Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited London on Oct.

14 to meet British Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

Britain announced a £45 million air-defense package and will speed up delivery of £10 million worth of lightweight missiles.

The missiles have been used against Russian jet-powered drones, which are faster and harder to intercept than older models.

British Columbia’s three main party leaders are due to debate in the province’s snap election campaign.

NDP Leader David Eby, interim Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson and Green Leader Emily Lowan are scheduled to take part.

The debate is the campaign’s only leaders’ debate and is set to be broadcast by major television and radio networks.

It comes after the Greens released a platform proposing almost $9.3 billion a year for health care, education and other social services over the next two fiscal years.

Arsalan Chaudhary testified in Brampton at the trial of Parmpal Sidhu, a former Air Canada employee accused in the 2023 Pearson Airport gold heist.

Police say more than $22 million in gold and currency was stolen from a cargo area at Toronto Pearson Airport in April 2023.

Prosecutors allege Sidhu provided a doctored waybill that let another man collect the shipment, but Sidhu has pleaded not guilty.

Chaudhary, who pleaded guilty to theft and is serving a four-year sentence, said he planned the heist and took about a third of the gold.

Bank of America’s third-quarter profit fell 17% from a year earlier, to $6.93 billion.

The Charlotte-based bank said the result included a $1.2 billion regulatory penalty over failures in safeguards against money laundering and other illicit financial activity.

The penalty came as investment banking fees and fixed-income trading revenue fell, although equities trading revenue rose.

Lending income provided support: net interest income increased 8% to $16.4 billion as loan and deposit balances grew.

The Entertainment Software Association has asked the US trade representative to target retro gaming devices sold with unlicensed games.

The request appears in a filing to the Office of the United States Trade Representative, which publishes an annual list of markets linked to piracy and counterfeiting.

The ESA specifically named China-based maker Anbernic, whose handhelds emulate older systems from companies including Nintendo, PlayStation and Sega.

It says devices are sometimes sold with memory cards containing hundreds or thousands of games, though another account says third-party sellers, rather than Anbernic, routinely sell those cards.

A Florida jury found Tyreek Hill liable for two battery claims brought by his ex-wife, Lakeeta Vaccaro, after a civil trial in Miami.

The jury awarded Vaccaro $500,000 in compensatory damages, but did not award punitive damages.

Hill was found not liable on the other claims, and he denied many of Vaccaro’s allegations.

The case is part of a wider history of domestic abuse allegations involving Hill, which have also drawn NFL attention.

Rockstar Games says its next game should take less time to make than GTA 6, which is due out on November 19.

The company’s leaders say the engine, tools and team built for GTA 6 can help speed up future development.

Rockstar has more than 4,700 employees across 12 offices, including more than 4,000 in development and quality assurance.

Its previous game, Red Dead Redemption 2, came out in 2018, and GTA 6 has taken years to complete.

Helen Branswell, a respected health journalist, has died at 69.

She died in an Ottawa hospital on Tuesday from complications of cancer, her sister said.

Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, she spent 29 years at The Canadian Press before joining STAT when it launched in 2015.

Her reporting covered major disease threats, including SARS, Ebola, influenza and COVID-19, and helped explain complex health issues to the public.