One of Syria's few glass blowers has re-opened for business.

Despite the country's economic crisis and lack of tourism, Abu Talal is refusing to let his profession
die.
The ovens glow red hot,...

1. Wide tilt down from European Union Council building to demonstrators gathered with banner

2. Close of banner reading: (English) "FLARE - Freedom Legality and Rights in Eur
ope"
3. Mid tracking shot along...

Italian and us law enforcement officials ended their ninth

annual meeting Thursday (22/9) with a renewed endorseme
nt of
agreements to fight organized crime and drug traffic. T
o mark the
end of a three-day working...

Senate Investigations Sub-Committee Looks Into Mafia

The Senate Investigations Sub-Committee gets a gloomy report from attorney General Robert Kennedy on the rising rate of national crime. Its star witness, however, is convicted...

Terrasini, Sicily Eng Comm Duration: 1:15"

Manlio Mele, mayor of Terrasini, is one of a new generation of Sicilian officials no longer prepared to accept the role of the Mafia in their communities. An...

With just hours to go before the European Union's deadline to pull out of Mostar, Bosnian Prime Minister Hassan Muratovic says the situation could become a crisis. Speaking publicly for the first time since Bosnian Croats ignored the...

Khmer/Natsound

With just a few days left to campaign, Cambodia's two top opposition candidates are turning up the heat in the race for Prem
ier.
Prince Norodom Ranariddh told...

1. Wide shot Kabul

2. Mid shot
Kabul
3. Former refugee in Germany, Ahmad Stanikzai, walking into house
in Kabul
4. Stanikzai talking to one
of his children
5. S
TILL photo of...

Algerian police and soldiers have been searching a mountainous region on Tuesday for a kidnapped Frenchman near a village of Ait Ouabane, 180 kilometres (112 miles) east of Algiers.

Residents say roads have been...

Barge on Amsterdam canal selling marijuana in front of police station and interview with owners.

1. ws police station, zoom and pan, boat on canal, zoom, owners on d
eck
2. ms marijuana growing in pots, pull out,...

Music on catwalks not cleared for use. replace with your own clearable music

AP Entertai
nment
Paris, 4
March 2009
1. Wide exterior tilt down to s
how's entrance
2. Wide...

French/Eng/Rus/Nat

Hundreds of foreign election observers have started moving out into the Cambodian countryside to monitor parliamentary elect
ions.
The international community is overseeing polls...

Corleone, Sicily, August 15, 2010

1. Wide of road sign Corl
eone
2. Wide street i
n Corleone
3. Medium laundry hanging from...

Jan. 8 -- Former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani weighs in on the shootings at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in eastern Paris. He speaks on Bottom Line. (Source: Bloomberg)

Fifty-two Italian football players, mostly from Italian league Serie B, appeared in court in Rome on Thursday accused of involvement in a conspiracy of corruption and match-fixing.

It's the...

Italian/Eng/Nat

Sicily's top anti-mafia investigators are expected tomorrow ( Friday ) to present their case in a preliminary hearing against former Italian Prime Minister Giulio...

New York City - 20 Jan, 2011

1. Wide of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents and New York Police Department (NYPD) officers processing suspected mob
sters
2. Close of FBI jacket...

Ramallah, West Bank

1. Exterior shot of Palestinian Authority Council of Ministers bui
lding
2. Clo
se up sign
3. Set up shot of Palestinian Prime Ministe
r, Ahmed Qureia
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed...

English/Nat

After six days at sea, hundreds of exhausted Liberian and Sierra Leonean war refugees have finally found a place to
dock.
Authorities in the Sierra Leone port of Freetown...

FILE: L'Aquila - April 9, 2009

1. Wide aerial of L'Aq
uila
2. Wide aerial of damaged Basilica of St. Mary of Col
lemaggio
FILE: Rome,
April 23, 2009
3. SOUNDBITE (Italian)...

LEAD INA pristine, historic area of the Mediterranean in Lebanon will be home to a new port that critics say could damage the environment.Environmentalists claim that the development will hinder the unspoiled coast of Adloun.STORY-LINE...

The alleged ringleaders of a mafia gang whose criminal tentacles reached into almost every department of Romes City Hall went have gone on trial on a landmark day for Italys battle against organised crime

CLEAN : Italian writer chronicles life of vulnerable child migrants

VOICED : Mujeres luchan contra mafia calabresa