Your Monday Briefing

View in [Browser]( | Add nytdirect@nytimes.com to your address book. [The New York Times]( [The New York Times]( Monday, April 3, 2017 [NYTimes.com »]( Europe Edition [Your Monday Briefing]( By PATRICK BOEHLER Good morning. Here’s what you need to know: Al Drago/The New York Times • The Trump administration is the wealthiest in American history. Here’s a look at the [value of assets]( held by several dozen top officials, according to newly released ethics filings. President Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, are the beneficiaries of interests [worth as much as $740 million](. Mr. Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, has [made millions promoting right-wing thought](. Michael T. Flynn, the former national security adviser, failed to declare payments from Russia-linked entities, but later [reported payments that included a $45,000 speaking fee from RT]( a Kremlin-backed news network. _____ Pavel Golovkin/Associated Press • In the Russian region of Chechnya, at least three people have been killed and more than 100 arrested in a sweep of detentions of gay men. [Local]( reported]( that many rushed to delete their online profiles and some fled the region. Meanwhile, anticorruption protests continued in Moscow. The police [detained about three dozen demonstrators](. _____ Andrew Testa for The New York Times • The 30,000 residents of Gibraltar find themselves [potential pawns in Britain’s negotiations with the European Union]( over its withdrawal from the bloc. Brussels appears willing to give Spain an effective veto over whether any deal with Britain applied to the enclave. Boris Johnson, the British foreign minister, said London’s position was “[rock-like]( Spain also signaled that it [would not oppose]( an attempt by Scotland to join the E.U. [We met with Nicola Sturgeon]( Scotland’s first minister, above, to discuss her plans to secede from Britain. _____ Maya Alleruzzo/Associated Press • The U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria said it was likely that at [least 229 civilians had been unintentionally killed]( since their operations began in August 2014. The coalition’s overall count is far less than estimates by some human rights groups and does not include the March 17 strike against a building in Mosul in which scores, if not hundreds, of civilians were killed. Mr. Kushner, in his role as senior presidential adviser, [is visiting Iraq]( today. And E.U. foreign ministers will meet to discuss their strategy for Syria. _____ Leonardo Muñoz/European Pressphoto Agency • Disaster in Colombia: The death toll of more than 230 is expected to rise after a [devastating mudslide struck near the border with Ecuador](. Many people were still missing, a doctor at the scene said. “Under the mud, I am sure there are many more.” _____ Dave Pickoff/Associated Press • In memoriam: [Yevgeny Yevtushenko]( an acclaimed poet who captured the struggle of young Russians to free themselves from repression after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. His “Babi Yar” evoked the Nazi-era massacre of Jews in a Ukrainian ravine: “The leaders of the tavern mob are raging/And they stink of vodka and onions./Kicked aside by a boot, I lie helpless./In vain I plead with the brutes/As voices roar:/‘Kill the Jews! Save Russia!’” _____ Business Jon Huang • Uber has undertaken an extraordinary experiment in behavioral science to [subtly entice an independent work force to maximize the company’s profits](. • Dyson, a British firm, has bucked the technology truism that companies rarely make money in [manufacturing high-end home appliances](. • The future key to beauty will be a smartphone, [according to L’Oréal’s Technology Incubator](. It recently invented a brush that can give you details about the state of your hair. • Monthly eurozone jobless numbers will be released today. Here’s a snapshot of [global markets](. In the News Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images • Aleksandar Vucic, Serbia’s prime minister, appeared headed toward a first-round victory in the presidential election, winning more than 50 percent of the vote. [[The New York Times]( • In Hungary, thousands of people marched in Budapest to protest proposed legal changes that are seen as targeting a university founded by George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist. [[Associated Press]( • President Trump will host President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi today in the Egyptian leader’s first visit to the White House since seizing power in a military takeover in 2013. [[The New York Times]( • Israel is “systematically” preventing researchers from entering the Gaza Strip to document rights abuses, Human Rights Watch said. [[Associated Press]( • Norway wants to build the world’s first tunnel for massive ships. [[The Verge]( Smarter Living Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times • Looking for a twist on pizza? Try this [recipe for “pizza chicken”]( with tomatoes, pancetta and mozzarella. • Try to center yourself today by practicing [deep mindfulness and concentration](. Noteworthy Al Bello/Getty Images • Roger Federer won the Miami Open by [beating Rafael Nadal for the third time in three months](. To stay fresh, he plans a break before the [French Open](. • Qatar is on track to earn the dubious distinction of being the first host of the FIFA World Cup [never to have made the tournament on its own merit](. • London’s Parliament Square, where there are 11 statues of men, is getting its first statue of a woman, [Millicent Garrett Fawcett]( a campaigner for women’s right to vote. • And a study found evidence to suggest that your nose [may have been shaped by the climate in which your ancestors lived](. Back Story Associated Press The mission was straightforward: pilot the first flight over Mount Everest. The logistics were anything but. With two open-cockpit biplanes equipped with only the basics and limited fuel, the Houston Mount Everest Expedition took off from India on this day in 1933. Led by Sir Douglas Douglas-Hamilton (better known as Lord Clydesdale), above, and Lt. David McIntyre, the two planes reached an altitude of 31,000 feet, clearing the mountain by just over 100 feet. “Mount Everest, the world’s loftiest peak, has been conquered,” [The Times declared in its report]( about the British aviators. Reaching the pinnacle was a feat that would not be [accomplished by foot for another 20 years](. The flight was also notable for testing human endurance. Members of the expedition were dressed in sheepskin to protect from the extreme cold and used oxygen tanks to breathe in the thin air. The [first aircraft with a pressurized cabin]( was built four years later. [The Guardian called the Everest flight]( “a splendid achievement — not for any material gains, any additions to aeronautical knowledge that it brings, for it brings few or none, but simply because it was one of the few last great spectacular flights in aviation which remained to be done.” Inyoung Kang contributed reporting. _____ This briefing was prepared for the European morning. We also have briefings timed for the [Australian]( [Asian]( and [American]( mornings. You can sign up for these and other Times newsletters [here](. Your Morning Briefing is published weekday mornings and updated online. What would you like to see here? Contact us at [europebriefing@nytimes.com](mailto:europebriefing@nytimes.com?subject=Briefing%20Feedback%20(Europe)). FOLLOW NYT [Facebook] [FACEBOOK]( [Twitter] [@nytimes]( Prefer a different send time? 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