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NEW YORK, Sept. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Moody’s Ratings has assigned insurance financial strength ratings to two Freedom Holding Corp. (Nasdaq: FRHC) insurance subsidiaries for the first time. Freedom Finance Insurance JSC, operating as Freedom Insurance, received Ba1 local- and foreign-currency insurance financial strength ratings, while Freedom Life JSC received Baa3 ratings. Both carry stable outlooks. The Baa3 rating makes Freedom Life the first company within Freedom Holding Corp. to receive an investment-grade rating from Moody’s. The agency began expanding its coverage of Freedom earlier this year, assigning a Ba3 rating to Freedom Bank Kazakhstan in March. “Moody’s ratings…

NEW YORK, Sept. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — S&P Global Ratings has revised the outlook on the long-term credit ratings of Nasdaq-listed Freedom Holding Corp. and its four core operating subsidiaries from “stable” to “positive,” while affirming their international credit ratings. The agency also raised the national-scale ratings of Freedom Finance JSC (Freedom Broker) and Freedom Bank Kazakhstan JSC from “kzA-” to “kzA.” The positive outlook applies to Freedom Holding Corp., Freedom Finance JSC, Freedom Finance Global PLC, Freedom Finance Europe Ltd., and Freedom Bank Kazakhstan JSC. “The improved outlook from S&P underscores that, strategically, we are moving in the…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Two additional tornadoes hit Manitoba during Sunday’s storm, the Northern Tornadoes Project (NTP) has confirmed. These new verifications bring the total number of twisters from last weekend to four in the Prairies. Three were said to have hit Manitoba, in addition to the previously confirmed EF-1 storm in Maryfield, Sask., approximately 35 kilometres from the Manitoba-Saskatchewan border.The now-confirmed tornado in the community of Kola, Man., caused damage to a barn on a property north of it, according to the project. It said the maximum wind speeds from the weather event hit 140…

Five B.C. legislators who recently left the provincial Conservatives are joining forces to form a new political party, with plans to have it up and running when the legislature returns next month. Rosalyn Bird, Bruce Banman and Áʼa꞉líya Warbus announced Friday they are joining Peter Milobar and Ian Paton in the yet-to-be-named party.The five are among nine MLAs who have left the B.C. Conservative caucus in recent weeks under Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay.Milobar, who is serving as interim leader, told Global News that the group wants to create an option for voters who are dissatisfied with the governing NDP but don’t…

A Survivor Greece contestant who lost part of his leg in a boat incident is suing the show’s producer for $100 million, according to U.S. media reports. On Sept. 3, Stavros Floros filed a complaint suing Survivor Greece producers following an incident in May that left him with severe injuries to his legs.While filming the show in Dominican Republic in May, Floros lost part of his left leg after being struck by a tour boat’s propeller and severely injured his right leg.He said he was spearfishing for food on May 11 when the propeller struck him and in the lawsuit, viewed by People…

To our GoPro community, fans and customers,We understand there’s some concern about GoPro’s post-merger commitment to continue developing market leading cameras for consumers and professionals. Making amazing cameras for all of you is our core DNA and reason for being and that will never change! We’re fired up about what’s ahead for GoPro and want to share a little more about what our proposed merger with Starman means for our future.Thanks to the improved financial strength this merger will provide, we’ll be in a much better position to innovate, invent and advance the future of consumer and professional content creation.…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Calgary city council will take part in a special meeting behind closed doors to seek legal advice, after a trove of confidential and preliminary budget documents were obtained by Global News. As first reported by Global News on Wednesday, the confidential documents showed a significant property tax increase would be required to cover all the spending requests in front of city council in the upcoming four-year budget.The preliminary documents were presented to city council during a closed-door meeting July 28, in which city council directed administration to whittle down the requests and…

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It’s not quite the “push button; get song” of Suno, but Roland’s new Melody Flip tool marks the company’s foray into generative AI music. Available as a plug-in for your digital audio workstation (DAW), Melody Flip offers around 250 “Palettes,” which are essentially themed collections of musical ideas sorted by genre. You can start from scratch and ask it to generate any combination of melody, chord progression, bassline, or drums. Or you can feed it a reference track and have it build off the melodic ideas from that.Unlike Suno or Udio, Melody Flip doesn’t spit out fully polished songs with…

Retired Army Captain and Logistics Innovator Michael Curtis Broughton Releases THE SEAPORT EXECUTION SYSTEM, a 2050 Blueprint for Automated Container Terminals. New book argues seaports must trade outdoor container stacking for indoor automated storage and retrieval, adapting systems proven by Amazon and Walmart to break freight’s worst bottleneck. HOUSTON, Sept. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Retired U.S. Army Captain, combat veteran, industrial engineer and logistics strategist Michael Curtis Broughton has published THE SEAPORT EXECUTION SYSTEM: A 2050 Systems-Engineering Blueprint for High-Density, Cyber-Physical Container Terminals, now available in the Amazon Kindle Store. The book lays out a blueprint for converting the…