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European Union leaders have agreed to triple thefunding of their search and rescue operation in theMediterranean to help deal with the large numbers ofmigrants trying to cross to Europe from North Africa.After emergency talks in Brussels, the leaders havealso approved measures to capture and destroy the vessels likely to be used by human traffickers.The meeting was called after more than eight hundred people died last week when their boat sank.The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, said saving lives was about more than justrescuing people at sea.

"Saving the lives of innocent people is the No.1 priority for us. But saving lives is not just aboutrescuing people at sea. It's also about stopping the smugglers and addressing illegal migration.That may be clear Europe did not cause this tragedy, but that doesn't mean we can be indifferent."

The White House has reviewed that 2 western hostages were killed in a U.S. counter-terrorismoperation on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in January. President Obama said hedeeply regretted the accidental deaths of the 2 aid workers. Warren Weinstein, who was American,and Giovanni Lo Porto from Italy, are believed to have been killed in a drone strike. Jon Sopelreports.

"This was a deeply uncomfortable statement for the President to make. A U.N. counter-terroroperation in the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan had targeted what was thought tobe an al-Qaeda compound. Hundreds of hours of surveillance material had been gathered beforethe strike was ordered back in January. But inside was an American aid worker, Warren Weinstein,who'd been taken hostage in 2011, and an Italian captive, Giovanni Lo Porto. The U.S. has promiseda full inquiry into the operation on what went wrong."

The former Director of the CIA, General David Petraeus, has been sentenced to 2 years probationand ordered to pay a fine of one hundred thousand dollars for sharing military secrets with hismistress. Aleem Maqbool has the details.

"David Petraeus resigned as CIA Director in late 2012, citing the affair he'd been having with hisbiographer, Paula Broadwell, for which he publicly apologized. He testified at the time he'd not keptA-classified information and haven't told any Agency secrets to Ms. Broadwell. He now admits boththings were untrue. But the admissions came only after an FBI search of the former General's homeled to the recovery of binders containing information about war strategy, the names of spies andeven notes of discussions he'd had with President Obama."

A ceremony has been held at Armenia's main cathedral near Yerevan to canonise all the peoplekilled by forces of the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The Armenian Church said theaim of the ceremony was to proclaim the martyrdom of the one point five million people it saysdied for their faith and homeland. Turkey disputes the number of people killed and says there weredeaths on both sides of the conflict.

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Police in Britain have charged a 14-year-old boy in connection with an alleged terror plot on theother side of the world. He's accused of encouraging someone in Australia to kill or seriously injurepeople at the Anzac Day Parade in Melbourne, which commemorates the role of soldiers fromAustralia and New Zealand in the First World War.

The American Senate has confirmed Loretta Lynch as the next U.S. Attorney-General. She'll be thefirst black woman to hold the post. Ms. Lynch, a New York federal prosecutor, was approved by 56votes to 43. Ms. Lynch will replace Eric Holder, who was the first African-American to head the U.S.Justice Department.

Tens of thousands of South Africans have been marching in protests of the recent wave of violenceagainst foreigners. Rallies were held in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. The security forces havebeen conducting raids Durban and the town of Alexander in Johannesburg, where attacks onmigrants have taken place in recent weeks.

Scientists have deciphered the complete genetic code of woolly mammoth, the first time DNA of acreature extinct for thousands of years has been reconstructed. The work raises the possibility ofrecreating the animals. Pallab Ghosh has the details.

"This is the first time that the DNA of a creature that's been extinct for thousands of years has beenreconstructed. The question now is whether it could be used to bring back the wolly mammoth.Researchers at Harvard University believe that it might and adding mammoth genes to elephantDNA. But the team who decoded the mammoth DNA don't want their research to be used in thisend. Pallab Ghosh reporting."

The video-sharing website, Youtube, is celebrating its 10th anniversary. It has now billions of usersevery day and hundreds of hours uploaded every minute. Its first video, our day of the zoo, wasshot by one of the owners who became a multi-millionaire when Google bought the company. Adecade later, some Youtube channels have a bigger audience than many television networks.

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