KANO, Nigeria: World powers, including the United States and China, have joined in the search for the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram Islamists who have also killed hundreds in the country's northeast this week.

Amid global outrage over the kidnapping of the teenagers, the United States and France are sending specialist teams to Nigeria, while London has agreed to deploy "satellite imaging capabilities".

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