March 31, 2023: Trump indictment, Russia, Ukraine, NATO, US weather, Biden, Mississippi, Pistorius

1. Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, is set to face a mug shot, finger-printing and court appearance next week after being indicted over a probe into hush money paid to a porn star in a historic U.S. first.

2. Russia has charged an American journalist with spying while Finland moved closer to becoming a NATO member, deepening tensions between
Moscow and the West as the war in Ukraine reached its 400th day on Friday.

3. An immense spring storm emerging from the Western U.S. was expected to form a 1,000-mile (1609 km) front of extreme weather from the Great Lakes to Texas on Friday, spawning blizzards, freezing rain, tornadoes and torrential showers, forecasters said.

4. U.S. President Joe Biden will announce that the federal government will cover for 30 days the full cost of Mississippi's emergency measures in response to last week's storm that killed 26 people, a White House official said.

5. Former South Africa Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius, jailed in 2016 for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has been denied parole, South Africa's prison authorities and a lawyer for the victim's family said on Friday.

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