They came to play table tennis. They were deported at gunpoint in the dark
New York Times: Students in Croatia for sports competition deported to random country.
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19 pregnant women freed from Nigerian 'baby factory'
Young women were kept in 'factory' and raped daily, to produce babies for sale.
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New York Times: After a decade of war, militants are now better armed than ever.
Mosque attack: City's imams reflect on tumultuous six months
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Indonesia is about to relocate its capital. But it's not the only city in trouble.
Passengers panic as man climbs wing, tries to enter cabin
In Nigeria, an unidentified man was spotted by pilots approaching the plane on foot.
Unwelcome visitors: Tourists from these countries find it tough to get a NZ visa
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A horrific disaster is unfolding in this tiny country - it's just one of many.
Birth tourism crackdown: 20 arrested over US citizenship rort
Chinese women paid thousands for their babies to get automatic US citizenship.
Dozens feared dead in Nigeria as leaking oil tanker explodes
Residents at the scene put the death toll at close to 60 after pit of fuel ignites.
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Construction heir who grew up in Nigeria which her father infamously called a "sh*thole".
Author opens up on being kidnapped and sold as slave
Fleeing suburban life in Canberra, an Aussie teen went out for an adventure.
'Britain must give back its stolen treasures if it wants to make friends'
"Every country should be given a huge shopping trolley and 2mins in the British Museum!"
Polio outbreak: How NZ coped with killer disease
In New Zealand's worst year for polio fatalities, 173 people died.
Fired flight attendant spat in coffee
The British Airways flight attendant fired for a racist rant allegedly has previous form.
Joy for Chibok as 82 girls released
The girls were exchanged "for some Boko Haram suspects held by the authorities".
Ethiopia is facing a killer drought
Food crises are erupting across Africa and there is no money to fight it.
Passengers panic as smoke fills plane
Terrified travellers could smell something burning about 20 minutes after take-off.
100,000 facing starvation in South Sudan
Joyce Luma, head of the United Nation's World Food Programme in South Sudan, called the famine "man-made".
Teen who lived in plastic bowl dies
A Nigeria teenage girl who spent her life being carried around in a plastic bowl because her body stopped growing has died.
Meet the man with 97 partners
While most of us are in a never-ending struggle to find just one person to love till death do you part, there is an elderly Nigerian with 97 partners.
'A famine unlike any we have ever seen'
They survived Boko Haram, now millions are at risk of starvation. It has been described as one of the world's biggest humanitarian disasters.
Nigerian army frees 566 people held by Islamist group Boko Haram
The Nigerian army released 566 persons, including 355 babies, held by Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
It takes a village to kill a child
The death of a 1-year-old Nigerian baby had many authors - Boko Haram's viciousness, his own government's negligence, and starvation's relentlessness.
Kidnapped Kiwi not well enough to return
The injured New Zealander freed from Nigerian kidnappers is not yet well enough to return home.
'Traumatic experience' for Kiwi hostage
Three Australian and one Kiwi taken at gunpoint in a deadly ambush in Nigeria will be reunited with their families after a dramatic rescue.
NZ ramps up efforts to free hostage
MFAT official has travelled to Nigerian capital to work alongside local authorities negotiating the release of Jamal Khan and six others kidnapped by militants.
Where kidnapping is a growth industry
COMMENT: You take your life in your own hands when you live and work in Nigeria.
'They're about to go through hell'
Former Kiwi hostage Bruce Klenner says the chances of kidnapped workers being freed depends on a lot of circumstances, but it was mostly to do with money.
'I had no intention of stopping': Cop avoids kidnappers
Former Kiwi cop escaped kidnappers in Nigeria.
Boko Haram's victims on verge of starvation
Thousands of Boko Haram victims are now on the verge of starvation in northeastern Nigeria, months after being rescued from the radical Islamist group.
Boko Haram targets geography teachers
Boko Haram is singling out geography teachers in its campaign of terror against Western education in Nigeria, it has been revealed.
Neverending nightmare for Boko Haram rape victims
Many people assumed the women kidnapped and held captive in Boko Haram's rape camps would be warmly welcomed back. Instead, they are shunned.
Women suicide bombers trigger deadly blast
Two women suicide bombers set off a deadly blast in a Nigerian mosque killing at least 22 people.