| CNN.com delivers up-to-the-minute news and information on the latest top stories, weather, entertainment, politics and more. | No ceasefire with Nigeria, he says | | The Islamist group's notorious leader, in a video released today, denies any kind of deal to release 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in April. |
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| Boko Haram: The essence of terror | | There are many groups listed by the U.S. State Department as terrorists. But few fit the classic definition -- threatening and inflicting terror on a civilian population -- better than Boko Haram in northern Nigeria. What's more difficult to work out, beyond Boko Haram's hatred for everything modern and secular, is its ideology, structure and affiliations. |
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