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| Victorious Modi fights tears in first address to parliament | |  By Shyamantha Asokan NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Narendra Modi fought back tears in an emotional first address to his party in parliament on Tuesday, after the Gujarat chief minister swept to power in an election that has changed the face of politics in the country. Modi will be India's next prime minister after leading the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to a historic victory in a ballot that ended on Friday. The win handed the BJP its first parliamentary majority and reduced the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty's ruling Congress party to 44 seats, the lowest ever tally for a party that won independence and has ruled for most of the 67 years since. He addressed BJP lawmakers filling more than half the seats of Lok Sabha with uplifting words that commentators immediately contrasted with the often wooden addresses of his predecessor Manmohan Singh.
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| Generations collide in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' | |  By Ernest Scheyder NEW YORK (Reuters) - Trapped in a dystopian future where marauding, shape-shifting robots have turned New York's Central Park into a concentration camp, Hugh Jackman's Wolverine has no choice in "X-Men: Days of Future Past" but to travel back in time to alter history. A sequel to both 2006's "X Men: The Last Stand" and 2011's "X-Men: First Class," the film begins in a future where Sentinel robots are trying to destroy mutants, and follows Wolverine as he travels back to the 1970s, when he does not have the use of his silver-colored claws. "The X-Men movies always have a theme of disenfranchisement or minorities or discrimination," said Jackman, 45, the best actor Oscar nominee for the musical "Les Miserables" whose action film career took off with X-Men. The film, expected to be one of the biggest at the box office this year, has had a dose of unwelcome publicity after two men accused director Bryan Singer of sexually abusing them as teenagers, charges he denies.
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| Anti-Obama author D'Souza pleads guilty to campaign finance violation | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a campaign finance law violation, avoiding a trial that had been expected to begin the same day in a Manhattan federal court. D'Souza, known for his biting criticism of President Barack Obama, pleaded guilty to one criminal count of making illegal contributions in the names of others. The plea came four months after Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged D'Souza with using "straw donors" to give funds in 2012 to Republican Wendy Long's U.S. Senate campaign in New York. One of the friends was Denise Joseph, who was engaged to D'Souza while he was still married to another woman.
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| "No smoking gun" in UK hacking case against Brooks, court told | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - The phone-hacking trial of Rupert Murdoch's former British newspaper boss Rebekah Brooks was told on Tuesday there was no "smoking gun" evidence to prove she knew about illegal interception of celebrities' voicemail messages. The seven-month trial, now nearing its end, has heard that Brooks condoned the practice at the now-defunct News of the World tabloid in an effort to discover exclusive stories. Brooks denies knowing about phone-hacking while she was editor of the paper and on Tuesday her defence lawyer Jonathan Laidlaw told the Old Bailey court she could not win because of critical and unfair media coverage. Awful things have been said about Rebekah Brooks herself over the last few years." Laidlaw said the prosecution had failed to produce the "mass of evidence, a welter of material" despite a huge police investigation.
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| Thai army chief urges rivals to talk after declaring martial law | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's army declared martial law nationwide on Tuesday to restore order after six months of street protests that have left the country without a proper functioning government, but insisted the surprise intervention was not a military coup. While troops patrolled parts of Bangkok and army spokesmen took to the airwaves, the caretaker government led by supporters of self-exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra said it was still running the country. Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha said the military had stepped in to restore order and build investor confidence, and warned that troops would take action against anyone who used weapons and harmed civilians. "We ask all sides to come and talk to find a way out for the country," Prayuth told reporters after meeting directors of government agencies and other high-ranking officials.
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| EU Commission charges HSBC, JPMorgan, Credit Agricole with rigging | |  By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union antitrust regulators charged Europe's biggest bank HSBC, U.S. peer JPMorgan and France's Credit Agricole on Tuesday with rigging financial benchmarks linked to the euro, exposing them to potential fines. The European Commission also said it would charge broker ICAP soon for suspected manipulation of the yen Libor financial benchmark. U.S. and European regulators have so far handed down some $6 billion in fines to 10 banks and brokerages for rigging the London interbank offered rate (Libor) and its euro cousin Euribor while prosecutors have also charged 16 men with fraud-related offences. "The Commission has concerns that the three banks may have taken part in a collusive scheme which aimed at distorting the normal course of pricing components for euro interest rate derivatives," the EU competition authority said.
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