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Armed bandits attacked St. Mary’s Catholic boarding school on Friday in the Papiri community of Agwara, Niger State, Nigeria, at around 2 a. m. local time, abducting at least 52 schoolchildren, along with an unspecified number of staff.

Swiss Alps Ski Resort Fire: What We Know 02/01/2026

The fire at a bar in a popular ski resort killed around 40 people and injured more than 100, officials said. The cause was still unknown.

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In China, A.I. Finds Pancreatic Cancer That Doctors May Miss 02/01/2026

A tool for spotting pancreatic cancer in routine CT scans has had promising results, one example of how China is racing to apply A.I. to medicine’s tough problems.

Vivian Wang and Andrea Verdelli

Can the Most Indebted Team in Global Soccer Fix Its Finances? 02/01/2026

F.C. Barcelona’s liabilities have reached 2.5 billion euros, the result of financial mismanagement and vaulting ambition.

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Mamdani Lays Out Agenda of ‘Affordability and Abundance’ on First Day in Office 02/01/2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani acknowledged skeptics of his plans while reiterating that he would focus on working-class New Yorkers.

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Mamdani Vows to Govern ‘Audaciously’ and Protect New York’s Vulnerable 02/01/2026

Zohran Mamdani gave his first public speech as mayor of New York City, after an inauguration that drew tens of thousands of people.

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Search Is Suspended for Passenger Who Went Overboard From Cruise Ship 02/01/2026

The U.S. Coast Guard said on Thursday that it halted its hourslong search for a 77-year-old woman who went overboard from a Holland America Line cruise ship near Cuba.

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How Japanese Scallops Became a Pawn in Diplomatic Tensions With China 02/01/2026

Beijing is using a ban on the humble mollusk to punish Japan over its apparent willingness to defend Taiwan.

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Fire in Swiss Alps Leaves Dozens of New Year’s Revelers Dead 02/01/2026

About 40 people celebrating at a ski resort bar were killed, and 115 were injured, many of them young, the authorities said.

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Mamdani’s First Orders Focus on Housing and Undoing Adams’s Decisions 02/01/2026

Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a flurry of executive orders on his first day as mayor of New York City. They were aimed at protecting tenants and revoking some of ex-Mayor Eric Adams’s past orders.

Emma G. Fitzsimmons and Emma Goldberg

Janet Fish, Painter of Luminous Still Lifes, Dies at 87 01/01/2026

From her student days, she stubbornly refused to follow popular artistic trends. Instead, she spent decades exploring the effects of light on glass.

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Nigeria: Armed bandits kidnap 52 children from Catholic boarding school

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