Iraq’s tourism industry is banking on Saddam Hussein’s “popularity” by offering the former dictator’s bedroom as the honeymoon suite for $150. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports.
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South Africans go to the polls this week, with presidential candidate Jacob Zuma and the ruling African National Congress poised to win a big majority. Martin Geissler profiles the man and the country, looking at the controversy that has surrounded Zuma and the troubling wealth gap that endures despite the end of apartheid.
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By NBC News Bo Gu
BEIJING – On Sunday afternoon thousands of people gathered near Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium for a mass blind date.
But the scene was not the usual one of young swinging singles mixing and mingling; rather, it was full of anxious parents looking for love for their still single adult children.
At [...]
By NBC News’ Carol Grisanti and Mushtaq Yusufzai
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – “I was given $122 to drop chips wrapped in cigarette paper at al-Qaida and Taliban houses,” confessed 19-year-old Habibur Rehman, just before the Taliban shot him dead for spying for the United States. “If I was successful, I was told, I would be given [...]
By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
BEIJING – Last September, less than a month after the end of the Beijing Summer Olympics, about 40 parents materialized in front of the Bird’s Nest stadium. Somber and silent, they stood in a row; each one carried a large poster with photographs of their missing young children.
“Doesn’t this [...]
