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Robert Marquand

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Phone hacking letter spells more trouble for Murdoch and News Corp.

By Robert Marquand | 08/17/11
A letter from a former News of the World reporter, who was jailed in 2007 for hacking the phones of British royalty, further calls into question the veracity of testimony from Rupert Murdoch and his son James at last month's sensational phone hac
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From tumult of London riots, a father's voice emerges

By Robert Marquand | 08/16/11
A week after harrowing riots in London that spread to other British cities, the voice of a first-generation Muslim whose son was killed may prove to be the most eloquent cry for sanity. Hours after failing to revive his son Haroon and two others
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Rupert Murdoch: Scandal, phone hacking, and foam whacking

By Robert Marquand | 07/20/11
Rupert Murdoch, his son James, and Rebekah Brooks all expressed sorrow over phone hacking practices of News of the World (NotW), the shuttered News Corporation-owned tabloid that Ms. Brooks once ran, sticking closely to a script that has Mr.
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Murdoch's moment: What's at stake for News Corp. in phone-hacking hearings

By Robert Marquand | 07/19/11
The top three executives of the Murdoch empire that owns 40 percent of the British press and the biggest TV market here will today be publicly questioned about a hacking scandal that this week alone forced the resignations of Britain’s top two po
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Murdoch abandons BSkyB bid in rare business defeat

By Robert Marquand | 07/14/11
Rupert Murdoch formally withdrew his bid Wednesday to take over British Sky Broadcasting as public anger envelops his media empire in the wake of a burgeoning national phone-hacking scandal. Over the past few days, the BSkyB bid became the symbo
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Why Italy may need a bailout, too

By Robert Marquand | 07/12/11
With little advance warning and declaring it was not a “crisis” meeting, senior European officials today formally discussed Italy’s sovereign debt woes for the first time. They met in the wake of sharp stock falls last Friday and during spikes t
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Forbidden in France: the words 'Twitter' and 'Facebook'

By Robert Marquand | 06/08/11
“There are rules you must respect,” say French officials about a new restrictive ban on the words “Facebook” and “Twitter” in French media. The ban announced by France’s audiovisual authority aims to stop “clandestine advertising” of the two Ame
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Defiant Mladic sets stage for contentious war crimes trial

By Robert Marquand | 06/03/11
PARIS — “Good morning, Mr. Mladic,” intoned senior tribunal judge Alphons Orie just after 10 a.m.
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Ratko Mladic's whirlwind week: From war crimes fugitive to Hague inmate

By Robert Marquand | 06/02/11
Ratko Mladic is set to be arraigned Friday before the UN tribunal at The Hague as the highest-ranking Bosnian Serb military figure of the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Charges against Mr.
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France mulls quicker Afghan withdrawal after Osama bin Laden's death

By Robert Marquand | 05/05/11
Osama bin Laden's death is already changing the popular dynamics of the NATO mission in Afghanistan, leading to questions in Europe about a faster withdrawal from the war that followed 9/11. The idea is still largely rhetorical, with senior Euro