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In some classrooms in the Twin Cities, more than half of the desks sit empty. The children of immigrants are increasingly absent from school, sports teams and even front yards, fearful that immigration and customs agents will detain them, or their parents, because of the colour of their skin. CBC | World News
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Seattle shooting: Two teenage students killed at bus stop as police hunt suspect
Two teenage students were shot dead at a bus stop in South Seattle on Friday afternoon. Police responded to reports of gunfire near Rainier Avenue South and South Henderson Street just before 4pm, where they found both victims with fatal gunshot wounds. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »Students issued ‘watch out’ alert ahead of January SLC payments
The Student Loans Company is reminding students to be vigilant ahead of the January maintenance loan payment window Daily Express :: Finance Feed
Read More »Nigeria says remaining 130 abducted students have now been released
The students are among more than 300 pupils and 12 staff seized by gunmen from St Mary’s Catholic boarding school in the village of Papiri in the early hours of Nov. 21. CBC | World News
Read More »#TheMoment students reunited after losing their N.L. school to wildfires
Jackie King, Jace Hogan and Allison Slade tell The National about the moment students from Cabot Academy in Conception Bay, N.L., reunited for the holidays after their school burned down in the summer. CBC | World News
Read More »50 schoolchildren escape captivity in Nigeria, 253 students and 12 teachers still being held
Fifty of the 303 schoolchildren abducted from a Catholic school in north-central Nigeria’s Niger state have escaped captivity and are now with their families, the school authority said Sunday, bringing relief to some distraught families after one of the largest school abductions in Nigeria’s history. CBC | World News
Read More »Students watch on in horror as firefighters swarm major UK’s university hall
Two fire engines and a police car were seen attending the scene. Daily Express :: News Feed
Read More »1 of 25 students abducted in Nigeria found safe as search continues for missing girls
A schoolgirl who was abducted with 24 others from a dormitory in northwestern Nigeria has escaped and is safe, the school’s principal told The Associated Press on Tuesday, as hunters joined security forces in the search for the missing students in forests close to the school. CBC | World News
Read More »Bangladesh’s ousted PM Sheikh Hasina sentenced to death for deadly students crackdown
A Bangladesh war crimes court sentenced ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death on Monday, concluding a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year. CBC | World News
Read More »Panic as UK school in lockdown with students ‘barricading themselves in’
Parents claimed their children were forced to “barricade doors with metal bars” and “barricade themselves in classrooms” with tables and chairs. Daily Express :: News Feed
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