Intro

French president Emmanuel Macron calls a snap election after a bruising defeat in European elections. Benny Gantz quits Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency war cabinet. And as Narendra Modi is sworn in as India’s prime minister, we visit the temple town of Ayodhya where a miscalculation changes the outlook for his third term.  

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