Secondary schools have been ordered to close across Nigeria's northeastern state of Yobe after the Islamist organization killed at least 22 students, and then torched their school, BBC News reported. Yobe Governor Ibrahim Gaidam condemned the 'cold blooded murder' attack on Saturday on the Mamudo boarding school. Many schools have been terrorized and burned by Islamists since 2010.
Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized at least 148 female inmates between 2006 and 2010 with required state approval. There are perhaps 100 more dating back to the late 1990s.
Amidst the violent clashes following the ouster of Egyptian president Muhammad Morsi, a 39-year-old Coptic priest was killed in the Sinai Peninsula by gunmen while driving by on a motorbike last week. Mina Aboud Sharween was shot dead in El Arish, the Northern Sinai's provincial capital.