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Calls for improved transport links to save desert oasis
LEAD IN: Tourism ministers are trying to attract more visitors to the oasis of Zagora in south-east Morocco. The isolated region at the foot of the High Atlas mountains and the start of the Sahara desert offers a rich cultural heritage...
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Sudan boasts more pyramids than Egypt
SUDAN PYRAMIDS SOURCE: AP TELEVISIONRESTRICTIONS: HORIZONS CLIENTS AND AP LIFESTYLE, HEALTH AND TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLYLENGTH: 5:48 SHOTLIST:AP TelevisionBejrawiya, Sudan - April 16th, 20151. Mid of pyramids in the desert2. Wide pyramids...
AFP News Agency
CLEAN : Qatars prized racing camels bred for success
CLEAN : Qatars prized racing camels bred for success
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Detroit Zoo Animals Celebrate Valentine's Day
Love is in the air at the Detroit Zoo, whose inhabitants are enjoying some themed goodies in the run-up to Valentine's Day. Workers at the zoo in suburban Royal Oak on Wednesday gave heart-shaped pinatas to wolves and ice treats to polar...
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Detroit Zoo Animals Celebrate Valentine's Day
Love is in the air at the Detroit Zoo, whose inhabitants are enjoying some Valentine's Day-themed goodies. Workers at the zoo in suburban Royal Oak gave heart-shaped piñatas to wolves and ice treats to polar bears, camels, fallow deer...
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ONLYONAP Last days of the Greatest Show on Earth
Immortalised as "The Greatest Show on Earth", the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is hanging its hat for the last time this weekend. While other circuses continue to entertain the crowds around the world, the most famous...
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Valentine’s Day Comes Early at the Detroit Zoo
Valentine's Day has come early to the Detroit Zoo, whose inhabitants are enjoying some romantic goodies.
Zookeepers at the facility in suburban Royal Oak gave heart-shaped piñatas to wolves and ice treats to polar bears and...
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Valentine’s Day comes early at Detroit Zoo
Valentine's Day has come early to the Detroit Zoo, whose inhabitants are enjoying some romantic goodies.
Zookeepers at the facility in suburban Royal Oak gave heart-shaped piñatas to wolves and ice treats to polar bears and...
Bridgeman Arts
Bedouin tribesmen on camels in Algerian desert, 1957
Clip 6 from 16mm film about the Hoggar region of Algeria in 1957. Shot of shadows on the ground of people walking with their camels in the Tamanghasset region. Shot of tribesman crouching and looking on the horizon with rising sun, with...
Bridgeman Arts
Camel train carrying salt in desert, Timbuktu, Mali, 1930s. Tuareg warriors ambush them and reenact a battle.
Part 5 of Aux Quatre coins du Monde avec Lowell Thomas / Going Places with Lowell Thomas. Camel train carrying salt in desert, Timbuktu, Mali. Tuareg warriors ambush them and reenact a battle.
Bridgeman Arts
Children swimming in pool and Tuareg farmland in Algerian desert, 1957
Clip 5 from 16mm film about the Hoggar region of Algeria in 1957. Children playing in a swimming in pool in the Hoggar / Ahaggar region.
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Camels, sheep blessed ahead of Rockettes show
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Peru celebrates camel wedding
In an unusual display of Valentines celebrations, a zoo in Peru's capital Lima on Friday put on a symbolic "wedding" for their two camels.
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FEATURE 'Changing face of China' AP looks at oasis city slowly becoming part of the desert
Dunhuang, Gansu Province - 11, April 2008
1. Wide of sand dunes near Dunhuang City at sunrise
2. Mid of sand dune at sunrise
3. Mid of people riding a caravan of camels through the desert
4. Wide of caravans of camels and people riding...
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INDIA: DIAL AN ELEPHANT CHRISTMAS TAXI SERVICE
English/Hindi/Natsound
In India, they've come up with a solution for those who are fed up with ordinary taxis.
During the Christmas season, those who wish for an impressive mode of transport simply have to pick up the phone and order -...
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RR7852B INDIA THE PUSHKAR FESTIVAL
Throughout the year in India, Hindu festivals are held
in different parts of the country. Pushkar is the holiest
of holy cities and has one of the year's biggest festivals.
It is of dual importance to India's 450 million Hindus...
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Egypt faces a decline in tourism after recent insecurity in the region
1. Backs of tourists gazing at the Giza pyramids and the Sphinx
2. Fronts of same tourists, waist-up
3. Close up of head of Sphinx
4. Tourists passing in front of Sphinx, a pyramid behind it
5. Tourists walking
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Al...
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A one-humped camel, known as a dromedary, was born in Mexico City's Chapultepec zoo for the first time in nearly a decade.
A one-humped camel, known as a dromedary, was born in Mexico City's Chapultepec zoo for the first time in nearly a decade.
The animal was born 5 April and weighed 24 kilos (52.8 pounds).
The baby dromedary is the son of "Sahara," who...
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Russia/Ukraine - Animal Rescue Operation
Russia's struggling economy is taking its toll on some of Moscow's most vulnerable residents: its animals. Many animal owners, from pet owners to circuses, simply cannot afford to care properly for their animals. In one Moscow park,...
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Mexicans prepare for Epiphany
Mexico City - December 30, 2007 - January 4, 2008
1. Wide of three kings with animals at the Plaza de las Estrellas shopping centre
2. Close of Enrique Portilla playing King Melchior, looking at a child
3. Mid of family getting ready...
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Children learn about the birth of Christ at London Zoo, plus Santa's grotto
1. Various of flamingos
2. Various of okapis (related to giraffes)
3. Wide of Zoo
4. School children entering the Nativity Trail, walking past camera
5. Cutaway of star
6. Various of children looking through stable door at Mary and...
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ISRAEL: NEW PROJECT HOPES TO BREAK CYCLE OF NEAR CONSTANT DROUGHT
English/Nat
A group of scientists are busy at work trying to turn Israel's parched Negev desert into a sea of blooming green vegetation.
Combining ancient methods with modern-day technology, they hope their initial success in their...
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UK: LONDON: SOTHEBY'S HISTORIC ITEMS AUCTION
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The pen used by British King Edward VIII to sign his abdication papers and a robe once worn by Lawrence of Arabia were up for auction at Sotheby's on Wednesday.
The historic items made up part of the Passion For Fashion...
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PHILIPPINES: RUSSIAN CIRCUS STRANDED AFTER ROW WITH MANAGER
English/Nat
A stranded Russian circus troupe is performing tax-free in the Philippines to raise money for their fare back home.
The performers and their animals got stuck in Davao City after a row with their manager.
Now local...