Violence in India as female worshipers break blockade to secretly enter one of India’s holiest temples

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      Warren, Sanders draw new battle lines with Trump

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        The time for Indigenous recognition is long overdue

        It has been two years since the publication of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, in which a council of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders made a significant proposal for recognition of their community’s “rightful place” in modern Australia. They called for a change to the constitution to create a new body of Indigenous…

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