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/ 15 November 2008
Without naming Barack Obama, Fidel Castro cast doubt on Friday on the possibility that a new president would bring much change in US policy.
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/ 14 November 2008
Senator Hillary Clinton emerged on Thursday as a candidate to be US secretary of state for Barack Obama, months after he defeated her.
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/ 13 November 2008
Barack Obama sent a strong signal on Wednesday that he plans a decisive break with George Bush on environmental policy.
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/ 12 November 2008
The Kremlin on Wednesday rejected United States proposals aimed at easing concerns over a missile defence system in Europe.
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/ 11 November 2008
United States president-elect Barack Obama visited the White House on Monday for his first post-election meeting with President George Bush.
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/ 10 November 2008
When George Bush acts as host to Barack and Michelle Obama on a visit to the White House on Monday, it will be an increasingly rare event.
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/ 10 November 2008
The acceptance speech of Barack Obama, president elect of the United States, in Chicago, the day after he won the election.
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/ 10 November 2008
When Bush and Obama meet at the White House on Monday for the ”psychological transfer” between them, the moment has potential for awkwardness.
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/ 9 November 2008
At 8 o’clock last Monday morning, the day before he was to become president elect, learned that the woman who had raised him was dead.
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/ 9 November 2008
President-elect Barack Obama is both seen to have protectionist tendencies and to favour environmental controls.
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/ 9 November 2008
The first priority for the new president, naturally, will be the court. Not the Supreme Court, but the basketball court.
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/ 9 November 2008
As US election day approached, both presidential candidates were given a CIA briefing, sketching out the shape of the world the winner would inherit.
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/ 9 November 2008
The Troyeville Hotel heaved with party people on Wednesday night as hundreds turned up to celebrate Barack Obama’s White House win.
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/ 8 November 2008
Valerie Jarrett is a Chicago business woman who has been close to both Obamas since the couple began dating.
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/ 8 November 2008
”I wish you would make up your mind, Mr Dickens. Was it the best of times or was it the worst of times? It could scarcely have been both.”
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/ 8 November 2008
Look back at the polls just two months ago and you will see that John McCain was nipping at Barack Obama’s heels in the race to the White House.
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/ 7 November 2008
Local politicians have lauded Barack Obama’s savvy use of technology to build support — and, in some cases, are already emulating him.
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/ 7 November 2008
Let’s be clear about this: Barack Obama has achieved an immense and historic victory.
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/ 7 November 2008
Barack Obama received his first classified intelligence briefing from the CIA on Thursday, lesson one in a crash course in how to be a US president.
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/ 7 November 2008
Dmitry Medvedev (43) and Barack Obama (47) share a couple of things in common. Both are exceptionally young, inexperienced and almost wholly untried.
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/ 7 November 2008
Like the victory speech of our founding president Nelson Mandela in 1994, the acceptance speech of US president elect Barack Obama caused celebration.
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/ 6 November 2008
There are times when the usually glacial pace of social progress accelerates to such a degree that you feel you are experiencing it in real time.
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/ 6 November 2008
Barack Obama will pay homage to Abraham Lincoln when he takes the oath of office as the United States’s next president in January.
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/ 6 November 2008
World leaders have hailed Barack Obama’s triumph in the US election, and have called for the global superpower to change the way it does business.
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/ 5 November 2008
President-elect Barack Obama will quickly face big decisions as the US undergoes its first wartime change of administration since the Vietnam era.
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/ 5 November 2008
African leaders on Wednesday hailed the prospect of the first black United States president entering the White House.
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/ 5 November 2008
Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela on Wednesday congratulated United States president-elect Barack Obama on his election victory.
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/ 5 November 2008
The man who once described himself as a ”skinny kid with a funny name” stood before the crowd and took upon his shoulders the weight of leadership.
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/ 5 November 2008
Asian shares hit a three-week high and the dollar extended gains after Barack Obama became the next US president.
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/ 5 November 2008
South African President Kgalema Motlanthe congratulated United States president elect Barack Obama on Wednesday on his victory.
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/ 5 November 2008
Barack Obama won the presidency and made history on a steady message of bringing change to a country that has been hungering for it.
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/ 5 November 2008
Sue Harris was not quite sure how to react to the victory of Barack Obama. At a party held by the local Republican party, she was lost for words.