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Monday, 2 November 2026

No. 23,584

International Coravia Business Daily

Independent journalism · Est. 1962 · Meridale

Breaking

Assembly passes $9bn Coastal Shield infrastructure bill after 14-hour session

Central bank holds key rate at 3.25% and signals autumn review

Flood warnings issued for the lower Aldenne Valley as river levels peak

Auriga-3 launch puts first Coravian weather satellite into orbit

Assembly passes $9bn Coastal Shield infrastructure bill after 14-hour session

Central bank holds key rate at 3.25% and signals autumn review

Flood warnings issued for the lower Aldenne Valley as river levels peak

Auriga-3 launch puts first Coravian weather satellite into orbit

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A rescue worker paddles an inflatable boat along a flooded residential street.

Coastal Shield: where the $9bn will go

Forty-one flood-risk districts are ranked for early works. We chart where the barriers, pumps and raised levees will go — and when.

10:20

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Pupils seen from the back of a classroom during a lesson.

Tuition-free degrees: what changes for students in 2027

Who pays nothing, who still pays, and what happens to loans already on the books — the Higher Education Access Act, explained.

09:30

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Points of light glow across a darkened bank of cinema screens.

Meridale Film Week draws record 90,000 as restorations steal the show

The festival's 44th edition sells out its archive strand for the first time, led by a rebuilt print of the lost 1968 classic “The Harbour Light”.

09:05

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Commuters stream toward waiting trains at Meridale Central station during the morning peak.

Meridian Accord

Meridian Accord states agree decade-long cross-border rail upgrade

Six governments sign the Arden Pact, pledging high-speed links between five capitals and a common ticketing system by 2036.

07:55

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An engineer in a cleanroom suit inspects a finished semiconductor wafer.

Vantor opens 2-nanometre chip line, hiring 1,800 at its Meridale plant

The $5bn fabrication hall is the first of its class outside the major producing nations — and a bet that Coravia can anchor the region's supply chain.

07:05

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Firefighters work a smouldering ridge line.

Wildfire crews contain Aldenne ridge blaze after six days

The largest upland fire in a decade burned 3,400 hectares of forestry before 400 firefighters and a change in the wind brought it under control.

06:20

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The exterior of the High Court building in Meridale.

High Court sets October date for landmark data-privacy challenge

Judges will test whether the national identity database's data-sharing rules breach the constitution's privacy clause — a first for Coravian law.

06:15

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A technician tests a circuit board with a multimeter probe.

Right-to-repair rules take effect for phones and laptops

Manufacturers must now supply parts, tools and manuals for seven years — and Coravia's independent repair shops are ready for the queue.

06:00

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A corridor at Meridale General Hospital at midday.

Emergency wards to gain 4,000 extra nurses under winter plan

A $520m package funds recruitment, retention bonuses and 900 returning nurses — but unions say rosters, not headlines, will decide the winter.

05:58

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Emergency responders in high-visibility gear launch an inflatable rescue boat.

Flood warnings issued for the lower Aldenne Valley as river levels peak

The storm system that inundated Tirmond brushes the valley's saturated lower reaches — and revives the question of why the flood maps were redrawn.

05:40

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