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ICE arrests Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University protests, his lawyer says

NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead Columbia University’s student encampment movement was arrested Saturday night by federal immigration authorities who claimed they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card, according to his attorney. Mahmoud Khalil was at his university-owned apartment blocks from Columbia’s Manhattan campus…

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America’s loss, China’s gain: top Chinese universities welcome PhD refugees from the US

America’s loss, China’s gain: top Chinese universities welcome PhD refugees from the US

China’s top universities are aggressively recruiting Chinese undergraduates abroad to skip traditional academic pathways and enrol directly into PhD programmes – as the US tightens funding for graduate studies and geopolitical tensions grow. It is a move that analysts have said reflects Beijing’s push to lure young academics from the United States. Fudan University, a…

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