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Country prepares for papal visit
1. Wide shot of banner on building reading "Holy Father, welcome to Rijeka"
2. Mid shot of banner
3. Various shots of the port where the pope will arrive
4. Various of workers preparing stage for where the pope will board after getting...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: UN CHIEF KOFI ANNAN VISIT
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U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan has arrived in Moscow for talks on the Russian military offensive in rebel Chechnya and a range of international issues.
Annan is scheduled to meet acting President Vladimir Putin, Foreign...
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RUSSIA/BELARUS: BELARUSSIAN SOLDIERS THAT STAYED WITH ROCKET UNIT
Russian/Nat
Russian President Boris Yeltsin is pushing hard to give the go ahead the planned reunification of Russia and neighbouring Belarus.
The Kremlin said he was anxious to sign a Union Treaty with his opposite number Alexander...
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Newspaper headlines, reax to election results
1. Pull focus to tram approaching on main boulevard
2. Wide shot main boulevard, trams, people
3. People getting off tram
4. Various of woman distributing free newspapers
5. Man carrying his plastic bag on a stick and newspaper in...
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CROATIA: US-CROATIAN MILITARY EXERCISES
English/Nat
In the first ever bilateral U-S-Croatian amphibious military exercises, U-S and Croat naval forces have simulated a landing operation on an island in the Adriatic Sea in an exercise meant to train the military of the former...
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Candidates for Presidential elections
1. Wide shot pan interior atrium Central Election Commission
2. Close-up Central Election Commission sign
3. Wide shot meeting of the Central Election Commission
4. Mid shot meeting of the Central Election Commission
5. Mid shot...
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Israeli PM Sharon meets Russian FM Ivanov for talks
1. Wide shot exterior of Russian ministry of foreign affairs
2. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon entering hall and shaking hands with Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov
3. Cutaway media
4. Sharon and Ivanov walking up stairs
5....
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Six-party talks envoys meet for working level meeting on North Korea
1. Wide exterior of one of Russian Foreign Ministry's buildings
2. Members of six way working group walking in garden
3. Various of group posing for photographs
4. Wide of group seated for talks
6. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: UNHCR CHIEF OGATA PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
The United Nations refugee chief has called for greater assistance to be given to Chechen refugees in the Caucasus Mountain region in southern Russia.
More than 200-thousand refugees have fled the breakaway republic since...
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YUGOSLAVIA: KOSOVO: UNITED NATIONS POLICE ARRIVE
English/Nat
The first convoy of United Nations police has arrived in Kosovo.
Thirty-five officers of the U-N CivPol crossed into Kosovo at Blace on the Macedonian border on Sunday -- the first group of three-thousand officers who will...
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RUSSIA: ELECTIONS: POLITICIANS CASTING THEIR VOTE
Russian/Eng/Nat
Russia's main politicians have begun casting their votes in the country's elections for a new Duma, the lower house of parliament.
Voters are choosing from a broad spectrum of 26 parties, with the Communist Party favoured...
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BOSNIA - Peacekeeping Patrol
U.N. peacekeepers ringed the destroyed Bosnian parliament building in
central Sarajevo after shots were fired from it at Bosnian Serb
forces.
SARAJEVO, Bosnia (25/8)
UN apc vehicles
un soldiers around vehicles
pedestrians on street -...
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Government forces retake long-contested town in east
Ukrainian troops forced pro-Russian insurgents out of a key stronghold in the country's embattled east on Saturday, a significant success that suggested the government may finally be making gains in a months-long battle against a...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: TONY BLAIR ENDS VISIT WITH CAMEO SOAP OPERA ROLE
English/nat
Britain's youthful Premier Minister Tony Blair hasn't stopped since he touched down in Moscow last night.
On his first ever visit to Russia he met with both President Yeltsin, Prime Minister Chernomyrdin and managed to...
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Bulgaria - Protest against ex-Communist government
Talks between Bulgaria's government and opposition aimed at resolving the country's worst political crisis since the fall of communism ended in failure on Saturday (11/1), with both sides refusing to compromise, the opposition...
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Final preparations for Sunday's elections, observers comments
1. Wide of street
2. Wide of polling station
3. Close up sign for polling station
4. Various of people preparing room for election
5. Pan of ballot boxes
6. Man hanging curtains
7. Official looking through list of voters
8. Close up...
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German opposition candidate in Washington DC
1. Edmund Stoiber, German CDU election candidate, walking to speak with reporters
2. SOUNDBITE (German) with English translation, Edmund Stoiber
"The most important part of the discussion involves the situation that the relationship...
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Russia-Foreign Minister on Pakistan's nuclear test
Russian and western intelligence services were caught out by the speed with which Pakistan carried out five nuclear tests, Russia's foreign ministry admitted on Friday (29/05). Official spokesman Valery Nesterushkin told reporters Russia...
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RUSSIA: MOSCOW: BELIEVERS FLOCK TO WITNESS A WEEPING ICON
Russian/Nat
Orthodox believers are flocking to a Moscow church to witness what many say is a minor miracle - a weeping icon of Russia's murdered Tsar Nicholas the Second.
Archpriest Vasily Golovanov of the Ascension Church in the Russian...
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Albania - State of unrest continues
A rally was held on Friday (07/03) in the rebel-held southern Albanian
town of Sarande, where armed opponents of President Sali Berisha's regime, have rejected a government offer of a 48-hour cease fire and said they would not give up...
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Polls close in presidential elex
1. Exterior Polling Station No. 2378, Moscow
2. Interior polling station, ballot box being brought to the counting table
3. String on ballot box
4. Lid being lifted off ballot box and ballot papers being tipped onto table
5. Observers...
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USA: WASHINGTON: NATO SECRETARY GENERAL JAVIER SOLANA VISIT
English/Nat
NATO Secretary General Javier Solana is in Washington, where he's briefing Clinton administration officials on plans to expand the alliance.
U-S officials say he's likely to focus on talks underway in Paris between NATO and ...
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YUGOSLAVIA: STRIKING MINERS CLASH WITH POLICE
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Striking miners from the Kolubara mine came head to head with Slobodan Milosevic's riot police on Wednesday.
Police blockaded a bridge leading to the mine, but backed down when miners forced their way through.
After...
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State of emergency to be lifted later Friday, voxpops, analyst
1. Wide of central Tbilisi
2. Wide of Tbilisi street
3. Wide of people walking down the street
4. SOUNDBITE: (Georgian) Givi Gvaramia, Tbilisi resident, Vox Pop:
"I think it had to be lifted long ago. I did not agree from the beginning...