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by Ann Curry, NBC News
SOMEWHERE IN CHAD — Our NBC News team has landed in Africa and is again heading to the edge of Darfur, gearing up to report a pivotal moment in this tragedy.Anytime now the International Criminal Court will announce whether to issue an arrest warrant for the President of Sudan for the [...]

By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
LHASA, Tibet – One thing you learn quickly as a journalist here is that the Chinese like statistics.
“Tibet’s GDP was 174 million yuan ($25.5 million) in 1959. In 2008, it rose to 39.6 billion yuan ($5.8 billion), increasing 65-fold.”
“There are 18 traditional Tibetan medicine hospitals in the [...]

The U.S embassy compound in Iraq is the biggest, most expensive U.S. embassy ever built. Take a tour with NBC News’ Richard Engel.

VIDEO: Inside Iraq’s ‘Fortress America’…(read more)

By Carol Grisanti, NBC News Producer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – As the Obama administration’s special envoy, Richard Holbrooke, meets with Pakistani officials this week, he is likely to find that a grim mood has gripped the country.
U.S. drone attacks are leading anti-American sentiment to soar, a Taliban insurgency is growing in strength, tensions with India have [...]

By Martin Fletcher, NBC News Correspondent  TEL AVIV – Think a few hanging chads are a problem? Or the Electoral College, which has at times left the winner of the U.S. popular vote as the loser? Well, consider the Israeli political system.
Thirty-three parties contested yesterday’s general election. One party emerges with the most seats, [...]