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

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.
British Indians warn Hindu party not to meddle in UK elections

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.
Brazil ex-President Lula vows left will defeat Bolsonaro

Former Brazilian President Lula, who was released from jail on Friday, has told supporters that he can beat incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in 2022. Bolsonaro described his leftist opponent as a “scoundrel.”
Jordan reclaims ‘every inch’ of land leased to Israel

Jordan’s King Abdullah II announced that the kingdom was imposing “full sovereignty on every inch” of two areas it had leased to Israel 25 years ago. Much of the areas are harvested by Israeli farmers.
‘It’s Mutilation’: The Police in Chile Are Blinding Protesters
Our correspondent goes inside an eye trauma unit in Chile that’s responding to “an epidemic” of protesters who have been shot in the eye by police pellet guns.
Klobuchar attacks Bloomberg and Buttigieg as Democrat infighting grows

- Polling shows voters generally satisfied with the candidates
- Can Pete Buttigieg’s moderate message win over purple Iowa?
On a weekend of sharp infighting among Democratic presidential candidates, Senator Amy Klobuchar hit out at Michael Bloomberg.
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How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong
Few thought it would arrive so quickly. Now we’re facing consequences once viewed as fringe scenarios.
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.
Biden, Clinton, investigations: the little words Trump wanted to hear on Ukraine

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”.
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