Toni Harris says she and her family didn’t have much time to leave their homes when the Bradley Creek fire raged through the Okanagan Indian Band (OKIB) reserve near Vernon B.C.”A lot of us did not get warnings,” said Harris, an OKIB member and wildfire evacuee.”I got home, and two minutes later, my uncle, Dave Lawrence, was … honking and saying, ‘You have to leave.’ And we asked, ‘Well, how much time do we have?’ And he’s like, ‘Now.”Approximately 30 Okanagan Indian Band members and around 200 non-band members have lost their homes to wildfire over August long weekend, according…

Published on 09/08/2026 – 11:28 GMT+2•Updated 11:30 Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said on Sunday they had struck an oil facility on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast after the Gulf kingdom said it had extinguished a fire at the site. The group’s military spokesman Yahya Saree said the Houthis had “succeeded…

Authorities say they broke up one of the largest criminal networks running migrant smuggling in the Western Mediterranean.Published On 7 Aug 20267 Aug 2026Spanish authorities, working with Europol and police in France, Portugal and Poland, have dismantled what they say is one of the largest criminal networks for migrant smuggling,…

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Seven healthcare professionals have been on trial since mid-April in Argentina for potential negligence.Published On 7 Aug 20267 Aug 2026Diego Maradona was bedridden, suffering from excess body fluid and appeared resigned to his fate in his final days, according to the testimony of the Argentinian football legend’s masseur at the…

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A major deal shows how some types of investment can leave investors with little objective information and fewer options because they’re locked into a non-liquid and opaque fund.Starwood Real Estate Investment Trust, nicknamed SREIT, with a REIT being a standard investment vehicle for real estate, is a big-name real estate…

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