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Kim Murphy, Bureau Chief
Kim Murphy is the Times’ London bureau chief, responsible for coverage of the United Kingdom, with occasional reporting stints in Iran. A veteran of the Times since 1983, Murphy has covered assignments in the Middle East, Russia, Central Asia, Northern Africa, the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. She became Cairo bureau chief in 1989, did a stint in the Pacific Northwest, and took over the Moscow bureau in 2003. She began her assignment in London in 2006. Reared in Southern California, Murphy worked at newspapers in Orange County, North Dakota and Mississippi before joining the Times. She holds the Pulitzer and Sigma Delta Chi awards for international reporting. EMAILBoris Johnson, a former journalist, gives police the item, which had belonged to Iraqi official Tarik Aziz. Johnson blames political opponents for launching an "idiotic" probe.
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