News that the probe involved a female subordinate was initially reported Thursday by the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
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While an FCPA investigation may begin, as this News Corp. probe did, with an allegation about a company's activities in a single country, like bribery in Britain, often in such cases authorities quickly expand the probe to the company's conduct around the globe.
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She was convicted of trying to sell information on the phone-hacking probe to the News of the World.
British authorities said Thursday they have arrested a 37-year-old woman on suspicion of paying bribes to police, as part of a criminal probe into wrongdoing at News Corp.
Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych said a special investigation team will be set up to probe the explosions, the news agency reported.
Delhi police spokesman Rajan Bhagat told the AFP news agency that police had launched a probe into the rape and "attempted murder" of the girl.
Scotland Yard launched the probe after learning that the News of the World had hacked into the phone of a slain teenager in that newspaper's quest for scoops.
The cybercriminals' exploit uses an increasingly common method to decide which pages to infect: Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) searches that probe sites en masse for hackable weak points.
During the course of that broader probe, the Justice Department approached News Corp.
The Kenyan National Commission on Human Rights also called for an independent probe and planned to hold a news conference Friday.
Federal prosecutors and the FBI have yet to reach any conclusions about either the Russian probe or the broader inquiry into News Corp.
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In March 2011, two months after British police reopened a dormant probe into phone hacking at the News of the World, News Corp. announced that the younger Mr. Murdoch would move to New York to become News Corp.
Police in June opened a probe into alleged computer hacking connected to News of the World.
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The investigation is part of a wider police probe into alleged illegal reporting tactics at News Corp.
Ms. Wheeler is the latest News Corp. employee to be charged in the bribery probe.
The probe began after police officials reviewed videos from news reports, Riley said.
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Police investigating the disappearance of millions of emails potentially relevant to their probe have zeroed in on a senior executive of News International, News Corp.
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Federal prosecutors in Boston are investigating Schering-Plough's (nyse: SGP - news - people) pricing practices as part of a probe of the pharmaceutical industry.
The reopening of the probe set off a chain of events that ultimately led News Corp. to close the 168-year-old News of the World.
Authorities had arrested 25 people and charged eight former News of the World journalists with crimes in the phone-hacking probe, and had arrested 17 people in a probe of alleged email and other hacking.
In August, a former employee of Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) arrested earlier that month as part of a probe into the dairy, was freed from pretrial custody.
The committee generally refrained from making pronouncements on former News International executives who are among roughly 40 people arrested as part of a massive British criminal probe into phone hacking, bribery, obstruction of justice and computer hacking.
's now-closed News of the World tabloid in connection with what authorities described as a new line of inquiry in their probe of phone-hacking at the paper.
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The Crown Prosecution Service said no further action would be taken against freelance journalist Terenia Taras, former Evening Standard journalist Raoul Simons, and former News of the World junior reporter Ross Hall, all of whom were arrested in the phone-hacking probe.
The U.S. probe began in July to investigate a media report that U.K.-based employees of News Corp.
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Police had investigated the matter in 2006 but re-opened their probe at the beginning of this year after new information surfaced through civil lawsuits and an internal investigation at News International.
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