A graduating student wears their hat, decorated with a statement of support for international students, during commencement exercises at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 29, 2025. Brian Snyder/Reuters
LONDON -- Students shut out of U.S. universities by President Donald Trump's administration should instead come to the U.K., London Mayor Sadiq Khan told an event on Monday, as he criticized governments that engage in "narrow" and damaging nationalism.
Lauding London as a "beacon of hope, progress and possibility," Khan told attendees at the Concordia Europe Summit that the city will push back against movements "towards closed societies and countries that want to cut themselves off from the world, abdicate their responsibilities under the rule-based global order a