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British PM Johnson facing no-deal Brexit cabinet rebellion: report

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing a new rebellion from his cabinet over concerns of a no-deal Brexit, with a group of cabinet ministers poised to resign, The Times newspaper reported on Wednesday.

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Greta Thunberg Greeted by Chief Arvol Looking Horse on Standing Rock

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Chief Arvol Looking Horse, Greta and Paula Hornem today on Standing Rock. Photos courtesy Greta on Twitter.

Photos and comments via Twitter Greta Thunberg@GretaThunbergThe last two days @tokata_ie and I visited Takini School, Standing Rock Community School and the beautiful Standing Rock Reservation. Thank you everyone for your leadership, your resistance and your incredible

A new India is emerging, and it is a country ruled by fear | Amit Chaudhuri

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Modi’s vision for the country is one that stifles dissent and difference, in defiance of its people’s history

Four months have passed since Narendra Modi and the BJP came back to power in India, and more seems to have happened there than in the last 40 years. The sense of severance that many experience today, of being divorced from the workings of the nation, exceeds even the helplessness felt during the suspension of civil liberties in the emergency of 1975 to 1977 and the political traumas that followed.

This is because – without the matter being explicitly articulated – citizen has been set against citizen: not just Muslim against Hindu or, say, Kashmiris against the rest of India, but those who subscribe to the BJP’s new conception of the nation against those who do not, leaving one without trust in the other.

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Brexit: Johnson poised to end talks after call with Merkel ends in deadlock – live news

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Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments, including German chancellor telling PM Northern Ireland must stay in customs union for a deal

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The government has just published a 155-page “No Deal Readiness Report” (pdf).

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This is from Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister.

The UK government’s attempt to shift the blame for the Brexit fiasco to anyone but themselves – today it’s Merkel – is pathetically transparent.

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UN human rights commissioner rejects Morrison’s attack on ‘internationalist bureaucracy’

Michelle Bachelet says Australia has been scrutinised according to international standards it helped create

The high commissioner for human rights has pushed back on Scott Morrison’s recent criticism of the United Nations, noting the scrutiny Australia has received is based on international standards it helped create.

In a speech to a human rights conference in Sydney, Michelle Bachelet also urged Australian parliamentarians not to repeal the medevac laws, and to roll back mandatory detention policies.

Related: Scott Morrison’s ‘negative globalism’ no echo of Trump, Josh Frydenberg says

Related: ‘Delicate moment’: was Scott Morrison’s Lowy speech a pivot towards Trumpism?

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‘In my great and unmatched wisdom’: Trump makes modest claim about his intellect

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Trump – the ‘very stable genius’ – is no stranger to narcissistic statements, and he was at it again on Monday afternoon

Donald Trump perhaps broke a record for aggrandizement on Monday, when he referred to his “great and unmatched wisdom” following his decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria.

Trump is no stranger to grandiose, narcissistic statements. He has frequently referred to himself as a “very stable genius” – and not tongue-in-cheek. He actually did so recently, in reference to his controversial phone call to the Ukraine president, Volodmyr Zelenskiy, which sparked an impeachment inquiry into him.

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