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Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States 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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Venesat-1 is the first Venezuelan satellite. It was launched at 16:53 UTC on October 29, 2008 by a Chinese Chang Zheng 3B launch vehicle from the People’s Republic of China's Xichang Satellite Launch Center (XSLC). The satellite is built by the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). VENESAT-1 is the UN official designation. In Venezuela it is named "Simon Bolivar" to commemorate Latin America's 19th Century independence leader. It is PRC's first contract of manufacture and space launching service for a Latin American nation.

• ...that multinational cooperative is a cooperative that spans multiple countries in breadth of its functions and reach?
• ...that AK Press, a worker-run book publisher which specialize in anarchist publications, has doubled the number of units it sells over the past decade and grossed $1.4 million in 2007?
• ...that the word "Honorificabilitudinitatibus", which was used by a comic figure named Costard in William Shakespeare's play Love's Labour's Lost, also appeared on page 234 in Nashe's Lenten Stuff (printed in 1599)?
• ...that Organise!, the magazine of Anarchist Federation (Britain and Ireland), is published twice a year?
• ...that workers' self-management is a form of economic system in which economic enterprises are democratically managed by the workers themselves?
• ...that anarchism stands against capital punishment and Emma Goldman viewed capital punishment as a murderous state action?
• ...that Indian environmentalist Sundarlal Bahuguna, who is known for his role in the Chipko movement, joined the Indian independence movement at the age of 13?

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• Tensions between North Korea and South Korea are rising. North Korea accused South of being confrontational and said it is scrapping military and political agreements signed with Seoul. [1][2]
• Cuban president Raul Castro visits Moscow, which is the first visit by a Cuban leader since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Both sides want to improve bilateral relations. [3]
• The World Health Organization (WHO) said that over 60,000 citizens in Zimbabwe are infected by cholera. [4]
• Protests are going on in Iceland against capitalism and the government. [5]
• Chinese navy begins anti-piracy mission in Somalia. [6]
• Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old boy, is killed by police in Greece triggering riots. [7]
• 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'.[8]
• According to the UN, camps sheltering 50,000 displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been torched.[9]
• 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.[10]
• 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.[11]

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