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Hoteliers are switching on the lights to welcome a trickle of visitors back to the once-booming resort towns of India-controlled Kashmir, a year after militants opened fire on holidaymakers in an attack that killed 26 people.

Competing for attention with Jennifer Lopez is no easy task. But at a recent wedding in India where the American star performed in a barely-there sparkly leotard, it was arguably the cake that stole the show.

Shares in a Chinese tech firm that supplies US chip titan Nvidia soared almost 60 percent on its Hong Kong debut Tuesday, having raised more than US$2 billion in the city's largest listing this year.

Oil prices fell on Tuesday while most stocks rose on lingering hopes for a deal to end the US-Iran war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, even as Tehran said it had not decided whether to attend peace talks.

A Canadian woman was shot dead and 13 others were hurt in a shooting Monday at Mexico's famed Teotihuacan archaeological site, authorities said.

An Alabama-born engineer seen as a supply-chain savant, Tim Cook took on the daunting challenge of succeeding Apple's iconic boss Steve Jobs 15 years ago.

Donovan Mitchell and James Harden combined for 58 points as the Cleveland Cavaliers defeated the Toronto Raptors 115-105 to take a commanding 2-0 lead in their best-of-seven NBA Eastern Conference first-round playoff series on Monday.

Entering the San Salvador district of Mejicanos no longer means taking your life in your hands, like it did a decade ago when Kathya Quintanilla left home to meet a friend at a local park.

Kevin Warsh, US President Donald Trump's choice to lead the Federal Reserve, will vow to protect central bank independence on interest rates at a crucial confirmation hearing Tuesday, according to remarks seen by AFP.

The PGA Tour is planning to abandon the traditional season-opening swing in Hawaii from 2027, it said Monday.

Amazon on Monday said it pumped another $5 billion into Anthropic as it ramps up its collaboration with the startup behind Claude artificial intelligence.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed "harsh action" on Monday against a soldier caught on camera vandalising a statue of Jesus Christ in southern Lebanon.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Immutable Holdings Inc. (CBOE:HOLD)(OTCQB:IHLDF) ("Immutable Holdings" or the "Corporation"), a publicly-traded blockchain holding company, announced today that Jeffrey Long resigned as a director of the Board of Directors of the Corporation, effective April 17, 2026.

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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Gold Port Corporation (CSE:GPO)(OTCQB:GPOTF) ("Gold Port" or the "Company") announces that it has granted incentive stock options to purchase a total of 6,000,000 common shares at an exercise price of $0.10 per common share for a period of five years to certain directors, officers and consultants in accordance with the provisions of its stock option plan.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Zimtu Capital Corp. (TSX.V:ZC)(FSE:ZCT1) ("Zimtu" or the "Company") announces that the Company and Global Energy Metals Corporation have mutually agreed to terminate the mineral property option agreement dated January 12, 2026 (the "Option Agreement") entered into between the parties, without any party having any further liability or obligation to the other arising from the Option Agreement.

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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Onco-Innovations Limited (CBOE CA:ONCO)(OTCQB:ONNVF)(Frankfurt:W1H, WKN: A3EKSZ) ("Onco" or the "Company") announces the successful completion of a significant milestone with Dalton Pharma Services ("Dalton"), focused on analytical method development for purity determination of Intermediate 1 (monomer) of its proprietary polymer platform supporting ONC010. The completed work includes development of a robust reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) analytical method designed to support impurity detection and quality control of the monomer used in the Company's nanoparticle-based drug delivery system. Pre-validation data generated during the program demonstrated strong analytical performance, including high sensitivity for impurity detection at low thresholds, excellent linearity across the tested range, and consistent chromatographic behavior suitable for routine analytical application.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Grande Portage Resources Ltd. (TSXV:GPG)(OTCQB:GPTRF)(FSE:GPB) ("Grande Portage" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that further to its news release dated April 15, 2026, the Company has filed on SEDAR+ a Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) technical report for the New Amalga Gold Project ("New Amalga" or the "project"), located approximately 25km north of the city of Juneau in Southeast Alaska, USA.

LAFAYETTE, LA / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Viemed Healthcare, Inc. (the "Company" or "Viemed") (NASDAQ:VMD), a national provider of technology-enabled, home-based healthcare solutions and chronic disease management, today announced that it will host its First Quarter 2026 Earnings Conference Call on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. EDT.

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TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Justera Health Inc. (CSE:VTAL)(OTC:SCRSF) ("Justera" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Bruce (Hwan) Lee as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective April 21, 2026.

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CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Karbon-X Corp. (OTCQX:KARX) ("Karbon-X" or the "Company"), a vertically integrated climate solutions company, today announced that it has filed its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the nine months ended February 28, 2026.

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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Sarama Resources Ltd. ("Sarama" or the "Company") (TSX-V:SWA)(ASX:SRR) is pleased to provide a corporate update on matters pertaining to its arbitration claim ("Claim"), Western Australian gold assets, and the acquisition of copper-gold exploration tenements in New South Wales, Australia.

MINNEAPOLIS, MN / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / phData, a leading provider of AI and data services, announced today that it has achieved AWS Premier Tier Services Partner Status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). Achieving AWS Premier Tier Services Partner status differentiates phData as an AWS Partner who demonstrated expertise and notable success in helping customers design, architect, build, migrate, and manage their workloads on AWS.

DALLAS, TX / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Messier 42 LLC ("M42"), a private leading global artificial intelligence technology and digital transformation company, today announced that Brian Marren has joined the company's Advisory Board, bringing deep experience in human behavior pattern recognition, high-threat protection, operational instruction, and mission-focused leadership. Mr. Marren serves as Chief Executive Officer of Arcadia Cognerati, a partner portfolio company and a firm focused on Human Behavior Pattern Recognition & Analysis, or HBPR&A.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Route1 Inc.("Route1" or the "Company") (TSXV:ROI), a provider of technology-enabled services focused on parking operations, public safety, and mobility, today announced the commercial launch of "Mr. Parking," a new operational capability designed to improve performance across live parking environments while expanding recurring revenue within existing customer relationships.

SHELTON, CT / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 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, comments that its drug candidate NV-387 is the weapon necessary for combatting growing cases of deadly measles worldwide.

CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2026 / Kestrel Gold Inc. ("Kestrel" or the "Corporation") (TSX-V:KGC) announces that Jean Sharp has resigned as Corporate Secretary and Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation and that Ikay Deol has been appointed as Corporate Secretary and Chief Financial Officer.

As demand from sponsors and CROs for proven, large‑scale remote patient monitoring (RPM) capabilities continues to accelerate, AMC Health expands its decentralized clinical trial (DCT) program, bringing more than 20 years of real‑world RPM delivery to bear on the operational challenges that matter most to the life sciences industry.