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Feature Story News is celebrating its 20th anniversary throughout 2012. For two decades, the company Simon co-founded in 1992 has supplied award-winning material to many of the world’s leading television networks, radio stations and websites. Today, with news bureaus in Washington DC, New York, Orlando, San Francisco, London, Brussels and Moscow, FSN is the [...]
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In recent years, there have been few potential diplomatic crises as grave for the United States as the one sparked by the escape from house arrest of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, and his subsequent “retrieval” by US diplomats who then sheltered him in the American embassy in Beijing…..
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On April 24, 2012 Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts, declared unofficial victory in the race for the Republican Party’s nomination. In a speech to supporters in New Hampshire, he targeted President Obama and urged the Republican Party to unite around his candidacy in the November election.
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In recent years, there have been few potential diplomatic crises as grave for the United States as the one sparked by the escape from house arrest of Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, and his subsequent "retrieval" by US diplomats who then sheltered him in the American embassy in Beijing.....
On April 24, 2012 Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts, declared unofficial victory in the race for the Republican Party's nomination. In a speech to supporters in New Hampshire, he targeted President Obama and urged the Republican Party to unite around his candidacy in the November election.
On March 11, 2012 US policy in Afghanistan suffered another major setback after a tragic attack on innocent civilians by a US soldier in Kandahar province. 16 people were killed, including 9 children....
It's been a while....but it's great to be back on-the-air on London's best radio station, LBC....
“Super Tuesday” is one of the biggest days in the American electoral calendar, and on March 6 2012 ten states across the country are taking part in Republican party primaries and caucuses, as America’s “Grand Old Party” continues the process of picking a candidate to take on Barack Obama in the November 2012 election. For a...
Over the years, Simon has interviewed many of the world’s leading newsmakers, including US President George W. Bush, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, South African President Thabo Mbeki and (at the time) Russian President Vladimir Putin. Simon’s interview with President Putin took place in July 2002, and was seen on Fox News Channel, and heard on [...]
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The former Czech President, playwright and poet Vaclav Havel died on December 18, 2011 at the age of 75. He’d been in ill-health for several years. A prominent dissident who at one point spent 5 years in jail for his beliefs, he led the 1989 Velvet Revolution that saw Soviet dominance of Czechoslovakia come to end, [...]
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