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Barack Obama is an American politician who won the United States presidential elections of November 4, 2008. He was born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Obama, Sr and Ann Dunham. He earned a law degree from Harvard in 1991 and worked as a lawyer in Chicago. Obama served in the Illinois state senate from 1996 to 2004 and was elected to the US Senate in 2004. Controversies associated with him include his claim regarding the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, claim about a Life magazine article on his memoir Dreams From My Father and his relation with slumlord Tony Rezko.
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- The United Nations is concerned over "systematic and widespread" killings of civilians by Colombia's US-backed security forces. Navanethem Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the 'extrajudicial killings' by Colombian forces could categorize it as 'crime against humanity'.[1]
- According to the UN, camps sheltering 50,000 displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been torched.[2]
- Riot police resorts to tear gas and attacks the residents of Elliniko village near Ioannina, Greece who prevented the construction of an open-refuse dump.[3]
- At least 18 civilians including children ranging in age from six months to 15 are reportedly killed in Afghanistan in an air strike by NATO forces.[4]
- Riot police in the Morumbi district of Sao Paulo, Brazil have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at other police officers who are striking for better pay.[5]
- "Evo Morales announces general elections for 2009".[6]
- Venezuelan ex-defense minister and critic of Hugo Chavez on corruption issue Raul Baduel faces problem. This happens a couple of weeks after Venezuela expelled two Human Rights Watch members from the country for publishing report critical of Chavez administration.[7]
- It is reported that US presidential candidate Barack Obama, if elected, will increase foreign aid to Israel.[8]
- 27 people have been killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack in Sri Lanka.[9]
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