An Indian opposition party leader has been arrested on corruption charges one month before the election.

I can't say it is impossible that there is a valid reason for charges, but given Modi's general tendencies. I think this is more likely to be a dirty trick.

Maduro's government in Venezuela has barred an opposition leader from running in elections, after she won an election, and now has arrested her campaign staff, accusing them of bizarre plots, more extreme than what the wrecker does in the US.

* A searing heatwave that struck west Africa in February was made 4C hotter and 10 times more likely by human-caused global heating, a study has found.*

*Public Citizen […] proposed the idea […] to prosecute [fossil fuel] companies for millions of deaths due to climate crisis.*

*Each year, extreme temperatures take 5 million lives, while 400,000 people die from climate-related hunger and disease.*

Penury in Britain is spreading among the citizens. It is visible in malnutrition, theft of food, and homelessness.

The Tories have been ramping up the poverty, in small steps, for 13 years, but they managed to disguise it. Now it is visible everywhere and cannot be disguised,

Corbyn would have found ways to so something about poverty — for instance, through a customs union with the EU.