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FRANCE: CHINESE ACTIVIST HARRY WU SPEAKS IN PARIS
English/Nat
Chinese American activist Harry Wu Monday urged France to ban imports of products made by prisoners in Chinese jails.
Wu was speaking at a Paris news conference organised by France Libertes, a human rights foundation headed...
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Reax as Pontiff expresses support for "Pope Francis" squatters settlement
Pope Francis has intervened in a standoff between authorities in his native Argentina and people living in a shantytown that's under threat of possible eviction.
About 2500 people have set up a tent city in the vacant lot in the capital...
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Preview to constitutional referendum taking place this week
An ultraconservative Islamist party on Sunday held a conference in a rural town outside Cairo to rally support for Egypt's draft national constitution.
Bearded men in long, traditional robes filled the hall to attend a lecture organised...
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A group of protesters planning to protest the Olympic torch relay in Hong Kong have been barred from entering the city, local media and activists say. They were questioned at the airport and put on a flight to London
HEADLINE: Torch protesters tossed from Hong Kong
CAPTION: A group of protesters planning to protest the Olympic torch relay in Hong Kong have been barred from entering the city, local media and activists say. They were questioned at the...
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PHILIPPINES: MYANMAR UNDER PRESSURE TO RELEASE FOREIGN DETAINEES
English/Nat
Pressure is building on Myanmar's military regime to release 18 foreign democracy activists who were jailed for passing out anti-government leaflets.
The Myanmar military regime has said the detainees have failed to cooperate...
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Former PM Benazir Bhutto gives news conference as tension deepens
1. Wide of people gathered for a news conference with former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
2. Cutaway of policeman
3. Bhutto talking
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan
"If there is a...
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The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has sought Don Imus' firing, met with CBS executives on Thursday. The civil rights activist sat with the network to discuss removing Imus from his radio platform.
HEADLINE: Sharpton meets with CBS, wants Imus fired
CAPTION: The Rev. Al Sharpton, who has sought Don Imus' firing, met with CBS executives on Thursday. The civil rights activist sat with the network to discuss removing Imus from his...
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CUBA: US AND CUBAN INTELLECTUALS/WRITERS
Eng/Spanish/Nat
American writers Arthur Miller, William Styron and Colombian literary great Gabriel Garcia Marquez discussed everything from World War II to the battle over 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez during a dinner with Fidel Castro that...
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SOUTH AFRICA: 10 FORMER POLICEMEN ASK FOR AMNESTY FOR BIKO'S MURDER
English/Nat
Ten former South African policemen have applied for amnesty for the killing of Steve Biko and other anti-apartheid activists in the 1970s.
The announcement brings to an end years of anguish by relatives who did not know ...
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Interview with Femen activist ahead of trial for action held in Notre Dame, File
Inna Shevchenko's visage, framed in blond hair and crowned with flowers, helped inspire France's latest postage stamp.
The leading activist from the Ukrainian feminist movement, Femen, won political asylum in France within a year of her...
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A federal judge's decision to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban has touched off coast-to-coast celebrations among gay rights activists, while Proposition 8 proponents plan their appeal.
HEADLINE: Hundreds rally in support of Prop 8 ruling
CAPTION: A federal judge's decision to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban has touched off coast-to-coast celebrations among gay rights activists, while Proposition 8...
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Shooting throws light on alleged corruption favouring rich and powerful elite
January 13, 2013
1. Wide of protesters holding placards and chanting slogans against killing of 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan
2. Various of woman protester holding placard reading: (English) "Justice for Shahzeb Khan" and chanting: (English)...
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The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women's rights.
HEADLINE : Women's rights activists win Nobel Peace Prize
CAPTION: The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their...
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Uganda - Uganda's president signs controversial anti-gay bill / newspaper prints list of '200 top' homosexuals
Uganda's president signs controversial anti-gay bill
Kampala - 24 Feb 2014
1. Wide of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni arriving to sign bill
2. Mid of Museveni signing bill
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Yoweri Museveni, Ugandan President:
"No...
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Activists set off for islands claimed by both China and Japan
A group of Hong Kong activists set off on a fishing expedition to disputed islands off Chinese shores on Wednesday, which include the Spratly Islands, just over a year since since 14 people were arrested on a similar journey.
The...
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+4:3 PROTESTERS CALL FOR PROTECTION OF MIGRANTS
Central American migrants and human rights activists marched in Mexico State on Thursday to protest against the killing and disappearance of immigrant workers.
About two hundred migrants marched on Tultitlan, around 40 kilometres (25...
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People's protest caravan, militant French farmer
1. Wide shot of anti-WTO "people's caravan" buses on the street
2. Medium shot people on open top deck of bus
3. More of bus
4. Protesters on the bus chanting "Down, down WTO"
5. Various side views of buses passing by
6. Wide shot of...
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USA: GHANAIAN WOMAN GRANTED ASYLUM
English/Nat
Two years after fleeing her native country, a Ghanaian woman once threatened with genital mutilation, has been granted asylum by the United States.
After spending most of those two years at an I-N-S (Immigration and...
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Reactions from Syria opposition, exiles as Assad vows "iron hand"
Istanbul, Turkey
1. Wide of news conference
2. Mid of speakers at news conference
3. Cutaway journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Burhan Galioun, Head of Syrian National Council:
"Bashar Assad is still talking about complicity theories. He...
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Mass wedding on Empire State Building
1. Wide shot of Empire State Building lobby
2. Medium shot bride walking down aisle at Sky Room in Empire State Building
3. Medium shot of bride and groom at altar
4. Medium shot of relatives of couple watching ceremony
5. Medium shot of...
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Protest held as memories stirred by Nisman death
Relatives and survivors of the 1994 bombing of an Argentine Jewish centre in Buenos Aires marched to the Argentine capital's symbolic Plaza de Mayo square on Wednesday.
The marchers, who were joined by leaders of various human rights and...
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Anti-Myanmar govt protests at Singaporean embassies ahead of ASEAN
Bangkok
1. Singaporean flag flying over embassy, tilt down to demonstrators wearing masks of ASEAN leaders and holding fake money and banners
2. Activist with mask of Philippine President Gloria Macapacal Arroyo holding fake money
3....
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Prominent activist arrested for online comments
BAHRAIN ACTIVISTSOURCE: AP TELEVISIONRESTRICTIONS: MIDDLE EAST EXTRA CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 4.15SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionBani Jamra, Bahrain - 15 March 20151. Various of Bahraini activist Nabeel Rajab checking his phone while having breakfast...
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A year after federal investigators started looking into the boot camp death of 14-year old Martin Lee Anderson, there is still no resolution. Civil rights activists hope the new Obama administration will spur some decision in the case.
HEADLINE: Could Obama admin. resolve boot camp death?
CAPTION: A year after federal investigators started looking into the boot camp death of 14-year old Martin Lee Anderson, there is still no resolution. Civil rights activists hope the...