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Nigerian police are searching for six children abducted from their school on the outskirts of the main city, Lagos. The abductors freed four other children after “profiling” their parents, police said, apparently referring to the fact that they were not regarded as wealthy. The men came through a swampy forest bordering the state-run Model College school, and cut a hole ...

The first clear video of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi has been published by Sky News. The video, captured by a neighbour in the Fallowfield region of Manchester, shows the terrorist putting out the bins in a distinctive brown hooded garment. Sky News said it was filmed “several” months ago and was verified by Abdullah Muhsin Norris, the chairman of the Salaam Community ...

At least 23 people have been killed and 25 wounded after gunmen opened fire on a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt, state media report. The incident occurred in Minya province, 250km (155 miles) south of Cairo, as the bus headed to a church. There have been a number of attacks on Copts in recent months claimed by Islamic ...

Dubai Police have revealed their first robot officer, giving it the task of patrolling the city’s malls and tourist attractions. People will be able to use it to report crimes, pay fines and get information by tapping a touchscreen on its chest. Data collected by the robot will also be shared with the transport and traffic authorities. The government said ...

Manchester attacker Salman Abedi was flagged to UK authorities five times about his extremist views before committing the atrocity that killed 22 people on Monday, The Daily Telegraph reported. The newspaper noted the times Abedi had been reported. Citing information also reported by the BBC, it said: He told friends “being a suicide bomber was okay,” something that led them to ...

The co-owner of London’s West Ham United Football Club has promised to give free accommodation to a homeless man who came to the aide of victims of Monday’s Manchester terror attack. The British businessman, David Sullivan, and his son, Dave Jr, said they wanted to help get the man “back on his feet” after seeing the compassion he had shown ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) – One of Harvard University’s most famous dropouts, Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg, returns on Thursday to the Ivy League school to address its graduating class. The 33-year-old tech titan, who dropped out the college to found the pioneering social network company, has been on a nostalgia trip during the week leading up to Harvard’s commencement. On ...

Lagos – Nigeria said on Wednesday it had intercepted an illegal cache of arms at the port in Lagos, five months after a similar seizure in the city, a spokesperson told AFP. “Following intelligence reports, our operatives on Monday inspected a 40-foot container at the Tin Can port in Apapa, Lagos, and found 440 pieces of assorted pump action rifles ...

Nairobi – Somali pirates have hijacked an Iranian fishing boat and taken it to a port in the north of the country, a watchdog group said on Wednesday. The ocean-going dhow with a crew of up to 20 was seized by pirates off Qandala in the semi-autonomous Puntland region on Tuesday, said John Steed, regional manager for Oceans Beyond Piracy, ...

Harare – President Robert Mugabe’s only daughter Bona has been appointed to the country’s Censorship Board, which determines which parts of steamy films the people of Zimbabwe can watch and which they can’t. To help her in this task is Mugabe’s longstanding friend and confidante, Father Fidelis Mukonori, who is a Roman Catholic priest, and former education minister Aeneas Chigwedere, ...