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Asian stocks mostly rose and oil prices edged up on Monday as reports said the United States and Iran had agreed to stop attacking each other following a weekend of strikes that threw their fragile truce into question.

A Jewish lawyer wounded in a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach discovered that AI-generated images depicting him as a "crisis actor" were proliferating online as he was going into surgery, a royal commission inquiry heard Monday.

South Korea will invest nearly $1.2 trillion -- equivalent to more than two-thirds of its GDP -- in a new chip-building hub and AI data centres over several years, as it seeks to profit from soaring demand while developing previously neglected regions.

Pakistani airstrikes killed dozens of people in eastern Afghanistan, with Islamabad saying on Monday it targeted militants but the Afghan government reporting civilian casualties.

Seeing a whole class of children pile into his museum about a Russian prince's 13th-century victory over Western crusaders, historian Vladimir Potresov was delighted.

Cape Verdean make-up artist Leonardo put the finishing touches to a singer's look at a shoot for a music video, open and comfortable about being a gay man in Africa.

Brazil's quest to win a record sixth World Cup heads into the knockout stages on Monday as Carlo Ancelotti's team face Japan in the last 32, before four-time champions Germany play Paraguay and Morocco take on the Netherlands in perhaps the tie of the round.

South Korea's dismal World Cup first-round exit has sparked fury at home and calls for a complete overhaul at the top have not been silenced by coach Hong Myung-bo's resignation.

A US official said Sunday that Washington and Tehran agreed to halt attacks after new tit-for-tat strikes strained their interim deal, with the sides planning to renew talks aimed at ending the Middle East war.

Asian stocks were mixed and oil prices edged up as reports said the United States and Iran had agreed to stop attacking each other following a weekend of strikes that threw their fragile truce into question.

Europe and China will gauge whether trade frictions can be resolved through talks Monday when top EU trade official Maros Sefcovic hosts his Chinese counterpart Wang Wentao in Brussels for day-long discussions.

The ghostly white creature curled up on a weighing scale is almost unrecognisable in the Facebook post offering it for sale. Only closer inspection reveals it to be a dead pangolin.

For Israeli settler Nitzan, Hebron's Old City and its sacred Cave of the Patriarchs shrine are a must-see for all of humanity, but for Palestinian Issa Amro, it has become a symbol of Israel's expanding grip on the city.

In a displacement camp near El-Obeid in Sudan's southern Kordofan region, Agsam Hamad trudges through searing heat to fetch murky water from a distant well, as paramilitary forces unleash their fiercest assault yet on the strategic city.

Top-ranked Scottie Scheffler and Norway's Viktor Hovland will meet Monday morning in a playoff to decide the PGA Tour Travelers Championship after finishing deadlocked on Sunday after 72 holes.

South Korea's Ryu Hae-ran marched to her first major title on Sunday, firing five birdies in a two-under par 70 final round to win the Women's PGA Championship by two strokes.

What happens next? That is the awkward question facing English cricket after Ben Stokes announced his retirement from international duty in the middle of a Test match.

Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann said Sunday only winning the World Cup can silence the sceptics of his side as they prepare for a last-32 showdown against Paraguay.

Emergency teams with rescue dogs were searching Sunday for any remaining survivors of powerful twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela, where the death toll has surpassed 1,450 and nearly 200 building have completely collapsed.

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HALIFAX, NS / ACCESS Newswire / June 29, 2026 / MedMira Inc. (MedMira) (TSXV:MIR), reported today on its financial results for the quarter ended April 30, 2026.

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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 29, 2026 / 1933 Industries Inc. (the "Company" or "1933 Industries") (CSE:TGIF)(OTCID:TGIFF), a Nevada-focused cannabis cultivator and producer, is pleased to announce its third quarter financial results for the six and nine months ended April 30, 2026 and 2025 ("fiscal 2026"). All amounts expressed are in Canadian dollars.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 29, 2026 / AIP Realty Trust (the "Trust" or "AIP Realty") (TSXV:AIP.U) announced the results of voting at its annual general and special meeting of unitholders held on Friday, June 26, 2026 at the offices of Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, Suite 3100, Park Place, 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver British Columbia V6C 2X8 (the "Meeting"). A total of 40.35% of the issued and outstanding class A trust units of the Trust (the "Class A Units") and 23.68% of the issued and outstanding preferred units - series B convertible of the Trust (the "Preferred Units" and, together with the Class A Units, the "Units") were represented in person or by proxy at the Meeting, and each of the resolutions put forward by the trustees of the Trust (the "Trustees") were approved.

CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / June 29, 2026 / (TSX:SHLE)

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ALMATY, KAZAKHSTAN AND NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / June 29, 2026 / Timur Turlov, President of the Kazakhstan Chess Federation and founder and majority shareholder of Freedom Holding Corp., has announced his candidacy for the position of Deputy President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE).

DENVER, CO / ACCESS Newswire / June 29, 2026 / Vox Royalty Corp. (NASDAQ:VOXR)(TSX:VOXR) ("Vox" or the "Company"), a returns-focused mining royalty and streaming company, is pleased to provide an update on its gold offtake-stream exposure over the Los Filos gold mine ("Los Filos") in Guerrero, Mexico, following news announced by Equinox Gold Corp. ("Equinox"). On June 25, 2026, Equinox announced that it signed 20-year land access agreements with all three communities that host its Los Filos operations, enabling Equinox to commence planning for a phased restart of heap leach operations and to advance technical and engineering studies to evaluate expansion opportunities(1). Vox holds a gold offtake-stream covering 50% of gold production from Los Filos, up to a cap of 1,100,000 delivered ounces of which approximately 588,000 ounces are remaining to be delivered. The offtake-stream was acquired in September 2025 as part of the portfolio of assets acquired in the Global Gold Portfolio.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 29, 2026 / Infield Minerals Corp. (TSX-V:IN) ("Infield" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has more than doubled the Detroit property land package through staking lode claims and through a mineral exploration with option to lease agreement dated May 1, 2026 (the "Exploration Agreement") with the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration ("SITLA") on behalf of the State of Utah. The Exploration Agreement grants Infield the right to explore an additional 6,797 acres of SITLA-managed land, contiguous with the Detroit property, over a five-year term. The Company has staked and filed a further 135 lode claims with the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM"). As a result of the Company's land consolidation efforts, the Detroit property land package has been increased from 5,115 acres to 14,122 acres (Figure 1), pending processing of the lode claims by the BLM.

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SHELTON, CT / ACCESS Newswire / June 29, 2026 / NanoViricides, Inc., a publicly traded company (NYSE American:NNVC) (the "Company"), and a clinical stage, leading global pioneer in the development of broad-spectrum antivirals based on host-mimetic nanomedicine technology that viruses cannot escape, announced today that its clinical stage, broad-spectrum, antiviral drug NV-387 has been granted a "Rare Pediatric Disease Drug" (RPDD) Designation by the US FDA Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD).

ORLANDO, FL / ACCESS Newswire / June 29, 2026 / Unusual Machines, Inc. (NYSE American:UMAC), a leading manufacturer of NDAA-compliant drone components, today announced it has been added to the Russell 2000® Index as part of the first 2026 Russell indexes reconstitution. The Company was previously included in the Russell Microcap® Index.