The U.S. Congress has ordered three Ivy League universities - Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia - to disclose all the Qatari donations they have received since January 2021.
The goal is "to distinguish between what is innocent and what is bleeding into the campuses." © Mena Today
The U.S. Congress has ordered three Ivy League universities - Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia - to disclose all the Qatari donations they have received since January 2021.
The subpoena of the institutions was done against the background of criticism of the Qatari influence on the universities and the increase in anti-Semitism on campuses.
The chairman of the Labor and Welfare Committee of the House of Representatives, Virginia Fox, said that the goal is "to distinguish between what is innocent and what is bleeding into the campuses."
The French consulate in Lebanon announced on X that non-biometric Lebanese passports are no longer accepted for Schengen visa applications at Beirut's TLS center, which handles visa requests for France and other consular services.
A bomb planted in a minibus wounded 14 people on the outskirts of Syria's capital Damascus on Thursday night, with some of the injuries so severe that they were taken for fatalities, an official said on Friday.
Saudi Arabia expects imminent coordinated attacks from Iraqi militias north of the Gulf state and from Yemen's Houthis from the south under the supervision of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a senior Saudi official said.
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