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Student protest leader turns himself in to authorities
The teenage face of Hong Kong's months long democracy protests last year turned himself in at police request on Friday for possible arrest.
Eighteen-year-old Joshua Wong flashed a victory sign as he reported to a police station with...
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USA : LEGAL IMMIGRANTS ENCOURAGED TO VOTE
Eng/Span/Nat
Moves are afoot to encourage legal immigrants to use their right to vote in the United States.
Many do not take part in elections because they find it too intimidating or time-consuming.
But now some candidates have...
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Authorities start clearing barricades from pro-democracy camp, reax
Hong Kong authorities started clearing barricades on Thursday from a pro-democracy protest camp spread across a busy highway as part of a final push to retake streets occupied by activists for two and a half months.
Watched by police,...
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Chief Executive Tsang delivers policy address before legislative council
1. Wide top shot of Legislative Council hall
2. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Chief Executive Donald Tsang entering hall
3. Wide top shot of legislators standing to welcome Tsang
4. Tsang approaching podium
5....
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USA: GORE LEGAL CHALLENGE TO FLORIDA VOTE
Washington, D.C.; Tallahassee, Florida, USA - 28 November 2000
Washington, D.C. - Pool
1. Mid shot of Vice President Al Gore (left) and U-S Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers
2. Close up of Gore
Tallahassee, Florida - APTN
3. Mid shot...
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Migrant coalition calls for law to allow absentee voting
Mexico City - 10 May 2005
1. Wide shot of news conference
2. Mid shot of media
3. Mid shot of members of the Coalition for the Political Rights of Mexicans Abroad
4. Mid shot of news conference
5. More of same
6. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)...
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Pro-democracy march in Hong Kong
1. Wide of protesters marching in the street, holding banner which reads (Chinese) "Insist on 2012 double direct election, no to 2017 fake democracy"
2. Mid of protesters marching holding banner
3. Wide demonstrators marching with a...
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SHAFIQ SAYS HE SUPPORTS DEVELOPMENT AND A SECTARIAN STATE
Egyptian Presidential candidate and former prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq accused the Muslim Brotherhood of trying to create a sectarian state, and push Egypt backwards.
The long-time ally of former president Hosni Mubarak, is one of two...
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US homeland security secretary at citizenship ceremony
1. Various of military band playing and singing the United States national anthem
2. Mid-shot of troops standing as anthem is played
3. Close-up of US flag cake with wording reading: (English) "Congratulation new citizens"
4. Various of...
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Thousands of protesters call for chief executive to step down
1. Wide of protesters carrying banner reading (Mandarin) "Step down Chief Executive. Bring in universal suffrage immediately," UPSOUND: (Cantonese) protesters chanting "Step down Leung Chun-ying"
2. Mid of protesters holding flags and...
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Observer Michel Rocard comments, voters comment
1. Head of international observers Michel Rocard arriving at a polling station in Qalandiya
2. Various of Rocard inspecting the polling box and polling booth
3. Pan of Rocard talking to election officials near the table with ballots
4....
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Referendum chief says voters are expressing 'right to self-determination,' polling station
As people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk continued to cast their votes on Sunday in a contentious and hastily organised independence referendum, the head of the central elections commission of the self-proclaimed Donetsk...
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Polish concerns over voting rights at EU treaty summit
1. Wide shot of Polish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
2. Close-up sign reading: (Polish) "Ministry for Foreign Affairs"
3. Polish and EU flags
4. Various set-up shots of Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman, Robert Szaniawski
5. SOUNDBITE...
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Hong Kong - Chinese representatives chosen
An election committee in Hong Kong, approved by Beijing, on Monday (8/12) chose the territory's first direct delegation to China's highest law-making body, the National People's Congress.
Thirty-six delegates were selected after a formal...
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Opposition protest, leaders deliberately spoil ballot papers
1. Various of confrontation between protesters and police
2. Various of police arresting protester Nastya Udaltsova, of the Left Front opposition group, and leading her away
3. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Protester with poster, No name given:...
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USA/MEXICO: IMMIGRANT ADVOCATES PRAISE NEW DUAL NATIONALITY LAW
Spanish/Nat
Immigrant advocates from Mexico and the United States have praised the passage of a new dual nationality law in Mexico.
The legislation means that Mexicans who've become U-S citizens can retain their Mexican citizenship....
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PAKISTAN: REACTION TO GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO GIVE WOMEN THE VOTE
Urdu/Nat
The Pakistani government's decision to give the vote to women living in the northern tribal region has caused a furious backlash among clerics and village elders.
Women in this fiercely conservative area marry young and are...
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Preview of Forbes historic documents auction
1. Wide shot interior gallery, pan across displays
2. Medium shot writing on wall "The Forbes Collection"
3. Still photograph of Abraham Lincoln
4. Close up pair of opera glasses used by Lincoln the night he was assassinated
5. Medium...
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WRAP Pro-democracy march in Hong Kong
1. Wide of protesters marching in the street, holding banner which reads (Cantonese) "insist on 2012 double direct election, no to 2017 fake democracy."
2. Mid of protesters marching holding banner
3. Wide of protesters marching with a...
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Final preparations for Saturday's elections, observers, candidates
1. Wide of Tbilisi street
2. Mid of election poster
3. Pan from campaign posters to street
4. Guards standing outside Marriott Hotel, venue of Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) meeting with presidential...
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KASHMIR: KASHMIRI HINDUS LIVE LIFE OF MISERY IN REFUGEE CAMPS
New Delhi, India, 3 September 1996
1. Tracking shot leading to interiors of Prithvi Nath's small room, with Nath sitting at Aliganj Camp
2. Various of Nath and his wife in the room
3. SOUNDBITE: Nath (Hindi)
4. GVs of a...
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BANGLADESH: WOMEN ARE ENCOURAGED TO VOTE
English/Nat
Voters in Bangladesh go to the polls Wednesday, hoping to end a political standoff that has paralysed their government and threatened their nation's young democracy.
But not every Bangladeshi will cast a ballot - there is...
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New Polish PM Tusk meets European officials
1. Exterior of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) headquarters in Brussels
2. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk getting out of car and shaking hands with NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer
3. Tusk and de Hoop...
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Rice meets Kuwaiti FM, comments on Iraq, Iran
1. Rice and Sabah Al-Sabah enter news conference
2. Cutaway of diplomatic staff
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State:
"There's no doubt that there are determined killers, determined terrorists who are trying...