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As Pupil Numbers Fall, China Is Converting Empty Primary Schools Into Nursing Homes

China had nearly 30,000 fewer primary schools in 2025 than in 2020, the Ministry of Education's newly released bulletin shows, and with enrolment down four million pupils in a single year, villages are quietly turning their empty schoolhouses into nursing homes, elder canteens and factories — the clearest sign yet of how fast the country's demographic turnaround is redrawing everyday life.

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A Newborn Died at a Guangzhou Confinement Center With Milk in Her Airway

A six-day-old girl was wheeled out of her mother's room for a feeding at a Guangzhou postpartum center and was declared dead two hours later; doctors suctioned milk residue from her airway. Police have accepted a negligent-homicide complaint against her caregiver — while the center stays open, blames a pre-existing illness, and neither side will release the surveillance video.

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BRICS Gathers in New Delhi as Xi Pays His First India Visit in Seven Years

Xi Jinping arrived in New Delhi on Saturday for the 18th BRICS summit — his first trip to India in seven years — and met Narendra Modi the same day, as Putin mocked the G7's shrinking share of world GDP and Beijing prepared to take over the bloc's chairmanship in 2027.