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The White House says Cornell University’s $1bn and Northwestern University’s $790m in federal funding have been blocked.

The United States government has frozen more than $1bn in federal funding for Cornell University and about $790m for Northwestern University to investigate alleged civil rights violations, according to the White House.

The development follows threats by the administration of US President Donald Trump to block federal funding for schools over pro-Palestinian campus…

Refaat Radwan recorded his last mission and his own final breaths.

He was filming from the third ambulance in a convoy, which included a fire truck, that had gone out to find a Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) ambulance that had lost contact with its base.

All the vehicles in the convoy were clearly marked, with emergency lights flashing.

In the video, the crew members see the missing ambulance by the side of the road and approach, muttering prayers for their colleagues’…

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, says despite occasional cancellations at some universities, she continues to speak out and share her work. She says there is a growing global censorship around Palestine and its supporters, and points out an entrenched policy-level bias, as a driving force behind the silencing.

The two retired professional baseball players were among more than 90 people who died when a roof collapsed at a Dominican Republic nightclub.

Former major leaguers Octavio Dotel and Tony Blanco have died due to injuries suffered in a mass casualty event at a nightclub on Monday night in the Dominican Republic.

Dotel was reportedly alive when rescue crews located him and at least seven others from the wreckage of a roof collapse at Jet Set, a popular nighttime destination in Santo Domingo,…

On April 2, the United States announced it would implement “reciprocal tariffs” on its trading partners, including a 34 percent tariff on China and rates ranging from 10 to 39 percent on Arab countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Iraq.

The move triggered widespread discontent both around the world and within the US. The so-called “reciprocal tariffs” are unlikely to achieve the stated goal of “rebalancing trade”. Instead, they risk pushing the US economy – and…

US aid cuts force South Sudanese clinics to close, as children die while on a desperate trek for medical care.

Eight people, including five children, have died after walking for three hours in blistering heat to seek treatment for cholera in South Sudan’s eastern Jonglei state, as United States aid cuts forced local health facilities to close.

The United Kingdom-based global charity Save the Children revealed last month’s deaths on Wednesday, saying they were among the first directly…