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By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Correspondent
HERAT, Afghanistan – Even for a country that generates grim statistics, this one looms large: One in eight women in Afghanistan dies during childbirth.  
Even more tragic is that the overwhelming majority of these deaths — 80 percent, according to the United Nations — are easily preventable.
“It’s not easy for [...]

By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Correpondent
URUMQI, China – For quite some time, I had been looking forward to travelling back to Xinjiang province, one of my favorite destinations in China, for a reporting trip.
But I also had a sense of trepidation. 
The predominantly Muslim province has been an Internet-free zone since riots broke out last [...]

By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent
BEIRUT, Lebanon – I remember it was an almost moonless night in Baghdad seven years ago when the war began. 
I was in my room at the Palestine Hotel, a shabby state-run tower with balconies facing the Tigris River. There were just a few western journalists who’d decided [...]