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Governor of Veneto region blames wrong weather forecasts for low Easter tourism incomes.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos announced together on Friday (April 5th) plans for finally moving forward on plans to reduce the impact of American military bases in the southern-most Japan.

Actor misses court appearance for second time for November drink driving incident.

Chinese authorities begin slaughtering poultry at a Shanghai market.

South Korea deploys two 7,600-tonne Aegis class destroyers off its coast.

Seven-storey residential building on outskirts of Mumbai allegedly being built without necessary permission.

North Korea's state-run television released on Friday (April 5th) video of mass military rallies across the country in support of its army, amid tensions on the Korean peninsula.

Elections in Mali are expected in July but Islamist militants are ready to return

Man and woman believed to be latest victims of new strain of avian influenza.

Presidential campaign treasurer Jean-Jacques Augier named in ICIJ exposé of hidden accounts.

Turkish activist Mehmet Tunc will give Mavi Marmara peace flotilla payout to Islamists in Gaza.

US leader's self-imposed $20,000 pay cut is gesture of solidarity with federal workers.

US schoolgirl sent home from school 24 times for “foul odour”.

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Guardian, Le Monde and Washington Post access data dump on financial machinations of mega-rich.

Ukrainian-based radical feminist activists stage protests in Paris, Kiev and Milan.

A woman form Oklahoma believes, in an incredible experience, she encountered GOD when she died for nine minutes.

Witness makes dramatic statement outside court hearing prostitution and bribery charges against Berlusconi.

Qingming festival celebrated across China as people visit graves of their ancestors.

But South Korea's defence minister Kim Kwan-jin says there are no signs Pyongyang is preparing for full-scale conflict.

Amer Nassar, 17, and Nagi Biblisi, 18 were killed during protests over the death of Palestinian prisoner Maissara Abu Hamdiyeh

13 elders in Madhya Pradesh arrested after shaving girl's head to make her 'less of a temptation' to potential abductors.

Kony has been accused of terrorising northern Uganda for 20 years,

A Swiss prosecutor confirmed on Wednesday (April 3rd) that disgraced Jerome Cahuzac had held a bank account in Switzerland, and that his office was cooperating with French authorities who are investigating the French former minister.

Anonymous political graffiti artist reported to have died from poisoning or suicide.

A Saudi court's decision to order the severance of a man's spine in an 'eye-for-an-eye' punishment has once more shined a light on Riyadh's violent judicial system.

In La Plata 16 inches (400 millimeters) of rain fell in two hours killing 25 people; another 1,500 have been evacuated

Hackney Council has fastened a removal order to the bike, which honours the memory of 28-year-old Shivon Watson, who was crushed by a skip lorry on the Victoria Park Road roundabout.

On 22 March 2013, two days after Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne delivered his 2013 Budget Address to the House of Commons, Fitch Ratings agency placed the UK's "AAA" Long-term Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) on Rating Watch Negative (RWN). The agency stated that it was more than likely that by the end of April 2013, by which time the agency will have made a full review of the UK's sovereign ratings, it is more than likely that the UK will be downgraded.

Prominent Tibetan activist released after 17 years in prison still has no rights and freedom, best friend tells IBTimes UK