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Nord America | - Tensions flared on college campuses overnight as New York police arrested people at Columbia University, breached an occupied campus building there and moved to clear an encampment at a nearby City University of New York school.
- Over the past few weeks, pro-Palestinian demonstrations have popped up at hundreds of U.S. campuses, with students calling on their schools to divest from Israeli-linked companies and funds amid the war in Gaza. More than 1,300 people have been arrested in the United States, according to a Washington Post tally.
- On Tuesday, the situation intensified at Columbia, where protesters started an encampment last month. Dozens of police officers in ko riot gear entered Columbia’s campus and cleared Hamilton Hall, where protesters had barricaded themselves inside. University spokesman Ben Chang said in a news release that Columbia officials asked police to enter the campus and were “left with no choice” after learning Hamilton Hall had been “occupied, vandalized, and blockaded.”
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America Latina | - Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday he will break diplomatic relations with Israel over its actions in Gaza.
- Petro has already heavily criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and requested to join South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide at the International Court of Justice.
- "Here in front of you, the government of change, of the president of the republic announces that tomorrow we will break diplomatic relations with the state of Israel...for having a government, for having a president who is genocidal," Petro told cheering crowds in Bogota, who marched to mark International Worker's Day and back Petro's social and economic reforms. Countries cannot be passive in the face of events in Gaza, he added.
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Medio Oriente | - Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan says Turkey will join in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
- “Upon completion of the legal text of our work, we will submit the declaration of official intervention before the ICJ with the objective of implementing this political decision,” Fidan said on Wednesday at a joint news conference with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi in the Turkish capital, Ankara.
- “Turkey will continue to support the Palestinian people in all circumstances,” he said.
- The ICJ has ordered Israel to refrain from any acts that could fall under the Genocide Convention and to ensure its troops commit no genocidal acts against Palestinians after South Africa accused Israel of state-led genocide in Gaza.
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