Overnight cessation: a two-week pause in Iran

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist.

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  I'm Rosie Blau.

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  And I'm Jason Palmer.

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  Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  IVF is used the world over to help couples have babies.

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  Now more people are turning to it in China, where fertility rates are falling.

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  Question is, how far can medical intervention change a society-wide situation?

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  And we look at the next group of humans worried about AI: authors.

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  The bots can write plausible prose, but naysayers, including us, reckon that much of it is crap.

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  Thing is, so is plenty of the human kind.

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  But first.

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  One short day ago, we asked Gregg Carlstrom, our Middle East correspondent,

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  whether the most likely course of the Iran war was towards peace or towards a wider conflict.

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  His answer, escalation.

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  By last night, the threatened scale of that possible escalation was as grave

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  as any outlined by any American president ever.

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  A whole civilization will die tonight, Donald Trump flippantly tapped out on his phone.

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  But then, an entirely unexpected turn.

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  A snapping of that tension.

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