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Festival celebrates rose harvest
LEADIN:The Rose Festival is being held in Kalaat M'Gouna for the 55th year.The flower crop is very important to this part of Morocco and this event celebrates it in style.STORYLINE:Miss Roses waves to her adoring fans.Soukayna Lemqadmi...
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At appearance in Beijing, Kazakh pop star Dimash Kudaibergen talks new music and China's 'One Belt, One Road' initiative
Rising Kazakh pop star Dimash Kudaibergen has found an audience in China.At a celebration of his 23rd birthday, Kudaibergen's Chinese talent agency announced production of a new album and plans to launch him as a global star."I will...
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Seperatists celebrate 6 month anniversay of Donetsk and Luhansk "people's republics"
Hundreds of Donetsk residents came out to celebrate the six month anniversary of their self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics on Saturday.
Celebrants paraded through the city waving the flag of Novorossiya, then a Russian...
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Hundreds recreate 17th century Bulgarian wedding at folk festival
Hundreds of Bulgarians on Sunday recreated a 17th century wedding at a folk festival in the northeast of the country.
In a spectacular recreation of traditional rituals, a couple got married at the festival in Pchelina, near the city of...
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ISRAEL: MILLENIUM CELEBRATIONS - VIENNA BOYS CHOIR
English/Nat
Millennium celebrations have kicked off in Bethlehem with a concert by the Vienna Boys Choir.
The world famous choir performed a selection of Christmas and Palestinian folk songs at Manger square, in front of the Church of...
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Serbia/Croatia - Serb Hero Arkan Marries Folk Sing
Various Eng Comm Duration: 1.35
Yugoslavia's celebrity wedding of the year was celebrated in a blaze of gunfire in Belgrade, as Serb paramilitary leader Arkan, whose private army waged a bloody war in the...
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Muscovites enjoy the last day of annual pancake week
1. Wide shot Red Square
2. Wide shot people arriving at Red Square to mark the end of pancake week
3. Close up pancakes
4. Woman making pancakes
5. People waiting for pancakes
6. Close up pancake
7. Close up woman eating pancakes
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Underground bands gain popularity
++AP Television is adhering to Iranian law that stipulates all media are banned from providing BBC Persian or VOA Persian any coverage from Iran, and under this law if any media violate this ban the Iranian authorities can immediately...
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Comedian Steve Martin shows off banjo skills on tour
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AP Television
Los Angeles, 19 March 2010
1. Wide exterior of Congo
2. Wide of Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers bluegrass band on stage
3. Medium of Steve Martin posing with a banjo...
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Government seeks to reassure investors that banks won't collapse
1. Low angle shot of entrance to Slovenian National Bank
2. Woman at ATM cash point, picking up money
3. Road sweeper, cash point behind
4. Close-up, hand taking euro notes from cash point
5. Slovenian Prime Minister Alenka Bratusek...
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Funeral for folk singer Mercedes Sosa
AP Television
Buenos Aieres, 5 October 2009
1. Wide of mourners gathered outside Chacarita cemetery chapel for funeral service of folk singer and human rights activist Mercedes Sosa
2. Various of mourners gathered outside chapel
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SOUTH KOREA: JAPAN COMFORT WOMEN STAGE 200TH PROTEST AT EMBASSY
Korean/Nat
A Korean organization fighting for compensation for so-called wartime "comfort women" has held its 200th protest in front of the Japanese Embassy Wednesday.
The action was part of an ongoing campaign to persuade the Japanese...
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Dalai Lama attends the 1200th anniversary of shrine
1. Ferry leaving mainland for Miyajima
2. Pan of Itsukushima Shrine, UNESCO World Heritage site
3. Various of Itsukushima Shrine
4. Various of deer at shrine
5. Banner welcoming his Holiness the Dalai Lama
6. Various of audience at...
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Iranians prepare for the ancient spring festival, Nowruz
Tehran 8 March 2013
1. Sunni minorities in South-East of the country performing stick dance
2. Wide of dancers and folk musical band walking on streets of Tehran welcoming Nowruz in advance
3. Mid of drum and Sorna(an ancient Persian...
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Morales meets indigenous groups to discuss climate conference
1. Wide of crowd waiting for the arrival of Bolivian President Evo Morales
2. Mid of Bolivian folk musicians playing
3. Mid of Bolivian woman wearing traditional hat dancing by colourful flags
4. Mid of couples dancing
5. Wide of band...
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Giant burger making at BBQ festival
1. Wide of main street in Leskovac, closed off for traffic, with people flocking to Rostiljijada, or Barbecue Week Festival
2. Mid of people at festival
3. Wide of burger grill stand
4. Various of burgers being prepared on grill
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Polo played at the top of the world in Pakistan
Shandur Pass, Pakistan ,Northern Areas , 7-9 July 2006
1. Wide top view from top of the Lowari Pass,
2. Car on the road
3. Various of tents where visitors to the polo festival stay
4. Pull out from snow on mountain tops to Polo ground...
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ARGENTINA: FOLK SINGER MERCEDES SOSA ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT
Spanish/Nat
One of Latin America's greatest folk singers, Mercedes Sosa, has announced she is going to retire sometime in 1998 after two final albums.
She made the announcement in Buenos Aires at the launch of her latest album, "My...
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Thousands of people take part in dance marathon
1. Wide pan of people dancing cueca
2. Cueca folk group playing music
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Nora Cuevas, Mayor of San Bernardo:
"This event is unique to Chile. It's a cueca marathon, the biggest, one thousand cuecas, non-stop dancing....
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30th anniversary memorial service of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
1. Various of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo marching in front of Argentina's Presidential Palace, Government House
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Aurora Morea, Mother of Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora member:
"I am already 83 years-old and I can...
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SERBIA: REACTIONS TO ARKAN MURDER: VIDEO
Serbo-Croat/Nat
Emotions have been mixed in Belgrade to the news that Arkan has been killed.
Some ordinary Serbs have joined Arkan's family, including his folk singing wife, in mourning the loss.
Others have expressed concern over an...
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BANGLADESH: CASH OFFERED FOR EXTERMINATING RATS AND OTHER RODENTS
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The Bangladeshi government is mobilising its population to exterminate one of mankind's oldest enemies -- rats and other rodents which spread disease and gobble up much needed food supplies.
Authorities are offering cash...