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08/02/2019 GMT

Jeff Bezos: Amazon Boss Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

BBC World Service - World Update, Jeff Bezos: Amazon Boss Accuses National Enquirer of Blackmail

The world's richest man, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, has accused the owner of a US gossip magazine of trying to blackmail him over lewd pictures.

He said the National Enquirer's parent company, American Media Inc (AMI), wanted him to stop investigating how they had obtained his private messages.

Also on the programme: A look at the fate of captured foreign IS fighters as their on-the-ground presence diminishes; and NASA reveals the Kepler Space Telescope's final pictures after a decade of use.

(Photo: Jeff Bezos, Credit: Reuters)

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