| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Monday, April 4, 2022 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. There is mounting evidence of atrocities in Ukraine, Orban scores a landslide win in Hungary, and Musk reveals a 9.2% stake in Twitter | | | | | Today's biggest stories  A man stands next to a grave in Bucha, Ukraine April 3, 2022. REUTERS/Mikhail Palinchak RUSSIA AND UKRAINE AT WAR Global outrage spread at civilian killings in north Ukraine, including evidence of bound bodies shot at close range and a mass grave found in areas retaken from Russian troops, as fighting raged on in the country's south and east.
Taras Shapravskyi, deputy mayor of Bucha, a town around 40 km northwest of Kyiv city, said 50 of some 300 bodies found after Kremlin forces withdrew late last week were the victims of extra-judicial killings carried out by Russian troops.
The Kremlin said it categorically denied any accusations related to the murder of civilians in Bucha and said Ukrainian allegations on the matter should be treated with doubt.
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Military conscripts in the Russian-backed Donbas region have been sent into front-line combat against Ukrainian troops with no training, little food and water, and inadequate weapons, people in the separatist province told Reuters. The new accounts of untrained and ill-equipped conscripts being deployed are a fresh indication of how stretched the military resources at the Kremlin's disposal are.
Putin embarked on what he calls a "special operation" in Ukraine partly to counter the expansion of the NATO alliance. But he may soon have a new NATO neighbor.
Here's what you need to know about the conflict right now
| BUSINESS Tesla Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has built a 9.2% stake in Twitter, a regulatory filing shows, sending the micro-blogging site's shares soaring 26% in premarket trading. The Silicon Valley billionaire said recently he was giving "serious thought" to building a new social media platform.
Russia maintained gas flows through key pipeline routes into Europe, despite uncertainty over payment terms and as European leaders called for more sanctions against Moscow.
JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon warned that the bank could lose about $1 billion on its Russia exposure, the first time it has detailed the extent of its potential losses resulting from the conflict in Ukraine. Here are five key takeaways from Dimon's letter to investors.
Investor morale in the euro zone fell to its lowest level in nearly two years in April, a survey showed, pointing to the beginning of a recession in the second quarter of 2022.
In a quiet corner of the French Riviera, La Ciotat Shipyards said it is writing bills for mooring fees for the towering white superyacht Amore Vero, but it doesn't know who to send them to. We look at how the seized yacht is creating headaches, and not just for its owner.
An electric car is a clean car, right? If only it were so simple. From motor magnets with toxic histories to batteries made using copious fossil-fuel power, many challenges face carmakers seeking to purge dirtier materials from their supply chains to satisfy regulators and investors.
|  Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses supporters in Budapest, April 3, 2022. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
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Hungary's nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban scored a fourth consecutive landslide election win, as voters endorsed his ambition of a conservative, "illiberal" state and shrugged off concerns over Budapest's close ties with Moscow. In neighboring Serbia, incumbent Aleksandar Vucic is set to win the presidential election with 59.8% of the votes, according to a projection by pollsters.
Pakistan's top court is due to meet today to consider a bid by Prime Minister Imran Khan to call a general election after his party blocked a no-confidence vote and he dissolved parliament to prevent an opposition attempt to oust him. We explain what political upheaval in Pakistan means for the rest of the world.
Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa dropped his brother as finance minister after calling for a unity government as protests against an economic crisis persisted and cracks emerged in the ruling coalition.
Economist Rodrigo Chaves extended a hand to the opposition upon winning the Costa Rican presidency after a bruising election campaign in which the former World Bank official vowed to break with traditional politics.
Prince Hamza bin al-Hussein, a former heir to Jordan's throne who was placed under house arrest last year, announced he was giving up his royal title in protest over Jordan's current policies. Hamza was accused last April of trying to destabilise the monarchy in a foreign-inspired plot, but was spared punishment after pledging allegiance to King Abdullah, his half-brother.
U.S.
Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, faces another hurdle today in her journey toward Senate confirmation with a vote in a Judiciary Committee evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans that could end up a tie.
A jury will begin deliberations in the trial of four men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, in a case that pits domestic terrorism allegations against accusations of entrapment and prosecutorial overreach.
Josh Adams and Billy Boozer joined Donald Trump's Truth Social startup as chiefs of technology and product development last year and quickly became central players in its bid to build a social-media empire, backed by the former president's powerful brand. Now both have resigned their posts at a critical juncture for the company’s smartphone-app release plans.
Jury selection is scheduled to begin for the penalty phase of the trial for the man who shot and killed 17 students at a Parkland, Florida, high school in 2018.
Sacramento police said that multiple shooters were involved in violence in which six people were killed and 12 were wounded but the suspects remain at large.
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