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World parties as Obama wins historic US election
LONDON, Nov 5: Supporters of Barack Obama erupted into song and dance around the world on Wednesday, from the bars of London and Sydney to a sleepy village in Kenya, after his historic US election victory.... 
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Clinton may be named envoy on Kashmir
WASHINGTON, Nov 5: President-elect Barack Obama may appoint former president Bill Clinton as a special envoy on Jammu and Kashmir, says a New York-based ethnic newspaper....
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Obama to get first intelligence briefing today
WASHINGTON, Nov 5: Barack Obama will get his first intelligence briefing as president-elect on Thursday, a US official said, as the first-term senator prepared to face security challenges from terrorism to a resurgent Russia....
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Obama’s historic victory speech
WASHINGTON, Nov 5: Standing before a crowd of more than 125,000 people who had waited for hours at Chicago’s Grant Park, President-elect Barack Obama personified the fruition of late civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King’s dream ....
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Israeli forces kill six Palestinians in Gaza: Jewish state peppered with rockets
GAZA CITY, Nov 5: Dozens of rockets and mortar rounds were fired at Israel on Wednesday after Israeli forces killed six militants in the Gaza Strip, in the most serious incidents since a truce went into effect in June....
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Gunmen kidnap foreign, Somali aid workers
MOGADISHU, Nov 5: Gunmen stormed an airstrip in central Somalia on Wednesday, kidnapping a group of foreign and local aid workers, witnesses and humanitarian sources said....
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Two Bosnian Serbs held over massacre
SARAJEVO, Nov 5: Bosnian police on Wednesday arrested two Bosnian Serb wartime commanders suspected of taking part in genocide against Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995, a police statement said....
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Minister, 12 others die in Mexico plane crash
MEXICO CITY, Nov 5: Mexico’s powerful interior minister died with at least 12 others in a spectacular plane crash during Tuesday evening rush hour in central Mexico City....
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First time cancer patient’s genome decoded
WASHINGTON, Nov 5: Scientists for the first time have decoded the entire genome of a cancer patient, identifying a series of genes never before linked to the type of white blood cell cancer that ultimately killed the woman....
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Olmert to face renewed questioning
JERUSALEM, Nov 5: Israel’s outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is to be questioned this week for the ninth time since claims of graft emerged in May, police said on Wednesday....
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Crichton dies at 66
LOS ANGELES, Nov 5: Michael Crichton, author of more than a dozen best-sellers, including “Jurassic Park” and “The Andromeda Strain”, died of cancer in Los Angeles on Tuesday. He was 66....
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Japanese city ecstatic for accidental namesake
OBAMA (Japan), Nov 5: With hula dancers, toasts of sake and rock ‘n’ roll, a Japanese town named Obama rejoiced on Wednesday as its accidental namesake was elected president of the United States....
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Ex-classmates in Indonesia applaud ‘Barry’ Obama
JAKARTA, Nov 5: Former classmates in Indonesia reacted with pride and amazement on Wednesday as the chubby little boy they knew as Barry made history by becoming the first black president of the United States....
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Amnesty urges Obama to reverse Bush ‘damage’
LONDON, Nov 5: Amnesty International urged US president-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to “reverse the damage” of the Bush administration over human rights during his first 100 days in office....
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All can dream of better world after Obama win: Mandela
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 5: South Africa’s iconic first black leader Nelson Mandela said on Wednesday that Barack Obama’s election as US president showed that anybody could dream to change the world....
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And now comes the hard part
WASHINGTON: Audacity won. Now Barack Obama must validate the hope and deliver the change he promised....
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US govt readies to change
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama, fresh from winning Tuesday’s historic presidential vote, now moves to one of the trickiest phases in US politics: the transition of the chief executive and the legions of political appointees who follow him into government....
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Biden seeks advisory role
CHICAGO: Joe Biden calls Dick Cheney the “most dangerous” vice president in US history because of his broad powers and says he wants a lower-key but important advisory role for himself as Barack Obama’s No 2....
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The ‘myth’ of racism
WASHINGTON: Barack Obama’s election as America’s first black president is a moment of healing for his country’s lingering racial divides, and one many civil rights icons did not think they would live to see....
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New ‘mom-in-chief’ in White House
ATLANTA: Michelle Obama brings the skills of a corporate lawyer to the White House as first lady to President-elect Barack Obama, but she says her priority will be her role as “mom-in-chief” to the couple’s two daughters....
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