内容摘要：Prof Rowlands added: "He was the same person, but with a kind of intensified serenity. There was a gentleness and a kindness.

Prof Rowlands added: "He was the same person, but with a kind of intensified serenity. There was a gentleness and a kindness.

Some Jewish students at Columbia said that the protest rhetoric had at times crossed the line into antisemitism last year. School officials raised this and other safety concerns when they announced that classes would be fully remote until the end of the 2024 spring semester.But many contested the accusations of antisemitism, and Jewish students also joined the pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

Carly, a Jewish-American graduate student at Columbia and a friend of Mr Khalil, rejected the characterisation. She told the BBC that the detainee was a "very, very caring soul"."He has been very targeted online and just seeing how he has been so misrepresented, it's very painful, as someone who knows him on a personal level," said Carly, who declined to share her surname for privacy reasons.Speaking on Fox News, Trump's border tsar Tom Homan alleged that Mr Khalil had violated the terms of his visa by "locking down buildings and destroying property".

The Israeli military launched its campaign against Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross-border attack into Israel on 7 October 2023, which left about 1,200 people dead and 251 taken hostage.More than 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed in Israel's military action, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.

Harvard University says it will not acquiesce to US President Donald Trump's demands - whether it continues to get federal funding or not.

"No government - regardless of which party is in power - should dictate what private universities can teach," Harvard's president Alan Garber said in a letter posted on the university's website."I will be writing to the Attorney General requesting this is reconsidered. My thoughts are with Natasha and her whole family as they continue to deal with the challenges of this truly heartbreaking tragedy.”

Ms Broadley added she had taken some comfort from the fact rules around caravan gas and fire safety had been strengthened."People have come up to me and said they are careful to check everything is right with their caravans now, because of what happened.

"I still feel the loss every day but Louisiana has at least made people a bit safer," she said.Yorkshire Water has urged people not to pour cooking fats from Christmas dinners down the sink to avoid blockages.