Global Week in Review: Nigeria President Meets With Families of Missing Girls

Plus, woman remarries boy in ceremony in South Africa.

Nigeria President Jonathan Meets With Families of Missing Girls - Woman remarries boy in ceremony in South Africa, plus more global news. — Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_) After months of requests, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met Tuesday with the parents of the 219 girls who have been missing since April. Goodluck on Monday asked for $1bn to be used to fight the Boko Haram extremist group. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

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Nigeria President Jonathan Meets With Families of Missing Girls - Woman remarries boy in ceremony in South Africa, plus more global news. — Natelege Whaley (@Natelege_) After months of requests, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met Tuesday with the parents of the 219 girls who have been missing since April. Goodluck on Monday asked for $1bn to be used to fight the Boko Haram extremist group. (Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

500 Palestinian and 27 Israeli Soldiers Dead - The death toll continues to rise in the northern Gaza strip as a total of 500 Palestinian soldiers have died and more than 25 Israelis have been killed. Violent conflict between the two regions has been going on for two weeks. Ismail Haniya, former Hamas prime minister, said fighting will continue unless demands such as opening crossings and lifting restrictions on fishing, farming, import and export are met.  (Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo)

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500 Palestinian and 27 Israeli Soldiers Dead - The death toll continues to rise in the northern Gaza strip as a total of 500 Palestinian soldiers have died and more than 25 Israelis have been killed. Violent conflict between the two regions has been going on for two weeks. Ismail Haniya, former Hamas prime minister, said fighting will continue unless demands such as opening crossings and lifting restrictions on fishing, farming, import and export are met.  (Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Photo)

Woman Remarries Boy in Ceremony - Saneie Masilela, 9, who married Helen Shabangu, 62, last year, repeated the ceremony for the second time. The boy said he was told by his late grandfather, who had never married, to get married. The couple says the ceremony is symbolic. They don't have sexual relations and do not live together. (Photo: Raymond Preston/Sunday Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

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Woman Remarries Boy in Ceremony - Saneie Masilela, 9, who married Helen Shabangu, 62, last year, repeated the ceremony for the second time. The boy said he was told by his late grandfather, who had never married, to get married. The couple says the ceremony is symbolic. They don't have sexual relations and do not live together. (Photo: Raymond Preston/Sunday Times/Gallo Images/Getty Images)

4-Year-Old Boy Dies in South Africa - Chantel Morris, a South African mother, is mourning the loss of her 4-year-old son, who was killed after assailants forced her family from a car and drove off as the boy remained hanging from the vehicle. "I asked them to let me pull my child out because his foot was stuck, but they just sped off and ripped him out of my hands,"The Star quoted the boy's mother, Chantel Morris, as saying.  (Photo: The Star, Timothy Bernard/AP Photo)

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4-Year-Old Boy Dies in South Africa - Chantel Morris, a South African mother, is mourning the loss of her 4-year-old son, who was killed after assailants forced her family from a car and drove off as the boy remained hanging from the vehicle. "I asked them to let me pull my child out because his foot was stuck, but they just sped off and ripped him out of my hands,"The Star quoted the boy's mother, Chantel Morris, as saying.  (Photo: The Star, Timothy Bernard/AP Photo)

Rhinos May Be Moved Out of South Africa  - Workers at Kruger National Park in South Africa are taking measures to protect rhinos whose existence is being threatened by poachers from neighboring Mozambique. They want to move the animals out. 560 rhinos have been poached in South Africa this year. (Photo: Denis Farrell/AP Photo)

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Rhinos May Be Moved Out of South Africa  - Workers at Kruger National Park in South Africa are taking measures to protect rhinos whose existence is being threatened by poachers from neighboring Mozambique. They want to move the animals out. 560 rhinos have been poached in South Africa this year. (Photo: Denis Farrell/AP Photo)

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Three Sudanese Workers Held Hostage Are Freed - Three humanitarian workers in Sudan who were taken hostage in the Darfur region were freed Saturday after 32 days of captivity. They were employees of the UNICEF and were among 25 other workers abducted by armed men on June 18. (Photo: Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID/AP Photo)

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Three Sudanese Workers Held Hostage Are Freed - Three humanitarian workers in Sudan who were taken hostage in the Darfur region were freed Saturday after 32 days of captivity. They were employees of the UNICEF and were among 25 other workers abducted by armed men on June 18. (Photo: Albert Gonzalez Farran, UNAMID/AP Photo)

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Kenya's Military Twitter Account Hacked  - Anonymous, a global network of hackers, infilitrated the Kenya Defense Forces' Twitter account Monday. "The #Kenya Ministry of Defence is under new management: #Anonymous," they posted to the hacked account. Other hacked tweets wrote that the country is facing corruption.  (Photo: Twitter)

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Kenya's Military Twitter Account Hacked  - Anonymous, a global network of hackers, infilitrated the Kenya Defense Forces' Twitter account Monday. "The #Kenya Ministry of Defence is under new management: #Anonymous," they posted to the hacked account. Other hacked tweets wrote that the country is facing corruption.  (Photo: Twitter)