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Mahmood issues plan to close loophole blocking deportation of Rochdale grooming gang leader
Home secretary Shabana Mahmood has set out laws that could pave the way to deport the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, as the government plans to threaten Pakistan if it does not take the offender back.Ms Mahmood announced that she would change the Immigration and Asylum Bill, which passed its second reading in the Commons on Monday

UK bans support for Iran’s IRGC and a linked group over antisemitic attacks in Britain
Britain banned support for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and a linked group on Monday following a series of antisemitic attacks, using new powers designed to stop the use of state-sponsored proxies. The government and intelligence agencies have become increasingly concerned about foreign powers paying organised crime groups

What to know about Trump's move to shrink the size of 2 national monuments in Utah
Revisiting actions from his first term that were reversed, President Donald Trump announced Monday that he will scale back the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah.The Republican’s actions undo proclamations from his predecessors who deemed the sites worthy of preservation under the Antiquities Act, a 1906 law

The Memo: Trump escalates on Iran, but critics don’t see a strategy
President Trump is ramping up hostilities with Iran again, but critics question whether renewed U.S. military action can change the fundamental shape of the conflict. If it fails to do so, Trump could end up even more deeply entangled in an issue that is unpopular with the American people as the clock ticks down to…

FACT FOCUS: A look at US and Iranian claims of control over the Strait of Hormuz
A focal point of the Iran war is increasingly about who controls the Strait of Hormuz — a narrow, elbow-shaped waterway that for decades was a relatively safe and reliable transit route for Middle East oil and natural gas supplies.By saying that an interim ceasefire gave it the right to establish the terms under which ships traversed the stra


