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Abandoned for months on their fishing boat off West Africa, Indonesian sailor Surono and his shipmates face a dilemma: return home without almost a year's wages or stay on the docked vessel.

Japanese stocks surged to a record high Monday following Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's historic election win, while healthy gains across the rest of Asia tracked a rally on Wall Street.

A Hong Kong court sentenced pro-democracy media mogul Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison on Monday following his high-profile national security trial that rights groups and Western nations have condemned as a symbol of the city's shrivelling press freedoms.

Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny on Sunday turned the Super Bowl into a giant street party, delivering his hits on one of the world's biggest stages -- and becoming the first-ever halftime show headliner to sing only in Spanish.

Three opposition figures close to Venezuela's Nobel peace laureate Maria Corina Machado were freed from jail Sunday, a month after authorities began releasing political prisoners following the ouster of leader Nicolas Maduro.

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi savoured an election landslide Monday, with her ruling party projected to have won a two-thirds majority in the powerful lower house for the first time in its history.

Israel's President Isaac Herzog said Monday people of all faiths will "overcome this evil" as he laid a wreath to commemorate victims of a shooting that killed 15 people at a Jewish festival on Sydney's Bondi Beach.

Voters in Bangladesh elect a new government on February 12, but analysts warn their choice is threatened by a coordinated surge of disinformation, much of which originates from neighbouring India.

Arguments are set to begin Monday in a landmark US trial that could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately designed their platforms to lead to addiction in children.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / Mako Mining Corp. ("Mako" or the "Company") (TSXV:MKO)(OTCQX:MAKOF) announces that it has postponed the Company's special meeting of shareholders (the "Special Meeting") that was originally scheduled for Tuesday, February 10, 2026.

FRANKLIN, INDIANA / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. ("IBC" or the "Company") (TSXV:IB)(OTCQB:IAALF) announces that Chairman and CEO Mark Smith will present live at the OTC Precious Metals & Critical Minerals Virtual Conference at 1 PM Eastern on Tuesday, February 10, 2026.

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ATTIKI, GREECE / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / Elvictor Group Inc. (OTC:ELVG) ("Elvictor" or the "Company"), a leader in maritime recruitment and crew management, today announced the expansion of its crew management portfolio following the award of multiple new crewing contracts driven by fleet growth among existing clients.

JERSEY CITY, NJ / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), a leading provider of software and services to communications and media companies, today announced that it has been recognized as the Company to Beat for AI in CSP Business Support Systems in a recent Gartner report on AI Vendor Race for Emerging Technologies and Trends Impact on Products and Services as of 8 December 2025.

WASHINGTON, DC / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / A report by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), authored by MEMRI Executive Director Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D., was published to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27. In it, Dr. Stalinsky warned that 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz, Holocaust memory now faces a threat its witnesses could not have imagined: artificial intelligence.

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ORLANDO, FL / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / RedChip Companies, an industry leader in investor relations, media, and research for microcap and small-cap companies, today announced that on-demand replays from its Fintech & Digital Asset Treasury Strategy (DATS) Virtual Investor Conference, held February 4, 2026, are now available.

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MIAMI, FLORIDA / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / TGI SOLAR POWER GROUP (OTCMarkets:TSPG) ("TGI"), a diversified technology and environmentally efficient real estate development company, hereby announces the dissolution of the previously announced agreement to acquire Shelly North Carolina, Inc. (January 23, 2023).

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PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / The South Dakota legislature today rejected a vendor-inspired "transactional gold" bill that would harm South Dakotans, free enterprise, and the gold industry by entangling the state in a sweeping, government-run gold scheme.

LILONGWE, MALAWI / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / In Malawi's Nkhotakota District, one of the areas hardest hit by recent flooding, Feed the Children Malawi has delivered emergency nutrition and clean water support to flood-affected communities, reaching approximately 50,000 people, including 7,195 children under the age of five, as part of a coordinated humanitarian response.

Leading Smart Home Innovator Signals Major U.S. Market Commitment with Nationwide Commercial Featuring Full Product Ecosystem, Including Nebula NEXT 01 Concept Electric Hypercar

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LAS CRUCES, NEW MEXICO / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / At the 2026 AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference, Amazon is showcasing Addison Care®, the nation's most comprehensive AI-driven virtual care and TeleCare orchestration platform, purpose-built to address the most urgent challenges facing rural healthcare systems today.

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / Capital is easy to misunderstand in public markets. Too often, it's treated as a static number rather than a strategic tool. In reality, capital only matters if it alters how a company operates once it's in place. Otherwise, it's just a figure on a page, impressive in theory and inert in practice.

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PEACHTREE CORNERS, GA AND INDIANAPOLIS, IN / ACCESS Newswire / February 9, 2026 / Arrive AI (NASDAQ:ARAI), an autonomous delivery network company built around patented, AI-powered Arrive Points™, will conduct a live demonstration at Curiosity Lab at Peachtree Corners on Tuesday, February 10, from 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET, showcasing the latest in end-to-end autonomous package delivery and service.