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A couple on Vancouver Island are speaking out about what was supposed to be a short drive while some baking cooled down at home but turned into a week-long fight for survival. Ken and Linda Biggs set off in their truck from Port McNeill for a three-hour drive on some back roads in the area.They stopped at Bonanza Lake where they hoped to see some elk, but that’s when their truck broke down.“I get back into the truck and Ken puts it in reverse and there was a humongous loud KLONK and I looked at him ‘What did you hit?’…

HANOI: The bank at the centre of Vietnam’s biggest financial fraud has received a central bank bailout amounting to 5 per cent of the nation’s 2024 economic output, which a local white knight hopes to repay in 15 years, documents seen by Reuters show. The nearly US$26 billion pumped into Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB) since a 2022 run on the bank, triggered by the arrest of the real estate tycoon who effectively controlled SCB, highlights Vietnam’s struggles to oversee its banks and contain potential sectoral risk. The Southeast Asian nation is scrambling domestically while its export-driven economy faces…

US president says files contain ‘a lot of reading’ about assassination that has fuelled conspiracy theories for decades.United States President Donald Trump has said his administration will on Tuesday release approximately 80,000 pages of files about the assassination of John F Kennedy, whose killing has fuelled conspiracy theories for more than six decades. Speaking at the Kennedy Center on Monday, Trump said the release will contain “a lot of reading” about the assassination of the 35th US president, who was killed in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. “I don’t believe we are going to redact anything. I said, ‘just…

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Solicitor Sarah Tricarico, who has represented Tony Mokbel, has fronted court after being charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.

Editor’s note: This article is part of our Rankings & Tiers series, an evaluation across sport about the key players, front offices, teams, franchises and much more.They’re not always talked about as much as star players, head coaches and general managers. And, in many cases, they’re not in the limelight.But one thing I’ve seen repeatedly covering the NHL the past 20 years is the value of a good owner to an organization — and the disruption that can come from having a bad one.Owners set the tone for their franchises. They, ultimately, pick who is in charge of their most important hockey decisions, as…

A Delta Air Lines plane struck its wing on the runway while landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York on Sunday night, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).The FAA confirmed to Fox News Digital that the incident happened just after 10 p.m. on a flight traveling from Jacksonville, Florida, to LaGuardia. “The left-wing of Endeavor Air Flight 4814 struck the runway at LaGuardia Airport in New York while the pilot was executing a go-around due to an unstable approach,” a spokesperson for the agency shared in a statement.Officials with the Port Authority confirmed to Fox News Digital that there were…

She loved life and lived it to the fullest — that’s how friends and family are remembering an Alberta woman who was killed in an avalanche in Kananaskis country west of Calgary on Friday. Thirty-four-year-old Minetta Norrie, one of two people killed in separate avalanches on Friday, was back-country skiing with three friends, off Highway 742, near Mount Black Prince, when she was she was swept away by the slide.RCMP say despite the “diligent best efforts of the other three skiers to provide medical attention,” Norrie was declared dead by first responders. Emily King-Moore holds a photograph showing herself and…

JAKARTA: More than 500 Indonesians freed from online scam centres in Myanmar will be repatriated via Thailand in the coming days, a senior Indonesian official told AFP on Tuesday (Mar 18). Cyberscam operations, which have thrived in Myanmar’s lawless border areas for several years, lure foreign workers with promises of high-paying jobs but hold them hostage and force them to commit online fraud. Around 7,000 workers from at least two dozen countries have been freed in recent weeks, the majority of them Chinese, but many have been languishing in squalid temporary holding camps on the border between Myanmar and Thailand. Four…

The market sell-off is not over yet as consumer and corporate confidence take a dive on tariff uncertainty, according to Deutsche Bank. “We see the selloff in US equities as having further to go,” Binky Chadha, chief strategist at Deutsche Bank, wrote Saturday. “With trade policy uncertainty likely to continue to weigh, at least until April 2, we expect positioning to continue to unwind.” “A move to the bottom of the positioning band which is where it went to in the last trade war, would take the S & P 500 down to 5250,” Chadha added. The S & P…