The twisty road to US-Pakistan re-engagement

   PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The ring road in Peshawar is a rough ride: navigating certain stretches means dodging enormous potholes, steering clear of steep ditches and swerving to avoid the occasional brave soul who darts from one side of the road to the other. Yet t …

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At Apple's Chinese factories, long hours, health woes and death

The tech behemoth, Apple, is in the spotlight not just for its record sales announced earlier this week – amounting to profits of up to $1 billion a week in the last quarter – but for how those profits are made.

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Witch in London? Prosecutors say attacker believed victim was one

LONDON – At London's Old Bailey, the highest criminal court in Britain, a desperate family tragedy is unfolding in courtroom number five. It involves torture, death – and witchcraft. Harrowing sobs have echoed round the old courtroom as different members of one family …

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In Afghanistan, it's dog-fight-dog world

Reporter's Notebook KABUL – Michael Vick would feel right at home here. Just north of Kabul, on the edge of the mountains, around 1,000 people recently  gathered in the cold for a dog fight.

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Journalist gunned down during prayers in Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – According to his family,  Mukarram Khan Aatif, 47, knew the risks he faced, but still decided to continue reporting. As a journalist in Pakistan's northwest and tribal regions, Aatif worked for the U.S.-government funded Voice of America Pashto-la …

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Feng shui master: Dragons, don't marry a Dog in 2012

BEIJING – As the Chinese diaspora rings in the New Year around the world this week, many are asking what 2012 and the Year of the Dragon has in store for China, its people, its economy and its relationship with the rest of the world. For the answer to these questions and co …

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Egyptians want new parliament to 'hear our voice'

CAIRO – Egyptians were greeted by a series of firsts Monday:  Egypt's first democratically elected parliament and first predominantly Islamist parliament convened for their first session.   New lawmakers were greeted by a now familiar sight.  Roughly 1, …

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Buffett serenades Chinese in New Year's tribute

BEIJING – American billionaire Warren Buffett has staged yet another surprise performance, this time winning the hearts and minds of millions of Chinese with an American folk song.

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China braces for Year of the Dragon travel rush

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Fun in Mogadishu? Yes, it happens

REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK MOGADISHU, Somalia – I have just returned from a strangely enchanting city.

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Chinese dissident flees to U.S. and describes torture

BEIJING – Last week Chinese dissident author Yu Jie fled to the United States to avoid what he described as further “inhumane treatment” by the government. Now Yu, 38, is speaking out about his experience in detention during a sensitive time in China’s re …

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NBC's Ayman Mohyeldin answers reader questions from Syria

NBC News' Ayman Mohyeldin is one of the few Western reporters currently in Damascus, Syria.

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Famine victims flock to Mogadishu

The battlefields in Mogadishu are disappearing, but they are being reclaimed by a more deadly war against hunger. Victims from the ongoing famine in the Horn of Africa are flocking to the city for food and safety and creating makeshift refugee camps.

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Israeli voices tell a Palestinian story

 TEL AVIV, Israel – For decades, Israelis have heard so many tales of the daily humiliations suffered by Palestinians – from being hassled at checkpoints to house demolitions to curfews – that many of them have grown numb. But Israeli director Shlomi Elkabe …

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Brother keeps hope alive as cruise search is halted

GIGLIO ISLAND, Italy – Moving along the harbor wall, in the shadow of the half-submerged Costa Concordia, Kevin Rebello told me he still has hope that his brother Russel Rebello will be found safe and sound, five days after the cruise liner hit a rock and capsized off the  …

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Japan tries robotic farms in tsunami zone

TOKYO –  When the earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan's northeast coast last March, approximately 60,000 acres of agricultural land was inundated by seawater, resulting in damages to farms costing over $10.2 billion. Miyagi Prefecture, which was closest to the epicen …

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Year of the Dragon woes for China-U.S. ties?

BEIJING – Turns out the Year of the Dragon may be inauspicious for China-U.S. relations.

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China hoops star becomes pandas' pal

BEIJING – Retired NBA star, Yao Ming, carved out an eight-year career protecting the hoop in the NBA.

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Kremlin's photo-doctoring backfires big time

LONDON – Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and those who work for him, seem determined to turn a relatively unknown, 30-something protester into a larger-than-life political rival. It all began on a cold, December 4 afternoon, when Alexei Navalny stood up among a smal …

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Divided opposition bolsters defiant Assad

ANALYSIS CAIRO – It was a speech that was long in form, but short on new substance. For the first time since June, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad spoke publicly, addressing a crowd at Damascus University in a nearly two-hour speech that was carried live on state televis …

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Ultra-orthodox and secular Jews battle over Israel's future

TEL AVIV – Israel’s orthodox and secular Jews are in the midst of a pitched battle over the role of women in society. It's a question as old as the state: how Jewish will the country be? In recent weeks radical ultraorthodox Jews have hit the headlines after one told …

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Chinese try to put lid on Western-style TV

BEIJING – Satellite broadcasters in China have cut their entertainment programming – including dating and reality shows – by two-thirds this week in order to comply with a new government edict. The State Administration of Film Radio and Television, or SARFT, Chi …

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Obama faces constitutional questions over recess appointments

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In Poland, unburying a nation's Jewish past

WARSAW – Zuzanna Radzik wants Polish children to know that almost every Polish town and village was part of the Holocaust. There were about 3.5 million Jews in Poland before World War II, making up 10 percent of the overall Polish population.

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Kevin Pearce rides again, thanks to family

LUDLOW, VT. – The first time I met Kevin Pearce he was flying high. It was the run-up to the Vancouver Olympics and this young kid from Vermont was poised to take the podium on snowboarding's half pipe for the U.S.

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