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New York (AFP) - As a storm broke over New York, riot police mounted a tall ladder on a reinforced truck to penetrate a building at Columbia University and clear out barricaded pro-Palestinian protesters. Scores of armed, helmet-clad NYPD officers arrived in the north-west of Manhattan on Tuesday evening, accompanied by buses and trucks, as they set up barriers around the grounds of the prestigious institution. Columbia, which counts 37,000 students and is typically open to the public, was entirely surrounded. Called into action after a request for help from university president Minouche Shafi...
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Providence (United States) (AFP) - Brown University on Tuesday reached an agreement with students protesting the war in Gaza that would see them remove their encampment from school grounds in exchange for the institution considering divesting from Israel. The move represents a first major concession from an elite American university amid relentless student protests that have paralyzed campuses across the country, divided public opinion and led to hundreds of arrests. In a statement, Brown President Christina Paxson said students had agreed to end their protests and clear their camp by 5:00 pm ...
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Baghdad (AFP) - Iraqi religious leader Moqtada Sadr on Saturday expressed his support for pro-Palestinian encampments at universities in the United States and called for an end to police action against them. "We call for a halt to the crackdown on voices advocating for peace and freedom," Sadr said in a statement. "The voice of American universities demanding an end to Zionist terrorism is our voice." Sadr once led a militia fighting American forces following the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. He retains a devoted following of millions among the country's majority S...
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New York (AFP) - Tensions flared between pro-Palestinian student protesters and school administrators at several US universities Monday, as in-person classes were cancelled and demonstrators arrested. The protests, which began last week at Columbia University with a large group of demonstrators establishing a so-called "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on school grounds, have spread to other campuses, including Yale, MIT and others. Some Jewish students at Columbia have reported intimidation and anti-Semitism amid the days-long protest, which is calling for the prestigious New York institution to ...
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New York (AFP) - US President Joe Biden condemned any anti-Semitism on college campuses Sunday, as pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University spent their fifth day demanding the school sever financial ties with key US ally Israel. Students camped out on university grounds are calling for the prestigious New York school, which has an exchange program with Tel Aviv University, to boycott all activities associated with Israel in light of the country's war with Hamas militants and the ensuing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. "Even in recent days, we’ve seen harassment and calls for violence a...
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Washington (AFP) - Leaders of Columbia University defended the prestigious New York school's efforts to combat anti-Semitism on campus at a fiery congressional hearing on Wednesday. The Columbia administrators were the latest school leaders hauled before Congress for questioning about protests fueled by the Israel-Hamas conflict roiling US college campuses. University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill resigned in December in the wake of her responses to a congressional committee and Harvard University's Claudine Gay stepped down in January. Columbia president Nemat Shafik and board of trust...
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Madison (United States) (AFP) - US President Joe Biden unveiled fresh plans Monday to reduce student loan debt for tens of millions of Americans, in bid to win over young voters as he seeks reelection in November. The conservative-dominated US Supreme Court last year struck down the Democrat's earlier proposals to cancel several hundred billion dollars of debt. But Biden said the court -- which features three judges appointed by his Republican election rival Donald Trump -- would "never stop" his efforts to deal with the issue. "Today too many Americans, especially young people, are saddled wi...
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Washington (AFP) - A leading American university was sued Wednesday over a disinformation campaign allegedly financed by the United Arab Emirates, accused of seeding false narratives that linked academics to a radical group in the Middle East. Farid Hafez, an Austrian political scientist, filed the $10 million lawsuit against George Washington University and Lorenzo Vidino, the director of its program on extremism. It's the second such case in US courts this year that sheds light on what researchers call a lucrative "disinformation for hire" industry that peddles false information and influenc...
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Las Vegas (AFP) - With big, expressive eyes, elfin ears and adorable cooing, Miroka and Miroki could be an apparition from your favorite cartoon. But behind their cute facade, these robots are all sensors and engineering, and designed to perform the drudgery of logistical support in hospitals or hotels. "Why live with ugly machines," says Jerome Monceaux, head of Paris-based start-up Enchanted Tools, who was on hand to present the pair at the CES tech show in Las Vegas. "I could cut their heads off and erase their colors, but I'm not sure you'd want to share your daily life with them," he co...
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New York (AFP) - Harvard University's former president said Wednesday following her resignation that she made mistakes but insisted she was the target of a sustained campaign of lies and personal insults. Claudine Gay stepped down Tuesday after coming under ferocious attack over plagiarism accusations and her response to pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war. "Those who had relentlessly campaigned to oust me since the fall often trafficked in lies and ad hominem insults, not reasoned argument," she wrote in The New York Times. "They recycled tired racial stereotyp...
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