5 h. ago More than 200 children and 12 teachers kidnapped from Catholic school in Nigeria

Three separate mass kidnappings have been highlighted in the west African country since Monday, leading President Bola Tinubu to cancel his trip to South Africa for the G20 summit this weekend

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11 h. ago Security deployed after more than 200 Catholic school children kidnapped in Nigeria

Three separate mass kidnappings have been highlighted in Nigeria this week, prompting President Bola Tinubu to cancel his trip to this weekend’s G20 summit in South Africa

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12 h. ago Nigeria reels after 215 children taken in second mass school abduction in a week

Twelve teachers also kidnapped from Catholic school amid threats from Trump to intervene over ‘Christian genocide’Unknown gunmen have abducted 215 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, the second mass abduction in the country in a week.The latest kidnapping, in Papiri community in Niger state, came against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s threat to intervene militarily to end a “Christian genocide”, which the Nigerian government has denied is happening. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Gunmen abduct more than 200 schoolchildren and 12 teachers in attack on Nigerian Catholic school

Gunmen have attacked a Catholic school in Nigeria, abducting more than 200 schoolchildren and 12 teachers

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14 h. ago Nigeria school horror as gunmen kidnaps 215 children and 12 teachers in mass abduction

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14 h. ago Nigeria school horror as gunmen kidnap 215 children and 12 teachers in mass abduction

Nigeria has seen its second mass abduction in a week after 215 students and 12 teachers taken from St Mary's School in Agwara this morning (November 21), just days after 25 girls were taken

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14 h. ago Gunmen kidnap more than 200 school children as families terrified

Attackers seized 215 students as well as 12 teachers from St Mary's School in Agwara, Nigeria, in the latest in a spate of abductions in the country

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22 h. ago Violence against Christians takes a terrifying turn as 100 children are kidnapped from Nigerian school by armed gangsters with Trump threatening invasion

Armed gangsters abducted the children from a school in Agwara, in central Nigeria - the second kidnapping incident in less than a week.

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26 h. ago MoneySuperMarket says two changes will save families almost £500

Everyone is feeling the pinch, but families can be £200 a month worse off than those without children at home

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27 h. ago Armed terrorists burst into Catholic school and abduct '52 kids'

An armed gang entered St Mary’s Papiri Private Catholic Secondary School, Papiri, in the state of Niger in Nigeria, and have reportedly kidnapped more than 50 students this morning

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55 h. ago ‘Possibly the most prolific sex offender in British history’: the inside story of the Medomsley scandal

At a youth detention centre in north-east England, the paedophile Neville Husband raped and assaulted countless boys. Why was his reign of terror allowed to go on – and why hasn’t there been a public inquiry?When I met Kevin Young in 2012 he was in his early 50s, handsome, charismatic, smart – and utterly broken. The moment he started talking about Medomsley detention centre he was in tears.Young was born in Newcastle, in 1959. At two, he was taken into care, and his parents were convicted of wilful neglect. At eight, at a school in Devon, he was sexually abused by the gardener. At 14, at St Camillus, a Catholic residential school in Yorkshire, he was sexually assaulted by the headteacher, James Bernard Littlewood. But none of this compared with his experience at Medomsley, a youth detention centre in north-east England. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Nigerian gunmen abduct 'dozens' of girls from boarding school after killing deputy head teacher in chilling echo of Chibok kidnappings

The assailants attacked the Maga Comprehensive Girls' Secondary School in Kebbi state, at around 1am on Monday morning. Pictured: Boko Haram with the Nigerian schoolgirls they kidnapped in 2014.

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9 d. ago Solihull school plunged into lockdown as man 'chants about demons'

Children were put into lockdown at Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary School in Solihull after reports of a man said to have been "chanting about demons"

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9 d. ago Solihull primary school in lockdown after man 'chants about demons and children'

Our Lady of the Wayside Catholic Primary School in Solihull was placed on lockdown for around 45 minutes after a man was reportedly seen acting suspiciously and 'chanting'

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1 week ago Trespasses review – an intoxicating, rousing and heartbreaking love story

This adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s masterly novel, set in 70s Belfast, sees a Catholic teacher drawn into a dangerous affair with a Protestant barrister. It really hits a nerveWe could be happy together, if only we weren’t here and it wasn’t now: the tragedy of sweethearts caught up in conflict, their love overcome by others’ hate, is an old and powerful story. Trespasses, an adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s novel, written by Ailbhe Keogan, hits that nerve.A small town outside Belfast, 1975: rancour, suspicion and grief shadow every moment in the thwarted life of Cushla (Lola Petticrew), a Catholic primary-school teacher in her mid-20s who is giving up her spare time to work shifts in her brother’s pub. The priests at the school are hollering bigots, telling the children that every Protestant is an evil enemy, despite one of the kids being the son of a Catholic father and Protestant mother. Cushla takes an interest in the boy, who tends to arrive at school without a coat, and his eld...

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2 w. ago The Guardian’s view on Gaza’s future: the ceasefire brought relief, but the world must not look away now | Editorial

Palestinians are being born amid the rubble. They need not only immediate relief but long-term justiceWhat future is there for Palestinians in Gaza? The announcement of the ceasefire brought profound relief, shaded by an equally deep sense of trepidation. Almost a month later, the picture looks bleaker. The Israeli offensive abated, Hamas has returned the surviving hostages and the remains of some of those who have died, and Israel has released some Palestinian detainees and the remains of others.But more than 200 Palestinians, including children, have reportedly died in strikes that Israel says are in response to Hamas attacks. Thousands of bodies are still believed to be trapped beneath the ruins ­– debris which, it is estimated, would take a fleet of more than a hundred lorries seven years to shift. Aid is flowing again, but remains wholly inadequate, with NGOs warning that Israel’s new registration system is obstructing delivery. Israeli demolitions continue in the half of Gaza ...

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2 w. ago Pennsylvania artist sorry for including Nazi camp arch on school parade float

‘I made a mistake’ says artist who included cloned archway on Halloween float for a Catholic school A Pennsylvania artist’s efforts to create a Halloween float for a local Catholic school went awry when he inadvertently included a replica of the gateway arch from a Nazi concentration camp, prompting a hasty apology from the diocese of Harrisburg.In apologizing for the fiasco, Galen Shelly told PennLive that a lighted archway and lanterns he ordered to decorate a parade float he was building for Hanover’s St Joseph’s school did not arrive in time – so he searched the internet for images of cemetery gates to represent the idea that “none of us get out of this life alive”. Continue reading...

Culture

3 w. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 96 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile

Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militantsIsraeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 96 Palestinians, half of them children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began.The strikes, one of the bloodiest attacks in the two-year war, killed at least 46 children and 20 women and injured 200 people, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. They took place hours after Donald Trump said nothing would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement he had helped broker. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 104 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile

Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militantsIsraeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 104 Palestinians, including children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began.The strikes, one of the bloodiest attacks in the two-year war, killed at least 35 children and injured 200 people, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. They took place hours after Donald Trump said nothing would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement he had helped broker. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Israeli strikes in Gaza kill at least 81 overnight as ceasefire looks increasingly fragile

Netanyahu ordered strikes on Tuesday evening after firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinian militantsIsraeli airstrikes on Gaza overnight killed at least 81 Palestinians, including children, in what appeared to be the gravest challenge yet to the increasingly fragile US-brokered ceasefire and the deadliest day since the truce began.The strikes, which according to Gaza’s civil defence agency killed at least 22 children and injured 200 people, took place hours after Donald Trump said nothing would jeopardise the ceasefire agreement he had helped broker. Continue reading...

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