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What are Shabana Mahmood’s changes to the asylum system?

Some of the home secretary’s major overhauls are already in place such as the 30-month review for refugee protectionsShabana Mahmood announced a series of changes to the rules governing both regular and irregular migration on Thursday as the government tries to restore control over what it says is a broken system. Some of the changes have already been put in place, some are being consulted on and some may never come to pass. But what exactly is the government planning?

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The GuardianOpinionUSA

‘A subversion of the justice system’: DoJ shifts into Trump’s ‘political wing’ as criminal investigations accelerate

President has ‘succeeded in completely politicizing’ justice department, experts say, using it to punish his enemies’s Department of Justice (DoJ) has increasingly become his administration’s “political wing” with criminal investigations of economic and political foes and an FBI raid of a election office seeking evidence for Trump’s debunked claim that his loss was rigged, say ex-prosecutors.The shifts at the DoJ have been especially marked since the start of 2026 and the growing politicization of the department – headed by Trump’s loyalist attorney general, Pam Bondi – was symbolized on 19 February , when a large banner with Trump’s picture was unfurled over the door of the DoJ headquarters.

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The HinduWar & Conflict

Never before has Indian govt looked so timid, fearful: Congress after U.S. submarine sinks Iranian warship

A day after a U.S. submarine torpedoed and sank an Iranian warship in international waters off Sri Lanka's coast, the Congress on Thursday (March 5, 2026) said it is shocking that there has been no response from the Modi government and claimed that never before has the Indian government looked so "timid and fearful".Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh also said maybe it should not be surprising since the Modi government has still not broken its silence over the targeted assassinations in Iran.The Indian Navy's flagship multilateral exercise, MILAN, was first held in 1995.

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The GuardianHumanityUSA

Florida college Republicans group chat reveals racist texts: ‘Avoid the coloreds like the plague’

In leaked chats, students at Florida International University referenced Nazis and made antisemitic and racist remarksIt only took three weeks for a group chat for conservative students at Florida International University (FIU) to become a place where participants eagerly used racist slurs, prompting widespread condemnation from community leaders.Abel Alexander Carvajal, secretary of Miami-Dade county’s Republican party and a student at FIU’s College of Law, reportedly started the chat after the killing of Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, in September 2025.

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The GuardianWar & Conflict

Israel orders more than 500,000 people to evacuate Beirut’s southern suburbs

Instruction comes as Israel continues to bomb Lebanon and Iran, while Tehran launches retaliatory strikesThe Israeli military has ordered the entire population of Beirut’s southern suburbs to evacuate, as it continued to bomb Lebanon and Iran, while Tehran launched retaliatory strikes against Israel and US bases across the region.An Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told all residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs – more than 500,000 people – to “save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately”, before Israel launched airstrikes on what he described as Hezbollah targets. The area covered by the order included several hospitals and government ministries.

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The New York TimesWar & ConflictLondon

NATO’s chief downplays the risks that the alliance will be drawn into the conflict.

LiveUpdated March 5, 2026, 8:34 a.m. ETLive Updates: Iranian Drones Fall in Azerbaijan as Crisis Spills Beyond MideastIran said its strikes were in self-defense and denied firing at Turkey, a day after NATO forces shot down a ballistic missile headed to Turkish airspace.Share full articleBaabda, LebanonThe aftermath of an overnight airstrike on a hotel in a suburb of Beirut.Diego Ibarra Sánchez for The New York TimesTehranIran’s capital on Thursday.

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The GuardianWar & Conflict

The Guardian view on the expanding Iran crisis: no clear aim and no end in sight | Editorial

The US and Israel started a war that is escalating rapidly, with repercussions beyond the region tooThere will be no quick or easy wins – even on US and Israeli terms. They have celebrated assassinating supreme leader; their offensive has also killed more than 1,000 civilians so far, including scores of children, according to . As Iran retaliates, hoping America’s allies will try to rein it back, it is targeting US bases and civilian sites across the region – even in Oman, which was at the forefront of efforts to stave off the war. Gulf powers are increasingly irate, though wary of acting on threats to go beyond defensive action. Israel has ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians to leave a vast swathe of southern Lebanon, blaming Hezbollah’s retaliation for the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Those who warned that the US-Israeli attack on Iran would lead to war engulfing the Middle East have proved, if anything, conservative in their predictions. A Hezbollah-launched drone at the weekend. On Wednesday, on an airbase (though Iran denied responsibility, as it did over a missile ). The day before, the US 2,000 miles away, in waters close to Sri Lanka, as it returned from multilateral exercises with India – killing at least 87 people. And governments around the world face soaring energy prices and rattled markets thanks to Iran’s chokehold on the strait of Hormuz.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our section, please .

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