Category Archives: TV

The timeline of Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance

What really happened to missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi? As the mystery deepens, pressure is mounting on U.S. President Donald Trump to confront Saudi Arabia over the case. (click on image to view story)

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Amesbury couple “handled contaminated item”

A British government minister has accused Russia of using the United Kingdom as a “dumping ground for poison”. It comes as a team of British counter-terrorism investigators work on the second Novichok nerve agent poisoning in four months. (Click on picture to view the story).

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London Bridge attack

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Global National television (Click on image):

Global National news report June 4, 2017 (Click on image):

BBC Radio 5 Live. June 3, 2017

RTÉ Radio 1 (Ireland). This Week programme. June 4, 2017.

Manchester Arena attack

Three little words

gn1Millions of people across the world do not have a formal mailing address, but precise GPS coordinates are very difficult to remember. To solve that problem, an app, developed in London, has divided the world into 57-trillion three-metre squares; each assigned an easy-to-remember three-word code. Click below to play:

America’s best bud

gn1Two of the past three U.S. presidents have invited Canada’s prime minister to be their first foreign guest at the White House. But British Prime Minister Theresa May will get that honour this time. Does this mean America will be looking east more than north under Trump? Click below to play:

Cents and Sensibility

gn1A micro-engraver etches the face of Jane Austen into four £5 notes, and quietly releases them into circulation. Each could be worth £20,000.
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Two sisters with the same name meet for the very first time

It was a rare privilege to witness such a powerful moment.

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Watch the video and read their story here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/sisters-reunion-fredericton-south-africa-1.3642701

Horsing around town

When you’re assigned to do a one-minute “rant” to camera about a meeting that hasn’t even happened yet, the challenge is to make it not suck.

Cannabis makes up 22% of veteran drug payments

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More than one-fifth of the money paid to veterans by the federal government for prescribed drugs in the fiscal year 2015-16 went toward medical cannabis. That’s up from just 0.5 per cent in 2013-14.

Read more here:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/cannabis-veterans-drug-payments-1.3598954