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• Author: Obarles, Oliver
• Position: Citings - Not allowed on field trip due to diabetes; judgment over inciting racial hatred in France; slander for Twitter user in Saudi Arabia

Officials at New Mexico's Mora High School refused to allow Dennasia Cordova to go on a field trip with the rest of her class because she has diabetes and they would not be able to follow her medical plan. The school then marked it down as an unexcused absence.

France's highest court has upheld a judgment against a dozen people who tried to encourage supermarket shoppers to boycott Israeli products. The court found the activists guilty of inciting racial hatred or discrimination and ordered them to pay a $13,200 fine, plus court costs.

The Saudi justice ministry plans to sue a Twitter user who called the death sentence handed down by a Saudi court for apostasy "ISIS-like." The ministry says it will not stand for any slander of the country's judicial system.

Seven years ago, the Student Federation at the University of Ottawa asked Jennifer Scharf to provide a free weekly yoga class. Now the federation is pulling the plug because of worries about "cultural appropriation." She offered to change the name of the class to "mindful stretching" to avoid offending anyone, but that led to a disagreement about how the phrase should be translated into French. So the group just decided to drop the class.

Officials in Auckland, New Zealand, banned the sale, consumption, or possession of alcoholic beverages in the area around Western Springs Stadium on the day of a December AC/DC concert.

Karen Keller, who teaches kindergarten at a public elementary school in Bainbridge...