The Daily Populous

Friday March 13rd, 2026 evening edition

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Their joint call arrived as global outrage mounts over the bombing of a Iranian school on Feb. 28 that killed upwards of 175 civilians, mostly young children.

Trump, for his part, has repeatedly lied about the bombing, claiming it was Iran who bombed the school, despite having access to internal intelligence assessments that appear to say otherwise.

New reporting seems to confirm our worst fears: it was a US missile that struck the girls school in Iran.

On top of all that, Van Hollen adds, Hegseth has "no idea what he's doing in this war in Iran.

And now an American missile hit an Iranian school, killing about 150 innocent school kids.".

Hegseth has aggressively denounced restrictive "rules of engagement" for the military—calling such guardrails "stupid" and disparaging what he has termed "woke" warfare.

But we know rules of engagement are intended to prevent civilian harm, they're intended to prevent war crimes. »

In the Middle East conflict Switzerland refuses US military overflight

Authored by bluewin.ch
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Switzerland has rejected two overflight requests from the US military.

blue News summarizes for you Switzerland has rejected two overflight requests from the US military.

Requests with major political implications - for example to support military operations - are submitted to the Federal Council for a decision. »

All games with loot boxes in them will be rated minimum PEGI 16, starting this summer

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The European game ratings board announced today that starting in June it will be introducing a number of minimum age ratings for games with certain ‘interactive risk’ features.

Games with “paid random items” – generally described as loot boxes – will have a default rating of PEGI 16, meaning they can’t legally be sold to children 15 or under in the UK or any other European country which has adopted PEGI ratings into its legislation.

“In some cases, they can be a PEGI 18,” it adds, though it doesn’t specify which conditions trigger this. »

Spain's PM calls for end to UNSC veto power, criticises US over global conflicts

Authored by tribune.com.pk
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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday called for reforms to the United Nations system, including eliminating veto power in the Security Council to make it more representative.

“We must end the right of veto in the United Nations,” he said during an interview published by Spanish digital newspaper El Diario.

We have to put an end to the veto power in the UN Security Council.pic.twitter.com/Y6rsLc7SCJ — Clash Report (@clashreport) March 11, 2026. »