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Around the globe, people in city squares and villages, living rooms and shacks, cheer Barack Obama as the first African-American to be elected U.S. president.

The U.S. military said Wednesday it was investigating claims a U.S. airstrike in Afghansitan hit a wedding causing civilian deaths, as President Hamid Karzai urged U.S. election winner Barack Obama to bring an end to civilian deaths.

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A rocket was fired into the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon, Israeli police said Wednesday, but no damage or injuries were reported.

Mexican Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino and two other high government officials were among eight people killed Tuesday afternoon when their small plane crashed in central Mexico City, President Felipe Calderon announced to the nation Tuesday night.

Barack Obama has won the 2008 U.S. presidential election, defeating John McCain, and will be sworn in as the first African-American to hold the nation's highest office.

A Taliban group has claimed responsibility for kidnapping a dozen children from a high school in northwestern Pakistan, a Pakistani military source said Wednesday.

Barack Obama has won the 2008 U.S. presidential election, defeating John McCain and becoming the first African-American to hold the nation's highest office.

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