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World-Widen Separatist leaders inUkraine’s Donetsk region for-mally asked to become part ofRussia, advancing the threatof Ukraine’s breakup. A1n Nigerian rebels releaseda video that purportedlyshows kidnapped schoolgirlsand demands that impris-oned militants be freed. A7nSix rapidlymelting glaciersin Antarctica are destabilizingthe ice sheet, threatening toraise sea levels significantly. A2nThe Taliban launcheddeadly attacks across Afghani-stan, marking the start of theirspring fighting season. A10nOptimism has grown that anuclear deal with Iran can bereached by a July 20 deadlineas talks are set to resume. A10nAWashington state insurerplans to cut premiums in 2015,the first apparent decrease un-der the health-care law. A4nOver a quarter of theworld’s population believesstereotypes about Jews, a pollof anti-Semitism found. A8nA boat with migrants fromAfrica sank off the coast of theItalian island of Lampedusa,leaving at least 14 dead. A8n Fighting raged betweenSouth Sudan and rebel forcesdespite a cease-fire accord. A7n Lithuania’s president facesa runoff after failing to collect50% of the votes. A8nChinese police detainedover 50 people after protestsover a plannedwaste plant. A8nDied: Lorenzo Zambrano,70, CEO of Mexico’s Cemex. B3

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The Justice Department isexpected to reach settle-

ments soon with banks thatinclude Credit Suisse, Bank ofAmerica and Citigroup. A1n AT&T is close to sealing acash-and-stock takeover ofDirecTV that could put avalue of nearly $50 billion onthe satellite-TV provider. B1n The Dow and S&P 500both set records as investorssnapped up beaten-downshares. The blue chipsclimbed 112.13 to 16695.47. C1n TheWyly brothers com-mitted civil fraud by using aweb of offshore trusts to hidestock sales, a jury found. C1nHillshire agreed to buyPinnacle Foods, a maker ofsausages, hot dogs and frozendesserts, for $4.3 billion. B2nAllergan rejected Valeant’s$46 billion takeover bid, say-ing the offer substantially un-dervalues the Botox maker. B3nComcast signed a deal withTurner to add full seasons ofseveral TV shows to the cablefirm’s on-demand offerings. B3nChrysler swung to a $690million loss related to a debtpayment and charge stemmingfrom its purchase by Fiat. B5n Pfizer laid out its case for atakeover of AstraZeneca indocuments sent to two U.K.parliamentary committees. B3nProsecutors asked a judgefor a stiff sentence of over fiveyears for an ex-SAC employeeconvicted of insider trading. C3nCitizens filed for an IPO asits parent, RBS, faces continu-ing U.K. regulatory pressure. C3

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Jihad Abdo, You Can Call Him Jay,Looks for a Hollywood Ending

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A Star Who Fled His Native SyriaCounts on a Name Change and Lots of Luck

LOS ANGELES—Long beforehe got to Hollywood in 2012, Ji-had Abdo was already a bankablestar.

Over a 30-year career, he hadbeen featured inhundreds of TV ep-isodes, 43 moviesand 21 plays set inmodern and an-cient times, inroles as varied asvillain, military of-ficer and prince.He couldn’t walkthe streets in hishometown withoutbeing hounded byfans pleading for apicture with him. “Going shop-ping was a nightmare,” he recalls.

But all that fame and fortunecame his way in Syria, far fromthe Hollywood spotlight. When

he arrived here, as a refugeefrom his war-torn homeland, Ji-had became “Jay” and turnedinto something very familiarhere: an out-of-work actor. Theclosest he came to celebrity washis job with French Florist, theself-styled “Los Angeles flower

delivery choice forthe entertainmentindustry and stars.”

Then, in an only-in-the-movies twistof fate, opportuni-ties to act in mov-ies starring NicoleKidman and TomHanks came knock-ing. So, maybe heis on his way tostardom in his ad-opted country, too.

“I’m a natural optimist,” saysthe 51-year-old actor, smilingbroadly. “I knew the day wouldcome when I would get my

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BY MIRIAM JORDANAND ERICH SCHWARTZEL

Jay Abdo

The head of the InternationalMonetary Fund on Mondayjoined an elite group—thosewhose plans to give commence-ment addresses this graduationseason were derailed by studentor faculty protests.

Christine Lagarde, managingdirector of the IMF, was sched-uled to speak this coming Sun-day at Smith College, but shewithdrew her name after nearly500 people signed a petition ob-jecting to the policies of the IMF.Similar outcries foiled speakingengagements by former NationalSecurity Adviser CondoleezzaRice at Rutgers University andhuman-rights activist AyaanHirsi Ali at Brandeis University,among several others.

“I call it disinvitation season,”said Greg Lukianoff, president of

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BY DOUGLAS BELKIN

List GrowsOf CanceledGraduationSpeakers

BADAL & SON

Family Ties Rule IndiaDespite Voter Frustration

CHANDIGARH, India—Chief Minister ParkashSingh Badal runs the northern Indian state of Punjabfrom his office in the secretariat building. His son, awealthy businessman, works next door as deputychief minister.

A few floors away, the deputy’s two brothers-in-law run key ministerial offices. Together, the fourmen sit atop half of Punjab’s governmental depart-ments, including home affairs, justice, taxation andfood supply.

Politics in Punjab, a relatively affluent, agrarianstate of 28 million, is largely a family-run operation,which isn’t uncommon in a country governed for de-cades by the Indian National Congress, the party of

the Nehru-Gandhi clan.But frustration with family politics has surfaced

in India’s national elections, which end with the an-nouncement of results Friday. Political analysts andvoters say this frustration is an important reasonwhy prime-minister candidate Narendra Modi—acritic of dynastic politics who said he gave up familylife for public service—is the front-runner. He wasleading in exit polls Monday. The father, grand-mother and great-grandfather of his opponent, RahulGandhi, all served terms as prime minister in India’spostcolonial era.

While the U.S. has its own dynastic familynames—Kennedy, Bush and Clinton—none match thedepth of India’s family ties. A British historian in a

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BY NIHARIKA MANDHANA

Poll Gauges Religious IntoleranceHOW DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS GROUPS ARE VIEWED

15 62

14 53

24% 47%

18 45

Christians

Buddhists

Muslims

Hindus

Jews21 38

Source: First International Resources survey commissioned by the Anti-Defamation LeagueThe Wall Street Journal

UNFAVORABLY FAVORABLY

GLOBAL VIEW: About a quarter of the world’s population agrees that anumber of negative statements about Jews are ‘probably true,’ accordingto a poll to be released today aimed at providing a statistical underpinningto the question of how widespread anti-Semitism is globally. A8

Separatist leaders in Ukraine’svolatile Donetsk region formallyasked to become part of Russia onMonday, going beyond the simpleindependence question raised in areferendum and advancing thethreat of Ukraine’s breakup.

The declaration bore some re-semblance to the referendumand annexation scenario thatplayed out in Crimea earlier thisyear, but signs of a different ap-proach by Russia began toemerge.

Though the Kremlin expressed“respect” for the weekend refer-endums in Donetsk and the neigh-boring Luhansk region, the rebels’subsequent request to join Russiawas met with silence from theKremlin and received little cover-age by Russian state television.

Moscow had called last weekfor a postponement of the refer-endums, which organizers saidexpressed the regions’ over-whelming popular will for inde-pendence. But on Monday theKremlin urged the new pro-Eu-rope government in Kiev to holdtalks with the rebels on imple-menting the votes’ outcome,even as both sides rejected callsto negotiate.

The U.S. denounced the refer-endums and blamed Russian

President Vladimir Putin for re-fusing to use Russia’s influenceto thwart them. White Housespokesman Jay Carney suggestedthe weekend’s events auguredpoorly for Ukraine’s presidentialelections scheduled for May 25.

“If there are efforts to disruptthe elections and Russia is re-sponsible for those efforts or re-sponsible for failing to use its in-fluence to prevent those efforts,”said Mr. Carney, “that will be

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By Paul Sonnein Moscow

and Philip Shishkinin Donetsk, Ukraine

Separatists Ask to Join RussiaAnnexation Request Follows Referendum on Independence in Eastern Ukraine

WASHINGTON—The JusticeDe-partment’s effort to secure a guiltyplea from Credit Suisse Group AGin coming days is expected to kickoff a number ofmultibillion-dollarbank settlements, in what may beAttorney General Eric Holder’s lastpush to pursueWall Street for pastconduct.

While such cases have movedat a slow pace for years, therehas been a flurry of activity inrecent days, suggesting a quick-ening tempo among the prosecu-tors investigating major financialinstitutions.

Justice Department officialsmet with Bank of America Corp.last Thursday in a bid to hammerout a multibillion-dollar settle-ment related to the bank’s han-dling of mortgage-backed securi-ties in the run-up to the 2008financial crisis, according to peo-ple familiar with the meeting.Later this month, Citigroup Inc.will meet with department law-yers to discuss a settlementstemming from an investigationinto mortgage-backed securitiesthat racked up large losses.

Mr. Holder earlier this monthlistened to entreaties from Euro-pean government officials weigh-ing in on behalf of their home-country banks, according topeople familiar with the discus-sions. On May 2, the attorneygeneral met with a minister fromSwitzerland to talk about thecase against Credit Suisse for al-legedly helping wealthy Ameri-cans evade taxes. Later that sameday, he took a call from France’s

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BY DEVLIN BARRETT

HolderMakesLastRunAtBanks

Nigerian Terrorists Parade Kidnapped Girls in Propaganda Video

HOSTAGES: Boko Haram released a video it said shows captive girls—an unverified claim—and demanded release of imprisoned members of their group. A7

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