Zodiac Gold Inc. (TSXV: ZAU) (‘Zodiac Gold’ or the ‘Company’), a West-African gold exploration company, is pleased to announce that, further to the Company’s news release dated November 20, 2024, it has closed its first tranche of its previously announced private placement (the ‘Offering’) for gross proceeds of approximately C$123,000…
Copper prices saw impressive gains in 2024, even breaking the US$5 per pound mark in May. However, the red metal’s gains didn’t last, and by the end of the year copper had retreated back to the US$4 range. The start of 2025 could be eventful, with Donald Trump returning to…
Cygnus Metals and Doré Copper Mining said on Wednesday (January 1) that they have completed their merger. The combined entity will be a critical minerals explorer and developer with two core assets in Québec, Canada. Cygnus acquired all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Doré on Tuesday (December…
An online car rental service is under scrutiny after it was used in two incidents Wednesday. The platform, Turo, is known as an “Airbnb of cars,” as it allows individual car owners to rent out their vehicles. Vehicle owners, known as “hosts,” can post cars to Turo’s website, where people…
An Israeli strike killed at least 11 Palestinians overnight, including the director general of Gaza police and a deputy, in Al-Mawasi, southern Gaza, local officials said Thursday. Gaza’s interior ministry accused Israel of killing Maj. Gen. Mahmoud Salah and Maj. Gen. Hussam Shahwan, a member of the Police Command Council,…
A police officer in Zambia has been arrested for allegedly releasing over a dozen prisoners so they could celebrate New Year’s Eve. Detective Inspector Titus Phiri “forcibly seized cell keys” on Tuesday morning whilst “in a state of intoxication,” Zambia’s Police Service said in a press release on Wednesday. “Subsequently,…
Syria’s new government is facing backlash after announcing changes to the school curriculum, including introducing what some critics say is an Islamist slant to teaching. The changes, published in a list of amendments on the education ministry’s official Facebook page, include changing the phrases “path of goodness” to “Islamic path,”…
A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before dying from self-inflicted injuries early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the tiny Balkan nation’s worst mass killings. The attacker, named by police as 45-year-old Aleksandar Aco Martinovic, initially killed four people when…
South Korean investigators have entered the home of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol to enforce an arrest warrant for him, Yonhap News Agency reported on Friday morning local time. The embattled president is wanted for questioning in multiple investigations, including accusations of leading an insurrection – a crime punishable by…
It’s many years since ISIS, also known as Islamic State, held sway over much of Syria and northern Iraq a time when it spawned affiliates throughout Africa and Asia and organized a series of deadly terror attacks in European cities. But as a terror group it remains active in more…