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Dominican construction licences: 203 issued in September, up 34% on August

Corrected November 3: investment figure removed. MIVHED's open dataset lists 203 construction licences issued in September 2026. Of those, 175 list an area, and they cover 966,304 square metres. Most licences: Santo Domingo (39), Distrito Nacional (38) and La Altagracia (30). Apartment buildings accounted for 94 of the 203. A licence is permission to build, not finished construction. Correction, November 3: an earlier version of this report and its recording gave an investment figure and said applicants declared it. The dataset does not say that. In it, the figure is always the area times one of two fixed amounts per square metre, so it has been removed from this report. That version also read as if every licence listed an area, and not all do. It also called September a record. The margin over July is two licences, and the dataset does not say whether every entry is a new licence, so that claim has been removed too.

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Open data · ODbL · Ministerio de la Vivienda, Hábitat y Edificaciones (MIVHED)
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Low-cost housing fideicomiso register: 3 projects with an exit date in September

The fideicomiso register kept by MIVHED's low-cost housing qualification division lists 3 projects with an exit date in September 2026: 1,080 housing units and a combined project cost of RD$2.5 billion. The largest is "Residencial Reserva del Sol" in Azua, with 824 units. Provinces: Azua, Santo Domingo. Projects marked as substituted or annulled are not counted. A register entry does not mean the homes are built or delivered.

Open data · ODbL · Ministerio de la Vivienda, Hábitat y Edificaciones (MIVHED)
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Rinuncia della Svizzera al rimborso delle spese mediche dei feriti di Crans-Montana, la dichiarazione del Presidente Meloni

Accolgo con grande soddisfazione la notizia, comunicatami dal Presidente Guy Parmelin, della rinuncia della Svizzera a chiedere il rimborso delle spese mediche dei feriti italiani della tragedia di Crans-Montana curati negli ospedali elvetici. Sono felice di questa soluzione: nessun onere ricadrà sulle famiglie o sull’Italia. Il mio pensiero va, ancora una volta, alle famiglie delle vittime e dei ragazzi feriti, che affrontano con straordinaria dignità e forza un dolore immenso. A loro rinnovo la più sincera vicinanza del Governo italiano, che continuerà a stare al loro fianco. Ringrazio il Presidente Parmelin per la sensibilità dimostrata. Questa decisione conferma la solidità del rapporto tra le nostre Nazioni.

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Los zorros ‘amigables’ muestran cambios en la región cerebral

Un experimento de selección iniciado en Siberia hace casi 70 años permite ahora comprender mejor cómo la domesticación puede modificar el cerebro. Un estudio de la Universidad de Cornell ha detectado una menor presencia de neuronas vinculadas a la agresividad en zorros criados para interactuar con los humanos, un hallazgo que apunta a la relación entre el comportamiento y la estructura cerebral.

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