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At least 140 Nigerian schoolchildren are missing after gunmen stormed a school Monday in Nigerias northwest Kaduna state, where an epidemic of kidnappings for ransom has increasingly ensnared students in Africas most populous nation.

Authorities are searching for the gunmen who opened fire shortly after midnight on Sunday outside of a music event in the Miami area, leaving two dead and more than 20 injured in what police are calling a targeted act that resulted from group rivalries.

KABUL - Gunmen launched a day-long attack on Kabul University Monday, killing at least 19, wounding 22, and taking several students hostage according to the Interior Ministry. 

Nairobi - At least six people were killed when an Islamist suicide bomber and gunmen stormed an upmarket hotel and office complex in Nairobi, with police still trying to rescue people trapped inside the compound Wednesday after a siege of over 12 hours.

Bangkok police raided 12 locations on Wednesday looking for suspects in a shootout in the carpark of the Centara Watergate Pavilion Hotel on Sunday that left an Indian bystander dead and four other people injured.

Armed men abducted a German nurse working for the International Committee of the Red Cross on Wednesday evening from a compound in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, the aid group said Thursday.

WARRI - Gunmen stormed a Catholic church in a town in southeast Nigeria early Sunday, killing 12 worshippers, hospital sources and witnesses said.

MARAWI - Hundreds of gunmen attacked troops in a southern Philippine village on Wednesday in a hit-and-run assault that may have been intended to help Islamist militants engaged in a nearby urban war, authorities said.

MARAWI, Philippines - Dozens of people ran to freedom through a terrifying gauntlet of military air strikes and Islamist gunmen Saturday, nearly two weeks after being trapped in a deadly battle for a Philippine city.

GENEVA - Swiss police were Friday hunting for two gunmen who burst into a cafe in city of Basel and opened fire, killing two people and seriously injuring a third.