Swiss voters are set to head to the polls for a referendum on a proposal to cap the country's population at 10 million people, a measure that has reignited debate over immigration, housing, and infrastructure strain in one of Europe's wealthiest nations. The initiative, brought forward by groups citing concerns over rapid population growth driven largely by immigration, would require the government to take active steps to keep Switzerland's population from exceeding the thres

A London-based human rights organization issued a report this week accusing the Israeli government of pursuing a deliberate strategy to annex the occupied West Bank, citing accelerated settlement construction, infrastructure projects, and administrative changes that the group says are designed to make a two-state solution functionally impossible. The report comes as life continues under occupation for Palestinian communities in the West Bank, including Bedouin hamlets near Kh

The United States and Iran appear closer than ever to ending their war, with Pakistan announcing early Saturday that a final, agreed-upon text of a peace deal has been reached between Washington and Tehran. Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said peace has never been this close, crediting months of shuttle diplomacy that culminated in talks held in Islamabad earlier this spring. The emerging accord is reportedly being referred to informally as the "Islamabad Declaration"

President Trump announced Friday that a US military strike, carried out jointly with Venezuelan security forces, killed Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, known widely as "Niño Guerrero", the alleged leader of the Tren de Aragua gang. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said US Southern Command delivered what he called a swift and lethal kinetic strike to take out the man he described as the infamous leader of one of the most violent transnational criminal organizations in the