By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent David Espo, Ap Special Correspondent
 
WASHINGTON – Barack Obama swept to victory as the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in an electoral college landslide that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself. “Change has come,” he declared to a huge throng of cheering supporters.
The son of a black [...]

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WASHINGTON – Barack Obama was elected the nation’s first black president Tuesday night in a historic triumph that overcame racial barriers as old as America itself.
The son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas, the Democratic senator from Illinois sealed his victory by defeating Republican Sen. John McCain in a [...]

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By Rev Okoth Otura-Toronto-Canada As the American citizens head for the poll this coming November 4th 2008, there are a number of factors that the Christians across the world might expect them to consider before casting their votes.

• More importantly, will the next President of America protect Israel and foster peaceful navigation for the world [...]

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By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain in five of eight key battleground states as Americans prepare to vote in the White House race, according to a series of Reuters/Zogby polls released on Tuesday.
Obama expanded his national lead to 11 points over McCain among likely U.S. voters in [...]

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WASHINGTON (AFP) - Millions of US voters poured into polling stations Tuesday to decide the historic US election, with Democrat Barack Obama fighting to be the first black US president and Republican John McCain hoping for an upset win.  Well before sun-up, long queues snaked outside polling places, some braving hours-long waits, others doused by [...]

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By The Canadian Press
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A small group of Canadian soliders have finally returned to their Afghanistan base after playing key roles in some of the heaviest fighting this fall.
Details are now starting to emerge about the part about 30 Canadians played in the battle for Lashkar Gah, the capital of nearby Helmand province [...]

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MADRID (AFP) - One of Osama bin Laden’s sons has asked for political asylum in Spain, the Spanish interior ministry said on Tuesday, months after he was refused permission to live in England with his British wife.
Omar bin Laden, a self-described pacifist, made the request immediately after arriving at Madrid airport on Monday on a [...]

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By Emmanuel Braun
KIROLIRWE, Congo (Reuters) - Congolese rebel leader Laurent Nkunda threatened on Tuesday to take his eastern guerrilla war westwards to the capital Kinshasa unless the government agreed to talks on the country’s future.
Defiant in the face of international moves to end the conflict in east Democratic Republic of Congo, Nkunda rejected complaints by [...]

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JOHANNESBURG (AFP) - South Africa will host a regional summit this weekend aimed at breaking a political impasse in Zimbabwe on forming a unity government, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Leaders from the 15-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) will meet on the Zimbabwe crisis on Sunday, foreign ministry spokesman Ronnie Mamoepa told AFP. 
“It’s on [...]

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