Columbia University calls in police to clear pro-Palestinian protesters

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University’s president says activists refused to leave library despite warnings of disciplinary action and arrest

Columbia University asked the New York police department to help clear pro-Palestinian activists from the campus’s main library after protesters clashed with the school’s public safety officers.

Claire Shipman, the university’s acting president, said in a statement that protesters had refused to leave the building despite being warned that a failure to comply would result in disciplinary action and possibly arrest for trespassing.

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Iranians arrested in counter-terrorism raids allegedly targeted Israeli embassy

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Home secretary says raids across UK last weekend reflected some of biggest terrorism threats in recent years

Israel’s embassy in London was the target of an alleged terror plot involving a group of Iranian nationals who were detained by police after a series of dramatic raids across England on Saturday, sources have told the Guardian.

Four men remain in custody and are being questioned by police on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act targeting what police and politicians have so far only been willing to describe publicly as “specific premises”.

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US pressuring humanitarian groups to get behind Israeli aid plan for Gaza – The Times of Israel

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  1. US pressuring humanitarian groups to get behind Israeli aid plan for Gaza  The Times of Israel
  2. Famine Haunts the People of Gaza. Israel Is Trying to Convince You It’s Fake.  The Intercept
  3. 'Gaza is unlivable': One Palestinian man's struggle to feed his family as prices soar  Haaretz
  4. WCK Forced to Halt Cooking in Gaza as Supplies Run Out  World Central Kitchen
  5. Opinion | This Is the Moment of Moral Reckoning in Gaza  The New York Times
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Three children dead after suspicious fire in Toowoomba home

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A nine-year-old boy is believed to have died in the fire while girls aged four and seven died later in hospital from critical burns

Two young children have died in hospital after a ferocious fire at a family home, taking the death toll to three.

The house in suburban Harristown in Toowoomba, about 130km west of Brisbane in the Darling Downs region, went up in flames in the early hours of Wednesday.

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Brazil rejects US request to designate two gangs as terrorist organizations

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Security minister says US delegation wanted classification for PCC and Comando Vermelho to aid immigration policy

The Brazilian government has rejected a request by the US state department to designate two major criminal gangs as terrorist organizations, according to Mario Sarrubo, Brazil’s national secretary of public security.

Sarrubo said the request was made on Tuesday during a meeting between US and Brazilian officials in Brasília.

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Canadian police scale back search for two children missing in woods for six days

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Officials say the likelihood Lily and Jack Sullivan are still alive after disappearing in Nova Scotia on 2 May is ‘very low’

Nearly a week after two young children went missing in rural Nova Scotia, Canadian police say they are beginning to scale back search efforts given the “low” odds the children are still alive – and that they are not ruling out the possibility of foul play.

Since Friday, more than 160 searchers with drones and canine units have scoured the thickly forested region of Pictou county in search of Lily Sullivan, six, and Jack Sullivan, four.

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Macron calls on US, Europe to lift sanctions on Syria – politico.eu

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  1. Macron calls on US, Europe to lift sanctions on Syria  politico.eu
  2. Syrian leader to meet Macron in first European visit  The Times of Israel
  3. Macron asks Syria’s interim President al-Sharaa to protect all Syrians during Elysée visit  France 24
  4. Syria's president to visit Europe, and why France was the natural choice - analysis  The Jerusalem Post
  5. France's Macron wants EU to end Syrian sanctions  Reuters
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