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French President Emmanuel Macron is due in Beijing on Wednesday, where he is expected to put pressure on his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to help secure a ceasefire in Ukraine and discuss trade relations.

As planes make their final approach to Washington DC's Dulles Airport, just below lies Ashburn, a town otherwise known as Data Center Alley -- where an estimated 70 percent of all global internet traffic at any moment finds its way.

Flipping their gender setting to "male" and even posting photos with fake mustaches, a growing number of women on LinkedIn have posed a provocative challenge to what they allege is an algorithmic bias on the platform.

A doctor who supplied "Friends" star Matthew Perry with ketamine in the months before he fatally overdosed, is to be sentenced in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

The draw for the 2026 World Cup -- the biggest edition of football's global showpiece ever held -- takes place in Washington on Friday with US President Donald Trump expected to feature prominently in proceedings.

Crucial for making smartphones, fighter jets and electric cars, "rare earth" metals have become a strategic bargaining chip since main producer China this year introduced restrictions on their exports.

A former Honduran president convicted of helping to smuggle 400 tons of cocaine into the United States has left prison after being pardoned by President Donald Trump, his wife said Tuesday.

Tagenarine Chanderpaul and Shai Hope steadied the West Indies with an unbeaten half-century stand as tourists were 68-2 at lunch on day two of the first Test against New Zealand in Christchurch on Wednesday.

New centralized ecosystem synthesizes the brokerage's entire tech stack into a single, data-driven dashboard.

RICHARDSON, TX / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / Optex Systems Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq:OPXS), a leading manufacturer of precision optical sighting systems for domestic and worldwide military and commercial applications, announced today that it plans to report its financial performance for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2025 on Wednesday, December 17th, 2025.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / The market pays attention in strange ways. It can ignore a breakthrough for years, then recognize its value in a single week. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) has seen that shift firsthand. The company does not comment on price fluctuations, but it acknowledges a clear surge in global interest. That interest is not random and it is not speculative noise. It is the natural reaction to something the world has been missing for decades. Proof. Industrial-level verification that does not break when metals melt, plastics reform, or supply chains cross borders. SMX built the missing architecture and the world finally noticed the moment it could see it in action.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / The Western world keeps talking about mineral independence, but most of that ambition collapses the moment the materials hit a refinery. The truth is simple. The West is not losing the critical minerals race because it produces less. It is losing because it verifies less. Gold, rare earths, copper, nickel, cobalt, and strategic alloys move through global pipelines that forget where they came from the moment they change form. The weakest link is not geology. It is identity.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / A silent bomb is ticking inside the global gold market, and the West is standing directly over it. The world's most valuable commodity has become the easiest material for sanctioned regimes to move, disguise, and inject into Western supply chains. Gold can cross borders with forged paperwork. It can be melted until its past disappears. It can be mixed with legitimate supply until it becomes untraceable. The entire sanctions system depends on provenance that the gold industry does not actually have. And the moment regulators decide to crack down at scale, billions in Western gold inventory could be frozen, seized, or written down.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / The most dangerous plots never announce themselves. They don't come wrapped in smoke or sirens. They look boring. A server rack in a rented apartment. A few hundred SIM cards stacked on a kitchen table. A cloned router that looks identical to the one your carrier uses every day. That's the shape of modern conflict. The weapons look exactly like the hardware we trust until someone flips the switch and turns an invisible network into a nationwide choke point.

Company Utilizing New Majority Revenue Stream to Execute Aggressive Treasury Accumulation Strategy

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / For decades, every industry has been held back by the same flaw. They rely on materials they cannot truly verify. Plastics with unverifiable recycled content, gold with unverifiable origin, metals with unverifiable purity, and packaging with unverifiable compliance. These uncertainties fuel fraud, create regulatory risk, and fracture trust between manufacturers, regulators, and consumers. SMX's (NASDAQ:SMX)collaborations are solving this problem sector by sector. Instead of improving documentation, the company is redefining the material economy itself.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / A new front in global sanctions enforcement is opening, and it is not happening through banks, shipping logs, or border checkpoints. It is happening inside the gold supply itself. Gold has become the preferred currency of sanctioned regimes, shadow networks, and illicit finance because it moves easily, hides origins flawlessly, and loses its history the moment it touches a furnace. Unlike oil, grains, rare earths, or semiconductors, gold can vanish on contact with heat. As a result, billions in prohibited gold slip through global markets every year, and regulators have no way to tell the difference.

ORLANDO, FL / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / RedChip Companies, an industry leader in investor relations, media, and research for microcap and small-cap companies, today announced its upcoming Metals & Mining: The Race to Onshore Critical Minerals Virtual Investor Conference, taking place December 10, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ET. The conference offers investors a front-row seat to the public companies driving exploration, development, and production across the rapidly evolving critical minerals sector.

Acquisition of 51% Revenue Stake Adds Significant Non-Dilutive Asset Value to Balance Sheet Based on Q3 Valuation Metrics

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / Gold has always been sold as the ultimate certainty. The safe haven. The universal standard. The asset that never lies. Yet beneath the surface, the global gold market runs on an uncomfortable truth. Most bars circulating through vaults, exchanges, and refineries carry no persistent identity. Once melted, recast, or relabeled, a bar's history evaporates completely. The market pretends purity and provenance are guaranteed, but the verification tools behind those assumptions haven't changed in decades.

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / The first shots of the new gold war were never fired. They were forged. Recast. Relabeled. Smuggled. Hidden under layers of paperwork that no longer reflect the reality of modern bullion markets. The world still treats gold as the purest expression of financial certainty, yet the truth is far darker. Gold is now one of the easiest materials on earth to counterfeit, misdeclare, or launder across borders. And the global financial system is sleepwalking straight into a trust crisis because it keeps pretending the problem does not exist.

New report highlights key considerations faced during periods of market volatility

The initiative tackles key challenges, including balancing ATO and MTS production on shared lines, improving inventory projections through quality-based stock releases, and managing capacity amid fluctuating demand. Addressing these challenges requires close collaboration across regions with North American and EMEA teams working in parallel, and seamless integration of SAP with the operational planning functionality within Unison Planning™. The first implementations will roll out in Canada and the United States before expanding to the EMEA and APAC regions.

New Intelligence Layer allows enterprises to ground AI in governed data, ensuring precision, explainability, and confidence in every decision.

Acquisition from DANLEE Corporation Positions Brew as One of the Largest Private Convenience Store Networks in the Midwest

LONDON, UK / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / LSEG today announced an MCP (Model Context Protocol) connector for ChatGPT users and enterprise customers of OpenAI, and initial plans to make ChatGPT Enterprise available for employees.

SAN BERNARDINO, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / December 3, 2025 / Dateline Resources Limited (ASX:DTR)(OTCQB:DTREF)(FSE:YE1) is pleased to announce further drilling results at its 100%-owned Colosseum Gold and Rare Earth Element (REE) Project in San Bernardino County, California. The results from a further two reverse circulation (RC) holes drilled below the North Pit have provided gold assay results that exceed the mineral resource grade for the Indicated blocks that they intercepted, with the expectation that this result will improve the mineral resource grade for the blocks in the vicinity when a new mineral resource estimate is undertaken early in 2026.

Sustainability practices rank in top five percent globally

Company Acquires Additional 41% Revenue Interest in Bonk.fun, Taking Total Stake to 51% to Solidify Leadership Position in BONK Ecosystem

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Video streaming giant YouTube on Wednesday attacked Australia's looming social media ban for under-16s, denouncing the world-first laws as "rushed" and unrealistic.