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EL SALVADOR: JOURNALIST CHARGED WITH DEFAMING POLICE OFFICIAL
Spanish/Nat
A newspaper journalist from San Salvador has been jailed and then released on bail on charges of defaming a police official.
Federal police arrested Francisco Valencia on a warrant issued by a local judge.
Valencia, a...
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Catholics across the region mark Good Friday festival
Croix-des-Bouquet, Haiti
1. Pilgrims descending from the holy site, with Christian cross
2. Pilgrims surrounding crosses
3. Close up, woman praying while holding candles
4. Little girl holding two candles
5. Pilgrims leaving candles...
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Kerry asks for help to curb a influx of unaccompanied children arriving in US
US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Panama City on Tuesday, holding talks with Central American leaders on how to curb the flow of migrants to the US, in particular unaccompanied children.
Kerry, who was leading the US Presidential...
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COSTA RICA: US PRESIDENT CLINTON TO ATTEND CEREMONY IN RAIN FOREST
English/Nat
President Clinton heads to the tropical rain forest on Friday to urge that development and conservation proceed hand in hand.
The U-S leader is flying by helicopter to Costa Rica's Carillo National Park, where he will hold up...
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE AFTERMATH & HEALTH
Spanish/Nat
El Salvador is still reeling from the effects of Tuesday's earthquake, the second in less than a month.
The earthquake measured six-point-six on the Richter scale and the death toll has risen to 276 people.
In San Vicente,...
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EL SALVADOR: PRESIDENT CALL FOR CALM AFTER EARTHQUAKE
Spanish/Nat
The president of El Salvador has called for calm following an earthquake on Tuesday which has so far claimed the lives of 173 people and injured more than 1,500.
The 6.6 magnitude earthquake was centered halfway between San...
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4:3 Court hearing Spanish priest charged with collaborating with gangs
A Spanish priest charged with collaborating with gangs appeared in court in San Salvador on Tuesday.
Antonio Rodriguez Lopez Tercero, known as Father Tono, had previously appeared in court accused of bringing prohibited items into jails...
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USA: CENTRAL AMERICAN FOREIGN MINISTERS MEET WITH MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
Eng/Spanish/Nat
Improving trade and security links were on the agenda Tuesday when U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met with Central American foreign ministers.
The seven ministers had travelled to Washington to meet with the...
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EL SALVADOR: CRACKDOWN ON COMPANIES LAUNDERING DRUG MONEY
Spanish/Nat
El Salvador is waging war in the law courts against new businesses set up to launder drug money.
The Central American nation, commended by the United States for its efforts to combat narcotics trafficking, has become a...
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WRAP Protests as crisis continues, El Salvador border blocked
Tegucigalpa, Honduras - 17 July 2009
1. Wide of supporters of ousted President Manuel Zelaya marching on road
2. Demonstrators shouting: (Spanish) "Roberto Goriletti (referring to interim President Roberto Micheletti) out."
3. Riot...
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EL SALVADOR: ARRIVAL OF POPE JOHN PAUL II
Spanish/Nat
Pope John Paul II has arrived in El Salvador, the last stop on his Central American tour.
The Pope was welcomed by President Armando Calderon Sol and his wife at Ilopango airport.
Thousands of people gathered just outside the...
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US backs Ex Salvadorean president as candidate OAS president
1. El Salvador's former President Francisco Flores and Roger Noriega, Assistant Secretary Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, seated at press conference
2. Reporters at press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Roger Noriega, Assistant...
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WRAP Abbas meets President Funes of El Salvador, arrives in Colombia
Bogota, Colombia
1. Plane, taxiing
2. Pilot leaning from cockpit window
3. Palestinian delegation stepping down from the plane
4. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on aircraft steps
5. Officials on tarmac with Abbas
6. Wide shot...
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Ink masters from around the world show off their skills
1. Close-up of words being tattooed on man's chest at tattoo convention
2. Wide of man getting words tattooed on his chest at tattoo convention
3. Mid of various people getting tattoos
4. Chilean tattoo artist Marco Epul Bozom working...
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4:3 Russian FM comments on Libya during state visit
1. Officials entering Foreign Ministry building
2. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov talking to Salvadorean officials
3. Various of Lavrov signing agreements with El Salvador Foreign Minister Hugo Martinez
4. Cutaway to press...
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Meeting of central and south American countries ends
1. Wide of presidents posing for the official picture
2. President of El Salvador (on the left), president of Mexico and president of Honduras posing for the official picture
3. President of Panama, foreign minister of the Dominican...
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An alleged MS-13 member who allegedly lured his girlfriend and her toddler son into a New York woods where they were fatally shot in the head because she was "disrespecting" the gang landed on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" list. (Mar. 26)
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An alleged MS-13 member who allegedly lured his 19-year-old girlfriend and her toddler son into a New York woods where they were fatally shot in the head because she was "disrespecting" the...
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El Salvador (2001), Peru (2001)
Location: EL SALVADOR (2001)
Story No.: 209326
Source: APTN
Duration: 00:44
Location: PERU (2001)
Story No.: 307888 & 307898
Source: APTN
Duration: 01:30
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EL SALVADOR: EXPLOSION AT UNDERGROUND ARMS WAREHOUSE
Spanish/Nat
More than fifty people were injured after an underground arms warehouse caught fire and exploded in the in the El Salvadorean capital, San Salvador.
The area was evacuated after the blast as experts secured the surrounding...
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EL SALVADOR: 600 FORMER SOLDIERS RIOT OVER LAND AND MONEY OFFER
Natural Sound
Riot police in El Salvador have used tear gas and fired shots in the air to disperse a protest by 600 former soldiers.
Violence flared as they demanded land and money they say they were promised by the government.
The...
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A'math of Trop Storm Agatha; landslides; state of emergency declared
Garita Palmera
1. Various of vast areas flooded by River Paz
2. Various of civil defence volunteers and officials using ropes to help people to get onto dry land
3. Various of areas flooded by River Paz after it burst his banks
4....
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EL SALVADOR: WAR VETERANS COMPENSATION DEMO CLASHES
1. Protester approaching National Assembly2. Protester showing wound3. Protester beating at gate4. Protester SOT5. Wide exterior of building6. Cutaway, exterior7. MP's walking down stairs8. Masked protesters9. Protester in...
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EL SALVADOR: EARTHQUAKE KILLS SEVENTY
Spanish/Nat
A powerful earthquake in El Salvador shook hundreds of buildings to the ground on Tuesday, killing at least 70 people in a country still in mourning from an even greater quake that killed hundreds a month before.
The U.S....
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Salvadorans head to the polls with ex-rebel favoured to win
Salvadorans began to cast their votes in Sunday's presidential run-off election, in which a former Marxist guerrilla is expected to win, giving the ruling party a second consecutive term, according to polls.
Salvador Sanchez Ceren, 69,...