BBC editor steps aside over Savile scandal
The head of the BBC’s flagship current affairs TV
programme stepped aside on Monday as accusations grew of a cover-up
of sexual abuse claims against late television star Jimmy Savile.
Newsnight editor Peter Rippon had given an inaccurate account of why
the show dropped its investigation into Savile, the shamed presenter
who died last year, the BBC said in a statement.
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Over 100 people hurt as Kuwait police battle protesters
Around 100 protesters and 11 policemen were hurt
on Sunday as Kuwaiti riot police used tear gas and rubber bullets in
clashes with tens of thousands of demonstrators, witnesses and
officials said. “The number of wounded protesters in hospital has
exceeded 100 after riot police attacked them,” director of the
Kuwait Society for Human Rights Mohammad al-Humaidi said on his
Twitter account.
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Lebanon police tear-gas anti-PM protest at funeral
Lebanese police clashed with protesters trying
to storm the prime minister’s office in Beirut, amid calls for him
to quit after a top security official was killed by a car bomb
blamed on Syria. Officers fired into the air and used tear gas to
repel the demonstrators in the hours following the funeral on Sunday
of General Wissam al-Hassan. The event had been billed as an
opportunity to protest against Syrian meddling in Lebanon but the
mood quickly turned to anger at Prime Minister Najib Mikati, whose
government is dominated by pro-Syria parties. More than 15 members
of the security forces were injured in the clashes with protesters
outside the Serail, the prime minister’s office, according to a
statement on Mikati’s website.
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