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A Vancouver man has been ordered to pay more than $500,000 after a BC Supreme Court judge found he defrauded potential developers of a real estate project in China out of that amount. In a decision issued earlier this week and posted online on Friday, Judge Neena Sharma ruled that Christopher Lee is liable to…
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida – US President-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other supporters in the tech industry, as a dispute over immigration visas has divided his supporters. Trump, in an interview with the New York Post on Saturday, praised the use of visas to bring skilled foreign workers…
SEOUL, South Korea – A passenger plane burst into flames Sunday after it skidded off the runway at a South Korean airport and crashed into a concrete fence when its front landing gear apparently failed to deploy, killing at least 47 people. officials said. The National Fire Agency said the fire was almost out, but…
SEOUL, South Korea – South Korean media reports that 28 people have been confirmed dead after a plane caught fire at an airport in the south of the country. South Korea’s emergency office said the fire was put out and rescue officials were trying to remove passengers from the Jeju Air passenger plane at the…
A southern Ontario resident has been charged for allegedly impersonating a law enforcement officer during a towing incident in northwestern Ontario earlier this year. At approximately 11:30 pm on April 26, Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) officers responded to a car collision on Highway 17 in the town of Machin. “Through the investigation, it was…
For many people, celebrating New Year’s Day can include reflecting on a life well lived or the opportunity to start over. But for some, the holiday may have dark undertones, according to a large recent study. More than 700,000 suicide deaths were reported worldwide in 2019, accounting for about 1.3 percent of deaths that year,…
NEW HOPE, Pennsylvania – Dayle Haddon, a pioneering actress, activist and former “Sports Illustrated” model who fought age discrimination by returning to the industry as a widow, died in a Pennsylvania home from what authorities believe was carbon monoxide poisoning. Bucks County authorities found Haddon, 76, dead in a second-floor bedroom Friday morning after emergency…
If you think physical therapy is just about rehabilitation after surgery or an accident, think again. For the vast majority, seeing a physical therapist should be aimed at prevention, routine evaluation, and maintaining well-being. “We are the best-kept secret in health care,” Sharon Dunn, former president of the American Physical Therapy Association, told The Associated…
Rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs and the alleged killer of healthcare CEO Luigi Mangione have decided on a similar defense strategy: hire an Agnifilo. Or two. Marc Agnifilo is leading Combs’ defense against racketeering and sex trafficking conspiracy charges, while Karen Friedman Agnifilo is leading Mangione’s murder defense, with Marc in a supporting role. For much…
MOSCOW, Russia – On Saturday, Russia’s Vladimir Putin apologized to the president of Azerbaijan for a “tragic incident” in Russian airspace involving a Kazakhstan Airlines passenger plane that crashed after air defenses were used against Ukrainian drones. Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a fireball near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from…