News Headlines - 03 December 2017

Police kept secret copy of porn file on Damian Green | The Times & The Sunday Times

A secret file containing details of the pornography on Damian Green’s computer was preserved by police despite a command from senior officers that the data should be deleted.
The disclosure raises the prospect of decisive evidence coming to light — and is likely to further widen divisions between police and MPs. Senior Downing Street aides are now understood to want Green to resign, rather than forcing Theresa May to decide whether to sack or clear him.

Top FBI official assigned to Mueller’s Russia probe said to have been removed after sending anti-Trump texts - The Washington Post

Peter Strzok, as deputy head of counterintelligence at the FBI, was a key player in the investigation into Clinton’s use of a private email server to do government work as secretary of state, as well as the probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election.
During the Clinton investigation, Strzok was involved in a romantic relationship with FBI lawyer Lisa Page, who worked for Deputy Director Andrew McCabe... The extramarital affair was problematic, these people said, but of greater concern among senior law enforcement officials were text messages the two exchanged during the Clinton investigation and campaign season in which they expressed anti-Trump sentiments and other comments that appeared to favor Clinton.

Met Opera to Investigate James Levine Over Sexual Abuse Accusation - The New York Times

The Metropolitan Opera announced Saturday night that it would open an investigation into its famed conductor, James Levine, based on a 2016 police report in which a man accused Mr. Levine of sexually abusing him three decades ago, beginning when the man was a teenager.

Yemen's former president Saleh offers talks to Saudi-led coalition - France 24

Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he was ready for a "new page" in relations with the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen if it stopped attacks on his country.
The call came as his supporters battled Houthi fighters for a fourth day in the capital Sanaa as the two sides traded blame for a rift between allies that could affect the course of the civil war.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in first joint royal event - CNN

Less than a week after her engagement to Britain's Prince Harry was announced, the American actor Meghan Markle got her first taste of the "walkabout" on Friday, in near-freezing temperatures in the English city of Nottingham.