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hi5.com Global Survey Shows 83% Favour Obama as the Next President of the U.S |
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Thursday, 30 October 2008 |
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hi5.com, one of the world's largest and fastest-growing social networks, today released results from a worldwide survey of members. The overwhelming results revealed that the international community favours Senator Barack Obama by 83% as the next president of the United States of America.
The survey was conducted from October 23 to October 28 by hi5 Networks. The San Francisco company's popular hi5.com web site is the third-largest social networking site in the world, with over 58 million monthly unique visitors according to comScore. The survey was representative of approximately 25,000 respondents in 192 countries around the globe.
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UN General Assembly calls for end to US embargo against Cuba |
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Thursday, 30 October 2008 |
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The United Nations General Assembly once again yesterday adopted a resolution calling on the United States to end its 46-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, following a debate, during which many delegates emphasized how the measure had only intensified the human suffering created by successive hurricanes that struck the island nation and wider Caribbean region earlier this year.
By the resolution, adopted in a recorded vote of 185 in favour to 3 against (Israel, Palau, United States), with 2 abstentions (Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands), the 192-member Assembly urged the lifting of the stiff commercial, financial and economic sanctions that were slapped on Cuba in the aftermath of the Cold War. This marked the seventeenth year the Assembly had adopted similar resolution on this issue.
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The man many thought would have been out of the U.S presidential race from as early as February, last night, became the 44th man destined to sit in the Oval office and call the White House home. 
