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- School children abducted in Nigeria’s Niger state released, governor saysby Reuters on February 27, 2021 at 9:35 am
Gunmen on Saturday released 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school last week in the north-central Nigerian state of Niger, its governor said. Twenty-seven students, three staff and 12 members of their families had been abducted last week by an armed gang who stormed the Government Science secondary school in the Kagara district of Niger state at around 2 a.m., overwhelming the school’s security detail. Kidnappings for ransom by armed groups, many of whom carry guns and ride motorcycles, are common across many northern Nigerian states.
- LeBron to Zlatan: No way I’ll ever ‘stick to sports’on February 27, 2021 at 9:33 am
Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James responded to Zlatan Ibrahimovic’s criticism of his activism, saying he will “never shut up about things that are wrong.”
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- WATCH: What You Need To Know — February 26, 2021: Biden Visits Texas — Black Women Recognized — Coronavirus Updateby C. Chika on February 26, 2021 at 2:36 pm
1. President to Visit Still Ailing Texas 3 MINUTE READ What You Need To Know: President Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will travel to Texas today in the wake of last week’s weather-related collapse. 2. Black Women Recognized for Leadership Roles in New Civil Rights Movement 3 MINUTE READ What You Need
- Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Says He Recommended Syria Airstrike: ‘We Know What We Hit’by Bruce C.T. Wright on February 26, 2021 at 2:15 pm
Recently confirmed Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said he recommended the airstrike in Syria that targeted a militia supported by Iran that attacked Americans in Iraq.
- 6 Copenhagen investors share their outlook on investing in 2021by Mike Butcher on February 27, 2021 at 7:28 am
While Denmark and Copenhagen don’t often come up as a destination for European startups, it has a thriving local tech scene that’s home to some of the better startup conferences. After all, who doesn’t want to visit Copenhagen? A highly educated population, great universities, excellent healthcare and great transport links to Europe make the city
- Facebook’s BARS is an experimental TikTok-like app for rapperson February 27, 2021 at 4:50 am
Facebook's R&D division, the NPE Team, has introduced another experimental app that's centered around music. It's called BARS, and it's meant to give aspiring rappers a way to record their rhymes with the app's studio quality…