WORLD
* At least 25 people, including five women, were killed after gunmen wearing Iraqi military uniform attacked a village in southern Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source said
* Ukraine"s new government will give "broad cultural autonomy" to the country"s regions, including to choose the main language used in local government and schools, the president"s deputy chief of staff said
* Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych has abolished Ukraine"s National Centre for Euro-Atlantic Integration
* UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for the government of Kyrgyzstan to show greater respect for human rights and freedom of the press
* The former Bosnian Serb president, Radovan Karadzic, will appear in court when his trial on war crimes charges resumes in The Hague on April 13, his lawyer said
* Russia will continue deliveries of military equipment to Venezuela to help the Latin American country boost its national defense
RUSSIA