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Mark Lewis, the British lawyer who was instrumental in putting News Corp.’s phone-hacking scandal in the public eye, asked a judge for a jury trial of his related defamation lawsuit against London police.
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Britain’s police watchdog cleared former Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson and his deputy John Yates in relation to a botched phone-hacking investigation of News Corp.’s News of the World tabloid.
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London’s Metropolitan Police Service commanders used meetings with journalists to get introductions to politicians, advice on public opinion and tips on crimes, a former News Corp. editor said.
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The News of the World phone-hacking scandal claimed the job of a second senior officer at Scotland Yard in two days, as the London force’s top anti-terrorism officer resigned over ties with the shuttered News Corp. tabloid.
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Charles Plosser, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, said the Fed will probably need to raise interest rates before mid-2013 and that policy makers should have waited to see how the economy performed before pledging to hold rates at record lows for two years.
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The phone-hacking scandal that rocked Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. media empire spread from royals to politicians and celebrities over five years, before reaching a tipping point two weeks ago.
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London police probing News Corp.’s phone-hacking in 2006 didn’t show prosecutors evidence that more than two people were involved, preventing a full examination of the scandal, the lead lawyer in the case said.
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Bahrain has hired John Yates, the former assistant commissioner of London’s Metropolitan Police, to oversee changes in the Middle East nation’s law enforcement, the Telegraph reported.
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The Metropolitan Police commissioner who resigned as a result of News Corp.’s phone-hacking scandal told a judge-led inquiry into media ethics that commanders were “obsessed” with their portrayals in tabloid headlines.
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U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron cut even more time off a trip to Africa to deal with the deepening phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. after two senior police officers resigned.
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