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The G8 is officially condemning North Korea’s recent war threats towards South Korea.

The group of foreign ministers issued the statement on Wednesday after meeting in London.

The G8 is made up of representatives from eight of the richest countries in the world.

Canadian foreign minister John Baird is part of this group.

North Korean state television has been issuing nuclear war and missile threats to neighbouring South Korea.

According to Al Jazeera, tensions are rising between North and South Korea.

It’s official: after 66 years food trucks will be making their way back onto Montreal streets.

The Montreal Gazette reports the city’s commission on economic and urban development voted unanimously to allow the return of street food.

Starting June 20, the downtown Ville Marie borough will pick ten sites where food trucks and carts can sell food.

Vendors must have a registered restaurant or catering business in Montreal to be eligible for a license.

Radiological exams performed in private clinics may soon be paid for with public money

The provincial government announced it will start footing the bill for a wider variety of medical imaging procedures.

Right now, Quebec’s health insurance board only covers radiological exams conducted in hospitals.

At privately owned clinics however, patients pay out-of-pocket for MRIs, ultrasounds, CT and CAT scans.

Religious tension rumbles at Jerusalem’s wailing wall but its not between the groups you might think.

According to BBC News, Orthodox Jewish women want to pray and perform religious ceremonies at the historic site of the ancient biblical temple.

The group Women of the wall want to perform religious rituals that Orthodox Jews say are reserved for me.

Ten members of the group were arrested recently.

Chairman of the Jewish Agency Natan Sharansky proposed a new area for mixed gender and women led prayer.

E-learning was put on the spotlight at a conference last week at Concordia.

The Link reports people gathered from around the world to share their secrets on improving the e-learning experience.

Some of the technology highlighted included gesture-based computing, video games, synchronous online classes and social media.

Concordia Vice-Provost, Teaching and Learning Ollivier Dyens says these technologies have forced us to really think about what is a twenty-first century university.

Students in Newfoundland and Labrador can breath a sigh of relief, this fall. 

The Canadian University Press reports that the province's General Assembly will keep the tuition freeze in light of the province’s annual budget. 

The decision came after student groups lobbied to continue the ongoing freeze.

The average student debt goes around 20-thousand dollars, according to Michael Walsh. 

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New protests against the government erupted in the Bengali capital city, Dhaka on Monday.

Al-Jazeera news reports, Bangladesh’s main opposition party along with their seventeen allies staged the protest. They are also calling for a nationwide strike.

The protestors are demanding for the release of more than one-hundred-fifty of their members arrested during previous uprisings.

The Quebec government`s decision to cut millions of dollars from Montreal health care has become a growing concern for health care officials.

According to CBC News the Quebec government has decided to cut the health care budget by $100 million for 2013 and 2014.

the President of the Coalition of Physicians has stated that this decision is a complete outrage.

He is deeply concerned that this multi million dollar cut will have a negative impact on patient services.

He also stated that the government is not making enough of an effort to find other cost saving solutions. 

Around 25,000 people took to the streets in protest on Sunday to voice their anger at plans to have street signs written in the Cyrillic alphabet in the Croatian town of Vukovar. 

Last Friday, several grassroots organizations held an open forum together to demand for workers rights. 

The Temporary Workers Association, Dignidad Migrante, PINAY, and the Mexicans United for Regularization
were among the groups represented.

Reporter Saturn De Los Angeles tells us what happened.

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