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Conservative, socialist parties meet ahead of summit
Brussels, Belgium
1. Wide exterior of venue hosting meeting of Party of European Socialists
2. Close-up of sign reading (English) "PES - A new direction for progressive societies"
3. Wide of media waiting for arrivals
4. Close-up of...
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GERMANY: UNEMPLOYMENT STANDS AT A RECORD HIGH
German/Eng/Nat
German unemployment stands at a record four and a quarter million - the highest it's been since World War Two.
And with unions and employers unable to agree on solutions to the problem, a new class of unemployed is...
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Reception to welcome EU-SKorea Free Trade Agreement
1. South Korean Trade Minister Kim Jong-hoon greeting European Union officials at the South Korean Foreign Ministry during the ceremony to celebrate the EU-FTA Free Trade Agreement taking effect from July 1st.
2. Close of Kim
3. Mid of...
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USA: DENVER: WORLD LEADERS ARRIVE FOR SUMMIT OF THE 8
Jap/Eng/Nat
World leaders are arriving in Denver, Colorado in the United States ahead of this week's Summit of the Eight.
At Denver International Airport State Department officials were at hand to welcome the world's most important...
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Drug companies drop lawsuit challenging AIDS drugs law
1. Exterior shot Pretoria High Court
2. Close up sign against the pharmaceutical companies
3. Various interior shots of courtroom- crowd awaiting verdict
4. Mid shot lawyers
5. South African Health Minister Dr. Manto...
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India - Smoking in public places banned in Delhi
Smoking in public places was banned on Sunday (26/01) in Delhi, the Indian capital, in a sweeping anti-tobacco clampdown in one of the most polluted cities in the world.
Delhi's old city with landmark Red Fort in Backdrop and Haus Kaz...
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The deadly legacy of tobacco use in Pakistan
Women make up a fifth of the world's smokers.
Not yet as many as men, but the World Health Organisation says the increase in the number of women and young girls using tobacco products is nothing short of alarming.
It's data from 151...
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LAVROV ON ARMS FOR SYRIA, FABIUS, WESTERWELLE ON SYRIA
Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday rejected accusations by US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that Moscow was sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime.
Sergey Lavrov said, during a visit to the...
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UK PM TELLS INQUIRY GOVT'S CLOSE LINKS TO MEDIA INEVITABLE
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair testified on Monday that he had never challenged the position of the influential British press because doing so would have plunged his administration into a drawn-out and politically damaging...
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+4:3 Standard Chartered to pay NY state $340M to settle Iran money probe
Shares in Standard Chartered PLC rallied on Wednesday after news that it had agreed to pay 340 (m) million US dollars to a New York state regulator to settle accusations that it hid illegal transactions with Iran and violated US...
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Woman who survived in collapsed building for 17 days tells of her ordeal
13 May 2013
1. Entrance to hospital
2. Reshma Begum is wheeled out of Combined Military Hospital and towards media
3. SOUNDBITE: (Bangla) Reshma Begum, building collapse survivor:
"I only had a few drops of water to survive, nothing...
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Foreign policy highlights from State of Union address
US President Barack Obama on Tuesday focused a part of his sixth State of the Union address on past and future foreign policy challenges.
Obama promoted his recent decision to normalise diplomatic relations with Cuba and asked for a new...
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Small Businesses React to Calif. Wage Increase
California lawmakers on Thursday approved the nation's highest statewide minimum wage of $15 an hour to take effect by 2022 after it was hailed by Democrats as an example to the nation as it struggles with a growing gap between rich and...
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ONLY ON AP Belarus milk tainted after Chernobyl
As the 30th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear accident approaches, Belarusian farmers near the Chernobyl plant continue their work as usual. Nikolai Chubenok's herd of 50 dairy cows grazes on land just 45 kilometres (25 miles)...
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3 charged in connection with Flint water crisis
Two state regulators and a utility worker were charged on Wednesday in connection with the lead-tainted water crisis in Flint, in the US state of Michigan. State Attorney General Bill Schuette charged Stephen Busch and Michael Prysby,...
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Impact of Ireland's smoking ban debated eight years on
Ireland was the first country in the world to introduce a total ban on smoking in all workplaces places in 2004, prompting many other countries to follow suit.
Today, while the health and economic benefits of the smoking ban are a matter...
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UN, US and EU officials comment on Japan crisis
1. Wide shot of news briefing
2. Cutaway of media and officials
3. Mid of Nishiyama Hidehiko, Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) official and interpreter
4. Wide shot of news briefing
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Denis Flory, deputy...
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Markets, Seoul cuts rates, Development Bank, AIG chief
Seoul, South Korea
1. Bank of Korea (BOK) Governor Lee Sung-tae entering briefing room
2. BOK officials
3. Meeting table
4. BOK officials
5. Lee banging gavel to start meeting
Seoul, South Korea
6. Lee sitting down in news...
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Projected cost overruns for a massive rail tunnel project were below what Gov. Chris Christie used as justification for scrapping the project, according to an independent congressional report released Tuesday.
HEADLINE: Report disputes NJ Gov''s tunnel project fears
CAPTION: Projected cost overruns for a massive rail tunnel project were below what Gov. Chris Christie used as justification for scrapping the project, according to an independent...
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The Federal Communications Commission is set to propose new rules that would allow Internet service providers to charge content companies for faster delivery of their services over the so-called "last mile" connection to people's homes. (April 24)
SOUNDBITE (English) John Bergmayer, Senior Staff Attorney, Public Knowledge
"Essentially what ISPs, some of them, want to do is create an artificial roadblock that prevents websites from working well and prevents Internet services from...
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Greek banks braced for stress test amid financial crisis
1. Musicians in popular shopping area
2. Wide of musicians by the side of the road
3. Close of Greek flag
4. Close of sign reading (Greek) "Pireaus Bank"
5. Wide of building exterior
6. Close of sign reading (Greek/English) "Emporiki...
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First came marijuana as medicine. Now comes legal pot for the people. Colorado and Washington have become the first states to allow pot for recreational use. (Nov. 7)
HEADLINE:Advocate: 'historic' vote on legalizing pot
CAPTION: First came marijuana as medicine. Now comes legal pot for the people. Colorado and Washington have become the first states to allow pot for recreational use. (Nov. 7)
Denver -...
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President Obama announced Tuesday at a distribution center in Maryland for the grocery chain Safeway that he is ordering a new round of fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles by March of 2016. (Feb. 18)
President Barack Obama is ordering a new round of fuel efficiency standards for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles by March of 2016. He is highlighting improvements already undertaken by companies such as Safeway to cut back on gasoline...
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+4:3 Congress opens oil industry to foreign and domestic investors
Mexico's Congress on Thursday agreed to open the country's state-run oil industry to foreign and domestic investors, despite opposition from leftist lawmakers and dozens of protesters gathered in the streets of the capital.
The final...