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By Carla Marcus, NBC News Producer
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Slowly over time, Baghdad has become a more colorful city.
Though most of the city remains a dusty, beige hue, the grey, concrete blast walls that shield neighborhoods and government buildings from potential suicide bombers or other intruders have been transformed into large, public canvases for the city’s [...]

24 Oct, 2008

Iranians very focused on U.S. election

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By Ali Arouzi, NBC News Producer
 TEHRAN, Iran – In a country that can be very isolated, people from all walks of life in Iran seem to know the ins and outs of the upcoming U.S. elections. Most are well informed about the candidates and their running mates and almost everyone has an opinion or a [...]

NBC News’ Correspondent Richard Engel, Producer Madeleine Haeringer and Cameraman Bredun Edwards take you behind-the-scenes on their recent military embed in Afghanistan.

VIDEO: Reporting from Afghanistan…(read more)

By Jim Maceda, NBC News Correspondent Twenty-five years on and it still appears in my nightmares and daydreams: the visual equivalent of a lone, empty shoe or sandal, on top of a pile of rubble, all that remains of the child who once wore it.
Only in my mind’s eye it’s not a shoe – [...]

By Andy Eckardt, NBC News Producer
MAINZ, Germany – It’s not surprising Germans are fascinated with the American election; it’s colorful and flashy when compared with the usually staid German political process.
Even German politicians admit that they are impressed by the numbers of supporters at U.S. campaign events and especially envy the American parties’ financial [...]