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Romanian president calls for boycott of referendum
Romania's president Traian Basescu, facing impeachment if enough voters turned out on Sunday to approve a decision by parliament, urged them again to stay at home.
"Only this way," he said, "will they not be participating in the...
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Lebanon will boycott Arab summit in Syria, statement
1. Lebanese Prime Minister's office
2. Lebanon flag on top of building
3. Wide cabinet meeting
4. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora
5. Various ministers and officials
6. Cameras in briefing room
7. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ghazi Aridi,...
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Muslim Brotherhood opposition grp urges boycott of municipal elex
1. Wide of Cairo skyline
2. Various of campaign banners on streets
3. Sign reading: (Arabic) "Announcing the Final Decision on the 2008 Local Elections"
4. Wide of Muslim Botherhood members at news conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic)...
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Dozens of groups boycott Russia's new non-governmental organsations' law
1. Wide of employees of the Memorial rights group walking down street and stopping beside their building, where "Foreign Agent (Loves) USA" has been spraypainted in Russian on the faÄżËade (the sticker on the left near the Memorial...
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South Korean minister criticises Japan over disputed islands
Seoul, Korea March 17, 2005
1. Protesters outside Japanese Embassy
2. Female members of anti-Japan group throwing eggs at the banner with picture of Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi
3. Protesters burning Japanese posters, banners
4....
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Sunni politician says election boycott won''t solve political stand-off
1. Wide of news conference held by Sunni parliamentarian Saleh al-Mutlaq, candidate banned from running in national elections
2. Wide of audience seated
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saleh al-Mutlaq, Parliamentarian and banned candidate:
"We...
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TURKEY: PROTESTS AGAINST KURDISH LEADERS ARREST IN ROME
English/Nat
Angry protests against the Italian government raged across the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday as the row escalated over the extradition of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.
Turkish business groups have threatened to...
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Shiite legislators loyal to al-Sadr end boycott of parliament
1. Wide of parliamentary session
2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Nasser al-Rubaie, Shiite lawmaker from the al-Sadr bloc:
''The demands of the al-Sadr bloc in parliament were legitimate and patriotic, so such demands should have been met. And...
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Syria's main opposition threatens to boycott peace conference after UN invites Iran
Syria's main Western-backed opposition group threatened on Monday to sit out a peace conference this week aimed at ending the country's crippling civil war, criticising the UN's last-minute decision to invite Iran and throwing months of...
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Merkel addresses integration meeting after Turks pull out
1. Wide of participants gathering for summit session at Federal Chancellery
2. Close-up of integration plan report
3. German Chancellor Angela Merkel entering room and greeting people
4. Merkel greeting participants
5. Cutaway of...
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Dozens detained after demo calling for freedom of gatherings
1. Wide of square, police detaining people at protest calling for the right to gather, and for a boycott of the forthcoming elections
2. Mid of scuffles in crowd, police detain man, putting him in bus
3. Mid of policeman holding woman...
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SNC chief says group will boycott Friends of Syria Rome meeting
1. Exterior of Egyptian Foreign Ministry building
2. Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr (right) meeting with Syrian opposition leader Mouaz al-Khatib
3. Syrian opposition leader Mouaz al-Khatib walking to media
4. SOUNDBITE...
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ITALY: PROTESTS AGAINST KURDISH LEADERS ARREST CONTINUE
Italian/Nat
Turkish groups have intensified their boycott of Italian products and threatened a full-scale embargo unless Italy hands over Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan.
Italy has said it will not bow to "economic blackmail" and...
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Court rules in favour of Musharraf, Khan reax after release
Islamabad - 22 November 2007
1. Wide of exterior of Pakistani Prime Ministers' Secretariat (on right of screen) and Supreme Court (on left of screen)
2. Security behind barbed wire barricades blocking access to Supreme Court
3. Various...
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WRAP NKorea nuclear talks resuming after 13-month boycott, start of talks, arrivals
1. Wide conference venue, Diaoyutai state guest house
2. Sentry at gate
3. Various car bearing US flag arrives
4. Various interior, delegates arrive
5. Conference room at Diaoyutai state guest house
6. Mid, China delegate Wu Dawei...
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HONG KONG: PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF CHINA'S CLAIM FOR DIAOYU ISLANDS
Mandarin/Cantonese/Nat
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong in a protest supporting China's claim for the Diaoyu islands.
China, Japan and Taiwan all claim the islands.
Feelings are running high in Hong Kong but a...
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Activists to support new government by starting movement to boycott Russian goods
The western Ukrainian town of Lviv is a long way from the violence in the east of the country, and from Crimea, but in a show of support on Friday, activists there started a movement to boycott Russian products.
Anti-Russian posters,...
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Student protest outside European embassies to claim right to nuke activities
1. Students standing in front of British embassy
2. Close-up of embassy plaque
3. Protestors chanting slogans with a banner reading: "UK go away" in background
4. Various of student holding photo of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's Supreme...
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Dalai Lama says no need for Olympic boycott during prayers; vigil
Dharmsala
1. Wide of Dalai Lama arriving at Tsuglagkhang Temple with security guards, walking past camera
2. Wide of Dalai Lama praying
3. Close of Samdhong Rinpoche, Prime Minister of Tibet's government-in-exile, praying
4. Close of...
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ONLY ON AP - Farmers in Gaza start exporting herbs to Europe and America
Farmers in the Gaza Strip have started exporting herbs to Europe and America, a small economic success story amid the ongoing Israeli blockade.
At Jamal Abu Naja's farm near the Gazan village of al-Qarara, gloved workers prepared a...
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INDONESIA: ACEH: MASS ELECTION BOYCOTT
Indonesian/Nat
Voters in Indonesia's troubled Aceh region failed to turn up for a second chance to cast their ballots on Tuesday after a mass election boycott the previous day.
Militants who opposed the voting kept many Acehnese away...
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Lawyers boycott courts to protest removal of country's top judge
1. Wide of lawyers demonstrating and chanting in Urdu (Pakistani president Pervez) "Musharraf is dog"
2. Police closing gate of Lahore High Court, journalists squeezing out
3. Lawyers chanting anti Musharraf slogans
4. Injured lawyer...
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Divided city ready for mayoral run-off between hardliner and moderate
Serbs in the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica are preparing to vote in the third run-off of a Mayoral election which has been marred by violence.
The run-off will begin on Sunday, after no candidate managed a 50 per cent threshold...
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Sunni Muslims protest against Charlie Hebdo cartoons
Thousands of Sunni Muslims gathered on Thursday in Karachi to protest against the publication of the caricatures of Prophet Muhammad in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The protest was organised by the Sunni Tehreek, a...