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| | | Hello. President Donald Trump says US-Iran talks could restart in Pakistan "in the next two days", although Iran has yet to comment. We have the latest. My colleague Nikita Yadav explains why many Indian students no longer look to Canada as a dream destination. And finally, find out how one lucky individual became the owner of a Picasso painting. | | | | | | |
| TOP OF THE AGENDA | | Hopes for peace talks as truce end nears | | | | | Iran has effectively shut the Strait of Hormuz since it came under attack from US and Israeli air strikes on 28 February. Credit: Reuters | | President Trump has suggested talks aimed at ending the war in Iran could resume this week. "You should stay there [Islamabad], really, because something could be happening over the next two days, and we're more inclined to go there," Trump was quoted as saying in an interview with the New York Post. Negotiations collapsed at the weekend, prompting a US blockade of Iranian ports. The stand-off has raised doubts over the prospects for a two-week ceasefire that is due to expire in the coming days, writes White House reporter Bernd Debusmann Jr. Meanwhile, Israel's attacks on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon continue, following the first direct talks between the countries in decades. | | | | | | | | - Watch: US Vice-president JD Vance was heckled while speaking about the Pope after the pontiff's public sparring with Trump about the war in Iran.
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| | | BEYOND THE HEADLINES | | Canadian unis see drop in Indian students | | | | | | | Indians looking to study abroad question whether to go to Canada at all. Credit: Thamyrissalgueiro/Getty Images | | "People don't want to apply to Canada anymore." Those are the stark words of Shobhit Anand, who runs a consultancy firm helping Indian students with their applications for university abroad. Canada was once the top choice, but now, he says, there has been a drop of nearly 80%. | | | | | | |
| SOMETHING DIFFERENT | | World's first acid trip | | The chemist who accidentally discovered the hallucinatory effects of LSD recounts it. | | | | | | | | |
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