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Australia have plenty of motivation to become the first team to win consecutive Women's Cricket World Cups since 1988, and a powerhouse squad to achieve the feat.

Grammy-winning Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny will headline next year's Super Bowl halftime show, the NFL said on Sunday, ending speculation that Taylor Swift was being lined up for the American football showpiece.

An appeals trial of Air France and Airbus opens Monday over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight that killed 228 people, the worst disaster in the French flag carrier's history.

Millions in India's eastern city of Kolkata will draw on millennia-old traditions when they celebrate the Hindu festival of Durga Puja this week with street parties and worshipping idols in elaborate pavilions.

Europe captain Luke Donald was soaking up the praise from players and rivals after years of preparation paid off in a 15-13 Ryder Cup triumph Sunday at Bethpage Black.

VIPs and fashionistas are all jostling for invitations to the most-coveted show at Paris Fashion Week: Matthieu Blazy's debut at Chanel. But who is the 41-year-old designer?

Shows by Saint Laurent and Weinsanto will kick off a hotly anticipated Paris Fashion Week on Monday, with a dozen brands set to showcase new creative directors following a major industry shakeup.

United States captain Keegan Bradley accepted the blame for the United States losing 15-13 to Europe on Sunday in the Ryder Cup despite a furious final-day singles fightback.

At least four people were killed and several others wounded Sunday after a shooter targeted a Mormon church in Michigan, authorities said, in the latest deadly tragedy that US President Donald Trump called part of a national "epidemic of violence."

United States captain Keegan Bradley called for Ryder Cup rules regarding injured players to be changed on Sunday after the late withdrawal of Norway's Viktor Hovland handed Europe a precious half-point and boosted their successful title defence.

Rory McIlroy was not shy about his dislike for Ryder Cup hecklers after a week that included taunts, insults and a beer thrown at his wife Erica.

Australian telecommunications giant Optus said Monday it had suffered a network outage that prevented calls to emergency services, just over a week after a similar interruption of service linked to four deaths.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / 55 North Mining Inc. (CSE:FFF)(FSE:6YF) ("55 North" or the "Company") announces that, subject to regulatory approval, it intends to effect a consolidation of the Company's issued and outstanding common shares (the "Shares") on the basis of twelve and one-half (12.5) existing Shares for one (1) new Share (the "Consolidation").

THUNDER BAY, ON / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Clean Air Metals Inc. ("Clean Air Metals" or the "Company") (TSXV:AIR)(FRA:CKU)(OTCQB:CLRMF) announces that it has filed its unaudited consolidated interim financial statements and management's discussion and analysis for the six-month period ended July 31, 2025, available for viewing on www.sedarplus.ca.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Green Bridge Metals Corporation (CSE:GRBM)(OTCQB:GBMCF)(FWB:J48)(WKN:A3EW4S) ("Green Bridge" or the "Company") announces that it intends to complete a non-brokered private placement (the "Private Placement") of up to 66,666,667 units of the Company (the "Units") at a price of $0.09 per Unit, for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $6,000,000.

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Vision Marine Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:VMAR), a company at the forefront of high-voltage electric propulsion and supported by an award-winning retail network, today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Nautical Ventures Group ("Nautical Ventures"), has completed a distribution agreement with Taiga Motors Inc. ("Taiga") to serve as the exclusive dealer and authorized service provider for Taiga's electric personal watercraft in major Florida markets.

MCFARLANE ANNOUNCES THE CLOSING OF ITS US$22 MILLON ACQUISITION OF THE JUBY GOLD PROJECT AND CONCURRENT FINANCING TRANSACTIONSTHIS NEWS RELEASE IS INTENDED FOR DISTRIBUTION IN CANADA ONLY AND IS NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES

CENTENNIAL, CO / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / NioCorp Developments Ltd. ("NioCorp" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:NB) today announced the closing of its previously announced public offering in the United States (the "Offering"). The Offering consisted of 9,760,000 common shares (or pre-funded warrants in lieu thereof) at a public offering price of $6.15 per common share (or $6.1499 per pre-funded warrant), for gross proceeds of approximately $60.0 million before deducting placement agent fees and offering expenses.

SIMCOE, ON / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Metalore Resources Limited (TSXV:MET) ("Metalore" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the results of its recent annual general meeting of shareholders ("AGM"), which was held on September 27, 2025.

MARKHAM, ON / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / iFabric Corp. ("iFabric" or the "Company") (TSX:IFA)(OTCQX:IFABF) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, Intelligent Fabric Technologies (North America) Inc. ("IFTNA"), has signed a license agreement with Mercury Athletics LLC, owner of the Doctor's Choice® brand, to design, manufacture, and market scrubs and medical apparel under the Doctor's Choice brand name. The program will incorporate multiple IFTNA textile technologies, led by PROTX2®, across relevant healthcare end-user categories and sales channels.

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TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Wolfden Resources Corporation (WLF.V) ("Wolfden" or the "Company")is pleased to announce that it has completed the first 600 metre core hole of an approximate 1,800 metre drill program at its Rockland Gold Project located in the Walker Lane Trend of Nevada, USA. The program is designed to test below historical and significant drill results that ended in mineralization, including 146.4 metres at 1.0 g/t AuEq* in hole PG-32 and 85.4 metres at 1.0 g/t AuEq* in hole PG-36C that was drilled in the opposing direction some 70 metres away (see Figure 3). The first hole REP18 was collared near hole PG-32 with a steeper inclination and was designed to test the extent and potential continuation of the wide mineralized zone past the end of hole PG-32. We are pleased to confirm visually that REP18 intersected 242 metres (from 282-to 524 metres down the hole) of the same intensely clay altered, flow-banded rhyolite unit with similar levels of alteration and fine-grained sulphide content, that was intersected in the 146.4 metre mineralized section of hole PG-32 (see Figure 4). Because of the steeper inclination, the hole trace of REP18 is approximately 40 metres below and parallel to hole PG-32 when viewed on a vertical cross section. The bottom 30 metres of the mineralized rhyolite in hole REP18 includes an increase in deformation and the amount of dark hairline fractures that may also contain very fine grained sulphides. This lower 30 metre section did not include a significant increase in quartz veining or silica flooding as potentially envisioned. The drill has been moved to drill a cross-over hole REP22, with an opposing direction and inclination to REP18, in order to confirm the true width and orientation of the 242-metre long altered rhyolite zone. Once hole REP22 is completed, a decision will be made to drill a hole deeper below hole REP18 or 22 to test for the potential occurrence of higher silica and higher sulphide content (higher gold grades) that could be the potential source of the significant alteration and mineralization in the altered rhyolite in hole PG-32, closer to surface.

FRISCO, TEXAS / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / GameSquare Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:GAME) ("GameSquare" or the "Company") reminds shareholders of record as of September 5, 2025 of the Company's upcoming annual meeting, which will be held on October 7, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. CT. Shareholders of record as of September 5, 2025 will be able to attend the Annual Meeting virtually by visiting https://meetnow.global/M2RRVHC.

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TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Sterling Metals Corp. (TSXV:SAG)(OTCQB:SAGGF) ("Sterling" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the discovery of a high-grade copper zone at its Soo Copper Project ("Soo Copper" or the "Project") located in Batchewana Bay, Ontario. Drill hole MEPS-25-02, part of the Company's Phase 2 exploration program, discovered a high-grade copper and gold zone within a continuous, bulk-tonnage copper-molybdenum-silver-gold porphyry system (Figure 5).

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This press release is issued pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 62-104 - Take-Over Bids and Issuer Bids and National Instrument 62-103 - The Early Warning System and Related Take-Over Bid and Insider Reporting Issuers ("NI 62-103").

KELOWNA, B.C. / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Avant Brands Inc. (TSX:AVNT)(OTCQX:AVTBF)(FRA:1BUP) ("Avant" or the "Company"), a leading producer of innovative and award-winning cannabis products, today announced it has been recognized as one of Canada's Top Growing Companies in The Globe and Mail's 2025 Report on Business. This marks the third consecutive year Avant has earned a place on the list, ranking 138th with three-year revenue growth of 263%. Avant previously ranked #49 in 2023 and #182 in 2024.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Datametrex AI Limited (the "Company" or "Datametrex'') (TSXV:DM)(FSE:D4G)(OTC PINK:DTMXF) announces that it will seek approval of TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") to upsize its two previously announced non-brokered private placement financings (see press releases dated June 9, 2025, July 8, 2025, September 15, 2025 and September 22, 2025). The Company will seek TSXV approval to increase the previously announced private placement of common shares from $3,000,000 to $4,000,000, and will seek TSXV approval to increase the previously announced financing of subscription receipts ("Subscription Receipts") from $1,000,000 to $1,300,000 (collectively, the "Offerings").

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Jaguar Mining Inc. ("Jaguar" or the Company") (TSX:JAG) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Red Cloud Securities Inc. ("Red Cloud"), as lead underwriter and bookrunner on behalf of a syndicate of underwriters (the "Underwriters"), pursuant to which the Underwriters have agreed to purchase for resale 4,545,455 common shares in the capital of the Company (the "Offered Shares") at a price of C$5.50 per Offered Share (the "Offering Price") on a "bought deal" basis in a private placement for gross proceeds of C$25,000,002.50 (the "Underwritten Offering").

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / Vision Marine Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:VMAR) ("Vision Marine" or the "Company"), a company specializing in marine innovation across electric and internal combustion platforms, together with its Nautical Ventures division, announced today milestone activations for the 2025 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS), including a VIP shuttle service operated with Vision Marine's electric boats and a reimagined AquaZone™ developed in collaboration with AquaBanas and Informa Markets.

QUEBEC, QC / ACCESS Newswire / September 29, 2025 / NuRAN Wireless Inc. ("NuRAN" or the "Company") (CSE:NUR)(OTCQB:NRRWF)(FSE:1RN), a leading supplier of mobile and broadband wireless infrastructure solutions, is pleased to announce that it has received approval for the third drawdown of US$ 1M from the Facility for Energy Inclusion ("FEI"), a fund managed by Cygnum Capital.