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USA: SLOVENIAN PM DRNOVSEK MEETS MADELEINE ALBRIGHT
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The Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Drnovsek, has been lobbying Washington for admittance to NATO in the next phase of enlargement.
President Bill Clinton assured the visiting Balkan delegation that NATO would remain...
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BOSNIA: PRINCESS DIANA'S ANTI LANDMINE MISSION UPDATE
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Princess Diana arrived in Bosnia on Friday for a visit promoting her crusade against land mines.
Up to 70 people a month in Bosnia are injured by land mines left over from the three-and-a-half year war that split the...
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UPITN 3/2/80 THAI AND KHMER TROOPS ON BORDER BETWEEN THAILAND AND CAMBODIA
Vietnamese forces in western Cambodia mounted a new offensive against Pol Pot guerrillas. Since the offensive was launched the fighting has been getting closer to the Thai border. By Tuesday 29 January, Thai military sources said...
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RR0226/A Sri Lanka: Highway
Various of vehicles at Vavuniya border crossing; people at Vavuniya border crossing; Military police checking papers and searching luggage; parked vehicles; group of Muslim men; Military police directing traffic; UNHCR vehicle crossing...
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UN teams in Gaza continue to clear remains of suspected white phosphorus
1. Wide shot of UN representatives working at detonation site
2. Hamas security in area
3. Controlled detonation of white phosphorous
4. Wide shot of smoke rising
5. Various of smoke rising
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sheila Black,...
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Scientists in Germany have developed a prototype spider robot that they hope the will have a wide range of uses from aiding emergency relief teams during natural disasters to mine clearance following wars.
HEADLINE: Robotic spider could be cheap superhero
CAPTION: Scientists in Germany have developed a prototype spider robot that they hope will have a wide range of uses from aiding emergency relief teams during natural disasters to mine...
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Presser on landmine deaths of two aid workers in Darfur
1. United Nations press conference in Khartoum
2. Media
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Manuel Aranda Da Silva, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan:
"This incident - on landmine incidents - this is the third in the Darfur region in the last 12...
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Ex footballer's charity opens refugee rehab centre
LEADIN:
The Sir Bobby Charlton Centre for Rebuilding and Rehabilitation has opened in Amman.
The centre is the first of its kind in Jordan and will help Syrian refugees recover from physical and psychological...
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The U.S. has armed drones flying over Baghdad to protect U.S. troops that recently arrived to assess Iraq's deteriorating security, the Pentagon said Friday. Officials also say they support the international land mine treaty. (June 27)
The U.S. has armed drones flying over Baghdad to protect U.S. troops that recently arrived to assess Iraq's deteriorating security, the Pentagon said Friday.
The military for more than a week has been flying manned and unmanned aircraft...
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Pentagon comments on armed drones over Baghdad and plans to curb land mines
The U.S. has armed drones flying over Iraq to protect U.S. military advisers who recently arrived there to assess Iraq's deteriorating security, the Pentagon said on Friday.
For over a week the military has been flying manned and...
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Giant prosthetics for injured elephant
As the numbers of Asian elephants in Cambodia steadily declines one lucky young bull has been given a second chance thanks to an artificial foot.
The numbers of Asian elephants in Cambodia is continuing to fall with only around 200 -...
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Bosnians recall Diana's last official trip +contains unseen footage+
LEADIN:
Twenty years ago this month Princess Diana died in a car accident in central Paris.
Just weeks before her death Diana travelled to Bosnia to meet landmine victims.
Two decades later...
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CUBA: US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY
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In less than a week's time the Pope arrives in Cuba, but one place he
won't be visiting is the U-S naval base at Guantanamo Bay on the south-east of the island.
The base is one of the last outposts of the Cold War and...
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UK: DIANA FUND DISTRIBUTES ONE MILLION POUNDS IN GRANTS
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A fund set up in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, distributed more than one (m) million pounds sterling in grants on Tuesday.
The Princess championed the causes of landmine clearance and highlighted the plight of victims...
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Efforts to de-mine country and rehabilitate victims
Near Kabul
1. Pan from road to de-miner from British-registered charity The Halo Trust
2. Close up de-miner
3. Close up digging around mine in ground
4. Pan from road to de-mining
5. Close up de-miner's face
6. Mine embedded in...
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Bosnia - Fighting Around Doboj During Ceasefire
As the Bosnian conflict drags on, the city of Doboj has become a
an important strategic corridor for Serbs on Mount Ozren to the
rest of the Bosnian Serb-controlled territory. As the largest rail junction in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Doboj...
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Rats trained to sniff out landmines in Tanzania
1. Wide shot of training field
2. Mid shot of a rat sniffing
3. Mid shot of a trainer holding the leash of a rat
4. Various of trainers in the field with rat
5. Close up of a rat sniffing for undetonated landmines
6. Mid shot of...
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USA: US TO TAKE PART IN INTERNATIONAL ANTI LAND MINE NEGOTIATIONS
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In an apparent reversal of policy, the Clinton administration announced on Monday that U-S officials will take part in negotiations on an international treaty banning anti-personnel land mines.
The proposed 150-nation treaty...
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Hagel looks at military's latest prosthetics technology and Boston Dynamics robot
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel was given hands-on demonstrations on Tuesday of some of the newest research from DARPA, the military's Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency programme.
Fred Downs Junior, an old friend of Hagel's who...
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YUGOSLAVIA: KOSOVO: REFUGEES FLOOD BACK
Albanian/Nat
About 26-thousand refugees have flooded back into Kosovo this week.
Those numbers come from the U-N refugee agency which warns however that the security situation remains too precarious for organised returns by bus.
The flow...
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KOSOVO: LAND MINE EDUCATION PROGRAM (2)
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VOICED BY: Vera Frankl
Following the war in Kosovo, as many as one (m) million land mines continue to litter the countryside.
About 4-thousand mines have already been deactivated, but hundreds of thousands more still pose a...
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ALBANIA: 5 KOSOVO REFUGEES KILLED BY LANDMINE LATEST
Eng/Albanian/Nat
Five members of a Kosovo Albanian family were killed when a landmine hit their car as they were fleeing towards Albania.
Having made an arduous journey towards Albania, the car's passengers got within 30 metres from...
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Dogs trained from puppies for sniffing out explosives and drugs
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4036255 LEAD IN : Investigations are underway into how an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo, with 66 passengers and crew on board, disappeared. The incident has renewed security concerns surrounding...
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Elvis, Monroe and Princess Diana remembered in 2017 +REPLAY++
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