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Trump freezes $2bn in Harvard funding

The US Department of Education says it's freezing around two-point-two billion dollars of federal funding to Harvard.

The Trump administration freezes more than two-billion dollars of federal aid to Harvard University, hours after the college rejected a list of demands from the White House. We'll be speaking to a professor at the prestigious institution.

European Union foreign ministers have been meeting to discuss how to respond to the deadly Russian strikes on the Ukrainian city of Sumy. We'll speak to the Finnish foreign minister who was at the summit.

A major summit on Sudan is taking place later today here in London. It comes on the second anniversary of the war that has left millions displaced and hundreds of thousands killed.

(Photo: The Harvard flag, Massachusetts, USA, 2 April 2025; Credit: EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

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