N. Korea missile landed in Ukraine, experts say

Plus, Tesla's self-driving bid for China faces rivals racing ahead.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters Daily Briefing UN experts say a North Korean missile landed in Ukraine's Kharkiv, Trump's New York hush money trial is set to resume, and Tesla's "Full Self-Driving" ambitions in China face stiff competition.   Plus, have you ever wondered what people ate before agriculture?   By Kate Turton Today's Top News An educational institution building burns after a Russian missile strike in Odesa, Ukraine. April 29, 2024. REUTERS/Sergey Smolentse WAR IN UKRAINE A Russian missile attack on an educational institution in the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa killed at least five people and injured 32, local officials said. Meanwhile, United Nations sanctions monitors told a Security Council committee the debris from a missile that landed in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Jan. 2 was from a North Korean Hwasong-11 series ballistic missile. About 30 Ukrainian men have died trying to illegally cross Ukraine's borders and avoid fighting in the war against Russia which started in 2022, the spokesman for Ukraine's border service told Ukrinform news agency. IN OTHER NEWS Donald Trump's hush money criminal trial is set to resume on Tuesday with testimony from a banker familiar with accounts involved in the former US president's alleged scheme to influence the 2016 election by covering up a sex scandal. A World Health Organization official said there was a risk of H5N1 bird flu virus spreading to cows in other countries beyond the US through migratory birds. Israel and Hezbollah have been engaged in escalating daily cross-border strikes over the past six months - in parallel with the war in Gaza - and their increasing range and sophistication has spurred fears of a wider regional conflict. The Philippines accused China's coast guard of harassment and damaging one of its boats in a disputed area of the South China Sea and rejected Beijing's position that it had expelled two vessels from the hotly contested shoal. Indonesia's Ruang volcano erupted, spewing lava as lightning flashes lit up its crater, prompting authorities to raise the alert status and evacuate more than 12,000 people living on a nearby island. Business & Markets Tesla autonomous EVs may spur 'catfish effect'. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo If Tesla succeeds in bringing its "Full Self-Driving" system to China, the world's largest car market, the US electric-car pioneer will be shifting into the fast lane of the global race toward autonomous vehicles. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz and Stellantis all posted lower sales and first-quarter revenue as they geared up to launch new models and faced weaker consumer demand for new cars as interest rates remain high. Some US farmers who once raised chickens for Tyson Foods to slaughter are shifting to sell eggs instead after the meatpacker closed six plants, a move that left local suppliers with limited options for work. Two of Europe's top airline groups, Lufthansa and Air France-KLM, announced plans to cut costs after reporting wider first-quarter losses as they faced high customer payouts due to flight disruptions and labor disputes. HSBC Chief Executive Noel Quinn said that he plans to step down, marking the surprise departure of a hard-nosed leader who has overseen a raft of asset sales, guided the lender to record profit and lifted its share price. Facebook and Instagram have failed to tackle deceptive advertising and disinformation ahead of key European Parliament elections, the European Commission said as it opened an investigation into suspected breaches of EU online content rules. Florida abortion clinics and funds face uncertain future on eve of six-week ban A sign is seen outside an abortion clinic in Fort Pierce, Florida. April 27, 2024. REUTERS/Marco Bello/File Photo Florida's ban on abortions past six weeks of pregnancy takes effect this week, threatening the future of the state's clinics and abortion funds and forcing patients to travel hundreds of miles to get the procedure.   Phones have been ringing off the hook at clinics and funds in Florida ahead of the Wednesday enforcement date, as newly pregnant abortion-seekers scramble to book appointments before they may have to travel as far as Virginia or New York to get an abortion, eight clinic and fund workers told Reuters.   Most women are not aware they are pregnant at six weeks. Read more here. And Finally... A human tooth discovered at Taforalt Cave in Morocco in an undated photograph. Heiko Temming/Handout via REUTERS The advent of agriculture roughly 11,500 years ago in the Middle East was a milestone for humankind - a revolution in diet and lifestyle that moved beyond the way hunter-gatherers had existed since Homo sapiens arose more than 300,000 years ago in Africa.   While the scarcity of well-preserved human remains from the period preceding this turning point has made the diet of pre-agricultural people a bit of a mystery, new research is now providing insight into this question. New study offers insight into pre-agricultural dietary practices. Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. Advertise in this newsletter or on Reuters.com Reuters Daily Briefing is sent 5 days a week. Think your friend or colleague should know about us? Forward this newsletter to them. They can also sign up here.   Want to stop receiving this email? Unsubscribe here. To manage which newsletters you're signed up for, click here. 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Ukraine's deteriorating position

Plus, Chinese firms 'go underground' on Russian payments.

Sign up for Reuters newsletters Daily Briefing Senior US officials are in the Middle East seeking to ease the Gaza war with a diplomatic push, Ukraine pulls back on the eastern front, and China firms go 'underground' on Russia payments.   Plus, here's what polling can and can't tell you.   By Kate Turton Today's Top News Blinken attends a Joint Ministerial Meeting of the GCC-US Strategic Partnership. Saudi Arabia, April 29, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool MIDDLE EAST French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne said talks on a ceasefire in Gaza were progressing as he joined US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Saudi Arabia on a diplomatic push to ease the war between Israel and Hamas. As international pressure on Israel to stop the fighting in Gaza grows, James Mackenzie speaks to the Reuters World News podcast about the latest developments on ceasefire talks and Israel's plans for an all-out assault on Rafah. IN OTHER NEWS Ukraine's top commander said Kyiv's outnumbered troops had fallen back to new positions west of three villages on the eastern front where Russia has concentrated significant forces in several locations.  Ukraine said the Telegram messaging app had restored access to a number of chatbots used by Ukraine's security agencies to collect information about Russia's war effort after the services were briefly suspended. Scotland's first minister Humza Yousaf has resigned. The crisis in his Scottish National Party opens the door to the opposition Labour Party regaining ground in its former Scottish heartlands before a national election. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he had decided to continue in office, days after abruptly announcing he was considering his future following the launch of a corruption investigation against his wife. At least 42 people have been killed in floods in central Kenya's Mai Mahiu area and police warned the number of deaths could rise after a dam burst, Citizen Television reported. Business & Markets As China's big banks pull back from financing Russia-related transactions, some Chinese companies are turning to small banks on the border and underground financing channels such as money brokers - even banned cryptocurrency - sources told Reuters. Tesla has cleared some key regulatory hurdles that have long hindered it from rolling out its self-driving software in China, paving the way for a favorable result from Elon Musk's surprise visit. What is Tesla's Full Self-Driving and why its China rollout matters. The yen jumped suddenly against the dollar on Monday, with traders citing yen-buying intervention by Japanese authorities to try to underpin a currency languishing at levels last seen over three decades ago. Financial Industry and Financial Markets Editor Paritosh Bansal writes about how a bond market anomaly that has reliably predicted a US recession in the past may normalize this year in a highly unusual manner. It's a worry for markets. Financial details of Shell's vast oil and gas trading business are some of the company's closest-held secrets. Documents in a lawsuit filed by a former employee, however, revealed its US crude trading regularly earns around $1 billion every year. Philip Morris International's goals for heated tobacco in the US are reachable, analysts and investors say, even though rivals see limited potential in a market where vaping dominates. 'Making predictions is hard, especially about the future' On Nov. 5, election officials across America will count more than 150 million ballots to answer a burning political question: Who will be president of the United States? Until then, the best signals we can get will mostly come from public opinion polls, which will be the fuel of endless debate on who has the lead, Democrat Joe Biden or Republican Donald Trump. But what do polls really tell us? Like a picture from a weather satellite, a poll can be pretty good at telling you what people think right now. It's much harder to tell what people will be doing weeks or months from now. See our interactive graphic. And Finally... The far side of the moon is shown in this image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter from 2010. REUTERS/NASA/Goddard/Handout China will send a robotic spacecraft in coming days on a round trip to the moon's far side in the first of three technically demanding missions that will pave the way for an inaugural Chinese crewed landing and a base on the lunar south pole. Read more about the high-stakes mission to the moon's 'hidden' side. Sponsors are not involved in the creation of newsletters or other Reuters news content. 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