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New Idea apologises for Harry story
Didn`t know there was an embargo
Didn`t realise danger of reporting it

AN Australian women`s magazine has apologised for breaking a global media blackout on Prince Harry`s frontline deployment in Afghanistan.

In its latest issue, New Idea magazine says it is sorry it was not "alert to the possible ramifications" of running the story about Harry`s secret tour of duty, which appeared in the magazine and on its website in January.

Few people noticed the initial report, but a scandal erupted after US website the Drudge Report picked up the story and broadcast it around the world, breaching an agreed global media blackout.

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"We did not knowingly breach any embargo and were not party to any agreement for a media blackout on the story," New Idea says.

"However, and more importantly, we do acknowledge that our actions in publishing the story can be reasonably viewed as insensitive and irresponsible."

The magazine says it acknowledges and regrets "the distress and anxiety felt by readers" over the revelations.

"We regret this serious lapse of judgment," it says.

"We sincerely apologise to all our readers, to the servicemen whose lives are at constant risk while serving at home and abroad and to their families and loved ones."

Defence chiefs in the UK had tried to keep the young prince`s deployment secret under a news blackout agreed by British media to prevent details reaching insurgents and endangering the prince and his comrades.

The 23-year-old, who is third in the line to the throne, was forced to cut his three-month tour of duty short and returned to the UK on March 1 after serving 10 weeks in Helmand province.

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