The police crackdown on peaceful student protesters continues across the country. In Illinois, police cleared an encampment at the University of Chicago. Here in New York, police forces raided a protest camp at the Fashion Institute of Technology and arrested dozens of protesters Tuesday.

Meanwhile, in Europe, police arrested more than 100 activists at the University of Amsterdam. Police also dismantled an encampment at Berlin’s Free University.

German distributor-producer SquareOne Entertainment, part of rising European film studio Vuelta Group, has acquired German film and TV production, distribution and licensing company Telepool, which is owned by Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook. Vuelta launched last year with the high profile acquisitions of France’s Playtime, SquareOne and Scandinavia’s Scanbox.

The police response to Spain’s campus protests has been relatively muted while more than 2,000 academics stand by their university students. Madrid, Spain – Huge Palestinian flags are hanging on campuses across Spain as thousands of students protest against Israel’s war in Gaza. Some classes have stopped this week as students demonstrate in Barcelona, Valencia, the Basque Country and Madrid.

Dutch riot police ended a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration at an Amsterdam university early on Tuesday, arresting some 125 people in sometimes violent clashes, authorities says. In messages posted overnight on social media platform X, police said they had to act to stop the event and dismantle tents that been set up by protesters, who used violence against police at the site. “The police’s input was necessary to restore order. We see the footage on social media. We understand that those images may appear as intense,” police said. Local media showed...

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Base tours offer an easy way to see Europe with other members of the military community. Here is a sampling of trips scheduled as of April 12, 2024. Please update this information and add tours by sending an email to Marcus Klöckner at [email protected].