First Thing: Dozens arrested at Yale and NYU as pro-Palestine student protests spread

Police broke up encampments at a further two US universities on Monday. Plus, a charity says pedophiles are creating nude AI images of children to blackmail them

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Police have arrested dozens of pro-Palestine protesters at Yale University in Connecticut and Manhattan’s New York University as demonstrations over the Gaza war continue to unfold across US campuses.

How many were arrested? At least 47 protesters on Yale campus; police in New York said the number of arrests would not be known until later.

What about at Columbia? More than 100 students were arrested on Thursday – but a new encampment has sprung up, hundreds of faculty members have held a mass walkout in protest to the university’s response, and it has triggered a wave of demonstrations in solidarity.

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