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Vendors sell local newspapers with headlines stating "I saw my classmate in the Video" referring to the kidnapped school girls of a government secondary school Chibok, in a video released on Monday by Boko haram in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. A Nigerian government official said "all options are open" in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls from their captors as US reconnaissance aircraft started flying over this West African country in a search effort. Boko Haram, the militant group that kidnapped the girls last month from a school in Borno state, had released a video yesterday purporting to show some of the girls. A civic leader said representatives of the missing girls' families were set to view the video as a group later today to see if some of the girls can be identified. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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A vendor arranges local newspapers, with headlines stating 54 girls in the Boko Haram video have been identified as abducted pupils of a government secondary school Chibok, in a video released on Monday by Boko haram in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. A Nigerian government official said "all options are open" in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls from their captors as US reconnaissance aircraft started flying over this West African country in a search effort. Boko Haram, the militant group that kidnapped the girls last month from a school in Borno state, had released a video yesterday purporting to show some of the girls. A civic leader said representatives of the missing girls' families were set to view the video as a group later today to see if some of the girls can be identified. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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A vendor sell local newspapers on a street, with headlines stating we have identified 54 of the kidnapped school girls of a government secondary school Chibok, in a video released on Monday by Boko haram in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, May 14, 2014. A Nigerian government official said "all options are open" in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls from their captors as US reconnaissance aircraft started flying over this West African country in a search effort. Boko Haram, the militant group that kidnapped the girls last month from a school in Borno state, had released a video yesterday purporting to show some of the girls. A civic leader said representatives of the missing girls' families were set to view the video as a group later today to see if some of the girls can be identified. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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Borno state governor, Kashim Shettima, speaks to journalists during an interview in Abuja, Nigeria, Tuesday, May 13, 2014. Shettima says 54 abducted girls have been identified by parents in a Boko Haram video released Monday. A Nigerian government official said "all options are open" in efforts to rescue almost 300 abducted schoolgirls from their captors as US reconnaissance aircraft started flying over this West African country in a search effort. Boko Haram, the militant group that kidnapped the girls last month from a school in Borno state, had released a video Monday purporting to show some of the girls. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
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South Africans protest in solidarity against the abduction three weeks ago of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram and what protesters said was the failure of the Nigerian government and international community to rescue them, during a march to the Nigerian Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa Thursday, May 8, 2014. The kidnapping has ignited a viral social media campaign that has brought renewed attention to Boko Haram's campaign of violence, and protests around the world. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
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Men in Kano, Nigeria, look around a house where a man and his pregnant wife were killed Tuesday in an attack witnesses said was carried out by security forces seeking members of Boko Haram. The sect has been blamed for an attack four days earlier that killed at least 185 people, but relatives said Tuesday's victims were not involved with it. Below, police officers collect undetonated soft-drink-can bombs recovered from the militants. (Associated Press)
