Nightly News: Chinese pensioner builds fortress to fight eviction
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May 25: An elderly Chinese man has forced work to stop on a building development in the Chinese city of Kunming. The 70-year-old has turned his home into a fortress, and is fighting against eviction. ITN’s Angus Walker reports.
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May 25: A fight broke out on the floor of the Ukrainian parliament as lawmakers debated the use of Russian as the official language in certain parts of the Ukraine.
Nightly News: Sir Edmund Hillary: 'All mountains are worth climbing'
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May 24: From the Archives: Sir Edmund Hillary, the mountaineer and explorer who in 1953 along with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay became the first to conquer Mount Everest, said "fear" is what drives people to the summit.
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May 24: Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, chair of the Pakistan People’s Party and son of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, joins Andrea Mitchell Reports to discuss the U.S. relationship with Pakistan.
Msnbc Tv: Iran nuclear inspectors reportedly make alarming discovery
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May 26: United Nations weapons inspectors have reportedly discovered traces of radio activity inside a nuclear bunker in Iran. Former U.S. ambassador Mark Ginsberg joins MSNBC to talk about the situation.
Nightly News: Clinton: 2011 a ‘tumultuous and momentous’ year for human rights
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May 24: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released the annual report on human rights practices and abuses around the world, including Syria, Egypt and Burma.
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May 24: Sanctions have taken a toll on the Iranian economy. The government is reluctant to admit it. Inflation is high. The number of young unemployed is a growing concern. NBC’s Ali Arouzi reports.
Today: Biographer claims Prince William scarred by parent’s marriage
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May 26: The author of a new book about the life of Prince William says that the royal most likely to ascend to the throne was scarred by his parent’s marital problems, and long-believed he might not ever settle down. NBC’s Duncan Golestani reports.
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May 25: Until a few weeks ago very few people had heard of him, but Alexis Tsipras could soon be the next Prime Minister of Greece. His anti-austerity stance won his party second place in the recent election, and the forecasts for next month's run-off suggest they could do even better.
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May 24: Iran says it will take part in another round of nuclear negotiations in June after meetings in Baghdad with six world powers ended on Thursday. NBC's Ali Arouzi reports.
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May 24: A 16-month-old baby is recovering after doctors implanted a titanium device considered the world's smallest artificial heart. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
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May 26: TODAY’s Jenna Wolfe speaks with stuntman Gary Connery, the first person to drop out of a helicopter wearing a “wing suit” and land without deploying a parachute.
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May 25: Mexico's famed Popocatepetl volcano is spewing ash and gas into the sky outside of Mexico City. Msnbc.com's Brooke Sopelsa reports.
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May 24: Climbers hoping to conquer the world’s tallest peak hit a bottleneck over the weekend when the weather cleared, which caused a greater number of climbers to attempt the same route without the ability to pass one another. NBC’s Stephanie Gosk reports.
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May 24: It’s been a tough year for Pakistan U.S. relations. Crucial NATO supply routes have been shuttered since November, there is tension over drone strikes and now the countries are at odds over the treason conviction of the Pakistani doctor who helped the U.S. locate Osama Bin Laden.
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May 25: Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict’s personal butler, is under arrest after Vatican police found hundreds of confidential documents in his house. NBC’s Jim Maceda reports.
Morning Joe: Economic slowdown in China and a 'bogus' Bain war
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May 25: A slowdown in the Chinese economy could have rippled effects across the globe, Columbia University's Dr. Jeffrey Sachs tells Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski. Sachs, fresh from a trip to China, discusses the country's economy. Bloomberg Businessweek's Josh Green join the conversation to discuss his latest piece on the president's attacks on Bain Capital.
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May 24: Pakistan’s decision to convict a doctor who helped the U.S. track down Osama bin Laden was met with outrage in the U.S. NBC’s Andrea Mitchell reports.
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May 24: The Solar Impulse will fly from Switzerland to Morocco as the pilot and crew prepare for a trip around the world in 2014. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
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May 24: On the streets of Madrid, they have a message for the leaders meeting in Brussels: stop cutting and start promoting growth. For them, the Spanish government decision to recapitalise Bankia, the country’s fourth largest lender, while reducing education spending by 20 per cent, was the last straw.
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May 25: Preliminary results show two candidates are headed for a run-off, and neither of them seem to represent what Egypt's people wanted when they took to the streets in protest one year ago. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
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May 25: A fight broke out on the floor of the Ukrainian parliament as lawmakers debated the use of Russian as the official language in certain parts of the Ukraine. NBC's Willie Geist reports.
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May 24: A portrait of it's president is dividing South Africa. The country's ruling party, the ANC, went to court to get the painting banned because it shows him naked from the waist down. The artist's aim was to satirize President Zuma's sex life. NBC News reporter Rohit Kachroo reports on this highly charged debate.
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May 24: The diaries of Queen Victoria are now available to read online. In the journals, the Queen's great-great-grandmother describes the death of her husband Prince Albert and recalls her memories of her own Diamond Jubilee. ITN's Tim Ewart reports.