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• Pakistan's Prime Minister says a peace deal has been reached between the US and Iran

• "Both sides have declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon", Shehbaz Sharif says

• Donald Trump says: "The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all!"

• Iran is yet to comment; details of what the deal does and doesn't cover are still emerging

• The war began on 28 February, with US and Israeli strikes across Iran. It prompted Iran to attack Israel and US-allied states in the Gulf and effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil and gas shipping route

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48157240

Nearly 55% of voters in Switzerland on Sunday rejected an initiative championed by the top right-wing party to cap the rich Alpine country’s population at 10 million, early results showed.

The populist Swiss People’s Party, which has the most seats in parliament, has stirred up and fostered anti-migration sentiment over the years, notably about an influx of workers from the neighboring European Union.

Some have dubbed the proposal a “Swiss Brexit” because it could jeopardize Switzerland’s deep ties to the European Union anchored by deals that foster economic growth, cultural ties and cross-border travel, among other things. Switzerland is not one of the EU’s 27 member states, but it is all but surrounded by four of them

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48741873

from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972Magazine [published in Israel]
June 14, 2026

Although Israel shut its borders to West Bank Palestinians after Oct. 7, thousands continue to cross due to economic desperation. As Charlotte Ritz-Jack reports, Israeli police keep shooting them.

Also:

• ‘If we go there, we’ll be killed’: Inside Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon
• ‘Where are the mediators?’: Gazans decry ongoing displacement despite ceasefire
• Jews have historical ties to Palestine. Israel is still a settler-colonial project
• PODCAST: The cost of a failed Palestinian leadership

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48739444

[weekly newsletter about #Cuba (with YouTube #video links) from the #BellyOfTheBeast #news collective. Their videos can also be found at: https://peertube.world/c/cuba_botb_videos/videos]
June 12, 2026

For more than 25 years, Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) has offered full scholarships to students from underserved communities around the world, including hundreds from the United States.

This week, we hear from two ELAM graduates from the U.S. who recently organized a medical solidarity brigade of mostly African students to Guinea-Bissau.

Also:

• Cuba’s “Astonishing” Medical Mission in Haiti
• UN Rights Commissioner: "Children Are Dying"
• Rubio Tightens the Oil Blockade
• Hegseth Pumps Up “Donroe Doctrine” at Guantanamo
• What Do Cubans Think About Trump?
• Sanctions Target Cuban Gold
• Cuba Announces Major Economic Reforms
• Shut Out by U.S., Cuba's Biotech Turns to Russia

Election of new Hungarian government in April has paved way for EU member states to agree to open talks

Ukraine and Moldova will take a decisive step towards joining the EU on Monday, as they embark on the first phase of membership negotiations.

The start of substantive negotiations, launched by senior EU officials and ministers from both countries in Luxembourg on Monday, will be a highly symbolic moment for the two countries that were both part of the former Soviet Union. It comes after Russia has intensified its bombardment of Ukrainian towns and cities, while sustaining huge losses for little territorial gain.

Ukraine and Moldova were quickly accepted as EU candidate countries in 2022, having filed applications days after Russia’s full-scale invasion. But despite a symbolic decision to open talks in June 2024, substantive negotiations were blocked by Hungary’s pro-Russian president, Viktor Orbán.

In recent weeks, Iran has dramatically escalated efforts to seal off its cache of near bomb-grade uranium, deliberately collapsing tunnels and booby-trapping entrances with explosive mines, according to five sources familiar with US intelligence.

Getting to the roughly half-a-ton of highly-enriched uranium is now far more difficult, dangerous and time-consuming than it already was just a month ago, when President Donald Trump was publicly signaling that he might order the US military to seize it, the sources said.

The new fortifications by the Iranians add an additional layer of complexity to the Trump administration’s proposed deal with Tehran to remove and destroy its uranium, and the move raises questions about who will take on the dangerous task of digging it out.

The US technology company Palantir has lost a legal challenge to force a Swiss independent magazine to publish its responses to articles about how the Swiss government rejected its services.

The data analytics company lost on 22 out of 23 counts of the suit. In a ruling on Friday, Zurich’s commercial court dismissed the majority of counterstatement requests filed by the company and its Swiss subsidiary finding that only a single passage in one article warranted a published response from the company.

Link to the article by Republik, one of the ones Palantir sued about and the one where a short counterstatement had to be published (the article is in German).