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Gwacheon (South Korea) (AFP) – The Brave Girls were losing courage just weeks ago, on the verge of abandoning their dreams of K-pop stardom after years of going nowhere. Then a YouTuber uploaded a compilation of them performing on S.Korean army bases — and saved their careers.

For more than a century, many directors have fallen foul of Italy's film censorship laws. But now state intervention into artistic freedom is over as the government has called time on the censorship of films on moral or religious grounds.

Lembata (Indonesia) (AFP) – Tropical cyclone Seroja pounded Indonesia and East Timor Monday after torrential rains triggered floods and landslides that have killed many people and left dozens more missing.

Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR) says he vetoed a bill that would've prohibited physicians in Arkansas from providing gender-affirming "procedures" for trans people under age 18 because it would be "vast government overreach."

Response teams in Manatee County, Florida, are trying to prevent a "real catastrophic flood situation" in the Piney Point reservoir area, Gov. Ron DeSantis said after taking an aerial tour of the area. The Manatee County Public Safety Department declared a state of emergency and ordered a complete evacuation of the Piney Point reservoir site and surrounding areas due to a leak that could cause a collapse of phosphogypsum stacks, radioactive waste that is created during fertilizer production and phosphate rock mining.

The All-Star Game will be played at Coors Field in Denver. Major League Baseball officially announced the new venue Tuesday after pulling the Midsummer Classic from Atlanta over objections to extensive changes to Georgia's voting laws. (April 6)

White House press secretary Jen Psaki hailed Colorado's voting laws and said Georgia's election changes are "built on a lie" after Major League Baseball moved its All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver over objections to Georgia's new law. (April 6)

The Los Angeles County Sheriff says excessive speed was to blame for the crash of an SUV Tiger Woods was driving last February in Southern California. Woods sustained serious injuries in the wreck. (April 7)

The pandemic and the Suez Canal blockage have demonstrated that businesses must store more goods if they are to mitigate any risk caused by shocks to the global supply chain, according to one MEP.

A former American priest who saved lives during East Timor's struggle for independence is on trial in the tiny Asian country, accused of sexually abusing underage girls who lived at the shelter he founded. (April 8)

Cross-border passenger trains between Finland and Sweden have moved a step closer. Last Thursday, the first train for 29 years pulled into a refurbished station at the Swedish border town of Haparanda.