Indians vote in hot polls amid coalition expectations
Millions braved 100 degree heat to vote in India's first phase of parliamentary elections. Violence left at least five dead as turnout nears 80 million, with 590 million expected overall. BJP rivals Congress party clash amid polls, while Sonia Gandhi voted. Coalition forecasts loom as results approach mid May.
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India
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National Front
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Pammi Kaushal
Sonia Gandhi
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Assam
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Chechen leader's widow seeks peace
Alla Dudayeva, widow of Dzhokhar Dudayev, appeals for safe passage to travel to Moscow for a peace mission directed at top Russian officials. No Kremlin response reported. Dudayev was killed in a Russian attack as Chechnya faces ongoing violence and crossfire. Rebels seized a police station near Grozny, while a Belgian aid worker was kidnapped near Grozny and a train derailment killed an officer and a conductor in Argun.
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Chechnya
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Yandarbiyev
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Abu Khamentov
Doctors Without Borders
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Russia signs Caspian oil pipeline agreement
Russia and Kazakstan sign a 900 mile Caspian oil pipeline plan to the Black Sea and reconfigure the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. The joint venture gives Western oil firms a larger share, with total deal value around 1.2 billion dollars and a 50 percent private company stake.
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Oman
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Rosneft
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Italy
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Mikhail Gorbachev
Omsk
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