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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: TENSIONS MOUNTING AHEAD OF FIDEL CASTRO VISIT
Spanish/Nat
Tensions are worsening in the Dominican Republic, less that 24 hours before the arrival of Cuban President Fidel Castro.
Castro will be an observer at the three-day meeting of the leaders of the Caribbean Community...
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Dominican Republic holds mass to mark Pope's death
1. Wide shot of Santo Domingo Cathedral
2. Close-up of pope poster reading: "Farewell your holiness"
3. Mid shot of priests walking towards main altar
4. Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus Lopez Rodriguez walking towards altar
5. Pan from...
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Demonstrators protest the slaying of Haitian; UN peacekeepers
graphic pictures
1. Haitian protesters outside Dominican embassy in Port-au-Prince
2. Close of sign reading (Spanish), "Justice and reparation for all the victims murdered in the Dominican Republic."
3. Close of photograph of...
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UN forces confront Haitians over cholera camp - sent to DC
HEADLINE: UN forces confront Haitians over cholera camp
CAPTION: UN forces were confronting angry Haitians in Saint Marc Tuesday. The protesters were upset about plans by an aid agency to set up a cholera treatment centre near a school....
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US official signals countries should handle criticism from Venezuela
1. Various of exterior and security outside OAS General Assembly venue
2. Wide of OAS assembly inauguration ceremony
3. Pan right of delegations listening to OAS Secretary General Jose Miguel Insulza speak
4. Medium of Dominican...
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OAS plan to solve diplomatic dispute between Colombia and Ecuador
1. Various exteriors of the Organisation of the American States headquarters
2. Wide of meeting room, delegations sitting down ahead of session
3. Ecuadorean Foreign Minister MarÄżËa Isabel Salvador Crespo arriving and passing by...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ FIRES FOUR MILITARY OFFICERS
Spanish/Nat
The new Dominican president Leonel Fernandez has fired four senior military officers including the armed forces chief whom he accused of insubordination.
The sackings were only part of a wide-ranging purge of the...
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NEW Dom Rep president sworn in for 3rd term; Taiwan pres attends
AP Television
1. Mid of Taiwanese president, Ma Ying-jeou, arriving for the swearing in ceremony
2. Mid of Secretary General of the Organisation of American States, Jose Miguel Insulza, being greeted
3. Mid of Haitian President Rene...
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HAITI: POLITICS
Span/Eng/Nat
When Jean-Bertrand Aristide came to power in Haiti 10 years ago, international leaders hailed his triumph, supporters painted his portrait on walls and the poverty-stricken masses dubbed him a prophet.
That fervour, however,...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: SPANISH PRIME MINISTER JOSE MARIA AZNAR VISIT
Spanish/Nat
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar is in the Dominican Republic for a two-day visit in hopes of securing the extradition of five Basque separatist leaders.
Police increased security around the exiled guerrilla leaders. ...
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Rebels threaten attack on second largest city plus aid
Gonaives
1. Wide people lined up to receive food
2. Woman peering over wall
3. Close up rebel holding crowd back
4. Medium shot men unloading food supplies from CARE truck
5. Wide food supplies stacked on ground
6. Wide line of men...
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US Sec of State Clinton attacks veto of UN Syria resolution
1. Various of US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton posing alongside Dominican Republic Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso and other senior officials from various Latin American countries
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hillary...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: TROOPS KILL PROTESTOR AS GENERAL STRIKE STARTS
Spanish/Nat
Soldiers shot dead a protester on Tuesday at the start of a two-day general strike which has paralysed much of the Dominican Republic.
Dozens of businesses and schools remained closed and thousands stayed at home fearful of...
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British, Spanish and Canadian teams prepare to head to Haiti
1. Wide of "Las Americas" airport
2. Wide of member of UK rescue team inside, with equipment
3. Boxes of equipment
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Gary Francis, British rescue worker:
"The quicker we can get to Port-au-Prince, obviously the...
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Navy intercepts boat carrying 77 illiegal immigrants
1. Various of boat, loaded with migrants intercepted at sea, docking in port
2. Various of migrants walking out of boat with faces covered
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Carlos RodrÄżËguez Medrano, Dominican Navy spokesman:
"The Navy has...
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Damage caused by tropical storm
1. Ocean waves
2. Various of houses destroyed by Hurricane Jeanne
3. Man trying to fix roof of house
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Francisco Lora, hurricane victim:
"In my house the whole roof flew away. What's left is the structure. But near...
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Latest on 10 US baptists arrested while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti
1 February 2010
1. Pan from US humvees on street to entrance of Police compound where US citizens are being held
2. Security outside police compound
3. Various of US soldiers and civilian official entering compound
4. Various of...
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Preparations for the swearing in of Porfirio Lobo
1. Wide of National Stadium with military parade rehearsing for inauguration ceremony on Wednesday
2. Close of military parade
3. Mid of Honduran General Romeo Vazquez overseeing preparations
4. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) General Romeo...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 2ND DAY OF GENERAL STRIKE
Spanish/Nat
A general strike in the Dominican Republic's north-east has entered its second day with threats of more violence.
At least one civilian was killed and several more injured, late on Tuesday, when strikers clashed with police...
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WRAP At least 18 killed, including Italian tourists, in bus collision
1. Wide of accident scene
2. Various of accident scene with local residents and aid teams standing around the buses
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Luis Luna Paulino, Director of Civil Defence:
"It was a tragic accident. As you can see we...
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Floods and landslides from storm kill at least seven
1. Various top shots of floods and destroyed homes
2. Travelling shot of car submerged in flood with fallen fence on top of it
3. Zoom out of people being transported on forklift
4. Close up of car turned over in street
5. Various of...
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WRAP Former colonial countries at summit to discuss LatAm issues
1. President Ricardo Lagos of Chile walking to meet President Carlos Mesa of Bolivia
2. Presidents Lagos and Mesa shaking hands
3. Chilean and Bolivian Presidents sitting down, talking, pan to Mesa
4. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PROTESTERS OPEN FIRE ON TRUCK KILLING 1 OFFICER
Spanish/Nat
Protesters armed with sub-machine guns opened fire on a truck carrying food to police in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday, killing one officer and wounding another.
The incident occurred during a general strike which...
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Hugh Jackman, Matthew Broderick, Chelsea Clinton and fellow designers attend private funeral of Oscar de la Renta
From Hillary Rodham Clinton to Hugh Jackman to Mikhail Baryshnikov, luminaries of the fashion, entertainment and media worlds packed a Manhattan church on Monday (3 NOV. 2014) for the private funeral of legendary fashion designer Oscar...