NIGERIA: The Nigerian army said on Sunday that it had freed 360 people abducted by Boko Haram in southern Borno.

An army statement said that the operation had been conducted in the Mandara mountains, which form part of the Islamist militant group’s north-eastern stronghold.

Two infants “succumbed to exhaustion,” said army spokesman Haruna Sani, but “the remaining rescued abductees were successfully evacuated to safe locations for medical care and humanitarian support.”

UNITED STATES: Gunfire erupted near a street festival in Ohio on Saturday, wounding at least 12 people, two of them critically.

Officials urged people who were at the festival to come forward with any photos or videos on their phones.

Toledo deputy police chief Joe Heffernan said it appeared that at least two people had fired weapons, “probably shooting at each other.”

NORTH KOREA: The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un dismissed a US push for the country’s denuclearisation as an “anachronistic dream” on Sunday, vowing that Pyongyang would steadily expand its nuclear arsenal in the face of US-led threats.

“The US assertion to backbite the status of the DPRK as a nuclear weapons state has no legally binding force and no-one will be bound by the US unilateral rhetoric,” said Kim Yo Jong.

SPAIN: Pope Leo XIV honoured the country’s centuries-old tradition of religious devotion on Sunday as a “school of faith” for today as he presided over a Mass before a million people.

He looped around a central Madrid square and the surrounding streets in his popemobile to a crowd of people eager to witness the first papal visit in 15 years.