University oversight panel says president undermined academic freedom by allowing New York police break up Gaza protest.Columbia University‘s embattled president came under renewed pressure as a campus oversight panel sharply rebuked her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at its New York campus. President Nemat Minouche Shafik
New York district attorney accuses two prominent art dealers of the illegal trafficking of antiquities worth $3m.Prosecutors in New York City have announced that they returned to Cambodia and Indonesia 30 antiquities that were looted, sold or illegally transferred by networks of American antiquities dealers and traffickers. The antiquities
“How many tennis balls can fit in a passenger plane?”Neeraj, a young economics graduate from the premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), was given 15 minutes to solve this question during his interview rounds at Nation With Namo (NwN), one of the in-house political consultancies of India’s governing Bharatiya Janata
Washington, DC – A Gaza-focused campus protest movement in the United States has highlighted a generational divide on Israel, experts say, with young people’s willingness to challenge politicians and college administrators on display nationwide.The opinion gap — with younger Americans generally more supportive of Palestinians than the generations that came
The fourth day of testimony in former United States President Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial has concluded, with former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker facing several hours of cross-examination by Trump’s legal team.Pecker answered more questions on Friday about what he has testified was a “catch-and-kill” scheme to suppress
More than 120,000 people have been displaced, Kenyan government says, with 22 others injured and eight reported missing.Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, according to a government spokesperson, twice as many as were reported earlier this week. Kenya and other countries
NewsFeedThe premature baby girl who was rescued from her mother’s womb after an Israeli air strike on their home in Rafah has died. The baby named Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda was rescued Saturday after the strike that killed her mother, father and young sister. She died Thursday in hospital and was
NewsFeedStudents from universities in Austraila are joining their American peers in protests for Palestine. Like demonstrators on campuses in the US, the students say they want to escalate the campaign for institutions to cut ties with Israel..css-l8zrhz{display:none;font-family:"Georgia","Times","Times New Roman",serif !important;font-size:20px ...
This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill talks to the authors of a new scathing report on US arms sales to Israel.As Israel’s war on Gaza continues for a seventh month, killing more than 34,000 Palestinians and 200 humanitarian workers, the United States just approved roughly $15bn in military
Funds aim to provide support for children, others affected by armed conflict in Ukraine, Qatari foreign ministry says.Qatar has announced that it will provide $3m to the office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, as part of a push to support “welfare and safety” in the war-torn
Attack on al-Fashir would have ‘devastating consequences’ for civilians in area already on brink of famine, UN says.The United Nations has sounded the alarm about a possible imminent attack on al-Fashir, in Sudan’s North Darfur, as the global body seeks to reduce tensions in the last major city in
A flotilla of ships set to depart for the Gaza Strip on Friday to bring aid to Palestinians has been stranded in Turkey due to administrative roadblocks, as organisers say Israel has been exerting political pressure to impede the voyage.The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said Israel was pressuring the Republic of
University oversight panel says president undermined academic freedom by allowing New York police break up Gaza protest.Columbia University‘s embattled president came under renewed pressure as a campus oversight panel sharply rebuked her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at its New York campus. President Nemat Minouche Shafik
New York district attorney accuses two prominent art dealers of the illegal trafficking of antiquities worth $3m.Prosecutors in New York City have announced that they returned to Cambodia and Indonesia 30 antiquities that were looted, sold or illegally transferred by networks of American antiquities dealers and traffickers. The antiquities
“How many tennis balls can fit in a passenger plane?”Neeraj, a young economics graduate from the premier Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), was given 15 minutes to solve this question during his interview rounds at Nation With Namo (NwN), one of the in-house political consultancies of India’s governing Bharatiya Janata
Washington, DC – A Gaza-focused campus protest movement in the United States has highlighted a generational divide on Israel, experts say, with young people’s willingness to challenge politicians and college administrators on display nationwide.The opinion gap — with younger Americans generally more supportive of Palestinians than the generations that came
The fourth day of testimony in former United States President Donald Trump’s New York hush money trial has concluded, with former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker facing several hours of cross-examination by Trump’s legal team.Pecker answered more questions on Friday about what he has testified was a “catch-and-kill” scheme to suppress
More than 120,000 people have been displaced, Kenyan government says, with 22 others injured and eight reported missing.Flooding and heavy rains in Kenya have killed at least 70 people since mid-March, according to a government spokesperson, twice as many as were reported earlier this week. Kenya and other countries
NewsFeedThe premature baby girl who was rescued from her mother’s womb after an Israeli air strike on their home in Rafah has died. The baby named Sabreen al-Rouh Jouda was rescued Saturday after the strike that killed her mother, father and young sister. She died Thursday in hospital and was
NewsFeedStudents from universities in Austraila are joining their American peers in protests for Palestine. Like demonstrators on campuses in the US, the students say they want to escalate the campaign for institutions to cut ties with Israel..css-l8zrhz{display:none;font-family:"Georgia","Times","Times New Roman",serif !important;font-size:20px ...
This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill talks to the authors of a new scathing report on US arms sales to Israel.As Israel’s war on Gaza continues for a seventh month, killing more than 34,000 Palestinians and 200 humanitarian workers, the United States just approved roughly $15bn in military
Funds aim to provide support for children, others affected by armed conflict in Ukraine, Qatari foreign ministry says.Qatar has announced that it will provide $3m to the office of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, as part of a push to support “welfare and safety” in the war-torn
Attack on al-Fashir would have ‘devastating consequences’ for civilians in area already on brink of famine, UN says.The United Nations has sounded the alarm about a possible imminent attack on al-Fashir, in Sudan’s North Darfur, as the global body seeks to reduce tensions in the last major city in
A flotilla of ships set to depart for the Gaza Strip on Friday to bring aid to Palestinians has been stranded in Turkey due to administrative roadblocks, as organisers say Israel has been exerting political pressure to impede the voyage.The Freedom Flotilla Coalition said Israel was pressuring the Republic of
