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- Doubling the minimum requirement for foreign nationals to seek citizenship, from 5 years to 10, will make British citizenship harder to attain than in the US, Australia and New Zealand
- Keir Starmer says migrants will have to ‘earn the right’ to live in UK as part of new crackdown
- Bessent claims high-stakes trade talks with China were ‘productive’ - but doesn’t share any details of new deal
- ‘No more war,’ Pope Leo pleads to world in first Sunday address at the Vatican
- ANALYSIS | Trump craves recognition as the peacemaker president. Will diplomatic wins in South Asia and Ukraine spur him on?
- Michigan father and green card holder spent nearly two months in ICE detention
- What is habeas corpus? Trump looking to suspend key right protecting people from unlawful detention amid ‘invasion’ claim
- More than half of Americans tell Trump to stay away from colleges and disapprove of his higher education attacks
- Pope Leo XIV speaks out against AI: ‘A challenge of human dignity, justice and labour’
- ICE arrests California father and leaves his children behind in car: witness
