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The Transformation of India Is Nearly Complete

It’s not about religion… The Indian Supreme Court’s decision to allow the building of a temple for Rama on a disputed site is likely to intensify the Hindu nationalist efforts to turn India into a majoritarian nation.

Farage’s Brexit move means a pact among progressives is now urgent | Polly Toynbee

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By standing aside for the Tories, he’s made a hard Brexit much more likely. Remainers have to work together

Nigel Farage has set his stamp on this election: his astute action, standing down 317 Brexit party candidates (one in every seat that voted Conservative in the last election), confirms the brutal binary choice between the newly merged Tory-Brexit friends-of-Trump party and a flaky progressive remain alliance. The old Conservative party is no more, morphing into the Brexit party, its moderates having fled.

Here’s the vital question: will the fragmented progressives resolve their differences in an equally ruthless pursuit of power? They only have until Thursday to set aside petty tribal differences and block Britain leaving the Europe Union in January, with no referendum, on the hardest of Brexit terms. Sadly, the answer is almost certainly no. Not enough progressive candidates will stand down – unless they are seized this week with sudden paroxysms of self-sacrifice in the cause of the greater good.

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British Indians warn Hindu party not to meddle in UK elections

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They say UK support group for BJP, India’s ruling party, is trying to divide them

British Indians in one of the country’s most diverse boroughs have warned against attempts to divide voters in the general election along ethnic or religious lines.

Last week, a UK support group for the BJP, India’s ruling Hindu nationalist party, said it was campaigning for the Tories in 48 marginal seats. It also emerged that WhatsApp messages were circulating among British Hindus urging them to vote against Labour, accusing it of being “anti-India”, raising fears that tensions are being stoked ahead of the election.

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Klobuchar attacks Bloomberg and Buttigieg as Democrat infighting grows

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On a weekend of sharp infighting among Democratic presidential candidates, Senator Amy Klobuchar hit out at Michael Bloomberg.

Related: Elizabeth Warren hits back at Biden ‘angry’ criticism: ‘I am angry and I own it’

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Ayodhya: India’s top court gives Hindus site claimed by Muslims

Politicized religion fails all.

Supreme court says site where mosque was torn down in 1992 should become Hindu temple

The Indian supreme court has ruled that India’s most hotly contested piece of religious land rightfully belongs to Hindus, and has granted permission for a temple to be built on the site in Ayodhya.

The five supreme court judges based their unanimous and historic judgement on Hindus’ claim that the site is the birthplace of their god Ram.

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Biden, Clinton, investigations: the little words Trump wanted to hear on Ukraine

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Senior state department official George Kent says the president had a very specific demand for his Ukrainian counterpart

Donald Trump wanted to hear three words out of the Ukrainian president’s mouth, according to newly released testimony in the US impeachment inquiry: “investigations”, “Biden” and “Clinton”.

Related: Michael Bloomberg reportedly preparing for presidential run – live

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