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A Saudi teen who fled her family saying she feared for her life has gleefully shared snaps of her new life in Canada - including eating bacon and drinking Starbucks.

Rahaf Mohammed, 18, was at the heart of a worldwide storm when she barricaded herself in a hotel room at Bangkok Airport after running away.

Rahaf - who has renounced her last name, al-Qunun - alleged she suffered horrific abuse at her family's hands, which they deny.

She arrived in Canada on Saturday after the country granted her asylum - and she was pictured at Toronto International Airport wearing a hoodie with the word 'Canada' on it.

She was welcomed by the country's Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, who hailed her as a "very brave new Canadian".

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Yesterday she posted a picture of a traditional Canadian breakfast on Snapchat, alongside the caption: "omg bacon".

And a picture of a Starbucks coffee reveals she was wearing a skirt above her knee.

Rahaf refused to meet her father and brother, who arrived in Bangkok to try take her back to Saudi Arabia.

Freeland said: "Rahaf wanted Canadians to see that she has arrived at her new home.

"But she had a very long and tiring journey and so would prefer not to take questions today.

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"And she is now going to go to her new home."

Rahaf chose Canada because Australia took too long assessing whether to grant her asylum.

"(Australia) takes too long. That's why I went to Canada," she told Reuters in a direct message before boarding her flight to Toronto.

Earlier this month, after escaping her family on a holiday in Kuwait, Rahaf started posting messages on Twitter from the transit area of Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport saying her life would be in danger if forced to return to Saudi Arabia.

Within hours, a campaign sprang up dubbed SaveRahaf, spread on Twitter by a loose network of activists.

Following a 48-hour stand-off at Bangkok airport, some of it barricaded in a transit lounge hotel room, she was allowed to enter the country and has been processed as a refugee by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).