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World Service,18 Dec 2020,53 mins

Abducted schoolboys freed in Nigeria

Newsday

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A state governor in northern Nigeria says more than 300 schoolboys kidnapped by gunmen last week have now been released. The departments which maintain the US nuclear weapons stockpile have become the latest government agencies to say that their networks have been hacked. A panel of experts in the United States has voted in favour of granting emergency approval to Moderna's Covid vaccine paving the way for it to be shipped as soon as this weekend. President Jair Bolsonaro has criticised a decision by Brazil's Supreme Court to make vaccination against coronavirus obligatory.

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