Some students also had their degrees revoked for participating in antiwar protests, including the 2024 Gaza encampments. Columbia University in the United States has imposed severe punishments, including expulsion, suspension from courses and revocation of academic degrees, on dozens of students who participated in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza. The student activist group Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), which has called for the school to cut all...

Canadian-American anti-whaling activist Paul Watson greeted Interpol’s decision with the words: ‘Finally I am free.’ Global police organisation Interpol said it has removed its most-wanted designation for the anti-whaling activist and founder of the Sea Shepherd conservation group, Paul Watson, who is wanted in Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship in 2010. Interpol had issued a “red notice”, at Japan’s request, for the arrest of the...

Ozzy Osbourne, a trailblazer who rose to fame as a founding force in heavy metal music and later became a reality television icon, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 76. His family confirmed his death in a statement, but did not disclose the location or cause. In recent years, Osbourne had been undergoing treatment for a form of Parkinson’s disease. He died just two weeks after...