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Kisumu, Kenya 1. Various of celebrations in a bar as news on television shows Obama winning 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Miriam Akinyi, fan of US President Barack Obama: "I know Obama is winning. I love Obama so much, so much!" 3. Various of celebration as people watch US election results on TV Paris, France 4. Wide of illuminated Eiffel Tower 5. Pan from screen showing CNN projection of Obama being re-elected to Democrats Abroad inside Pershing Hall reception venue celebrating 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anna Marie Mattson, Press Attache, Democrats Abroad France: "It's great. We are proud to be here in France. We are proud to be here in Paris - with the Republicans and the Democrats to celebrate together, and maybe we can take our message across to Washington to say that if we can do this in Paris and we are across the aisle, then why can't they do this in the United States of America? God bless America and God bless France." 7. Obama supporters wearing Obama t-shirts and patriotic hats celebrating 8. More celebrating from Obama supporters 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Tom McGrath, President of Republicans Abroad France: "I think the disappointment would be if Mr. Obama doesn't change his economic policies. If he views his economic policies as something of a success to be defended in the second term, then I think we will have a much bigger economic problem on our hands in four years' time." 10. Obama supporters Berlin, Germany 11. Obama supporters cheering at US election party in Berlin 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brandon Hancock, tourist visiting from US state of California: "I'm very happy. It was a long time coming, you know, with the long primary season. Just over the last year or more we were really sort of waiting to see what happened here. So I'm glad, I'm relieved." 13. Group of people following results on laptop 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Theresa Heithaus, tourist visiting Berlin from US state of Oregon: "It is so strange to be in a different time zone. It is hard to really believe that this has been called for Obama." 15. Various of people watching election coverage Rome, Italy 16. Democratic party supporters jumping and celebrating re-election of Barack Obama 17. Wide of Democrats shouting "Four more years," embracing each other 18. SOUNDBITE (English) Gretchen Bloom, Democrats Abroad activist: "He's international. He's American, but he's got such different backgrounds to him. He is so much better than being a plain, old, white American man who is rich as Romney was, who does not stands for variety, and who does not like the 47% who are not rich like him and who is for the 1%. Obama is not like that, he believes in everybody and he is really a fabulous person, who the whole world loves too. Every Italian wanted to vote for Obama and if we could have voted for Obama we would have had him already... " 19. Democrats celebrating and hugging each other, and chanting "Four more years!" 20. SOUNDBITE (English) Milissa Grant-Castelli, from US state of Missouri: "I was really afraid because there is still a lot of racism in America, and there are still a lot of very wealthy people who funded Romney who are very much against Obama just because of his race. So when you've got that kind of hatred still going on, it is very disturbing to me as an American, as a black American especially." 21. Obama supporters celebrating STORYLINE: Residents and expatriate Americans in cities across the globe celebrated US President Barack Obama's re-election to a second term on Wednesday. Kenyans in the city of Kisumu were celebrating Obama's road to victory on Wednesday morning, even before an official confirmation of results. They celebrated by dancing and cheering when Obama looked set to win. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/07268194d4a2a2268eda21d389535610 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork