Also in the settlement is an agreement to ask prospective international students “questions designed to elicit their reasons for wishing to study in the United States,” and establishes processes to make sure all students are committed to “civil discourse.”
Category: 4. World
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Columbia University agrees to pay more than $220M in deal with Trump to restore federal funding
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Wildfire kills 10 firefighters and rescue workers in Turkey
The fatalities bring Turkey’s wildfire death toll this year to 13, as experts warn that deadly blazes fuelled by strong winds, extreme heat and dry conditions will become more common due to climate change.
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Why Isn’t China Catching Up With Elon Musk’s Starlink?
China’s two biggest networks have deployed less than 1 percent of their planned satellites, records show, a measure of how far they are falling behind Elon Musk’s company SpaceX for dominance in space communications.
Satellites in low Earth…
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American passport not as powerful as it used to be, dropping to 10th place in an annual ranking
The U.S. is on the brink of exiting the top 10 in an annual ranking of the world’s most powerful passports for the first time in the index’s 20-year history.
American passports fell to a 10th place tie, jointly held by Iceland and Lithuania,…
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The Mystery Ten Seconds Delay to Pull Air India 171 Dreamliner From Disaster
Air India Flight AI 171 was airborne for just 32 seconds on June 12 before disaster struck. But the key to unlocking what brought down Boeing Co.’s most advanced jetliner may lie in a chilling 10-second gap buried in the crash probe’s…
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