Gunmen stormed an airstrip in central Somalia Wednesday kidnapping six foreign aid workers of the group Action Against Hunger, among them a Bulgarian woman. Two Kenyans, two French, a Bulgarian and a Belgian were among those seized, a spokesman for the E
Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino, died Tuesday evening when the small plane he was traveling in crashed in Mexico City. The crash injured 40 people on the ground, said government spokesman Marcelo Ebrard but added all eight fatalities were
US voting experts said election turnout rate has been record high and could exceed the water mark set in 1960, when nearly 64% of eligible citizens voted in the presidential race between Democrat John Kennedy and Republican Richard Nixon. According to st
Here follows the text of the US president-elect Barack Obama's victory speech, delivered Tuesday night in Chicago, as issued by his campaign.
The former US first lady and runner-up for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton, called the president-elect Barack Obama to congratulate him over the win in the country's presidential election on Tuesday night. "Tonight, we are celebra
US President George Bush phoned the president-elect Barack Obama late Tuesday night to congratulate him on his "awesome night," a White House spokesman said, cited by Telegraph.co.
The Kenyan President, Mwai Kibaki, declared Thursday a public holiday, describing the victory of Barack Obama in US presidential election as momentous, guardian.co.
The United States and Europe should work for a "new deal for a new world," said the European Commission President Jose Barroso in a congratulatory message to the US president-elect Barack Obama.
US Senate Democrats won five Republican-held seats and remained in the hunt for three more, Bloomberg reported early on Wednesday.
In an address to his supporters, Senator John McCain urged all Americans to join him in congratulating Barack Obama on his projected presidential election victory, CNN reported. McCain spoke at the Arizona Biltmore hotel in Phoenix.
232 years after the Declaration of Independence, Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois won the Presidential election to become the first African-American president in the history of the United States, according to projections by CNN
According to CNN's latest projections, the US Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama has 207 electoral votes and Republican John McCain has 135. Obama's projected win in Ohio, won by the Republicans in 2004, is a crucial stepping stone to the Whi
Democratic Senator Barack Obama moved closer to becoming the first African-American president in history on Tuesday night, winning Ohio, Pennsylvania and several other large Eastern and Midwestern states, according to projections by CNN and NBC News.
CNN and NBC project that Democrat Barack Obama will win in Pennsylvania, a key state that opens a big lead in the presidential election. The state's 21 electoral votes were targeted by both parties as critical to winning the race.
Republican John McCain has won Kentucky and Democrat Barack Obama has won Vermont as the first results began coming in from Tuesday's presidential election, according to projections by CNN and NBC News.
About 20 people have been killed and at least a dozen have been injured in a fire on a bus on a motorway near the German city of Hanover, German police reported, cited by leading information agencies Another 10 people were able to escape from the vehicl
Long lines formed at polling places in many states Tuesday in a bid to elect either the United States' first African-American president, or the oldest first-term president and first female vice president. Both candidates have pledged to bring sweeping ch
A son of Osama bin Laden is in Spain and was seeking asylum, Spain's Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. Omar Osama Bin Laden, aged 27, made his claim after a scheduled stopover at Madrid's Barajas airport on a flight from Egypt to Morocco.
Indonesian police have stepped up security around the country ahead of the executions of three Islamic militants convicted to death over the 2002 Bali? bombings. The police were investigating Tuesday bomb threats made against the U.
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has voted in Chicago, accompanied by his family, leading information agencies report. Barack Obama arrived with his wife and two daughters to his voting section in the gym of a Chicago's Beulah Shoesmith
Unlike 2000 and 2004, when the outcome of the presidential race remained unknown in the US until early morning (and actually for several weeks after election day in 2000), this time it seems possible that the winner of the presidential race would be known
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