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USA - Marilyn Monroe Honoured On US Postage Stamp
Actress Marilyn Monroe proved she had real staying power when she
was honoured with her own US postage stamp on Thursday (1/6) more
than 30 years after her death. The special issue came out on what
would have been her 69th birthday. At...
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France - Paris Transport Strike
An opinion poll released in France on Saturday (2/12) showed more
than 60 percent of French people supported the public-sector
strikes which are now in their second week. No Paris metro trains
were running over the weekend, as French...
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USA: POSTAGE STAMPS FEATURING EARLY YEARS OF AMERICAN COMICS
English/Nat
The United States Postal Service is getting funny about their stamps.
A new line of stamps has been unveiled today (Thursday), honouring the early years of American comics.
Using the best original art from several...
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Strikes and demos kick off across the EU in Spain, Belgium and Portugal
Barcelona - 13 November
1. Various of workers stood behind fire blocking entrance to market
2. Close-up of burning tire
3. Wide of material being burned in street
Madrid - 13 November
4. Wide of Puerta del Sol Square filled with...
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Polls open, voting begins, streets scenes and security
Jerusalem
1. Sunrise over the Al Aqsa Mosque
2. Israeli policemen standing near main road
3. Exterior of post office, polling station
4. Former US President Jimmy Carter observing as man opens ballot boxes
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jimmy...
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FRANCE : 5 MILLION PARTICIPATE IN NATIONAL STRIKE
Paris, 9 October 1995
1. Sorting room in post office
2. Postal worker sorting out mail
3. Postal workers carrying bundles of letters
4. Letters in hand of Katherine Couliba
5. Katherine Couliba with work colleagues
6. Set-up shot...
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The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with a multibillion-dollar cost-cutting plan that will close nearly 250 mail processing centers, saying on Thursday it can no longer wait as Congress remains deadlocked over how to help.
HEADLINE:Postal Service to begin closing plants soon
CAPTION: The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with a multibillion-dollar cost-cutting plan that will close nearly 250 mail processing centers, saying on Thursday...
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AUSTRALIA: SYDNEY OLYMPICS: STAMPS
English/Nat
Olympic fans can now mail Australian swimming sensation Ian "Thorpedo" Thorpe.
Australia Post issued stamps commemorating Australia's first gold medals of the Sydney Games on Sunday, a day after Thorpe's world...
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BRAZIL: 29 WORKS OF ART CREATED ESPECIALLY FOR WORLD CUP
Spanish/Nat
Football in Brazil has, perhaps predictably, been picked as a major artistic theme less than two weeks before the World Cup kick off.
The 29 works of art from artists around the country are to be shown in Paris throughout the...
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Stamps celebrate great synagogue centennial
1. Various Jewish neighbourhood in Rome
2. Journalists
3. Italian police
4. Dome of synagogue
5. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Marisa Giannini, Italian Postal Service Philatelic Department: (Not Exact Translation)
"From today on this stamp will...
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Israelis double demand for gas masks because of fears over Syria
The demand for gas masks among Israelis is doubling, according to a postal services spokeswoman, the latest sign of mounting fears that Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles could be used against the Jewish state as the crisis there...
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GNS WEEKLY: FRANCE ARMSTRONG
English/Nat
Americans flocked to Paris on Sunday to see Lance Armstrong, the man who had already beaten cancer, beat the world by winning the Tour de France.
The 27-year-old Texan became the second American ever to win the world's...
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WRAP Cardinals meet, tourists visit basilica, new stamp
1. Wide of Sant'Uffizio gate with Swiss Guards
2. Cardinal Paul Shan, Bishop of Kaohsiung (Taiwan) walking
3. Cardinal Karl Lehmann, Archbishop of Magonza in Germany
4. Group of cardinals entering gate
5. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Cardinal...
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Political art inspires debate at Berlin Biennale
AP Television
Berlin - 11 May 2012
1. Exhibit called 'Key of Return' on display at Berlin Biennale Art Festival
2. Close of graffiti on key reading (in English) "Free Palestine"
3. Mid of key
4. Pull focus of graffiti reading...
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KOSOVO: PRISTINA: BOMBING ATTACKS: SITUATION UPDATE
Natural Sound
After weeks of NATO bombing and raids by Serb forces, Kosova's capital, Pristina, was quiet on Sunday.
Few people were on the streets - some collected bread and other supplies.
Kosovo Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova has...
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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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Two unions call general strike; commuter chaos, voxpops
1. Wide of Parliament
2. Steps leading down to main square and Metro entrance full of piegeons
3. Entrance to metro on Athens main square shut
4. Shut entrance to metro with security guard patrolling
5. Empty bus stops on accross...
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General strike in Spain over labour reforms
1. Wide top view of Atocha train station hall full of strikers; UPSOUND: whistling
2. Various top views of strikers at Atocha station
3. Strikers walking through the station chanting
4. Wide of train timetable screen with strikers...
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Arab voters in East Jerusalem
1. Sunrise over old city with the Dome of the Rock in the al-Aqsa mosque centre shot
2. Dome with Mahmoud Abbas banner hanging in foreground
3. Abbas - Yasser Arafat banner hanging above road
4. Security personnel on horseback
5. Pan to...
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FRANCE: PARIS: GREENPEACE STAGE NUCLEAR PROTEST
English/Nat
Following France's third nuclear explosion in the South Pacific, Greenpeace supporters have staged another protest.
Fifty Greenpeace supporters went to the main Paris post office to send to President Jacques Chirac letters...
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At age 95, the nation's oldest postal worker is ready to call it quits. Chester Arthur Reed is walking away from his job as a mail handler and forklift operator in California. Now, he wants to see the world.
HEADLINE: Nation's oldest postal worker retires
CAPTION: At age 95, the nation's oldest postal worker is ready to call it quits. Chester Arthur Reed is walking away from his job as a mail handler and forklift operator in California. Now,...
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Pakistan - Gunmen Hijack US Consulate Van
Gunmen hijack US consulate van
Gunmen in Karachi hijacked a US Consulate van on Monday (5/6), evicted the driver, and set the vehicle ablaze. Gunbattles in the streets of the Pakistan's largest city killed 18 people in the previous 24...
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FRANCE: CYCLING: LANCE ARMSTRONG WINS TOUR DE FRANCE
Paris, France - July 25 1999
1. Wide shot of cyclists
2. Cyclists passing group of Americans with U-S flags and banner saying "Go Lance"
3. Cyclists passing huge U-S flag
4. U.S. Postal Service team passes - UPSOUND of crowd chanting...
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Metro, school, post office train station during strike
1. Various of exterior of metro station entrance
2. People waiting on platform inside metro station
3. Train arriving
4. People on train, shot through train doors, doors close and train pulls out of station
5. Low angle shot of Paris...