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Nigeria's army has driven Boko Haram militants from their last camp in the northeastern Sambisa forest the group's, the president Muhammadu Buhari has said in a statement. The military has launched a large-scale offensive against the jihadist group in recent weeks. Yesterday, HQNigerianArmy</a> captured 'Camp Zero', Boko Haram's Sambisa Forest base.

By Jack HardyPress Association Status Quo guitarist Rick Parfitt, who carved out a rock'n'roll career spanning half a century, has died at the age of 68. The veteran musician suffered from a severe infection while in a Spanish hospital, which he had visited due to complications with a pre-existing shoulder injury, his manager said. His death at lunchtime on Saturday followed years of concern about his ill

Photo/FLICKR FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) More than 54,000 people in the southern German city of Augsburg must leave their homes Christmas morning while authorities defuse a giant 1.8-ton aerial bomb from World War II. The city's medieval cathedral and City Hall are in the area to be sealed off.

Pilgrims and tourists from around the world gather with local Christians to celebrate Christmas Eve in the birthplace of Jesus. Pilgrims and tourists from around the world began Christmas Eve celebrations in Jesus' traditional birthplace of Bethlehem on Saturday. (The Associated Press ) By Isma'Il KushkushThe Associated Press BETHLEHEM, PALESTINIAN TERRITORY-Thousands of pilgrims and tourists from

By Maher Chmaytelli BARTELLA - Reuters A few hundred Iraqi Christians flocked on Saturday to Bartella, a northern town recently retaken from Islamic State, to celebrate Christmas for the first time since 2013. Bartella, once home to thousands of Assyrian Christians, emptied in August 2014 when it fell to Islamic State's blitz across large parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria.