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GLASGOW: Scotland's leader Humza Yousaf resigned on Monday, further opening the door to the UK opposition Labour Party to regain ground in its former Scottish heartlands in a national election expected later this year. Yousaf quit as…
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NEW YORK: Columbia University's embattled president came under renewed pressure as a campus oversight panel sharply criticized her administration for clamping down on a pro-Palestinian protest at the Ivy League school. President Nemat…
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NEW YORK: Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on a handful of US university campuses as activists vowed to keep up the movement seeking a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas among other demands. The Indiana University police…
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LOS ANGELES: Protests at US universities showed no sign of slowing over the weekend, with more arrests on campuses across the country and skirmishes between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian demonstrators at UCLA, where a tent encampment was…
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NEW YORK: Columbia University backed off late Thursday from an overnight deadline for pro-Palestinian protesters to abandon an encampment there as more college campuses in the United States sought to prevent occupations from taking hold.…
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WASHINGTON: Celebrity Chef Jose Andres called seven aid workers killed by Israeli forces in Gaza "the best of humanity" during a memorial service at the Washington National Cathedral that was attended by hundreds, and punctuated by grief…
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The University of Southern California (USC) has called off its main-stage graduation ceremony this year, one week after canceling the valedictorian speech by a Muslim student who said she was silenced by anti-Palestinian hatred. New…
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WASHINGTON: A pro-Palestinian US group filed a federal civil rights complaint against Columbia University following last week's mass arrest of anti-war protesters after the school called police to clear demonstrator encampments.…
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NEW YORK: Protests against Israel filled streets in Brooklyn and escalated at universities across the United States, as demonstrators demanded an end to civilian casualties in Gaza. The growing protests follow mass arrests of…
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MADRID: Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would step back from public duties "for a few days" to decide whether he wants to continue leading the government after a court launched a business corruption probe into his wife's…
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TEHRAN: An Iranian revolutionary court has sentenced well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi to death for charges linked to Iran's 2022-23 unrest, his lawyer told an Iranian newspaper. Salehi in his songs supported months of protests in…
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WASHINGTON: A sweeping foreign aid package easily passed the US Congress late on Tuesday after months of delay, clearing the way for billions of dollars in fresh Ukraine funding amid advances from Russia's invasion force and Kyiv's…
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TEHRAN: Explosions echoed over an Iranian city on Friday in what sources described as an Israeli attack, but Tehran played down the incident and indicated it had no plans for retaliation - a response that appeared gauged towards averting…
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NEW YORK: The Security Council today blocked Palestine’s bid to become a full member of the United Nations due to a United States veto on a widely-supported resolution that would have recommended the granting of such status. The…
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When an Israeli shell struck Gaza's largest fertility clinic in December, the explosion blasted the lids off five liquid nitrogen tanks stored in a corner of the embryology unit. As the ultra-cold liquid evaporated, the temperature…
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