(AP) Boko Haram has  Boko Haram has killed at least 60 people in a “devastating” attack on the northeastern Nigeria border town of Rann. Fighters set houses on fire and killed people both inside and outside of the town in what is being called one of the deadliest assaults by the extremist group in its nearly decade-long insurgency. In March of last year, three workers for United Nations agencies were among 11 people killed in a Boko Haram attack on a military base in Rann. Three health workers were abducted. Two have since been killed despite urgent pleas from the aid community to spare their lives.

(AP) Hong Kong’s High Court refused to allow three transgender men to be recognized as males on their official identity cards because they have not undergone full sex-change operations. The ruling Friday was seen as a blow to the fledgling LGBT movement in the semiautonomous Chinese city of 7.4 million people, which is preparing to host the 2022 Gay Games. In his ruling, Judge Thomas Au wrote that “the change of gender entry stated in the ID card does not only concern the private right of the transgender person but also the wider public interest.”

(AP) Zimbabwe’s president has skipped his first political rally since last month’s deadly military crackdown on protests so he could explain the unrest to fellow African leaders. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration has been under pressure amid reports of at least 12 people killed, hundreds wounded and some women raped. The crackdown has hurt government efforts to secure badly needed foreign assistance to rebuild the collapsed economy, and undermined pledges of democratic reforms.

(AP) Authorities in Atlanta say Grammy-nominated rapper 21 Savage is in federal immigration custody. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Bryan Cox says the artist, whose given name is Sha Yaa Bin Abraham-Joseph, was arrested in a targeted operation early Sunday in the Atlanta area. Cox says Abraham-Joseph is a British citizen who entered the U.S. legally in July 2005 but overstayed his visa, which expired in July 2006. 

(AP) The Trump administration says it would require extraordinary effort to reunite what may be thousands of migrant children who have been separated from their parents and, even if it could, the children would likely be emotionally harmed. Jonathan White, who leads the Health and Human Services Department’s efforts to reunite migrant children with their parents, said removing children from “sponsor” homes to rejoin their parents “would present grave child welfare concerns.” He said the government should focus on reuniting children currently in its custody, not those who have already been released to sponsors.

(AP) Jussie Smollett was blunt, emotional and defiantly determined Saturday night at a Southern California concert, telling the crowd before singing a note that he had to go on with the show because he couldn’t let his attackers win. The “Empire” actor and R&B singer — who is black and openly gay — reported to the police in Chicago on Tuesday that two masked men had assaulted him and put a rope around his neck while using homophobic and racial slurs.