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New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu presides over a city where rising property values and robust tourism herald a steady recovery from Hurricane Katrina, but violent crimes leave room for doubt.
HEADLINE: New Orleans mayor on remaking a city
CAPTION: New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu presides over a city where rising property values and robust tourism herald a steady recovery from Hurricane Katrina, but violent crimes leave room...
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BOSNIA: MOSTAR: EU ADMINISTRATION MANDATE FOR CITY TO EXPIRE
Croat/English/Nat
After two and a half years administering one of the most divided and war-torn parts of Bosnia, the European Union's mandate for the city of Mostar finally expired Tuesday.
Almost 80 percent of the southwestern city was...
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New York bid team reacts to IOC evaluation report
1.Wideshot Daniel Doctoroff walking to podium
SOUNDBITE: (English) Daniel Doctoroff, NYC2012 Founder
"Thank you very much Mike. As Mike said, today really does represent another milestone for us in this 11 year quest to host the...
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European bankers meet NYC Mayor Bloomberg on financial summit; analysis
1. Wide of meeting between European and American bankers
2. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg (second from left) and London mayor Boris Johnson (fourth from left)
3. Bloomberg addressing meeting
4. Bloomberg and British Bankers...
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Pro and anti-Bakiyev rallies; US Asst Sec with Otunbayeva; Medvedev
Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan - 14 April 2010
1. Wide of soldiers lined up by street, onlookers on pavement
2. Billboard of deposed Kyrgyzstan President Kurmanbek Bakiyev and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
3. Mid of soldiers
4. Wide of...
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ISRAEL: ISRAELI ARABS CLASH WITH POLICE
Arabic/Nat
Hundreds of Israeli Arabs have clashed with police outside the office of Prime Minister Ehud Barak.
They are demanding increased funds for their municipalities in next year's budget, and say Jewish villages are receiving the...
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Tackling Aids and HIV in America's worst hit area
Washington, DC - 10 May 2006
1. Push in view from neighbourhood to Capitol Dome
2. Close and wide view of people in front of store in area of high poverty
Washington, DC - 8 May 2006
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barbara Chinn, Director of Max...
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Kenyans watch the US elections, plan election parties
1. Wide shot of Nairobi city centre
2. Mid shot of pedestrians
3. Wide shot of newspaper vendor
4. Newspapers on sale
5. Close up of newspaper headlines reading "A sprint to the finish" and "Obama's defining moment"
6. Pan of headlines...
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AIDS activist says outside pressure helped lift travel ban
Beijing - 22 February 2007
1. AIDS activist Gao Yaojie holding a water container in her hotel room in Beijing
2. Books inside Gao's suitcase
3. Gao folding clothes
4. Gao sitting next to window
5. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Gao Yaojie,...
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A group of mothers in California voiced their support for the legalization of marijuana. California voters will consider a ballot proposition that would allow cities to regulate and tax marijuana and legalize the possession of small amounts of pot.
HEADLINE: California mothers: Legalize marijuana
CAPTION: A group of mothers in California voiced their support for the legalization of marijuana. California voters will consider a ballot proposition that would allow cities to regulate...
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A profile of the last remaining barkajol boatmen in Croatia
Jazine bay, Zadar - October 2007
1. Wide Jazine bay
2. Mid shot old sign for barkajols (taxi boat drivers)
3. Mid shot boatman helping passengers onto boat
4. Close up oar
5. Mid shot barkajol (boat man) rowing
6. Barkajol helping...
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Report highlights environmental costs of China's surging economy
Beijing - June 2, 2005
1. Wide interior of news conference
2. Journalists
3. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Wang Jirong, Vice minister of the State Environmental Protection Administration Bureau:
"We have to face a series of environmental and...
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ITALY: ROME: CITY PREPARES FOR THE MILLENNIUM
English/Nat
Rome, which is preparing to welcome more than twenty (m) million visitors in the year 2000, has unveiled some of its works in progress.
City Mayor Francesco Rutelli insists the city will be ready for the tourist invasion,...
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PM says efforts to block floodwaters are failing, barriers, flood water
1. Close-up sandbag at canal on Bangkok outskirts
2. Low shot of sandbags by canal
3. Close-up of sandbags
4. Wide shot street beside canal with sandbags
5. Mid shot man throwing fishing net into canal
6. Close-up of fisherman
7. Mid...
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GWT: VOICE US troops and civilians in and around Kirkuk
Kirkuk's outskirts
0.00 - Barbed wire next to road
0.04 - Various, US troops checking cars
0.14 - US troops at checkpoint
0.19 - US troops at gun position
0.23 - Cars driving away from checkpoint
0.29 - Pan to cars at side of road from...
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PAKISTAN: RAWAT: POLLUTED WELL WATER KILLS 5 PEOPLE
Urdu/Eng/Nat
Polluted well water has killed five people, four of them young children, and sickened thousands of people in a small town in Pakistan.
After a weekend of vomiting and diarrhoea, 65 people from Rawat, which is just north...
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CUBA: HAVANA: FOREIGN MINISTER DEFENDS MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
Spanish/Nat
As a flotilla of Cuban-Americans protesters approached Cuban waters, Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina spoke Thursday to the foreign press, defending the recent municipal elections.
Robaina stressed that high voter turnout of...
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Occupy protesters across the country are costing cities and business money. In Oakland, CA, the city's police union now claims more than two million dollars has been spent on officer overtime alone.
HEADLINE: Occupy Protests Come With Costs
CAPTION: Occupy protesters across the country are costing cities and business money. In Oakland, CA, the city's police union now claims more than two million dollars has been spent on officer...
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MEXICO: MAN STAGES PAINFUL PROTEST AGAINST BUS COMPANY CLOSURE
Natural Sound
A man in Mexico has sewn together his lips and had his eyes and ears stitched closed as a painful protest against the closure of a Mexico City bus company.
Eleven thousand people lost their jobs last year when the...
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n more than 120 cities nationwide, activists held rallies on Friday to protest the Obama administration's mandate that requires nearly all employers to provide insurance coverage that includes free birth control for workers.
HEADLINE: Protests nationwide over birth control mandate
CAPTION: In more than 120 cities nationwide, activists held rallies on Friday to protest the Obama administration's mandate that requires nearly all employers to provide insurance...
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Prospects remain poor where the Arab Spring began
AP Television
Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia - September 21-22, 2011
1. Mid of monument
2. Pan across monument to graffiti
3. Mid of pro-revolution graffiti
4. Various of street market
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Saber Houve, street vendor:
"There are...
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Funeral pictures after bomb kills police chief, two guards
Hillah, South of Baghdad - 9 December, 2007
1. Wide of funeral with mourners carrying coffin of Iraqi police Brigadier General Qais al-Maamouri, AUDIO: gunfire, chanting
2. Women chanting at funeral procession and beating chests, AUDIO:...
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USA: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN LATEST
Natural Sound
Tuesday, March 7, is "Super Tuesday" - a crucial day for determining who the Democratic and Republican parties will nominate to represent them in the 2000 presidential elections.
With 13 states voting - including populous...
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Jerusalem - Netanyahu approves super municipality
The Israeli government on Sunday (21/6) approved the creation of a "super-municipality" for the disputed city of Jerusalem, defying US criticism and triggering an immediate Palestinian condemnation. Israeli prime minister rejected all...