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India strips disputed Kashmir of special status
India's government has controversially revoked part of the constitution in Kashmir.
India has revoked part of the constitution that gives Indian administered Kashmir special status, known as Article 370. This ends the Muslim majority state's right to make its own laws and decide who can settle in the region.
Also on the programme, the website which published the white nationalist document justifying the El Paso shootings in the US has been forced offline.
Photo Credit: Armed India Army soldiers on border with Pakistan in Kashmir manning lookout posts (BBC).
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