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Today the Nigerian military says Boker-Horams in retreat.

We are out with the troops, seeing if the jihadis really are on the run.

In Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu sets about forming a new coalition government.

Talking peace with the Palestinians is not on the agenda.

The American states lining up against President Obama's immigration plans.

The silent majority is not silent anymore it seems.

And China's kingdom of the little people, is it exploiting the short of stature or providing them

with somewhere they can feel safe and even fall in love.

But first, Pakistan's interior minister has appealed to the country's Christian minority

not to take the law into their own hands after violent scenes in Lahore at the weekend.

Thousands of police sealed off the city's biggest Christian neighborhood, Johannabad, after two churches were bombed, apparently by a Taliban splinter group.

Seventeen people were killed.

Pakistan has only a small Christian minority, many of whom are among the country's poorest people. Some are descendants of those who

converted from Hinduism under the British Raj. Shima Kalil tells us they're regularly

targeted by extremists and feel abandoned by their government.

You could feel the tension in the Uhanabad district long before you reached it.

The day after two churches were bombed during Sunday Mass, the main street leading up to it was lined with armed right police.

Young men with black armbands and carrying sticks in their hands were also patrolling the area, searching those going into the neighborhood.

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