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		<title>Iraq’s politics: an explosive chess game</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent
&#160;BAGHDAD – As election results trickle in, politics have become Iraq’s new spectator sport.&#160;
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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How families were pulled out to sea to drown</title>
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By Mark Potter, Correspondent, NBC News
CONSTITUCION, Chile –&#160;After the powerful Chilean earthquake and the tsunami that followed, the local surgeon told a horrifying story.&#160;&#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pirates target tropical tourist hot spot</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By F. Brinley Bruton, msnbc.com reporter
&#160;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ouch! Hunanese hosts turn down the heat in our food</title>
		<link>http://beyondbeijing2008.com/2010/03/09/ouch-hunanese-hosts-turn-down-the-heat-in-our-food/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.&#160; 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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iraqi elections: America&#8217;s final hurdle</title>
		<link>http://beyondbeijing2008.com/2010/03/07/iraqi-elections-americas-final-hurdle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beach reshaped at Chilean surfer&#8217;s paradise</title>
		<link>http://beyondbeijing2008.com/2010/03/06/beach-reshaped-at-chilean-surfers-paradise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barry Keller is a hydrogeophysicst who has a home in Pichilemu, a beach town in central Chile known as a surfer's paradise. He shares this FirstPerson report:We were at home during the quake at 3:34 a.m. local time. There were very strong motions for about a minute. Our house in Pichilemu is a four-story (counting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hallelujah! Renaming Chinese mountain leads to a hill of trouble</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Adrienne Mong, NBC News ProducerZhangjiajie, Hunan Province -- It was an interesting formula. 
“One Japanese tourist spends the same as two Korean tourists,” said Wang Ai Ming, an official from the Hunan tourism bureau.&#160; “And one Korean spends as much as three Chinese tourists.”
Unfortunately for our minor functionary from Zhangjiajie, the Japanese and especially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest Swag In The History of Swagginess: The Canon Lens Thermos [Swag]</title>
		<link>http://beyondbeijing2008.com/2010/03/04/greatest-swag-in-the-history-of-swagginess-the-canon-lens-thermos-swag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those press covering the Olympics sure do have a plum life. They bundle off to Vancouver for 16 days of watching ice-skaters embarrassing themselves, and ruthless Russian bobsledders showing their dark sides. Oh, and they get lens-shaped thermoses.
The story goes that a Microsoft employee by the name of Josh Weisberg wandered into the Canon press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Hu’s not-so-excellent Internet adventure</title>
		<link>http://beyondbeijing2008.com/2010/03/03/president-hu%e2%80%99s-not-so-excellent-internet-adventure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Bo Gu, NBC News Producer
Chinese netizens went into somewhat of a tizzy last week when they discovered their president had set up an account on the microblogging section of www.people.com.cn, the Web portal of the People’s Daily, the official mouthpiece of Communist Party of China.
With no advance notice or publicity, his name and title [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puppy rescued from collapsed house in Constitucion; Wineries assess damage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday, March 3
Puppy rescued from collapsed house in Constitucion &#124; 11:53 a.m. ET
People weren't the only victims of the earthquake in Chile.
Rescue worker Cristian Velasquez found and comforted this puppy found alive Monday. Velasquez gave him bits of food and water after rescuing him from&#160;inside a collapsed house in Constitucion. 
(AP Photo/ Roberto Candia)
(AP Photo/ [...]]]></description>
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