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    Parents had right to receive presentation in English after all: Quebec Education Ministry

    English-speaking parents of children with learning difficulties who were denied an English information session last week were entitled to have the presentation in a language other than French, Quebec's Education Ministry says.The clarification comes after parents and the interim leader of the Quebec Liberal Party decried the additional barrier for parents seeking information about educational programs for their children.The online meeting on April 11 was specifically for a group of parents whose

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    Dubai flooding: Dramatic photos after UAE sees heaviest rainfall in 75 years

    The United Arab Emirates witnessed the heaviest rainfall in 75 years this week, triggering massive flooding that swept away cars, caused flights to be canceled and left multiple people dead.

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    Fatal crash closing westbound Highway 417 at Innes Road

    A serious crash that killed one person and injured two others is closing westbound Highway 417 at Innes Road, one of the main ways for drivers from the east to get to central Ottawa.The crash happened near the Aviation Parkway around 3:45 a.m., according to Ottawa paramedics. An adult in one of the two vehicles involved was pronounced dead at the scene, paramedics said, while two other adults in the other vehicle were taken to hospital in serious, non life-threatening condition.It appears driver

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    AP Top Stories April 18 A

    Here's the latest for Thursday April 18th: Trump jury selection to resume; Israeli Prime Minister comments on Iran attack; Senate rejects Mayorkas impeachment charges; Biden campaigns with steel workers in Pennsylvania.

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    How the jury is being selected in Trump’s hush money trial

    Jury selection is set to resume Thursday in Manhattan Criminal Court, where a panel of 12 jurors and six alternates will ultimately be chosen to decide the former president’s fate.

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    Parched Texas growing season looms as US, Mexico spar over water treaty

    Texas farm groups warn of a disastrous season ahead for citrus and sugar as Mexican and U.S. officials try to resolve a dispute over a decades-old water treaty that supplies U.S. farmers with critical irrigation. The neighboring countries have tussled over the 1944 treaty before, but the current drought-driven water shortages are the most severe in nearly 30 years and add to existing political tensions over genetically modified corn. Under the treaty designed to allocate shared water resources

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  • US PoliticsReuters

    Trump hush money jury selection resumes as lawyers probe for bias

    Donald Trump is due in Manhattan court on Thursday as lawyers continue searching for jurors to decide the former U.S. president’s fate in a historic criminal trial just months before his upcoming rematch with President Joe Biden. Seven jurors have already been selected after two days of grilling by prosecutors and Trump’s lawyers, who are tasked with finding New Yorkers who can be fair to the Republican presidential candidate in heavily Democratic Manhattan, where the businessman-turned-politic

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