Sandi Sidhu

Senior News Producer, Video, CNN International

Sandi Sidhu is a Senior News Producer, Video for CNN International.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 79th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2024. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.
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Putin says Russia’s army is ‘always ready’ as country marks World War II victory
May 9, 2024
Russia’s annual procession has long been a key event in Putin’s calendar as a chance for him to rally public support and show off his country’s military power.
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Bodies, pickup truck found in Mexican region where American and Australian tourists went missing, sources say
May 4, 2024
Three bodies were found Friday in the Mexican region where an American and two Australians have been missing for several days, multiple sources told CNN.
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Mexico questions three people over missing American and Australian tourists
May 4, 2024
Concerns are growing for a trio of missing tourists, including a US citizen, as Mexican authorities question three people in connection with their disappearance.
Police enter the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall after a stabbing incident in Sydney on April 13, 2024. Australian police on April 13 said they had received reports that "multiple people" were stabbed at a busy shopping centre in Sydney. (Photo by David GRAY / AFP)
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Sydney mall attacker may have targeted women, police say, as more details emerge of his six victims
Apr 16, 2024
Australian police said Monday that the attacker who fatally stabbed six people at a busy shopping mall in Sydney’s beach suburb of Bondi may have been targeting women, as heartbreaking details emerged of those who lost their lives, plunging a nation into mourning.
Police cordon off the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall after a stabbling incident in Sydney on April 13, 2024.
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Six dead in mass stabbing at Sydney shopping center
Apr 13, 2024
Six people have been killed and several others injured, including a child, in a mass stabbing at a busy shopping center in Sydney, Australian police said.
Thai military personnel stand guard overlooking the Moei river on the Thai side, near the Tak border checkpoint with Myanmar, in Thailand's Mae Sot district on April 10, 2024. Thai armoured cars patrolled the town of Mae Sot on April 10 as the deep boom of artillery thundered across from the border in Myanmar where the junta and an ethnic armed group fought for a second day near a vital trade hub. (Photo by MANAN VATSYAYANA / AFP) (Photo by MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP via Getty Images)
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Myanmar military loses control of key town on Thai border, rebels say, in major win for anti-junta resistance
Apr 12, 2024
Myanmar rebels fighting the junta say they have seized the last remaining military base in a key border town, dealing the latest significant blow to the country’s military rulers as they struggle to cling to power.
People gather around the wreckage of a bus that caught fire along the Samruddhi Expressway near Sindkhed Raja in Buldhana district of Maharashtra state on July 1, 2023. At least 25 people were killed and eight others injured after a bus caught fire overnight on an expressway in India's Maharashtra state, police said on July 1. (Photo by Gajanan MEHETRE / AFP) (Photo by GAJANAN MEHETRE/AFP via Getty Images)
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At least 25 dead after wedding party bus bursts into flames in India
Jul 1, 2023
At least 25 people have been killed after a bus carrying a wedding party burst into flames after crashing in India’s western state of Maharashtra on Saturday.
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US citizen detained on drug charges in Moscow identified as rock band manager Travis Leake
Jun 11, 2023
The US State Department has confirmed the arrest of American citizen Travis Leake in Russia and said US embassy officials attended his arraignment Saturday.
Mandatory Credit: Photo by PIYAL ADHIKARY/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock (13945440h) The National Disaster Response Force Rescue continues work at the site of a train accident at Odisha Balasore, India, 03 June 2023. Over 200 people died and more than 900 were injured after three trains collided one after another. According to railway officials the Coromandel Express, which operates between Kolkata and Chennai, crashed into the Howrah Superfast Express. Train accident in Balasore India killling over 200 people - 03 Jun 2023
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits the scene of train crash that killed more than 280 in India
Jun 4, 2023
More than 280 people were killed and over 1,000 injured in a three-way crash involving two passenger trains and a freight train in eastern Odisha state on Friday, officials said.
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At least 19 children killed in school dormitory fire in Guyana
May 23, 2023
At least 19 children died in a “horrific” school dormitory fire in Guyana, which has shocked the nation and led to its president to declare three days of national mourning.
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US Army Special Forces veteran killed in ‘barrage’ of Russian artillery in Bakhmut
May 17, 2023
A retired US Army Special Forces soldier has been identified as the American citizen killed by Russian artillery in the embattled city of Bakhmut this week, according to a close friend and the founder of a non-profit group working in Ukraine.
AMRITSAR, INDIA - MARCH 2: Waris Punjab De Chief Amritpal Singh responding to questions during an interview at village Jallupur Khera on March 2, 2023 in Amritsar, India. (Photo by Sameer Sehgal/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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Indian police arrest alleged Sikh separatist leader, ending vast manhunt
Apr 24, 2023
Police in India say they have arrested alleged Sikh separatist leader Amritpal Singh, bringing to an end a massive months-long manhunt.
This photo provided by the Kyunhla Activists Group shows aftermath of an airstrike in Pazigyi village in Sagaing Region's Kanbalu Township, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Witnesses and independent media reports said dozens of villagers in central Myanmar have been killed in an air attack carried out Tuesday by the Southeast Asian country's military government.
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‘How many more children have to die?’ Myanmar airstrike survivors ask what will it take for the world to act
Apr 21, 2023
When its helicopter gunships and fighter jets rained fire and bombs on a village celebration last Tuesday, Myanmar’s military junta insisted it was targeting “terrorists.”
This photo provided by the Kyunhla Activists Group shows aftermath of an airstrike in Pazigyi village in Sagaing Region's Kanbalu Township, Myanmar, Tuesday, April 11, 2023. Witnesses and independent media reports said dozens of villagers in central Myanmar have been killed in an air attack carried out Tuesday by the Southeast Asian country's military government.
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Screaming people and bodies everywhere: The horrific aftermath of Myanmar junta airstrike that killed 165
Apr 13, 2023
Relatives were still recovering the charred bodies and limbs of victims killed in a military airstrike on a village in central Myanmar Wednesday, a day after one of the deadliest attacks since the junta seized power in a coup two years ago.
The Mintz Group's closed office in Beijing on March 24, 2023.
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Chinese authorities close Beijing offices of US Mintz Group detaining five local staff
Mar 24, 2023
Chinese authorities have closed the Beijing office of Mintz Group, an American corporate due diligence firm, and detained five local staff, the company said Friday.
President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Defiant Putin visits occupied Mariupol, symbol of Ukrainian resistance
Mar 20, 2023
Vladimir Putin has made a surprise visit to Russian-occupied Mariupol, his first visit to territory captured by his forces in the year-long full-scale conflict.

About

Sandi Sidhu is an award-winning Senior News Producer, Video for CNN International, based at the network’s Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.

She is responsible for producing key stories from the region and around the world including the Myanmar coup in 2021, the coronavirus outbreak on the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan in 2020, the Sri Lanka bombings in 2019, the Thai cave rescue in 2018, and the assassination of Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia in 2017. That same year she was also deployed to the UK to cover the Manchester bombings.

Prior to joining CNN, Sidhu worked for ITV News in London for 9 years where she won five Royal Television Society awards for crime and national security reporting and a BAFTA for her work on the Woolwich terrorist attack. She won another RTS award for a year-long investigation into U.K Jihadis in Syria.

Sidhu studied at the University of Bedfordshire where she earned a Bachelor’s Degree majoring in Media Production and Performance. She also completed a postgraduate diploma in Broadcast Journalism at Birmingham City University.