BEIJING – In an exclusive interview with NBC News in Beijing, prominent American economist Joseph Stiglitz discussed the challenges facing leaders at the upcoming G-20 summit and lauded China’s handling of the global economic crisis.
Formerly chief economist of the World Bank and co-winner of the Nobel Prize in economics in 2001, Stiglitz is in Beijing [...]
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By NBC News Mushtaq Yusufzai
PESHAWAR, Pakistan – “I am Khadija Abdul Qahaar. I am a convert to Islam. I have been advised to make this video. I am going to be killed at anytime.” So began a chilling video released on Wednesday by Taliban militants who are holding Qahaar, a Canadian woman, hostage somewhere [...]
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