Parliament aims to publish hacking report on May 1
LONDON (Reuters) - MPs said on Thursday they hoped to publish on May 1 a long-awaited report into a phone hacking scandal centred on News Corp's now-closed News of the World tabloid. Parliament's...
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One of Britain's leading abortion services has suffered thousands of hacking attacks, it has emerged.
View ArticleParliament aims to publish hacking report on May 1
LONDON (Reuters) - Legislators said on Thursday they hoped to publish on May 1 a long-awaited report into a phone hacking scandal centred on News Corp's now-closed News of the World tabloid....
View ArticleClegg: Recall of MPs is just a backstop
Plans to give voters the ability to recall MPs are not being introduced to give politics an "aggressive tool", Nick Clegg has told MPs.
View ArticleGalloway hits out at 'complacent' Westminster elites
George Galloway has attacked Westminster's politicians as complacent and narcissistic in an uncompromising comment piece for politics.co.uk, three weeks after his by-election victory in Bradford West.
View ArticleMPs condemn Hain contempt case
More than 120 MPs have condemned a bid to prosecute former Cabinet minister Peter Hain for 'scandalising a judge'.
View ArticlePetrol bomb raises Bahrain Grand Prix fears
MANAMA (Reuters) - Safety fears grew ahead of this weekend's Formula One Grand Prix in Bahrain on Thursday after members of the Force India team were caught up in a petrol bomb incident and police...
View ArticleAt least 36 killed in wave of Iraq blasts
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - More than 20 bombs hit cities and towns across Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 36 and wounding almost 150, police and hospital sources said, raising fears of sectarian strife in...
View ArticleF1 staff leave Bahrain after petrol bomb
MANAMA (Reuters) - The violent reality of Bahrain's political unrest moved closer to Formula One on Thursday when the Force India team said two of their staff had asked to go home after colleagues were...
View ArticleSun journalist held ahead of showdown for Murdochs
LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested three people, including the royal editor of Rupert Murdoch's Sun tabloid, a source familiar with the situation said, in an escalation of a long-running phone...
View ArticleLord Sugar: Ignore Miliband and vote against ken
Alan Sugar hit out against his own party's candidate for mayor of London today, in a move which could see him rejected from Labour.
View ArticlePM backs 'local' devolution push
Devolution "should not stop at Holyrood" but continue to Scottish local government, David Cameron has said.
View ArticleLabour's Cooper wants Bahrain grand prix scrapped
Sunday's Bahrain grand prix "should not happen", shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper has said, amid anger over the Bahraini government's human rights record.
View ArticleTories signal massive revolt over Lords reform
The coalition's Queen's Speech relaunch appears under threat after Conservative MPs threatened to rebel en masse against its centrepiece, Lords reform.
View ArticleUK pushes for European court reform
Proposals by the British government at today's conference on the European court of human rights in Brighton will make a "big difference" in improving how the court operates, Ken Clarke has said.
View ArticleSNP pledges "can do" councils in local election manifesto
The Scottish nationalists launch their pledges for next month's local elections today, pledging to "put the people first" and run proactive councils.
View ArticleBoris bikes 'killing cyclists'
'Boris bikes' prompted the most heated moments of Thursday evening's mayoral hustings, after the mayor was told his policy was "killing cyclists".
View ArticleBoris Johnson on London Mayor campaign trail: I corrected Ken Livingstone in...
Conservative candidate attempts to clear up that now notorious lift incident with rival Ken Livingstone
View ArticleFactbox - France's stuttering economy ahead of vote
PARIS (Reuters) - France votes on Sunday in the first round of an election which could make Socialist Francois Hollande the country's first left-wing president in 17 years just as new worries about the...
View ArticlePerceptions of Afghan Taliban victory dangerous-Pakistan general
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The withdrawal of most combat troops from Afghanistan at the end of 2014 has raised questions from Kabul to Brussels to Washington about the potential chaos that may...
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