LinkAsia
| Nov 8, 2012
In the aftermath of the President Barack Obama's victory, Indian observers took the optimistic stance that Indo-US ties will remain stable. Contributor Ajoy Bose reports from New Delhi on what India hopes for in Obama's second term.
LinkAsia
| Nov 8, 2012
Sina Weibo, China's microblogging platform, was flooded with posts about the US election from the moment polls opened through the end of President Obama's victory speech. Contributor Nicole Sy reports from Beijing on the first US election in China...
Channel 4 News
| Nov 8, 2012
Mitt Romney's poor performance among Latino and women voters is widely believed to have cost him the US presidential election. Is there anything the Republican party do to win back these key demographics?
Democracy Now!
| Nov 8, 2012
For the first time in Puerto Rico's history, a majority of the island's voters have supported a non-binding referendum to become a full US state. President Obama has said he will respect the vote, but Democracy Now! co-host Juan González sa...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 8, 2012
With the election won, it's back to work for US President Barack Obama. Shortly before returning to the White House, he called leaders from the rival Republican party, who control the House of Representatives, to discuss the so-called "fiscal clif...
Reuters
| Nov 7, 2012
President Obama's election victory is good news for China and for US-China relations, Peking University professor Yao Yang tells Reuters. Recent trade disputes do not reflect Obama administration policy and may have just been a way to get votes, h...
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Mosaic
| Nov 7, 2012
Barack Obama's reelection was welcomed and met with an international wave of relief despite challenging international cases. The residents of the Kenyan town of Kogelo, Hussein Obama's hometown, hope that Obama's reelection will contribute to some...
Al Jazeera English
| Nov 7, 2012
The re-election of Barack Obama means the end of the road for Mitt Romney. Al Jazeera's Alan Fisher, reporting from Boston, looks back at the career of the Republican candidate.
Associated Press
| Nov 7, 2012
President Obama's coalition of young, Latino, African-American and female voters swept him into office. Mitt Romney's general lock on older white males wasn't enough to get him over.
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...three profoundly important unintended consequences: --Unlike the victors of the Gulf War in 1991, none of the 2.2 million American soldiers, sai...
— Feb 2 at 11:04 pm
...of suspects both here and abroad. Meanwhile, President Obama has stepped up the use of unmanned drones against suspected terrorists abroad, not ...
— last Sunday at 11:55 pm
...by HBCUs to the working and middle-class, populations he name-checked in his speech as beneficiaries of his advocacy for "an America where every...
Barack Hussein Obama II (/bəˈrɑːk huːˈseɪn oʊˈbɑːmə/; born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama served as a U.S. Senator representing the state of Illinois from January 2005 to November 2008, when he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Obama is a graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, where he was the president of the Harvard Law Review. He was a community organizer in Chicago before earning his law degree. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chicago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. He served three terms representing the 13th District in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004.
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