ℹ️ Switzerland to Hold Referendum on Restricting Population to 10MN Until 2050

The vote will take place after the populist Swiss People’s Party (UDC) harvested 114,600 signatures in just nine months - meeting a govt requirement for 100k within 18 months for the referendum to go ahead.

If approved, the referendum will ensure Switzerland maintains “sustainable demographic development” by restricting the permanent resident population to 10mn for the next 25 years.

The vote would likely mean that Switzerland would be forced to end its bilateral agreement with the EU on free movement.

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⚠️ ICYMI: WHO Releases Footage of Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital Interior

The hospital has been reduced to ashes, leaving it an "empty shell with human graves,” WHO chief Tedros Ghebreyesus said.

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⚠️ Israel's Explanation for Aid Worker Deaths Unsatisfactory – Australian PM

Australia has appointed a senior former military official to study the IDF's inquiry into the incident, PM Anthony Albanese said Monday.

Israel claimed they mistakenly believed they were attacking Hamas gunmen when air strikes killed World Central Kitchen staff, including Australian "Zomi" Frankcom. Two officers have been dismissed and others reprimanded.

"We don't find the explanations to be satisfactory to this point," Albanese said in an interview on ABC. "We need proper accountability; we need full transparency about the circumstances, and I think that is what the Australian public would expect."

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🆕 Nicaragua Opens Oral Arguments at ICJ Case Against Germany for ‘Facilitating Gaza Genocide’

Germany is facing charges at the top UN court for allegedly “facilitating the commission of genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza in coordination with its military and political ally, Israel.

Berlin will get to respond to the allegations on Tuesday.

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🔴Israel Launches Overnight Airstrikes on Gaza’s Rafah

Some 1.3mn Palestinians are currently crammed into Rafah after being forcibly displaced by Israel.

The UN Security Council demanded an immediate ceasefire - Israel continues its genocidal assault regardless.

The Western ‘rules-based order’ only applies to Washington’s enemies.

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🤔 JUST IN: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co – world’s biggest chipmaker - has agreed to make its most advanced products in Arizona from 2028 (FT)

The move will boost Washington’s efforts to bring the semiconductor supply chain on to US soil.

Are TSMC moving before Beijing strikes?

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➡️ NOW: Nicaragua Urges Top UN Court to Order Germany to Halt Weapon Supplies to Israel

Nicaragua has accused Berlin of being “complicit in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.”

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🆕 Iranian FM Hossein Amir Abd-Abdollahian Lands in Damascus One Week after Israel’s Attack on Consulate

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⚠️ Drone Footage Captures Devastation Following Massive Flash Floods in Orenberg, Russia after Dam Rupture

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The Times writes that there are no people left willing to fight in Ukraine, and a breakthrough of Russian troops to Kiev is quite real.

“The front line is 480 km away, but to nervous young people from Podol, a Kiev area famous for its nightclubs and coffee shops, the war suddenly seems much closer. “I’m afraid,” says 31-year-old Dima, chain-smoking.

✔️Ukrainian generals said that there is no alternative to mass mobilization to stop Russia’s offensive. Zelensky warned allies to expect more territorial losses and called on Ukrainian men who fled abroad to return and serve their country.

✔️But under the bright spring sun of Kiev, the answers to questions about Zelensky’s desire to mobilize are clear. The video producer, who declined to be named, said he travels between Ukrainian cities only at night to avoid conscription.

✔️Western partners doubting arms supplies are faced with brutal calculations: the population of the remaining Ukraine is approximately 31 million people compared to 144 million in Russia. The longer a military conflict continues, the greater the fear that numbers will prevail.

✔️Ukraine, suffering from the lowest birth rate in the world, tried to save young people from the horrors of war. But now, when the average age of a Ukrainian soldier is 43 years old, the desire to protect the country's future prevails.

✔️In the capital of Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of people scour Telegram channels looking for advice on how to evade conscription. Messages are encrypted. “They just dumped a lot of snow on one person near the Polytechnic Institute station,” writes one. “It’s very cloudy on the street of the Festivalny shopping center right now,” says another.

✔️ “People are accustomed to the idea that the front line is far away, that it is unshakable. But the truth is that the Russians could break through at any moment. We can fight for Kiev again. People don’t understand the threat,” says military medic Boris.”

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❗️Iran’s ‘Fatah’ Hypersonic Ballistic Missile

How reliable will the Iron Dome or Patriot System be against Fatah?

It could reportedly reach Tel Aviv in less than 7 minutes…

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❎ FLASHBACK: CIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories in MSM to Spread Misinformation

This is back in 1983 – they will have scaled exponentially and will be rife in social media platforms.

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🔴NOW: Pro-Palestine Protesters Drench UK Labour Party HQ in Red Paint – accusing the opposition party of being "complicit in the murder of Palestinians"

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🤡 Tell Me It’s Election Year, Without Telling Me It’s Election Year…

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