| |  |  | The Reuters Daily Briefing | Thursday, April 14, 2022 by Rossalyn Warren | Hello Here's what you need to know. Ukraine says its missiles struck Russian flagship, Britain to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda for processing, and satellite images show widespread torching of villages in the central part of Myanmar. | | | | | Today's biggest stories  Young boys play the game "Honour of Kings" by Tencent, during an event inside a shopping mall in Handan, Hebei province, China August 5, 2018. Picture taken August 5, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer BUSINESS Russian companies and global banks including BNY Mellon, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup and JPMorgan could profit if Moscow moves to de-list Russian companies' depositary receipts from foreign exchanges, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Tencent Holdings Ltd, China's largest social and gaming firm, said it will shut down a service that allowed Chinese gamers to access overseas platforms to play unapproved foreign games, in a sign of tightening compliance as Chinese regulators more closely scrutinize the industry.
BlackRock has projected that by 2030 at least three quarters of its investments in companies and governments will be tied to issuers with a scientific target to cut net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050, up from 25% currently.
Singapore and South Korea both tightened monetary policy earlier today, hot on the heels of rate hikes in Canada and New Zealand, as global policymakers moved quickly to prevent soaring inflation from derailing a fragile world economic recovery.
And a Reuters poll has shown China's economic growth is likely to slow to 5.0% in 2022 amid renewed COVID outbreaks and a weakening global recovery, raising pressure on the central bank to ease policy further.
|  President Cyril Ramaphosa meets with people who lost family members during flooding in Clermont, Durban, South Africa, April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Rogan Ward WORLD
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced a plan to fly asylum seekers to Rwanda to be processed. Britain's interior minister Priti Patel has traveled to Rwanda, where she will give details of the plan to set up a holding center.
Dozens of satellite images, reviewed by Reuters, show widespread torching of villages in the central part of Myanmar. The photos, largely confirming the local media reports, are among the strongest evidence to date that the military is using widespread arson to step up its assault on resistance in the central Sagaing region, where residents have told Reuters there is armed opposition to the junta.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pledged to help the victims of devastating east coast floods, as the death toll rose to 306 from heavy rains that washed out roads and disrupted shipping in one of Africa's busiest ports.
During a massacre that lasted four days, Mali massacre survivors say that while most of the soldiers who killed civilians were Malian, there were also white mercenaries involved in killings, who they say 'spoke Russian.' The white men were the first to get out of the helicopters and open fire on fleeing residents, four onlookers said.
Spanish authorities took down 'Europe's biggest' cannabis farm, destroying 415,000 hemp plants worth up to 100 million euros ($108 million). While the sale and consumption of cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound, is legal across Spain and most of Europe, Spanish law still prohibits the cultivation of cannabis plants for anything other than industrial uses.
U.S.
The man suspected of setting off smoke bombs and shooting people inside a New York City subway car, injuring 23 people, was arrested on Wednesday. He alerted police to his general whereabouts himself, in a call he placed to a tip line from a McDonald's fast-food outlet.
U.S. President Joe Biden has authorized the release of new records from Donald Trump's presidency to the congressional committee probing last year's attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a government letter.
Kentucky has effectively suspended legal abortion access, as the legislature enacted a sweeping anti-abortion law that took effect right away. The impact of the law makes Kentucky the first U.S. state without legal abortion access since the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade established the right to end a pregnancy before the fetus is viable.
The Justice Department has settled claims in four civil lawsuits brought by Black Lives Matter demonstrators who said their rights were violated after they were violently cleared from a park near the White House in June 2020.
And the actor Cuba Gooding Jr. pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of forcibly touching a woman at a New York nightclub in 2018, as part of an agreement with prosecutors that spares the Oscar-winning actor any immediate jail time.
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