AP – In concert halls and ballrooms, in plazas and at beach parties, people across the globe hailed Barack Obama’s election as a stroke for racial equality and voiced hopes his presidency would herald a balanced, less confrontational America.
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Reuters – Kenyans in Barack Obama’s ancestral homeland sang and danced with joy on Wednesday as the Illinois senator they see as one of their own became the first black U.S. president.
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AFP – Sri Lanka will unveil its biggest ever war budget on Thursday as it intensifies a military campaign against Tamil separatists, officials said.
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AP – Barack Obama’s Kenyan family erupted in cheers Wednesday, singing “we are going to the White House!” as Obama became the first African-American elected president.
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AFP – The Bank of England is widely expected to cut its key lending rate by at least half a percentage point on Thursday as recession looms amid a global financial crisis, analysts said.
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AFP – Parts of southwestern China have been hit by their worst floods in more than a century as well as landslides that have cost 51 lives and left 43 missing, local officials and state media said Wednesday.
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AP – A small plane crashed in a wealthy Mexico City neighborhood on Tuesday, killing the nation’s powerful interior secretary and at least seven others, and setting dozens of cars ablaze.
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AP – Throngs packed plazas and pubs around the world to await U.S. elections results Tuesday, many inspired by Barack Obama’s promise of change amid a sense of relief that no matter who wins the White House is changing hands.
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AP – Africans stayed up at all-night parties or woke before dawn Wednesday, gathering around televisions and radios as Barack Obama took the lead in his election bid to become the first black U.S. president.
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AFP – Twenty people have been killed by a fire on board a bus on a German motorway set off by a passenger smoking in the toilet, police said Wednesday.
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