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| Car bomb kills at least 12 people in Somalia - police | | | A car bomb killed at least 12 people, including Somali soldiers and civilians, on Monday in a city that was once a stronghold of al Qaeda-linked rebels, police said. Baidoa - about 250 km (150 miles) southwest of Mogadishu - was the second most important city for Al Shabaab insurgents after the port of Kismayu, before they were routed by Ethiopian troops in 2012. \"A car bomb killed 12 people including government forces and residents,\" Captain Nur Aden, a police officer, told Reuters by telephone from Baidoa. Most of the people who died were residents who were in the cafe,\" Aden told Reuters by telephone from Baidoa. |
| Authorities seize record $55 mln destined to buy votes | |  By Sruthi Gottipati NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Officials have seized a record $55 million in cash, as well as large amounts of liquor and illegal drugs, destined to buy off voters in the general election, the Election Commission said on Monday, as the mammoth vote drew to a close. The Election Commission also discovered 22.5 million litres of alcohol and about 185,000 kg of drugs during searches over a lengthy election campaign that included five weeks of actual voting to reach India's electorate of 815 million people. \"It is a tough challenge for the Election Commission to check the use of 'money power',\" said P.K. Dash, who leads the expenditure monitoring effort at the agency. The Election Commission set a campaign spending limit of 7 million rupees for each of the 543 parliamentary seats at stake in the 2014 election, but officials believe that many candidates spent several times that figure, much of it surreptitiously.
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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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