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UN inspectors leave hotel for morning round of inspections
UN chemical weapons experts went out on another field testing trip on Wednesday.
Associated Press photographers saw seven cars with UN markings leave the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus.
Before the departure, the group was briefed by UN...
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Israeli critically injured in stabbing
1. Wide exterior of Damascus Gate
2. Two Israeli soldiers standing in front of the gate
3. Soldiers standing around the crime scene
4. Close up of dried blood on the ground
5. Close up of religious book splattered by the blood
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Russian planes arrive to fly home nationals evacuated from Syria
1. Mid of Russian passenger plane landing
2. Wide of Beirut international airport
3. Various of Russian passenger plane taxiing after landing in Beirut airport
4. Mid of air force base and helicopters on ground
5. Plane taxiing
6. Mid of...
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LIB 30-1-74 FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS SYRIAN DIGNITARIES IN DAMASCUS
French Foreign minister meets Syrian President Hafez al Assad in Damascus.
1. gv exterior, government building
2. gv meeting, picture of Syrian President Hafez al Assad on the wall
3. ms meeting, pan from French Minister of Foreign...
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SYND 1 6 67 SYRIANS PREPARE FOR MILITARY TRAINING
Syrian soldiers prepare for intensive military training.
1. ms and pan large sign in Arabic
2. ms interior zoom to military officials at desk
3. cu Arab man
4. ms and pan line of men queuing
5. ms officials with documents
6. ms woman,...
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Defence minister killed in blast buried in capital
A funeral was held on Friday for Syrian Defence Minister, General Dawoud Rajha, who was killed in a rebel attack on the national security office in Damascus on Wednesday.
The ceremony took place in the Church of the Holy Cross in Syria's...
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SYND 27 9 76 SCENES AFTER HANGING OF PALESTINIAN GUERRILLAS WHO HIJACKED HOTEL
In Syria, on Monday (September 27), hundreds of Damascus citizens viewed the bodies of the three pro- Palestinian guerrillas who were hanged in public for taking part in the seizure of a luxury hotel. Four people died and 34 were hurt in...
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International envoy to Syria departs hotel following meeting with NCB officials
1. Various international envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi leaving hotel after talks with Syrian opposition figures recognised by the Syrian government
International envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi on Tuesday met Syrian opposition figures...
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SYND 26 5 73 VOTING SCENES IN DAMASCUS IN FIRST ELECTIONS FOR 10 YEARS
Voting scenes in Damascus as Syrians vote in their first general elections for over ten years.
1. ms women vote
2. various shots man into voting booth, filling in ballot form
3. cu election posters
4. ms men casting votes
5. various...
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Chemical weapons inspectors leave hotel for field visit
UN Weapons inspectors drove away from the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus on Friday morning on their continuing mission to deal with Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
International inspectors have so far visited three sites linked to...
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SYND 8 7 74 Al-THANI RULER OF QATAR MEETS PRESIDENT ASSAD.
Sheikh Khalifa Bin Hamad Bin Abdullah Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar met with Hafez Assad, President of Syriw, in Damascus.
1. ws fountain and square in Damascus
2. ws cars outside President Assad's residence
3. ms Al-Thani seated with Assad
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UN chemical weapons inspectors set off from Damascus to leave Syria
A group of United Nations inspectors left Damascus on Monday after concluding their work in the country.
The UN says its team of weapons experts, led by Swede Ake Sellstrom, were in Syria to investigate seven sites of alleged chemical...
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OPCW and UN experts return to hotel from latest field trip
A team of international weapons inspectors returned to their hotel in Damascus on Sunday after carrying out a field visit to a new, but unnamed site, according to local reports.
Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of...
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SYND 19 8 75 KING HUSSEIN ARRIVES IN SYRIA FOR TALKS
King Hussein of Jordan welcomed at Damascus airport by President Hafez Assad at of Syria, afterwards, at a reception
1. ws plane taxiing
2. ls, and zoom Hussein down plane steps, greeted by Assad
3. ms flags of Syria and Jordan
4. ws...
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SYND 12 8 75 HAFEZ, FAHD, AND YAMANI MEET IN DAMASCUS
Arrival of Prince Fahd, Saudi Defence Minister, and party from Saudi airplane greeted by Syrian officals. Sheikh Yamani and Prince Fahd at meeting with Syrian President Hafez Assad and Syrian officials.
ws Fahd down plane steps and...
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Explosion rocks Syrian capital, aftermath
1. Pan across from building to cordoned-off scene of blast
2. Tilt-up from shattered glass on ground to damaged police vehicle
3. Wide of scene of blast
4. Tilt-up and pan from blood on ground to damaged police vehicle
5. Pan across...
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UN humanitarian chief Amos leaves hotel for meeting with Syrian officials
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Valerie Amos was in Damascus on Saturday morning to meet with Syrian officials.
Amos was expected to meet the Deputy Foreign Minister, Faisal Miqdad, and officials at the Ministry for...
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UN inspectors leave hotel to visit site of alleged chemical attack
A United Nations team that was due to start their investigation into an alleged chemical attack near the Syrian capital left their Damascus hotel on Monday morning.
Later, a UN spokesman said that snipers had opened fire at one of the...
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Security forces clash with anti govt protesters
1. Wide of tyres burning in street
2. Mid of doctors attending to injured protester in hospital
3. Mid of minaret, pull back to wide of city skyline
4. Mid of journalists on hotel roof
Syrian police launched a relentless assault on...
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SNC official says bombing has created power vacuum in Assad regime
1. Syrian National Council (SNC) representative in Rome, Ambassador Mohamed Bassam Imadi, walking
2. Wide of the central Piazza del Popolo
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ambassador Mohamed Bassam Imadi, SNC representative in Rome:
"(Those killed...
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Child killed as mortar shells hit near inspectors' hotel in Syria
Two mortar shells hit Syria's capital on Saturday near a hotel where international chemical inspectors and United Nations staff are staying.
An eight year old was killed and 11 people were hurt in the blasts in the upscale Abu Roumaneh...
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New UN envoy Brahimi meets Syrian foreign minister
UN and Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi met Syrian Foreign Minister Waleed Moallem in Damascus on Thursday.
The new international envoy to Syria arrived in the country on his first visit since he took up the post in the midst of Syria's...
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SYND 14 8 73 EGYPTIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS SYRIAN PRESIDENT IN DAMASCUS
Egyptian Foregin Minister Muhammad Hassan al-Zayyat meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Abdul Halim Khaddam and President Hafez al-Assad.
gv Zayyan and Khaddam seated in a room
cu Zayyat
cu Khaddam
ms Khaddam and Zayyat
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Israeli security forces are on high alert following deadly attack at synagogue
Security was tight in Jerusalem on Wednesday morning, a day after four worshippers and a policeman were killed in a deadly attack on a synagogue.
At Damascus gate on border between East and West Jerusalem and at the Qalandiyah checkpoint...