Gunmen abduct at least 80 people and killed 11 others in separate attacks in the northwest of Nigeria, in the latest attacks by armed gangs that have been preying on villages, schools and highways.

Dozens of children were abducted by gunmen from a farm in northern Katsina state and the kidnappers were demanding a ransom for their release, police and residents said on Wednesday.

Thousands of Lebanese have attended a mass rally to commemorate the anniversary of what they consider the kidnapping of prominent Shia cleric Sayyed Moussa al-Sadr.

An investigation finds that Dubai ruler's missing daughter Princess Latifa was captured in 2018 using the Israeli phone hacking spyware Pegasus.

One hundred kidnapped villagers in northwest Nigeria were freed on Tuesday.

A police officer is killed and five teachers are abducted from a school in northwestern Nigeria.

Some 200 children were abducted by unknown armed bandits from an Islamic school in north-central Niger state on Sunday.