At Least 52 Kidnapped From Nigeria School in Second Mass Abduction This Week

Students and teachers were taken captive from a Catholic school in the latest in a wave of such attacks in the country.

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Nigerian Student Describes Hiding From Kidnappers at School

The girl hid in a toilet; another managed to sneak away. Security forces are still trying to rescue the 24 girls who were abducted in northwestern Nigeria.

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25 Girls Abducted From School in Nigeria

The kidnapping echoed the abduction of the Chibok girls 11 years ago and came as U.S. officials pressed the country to address violence against Christians.

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Senator Accuses Kenya of Neglecting Children Trapped in Saudi Arabia

The comments, by a member of Kenya’s ruling party, represent a rebuke of President William Ruto’s government: “Heads must roll.”

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Women Describe Horrors They Endured in Assad’s Prisons

Under the Syrian dictator’s rule, the wives and children of rebels were seized as leverage. Some are now speaking about their trauma.

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Rapist Called One of UK’s Worst Sex Offenders Is Sentenced to Life

Xu Chao admitted to multiple attacks against female Chinese students over a three-year period, confessing to drugging, assaulting and filming his victims.

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In ‘The Seduction,’ a ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ for This Moment

The French-language series from HBO Max focuses on the young Marquise de Merteuil — and on love, broken promises and manipulation.

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The Young Women Grappling With an ‘Old Man’s Disease’

Diagnosed with A.L.S., they traded stories, drank tequila and made grim jokes at a unique annual gathering on Cape Cod.

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Unwed Mothers and Their Children Are Trapped in Saudi Arabia

A Times investigation found that children are routinely deprived of birth certificates, medical care and education. Diplomats and police officers turned the mothers away.

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Why Children of Unmarried Mothers Are Stranded in Saudi Arabia

We pieced together the details, from Riyadh to Nairobi.

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