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* Schoolboys back a week after abduction * Boko Haram claimed responsibility, no confirmation * One freed boy says he suspects captors were bandits (Recasts with family reunions;...

LAGOS, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Dozens of the 344 kidnapped boysfreed from their captors in northwest Nigeria were seen arrivingat local government buildings in the city of Katsina on...

* More than 300 boys abducted from a school on Dec. 11 * Katsina governor says 344 boys were freed * Islamist militants had claimed responsibility in audiotape By Ismail Abba...

* More than 300 boys abducted from a school last week * Katsina governor says 344 boys were freed * Islamist militants claim responsibility in audiotape (Adds comment from parent,...

LAGOS, Dec 17 (Reuters) - More than 300 schoolboys kidnappedin northern Nigeria were handed over to government security, theKatsina state governor said in a televised interview....

MAIDUGURI, Dec 17 (Reuters) - A video circulating on socialmedia on Thursday purportedly showed Islamist militant groupBoko Haram with some of the hundreds of schoolboys...

* More than 300 boys abducted from a school last week* Islamist militants claim responsibility in audiotape* Parents fear time running out to bring the boys home By Afolabi Sotunde...

* More than 300 boys abducted from their school last week * Islamist militants claim responsibility -audiotape * Parents fear painful saga like 2014 schoolgirls' abduction (Adds...

MILAN, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Italian judges are expected tohand down their verdict on Shell RDSa.L and Eni ENI.MI inone of the oil industry's biggest-ever corruption trials at theend...

(Adds details) ABUJA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Nigeria will reopen four bordercrossing points immediately, more than a year after closing itsland frontiers to crack down on smuggling,...

ABUJA, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Nigeria will reopen four of itsland borders immediately, after having closed them for more thana year to crack down on smuggling, the government said...

* More than 300 boys kidnapped from their school last week * Islamist militants claim responsibility, according toaudio * Parents fear painful saga like 2014 schoolgirls' abduction...

* Over 300 students kidnapped last week in northwest Nigeria * Audio clip says Boko Haram were behind the abductions * Claim could signal widening influence of jihadist groups *...

WASHINGTON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesdaycondemned "in the strongest terms" the abduction of more than300 schoolboys from their school in northwestern Nigeria and...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, Dec 15 (Reuters) - An audio message froma man identifying himself as the leader of Nigeria's Boko Haramsaid on Tuesday that the Islamist group was responsible...

(Updates with Niger authorities comment, AFP report of groupclaiming responsibility) NIAMEY/NEW YORK, Dec 14 (Reuters) - An attack blamed on BokoHaram killed 28 people and burned...

(Adds number of students found on Monday, and those stillmissing) By Ismail Abba and Afolabi Sotunde KANKARA, Nigeria, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Usama Aminu was one ofthe lucky ones. He...