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Journalist | Correspondent | Presenter 📺📻🎧 Freelancer, CBCNews 🇨🇦 London bureau🇬🇧 Ex: BBC | France 24 | Times Radio Foreign Correspondent 🇳🇬🇫🇷🇮🇳 Host: AFP Your Planet Podcast

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CCTV shows pupils abused and locked in padded room Police have said staff will not face action over abuse of autistic children shown in videos leaked to the BBC.

Woke up this morning to do the school run. Read this. If you too parent a SEN child you’ll know how I felt. This should never happen. Appalling. We put so much trust in those who should be caring & educating our children. #autism

27.11.2024 11:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Why no COP29 deal may be better than a bad deal
YouTube video by CBC News: The National Why no COP29 deal may be better than a bad deal

Is #Cop29 on verge of collapse? Vulnerable islands & some African nations walk out of climate negotiations in Baku over funding goal. What next if those countries don’t return to the talks?

23.11.2024 14:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“What will I tell my children when I get back home? You left us for two weeks, for what? For nothing! Not even peanuts!" Tetet Lauron at #COP29 on the text for the #NCQG on #ClimateFinance failing to deliver US$ 1.3 trillion a year whilst the #ClimateCrisis claims lives and livelihoods.

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Post you from a different era.
First foreign reporting assignment. Kabul, Afghanistan, 2002.

23.11.2024 13:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A test in patience! You are not alone in that request for certified degree and bank paperwork… in another part of the world certified GCSE exam certificates were required for a press card!

22.11.2024 23:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Police carry out ‘controlled explosion’ outside US embassy in London Action follows reports of suspicious package outside embassy in Nine Elms A “controlled explosion” has been carried out by Metropolitan police officers outside the US embassy in Nine Elms, London. It followed reports of a suspicious package outside the…

Police carry out ‘controlled explosion’ outside US embassy in London

22.11.2024 10:45 — 👍 75    🔁 25    💬 4    📌 4

Someone recently said to me “I feel journalism is dying…” the answer is no, it’s not! Far from it. This @fpalondon.bsky.social awards shortlist alone shows just how much brilliant, powerful and investigative journalism is being done out there. And the work continues 👏

18.11.2024 16:22 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.

Breaking News: President Biden authorized the first use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia, U.S. officials said. His decision is a major change in U.S. policy.

17.11.2024 18:22 — 👍 3205    🔁 680    💬 201    📌 284
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Sunday's top stories in 10 minutes Podcast Episode · World Report · 17/11/2024 · 10m

Ukraine’s foreign minister. Andrii Sybiha described Putin as a war criminal & says this is his “true response to those who called & visited him recently”, pointed comment on Scholz’s call to Putin Friday “we need peace through strength not appeasement”. Updates here on CBC’s World Report.

17.11.2024 11:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Morning from CBC’s London Bureau. We’re covering the massive overnight missile and drone strikes by Russia on Ukraine. “Peaceful cities, sleeping civilians, critical infrastructure targeted” says Ukraine’s foreign minister.

17.11.2024 11:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Zelenskyy’s reacted angrily to a rare call between Scholtz & Putin. He says it will open “Pandora’s box” & reduce Putin’s isolation.

16.11.2024 12:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Busy day in CBC’s London bureau. We’re covering Zelenskyy’s comments that war will “end sooner”in Ukraine once Trump enters White House. A note of optimism maybe, but one laden with caution as he admits situation on battlefield difficult, Russia making advances.

16.11.2024 12:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Hello Bluesky from a grey sky London. Time for a fresh start here. Sending strong coffee vibes to those also working the weekend 🙋🏻‍♀️☕️

16.11.2024 12:20 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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