| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Friday, March 25, 2022 by Linda Noakes | Hello Here's what you need to know. Russian missiles have a failure rate of up to 60% say U.S. officials, Trump sues Clinton over 2016 Russian collusion allegations, and Wall Street worries that the Fed was behind the curve on inflation | | | | | Today's biggest stories  A Ukrainian service member smokes as he holds a next generation light anti-tank weapon at a position on the front line in the north Kyiv region, March 24, 2022 RUSSIA AND UKRAINE AT WAR Ukrainian troops are recapturing towns east of Kyiv and Russian forces who had been trying to seize the capital are falling back on overextended supply lines, Britain said, one of the strongest indications yet of a shift in momentum in the war.
The mayor of a suburb east of Kyiv said Ukrainian troops had recaptured a nearby village and thousands of civilians were now leaving the area, answering a call from the authorities to get out of the way of the counter-attack.
Russian precision-guided missiles are failing up to 60% of the time in Ukraine, three U.S. officials with knowledge of intelligence on the issue told Reuters, a possible explanation for the poor progress of Russia's invasion.
Finland's national railway operator will suspend services between Helsinki and Saint Petersburg in Russia on Monday, closing one of the last public transport routes to the European Union for Russians.
Russians have rushed to stock up on anti-depressants, sleeping pills and contraceptives among other products since the conflict in Ukraine began, with people buying a month's worth of medicine in just two weeks.
Here's what you need to know about the conflict right now
|  European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives a joint press statement with U.S. President Joe Biden at the U.S. Mission in Brussels, March 25, 2022 BUSINESS The United States will work to supply 15 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas to the European Union this year to help wean it off Russian gas supplies, the transatlantic partners said. The EU is aiming to cut its dependency on Russian gas by two-thirds this year and end all Russian fossil fuel imports by 2027.
Wall Street analysts and investors who believe the U.S. Fed Reserve has acted too slowly to combat high inflation are now forecasting even more aggressive rate hikes as the central bank catches up.
Landmark EU rules targeting Alphabet unit Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft are likely to set a global benchmark and may even force the tech giants to be more innovative, lawyers and experts said.
Police in Britain have arrested seven people following a series of hacks by the Lapsus$ hacking group which targeted major firms including Okta and Microsoft.
A year ago Tesla dismissed the alternative path of electric car battery swapping as "riddled with problems and not suitable for widescale use". It seems Beijing disagrees. We go inside China's electric drive for swappable car batteries.
|  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un walks away from what state media report is a "new type" of intercontinental ballistic missile in this undated photo released on March 24, 2022 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency WORLD
North Korea's resumption of long-range missile tests - including a flight of its largest-ever weapon - puts it closer than ever to having a reliable way of delivering multiple nuclear warheads anywhere in the United States, analysts say. Sporting a shiny leather jacket and slick aviator shades, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has starred in a Hollywood-style video for Pyongyang's latest missile launch.
India said ties with China could not be normal until their troops pulled back from each other on the disputed border, but Beijing struck a conciliatory note during a meeting of their foreign ministers in New Delhi.
Hong Kong will gradually resume public services from April 1, the government said, with the global financial hub posting its lowest number of daily infections in about a month.
Rebellious Tigrayan forces in Ethiopia have said they will respect a ceasefire proposed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government as long as sufficient aid is delivered to their war-scarred northern region "within reasonable time".
Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney was taken off stage by officials during a speech in Belfast after the event organiser said a suspect device was discovered in a hijacked van in the car park of the venue. The van driver was ordered at gunpoint to drive to the venue in north Belfast, one of the event's organisers told Reuters.
U.S.
Donald Trump sued Hillary Clinton and several other Democrats, alleging that they tried to rig the 2016 U.S. presidential election by tying his campaign to Russia. The lawsuit covers a long list of grievances the Republican former president repeatedly aired during his four years in the White House.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit accusing a Texas county of adopting an electoral map that discriminates against Black and Hispanic voters.
A U.S. jury convicted Congressman Jeff Fortenberry, a Republican from Nebraska, of lying to FBI investigators about illegal contributions to his 2016 re-election campaign.
A group of Georgia voters asked state officials to block Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for reelection, alleging she is unfit for office because of her support of rioters who attacked the Capitol.
Republican governors in Utah and Indiana this week rejected legislation banning transgender athletes from competing in girls' sports, pushing back against a rising tide of similar Republican-sponsored legislation nationwide.
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