Joe Biden has said that freedom of speech and the rule of law must be respected in protests at college campuses over the war in Gaza. The US president spoke from the White House on Thursday 2 May, where he condemned the unrest and violence that has d ...

Hundreds of helmeted police muscled their way into a central plaza of the UCLA campus early on Thursday (2 May) to dismantle a Gaza protest camp attacked the previous night by pro-Israel supporters. Live TV footage showed officers in tactical gear ar ...

NYPD officers tore down tents inside a Fordham University building on Wednesday, 1 May, as they cleared a Gaza protester encampment. Police escorted demonstrators away from the Lincoln Center campus. NYPD Deputy Commissioner Kaz Daughtry said &qu ...

President’s remarks come after police were met with violence while clearing Gaza protest encampments from college campuses nationwide

The protests follow violent clashes at campuses across the US, most prominently at Columbia University in New York.

Congresswoman was asked to leave Denver performance of musical in September after loudly singing along, vaping and appearing to get intimate with her date

Watch as Joe Biden speaks from the White House on Thursday 2 May.

European Union officials say passing the law – which critics say is inspired by the Kremlin’s crackdowns on dissent – would harm Georgia’s prospects of joining the EU

Police and protesters clashed in Peckham as a large group of people attempted to block a coach due to transport asylum seekers from temporary accommodation to the Bibby Stockholm barge on Thursday, 2 May. The bus was seen to have a flat tyre as prote ...

Union of Jewish Students deplores ‘torrent of antisemitic hatred’ in British universities since start of Israel-Gaza war

Activists have been warned that they could face arrest but said they were ‘determined’ to stop the coach from leaving

The Met has been contacted for comment

Gaza protesters and police faced off at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, on Wednesday, 1 May, in similar scenes seen at other universities across the US this week. Scuffles broke out between demonstrators and officers, with local media re ...

Activists don hard hats, goggles and respirator masks in anticipation of police raid

In the US and the UK, what is the real picture on the mass marches and campus rallies? Plus: the fall of Hunza Yousaf

When a group of teenage mothers were evicted from their homeless hostel, Focus E15, they took over a tower block of empty council flats in protest. Ten years on, they are still fighting

Dozens of demonstrators in Peckham surround coach before it can take people to barge in Dorset

More than a thousand supporters at a pro-Palestine encampment in California face arrest by police, a day after it was attacked by pro-Israel counter-protesters

Student journalists at campuses across the country are getting a pressure-filled, and dangerous, lesson in their chosen profession during a chaotic springtime of protests

Watch live on Thursday (2 May) as UCLA pro-Palestine protests continue after a stand-off with riot police.