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MV Andromeda Star suffers damage and MQ-9 Reaper drone shot down in latest escalation by the Houthis.

Big socio-political gains have followed apartheid but the legacy of racism and segregation is still starkly visible.

CAIRO: Hamas said it had received on Saturday Israel’s official response to its latest ceasefire proposal and will study it before submitting its reply, the group’s deputy Gaza chief said in a statement. “Hamas has received today the official response of the Zionist occupation to the proposal presented to the Egyptian and the Qatari mediators on April 13,” Khalil Al-Hayya, who is currently based in Qatar, said in a statement published by the group.

University oversight panel says president undermined academic freedom by allowing New York police break up Gaza protest.

LONDON: The lawyers for a Palestinian legal scholar arrested on April 17 have said her detention was “political” and could set a “precedent” for the treatment of academics and free speech in Israel. Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a leading feminist academic with roles at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Queen Mary, University of London, was arrested after appearing on a podcast in March in which she discussed her work on state crimes, genocide, violence and surveillance in the context of the war in Gaza.

More than 120,000 people have been displaced, Kenyan government says, with 22 others injured and eight reported missing.

Experts say growing protest movement on university campuses could help shift US policy on Israel in the long term.