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PARIS (Reuters) - Paris' Sciences Po university was closed for the day on Friday after a debate between the institute's leadership and students on the war in Gaza failed to ease tensions, prompting protesters to occupy it overnight.

The elite political sciences university this week became the centre of a wave of protests at several schools in France over the war and academic ties with Israel, although not on the same scale as seen in the United States.... (continue reading...)

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary will need to boost defence spending further next year if the war in neighbouring Ukraine drags into 2025, reducing the amount of funds available for other expenditure, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public radio on Friday.

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has triggered a surge in defence spending on NATO's eastern flank led by Poland, which has doubled defence expenditure to 3.9% of economic output by 2023 from 2014... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Holiday Inn owner Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) said on Friday its first-quarter room revenue rose 2.6%, helped by performance in Japan, Australia, Europe and the Middle East.

(Reporting by Chandini Monnappa and Yadarisa Shabong in Bengaluru; Editing by Subhranshu Sahu)

By Lewis Jackson

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hundreds of people protesting Israel's war in Gaza rallied at one of Australia's top universities on Friday demanding it divest from companies with ties to Israel, in a movement inspired by the student occupations sweeping U.S. campuses.

Pro-Palestinian activists set up an encampment last week outside the sandstone main hall at University of Sydney, one of Australia's largest tertiary institutions.

By Mike Scarcella

(Reuters) - Google has asked a U.S. judge not to impose sweeping changes to the Alphabet unit's app store Play that were proposed by "Fortnite" maker Epic Games in the companies' closely-watched antitrust fight.

Google made its filing late on Thursday in San Francisco federal court, where Epic last year persuaded a jury that the tech giant unlawfully stifled competition with its controls over apps downloads on Android... (continue reading...)