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BBC news 2014-09-29

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The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a visit to the United States has been given a rapturous welcome by 18,000 Americans of Indian origin in New York City.   The BBC's Nick Bryant was there.

In an arena that hosted Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen and Mohammed Ali, it was Narendra Modi, a onetime pariah, who received a superstar welcome. Up until recently he couldn't even have walked through American Immigration; he was refused a visa. But now as the Indian Prime Minister, he stepped onto a stage of Madison Square Garden to chants of his name. This was a rebranding exercise national and personal and he predicted this will be India century, because of his country's useful population and spirit of innovation.

On Monday the Indian Prime Minister will be welcomed at the White House. Meanwhile police in the Indian state of Gujarat have arrested at least 40 people following clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the city of Vadodara. Reports say crowds from the two religious communities pelted each other with stones and set fire to several vehicles.

The far right National Front party in France has for the first time won two seats in the Senate. Its leader Marine Le Pen described the win as an historic victory. Often the Senate is elected by regional officials every three years. This report's from Lucy Williamson.

Rightwing parties more generally look set to regain control of France's Upper House, as a result of this election after a brief three-year swing to the left. The country's socialist president Francois Hollande is already enduring some of the worst opinion polls in modern French history. And while the Senate does not have the power to stop legislation this result could add further delays and obstacles to his economic plans for the nation. It'll also add pressure on him to prove that those plans, which have already divided his own party, can bring results.

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America-led forces have carried out further airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq. The Pentagon said four small-scale improvise oil refineries were hit inside Syria near the Turkish border. In his strongest statement yet, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country cannot stay out of the fight and the ground forces might be required. Up to now Turkey has been reluctant to become involved in the US-led coalition against the Islamist State militants. In Iraq the strikes targeted a stronghold of the jihadist group in the city of Mosul.

Swiss voters have rejected a plan to abandon the country's private health insurance system and create a state-run scheme. Nearly 2/3 of those voting said no to the proposal. It was put forward by a left-leaning party who said it would reduce cost and bureaucracy and insure a greater political transparency. Health insurance is mandatory in Switzerland which has more than 60 insurance companies. Prices have been rising steadily over the years.

Police in Lebanon say at least two people have been killed when a monster truck plowed into a crowd of onlookers at an annual motor show.

Europe's golfers have retained the Ryder Cup defeating the United States at Gleneagles, Scotland. They went in to the final day - the single's tournament of the completion - with a commanding lead. The world number-one Roey McCarron from Northern Ireland set the tone early on with an emphatic victory over the young American Vicky Follow. The Welsh Win Jimmy Donaldson hit the winning shot. Here is the BBC's Clare Balding.

Oh! It's got the right back, appeared to stop that towards defeat. He's true in to defeat! People are hugging each other all around me. That is close enough. That is good enough. And Jimmy Donaldson has won the Ryder Cup for Europe. The chants are going on. That was the most brilliant broad chants!

That was Clare Balding.

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