America Panama A tanker paid a record $5,3 million for priority passage through the Panama Canal before the number of daily transits will be reduced due to the El Niño weather phenomenon; rainfall deficits and drought deplete water reserves needed to operate the canal
Africa Malawi Leading financial services company Old Mutual Malawi Limited has been honoured by the Reserve Bank of Malawi as the best company offering financial education in Malawi
America Uruguay Following several leaked recordings, Uruguay's Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo has resigned amid allegations of concealing information related to the issuance of an Uruguayan passport to alleged drug trafficker Sebastián Marset
Africa Libya The Minister of Transport discussed with the Turkish Ambassador to Libya the implementation of the agreed procedures for the resumption of Turkish Airlines flights at Libyan airports
Europe Moldova Public law organisations in the research and innovation sector, including public higher education institutions, will receive institutional funding to develop public infrastructure in the areas of research and innovation
Asia India The emergency closure of schools in New Delhi has been extended for a week as no sign of improvement are seen in the toxic pollution levels in the megacity of 30 million inhabitants; smog is attributed mainly to stubble fires in neighbouring areas
America Canada Prime Minister is calling out an unacceptable hate surfacing in Canada amid the Israel-Hamas war, calling for Canadians to remember "this is not who we are" and pushing for a humanitarian pause long enough to get back on track towards a two-state solution
America Peru Archaeologists have reconstructed the 3D face of a 500-year-old Inca girl, known as "La Doncella de Hielo," found frozen in the Andes, shedding light on ancient rituals and history in an exhibition at the Museo Santuarios Andinos in Peru
Oceania Palau A full-scale live exercise simulating a passenger plane landing in the ocean will conducted today 9 November by the National Emergency Management Office, together with other partners
Oceania Marshall Islands The arrival of the USNS hospital ship Mercy in Majuro marked the start of a wide range of humanitarian and medical programmes taking place at three locations
Europe Switzerland Chairlifts, T-bar lifts and cable cars in Switzerland are being shut down for economic – and increasingly climate-related – reasons; according to a recent study by NGO Mountain Wilderness, 65 installations in Switzerland are now out of operation
Africa Mauritius The Mauritius Research and Innovation Council and the Indian Space Research Organisation have signed an MoU providing for the design, assembly, integration, testing, launch and operation of an Earth observation satellite for Mauritius
Africa Republic of the Congo On the occasion of the 37th National Tree Planting Day, instituted in 1986, 1.200 trees have been planted upon iniziative of President Denis Sassou N'Guesso in the village of Miaba, near Oyo, in the Cuvette department
Asia South Korea Recent reports of bedbug infestations in public spaces have raised alarms of an impending nationwide outbreak across South Korea, prompting the government to launch a multi-agency task force and pushed investors to buy stocks of pesticide manufacturers