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Chris Booth

Chris Booth worked in foreign broadcast news for two decades, largely with Associated Press and later for the BBC, where he was bureau chief in Moscow and later in Baghdad. He covered the wars in Chechnya, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq as well as revolution and civil conflict in Ukraine, Georgia, Serbia and elsewhere. Chris also reported on natural disasters and multiple acts of terror, including the 2004 school siege in Beslan in southern Russia in which more than 330 people were killed, including 186 children.