The drop in applications for courses starting this month also follows the murder of Indian student Anuj Bidve in Manchester last Christmas.

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Also this week, the Jerusalem District Attorney's office announced that four Israeli Arabs have been indicted for the attempted murder of an American Hebrew University student last month.

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They were taken into custody last month on charges that they had violated the terms of their student visas, Kadyrbayev attorney Stahl said last week.

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They were taken into custody last month on charges that they had violated the terms of their student visas, Kadyrbayev attorney Robert Stahl told CNN.

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Mr Modi was invited to speak via video-link at an annual student-run conference on India at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania later this month.

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German photographer Eva Bartussek, who is a mature PhD student at Swansea Metropolitan University, was presented the photography prize for Welsh Dresser, a photograph of her eight-month-pregnant friend taken in a field at night.

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