Monday, April 29, 2024

Columbia University starts suspending Israel-Hamas war protesters who won't leave encampment

Student protesters march around an encampment at Columbia University.

Colleges around the U.S. implored pro-Palestinian student protesters to clear out tent encampments with rising levels of urgency Monday, as Columbia University said it was beginning to suspend students who defied an ultimatum to leave the encampment there by an afternoon deadline.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/columbia-university-texas-protests-1.7188742?cmp=rss

As major nations push Hamas to accept Israeli truce proposal, Palestinians hold out fragile hope

Two men in T-shirts and shorts sit at the edge of a damaged concrete building.

Britain and the United States on Monday urged Hamas to swiftly accept an Israeli proposal for a truce in the war. Palestinians said they were hoping for a deal — but not holding their breath.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-hamas-gaza-peace-negotiations-1.7188260?cmp=rss

Ukraine allies 'have not delivered what they promised,' NATO chief Stoltenberg says in Kyiv

A bespectacled older man wearing a suit and tie and a younger bearded man in an army-coloured sweatshirt shake hands while outside.

NATO countries have failed to deliver in good time what they promised to Ukraine, the alliance's chief said Monday, as Russia rushes to exploit its battlefield advantages before Kyiv's depleted forces get more Western military supplies in the war that has lasted more than two years.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/nato-stoltenberg-ukraine-visit-1.7187849?cmp=rss

3 women contract HIV after 'vampire facial' procedures at New Mexico spa

A close up image of a human Tcell, blue with green squiggles

Three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting 'vampire facial' procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of people contracting the virus through a cosmetic procedure using needles, federal health officials said.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/vampire-facials-hiv-1.7187813?cmp=rss