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Michael Holmes co-anchors the second half of CNN International's rolling newscast Your World Today. He is the first Australian anchor for CNN International. He worked for Australia's Nine Network, and was one of the few Australian journalists to cover first hand the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He was based in London for four years as the network's European correspondent for current affairs, covering such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Lockerbie plane crash, and the start of the first Gulf War. [CR-LF]His reports in Bucharest during the miners' uprising in 1990 earned him an Australian Television Society Award for coverage of a current affairs story. After working in newspapers for nearly five years, Holmes began his television career in 1982 with the Nine Network in Perth. He also has worked for several British media outlets, including WTN, The Observer newspaper and TV-AM.

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