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PHILIPPINES: ANNUAL RAMON MAGSAYSAY AWARDS
English/Nat
This year's winners of the annual Ramon Magsaysay awards, the Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize, have been presented at a ceremony in Manila.
The winners -- which this year included awardees from Pakistan, Bangladesh and...
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Presser and comments from Nobel Prize winners
Baltimore, Maryland - 8 October 2003
1. Nobel Prize winner Peter Agre walking into lecture hall
2. Wide of lecture hall
3. Cutaway of audience
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Peter Agre, Winner of 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry:
"I'd just like to...
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Nobel committee announcement, President' first comments on his win
Oslo, Norway
1. Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Thorbjoern Jagland, walks to podium,
SOUNDBITE: (Norwegian) Thorbjoern Jagland, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee:
"Good morning, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has...
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China - World's largest Census undertaken / Artist and activist Ai Weiwei under house arrest / Liu Xiaobo wins Nobel Peace Prize
China - China goes door-to-door in world's biggest census
Beijing - 1 Nov 2010
1. Census workers walking in residential compound
2. Man opening door
3. Close of workers filling in forms and checking details with resident
4. Wide of...
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CHINA: GAO XINGJIAN WINS NOBEL PRIZE
Mandarin/Nat
Gao Xingjian, the self-exiled author whose works are banned in his native China, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday - the first Chinese to win the award in its 100-year history.
In exile in France since 1987, the...
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Nobel winner Vargas Llosa holds news conference, reax from Peru
New York, New York, US - 7 October 2010
1. Nobel Prize in Literature winner Mario Vargas Llosa taking his seat at news conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Mario Vargas Llosa, Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature:
"What represents a step...
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Riccardo Giacconi is co-winner of Nobel Prize for Physics
1. Medium shot of Riccardo Giacconi, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, walking into his office
2. Medium shot of Giacconi hugging and kissing his colleagues
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Riccardo Giacconi, co-Winner of the Nobel Prize...
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CUBA: PILGRIMAGE TO COBRE
Spanish/Nat
Devotion to Cuba's patron saint has stood firm through all the momentous events that have visited the island.
Every year, hundreds have made the pilgrimage to Cobre, in the eastern half of the island, to pray to the Virgin...
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People outside the White House and in President Barack Obama's hometown of Chicago say the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama may have come too soon. They are waiting for more concrete results.
HEADLINE: Public seems skeptical of Obama's Nobel win
CAPTION: People outside the White House and in President Barack Obama's hometown of Chicago say the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Obama may have come too soon. They are waiting...
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BELGIUM: EUROPEAN PEACE TRAIN JOURNEY TO KURDISTAN IS CANCELLED
German/Eng/Nat
A "European Peace Train" scheduled to carry two-thousand Kurds from Brussels to Kurdistan has been cancelled by the German and Turkish governments because of fears of terrorism.
Organisers say the train - which aimed to...
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Garcia presents Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa with top award
1. Various exteriors of House of Literature
2. Wide of audience applauding as the Peruvian 2010 Nobel literature winner, Mario Vargas Llosa, enters room
3. Mid of Vargas Llosa
4. Vargas Llosa receiving award
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish)...
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SOUTH KOREA: ASEM SUMMIT: OPENING CEREMONY
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The ASEM global economic summit began on Friday with the twenty-five leaders from member countries in Asia and Europe hailing progress toward ending decades of confrontation on the Korean peninsula.
On the first day of talks...
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1 Japanese, 2 Americans win Nobel chemistry prize
1. Wide exterior of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science (RSAS)
2. Close of sign on building, reading (Swedish) Royal Swedish Academy of Science
3. Cutaway cameramen
4. Members of Academy entering news conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (English)...
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WRAP Le Clezio receives Nobel prize in Literature ADDS interview
Stockholm
1. Horace Engdahl, Swedish Academy Permanent Secretary, walks into media briefing then makes a statement
SOUNDBITE: (Swedish) Horace Engdahl, Swedish Academy Permanent Secretary:
"Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to...
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VENEZUELA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL LAUNCHES ANNUAL REPORT
Spanish/Nat
Amnesty International launched its annual report on Wednesday detailing human rights violations across the world.
The report names China, Indonesia, Nigeria and Guatemala among the many countries where torture and the death...
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U.S. citizens Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Sir Martin J. Evans of Britain won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking discoveries that led to a powerful technique for manipulating mouse genes.
HEADLINE: U.S., U.K. scientists win Nobel in medicine
CAPTION: U.S. citizens Mario R. Capecchi and Oliver Smithies and Sir Martin J. Evans of Britain won the 2007 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for groundbreaking discoveries that led...
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Martin Karplus, Arieh Warshel and Michael Levit comment on Nobel prize for chemistry win
The three U.S.-based scientists who won this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday talked about how got the news.
Michael Levitt, a British/US citizen, working at Stanford University, said when the phone rang, he thought at first...
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Nobel prize winner Saul Perlmutter celebrates physics win
1. Close-up of Astrophysics sign on door with Nobel Prize winner Saul Perlmutter and his daughter in background
2. Wide of Perlmutter speaking to reporters in his office
3. Various of Perlmutter pointing to his computer screen
4....
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FRANCE: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER GAO XINGIJAN
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Gao Xingjian, the self-exiled author whose individualistic works are banned in his native China, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday - the first Chinese to win the award in its 100-year history.
The Swedish Academy...
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OPCW inspectors get hostile environment training
Chemical weapons inspectors from the Nobel Peace Prize-winning OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) on Wednesday undertook hostile environment training to prepare them for missions in Syria and elsewhere.
The...
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The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their work on women's rights.
HEADLINE : Women's rights activists win Nobel Peace Prize
CAPTION: The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman of Yemen for their...
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Al Gore and UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change win Peace Prize
Oslo, Norway - 12 October 2007
1. Wide of Nobel Institute
2. Close up of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel's statue
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ole Danbolt Mjoes, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee:
"The Norwegian Nobel committee has...
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Swedish king hosts dinner for Nobel laureates
1. Various exteriors of the Royal Palace
2. Antique field guns outside palace
3. Guests arriving for royal dinner
4. Nobel prize winner in economic sciences Christopher Pissarides arriving
5. Cutaway of photographer
6. Nobel prize...
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Literature winner, criticised for links to Communist Party, backs censorship
1. Wide tilt up of Swedish Academy, where the Nobel Prize in Literature is decided each year
2. Close-up of Swedish Academy inscription on the building
3. Wide of Mo Yan, Nobel literature winner, arriving
4. Wide pan of Mo Yan entering...