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Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden insisted Thursday that "order must prevail" on college campuses after weeks of turmoil, clashes with police and mass arrests involving student protests against Israel's war with Hamas in Gaza. Biden, who had remained tight-lipped as the student unrest expanded, spoke just hours after hundreds of police moved in to forcibly clear a sprawling encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles, tearing down barriers and detaining more than 200 protestors. For weeks, authorities on campuses from New York to California have tried to thread the needle b...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Dozens of overturned tents, "Free Palestine" signs strewn on the lawn, keffiyehs and flashlights discarded in haste: not much of the pro-Palestinian protest encampment was left Thursday morning at the University of California, Los Angeles. After a week of occupying a central area of the sprawling campus in protest at Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, police in riot gear forcibly removed demonstrators in an operation that lasted through the night. In tense scenes, officers used flashbang explosions to disorient protesters and disperse crowds. Eventually, securit...
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Ukrainian athletes has been given recommendations by their own Olympic committee over how to deal with Russian and Belarusians at the Paris Olympics in July and August. Ukraine had threatened to boycott the Games after the International Olympic Committee decided Russians and Belarusians who do not openly support the invasion of Ukraine and have no army connections can compete as neutrals. Kiev has now reluctantly opted to take part. According to the recommendations published on Thursday, any contact with "representatives of the aggressor states" inside and outside the Olympic venues is discour...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden broke his virtual silence Thursday on the nationwide Gaza campus protests, saying the United States was not authoritarian but insisting "order must prevail." In a televised address from the White House, Biden added that there was "no place" for anti-Semitism on university campuses, which have been roiled by pro-Palestinian demonstrations amid Israel's war on Hamas in Gaza. The 81-year-old Democrat -- whose reelection bid in November faces a challenge from voters opposed to the war -- said there had to be a balance between the right to peaceful protest and...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - Clashes broke out on Wednesday at pro-Palestinian demonstrations on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, as dozens of universities around the United States struggle to contain similar protests. CNN reported that the clashes erupted between rival pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli groups. "At the request of UCLA, due to multiple acts of violence within the large encampment on their campus, the LAPD is responding to assist UCLA PD, and other law enforcement agencies, to restore order and maintain public safety," LA police said in a post on social platform X. ...
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Tel Aviv (AFP) - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called Wednesday on Hamas to accept a "very strong" ceasefire-for-hostages offer by Israel as he vowed to put a priority on families seeking to reunite with loved ones. In rare scenes for the top US diplomat, who has faced furor at home and abroad over President Joe Biden's support for Israel in its campaign against Hamas, Blinken was greeted outside his Tel Aviv hotel by Israelis waving US flags and chanting, "Thank you, Biden! Thank you, Blinken!" Blinken, who also met privately with hostage families, told them that freeing the hostages...
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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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New York (AFP) - Dozens of helmeted police flooded Columbia University's campus in the heart of New York City on Tuesday to evict a building occupied by pro-Palestinian student protesters and detain demonstrators. Police climbed into Hamilton Hall via a second floor window they reached from a laddered truck, before leading handcuffed students out of the building into police vans. The hall had been occupied at dawn by demonstrators who vowed they would fight any eviction, as they protested the soaring death toll from Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The action came as university admi...
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Geneva (AFP) - The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said on Tuesday that $267 million in its funding was still suspended over allegations some UNRWA staff participated in the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. The accusations in January led to many donors freezing some $450 million in funding at a time when Gaza's 2.3 million people are in dire need of food, water, shelter and medicine. Many countries have since resumed their donations, while others have not -- including the United States, which passed a law blocking funding until at least March 2025. "It's money we were aware whi...
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