Fewer than 400,000 babies were born in Italy in 2022, deepening what has been referred to as a “national emergency.” The country’s population has declined to historically low levels, according to figures released by the EU nation’s National Institute of Statistics.

Bezymianny in Kamchatka ejected a 12,000-meter-tall ash cloud, Russia’s air regulator said Aircraft have been strongly advised to review flight routes due to a powerful volcanic outburst in Russia’s far-eastern peninsula of Kamchatka, according to a statement by the Federal Agency for Air Transport, Rosaviatsiya, published on Saturday.

Western businesses have been forced to reject Russian imports despite the official positions of governments, a grain union says Russian grain exporters have been hit by indirect sanctions, as Western businesses were unable to provide services critical to the industry, the head of the Russian Union of Grain Exporters has said in an interview with…