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| Narendra Modi seeks personal triumph in final day of election | |  By Douglas Busvine and Manoj Kumar VARANASI India (Reuters) - Indians voted on the last day of a mammoth election on Monday as challenger Narendra Modi sought a personal mandate in the holy city of Varanasi, crowning his campaign to rule the country with a mix of pro-business policies and Hindu nationalism. Opinion polls almost unanimously predict Modi's Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) will emerge as the largest party when votes are tallied on Friday to fill 543 seats in the Lok Sabha, or House of the People. \"My brothers in Varanasi, let us vote peacefully, we are all one,\" Modi said in a recorded address broadcast on Monday, appealing for calm after a heated campaign that was mostly peaceful but marred by several outbreaks of violence. However, accurately polling India's diverse 815 million-strong electorate is notoriously difficult, and exit polls were dramatically wrong in the last two general elections, over-estimating the number of seats won by the BJP.
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| China police fan out across capital to "counter street terrorism" | |  China tightened security in its capital on Monday, strengthening police patrols and restricting bulk purchases of gasoline, state media reported, in the wake of a string of violent attacks by militants. Beijing police sent out 150 armed patrol vehicles into the city on Monday, the official Xinhua news agency reported, \"countering street terrorism and fighting severe violence\". China has grown increasingly nervous about domestic unrest and Islamist militants since a car burst into flames on the edge of Beijing's Tiananmen Square in October. The patrol vehicles, which will be stationed at crowded intersections on main thoroughfares, will specifically guard against incidents involving guns, bombs and mass violence, Xinhua added.
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| Thai Senate to draft crisis "road map"; protesters urge "neutral" PM | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Six months of political turmoil has created Thailand's biggest ever crisis, the leader of the country's Senate said on Monday, amid calls from anti-government protesters for a new interim prime minister after Yingluck Shinawatra was ousted last week. Yingluck's caretaker government has remained in office since the Constitutional Court ordered her and nine cabinet colleagues to step down over a nepotism case. But the protesters say the entire administration has lost legitimacy and want to replace it with a \"neutral\" interim prime minister who would oversee electoral reforms aimed at keeping Yingluck and her brother, ousted former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, out of power.
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| Air traffic system failure caused by computer memory shortage | |  By Alwyn Scott and Joseph Menn NEW YORK (Reuters) - A common design problem in the U.S. air traffic control system made it possible for a U-2 spy plane to spark a computer glitch that recently grounded or delayed hundreds of Los Angeles area flights, according to an inside account and security experts. As aircraft flew through the region, the $2.4 billion system made by Lockheed Martin Corp , cycled off and on trying to fix the error, triggered by a lack of altitude information in the U-2's flight plan, according to the sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly about the incident. Lockheed Martin said it conducts \"robust testing\" on all its systems and referred further questions about the En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) system to the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA later set the system to require altitudes for every flight plan and added memory to the system, which should prevent such problems in the future, Brown said.
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