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South Sudan's elections postponed, says President Kiir
Full Article BBC News
12 May 2014

South Sudan has postponed presidential elections due next year to give government and rebel forces more time to achieve reconciliation, President Salva Kiir has said. Mr Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a ceasefire deal on Friday to end conflict that erupted in December, He said an interim government would run South Sudan until elections...

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit look over their respective notes at the outset of a meeting in Juba on May 2, 2014.
photo: US DoS

updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan Rivals Kiir & Machar Agree Peace Deal - 10 May 2014
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Elections in South Sudan Postponed
updated 10 May 2014; published 10 May 2014
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South Sudan rivals Kiir and Machar agree peace deal | BREAKING NEWS - 10 MAY 2014
Indians vote on key election day
Full Article BBC News
12 May 2014

Narendra Modi, the prime ministerial candidate of India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the 2014 general elections, is seen as India's most divisive politician - loved and loathed in equal measure. Mr Modi, who has been chief minister of the western state of Gujarat since 2001, is seen as a dynamic and efficient leader...

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Indian voter at the entrance of a polling station during the final phase of general elections in Kolkata on May 12, 2014. Voters headed to the polls Monday in the final phase of India's marathon election, with hardliner Narendra Modi expected to lead his Hindu nationalists to victory after 10 years of Congress party rule..
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

updated 10 Apr 2014; published 10 Apr 2014
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Leela Jacinto about India's election & Modi - #F24Debate
updated 04 Apr 2014; published 04 Apr 2014
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India Election 2014 : Muzaffarnagar riots accused gets BJP and BSP candidates
updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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How do Indians View Narendra Modi?
updated 16 Apr 2014; published 16 Apr 2014
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Voters Urged to shun BJP In India
updated 14 Sep 2013; published 14 Sep 2013
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Modi Vs Rahul: Who will be elected as India's PM in 2014 Lok Sabha elections?
updated 17 Apr 2014; published 17 Apr 2014
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Modi for PM? Godhra wary, Vadodara confident
Kremlin ‘respects’ self-rule vote
Full Article The Australian
12 May 2014

THE Kremlin said last night it respected the vote on self-rule in two Ukrainian regions and called for the results to be implemented through dialogue between Kiev and separatist leaders. Pro-Russian rebels claimed voters in eastern Ukraine massively backed independence in a poll that Kiev and the West dismissed as an illegal “farce”. A...

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An armed pro-Russian man stands guard at the back of a room during press conference of Vacheslav Ponomarev, the self-proclaimed mayor of Slovyansk and Lidia Bartasevic, president of Slovyansk's election commission in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 12, 2014.
photo: AP / Darko Vojinovic

updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Russia says it respects outcome of east Ukraine self-rule vote
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Zero Credibility Referendums: EU officials call self-rule votes in eastern Ukraine farcical
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Kiev intensifies military op in Eastern Ukraine
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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News Updates May 12 2014 Van Crash kills 5, Moscow recognizes Ukraine Vote,Nigeria Contacts
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Ukraine Authorities Dismiss Referendums as 'Farce'
updated 17 Mar 2014; published 17 Mar 2014
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Crimea asks to join Russia as West readies sanctions
Extremist video shows abducted girls praying
Full Article The Guardian
12 May 2014

MICHELLE FAUL Associated Press= LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — A new video from Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network purports to show dozens of abducted schoolgirls, covered in jihab and praying in Arabic. It is the first public sight of the girls since more than 300...

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South Africans protest in solidarity against the abduction three weeks ago of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram and what protesters said was the failure of the Nigerian government and international community to rescue them, during a march to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday, May 8, 2014.
photo: AP / Ben Curtis

updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram Abducted Nigeria Girls 'Shown' In New Video Boko Haram Kidnapped Girls Converted To Islam
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Extremist Video Shows Abducted Girls Praying
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Breaking: Nigeria abducted girls 'shown' in video released by Boko Haram
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Nigeria Kidnapped Girls Shown In New Boko Haram Video - 12 May 2014
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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WATCH LIVE: Nigeria kidnapped girls 'shown' in new Boko Haram video
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Extremist video shows abducted girls praying
Taliban kill 21 at start of Afghan spring fighting
Full Article The Associated Press
12 May 2014

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks Monday across Afghanistan to mark the start of their spring offensive, storming a government building in the east where attackers killed two police guards and five civilians, and striking a police checkpoint to the south and killing nine policemen. Also Monday, rockets hit inside...

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Afghan police officers arrive to the scene after Taliban fighters stormed a government building in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, May 12, 2014.
photo: AP / Rahmat Gul

updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Raw: Taliban Attack Marks Spring Offensive
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Taliban Kill 21 at Start of Afghan Spring Fighting
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Rockets, gunfire herald start of Taliban's spring offensive in Afghanistan
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Rockets, gunfire herald start of Taliban's spring offensive in Afghanistan
updated 16 Apr 2012; published 16 Apr 2012
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Kabul attacks signal start of Taliban's spring 'fighting season'
updated 16 Apr 2012; published 16 Apr 2012
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36 killed as Afghan Army Storms Taliban-held Buildings in Kabul_telugutouch.com
Boko Haram Says Video Shows Missing Nigerian Girls
Full Article National Public Radio
12 May 2014

7:13 AM ET The group that took more than 200 girls from a Nigerian school last month released what it says is a video of the girls Monday, along with demands that the government release militants from prison. The group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, says the video shows around 130 of the girls. In the undated video, a crowd of girls is seen outdoors,...

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People attend a rally calling on the Government to rescue the school girls kidnapped from the Chibok Government secondary school, in Abuja, Nigeria, Saturday May 10, 2014.
photo: AP / Sunday Alamba

updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram Abducted Nigeria Girls 'Shown' In New Video Boko Haram Kidnapped Girls Converted To Islam
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram NEW VIDEO shows Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls | VIDEO
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram Video Claims To Show Missing Girls
updated 05 May 2014; published 05 May 2014
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Boko Haram Leader Shekau Releases Video On Abduction Of Chibok Girls
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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WATCH LIVE: Nigeria kidnapped girls 'shown' in new Boko Haram video
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Boko Haram Shows Nigeria girls Missing in New Video Kidnapped #BringBackOurGirls
Afghanistan attacks mark Taliban's summer offensive
Full Article BBC News
12 May 2014

Kabul's international airport came under attack on Monday as the Taliban announced the start of their annual summer offensive. Two rockets hit the airport but did not cause any casualties. There were also attacks on the US airbase in Bagram, at a courthouse in Jalalabad in the east and elsewhere. Afghanistan is in transition, with a new...

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File - U.S. Army Sgt. Jeffery Harisch, a Brainerd, Minn., native, now a team leader with 4th Platoon, C Company, 40th Engineer Battalion, 170th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, walks past the bazaar at Shor Tepah in Northern Balkh Province, Afghanistan, during a patrol, April 14, 2011.
photo: US Army

updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Afghanistan Is Preparing For A Taliban Summer Offensive
updated 24 Mar 2014; published 24 Mar 2014
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May 12 2014 Breaking News REUTERS Afghan fighting worsens as foreign troops withdraw
updated 08 Apr 2014; published 08 Apr 2014
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May 12 2014 Breaking News REUTERS Afghan fighting worsens as foreign troops withdraw
updated 22 Jun 2012; published 22 Jun 2012
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Taliban Attack at Resort Hotel Near Kabul Kills 20
updated 23 May 2010; published 23 May 2010
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Taliban offensive in full effect in Afghanistan
updated 18 Apr 2012; published 18 Apr 2012
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Afghanistan rocked by suicide attacks Western embassies
Severe weather whips the central United States
Full Article CNN
12 May 2014

updated 1:28 AM EDT, Mon May 12, 2014 (CNN) -- Tornado-spawning storms that tore through parts of Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska over the weekend will move across the central United States on Monday. The National Weather Service said severe weather and flooding will be possible from the central Plains to the Great Lakes region. Colder air will...

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Severe weather whips the central United States
photo: US DoD / Andy Thaggard

updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Severe Weather Whips The Central United States
updated 29 Apr 2014; published 29 Apr 2014
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4/29/2014 -- Storm Stalls in Midwest -- More Severe Weather coming -- Southern States Hit
updated 16 Nov 2011; published 16 Nov 2011
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11/16/2011 -- Severe weather outbreak -- Central Alabama to Atlanta, GA
updated 28 Apr 2014; published 28 Apr 2014
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4/28/2014 -- Severe Weather Update -- Midwest, South, and East Coast
updated 29 Apr 2014; published 29 Apr 2014
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75 Million Americans Under Threat Of Severe Weather - Tornadoes Claim More Lives In US - 29 April
updated 17 Nov 2013; published 17 Nov 2013
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LIVE Storm Chase - Midwest Severe Weather Outbreak Nov 17, 2013
Rebels declare victory in east Ukraine's self-rule vote
Full Article The Times of India
12 May 2014

DONETSK/SLAVIANSK, Ukraine: Pro-Moscow rebels declared a resounding victory in a referendum on self-rule for eastern Ukraine, with some saying that meant independence and others eventual union with Russia as fighting flared in a conflict increasingly out of control. Organizers in the main region holding the makeshift vote on Sunday said nearly 90...

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Members of the election committee empty a ballot box after voting closed at a polling station in Donetsk, Ukraine, Sunday, May 11, 2014.
photo: AP / Evgeniy Maloletka

updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Ukraine crisis: Eastern rebels claim 'self rule' poll victory
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Ukraine crisis: Rebels Declare Victory in East Ukraine Vote On Self-Rule
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Ukraine crisis: Eastern rebels claim 'self rule' poll victory
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Rebels declare victory in east Ukraine vote on self-rule | BREAKING NEWS - 12 MAY 2014
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Ukraine Authorities Dismiss Referendums as 'Farce'
updated 12 May 2014; published 12 May 2014
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Ukraine regions hold sovereignty vote
Will Iraq fall apart?
Full Article Al Jazeera
11 May 2014

We've heard it all before - Iraq is on the brink of disintegration. Sectarian tension and violence is spiking, al-Qaeda is running amok through the country and the Kurds are threatening to break away. The post-Saddam political architecture has brought not democracy, but a new authoritarian strongman in the form of Nouri al-Maliki. As Iraq emerges...

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File - Soldiers from Battery A, 1st Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment fired the howitzers on their M109A6 Paladins during the first-ever firing of the Modular Artillery Charge System in the combat zone by an entire Paladin battery March 13, 2007, on Camp Taji, Iraq.
photo: US Army / Staff Sgt. Jon Cupp

updated 11 Jun 2013; published 11 Jun 2013
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Inside Story - Nouri al-Maliki's visit to the Kurdish north
updated 20 May 2012; published 20 May 2012
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Political dispute continues between Iraq and Kurdistan Region
updated 12 Nov 2013; published 12 Nov 2013
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Inside America: Will Obama Back al-Maliki's Seek of a Third Term in Iraq?
updated 10 Jun 2013; published 10 Jun 2013
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Iraqi PM Maliki's visit to Kurdistan aims to resolve Arbil-‎Baghdad disputes
updated 19 Mar 2014; published 19 Mar 2014
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Destabilising Iraq - PM Al-Maliki says western allies arming insurgents
updated 21 Dec 2011; published 21 Dec 2011
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Iraq's PM calls on Kurds to hand over Sunni leader

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Is Conchita the voice of doom? Russians think so
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The Charlotte Observer
BERLIN After dealing with the outrage of what they insist without any actual proof is fascism in Ukraine, Russians are turning their gaze upon what they see as the latest...
Obama Wants War
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CounterPunch
And now Ukraine, in hindsight quite predictable. Quantitative becomes qualitative at some point in the logic of events—perhaps the coup, perhaps the Pacific Rim visit to nail down...
Obama's minimalist approach to foreign policy
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CNN
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Kerry to testify on alternative date on Benghazi
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin E. Dempsey speaks along with Secretary of State John Kerry and Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing at the Hart Senate Office building in Washington D.C. Sept. 3, 2013. President Barack H. Obama is seeking congressional approval for a limited military strike in Syria in response to their government's alleged use of chemical weapons. Department of Defense Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Daniel Hinton.
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Boston Herald
WASHINGTON — The State Department and a House panel are working on an alternative date for Secretary of State John Kerry to testify about information related to the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya, ending the immediate threat of a subpoena for a...
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Conchita Wurst, Drag Queen, Wins Eurovision, Shuts Down Anti-Gay Critics
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IMDb
Conchita Wurst won Eurovision on Sunday with her power ballad “Rise Like A Phoenix,” and her win ruffled feathers of homophobes who protest her...
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‘Sick’ attack on black minister Christiane Taubira’s failure to sing national anthem La Marseillaise
French justice minister Christiane Taubira, left, addresses members of parliament during the questions to the government session, at the National Assembly in Paris, Tuesday April 23, 2013.
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The Independent
Right-wing French politicians were accused of racism on Monday after they attacked a black minister who failed to sing the national anthem at a public ceremony. Christiane Taubira, the Justice Minister, defended her decision to stay silent by saying...
photo: AP / Remy de la Mauviniere
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Glenn Greenwald: 'I don't trust the UK not to arrest me. Their behaviour has been extreme'
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The Guardian
The dogs can smell Glenn Greenwald long before they see him. As we drive up the hill to his house, a cacophony of barking greets us. The chorus is so overwhelming it makes me think of the National Security Agency (NSA) chiefs who Greenwald has...
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South Sudan's president says 2015 election to be delayed
South Sudan's president says 2015 election to be delayed
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Reuters
JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan will postpone the 2015 presidential election to give warring factions time to reconcile, President Salva Kiir said on Monday, but his rival in a conflict that is threatening to tear apart the world's newest nation said...
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German hacker club offers Snowden membership
Chaos Computer Club
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The Guardian
BERLIN (AP) — A German hacking group says it is offering honorary membership to NSA leaker Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning, a U.S. soldier convicted of providing classified documents to...
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Bengal records nearly 80 percent turnout amid violence
An Indian Muslim Women voter show the finger after casting the vote at a polling station during the final phase of general elections in Kolkata on May 12, 2014. Voters headed to the polls Monday in the final phase of India's marathon election, with hardliner Narendra Modi expected to lead his Hindu nationalists to victory after 10 years of Congress party rule
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Newstrack India
Tweet Kolkata, May 12 (IANS) Political violence left 24 injured as over two crore people - nearly 80 percent of the electorate - voted Monday in 17 Lok Sabha constituencies of West Bengal in the general election's final phase. Dubbing the clashes...
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