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The UK Election is Thursday, and most polls are predicting a majority for Boris Johnson and the Conservatives, with steep losses for Jeremy Corbyn and Labour.  But some are showing the Tory's lead collapsing in the hours before voting, and there's a new hashtag trending that might vex Johnson in the final hours before people make up their minds:  #Fridgegate.  A "Good Morning Britain" reporter attempted to interview Johnson on live TV as her toured a Yorkshire dairy.  Rather than face reporter Jonathan Swain and host Piers Morgan, Johnson ducked inside of a freezer while an aide dropped an "F bomb".  "It's a very frosty reception we've had so far," Swain quipped, while Morgan completed the reporter for "heroic work".  Morgan later blasted Johnson for his "cowardice".

So imagine that there are British voters who are going to wake up on Thursday, see the story of Johnson hiding inside of a fridge and think to themselves, "Cor, that's the bloke for me!"  But hey, it's not just the conservatives.  Centrist pragmatism is also on the menu, and they've got a guy running away from reporters, too.  Journalist Amy Goodman of the US show Democracy Now literally chased former US Presidential candidate and billionaire Michael Bloomberg as he refused to answer any questions at the COP25 climate conference in Madrid.  That's the word we live in.

Israel took the first steps towards dissolving Parliament and having its third election in a year.  This is after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main rival Benny Gantz eached failed to form majority coalitions and couldn't work out a power sharing deal.  Basically, Netanyahu insists that far-right, ultra-orthodox parties be part of government, and Gantz won't serve in a government with Netanyahu while the PM is facing criminal charges.  The next election will likely happen in March.

Time Magazine has named Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg as its 2019 Person of the Year.  At 16-years-old, she is the youngest person to be chosen by the magazine in a tradition that started in 1927.  Last year, she started skipping school on Friday to protest outside the Swedish parliament building to demand action on the climate crisis.  She wasn't along for long, it inspired a global movement of young people demanding answers from their governments under the hashtag #FridaysForFuture.

India's upper house passed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB), which eases the way to citizenship for non-Muslim illegal immigrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.  Muslims are vastly outnumbered in majority-Hindu India, and critics say the bill merely enflames that divide.  Many point out that it does nothing for oppressed minorities from other neighboring countries.

Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi denied allegations of genocide at the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ).  A military crackdown in 2017 saw the deaths of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state, and 700,000 Rohingya pushed out of the country over the border into a massive refugee camp at Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh.  Investigations have labelled this a classic ethnic cleansing, but Suu Kyi claims that the Rohingya are somehow "illegal aliens" while arguing that the trouble in Rakhine goes back for "centuries", perhaps not knowing that she's admitting that the Rohingya have lived there all along.  

Militants killed at least 60 people in an attack on military base in Niger, near the border with Mali.  There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but both Boko Haram and the so-called Islamic State are known to be active in the region.  Just a couple of days ago, Niger extended its state of emergency by three months.