Some quick hits and updates...

- As we reported earlier this month, Atia Abawi has left CNN. Today Atia confirmed to her Twitter followers that she will be joining NBC News.

- Former World Sport anchor and correspondent, Justin Armsden, is back home in Australia and working for the Fox Sports News channel. Justin left CNN in August.

- Arwa Damon is heading to CNN's Beirut bureau, filling the position left vacant by Cal Perry's resignation earlier this month.

- Jim Clancy is currently subbing for Kristie Lu Stout as rehearsals are underway for her new show, launching November 8.

After Rick Sanchez was fired last week, we are hearing of other CNN'ers leaving the network.

Insiders are telling us that Afghanistan correspondent Atia Abawi has left the network. Her bio has been removed from the website. CONFIRMED: CNN spokesperson: "We have parted ways."

It looks as though former CNN En Español New York-based and CNN Domestic Atlanta-based correspondent Inés Ferré has left the network. Inés has been removed from both the CNN and CNN En Español bio pages and she recently tweeted about new beginnings. She has also recently launched a portfolio website of her work on CNN.

Recently, CNNi iReport for CNN and fill-in anchor Errol Barnett headed back to the United Arab Emirates to fill-in as host on Prism. Could this mean that Stan Grant has left the network again or moving elsewhere within the network? Developing...

TVNewser is reporting that CNN Beirut bureau chief Cal Perry has left the network. They have his full E-Mail to the staff in which he states that he has decided that it is time to leave the network.

CNN Press Release - CNN Worldwide will add three new international correspondents in Afghanistan, China and the United Arab Emirates, it was announced today by Parisa Khosravi, senior vice president of international newsgathering.

Over the past 12 months, CNN has appointed more than a dozen correspondents in seven new locations as part of an aggressive content ownership strategy. These latest hires boost CNN’s international newsgathering locations to 33.

“The resources available to CNN’s international newsgathering team have never been more robust,” Khosravi said. “By adding correspondents in these three strategic areas, CNN underscores its international newsgathering heritage.”

In Kabul, Afghanistan, Atia Abawi will serve as correspondent responsible for covering the country and the on-going war there. Abawi, a former assignment editor and producer for CNN’s international desk in Atlanta, joined CNN in 2004 and has worked on a number of stories including the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the Afghanistan-Korean hostage situation and Youssif, the young Iraqi boy burned by insurgents in Iraq.

Stan Grant returns to CNN after spending two years in his native Australia and takes up the new post of UAE-based correspondent. He will serve to cover both the UAE and the surrounding region from his base in CNN’s new Abu Dhabi newsgathering and production center slated to open later this year. Previously, Grant served as a Hong Kong-based anchor for CNN International and later as the network’s Beijing-based correspondent, where he gained recognition for his exclusive coverage of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka in the aftermath of the South Asian tsunami.

Emily Chang, who joins John Vause as the second correspondent in Beijing, boosts CNN’s presence in China at a time when many media outlets are reducing their coverage in the post-Olympic climate. Chang has already reported on a variety of stories including the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the tainted milk scandal and the effects of the global financial crisis on China.

Over the past year, CNN has also announced the opening of newsgathering operations in Chennai, India; Lagos, Nigeria; Mumbai, India; Nairobi, Kenya; and Santiago, Chile, where CNN Chile launched late last year. In addition, CNN has placed correspondents in Istanbul, Turkey; Islamabad, Pakistan; Johannesburg, South Africa; London, Great Britain and Tokyo, Japan.

CNN Worldwide, a division of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner Company, is the most trusted source for news and information. Its reach extends to nine cable and satellite television networks; one private place-based network; two radio networks; wireless devices around the world; CNN Digital Network, the No. 1 network of news Web sites in the United States; CNN Newsource, the world’s most extensively syndicated news service; and strategic international partnerships within both television and the digital media.