Israel-Gaza war: Gaza death toll passing 40,000 is ‘grim milestone’, says UN; UK foreign secretary ‘to meet Netanyahu’ – as it happened

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The president of New York's Columbia University resigned yesterday, citing the toll taken by a period of turmoil" after she faced scrutiny for her handling of demonstrations at the institution over the Israel-Hamas war, AFP reports.

British-American economist Minouche Shafik is the fourth president of an Ivy League university to step down in the wake of the bitter divisions and anti-war protests that swept campuses across the US.