13 h. ago Belgium’s future queen caught up in Harvard foreign student ban

Princess Elisabeth has completed her first year but Trump administration’s crackdown may jeopardise her studiesPrincess Elisabeth, the 23-year-old future queen of Belgium, has just completed her first year at Harvard University but the ban imposed by Donald Trump’s administration on foreign students studying there could jeopardise her continued attendance.The US president’s administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enrol international students on Thursday, and is forcing current foreign students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status in the US, while also threatening to expand the crackdown to other colleges. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Belgium’s future queen caught up in Trump’s Harvard foreign student ban

The academic future of the 23-year-old princess hangs in the balance

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58 h. ago The UK has spoken out against the ‘monstrous’ human catastrophe in Gaza. Why won’t Australia do more? | Donald Rothwell

Foreign minister Penny Wong has called the risk to babies ‘horrifying’ but there is more Australia could do to make its position on Gaza clearGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached a breaking point, with 2.1 million Palestinians trying to survive human catastrophe on the strip.While there is a very faint flicker of hope that Israel is considering a change of direction with its rigid Gaza blockade, any relaxation of the blockade will take many weeks to be undone, given the starvation and malnutrition Palestinians have endured.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news emailDonald Rothwell is professor of international law at the Australian National University Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Pete Rose returns to the Hall conversation as baseball embraces his original sin

MLB’s all-time hits leader was exiled from the sport he loved because of his gambling. Now the game is embracing betting at every opportunityThe not-so-bombshell decision on Tuesday by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to reinstate Pete Rose, ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson and others to eligibility for the Hall of Fame, was actually months in the making. In January, representatives for Rose filed a petition in support of the former Reds star, who died last September, with MLB. Then in an April White House meeting, Manfred met with Donald Trump and discussed the Rose affair. Trump has made his opinions known about Rose for years. Though the wheels were already in motion, the meeting made Rose’s reinstatement feel inevitable.Manfred was – and is – in a difficult position. Across American institutions – from law firms to media outlets to universities – the intense pressure from the White House to conform to Trump has been hard to ignore. And with immigration from countries that produce many of MLB’...

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1 week ago Facing jail, law student who was caught with £150,000 worth of cannabis at airport

A university law student is facing a lengthy jail sentence after she was caught attempting to smuggle £150,000 of drugs through Edinburgh Airport.

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1 week ago University law student caught with 16kg of drugs in suitcase at Edinburgh Airport

The law student was caught with herbal cannabis in a suitcase at Edinburgh Airport.

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1 week ago Law student caught smuggling £150k of drugs through Edinburgh Airport

Sage-Ahliea Gold was caught attempting to smuggle 16 kilos of drugs through Edinburgh Airport.

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2 w. ago Shocking moment student strolls through school with a massive knife

A student has been caught shamelessly strolling around with a massive knife terrifying children and forcing classes into lockdown as two were injured.

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3 w. ago UN judge is jailed for six years after being convicted of forcing a young woman to work as a slave

Lydia Mugambe, 50, was found to have taken 'advantage of her status' over a Ugandan woman in the 'most egregious way', while she studied for a PhD in law at Oxford university .

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3 w. ago Kamala Harris says ‘courage is contagious’ in major speech excoriating Trump

Democratic presidential candidate speaks in San Francisco in first significant appearance since election defeatKamala Harris delivered a searing indictment of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, warning in her first major address since leaving office that the nation was experiencing a “wholesale abandonment of America’s highest ideals”.Speaking to a crowd of Democrats in San Francisco, the former vice-president struck a defiant posture as she praised the leaders and institutions pushing back against the president and his agenda – from the members of Congress acting boldly to the judges “who uphold the rule of law in the face of those who would jail them”, the universities defying the administration’s “unconstitutional demands”, and the everyday Americans rallying to protect social security. Continue reading...

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