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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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Germany's minister of education and research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, has called on universities to scrutinize any joint projects with China in the light of recent arrests over spying allegations. "The arrest of three Germans for suspected espionage once again makes it abundantly clear that we must not be naive in our dealings with China," the liberal politician told German news magazine Wirtschaftswoche. "We need to weigh up the risks and benefits of cooperation even more carefully, especially in science and in universities. This includes reviewing existing cooperative relationships." A week...
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Germany's minister of education and research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, has called on universities to scrutinize any joint projects with China in the light of recent arrests over spying allegations. "The arrest of three Germans for suspected espionage once again makes it abundantly clear that we must not be naive in our dealings with China," the liberal politician told German news magazine Wirtschaftswoche. "We need to weigh up the risks and benefits of cooperation even more carefully, especially in science and in universities. This includes reviewing existing cooperative relationships." A week...
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Germany's minister of education and research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger, has called on universities to scrutinize any joint projects with China in the light of recent arrests over spying allegations. "The arrest of three Germans for suspected espionage once again makes it abundantly clear that we must not be naive in our dealings with China," the liberal politician told German news magazine Wirtschaftswoche. "We need to weigh up the risks and benefits of cooperation even more carefully, especially in science and in universities. This includes reviewing existing cooperative relationships." A week...
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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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An artificial intelligence (AI) company called 21st Century Digital Teaching (21C) is taking some big steps to solve the chronic teacher shortage in the UK and across Europe by revolutionising the way students learn maths and other key subjects. To do this, 21C created a digital teaching app and learning platform for schools that, it says, greatly reduces the number of teachers needed by digitising them and converting them into avatars on the app, enabling lessons to go ahead when there's a shortage. The founders said it also offers a new way of doing homework as it's more interactive and enab...
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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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A knife-wielding attacker in France left two primary schoolchildren with only superficial cuts on Thursday but terrified the small community of Souffelweyersheim on the outskirts of Strasbourg. A suspect was detained after the attack in Souffelweyersheim on Thursday, according to the public prosecutor's office in Strasbourg. The man, who is around 30 years old, was taken into police custody, it said. The two schoolgirls, aged 7 and 11, suffered superficial cuts. They were able to leave the university hospital in Strasbourg after brief treatment. Nothing was initially known about the attacker's...
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