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Rubio warns visas will be revoked for all foreign student ‘activists’ amid Tufts arrest

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday looked to make Washington’s position on the recent visa removal of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk «abundantly clear» and said anyone found to be «creating a ruckus» will have their visa revoked.

«I don’t care what movement you’re involved in,» he told reporters from a press event in Guyana. Why would any country in the world allow people to come and disrupt?

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«We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist,» he added. 

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press conference with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali (not pictured), in Georgetown, Guyana, March 27, 2025.  (Photo by Nathan Howard/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

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Rubio suggested that after Ozturk wrote a March 2024 op-ed criticizing the university’s ties to Israel amid the war in Gaza, he viewed her actions as equivalent to those who «vandalize universities, harass students, take over buildings, [and] create a ruckus.»

While her op-ed never mentioned support for Hamas, the terrorist network, it did call on the university to divest from companies with ties to Israel and to acknowledge the «Palestinian genocide.»

The Department of Homeland Security said it had found Ozturk to have «engaged in activities in support of Hamas,» though it has not publicly released the evidence behind that determination.

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ICE confirmed Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk’s arrest to Fox News on Wednesday.

But Rubio on Thursday maintained that «every country in the world has a right to decide who comes in as a visitor and who doesn’t.»

«I encourage every country to do that, by the way, because I think it’s crazy to invite students into your country that are coming onto your campus and destabilizing it,» he told reporters. «We’re just not going to have it.

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 «We’ll revoke your visa, and once your visa is revoked, you’re illegally in the country and you have to leave,» Rubio confirmed. 

The secretary said the U.S. has thus far revoked some 300 visas.

«We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa,» Rubio said. «At some point, I hope we run out because we’ve gotten rid of all of them. But, we’re looking every day for these lunatics

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem toured the El Salvador prison holding hundreds of alleged members of Tren de Aragua who were deported from the U.S. (Credit: Pool)

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Rubio also highlighted that Washington’s push to revoke the visas of «destabilizing» visitors applies not only to students, but also to gang members. 

The secretary pointed to the administration’s efforts to expel gang members of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, who were first housed in the Guantánamo Bay prison before being transferred to Venezuela and El Salvador. 

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Gran Bretaña: acusan al príncipe Harry de “intimidación y acoso” laboral

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El príncipe Harry fue acusado de “intimidación y acoso” por la presidente de una organización no gubernamental que trabaja en África y que él cofundó, pero de la cual tomó distancia tras un conflicto interno. El hijo menor del rey Carlos III era hasta ahora mecenas de la ONG Sentebale, uno de los pocos compromisos que conservó tras su explosiva ruptura con la monarquía británica en 2020 y la pérdida de su patrocinio real.

El príncipe Harry anunció sin embargo el martes que abandonaba “devastado” la organización benéfica, después de un conflicto entre los administradores y la presidenta del consejo de administración, Sophie Chandauka, nombrada en 2023. “Es devastador que la relación entre los fideicomisarios de la organización benéfica y la presidenta de la junta se haya roto irreparablemente, creando una situación insostenible”, dijeron los príncipes.

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Harry y el cofundador, el príncipe Seeiso de Lesoto, dijeron en un comunicado conjunto que renunciaron “con el corazón apesadumbrado” como patrones en apoyo de los fideicomisarios en su disputa con Chandauka.

Chandauka fue también acusada de mala gestión por miembros del consejo de administración, que pidieron su renuncia. El caso se ha remitido a los tribunales.

En una entrevista concedida este domingo a Sky News, Chandauka arremetió directamente contra el príncipe, acusándole de haber hecho todo lo posible para obligarla a abandonar su puesto en la organización.

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“Lo que el príncipe Harry quería hacer era expulsarme, y eso duró meses. Se prolongó durante meses, en forma de intimidación y acoso”, afirmó. También aseguró que “tenía pruebas de ello”.

El canal intentó ponerse en contacto con el príncipe, que vive en California con su esposa Meghan y sus dos hijos, pero sin éxito.

Según una fuente anónima cercana a los administradores citada por BBC, éstos “esperaban” lo que describieron como una “maniobra publicitaria” urdida por Chandauka.

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Chandauka denunció ayer una cultura del “silencio” en la organización, con miembros de la junta reacios a pronunciarse en contra del duque de Sussex o simplemente a hablar de temas controvertidos.

También se refirió a la pérdida de muchos donantes, que achacó, con documentos justificativos, a la salida del príncipe Enrique de Reino Unido en 2020.

Chandauka habló asimismo de la decisión del príncipe de llevar un equipo de rodaje de la plataforma Netflix -con la que tiene un contrato muy lucrativo- a la recaudación de fondos del año pasado, que se celebró durante un partido de polo.

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Las imágenes, que dieron la vuelta al mundo, mostraban una escena bastante extraña entre la presidenta de la organización y la duquesa de Sussex, Meghan, ambos queriendo sostener el trofeo en el escenario.

Tras el episodio, Harry “me pidió hacer como una declaración para apoyar a la duquesa”, dijo Chandauka.

El exdirector del consejo de administración, Kelello Lerotholi, declaró sin embargo a Sky News que nunca había sido testigo de ninguna petición de este tipo por parte del príncipe Harry.

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“Puedo decir sinceramente que en las reuniones a las que he asistido nunca ha habido el menor indicio de ello”, afirmó.

Lynda Chalker, que fue miembro del consejo de administración de la organización benéfica africana durante casi 20 años, declaró al periódico The Times que el estilo de Chandauka era “casi dictatorial”.

Harry cofundó Sentebale cuando tenía 21 años, para continuar la labor de su difunta madre, la princesa Diana, profundamente comprometida en la lucha contra el sida. Sentebale trabaja en particular con niños y jóvenes que se quedaron huérfanos por la epidemia de sida en Lesoto, un pequeño país pobre enclavado en Sudáfrica, y en Botsuana.

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La organización benéfica, cuyo nombre significa “no me olvides” en el idioma sesotho de Lesoto y Sudáfrica, fue fundada para ayudar a los jóvenes afectados por el SIDA en la pequeña nación montañosa. Pero ahora se está moviendo para abordar la salud, la riqueza y la resiliencia climática de los jóvenes en el sur de África.

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Landmark UK report on Hamas massacre exposes worst attack on Jews since Holocaust

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A Holocaust survivor murdered at age 91 and a baby killed just 14 hours after birth are among the victims named in the U.K.’s October 7 Parliamentary Commission Report, the most detailed Western investigation to date into the Hamas-led attack on Israel. 

The 318-page report, chaired by British historian and peer Lord Andrew Roberts, documents the deaths of 1,182 people in a 48-hour period and provides extensive evidence of atrocities committed against civilians.

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The report describes the assault as «a meticulously planned operation designed not only to kill but to terrorize through extreme brutality, looting and humiliation.» It includes testimonies of group rapes of women and girls, some of whom were murdered, as well as evidence of sexual violence committed against corpses. It details the targeting of children, including infants shot in strollers or burned alive.

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Hamas terrorists killed civilians, including women, children and the elderly, when they attacked Israel on Oct. 7.  (Israel Defense Forces via AP)

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Roberts, one of Britain’s leading historians and a member of the House of Lords, said that meeting Mandy Damari, the mother of hostage Emily Damari, «reduced me to tears.» Speaking in an interview with Fox News Digital, Lord Roberts recalled visiting Kibbutz Kfar Aza and hearing from families of victims while the fate of their loved ones was still unknown.

«At that time, of course, she didn’t know whether her 27-year-old daughter, Emily, was going to be released or not, or whether she was going to die in Gaza,» he said. «And I have a 25-year-old daughter, and so it was brought home incredibly powerfully to me.»

Despite the graphic nature of the material, Roberts emphasized that the report was deliberately limited to verified facts. «We actually made the report much less than it could have been, because we insisted on only putting things in that could be double-checked,» he said. «If we had put in things that we truly believe happened but couldn’t prove happened, we kept them out.»

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A bloodied handprint stains a wall in a Nir Oz house after Hamas terrorists attacked this kibbutz days earlier near the border of Gaza. (Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

When asked what motivated him to take on the project, Roberts said, «The denialism that has already cropped up,» including attempts to downplay or question the events of October 7. «It’s quite ironic that as well as celebrating and indulging in their most sort of disgusting fantasies by wearing GoPro cameras, they also seek to deny that the whole thing ever happened,» he said of Hamas.

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«October 7 denial,» as the report refers to it, emerged almost immediately after the attacks and mirrors historical patterns of atrocity denial, despite the overwhelming evidence.

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«I thought it was really important to get a big, thick, well-documented, irrefutable, fully footnoted document out there that will stand the test of time,» Roberts said.

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Hamas terrorists kidnap a bloodied Israeli woman into the Gaza Strip.  (Hamas-Telegram)

The report includes accounts of mass looting, arson and mutilation. It states that terrorists used victims’ phones to send images to their families, booby-trapped corpses with grenades, and dragged bodies through Gaza. It confirms that «acts of sexual violence» occurred «across all sites» during the attack, and references forensic findings of partially or fully naked bodies.

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Roberts said the attack was «not just spontaneous — it was a premeditated bloodlust.» He compared it to historical atrocities like the Rape of Nanjing in 1937. «Once Hamas got into a bloodlust, they were going out of their way to murder and kill absolutely anybody who came anywhere near them,» he said.

Despite the horrors, Roberts said the report also includes examples of heroism. For example, of Netta Epstein — a young man who «threw himself on a grenade to save his fiancée’s life» — Roberts said such acts «stand up with the great acts of heroism of any age.»

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Released hostages Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari, wearing green, are greeted by Israeli soldiers following their arrival in Israel after being held in Gaza since the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 attack, following their release as part of a hostage-prisoner exchange deal between Hamas and Israel, in southern Israel, in a screen grab from a handout video obtained by Reuters on Jan. 19, 2025.  ( Israel Defense Forces/Handout via Reuters)

«We have the names in it of everybody who was killed … mostly with the circumstances of their deaths as well,» Roberts added: «Speaking as a historian, there are moments when one thinks of 9/11, or Pearl Harbor, various other attacks like this. They become part of history very quickly, but the actual individuals involved tend to get forgotten.»

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Asked what role democracies should play in countering denialism, Roberts answered, «The first is properly to memorialize the victims,» he said. «The second … is to see this appalling act of barbarism for what it is, which is a complete denial of democracy, a blow struck deliberately against civilization, and … the most appalling act of racism.»

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Israeli soldiers remove the bodies of civilians, who were killed days earlier in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on this kibbutz near the border with Gaza, on October 10, 2023, in Kfar Aza, Israel. (Photo by Amir Levy/Getty Images)

«Britain should be doing everything in its power to help Israel protect itself forever against such another attack,» Roberts clarified that he was expressing a personal view: «At the moment, it seems [the British government] is not doing that at all.»

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In the report’s conclusion, Roberts and his colleagues wrote: «Our report will hopefully permit people to see such denials and justifications for what they really are: a perversion of and rejection of human decency. We owe it to the victims and their grieving families to set down the ghastly unvarnished truth about the sheer barbarism that Hamas and its terrorist allies unleashed on October 7, 2023.»

 

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Pope Francis denounces war in Sudan, suggests living Lent ‘as a time of healing’

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Pope Francis publicly acknowledged that this Lenten season is a time of healing for his soul and body.

On Sunday, the Vatican released the text of Francis’ prepared Sunday Angelus prayer. It is the seventh straight Sunday that his illness has prevented him from delivering the blessing from a window over St. Peter’s Square as usual. 

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«Dearest friends, let us live this Lent as a time of healing, all the more as it is the Jubilee,» Francis said. «I too am experiencing it this way, in my soul and in my body.»

«That is why I give heartfelt thanks to all those who, in the image of the Saviour, are instruments of healing for their neighbour with their word and their knowledge, with kindness and with prayer,» he continued. «Frailty and illness are experiences we all have in common; all the more, however, we are brothers in the salvation Christ has given us.»

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Pope Francis leaves in a car after appearing at a window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Sunday, March 23, 2025, where he was being treated. (AP/Stefano Costantino)

His remarks then turned to world conflicts, with a focus on South Sudan, where he said «the war continues to claim innocent victims.»

«I urge the parties concerned in the conflict to put the safeguarding of the lives of their civilian brothers and sisters first; and I hope that new negotiations will begin as soon as possible, capable of securing a lasting solution to the crisis,» he said. «May the international community increase its efforts to address the appalling humanitarian catastrophe.»

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Faithful and pilgrims gather in St. Peter’s Square at The Vatican to follow on giant screens a live broadcast from Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, on Sunday, March 23, 2025, where Pope Francis made his first public appearance since he was hospitalized on Feb. 14 with bilateral pneumonia.  (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

The 88-year-old pontiff is still recovering from a respiratory infection, according to the Holy See Press Office. He continues to be weaned off oxygen support during the day and night, and his blood levels are normal. However, his medical team has ordered a strict convalescence period of at least two months following his hospital release last week. 

Francis has shown «a truly surprising improvement,» the doctor who coordinated the pontiff’s five-week hospitalization said Saturday.

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Surgeon Sergio Alfieri speaks to journalists on Saturday, March 22, 2025, in the entrance hall of Rome’s Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, where Pope Francis has been treated for bilateral pneumonia since Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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«I find him very lively,» Dr. Sergio Alfieri said, after visiting the pope at his apartment in the Santa Marta Domus on Wednesday, three days after his release from Rome’s Gemelli hospital. «I believe that he will return if not to 100%, 90% of where he was before.»

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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