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Top Cuban baseball player to file for DomRep residency
1. Wide of Cuban baseball player Alexei Ramirez walking into news conference
2. Tilt down from a journalist to Ramirez, his wife and children being interviewed
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alexei Ramirez, Cuban baseball player
"My wife just...
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Deportation fears rise as DomRep narrows definition of citizenship
Migrants' rights groups in the Dominican Republic say they are worried about increasing numbers of Haitians being deported across the border, following a recent court ruling that narrows the definition of citizenship.
Haitians who have...
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Migrants' rights groups in the Dominican Republic say they are worried about increasing numbers of Haitians being deported across the border, following a recent court ruling that narrows the definition of citizenship.
Migrants' rights groups in the Dominican Republic say they are worried about increasing numbers of Haitians being deported across the border, following a recent court ruling that narrows the definition of citizenship.
Haitians who have...
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Surgeons successfully remove second head from baby
Night shots
1. Exterior of hospital in Santo Domingo
2. Doctor telling parents surgery is about to end and that all seems fine
3. Parents thanking doctors
4. Various shots of operation
5. Set up shot of presser
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Dr....
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PREVIEW
Spanish/Nat
Dominicans go to the polls Thursday.
Thousands of voting ballots have already been distributed and international observers have arrived to monitor the voting.
Early indications suggest presidential candidate Jose Francisco...
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President Fernandez voting, closing polls, first results
1. President of Dominican Republic Leonel Fernandez voting
2. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Leonel Fernandez, President of Dominican Republic:
"Through their participation, the people will manifest what their desires are. Through those results,...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: ACS SUMMIT
Spanish/Nat
Heads of state from all over the Caribbean have begun arriving in the Dominican Republic for a summit likely to be dominated by the international banana war.
However it was the arrival of Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel...
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Dominican Republic/Cuba - Hurricane Georges
After tearing across the northern Caribbean, Hurricane Georges
struck the Dominican Republic on Tuesday (22/09) leaving 20
people dead and flooding the Western hemisphere's oldest city.
The wooden houses that line riverbeds and hillsides...
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OPPOSITION DISPUTE RULING PARTY WIN IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
Supporters of the Dominican Republic's main opposition party disputed the result of the country's presidential election on Monday and complained bitterly of fraud.
Meanwhile, the President-elect Danilo Medina - of the ruling Dominican...
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Taiwan pres meets journalists after inauguration of Dom Rep president
True Date Created = 17/08/2008
1. Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou arriving to meet with journalists
2. Wide shot Ma Ying-jeou seated at table talking
3. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Ma Ying-jeou, Taiwanese President:
"If a country's condition...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: POLITICAL LEADERS CALL FOR A END TO VIOLENCE
Spanish/Nat
Political leaders in the Dominican Republic have pleaded for an end to the violence that has plagued the country's current electoral campaign.
The election, which takes place in 10 days time, has sparked confrontations...
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Haiti childbeggars sign of economic gulf between neighbours
Santo Domingo, 2 August 2010
1. Various of Haitian children in the streets of the capital offering to clean car windshields
Santo Domingo, 3 August 2010
2. Pan down of photo of children to Estibaliz Ladron de Guevara at Ninos del Camino...
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WRAP Dominican decide on giving president third term ADDS observer comment
1. Wide exterior of voting centre
2. Various of voters lined up outside centre
3. Various of election staff processing voters
4. Woman voting
5. Cameramen at news conference
6. Wide of Organisation of American States (OAS) observer panel...
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NICARAGUA: MANAGUA: CELEBRATIONS HONOUR SANTO DOMINGO DE GUZMAN
Spanish/Nat
Nicaragua has started a ten-day holy celebration in honour of the patron saint of the capital Managua, Santo Domingo de Guzman.
The party starts at the Church of las Sierritas, eight kilometres from Managua, where the...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: 4 DEMONSTRATORS DIE IN CLASHES WITH POLICE
Spanish/Nat
An estimated four people have died in violent clashes with police this week around the Dominican Republic's capital Santo Domingo.
The victims died as hundreds demonstrated at poor living conditions and lack of domestic power...
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CARIBBEAN: HURRICANE GEORGE UPDATE
Span/Eng/Nat
At least 12 people have been reported dead as Hurricane Georges blasted into the capital Santo Domingo causing heavy damage and flooding.
Hurricane Georges is one of the most powerful storms to hit the Caribbean in years...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: MERENGUE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - 30 July 1997
1. Various shots of crowd at Merengue artist Johnny Ventura's concert
2. Pan of musicians on stage
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Johnny Ventura, merengue musician
4. Merengue festival event
5....
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4:3 4 French citizens detained along with 35 soldiers and police in drug investigation
Higuey, Dominican Republic - 22 March 2013
1. Mid of four French nationals arrested for alleged drug trafficking inside courtroom ++MUTE++
2. Pan left of Dominican judicial authorities and courtroom proceedings
3. Mid of an armed...
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: AIR CRASH VICTIMS TRANSPORTED TO CAPITAL UPDATE
Eng/Spanish/Nat
The bodies of the victims of this week's plane crash in the Dominican Republic have been transported to the island nation's capital, Santo Domingo.
A team of German forensic experts has arrived there to help with...
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President Ma Ying-Jeo arrives to deliver relief aid for Haiti
1. President of Taiwan Ma Ying-jeou''s motorcade arrives, president gets out of car
2. Various of Ma and his delegation entering presidential palace
3. Various of meeting between Ma and Dominican Republic President Leonel...
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DOMINICA: PREVIEW TO PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
Spanish/Nat
Speculation was mounting on Sunday that the Dominican Republic's 90-year-old former head of state, Joaquin Balaguer, may once again seek office in the country's next presidential elections.
Balaguer's enduring popularity was...
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4:3 Interpol arrest alleged members of Czech Republic criminal gang
1. Mid of group of Czech citizens to be repatriated, on bus with eyes covered by large dark glasses
2. Zoom out of group on bus guarded by military as it travels on road towards airport
3. Mid of same
4. Close of one of the Czech...
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Dom Rep president sworn in; Taiwan pres getting keys to city ADDS dinner
True Date Created = 17/08/2008
AP Television
1. Wide of Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou walking in the rain, flanked by officials
2. Ma enters city hall, officials greeting him before they all walk up the stairs
3. Ma singing alongside...
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Tropical Storm Noel heads for Bahamas after killing at least 81
Azua
1. Various of people being rescued and getting into helicopter
2. Aerial of floods and overflowed rivers
3. Various of people getting out of helicopter and running, helped by officials
4. Aerial zoom in to fast-flowing river
5....