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Japan will allow people from Taiwan to list the island as their place of origin in the country's family registry instead of China, a justice ministry official said Tuesday.

Sarah had survived famine, multiple wars and years of displacement in Sudan's Zamzam camp and never considered fleeing, until a paramilitary attack turned the site into a "killing field".

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company unveiled Monday the latest version of its chatbot, Grok 3, which the billionaire hopes will find traction in a highly competitive sector contested by the likes of ChatGPT and China's DeepSeek.

A French surgeon to stand trial over raping or sexually assaulting almost 300 patients, mostly children, practised for decades right up until his retirement despite a conviction for owning abusive images of children and colleagues sounding the alarm, an AFP investigation shows.

Much has been written about suspected sabotage of undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, but the UN says fishing trawlers are causing the most damage by far, rather than spies.

Farmers in Indian-administered Kashmir say a major government infrastructure drive is taking their deeply cherished land, fearing it spearheads a push to "Hinduise" the disputed Muslim-majority territory.

Twenty-five years ago, director Park Chan-wook risked jail to make a movie about friendship between North and South Korean soldiers, striking box office gold and beginning his actors' ascent to global stardom.

Hong Kong resumed its tech-led rally on a healthy day for Asian markets Tuesday as a meeting between President Xi Jinping and China's top business leaders fanned hopes that a years-long crackdown on the private sector is coming to an end.

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola said his side have just a one percent chance of progress to the Champions League last 16 against Real Madrid on Wednesday but the English champions' new recruits could offer a lifeline.

Jude Bellingham edged Real Madrid ahead in their Champions League play-off against Manchester City, but then his week swiftly took a turn for the worse.

A deadline expired Tuesday for all Israeli troops to leave south Lebanon under a ceasefire deal with Hezbollah, hours after Israel said it planned to remain in five strategic locations.

Top US and Russian diplomats will meet in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for talks on resetting their countries' fractured relations and making a tentative start on trying to end the Ukraine war.

A Delta Air Lines jet with 80 people onboard crash-landed Monday at Toronto's main airport, officials said, flipping upside down and leaving at least 18 people injured but causing no deaths.

India captain Rohit Sharma and superstar batsman Virat Kohli enter the Champions Trophy this week with intense focus on their dwindling powers and speculation over when they will retire.

Japan set fresh climate targets on Tuesday, pledging to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent in the next decade from 2013 levels.

The UN nuclear watchdog chief arrives in Japan on Tuesday for a trip that will include his first visit to storage facilities for soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

Argentine President Javier Milei on Monday denied promoting a cryptocurrency that crashed, losing investors billions of dollars and prompting a flood of complaints, as prosecutors reportedly prepare an investigation into the scandal.

A Delta Air Lines jet with 80 people onboard crash landed Monday at the Toronto airport, officials said, flipping upside down and leaving at least 17 people injured but causing no fatalities.

Recognized globally as the reference in synthetic training for RPAS, CAE leverages the latest visualization technology in the development of the next-generation MQ-9B SkyGuardian Mission Trainers. The trainers will employ the CAE Prodigy Image Generator to provide a highly realistic training environment to replicate flight operations. Powered by a state-of-the-art gaming engine, CAE Prodigy elevates training standards through an enhanced immersive training environment, high-fidelity graphics, and physics-based simulation. This cutting-edge technology enhances the realism and effectiveness of the training, ensuring that operators are well-prepared for their missions.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / PPX Mining Corp.(TSXV:PPX)(BVL:PPX) (the "Company" or "PPX", including its Peruvian subsidiaries) is pleased to announce that exploration activities at Callanquitas Mine have resumed.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / Pathfinder Ventures Ltd. (TSXV:RV) ("Pathfinder" or the "Company") announces that it intends to amend the terms of the common share purchase warrants (the "Warrants") issued under its non-brokered private placement that closed on August 31, 2023.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / Galway Metals Inc. (TSXV:GWM)(OTCQB:GAYMF) (the "Company" or "Galway") is pleased to report metallurgical results from 4 PQ diamond drill holes from the Southwest, South and North Deposits at the Company's 100%-owned flagship Clarence Stream high-grade gold project in New Brunswick, Canada. The Clarence Stream Gold Project has district-scale potential with approximately 65-kilometre strike length of highly prospective gold showings and anomalies; and a 2022 MRE of 12.4 Mt @ 2.3 g/t Au Indicated for 922,000 oz., and 16.0 Mt @ 2.6 g/t Au Inferred for 1.334 M oz. gold (at $1650 Au price) from the NI 43-101 technical report titled "Technical Report on the Clarence Stream Mineral Resource Project, New Brunswick, Canada" dated March 31, 2022, by SLR Consulting Ltd.

CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / Tocvan Ventures Corp. (the "Company") (CSE:TOC)(OTCQB:TCVNF)(WKN:TV3/A2PE64), is pleased to announce that it has closed a final tranche of its previously announced non-brokered private placement of Units ("Units") for gross proceeds of $1,045,267.20 (the "Offering"), this is in addition to the $2,105,320 closed in the first tranche (December 11, 2024 News Release). The second tranche of the Offering consisted of the issuance of an aggregate of 2,177,640 Units at a price of $0.48 per Unit. Each Unit consists of one common share ("Common Share") in the capital of the Company and one common share purchase warrant ("Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to acquire one additional Common Share in the capital of the Company at a price of $0.75 for a period of 36 months from the closing of the Offering.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / Cypher Metaverse Inc. (CSE:CODE.x) ("Cypher" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the appointment of Jeff Koyen to its Board of Directors as an independent director.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / Magna Terra Minerals Inc. (the "Company" or "Magna Terra") (TSXV:MTT) announces a further update to its previously announced flow-through financing (refer to the news releases dated February 10, 2025 and February 13, 2025) of gross proceeds totalling $500,000.

TORONTO, ON / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / Datametrex AI Limited (the "Company" or "Datametrex") (TSXV:DM)(FSE:D4G)(OTCQB:DTMXF) announces that, further to the Company's news release dated February 6, 2025,effectiveat the opening on February 19, 2025, the common shares of the Company ("Shares") will commence trading on the TSX Venture Exchange ("TSXV") on a consolidated basis of one (1) post-consolidation share for every thirty (30) pre-consolidation shares (the "Consolidation").

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / Alpha Copper Corp. (the "Company" or "Alpha") is pleased to announce that, pursuant to a directors' resolution, it will change its name from "Alpha Copper Corp." to "Star Copper Corp." (the "Name Change"). The Company expects the Name Change and a change of its ticker symbol to occur on February 21, 2025. The common shares of the Company will continue to trade on the Canadian Securities Exchange under the new trading symbol STCU commencing at market open on February 21, 2025. The Company's new CUSIP is 854937109 and its new ISIN is CA8549371091.

TORONTO, ONTARIO / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / Grid Metals Corp. (TSXV:GRDM)(OTCQB:MSMGF) ("Grid" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has signed a cesium supply agreement (the "Agreement") with the Tantalum Mining Corporation of Canada Limited ("Tanco"). The Agreement provides funding for Grid to drill for cesium at its Donner Property. If sufficient resources are delineated by drilling, the Agreement provides access for 10,000 tonnes of Grid's cesium material to be processed at the Tanco Cesium Plant which is the only cesium processing plant in the western world. The Agreement is a unique opportunity for Grid to kick start exploration and potentially development for cesium - a rare critical metals.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / Tinka Resources Limited ("Tinka" or the "Company") (TSXV:TK)(BVL:TK)(OTCQB:TKRFF) announces that further to the Company's news release on January 2, 2025, the Company will not proceed with additional closings of its previously announced non-brokered private placement.

Celebrating Legal Tech Transformation, Jack Newton, CEO and Founder to Accept Award

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SURREY, BC / ACCESS Newswire / February 18, 2025 / Consumer Choice Award (CCA) proudly announces Versa Homes as the top provider in Surrey's Home Builders category. This award highlights Versa Homes' commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer satisfaction in the home construction industry.