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World News Update, what you need to know

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The Tunisian captain of the migrant boat in which 800 people are feared to have drowned is set to be charged with mass murder over the disaster.

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JAKARTA - Indonesia's plans to execute 10 people following an international summit have human rights campaigners questioning its credibility in the leadership role.

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GALLIPOLI - The 100-year saga of an Australian submarine that attacked the Turkish navy as Anzac troops stormed ashore at Gallipoli is coming to a close, with the story of the brave AE2 and her crew now preserved in bronze at the famous battlefields.

WASHINGTON - The United States has expressed its concern after an Egyptian court sentenced Islamist former president Mohamed Morsi and 14 of his supporters to hefty jail terms.

BOSTON - Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is "America's worst nightmare" and deserves to die for one of the bloodiest attacks on US soil since 9/11, his trial has heard.

LUENEBURG, Germany - Former SS officer Oskar Groening has told a German court that he helped keep watch as thousands of Jews were led from cattle cars directly to the gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp where he served as a guard.

BAGHDAD - The US-led coalition says its warplanes carried out 22 strikes in Iraq over 24 hours targeting the Islamic State jihadist group north and west of Baghdad.

SANAA - The military coalition led by Saudi Arabia has ended its campaign of airstrikes against Yemen's Houthi rebels, claiming it as a success.

LONDON, April 21 AFP - British police have questioned television host and journalist Piers Morgan in connection with a phone hacking investigation.

NAIROBI, April 21 AFP - Nine Kenyan security officials from Garissa have been suspended and could face charges of criminal negligence over the massacre at the town's university earlier this month, the government says.

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