More than a hundred pro-Palestinian protesters took their demands that Tufts University divest from Israel and call for a ceasefire in Gaza to campus on Friday, vandalizing school property with explicit messages including “F*** the trustees.” Protesters even tagged the 5,000-pound statue of Jumbo the elephant with messages in chalk that read “DIVEST NOW,” “ SHAME,” “FREE PALESTINE,” and “TUFTS IS COMPLICIT.” The walkout, which coincided with an admitted student open house, featured students from Tufts and Somerville High School. It came as protests continue to reverberate on college campuses a ..read more

By DAVID MATTHEWS | dmatthews@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News Buckingham Palace and the British government began reviewing hundreds of documents related to King Charles III’s future funeral following the monarch’s cancer diagnosis, according to a report. Little is known about Charles’ mysterious illness outside of his initial announcement of “a form of cancer” in February, but sources close to the royals told The Daily Beast he “is significantly more unwell than his aides are letting on.” The palace said several months ago it would not provide a “running com ..read more

By SAMY MAGDY, BASSEM MROUE and DAVID RISING (Associated Press) CAIRO (AP) — Egypt sent a high-level delegation to Israel for talks Friday seeking to push through a cease-fire agreement with Hamas and avert an Israeli offensive on Gaza’s town of Rafah — on the border with Egypt — which it warned could ruin regional stability, officials said. Egypt’s top intelligence official, Abbas Kamel, led the delegation and planned to discuss with Israel a “new vision” for a prolonged cease-fire in Gaza, an Egyptian official said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss the mission freely. As the war ..read more

The arrest of 108 at Emerson College in the pre-dawn hours had politicians taking shots at the police who warned the students pitching tents in a public way gave them no choice. Social media video of the police sweep shows protesters being forcibly removed from the Boylston Place location around 2 a.m. Thursday, with some refusing to move in a scrum that also had protesters linking arms and chanting, “We keep us safe.” https://www.bostonherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/BPD_Emerson_Captain.mp4 Arrests were streamed live on some social media platforms as police moved in as community members ..read more

By The Associated Press Hamas has said for more than 15 years that it could accept a two-state compromise with Israel — at least, a temporary one. But Hamas has also refused to say that it would recognize Israel or renounce its armed fight against it. For Israel and many others, especially in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack that spurred the latest war in Gaza, that’s proof that Hamas is still irrevocably bent on destroying Israel. The United States and European countries have joined Israel in shunning the group they have labeled a terrorist organization. For some observers, Hamas has signaled ..read more

Joseph Wilkinson | New York Daily News Hamas released Wednesday a propaganda/proof of life video of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin. The 24-year-old was one of the hundreds of people taken hostage in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel. He’s one of 133 hostages remaining in Gaza, though dozens of them are believed to be dead. In the heavily edited video, which is also clearly scripted, Goldberg-Polin criticizes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. “Think of us detainees in underground hell, without water, food or sun, without the treatment I (have needed ..read more

Migrants are being moved out of a Yarmouth motel and off of Cape Cod, but an official in a South Shore town set to house the families next said the state did not give a heads-up on the transfer. After residing in Yarmouth since last September, roughly 39 migrant families have started to clear out of the popular summer vacation beach town, with some being moved to Kingston and Boston, and others to additional shelter sites across the Bay State. Six families were moved Tuesday, with the remaining scheduled to be transferred out of Harborside Suites — the motel that they took up residence in — by ..read more

By COLLIN BINKLEY, STEVE LeBLANC and BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS (Associated Press) Students at a growing number of U.S. colleges are gathering in protest encampments with a unified demand of their schools: Stop doing business with Israel — or any companies that support its ongoing war in Gaza. The demand has its roots in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a decades-old campaign against Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians. The movement has taken on new strength as the Israel-Hamas war surpasses the six-month mark and stories of suffering in Gaza have sparked international calls fo ..read more

By PAN PYLAS (Associated Press) LONDON (AP) — Five military horses spooked by noise from a building site bolted during routine exercises on Wednesday near Buckingham Palace, threw off four riders and caused chaos as they galloped loose through central London streets and collided with vehicles during the busy morning rush hour. The commotion erupted when the horses from the Household Cavalry, which were conducting an extended exercise for an upcoming military parade, presumably became alarmed by the sound of concrete falling off a moving walkway at a construction site in Belgravia, a swanky nei ..read more

KYIV, Ukraine — A big, new package of U.S. military aid will help Ukraine avoid defeat in its war with Russia. Winning will still be a long slog. The arms and ammunition in the $61 billion military aid package should enable Ukraine to slow the Russian army’s bloody advances and block its strikes on troops and civilians. And it will buy Ukraine time — for long-term planning about how to take back the fifth of the country now under Russian control. “Ultimately it offers Ukraine the prospect of staying in the war this year,” said Michael Clarke, visiting professor in war studies at King’s College ..read more