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President Trump says the U.S. launch strikes on Islamic State targets in Nigeria to protect Christians.

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It's Friday, December 26th. I'm Alex Osala for the Wall Street Journal. We're on a holiday

schedule in your feed once a day. And this is what's news, the top headlines and business

stories moving the world today. President Trump has announced that the U.S. launch strikes

on Islamic State targets in Nigeria on Christmas Day to protect the country's Christian population

from the terrorist group. Posting on social media, Trump wrote that he had warned the group to

stop killing Christians, saying, quote, there would be hell to pay, and tonight there was.

Trump's post didn't say how many people were killed. Nigeria's population of 237 million people

is roughly split between Muslims and Christians, and the violence against Christians has escalated

in northern Nigeria

during the past decade. The Trump administration says Islamist groups are targeting Christians,

but the Nigerian government doesn't agree. Here's journal reporter Alexandra Wexler in Johannesburg.

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