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Protests calling for universities to boycott companies and individuals with ties to Israel amid the ongoing war in Gaza have swept college campuses across the US. 

The campus movement ignited when Columbia University in New York called the police two weeks ago to remove a small group of student protesters who had pitched tents on campus.  

Columbia University's president announced on Monday that talks with student organisers had failed to reach an agreement to dismantle the encampment.  The escalating crisis at Columbia inspired similar encampments at private and public universities in at least 22 US states and Washington DC. 

Pedro Sanchez has said he will stay on as Spain’s prime minister, after days of speculation over his future. A court opened an initial enquiry into his wife over corruption claims, and after Mr Sanchez cancelled official engagements, many expected him to either resign or call a confidence motion. But instead, he denounced the claims as a harassment campaign by right-wing media, after the accusations levelled against Mr Sánchez's wife, 

Begoña Gómez were brought against her by the organisation Manos Limpias (Clean Hands), led by a man linked to the far-right called Miguel Bernad. A series of demonstrations were held around Spain over the weekend, calling for the prime minister to continue in his post – though members of the opposition were less supportive, with Isabel Díaz Ayuso, the opposition Popular Party (PP)'s leader of the Madrid region accusing Mr Sánchez of being "shameless".