Iran stands down on planned execution of protestor and ends its temporary airspace closure as protests appear to have been quelled: "Witkoff said a failure of Hamas to disarm and return the body of the last remaining Israeli hostage from Gaza would bring 'serious consequences.' But he provided no details on how those elusive goals would be accomplished or on the membership of the technocratic committee": "National polls show broad voter resistance to military action abroad and rising support for a less active role in global issues": "Admissions to medical colleges across India, whether public or private, follow a centralised entrance examination, called the National Entrance Examination Test (NEET), conducted by the federal Ministry of Education’s National Testing Agency (NTA)" but "Hindu groups insisted that Muslims shouldn’t benefit from institutions funded by Hindu charity": "SpaceX has not officially announced the decision and did not respond to request for comment, but activists told The Associated Press that Starlink has been available for free to anyone in Iran with the receivers since Tuesday" ... ... but "using the service in Iran carries a punishment of up to two years in prison and authorities have reportedly been searching for Starlink dishes to stop people from connecting to the internet": "Although Epstein did not live to see these agreements come to fruition, the private channels he helped cultivate between Emirati and Israeli elites helped make them possible": "Failure to foresee shah’s fall in 1979 was diplomatic disaster, but experts see little indication of mass defections now" ... ... and "one of the few judgments that can be made with some confidence is that foreign military intervention is unlikely to produce a consolidated democracy of any kind, let alone one favorable to the interests of the intervening power":
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