CNN’s Ben Wedeman tweets from Cairo: “Photo: high shot of #Tahrir square moments after CNN calls #election2012 for Barack Obama. #Egypt” bit.ly

Scenes from an election party at the Sports Bar & Grill in Marylebone, London. Viewers react to Obama's win. Credit: JustinTallis/AFP/Getty Images

Philippine students show election souvenirs during a mock U.S. election vote, spearheaded by the US embassy, at a shopping mall in Manila on November 7, 2012. Credit: Ted Aljibe/AFP/Getty Images

CNN’s Ben Wedeman has filed this dispatch from Cairo, Egypt:

“I woke up at 6:15 a.m, just minutes before CNN called the election for President Barack Obama, in my hotel room overlooking Tahrir Square to find nothing out of the ordinary. Early morning Cairo was hazy, slowly waking up, just a few cars in the street.

Cairenes like to say their's is a city that never sleeps, but 6:15 a.m. is where you discover, well, even this sleepless city needs a few hours of rest. After hearing Wolf Blitzer give the details, a banner appeared at the bottom of my screen, which was tuned into Egyptian Channel 1. It wasn't until 7 a.m. that an anchor and a reporter (on the phone from Washington, D.C.) discussed the news.

In the news studio, another journalist noted, as is well known here, that most Egyptians preferred President Barack Obama over Mitt Romney because, in his words, "the Republican Party is hardline on the Palestinians."

He went on to note that the US elections do underscore that the United States "is a country of institutions," where strategic interests don't change with the change of administrations.”

South Koreans attend a U.S. Predential Election watch event on November 7, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea. Credit: Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images

“Mitt Romney fought the good fight”

In an opinion piece for the website of UK newspaper The Daily Telegraph, historian Tim Stanley says Romney played the game “as well as he could,” and was on the right side of many of the issues. Read article here: bit.ly

After weeks of being derided by media pundits everywhere for his polling analysis, Nate Silver's 538 blog may have called 50 out of 50 states correctly in the presidential election tonight. Not too shabby. Read Silver’s blog here: nyti.ms

From CNN’s Al Goodman in Madrid:

“Spaniards closely followed the U.S. presidential race, especially because Spain was mentioned during the campaign as a big problem among European nations suffering an economic crisis. The jobless rate here is more than 25%.

“So many Spaniards are pleased that Barack Obama was re-elected. He said the world can’t let Spain sink. They hope further economic recovery in the United States will help Europe and Spain get back on their feet.”

From our growing world photo gallery:

Indian artist Sudaran Pattnaik adds final touches to his Obama sand sculpture at Golden Sea Beach in Puri, India.

How did the world respond to President Obama’s re-election? Relive the night (and early morning) all right here, with comments, photos, videos and analysis from CNN correspondents around the globe.

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