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1. Housing values continued falling in October as buyers call the shots interest.co.nz · 4 Nov 2026

   Cotality's latest Home Value Index shows ongoing declines in most parts of the country with even the South Island starting to show some weakness

2. Sri Lanka Treasury bill yields rise marginally on shorter term, less bills sold EconomyNext · 4 Nov 2026

   ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s Treasury bill yields rose on the shorter tenor at Wednesday’s auction, with only 65.9 billion rupees of bills sold of an offered 90 billion, data from the Public Debt Management Office showed. The 3-month bill was up 1 basis point at 9.35 percent, with 40 billion rupees…

3. Malaysian prosecutors unable to find Yusoff Rawther in UK to physically serve appeal notice despite Interpol help Malay Mail · 4 Nov 2026

   PUTRAJAYA, Nov 4 — The Court of Appeal was told today that the prosecution has yet to physically serve a notice of appeal on Muhammed Yusoff Rawther, a former research assistant to a politician, who is currently in the United Kingdom (UK). Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) How May Ling told a…

4. International Commission of Jurists criticises takeover of Polish constitutional court Notes from Poland · 4 Nov 2026

   Keep our news free from ads and paywalls by making a donation to support our work! Notes from Poland is run by a small editorial team and is published by an independent, non-profit foundation that is funded through donations from our readers. We cannot do what we do without your support. The…

5. DeFi Explained The Block · 4 Nov 2026

   DeFi 201 explains decentralized finance as a connected protocol system. It follows how DEXs and AMMs, liquidity pools, lending markets, yield aggregators, oracles, derivatives and DAO governance fit together, and where composability creates systemic risk.

6. Another major Android brand wants your next phone to be wider, not taller Android Authority · 4 Nov 2026

   Credit: Paul Jones / Android Authority TL;DR Xiaomi may be working on a wide-screen slab phone. The phone is rumored to come with a side-mounted fingerprint scanner. We’re unsure of the other details, but the same leaker previously claimed several wide phones from Chinese brands could arrive in…

7. Education chief dismisses push for final-year university internships amid AI threat South China Morning Post · 4 Nov 2026

   Hong Kong’s education minister has shot down a suggestion to turn the final stretch of undergraduate degree programmes into an internship period to boost employability, amid a fall in entry-level jobs due to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin…

8. Greek American Becomes First Openly Gay US Senator BIRN · 4 Nov 2026

   Chris Pappas makes history as first openly gay man elected to US Senate in midterm elections that left Donald Trump's Republicans reeling.

9. Indonesia chief of staff sacked for allegedly wiretapping President Prabowo Nikkei · 4 Nov 2026
10. Japan's trading house chiefs warn of uncertainty after US midterms Nikkei · 4 Nov 2026