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UK seniors fight loneliness with tea and a tango

All gloom was left outside as pensioners bustled into a room in Liverpool's centuries-old town hall for a tea dance, a lively antidote to getting older in Britain.

Indian rupee hits fresh record low past 90 per dollar

India's rupee fell to a fresh record low of over 90 per dollar Wednesday, extending recent declines, with traders partly blaming the delay in striking a trade deal with the United States.

YouTube says Australia social media ban makes children 'less safe'

YouTube on Wednesday attacked Australia's looming social media ban for under-16s, denouncing the world-first laws as "rushed" and saying they will make children less safe online.

Chinese smart glasses firms eye overseas conquest

In China, AI glasses let the wearer pay in shops with just a glance at a QR code and a voice command, as a growing number of companies look to conquer both growing domestic and overseas markets.

Epique Realty Unveils Epique Cloud 2.0: The Future-Ready Command Center for the Modern Agent

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

With Major Partnerships Stacking Up, SMX Has Become Impossible to Ignore

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.

The Ultimate Playbook: SMX Just Redefined How Gold, Rare Earths, and Critical Minerals Get Verified

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.

The Sanctioned Gold Bomb: How Illicit Bullion Could Blow Up Western Metals Markets (NASDAQ: SMX)

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.

SMX Can Provide the Ultimate Punch to Global Chaos...Before the Opening Bell

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.

How SMX's Global Collaborations are Rewriting the Playbook for Plastics, Gold, and Industrial Materials

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.

The Sanctions Battleground No One Saw Coming: Verified vs Unverified Gold (NASDAQ:SMX)

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.

RedChip to Showcase High-Growth Opportunities in the Race to Onshore Critical Minerals at December 10 Virtual Investor Conference

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.

Why Verified Gold Will Trade Above Legacy Bullion (NASDAQ:SMX)

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.

The Gold War Has Already Started; Here's Where the Battle Lines are Drawn (NASDAQ:SMX)

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.

SRM Private Wealth Identifies Five Factors Shaping Financial Security Amid Economic Uncertainty

New report highlights key considerations faced during periods of market volatility

LSEG Announces New Collaboration with OpenAI

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.

Oman's 10-Year Golden Residency Program Attracts Global Investors Seeking Stability and Long-Term Access

Built for investors who value certainty, global access, and long-term confidence.

San Francisco sues producers over ultra-processed food

San Francisco is suing makers of the ultra-processed food that health experts say has led millions of Americans into obesity during decades of over-consumption, the city said Tuesday.

Tech boss Dell gives $6.25bn to 'Trump accounts' for kids

Computer tycoon Michael Dell and his wife Susan said Tuesday they were giving $6.25 billion to children's trust funds under a scheme set up by US President Donald Trump.

Trump hints economic adviser Hassett may be Fed chair pick

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday hinted that he wants to nominate his chief economic adviser Kevin Hassett to replace outgoing Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell next year.

Putin and US negotiators hold high-stakes Ukraine talks in Moscow

Top US negotiators vying to end the war in Ukraine met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in high-stakes talks happening as Moscow pressed battlefield advances.

Faberge's rare Winter Egg fetches record £22.9 mn at auction

Faberge's The Winter Egg, considered one of his most beautiful creations, sold for nearly £23 million ($30 million) at auction Tuesday in London, smashing the sales record for the legendary jeweller of Imperial Russia.

Amazon unveils new AI chip in battle against Nvidia

Amazon Web Services launched its in-house-built Trainium3 AI chip on Tuesday, marking a significant push to compete with Nvidia in the lucrative market for artificial intelligence computing power.

Zelensky calls for peace, Putin defiant ahead of US-Russia talks

Donald Trump's son-in-law and special envoy headed to the Kremlin Tuesday for high-stakes talks on Moscow's offensive in Ukraine, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for an end to the fighting and a "dignified peace".

Prada completes acquisition of flashy rival Versace

Italian fashion group Prada announced on Tuesday it had completed its acquisition of smaller rival Versace, announced earlier this year for 1.25 billion euros (now $1.45 billion).

Asterix in Germany: France's irrepressible Gaul to conquer neighbour

A theme park based on the beloved French comic strip series Asterix is to open in Germany, the first time the adventures of the pugnacious Gaul are to be the focus of an attraction outside France, its operator said on Tuesday.

Most markets rise as US rate cut bets temper Japan bond unease

Stocks mostly rose Tuesday following the previous day's stutter as more weak data helped solidify US interest rate cut optimism and tempered nervousness over rising Japanese bond yields.

Samsung unveils first 'special edition' triple-folding phone

Samsung launched its first triple-folding phone on Tuesday, a special-edition product with an eyewatering price tag placing it out of the reach of the average consumer.

Apple AI chief leaving as iPhone maker plays catch-up

Apple on Monday said the head of its artificial intelligence team is stepping down, and the effort is to be led by a veteran engineer from Google and Microsoft.

Pacific island office enabling sanctions-busting 'shadow fleets'

Dozens of oil tankers suspected of smuggling contraband crude for Russia and Iran have been using a beachside office in the tropical South Pacific to cover their tracks, an AFP analysis of sanctions data has revealed.

Tornado Infrastructure Equipment Securityholders Approve Arrangement With the Toro Company

CALGARY, AB / ACCESS Newswire / December 2, 2025 / Tornado Infrastructure Equipment Ltd. ("Tornado" or the "Company") (TSXV:TGH)(OTCQX:TGHLF) is pleased to announce that at a special meeting of securityholders held earlier today (the "Meeting"), holders ("Shareholders") of Class "A" common shares ("Shares") of Tornado and holders ("Optionholders", and together with the Shareholders, the "Securityholders") of options to acquire Shares ("Options") voted in favour of the special resolution (the "Arrangement Resolution") approving the previously announced plan of arrangement involving the Company, The Toro Company ("Toro") and Tornado Acquisition Company ULC (the "Purchaser"), an affiliate of Toro, pursuant to which the Purchaser will acquire all of the issued and outstanding Shares for cash consideration of CAD $1.92 per Share (the "Arrangement").

The Trillion Dollar Waste Problem and the SMX Proof Layer That Solves It

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / December 2, 2025 / The world doesn't have a waste problem because it creates too much waste. It has a waste problem because it can't see what it creates. Every year, trillions of dollars in usable materials move through global waste streams without proper identification, tracking, or valuation. Plastics with high recovery value get mixed with low-value fragments. Metals that should be recirculated end up buried. Reusable industrial materials get misclassified because the system relies on guesswork instead of evidence.

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