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Feasting like Plato and Socrates in Athens
What did Socrates eat for lunch or Plato have for dessert?
At a restaurant in Athens, diners are being given a true taste of ancient Greece with a unique collection of recipes from thousands of years ago.
This isn't ancient Greece, but...
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100-meter world record holder Usain Bolt ran the fastest 200 this year, blazing to the tape in 19.67 seconds at a meet in Athens, Greece. Bolt has not yet decided if he will run both races at the Olympics. (July 13)
HEADLINE: Bolt runs fastest 200 time this year
CAPTION: 100-meter world record holder Usain Bolt ran the fastest 200 this year, blazing to the tape in 19.67 seconds at a meet in Athens, Greece. Bolt has not yet decided if he will run...
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Owners of Christmas ornament and sweet shop see sales plummet
1. Close-up of twirling glass Christmas ornament
2. Wide of customers in Christmas decorations store
3. Close-up of sparkling red-and-blue plastic flowers
4. Wide of customer at checkout counter
5. Mid of sales assistant helping...
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GREECE: BILL CLINTON / COSTAS SIMITIS PRESS CONFERENCE
Greek/English/Nat
U-S President Bill Clinton says he deeply regrets the losses of businesses that were set ablaze in the Greek capital by demonstrators protesting at his visit.
At a news conference in Athens, Clinton also said he...
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New bonds expected to get low rating before debt profile improves
1. Wide of electronic ticker and graphs showing stock market movements since opening of day's trading
2. Close of graph showing market down 1.15 percent at opening of trading
3. Mid of ticker
4. Close of ticker
5. Mid of Theodore...
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NGO helps refugee children through music
LEADIN:
Refugee children, including those from Syria, who live in camps around Athens in Greece have taken part in a concert at the ancient Theatre of Herodes of Atticus.
The concert was part of the 'Athens...
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Greece - Student Uprising Commemoration Clashes
Teenage anarchists clashed with police in central Athens late on
Friday and on Saturday morning (17-18/11) as thousands of other
demonstrators marched through the streets to commemorate a student
uprising. An estimated 3,000 students,...
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Protesters march in Athens to oppose austerity measures
1. Wide of demonstrators marching
2. Close-up of demonstrator chanting slogans
3. Protestors marching
4. Demonstrator shouting slogans in blow horn
5. Child holding placard during demonstration
6. Wide of demonstration
7. Close up...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN: Clashes mar Greek austerity protests
CLEAN: Clashes mar Greek austerity protests
Sky News
Personal & political impact of economic crisis
Personal & political impact of economic crisis
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Rice comments on Iran, protests
1. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis walking
2. Both standing at lectern
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Condoleezza Rice, US Secretary of State:
"We have no argument with the Iranian people. They...
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Strikes disrupt Athens; German markets open
Athens, Greece
1. Wide of defence ministry workers rallying outside defence ministry during strike
2. Mid of protesting workers
3. Banner on railings reading (Greek) "No to experiments with the country's defence and security"
4. Close-up...
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Negotiations underway to try to form a government
1. Various of head of Greek Radical Left Coalition, Alexis Tsipras, meeting Greek socialist PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos
2. Wide of Tsipras with leader of right wing Independent Greeks party Panos Kammenos
3. SOUNDBITE: (Greek) Panos...
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ONLY ON AP Greek olive producers furious at efficiency plan to blend oil
The purity of Greek olive oil is at stake as plans to make the market more competitive raise fears about declining quality of what is considered to be the country's liquid gold.
Proposals to extend a brutal efficiency drive to olive oil...
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Financial analysis of Cyprus crisis from Greece, Brussels and UK
Athens, Greece
1. Wide of Bank of Cyprus with two people waiting at cash machine
2. Mid of person reading a sign outside of the bank of Cyprus
3. Close up of sign outside of bank of Cyprus, reads (Greek): "By decision of the Cypriot...
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+4:3 Finance min resigns to head Socialist party, dep defence min, economist
Athens - 19 March 2012
1. Pan from reporters to wide of Presidential Palace
2. Close-up Greek flag
3. Venizelos walking into Presidential Palace
4. Cutaway cameras
5. Venizelos walking out
6. SOUNDBITE (Greek) Evangelos Venizelos, new...
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Suez Canal faces challenge as piracy prompts shippers to take alternate routes
Cairo, Egypt - 25 November 2008
1. Various of cargo and oil ships passing through the Suez Canal
2. Exterior shot of the Suez Canal authority office building
3. Close of Suez canal authority flag
4. Set up of General Ahmed Fadel, head...
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World markets dogged by recovery fears
HEADLINE: World markets dogged by recovery fears
CAPTION: World markets slumped Monday, as investors remained dogged by worries over the state of the global economic recovery. The euro managed to claw back ground despite the weekend...
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Minister to seek talks on debt rescheduling
Athens - 28 February, 2015
1. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis
2. Close on Varoufakis' eyes
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Yanis Varoufakis, Greek Finance Minister:
"The April agreement concerns reforms. And this is our imperative. Our...
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J Paul Getty Director recommends partial return of artefacts
1. Exterior of Culture Ministry
2. Greek sign reading "Culture Ministry"
3. Getty Museum director Michael Brand entering ministry and walking towards lift
4. Greek Culture Minister Giorgos Voulgarakis entering ministry and walking...
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Moody''s downgrades eight Greek banks, analyst
1. People at ATM outside National Bank of Greece branch
2. Wide of National Bank of Greece branch
3. Close-up of sign reading: (Greek and English) "National Bank"
4. Woman taking money from ATM and putting in wallet
5. Wide of...
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Medicine, supplies loaded onto a ship bound for Beirut
1. Wide of port of Larnaca
2. Greek warship Ikaria, arriving in Larnaca
3. Close up of flags
4. Wide shot of ship docked
5. Various of relief supplies being unloaded from lorry and loaded onto ship
6. Walking shot of soldier
7. Relief...
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Riot police clash with anti-austerity protesters, union on job cuts
1. Wide of Greek Parliament building and anti-austerity protesters gathered in Syntagma Square, in front of building
2. Riot police blocking protesters trying to climb right-hand steps up to parliament building
3. Mid of riot police...
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The Anthrax Scare, Peru Bomb, Greece Bombs
The Anthrax Scare
The anthrax scare in the United States was not over either. In May, the U-S Federal Reserve reported about 20 pieces of mail tested positive for traces of anthrax in an initial screening. The tainted mail was discovered...