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King Charles said on Friday the Commonwealth should acknowledge its “painful” history, as African and Caribbean countries push for reparations for Britain’s role in transatlantic slavery. Representatives of 56 countries totalling about 2.7 billion people, most with roots in Britain’s empire, are attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) that …

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could face a subpoena to testify as a witness during a trial scheduled to begin this month for a class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for the cultural devastation wreaked by residential schools, court records show.  Lawyers representing 325 First Nations — more than half of all recognized First …