Protesting UK students show solidarity with US peers as Belgian and Dutch students join Gaza protest wave
Oxford, UK Reuters British students set up pro-Palestinian protest encampments on Oxford and Cambridge universities’ historic campuses on a cloudy spring Monday, in a show of solidarity with their American peers. By early morning, students had erected dozens of brightly coloured tents on the lawns outside the relatively dull, yellow, 19th-century neo-Gothic Oxford University Museum […]
Argentina’s Milei faces biggest protest yet as students march over budget cuts
Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires on Tuesday in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities, the biggest protest yet against President Javier Milei’s painful austerity measures. The demonstrations are the latest example of rising tension over spending cuts that are helping undo […]
Sweden’s Thunberg demands climate action on day of global school strikes
Stockholm/BrusselsReuters Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg urged European politicians on Friday to focus on a climate crisis instead of “bickering”, as students walked out of classrooms around the world to back her demands for action to stop global warming. With the 28 countries of the European Union voting to choose the bloc’s next parliament this […]