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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 28 points as the Oklahoma City Thunder bagged a 16th consecutive victory to romp into the NBA Cup semi-finals with a 138-89 rout of the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday.

Austrian lawmakers on Thursday are expected to approve a law banning headscarves in schools for girls under 14, a move rights groups and experts say is discriminatory and could deepen societal division.

Most Asian markets rose Thursday as traders welcomed the Federal Reserve's third straight interest rate cut, though the euphoria was tempered by an indication officials could hold off another reduction any time soon.

Sensible people might prefer to flee at torpedo speed from a great white shark, but there's one job in Australia that pays you to race towards the predators.

Renewed fighting raged at the border of Cambodia and Thailand on Thursday, with combat heard near centuries-old temples, ahead of US President Donald Trump's planned phone call to the two nations' leaders.

Nobel laureate and Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado emerged from hiding to make her first public appearance in almost a year, waving to supporters from the balcony of her Oslo hotel early Thursday.

Eddie Jones will coach Japan at the 2027 Rugby World Cup after surviving a performance review at the end of a mixed second year back in charge.

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President Donald Trump has deployed thousands of US troops to the Caribbean and warned of strikes on Venezuelan soil.

In pursuit of the AI dream, the tech industry this year has plunked down about $400 billion on specialized chips and data centers, but questions are mounting about the wisdom of such unprecedented levels of investment.

Devon Conway scored an unbeaten fifty to guide New Zealand to 112-2 at lunch on day two of the second Test in Wellington on Wednesday, in reply to the West Indies' 205.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / LIR Life Sciences Corp. (CSE:SKNY)(Frankfurt:N790, WKN: A41QA9) ("LIR" or the "Company") announces that it has filed a provisional patent application intended to cover a needle-free delivery platform for GLP/GIP[1]-based therapies used in obesity and metabolic disease. LIR filed the provisional patent application titled "Transdermal and Lingual Delivery System for GLP-1 Inhibitors" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The filing is intended to protect LIR's approach to delivering these therapies through the skin, with the goal of replacing or reducing the need for injections.

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GGL options up to 90% of the vein system at its Gold Point ProjectInitial cash payment of US$190,000Retained upside via staged share payments, a 2% NSR and future Performance RightsTeck terminates option at Le Champ porphyry target

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / Park Lawn Corporation ("Park Lawn" or "PLC"), is pleased to announce that, effective December 1st, it acquired substantially all of the assets of Service Group of Oklahoma (collectively "SGOK"), a group of businesses consisting of eight stand-alone funeral homes with locations spanning the greater Oklahoma City market.

Hundreds of Local Nebraskans Turn Out to Support Elk Creek Critical Minerals ProjectEXIM President and Chairman John Jovanovic Highlights the Elk Creek Project As "Exactly the Type of Opportunity EXIM Was Always Designed to Support"Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen Calls the Elk Creek Critical Minerals Project "One of the Greatest Deposits in the United States of America"A Full Replay of the Town Hall is Available Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFqgDw4znUI

Morrison and d'Avezac to Spearhead Smart Cart Sales Across American and European Markets

Brian Churlik promoted to Vice President of Procurement as longtime executive Mike Mechley retires

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / Hanna Capital Corp. (the "Corporation") is pleased to announce that it intends to raise gross proceeds of up to $170,000 through a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") of up to 17,000,000 units (the "Units") of the Corporation at a price of $0.01 per Unit.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / Strategic Metals Ltd. (TSXV:SMD) ("Strategic" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the filing of two Technical Reports (the "Reports") for its Hopper and Division Mountain projects, both prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-101. The Reports, titled "Technical Report on the Hopper Project in the Dawson Range Copper-Gold Belt, Aishihik Lake area, Yukon, Canada" and "NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Division Mountain Property, Yukon Territory, Canada" are filed on SEDAR and can be viewed at www.sedar.com under the Strategic profile.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / AI/ML Innovations Inc. (CSE:AIML) ("AIML" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the engagement of Guerilla Capital ("Guerilla"), an arm's length investor relations firm with offices in Ontario, Canada. Guerilla will provide investor relations services to the Company including enhancing the Company's communications and investor outreach efforts.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / (TSXV:OGN)(OTCQB:OGNNF) Orogen Royalties Inc. ("Orogen" or the "Company") is pleased to note Kodiak Copper Corp.'s (TSX.V:KDK) ("Kodiak") announcement of an initial Mineral Resource Estimate ("MRE") on Kodiak's South, West and Adit deposits forming the southern area of the greater MPD copper-gold porphyry project ("MPD") in British Columbia. Orogen holds a 2% net smelter return ("NSR") royalty on the southern area of the MPD project subject to a 0.5% buydown for C$2 million.

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A Breakout Critical Element Core Intercept In The Bathurst Mmining Camp

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / Irving Resources Inc. (CSE:IRV)(OTCQX:IRVRF)(FSE:1IR) ("Irving" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on its epithermal gold-silver holdings on the Noto Peninsula, Honshu, Japan (Figure 1). The Company's 99 Noto prospecting licenses (337.37 sq km) cover four discrete potential target areas displaying stream sediment gold, silver, arsenic, antimony, mercury and/or copper anomalism and, once granted, would make Irving the largest holder of prospecting licenses in the Noto area (please refer to the Company's news release dated March 12, 2021). The Noto Project is a joint venture between Newmont Overseas Exploration Limited ("Newmont"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Newmont Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation ("Sumitomo") and Irving. The initial interests of the parties in the joint venture are Newmont, 60%, Sumitomo, 12.5%, and Irving, 27.5%.

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TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / December 11, 2025 / PJX Resources Inc. ("PJX" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that recently completed drilling on its' Dewdney Trail Property has intersected 63 metres (m) of "Quake zone" mineralization, a zone with pervasive and continuous strongly anomalous zinc, lead, silver and other critical metal mineralization (see Table 1 and Photo A). Bands of bedded Sedex disseminated to semi-massive sulphide mineralization occur above and below the Quake zone (see photo B). Tourmaline alteration, characteristic of mineralization at the Sullivan deposit, occurs as bands above and within the zone. The bands of intersected sulphide mineralization are similar to the range of thickness for some bands at the Sullivan deposit (see Diagram 1). Exploration has also discovered sulphide boulders 800 meters farther south and on strike with the drilling. One boulder assayed 546g/t silver, 32.3% lead, and 4.89% zinc. Management believes these new discoveries are supportive evidence of a large sedex-style mineralizing system within the Estella basin on the Dewdney Trail Property.

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Opportunistic capital raise for project development and general corporate purposesA portion of the net proceeds from this offering to be used to purchase cash-settled capped calls to compensate Ur-Energy for potential economic dilution up to a cap of 100% premium above the last reported sale price of Ur-Energy's common shares on the NYSE American on the date of pricing

The US government has moved to drop its case against a former Fox broadcasting executive involved in the FIFA corruption scandal that plunged the world's footballing body into crisis.