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New plan to stem the flow of migrants crossing the Mediterranean

A new plan to stem the flow of migrants crossing the Mediterranean has been launched by the European Commission, but Italy is not impressed.

The Italians, who are bearing the brunt of the crisis, aren't impressed.
The United States is asking the UN Security Council to meet in emergency session to discuss North Korea's latest missile test
How the Israeli spy agency is openly investing in the country's high-tech sector
and we meet the boy being called the Indian Billy Elliot.

(picture: Migrants picked up off the Libyan coast waiting to disembark in Italy; copyright EPA/Orietta Scardino).

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