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Hundreds of Afghans protested in the capital on Saturday against alleged fraud in last week's presidential runoff. (June 21)
Hundreds of Afghans protested in the capital Kabul on Saturday against alleged fraud in last week's presidential runoff, forcing a closure of the airport road amid escalating tensions over what Western officials had hoped would be a...
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Parade marking 14th anniv. of toppling of communist government
1. Wide of parade with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in open-top vehicle
2. Karzai stood up in open-top vehicle
3. Military officers standing in line
4. Karzai waving from open-top vehicle
5. Various of tanks in parade
6. Various of...
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Six bodies returned to New Delhi day after Taliban attack in Kabul
1. Wide of Indian Air Force plane on tarmac
2. Wide of coffin being brought out by soldiers
3. Wide of officials gathered to receive the bodies
4. Wide of soldiers carrying a coffin
5. Soldiers laying the coffin on table and saluting
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DISASTERS: Afghanistan - 50 feared buried by landslide following two earthquakes
1. Wide of scene of landslide with large crowd of rescuers
2. Excavator cleaning rubble and earth
3. Mid of men digging through rubble and earth
4. Tilt down from mountainside to people digging
5. Mid of people digging the rubbles
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Voters line up to cast ballots in presidential and provincial council elections
Afghan voters began queueing up at polling stations nationwide on Saturday, defying a threat of violence by the Taliban, to cast ballots in what promises to be the nation's first democratic transfer of power.
Amid tight security, men in...
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CLEAN : Afghans voters defy Taliban threats as US troops exit
Afghan voters turn out in large numbers, braving Taliban threats to choose a successor to President Hamid Karzai in the countrys first democratic transfer of power as US led forces wind down their 13 year war
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warlords sign truce as fighting kills 60 in North
Char Bolek - about 20 kms West of Mazar i Sharif and 10km East of Char Gumbaz, scene of recent fighting
1. Various vehicles including tank head off down road.
2. Tank driving down road, militia fighters (Rasheed Dostum's men) standing...
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Security tight as Taliban warns voters to stay away ahead of polling in presidential run-off
Afghan troops stepped up security, erecting more checkpoints, searching cars and banning trucks from the streets of the capital Kabul ahead of the presidential elections on Saturday.
The heightened security came after the Taliban issued...
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Defence secretary visits, plans troop deployment
1. Plane arriving at Kabul international airport carrying UK Defence Secretary John Reid
2. Plane turning on runway
3. Close shot of plane with Royal Air Force written on side
4. UK Defence Secretary John Reid walking out of plane and...
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US Defence Sec Gates arrives in Afghanistan
1. Various of US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arriving in Kabul and being greeted by US army officials
US Defence Secretary Robert Gates arrived in Kabul on Tuesday to deliver the message to Afghan and US troops that the United...
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Rocket attack on Embassy area of Kabul ahead of Rice visit
Night shots
1. Various of security at scene of attack near Canadian embassy
2. Blood on ground
3. Afghan police cars
Daylight shots
4. Various of security at scene of attack near Canadian embassy
5. Damage to wall where rocket landed
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This Week In History 11/1 - 11/7
This Week In History 11/1 - 11/7 (Footage by Getty Images)
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Afghanistan - Suicide bombing kills dozens outside US base during Cheney visit
Bagram/Kabul, 27 Feb 2007
Bagram
1. Wide of area near blast site
2. Various shots of relatives carrying bodies
Kabul
3. Various of US Vice President Dick Cheney arriving with Afghan President Hamid Karzai
A suicide bomber killed at least...
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Karzai holds talks with Singh
1. Wide of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh walking toward cameras and shaking hands
2. Tilt up from close of hand shake to Karzai, pull out to wide of Karzai and Singh turning to re-enter room for...
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VOICED Top US official to reassure Karzai of US commitment to Afghanistan
00:00 Convoy of cars carrying US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage arrives at museum
00:05 Armitage gets out of car museum
00:11 Armitage entering museum grounds
00:16 Various of Armitage inside museum looking at broken...
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Turkish President Gul holds trilateral talks with Karzai, Zardari
1. Afghan President Hamid Karzai (left), Turkish President Abdullah Gul (centre) and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari walking into summit room
2. Pakistani delegation
3. Wide of summit room
4. Turkish delegation
5. Media
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Afghan interim president visits Pentagon
1. Afghan President Hamid Karzai exits limousine and is greeted by U.S. Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld. The men walk upstairs into the building.
Afghan leader Hamid Karzai met with US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at the...
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Pakistan's president visits Spain
1. Wide of Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf arriving to meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero - they shake hands and pose for photographs
2. Wide of Musharraf and Rodriguez Zapatero walking into...
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At least 28 killed, dozens wounded in suicide attack in southern Afghanistan
1. Afghan troops patrolling near where Monday's explosion happened
2. Wide of crowd at scene of blast
3. Various of vehicles damaged by explosion
4. Wide of crowd at scene of blast
5. Injured man in hospital
6. Crowd of people...
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Pakistani PM in Kabul to discuss efforts to start peace process with Taliban
Pakistan's prime minister arrived in Kabul on Saturday for a one-day visit to discuss efforts to start a peace process with the Taliban and energy projects aimed at alleviating chronic power shortages in both countries.
Nawaz Sharif, on...
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President Karzai attends memorial service for his brother
1. Various of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Afghan officials walking past camera
2. Wide of Karzai, Afghan government officials, international diplomats and NATO officials attending a memorial service in the Afghan presidential...
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Russian FM Lavrov meets President Karzai
1. Sergei Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister and Hamid Karzai, Afghan President sitting together
2. Close-up of Lavrov
3. Close-up of Karzai
4. Russian officials in meeting
5. Afghan officials sitting next to Karzai
6. Lavrov and Karzai...
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Sucide bomber attack on governor's compound kills 8
1. Wide of site of blast with police vehicles and onlookers
2. Mid of wounded policeman being picked up from ground
3. Wide of damaged vehicle
4. Police vehicle speeding along road
5. Wide of local hospital
6. Mid of armed policeman
A...
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Two foreign troops wounded by bomb targeted at coalition convoy
1. Various of coalition convoy at scene of attack
2. Various of military vehicles
3. Various of coalition troops inspecting damaged vehicle ++MUTE++
4. Wide of scene
5. Various of damaged vehicle
6. Various of debris on ground...