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| Rebels appeal to join Russia after east Ukraine referendum | |  By Matt Robinson and Alessandra Prentice DONETSK/SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Pro-Moscow rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine called on Monday for their region to become part of Russia, the day after staging a referendum on self-rule, although Moscow stopped short of endorsing their bid for annexation. Announcing the result of the vote in one of the two provinces where it was held, a leader of the \"People's Republic of Donetsk\", Denis Pushilin, said it was now an independent state and would appeal to join the Russian Federation. \"The people of Donetsk have always been part of the Russian world. \"Based on the will of the people and on the restoration of historic justice, we ask the Russian Federation to consider the absorption of the Donetsk People's Republic into the Russian Federation,\" he told a news conference.
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| Boko Haram offers to swap kidnapped Nigerian girls for prisoners | |  By Lanre Ola MAIDUGURI Nigeria (Reuters) - The leader of the Nigerian Islamist rebel group Boko Haram has offered to release more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by his fighters last month in exchange for its prisoners, according to a video posted on YouTube on Monday. About 100 girls wearing full veils and praying are shown in an undisclosed location in a part of the 17-minute video in which Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau speaks. Boko Haram militants, who are fighting for an Islamist state, stormed a secondary school in the northeastern village of Chibok on April 14 and seized 276 girls who were taking exams. Nigeria has deployed two army divisions to hunt for the girls while several countries, including the United States, Britain, Israel and France, have offered help or sent experts.
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| London imam claims at U.S. trial he tried to help Yemen hostages | |  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - London imam Abu Hamza admitted to a U.S. jury on Monday that he provided a satellite phone to Yemeni militants months before they kidnapped Western tourists in 1998 and spoke to their leader just three hours after the hostages were taken. The Egyptian-born Abu Hamza, 56, finished two days of testimony on Monday by acknowledging he had used inflammatory language in his sermons but rejected any suggestion that he had committed a crime. During Monday's testimony, Abu Hamza said he acted as a \"mouthpiece\" for a group of Yemeni rebels seeking to overthrow the government but had no idea they planned to take hostages. When he received a call from the militants' leader, Abu Hassan, three hours after the kidnapping, Abu Hamza said he offered to negotiate on the militants' behalf.
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| New NSA chief vows more transparency for embattled agency | |  By Joseph Menn and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new head of the National Security Agency vowed on Monday to lead the embattled spy agency with greater transparency as it balances individual rights against the rising risk of a destructive cyber attack against the United States. In his first interview since taking the helm of both the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command in April, Admiral Mike Rogers said he would be more candid with the public about much of the NSA's work after nearly a year of damaging revelations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. But he also staunchly defended the NSA's controversial electronic surveillance programs, emphasizing that they were legal and needed better explanation rather than an overhaul. \"The dialogue to date that we have had for much of the last nine months or so from my perspective, I wish was a little bit broader, had a little more context to it, and was a little bit more balanced.\" Last year, Snowden leaked details of numerous top-secret NSA surveillance programs to media, damaging U.S. ties with key allies such as Germany and triggering a worldwide debate about whether the agency had trampled over privacy rights in the name of national security.
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| U.S. would welcome Modi as PM despite past visa ban | |  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama faces the prospect this week of having to offer his congratulations to a leader who was barred from the United States less than 10 years ago over massacres of Muslims in 2002. As voting concluded in India's general election on Monday, four major exit polls showed Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi set to become prime minister, with his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies forecast to sweep to a parliamentary majority. He was denied a U.S. visa in 2005 under the terms of a 1998 U.S. law which bars entry to foreigners who have committed \"particularly severe violations of religious freedom.\" Modi's rise on the national stage, however, and the importance of relations with India, which the United States sees as a key counterbalance to China in Asia, have forced a rethink. Ambassadors of the European Union and the United States have met Modi to patch up relations.
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