Columbia University has disciplined over 70 students for participating in two student-led protests, a source familiar with the matter said.

A law curbing the independence of anti-graft agencies triggered the first street protests of the war and rare rebukes from European allies.

British police will have hundreds of officers on duty this weekend to deal with protests linked to immigration, a regional police chief said on Wednesday, amid worries over possible rioting.

Protests were held in Kiev on Tuesday evening after a new law passed by the Ukrainian parliament which threatened to curb the independence of anti-corruption investigators was signed by President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Columbia University disciplined dozens of students this week after its Judicial Board investigated pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Butler Library this year and at another campus location last year.

Columbia was at the forefront of U.S. campus protests over the war in spring 2024. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators set up an encampment and seized a campus building in April, leading to dozens of arrests and inspiring a wave of similar protests nationally.

Several dozen people protested in Berlin on Tuesday evening against the performance by Russia-born soprano Anna Netrebko at the Classic Open Air music festival. Up to 200 people participated in the protest called by the Ukraine Solidarity Association Vitsche at the Gendarmenmarkt square in front of the Berlin Concert Hall,

Protesters clashed with police outside the hotel in Essex last week, after a man living there was charged with sexual assault.