STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — The specter of academic plagiarism — — has now reached the heart of politics, toppling one government minister and leaving a second fighting for her political career.

Sandra Borch, Norway’s minister for research and higher education, resigned last week after a business student in Oslo discovered that tracts of Borch’s master’s thesis, including spelling mistakes, were copied without attribution from a different author.

The student, 27-year-old Kristoffer Rytterager, got upset about Borch’

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government is denying reports that it sentenced six army generals to death or life imprisonment for their surrender this month of a regional military command headquarters on the border with China to an alliance of ethnic armed groups.

The generals were the key officers involved in the surrender of the headquarters in Laukkaing, a city in northern Shan state that had been a major target of the Three Brotherhood Alliance comprising the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, the Ta’ang National Liberation Army and the Arakan Army

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — parliament on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved an internet regulation bill that was highly criticized as a move to stifle speech in an election year while the Indian Ocean island nation copes with an economic crisis that required an international bailout.

The Online Safety bill would allow the government to set up a commission with a wide range of powers, which includes ordering people and internet service providers to remove online posts deemed “prohibited statements.” It can also legally pursue people who publish such posts.

The government led

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said Wednesday that he’s worried that the war in Ukraine has been forgotten as the country prepares to mark two years since the start of .

UNHCR chief Filippo Grandi also told The Associated Press in an interview that it was important to remind the international community that Ukrainians were living through a brutal war despite other global crises taking the spotlight.

Speaking at the end of a weeklong visit to Ukraine, Grandi said that the invasion, which was

Rona Inc. says it’s cutting about 300 jobs and closing two distribution centres as part of a plan to adjust its operating model and eliminate inefficiencies.

The home improvement retailer says it’s consolidating operations into its core buildings, and will close a distribution centre in Terrebonne, Que. in March and one in Calgary in October.

It says the closure of the centres, along with a streamlining of its corporate structure, will together lead to the roughly 300 cuts nationally.

The move comes after

Durham police have issued an arrest warrant for a 54-year-old Clarington woman following the disappearance of her and her three children.

Police say they began a “complex investigation” regarding the whereabouts of Astrid Schiller and her three children – 11-year-old Leon, 10-year-old Christopher and nine-year-old Thomas – last December.

“Throughout the investigation, there has been no safety concerns for the children and numerous processes have taken place between the courts and the Children’

Five members of Canada’s 2018 World Juniors hockey team have reportedly been told to surrender to police to face sexual assault charges.

The Globe and Mail , citing unnamed sources, is reporting the group of players are being given a set period of time to turn themselves in to London Police Service headquarters in London, Ont.

In a statement to CityNews, London Police advised they will not be providing any update at this time.

“When there is further information to share regarding this investigation, we will be

A martyr is someone willing to die for a cause. It is a provocative title for any book, let alone one by an Iranian American author. But as Kaveh Akbar so ably demonstrates in his debut work of fiction, he is after a different kind of martyrdom, one that involves sacrificing everything for his art. Or, as the novel’s hero puts in “Martyr!”: “I just want to write an epic. A book. Something about secular, pacifist martyrs. People who gave their lives

FORT SMITH, N.W.T. — A passenger plane crashed early Tuesday near the town of Fort Smith, N.W.T., near the Alberta boundary. The coroner’s office says six people have died and one person was taken to hospital.

Global mining giant Rio Tinto has said a number of its staff were on the plane headed to the Diavik Diamond Mine, 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife.

Here are the latest developments. (All times are MT):

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