By ALPHAYO OTIENO in Fort Wayne, Indiana

From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, from Detroit, down to Houston and New York to Los Angeles, there is pride in every Kenyan residing in the USA.
Barack Obama’s victory over his Republican rival John McCain to become the 44th president [...]

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Four decades after Martin Luther King proclaimed his vision to a racially divided nation, Americans take a great step forward in electing Obama as their first black president      Washington Bureau     WASHINGTON–Barack Obama completed a journey last night that had once been unthinkable, becoming the first African-American president in U.S. history and raising hopes this nation [...]

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By Alexander Panetta And Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press
OTTAWA - Canada hopes to achieve a North American climate-change deal with U.S. president-elect Barack Obama and will begin working on the file within weeks, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Wednesday.
Meantime, officials told The Canadian Press the Harper government has been waiting for the departure of [...]

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By Michael Stott
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged on Wednesday to station new missiles near Poland’s border in response to U.S. plans for an anti-missile system and proposed extending the presidential term to six years from four.
In an assertive first annual address to the nation, he defended Russia’s war with Georgia, appealed to [...]

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By Anita Powell, The Associated Press
KIWANJA, Congo - Sporadic gunfire and explosions echoed Wednesday around this town in eastern Congo, as rebels fought pro-government militiamen for a second day, forcing thousands to flee.
A wider ceasefire between the rebels and the government was holding, however, and diplomats scrambled to assemble a regional peace summit Friday in [...]

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By Dan Okoth
President Kibaki has declared tomorrow, Thursday November 6, 2008, a public holiday to celebrate Barack Obama’s victory as the 44th President of the United States.
The President joined other Heads of State, diplomats and ordinary citizens to congratulate Obama as the world raptured in song and dance to the news that he had captured [...]

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