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Kyle Kemper — son of Fried Kemper and Margaret Trudeau and half-brother to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — describes himself as a visionary strategist, technologist, artist, and family man. https://youtu.be/hzuDTmBe6YQ

EIJING — When President Barack Obama landed in Beijing on Monday on his first state visit to China, his first order of business was family business. Before he headed to a formal dinner with China's President Hu Jintao, he set aside time to see his half brother, Mark Ndesandjo, and Ndesandjo's wife, who had flown up from the southern boomtown of Shenzhen where they live. Describing the meeting Monday as "overwhelming" and "intense," Ndesandjo told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that he had long anticipated the chance to welcome his famous brother to China. "My big brother, you...

Mark Ndesandjo in his first in-depth interview on allegations of abuse by their father. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Just might be near the end, but there will be a transcript.

Obama's Half Brother Recalls Their Abusive Father November 3, 2009 China (AP) -- President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel -- the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir. In his first interview, Mark Ndesandjo told The Associated Press that he wrote ''Nairobi to Shenzhen'' in part to raise awareness of domestic violence. ''My father beat my mother and my father beat me, and you don't do that,'' said Ndesandjo, whose mother, Ruth Nidesand, was Barack Obama...

LONDON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama's half brother was refused a visa to enter Britain because he had been accused of a serious crime on a previous visit, it was reported Saturday. Samson Obama was stopped by immigration officials at East Midlands Airport in January on his way to Washington for the president's inauguration, the Sunday newspaper News of the World reported, according to advance excerpts. Biometric tests alerted the authorities that Samson, a Kenyan mobile phone shop manager, had previously been arrested by police in Berkshire. That arrest followed an alleged sex attack on a British girl two...

It has been a mixed week for Senator Barack H. Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate. On the one hand, a Reuters/Zogby poll announced that the junior senator from Illinois' 7-point lead over Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, has dissolved into a 5-point deficit. McCain now leads him 46% to 41%. On the other hand, the media have discovered Senator Obama's long-lost half brother, George Hussein Onyango (also spelled Owango), living quietly in Kenya. Among the rustics who compose the Democratic base, this discovery can only help Senator Obama.{skip} Brother George will assuage the concerns of many...

The photograph shows a young, unsmiling man standing in front of a jagged fence built from scraps of timber and rusted bits of corrugated metal. The 26-year-old man is outside his shanty home on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. He survives on less than $1 a month. He says he is Barack Obama's half-brother. "I live like a recluse," George Hussein Onyango Obama says in an article published in the latest edition of the Italian-language Vanity Fair. "No one knows I exist."

(IsraelNN.com) Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama's half-brother Malik, living in Kenya, said Thursday that the candidate will be "good for the Jews" if he is elected the next president of the United States. Malik Obama is a Muslim living in western Kenya, the country where their father was born. Sen. Obama has declared he is a Christian, and he is trying to erase a pro-Arab image, embellished by his middle name, which is Hussein. During his campaign, he told Jews at a Florida synagogue that his first name in Hebrew is Baruch, which means "blessed."

/begin my excerpt Exclusive: Kim Pyong-il To Attend A Conference Of Overseas Mission Chiefs  Analysis: "Kim Jong-il to display solidarity among family in the midst of the missile crisis" It is revealed that Kim Pyong-il(age:53, see photo,) half brother of Kim Jong-il and N. Korean ambassador to Poland, is to attend a conference of overseas mission chiefs in Pyongyang soon. It is drawing some attention.According to Japanese media reports on July 18, N. Korean leadership, after rejecting a resolution at the UN Security Council, is to convene the conference of overseas mission chiefs where the leadership conveys its future direction in foreign affairs, and Ambassador Kim...

<p>U.S. Special Forces and Marines yesterday captured another of Saddam Hussein's half brothers, a former head of Iraqi intelligence, as teams of coalition forces focused on finding chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.</p> <p>Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, the second relative of Saddam to be captured, was snatched in a nighttime raid and has extensive knowledge of the regime's inner workings, Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, deputy director of operations for the U.S. Central Command, told reporters in Qatar.</p>

THE half-brother of Saddam Hussein captured by special forces on Thursday has disclosed valuable information about the former regime, American military sources said yesterday. Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti, who worked closely with Saddam for more than two decades, was said to have been instantly co-operative. His response has raised hopes that he will lead troops to the fugitive Iraqi leader or provide details of weapons systems. The reports came as a fourth member of the regime was seized. Samir al-Aziz al-Najim, regional chairman of the Baath party in east Baghdad, was handed to US troops by Iraqi Kurds near Mosul....

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar - U.S. Special Forces on Thursday captured Barzan Ibrahim Hasan, a half brother of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and a major catch in the effort to round up members of the former regime, the U.S. Central Command reported. AP Photo Latest news: · Powell may travel to Syria to discuss tensions after Iraq warAFP - 10 minutes ago · Democrat presidential hopes become war casualtyAFP - 12 minutes ago · Doctors: Rescued U.S. POWs in Good Health AP - 24 minutes ago Special Coverage   Barzan Hasan was a presidential adviser to Saddam and...

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Bomb suspect turns self in Dallas victim's half brother arrested after 'Most Wanted' episode 11/11/2002 By RICHARD WHITTLE / The Dallas Morning News A man wanted in the July pipe bombing that nearly killed his Dallas half brother turned himself in after America's Most Wanted profiled the case on TV, a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms spokesman said. Prescott W. "Scott" Sigmund, 35, who disappeared three days after the explosion in a Washington, D.C., parking garage, walked into a police station in Missoula, Mont., shortly before 11 p.m. Dallas time Saturday after the broadcast aired, said ATF...