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Broadcast and print journalist Author of “Desperate Glory”. RETWEETS NOT ENDORSEMENTS.

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Sam Kiley
3 months
I can confirm that Fred Thomas HAS served overseas on active service in places I have myself also worked. He is making nothing up and Mercer’s smears are unbecoming of anyone.
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Shashank Joshi
3 months
“Fred Thomas…also served in combat missions before leaving the corps in February, he said, but remains tightlipped about the details. Asked if he served with special forces, as sources have claimed, Thomas declined to comment.”
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Sam Kiley
8 years
FOX News - a little confused!
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CNN International PR
2 years
Overwhelmed surgeons, overwhelmed equipment. This is reality for the medical staff treating wounded Ukrainian troops in a trauma hospital along the country's eastern frontlines. @kileycnn reports from Kramatorsk 👉
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Sam Kiley
8 years
Three years ago Sky Cameraman Mick Deane was killed by an Egyptian sniper in Cairo. We miss him badly.
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Sam Kiley
2 years
We report exclusively from Izium just recaptured by Ukraine.
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3 years
My piece from Kabul Airport.
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3 years
Surely worth a look?
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Sam Kiley
2 years
Anyone wishing to help raise funds for this cause please donate here
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CNN International PR
2 years
Overwhelmed surgeons, overwhelmed equipment. This is reality for the medical staff treating wounded Ukrainian troops in a trauma hospital along the country's eastern frontlines. @kileycnn reports from Kramatorsk 👉
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Sam Kiley
8 years
This should make me unpopular! Sky Views: A message to so-called 'journalists'
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Sam Kiley
3 years
CaroleCadwalladr should be honoured for her consistent and brave reporting Social media turn on Putin, the past master | Carole Cadwalladr | The Guardian
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Sam Kiley
4 years
Our piece on virus hunters in the DRC - Mother Nature's Fight Back...
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Sam Kiley
8 years
Let all us hacks pledge to call liars liars in 2017. Enough ping pong coverage of "he said, she said - we don't know". We do.
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8 years
9. I'm fed up of accepting that some politicians talk rubbish. They are elected in good faith, to hold public office.
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3 years
Interview with Qatari Foreign Minister who knows the #Taliban well.
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Sam Kiley
8 years
#MS804 Egyptair flight vanished in Med. beacon detected 2 hrs later. Expect wreckage to be found soon.
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Sam Kiley
9 years
BoJo breaks ranks: Boris Johnson is wrong: in the 21st century, sovereignty is always relative | The Economist
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Sam Kiley
8 years
#MS804 seems that beacon was picked up after aircraft disappeared rather than a distress signal
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Sam Kiley
6 months
I have left @CNN to pursue exciting new work in broadcasting and to write books, and write more generally. Watch this space…
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Sam Kiley
2 years
The battle for #Kherson in #Ukraine a recon unit tells all.
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Sam Kiley
2 years
Our latest piece from eastern Ukraine. Relentless bombardment.
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Sam Kiley
3 months
No, obviously that would be mad. But I know this one to be true, and a few others, but oddly enough not everyone!
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Steve Williams
3 months
@WhyAskAdam @carolvorders @samkileynews @JohnnyMercerUK So your saying you know everyone who has seen active service overseas 🤔
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Sam Kiley
3 years
From a doctor who knows
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Dr Rachel Clarke
3 years
On 18 Dec - when Downing Street staff broke their own Covid rules by boozing it up at a Christmas party - 489 people died of Covid. Their loved ones distraught, cut off, unable to say goodbye to them. I think this is despicable.
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Sam Kiley
7 years
Great piece: Theresa May writhes in the spotlight of sharp questions over u-turn
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Sam Kiley
2 years
We join Ukraine’s secret police on the trail of alleged Russian spies.
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Sam Kiley
2 years
Watch this from @clarissaward harrowing and chilling.
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Sam Kiley
3 months
Yup
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Richard Popham
3 months
@JohnnyMercerUK @samkileynews Are you 100% sure with evidence on this? If not it seems a bit of an odd claim to make given it is likely he can’t say anything?
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#BorisJohnson says I am talking cobblers ...then agrees!
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Sam Kiley
3 years
Poland ?
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Sky News
3 years
Grant Shapps MP says '760 UK visas have been granted and 22,000 applications are on their way through' and claims that 'no other country has given more humanitarian assistance to Ukraine than the UK'. 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
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7 months
#Breathtaking is so aching with authenticity it makes we want to retain as a medic like @doctor_oxford . Few, is any, have Rachel’s decency and brilliance. We can help. #neveragain . Let’s focus on what must be done and less on #culturewars and VOTE
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Sam Kiley
8 months
This is going to be ill received on the front lines. I am sitting with a senior Ukrainian officer who’s laughing with dismay. In the East of Ukraine.
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Christopher Miller
8 months
Breaking: Zelensky appoints Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrsky as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, replacing Valery Zaluzhny.
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Sam Kiley
2 years
Our latest from eastern Ukraine in Bunny the Killer Tank
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Sam Kiley
2 years
A film about the women who gave CNN its soul and inspired me to join up! #NoOrdinaryLife #war #somalia #bosnia #journalism
@CNN
CNN
2 years
In a field dominated by men, see how five combat camerawomen broke barriers and went to the frontlines of wars, revolutions and disasters to bring back the historic images and stories.  #NoOrdinaryLife , a new CNN Film, premieres Monday, September 5th at 10 p.m. E T
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Sam Kiley
2 years
When we’re risking our lives we’re unlikely to be making it up. That can be done from….anywhere else @elonmusk
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Elon Musk
2 years
Some of the smartest people I know actively believe the press … amazing
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2 years
Ramita Navai’s interview with me in my least favourite subject.
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Ramita Navai
2 years
This brilliant journalist has covered almost every single conflict in the world since 1991. Colleague & friend @kileycnn describes moments he’s faced death, which he insists haven’t changed him - I think otherwise. Listen to THE LINE OF FIRE podcast here:
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Sam Kiley
8 years
Westminster terror attack: Lone wolves keep security services up at night
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Sam Kiley
3 months
That’s very kind of you but many people also probably think I’m a wanker!
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James
3 months
If Sam is saying he served then @JohnnyMercerUK is a liar. I know several people Sam worked alongside and every one has said he’s beyond reproach
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Sam Kiley
2 years
A timely reminder…
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Rupert Myers
2 years
This is ace - can’t believe I’d never seen it before
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Sam Kiley
7 years
My piece from Raqqa plus vid. Battle for Raqqa: An uneasy alliance is fighting IS
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Sam Kiley
3 months
This is obscene. Tories blocked report into Russian manipulation in the UK over Brexit. Ukrainians are literally dying to join the EU.
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Conservatives
4 months
They're watching.
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1 year
My piece on Russians Raiding Russia…
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Sam Kiley
7 years
Brilliant speech by @arwaCNN watch it. Now.
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Sam Kiley
3 months
@JohnnyMercerUK this is/or should be, beneath you. You both served the UK and were in harm’s way. I can confirm @FredThomasUK was in at least one war that I covered and at the same time.
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Rt Hon Johnny Mercer
3 months
He’s now changed his tune to having “lived and served in a war zone” -which I don’t dispute and respect his service. It’s very different to fighting and having your mates die in your arms. And every Veteran gets that, even if some of the media will pretend they don’t.
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Sam Kiley
5 years
Many people may not want to read or watch this...
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Sam Kiley
9 years
This from a friend
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1 year
exclusive how #Ukraine is hunting #Russian officers on the front lines
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Sam Kiley
7 years
Frank with a brain as sharp as his voice is silky. This will be a treat.
@FrankRGardner
Frank Gardner
7 years
A new challenge for me this Friday when I'll be co-presenting @BBCr4today with John Humphrys. Pls tune in between 6-9am!
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Sam Kiley
8 years
Very naive I am after 20 years covering the middle east and 25 covering conflicts. Not.
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Jay Beecher
8 years
Naive sky reporter @kileysky is trying to tell us that IS are NOT a threat to the western world. #CompleteJoke
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Sam Kiley
3 months
Ukrainians are, literally, dying to join the EU. Putin sees the EU as a strategic threat as it’s a democratic economic powerhouse. Luckily for Putin Farage is bending over forwards to accommodate Vlad…
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Nigel Farage MP
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I am one of the few figures that have been consistent & honest about the war with Russia. Putin was wrong to invade a sovereign nation, and the EU was wrong to expand eastward. The sooner we realise this, the closer we will be to ending the war and delivering peace.
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Sam Kiley
3 years
People like #NigelFarage might like to see this. NF great admirer of Putin. Putin keen on breaking up the EU.
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Sam Kiley
7 years
Islamic State brides explain why they left their home countries to join the 'Caliphate'
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Sam Kiley
8 years
Because I look like a bouncer and because ties are passe
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Peter Crawford
8 years
@kileysky Why don't you wear a tie on TV? You're claiming to be the editor, set an example!
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Sam Kiley
3 years
My analysis of the Taleban takeover What will an Afghanistan under the Taliban look like? Its rise to power in the '90s paints a grim picture
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Sam Kiley
8 years
It's "you're an idiot" ...
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Sam Kiley
6 years
Books drilled thru and pegged for a display in a Stansted bar. Hideous.
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Sam Kiley
2 years
Let us hope for a proper investigation into this killing of a distinguished and brave colleague. Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh shot dead while covering Israeli operation in West Bank
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2 years
Extraordinary work by war surgeons in #Ukraine our latest exclusive
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3 years
Our exclusive report from Myanmar Inside the Myanmar mountain camp where rebels train to fight the junta
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Sam Kiley
9 years
Islamic state fantasy creating its own currency http://t.co/Nv8hPT4t8L
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Sam Kiley
9 years
Because it is arguably neither Islamic nor is it a state
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Yorkshire Earl
9 years
@kileysky right sam good stuff good reporting but why the "so called" before every mention of islamic state ?
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Sam Kiley
9 years
Will the PM also explain why Turkey is bombing the Kurds who are the coalition ally in Syria?
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Sam Kiley
2 years
This will be worth watching as always with ⁦ @ramitanavai
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1 year
Support Carole’s defense of free speech and journalism PLEASE!
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8 years
#Nice French authorities not confirming terror behind attack that killed 30
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Sam Kiley
3 months
I am VERY seldom described as a “leftie”! But I do try to get facts straight
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Mr Maxwell Edison
3 months
@IronDuke64 @raf_tyke @BoveFromAbove @JohnnyMercerUK You assume those commenting are "lefties". You're also factually wrong to say no-one has posted evidence. Here are two people who confirm Mercer is wrong.
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Sam Kiley
9 years
#ParisAttacks when we have 1 mins silences we should reflect on the thousands killed for whom no one pauses around world.
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Sam Kiley
10 years
#freeajstaff stop jailing and shooting the messengers in egypt. http://t.co/VOuKDHhaVt
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9 years
Merry Christmas everyone
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Sam Kiley
8 years
Decoded Sir Ivan's letter is saying "I have resigned because the ministers I have been serving over Brexit are halfwits and won't listen"
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7 years
Aawwww
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Ramita Navai
7 years
CNN viewers - you’re getting an extraordinary journalist. Few know this, but during the Rwandan genocide @kileysky forced the French to save 5000 Tutsis in Bissessero. Paris Match covered it & attributed their rescue to Sam.
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1 year
These guys now say they are currently fighting inside #Russia . Against their own countrymen FOR Ukraine.
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1 year
Rarely has an award been so richly deserved.
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Edinburgh TV Festival
1 year
Kicking off the show, the award for Best TV Presenter - Factual Award goes to Ramita Navai ( @ramitanavai ) - Afghanistan: No Country for Women! #EdTVAwards
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2 years
Out latest from #Ukraine
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Sam Kiley
3 years
The evidence is all around us: life outside the single market is an utter disaster
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Sam Kiley
2 years
Your Ukrainians the backbone of the country. No snowflakes here.
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CNN
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CNN's @kileycnn speaks to a volunteer on the front lines in Ukraine who delivers medicine and food to villages in range of Russian artillery. Watch the video:
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2 years
@richardosman @ramitanavai Ramita is rather good at this.
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Sam Kiley
7 years
This is a must read.
@LizSly
Liz Sly
7 years
If you want to know what happens after ISIS, read what I found when I traveled through post-ISIS Iraq. It's grim
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The tragedy and bravery of front lone medicals in #Ukraine . Our piece from near #Bakhmut
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Watch @cnnbrk for @NicRobertsonCNN fantastic live reports from Kherson he is among first on the ground for the city’s liberation.
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Sam Kiley
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Take a look at a little film I made: Nation Divided: Sky News Special Programme
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Sam Kiley
9 years
This is my view of the bomb not to bomb #Syria debate so far
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Sky News
9 years
IS Or Daesh? It's A Pointless Name Game
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Sam Kiley
9 years
19 dead in #tunisia attack
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Sam Kiley
8 years
Of course NOT. The UK has diplomats and ministers for that. No precedent no need. esp not for man who insults fellow MEPs undiplomatically
@MichelleDewbs
Michelle Dewberry
8 years
I'll be debating @Nigel_Farage on @thepledge tomorrow...Should he have a role in US / US relations? I think so.
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Sam Kiley
8 years
Yes, thanks, I have been to both and I am not sure what I am lying about but enjoy your rage
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Sam Kiley
3 years
“To the best of his ability”. Monty Python moment.
@KayBurley
Kay Burley
3 years
Does the buck stop with Boris Johnson on these #partygate fines? Dominic Raab: "Ultimately individuals take responsibility" - and the Prime Minister told the truth "to the best of his ability" 👇 #KayBurley BH
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Five years ago just about now Mick Deane was shot by an Egyptian government sniper and killed. He was a deeply decent man loved by many. He was cut down exposing a massacre. This by his wife Daniela
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Sam Kiley
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A rare admission: US military admits it killed 10 civilians and targeted wrong vehicle in Kabul airstrike
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Sam Kiley
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#MS804 French president uses term that the aircraft "crashed" hunt now on for the cause. No sign of debris yet
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Sam Kiley
2 years
Some reflections on our work in Ukraine.
@VanityFair
VANITY FAIR
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Speaking about the psychological impact of reporting from a war zone, Sam Kiley ( @kileycnn ) tells V.F.: “I suppose I’m rather British about it: It’s supposed to f–k you up, but this is what we are there to do.” Read more:
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Sam Kiley
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Devastating report on Libya failure of Cameron policy in Libya
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Sam Kiley
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This is an admission that Isis is losing
@siteintelgroup
SITE Intelligence Group
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#ISIS spokesman said that even if group loses #Mosul #Raqqah #Sirte , it will not be defeated until it loses its faith-based fighting spirit
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Sam Kiley
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Cameron says French and US have asked UK to expand ops into Syria says UK has unique skills
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Sam Kiley
6 years
Supremely well deserved well done and much love. S x
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Kay Burley
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Sam Kiley
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Jesus wore a jalabia. Which is like a dress.
@SkyNews
Sky News
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This Christian couple say their son began to suffer because a boy in his class was allowed to wear a dress to school
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Sam Kiley
2 years
If you’re not worried about the threat of WW3 there’s always this:
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NewsWatch Plus PH
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. @kileycnn investigates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as the destruction of rainforests brings human beings closer to emerging infectious diseases like COVID-19 and Ebola. Catch The Coming Contagion on Wednesday, May 25, 8 p.m.
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