Saudi Arabia is pulling thousands of students from Canada in an escalating human rights feud

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• Saudi Arabia will withdraw all of its students studying in Canada in an intensifying feud between the two countries.
• A Saudi government source told The Globe and Mail that more than 15,000 Saudis are studying in Canada on government funded courses or grants.
• Local media also reported that the country has been instructed not to transfer its patients to Canada for medical treatment. 
• The feud between Canada and Saudi Arabia has escalated quickly since it began on Friday, when Canada's Ministry of Foreign Affairs raised concerns about the Kingdom's human rights record.

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Saudi Arabia will withdraw all of its students studying in Canada in an intensifying rift between the two countries over the Kingdom's human rights record. 

The Saudi Arabian Cultural Bureau, a wing of the country's Ministry of Education, announced on its website Monday that all training and scholarship programs in Canada will be suspended by the end of the Islamic calendar year in September. It gave no further details. 

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