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Man Survives 60 Hours Under Water In Sunken Ship
An air pocket saved his life
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Nigerian Islamists kill 59 pupils in boarding school attack
Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram shot or burned to death 59 pupils in a boarding school in northeast Nigeria overnight, a hospital official and security forces said on Tuesday.
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This building in Nigeria could be the world's most futuristic school
But don't expect steel and glass: this classroom floats on recycled materials
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Rotting bodies and skulls found in Nigerian ‘House of Horror’
Nigerian police said Sunday they have opened a murder probe after the discovery of rotting bodies and skeletons in an abandoned building the media has branded a "House of Horror".
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Nigerian police free pregnant girls in 'baby factory' raid
Nigerian police said Saturday they had raided a home near Lagos where eight pregnant girls were staying with plans to sell each of their newborns for nearly two thousand dollars. "Following intelligence report, we discovered and stormed on Friday a baby factory in Akute district of Ogun state," a police spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi, told AFP.
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Nigerian child bride forced into marriage poisons meal, kills groom and 3 others: Police
Police say a child bride forced into marriage in Nigeria prepared a poisoned meal that has killed her groom and three of his friends. They quote 14-year-old Wasila Umaru as saying she used rat poison in the food because she was forced to marry a man she did not love.
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Nigeria's Stolen Girls
“I thought it was the end of my life,” Deborah Sanya told me by phone on Monday from Chibok, a tiny town of farmers in northeastern Nigeria. “There were many, many of them.” Boko Haram, an Islamist terrorist group, kidnapped Sanya and at least two hundred of her classmates from a girls’ secondary school in Chibok more than two weeks ago. Sanya, along with two friends, escaped. So did forty others. The rest have vanished, and their families have not heard any word of them since.
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Nigerian troops 'preparing to launch rescue mission for schoolgirls'
Nigerian troops are reported to be massing in a forest in the north of the country in preparation for an assault to free hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by a militant Islamist group.
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Islamic militant attack in Nigeria kills hundreds
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Islamic militants who have triggered international outrage over the kidnapping of more than 270 Nigerian schoolgirls opened fire on a busy marketplace, killing hundreds of people in a new spasm of violence in the country's northeast.
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310 people killed in latest Boko Haram attack; hundreds of girls remain missing
Abduction of schoolgirls by Boko Haram
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Nigeria Had Advance Warning of Schoolgirls’ Kidnapping
At least four hours before hundreds of girls were snatched from a boarding school, Nigerian authorities were aware of Boko Haram’s plans—and yet did nothing, says Amnesty International.
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US Marines, Satellite locate missing girls in Sambisa forest
Military sources have stated that a combined team of security agents in the field and back up communications and satellite imagery specialists have located the missing girls inside the dreaded Sambisa forest.
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Girl who escaped Nigeria abduction tells of fear
A teenage girl who managed to escape kidnapping by Islamist group Boko Haram during a night raid in Nigeria last month has spoken publicly about the ordeal, as international assistance to locate more than 200 girls still held hostage ramps up.
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Nigeria villagers kill Boko Haram fighters
Villagers kill and detain scores of fighters suspected of planning a fresh attack in the country's north.
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Leaders declare 'war' on Boko Haram
African leaders meeting in Paris have agreed to wage "war" on Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamic militants. President Hollande of France, who hosted the summit, said regional powers had pledged to share intelligence and co-ordinate action against the group.
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500 Nigerian hunters with homemade weapons ready to rescue kidnapped girls
Traditional hunters armed with homemade guns, poisoned spears and amulets have gathered in their hundreds, eager to use their skills and what they believe to be supernatural powers to help find nearly 300 schoolgirls abducted by Islamic extremists.
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Police: International Nigerian crime ring operates from Atlanta suburbs
More than 100 members of an international crime ring operate out of the Atlanta suburbs, according to police in Gwinnett County. "They're very slick. They're very smooth. They're able to talk people out of money," said Major Don Woodruff of the Duluth Police Department. Woodruff said detectives have traced a number of different scams in which Americans lost money back to people living and working in Gwinnett County.
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Bombing at northeast Nigeria football match kills at least 40
A bomb attack targeting fans at a football match in Nigeria's restive northeast killed at least 40 people on Sunday, a police officer told AFP. "There has been a bomb explosion at a football field this evening and so far more than 40 people have been killed," said the officer who requested anonymity in the town of Mubi, which has seen previous attacks by Boko Haram Islamists.
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Boko Haram militants disguised as preachers kill 45 in fresh attacks
At least 45 people were killed while several others sustained gunshot wounds when Boko Haram members attacked Bargari village of Konduga Local Government Area of Borno State on Wednesday night. Bargari is an outskirt of Maiduguri, the state capital, and about 30 kilometres South-East of Giwa Barracks, which came under attack on 14th March, this year.
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Iran, Nigeria Ban Public Viewing Of World Cup
When Iran faces off against Nigeria for a June 16 match in the FIFA World Cup, fans in both teams’ home countries may be hard-pressed to find a public spot to watch the game. In an attempt at crowd control, Iranian police banned cafes and restaurants from airing World Cup games, even Iran's own matches, the BBC reported Tuesday, citing local media. The decision came just weeks after the country banned women from watching the games with men in public cinemas.
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