12-01-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com

Young Saudi asylum-seeker arrives in Canada to official welcome

A "very, very happy" young Saudi woman who caused a sensation by defying her family and seeking asylum abroad was welcomed with open arms in Toronto Saturday at the end of a dramatic but exhausting international odyssey.Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland greeted Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun after she landed in Toronto, wearing a gray hoodie emblazoned in red with the word "CANADA" and a blue cap with the logo of the UN High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR).Smiling broadly, the 18-year-old posed for p
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