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China - Ceremony marks 90th year of Communist Party / Artist Ai Weiwei faces 1.85 million dollar tax demand
Celebrating the Communist Party's 90th anniversary on July 1st 2011, Chinese President Hu Jintao said that its ability to adapt made China affluent and powerful and that the party must fight corruption to retain public support and...
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GERMANY: BERLIN: PROTESTORS CALL FOR LEGALISATION OF MARIJUANA
German/Nat
Thousands of people took to the streets on Berlin on Saturday in a call for the legalisation of marijuana.
As well as pushing for the legalisation of cannabis, protestors called for more cultivation of the versatile hemp plant...
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France - Blair given warm reception
British Prime Minister Tony Blair received a standing ovation in the French parliament Tuesday after a speech setting out his vision of a political "third way" between Thatcherism and socialism. Deputies interrupted Blair's 35-minute...
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WRAP -AP COVER Ceremony marks 90th year of Communist Party
1. Mid of officials walking into ceremony, including Chinese President Hu Jintao
2. Wide of meeting of Party leaders, sign reading: "1921-2011"
3. Mid of former Chinese leaders, (right) former Chinese Premier, Zhu Rongji and former vice...
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Czechs to mark 40 years since Russian invasion
AP Television
Prague - 17 August 2008
1. Wide of newspaper and photograph exhibition
2. People looking at the display
3. Photographs at the exhibition
AP Television
Prague - 14 August 2008
4. Vladimir Tuma, cameraman who filmed the...
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France - Socialists on Tony Blair's victory
France's opposition Socialists, facing a tough election barely
three weeks away, on Friday (2/5) issued a 16-page programme for
government, pledging more jobs by boosting spending-power and
cutting back the working week.
The Socialists...
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NKorea's first public ski resort opens in time for New Year
North Korea opened a large new ski resort on New Year's Eve, following controversy over Switzerland's refusal to allow the export of ski lifts to the socialist state.
The ski resort project has been highlighted by North Korea for months...
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Congress approves lowering legal working age to 10
Bolivia's Congress has passed legislation to allow children as young age 10 to work as long as it does not interfere with their education and is done independently to help the child's family make ends meet.
The legislation otherwise...
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Cuba - Robust Castro lauds Socialism
STORY: Congress
LOCATION: Havana
Robust Castro lauds Socialism at 5th Party Congress
In his address to the 5th Cuban Communist Party in Havana on
Wednesday (8/10), President Fidel Castro proudly boasted that
the country had...
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Counting, Morales, Quiroga, voxpop, celebrations
++ Interior shots ++
1. Various of MAS (Movement Toward Socialism) supporters celebrating
2. Mid shot of Evo Morales entering through crowd for celebration at headquarters
3. Supporter cheering
4. Mid shot of Morales shaking hands with...
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Chavez preaches socialism in flood-ravaged Bolivia
1. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez walks down steps from plane into crowd
2. Wide of crowd waving flags
3. Mid of Chavez walking
4. Mid of Chavez standing for photo opportunity
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Hugo Chavez, President of...
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VIETNAM: COMMUNIST PARTY CONGRESS MEETING UPDATE
Eng/Spanish/Nat
Vietnam's first Communist Party Congress for five years has come to an end in Hanoi.
The 4 day meeting - which set economic targets and named a new slightly younger politburo - was attended by delegates from around the...
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+4:3 Cuba marks Fidel Castro's 86th birthday but no apparent plans for public appearance
Cuba marked Fidel Castro's 86th birthday on Monday with congratulatory messages in state media, but no planned appearance by the retired leader, who increasingly is rarely seen in public.
Communist Party newspaper Granma published...
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McCain warns against spread of socialism in Latin America
1. Republican presidential candidate John McCain arriving
2. Various of McCain shaking hands with supporters
3. McCain giving speech
4. Wide of speech, AUDIO of audience clapping
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Senator John McCain, Republican...
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Raul Castro, younger brother of Fidel, and his assumed successor, turns 75
1. Photo of Raul Castro (lower left corner) with mother, brothers and sisters (Fidel Castro upper left corner)
2. Book covers of Raul and Che Guevara diaries
3. Photo of Fidel and Raul
Moncada, Cuba - July 26 1953
4. Photo of the...
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Arrivals for security summit, German and Swedish FM comments
1. Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych arriving at the Munich Security Conference
2. Mid of UK Defence Secretary Philip Hammond arriving for the conference
3. Mid of US delegation with Senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman arriving...
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SYND 26 10 76 INTERVIEW WITH ZANU LEADER ROBERT MUGABE
Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union interviewed by UPITN reporter Peter Snow saying that he is at war with Ian Smith and wants a socialist regime in Zimbabwe
1. cu Robert Mugabe SOUNDBITE: "because some people are under...
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AP exclusive interview with President Morales
1. Wide of Bolivian president Evo Morales greeting journalists
2. Morales and journalists
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Evo Morales, President of Bolivia:
"We are the reserve of natural resources, we are the environment's reserve, thanks to...
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Cuba honours Chavez with 21-gun salute over Havana Harbour
1. Wide of Morro Castle grounds with cannons pointing across harbour and Havana skyline in background
2. Soldiers preparing to shoot cannon
3. Wide from across Havana harbour as cannon fires
4. Wide of honour guards for Hugo Chavez at...
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Bush speech, protests, adds Bush leaving Brazil
1. Protesters burning US flag
2. Burning poster with Bush as Hitler
3. Protesters holding large anti-Bush and Columbian President Alvaro Uribe banner reading: "Get out"
4. Protesters shouting "Fora Bush" (Get out Bush)
5. Mounted police...
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WRAP Close of election campaign
San Bernado Do Campo, Brazil - 28 September 2006
1. Pan of supporters of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazilian President, waving flags at Thursday rally
2. Close of man forming "L" (for Lula) with his hand at rally
3. Wide of Lula and and...
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USA - Castro & Puerto Rican Community / Demos
Cuban leader Fidel Castro on Monday (23/10) As world leaders
celebrate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations, the
Communist leader has been excluded from most unofficial social
events. In the evening he went to restaurant in the...
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National reception, leaders' speeches ahead of 60th anniversary
1. Chinese leaders walking into dining hall for national reception (AUDIO orchestra)
2. Chinese President Hu Jintao and former President Jiang Zemin walking while clapping
3. Audience applauding
4. Chinese state leaders walking
5. Wide...
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SOUTH AFRICA: TRUTH COMMISSION AMNESTY HEARING RECONVENES (2)
English/Nat
A lawyer for the family of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani said on Monday that his killers do not deserve amnesty because they lied about being solely responsible.
The statement came at the start of one of...