Significant Events
APTN's contributions to world news coverage include live coverage of the Beslan school hostage crisis for which it won the 2005 International Emmy for TV News Coverage, and coverage of French nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific, foiled suicide bombings in Israel, the return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China, and of the death of Pope John Paul II.
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