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Lauren Cone
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Senior Director of Communications, @CNNI 🌎
Atlanta, GA
Joined February 2009
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    "You're okay, you're okay." A remarkable moment as CNN's @clarissaward and her team find a Syrian prisoner left behind in a secret prison, alone and unaware the Assad regime was no more.
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    Verify-Sy, a Syrian fact checking group, now says that this man is Air Force Intelligence First Lieutenant Salama Mohammad Salama, notorious for extortion and theft in Homs, who had been arrested due to disputes with his colleagues about profit sharing. verify-sy.com/en/details/105…
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    Just announced: CNN's @nimaelbagir has been promoted to Chief International Investigative Correspondent. Hard to think of anyone more deserving of this recognition. Congrats, Nima!✨
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    "Cyril Ramaphosa brought his best diplomatic self to this meeting, but nothing could've prepared him for this multimedia ambush President Trump laid out. This was a laundry list of repeatedly debunked conspiracy theories, AfriForum propaganda." @LarryMadowo reports from Nairobi
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    "Not a single loaf of bread should go to [Gaza] until our hostages are coming back." Angry Israeli protesters tell CNN's @clarissaward why they are intent on stopping aid being sent to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Live updates cnn.it/4a5k0IZ
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    CNN's Chief International Investigative Correspondent @nimaelbagir travels to Sudan's gold country in her latest investigation, uncovering evidence of an intricate gold smuggling network between Russia and Sudanese military leaders. Sudan's Gold, Russia's War airs Friday on CNN.
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    CNN's @clarissaward reports from inside Syria's Saydnaya prison, dubbed the 'human slaughterhouse' by Amnesty International, as family members desperately search for records of loved ones. Watch her full report here cnn.it/4f8aMhd
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    I can't stop thinking about @clarissaward's report from Avdiivka, a town near the front line in eastern Ukraine. The man's face when he talks about the old part of town being destroyed. He says he can't go home because there's more shelling where he lives.
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    Thrilled to announce @LarryMadowo is leaving the BBC to join @CNN as our Nairobi-based correspondent. He's an incredibly talented journalist, and we're happy to welcome him to the CNN family. More details cnn.it/3eKeKAG
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    Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has been detained outside his Moscow home, according to reports. He spoke to @sarasidnerCNN earlier today on @CNNplus, saying he has “absolutely no doubt the Putin regime will end over this war in Ukraine.”
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    CNN's @andersoncooper is now in Lviv anchoring the network's continuing coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Latest updates 👉cnn.it/3M8lGWY
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    Fun fact: Our bureau lost power about 10 minutes before @clarissaward was set to join @StephenAtHome from Kabul. Enter ace producer @BrentSwailsCNN, who quickly (and calmly) got us back on air within minutes. @colbertlateshow | #LSSC
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    "It felt like an earthquake followed by a huge blast that blew out the windows in this - what was once our studio - and the window frames as well," reports @bencnn from CNN's damaged Beirut bureau.
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    .@npwcnn speaks to children staying in a makeshift shelter in a restaurant in the basement of a hotel in Kherson, Ukraine. One says it's "safer here than on the street" while another boy jumps in saying "they'll kill us all."
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    "Complete policy abdication" is how some are describing India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi in these last few weeks as the country faces a massive surge in Covid-19 cases. CNN's @clarissaward reports from New Delhi on the growing criticism. cnn.it/3nNRLrk