Highlights: Blinken, in rare call with Russia's Lavrov, urges to release detained US journalist

Pope Francis will preside over mass in St Peter's Square Sunday as he kicks off events leading to Easter, just a day after leaving hospital following a bout of bronchitis.

New York City officials plan to close key streets in lower Manhattan as a security measure when former President Donald Trump appears in court on Tuesday to be arraigned, Bloomberg reported

UP | Rashid alias Chalta Firta alias Sipahiya, who carried a bounty of ₹50,000, was killed in an encounter in Muzaffarnagar’s Shahpur area. 14-15 cases were registered against him & he was also wanted in the triple murder of 3 relatives of cricketer Suresh Raina in 2020. A policeman also got injured in the encounter, reported ANI citing Sanjiv Suman, SSP Muzaffarnagar.

Nepal President Ram Chandra Poudel admitted at Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital in Maharajgunj after complaining about stomach ache, reports ANI citing hospital authorities. 

“He is under observation of the doctors and was admitted at the hospital late on Saturday,” as per the report.

Storms that dropped possibly dozens of tornadoes killed at least 21 people in small towns and big cities across the South and Midwest, tearing a path through the Arkansas capital, collapsing the roof of a packed concert venue in Illinois, and stunning people throughout the region Saturday with the damage's scope.