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TORONTO – Sgt. Chantal Larocque hopes that singing “O Canada” in English, French and Algonquin at Rogers Centre before a Toronto Blue Jays game will open everyone’s eyes to the possibilities of creating a more inclusive game experience.Larocque, who is an officer with the Anishinabek Police Service, sang the national anthem on Saturday as part of the Major League Baseball team’s ceremony for National Truth and Reconciliation Day.

The Wallabies’ World Cup in France remains alive – for another day at least – with Fiji failing to secure the maximum points needed to secure their quarter-final berth.

PARIS (Reuters) — A financial transaction under investigation in France involving LVMH owner Bernard Arnault was carried out in full respect of the law, his lawyer said on Saturday.

OceanGate Titan submersible, which captured global attention, is set to be adapted into a feature film titled 'Salvaged.' This cinematic venture is being produced by E. Brian Dobbins, known for his recent work on the summer comedy horror 'The Blackening.' Collaborating with MindRiot Entertainment, a company concurrently developing a docuseries on Kyle Bingham, the former mission director of OceanGate, the film promises to delve into the gripping narrative of the Titan submersible incident.

Satya MicroCapital has announced raising $60 million from Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Saturday close on the heels of its mobilising another $20 million from the French Development Agency’s private sector financing arm Proparco. The funding will help the New Delhi-based micro loan provider to expand its portfolio. Satya has assets under management of nearly Rs 5000 crore. The fund is raised at around 11% rate, an official with the micro lender said.

Nagorno-Karabakh dwindled to a trickle Saturday as Armenia said nearly the entire population of the breakaway territory had already fled after Azerbaijan seized back control. An AFP journalist at the Kornidzor crossing into Armenia saw only several ambulances arrive as border guards said they were waiting for a final few buses. In the nearest town of Goris, hundreds of exhausted refugees waited amongst their baggage in the central square for the government to offer accommodation. Azerbaijan's lightning military takeover of the ethnic Armenian enclave last week sparked a sudden exodus that has rewritten the centuries-old ethnic makeup of the disputed region. Armenia said Saturday 100,417 people from an estimated population of 120,000 had fled since the breakaway region saw its decades-long fight against Azerbaijani rule end in sudden defeat. Artak Beglaryan, a former separatist official, said that according to unofficial information «the last groups» of Nagorno-Karabakh residents were on their way to Armenia Saturday. «At most a few hundred persons remain, most of whom are officials, emergency services employees, volunteers, some persons with special needs,» he wrote on social media.

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Also Read: Google Doodle Celebrates 220th Birthday of Deaf French Educator Ferdinand Berthier; here's all you need to know The Ain Ghazal figures depict men, women, and children with intricate human features such as almond-shaped eyes, prominent noses, and realistic legs, toes, and toenails.

Click here! -After finishing his further schooling, Berthier returned to teach at the National Institute for the Deaf. By 27, he became one of the school’s most senior professors. -He had also organized 1st silent banquet for Deaf Frenchmen in 1834 and in the following years, women, journalists, and government officials also began to attend the annual event.

European Union is examining alleged anticompetitive abuses in chips used for artificial intelligence, a market which Nvidia dominates, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. To understand if there could be the need for future intervention, the European Commission has been informally collecting views on potentially abusive practices in the sector for graphics processing units (GPUs), which are used for AI work as well for gaming, the report said.

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'The BoE has an incredibly difficult job to do, and with next year likely to see a general election at the same time, they will not want to overcorrect and tip the balance of power one way or another.'

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -U.S. carrier JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ:JBLU) said on Friday it had filed a complaint against the Netherlands and the European Union to the U.S. Department of Transportation over the Dutch government's move to curb traffic at Amsterdam's Schipol Airport.

Nvidia, one of the global leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) chip production headquartered in California, reportedly faced a police raid in its French offices this week. The action came as a part of a general inquiry of French antitrust authorities into the cloud computing sector. 

New York-headquartered crypto exchange Gemini has decided to quit the Netherlands, following in the footsteps of crypto giant Binance. The company cites its inability to meet regulators’ requirements but says it intends to return to the Dutch market. 

Nvidia's local offices this week on suspicion the chipmaker engaged in anticompetitive practices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. The French competition authority, which disclosed the dawn raid on Wednesday, did not say what practices it was investigating or which company it had targeted, beyond saying it was in the «graphics cards sector.»

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In the world of investing, the market's consensus on a particular stock can be a valuable signal, but it's crucial to remember that it's just one piece of the puzzle. Market sentiment can be a powerful force, but it's not infallible.

French President Emmanuel Macron is proposing granting limited autonomy for Corsica in a modest step toward nationalist sentiment on the Mediterranean island

Portugal's government says it plans to privatize flag carrier TAP Air Portugal next year