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Monday, 2 November 2026
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PwC Portugal reached a turnover of almost EUR 230 million in the year ending in June 2026.
A PwC Portugal alcançou um volume de negócios de quase 230 milhões de euros no ano terminado em junho de 2026.
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For decades, discussions and decisions about access to contraception, abortion, maternal health care, HIV prevention and treatment, comprehensive sexuality education, gender equity and protection from sexual violence have largely flowed in one direction: from the Global North to the Global South.
A University of Bath–led study has estimated that the carbon dioxide produced by humans as our bodies turn food into energy rose by 74% between 1985 and 2015, reaching 2.05 billion metric tons a year.
India's election consultants are exporting covert campaign tactics to manipulate elections worldwide, including the US.
The incidents came as a fragile ceasefire in Ukraine's Kherson region expired, raising fears of renewed fighting.
Artificial intelligence emerged as a major issue on the 2026 US midterm campaign trail, with opposition to data centres drawing supporters across partisan divides united over ecological worries, increased utility bills and business interests outweighing citizen concerns.
Nature, Published online: 02 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03387-3 Vaccination rates dropped after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted public-health programmes and their funding.
When we hear that climate change is damaging natural environments, it conjures images of rising seas eroding coastlines, or heat waves bleaching the Great Barrier Reef.
Russia and Ukraine accused each other of hacking their emergency alert applications after a local ceasefire in the war's eastern Kherson region expired on Sunday.
Iran on Sunday said that a renewed war with the United States could last longer than the previous round of fighting, as President Donald Trump suggested that Washington still had targets to strike.
Residents of the city of Oleshky who had requested to be evacuated were reunited with their loved ones in Ukraine on Saturday, October 31.
Guided by the beam of a flashlight, Tino Marolo follows his dog Stella through the darkness of a Piedmont woodland, searching for one of Italy's most prized culinary treasures hidden beneath the soil.
The industrial unit of the Danish footwear brand ECCO located in Santa Maria da Feira will close and fire the 632 workers.
A unidade industrial da marca dinamarquesa de calçado ECCO instalada em Santa Maria da Feira vai encerrar e despedir os 632 trabalhadores.
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.Pacific scholars and security experts are warning that growing military competition between the United States and China must not come at the expense of the people.
Climate change can fuel the conditions that escalate domestic violence while weakening the system survivors depend on for safety.
By Andrew Liu As demand for artificial intelligence surges worldwide, China is looking to its renewable energy sector for an advantage in the race to build the data centers that fuel the technology.
To Sierra Isley, the American Dream brings to mind a home ringed by a white picket fence.
In his inaugural address in January 2025, President Donald Trump promised that “the American Dream will soon be back and thriving like never before.” Apparently, that required undoing policies to tackle climate change: The Trump administration has invoked “the American Dream” as a justification to
As journalists confront lethal violence, imprisonment, political intimidation and increasingly hostile working environments, the struggle for press freedom has become inseparable from a more fundamental q
Global impunity for journalist killings has risen for the first time in more than a decade, while the growing use of drones is an emerging threat for reporters in conflict zones, according to the latest report from UN cultural organization UNESCO.
Boise already knows how to tap the carbon-free heat beneath our feet.
The Government authorised a further €1.538 million for the National Health Service (SNS) to pay for medicines, examinations and other current expenses of local health units (ULS) and Portuguese oncology institutes (IPO).
O Governo autorizou um novo reforço de 1.538 milhões de euros para o Serviço Nacional de Saúde (SNS), destinado a pagar medicamentos, exames e outras despesas correntes das unidades locais de saúde (ULS) e dos institutos portugueses de oncologia (IPO).
Automatic translation by Bittrees-hosted AI. The source link opens the original publication.Climate change has all but disappeared from Democrats' campaign pitches, replaced by promises to lower electricity bills.
The structured products business in the US has gotten very large recently — on track to hit $300 billion in sales this year. That they are all the rage means a once opaque financial product is getting a lot more attention. So what are structured products, exactly, and how are they influencing the economy? In short, structured products are basically a fusion of a bank IOU with a derivative product, but that underplays how complex these things are and how they are shaping market dynamics. What is particularly interesting about structured notes is how they've become a stand-in for how investors a
Erik Bernhardsson is the Co-Founder and CEO of Modal, the AI infrastructure platform for training models, running inference and powering AI agents. Modal has raised over $1.2 billion, including a recent $750 million Series D led by Accel at a $15.75BN valuation. The company has surpassed $1BN in ARR, growing more than 15x year-on-year. Previously, Erik built Spotify's original music recommendation system. AGENDA: 05:30 - Why wait until your mid-30s to start a company? 06:40 - Is founding a startup really like "eating glass"? 08:00 - How to Raise $1BN with No Pitch Deck 08:45 - The danger of ra
Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist and the founder of the California Institute for Machine Consciousness. SPONSOR: --- Parallel is a single platform for all your agentic research: web search built for AI agents, with Pareto-optimal quality, cost and speed. Get started: https://parallel.ai/mlst --- Bach's null hypothesis is that consciousness is easy: an algorithm not much more complicated than the transformer, simple enough for an infant's brain to discover by itself. In this conversation with Tim, he lays out the Machine Consciousness Hypothesis in two parts. The first is that consciousness
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