US freezes funds for Cornell, Northwestern after pro-Palestinian protests

The White House says Cornell University’s $1bn and Northwestern University’s $790m in federal funding have been blocked. The United States government has frozen more than $1bn in federal funding for…

Trump freezes aid to South Africa amid spat over land expropriation law

Trump’s executive order comes after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said his country would not be ‘bullied’. United States President Donald Trump has frozen aid to South Africa in an…