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Leuven, host of this week’s transatlantic trade and tech summit, is reviewing decades of global entanglement in research and academia.

Squishy Vatican synodal process looks to one theologian like a sham to change Church teaching. Many Western Christians face internal sabotage and external aggression

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European universities hit by an apparent piece of Russian disinformation have had to quash rumours circulating online after the country’s human rights commissioner claimed Russian students are being expelled from campuses in Europe. The European University Association, the umbrella body Universities France and individual institutions have put out statements clarifying that there are no plans to expel Russian students in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine.

Brussels, Belgium – On the morning of Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 20-year-old Sanda Dia was dressed in a white robe, selling roses on a cobbled street in the historic centre of Leuven, a quaint student city that is home to Belgium’s largest and oldest university, looming Gothic architecture and lively squares. A photograph shows the Black third-year civil engineering student smiling widely, standing alongside a potential customer. Along with two other students, Sanda had begun the first task of a scripted two-day initiation ritual or “baptism” to join a student fraternity at the pres...