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Hindu nationalist Modi the favourite as India votes
India began voting Friday in a six-week election with an all but assured victory for Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as a weakened opposition is pushed to the sidelines."I urge all those voting... to exercise their franchise in record numbers," he wrote in a social media post on X as the election began.
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Migrant rescuers seek vindication after lengthy Italy case
After seven years of investigations, crew members from migrant rescue ships accused by Italy of helping human traffickers in the Mediterranean hope to finally clear their names Friday.They were accused of coordinating their search-and-rescue actions with human traffickers off Libya, returning dinghies and boats to them to be reused, and of rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean whose lives were not in danger.
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Factbox-India’s Lok Sabha election 2024: What you need to know
Elections to the 543 contested seats in the lower house of parliament, called the Lok Sabha, for a term of five years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 303 seats the last time, followed by 52 for the main opposition Indian National Congress (INC).
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VideoPro-Palestinian protesters detained in New York
STORY: The protest began when the university's president, Nemat Shafik, testified before a Congressional committee about the school's response to anti-Semitism.In a letter to the New York City Police Department, Shafik said that students who participated in the protest would be suspended. New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a news conference that New York Police had "made more than 108 arrests" in the incident.He added, "New Yorkers have every right to express their solemn, but that heartbrea
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Factbox-India's Lok Sabha election 2024: the main political parties and candidates
The country has more than 2,500 political parties but just 10 of them hold 86% of all seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament. A serious contest between a few parties will likely be dominated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The BJP, the world's largest political outfit with nearly 180 million members, was born out of the Jan Sangh party, an offshoot of a men-only Hindu nationalist organisation, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
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US 'swatting' pranks stoke alarm in election year
Startled by nighttime pounding on his door, American political strategist Rick Wilson walked out in his underwear to find policemen with guns drawn."It's hard to have dozens of cops around the house with AR-15s banging on the door at three in the morning," said Wilson, a former Republican strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project.
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Eiffel Tower loses sparkle for Parisians ahead of Olympics
The Eiffel Tower is set for a starring role during the Paris Olympics this year, but the landmark and its park have become symbols of the capital's struggles with cleanliness and crime.- Street crime - Around seven million people ascend the Eiffel Tower each year and many more pose for photos, eat picnics, or play ballgames in the Champ-de-Mars.
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