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To: LucyT

Good to see you Lucy. This is most interesting news.


531 posted on 08/06/2018 4:06:51 PM PDT by DrDude (Waiting for the Game to start. Gotta move the Goal Posts again!)
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Saudi Arabia to relocate students from Canada

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia has suspended scholarships to Canada and will relocate students already there, state media said Monday (Aug 6), after the kingdom abruptly cut ties with Ottawa over criticism of its jailing of rights activists.
Riyadh, which suspended diplomatic relations with Canada on Monday, will “stop training, scholarship and fellowship programs” there, state-run Al-Ekhbariya television reported.

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More than 8,000 students from Saudi Arabia are enrolled in programmes in Canada, according to figures released by the official Saudi Press Agency in 2017.
These students, many of them studying medicine, are accompanied by more than 6,400 dependents.

Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/saudi-arabia-to-relocate-students-from-canada-10594506


633 posted on 08/06/2018 6:43:04 PM PDT by LucyT (It is President Trump, - not "Trump.")
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