Hannah Ritchie

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Hannah Ritchie is a Senior News Editor for CNN, based at the network's Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
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Railway workers demonstrate on the tracks at the Gare de Lyon train station, Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in Paris. A new round of strikes and demonstrations is planned against the unpopular pension reforms that, most notably, push the legal retirement age from 62 to 64. (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
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France wracked by more pension protests amid rising violence on the streets
Mar 29, 2023
Protesters on the tracks at a Paris rail station. Smoke bombs let off at Biarritz airport. Anger at French President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reforms showed no sign of letting up on Tuesday as the nation saw its 10th day of nationwide demonstrations.
The monastery and homes in Nan Neint village burn after a raid by Myanmar junta troops in Shan state.
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Myanmar monastery attack kills 22 as conflicting accounts emerge of alleged massacre
Mar 15, 2023
At least 22 people, including three monks, were killed at a monastery in Myanmar’s Southern Shan State on Saturday as local insurgent groups and the military-backed junta accused each other of carrying out a massacre.
Protesters clash with police in Tbilisi early on March 9, 2023.
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Georgia withdraws ‘foreign influence’ bill but opposition vows more protests
Mar 9, 2023
Georgia’s ruling party has withdrawn a controversial “foreign influence” bill after two nights of protests in Tbilisi, but the opposition warned that more demonstrations were planned on Thursday.
TOPSHOT - Protesters shout towards gas-throwing riot police during a massive demonstration in Athens on March 5, 2023, following the deadly train accident late on February 28.
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Greek protests over train crash flare despite prime minister’s apology
Mar 5, 2023
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has apologized for one of the country’s worst train crashes in years, saying “We cannot, will not, and must not hide behind human error.”
Local residents clear the rubble after a Russian rocket hit a multistory building leaving many people under debris in Dnipro, Ukraine, Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Roman Chop)
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Russian missile strike on apartment building in Dnipro kills 40 people, Ukraine officials say
Jan 16, 2023
The death toll from a Russian missile strike on an apartment block in Dnipro rose to 40, Ukrainian officials said on Monday, after missiles and explosions were heard across the country.
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Hiding in plain sight: The network of citizens sheltering Iran’s protesters
Dec 25, 2022
For months, Leila has barely seen sunlight.
BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 21: Medical staff wear PPE as they wait to assist a patient at a fever clinic treating COVID-19 patients on December 21, 2022 in Beijing, China. Chinas capital has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases since the government lifted its strict zero tolerance measures to contain the virus earlier this month. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)
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Leaked notes from Chinese health officials estimate 250 million Covid-19 infections in December: reports
Dec 24, 2022
Almost 250 million people in China may have caught Covid-19 in the first 20 days of December, according to an internal estimate from the nation’s top health officials, Bloomberg News and the Financial Times reported Friday.
A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran shows an Iranian police officer (C) raising a baton to disperse demonstrators during a protest for Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran on September 19, 2022. - Fresh protests broke out on September 19 in Iran over the death of a young woman who had been arrested by the "morality police" that enforces a strict dress code, local media reported. Public anger has grown since authorities on Friday announced the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in a hospital after three days in a coma, following her arrest by Tehran's morality police during a visit to the capital on September 13. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Stalked, tortured, disappeared: Iranian authorities have a playbook for silencing dissent, and they’re using it again
Oct 20, 2022
CNN has spoken to almost a dozen Iranians who have shared first-hand accounts of torture in either the 2019 and 2022 protests, or who have had loved ones die or disappear while in the custody of authorities.
A view shows a fire on the Kerch bridge at sunrise in the Kerch Strait, Crimea, October 8, 2022.
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Massive blast cripples parts of Crimea-Russia bridge, in blow to Putin’s war effort
Oct 8, 2022
In a major blow for Russian President Vladimir Putin, a huge explosion early Saturday severely damaged the only bridge connecting the annexed Crimean Peninsula with the Russian mainland, crimping a key supply route for Moscow’s faltering war in Ukraine.
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‘It was a warzone.’ Iranian security forces beat, shot and detained students of elite Tehran university, witnesses say, as crackdown escalates
Oct 3, 2022
When Farid’s friend called crying for help on Sunday, he jumped on his bike and quickly rode to Tehran’s Sharif University.
A police motorcycle burns during a protest on September 19 over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Iran's "morality police" in Tehran.
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Iranians are risking it all to protest. Their families say some of them aren’t coming home
Sep 27, 2022
The last time Farnaz heard her brother’s voice was over the phone, on an unknown number.
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12-year-old boy in ‘critical condition’ following alleged gang-rape in New Delhi
Sep 26, 2022
A 12-year-old boy is in “critical condition” after he was allegedly gang-raped and beaten in India’s capital New Delhi, according to a statement from the city’s police and a complaint lodged by the boy’s family to the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW).
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Race and power collide in a fight over sacred rock art in remote Australia
Sep 24, 2022
Near a dry, red rock peninsula on Australia’s far western coast, a dusty highway separates two communities with contrasting fortunes tied to an ancient land.
At least five people were killed and 44 others were injured following a string of earthquakes that hit southern Iran on Saturday, Iran's semi-official FARS news agency reports. The earthquakes occurred in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran. (Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting). MS 18396495
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At least 5 dead after earthquakes hit southern Iran
Sep 19, 2022
At least five people were killed and 44 others injured following a string of earthquakes in southern Iran on Saturday, according to the country’s semi-official FARS news agency.
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a plenary session at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022. (Sergei Bobylev/TASS News Agency Host Pool Photo via AP)
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Putin threatens to restrict Ukrainian grain exports for European countries, accusing them of acting ‘like colonial powers’
Sep 19, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin Putin threatened Wednesday to restrict Ukrainian grain exports to European countries and accused them of acting “like colonial powers,” as he used misleading figures to claim that developing countries are receiving a fraction of the exports they were expecting under the UN-brokered Black Sea Grain Initiative.
A boy wades through floodwaters from monsoon rains, in Jaffarabad, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. The U.N. refugee agency rushed in more desperately needed aid Monday to flood-stricken Pakistan as the nation's prime minister traveled to the south where rising waters of Lake Manchar pose a new threat. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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Water from Pakistan’s largest lake threatens to spill into densely populated cities
Sep 7, 2022
Pakistan authorities intentionally breached the country’s largest freshwater lake on Sunday, displacing 100,000 people from their homes but preventing more densely populated areas further afield from being hit by flood water.

About

Hannah Ritchie is a Senior News Editor for CNN, based at the network’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong. She is responsible for overseeing key stories from the region while also helping to manage a team of producers and researchers.

Before joining CNN’s International newsgathering team, Ritchie was a producer for the network’s award-winning, flagship global affairs program, “Amanpour.” During her time there she researched and produced long-form interviews with powerful figures in news and politics. She was recognized for her outstanding work, receiving two Emmy awards for an interview with the Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and an interview with Former United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.

Ritchie started her career as a digital journalist at CNBC International in London where she published one of the first in-depth articles on the most widely read fake news stories leading up to the 2016 US Presidential election. She has freelanced for VICE World News and The Guardian, and has been a regular radio contributor in Australia, where she was raised and educated.

She holds a Bachelor in Media Communications and Journalism from the University of New South Wales, and during her final year of study undertook an international internship in Kumasi, Ghana.