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Descrease article font size Increase article font size A dozen Manitobans will be rewarded for their accomplishments this summer with the province’s highest honour, the Order of Manitoba. The province announced Friday that the latest class of appointments to the order will be recognized at a formal investiture ceremony with Lt.-Gov Anita Neville on July 20 at the Manitoba legislature.The order, first established more than two decades ago in 1999, recognizes the efforts of those who have enriched the social, cultural or economic well-being of the province and its residents.Manitobans appointed to the order can use the “O.M.” initials after…

Tehran says the release of Bernard Phelan and Benjamin Briere, jailed for alleged spying, is a ‘humanitarian action’.Iran has released two French citizens, Bernard Phelan and Benjamin Briere, from a prison in the northeastern city of Mashhad, according to French President Emmanuel Macron. “We will continue to work towards the return of those of our fellow nationals who are still detained in Iran,” Macron said on Friday on Twitter. Ties between France and Iran have deteriorated in recent months with Tehran’s detentions of six French nationals in what Paris has described as arbitrary arrests equivalent to state hostage-taking. Catherine Colonna,…