Many newspaper editors around the world were faced with a conundrum on Tuesday evening: what to put on their Wednesday frontpage given the initial uncertainty of the race between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. When many networks began declaring Obama as the victor just before 11:30 p.m. Eastern time on Tuesday, a mad scramble ensued to splash the reelected president across front pages worldwide. Here are some of the covers that appeared on newsstands upon daybreak Wednesday.
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Covering Obama
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- Libération (France)
- Global Times (China)
- Correio da Bahia (Brazil)
- Daily Mail (UK)
- Le Monde (France)
- The Times of India
- Der Tagesspiegel (Germany)
- Belleville News-Democrat (Illinois)
- Star-Advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaii)
- Daily Tidings (Ashland, Ore.)
- Cape Cod Times (Massachusetts)
- Danville Register & Bee (Virginia)
- Asahi Shimbun (Japan)
- Seattle Times
- Los Angeles Times
- The News (Pakistan)
- The Mercury (South Africa)
- ARA (Catalunya, Spain)
- The Times (UK)
- Hoy (Chicago)
- The Oregonian
- The Ithaca Journal (New York)
- Al-Ahram (Egypt)