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Escalating conflict in the Middle East is driving investor demand for defensive assets as the war drags on. The dollar index, which measures the value of the U.S. currency against a basket of currencies, rose 0.03% to 99.53. The euro fell 0.06% to $1.1563. The yen rose 0.06% to 159.11 per dollar, while sterling weakened 0.06% to $1.3331.
In the Dutch real estate market, foreign buyers are less likely to overpay than locals, according to Logos Press.
Germany is ready to allocate Moldova 12.9 million euros in the form of a grant for four priority projects. The Moldovan parliament’s foreign policy commission has approved the start of negotiations on a relevant intergovernmental agreement.
In Japan, the utilitarian Toyota ProBox was approached with an unusual creative task: to turn a serial working station wagon into a stylized “mini-Land Cruiser 70”. The tuning studio Hakobanya from Fukuoka has undertaken this remodeling, having offered its version under the name 70 BOX – in social networks it is also called “70Yo.70 Destroyer” and similar sounding nicknames. In fact, it is an attempt to create an aggressive crossover-universal in the spirit of “seventy”, which Toyota has never had in this form.
Thousands of hearing aids for children and adults with varying degrees of hearing loss will be delivered to the country’s health care facilities between 2026 and 2028. All devices will be digital, with high sound quality, minimal noise, and include individual attachments and batteries.
The richest man on the planet, Ilon Musk, may have misled investors when he bought social network Twitter in 2022 for $44 billion.
The Shipbuilding Research Center (SRC) in Wuxi, China, is working on a deep-sea tourist submersible, according to Logos Press.
Mia Heller has developed a prototype membraneless magnetic fluid-based filter capable of removing up to 96% of microplastics from drinking water, according to Logos Press.
The governments of Moldova and the German state of Baden-Württemberg will set up an intergovernmental mixed commission to expand cooperation in economy, agriculture, energy and other fields.
Spot prices for granulated urea in key FOB markets exceeded $700/t on the back of blocking most supplies from the Middle East, which limits available supply in the global market.
By the end of the current week gold in bullion was sold at about $4685 per ounce. That is, the price fell by about 7% during the week. The sharp rise in oil, natural gas and fuel prices caused by the conflict in the Middle East increases inflationary concerns and makes it less likely that central banks will reduce the cost of borrowing. This has a negative impact on gold as it does not earn interest income.
The volume of car imports from China to the European Union for the first time exceeded the export of European car products to China, Ernst & Young (EY) – one of the world’s largest audit and consulting companies – reported.
Since the beginning of 2026, 5,083 people have found jobs through the territorial subdivisions of the National Employment Agency, of which about 1,276 are officially registered unemployed.
Moldovan scientists and researchers are invited to more actively utilize the opportunities for cooperation with the EU in the field of science and innovation through the Office of the Republic of Moldova for Science and Technology to the EU (MOST).
Millwall Football Club, playing in the second division of the English Championship, has agreed with the Borough Council of Lewisham (London) to enter into a 999-year lease agreement for The Den stadium and the surrounding area, according to Logos Press.
The state enterprise Poșta Moldovei continues to modernize its infrastructure. The company purchased 10 new Fiat Doblo Maxi 2025 vehicles.
Users of Meta Corporation’s products (Facebook, Instagram, Threads) have been officially notified of the closure of Horizon Worlds, a platform that was positioned as a meta universe, Logos Press reports.
Xiaomi (China) has launched its flagship AI model MiMo V2 Pro, which has beaten DeepSeek V3.2, Claude Sonnet 4.6 and DeepSeek V3.2 in the rankings on the “OpenRouter” platform even before its official release, according to Logos Press.
The Ministry of Education and Research announced the launch of two initiatives aimed at making reading for schoolchildren an interesting and attractive creative experience. MDL 7 million has been allocated for this purpose: MDL 6.5 million will be used to renovate school libraries with 60,000 new books, and MDL 500,000 will be used to launch “literary laboratories”.
Moldova ranked 101st in the Index of Economic Freedom 2026 out of 184 states. This rating has been compiled for 32 years by the American research center The Heritage Foundation. It is determined on the basis of 12 quantitative and qualitative indicators organized in 4 main groups.
