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| Protesters in Kashmir try to block vote, police crack down |
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 By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR India (Reuters) - Police fired teargas in Kashmir on Wednesday to break up small groups of young men protesting against a general election as voters largely stayed away from polling stations in the troubled valley. More than 1,000 people including separatist leaders who called for an election boycott were taken into custody or placed under house arrest ahead of the vote in Srinagar, the region's main city and hotbed of a nearly 25-year-old rebellion. We want independence for Kashmir," said Hilal Ahmad, a 22-year-old protester at a deserted street crossing. India has long struggled to bring Kashmiris into the democratic mainstream and elections in the past have been marred by violence and low turn-out.
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| Jubilant Modi votes, Congress fights to deny him majority |
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 By Aditi Shah VADODARA India (Reuters) - Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi looked triumphant after voting on Wednesday in the eighth stage of the world's largest election, but the man tipped to be the next prime minister is still not assured of winning an outright majority. Some 139 million people were registered in the 89 constituencies that polled on Wednesday in a race pitting Modi against the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty-led ruling Congress party and a pantheon of satraps. Casting his vote in his home state of Gujarat, the leader whose pro-business policies have delighted investors brandished his party's lotus symbol and taunted Congress heavyweights for shying away from the fight. The finance minister is not fighting the election.
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| Korea ferry disaster exposes cosy industry ties, soft penalties |
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 By Jack Kim and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - A culture of cosy personal ties that can blur the lines between businesses and those regulating them, of profit over safety, and soft courts is in focus as South Korea demands answers over the sinking of a ferry with the loss of more than 300 lives, mainly high school students. Two officials at the Korea Shipping Association (KSA) have been arrested on charges of obstructing justice for destroying documents related to a probe into lobbying government officials. Prosecutors are also investigating Korean Register (KR), which tests and certifies ships. Trade groups wield enormous power in South Korea's shipping industry - and in other sectors, too - as lobby groups and as business interests that can outsource inspection contracts to smaller companies, said an official at a shipbuilding company.
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| Masked gunmen tighten grip on eastern Ukraine |
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| By Marko Djurica HORLIVKA Ukraine (Reuters) - Masked gunmen in military fatigues took control of a government building in another Ukrainian town on Wednesday, as pro-Russian separatists tightened their grip on a swathe of the country's industrial east largely unopposed by police. The heavily armed men wore the same military uniforms without insignia as other so-called "green men" who have joined pro-Russian protesters with clubs and chains in seizing control of a string of towns across Ukraine's Donbass coal and steel belt abutting the border with Russia. A police official in nearby Donetsk, the provincial capital where separatists have declared a "People's Republic of Donetsk", said separatists were also in control of the Horlivka police division, having seized the regional police HQ earlier in April. Wednesday's takeover followed the fall of government buildings on Tuesday further east in Luhansk, capital of Ukraine's easternmost province, driving home just how far control over the densely populated region has slipped from the pro-Western central government in Kiev. |
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