Sam Kingsley
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Sam Kingsley
@SamInFinland
Wrangler of words and pictures. Previously journalist and filmmaker for @AFP @BBC @Yle @Channel4News
Helsinki, Finland Inscrit le Ekim 2013
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📢 New year, new role. I started today as head of Euronews' English service, leading our digital/online journalism and TV news team. Relocating in the spring to Brussels, at the heart of Europe! 🇧🇪🇪🇺
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Good bye Helsinki!
After seven great years abroad in 🇱🇻 and 🇫🇮, I'm going back to France. See you in Nantes!
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Job news! Happy, honoured and still excited to continue working for Finland in 🇯🇵
MFA Finland 🇫🇮@Ulkoministerio
The Ministry for Foreign Affairs has appointed @ReettaPuro to serve as Press Counsellor at Finland’s Embassy in Tokyo and @SannaImmanen to serve as Press Counsellor at the Embassy in Tallinn. Read more: um.fi/news/-/asset_p…
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@jamesrbuk Ahh sad news. I only had one or two classes with her - few enough to escape any fashion advice - but I still remember how inspirational and fun she was.
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Miten lausuisit "vulnerable squirrel"?
Mun vastaus on vöönörabl sköörl.
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36 today and still no better than I ought to be. If anything, I'm worse.
Happy birthday to me 🥳
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Some super exciting personal news...... I'm joining the Guardian's amazing investigations team as the deputy editor from November. Can't wait to get going. @guardian @PaulLewis
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Merci et au revoir Bruxelles! My term as correspondent came to an end and it’s time to return to Helsinki.
🧳 Some personal news: I’m leaving journalism and embarking on a new career in MFA of Finland in August
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Honoured to have won the Cristiana Matano Journalism Prize in #Lampedusa for an @AFP story on exploited Indian farm hands in Italy’s Agro Pontino. Grazie!
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@jamesrbuk Have a fantastic time James! And so sorry to hear what you’ve been through.
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@DaveyCumming Oh no Dave so sorry! We’re all sending you lots of speedy recovery wishes from 🇫🇮! Xxx
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Okay so yday I had a non-car-related bike accident. Went right over handlebars. As I was not 𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙨𝙤 𝙄 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙛𝙡𝙮 I snapped my collarbone clean in two. This morn I had a plate put in to reset it. I 💖 NHS
David Cumming@DaveyCumming
Sir Grogs-a-lot 🥴
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Sam Kingsley retweeté
An @AFP team were the first journalists to discover the horrors of #Bucha, a quiet town near Kyiv where Russian troops are accused of massacring hundreds of civilians.
Here is @dannyctkemp's account of what they saw that day u.afp.com/w7rr
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🇫🇮 Impensable il y a encore deux mois avant l'invasion de l'Ukraine, désormais possible et même probable : la Finlande entre cette semaine dans la phase décisive sur son éventuelle candidature à l'Otan #AFP
➡️ u.afp.com/why6
Par @SamInFinland
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La #Finlande entre cette semaine dans une phase décisive sur son éventuelle candidature à l’Otan, avec un choix final attendu d’ici fin juin. @afpfr
@alexstubb @joonaskontta nouvelobs.com/guerre-en-ukra…
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"Never underestimate the capacity of Finns to take rapid decisions when the world changes," former Finnish prime minister @alexstubb told @AFP.
#Finland gears up for historic #NATO decision f24.my/8XOw.T
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En Finlande, l'élevage ancestral des rennes séduit à nouveau les jeunes
✍️@SamInFinland & @eliashuuh
➡️u.afp.com/wnMh #AFP
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President #Putin and his Finnish counterpart rode the inaugural Allegro express train between St Petersburg and Helsinki in 2010.
Since the invasion of #Ukraine the line was the last rail route out of #Russia into the EU - now it too has been suspended.
#Finland @afp
AFP News Agency@AFP
VIDEO: Last EU train out of Russia arrives in Helsinki. The final Allegro express train from St Petersburg arrives in the Finnish capital, marking the closure of the last rail link between Russia and the EU
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