The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Harvard University will lose its ability to enrol foreign students if it does not meet demands from the Trump administration to share information on some visa holders, marking the government&s latest escalation against the educational institution.

Pope Francis has visited Rome&s main prison and met with dozens of inmates as he recovers from a life-threatening bout of pneumonia.

French president Emmanuel Macron welcomed US secretary of state Marco Rubio and US president Donald Trump&s envoy Steve Witkoff in Paris yesterday as European and Ukrainian officials sought to plead Kyiv&s case over the war in Ukraine.

Aid groups are raising new alarm over Israel&s blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where it has barred entry of all food and other goods for more than six weeks. Thousands of children have become malnourished, and most people are barely eating one meal a day as stocks dwindle , the United Nations says.