You're listening to the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

Hello, I'm Oliver Conway. This edition is published in the early hours of Friday the 23rd of May.

The US government tells Harvard University it must immediately stop enrolling new foreign students

and transfer existing ones. Israel blames critics of its war on Gaza for the murder of two Israeli

embassy staff in Washington. And why the Netherlands has accused Belgium of stealing wind.

Also in the podcast, TikTok voice sort of goes up like this, and apparently it's used quite a lot

by radio presenters

who want to leave you with the idea that they've got more to say.

Are AI voices changing the way we speak?

From the world's first organ transplant, to the creation of the iron lung,

to the invention of baking powder, Harvard has played a key role in transforming people's lives.

The university holds nearly 6,000 patents, while 52 of its staff have been awarded Nobel Prizes,

including for literature and peace.

But according to the White House,

Harvard has become, quote, a hotbed of anti-American, anti-Semitic pro-terrorist agitators.

In the past few weeks, the Trump administration has frozen $2 billion in its funding and threatened to remove its tax-exempt status. Now the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noem, has revoked the university's ability to enroll foreign students,

saying any who are currently there will have to transfer elsewhere.

Among the international students will be affected is Leo Jedern from Sweden.

People have come to this country to study and take part of the great freedoms that we have,

the academic freedom, freedom of speech.

It has been people's dream to come and study here.

I remember myself four years ago when I got the acceptance letter from Harvard

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