The move comes after several banks cut ties with money exchange houses due to concerns about illicit financial flows. Money exchange houses in the United Arab Emirates have been ordered by the central bank to raise their standards, after several banks cut ties with them due to concerns about the risk of illicit financial flows. The UAE’s huge expatriate workforce […]

(Reuters) – About 60 firefighters and eight fire engines attended to a fire on top of a commercial tower block in London’s Canary Wharf area, but there were no injuries and the fire was under control at 0158 GMT, London Fire Brigade said early on Saturday. The blaze was contained to the air conditioning unit, the fire brigade said. The […]

Only the non-Jew can possess bread during the week of Passover. Israel is to sell all of its leavened bread, as well as cakes, biscuits, noodles, and even beer to an Arab, but the Jewish state will not go hungry, nor would the food be delivered to Israeli-blockaded Gaza; the sale is just a religious trick to get around the rules […]

Three of five people wounded recently when a criminal suspect opened fire on police in downtown New Orleans may have been hit by officers shooting back, police superintendent Shaun Ferguson said Thursday. Video that shows the Feb. 17 shootout unfolding from different angles was released Thursday, as Ferguson briefed reporters. “At no point were our officers firing unless being fired […]

An elderly man has been charged following a collision between a Grand River Transit bus and a vehicle in Kitchener on Friday morning. Police say the crash occurred at around 10:30 a.m. near the intersection of Belmont Avenue West and Claremont Avenue. The driver of the vehicle, an 86-year-old man, was taken to Grand River Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. […]

A bakery and coffee shop in Kelowna was damaged on Thursday morning when a man tried to throw a chair through one of its storefront windows. The incident was caught on security camera.  At the time, there were a handful of customers inside Bliss Bakery on Ellis Street. A man wearing blue jeans and a black jacket can be seen […]

Tragedy strikes after attempted prison break in Valencia, in Carabobo state, leading to deaths by asphyxia and burns. Anguished relatives of at least 68 people killed in a riot and fire in the cells of a police station jail in the Venezuelan city of Valencia have gathered outside to demand explanations.  A fire reportedly broke out at the detention centre […]

Suicide is the leading cause of death of Asians in the city — but leaders of the community say they’ve been largely ignored by Chirlane McCray’s Thrive mental-health initiative. “We feel like we’re in a room where we’re screaming and no one’s hearing us,” Joo Han, deputy director of the Asian American Federation, told The Post. Han said she’s met […]

Hindu woman elected to Pakistan’s senate in historic first. A woman from Pakistan’s marginalised community, at the bottom of the Hindu caste hierarchy and a minority in a Muslim-majority country, has been elected to the Senate for the first time ever. Krishna Kumari Kohli, a member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), hails from the so-called untouchables, the lowest rung […]

The Edmonton Police Service has charged a 65-year-old chiropractor with sexual assault in connection with a series of incidents that allegedly took place over 30 years ago. Last year, a woman went to police and reported that in 1986, when she was a minor, a chiropractor sexually assaulted her on numerous occasions while she was a patient. The EPS investigated, […]