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Murdoch Gets Dangerous for Cameron Amid Phone-Hack Scandal
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For three decades, Britain’s powerful have sought close relations with Rupert Murdoch and his newspapers. Now politicians, police and businesses are all finding that closeness is becoming dangerous.
News International said late yesterday it will investigate allegations its News of the World tabloid hacked the phones of relatives of dead soldiers, after reports that the voicemail of murder and terror victims was intercepted. J Sainsbury Plc and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. joined companies pulling advertising. Senior policemen who dined with editors of the paper now have 45 detectives investigating it.