2025-05-23
27 分钟You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.
This edition is published in the early hours of Friday 23rd May.
The US government tells Harvard University it must immediately stop enrolling new foreign students and transfer existing ones.
Israel blames critics of its war on Gaza for the murder of two Israeli embassy staff in Washington.
and why the Netherlands has accused Belgium of stealing wind.
Also in the podcast...
TikTok voice sort of goes up like this,
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Are AI voices changing the way we speak?
From the world's first organ transplant to the creation of the iron lung to the invention of baking powder,
Harvard has played a key role in transforming people's lives.
The university holds nearly 6,000 patents,
while 52 of its staff have been awarded Nobel Prizes, including for literature and peace.
But according to the White House...
Harvard has become, quote, a hotbed of anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist agitators.
In the past few weeks,
the Trump administration has frozen $2 billion in its funding and threatened to remove its tax-exempt status.
Now the US Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem,
has revoked the university's ability to enrol foreign students,