🇲🇱⚡️- The Islamic State shelled the former MINUSMA camp and sent rockets targeting the Menaka Airport around an hour ago.

🇲🇱⚡️- The FLA-JNIM forces have agreed to release detained Malian soldiers who laid down their weapons.

The attached footage, published by a local journalist, shows members of the insurgent coalition handing out money to the released soldiers to buy food and transport.

🇮🇱 - The request was denied. The "security situation" is due to a discussion at the Kirya about the Freedom Flotilla.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah rocket alerts in northern Israel.

🇨🇭- According to a poll by 20 Minuten, 52% of Swiss citizens will support the upcoming referendum to limit Switzerland's population to 10 million individuals. If the referendum were to succeed on June 14th, Switzerland could become the first nation ever to officially limit their population size.

🇺🇸⚡️- US Supreme Court has ruled that the Voting Rights Act requirement for racial gerrymandering is unconstitutional. This long awaited ruling allows states, particularly red states in the South, to do away with Black majority Congressional districts that were required by the law to exist.

🇺🇸⚡️- The ruling is not as far reaching as the GOP hoped it would be as Section 2 of the VRA is still in effect however its reach has been narrowed significantly.

🇨🇭- Switzerland’s population has surged since the 2002 Agreement on the Free Movement of Persons (AFMP) with the European Union, adding approximately 1.7 million inhabitants in a single generation, primarily through immigration. The right-wing Swiss People’s Party (UDC), which spearheaded the initiative, argues that a population of 10 million by 2050 is unsustainable and has drafted specific legal triggers to be enacted through this referendum.

If the referendum passes, reaching a 9.5 million threshold before 2050 would legally compel the government to tighten residency policies, with the UDC specifying that initial curbs must target asylum and family reunification.

Should these measures fail to prevent the population from exceeding 10 million, Switzerland would be mandated to terminate the AFMP, possibly alongside other bilateral agreements with the EU.

This Swiss initiative is a major step in the anti-immigration debate, as it would establish a constitutional obligation for the government to manage demographics with a clear preference for the native population.

🇲🇱🇷🇺⚡- Russian airstrikes against FLA+JNIM positions in Kidal, northern Mali.

🇲🇱⚡- Pro-junta sources confirm a JNIM blockade is in place in the north and southeast areas of Mali's capital Bamako.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump rejected the Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, saying the U.S. blockade of the Strait will continue until Iran agrees to a nuclear deal, according to Axios.

🇺🇸🛢⚡️- BREAKING: Oil prices have risen by over 7%, with Brent crude surpassing $119 per barrel and WTI climbing above $107.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- President Trump and Vladimir Putin spoke on the phone earlier today.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The USS Gerald R. Ford carrier is departing the Middle East and returning home after a 10-month deployment, significantly downgrading American firepower potentially needed for the Iran war. - The Washington Post.

🇲🇱⚡- Gourma Rharous, Timbactou direction, south of River Niger, has fallen to the FLA+JNIM control. Malian and Russian troops have withdrawn to the three fortified FAMa positions located just southwest of the town.