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SOUTH KOREA: REUNIONS
Korean/Nat
One hundred people from North Korea and another hundred from South Korea are preparing to visit relatives across the border in the latest of a series of exchanges spawned by the recent rapprochement between the Cold War...
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EGYPT: FIRST DAY OF PRAYER FOR MUSLIM DEAF AND MUTE
Arabic/Nat
A Muslim Friday prayer for the deaf and mute was held for the first time in the Arab world on Friday.
Prayers translated through sign language were held in Cairo's Sayeda Zeinab's Mosque, marking a crucial step for a country...
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Dalai Lama praying, Tibet govt-in-exile PM on China talks
1. Tibet spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, arriving at a prayer session at the Tsuglakhang temple
2. Dalai Lama with heads of the major sects of Tibetan Buddhism and Tibetan government officials praying
3. Mid-shot of a Buddha's image in the...
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Crowds flock to temples to burn incense and offer prayers on Lunar New Year's Eve
1. Wide and zoom in to people rushing into position to put incense into incense burner
2. Mid of people at incense burner
3. Mid of crowd of people waiting with incense sticks
4. Wide pan of crowd outside main hall of temple waiting to...
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Malaysian defence minister comments on search for MH370 black box, people offer prayers
A legal discussion is underway trying to decide who would legally have custody over the black box of missing plane MH370 should it be found, the Malaysian Defence Minister said on Sunday.
Hishammuddin Hussein, who is also the acting...
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NEW Preparations for Angelus without pope, tourists, newspapers
1. Wide shot of Vatican
2. Close up of clock chiming in Vatican
3. Wide shot of Apostolic Palace (pope''s residence)
4. Pope''s window (second from right on top floor)
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, Tourist, Name not given:
"It''s...
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Palestinian National Security Council: Israeli cabinet: prayers for Arafat
Ramallah
1. Exterior of Muqata (Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat's compound)
2. Mahmoud Abbas, Former Palestinian Prime Minister arriving
3. Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Foreign Minister, arriving
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nabil Shaath,...
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Protesters vow to seize state offices nationwide, escalating political crisis
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was fighting a two-front political war on Tuesday, fending off attacks during a parliamentary no-confidence debate while protesters besieged and occupied several ministries in their attempt to...
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Settlers dismantle synagogue before leaving Gaza
1. Wide shot of synagogue
2. Jews gathered outside synagogue
3. Various of people praying outside synagogue
4. Man holding bible praying
5. Photographer taking picture of women and children
6. Children seated in front of women
7. Man...
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WRAP Events at/around Everest base camp for 50th anniversary
1. Wide shot Mount Everest
2. Mid shot Everest peak
3. Interior monastery with monks carrying out morning prayers
4. Buddha statue
5. Monks praying during morning prayers
6. Close shot Buddha statue
7. Monks carrying out morning...
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Sunni Muslims gather for annual prayer meeting to mark 27th night of Ramadan
1. Top shot pan Muslim congregation
2. Tracking shot congregation
3. Wide of congregation bending in prayer
4. Back shot Muslim cleric giving speech to crowd of devotees
5. Various of people praying and chanting
6. SOUNDBITE (English)...
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WRAP Funerals for legislator, son slain in car bombing; ADDS people paying respects
1. Mid of funeral procession with Saad Hariri, son of Rafik Hariri the slain former Lebanese prime minister raising his open palm to the crowds
2. Mid of banner with image of Walid Eido and his son
3. Mid of people waving Lebanese flags...
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ISRAEL: JERUSALEM: PALESTINIANS CONVERGE ON HOLY CITY FOR RAMADAN
Arabic/Nat
Tensions mounted in Jerusalem today as thousands of Palestinians converged on the Holy City for the second Friday of Ramadan.
Fearing more attacks, Israeli security was tight.
But there is some evidence that the security...
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Worshippers praying at the gravesite of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
Jewish mourners grieved and prayed at the gravesite of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef in Jerusalem on Tuesday, a day after his funeral which drew hundreds of thousands of devotees.
To his supporters, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef was a revered spiritual sage...
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Prayers at cathedral, public reactions to Pope''s ill health
1. Exterior Alumdena Cathedral, Madrid
2. Two shots of statue of Pope John Paul II
3. Plaque in honour of pope''s visit
4. Wide shot, interior cathedral
5. Various, people praying
6. Two shots candles
7. Man praying
8. Tilt up interior...
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WRAP Blasts in capital, Friday prayers, demo
Central Baghdad
1. Baghdad skyline showing smoke rising from explosions
2. US soldiers removing a picture of Muqtada al-Sadr from the statue in Firdos Square, erected where the famous statue of Saddam Hussein was toppled April 9 2003...
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Eid finally arrives for majority of the country''s Muslims
1. Various of people arriving at mosque
2. Tilt up of Muslim women spreading newspaper sheets on ground as a prayer mat
3. Pan right of men sitting before praying
4. Various of men praying
5. Close of a boy praying
6. Various of men and...
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MIDDLE EAST: ARAFAT SPEAKS AFTER FRIDAY PRAYERS
Natural Sound
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on called for an end to gunfire from inside areas under Palestinian control,
his first public reference to new order.
Speaking in Arabic after Friday prayers in Gaza, he told reporters that...
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MIDDLE EAST: 2ND FRIDAY OF HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN CELEBRATED
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Israeli troops patrolled downtown Jerusalem where thousands of Muslim worshippers gathered in prayer on Friday for the Holy Month of Ramadan.
Security was on high alert against any possible extremists attacks as Muslims...
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Bush hosts sunset Ramadan dinner with Muslim leaders
1. US President George Bush speaking at Iftar dinner
2. Various of audience
3. SOUNDBITE (English) George Bush, US President:
"And I believe the time has come for all responsible Islamic leaders to denounce an ideology that exploits...
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Syrian refugees offer Eid prayers
Syrian refugees joined local families in the Turkish border village of Guvecci for prayers on Sunday, to mark the festival of Eid al-Fitr.
Together they celebrated the end of the Ramadan fast, when devout Muslims deny themselves food and...
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Prayers offered at tsunami memorial for hundreds killed in 2004
Families who lost loved ones in the 2004 Asian tsunami gathered to pray for the dead in a small town in the southern tip of India's mainland on Friday, 10 years after the deadly wave killed 230-thousand people in the Indian Ocean...
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WRAP Fallujah, Baghdad a'math, Friday prayers
Fallujah
1. Various of smoke plume billowing
2. US helicopter flying over the city
3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Voxpop, Eyewitness:
"There was American bombing in the Nazal district. Planes and helicopters took part. That was during Friday...
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BOSNIA: MUSLIMS CELEBRATE END OF THE HOLY MONTH OF RAMADAN
English/Nat
Bosnia's political leaders joined hundreds of Muslims celebrating the first peaceful end of Ramadan since the wars in the former Yugoslavia began in 1992.
The celebrations signify the end of a month of fasting and prayers...