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EU urges UN to investigate Iran schoolgirls poisonings

European lawmakers have called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to carry out an investigation into the poisoning of tens of thousands of schoolgirls in Iran, as accusations grow of the Iranian government's potential involvement in the cases. At the beginning of this month, Iranian state media and officials revealed and announced the country's investigation into the "suspected poisonings" of at least hundreds of students – mostly girls – who […]

today19 March 2023

International News

Kidnapped Dapchi schoolgirls ‘freed in Nigeria’

The majority of the Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by militants from the town of Dapchi last month have been returned, the government says. Nigeria's Ministry of Information says 76 of the 110 schoolgirls were brought back in the early hours of this morning following "back channel efforts". The army then "paused" its operations in the area to ensure "lives were not lost", the statement continued. However, the statement did not address […]

today21 March 2018

International News

82 abducted Chibok girls freed by Boko Haram

At least 82 of the nearly 200 schoolgirls who were still missing after a mass Boko Haram abduction in northeast Nigeria in 2014 have been freed, a government official has told Al Jazeera. The girls were in the town of Banki, close to the Nigerian-Cameroonian border, after their release on Saturday, Al Jazeera's Ahmed Idris, reporting from Nigeria's capital, Abuja, said. "We are told that 82 of the Chibok have […]

today7 May 2017

International News

Chibok girls in tearful reunion with families

Some of the 21 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by the armed group Boko Haram have reunited with their families, following their release after 30 months in captivity. Cries of joy filled the room as the freed girls, who had been kidnapped along with more than 200 other pupils in the town of Chibok in April 2014, met their relatives in Abuja on Sunday. The girls were freed on Thursday, but it […]

today17 October 2016

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