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MIDEAST: For Peace, the U.S. Will Have to Change
Analysis by Cherrie Heywood
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Barack Obama has been elected U.S. President at a time when the number of extremists has risen dramatically since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, going by the resistance to Western forces in the region. The U.S.-led 'war on terror' has itself now become a threat to peace.
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POLITICS-US: Europe Too Looks for a New Way Forward
By David Cronin
BRUSSELS - If 'change' and 'hope' were the watchwords of Barack Obama's election campaign, they were echoed strongly on the other side of the Atlantic, where his victory was swiftly applauded by Europe's political leaders.
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CHALLENGES 2007-2008: Bush’s Twilight Year Looks Grim
Analysis by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - If the last days of 2007 are any indication, U.S. President George W. Bush’s last year in office is shaping up as grim and lonely.
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HUMAN RIGHTS-US: Another War against Bad Press
By Gustavo Capdevila
GENEVA - A major delegation of lawyers and officials from the United States appeared before the U.N. Committee Against Torture Friday, defending that country vigorously against allegations of serious abuse that have dogged the U.S. government since the early days of the war against terror.
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HUMAN RIGHTS DAY: Good News for Gays in U.S. Churches
By Katherine Stapp
NEW YORK - For supporters of gay and lesbian civil rights, the news in recent weeks has not been encouraging.
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U.S. ELECTION: 59,054,087 'Stupid' - 6,260 Sorry
By Marty Logan
MONTREAL - Thousands of Americans are apologising to the world for the millions of their fellow citizens who voted President George W. Bush back into office Nov. 2.
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U.S. ELECTION: Democracy in Question
By Ritt Goldstein
STOCKHOLM - John Zogby, president of the polling firm Zogby International, told IPS he has been calling it "the Armageddon election" for about a year. Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader believes the Republican Party was able to "steal it before election day."
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U.S. ELECTION: Unease Over E-Voting
By Katherine Stapp
NEW YORK - For its boosters - technology vendors and the election officials who spent millions on their wares - electronic voting (e-voting) passed the test of Nov. 2 with flying colours, withstanding unprecedented scrutiny and making life easier for millions of disabled and non-English-speaking U.S. voters.
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RIGHTS: Bush Policies Push Racial Profiling - Report

By William Fisher
NEW YORK - Bush administration policies have "facilitated" racial profiling despite the president's vow to eliminate the practice, says the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in a report that was finished but not publicly discussed until after this month's presidential election.
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U.S. ELECTION: Labour Needs 'the Vision Thing'
By David Bacon
OAKLAND, California - There is no question that organised labour pulled out all the stops to defeat George W Bush.
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INDIA: Pride Rises over Win of U.S. Politicians of Indian Descent
By Siddharth Srivastava
NEW DELHI - A world away from the hurly burly world of U.S. politics, the residents of the small township of Malerkotla, the only Muslim-majority township in the Indian state of Punjab, have been celebrating over the results of the recent election.
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POLITICS-U.S.: Secrecy Cloaked During Election Campaign
By William Fisher
NEW YORK - "It's always a fight to find out what the government doesn't want us to know. It's a fight we're once again losing ... (President Bush) has clamped a lid on public access ... It's not just historians and journalists he wants locked out; it's Congress ... and it's you, the public, and your representatives."
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POLITICS-U.S.: Neo-Con Agenda: Iran, China, Russia, Latin America ...
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - An influential foreign-policy neo-conservative with longstanding ties to top hawks in the administration of President George W Bush has laid out what he calls ''a checklist of the work the world will demand of this president and his subordinates in a second term.''
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U.S.-MEXICO: Our Lady of Guadalupe Brings a Message for Bush
By Diego Cevallos
MEXICO CITY - A torch honouring Mexico's patron saint, Our Lady of Guadalupe, was carried across the border into the United States on Friday, as part of a two-month relay from Mexico City to New York aimed at demanding respect for the rights of Mexicans and other Hispanic immigrants in the United States.
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U.S. ELECTION: Spirited Vote, Imperfect Democracy - Observer
By Peter Costantini
MIAMI - "A French political scientist defined democracy as a system in which nobody holds power," says Manuel Antonio Garreton. Although the state does exercise power, he adds, "it can be regulated by the law and by popular sovereignty through elections."
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George W. Bush won re-election Nov. 2 after a tightly contested race that turned into a nail-bitter as the states' electoral votes were tallied (286 to 252), and in the end turned on the outcome in the "battleground" state of Ohio. Bush's Democratic rival John Kerry lost the national popular vote by just over 3.5 million. U.S. voters went to the polls in record numbers -- the most since the Vietnam War era -- reaching 60 percent, or 120 million. The United States remains a deeply polarised nation. "There is a desperate need for unity," said Kerry in his Nov. 3 concession speech.