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Police fire at protesters and opposition activists torch polling stations during national election
Police in Bangladesh fired at protesters and opposition activists torched more than 100 polling stations Sunday during a national election boycotted by the opposition and described as flawed by the international community.
At least 18...
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Bangladesh - Anti-Government Protest
Shops re-opened and transport resumed in Bangladesh's capital
Dhaka on Friday (8/12), a day after clashes between police and
anti-government protestors left 100 people injured, but the
opposition said more rallies were planned. The main...
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Bangladesh - Protests Against PM Khaleda Zia
Gun battles and molotov cocktails killed at least one person and
injured more than 100 in Dhaka on Saturday (25/2), as political
unrest in Bangladesh continues.
Opposition groups launched a three-day strike protesting against
the...
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INDIA: DELHI: CLINTON TO PUSH FOR TEST BAN TREATY
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Clinton returned to New Delhi on Monday evening, after having spent a daylong visit in Dhaka the capital of Bangladesh.
It was the first visit by an American President to Bangladesh.
Security concerns dominated the...
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Eid prayers and celebrations in Pakistan, China and Bangladesh
Muslims throughout Asia celebrated the end of the holy month of Ramadan on Tuesday, gathering in mosques to offer special Eid prayers.
In Beijing about a thousand men flocked into the city's biggest mosque on Niu street for the Eid...
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BANGLADESH: DHAKA: CLINTON TO MEET PRESIDENT ASSAD
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U-S President Bill Clinton revealed Monday that he will meet Syrian President Hafez Assad in Geneva next week to try to get a resumption of the Syria-Israel peace process.
Clinton said he would make the stop on his way home...
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Rally to demand death penalty for those guilty of war crimes
1. Various of high shots of huge rally in support of capital punishment for people convicted of war crimes during the 1971 Liberation War
2. Reverse shot of crowd singing national anthem
3. Various of former and present students of...
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AP pix of police clashing with protesters demanding election delay
1. Army vehicles patrolling on the streets
2. Police behind barbed wire barricades in the street
3. Protesters sitting on the ground in the street
4. Various of police guarding the government offices, protesters near barricades
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Latest demos by protestors, closed shops in the capital
1. Wide of protesters marching and chanting slogan
2. Various of protesters gathering
3. Protesters sitting on ground
4. Old man chanting slogan waving stick
5. Various of Suranjit Sengupta, presidium member of Awami League, speaking...
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Protesters clash with police for 2nd day as death toll rises to at least 44
1. Various of police firing rubber bullets at Jamaat-e-Islami activists in Malibagh's Chowdhury Para area in Dhaka
2. Various of Jamaat-e-Islami activists fleeing from police action and vandalising vehicles on road and chanting...
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AP cover of Sheikh Hasina returning to face corruption charges
1. Various, former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina surrounded by media
2. Hasina on armchair, talking to aides, stands, gestures to supporters and waves
3. Various, crowd with jeep taking Hasina from airport
Former Prime Minister Sheikh...
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GRAPHIC Injured from bus attack which killed 7
At least seven people were killed in Bangladesh in a fire attack on a bus on Tuesday morning.
Attackers threw crude fire bombs at the packed bus as it moved along a motorway before dawn from the coastal city of Cox's Bazar to the...
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Fire at country's largest shopping malll kills 1, injures at least 50
1. Wide shot of Bashundhara City Complex with smoke rising from top floors
2. Various of smoke billowing out of windows
3. Helicopter circling building
4. Mid shot of top floors destroyed by fire, smoke rising
5. Wide of shopping...
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BANGLADESH: DHAKA: POVERTY FORCES MIGRATION TO CAPITAL
Dhaka, 22 September, 1995
1. Wide shot migrants arriving at port
2. Various busy streets
3. Men waiting on streets for work (various)
4. Men bathing in park
5. Men asleep in park
6. Men queuing for food on street
7. Little by eating
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Strike enforced in Bangladesh over anti-Islam film
Businesses were closed and the streets unusually empty in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Sunday as Islamic groups protesting a film that denigrates the Prophet Muhammad enforced a general strike.
The strike was called in response to...
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BANGLADESH: 6 PEOPLE DIE IN TRAIN DERAILMENT
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Six people died when a train travelling between Chittagong and the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka derailed.
Over 100 people were injured Saturday when five carriages of the train overturned into a ditch at Kilkhat, 15...
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Tear gas fired and dozens of protesters arrested as opposition enforces strike
1. Wide of police standing near two tyres set alight by strike supporters
2. Mid of tyres burning
3. Jamat-e-Islami activists marching and chanting slogans in Mirpur area
4. Various of protesters throwing stones
5. Various of...
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BANGLADESH: DHAKA: TWO DAY INSURRECTION ENDS
Dhaka, Bangladesh (21 May 1996)
1. Awami league supporters heading towards rally
2. Rally in downtown Dhaka - Awami league
3. SOUNDBITE: (Bengali) Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury, Awami League Member
4. Various: Tanks on street corner in...
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People displaced from Libya waiting to return home in Tunisia
1. Various tracking shots of bus on road carrying evacuees
2. Pan of stationary bus, evacuees disembarking
3. Evacuees carrying baggage
4. Pan of evacuees queueing
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammed (only name given), Egyptian worker:
"I...
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Authorities raid opposition HQ in bid to end strike
1. Various of women activists protesting in front of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) headquarters
2. Various of police putting up barricades to cordon off BNP headquarters
3. Various of police forcing BNP activists to step back as...
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Foreign nationals evacuated from Libya arrive home
Jakarta, Indonesia
1. Wide of buses outside airport terminal
2. Various of Indonesian workers wearing yellow vests walking into VIP room at airport and shaking hands with officials and relatives
3. Cutaway of man filming arrival with...
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Colourful parade as revellers welcome the lunar new year
1. Zoom out from giant crocodile model to procession marking Bengali New Year
2. Various top shots of white bird model being carried by crowd
3. Various wide top-shots of procession.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Al Amin, festival goer, Vox...
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Police clash with students angered by road accident death
1. Students protesting in front of office of university vice chancellor
2. Students begin to march, chanting
3. Broken glass on road, locals crossing
4. Bus burning after being set on fire by students, crowd of people watching in...
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A major show of military force finally persuaded mutinous border guards to lay down their arms and end their revolt in Bangladesh.
HEADLINE: Bangladesh mutiny ends after tanks enter capital
CAPTION: A major show of military force finally persuaded mutinous border guards to lay down their arms and end their revolt in Bangladesh. (Feb. 26)
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