Matthew Gerald Chance (born March 14, 1970) is a

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journalist working for

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as one of the network's Senior International

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Career

He is based in

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. Chance was one of the journalists held by forces of Colonel Gaddafi at the Rixos al Nasr hotel in

Tripoli, Libya Tripoli (; ar, طرابلس الغرب, translit= Ṭarābulus al-Gharb , translation=Western Tripoli) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Libya, with a population of about 1.1 million people in 2019. It is located in the northwe ...

, in August 2011. He reported by Twitter throughout the ordeal, and was live on CNN as the International Committee of the

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finally evacuated the detainees. Some of the other notable news stories he has covered include the 2001 war in

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan,; prs, امارت اسلامی افغانستان is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. Referred to as the Heart of Asia, it is bordere ...

, the invasion of Iraq by Coalition forces, the 2005 London bombings, the ongoing Middle East crisis, the Beslan school hostage crisis,

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under President Vladimir Putin's leadership, the devastating 2005 Pakistan earthquake, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the 2008 South Ossetia war and the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. ...

. Chance was one of the few Moscow-based reporters to have secured an interview with

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, Russia's leader. Since returning to

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after the Libya War, Chance has reported from Italy on the fall of prime minister

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, and the release of

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. He recently reported from

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on the fall out of the country's debt crisis, and from the International Atomic Energy Agency in

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on Iran's controversial nuclear program. Chance officially joined CNN in 2001. He replaced correspondent Steve Harrigan in Northern Afghanistan after Harrigan famously left CNN for Fox News Channel while on assignment. Before joining CNN, Chance was a freelance journalist based in

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References

External links

Matthew's profile on CNN.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chance, Matthew Living people 1970 births People from Stourbridge Alumni of the University of London British television journalists CNN people People educated at Old Swinford Hospital