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University president condemned ‘terrorist atrocities’ from Hamas

Harvard Divinity School student group blames Israel for Palestinian violence

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Groups express opposing views over root cause of the attack, alongside differences over whether Gaza is still occupied

On In The Press for Tuesday, October 10, we bring you reactions from the Israeli and Arab-language dailies and beyond after the Hamas attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli siege of Gaza. We also look at how Russia could benefit from the crisis. Finally, we explore the backlash after…

In an astonishing act of timing, Harvard University’s Professor Claudia Goldin published a paper on Monday titled Why Women Won. It mapped milestone moments in women’s rights in the United States from 1905 to 2023.

Women stirred up a “quiet revolution” in the labour market, according to Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. She is the 2023 winner of the Nobel prize in economics for her analysis of gender differences in the labour market, particularly the persistent problem of the…

US President Joe Biden, speaking from the White House on Tuesday, said that Saturday’s attack on Israel was “sheer evil”, and reiterated US support for Israel. Also on Tuesday, Hamas attacked a southern Israeli city after warning residents to evacuate, as Israeli warplanes hammered the Gaza Strip. Read our live…

Pita Limjaroenrat says time is on the side of his youthful Move Forward party that took on the establishment and shook up Thailand’s ‘half-baked democracy’

In an exclusive interview, Sheryl Sandberg talks to Sheila Flynn about how Claudia Goldin, the Harvard economics professor who won the Nobel Prize in Economics on Monday, has spent decades doing work on women’s labor that “really matters”

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