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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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| 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. In pictures - Varanasi Votes: http://reut.rs/1skdjqg \"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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| 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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| 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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