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Zinedine Zidane spent years patiently waiting in the wings for his chance to manage France and on Friday the successor to Didier Deschamps as coach of Les Bleus will lead the side out for the first time in a UEFA Nations League tie in Turkey.

Saudi Arabia has deep pockets and cutting-edge weapons yet for more than a decade it has been unable to quash Yemen's battle-hardened Houthis.

Former political prisoners of Venezuela's Rodeo I are unable to shake the memories of punishments dealt out by hooded jailers in the country's most notorious prison.

US President Donald Trump is expected to claim he is winning both on the battlefield and as a peacemaker Tuesday in a speech to the United Nations overshadowed by growing spillover from his stalled war against Iran.

Charles Spencer's book about his late sister, Princess Diana, packed with explosive revelations is published Tuesday, after searing extracts prompted a rare and sharp rebuttal from King Charles III.

A Venezuelan national shot and wounded by a US immigration agent in Texas was jailed with the bullet still inside his body, his lawyer said Monday.

Sri Lanka is set to conclude on Tuesday the trial of 24 men accused of plotting the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings, the deadliest attack against civilians in the island's history.

The anniversary event highlighted the brand's mother-centered, all-in-one approach to postpartum care.

ADELAIDE, AU / ACCESS Newswire / September 22, 2026 / Barton Gold Holdings Limited (ASX:BGD)(OTC PINK:BGDFF)(FRA:BGD3) (Barton or Company) advises that the attached presentation is due to be presented today at the Presentation to Beaver Creek Precious Metals Summit.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / September 22, 2026 / Battery X Metals Inc. (CSE:BATX)(OTCQB:BATXF)(FSE:5YW0, WKN:A41RJF) ("Battery X Metals" or the "Company") an energy transition resource exploration and technology company, announces a non-brokered private placement financing (the "Private Placement"), consisting of the issuance of up to 416,666 units of the Company (each, a "Unit"), at a price of $2.40 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of up to $1,000,000.

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CALGARY, AB AND VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / September 22, 2026 / Onco-Innovations Limited (CBOE CA:ONCO)(OTCQB:ONNVF) (Frankfurt:W1H, WKN:A3EKSZ) ("Onco") and Redwood AI Corp. (CSE:AIRX)(OTCQB:RDWCF)(Frankfurt:Y0N, WKN:A422EZ) ("Redwood AI") are pleased to announce that Onco, as lead applicant, together with Redwood AI, Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre ("GSC") and Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval ("CRCHUQ"), as co-applicants, have been awarded a competitive grant under the Digital Health Innovation Fund (DHIF), administered by the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI), to support the development and advancement of SynoGraph, an AI-driven oncology platform being developed by Onco. Each co-applicant is an individual recipient under the grant, with the parties' respective participation and collaboration governed by the contribution agreements relating to the DHIF-funded project. Under these agreements, Redwood AI will contribute proprietary data integration and physicochemical modelling methods aimed at expanding the predictive core of SynoGraph. The DHIF award is a reimbursement-based grant for up to 25% of an estimated $3.5 million project budget.

CALGARY, AB AND VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / September 22, 2026 / Onco-Innovations Limited (CBOE CA:ONCO)(OTCQB:ONNVF)(Frankfurt:W1H, WKN:A3EKSZ) ("Onco") and Redwood AI Corp. (CSE:AIRX)(OTCQB:RDWCF)(Frankfurt:Y0N, WKN:A422EZ) ("Redwood AI") are pleased to announce that Onco, as lead applicant, together with Redwood AI, Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre ("GSC") and Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec-Université Laval ("CRCHUQ"), as co-applicants, have been awarded a competitive grant under the Digital Health Innovation Fund (DHIF), administered by the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI), to support the development and advancement of SynoGraph, an AI-driven oncology platform being developed by Onco. Each co-applicant is an individual recipient under the grant, with the parties' respective participation and collaboration governed by the contribution agreements relating to the DHIF-funded project. Under these agreements, Redwood AI will contribute proprietary data integration and physicochemical modelling methods aimed at expanding the predictive core of SynoGraph. The DHIF award is a reimbursement-based grant for up to 25% of an estimated $3.5 million project budget.

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BEDFORD, NS / ACCESS Newswire / September 22, 2026 / (TSXV:SSE) - Silver Spruce Resources, Inc. announced today that it has received the conditional approval of the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") of its debt settlement of $20,000 to be satisfied by the issuance of 210,526 common shares at a deemed price of $0.095 per share and will close the debt settlement upon receipt of the final approval of the TSXV.

Portuguese will facilitate sales in Angola and other Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa, such as Mozambique

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Gold starts in the first sample below a thin overburden cover and runs for 95.6 metres. N2-26-033 extends the A-Zone's northern auriferous horizon 25 metres north over the upper 100 metres of the hole and up to 50 metres north at depth. Drilling into this previously untested ground shows that the horizon potentially remains open to the north.Highlights:Thick, continuous gold from 7 metres below surface. N2-26-033, drilled north of the A-Zone, returned 0.98 g/t Au over 95.6 metres beginning at 8.4 metres downhole (7.1 metres vertical), including 3.14 g/t Au over 10.0 metres from 8.4 metres.New ground, open to the north. The hole extends mineralization beyond the northern limit of the historical wireframes and joins Phase 1 holes N2-25-005 (0.91 g/t Au over 42.3 metres from 9.9 metres vertical) and N2-25-012 (1.75 g/t Au over 30.4 metres from 45.3 metres vertical) on the same northern horizon.The Company is undertaking a fully funded 75,000 metre drill program at its flagship N2 Property in Quebec, host to a global historic resource of ~871,000 ounces comprised of 18 Mt grading 1.4 g/t Au (~810,000 oz Au) across four zones (A, East, RJ-East, and Central)2,3 and 243 Kt grading 7.82 g/t Au (~61,000 oz Au) across the RJ zone2,4.Across the A-Zone, 84% of historical drillholes intercepted gold, reflecting a highly continuous, low-variability system that this northward extension drilling is now confirming across strike.This hole sits beyond the northern edge of the western historic core of the A-Zone (historical resource of ~0.5 Moz at ~1.5 g/t Au). Formation will continue stepping out north toward the main deformation zone, where the horizon remains open.The Company has working capital of ~C$26.3M5 with zero debt.

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LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESS Newswire / September 22, 2026 / Pacific Avenue Capital Partners ("Pacific Avenue"), a global private equity firm focused on corporate carve-outs and other complex transactions in the middle market, today announced the addition of Amy Rice as Chief Operating Officer and four additions to its investment team - Jimmy Sourbeer as Principal, Dan Lisowski as Vice President, and Brendan Kang and Aidan Osterman as Associates. Pacific Avenue also announced the addition of Cole Sathngam as an Associate Software Engineer to its growing four person artificial intelligence team, reflecting the continued expansion of the firm's AI capabilities across all functions.

Company remains sharply focused on its ongoing rare disease intestinal failure global development program for microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) and SBS for crofelemer powder for oral solution, targeting an NDA filing for MVID mid-2027

Partnership combines Chartis' Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) and Fortnite Creative capabilities with GameSquare's Hatchet data platform to provide brands with enhanced measurement, creator intelligence and campaign insights

Podium presentation will detail AirSCWO performance across PFAS, tire-derived 6PPD-q, and pharmaceutical waste streams

Landmark Nigeria pilot with Infratel positions high-capacity LEO connectivity as a growth engine for NuRAN's rural infrastructure platform - targeting faster networks, lower-cost capacity and new AI-ready revenue streams

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AI-Powered Training Intelligence Platform Expands Nextech3D.ai's AI SaaS Strategy Across Workforce Training, Compliance and Enterprise Knowledge Management

Measured and Indicated silver up 211% to 41.8 Moz (10.4 Mt at 125 g/t Ag) and Inferred silver of 120.1 Moz (21.6 Mt at 171 g/t Ag)Red Silver Mining Unit hosts 10.4 Moz of Measured and Indicated silver (0.52 Mt at 623 g/t Ag) and 53.2 Moz of Inferred silver (3.11 Mt at 532 g/t Ag)Plata Mining Unit becomes a two-engine operation(All dollar amounts expressed in US dollars unless otherwise noted)

Trenching For Antimony, Gold and Silver in the Bathurst Mining Camp of New Brunswick

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