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They were an electoral powerhouse, the party of political titans Winston Churchill, Margaret Thatcher and Benjamin Disraeli. But Britain's once-towering Conservatives end their annual meeting on Wednesday with their very future under threat.

The seas around New Zealand are warming much faster than global averages, scientists said Wednesday in a new study warning how climate change could batter the island nation.

In the swamplands along Bangladesh's mighty Padma River, snakes slithering through villages have become an unrelenting menace, leaving residents terrified and hospitals overwhelmed with bite victims.

Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm smashed home runs to spark the New York Yankees over Toronto 9-6 on Tuesday to stay in contention in the Major League Baseball playoffs.

Australian police foiled an alleged organised crime hit by a so-called kill team near a Sydney daycare facility, authorities said Wednesday.

Qatar's prime minister and senior delegates from the United States and Turkey will join Hamas and Israeli negotiators on Wednesday for a third day of talks aimed at ending the Gaza war.

Gold prices broke $4,000 for the first time Wednesday as investors piled into the safe haven over expectations for US interest rate cuts and worries over the US government shutdown.

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The NBA returns to the lucrative China market this week with two pre-season games following a six-year absence after a team official tweeted his support for pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

The development of new compounds and novel ways of storing energy are some of the research fields commentators say could be contenders for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced Wednesday.

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Qatar's prime minister and Turkish delegates will join Hamas and Israeli negotiators in Egypt on Wednesday for a third day of talks aimed at ending the Gaza war.

Women are genetically at higher risk of clinical depression than men, Australian researchers found in a study published Wednesday that could change how the disorder is treated.

Dolly Parton's sister on Tuesday asked fans to pray for the American country singer, who has postponed several concerts due to health issues.

Two hundred Texas National Guard troops have arrived in Illinois, a Pentagon official said Tuesday, ahead of a planned deployment in Chicago that is strongly opposed by local Democratic officials.

Spanish emergency services have found two bodies buried in the rubble after a building under construction collapsed in central Madrid Tuesday, with two more people still missing and several workers injured, authorities said.

Swedish center Jesper Boqvist scored the winning goal in the third period to give reigning champion Florida a 3-2 victory over Chicago in the 2025-26 NHL season opener on Tuesday.

VANCOUVER, BC, BC / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / SKY GOLD CORP. ("Sky" or the "Company") (TSXV:SKYG)(OTC PINK:SRKZF) announces a non-brokered private placement of up to 20 million units ("Units") at a price of $0.05 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of up to one million dollars (the "Offering"). Each Unit will be comprised of one common share ("Share") and one transferable Share purchase warrant of the Company ("Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the Subscriber to purchase one Warrant Share for a 36-month period after the Closing Date at an exercise price of $0.08 per share. Proceeds of the private placement will be used towards geophysics and drilling at the Tower Gold and High Life targets, both located in the Company's Evening Star property in Nevada as well as general and administrative purposes. Finder's fees will be paid pursuant to this financing. The private placement is subject to approval by the TSX Venture Exchange.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Earthwise Minerals Corp. (CSE:WISE)(FSE:966) ("Earthwise" or the "Company") announces that it will extend the terms of the private placement previously announced August 13, 2025. Earthwise intends to complete a non-brokered private placement financing (the "Offering") of up to 7,500,000 flow through units ("FT Units") at a price of $0.02 per share and up to 2,500,000 non-flow through units ("NFT Units") at a price of $0.02 per unit for gross proceeds of up to $200,000.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Apex Critical Metals Corp. (CSE:APXC)(OTCQX:APXCF) ("Apex" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that, due to strong investor demand, it has increased the size of its previously announced non-brokered private placement (the "Offering") from gross proceeds of up to $5,000,000 to gross proceeds of up to $10,000,000.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Jericho Energy Ventures Inc. (TSX-V:JEV)(OTC:JROOF)(FRA:JLM) ("Jericho", "JEV" or the "Company") wishes to clarify its October 7, 2025 news release announcing the execution of a non-binding Letter of Intent (the "LOI") with Smartkem, Inc. The LOI is strictly non-binding and was entered into solely to explore the potential terms of a future business combination. No definitive agreement has been executed, and there has been no change in control, no change to management or the board, and no transfer or disposition of assets.

Geological and engineering team mobilized to confirm high-grade tailings and exploration upside in Bolivar, bulk sample testing underway as Company positions for multi-jurisdictional growth.

WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Loar Holdings Inc. (NYSE:LOAR) ("Loar," "we" and "our"), announces the addition of Jeremy Halford as Executive Vice President, reporting to CEO & Executive Co-Chairman, Dirkson Charles. Jeremy will have operational oversight for CAV Systems (Consett, UK), Safe Flight (White Plains, NY), Applied Engineering and The Freeman Company (Yankton, SD).

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Mongolia Growth Group Ltd. (TSXV:YAK) ("MGG" or the "Company") announces today the voting results from its annual general and special meeting of shareholders held on October 7, 2025 (the "Meeting"). A total of 14,550,463 common shares of the Company, representing 57.15% of the issued and outstanding common shares of the Company, were voted in connection with the Meeting by shareholders and proxy holders. All of the matters put forward before the Company's shareholders for consideration and approval, as set out in the Company's information circular dated August 27, 2025, were approved by the requisite majority of the votes cast at the Meeting. In particular, at the Meeting, shareholders approved fixing the number of directors at five, electing Harris Kupperman, Nick Cousyn, Jim Dwyer, Brad Farquhar and Robert Scott as the directors of the Company for the ensuing year and appointing Davidson & Company LLP as auditors of the Company for the ensuing year at such remuneration as may be fixed by the board of directors. In addition to the foregoing, at the Meeting, shareholders (99.1% of shareholders in favor) also approved the sale of the Company's KEDM business to an arm's length purchaser and shareholders (99.1% of all shareholders in favor as well as 98.1% of shareholders in favor after excluding the votes of any "non-arm's length" shareholders as required by the rules of the TSX Venture Exchange (the "TSXV")) approved the sale of the Company's office property in Rincon, Puerto, Rico to Lemontree LLC, an entity owned by Harris Kupperman, the Company's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Sterling Metals Corp. (TSXV:SAG)(OTCQB:SAGGF) ("Sterling" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the discovery of large-scale bornite in outcrop and the appointment of Dr. Neil O'Brien as Chief Geologist. Concurrent with its ongoing drill program, regional exploration has expanded the surface footprint of copper mineralization at the Company's Soo Copper Project, located near Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Metallic Minerals Corp. (TSX.V:MMG)(OTCQB:MMNGF) ("Metallic Minerals" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update on field activities across its gold and silver royalty portfolio in the Yukon, along with ongoing exploration programs at its and Keno Silver Project in central Yukon. A separate update will follow shortly on the Company's active exploration initiatives at its La Plata Copper-Silver-PGE-Gold Project in southwestern Colorado.

VANCOUVER, BC, AB / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Camino Minerals Corporation (TSXV:COR)(OTC PINK:CAMZF) ("Camino" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that the Chilean authority, the Environmental Assessment Service, has issued an exempt resolution that approves the modification to the location and volume of a waste dump for the Puquios copper project located in Chile ("Puquios" or the "Puquios Project"), increasing the Project's lifespan to 15 years.

CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Mkango Resources Ltd. (AIM:MKA)(TSXV:MKA) (the "Company" or "Mkango") announces that, due to the current strike by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers impacting the Company's ability to deliver the proxy-related materials related to the Company's annual general and special meeting of shareholders scheduled to be held on 29 October 2025 (the "Meeting"), the Company will be adjourning the Meeting until 9:00 a.m. (Toronto time) on 12 November 2025 (the "Adjourned Meeting") to ensure all shareholders receive the Meeting materials with sufficient time to consider and submit their proxies or other voting instructions. The Adjourned Meeting will continue to be held at the offices of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP at 2400, 333 Bay St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the same location as the initial Meeting.

LONDON, UK, AL / ACCESS Newswire / October 8, 2025 / Orosur Mining Inc (TSXV:OMI)(AIM:OMI), the mineral explorer and developer with current operations in Columbia, Argentina and Nigeria, announces that Louis Castro, Executive Chairman and Brad George, Chief Executive Officer, will be holding a live Investor Webinar Q&A session via the Investor Meet Company platform on 15th October 2025 at 5.00 pm (UK local time).

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It was just past 2:00 am when a mysterious number rang Nobel laureate John Clarke, what he deemed "obviously a joke call" that grew increasingly surreal when he heard "a voice from Sweden."

Mixed martial arts star Conor McGregor has been issued an 18-month suspension after missing three drug tests in a 12-month period, anti-doping authorities said Tuesday.