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Gold prices soared to another fresh record above $5,500 Thursday, while oil advanced and stocks fell after Donald Trump ramped up geopolitical tensions with his threatened military strike on Iran.

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics posted record quarterly profits Thursday, riding massive market demand for the memory chips that power artificial intelligence.

China will act to defend its companies' interests if Australia forcibly buys back control of the strategic northern port of Darwin, Beijing's ambassador has warned.

China has purged top generals before, but the announcement that Zhang Youxia, the vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), is being investigated for corruption shocked defence observers.

American singer-songwriters are taking up the protest torch like their forebears Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, releasing tracks featuring searing criticism of Donald Trump and homage to Minneapolis residents killed this month by federal immigration agents.

Ronald Herrera remembered the prosperity that Puerto Cabello enjoyed decades ago as home to the El Palito refinery -- once a symbol of Venezuela's oil boom.

As "AI slop" floods the internet, efforts are mounting to stem an online deluge of shoddy images and videos made using increasingly advanced tech tools.

On a frigid night in Canada's oil capital, Jordan Fritz joined a rally of thousands for a separatist movement once considered a sideshow, but which is now drawing interest from US President Donald Trump's allies.

South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics posted record quarterly profits on Thursday, riding strong market demand for its artificial intelligence chips.

CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / January 29, 2026 / CANEX Metals Inc. ("CANEX" or the "Company") (TSXV:CANX) is very pleased to announce that it has satisfied the statutory minimum tender requirement for its offer (the "Offer") to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Gold Basin Resources Corporation ("Gold Basin") (TSX.V:GXX), plans; has received an order from the British Columbia Securities Commission ("BCSC") dated January 28, 2026 (the "Partial Revocation Extension Order"), extending the partial revocation order dated August 18, 2025 (the "Partial Revocation Order") with respect to the cease-trade order imposed on Gold Basin on May 6, 2025; has waived all remaining conditions to the Offer, and is proceeding to take-up shares under the Offer. CANEX is also announcing the mandatory 10-day extension of the Offer (the "Extension"), in accordance with Canadian securities laws. Following the share take-up CANEX will become the controlling shareholder of Gold Basin and will work diligently to unlock the immense potential of the large and advanced oxide-gold district in Northern Arizona.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / January 29, 2026 / LIR Life Sciences Corp. (CSE:SKNY)(OTC PINK:BBCMF)(Frankfurt:N790, WKN:A41QA9) ("LIR" or the "Company")is pleased to announce positive interim results from its ongoing comparative mouse study evaluating cell penetrating peptide (CPP) enabled, needle-free delivery of GLP/GIP-based therapies. In this interim analysis, animals treated with a novel semaglutide/CPP topical formulation demonstrated reduced blood glucose following an oral glucose challenge compared with untreated controls, indicating pharmacologically meaningful activity in this model.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / January 29, 2026 / PPX Mining Corp. (TSXV:PPX)(BVL:PPX) is pleased to announce that its audited financial statements and Management's Discussion and Analysis ("MD&A") for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025 are available on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca.

The agency pointed in particular to AFC's capacity to structure and execute complex transactions, and to deploy capital across priority sectors where private financing alone is often insufficient

BEDFORD, NS / ACCESS Newswire / January 29, 2026 / Silver Spruce Resources, Inc. ("Silver Spruce" or the "Company") (TSXV:SSE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul K. Smith, P.Geo., as Vice-President of Exploration, effective immediately. He is a Qualified Person under NI 43-101.

EV3 has raised $61.74m Fund II to invest in novel crypto-enabled businesses. The managing partners previously worked together at Goldman Sachs.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / January 29, 2026 / PPX Mining Corp. (TSXV:PPX)(BVL:PPX) ("PPX" or the "Company") announces that it has granted 1,167,567 deferred share units (each, a "DSU") and 778,378 restricted share units (each, an "RSU") to Ernest Mast, the President, Chief Executive Officer and director of the Company. The RSUs have a three-year restricted period, vesting in equal amounts on the first, second and third anniversaries of the date of grant. The DSUs will vest on the 20th business day after the holder ceases to be an eligible person under the Company' equity incentive plan, subject to a minimum vesting period of 12 months after the date of grant. Once vested, each DSU and RSU entitles the holder to acquire one common share of the Company. The DSUs and RSUs were issued pursuant to the terms of the Company's 10% rolling equity incentive plan, which was approved by the shareholders of the Company on December 18, 2025.

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CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / January 29, 2026 / Caravan Trailer Lodges of Alberta Ltd. (the "Corporation" or "Caravan") is pleased to announce that the second installment of the Initial Distribution to registered shareholders will be proceeding on January 29, 2026. The second installment is a payment in the amount of $2,725,019 and follows on the first installment in the amount of $2,339,240, which was previously distributed to all shareholders of record as of December 17, 2025. For most holders of Class A Shares (other than those involved in the previously reported litigation), this second installment equates to an aggregate dividend amount of $10.41015. When added to the December distribution of approximately $10.151353 per share, the total amount payable to most shareholders from these two installments is $20.561503 per share.

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Expanded agreement infuses Formerra's European healthcare polymer portfolio with life-saving Foster® compounds.

Innodata's data engineering and annotation capabilities support Palantir's expanding AI platform deployments for event analytics

New sites expected to further accelerate patient enrollment, which surpassed 50% in Phase III study, as well as support future clinical programsGelrinC is set to transform cartilage repair market with off-the-shelf regenerative products

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / January 29, 2026 / CHAR Technologies Ltd. ("CHAR Tech" or "the Company") (TSXV:YES)(FSE:68K) a leader in sustainable biomass energy solutions, today announced that commissioning has commenced at its Thorold Renewable Energy Facility, the Company's first commercial renewable energy and biocarbon production facility

First-Ever Drilling by Tectonic at Black Creek Intrusion Delivers High-Grade Gold Six Kilometres North of Chicken Mountain, Validating Multi-Intrusion Gold System Across 99,800-Acre Flat Property

Composites manufacturing expert, RAMPF Composite Solutions, selected to build the main body of the Cavorite X7

Global live streaming viewership grew 6% year-over-year to 36.4B hours watched during 2025, nearly matching 2021's pandemic-era peak

Lyken.AI and Clairvoyant Holdings Inc. Outline Proposed Collaboration for AI-Enabled Infrastructure and Engineering Services

This news release constitutes a "designated news release" for the purposes of the Company's prospectus supplement dated November 28, 2024 to its short form base shelf prospectus dated August 21, 2024.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA / ACCESS Newswire / January 29, 2026 / CoTec Holdings Corp. (TSX-V:CTH)(OTCQB:CTHCF) ("CoTec" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the establishment of a wholly-owned subsidiary, CoTec Copper, to accelerate the Company's investment activities in copper tailings and sulfide deposits.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / January 29, 2026 / Copper Road Resources Inc. (TSXV:CRD) ("Copper Road" or the "Company") is pleased to provide a corporate update on its recent activities.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA / ACCESS Newswire / January 29, 2026 / Vanta Holdings Inc. (CSE:VNTA)(OTC:FGHFF)(FSE:7BC0, WKN:A40L1Z)("Vanta" or the "Company"), a next-generation beverage and nutraceutical company focused on longevity and human performance, announces a proposed non-brokered private placement financing (the "Private Placement"), consisting of the issuance of an aggregate of up to 2,380,952 units of the Company (each, a "Unit"), at aprice of $2.10 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $5,000,000.