Nigeria: Boko Haram claims schoolgirl abduction. 'The Islamist militant group Boko Haram claimed responsibility on Monday for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls during a raid in the village of Chibok in northeast Nigeria last month, the French news agency AFP reported, citing a video it had obtained. "I abducted your girls," Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau said in the video, according to AFP. It did not immediately give further details.'
Nigeria: Jonathan gives Borno State mandate to find kidnapped girls. 'Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State has been giving a marching order that abducted girls must be found. President Goodluck Jonathan gave this mandate to the governor during an all night meeting that ended in the early hours of Sunday.'
New York: Five haredim arrested over gay man's beating. 'Police have arrested and charged five ultra-Orthodox Haredi Jews over the December beating of a gay black fashion student they caught walking in their neighborhood at 4.30am in the morning.' Taj Patterson, 22, was severely beaten by a group of 20 men who were patrolling the neighborhood looking for someone who had been vandalizing cars.
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