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By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent
 BAGHDAD – As election results trickle in, politics have become Iraq’s new spectator sport. 
Yesterday, I talked for hours with a group of Iraqi politicians and businessmen in the garden of one of Baghdad’s most lavish villas. The house was a big square mansion covered with red and green [...]

By Mark Potter, Correspondent, NBC News
CONSTITUCION, Chile – After the powerful Chilean earthquake and the tsunami that followed, the local surgeon told a horrifying story.   Along the coastal area, he said, close to the epicenter offshore, most local residents knew that after they suffered through a magnitude 8.8 earthquake, a tsunami with towering waves was likely [...]

By F. Brinley Bruton, msnbc.com reporter
 VICTORIA, Seychelles – With mouths shut and eyes downcast, a group of Somali men and boys sat around a table in the police station in Victoria, the Seychelles’ capital city on the island of Mahé.
A police officer un-cuffed the 11 prisoners, some of whom were barefoot, and left the [...]

By Adrienne Mong, NBC News Producer
Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province — It shouldn’t come as any surprise that one of the great perks of working in China is the food.  I’m only half-joking when I say that my colleagues and I rate field assignments here more on the cuisine than anything else.
And for that reason alone Hunan [...]

By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent

BAGHDAD _ For a country recovering from a single party dictatorship, Iraqis have had more elections in the last five years than Americans. But elections in Iraq, while once hailed as a proof of success, have also created bloodshed and chaos. This election is has the [...]