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A man who attacked Pope John Paul II in 1981 was escorted from the Turkish town of Iznik on Thursday ahead of Pope Leo XIV's visit there, Turkish media reported.

More than 150 Chinese companies are making humanoid robots but a market bubble risks forming in the rapidly growing futuristic industry, a Beijing official has warned.

Markets fluctuated Friday at the end of a strong week for equities fuelled by growing expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates again next month.

Charming Donald Trump one week, angering China the next, Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has had a busy start and is riding high in the polls, all on a few hours of sleep a night.

Bayer Leverkusen coach Kasper Hjulmand has the 2023-24 double winners firing in what looked certain to be a rebuilding year after a turbulent summer and a brief, ill-fated spell with Erik ten Hag.

South Africa take on Wales in the season-ending international Test on Saturday at a time when the gulf between the two rugby nations has never been more apparent.

Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has left the country for Senegal after being detained during a military coup, the government in Dakar said Thursday, as a lead opponent accused him of arranging the uprising.

US President Donald Trump said Thursday that efforts to halt Venezuelan drug trafficking "by land" would begin "very soon," further ratcheting up tensions with Caracas, which claims the anti-drug campaign aims at regime change.

New Yorkers struggling to afford food in the country's biggest city -- and often exorbitantly expensive financial capital -- may finally get a break if the incoming socialist mayor's daring new plan succeeds.

Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott threw for 320 yards and two touchdowns to lead the Cowboys to a much-needed 31-28 NFL victory over Kansas City on Thursday that further dented the Chiefs' fading playoff hopes.

Pope Leo XIV joins the leader of the world's Orthodox Christians Friday to celebrate 1,700 years since one of the early Church's most important gatherings, on the second day of his visit to Turkey.

Spanish champions Barcelona and current league leaders Real Madrid are looking to build confidence this weekend in La Liga after chastening nights in the Champions League.

Have Liverpool reached rock bottom or do they have further to fall as they prepare for a tricky-looking match at West Ham this weekend?

US President Donald Trump announced Thursday the death of one of two National Guard soldiers shot near the White House, as his government said it would respond by reviewing the permanent residency status of immigrants from 19 countries, including Afghanistan.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Dubai has spent years building the most sophisticated commodity ecosystem in the Middle East, but the real shift did not happen with new free zones or massive logistics hubs. It happened when the DMCC began redefining itself as the global center of material verification. That shift accelerated when SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) introduced molecular identity technology that gives metals, minerals, and industrial materials a permanent signature. Once Dubai recognized that identity could live inside the material instead of on a certificate, it understood the opportunity sitting in front of it. The future of global trade will belong to the region that can prove what moves through its ports.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The global plastics system has lived with the same recurring flaw for decades. No one could reliably verify what was truly recycled, what was partially recycled, and what was simply being passed off as recycled. Brands made claims. Auditors tried to keep pace. Regulators issued mandates. Yet the underlying reality never changed. Plastic loses its identity the moment it enters the waste stream. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) introduced a permanent fix by embedding molecular-level memory into plastics. Once the marker is applied, the material retains its identity through collection, sorting, reprocessing, pelletizing, and remanufacturing.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The rare earth sector has spent years trying to solve a problem that has grown more complicated as the supply chain expanded. Ores are mined in one region, processed in another, separated in a third, and upgraded again before reaching a magnet plant. By the time a finished component comes to market, the material's origin story is usually reduced to paperwork and assumptions. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) introduced a breakthrough that rewrites that reality. Its molecular-level verification system gives rare earth elements a permanent identity that carries through every transformation. Once a marker is embedded, it survives crushing, leaching, roasting, purification, and final manufacturing.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Recycling has never been a trust-based system. It has been a belief-based system. Companies believe recycled content is accurate. Regulators believe declarations are honest. Buyers believe certifications reflect reality. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is ending that belief model by giving metals and plastics a molecular identity that survives every processing stage. It turns recycled materials into self-verifying assets that carry their truth from scrap yard to finished product.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Dubai has been strengthening its position in global commodities for years, but something changed when the DMCC began evolving from a bustling marketplace into a center of verification. That evolution is fast because Dubai sees what others are still trying to grasp. Markets only operate at full velocity when certainty is built into the material itself. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is providing that certainty. Its molecular-level identification system gives metals, minerals, and industrial feedstocks a durable identity that survives extraction, refining, transport, and trading.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The rare earth industry has spent years circling the same problem. Minerals move through too many borders, too many processors, and too many chemical transformations to maintain a trustworthy origin story. By the time a rare earth oxide becomes a magnet or an alloy, the truth behind it has been diluted by paperwork, assumptions, and gaps no one can independently verify. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) introduced a different path. It placed identity inside the material itself, embedding a molecular signature that survives every physical and chemical stage from mined ore to final component.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The world has entered a supply chain cold war where data, authenticity, and material truth matter more than speed or scale. Western companies are discovering they cannot compete with state-controlled systems unless they can verify the origin and purity of the materials they depend on. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped into this gap with molecular-level verification that embeds identity directly into metals, minerals, and industrial feedstocks. It gives Western manufacturers the clarity they have been missing for years.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Counterfeit goods used to be a retail headache. Now they have evolved into an industrial threat that reaches deep into metals, electronics, automotive components, medical devices, and high-value engineered parts. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped into this escalating crisis with a molecular-level solution that the market has never seen at scale. Its material marking technology transforms raw inputs into self-authenticating units that reveal whether a component is genuine, recycled, repurposed or substituted at any stage of the supply chain.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Gold's reputation has always depended on confidence. Investors trust that bars are pure. Banks trust that sourcing is ethical. Exchanges trust that origin records are accurate. Yet the global bullion system still has gaps large enough for uncertainty to hide. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is closing those gaps by embedding molecular identity directly into gold and silver, giving each bar a signature that survives melting, recycling, and recasting. It turns bullion from a belief-based asset into a self-authenticating material.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / For most of history, gold has behaved like a silent asset. It sits in vaults. It moves through refineries. It trades between institutions. Yet it never carries its own proof. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) changed that by embedding molecular-level identifiers directly into gold and silver, turning them into materials capable of confirming their own origin, purity, and recycling history. It gives precious metals a digital truth woven into their physical structure.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / The rare earth sector has spent the past decade trying to answer a question that never had a reliable solution. How do you prove where a mineral truly comes from when it passes through multiple countries, multiple processors, and multiple stages before it becomes a usable component? SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) stepped into that uncertainty with molecular-level identity for rare earth elements, giving them a signature that survives crushing, separation, purification, and final manufacturing.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / SMX (NASDAQ:SMX), the new standard for aerospace metals, does not tolerate uncertainty. Titanium, vanadium, and specialty alloys carry the weight of industries that cannot afford inconsistencies in origin, purity or processing. SMX stepped directly into this high-stakes environment with molecular-level verification that survives every melt, cut, forge, and heat treatment in the aerospace chain. It introduced a model where the material proves itself instead of relying on documents that can be separated, duplicated or lost.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Gold has always been the world's confidence asset. People buy it because they trust it. Banks vault it because they believe it is pure. Exchanges trade it because they assume its origin is legitimate. That belief held for centuries because no one had a better system. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) shattered that ceiling by giving gold a molecular identity that cannot be forged, diluted or re-stamped. Dubai immediately understood the impact. The DMCC recognized that the future of precious metals is not belief-based. It is verification-based.

ORLANDO, FL / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / RedChip Companies will air interviews with BullFrog AI, Inc. (Nasdaq:BFRG) and Myriad Uranium Corp. (OCTQB:MYRUF) on the RedChip Small Stocks, Big Money™ show, a sponsored program on Bloomberg TV this Saturday, November 29, at 7 p.m. Eastern Time (ET). Bloomberg TV is available in an estimated 73 million homes across the U.S.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / For decades, global supply chains operated on a simple assumption. If the paperwork looked right, the shipment must be legitimate. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) shattered that assumption by proving that materials should verify themselves instead of relying on certificates that travel in separate folders. By embedding molecular-level identity into metals, minerals, plastics, and industrial components, SMX introduced something global trade has never had. It introduced materials that carry their own truth.

NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Dubai has been expanding its influence in global commodities trade for more than two decades, but the world finally noticed when the DMCC shifted from a marketplace to a verification authority. That transition is accelerating because Dubai understands a crucial truth. Markets only move at full speed when trust is not an estimate. SMX (NASDAQ:SMX) is supplying that trust. Its molecular verification technology gives metals, minerals, and industrial materials a permanent identity that follows them from origin to refinery to trade floor.

BOCA RATON, FL / ACCESS Newswire / November 28, 2025 / Entero Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:ENTO) (the "Company") today announced that it will change its name to GridAI Technologies Corp., effective at 12:01 Eastern Time on Monday, December 1, 2025. The name change closely aligns the Company's business following its acquisition of 100% of GRID AI Corp ("GRID AI"), a grid-edge, AI-driven software and controls platform that enables utilities, retail energy providers, and large power users to dynamically manage load and distributed energy resources including battery energy storage systems. In connection with the name change, the Company will change its ticker symbol to "GRDX". The Company's common stock will commence trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market exchange under the new name and trading symbol on December 1, 2025.

The Trump administration on Thursday said it was reviewing permanent residency status of immigrants from 19 countries, including Afghanistan, in its latest response to the shooting of two National Guard soldiers near the White House.