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Preparations ahead of Sunday's general elections
Election workers at Chile's largest voting centre were making final preparations on Saturday, a day ahead of the nation's general elections when voters will choose the country's next president.
They assembled ballot boxes and folded...
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Peres, Netanyahu attend WJC, Kadima, Labor campaign
Petah Tikva, Israel
1. Street scene with pedestrians, tilt up to billboard with Likud's candidates
2. Street scene with people crossing road
3. Pan of campaign billboard for Labor candidate Ehud Barak, which also shows rivals Israeli...
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Pro-Thaksin party says enough parties sign on to form ruling Thai coalition
Bangkok - 24 December 2007
1. Secretary-General of the People's Power Party (PPP), Surapong Suebwonglee, walks into party headquarters
2. Wide of Surapong during news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (Thai) Surapong Suebwonglee,...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forecast final passage of sweeping health care legislation in days. The prospect of a party-line vote on such far-reaching legislation assures that the issue will reverberate into the fall elections for control of Congress.
HEADLINE: Pelosi: Health care reform to be historic
CAPTION: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi forecast final passage of sweeping health care legislation in days. The prospect of a party-line vote on such far-reaching legislation assures that...
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CAMBODIA: PROTESTS AGAINST HUN SEN CONTINUE
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A huge crowd continues its protest in Phnom Penh against the Cambodian leader Hun Sen, whom they accuse of fraud and intimidation in the recent general elections.
Defying government warnings, opposition leader Sam Rainsy...
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GERMANY: BERLIN: KOHL LAYS FOUNDATION STONE FOR NEW CHANCELLERY
German/Nat
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl laid the foundation stone for a new chancellery in Berlin on Friday.
But the collapse of his tax reform plan just before the ceremony may mean he never gets to try out the seat of power in the new...
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Namibia - Swapo To Call General Elections
Namibia's ruling SWAPO movement announced on Wednesday (7/12)
that it is calling the country's first general elections since
independence in 1989. Making the announcement, Mines Minister
Adimba Toivo ja Toivo said his government had...
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WRAP Berlusconi's final rally before general election ADDS shots
1. Wide of Freedom People Rally with Colosseum and Constantine Arch in background
2. Wide of supporters applauding
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Silvio Berlusconi, People of Freedom party leader:
"I have understood why Veltroni (former Rome...
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RUSSIA: BENJAMIN NETANYAHU VISIT
English/Nat
Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Friday called the peace negotiations that have restarted in Washington "ill-timed and morally wrong".
He said they should be held after general elections, not before....
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Anti-government protesters take to the streets for first time in three weeks
Anti-government protesters were back on the streets of Thai capital Bangkok on Monday for the first time in three weeks.
Several thousand left their base in a city centre park for a short march through the capital's business district....
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Voters registering for referendum on constitution
Fallujah, west of Baghdad - August 23, 2005
1. Residents entering voters'' registration centre
2. Posters about constitution
3. Sign (in Arabic) reading "al-Khulafa voters" registration centre No 549''''
4. Residents queuing to...
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INDONESIA: JAKARTA: POLICE CLASH WITH DEMONSTRATORS (v)
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VOICED BY: Louise Bates
Hundreds of protestors took to the streets in Jakarta on Friday to protest police violence that marred a demonstration on Thursday which left dozens of people injured.
Some 300 protesters on Friday...
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Referendum to decide how to elect presidents, Erdogan voting
Burhaniye Primary School, Istanbul
1. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan with wife at voting table with officials
2. Erdogan taking ballot card and walking to booth
3. Wife Emine at ballot box to Erdogan walking back to box to drop...
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Malaysia to hold early general elections amid ethnic tensions
1. Mid-shot of media gathered in room
2. SOUNDBITE: (Malay) Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Malaysian Prime Minister:
"Today I want to make an announcement about the dissolution of parliament. After I had an audience with the king this morning,...
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KOREA: PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS PREVIEW
Korean/Nat
South Korean candidates from opposition parties have intensified their campaigning ahead of parliamentary elections on Thursday.
In the capital of Seoul, rivals have been sniping at each other whilst at the same time driving...
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Jerry Brown says he has a special opportunity to serve in his unprecedented bid for a fourth term as California governor. Brown and his wife voted in a firehouse near their Oakland hills home Tuesday. (June 3)
Jerry Brown says he's got a special opportunity to serve in his unprecedented bid for a fourth term as California governor.
Brown and his wife, Anne Gust Brown, voted in a firehouse near their Oakland hills home Tuesday accompanied by...
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed the victory of Barack Obama in Tuesday's election and said she thought the American people had spoken out 'loudly and clearly' for change in the country.
HEADLINE: Pelosi hails Obama's historic victory
CAPTION: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed the victory of Barack Obama in Tuesday's election and said she thought the American people had spoken out 'loudly and clearly' for change...
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Voting begins in parliamentary election
1. Wide shot people queuing to vote
2. Various election officials checking voter details
3. More of the people in queue
4. Various people voting
5. Close up polling station sign
6. Close up disabled man walking
7. Wide shot polling...
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Polls close in general election, election official, observer comments
1. Election official closing door at polling station
2. Wide of election officials at desk
3. Close of election official telling someone over phone that polling station has closed
4. Mid of Organisation for Security and Co-operation in...
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Mugabe gearing up for elections expected first half of 2002.
Harare, November 2001
1. Mugabe motorcade arriving at funeral of slain comrade amid singing women
2. Militant Zanu PF youths dancing and singing ruling party songs at a funeral
3. Mugabe getting out of car
4. Militant Zanu PF supporters...
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PAKISTAN: SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS BENAZIR BHUTTO'S DISMISSAL
Islamabad, Pakistan - 29 January 19971. Various of riot police battling crowd2. Various of running street battles with crowd3. Lawyers leave court room walking towards press pack4. Man puts crate of evidence on steps5. Cutaway of press...
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India - Outcome of general election
India's Hindu nationalists on Tuesday (3/3) predicted they would be able to form a government as they led with almost half the seats declared in national elections.
vs BJP supporters celebrating;
counting station;
vs ballots being...
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A preview of Saturday's general election in Iceland
1. Close of Democracy Watch Party band AUDIO:music
2. Wide of same
3. Close of Icelandic flag on top of parliament building
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Egill Helgason, political analyst:
"Well it's basically that the government that many...
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SYND 26 10 69 GENERAL ELECTIONS TAKE PLACE IN PORTUGAL
Substantial numbers of Portuguese go to polls to elect the new national assembly. The film includes footage of the Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano and the opposition leader de Maura.
1. WS of a large group of people outside a polling...