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"I am from Bosnia, Take me to America" -- with brass instruments, guitars and a video clip featuring grilled meat, Bosnia already achieved a success with a hit song for the forthcoming World Cup, the Balkan nation's second ever appearance in it.

ACT Brumbies coach Stephen Larkham has urged his team to block out the past as they bid to upset the Wellington Hurricanes and snap a damning record in Super Rugby playoffs in New Zealand.

For a while, dual-national footballers were a rarity in the Moroccan national team, but today they account for the majority of players across age groups and have become the Atlas Lions' greatest strength.

The Tour de France promises perhaps one of the greatest yellow jersey battles in recent memory when it begins in one month's time.

A Ukrainian strike killed at least three people in Crimea, the region's Moscow-installed authorities said Thursday, a day after Kyiv targeted energy and military sites in Saint Petersburg where Russia was hosting an economic forum.

Fiji's environment ministry on Thursday rejected a plan by an Australian billionaire to burn rubbish for energy in the South Pacific nation, after a backlash from traditional landowners and tourism operators.

New Zealand footballer Tim Payne met the influencer behind his stunning viral fame on Wednesday, presenting him with a team shirt after gaining almost five million Instagram followers in a week.

Peru's presidential runoff has exposed deep dissatisfaction in the Andean south, where poor rural voters see the election as a bitter choice and say Lima has abandoned them.

World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee says he wants to see artificial intelligence preserve "the original values" of his invention while allowing users to filter personal data sent to tech giants.

China has slapped a travel ban on a group of New Zealand lawmakers after they recently visited Taiwan, Wellington said Thursday.

Eight South Korean-born adoptees are suing Denmark for its role in their illegal adoptions decades ago, demanding the state admit responsibility for covering up their origins.

Cuban ballerina Laura Kamila Rojas is dancing her way through the transport woes, lengthy power cuts and economic hardship that now define daily life on the Caribbean island.

The NBA is "very much on schedule" with plans to launch a new European league in 2027, commissioner Adam Silver said Wednesday before the start of the NBA Finals.

Melbourne's two Big Bash League sides -- the Stars and the Renegades -- are set to merge into a single Twenty20 franchise, but the move has sparked "confusion, uncertainty and anxiety" among players.

FIFA has banned fans from bringing refillable water bottles into World Cup venues in a last-minute policy change that will force thirsty supporters to pay for bottled water, The Athletic reported on Wednesday.

Israel and Lebanon agreed Wednesday to implement a ceasefire but said it would require a "complete cessation" of fire by Iran-backed Hezbollah, according to a joint statement after US-led talks in Washington.

A fire ripped through a hotel in New Delhi on Wednesday and killed at least 21 people, many of them foreign nationals, police and local media said.

France's medieval Bayeux Tapestry will be moved to Britain in secret in a shock proof container so that it can be displayed in London this year, the culture minister said Wednesday.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 4, 2026 / Nano One® Materials Corp. ("Nano One" or the "Company") (TSX:NANO)(OTCQB:NNOMF)(Frankfurt:LBMB), a process technology company specializing in lithium-ion battery cathode active materials, provides a summary of the results from the Annual General Meeting.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 4, 2026 / Gold Basin Resources Corporation ("Gold Basin") (TSX Venture:GXX) is pleased to announce that at its special meeting (the "Meeting") of shareholders ("Gold Basin Shareholders") held today at 10:00 a.m. (Vancouver time), Gold Basin Shareholders approved the previously announced arrangement (the "Arrangement") with CANEX Metals Inc. ("CANEX").

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VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 4, 2026 / Redwood AI Corp. (CSE:AIRX)(OTCQB:RDWCF)(Frankfurt:Y0N, WKN: A422EZ) ("Redwood" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has filed a provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for technology related to an optimization module within Reactosphere, titled "Method of Chemical Experimental Optimization with Predictive-Accuracy-Based Sample-Size Planning." The filing represents an important step in protecting technology designed to support experimental planning, model-guided chemical optimization, and more efficient decision-making in chemistry-focused research and development activities.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 4, 2026 / UraniumX Discovery Corp. (CSE:STMN)(OTCQB:STMXF)(FSE:Q7S) (the "Company" or "UraniumX") is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement of up to 3,333,333 flow-through shares at a price of $0.15 per FT Share for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $500,000 (each a "FT Share") (the "Offering"). No warrants will be issued to subscribers in connection with the Offering. The Company may increase the size of the Offering to accommodate additional demand.

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LONDON, UK / ACCESS Newswire / June 4, 2026 / Ecora (LSE:ECOR)(TSX:ECOR)(OTCQX:ECRAF) announces that all resolutions were passed by the requisite majorities at the Company's Annual General Meeting held on Thursday, 4 June 2026. In line with recommended practice, a poll was conducted on each resolution at the meeting.

Enterprises can now leverage AibleClaw to securely and cost effectively run long-running AI agents or claws with NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra for frontier-class planning and use its outputs to post-train smaller Nemotron 3 Super and Nano models on their enterprise-specific use cases.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / June 4, 2026 / Predictiv AI Inc. (CSE:PAI)(FWB:7IT) ("Predictiv AI" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Shift Technologies Inc. ("Shift AI"), has secured a multi-phase commercial contract with Prompt Xpress (Pvt) Ltd and Prompt Xpress International ("Prompt Xpress"), one of Sri Lanka's largest courier and logistics networks.

New capability delivers 90 prebuilt real-time audience segments powered by EQ Works' proprietary data ecosystem, helping marketers move from research to campaign activation up to three times faster

Former Bombardier, Vertical Aerospace, and CAE engineering leader will help drive the development and certification of Horizon Aircraft's next-generation hybrid eVTOL

Company expects second quarter 2026 revenue to increase over 137% to at least $18.5 millionSecond quarter 2026 revenue expected to be up over 27% from first quarter 2026 revenue and up more than 17% from first quarter 2026 proforma revenueMomentum reflects strong demand from brands, publishers and creators across GameSquare's end-to-end platform

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / June 4, 2026 / Silver X Mining Corp. (TSXV:AGX)(OTCQB:AGXPF)(FRA:AGX) ("Silver X" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has secured 100% ownership of the Ccasahuasi gold project ("Ccasahuasi" or the "Project") through the acquisition of the Lily 19 mining concession, located within its Nueva Recuperada district in Huancavelica, central Peru.