2011年9月19日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Murdoch close to payout to hacking victim's family (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 02:07 PM PDT

FILE - A Sunday July 10, 2011 photo from files showing Chief executive of News Corporation Europe and Asia, James Murdoch gesturing as he leaves his father Chairman of News Corporation Rupert Murdoch's residence, in central London. James Murdoch will be recalled for a second grilling before Britain's Parliament, a senior lawmaker investigating the tabloid phone hacking scandal said Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. The announcement from John Whittingdale, the chairman of Parliament's media committee, comes after former Murdoch executives raised serious doubts about the credibility of the dramatic testimony given by James and his father Rupert, head of the News Corp. media empire. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File)AP - Rupert Murdoch's company said Monday that it is in advanced compensation talks with the family of a murdered teenager whose phone was hacked by the now-defunct News of the World tabloid.

Irish Travelers win last-minute stay of eviction (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 12:35 PM PDT

Irish Travelers, residents of the Dale Farm settlement, stand on a tower of scaffolding poles at the entrance to the site near Basildon, England, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Irish Travelers built barricades and chained themselves to cars on Monday to stop police and bailiffs moving in to evict them from their home. The conflict over the settlement has raged since 2001, when Travelers bought and settled on a former scrapyard next to a legal Travelers' site. The local authority waged a long legal battle to remove them, which it finally won at Britain's High Court last month. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - A group of Irish Travelers facing eviction from their English campsite won a last-minute reprieve Monday when a judge prevented bailiffs from removing any structures in their settlement.

News International to pay $4.7 million to settle hacking (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 11:42 AM PDT

Reuters - News International is expected to pay three million pounds ($4.7 million) to settle hacking claims by the family of murder victim Milly Dowler against Britain's now defunct News of the World newspaper, sources close to the issue told Reuters on Monday.

UK police arrest 7 in anti-terror operation (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 10:35 AM PDT

Police guard a house in Asquith Rd, Ward End, Birmingham, England following the arrest of six men in Birmingham as part of a large intelligence-led counter-terrorism operation Monday Sept. 19, 2011. The men were detained at or near their homes overnight on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in Britain. A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said the men, aged between 25 and 32, were taken into custody by unarmed officers in the Moseley, Sparkbrook, Sparkhill, Ward End and Balsall Heath areas of Birmingham. (AP Photo/David Jones/PA)AP - British police arrested a group of suspected Islamic extremists on Monday in what officials called one of the most significant counter-terror operations of the year.

BBC: 6 independent filmmakers arrested in Iran (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:54 AM PDT

AP - Six independent filmmakers have been detained in Iran, the BBC said Monday, describing it as an attempt to pressure the international broadcaster over its coverage of the country's clerical regime.

UK sailor guilty of nuclear submarine killing (AP)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 08:35 AM PDT

AP - A Royal Navy sailor who murdered an officer and injured three other crewmen in a drunken shooting spree aboard a British nuclear-powered submarine was sentenced Monday to at least 25 years in jail.

Kenyan charged after Britons' murder, abduction (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:24 AM PDT

Reuters - A man was charged in a Kenyan court on Monday following the murder of a British tourist and the abduction of his wife at a remote beach resort near the border with lawless Somalia, a local magistrate and police said.

Gaddafi spokesman: 17, including French and British, captured (Reuters)

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 05:17 PM PDT

Reuters - A spokesman for Muammar Gaddafi said on Sunday that 17 "mercenaries," including what he called French and British "technical experts" had been captured in the Gaddafi bastion of Bani Walid in Libya.

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