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FRANCE: TOULOUSE: ENGLISH FANS ARRIVE FOR WORLD CUP MATCH
English/Nat
The first of England's anticipated 9-thousand supporters have arrived in Toulouse for the Monday night game with Romania.
But in stark contrast to rioting in Marseilles the fans have been on their best behaviour, promoting a...
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Crowds gather for Ipanema band party and Paraty's Mud Party
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1. Various of 'Banda de Ipanema' or Ipanema Band carnival troop performing during annual street party as part of Rio's Carnival festivities
2. Mid of man and woman dressed in fruit and nature-themed costumes...
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SYND 3 10 78 FLOWER FESTIVAL AND CARNIVAL QUEEN
One of the highlights of the Argentine social scene, the National Flower Festival, has again lived up to its colourful reputation. It was the 15th Festival and, as usual, was set in Belen De Escobar, about 50kms from Buenos Aires.
1. ws...
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Threads of smoke rose from the charred warehouses of three major samba groups Tuesday as workers salvaged what they could of floats and costumes so they can put on some sort of a show before millions celebrating Rio de Janeiro's famed Carnival in less than a month.
HEADLINE: Rio Carnival groups try to recover after fire
CAPTION: Threads of smoke rose from the charred warehouses of three major samba groupsas workers salvaged what they could of floats and costumes so they can put on some sort of...
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Slump in number of international visitors as carnival approaches
Only a few days before Rio de Janeiro's annual Carnival, hotel owners said on Monday they are struggling to fill rooms after a slump in tourism.
Hurt by soaring prices and ongoing protests, hotels are finding there are fewer tourists...
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Mass celebrates 450th anniversary of city
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 28 February 2015
1. Tilt down from Christ the Redeemer to crowds
2. Women posing for photos
3. Pan of people who celebrated mass in honour of Rio de Janeiro's 450th anniversary (on Sunday)
4. Men taking part in...
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Venetians prepare for party season
Venice - January 24th, 2009
1. Wide shot of gondoliers rowing through Venice's Grand Canal
2. Wide shot of the right side of the Grand Canal with gondolas anchored to wooden poles
3. Wide shot of Rialto Bridge as the camera goes under...
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Patients from Rio's largest psychiatric hospital enjoy a pre-carnival event.
1. Wide of psychiatric Hospital Nise da Silveira in Rio de Janeiro
2. Close up of psychiatric patient with yellow wig
3. Wide of patients in hospital
4. Mid of Nurse selecting drugs
5. Psychologist with elderly patient
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Six top schools at the Sambadrome show off their spectacular floats and exotic dancers
Extraterrestrial toucan birds, neon green spacemen waving Brazilian flags and legions of scantily clad women and men dancing a furious samba opened the final round of Rio de Janeiro's extravagant Carnival parades on Monday night.
The...
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Fans of Michael Jackson stage carnival tribute to the late entertainer
Fans of pop star Michael Jackson and Carnival revellers were brought together in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday for the Thriller Electrico street party.
Thriller Electrico is only two years old, but is already one of the most successful...
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Carnival King Momo on parade, receives key to the city
1. Tilt down from church to King Momo parading in a horse drawn carriage with queen and princesses of carnival
2. Medium pan from King Momo to queen and princesses in horse drawn carriage
3. Medium of drummers
4. Medium of actors...
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Thousands gather for top carnival street party "Sargento Pimenta" to dance to Beatles songs
More than a hundred thousand Beatles fans thronged to Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo park on Monday for the annual Sergeant Pepper block party.
Revellers were treated to a Beatles repertoire with a Brazilian tweak by musicians with gold...
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Dancers take to the streets of Buenos Aires for pre-carnival celebrations
1. Mid of band director giving instructions to street musicians, AUIOD: music (and throughout)
2. Mid of people in costume dancing during parade
3. Close-up of musician playing instrument
4. Tilt down of musician playing drum, people...
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Rio carnival festivities begin, children's parade, sambadrome
1. Zoom out Sugarloaf Mountain to tourists in Santa Teresa
2. Wide of people in street preparing for parade
3. Mid of group of women playing instruments
4. Mid of men playing instruments
5. Pan across Carmelitas street band
6. High wide...
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BOSNIA: MOSTAR: DEMONSTRATION AGAINST LOCAL EU ADMINISTRATOR
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Croats in the western part of the Bosnian town of Mostar have been demonstrating against the local E-U administrator. A Croat crowd burnt an effigy of Hans Koshnik, a man linked with the deal to give Muslims and Croats...
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100-thousand gather for Flight of the Angel, key event of Venice carnival
Over one-hundred-thousand people crowded into Venice's St Mark's square to watch the famous Flight of the Angel, one of the main events of the city's carnival on Sunday (23FEB2014).
The Flight of the Angel is an ancient Venetian...
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Fat Tuesday parades on final day of Mardi Gras
New Orleans - 16 Feb 2010
1. Various of parade on New Orleans'' Bourbon street
2. Performers in costumes throwing bead necklaces to the crowds
3. People catching beads
4. Various of performers on float throwing beads
5. SOUNDBITE...
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Preparations for annual carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
1. "Grande Rio" warehouse
2. Close-up of "Grande Rio" logo
3. Pan of floats
4. Various of people working on the floats
5. Various of floats
6. Pan from feathers to wide of Waldice Goncalves de Souza
7. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese)...
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Preps ahead of lavish carnival in times of economic downturn
14 February, 2009
1. Various of Heaven on Earth carnival bloco
16 February, 2009
2. Pull out to wide from Copacabana hotel to beach
3. Medium of people walking on in Copacabana
4. Exterior set up of hotel Marina Palace
5. Set up of...
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GUATEMALA: STUDENTS BLOCK TRAFFIC IN ANNUAL PROTEST PARADE
Spanish/Nat
Guatemalan students blocked traffic in the capital for several hours during an annual protest parade which this year turned its criticism on President Alvaro Arzu's economic policies.
The protest was the third major...
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Tomatoes and rain come together for first time in the history of the Tomatina festival
For the first time in its history, tomatoes and rain have mixed at the annual Tomatina tomato fight in Bunol, Spain.
Some 20,000 people took part in Wednesday's hour-long street party, inspired by a food fight amongst children in...
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Sweltering heat hits the Chinese capital
1. Wide of sun, tilt down to people holding umbrellas
2. Wide of tourists holding umbrellas in Tiananmen Square
3. Tourists holding umbrellas walking past portrait of Communist leader Mao Zedong
4. Women under umbrella
5. Couple walking...
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ALGERIA: ALGIERS STAGES ITS FIRST EVER CARNIVAL
Arabic/Nat
Algiers has staged its first ever carnival.
Thousands of people attended the event in the streets of the Algerian capital on Tuesday night, following the end of the Organisation of African Unity summit in the city.
The local...
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Opening of the carnival parade on the theme of the 2014 World Cup
Hundreds of people filled Sao Paulo's Sambadrome in Brazil late on Friday, to celebrate the opening of the annual carnival parade.
Friday was the first night of the Special Group category of the parade, which was opened by the Leandro de...