testimony. Major’s challenge comes a day after another former premier,Gordon Brown, also accused the Australian-born tycoon of misleading the inquiry into press ethics. Major, who was the Conservative prime…
U.K.’s Cameron to testify in phone hacking probe June 14
Prime Minister David Cameron is to appear next week before an inquiry into press ethics sparked by the phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers. Cameron, whose government has been under fire over a series of revelations about its closeness to Murdoch’s media empire, will give evidence on June 14, according…
Tony Blair admits he feared ‘powerful’ press
Former British prime minister Tony Blair said he made a strategic decision not to take on the power of the media during his time in office, as he testified at a press ethics inquiry on Monday. Blair, who was premier between 1997 and 2007, said he feared the battle would be so…
British minister called Murdoch aide ‘papa’
Britain’s culture minister faced fresh pressure Saturday after a press ethics inquiry released dozens of light-hearted text messages between him and a lobbyist for Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation, whom he called “mon ami” and “papa”. Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt exchanged the friendly and intimate messages with News Corporation’s Fred Michel…
Tony Blair to face Leveson press ethics inquiry
Former British prime minister Tony Blair will testify next week at a press ethics inquiry set up following a phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, the inquiry said Friday. Blair, Britain’s Labour premier between 1997 and 2007, is likely to be asked by the Leveson Inquiry about…
British Parliament to probe ex-Murdoch aides over hacking
LONDON — British lawmakers on Tuesday referred three former executives of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to their standards committee over claims they misled parliament over the phone-hacking scandal. A damning report by parliament’s influential culture committee had accused the three former aides this month of deliberately misleading its members during…
Ex-Murdoch aide Rebekah Brooks film in development
The rise and fall of Rebekah Brooks is to get the film treatment, reports said from Cannes Friday, just days after the former Rupert Murdoch aide was charged in Britain’s phone-hacking scandal. The story of the former chief executive of Murdoch’s British newspaper wing News International is in development as…
Ex-Murdoch aide among six charged over hacking
British prosecutors accused former Rupert Murdoch aide Rebekah Brooks and five others of obstructing justice Tuesday in the first criminal charges from the News of the World phone hacking scandal. The ex-News International (NI) chief executive, her husband Charlie Brooks and four people who worked for her were charged with trying to hide evidence from police investigating wrongdoing…
News Corp reaffirms support for Murdoch
NEW YORK — A top News Corp. executive on Wednesday reaffirmed support for embattled magnate Rupert Murdoch and “flatly” rejected a British parliamentary report calling him unfit to run the media conglomerate. Murdoch is “one of the smartest and most forward-thinking executives of our time and both I and the…
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