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Philippines to expand civilian population in disputed Spratly Islands amid diplomatic row

South China Morning Post 12 Feb 2026
... plan to expand its civilian population amid a war of words with the Chinese embassy in the country.
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Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10 million

Straits Times 12 Feb 2026
The June referendum was triggered automatically because more than 100,000 citizens signed a petition ....
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Switzerland to vote on population cap initiative, civil service act in June

Anadolu Agency 12 Feb 2026
According to the text of the initiative, which is backed by the right-wing Swiss People's Party, Switzerland’s permanent resident population "must not exceed 10 million people before 2050."
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Census data finds MA population growth slowed. Immigration is the culprit

The Herald News 12 Feb 2026
Census Bureau’s 2025 vintage estimates showed that Massachusetts’s population growth has slowed in the last year, in large part due to a decrease in international immigration ... Why is Massachusetts’s population growth slowing?.
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Lawmakers eye measures to regulate growth as SC population booms

Image The Post and Courier 12 Feb 2026
South Carolina is weighing policies from concurrency programs to highway impact fees to help mitigate the state’s rapid growth. There are questions about who should pay, particularly as the state continues to cut taxes ... .
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Foxboro sees growth in its Black population figures

Image The Sun Chronicle 12 Feb 2026
Foxboro has seen a 1.6% growth in its Black population in the last five years, according to the most recent American Community Survey estimates ... .
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Switzerland to vote on far-right proposal to cap population at 10 million

The Guardian 12 Feb 2026
Switzerland will vote this summer on a proposal from the far-right Swiss People’s party (SVP) to limit the country’s ...
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Prison population hits 1,164 as overcrowding forces 50 inmates into police cells

Philenews 12 Feb 2026
Central Prison’s population has jumped to 1,164—nearly double its capacity—leaving 50 inmates in police cells and making conditions worse across the facility ... population stays stubbornly high.
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Swiss voters to decide on population cap at 10 million

Madhyamam 12 Feb 2026
The Swiss public will vote in a nationwide referendum on 10 June on a far-right proposal to cap the country’s population at 10 million ... The SVP argues that population growth is pushing up rents and overloading infrastructure and public services.
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Gaza genocide's death toll may exceed 200,000 as population drops by over 10%: Report

Press TV 12 Feb 2026
A leading humanitarian law institute warns that Israel’s genocidal war on the besieged Gaza Strip may have killed more than 200,000 people, as new data show the Palestinian territory’s population has fallen by over 10 percent since October 2023.
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Population Growth, Rising Utility Rates & the Case for Energy Resilience in Central Oregon

Image Cascade Business News 12 Feb 2026
Central Oregon’s fast-growing population is putting pressure on our region’s power grid ... Central Oregon’s Population Boom ... Between 2020 and 2024, Deschutes County saw a six percent population increase ...
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Rare Great White Shark Encounter Reveals Elusive, But Persistent “Ghost” Population In Mediterranean

IFL Science 12 Feb 2026
An extensive review has examined 160 years' worth of data concerning the elusive Mediterranean great white shark population after a juvenile shark was accidentally caught in 2023 ... population loss.
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Household Economic Survey population rebase: Year ended June 2019 to 2024 (Statistics New Zealand)

Public Technologies 12 Feb 2026
The sample data from the survey is weighted to represent the total New Zealand population, using expected population totals or benchmarks ... Now that the 2023-base ERP is available, population estimates after 30 June 2018 have been revised.
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