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Italy Faces New Demographic Low as Births Set to Hit Record Decline in 2025
Rome, Oct 21, 2025: Italy is bracing for yet another historic low in birth numbers this year, deepening concerns over the country’s persistent demographic crisis. According to the national statistics bureau ISTAT, the downward trend in births is showing no sign of reversing. In 2024, Italy recorded just 370,000 newborns—the lowest figure since the country’s unification in 1861—and 2025 appears set to break this record once again. Data from the first seven months of this year shows under...
Rafah Border to Stay Closed as Israel and Hamas Accuse Each Other of Ceasefire Breach
Jerusalem, October 19, 2025 The Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt will remain closed until further notice, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Saturday. He said that the crossing would only reopen once Hamas hands over the remaining bodies of deceased Israeli hostages. The decision came as Israel and Hamas continued to exchange accusations over violations of the U.S.-mediated ceasefire. Earlier, the Palestinian embassy in Egypt had said the Rafah crossing — the...
Nobel Laureate Physicist Chen Ning Yang Passes Away at 103
Beijing, Oct. 18, 2025 Chen Ning Yang, one of the most celebrated physicists of the 20th century and a Nobel Prize winner, passed away in Beijing on Saturday at the age of 103 after a long illness, according to China’s official news agency Xinhua. Born in 1922 in Hefei, Anhui province in eastern China, Yang went on to become a pioneering figure in modern physics. His work transformed the understanding of fundamental laws governing the universe, particularly in the fields of statistical mechanics...
Trump Admits 100% Tariffs on China Unsustainable but Plans to Meet Xi Soon
Washington, Oct. 18, 2025 U.S. President Donald Trump said his newly announced 100% tariff on Chinese goods is “not sustainable,” though he defended the move as a necessary response to China’s recent trade actions. Speaking in an interview with Fox Business Network on Friday, Trump said Beijing’s decision to tighten controls on rare-earth exports left him with little choice but to act. “They forced me to do that,” Trump said, referring to China’s move to expand export restrictions...
Pakistan Tells Afghans to Return Home, Warns Against Cross-Border Militancy
New Delhi, Oct 18, 2025: Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Friday called on all Afghans living in Pakistan to return to their homeland, stating that Pakistan’s land and resources belong solely to its 250 million citizens. Posting on social media, Asif said the old era of friendly relations with Afghanistan is over and warned that Pakistan will no longer tolerate cross-border terrorism or acts against its national security. He claimed that Afghanistan has acted as a “proxy for India”...
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