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Switzerland To Vote On Capping Population At 10 Million In less than four weeks, on June 14, Swiss voters will decide on a proposal that, if passed, would mark a constitutional first: enshrining a hard limit on the country’s total permanent resident population. The "No to a Switzerland with 10 Million" initiative, backed by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP), seeks to amend the Federal Constitution to keep the population below 10 million until 2050. If thresholds are approached or breached, the government would be required to tighten asylum and family reunification...

Treasury Department Alerts US Banks To Suspected Iranian Money Laundering Efforts Authored by Victoria Friedman via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes ​Enforcement Network (FinCEN) on May 11 issued an alert to financial institutions warning them of efforts by ​the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to evade sanctions. The U.S. Department of the Treasury in Washington on June 30, 2025.Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times FinCEN said in a statement that the IRGC has been facilitating and laundering the proceeds of illicit oil sales using networks of financial facilitators...

Houston-Area Birth Tourism Center Shut Down In Legal Action Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times, A birth tourism operation in the Houston area has agreed to close in a settlement, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced on Friday. An advertisement for a Houston-area “birth tourism” operation known as De’Ai Postpartum Care Center. The Texas attorney general filed a lawsuit against the center, claiming it has operated an unlawful “birth tourism” business. Courtesy of the state of Texas Attorney General's OfficeThe center "unlawfully facilitated over 1,000 births to foreign Chinese nationals,"...