A federal audit has confirmed that Mexico’s currency buffer released 8.6 billion pesos for public projects, the largest annual saving in the programme’s history. The money, freed as the peso strengthened against the dollar, is headed for water systems, transit repairs and clinic equipment.
A public hearing in Buenos Aires has revealed that Argentina’s preliminary voter register went online 16 days after its deadline, with more than 612,000 entries still tied to addresses officials could not confirm. The delay was not the only failure: testimony showed the electoral authority knew the address-matching system had been switched off before it published the list.
A week after torrential rain flooded towns in Veracruz, a state inspection found that most of a costly river-warning network was never installed. The system’s false all-clear has opened a political scandal over how officials bought and tested the equipment.
Jinyu County has cancelled a planned 28-kilometre road through a scenic ridge and will protect 9,800 hectares of forests and terraced fields instead. The decision was announced on Monday after a public hearing where decades of photographs showed how quickly the area had changed.
A public housing map has been placing thousands of homes on empty Lagos plots for three hours each night, leading to a review of ₦18.4 billion in resale payments. The nightly apparition has exposed a possible scheme built around a rule change that let buyers resell government-backed flats sooner.
A new Irish planning rule took effect on Friday, and a study published the same day warns that it could let altered bogs and coastal sites be judged as if their recent condition were natural. Researchers say missing public photo archives may leave 9,600 hectares without a usable record of how they changed.
A former compliance officer says public grants meant to explain a cross-border transport plan paid for attack ads aimed at local candidates in Portugal, Spain and Belgium. The treaty office froze new awards on Thursday after her testimony, and a public ad register confirmed dozens of the campaigns.
A new government performance portal mistakenly sent thousands of Kenyan public employees into a payroll hold within hours of its launch on Tuesday. The finance ministry says KSh 1.9 billion (about €12.6 million) in salaries was delayed, in what a public-sector union calls the largest single-day pay interruption in the country’s records.
A government-backed cleaning programme for public housing kept its “low-emission” label after officials were warned that its citrus-based solvent could create harmful byproducts indoors. The finding emerges as residents mark 20 years since the scheme began and demand an explanation for years of unanswered complaints.
A scientific study that overturns the official account of a deadly 1979 dam disaster has prompted an urgent evacuation in West Virginia after new seepage was detected at the same structure. The governor has ordered residents downstream to leave and promised a formal apology to the family of the worker blamed for the old failure.
A chance check by a local election volunteer has exposed the largest recorded case of political posts being wrongly downgraded on an Austrian social platform. The discovery comes three weeks before voters choose a new parliament, with officials warning that millions of readers may have missed campaign messages.
Actor Dorian Vardis has announced a new political movement to stop a government plan that would centralise water contracts on 18 Greek islands. His sudden entry has turned a technical bill into a test of whether a celebrity can reshape the country’s next election — and whether his campaign has answers beyond its headline issue.