Simon Denyer

Position: Bureau Chief, Washington
Simon Denyer is Washington bureau chief for Reuters News. He arrived from New Delhi in April 2009 after more than seven years covering South Asia, first as bureau chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan from 2002-04 and then as bureau chief for India and Nepal. He is co-editor of “Foreign Correspondent: Fifty Years of Reporting South Asia”, an anthology of writing about the subcontinent, published by Penguin India in April 2008. He also spent more than four years in Nairobi as deputy bureau chief for East Africa and has also worked in New York and London during his 17-year career at Reuters. ...

Articles

FACTBOX-How Obama's Afghan strategy is shaping up November 27, 05:34pm EST 

Nov 27 (Reuters) - The centerpiece of President Barack Obama's revised war strategy in Afghanistan is expected to be the gradual deployment of about 30,000 more U.S. troops to secure population centers and train Afghan security forces. Pentagon officials ...  Full Article 

Blog Posts

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Who is the racist, Obama or Murdoch?

So is U.S. President Barack Obama a racist? Or is Rupert Murdoch? The Australian media mogul appears to think the president made a "very racist comment" and agrees that he hates white people, but that apparently doesn't make him a racist.  Full Article | Comments [33] 

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Obama admits to mistakes, but no big ones

Barack Obama says he probably makes one mistake a day, but doesn't think he has made any fundamental ones in almost 10 months as president of the United States.  Full Article | Comments [3]