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| Modi on course for election victory, exit polls show | |  By Shyamantha Asokan NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi is set to become India's next prime minister, exit polls showed on Monday, with his opposition party and its allies forecast to sweep to a parliamentary majority in the world's biggest ever election. Pre-election opinion polls and post-voting exit polls both have a patchy record. Modi, of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has electrified the lengthy contest with a media-savvy campaign that has hinged on vows to kickstart the economy and create jobs. India's staggered voting, spread over five weeks to reach the country's 815 million voters and move security forces around its varied terrain, ended at 6.00 pm (1230 GMT) on Monday.
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| Pistorius has anxiety disorder, psychiatrist tells court | |  PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius has an anxiety disorder brought on by an unstable childhood and the "traumatic assault" of having his lower legs amputated as a baby, a psychologist told the court hearing the South African track star's murder trial on Monday. Pistorius was born with fibulas in his lower legs, leading to amputation at the age of 11 months. ...
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| Rebels declare victory in east Ukraine self-rule vote | |  By Matt Robinson and Alessandra Prentice DONETSK/SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Ukrainian leader Oleksander Turchinov accused Russia of working to overthrow legitimate state power in Ukraine on Monday after pro-Russian rebels declared a resounding victory in a rebel referendum on self-rule in eastern regions. Russia said it respected the outcome of the referendum, in which separatists in the industrial Donetsk region claimed 90 percent support, and that the results should be implemented peacefully. Hours after the vote, dismissed by Kiev and Western governments as illegal, rebel leaders' plans remained unclear. Some have publicly supported pressing for annexation by Russia, which absorbed Crimea after a similar vote in March.
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| Lavrov to envoys: watch Russian TV to get truth on Ukraine | |  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged Western ambassadors on Monday to base the reports they write for their countries about the crisis in Ukraine on what they see on Russian television. Lavrov accused Ukraine of blocking Russian television broadcasts onto its territory and, echoing charges by Kiev about Moscow, said the fellow former Soviet republic's media were broadcasting lies about the crisis. Otherwise they would be doing a totally unprofessional job.\" Russia denies accusations by the West that it is fomenting separatist unrest in Ukraine and says its neighbour is in the hands of far-right leaders sponsored by the West. \"I have no doubt that in Washington and Brussels and other European capitals they know perfectly well the crux of what is going on in Ukraine,\" Lavrov said, suggesting Western powers were trying to shift the blame on to Russia.
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| Nigeria's Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped girls for prisoners | |  By Matthew Mpoke Bigg ABUJA (Reuters) - The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has said he will release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for prisoners, according to a video seen by Agence France-Presse on Monday. Around 100 girls wearing full veils and praying are shown in an undisclosed location in the 17-minute video in which Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau speaks, according to the French news agency. The group has killed thousands since 2009 and destabilised parts of northeast Nigeria, the country with Africa's largest population and biggest economy. Nigeria said on Saturday it had deployed two army divisions to the hunt for the girls while several nations including the United States, Britain, Israel and France have offered assistance or sent experts.
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| Interim Thai PM hopeful he can lead country to new election | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's interim prime minister expressed hope on Monday that February's annulled general election could be re-run soon, and said anti-government protesters would not succeed in getting the Senate to impose an alternative premier. Ousted Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's caretaker government has remained in office since the Constitutional Court ordered her and nine ministers to step down last week in a nepotism case. That followed six months of political turmoil in Bangkok, the latest phase of a nearly decade-long struggle between former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Yingluck's brother who was overthrown by the army in 2006, and the royalist establishment. Before being forced out, Yingluck had agreed with the Election Commission to hold an election on July 20, although the date has not been ratified by the king.
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