By Ian Williams, NBC News correspondent
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Watching them feast was pretty unnerving. Their whiney buzz cut through the silence, a swarm of mosquitoes hovering and then settling in a dish containing a cocktail of human blood and the often deadly dengue fever virus.
Thankfully, this banquet was contained in a cage of [...]
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By NBC News Bo Gu and Edmund Flanagan
BEIJING – Shanghai citizen Feng Zhenghu never thought he’d find himself in a plight similar to Viktor Navorski, an East European stranded in an airport in Steven Spielberg’s 2004 movie “The Terminal.” He also never expected to become a Twitter star followed by 7,000 people in just one [...]
11 Dec, 2009
Kenyans battle for resources with guns and swords
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By Martin Fletcher, NBC News Correspondent LAIKIPIA DISTRICT, Northern Kenya – It was a shocking sight and the putrid smell almost made me vomit: A hundred dead cows were spread across the dry plain in various stages of decomposition. Flies buzzed around their insides which had oozed onto the dry grass. Organs lay exposed and [...]
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