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• Iran defence spokesperson says US vote exposes failure of Trump’s war policies

  Military officials in Tehran view recent American midterm voting patterns as a direct collapse of the interventionist agendas pushed by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. The rhetoric reflects a broader institutional stance within the Islamic Republic that treats political changes in Washington as superficial shifts rather than genuine policy transformations. Consequently, regional leadership is using the development to rally opposition against foreign interference and reaffirm its established security posture.

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• MPs raise questions on $20m fine, delay in strengthening haze law, in six-hour debate

  Singapore's updated transboundary haze framework empowers regulators to pursue overseas polluters before smoke reaches the island, using meteorological assessments to establish liability. Lawmakers debated whether a tenfold penalty increase goes far enough to deter multinational corporations, while minister Grace Fu highlighted cross-border evidence hurdles that ruled out revenue-based fines.

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• Haryana students turn waste fabric into art in 7 hours, draw 3.5m views

  Budha College in Karnal tasked over 100 first-year fashion design students with creating intricate mosaic-style artworks from campus-sourced scrap material. Guided by faculty, the needleless exercise introduced participants to the Japanese kinusaiga method to reinforce hands-on concepts of color theory and precision crafting. Documentation of the seven-hour classroom experiment has since gone viral, drawing widespread digital attention across social media platforms.

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