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PM, leader of main opposition party hold emergency talks
1. Exterior shot of prime minister's office, the Palacio de Sao Bento
2. Close of European Union and Portuguese flags
3. Interior shot of Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates and Social Democratic Party (PSD) leader Pedro Passos...
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College voters to play role in election - many by absentee ballot
October 8 - Washington, DC
1. Various shots of students registering to vote
2. UPSOUND:"Registered to vote?"
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Brandon Hines, member of George Washington University Republicans "I've called mail and package...
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Republicans dispute Obama's rosy view of the economy
Republican Senator Joni Ernst from Iowa delivered the Republican response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday, and painted a far less rosy picture of the US economy than the one Obama laid out.
Ernst said...
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Barack Obama Keynote Speech at Democratic National Convention, Part 2
Candidate for U.S. Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama, delivers the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
1. Obama delivers keynote speech (SOT):
"Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation not...
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Attorney and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke is sounding dire warnings at the Democratic National Convention on a range of health issues if the GOP wins the White House
HEADLINE: Women's activist sends alarm on health issues
CAPTION: Attorney and women's rights activist Sandra Fluke is sounding dire warnings at the Democratic National Convention on a range of health issues if the GOP wins the White...
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USA: WASHINGTON: CLINTON JOINS DEBATE ON PATIENTS RIGHTS
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President Clinton joined the debate on a Patients' Bill of Rights on Tuesday as the U-S Senate geared up for a vote on the prospective legislation.
Before leaving on a day trip to Florida, President Clinton urged lawmakers to...
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Fretilin party confident of winning upcoming elections
1. UN vehicle leads large convoy of Fretilin Party supporters
2. People on bikes and motorbikes driving past
3. People on backs of trucks and utility vehicles carrying Fretilin flags
4. Close up people on truck
5. Large yellow truck...
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Senate Republicans have blocked an effort to repeal the law banning gays from serving openly in the military. The partisan vote was a defeat for gay rights groups who saw the provision as a chance to overturn the law known as 'don't ask, don't tell.'
HEADLINE: Republicans block bill to lift military gay ban
CAPTION: Senate Republicans have blocked an effort to repeal the law banning gays from serving openly in the military. The partisan vote was a defeat for gay rights groups who saw...
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President Barack Obama has been appealing to House Republicans for more cooperation in his second year.
HEADLINE: Obama spends time wooing and debating GOP
CAPTION: President Barack Obama and Republican House members spent part of their day questioning and sometimes lecturing each other face to face at a Republican gathering in Baltimore....
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Republicans devoted their weekly address to spotlighting steps being taken by the new GOP House majority, including trimming House members' operating budgets and, moving to repeal Obama's signature health care law.
HEADLINE: GOP Weekly Address: Repealing health care
CAPTION: Republicans devoted their weekly address to spotlighting steps being taken by the new GOP House majority, including trimming House members' operating budgets and, moving to...
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US President Obama signs an equal pay act
1. Wide shot US President Barack Obama and Lilly Ledbetter walking in to the East Room at the White House
2. Cutaway Ledbetter
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"In signing this bill today I intend to send a clear...
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Social Democrats hold party as exit polls predict defeat
1. Wide of Social Democrats' election night party
2. Social Democrat supporters watching results
3. Cutaway of news media
4. Medium shot of Leif Pagrotsky, Minister for Education, Research and Culture, watching results
5. Social...
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Even before the votes were cast in the nation's first primary, much of the attention in the GOP Presidential Race had shifted to South Carolina, who holds their primary in ten days.
HEADLINE: GOP Race: Next Stop South Carolina
CAPTION: Even before the votes were cast in the nation's first primary, much of the attention in the GOP Presidential Race had shifted to South Carolina, who holds their primary in ten days....
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ALBANIA: EU ENVOY VRANITZKY ANNOUNCES ELECTIONS BREAKTHROUGH
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European envoy Franz Vranitzky has announced a breakthrough in plans to hold early elections in Albania.
Speaking on Friday, Vranitzky said the 10 main parties had signed a political contract to ensure the vote went...
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Swiftly honoring a campaign pledge, Republicans pushed legislation to repeal the nation's year-old health care overhaul through the House Wednesday, brushing aside opposition in the Senate and a veto threat from President Barack Obama.
HEADLINE: House Votes to repeal Obama's health care law
CAPTION: Swiftly honoring a campaign pledge, Republicans pushed legislation to repeal the nation's year-old health care overhaul through the House Wednesday, brushing aside...
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WRAP Seven opposition parties meet to discuss strategy in wake of King''s offer
1. Krishna Prasad Sitaula, Nepali Congress Party
2. Wide shot of political party leaders meeting inside building
3. C.P. Mainali, CPN (ML) General Secretary waving his arms
4. Political party leaders seated during meeting
5. SOUNDBITE:...
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Carter Centre to observe Nepali elections planned for later this year
1 Former US President Jimmy Carter arriving at news conference
2. Mid shot Carter seated with officials from the Carter Centre
3. Wide shot news conference
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Carter, Former US President:
"I have been...
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Republicans, Democrats, Bush, Paulson on vote
Washington, DC
1. Wide of House of Representatives
2. Close of Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher commencing vote UPSOUND: (English) Ellen Tauscher, Presiding Member of Congress: "This is a 15 minute vote."
3. Wide of voting
4. End of voting,...
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USA: ROSS PEROT ACCEPTS NOMINATION FOR REFORM PARTY PRESIDENCY
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With scathing attacks aimed at the two major political parties, Texas billionaire Ross Perot is off and running in his third party candidacy as he accepted the Reform Party nomination for president.
Perot used his acceptance...
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President Bush will skip the Republican National Convention on Monday and travel instead to Texas to meet with emergency workers and people who evacuated the Gulf Coast as Hurricane Gustav bore down.
HEADLINE: Bush: urges those in Hurricane path to evacuate
CAPTION: President Bush will skip the Republican National Convention on Monday and travel instead to Texas to meet with emergency workers and people who evacuated the Gulf Coast...
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Former finance minister on vote rigging as Mugabe party heads for likely victory
Harare - 30 July 2013
1. Wide of Simba Makoni, leader of the Mavambo Kusile Dawn (MKD) political party, dancing at Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's final rally
2. Wide of Makoni waving
3. Wide of Makoni talking to the crowd
Harare - 3...
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PHILIPPINES: ASEAN MINISTERS DISCUSS CAMBODIA'S JULY ELECTIONS
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Preparations for Cambodia's July elections were at the top of the agenda during a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Manilla, on Friday.
ASEAN Ministers from the Philippines, Indonesia and...
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USA: PRESIDENT CLINTON: BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT
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President Clinton has hit back at Republicans, who've attacked him for not supporting the balanced budget amendment.
At a Washington news conference, he said Republican proposals to cut spending would target children to pay...
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Protests continue, Indian court may suspend lawmakers facing sex crimes
2 January 2013
1. Exterior of Supreme Court of India
2. Close of sign, reading (Hindi/English) "Supreme Court of India"
3. Exterior of court
4. Various of female protesters at Rajghat, memorial to independence leader Mohandas K....