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For the second season running, MotoGP is serving up a nail-biting finale as Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia head into the last race of the season this weekend battling it out for the world championship title.

A man with explosives died Wednesday trying to enter Brazil's Supreme Court in what appeared to be a suicide, officials said.

Nearly 40 years after making his professional debut, and 19 years after being battered into retirement, a 58-year-old Mike Tyson will climb back into the ring on Friday for a Netflix-backed bout that has drawn widespread condemnation across the boxing world.

In Neide Fernandes's fridge there is no meat, no vegetables, but there are some 20 eggs -- "the least expensive" animal protein she can afford.

US President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping arrive Thursday in Lima for an Asia-Pacific summit overshadowed by the prospect of a world embroiled in trade wars under Donald Trump.

A mysterious diamond-laden necklace with possible links to a scandal that contributed to the downfall of Marie Antoinette, sold for $4.8 million at an auction in Geneva Wednesday.

Dutch parliamentarians clashed in a heated debate Wednesday as they addressed last week's attacks on Israeli football fans, while police in Amsterdam arrested pro-Palestinian protesters who again defied a ban on demonstrations in the wake of the violence.

The percentage of adults suffering from diabetes across the world has doubled over the past three decades, the biggest rises coming in developing countries, a study said Wednesday.

Israel suffered one of the deadliest days of its ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon on Wednesday when six of its soldiers were killed in combat near the border.

The "hugs not bullets" security strategy introduced by Mexico's former president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador to tackle criminal violence at its roots failed, US ambassador Ken Salazar said Wednesday.

HighlightsLocked-cycle testing of the Ashram Deposit's flotation-only flowsheet has resulted in high-grade rare earth mineral concentrate at strong recovery.36 to 37% REO1 at overall recoveries of 65 to 68%.Mineral concentrate grades compare favourably to historical and current hard rock global rare earth producers, of which 30% REO is the typical lowest grade concentrate produced.Results will be incorporated into a pending Preliminary Economic Assessment on the Ashram Rare Earth and Fluorspar Deposit on schedule for Q2-2025.Variability testing and pilot plant testing scheduled for the first half of 2025 as next steps.Fluorite recovery from rare earth flotation tailings to be evaluated.Ross Carroll, Director and CEO of the Company comments: "The results of the locked-cycle tests confirm the robustness of the simplified, flotation-only, continuous recovery process for the Ashram Deposit. The strong recoveries will ensure we maximize returns from the high-value in-situ mineralization, and the high-grade mineral concentrate produced will reduce the scale of the downstream processing resulting in lower capital and operating expense. We are thrilled with these outcomes and are grateful for the innovative attention to maximizing the potential of one of the world's largest rare earth resources by the technical team, many of whom have remained engaged with advancing the Project since its discovery over a decade ago."Rare Earth Oxide ("REO") includes the sum of the lanthanides plus yttrium.

Condor Resources Inc. ("Condor" or the "Company") (TSXV:CN) is pleased to report that it has successfully completed the Consulta Previa process at Huinac Punta and received the final Initiation of Activities permit from the Ministry of Energy & Mines. This is a critical milestone for the Company, clearing the way for the planned exploration program at this highly prospective project.

Blue Lagoon Resources Inc. (the "Company") (CSE:BLLG)(FSE:7BL)(OTCQB:BLAGF) is pleased to announce that it has received the draft mine permit for its 100% owned Dome Mountain Gold Project, located near the town of Smithers in British Columbia, Canada. This milestone brings the Company one step closer to initiating production and advancing the project towards operational status.

Future Fuels Inc. (TSXV:FTUR)(FSE:S0J) (the "Company") is announces that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement (the "APA") dated November 13, 2024 with IsoEnergy Ltd. (TSX: ISO)("IsoEnergy"), pursuant to which the Company will acquire a 100% interest in IsoEnergy's Mountain Lake Project, comprised of mineral claims covering 5,625 hectares in the Hornby Bay Basin, Nunavut, Canada (the "Mountain Lake Property") in exchange for common shares in the authorized capital of the Company ("Common Shares") and the grant of the Net Smelter Royalties (as defined below) (collectively, the "Transaction").

SouthGobi Resources Ltd. (Hong Kong Stock Exchange ("HKEX"): 1878, TSX Venture Exchange ("TSX-V"):SGQ) (the "Company" or "SouthGobi") today announces its financial and operating results for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2024. All figures are in U.S. dollars ("USD") unless otherwise stated.

Li-FT Power Ltd. ("LIFT" or the "Company") (TSXV:LIFT)(OTCQX:LIFFF)(Frankfurt:WS0) is pleased to announce that, further to its news release dated October 1, 2024, it has filed an NI 43-101 Technical Report for its Yellowknife Lithium Project on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca). The report, titled "Initial Mineral Resource Estimate for the Yellowknife Lithium Project, Northwest Territories, Canada," presents an initial Mineral Resource Estimate ("MRE") for 8 of 13 spodumene-bearing pegmatite dykes at the Project. The consolidated in-pit MRE is reported at 50.4 million tonnes grading 1.00% Li2O, totaling 506,000 tonnes of Li2O (1.25 million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent, or LCE) in the inferred category.

Findev Inc. ("Findev" or the "Corporation") (TSXV:FDI), is pleased to announce that on November 14th, the Directors of the Corporations declared the following dividends:

Notice of Q3 2024 Results and Investor Presentation

Li-FT Power Ltd. ("LIFT" or the "Company") (TSXV:LIFT)(OTCQX:LIFFF)(Frankfurt:WS0) has closed its previously announced (see press release dated October 23, 2024) non-brokered private placement consisting of (i) 2,694,895 common shares of the Company that qualify as "flow-through shares" (within the meaning of subsection 66(15) of the Income Tax Act (Canada)) (each, a "Flow-Through Share") at a price of $5.6575 and (ii) 1,645,105 common shares of the Company (each, a "Hard Dollar Share") which were issued to a single purchaser (the "Strategic Investor") at a price of $3.65 per Hard Dollar Share, for aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $21,251,002 (the "Offering").

PPX Mining Corp. (the "Company" or "PPX", including its Peruvian subsidiaries) is pleased to announce that construction of the CIL and Flotation plant at its Igor Project located in La Libertad, Peru, has started.

Lyon beat Roma 3-0 to maintain their 100 percent record in Group A of the Women's Champions League on Wednesday, while Wolfsburg thrashed Galatasaray to pick up their first points.

Global equities stalled Wednesday while bitcoin hit a fresh high as traders digested a small rise in inflation and mulled what Donald Trump's presidency might mean for global trade and the adoption of cryptocurrency.

Carlos Alcaraz opened his account at the ATP Finals on Wednesday with an entertaining 6-3, 7-6 (10/8) win over Andrey Rublev, while Casper Ruud missed an early chance to reach the semi-finals after losing in straight sets to Alexander Zverev.

Manchester United goalkeeper Andre Onana kept a fourth clean sheet for Cameroon on Wednesday in Africa Cup of Nations qualifying, and Equatorial Guinea and Ivory Coast clinched finals places.

Marco Rubio's first experiences with Donald Trump involved trading schoolyard insults, but he will now become the president-elect's face to the world -- potentially showing a more traditional, hawkish US foreign policy, especially on China.

Sri Lanka votes Thursday in a second national election in as many months with a deeply divided opposition struggling to recover from a crushing defeat at presidential polls.

Spain's eastern Valencia region braced for more torrential rain on Wednesday, two weeks after the country's worst floods in generations killed more than 200 people there.

New York has urged its 8.5 million residents to save water as America's biggest city endures an unprecedented period without significant rainfall, creating potentially dangerous drought conditions and fanning the flames of deadly wildfires.

The "world order" of football is shifting, Brazil's coach Dorival Junior said ahead of a World Cup qualifier Thursday against Venezuela.

Tilak Varma hit a maiden international century as India beat South Africa by 11 runs in the third Twenty20 international at SuperSport Park on Wednesday.

Isidora Olave opens a package containing a T-shirt, a skirt and a handful of glitter stickers shipped to her front door in Santiago, Chile, all the way from China almost 20,000 kilometers (11,800 miles) away.

The Republican Party has won a majority in the US House of Representatives, media projected Wednesday, completing their clean sweep of Congress, which will hand President-elect Donald Trump vast legislative power.