Dunedin-based cancer diagnostics firm Pacific Edge saw its share price jump 8 percent on Friday, following a consecutive 9 percent gain on Thursday, after the company announced that its Cxbladder urine tests have been granted coverage under the Unite...

New Zealand house buyers are facing the largest selection of homes for sale in any October since 2014, according to new data from Realestate. co.nz. The platform reports that the total number of properties available on the market has climbed by 11.4 ...

Analysis of online communications sent to 34 New Zealand election candidates in the three months preceding the 2026 general election indicates that these individuals received an average of nearly 500 abusive comments per day. The data establishes a s...

In the run-up to Spain's 2026 general elections, the pre-campaign discourse in Catalonia has shifted toward tax jurisdiction, a move that signals a change in negotiating leverage rather than a standard sovereignty demand. The left-wing coalition Fron...

French toy manufacturer Smoby announced on November 6 that it is closing its historic production complex in Lavans-les-Saint-Claude in the Jura department and its office in Massy in the Île-de-France region. This move is part of a restructuring plan...

Romania's business registration activity contracted by 8.94% year-over-year in the first nine months of 2026, according to data from the National Trade Register (ONRC) cited by Agerpres. The total number of registered entities reached 100,975, compri...

Pedro Abramoway, a lawyer and former National Secretary for Justice, outlined a proposal for a constitutional amendment in Brazil aimed at separating operational public security duties from strategic judicial reform. Speaking in an interview with TV ...

For 78% of women in Chile, delaying necessary medical care has become a standard practice. A study conducted by the Todas foundation, supported by the analytics center Cadem, found that the majority of surveyed women aged 25 to 75 consciously decline...

In Cebu, one of the Philippines' leading economic hubs, workers earn a minimum daily wage of 582 pesos, significantly lower than the 755 pesos set for the non-agricultural sector in Metro Manila. This 173-peso daily gap equates to a monthly differenc...

Jim Kokenball, a former agent with the U. S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), addressed a logistics security conference in Costa Rica, stating that the country has become a central node for cocaine transit and storage. The presentation took pla...

New Zealand's rural road network is experiencing a wave of structural failures in aging bridge assets, forcing local councils to impose weight restrictions that threaten to isolate farms, businesses, and households from supply chains. The crisis cent...

The New Zealand Geographic Board has officially replaced the spelling of one of the South Island's most frequented beaches, changing it from Kaiteriteri to Kaiteretere. This revision implements a specific provision within the Te Here ā Nuku (Nelson ...

Food inflation for the poorest 30% of Filipino households decreased to 9.4% in October from 9.8% in September, according to data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The primary driver of this deceleration was seafood and fish, wher...

The city of Biłgoraj, Poland, has operationalized a heat pump system that extracts thermal energy from treated wastewater. Developed by Metrolog under a design-and-build contract with an investment exceeding 12 million PLN, the installation currentl...

Spain is shifting the provision of healthy nutrition in public institutions from a set of recommendations to a legal requirement. Under a decree from the Ministry of Consumption and the "2030 Agenda," access to healthy food will become a mandatory co...

The Manche department in Normandy is reviewing proposals from the CFDT union and the Collective for the Protection of South Normandy Railways to implement a tram-train system connecting Cherbourg, Valognes, and the Orano industrial site in La Hague. ...

Romania's construction sector faces a structural paradox where state investment support functions as a credit model rather than a subsidy. According to Cristian Erbașu, president of the Federal Union of Construction Enterprises (FPSC), companies rec...

The Knysna Local Municipality remains a hung council following the November 4 local elections, with the Democratic Alliance (DA) failing to secure the 11 seats required for an outright majority in the 21-seat chamber. While the DA increased its votin...

The Court of Appeal of Quebec has ruled that anti-strikebreaker provisions in the province's Labour Code can apply to employees working remotely, reversing a lower court decision that had excluded telework from the legal definition of an employer's e...

By the end of October 2026, Georgia's National Bank had increased the country's international reserves to 8.25 billion dollars, marking a historical high. According to the regulator, the total assets rose by 2.64 billion dollars, or 47.2%, over the y...