Columbia University’s President Katrina Armstrong had only had this job since August. Now she is resigning amid accusations that she folded too quickly to the Trump administration. Last week, Columbia announced that it would carry out a list of reforms demanded by the federal government, including giving campus police arrest powers and new oversight for the Department of Middle East Studies. That was in order to begin the process of restoring $400m of annual federal grants that the Trump administration cancelled for Columbia. That’s about a fifth of its operating budget. And this punishment was for alleged anti-Semitism and for the university’s response to encampment protesters who have been demonstrating against Israel’s war in Gaza. There is no guarantee that this federal money will be restored to Columbia, but Armstrong was recently praised by Trump’s education secretary for agreeing to the government’s demands. Many of Columbia’s faculty, though, were not happy about what they viewed as their president’s acquiescence without even so much as a legal battle. And there’s also concern that this will further embolden the Trump administration to go after other universities, which it already has.

People in Europe should prepare themselves for emergencies like a war or disaster- That’s the message from the European Union and NATO. As part of its preparedness strategy, Brussels is urging people to have enough supplies at home to survive 72 hours without running water, electricity, and internet.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip had little to celebrate as they marked Eid al-Fitr with rapidly dwindling food supplies and no end in sight to the Israeli bombardment. Many held prayers outside demolished mosques on the day marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, as at least 22 Palestinians were killed on Sunday, most of them women and children. The Muslim festival is supposed to be a joyous occasion, when families gather for feasts and buy new clothes for children – but most of Gaza’s two million Palestinians are just trying to survive.

The US economy is showing signs of weakness with unemployment rising and prices increasing. President Donald Trump calls it a period of transition but has declined to rule out a recession.

A last-minute trip by American officials to Greenland, is causing outrage in the semi-autonomous Danish territory. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to annex the island.

At least 60 Palestinians were killed on Monday alone. Many of them have been living in tents. More than 50,000 people have been confirmed dead since October 2023, with another 11,000 declared dead, their bodies believed to be trapped under rubble.

Christian evangelical organisations in the Netherlands are violating international law and EU sanctions by collecting money for illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. These are the findings of an investigation by the Dutch investigative platform Investico and TV programme BOOS. One organisation has even offered to buy weapons.

Military plans for US air strikes on Yemen have been shared with a journalist on the messaging platform Signal, hours before they were carried out. The editor in chief of the Atlantic Magazine said he was added to a group chat, by the White House national security adviser. The White House has confirmed the messages are real, with the breach sparking a firestorm in Washington over how the administration handles classified information.

A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo is trying 63 soldiers accused of deserting their posts in North Kivu’s Lubero territory. The army claims they abandoned their positions as M23 rebels advanced. The UN has reported human rights violations by the army, government-allied militias, and the M23 in eastern DRC.

In Bangladesh, families of victims who were abducted and held in secret detention centres are calling for justice. A commission has found children among hundreds of people imprisoned -- during deposed leader Sheikh Hasina's tenure. She was overthrown in a student-led uprising last year.