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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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| Israel holds man suspected by U.S. of breaking Iran arms embargo | | | Israel on Monday detained a citizen suspected by the United States of illegally selling military hardware to Iran and a Jerusalem judge has initially ordered him held for two days, according to court papers. Eli Cohen, 65, was held at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv before boarding a flight for London. A state prosecutor told Jerusalem Magistrates Court that the United States had issued an arrest warrant for him and would soon deliver an extradition request. U.S. authorities have charged Cohen on a number of counts and he is alleged to have illegally sold military spare parts to Iran between 2002-2004 and in 2012 and 2013. |
| Turkish PM Erdogan heckles lawyer's speech, storms out | |  By Ayla Jean Yackley ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan heckled the head of the country's bar association on Saturday, accusing him of rudeness for speaking critically of the government at a judicial ceremony before storming out of the hall. Tensions between Erdogan and his political foes remain high after bitterly contested local elections in March that Erdogan's ruling AK Party won and amid expectations he will seek the presidency in an election in August. Erdogan has had a difficult year that included the biggest anti-government protests in decades against his perceived authoritarianism and a corruption scandal that implicated family members and cabinet ministers. Erdogan interrupted a speech in Ankara by Metin Feyzioglu, chairman of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations, saying his remarks were political and full of untruths.
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| Rebels appeal to join Russia after east Ukraine vote | |  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 after declaring victory in a weekend referendum on self-rule. The separatist region of Donetsk appealed to Moscow to consider its absorption into Russia, a move that would echo the annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula after a similar referendum earlier this year. The call is likely to anger the government in Kiev and Western nations that accuse Russia of stirring up unrest in the east following the overthrow of a pro-Moscow president in February by protesters demanding closer links with Europe. \"The people of Donetsk have always been part of the Russian world.
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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 prisoners, according to a video seen on YouTube. About 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. 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 nations including the United States, Britain, Israel and France have offered help or sent experts.
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| Modi on course to be India's next leader, exit polls show | |  By Shyamantha Asokan NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi is set to become India's next prime minister, four major 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. Modi, of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), electrified the lengthy contest that ended on Monday, with a media-savvy campaign that hinged on vows to kickstart India's economy and create jobs.
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| After separatist votes, Russia urges talks on Ukraine's future | |  Russia called on Ukraine's interim government on Monday to debate the country's future structure after separatists in two eastern regions claimed victory in referendums on self-rule. In a statement, the Russian Foreign Ministry said \"the Kiev authorities continue to display a criminal lack of readiness for dialogue with their own people\" and urged the government to hold meetings with representatives of eastern and southern regions. It stopped short of advocating independence for the regions or their absorption into Russia, saying: \"We believe that the results of the referendum should be brought to life within the framework of dialogue between Kiev, Donetsk and Luhansk.\" Moscow has amassed troops near the Ukrainian border, prompting fears that it could seek to absorb eastern regions where Russian-speakers predominate after annexing the Crimean peninsula in March. Russia denies it has such intentions, but some analysts suspect President Vladimir Putin wants to take advantage of separatist sentiment in order to keep Ukraine unstable and prevent the pro-Western interim government from gaining control.
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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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