21 Dec, 2009
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By Mary Murray, NBC News Havana Bureau Chief
HAVANA – No record store here has ever sold their music, and before Sunday, no one in the country had ever seen the band live. Yet for 40 years Cubans have loved Kool and the Gang, seemingly unconditionally.
Cuba filmmaker Gloria Rolando said the band’s funky sound provided [...]
21 Dec, 2009
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By Charlene Gubash, NBC News Producer CAIRO – Once upon a time, Mohamed ElBaradei was Egypt’s favorite son. He was extolled in the media as his achievements mounted.
The nation looked on proudly as he was elected three times to the post of director general of the powerful International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), admired his courage [...]
21 Dec, 2009
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By Charlene Gubash, NBC News Producer ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Doctors, nurses, family members and an NBC cameraman fanned out across the hospital in an all-out search for Aden. But the 6-year-old managed to evade us as she flitted from patient to nursing station, the hospital staff shouting out her location in the hospital atrium: [...]
