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France to ban Muslim abaya dress in state schools

  By Reuters and published by CNA Paris – France will ban children from wearing the abaya, the loose-fitting, full-length robes worn by some Muslim women, in state-run schools, its education minister said on Sunday (Aug. 27) ahead of the back-to-school season. France, which has enforced a strict ban on religious signs in state schools

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1 student dead, 5 others injured as fire extinguisher explodes during drill

  A FIRE DRILL at Rajavinit Mathayom School in Dusit district turned into a tragedy when a carbon dioxide extinguisher exploded killing one student and injuring five others including a coach at 11.30 a.m. this morning (June 23), Thai Rath and Naewna newspapers said. Metropolitan Police Chief Pol. Lt. Gen. Thiti Saengsawang and Nang Loeng

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Life

Families argue after ninth grader badly slashes fellow student for ‘bullying’

  THE families of two students with one having badly slashed the other for allegedly bullying him argued over compensation while the injured boy denied tormenting his classmate, Sanook.com said today (Sept. 7). The unnamed ninth grade student at a school in Pakham district of Buriram province used a grass hook which he brought from

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Remains of 215 children found at former indigenous school site in Canada

By Reuters Staff, published by Euronews.com Toronto – The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School

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Bangkok school closed after Covid cases emerge at nearby factory 

BANGKOK Metropolitan Administration (BMA) ordered a school in Phasi Charoen district closed after 27 workers at a factory in its neighbourhood were found infected with Covid-19, Thai Rath newspaper reported this evening (Feb. 2, 2021). BMA’s spokesman Pol. Capt. Pongsakorn Kwanmuang said Wat Chan Pradit Tharam School had been ordered closed till Friday Feb. 5

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